MMA Fighting · Jun 29, 2019
Jussier Formiga not convinced UFC will shut down the flyweight division
Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Brazilian flyweight Jussier Formiga is on a four-fight winning streak.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.