Jamie Pickett did not have an easy road to travel to earn his UFC contract.
It’s been well documented how the middleweight prospect suffered back-to-back losses on Dana White’s Contender Series and the second defeat had him contemplating retirement. He had worked his whole career for the opportunity to fight in the UFC but after falling to Puna Soriano in 2019, it appeared his dream might never become reality.
But he decided to stick around the fight game to see if another chance to prove himself might arise. Just over a year past his last appearance on the Contender Series, Pickett was asked back again and he knew this was probably do-or-die when it came to joining the UFC.