Usually when the UFC announces a bout, that’s what’s going to happen (barring injury). But things were a little weird last week when the promotion put it out there that Neil Magny was going to meet Elizeu Zaleski in the co-main event of UFC Rochester on May 18th. Zaleski immediately denied that he was booked in that fight. And Michael Chiesa said he was told he was fighting Magny in June.
Well, none of that is happening now. According to MMA Insider Farrah Hannoun on Twitter, Magny is actually close to fighting Vicente Luque in Rochester:
Magny (21-7, 14-6 UFC) is coming off a knockout loss to Santiago Ponzinibbio in November.