Back in May, the UFC announced a major signing when they officially announced that Patchy Mix (20-2) was being brought in by the promotion. The former Bellator champion had long been considered to be one of the very best bantamweights in the world.

Patchy Mix had an incredible run in Bellator that was capped by beating Kyoji Horiguchi, submitting Magomed Magomedov, knocking out Raufeon Stots, and then running through and submitting Sergio Pettis.

Then, Bellator was acquired by the PFL. The PFL struggled to book Patchy Mix and he only fought once between November 2023 and his UFC signing back in May of this year. That one time was in May of 2024 when he won a very close split decision over Magomed Magomedov.

Mix was incredibly frustrated with inactivity and when he signed with the UFC, h

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