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👀⚡️Cory Sandhagen wants to fight Petr Yan next:
“I still want to get this one back… Maybe we will do it next.”
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🎥 YT @corysandhagenx ▫️ pic.twitter.com/lZYORg5HbY— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) November 25, 2024
Cory Sandhagen (17-5) is eyeing Petr Yan (18-5) after the latter’s latest win at UFC Macau.
Yan put on a striking clinic to earn an emphatic unanimous decision win over Deiveson Figueiredo in the main event at UFC Macau last weekend. Sandhagen subsequently called out “No Mercy,” who already has a win over him in 2021. Sandhagen wants to avenge his loss against the Russian even if he doesn’t get that matchup immediately.
“Congrats to Yan. Maybe we will do it next,” Sandhagen said on his YouTube channel. “I don’t really know what the division’s [got] going on. I haven’t really heard too much. I was hoping to hear probably sometime next week about the direction that they are gonna go in. Because I know they were waiting on this fight to play out. Congrats to Yan. I still wanna get that one back. We’ll see if it will be next or not.”
Yan bounced back from his title loss against Aljamain Sterling with a unanimous decision win over Sandhagen in 2021. Yan then went on a three-fight skid, albeit against elite competition in Sterling, Sean O’Malley and Merab Dvalishvili. The 31-year-old has since racked up consecutive wins over Yadong Song and Figueiredo to put himself back into title contention.
Meanwhile, Sandhagen bounced back from his loss against Yan with consecutive wins over Song, Marlon Vera and Rob Font. The 32-year-old saw his streak snapped with a unanimous decision loss against Umar Nurmagomedov in a potential title eliminator at UFC Saudi Arabia this past August.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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