Ovince Saint Preux replaces Patrick Cummins, meets Corey Anderson at UFC 217 in NYC

After fighting a short-notice replacement in the main event of UFC Fight Night 116 in September, it’s now Ovince Saint Preux who will step late for an upcoming fight.

Saint Preux (21-10 MMA, 9-5 UFC) will replace Patrick Cummins to take on Corey Anderson (9-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) at UFC 217, which takes place Nov. 4 at Madison Square Garden in New York City and airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.

A UFC official verified the new matchup to MMAjunkie following an initial report from newsday.com.

Cummins (10-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) was forced to withdraw from the light heavyweight matchup due to a “mutant staph infection” in his foot that prevented him from properly preparing for the contest.

Instead, Anderson will now fight Saint Preux, who pulled off another historic Von Flue choke when he defeated Yushin Okami in the main event of UFC Fight Night 117 in Japan this past month.

Saint Preux, No. 10 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA light heavyweight rankings, was hoping to get a matchup with former UFC champ Mauricio Rua rebooked for his next fight, but instead he’s jumping on the opportunity to meet Anderson, an honorable mention in the latest rankings, on short notice.

The latest UFC 217 lineup now includes:

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)

• Champ Michael Bisping vs. Georges St-Pierre – for middleweight title
• Champ Cody Garbrandt vs. T.J. Dillashaw – for bantamweight title
• Champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Rose Namajunas – for women’s strawweight title
• Jorge Masvidal vs. Stephen Thompson
• Paulo Borrachinha vs. Johny Hendricks

PRELIMINARY CARD (FS1, 8 p.m. ET)

• Joseph Duffy vs. James Vick
• Mark Godbeer vs. Walt Harris
• Ion Cutelaba vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk
• Randy Brown vs. Mickey Gall

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 6:30 p.m. ET)

• Curtis Blaydes vs. Aleksei Oleinik
• Corey Anderson vs. Ovince Saint Preux
• Ricardo Ramos vs. Aiemann Zahabi

For more on UFC 217, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.