UFC St. Louis co-main event scrapped after Hall fails to weigh in

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 15: Uriah Hall of Jamaica looks on during his bout against Robert Whittaker of New Zealand in their middleweight bout during the UFC 193 event at Etihad Stadium on November 15, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia.
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Vitor Belfort's swan song will have to wait.

UFC Fight Night 124's middleweight co-main event between Belfort and Uriah Hall has been scrapped after the latter failed to tip the scales at Saturday's weigh-ins in St. Louis, the promotion confirmed.

Hall was on weight and headed to the scale when he fainted, suffering what's believed to be a seizure, according to MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani. He's since been transported to hospital and stabilized for further evaluation.

A women's flyweight tilt between Paige VanZant and Jessica-Rose Clark will replace the ill-fated matchup as the bill's co-headliner, with featherweights Michael Johnson and Darren Elkins getting the bump from the prelims to the main card. It remains to be seen whether Belfort - who successfully weighed in at 186 pounds - will wait for one final dance partner or call it a career as he'd planned to do Sunday.

Also nixed was a welterweight tilt between Thiago Alves and Zak Cummings. The pair were scheduled to kick off the evening's prelims until Cummings slipped while exiting the bathtub and cracked his skull on a handrail Friday.

In the event's featherweight headliner, Jeremy Stephens will meet Doo Ho Choi.

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