Patrick Cummins Out Of UFC 217 Due To Staph Infection

In a post on Instagram, Patrick Cummins revealed that he is no longer a part of UFC 217 due to a “mutant staph infection.” Cummins was set to fight light heavyweight Corey Anderson at the event. He wrote:

IV antibiotics haven’t touched my mutant staph infection #UFC217 isn’t gunna happen for me. Sorry everyone #FuckMRSA #SucksButItCanAlwaysBeWorse

A post shared by Patrick Durkin Cummins (@officialdurkin) on Oct 17, 2017 at 7:26am PDT

The event happens on November 4 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It airs on PPV after preliminary fights on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass. Cummins vs. Anderson was set for the preliminary card. UFC has yet to confirm Cummins’ status. Here’s the current card:

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
Ion Cutelaba vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk
Randy Brown vs. Mickey Gall

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 6:30 p.m. ET)
Curtis Blaydes vs. Aleksei Oleinik
Corey Anderson vs. TBA
Ricardo Ramos vs. Aiemann Zahabi