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Anthony Pettis knows he’s on the chopping block of being released by the UFC. The former lightweight champion returned to the win column in May with a decision win over Donald Cerrone. However, entering his UFC Vegas 17 fight against Alex Morono,…
Anthony Pettis knows he’s on the chopping block of being released by the UFC. The former lightweight champion returned to the win column in May with a decision win over Donald Cerrone. However, entering his UFC Vegas 17 fight against Alex Morono, Pettis is on the final fight of his UFC contract. “It is my […]
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Anthony Pettis is returning to the Octagon on December 19. After Leon Edwards vs. Khamzat Chimaev was off, it was reported Pettis was stepping up on short notice to battle Alex Morono on the card as the event needed another fight. When the fight was an…
Anthony Pettis is returning to the Octagon on December 19. After Leon Edwards vs. Khamzat Chimaev was off, it was reported Pettis was stepping up on short notice to battle Alex Morono on the card as the event needed another fight. When the fight was announced many were confused as to why “Showtime” took this […]
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Former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis is a late addition to the final card of the year. ‘Showtime’ will square off against Alex Morono in a welterweight bout on December 19 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. The news comes hot on the heels of main event fighter Leon Edwards falling off the […]
Former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis is a late addition to the final card of the year. ‘Showtime’ will square off against Alex Morono in a welterweight bout on December 19 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The news comes hot on the heels of main event fighter Leon Edwards falling off the card after contracting COVID-19. His scheduled fight with Khamzat Chimaev will not be pushed back to a later date. Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson has had his fight with welterweight contender Geoff Neal bumped up to the headline spot.
Pettis was last seen in action at UFC 249 May when he picked up a unanimous decision win over Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone to rebound from a submission loss to Diego Ferreira at UFC 246.
Morono is something of a surprise opponent for Pettis. The 30-year-old fighter has gone 4-1 in his last five fights, only losing to Khaos Williams. Morono is coming off a win on November 14 but is currently unranked at welterweight and doesn’t hold any name value ahead of UFC Vegas 17.
In an interview with ESPN, Pettis explained why he had accepted a fight with Morono, he said.
“I was actually trying to get a fight for a while now. My mindset has been so sharp. I’ve gone back to being a student of the game and I feel myself moving over this plateau. I feel like I was plateaued for a while and it was just never-ending, but last month I went to Colombia and got a stem-cell injection and I’ve been working with a sports psychiatrist. I have these tools in my mental game and I’m eager to put them to use. I’m making real progress as a martial artist and it’s felt so good to reinvent myself.”
“I’m not obsessing about getting back to a belt, or getting that next spot,” Pettis added. “This is my first chance to get back-to-back wins in a while. Let’s start back over, take this one step at a time. I feel amazing at 170 pounds. This opportunity opened up and I couldn’t say no to it.”
Do you think Anthony Pettis can make it back-to-back wins against Alex Morono at UFC Vegas 17?
UFC on ESPN: Thompson vs. Neal has added a final fight to its lineup when Anthony Pettis faces Alex Morono on December 19. After Leon Edwards and Khamzat Chimaev’s main event was canceled, Stephen Thompson and Geoff Neal was bumped up to the main event…
UFC on ESPN: Thompson vs. Neal has added a final fight to its lineup when Anthony Pettis faces Alex Morono on December 19. After Leon Edwards and Khamzat Chimaev’s main event was canceled, Stephen Thompson and Geoff Neal was bumped up to the main event, but there was still a slot open for another bout. […]
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Anthony Pettis and Alex Morono have agreed to a fight at UFC Vegas 17 on Dec. 19, according to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto …
Anthony Pettis and Alex Morono have agreed to a fight at UFC Vegas 17 on Dec. 19, according to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto …
UFC featherweight veteran Cub Swanson is enjoying the freedom that comes with being unranked. Swanson is set to return to action from a knee injury when he faces Daniel Pineda at UFC 256 on December 12. The injury was unfortunate in itself as it came during a Submission Underground appearance just a few weeks after […]
UFC featherweight veteran Cub Swanson is enjoying the freedom that comes with being unranked.
Swanson is set to return to action from a knee injury when he faces Daniel Pineda at UFC 256 on December 12. The injury was unfortunate in itself as it came during a Submission Underground appearance just a few weeks after he returned to the win column with an impressive unanimous decision win over Kron Gracie.
That said, Swanson is enjoying where his career is at right now — especially as he feels he can now explore fights that have interested him in multiple divisions now that that he is unranked.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about – because I’m not ranked right now that was kinda freeing actually,” Swanson told MMA Junkie Radio. “It was funny. I was actually talking to Dominick Cruz one day at the (UFC Performance Institute), and he was asking me about fights, this and that, and I was like I could only fight certain people because I was ranked. And he was like, ‘Tell them to unrank you.’ And I was like, what? I had never even thought of that. Like, who would ask for that? But at this point in my career it was a little freeing because I could fight anybody.
“It made me think of the possibilities of fighting at (135 pounds), fighting at 55. There are fights that I’ve always thought would be great like at 55, a friend of mine, Anthony Pettis, at 35, Urijah Faber. I could even fight Aldo at 35, so there’s a lot of possibilities. I could see that in the later part of my career they’d want to see some old school WEC matchups.”
Those are certainly exciting matchups with Aldo being one in particular that Swanson has eyed for a while.
The pair, of course, met in the WEC with Aldo requiring just eight seconds to knock Swanson out in their 2009 meeting. And given how Aldo has performed since making the move down to 135, Swanson is looking to emulate him — especially as he feels he has become smaller as he’s gotten older.
“I’ve never tried to make it that far down,” Swanson said of bantamweight. “I feel like I have gotten a little bit smaller in the last couple of years. Making (145) has actually gotten a little easier for me, but yeah it just kinda opened up the idea of me possibly doing a 35 fight, possibly doing 55. I’m open to the ideas.
“I think the biggest thing at this point is, for one, I got this fight ahead of me. I’m trying to get some momentum, and I’ve made a lot of changes in my style, brought some things back, introducing new things, so I’m just trying to get on rhythm of Cub 5.0 and then whatever happens after that, just fun fights at 55 or 45 or 35. I think that’s the biggest thing. I just want fights that are interesting to me.”
Who do you think Swanson should face after Pineda?