It wasn’t too long ago that Dan Ige was inching his way closer to a potential UFC featherweight title shot until his career trajectory took a wrong turn.
Ige was on a six-fight winning streaks before he dropped a hard-fought unanimous decision to Calvin Kattar in his first UFC headliner in July 2020. Ige rebounded from that loss with a knockout of Gavin Tucker in March 2021 but has since lost three in a row – all unanimous decisions – to Chan Sung Jung, Josh Emmett, and most recently Movsar Evloev last June, his only fight of 2022.
Ige, 31, aims to turn things around with a quickness heading into the new year as he meets Damon Jackson on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 217, the promotion’s first event of 2023, from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
