This weekend’s
UFC Fight Night 238 card will look different than originally
anticipated.
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First, a bantamweight showdown between Ricky
Turcios and Raul Rosas
Jr. will not move to Saturday’s event as it was initially
announced over the weekend. Turcios and Rosas Jr. were supposed to
meet at UFC Mexico this past Saturday but the bout was scrapped
prior to walkouts on account of Rosas Jr. falling ill.
The promotion later announced that the bout would be rebooked for
UFC Fight Night 238, but Turcios disputed that news on social
media. Now, the fight is officially off, and it is unclear if it
will be rebooked at a later date. MMAjunkie.com was first to report that Turcios
vs. Rosas Jr. was not happening.
The Las Vegas-based organzation also confirmed multiple other changes to the UFC
Fight Night 238 lineup on Tuesday.
Injury has forced Brendon
Marotte to withdraw from a featherweight scrap against Mohammad
Yahya, and as a result the fight has been canceled. The same is
also true for Josefine
Lindgren Knutsson, who was removed from a proposed strawweight
pairing against Julia
Polastri. However, Polastri will now step in for the injured
Shauna
Bannon and face Stephanie
Luciano at UFC
on ESPN 53 on March 23.
Meanwhile, Benardo Sopai will replace the injured Yanis
Ghemmouri and meet Vinicius
de Oliveira at bantamweight. Finally, visa issues have forced
Joel
Alvarez out of a clash against Ludovit
Klein. Instead, A.J.
Cunningham will face Klein in a new lightweight booking on
Saturday.
UFC Fight Night 238 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and is
headlined by a heavyweight showdown pitting Jairzinho
Rozenstruik against Shamil Gamziev.