Miesha Tate vs. Lauren Murphy Removed from UFC 276 Card

Miesha Tate’s flyweight debut will have to wait, as her proposed clash with Lauren Murphy has been removed from the UFC 276 lineup.

The promotion announced the news during the UFC on ESPN 38 broadcast on Saturday night. According to multiple reports, Murphy was forced to withdraw from the bout for undisclosed reasons. Tate and Murphy were previously slated to fight on May 14 before the matchup was postponed. The flyweight clash is expected to be rebooked at a later date.

UFC 276 takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on July 2 and is headlined by a middleweight title tilt pitting Israel Adesanya against Jared Cannonier, while Alexander Volkanovski will square off against Max Holloway in a featherweight championship trilogy in th co-main event.

Tate returned from a five-year retirement this past July, where she scored a third-round TKO win over Marion Reneau at UFC on ESPN 26. In her next outing, “Cupcake” fell to Ketlen Vieira via unanimous decision in the UFC Fight Night 198 main event on Nov. 20.

Murphy hasn’t competed since falling to Valentina Shevchenko via fourth-round TKO in a flyweight title tilt at UFC 266. Prior to that, the former Invicta FC champion had been victorious in her previous five Octagon appearances.