Sijara Eubanks’ loss is Joanna Jedrzejczyk’s gain.
After the UFC announced that Daniel Cormier vs. Derrick Lewis would serve as the new UFC 230 headliner, Dana White confirmed to ESPN that Valentina Shevchenko vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk was back on for UFC 231. Shevchenko vs. Jedrzejczyk will be for the vacant flyweight crown, which was recently stripped from Nicco Montano when she was unable to compete at UFC 228.
When the promotion was scrambling to find a headliner for UFC 230, Shevchenko was briefly scheduled to face Eubanks at the Nov.