Don’t anticipate to see Cory Sandhagen battle in The Massive Apple.
Following a formidable second-round TKO of Deiveson Figueiredo in Des Moines, ‘The Sandman’ needs to be the following man up for reigning bantamweight world champion Merab Dvalishvili.
Simply don’t anticipate their anticipated title conflict to go down this November when the UFC heads again to the world’s most well-known enviornment — Madison Sq. Backyard.
“I hate combating in New York—the state tax is loopy,” Sandhagen advised MMA Combating. “December in Vegas sounds actually good to me.”
Sandhagen’s first crack at undisputed gold has been a very long time coming. He got here shut a few instances, however finally got here up quick in a title eliminator towards Aljamain Sterling earlier than surrendering a unanimous choice to Petr Yan in an interim championship bout 4 years in the past.
Regardless of the setbacks, Sandhagen’s objective within the battle sport has all the time remained the identical.
“I’ve by no means actually cared about being a star or well-known. My objective was to be the perfect fighter on the earth at 135, and that’s all that issues to me. I may care much less who has the belt—I simply need to put on that factor and preserve it for a very long time.”
‘The Sandman’ is 4-1 in his final 5, the lone loss coming towards Umar Nurmagomedov.
As for Dvalishvili, ‘The Machine’ is contemporary off a dominant submission victory over Sean O’Malley in a rematch that no one actually requested for. No official date has been introduced relating to the Georgian’s return to the Octagon, but when Sandhagen will get his want, they’ll shut out the UFC’s 2025 in ‘Sin Metropolis’ this Christmas.
