Two recent UFC title fights that was announced to being finalized was Henry Cejudo vs Jose Aldo and Israel Adesanya vs Yoel Romero. Interestingly enough, both those two challengers are coming off two straight losses.
Ahead of UFC 246, Dana White tried to justify giving title shots to those two fighters.
“That’s the fight that both of those guys want, so hopefully we get that done,” White told the assembled media prior to UFC 246. “A lot of people thought Jose Aldo won, a lot of people think he didn’t. The night of the fight, Henry Cejudo hit me up and said ‘Aldo won that fight.