UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on July 8, 2017, at T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

[7] However, the bout was canceled just hours before the event started due to Nunes being ill.[8] An interim UFC Middleweight Championship bout between 2000 Olympic silver medalist and former world champion in freestyle wrestling Yoel Romero and The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes welterweight winner Robert Whittaker was expected to serve as the co-headliner.

[11] Reports began to circulate on June 28 that Cerrone had sustained a minor injury and that the pairing would be left intact, but expected to shift to UFC 214 three weeks later.

[15] He was replaced by The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia welterweight winner Chad Laprise.

[16] A bantamweight bout between Douglas Silva de Andrade and Rob Font was originally booked for UFC 175 in July 2014.