This year marks the 10th anniversary of Ricardo Lamas’s working relationship with Zuffa, LLC.
It took him a couple of years to make it to the Octagon, but Lamas established himself as a featherweight contender in the World Extreme Cagefighting organization before it was absorbed into the UFC along with the majority of its fighters in 2010. Lamas hit the ground running, beating Matt Grice, Cub Swanson, Hatsu Hioki, and Erik Koch to set up a title fight with Jose Aldo at UFC 169.