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Albuquerque’s John Dodson, top right, celebrates after the referee breaks up the fight as Dodson gets the knockout over Nathaniel Wood at the Rio Rancho Event Center on Feb. 15, 2020. Dodson is recovering from a harrowing automobile accident that will cost him a scheduled MMA fight, but could have been so much worse. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
Albuquerque MMA fighter John Dodson is nicknamed “The Magician,” and it appears little short of miraculous that he and his family are alive and relatively well after a frightening car crash in Texas late Friday night.
If Dodson had not swerved at the last second to avoid a head-on collision with a stranded/parked black car on Interstate 44, said his manager, the damage could have been far more devastating.
I’m baaaccckkkk!
After taking a hiatus for my own fight, I can now return to preview fights involving other people. Before I get into this weekend’s contests, I want to quickly give a thank you to everyone on social media who offered me a great deal of support. The decision didn’t go my way, and I’m never happy about that. However, I challenged myself, moved up a weight class, and felt that I represented myself well. I won’t go into details and bore you with a rehash of my fight when what you really want to read about is the upcoming fights, but I just wanted to say thanks. The support I received before the fight, on fight day, and after the bout was amazing. I always say that without fans, there are no fights. No one is paying us to get in there if there are no fans, so to receive such support meant more than I can express. This isn’t the last of me; I’m not going anywhere.
Welcome to year eight of the annual “Prospects the UFC Should Sign” series, in which we’ll examine five MMA prospects per division the UFC should sign in the upcoming year.
This series started during my time as a writer for Bleacher Report, continued through my tenures at Today’s Knockout and FanSided, and now it stays alive another year here at Combat Press.
Let’s examine the women’s bantamweight division, the original female weight class within the UFC. It’s been thinned out due to the recent addition of the flyweight division, so the UFC needs to look to add an injection of new talent.