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Five years ago, Rafael dos Anjos was the UFC lightweight champion and was expecting to defend his title in a superfight against featherweight champion Conor McGregor. However, in the lead-up to the fight dos Anjos broke his foot, and instead McGregor faced Nate Diaz who ended up submitting McGregor and effectively killing the McGregor-dos Anjos matchup. Now, RDA would like to get it back.
“I believe when I (was scheduled to fight) Conor he was in the best moment of his career, and I was in the best moment of my career,” dos Anjos told MMA Junkie. “I had the belt at the time, and I was feeling pretty confident at that time, and I was in great shape. Definitely, I think I’m a very bad matchup for Conor, especially for my style, my kicks and southpaw stance, my grappling skills, my wrestling skills. But that’s something that passed already. I think with the results of his last fights, I think our paths
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Emily Whitmire will still compete on Feb. 27, but she’ll have a new opponent.
Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Hannah Cifers has withdrawn from the originally scheduled UFC Vegas 20 strawweight matchup for undisclosed reasons, confirming an initial report from MMA Junkie.
Sources confirm to MMA Fighting that Whitmire is now expected to face Sam Hughes on the fight card that takes place at UFC APEX in Las Vegas and caps off the promotion’s February schedule.
Whitmire looks to get back on track following back-to-back submission losses in fights against Amanda Ribas and Polyana Viana, respectively. Prior to that stretch, “Spitfire” was able to pick up consecutive victories over Jamie Moyle and Aleksandra Albu.
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