With its planned headliner now scrapped, two bantamweights from the early preliminary card got a big promotion at today’s UFC 213 event. Earlier today, Amanda Nunes (14-4 MMA, 7-1 UFC) was hospitalized, and her bout with challenger Valentina Shevchenko (14-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) was officially scrapped . As a result, a planned co-headliner between Yoel Romero (12-1 MMA, 8-0 UFC) and Robert Whittaker (18-4 MMA, 9-2 UFC), who fight for the interim middleweight belt, has been elevated to the main event. Related UFC champ Amanda Nunes hospitalized; Whittaker vs. Romero is new UFC 213 main event UFC 213 takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and the main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass. With the open PPV slot, a bantamweight fight between Rob Font (13-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and Douglas Silva de Andrade (24-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC), which was originally slated for the early prelims, will now kick off the main card
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Bantamweights move from early prelims to UFC 213 pay-per-view main card – MMA Junkie