UFC 187 was supposed to feature Light Heavyweight champion Jon Jones in the main event, as well as a No. 1 Lightweight contender eliminator match on the pay-per-view (PPV) main card that included Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Jones was pulled from the Memorial Day weekend show and stripped of his title last month, while Nurmagomedov shredded his kneed in training. It appeared as if another stacked UFC PPV card was cursed, but the promotion plugged in Daniel Cormier and John Makdessi, and the event went on as planned inside MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.