Ben Duffy spotlights three fighters who are under a little extra pressure to perform at UFC Fight Night 247 on Saturday. Mauricio Rua
bigger than others for various reasons. In some cases, the elevated stakes are easy to define. Picture the fighter on a losing streak who knows he or she is likely fighting for their job, or conversely, any title fight in a top regional organization, where the combatants know the big leagues are probably scouting them. At other times, a fight feels especially important for reasons that are harder to quantify but no less real.
However, a strange thing happened on the way to retirement, bare-knuckle boxing, slap fighting or whatever other minor circle of hell awaits washed-up MMA fighters these days. Garbrandt took all of 2022 off, returned to action early last year and has been… pretty good.
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