Karl Roberson won’t be fighting this Saturday.
The UFC announced Friday that Roberson’s middleweight bout with Dalcha Lungiambula at UFC Vegas 17 has been canceled due to a positive COVID-19 test. Roberson confirmed this news via an Instagram story and the language in the release indicates that it was Roberson who withdrew from the fight.
Roberson’s message read: “Fight’s off due to COVID issues.”
This was to be Roberson’s second fight of 2020 and Lungiambula’s first. Roberson lost by first-round submission to Marvin Vettori in June, while Lungiambula was most recently seen in November 2019 losing a light heavyweight bout to Magomed Ankalaev by third-round knockout.