LAS VEGAS – It appears to be like like Diego Lopes’s busy UFC schedule will proceed to remain busy.
Following a dominant resolution win over former title challenger Brian Ortega at UFC 306, Lopes (26-6 MMA, 5-1 UFC) would possibly get the chance to function a backup for the upcoming featherweight title struggle between Ilia Topuria and Max Holloway – which is ready to go down on Oct. 26 at UFC 308. UFC CEO Dana White stated he’d be greater than keen to offer Lopes the chance ought to he need it.
“We’d do something for that man, regardless that he was screaming at me,” White stated on the UFC 306 post-fight press convention. “I actually like him, so yeah, he might be.”
Lopes jumped open the cage and started to speak to White quickly after the ultimate bell of his struggle towards Ortega at Saturday’s Noche UFC. This caught White off guard given their previous, post-fight interactions.
“Normally he’s very nice, however tonight he was screaming at me: ‘Give me my title shot. I get the title shot now,’” White stated. “He was very indignant tonight. He wasn’t the standard happy-go-lucky Diego Lopes. He was f*cking screaming at me. He was all fired up tonight.”
So far as the efficiency, White was impressed with what he noticed from Lopes, particularly the best way he selected to struggle an always-dangeorous Ortega (16-4 MMA, 8-4 UFC).
“What was fascinating to me is that he drops him proper out the gate, after which he jumps on him as an alternative of letting him up and attempting to complete him,” White stated. “It’s nearly like he wished to submit him or one thing. I don’t know if that was the case. I believe he made the struggle loads harder than it needed to be of him. I believe lots of people had been sleeping on him due to the (Dan) Ige struggle, and he positively put that behind him.”
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