This week’s UFC Vegas Fight Night offering was never booked to be the strongest card, but now it’s taken a serious hit to its curbside appeal. An event that was largely depending on the name value of its main event has been left scrambling to find a new one, after news that longtime Khabib Nurmagomedov training partner Islam Makhachev has been forced out of his headlining bout against Rafael Dos Anjos.
Even RDA is getting into the matchmaking spirit as the promotion desperately seeks to find a new foe for the former lightweight champion; a top tier fighter willing to step up on just a few days’ notice.