UFC Vegas 111 has taken a couple of hits ahead of Saturday.<\/p>\n
The UFC APEX event has lost two bouts just days out from fight night, with Robert Valentin pulling out of a middleweight bout against Jackson McVey, and Adrian Yanez also needing a new opponent with Christian Quinonez withdrawing from their bantamweight contest.<\/p>\n
Valentin revealed via Instagram Stories he suffered a back injury this past weekend that will prevent him from competing. It is not yet known why Quinonez is out of his fight, but Yanez shared a post on social media confirming he is searching for a replacement opponent.<\/p>\n
Yanez is eager to stay on the card after losing a split decision to Daniel Marcos this past December. Should the 23-fight veteran not be re-booked soon, he could go a full year without fighting while mired in a 1-3 slump.<\/p>\n
As for McVey, the plan was to have recent UFC debutant Donte Johnson step in for Valentin, but MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck confirmed that the Nevada Athletic Commission has not cleared Johnson to fight Saturday. Johnson competed just three days ago at UFC Vegas 110, defeating Sedriques Dumas via second-round submission.<\/p>\n
UFC Vegas 111 is headlined by a welterweight bout between Gabriel Bonfim and Randy Brown. The card now proceeds with 11 fights. See the updated lineup below.<\/p>\n
Gabriel Bonfim vs. Randy Brown<\/p>\n
Matt Schnell vs. Joseph Morales<\/p>\n
Muslim Salikhov vs. Uros Medic<\/p>\n
Chris Padilla vs. Ismael Bonfim<\/p>\n
Ricky Simon vs. Raoni Barcelos<\/p>\n
Christian Leroy Duncan vs. Marco Tulio<\/p>\n
Mayra Bueno Silva vs. Jacqueline Cavalcanti<\/p>\n
Hyder Amil vs. Jamall Emmers<\/p>\n
Josh Hokit vs. Max Gimenis<\/p>\n
Tecia Pennington vs. Denise Gomes<\/p>\n
Miles Johns vs. Daniel Marcos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 111 has taken a couple of hits ahead of Saturday. The UFC APEX event has lost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-264631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}