UFC heavyweight Chris Barnett is out of his fight with Junior Tafa at UFC Vegas 98 this Saturday night due to travel issues tied to Hurricane Milton.
Barnett (23-8) resides in Tampa, FL. With Hurricane Milton bearing down on the region he was unable to travel to Las Vegas for his fight.
In his place will enter Sean Sharaf who will make his UFC debut against Tafa at the UFC APEX.
Sharaf (4-0) makes his way to the big show with an undefeated record while bouncing around promotions. All four bouts have ended in the first round via KO or TKO making him a solid booking against fellow heavy-hitte Tafa.
Tafa (5-3) comes into the fight on a two-fight losing streak. He dropped a very short notice fight against Marcos Rogerio de Lima at UFC 298. His brother Justin was supposed to fight Lima, but suffered in an injury the day before the fight.
The other loss came at UFC 305 where he lost via heel-hook against Valter Walker.
No word on what’s next for Chris Barnett.
UFC Vegas 98 looks as follows:
- Brandon Royval vs. Tatsuro Taira
- Brad Tavares vs. Jun Yong Park
- Grant Dawson vs. Rafa Garcia
- Chidi Njokuani vs. Jared Gooden
- Josh Fremd vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan
- Daniel Rodriguez vs. Alex Morono
- Niko Price vs. Themba Gorimbo
- Clayton Carpenter vs. Lucas Rocha
- CJ Vergara vs. Ramazan Temirov
- Jonathan Pearce vs. Pat Sabatini
- Dan Argueta vs. Cody Haddon
- Cory McKenna vs. Julia Polastri
- Junior Tafa vs. Sean Sharaf
