With the majority of top-ranked UFC featherweights booked, Bryce Mitchell thinks Chan Sung Jung is a logical next fight.
Unbeaten rising contender Mitchell (15-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) is coming off a lopsided win over Edson Barboza at UFC 272 in March and is now targeting the upper echelon of the division. Jung (17-7 MMA, 7-4 UFC) fell short in his pursuit of UFC gold a second time when he was dominated and stopped by featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 273, but “The Korean Zombie” remains a credentialed name that Mitchell is interested in.
“‘Korean Zombie’ is the highest-ranked guy that I could possibly fight and the reason that I believe that he is because he’s a two-time title contender,” Mitchell said on The Schaub Show. “He went and fought for the belt two times. There’s other guys that are up there, that are really high up. Ortega’s booked, Holloway’s booked, but there’s other guys that might be up there but they didn’t fight for the belt twice.
