SACRAMENTO – Joe Soto was lying naked on a tile floor after cutting weight when he got a call from the UFC. “What are they calling me for?” Soto (15-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) asked a training partner, who answered, “I don’t know – you better answer before you get cut or something.” It was the UFC matchmakers who wanted to see him. It was an emergency, they said, so Soto ran downstairs at the fighter hotel. Soon, the former Bellator MMA champion knew what the rest of the MMA world would later know – that ex-champ Renan Barao (32-2 MMA, 7-1 UFC) passed out and hit his head while cutting weight for his title rematch with champ T.J.
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New UFC 177 headliner Joe Soto on instant title fight: ‘Never trust the odds’ – MMA Junkie