Chan Sung Jung, better known as the “The Korean Zombie,” will return to competition against Akira Corassani at a UFC Fight Night event Oct. 4 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Jung (13-4) hasn’t fought since a fourth-round TKO loss to Jose Aldo in the main event of UFC 163 last August. The popular 27-year-old dislocated his shoulder in that bout, which has kept him from competing. Jung is 3-1 in the UFC with submission wins over Dustin Poirier and Leonard Garcia, plus a six-second knockout of Canadian Mark Hominick.
Corassani (12-4, 1 NC) is coming off a second-round TKO loss to Poirier at the TUF Nations Finale in April. The last time Corassani, of Lund, Sweden, fought in his home country was a unanimous decision win over Robbie Peralta at the last event the UFC held in Stockholm.
The event is scheduled to be headlined by a welterweight matchup between Gunnar Nelson and Rick Story.
In other UFC news:
— TUF 6 veteran Ben Saunders is set to return to the UFC for the first time in four years. Saunders was cut by the promotion following a loss to Dennis Hallman at UFC 117. He accumulated an 8-3 record outside the UFC with 10 of those 11 fights coming under the Bellator MMA banner. Saunders signed with Titan FC in June but the organization granted the fighter a release so that he could return to the UFC. Saunders is scheduled to fight UFC newcomer Chris Heatherly on Aug. 23 at UFC Fight Night in Tulsa, Okla.
— Sweden’s Nico Musoke will take on Russian Alexander Yakovlev at UFC Fight Night Stockholm. Musoke was originally supposed to fight Amir Sadollah, but the TUF 7 winner was removed from the card due to injury.
