UFC’s Diego Lopes not inquisitive about Movsar Evloev rematch subsequent

The tables have turned. At the least that’s how Diego Lopes sees his ongoing feud with fellow UFC contender Movsar Evloev.

Lopes, who misplaced to Evloev in his short-notice UFC debut again in 2023, had lengthy been asking for a rematch with the Russian fighter. Nonetheless, there was little consideration or thoughts to the callout by Evloev. Now, a 12 months later, Lopes is in a way more totally different place and finds himself getting known as out by Evloev – one thing he doesn’t need to entertain in the interim.

“I feel at the moment, what can I inform you, I feel we mainly have a top-five struggle assured, so for the second, preventing him just isn’t in my plans,” Lopes informed MMA Junkie in Spanish. “If he simply occurs to be the final possibility, OK, then we take it – no drawback. However from what we’ve mentioned with my crew and the UFC, we’re taking a look at a totally totally different struggle.”

Lopes is coming off a unanimous resolution win over Dan Ige in a struggle he accepted on 4 hours’ discover in one of many wildest moments in fashionable UFC historical past. This victory capped a 4-0 run that’s turned Lopes right into a contender at 145 kilos and one of the beloved fighters within the promotion.

Lopes (25-6 MMA, 4-1 UFC) finds it humorous how the dynamic with Evloev (18-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) modified so drastically.

“Now he’s saying that he needs to offer me the rematch within the Sphere and all that. Now he needs it,” Lopes stated. “He took three months to reply to me once I was calling him out to struggle precisely on that Worldwide Battle Week card, this final occasion.

“So now that he is aware of we’re in a very good place, he is aware of quite a lot of good has come my manner, now he needs to reap the benefits of this second to name me out and say he’ll give me the rematch. We have now utterly totally different plans, and a rematch with him just isn’t in them. I feel with all the pieces that we’ve carried out, I deserve one thing greater than a rematch with Movsar.”

This isn’t to say that Lopes gained’t struggle Evloev finally. Lopes is concentrating on a return on Noche UFC on the Sphere in Las Vegas on Sept. 14 towards Brian Ortega or Alexander Volkanovski in the interim, however he’s not sure of what the longer term will deliver past that.

“Positively sooner or later we’ll meet once more, however for the meantime he ought to keep hidden within the mountains like he did for the final three months,” Lopes stated.