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Michel Prazeres moves to welterweight, meets Zak Cummings at UFC Fight Night 129
After multiple failed weight cuts, Michel Prazeres has been forced out of the lightweight division and up to welterweight for his next bout.
A 170-pound matchup between Prazeres (24-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) and Zak Cummings (21-5 MMA, 6-2 UFC) is the latest addition to May’s UFC Fight Night 129 lineup.
Cummings announced the matchup on social media following an initial report from Cage of Bones (via Instagram):
Welp, everyone else is posting so F@€¥ it! Next fight set. The bathtub won’t save anyone else. Let’s go.
UFC Fight Night 129 will take place May 19 in Santiago, Chile, at Movistar Arena. It airs on FS1 following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass, though the full fight card and bout order haven’t been finalized.
Despite his repeated troubles making weight, Prazeres has been strong inside the octagon in recent years. Following a February 2015 loss to lightweight contender Kevin Lee, the Brazilian has rattled off six consecutive wins, including a pair of rarely seen north-south choke submissions.
Missing weight by a whopping five pounds prior to his UFC Fight Night 125 win over Desmond Green was the final straw for Prazeres, and at just 5-foot-9, he will join the welterweight division going forward.
Cummins will hope his return to the octagon goes smoother than his last attempt. He was scheduled to compete at UFC Fight Night 124 in January, but hit his head during the final stages of his weight cut and was removed from the card for precautionary reasons. Accidents aside, Cummings has won four of his past five bouts.
The latest UFC Fight Night 129 card includes:
- Volkan Oezdemir vs. Mauricio Rua
- Chad Laprise vs. Vicente Luque
- Guido Cannetti vs. Diego Rivas
- Alexa Grasso vs. Tatiana Suarez
- Andrea Lee vs. Veronica Macedo
- Poliana Botelho vs. Syuri Kondo
- Henry Briones vs. Frankie Saenz
- Jared Cannonier vs. Dominick Reyes
- Claudio Puelles vs. Felipe Silva
- Zak Cummings vs. Michel Prazeres
For more on UFC Fight Night 129, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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