Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos HOUSTON – Volkan Oezdemir knows he put himself in a no-lose situation when he took the call from the UFC to step in for a fight with Ovince Saint Preux on short notice. With Jan Blachowicz out , Saint Preux (19-9 MMA, 7-4 UFC) needed a new light heavyweight opponent, and the folks at Titan FC were good enough to free Oezdemir (12-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) up from a heavyweight title fight he had been booked for to send him off to the big leagues at UFC Fight Night 104. When fighters step up on short notice for a debut, they’re typically given a good amount of slack. If they have a bad night in their debut, there’s not usually a real threat of being cut loose after one fight.
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