Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos PORTLAND, Ore. – UFC featherweight Andre Fili might have gone about his normal schedule – spar, eat, have fun, repeat – had a fan not tagged him on Twitter. When Brian Ortega (11-0 MMA, 3-0 UFC) withdrew from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 96, said fan suggested him as an apt replacement. Good idea, Fili thought. With a text to UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby, Fili was back on the active roster, five months after suffering the first knockout loss of his career courtesy of a brutal flying kick from Yair Rodriguez at UFC 197. Set to fight Hacran Dias (23-4-1 MMA, 3-3 UFC) on the FS2-broadcast prelims of Saturday’s fight card at Moda Center in Portland, Ore., Fili (15-4 MMA, 3-3 UFC) is gearing up for his seventh UFC fight
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UFC Fight Night 96′s Andre Fili: I’m not in this sport to be a (expletive) about it – MMA Junkie