UFC on FOX 23 lost one of its key match-ups.
Hector Lombard’s fight with Brad Tavares was pulled from the card, and will be replaced with a middleweight bout between Alessio Di Chirico versus Eric Spicely. MMA Junkie was the first to report that the Lombard-Tavares fight was off on Tuesday night, and MMA Fighting later confirmed with UFC officials.
The UFC cited injuries to both fighters as the reason for the cancellation.
The Italian fighter Di Chirico (10-1) is coming off a split-decision victory over Garreth McClellan at UFC on FOX 21 in August. He is now 1-1 in the UFC after dropping his debut against Bojan Velickovic back in April 2016.