Beneil Dariush puts out a statement after his opponent Renato Moicano stepped in to fight UFC Champ Islam Makhachev.

Arman Tsarukyan is understandably devastated after having to withdraw from his first UFC championship fight at the last minute.

UFC lightweight Beneil Dariush is without a fight following the UFC 311 main event shake-up, with Arman Tsarukyan pulling out of the headliner.

Beneil Dariush has revealed he was looked after and compensated for after having his scheduled fight at UFC 311 pulled from underneath him at short notice through no fault of his own. The American fighter was the unlucky party in a late switch around of the UFC 311 card after he was on course to fight for the first time in more than a year.

Beneil Dariush has broken his silence following losing his UFC 311 fight against Renato Moicano after the Brazilian was upgraded to fight Islam Makhachev.

Who wins, who loses and who shrugs his shoulders and continues on unfazed after UFC 311's wild flurry of news?

Lopes is the number three-ranked featherweight in the world, but has only made one appearance up the weights in short notice catchweight bout against Dan Ige. Meanwhile Poirier was the last man to challenge Makhachev at UFC 301 last summer, losing by submission in the fifth round.

Top-10 Lightweights meet on the UFC 311 Main Card. Check the UFC odds series for our Dariush-Moicano prediction and pick.

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T he weigh-ins for UFC 311 in Los Angeles, California had been apace on Friday morning for over an hour when Red Corner MMA dropped the shocking news that Armenia's Arman Tsarukya

The Armenian fighter failed to attend the official weigh-in with reports suggesting a sustained injury a day before the fight.