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Syracuse Basketball: UFC BMF champ Jorge Masvidal will be at Iowa game

The Syracuse basketball team will be in a dog fight Tuesday night vs the Iowa Hawkeyes. Thankfully they’ll have one of the hottest names in the UFC in their corner at the dome: Jorge Masvidal.

Masvidal is a mixed martial artist who has been professionally competing for the last 16 years in every major promotion: Bellator, Strikeforce, Shark Fights, and World Victory Road. Currently, he’s in the most prominent fighting promotion on the planet the UFC.

Despite Jorge being in the fighting game for a long time, he recently rose to prominence with the fastest knockout in UFC history (five seconds) vs Ben Askren on July 6, 2019 at UFC 239.