Alexandre Pantoja will be an interested observer when Askar Askarov and Kai Kara France square off at UFC on ESPN 33 this Saturday.
After back-to-back wins against Manel Kape and Brandon Royval, Pantoja was supposed to face Brandon Moreno for the flyweight title at UFC 270, but a knee injury knocked him out of the bout and Deiveson Figueiredo got the opportunity instead.
“I had defeated Moreno twice and since he was the champion, the trilogy made sense, but unfortunately I had to withdraw from the fight to have knee surgery,” Pantoja told Sherdog.