As a 17-fight veteran of the UFC, lightweight Ross Pearson probably could have called up UFC matchmaker Joe Silva and asked to have his bout against Francisco Trinaldo moved from Boston this Sunday to London next month. But “The Real Deal” is just fine with a trip to Beantown.
“I don’t know what it is about going home,” laughs Sunderland native Pearson, whose last two visits to the United Kingdom haven’t exactly gone so well. “I had the Melvin (Guillard) accident happen with the no contest, and I had the Evan Dunham fight, which wasn’t really a fight; he just held me down.