Reports: Rose Namajunas Pulls Out Of UFC 249 Fight Against Jessica Andrade

The rematch between former strawweight champions, Rose Namajunas and Jessica Andrade, will not happen at UFC 249. Two days after the controversial fight card was re-tooled, it has lost one of its biggest matchups as multiple reports claimed 'Thug Rose' has dropped out of the strawweight rematch that was expected to co-headline the pay-per-view event. In May 2019, Namajunas lost the strawweight championship to the Brazilian fighter after a shocking knockout defeat at UFC 237. Prior to this setback, the 27-year old American scored back-to-back wins against Joanna Jędrzejczyk to become the new queen of 115-pound division. The UFC 249 co-main event was supposed to serve as Namajunas' return trip to the Octagon after almost a year of hiatus. "Rose Namajunas is out of her scheduled bout with Jessica Andrade at UFC249 for undisclosed reasons, first reported by Combate and confirmed with sources by ESPN on Wednesday. No replacement has been set yet to fight Andrade," ESPN MMA wrote on Twitter. https://twitter.com/WMMARankings/status/1248002123838541824

Back Up And Running

Despite the criticisms, White is doing everything in his power to make the UFC 249 PPV event happen, with a tribal land in California set to serve as its host. "I'll tell you this, I'm this close to getting a deal done," White told ESPN. "So this place where this fight is going to be on April 18 I have locked up for two months, so I'm going to continue to pump fights out. I also secured an island. I've got an island." "The infrastructure is being built right now. We're going to do all of our international fights on this island." "So when we do this fight April 18, international and in the United States, we're going to start cranking. The UFC will be back up and running, internationally and here in the States." https://twitter.com/MMAjunkie/status/1247736188737372166 Check out the updated line-up for the UFC Fight Card: Main Card Tony Feguson vs Justin Gaethje - for the interim lightweight championship Jessica Andrade vs opponent (to be announced) Yorgan De Castro vs Greg Hardy Niko Price vs Vicente Luque Jeremy Stephens vs Calvin Kattar Undercard Francis Ngannou vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik Uriah Hall vs Ronaldo Souza Alexander Hernandez vs Omar Morales Ray Borg vs Marlon Vera Michael Johnson vs Khama Worthy Sijara Eubanks vs Sarah Moras Sam Alvey vs Ryan Spann https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1247334650059485185 (Featured Image Source: Instagram/ Allow MMA and Jessica Andrade)