Travel Issues Force Cancellation of Tanner Boser vs. Sergei Pavlovich at UFC on ESPN 31

A heavyweight scrap between Tanner Boser and Sergei Pavlovich has been removed from the UFC on ESPN 31 lineup.

MMAjunkie.com was first to report the cancellation, and Boser then confirmed that the fight was off, though he did not offer specific details. “Sorry guys, I hope to have this resolved soon,” Boser wrote on Twitter.

UFC on ESPN 31 takes place on Dec. 4 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and is headlined by a bantamweight clash between Jose Aldo and Rob Font.

Boser snapped a two-bout skid in his last outing, when he knocked out Ovince St. Preux in the second-round at UFC Fight Night 190. The 30-year-old Canadian is 4-3 during his tenure with the Las Vegas-based promotion and 20-8-1 as a professional overall.

Pavlovich will look to return to action after having a 2020 booking against Ciryl Gane fall through due to injury and a September matchup with Tom Aspinall canceled as a result of visa issues. The Eagles MMA representative suffered a first-round TKO defeat to Alistair Overeem in his Octagon debut but has since rebounded to post first-round KO/TKO wins over Marcelo Golm and Maurice Greene.