A handful of MMA hunters want to draw at the big show after UFC 319.
Last weekend the biggest fight of the year took place between Champion Drus Du Plessis and Khamzat Chimaev who met five rounds for the middleweight title.
Chimaev eventually dominated Du Plessis to a unanimous decision victory and took the championship home on Saturday evening.
The UFC 319 -head card saw winners Carlos Prates and Lerone Murphy ask UFC boss Dana White to sign their teammates for the most important promotion, but instead they received performance bonuses for their rotating elbow knockouts.
Here who is asked to be signed by the UFC this weekend.
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Carlos Prates campaigns for teammate to join UFC Rio
After his victory over Geoff Neal used Topwelterwet Prates, his time in his interview after the fight to ask White Cageide if he would sign his teammate Marcos Degli.
Degli has a pro-record of 13-3 and is the ruling LFA-Interim-flying weight champion.
“11 [fight] Win Streak. Best pound-for-pound in Brazil, “said Prates about Degli.
“Let's fight in Rio,” Prates the UFC card of 11 October suggested in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Prates will probably get his wish, but time will tell for his teammate Degli.
Lerone Murphy says that Jordan Barton deserves to be in the UFC
Murphy took the approach of Prates, in his finish and his interview.
After the fight, Murphy concluded his interview by shouting his teammate, FNC Vederweight Champion Jordan Barton (10-3-1).
“My teammate Jordan Barton has been here my most difficult sparring partner for every camp,” Murphy told Joe Rogan.
“He deserves to be in the UFC,” said Murphy about Barton.
“European champion … please get him in the competition series!” Murphy added.
Tim Elliott hopes to again sign with UFC
'The Ultimate Fighter 24' winner Tim Elliott picked up his tenth UFC victory on Saturday for former Rizin Bantamweight champion Kai Asakura.
The Two-Stint UFC veteran says that he still has a fight on his UFC contract and is not going to go somewhere.
“I have one more about it on my contract, but I am now ready to negotiate again,” Elliott said at the UFC 319 Post-Fight Press Conference.
Elliott has won four of his last five fights. UFC 319 was his first victory in more than 600 days.
Emmanuel Sanchez ready for a discount on the discount on Korte
Two-time Bellator title Challenger and APFC champion Emmanuel Sanchez wants to be on the UFC.
Sanchez has never fought in the Octagon and has participated 20 times under the Bellator banner over the past decade.
Sanchez challenged Bellator Goat and the current UFC administrator Patricio Pitbull in particular twice for the featherweight title, but was not successful both times.
Winner of four of his last six fights, says the 35-year-old Sanchez that he will remain ready for a short-note UFC opportunity.
“I am always in Vecht mode,” Sanchez wrote on Instagram on Sunday.
“It is just a part of who I am. I was built and wired for action, that is my normal setting.
“Let's give people what they have paid to see. Always ready,” Sanchez added.
Jacob Silva set pension ultimatum to UFC
Flight weight veteran Jacob Silva withdrew from MMA on Sunday evening after a title victory on Paris Moran on Fury FC 107.
Silva went 0-2 on the Contender Series of Dana White against ex-PUC hunters Jeff Molina and JP buyed and he never had the opportunity to fight again in the Octagon.
Silva exchanged victories and losses against top competition on the regional scene before he expanded his profit reak to three last weekend.
Taking out the gloves for what is probably the last time, said 37-year-old Silva that he would retire if he had not been signed at the UFC or had another chance on the competition series.