September 9, 2022 6: 58 pm ET
LAS VEGAS – It’s been a wild day for the UFC, and that consistsof its president Dana White.
The UFC 279 pay-per-view, which is set to go down on Saturday night in Las Vegas, had a significant shake-up that left the card with 3 brand-new matches. On Friday earlymorning, Khamzat Chimaev missedouton weight by 7.5 pounds for his extremely preparedfor bout versus Nate Diaz in the primary of the card, and that required the UFC to reshuffle the deck.
“It’s been a hell of a night and a hell of a earlymorning,” White stated on Friday night on ESPN SportsCenter’s Instagram account. “It’s not by coincidence that we stack men the exactsame weight on the exactsame card in case anything goes incorrect, however yeah, it worked out.
Dana White sneakpeeks the brand-new #UFC279 card and reveals that the co-main occasion will be 5 rounds 🙌 pic.twitter.com/oUOR25a1z1
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) September 9, 2022
“Obviously, when something like this occurs, you got men that trained for another person for a long time