Paul Craig says his UFC blockbuster with Johnny Walker in Brazil has been 10 years in the making.
And the Airdrie MMA star jokes that he’ll take the hatred of a partisan crowd in Rio at UFC 283 on Saturday, January 21, if it means he can enjoy the Brazilian sun in January.
This is the first of a bumper six-fight contract signed with UFC via Conor McGregor’s Paradigm Sports Management firm, and could put No.9 Craig back in the title reckoning against a fighter two places below him in the light-heavyweight division.