Ryan La Flare out, Zak Cummings meets Gunnar Nelson at UFC Dublin

Undisclosed Injury to La Flare forces a change to UFC Fight Night 46
by Chris Houten @mrhouts

Fresh of his UFC Fight Night 40 victory over Yan Cabral, Zak Cummings (17-3 UFC, 2-0 MMA) meets Gunnar Nelson (12-0-1 UFC, 3-0 MMA) as a replacement for Ryan La Flare who has been removed from the card for unconfirmed reasons.

UFC Fight Night 46 Dublin takes place July 19th at the The O2 Arena. Tickets for will go on sale to the general public at 10am on Friday 6th June and can be purchased from www.ticketmaster.ie and www.theo2.ie.

Originally scheduled to face Kenny Robertson at UFC Fight Night 45 on July 16 at UFC Fight Night 45 on Atlantic City, Cummings will now fight 3 days later at UFC Fight Night 46, the UFCs 3rd European event of 2014.

A former MFC middleweight champion, Cummings made his UFC debut win a submission of the night D'Arce Choke victory over Ben Alloway at UFC Fight Night 27 this past August, which his followed up with a unanimous decision victory over Yan Cabral at last months Fight Night 40. A winner of 4 straight fight, The welterweight has only lost 3 times in his career, with loses coming to Ryan Jimmo at light heavyweight, as well as Tim Kennedy and Elvis Mutapcic both at Middleweight. a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Cummings has 9 wins by submission and 4 by TKO.

Widely considered one of the hottest prospects in Europe along side SBG teammates Conor McGregor and Cathal Pendrad, Iceland born Renzo Gracie Black belt Gunnar Nelson fights for the 4th time at UFC fight night 46 on the back of an impressive, performance of the night first round victory over Omari Akhmedov. A pro since 2007 Nelson has finished all but one of his opponents inside the distance and holds UFC victories over DaMarques Johnson, former Sengoku champion Jorge Santiago and the aforementioned Omari Akhmedov.

With the addition of Nelson vs Cummings, UFC Fight Night 46 now includes:

Conor McGregor vs. Cole Miller
Zak Cummings vs. Gunnar Nelson
Ian McCall vs. Brad Pickett
Ilir Latifi vs. Tom Lawlor
Cody Donovan vs. Nikita Krylov
Phil Harris vs. Neil Seery
Trevor Smith vs. Tor Troeng

Stay tuned to KingdomMMA.co.uk for all the latest on Ufc Fight night 46.