UFC 298 Loses Big Fight on Weigh-In Day

This weekend's UFC card has been hit with a late change.

UFC 298 has lost a scheduled matchup the day before the event goes down in Anaheim, CA. 

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One of the most highly-anticipated UFC cards in recent memory, UFC 298 is headlined by a massive featherweight title bout between Alexander Volkanovski and Ilia Topuria.

The rest of the PPV main card also includes some huge bouts such as former champions Robert Whittaker and Henry Cejudo taking on Paulo Costa and Merab Dvalishvili, but unfortunately, it was announced on the UFC 298 Weigh-In Show that a prelim matchup between Justin Tafa and Marcos Rogério de Lima has been canceled due to injury. 

Tafa withdrew from UFC 298 with an undisclosed injury.  :: (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

The fight between Tafa and de Lima was the lone heavyweight bout scheduled for UFC 298, and the matchup would have given “Bad Man” a chance to add to his current streak of knockout victories.

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The prelims for UFC 298 still include several great bouts before the five-fight PPV main card, and after the loss of Tafa vs. de Lima the event currently looks like this:

Main Card

• Main Event: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Ilia Topuria – For the UFC Featherweight Championship

• Co-Main Event: Robert Whittaker vs. Paulo Costa

• Geoff Neal vs. Ian Machado Garry

• Merab Dvalishvili vs. Henry Cejudo

• Anthony Hernandez vs. Roman Kopylov

Preliminary Card

• Amanda Lemos vs Mackenzie Dern

• Marcos Rogério de Lima vs. Justin Tafa

• Rinya Nakamura vs. Carlos Vera

• Mingyang Zhang vs. Brendson Ribeiro

Early Preliminary Card

• Josh Quinlan vs. Danny Barlow

• Val Woodburn vs. Oban Elliott

• Andrea Lee vs. Miranda Maveric

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