Kicking off this edition of TTP is our interview with Road to UFC lightweght, Dom Mar Fan. "Street Buddha" is fresh off his win in the tournament semifinals and is chatting about the fight that got him one step closer to a UFC contract. He discusses how the fight was trickier than he thought and what surprised him about his opponent. Plus, he shares his thoughts on being and underdog
Featherweights Yi Zha and Westin Wilson were the third fight in on Saturday's UFC Shanghai preliminary card. China's Zha, quite obviously with the crowd behind him on Saturday, was a Road to UFC winner who was looking to bounce back from a loss to Gabriel Santos. Wilson, meanwhile, had actually requested to fight overseas in China, a decision he would ultimately live to regret, not far into Saturday's opening round.
I kind of anticipated it. I made a solid effort not to look at the betting numbers or anything in the lead-up to the fight, but when I first got given the opponent's name and I looked, it was 11-0. I was like, okay, chances are people are going to assume that this guy is going to win,
