Former UFC star Jorge Masvidal left the UFC in 2023 after 4 consecutive losses and briefly entered the boxing world shortly after.
Jorge Masvidal rose to stardom after touchdown probably the most viral KOs in UFC historical past when he left Ben Askren utterly unconscious inside the first 5 seconds of their 2019 combat.
Later that 12 months, ‘Gamebred’ grew to become the inaugural UFC BMF champion when the physician rendered Nate Diaz unable to proceed in spherical three as a consequence of lacerations on his eye.
Jorge Masvidal reveals UFC return date is about
Following a vastly profitable 12 months, Masvidal was given a welterweight title shot towards Kamaru Usman on quick discover, which marked the start of his downward spiral with the promotion.
After shedding to ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ twice in a row, the 40-year-old then misplaced an enormous grudge match towards Colby Covington, in what’s going to go down as one of many largest rivalries in UFC historical past.
Masvidal left the UFC to pursue more cash elsewhere, and earlier this 12 months, he rematched Diaz within the boxing ring in a co-promoted occasion with Actual Struggle Inc, shedding to the Stockton brawler.
Since then, the 40-year-old has been placing quite a lot of time into his promotion, Gamebred Promotions, and has held a number of occasions this 12 months.
Regardless of that, Masvidal has constantly hinted that he’ll return to the UFC subsequent 12 months, and he has now revealed that he has a month confirmed for his return and has leaked the promotion’s plan for a location.
“I’ll be again in April subsequent 12 months within the UFC, we don’t have the opponent but, hopefully by December we’ve received the opponent and April, Miami card,” Masvidal stated on Jake Shields AJJ.
The UFC has but to announce any of their occasions previous March subsequent 12 months, nevertheless, Masvidal appears assured that in April, they are going to return to ‘The Magic Metropolis’, Miami.
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UFC followers speculate whether or not Masvidal’s feud with Leon Edwards will probably be settled
Another person who leaked his return to the Octagon this previous weekend is former 170lb champion, Leon Edwards.
‘Rocky’ sadly misplaced his welterweight title to Belal Muhammad again in July at UFC 304, and since then, he has been extraordinarily quiet relating to his return to motion.
Regardless of that, the promotion not too long ago introduced that in March 2025, they are going to return to the o2 Area in London for the primary time since 2023.
With that, followers started to invest who may probably headline the occasion with interim heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall, out of the working as he’s pursuing a title unification bout towards Jon Jones.
Ranked light-weight Paddy ‘The Baddy’ Pimblett appeared like a possible headliner contemplating his recognition over that facet of the pond, nevertheless, followers now have a solution as to who will probably be headlining the occasion in ‘The Massive Smoke’.
This previous weekend throughout an interview with DAZN Boxing, Edwards revealed that he will probably be returning in March to headline the promotion’s return to London.
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With that, followers started to invest whether or not he may lastly be set to settle his feud with Masvidal after the 2 received concerned in a brawl backstage at UFC London in 2019.
They had been then booked to combat one another in 2021, however Masvidal withdrew from the combat as he opted for a combat towards Covington as an alternative.
It’s unclear who ‘Rocky’ will headline the March 22 occasion towards, nevertheless, with Masvidal’s current revelation, that feud is unlikely to be settled any time quickly.
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