PRAGUE – From facing hostile crowds to enduring long flights ahead of already-difficult weight cuts, there are some challenges a fighter faces when competing overseas. But Dwight Grant didn’t really mind going all the way to the Czech Republic to meet Italy’s Carlo Pedersoli Jr. on the preliminary card of this past Saturday’s UFC on ESPN+ 3 event. If anything, he had a little extra motivation to walk away victorious. “I think that having all that time on the plane thinking about what I’m going to do, and then being worried about going back with a loss – you don’t want to take a long plane ride back home after a loss, I’m telling you right now,” Grant told reporters backstage at O2 Arena in Prague
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