No one really knows what’s at stake for Jussier Formiga and Joseph Benavidez when they rematch at Saturday night’s UFC Minneapolis, but the Brazilian refuses to imagine a future without flyweights in the Octagon.
The company has slowly released one flyweight after another in the past several months, and even though UFC president Dana White went on record recently saying that “it is confirmed” that the weight class will not be dissolved, having only 13 flyweights on the roster makes it hard to believe.
With flyweight kingpin Henry Cejudo also holding the 135-pound championship now, raising questions about whether or not he will cut all the way down to flyweight again to defend one of his thrones in the future, Formiga trusts White’s words.