Our no. 14 ranked UFC middleweight contender Chris Curtis is just not glad along with his placement on the cardboard at UFC 287
Curtis not too long ago posted the next message to his Twitter, expressing why he’s upset with not being positioned on the principle card:
“Not gonna lie, that bout order is totally fucked. Among the best playing cards of the 12 months and I get bounced from the principle card for a kid? I fought on quick discover. Have take (took) on whoever and gone 4-1 to get ranked and I get bounced for a child with one combat? Yeah I’m salty as fuck.”
As you see, the occasion is to be headlined by a middleweight title bout between champion Alex Pereira and former champion Israel Adesanya, which is to be the fourth total time these two have fought each other.
Then we obtained a pair of ranked former welterweight title challengers dealing with off within the co-main occasion between Gilbert Burns and Jorge Masvidal, a bantamweight bout between no. 6 ranked Rob Font and no. 13 ranked Adrian Yanez within the function combat, a second welterweight showdown between Kevin Holland and Santiago Ponzinibbio, after which a second bantamweight conflict between Raul Rosas Jr and Christian Rodriguez.
There’s cause for Chris Curtis to be indignant along with his placement on the cardboard, contemplating Rodriguez is simply 1-1 within the UFC and Rosas is simply 1-0 within the promotion himself.
However, that is typical UFC habits.
Raul Rosas Jr competed on Dana White‘s Contender Collection when he was simply 17 years previous, the place he went the space for the primary time in his younger profession, accumulating 12 minutes of management time in that three spherical affair in opposition to a 7-1, 25 12 months previous opponent.
Then in his UFC debut Rosas submitted 16-fight veteran Jay Perrin halfway by spherical one, making a large splash within the worlds main combined martial arts promotion.
What’s extra, Rosas simply turned 18 years previous in October, making him the youngest expertise at the moment on the UFC roster, in addition to the youngest fighter to ever win a combat within the UFC.
So, it’s not shocking he’s getting a spot over Curtis, who’s dealing with no. 13 ranked former interim title challenger Kelvin Gastelum at this occasion.
Maybe with a win over Gastelum he’ll transfer up from the preliminary primary occasion subsequent time?
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