Myles Jury was a rising, undefeated UFC lightweight contender when he suffered a lackadaisical one-sided decision loss to Donald Cerrone in January. Since then, he’s decided to drop down to featherweight and change camps from Alliance MMA in San Diego, California (the gym that houses Dominick Cruz and Phil Davis) to Power MMA in Arizona (best known as the home of Ryan Bader). He’ll be making his featherweight debut against top 10 ranked Charles Oliveira on December 19th in orlando, Florida, which is the UFC’s next Fox network special.
It’s a loaded card, and Oliveira-Jury is definitely a main card caliber fight. n this night, it will be the featured bout on the televised prelims, which will also air on the Fox network. It looks like Jury just found out about the bout order today, and he’s not happy:
Keep in mind that Fox shows have four fight main cards, one fight less than mst pay-per-view cards and two fights less than most UFC Fight Night cards on Fox Sports one. Only the main cards of events on UFC Fight Pass. Being how the UFC tends to book Fox cards, a high level women’s fight is probably a better choice for a hot start, especially since Jury’s style can be dry at times.
While it’s somewhat understandable that he feels like he’s been snubbed, “not sure who these females are” is not the best way to go about it. Depending on how he meant it, it could be taken the wrong way.
