Last-minute shake-up: UFC Shanghai shifts to Las Vegas under mystery circumstances

UFC Shanghai looks to now be taking place in Las Vegas.

The planned December 9th card set for China will now be transpiring in America localized to Nevada for as of yet undisclosed reasons.

UFC Fight Night 233, now going down in the UFC Apex, was put out there into the MMA space via a manager by the name of Shu Hirata. He is with On The Road Management and was the first to reveal the news in the form of a tweet.

Check out the X message that broke the news of UFC Shanghai below

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UFC Shanghai and how the card looks now

Multiple sources who spoke with MMA Junkie also confirmed the news regarding this UFC event location shift on the condition of anonymity. There were four road-to-UFC fights that were slated for the early December undercard, but those will now be scrapped without a revised timeline for those fights as of yet.

Also, Brendson Ribeiro and Mingyang Zhang will no longer be throwing down at 205 pounds. The venue change has thrown a wrench into those plans, with travel-related issues being cited as the reason for the bout dissolving. It remains to be seen if more fights will be moved to other cards or scrapped altogether.

In terms of what remains on this early December event, Chris Gutierrez versus Song Yadong is still being billed as the headline attraction for this looming UFC card as of this writing.

Andre Muniz and Jun Yong Park are set to collide in an intriguing middleweight matchup.

Nasrat Haqparast looks to extend his winning streak to three against Jamie Mullarkey, who looks to string together consecutive wins here.

Carlos Hernandez seeks his third octagon win after his contender series bout against the undefeated Tatsuro Taira, who has four straight UFC wins leading into this.

Su Mudaerji aims to get back into the win column as Allan Nascimento looks to ardently oppose that goal.

Hyun Sung Park successfully won multiple bouts on the road to the UFC circuit and puts his unbeaten record against former Eternal MMA flyweight champion Shannon Ross.

Also still set for UFC Shanghai, Kevin Jousset and Song Kenan will lock horns in welterweight warfare.