Seconds before Maycee Barber and Erin Blanchfield were scheduled to headline UFC Vegas 107, the broadcast team announced that the fight was no longer happening.
Immediately after a video package hyping the flyweight headliner played, play-by-playman Brendan Fitzgerald informed those watching at home that Barber was not ready to make her walk to the Octagon. After a commercial break, we found out that the fight was off after Barber was “not medically cleared” to compete.
We’ve seen fights cancelled at the beginning of the broadcast, but this may be the first time a fight was scratched literally minutes before the fighters were expected to step inside the Octagon.