The haters:
McGregor gets LW title shot with zero title defenses: I sleep
Islam gets a WW title shot with a possible record setting 4 LW title defenses:
This main event isn't about lining anything up for Despaigne, it's just the UFC paying Lewis back for taking the Almeida fight on short notice by giving him a relative softball of an opponent that he should be able to steamroll.
10 minute+ sparring video originally & O'Malley trims it down to share his best 20 seconds lol. Who cares.
Of course he's trying to angle to set up a fight with a nearly 35 year old flyweight, he'd rather fight Pantoja any day over the Sandhagen/Nurmagomedov winner (if he can even beat Merab.)
Yeah even though Stipe arguably doesn't deserve it, at least the fight with Jones & him was originally lined up before Aspinall got the interim belt. So it makes sense from the UFC's perspective not to "punish" Stipe for Jones injury by not giving him the fight now. But yeah Pereira somehow...
He was saying that when he fought Chandler so it's not really a new excuse. I don't think he ever said that's the sole reason he lost but surely it could've played a role.
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