Dustin Jacoby was getting ready to board his flight to Sydney, Australia, when he got the call that his opponent for UFC 325, Jimmy Crute, was injured and had to withdraw from the fight. Still planning to corner his teammate Cody Brundage in Sydney, the light heavyweight got on the plane with hopes that maybe UFC would be able to find a replacement.
While that wasn’t the case, Jacoby was offered a fight for the weekend after UFC 325 at the META Apex in Las Vegas, but it was someone with whom he had crossed paths before.
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“Julius (Walker) and I had trained together for a little bit; he came out to Factory X, and we have the same management team,” Jacoby said.