Valentina Shevchenko and Joanna Jedrzejcyzk are set for UFC 231. Again. The UFC continues to scrabble around looking for a main event for their Madison Square Garden show on November 3.
The company just announced that the main event will be a heavyweight title fight between two-division champion Daniel Cormier and challenger Derrick Lewis. The previously announced bout between Shevchenko and Eubanks has been cancelled. The two women were supposed to be fighting for a vacant 125-pound title.
Instead, Shevchenko will take on Jedrzejczyk for the vacant flyweight title at UFC 231 on Dec. 8 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. That bout was actually announced back in September before Shevchenko was moved to the Nov. 3 card in New York.
As for Eubanks, she wasn’t particularly thrilled about the news: