This week, the Ultimate Fighting Championship made the rare move to scrap a numbered pay-per-view, but incoming welterweight star Ben Askren claims he would have saved it for them.
The promotion announced the cancellation of UFC 233, scheduled for Jan. 26 in Anaheim, California, citing inability to find a suitable headlining act for the event. A champ-versus-champ superfight between flyweight champion Henry Cejudo and bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw was originally scheduled to headline, only to be moved when the UFC’s March card in Brooklyn, New York needed a main event.