Next month, Donald Cerrone will fight former UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson at the United Centre in Chicago. Nine weeks later, former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis will duke it out with Nate Diaz at the Honda Centre in Anaheim. These are objectively fascinating stylistic match-ups, between exciting fighters, which demand our attention for wildly different reasons.
UFC 238’s Ferguson-Cerrone could just as well be for the interim-interim championship, with “El Cucuy” having won 11 in a row and briefly holding one version of the 155-pound title over 2017-2018 before having it hastily stripped in March for what we’ll call “political reasons.