Jared Gordon off Saturday's UFC 211 card due to 'food poison symptoms'

As has become a recent tradition, a UFC card has lost a fight on the eve of the event.

UFC featherweight newcomer Jared Gordon (12-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) today announced he’s been forced out of his UFC 211 preliminary-card bout with Michel Quinones (8-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) after being hospitalized.

UFC 211 takes place Saturday at American Airlines Center in Dallas, and the main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and UFC Fight Pass. Gordon vs. Quinones was initially slated for the UFC Fight Pass portion of the card but was promoted to the FX prelims earlier this week.

UFC officials didn’t immediately announce which other UFC Fight Pass bout will now be promoted to the open FX slot.

According to Gordon, he was admitted into a hospital with “food poison symptoms,” and due to needing intravenous (IV) therapy, he’d be in violation of U.S. Anti-Doping Agency rules.

Here’s the announcement (via Facebook):

The card, which initially boasted 14 bouts, is now down to 12.

The latest UFC 211 card now includes:

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)

• Champ Stipe Miocic vs. Junior Dos Santos – for heavyweight title
• Champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Jessica Andrade – for strawweight title
• Demian Maia vs. Jorge Masvidal
• Frankie Edgar vs. Yair Rodriguez
• David Branch vs. Krzysztof Jotko

PRELIMINARY CARD (FX, 8 p.m. ET)

• Eddie Alvarez vs. Dustin Poirier
• Jason Knight vs. Chas Skelly
• Marco Polo Reyes vs. James Vick

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 6:45 p.m. ET)

• Jessica Aguilar vs. Cortney Casey
• Rashad Coulter vs. Chase Sherman
• Enrique Barzola vs. Gabriel Benitez
• Gadzhimurad Antigulov vs. Joachim Christensen

For more on UFC 211, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.