"I remember just walking round the cage, looking at the empty seats in the crowd and I just burst into tears."
Brett Johns has seen many an eventful night in his career, but few were as emotionally charged as that one evening in Raleigh, North Carolina, back in January 2020.
After more than a year out of the cage due to injury, he was pencilled in to mark his UFC return against in-form American Tony Gravely.