While he didn’t have a lot of fights in 2022 and didn’t have the kind of outcomes he would have liked, lightweight Evan Elder was nonetheless pleased with how the year turned out. As he views it, the fact that he was able to make it into the UFC and make some headway in his training, the fact he suffered a defeat in his UFC debut last April to Preston Parsons at UFC Fight Night isn’t what is important to him coming out of 2022. “I only fought one time, so as far as my career it was a big moment for me, because it was my first fight in the UFC, but it didn’t go as planned,” Elder told MMAWeekly.com. “I got the call on short-noticed and stuff, and that’s the way it goes.
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Evan Elder plans to mix it up better than Nazim Sadykhov at UFC Vegas 69 – MMA Weekly