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With small UFC 217 lineup shuffle, OSP vs. Anderson elevated to FS1 prelims

With a small change to the preliminary card, the lineup is again set for Saturday’s UFC 217 event.

As part of the shuffle, a bout between light heavyweights Corey Anderson (9-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) and Ovince Saint Preux (21-10 MMA, 9-5 UFC) is now part of the televised lineup.

UFC 217 takes place Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York, and the main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.

Anderson vs. Saint Preux has moved from the UFC Fight Pass early prelim up to the FS1-televised prelims. As a result, a heavyweight fight between Ion Cutelaba (13-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (12-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) has been demoted from FS1 prelims to the UFC Fight Pass portion of the card, though it’s now in the featured early-prelim slot and closes out the three-bout online stream.

Preux, who’s No. 10 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA light-heavyweight rankings, recently replaced Patrick Cummins (10-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC), who was forced off the card due to a “mutant staph infection.” He faces Anderson, who’s an honorable mention and just outside of the top 15 rankings.

The full 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
  • Corey Anderson vs. Ovince Saint Preux
  • Randy Brown vs. Mickey Gall

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

  • Ion Cutelaba vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk
  • Curtis Blaydes vs. Aleksei Oleinik
  • Ricardo Ramos vs. Aiemann Zahabi

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

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