Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was forced to switch up its main event after Tony Ferguson withdrew from his Khabib Nurmagomedov fight (full details here), pushing the light heavyweight showdown between Rashad Evans and Glover Teixeira into the main event. In addition, Lyoto Machida was pulled from his Dan Henderson fight after a potential USADA violation (more on that here).
Event: UFC on FOX 19: “Teixeira vs. Evans”
Date: Sat., April 16, 2016, on FOX
Location: Amalie Arena in Tampa Bay, Florida
UFC on FOX 19 Main Event:
205 lbs.: Glover Teixeira vs. Rashad Evans
UFC on FOX 19 Main Card (8 p.m. ET):
115 lbs.: Rose Namajunas vs. Tecia Torres
160 lbs.: Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Darrell Horcher
145 lbs.: Cub Swanson vs. Hacran Dias
UFC on FOX 19 “Prelims” (6 p.m. ET):
155 lbs.: Michael Chiesa vs. Beneil Dariush
135 lbs.: Bethe Correia vs. Raquel Pennington
170 lbs.: Court McGee vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio
155 lbs.: Drew Dober vs. Islam Makhachev
UFC on FOX 19 “Prelims” on UFC Fight Pass (4 p.m. ET):
135 lbs.: John Dodson vs. Manny Gamburyan
170 lbs.: Randy Brown vs. Michael Graves
185 lbs.: Cezar Ferreira vs. Oluwale Bamgbose
170 lbs.: Omari Akhmedov vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
For more UFC on FOX 19 news and notes click here.