UFC President Dana White recently revealed Mauricio Ruffy was not the originally planned opponent for Arman Tsarukyan. Tsarukyan will be taking on Ruffy in the co-main event of UFC 331 on the 19th of September, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. He said, seemingly referring to Oliveira as ‘original fight:’No, no (not Ruffy)! His original fight fell out. Right after his death, Oliveira addressed the death of his ‘brother’ Nascimento in a touching Instagram story, where he wrote:Today I lost a brother that fighting gave me.