Longtime UFC bantamweight Brad Pickett was scheduled to fight TUF Latin America's Henry Briones on the main card of the upcoming London show on February 27th, but there's been a change of plans. Briones is out with an undisclosed injury, and replacing him is the hard-hitting Francisco Rivera. Simon Head of The Sun newspaper confirmed the news on Friday.
Rivera (11-5, 1 NC) fought twice in 2015, scoring a quick and ferocious KO win vs. Alex Caceres, then engaged in a bonkers 128 seconds of mayhem with John Lineker at UFC 191, before losing by guillotine choke.