Gallery Manny Bermudez def. Benito Lopez at UFC on ESPN 1: Best photos view 10 images Manny Bermudez almost got Urijah Faber’s comeback fight, and he’d still love a crack at the “California Kid.” Faber ended up facing Ricky Simon upon his return and scored a first-round knockout finish at UFC on ESPN+ 13 in his hometown of Sacramento, Calif., in July. Bermudez wished it was him in there with Faber. “I think that Urijah just ended up picking Ricky Simon because of style, or I’m sure he had a bunch of names and I was just one of the names he could have picked,” Bermudez told MMA Junkie. “I don’t think that he was ducking me or anything like that. But I do wish that he had picked me instead of Ricky.” Related Sean O'Malley and Melissa Gatto get NAC extensions; Gatto tested positive for diuretic Urijah Faber swings back at Henry Cejudo, and 'deez nuts' make an appearance While Simon didn’t get the chance to put up much of a fight, Bermudez said he knows he would have posed some challenges for Faber.
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