Following a trio of wins over Patrick Cummins, Glover Teixeira and Ilir Latifi that put him in the number seven spot in the light heavyweight rankings, Corey Anderson made it known that he was ready for a crack at 205-pound champion Jon Jones. And if that wasn’t going to happen, anyone ranked above him would do.
Yet whether previously booked or uninterested in meeting with the former Ultimate Fighter winner, no one was biting, prompting Anderson to sit down with his team and figure out what was next. They came up with a name.
“We said, ‘Who’s the most talked about person in the division right now?