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Cory Sandhagen seemed to be looking forward to lock horns with Deiveson Figueiredo for his next bout, but to his disappointment, ‘figgy’ kept turning down fights, which is why Cory Sandhagen may have to find someone else to fight.
The new UFC bantamweight champion, Merab Dvalishvili, has mentioned Deiveson Figueiredo’s name quite a few times for his first title defense. However, his only obstacle is Umar Nurmagomedov. Deiveson Figueiredo may have to prove himself one more time even though the champion is ready to fight him next – it is the UFC that makes the final call.
Cory Sandhagen on Deiveson Figueiredo ducking him
In a recent YouTube video, Cory Sandhagen shed some light on Deiveson Figueiredo turning down fights against him.
“Figgy turned down the fight against me in September, which is just kind of whack because I thought that Figgy was a little bit more about that life than that,” Sandhagen said, as quoted by mmajunkie.usatoday.com.
“I’m kind of actually hurt that Figgy doesn’t want to fight me in December, but maybe he wants to take the easier fights. I don’t know what that dude’s plan is. It’s really a bummer, man, because I was really hoping to get that fight one, and then two, the fans get really excited about fights like that, and that’s just a bummer that they don’t get to have that fight right now at least, but even in the future, you never really know what’s going to happen.
It kind of reminds me of three or four years ago when people were really trying to hype up a me and Dominick Cruz fight”.
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