Roy Nelson is happy to be home. For the first time since his first-round knockout of Matt Mitrione in December of 2012, “Big Country” will be fighting in his hometown of Las Vegas when he faces Jared Rosholt in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night at the MGM Grand.
That’s the good news. The bad? No more visits to Sizzler in Tokyo.
“No Sizzler, no El Torito in Japan,” he laments. “But it’s good to be back.”
Does it feel like over three years though?
“It seems like a long time,” Nelson, who owns a 7-2 home record, said.