For the second time in five days, the UFC has lost a main event for an upcoming fight card as Tony Ferguson has pulled out of his UFC on FOX 19 bout against Khabib Nurmagomedov and the new main event of the fight card will be a light heavyweight bout between Rashad Evans and Glover Teixeira.
The fight changed was initially reported by FOX Sports on Tuesday afternoon and the UFC is working on finding a new opponent for Nurmagomedov for this fight card.
Following the news of Ferguson being out of the event, The Ultimate Fighter 13 winner went to social media to explain why he was forced to pull out of his main event bout against Nurmagomedov.
Usually I can Power thru small Bumps & Bruises. Doc Said I have Fluid/Blood in my Lung #UFCTampa I Will Heal Up. I Will be Back.#TeamElCucuy
— Tony Ferguson (@TonyFergusonXT) April 5, 2016
UFC on FOX 19 will come from the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida next Saturday night and the current fight card lineup is below.
Main Card: (FOX – 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m PT)
Glover Teixeira (24-4) vs. Rashad Evans (19-4, 1NC)
Khabib Nurmagomedov (22-0) vs. TBA
Lyoto Machida (22-7) vs. Dan Henderson (31-14)
Rose Namajunas (4-2) vs. Tecia Torres (7-0)
Preliminary Card: (FOX – 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT)
Beneil Dariush (12-1) vs. Michael Chiesa (13-2)
Cub Swanson (21-7) vs. Hacran Dias (23-3-1)
John Dodson (17-7) vs. Manny Gamburyan (15-8, 1NC)
Court McGee (17-4) vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio (21-3)
Preliminary Card: (Fight Pass – 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT)
Bethe Correia (9-1) vs. Raquel Pennington (6-5)
Randy Brown (7-0) vs. Michael Graves (5-0)
Cezar Ferreira (8-5) vs. Caio Magalhaes (9-2)
Drew Dober (16-7, 1NC) vs. Islam Makhachev (12-1)
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (14-5) vs. Omari Akhmedov (15-3)