Jan Blachowicz is fighting for the UFC light heavyweight championship, yet he might have been the last important person to find out. It turns out that, as news broke of Jiri Prochazka withdrawing from UFC 282 and vacating the title because of a shoulder injury , Blachowicz was thousands of feet in the air flying to Las Vegas. Without WiFi on his plane, Blachowicz (29-9 MMA, 12-6 UFC) found out many hours after the public did that his fight with Magomed Ankalaev (17-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC) went from a co-main event title eliminator to headlining title fight at UFC 282. “That was the craziest several hours ever,” Blachowicz wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “I left Warsaw to take part in the title eliminator match, and a few hours later I’ve arrived as a title challenger.
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