A knee injury has forced a change to the lineup at next month’s UFC return to “The Garden State.”

Paul Felder (9-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) is out of his lightweight bout against New Jersey’s own Jim Miller (24-5 MMA, 13-4 UFC). Stepping in for him at UFC on FOX 15 will be Beneil Dariush (10-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC). UFC officials announced the change today.

Featuring a middleweight matchup between top contenders Lyoto Machida and Luke Rokchold, UFC on FOX 15 takes place April 18 at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The main card airs on FOX following prelims on FOX Sports 1 and UFC Fight Pass.

Dariush has won three straight fights, including a “Performance of the Night” submission of Daron Cruickshank earlier this month at UFC 185 in Dallas. Before that, he outpointed Carlos Diego Ferreira at UFC 179 and submitted Tony Martin at UFC Fight Night 49. He has submission wins in three of his four UFC fights.

Miller is ranked No. 11 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA lightweight rankings. The perennial contender suffered a knockout loss to Donald Cerrone this past June and is in need of a win to get back on track. Prior to that, he had back-to-back submission wins over Yancy Medeiros and Fabricio Camoes at UFC 172 and UFC 168, respectively.

Felder, “The Irish Dragon,” made his UFC debut this past October, picking up a split-decision win over Jason Saggo. He then stepped in as a short-notice replacement against Danny Castillo at UFC 182 in January and picked up a spectacular spinning backfist knockout. But now his quick start hot streak is placed on hold until he recovers from his knee injury.

With the change, the UFC on FOX 15 lineup now includes:

MAIN CARD (FOX, 8 p.m. ET)

Lyoto Machida vs. Luke Rockhold Yoel Romero vs. Ronaldo Souza Max Holloway vs. Cub Swanson Felice Herrig vs. Paige VanZant

PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX, 6 p.m. ET)

Beneil Dariush vs. Jim Miller Patrick Cummins vs. Ovince St. Preux Corey Anderson vs. Gian Villante Aljamain Sterling vs. Takeya Mizugaki

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 4:15 p.m. ET)

Tim Means vs. George Sullivan Diego Brandao vs. Jimy Hettes Chris Dempsey vs. Eddie Gordon

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