July
04Inside Dan Ige’s four-hour save at UFC 303
Dan Ige was about as mentally removed from a fight as one could get on a Saturday afternoon. He’d just spent the last hour on a massage table at his home in Las Vegas. Deep-tissue massage, tranquil spa music in the background. Ige was in a relaxed state of perfect harmony. “Zenned out,” is how Ige described it. “Lying on my back, asleep. My phone on ‘Do Not Disturb.'” Three hours later, Ige would find himself at T-Mobile Arena, weighing in for the shortest-notice fight in modern UFC history. Ige fought Diego Lopes in the co-main event of UFC 303, after Lopes’s original adversary, Brian […]
