Michael Chiesa says choice that cost him UFC title shot is his one regret ahead of retirement fight

For ‘Maverick’, this weekend can be full of moments that he could by no means expertise once more having made the choice to put down his gloves after this weekend.

Chiesa may see this as the perfect way to go out, however he just lately admitted that there’s one second in his profession he would return and alter if he may.

Michael Chiesa says swapping seats with Calvin Kattar cost him a late discover title fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov

UFC 223 in April, 2018 stays one of probably the most chaotic fight weeks that followers have ever skilled.

Max Holloway was pulled from his clash with Khabib Nurmagomedov for the light-weight title after he stepped in to exchange an injured Tony Ferguson.

The promotion then went by means of a number of different choices to face ‘The Eagle’ earlier than selecting Al Iaquinta, however Michael Chiesa’s matchup with Anthony Pettis was the primary fight that the UFC turned to.

Unfortunately, Chiesa couldn’t compete after Conor McGregor threw a dolly at a bus containing numerous fighters, which he may have considerably prevented accidents from.

“If there’s one thing I could change, I wish that I would have given Calvin Kattar that front seat because I would have fought Khabib and that’s literally what it boiled down to,” he instructed Full Send MMA. “Calvin Kattar was sitting in the front and I was getting on the bus looking kind of rough.

“I was like five pounds over when I was cutting to 155 and Calvin’s like, ‘Oh, you can take my seat’ and I sat in the window and my coach sat next to me and then everything happened.”

Chiesa would go on to sue McGregor for breaking the window that led to the American receiving cuts on his face from the glass that prevented him from preventing.

The lawsuit towards ‘The Notorious’ for numerous claims was seemingly settled in Supreme Court a number of years later in 2022, as reported by MMA Fighting.

Who is Michael Chiesa preventing at UFC Seattle?

Michael Chiesa enters his retirement fight on March 28 using a three-fight win streak.

After his unique opponent, Carlston Harris, withdrew, Niko Price stepped in, which left Jon Anik puzzled because of the truth that ‘The Hybrid’ was knocked out final month.

Chiesa has been working as an analyst for the UFC since 2018 and made his full commentary debut throughout an episode of final 12 months’s Dana White’s Contender Series.

He may have 22 UFC bouts to his title following this weekend’s occasion on the Climate Pledge Arena.