Paige VanZant announced on Twitter that a back injury is forcing her out of her scheduled flyweight matchup with Jessica Eye next Saturday at UFC 216. Due to the short notice Eye has been pulled from the card as well. Here’s an updated look at the card.
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
Tony Ferguson vs. Kevin Lee – for interim lightweight title
Champ Demetrious Johnson vs. Ray Borg – for flyweight title
Derrick Lewis vs. Fabricio Werdum
Beneil Dariush vs. Evan Dunham
PRELIMINARY CARD (FXX, 8 p.m. ET)
Tom Duquesnoy vs. Cody Stamann
Will Brooks vs. Nik Lentz
Bobby Green vs. Lando Vannata
Poliana Botelho vs. Pearl Gonzalez
PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 6 p.m. ET)
Mark Godbeer vs. Walt Harris
Magomed Bibulatov vs. John Moraga
Thales Leites vs. Brad Tavares
Marco Beltran vs. Matt Schnell
Joseph Duffy vs. James Vick set for UFC 217 UFC officials announced Monday that Joseph Duffy will meet lightweight James Vick at UFC 217 in New York on Nov. 4. Duffy (17-2) is coming off a unanimous decision win over Reza Madadi at UFC Fight Night 107 in March, which pushed his UFC record to 4-1. The Tristar Product hasn’t won three fights in a row since July 2015. Vick (11-1) heads into this matchup off back-to-back stoppage victories over Abel Trujillo and most recently Marco Polo Reyes at UFC 211. The 30-year-old is 7-1 in the UFC. Here’s an updated look at the card.
Michael Bisping (c) vs. Georges St-Pierre – for middleweight title
Cody Garbrandt (c) vs. T.J. Dillashaw – for bantamweight title
Joanna Jedrzejczyk (c) vs. Rose Namajunas – for women’s strawweight title
Ricardo Ramos vs. Aiemann Zahabi
Paulo Borrachinha vs. Johny Hendricks
Curtis Blaydes vs. Aleksei Oleinik
Gadzhimurad Antigulov vs. Ion Cutelaba
Jorge Masvidal vs. Stephen Thompson
Corey Anderson vs. Patrick Cummins
Randy Brown vs. Mickey Gall
Joseph Duffy vs. James Vick
