LAS VEGAS -- Tonight’s UFC 213 card has lost its main event.
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes was forced to withdraw from her title fight against Valentina Shevchenko Saturday morning, MMA Fighting has learned. It’s unclear at this time why she had to pull out of the fight.
As a result, the Yoel Romero vs. Robert Whittaker interim middleweight title fight will serve as the new UFC 213 main event.
Nunes (14-4) won the bantamweight title last July when she defeated then-champion Miesha Tate. Amazingly, that fight served as the UFC 200 main event after Jon Jones failed a pre-fight drug test and was pulled from the card just days before.