Midwest promotion Victory Fighting Championship on Wednesday announced that the main event to VFC 47 has undergone a change.
Elvis Mutapcic was slated to face Anthony Smith for the VFC middleweight championship, but Mutapcic was called up to the UFC. With “The King” leaving to compete in the Octagon, filling in for Mutapcic will be UFC veteran Josh Neer.
Mutapcic versus Smith was scheduled to make history as the headliner for the first VFC event to be streamed live on UFC Fight Pass. Instead, Mutapcic will be compete for the UFC on Jan.