Following two cancellations and five months, welterweight Orion Cosce was finally able to have his bout with Mike “Blood Diamond” Mathetha at UFC 277 last July.
Having come into the bout with Mathetha suffering the only loss of his career, Cosce was pleased to get the fight done and pick up a victory and get himself back on track.
“2022 overall, I wish I would have had that fight (earlier) but things happen the way they do for a reason,” Cosce told MMAWeekly.com. “To get back in the Octagon on a PPV, it felt good to just kick it off. It was a fun fight for the fans, a fun fight for us, and I was able to get my hand raised.
“I wish I would have been a little more active, but again, things happen, so I focused on my recovery and health and am ready to get back in there for 2023.”
Coming into his fifth year as a pro, Cosce believes he’s been able to isolate any hitches he’s had in his game and correct them so he can be a better fighter in 2023 than ever before.
“I feel a lot stronger,” said Cosce. “Everything feels like it’s improved drastically in a good way.
“Just anything that I was having to work on that was one of my weaknesses I was able to find sparring and then pick…
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