UFC 303 is in strife after Conor McGregor's hotly anticipated return was deferred because of injury.
McGregor was booked to battle without precedent for three years against Michael Chandler, yet the battle is off after the Irishman got a physical issue in an instructional course.
The new headliner sees light-heavyweight champion Alex Pereira guard his title against Jiri Prochazka in a rematch of their UFC 295 confrontation in New York last year.
The co-headliner, highlighting Kiwi star Carlos Ulberg has likewise experienced a hit, with previous light-heavyweight champ Jamahal Slope out harmed.
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Ulberg will presently confront Anthony Smith, with the session dropped down the card.
The new headliner sees featherweight veteran Brian Ortega taking on rising star Diego Lopes.
The UFC is supposed to rebook the colossally expected McGregor-Chandler confrontation for later in the year.
Chandler hasn't battled since November 2022 as he hangs tight for a tremendous payday inverse McGregor.
Alerts initially began ringing fourteen days prior when McGregor pulled out of a question and answer session in Dublin.
McGregor's nonattendance is a tremendous blow for the UFC, with a detailed $20 million worth of tickets sold.
The hurriedly made new headliner sees Pereira's exceptional run proceed.
The Brazilian brought home the light-heavyweight championship in November with a second round knockout of Prochazka. He guarded the title with a first round finish of Slope in the UFC 300 blockbuster only two months prior.
'Poatan' has been in Australia throughout the previous 10 days on a talking and appearance visit. He told this masthead last end of the week that he was keen on battling in Perth at UFC 305 in August, before McGregor formally pulled out.
A partner of Israel Adesanya, Ulberg had been slung into the co-headliner after a run of great exhibitions in the UFC.
His new rival, Anthony Smith, is falling off a success over Vitor Petrino in May, and tested Jon Jones for the 205-pound title in 2019.
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Robert Whittaker has another adversary for his June 23 headliner in Saudi Arabia, after Khamzat Chimaev was emphatically pulled from the UFC's presentation occasion in Riyadh because of wellbeing concerns.
Whittaker will presently confront the 16-1 Ikram Aliskerov in the quickly made new headliner.
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Aliskerov has just battled two times before in the UFC, yet the main loss of his expert profession was to Chimaev in 2019 in Courageous CF.
The 31-year-old Dagestani has different gold awards in battle sambo, and prepared under Khabib Nurmagomedov's unbelievable dad, Abdulmanap.
Aliskerov took out Phil Hawes in his UFC debut at UFC 288. It was a sufficiently great exhibition to see him book a battle with veteran Paulo Costa, albeit that session was in the end rejected.
"Sadly, Khamzat Chimaev is out of his battle one weekend from now in Saudi Arabia," UFC president Dana White said. "He is savagely - and I mean brutally - sick, so he's returning home and ideally he recovers soon.
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