Joseph Benavidez vs. Ray Borg was originally announced for UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor on October 6, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. However, a change of venue was announced – UFC Fight Night 139: Edgar vs. Korean Zombie on November 10, at Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. UFC 229 may be the biggest fight in MMA history; UFC Fight Night 139 won’t.

During a recent appearance on MMAjunkie Radio, Benavidez said the reason was an ongoing civil suit that Borg has brought against McGregor, for the hand truck attack that injured him to the point he couldn’t fight at UFC 223. The courts have apparently ordered McGregor to say away from Borg.

As far as I understand, Borg and Conor have the legal beef from New York, because Borg was one of the victims of the Conor thing, said Benavidez, as transcribed by Mike Bohn for MMAjunkie. It wasn’t anything Borg did. I guess Borg is like, ‘Dude, I don’t care. That wasn’t my thing. I never fought him on it.’ It was filed right away. It wasn’t like Borg said, ‘Don’t have me near Conor.’ It’s just whenever you get into that action with the civil system, they just file it that these people can’t be next to each other.

It bothered me, but I did for the most part shrug it off. Obviously I would have preferred something. If I would have just got the fight in Denver, I think I would have been pumped. But it was the fact they hung something in front of me first and then took it away from me.

It should be nice. I’m in good shape. I’ll still do what I have to do in preparing myself the best that I can with altitude.