The UFC has announced another fight booking for the UFC Fight Night 55 card in Sydney, Australia as TUF Nations alum Daniel Kelly will make his official UFC debut against Luke Zachrich in a middleweight bout.
The fight booking was announced by the UFC on early Thursday evening.
UFC Fight Night 55 will come from the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia on November 8th and will be headlined by a scheduled five round middleweight bout as former Strikeforce champion Luke Rockhold meets Michael Bisping.
Kelly (7-0) was eliminated during the quarterfinals of TUF Nations by Sheldon Westcott and his most recent win came in May by submission. Six of his seven wins have come by stoppage and four of those are by submission. Zachrich (14-3) dropped his UFC debut in April and is coming off a decision win in July against Guilherme Vasconcelos at UFC 175. He has won four of his last five fights and three of those wins have come by decision.
The current UFC Fight Night 55: Rockhold vs. Bisping fight card is below.
Luke Rockhold (12-2) vs. Michael Bisping (26-6)
Robert Whittaker (13-4) vs. Clint Hester (11-3)
Anthony Perosh (14-8) vs. Guto Inocente (6-3)
Soa Palelei (21-4) vs. Daniel Omielanczuk (16-4-1, 1NC)
Jake Matthews (8-0) vs. Vagner Rocha (11-3)
Vik Grujic (7-4) vs. Chris Clements (11-5, 1NC)
Dylan Andrews (18-6, 1NC) vs. Sam Alvey (23-6, 1NC)
Daniel Kelly (7-0) vs. Luke Zachrich (14-3)