A heavyweight bout between former UFC Heavyweight

Champion Fabrício Werdum and former Bellator Heavyweight

Champion Alexander Volkov headlined this event.[3]
Promotional newcomer Dmitry Poberezhets was expected to
face Mark Godbeer at this event. However, Poberezhets was forced to
pull out from the card on January 25 due to injury and was replaced by
fellow newcomer Dmitry Sosnovskiy.[4]
Rustam Khabilov was expected to face Kajan Johnson at this event.
However, Khabilov pulled out of the fight on February 8 citing injury.
Johnson is expected to remain on the card against Stevie Ray.[5][6]
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos was scheduled to face Jack Marshman at
the event. However, Zaleski pulled out of the fight on February 19
citing a knee injury.[7] He was replaced by Brad Scott.[8] In turn,
Marshman was removed from the card two days before the event due
to medical issues surrounding his weight cut and the bout was
scrapped.[9]
On March 8, it was reported that Alex Reyes pulled out of his bout
against Nasrat Haqparast due to injury.[10] On March 12, Nad Narimani
was announced as his replacement.[11] The bout was scrapped minutes
before the event as Haqparast was deemed unfit to fight by the
medical team due to an infectious eye condition.[12]