Despite a whole range of fighters, including Matt Mitrione, Tyrone Spong, and even Derek Brunson, offering themselves up as short notice replacements for the injured Stipe Miocic, against Ben Rothwell in Dublin, the UFC has decided to scrap the bout and pull "Big Ben" from the card. Miocic was pulled from the bout on Tuesday, October 13th, just 11 days before his fight.
As often as not, that's been enough time for the world's largest MMA promotion to find a fitting replacement for a fighter, but in this case, it was always going to be a difficult task.