LAS VEGAS – Andre Fili apparently hoped his Saturday work shift was going to go a little differently than it did. Instead, Fili (24-11 MMA, 12-10 UFC) found himself in a 15-minute battle that showed when he left with a unanimous decision win over fellow longtime UFC featherweight Cub Swanson (29-14 MMA, 14-10 UFC) at UFC 303 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “The first round played out exactly how I expected,” Fili said at his post-fight news conference. “He wanted to brawl and I was like, ‘Nah, we’re going to have a nice, technical, clean fight. With that, I’m going to win. “Then he just became more insistent that we were going to brawl through the second and third
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Andre Fili credits Cub Swanson for pulling him into a dogfight at UFC 303 – MMA Junkie