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.