Chan Sung Jung vs. Akira Corassani co-headlines Sweden *POLL*

The UFC’s return to Sweden now has its co-headliner, and it features a recent featherweight title challenger, as well as a local product.



UFC officials today announced Chan Sung Jung (13-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC), who fights for the first time since an August 2013 loss to champion Jose Aldo, will clash with Swedish fighter Akira Corassani (12-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC)



UFC Fight Night 53 takes place Oct. 4 at Ericsson Globe in Stockholm. The event streams on UFC Fight Pass.



Jung, who’s ranked No. 9 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA featherweight rankings, was on a three-fight winning streak before the TKO loss to Aldo. Prior to the title defeat, in which Jung suffered a shoulder injury, the 27-year-old “Korean Zombie” had defeated Leonard Garcia, Mark Hominick and Dustin Poirier – all via stoppage and all in bonus-winning performances.



The WEC and World Victory Road/Sengoku vet now meets Corassani, who also recently was on a three-fight UFC winning streak. However, in his most recent performance, the 31-year-old “TUF 14″ semifinalist suffered a TKO loss to Poirier at the TUF Nations Finale in April. Despite the defeat, Corassani earned “Fight of the Night” honors and picked up his first UFC fight-night bonus.



The latest UFC Fight Night 53 card now includes:



Gunnar Nelson vs. Rick Story

Akira Corassani vs. Chan Sung Jung

Nico Musoke vs. Alexander Yakovlev

Niklas Backstrom vs. Mike Wilkinson

Ernest Chavez vs. Zubaira Tukhugov

Dennis Siver vs. Robert Whiteford

Jan Blachowicz vs. Ilir Latifi

Marcin Bandel vs. Mairbek Taisumov

Scott Askham vs. Magnus Cedenblad

Krzysztof Jotko vs. Tor Troeng

Cathal Pendred vs. Gasan Umalatov



http://ift.tt/VavtAN

Statistics: Posted by moose84 — Aug 9. 2014, 10:57 — Replies 0 — Views 2

---