The upcoming UFC on ESPN 6 card from Boston just took a major hit as Zabit Magomedsharipov has been forced out of his co-main event fight against Calvin Kattar on Oct. 18.
Sources close to the situation confirmed Magomedsharipov’s exit from the fight when speaking to MMA Fighting on Friday. MMAJunkie initially reported the news. The UFC has not officially announced any changes to the card.
As of now there’s no word on what exactly forced Magomedsharipov out of the fight but it’s not expected that the Dagestan native will be out of action for an extended period of time.