There’s no picking and choosing your opponents in the UFC’s stacked lightweight division, a fact of life that suits Drakkar Klose just fine.
Klose (yes, his first name comes from the cologne) meets Lando Vannata on the preliminary portion of UFC 226 this Saturday, which takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. It will be Klose’s first fight since dropping a unanimous decision to David Teymur last December, the first loss of Klose’s professional career.
Though Vannata is coming off of split draw and has only recorded one win in four Octagon appearances, “Groovy” has carried a certain mystique ever since he nearly finished Tony Ferguson in his UFC debut in July 2016 and for his wheel kick knockout of John Makdessi at UFC 206.