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Farah Hannoun and Ken Hathaway

UFC Fight Night 211’s Sodiq Yusuff didn’t want prep ‘to go to waste’ after Giga Chikadze withdrew

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LAS VEGAS – Regardless of the opponent, Sodiq Yusuff wanted to compete at all costs.

Yusuff (12-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC) was originally scheduled to face Giga Chikadze at UFC Fight Night 210, but after Chikadze was forced out due to injury, he ended up drawing Don Shainis (12-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC) two weeks later in Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 211 card.

A rather anticlimactic change for Yusuff, who went from a top 10 ranked featherweight to a UFC newcomer. But the 29-year-old, who hasn’t competed since defeating Alex Caceres in March, wanted all that hard work to amount to something.

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