An undisclosed injury has forced Urijah Faber to pull out of his UFC Fight Night 52 bout against Masanori Kanehara and taking his place in the bout will be Alex Caceres.
The change was announced by UFC officials on Friday.
UFC Fight Night 52 will come from the Saitama Arena in Saitama, Japan on September 20th and will be headlined by a heavyweight bout as Mark Hunt meets Roy Nelson.
Caceres (10-6, 1NC) had his five fight unbeaten streak snapped at UFC 175 against Faber as he was submitted in the first round. Five of his six career defeats have come by submission and it was the first time he was submitted since 2011.
Kanehara (23-11-5) will be making his UFC debut on this card and seventeen of his wins have come by knockout or submission. He has won five of his last six fights and he will enter this fight following a defeat at DEEP 66.
The current UFC Fight Night 52: Hunt vs. Nelson fight card is below.
Mark Hunt (9-8-1) vs. Roy Nelson (20-9)
Miesha Tate (14-5) vs. Rin Nakai (16-0-1)
Kyoji Horiguchi (13-1) vs. Jon Delos Reyes (7-3)
Takanori Gomi (35-9, 1NC) vs. Myles Jury (14-0)
Alex Caceres (10-6) vs. Masanori Kanehara (23-11-5)
Yoshihiro Akiyama (13-5, 2NC) vs Amir Sadalloh (6-4)
Kiichi Kunimoto (17-5-2) vs. Richard Walsh (8-1)
Katsunori Kikuno (22-6-2) vs. Sam Sicilia (13-4)
Hyun Gyu Lim (12-4-1) vs. Takenori Sato (17-9-7)
Kyung Ho Kang (12-7, 1NC) vs. Michinori Tanaka (10-0)
Johnny Case (15-4) vs. Kazuki Tokudome (12-5-1)
Maximo Blanco (10-6-1) vs. Daniel Hooker (11-4)