UFC 318 has taken a big hit.
Ikram Aliskerov (16-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) is out of his middleweight matchup against Bruno Ferreira (13-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) on July 19 from Smoothie King Center in New Orleans after breaking his right toe in practice.
Aliskerov shared the exact moment it happened when he was sparring Rinat Fakhretdinov at American Top Team.
Aliskerov rebounded from his first octagon loss to Robert Whittaker by scoring a first-round TKO of Andre Muniz at UFC on ESPN 66 in April. Meanwhile, Brazil’s Ferreira is coming off a second-round armbar submission of Armen Petrosyan at UFC 313 in March.
With the change, the UFC 318 lineup now includes:
- Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier – for BMF title
- Paulo Costa vs. Roman Kopylov
- Brendan Allen vs. Marvin Vettori
- Islam Dulatov vs. Adam Fugitt
- Brunno Ferreira vs. TBA
- Neil Magny vs. Gunnar Nelson
- Vinicius Oliveira vs. Kyler Phillips
- Nicolle Caliari vs. Carli Judice
- Jimmy Crute vs. Marcin Prachnio
- Francisco Prado vs. Nikolay Veretennikov
- Ateba Gautier vs. Robert Valentin
- Michael Johnson vs. Daniel Zellhuber
- Kevin Holland vs. Daniel Rodriguez
- Lukasz Brzeski vs. Ryan Spann
