The UFC on Fox 20 co-main event between light heavyweight contenders Anthony Johnson and Glover Teixeira set for July 23 in Chicago has been postponed, as Johnson was forced to withdraw to deal with a family matter.
UFC officials announced the fight postponement on Friday. The fight promotion is expected to rebook the bout in the near future.
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UFC on Fox 20 takes place at the United Center and is headlined by a women’s bantamweight match between former champion Holly Holm and seventh-ranked Valentina Shevchenko.
Moving into the co-main event slot will be a lightweight bout between Gilbert Melendez and Edson Barboza. Heavyweights Bojan Mihajlovic and Francis Ngannou, and a strawweight battle pitting Kailin Curran against Felice Herrig round out the rest of the event’s main card.
