Marcelo Rojo is keeping positive ahead of his UFC return. The Argentine fighter finally has a battle on sight, as he’s just hours away from sharing the octagon with Kyler Phillips in a bantamweight contest part of the preliminary card of Saturday’s UFC 271 event at Houston’s Toyota Center. Prior to the booking with Phillips, Rojo (16-7 MMA, 0-1 UFC) had three consecutive fights canceled, a stretch that expanded for the majority of 2021. Rojo has been unable to follow up on his short-notice UFC debut loss to Charles Jourdain, which took place a division up at featherweight back in March 2021. “Yeah, the truth is that it is (a huge relief),” Rojo told MMA Junkie in Spanish . “It’s like how they say in Mexico, ‘Cowards don’t go to war.’ So those who withdrew from my fights are my rivals
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