Senast den föredetta bantamviktsmästaren Renan Barao stod inne i oktagonen besegrades han av T.J. Dillashaw via TKO i femte ronden, och förlorade därmed bältet i viktklassen. Nu meddelar Dana White att Renan kan få en direkt returmatch mot Dillashaw, trots att Barao inte hade mycket att säga till om vid deras första möte.
Här kan ni läsa vad Dana hade att säga, via ”MMAJunkie”:
[Dillashaw’s next fight] probably will be the Barao rematch. Tell me if I’m wrong. I think we sat there and we started looking through the list of guys to fight T.J., and there is a list of guys, which is a great thing, but how do you not give it to Barao, the guy who was undefeated all those years? I agree he got a five-round a– whooping and got finished, but how does it make sense to not give him the rematch? And who doesn’t want to see it?
When you watch that fight last time, people were losing their minds because nobody saw that coming. They go in there and put on an unbelievable war. Is that not what you want to see again? I think if you look at a fight like Barao and Dillashaw, the guy went undefeated for 10 years and lost one fight. I want to see that fight again. [Losing again] puts Barao in a really bad spot, but then Barao gets in line and continues to fight and we see where it goes from there.
Inför mötet mot T.J. hade Renan inte förlorat en match sedan debuten 2005, nu har Barao totalt två förluster i bagaget och om han för en chans till revansch återstår att se.
