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UFC 213 Results: The Real Winners and Losers from Romero vs. Whittaker Card

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Well this was an interesting one.

Hours before UFC 213 was set to go down in Las Vegas, one half of the evening's main event, women's bantamweight champ Amanda Nunes, was confirmed out of her bout with Valentina Shevchenko.

Apparently Nunes was hospitalized with undefined illness and ruled out of the contest, leaving a charismatic challenger in Shevchenko without a dance partner and moving the co-main event between Yoel Romero and Robert Whittaker into the prime slot.

So here we are. Without a potentially great champion in Nunes to headline the card, would UFC 213 survive?