diff --git a/bin/MadGraph5_aMCatNLO/patches/0002-skip-modification-of-masses-at-NLO-for-pythia8-since.patch b/bin/MadGraph5_aMCatNLO/patches/0002-skip-modification-of-masses-at-NLO-for-pythia8-since.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 40da135d7cac..000000000000
--- a/bin/MadGraph5_aMCatNLO/patches/0002-skip-modification-of-masses-at-NLO-for-pythia8-since.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-From db33b2369c7f3bc3ab84575ed500b45612cccf53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Josh Bendavid <Josh.Bendavid@cern.ch>
-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 19:02:12 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 2/8] skip modification of masses at NLO for pythia8 since this is unnecessary and can cause kinematic issues
-
----
- Template/NLO/SubProcesses/MCmasses_PYTHIA8.inc |   22 +++++++++++-----------
- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/Template/NLO/SubProcesses/MCmasses_PYTHIA8.inc b/Template/NLO/SubProcesses/MCmasses_PYTHIA8.inc
-index 46f53b6..8d269a6 100644
---- a/Template/NLO/SubProcesses/MCmasses_PYTHIA8.inc
-+++ b/Template/NLO/SubProcesses/MCmasses_PYTHIA8.inc
-@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
--      mcmass(1)=0.33d0
--      mcmass(2)=0.33d0
--      mcmass(3)=0.50d0
--      mcmass(4)=1.50d0
--      mcmass(5)=4.80d0
--      mcmass(11)=0.510998928d-3
--      mcmass(12)=0.d0
--      mcmass(13)=0.1056583715d0
--      mcmass(14)=0.d0
--      mcmass(15)=1.77682d0
--      mcmass(16)=0.d0
-+      mcmass(1)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(2)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(3)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(4)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(5)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(11)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(12)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(13)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(14)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(15)=0.0d0
-+      mcmass(16)=0.0d0
-       mcmass(21)=0.0d0
--- 
-1.7.1
-