The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just a few days away from its UFC 258 pay-per-view (PPV) event, which takes place this Saturday. night (February 13, 2021) inside APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, which means another round of “embedded” videoblogs before the fight.
If you missed episodes one and two click here and here to watch the replays.
UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman believes he is following a path similar to that of former light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans. “Suga” won the 2nd season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), won the division title and then “divorced” from his old academy after a fight with Jon Jones.
“It’s funny how Rashad and I are following a similar path,” Usman told his masseuse. “It’s the strangest thing. He was the Ultimate Fighter champion, the same with me. He goes and wins a UFC title, me too. He’s in the hall of fame, I told him when he was inducted: ‘Man, you know that I’m chasing you, right?’ And he left his gym. He left Jackson’s. “
Usman recently left his own academy to distance himself from opponent Gilbert Burns.
UFC 258 “Embedded” also examines the middleweight showdown between Kelvin Gastelum and Ian Heinisch. Gastelum recently connected with longtime mixed martial arts (MMA) coach Rafael Cordeiro at King’s MMA and hopes to realize his potential at 185 pounds.
For the full UFC 258 fight and line-up card, click here.