Fighting a record-breaking submission artist who is on a five-fight winning streak and doing so in his hometown isn’t the most favorable of situations for any fighter.
But it is pretty much what Jared Gordon asked for.
“I pray to God, I ask him every day to make me the Rocky of UFC; the biggest underdog,” Gordon said. "Coming into this card, I might be one of the bigger underdogs on the card. I probably am.”
Gordon’s assumption is true. As of November 12, Bovada has the New Yorker as a +270 underdog to Charles Oliveira, but all Gordon can do is laugh.