Less than 24 hours ago, Paul Felder didn’t even know if he’d ever step foot inside the UFC cage again – but Saturday, he’ll do just that. Accepting a five-round fight against a former UFC lightweight champion on five days’ notice isn’t common practice among MMA fighters. However, Felder (17-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) will do just that when he steps in to take on Rafael dos Anjos in the UFC Fight Night 182 main event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas – a bout he accepted Monday after Islam Makhachev’s withdrawal. “I thought about it and I decided with everything going on in the world and all the sad things going on in people’s lives and losing their jobs and suffering and we just lost Alex freaking Trebek to pancreatic cancer, I was like, ‘Man, you know you’re still 36. You’re young. You’re in shape
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