Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Dennis Bermudez was expected to face Maximo Blanco at this event . Sentence 2:However , on December 5 , Bermudez pulled out of the bout due to a staph infection in his shin .
however