This card was not great to begin with, and it took some crucial hits, making it even worse. This event had a decent light heavyweight bout pitting Gian Villante and Patrick Cummins, but Cummins withdrew from the bout with a nasty staph infection, and was replaced by promotional newcomer Saparbek Safarov. The other bout that drew some interest to the card, was a relevant bantamweight scrap between Aljamain Sterling and Raphael Assunção. Sterling suffered an injury and the fight got rescheduled to UFC on FOX 23.