I should have kept my mouth shut. The topic was harmless enough, and Ricky Simon and I both agreed that now that he was in the UFC, it wasn’t going to be tough finding fights that stuck anymore. He was particularly pleased that after some starts and stops over the years on the regional circuit, he was finally going to get to throw hands with fellow bantamweight prospect Benito Lopez this Saturday in Los Angeles.
But days later, Lopez was out of the fight due to injury. It felt like old times to Vancouver, Washington’s Simon, who has had more than his share of opponents leave him stranded.