Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos Recently, UFC officials asked “The Ultimate Fighter 15 winner” Michael Chiesa (12-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) if he’d be interested in a fight with “The Ultimate Fighter 9″ winner Ross Pearson (17-8 MMA, 9-5 UFC) at July’s UFC Fight Night 72 event in Scotland. Here’s why Chiesa said, “No, thanks.” “I love the matchup,” Chiesa told MMAjunkie’s John Morgan on the latest edition of “ The MMA Road Show .” “Ross is a good guy. We would have gone out there, and it would have been a phenomenal fight. It excites me to go out there and compete against a guy like Ross, but it just wasn’t the right time.
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