Canadian sports broadcaster TSN reports that a match-up between 10th ranked UFC light heavyweight Misha Cirkunov and 13th ranked Patrick Cummins is set for UFC Fight Night Moncton, which is slated to go down on Saturday, October 27th. UFC officials later confirmed the matchup.
This is for the company’s first foray into the province of New Brunswick, along with fights between 205ers Gian Villante (16-10) and Ed Herman (22-13) and lightweights Nasrat Haqparast (9-2) and Thibault Gouti (12-4).
The Latvian-born, but Toronto based, Cirkunov has not fought since losing to Glover Teixeira at UFC on FOX: Lawler vs.