Report: Nunes hospitalized with illness, UFC 213 main event in jeopardy
Mark J. Rebilas / USA TODAY
Amanda Nunes is in hospital Saturday after feeling ill this week, putting the UFC 213 main event in jeopardy, MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani reports.
Nunes is scheduled to defend her women's bantamweight title against Valentina Shevchenko on Saturday night in Nevada.
Helwani noted that Nunes has yet to be be officially removed from the card, but it will be "hard to pull off."
Should she be officially declared out of action, the men's middleweight fight between Yoel Romero and Robert Whittaker will reportedly be bumped to the main event slot.
Nunes and Shevchenko previously fought in March 2016 at UFC 196, with Nunes winning by unanimous decision.