Jimi Manuwa has been forced to pull out of his UFC Fight Night 56 bout against Mauricio “Shogun” Rua with a broken foot and replacing Manuwa in the bout will be Ovince St. Preux.
UFC President Dana White announced the change on Wednesday.
UFC Fight Night 56 will come from the Ginasio Municipal Tancredo Neves in Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil on November 8th and the event will air on Fox Sports 1.
St. Preux was already scheduled to be on this card as he was booked to face Francimar Barroso in the co-main event of the fight card. With St. Preux being elevated from the card, Barroso will no longer be on the fight card. The new co-main event of the fight card will be a flyweight bout as Ian McCall meets John Lineker.
The current UFC Fight Night 56: Shogun vs. St. Preux fight card is below.
Main Card: (Fox Sports 1 – 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT)
Mauricio Rua (22-9) vs. Ovince St. Preux (16-6)
Ian McCall (13-4-1) vs. John Lineker (24-7)
Warlley Alves (7-0) vs. Alan Jouban (10-2)
Leon Edwards (8-1) vs. Claudio Silva (10-1)
Juliana Lima (6-2) vs. Nina Ansaroff (6-3)
Preliminary Card: (Fox Sports 2 – 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT)
Diego Rivas (5-0) vs. Rodolfo Rubio (12-6)
Caio Magalhaes (8-1) vs. Trevor Smith (12-5)
Dhiego Lima (9-2) vs. Pawel Pawlak (10-1)
Leandro Silva (11-2-1) vs. Charlie Brenneman (19-7)
Preliminary Card: (Fight Pass – 7:00 p.m. ET/4:00 p.m. PT)
Thomas Almeida (17-0) vs. Tim Gorman (8-3)
Colby Covington (6-0) vs. Wagner Silva (3-1)