LAS VEGAS – Diego Lopes needs to run issues again with Movsar Evloev.
Lopes (24-6 MMA, 3-1 UFC) pushed Evloev to the brink when he stepped in on brief discover in his UFC debut in Could 2023. Since then, the 29-year-old rising star has scored three-straight first-round finishes, most lately a TKO of Sodiq Yusuff Saturday at UFC 300.
As he continues his ascent up the featherweight ladder, Lopes thinks it’s time he received to rematch Evloev (18-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC), and he needs it June 29 at UFC 303.
“Movsar (Evloev) is subsequent at Worldwide Combat Week, give me the rematch,” Lopes informed MMA Junkie and different reporters on the UFC 300 post-fight press convention. “I feel that the primary struggle speaks for itself, and I feel that the fights that got here after that I feel they are saying I deserve a rematch in opposition to Movsar.”
Evloev is coming off a unanimous determination win over Arnold Allen at UFC 297 in a efficiency UFC CEO Dana White known as the “least enjoyable struggle anyone’s ever seen.”
Lopes took intention at Evloev’s combating type in campaigning for the rematch.
“I feel it’s really actually humorous that he really went on social media and stated that my biggest feat was really to have a struggle in opposition to him,” Lopes stated by means of an interpreter. “I went again on social media and informed him, effectively your biggest feat is make Dana White like a struggle that you just’re concerned (in). It’s simply that I used to be concerned.
“I prefer to name him ‘Choice Man.’ I even coined a time period ‘Mr. Choice.’ I feel his work speaks for himself, and my work speaks for myself.”
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