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UFC light heavyweight Ryan Bader wrapped up his latest UFC contract in the best way possible, scoring impressive stoppages over Ilir Latifi<\/a> and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira<\/a>. With these wins, which reaffirmed his status as one of the world’s top light heavyweights, Bader made himself a valuable commodity not only in the eyes of the UFC, but also in the eyes of other top promotions like Bellator and Rizin Fighting Federation.<\/p>\n

On the most recent episode of Submission Radio<\/a>, Bader gave an update on his current situation. The light heavyweight explained that he’s still in the earliest stages of his free agency.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m still a free agent right now,” he said on the show. “Over the next week or so, we\u2019re gonna see kind of what we\u2019re doing and whatnot, as far as if we\u2019re going to take any offers elsewhere, getting offers from the UFC, all that kind of stuff. So we haven\u2019t gone there yet, we\u2019re in the preliminary stages of it. So just kind of waiting right now and we will see. We were gonna wait for that light heavyweight title fight [between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson] to happen, but obviously that\u2019s pushed back<\/a>, so we started the process a little earlier than expected.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Ryan<\/a><\/p>\n

Bader also explained why he elected to fight out his UFC contract, rather than sign the contract renewal that was offered to him by the organization.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The UFC] usually come to you with one fight left,” he explained. “So they offered us something and we looked at it and we didn\u2019t even really counter, we just looked at it and said we\u2019re gonna fight it out because it\u2019s pretty much the same contract that we had, a little bit more. So we just said, hey why not, let\u2019s just fight it out. So it was our decision. So we\u2019re just in the process right now of just kind of figuring out what we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Bader is far from making any major decisions as far as his fighting future goes, he did admit he’s already received interest from other organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout getting into specifics or anything like that, there\u2019s been interest, for sure,” he said. “I can\u2019t really talk much about it until this stuff is all done and finalized and what not, but there\u2019s definitely interest out there. So like I said, we\u2019re in the preliminary stages right now, we\u2019re talking to the UFC. It\u2019s one of those things where we get an offer from the UFC or we go out and test free agency. So we\u2019re in that stage right now.\u201c<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where do you think Ryan Bader will end up? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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