There\u2019s a new main event for RAF 8.<\/p>\n
Henry Cejudo suffered an undisclosed injury that forced him out of his scheduled headliner for Saturday night\u2019s event at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia against Merab Dvalishvili, according to RAF co-founder Chad Bronstein. The matchup has been officially cancelled, and Dvalishvili will not compete at the event.<\/p>\n
With the change, the matchup between top UFC lightweight contender Arman Tsarukyan and former WEC champ Urijah Faber gets promoted to the main event slot, and the light heavyweight title match between Kyle Snyder and Rizabek Aitmukhan shifts to the co-main event slot.<\/p>\n
Cejudo and Dvalishvili both appeared at Friday\u2019s RAF 8 pre-event press conference in Philadelphia to hype up their match \u2014 which is a rematch from their UFC 298 bout that saw Dvalishvili earn a decision victory in February 2024. Cejudo retired from MMA competition following a decision loss to Payton Talbott at UFC 323 this past December. \u201cTriple C\u201d had a successful RAF debut, defeating Faber via tech fall at RAF 6 in February.<\/p>\n
RAF 8 kicks off at 8 p.m. ET, streaming exclusively on FOX Nation.<\/p>\n
Check out the updated RAF 8 lineup below.<\/p>\n
Arman Tsarukyan vs. Urijah Faber<\/p>\n
Kyle Snyder vs Rizabek Aitmukhan<\/p>\n
Zahid Valencia vs. Aeoden Sinclair<\/p>\n
Anthony Cassioppi vs. Shamil Sharipov<\/p>\n
Helen Maroulis vs. Alexis Janiak<\/p>\n
Real Woods vs. Anthony Ashnault<\/p>\n
Jason Nolf vs. Joey Blaze<\/p>\n
Vladimer Khinchegashvili vs. Johnni DiJulius<\/p>\n
Lance Palmer vs. Cayden Henschel<\/p>\n
Jordan Oliver vs. Mike Vanbrill<\/p>\n
Darian Cruz vs. Lucas Byrd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a new main event for RAF 8. Henry Cejudo suffered an undisclosed injury that forced him out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,214253,214254,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-615793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-raf-wrestling","tag-raf-wrestling-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615793","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=615793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}