Last month’s UFC Vegas 7 was so ravaged with cancellations, COVID-19 or otherwise, that there were only nine fights on the card. With hours to go before fight night, tonight’s UFC VEGAS 9 has dwindled down to just seven fights.
MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz reported that light heavyweight Marcos Rogerio de Lima joins Thiago Moises on the list of fighters pulled from this event due to COVID-19. Alexander Romanov is obviously without an opponent and thus he’ll have to wait a bit longer to fight.
Lest we forget that Kevin Natividad, who replaced Ricky Simon when Simon’s corner tested positive for COVID-19, is also off this card for reasons unknown although it’s worth noting he had an apparent false positive earlier this week.