MIAMI – Petr Yan is again on the successful observe, and needs to run it again towards the final two fighters to place losses on his file.
The previous UFC bantamweight champion picked up a much-needed unanimous choice win over Yadong Track at UFC 299, snapping a three-fight skid. After successful the interim title towards Cory Sandhagen at UFC 267, Yan ended up on the improper facet of a pair of cut up choices towards then-champion Aljamain Sterling and now-current champ Sean O’Malley, adopted by a unanimous choice loss to Merab Dvalishvili.
Now, again within the win column, Yan desires to avenge these losses.
“Rematch season, open. Let’s go!” Yan exclaimed in English throughout his in-cage post-fight interview with Joe Rogan.
Whereas Sterling is out of the image as he’s shifting as much as featherweight for his subsequent combat, rematches towards Dvalishvili and O’Malley are attainable, it simply comes all the way down to how the promotion desires to proceed with matching up the highest fighters at 135 kilos.
“Whoever UFC will give me, I need to beat these guys, and put together this time extra professionally than I did earlier than,” Yan stated via an interpreter throughout a post-fight information convention. “… Looking season, open.”
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