For weeks, it has been expected that the UFC's next International Fight Week festivities would be headlined by a highly anticipated middleweight title showdown.
But according to a new report, don't expect an announcement of that fight any time soon. Longtime combat sports reporter Kevin Iole on Friday reported – way down at the bottom, almost as an aside in a tangentially related column – that middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis (23-2 MMA, 9-0 UFC) is injured and won't be able to fight expected challenger Khamzat Chimaev (14-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) to headline the UFC 317 pay-per-view at T-Mobile Arena.