{"id":362981,"date":"2020-09-29T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=362981"},"modified":"2020-09-29T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T01:00:53","slug":"paul-felder-wants-to-introduce-michael-chandler-to-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paul-felder-wants-to-introduce-michael-chandler-to-the-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Felder wants to introduce Michael Chandler to the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight Paul Felder says he told UFC president Dana White that he wants to be the one to welcome Michael Chandler to the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Chandler, the former three-time Bellator lightweight champion, was recently signed to a lucrative free-agent deal. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/breaking-ufc-signs-michael-chandler-former-bellator-champ-to-serve-as-backup-for-ufc-254-main-event\/\">As part of Chandler&#8217;s new deal with the UFC<\/a>, he has been selected as the official backup for the UFC 254 main event lightweight title unification bout between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Justin Gaethje. The UFC typically doesn&#8217;t give that kind of opportunity to a newcomer, which shows you how high the promotion is on him.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Chandler is only a backup, so &#8212; fingers crossed &#8212; if Nurmagomedov and Gaethje make it to the fight unscathed, then he won&#8217;t fight. In that case, he&#8217;ll likely want to jump back into the Octagon later this year, and if that&#8217;s the case, then Felder wants him. Speaking to reporters on Fight Island, Felder made it known he wants to fight Chandler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are only a few names I\u2019d even be interested in coming back to fighting. It\u2019s the top guys: Hooker, Ferguson, obviously Michael Chandler is going to come here to \u2018Fight Island\u2019 to be a backup. Hopefully, that doesn\u2019t happen, right? I think we can all agree we don\u2019t want that to happen. It\u2019s good that it\u2019s in place. God forbid something goes down. But that\u2019s a fight I\u2019d like to come back for in December or early next year,&#8221; Felder said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/09\/ufc-news-paul-felder-eager-to-fight-michael-chandler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMAjunkie.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would\u2019ve at least asked when the date was and talked to the team and figured out a training camp potentially,\u201d Felder said. \u201cI\u2019ve made it known that\u2019s a fight I\u2019d be interested in. I even texted Dana White when he first was talking to Chandler, saying, \u2018Hey, if you need somebody to introduce him to the big show then I\u2019d be interested.\u2019 I have no disrespect toward Chandler. I think he\u2019s a great athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Felder is currently the No. 7 ranked lightweight on the UFC roster. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paul-felder-calls-out-dan-hooker-in-a-very-creative-way\/\">He hasn&#8217;t fought since earlier this year when he lost a razor-thin split decision to Dan Hooker in New Zealand<\/a>. Felder, who also works as a UFC color commentator, has openly spoken about potentially retiring, but he has left the door open for big fights. Being the man to welcome Chandler certainly qualifies, so let&#8217;s see if the UFC matchmakers give Felder what he wants.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see Paul Felder vs. Michael Chandler?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight Paul Felder says he told UFC president Dana White that he wants to be the one to welcome Michael Chandler to the Octagon. Chandler, the former three-time Bellator lightweight champion, was recently signed to a lucrative free-agent deal. As part of Chandler&#8217;s new deal with the UFC, he has been selected as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":279527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10486,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paul Felder wants to introduce Michael Chandler to the UFC | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC lightweight Paul Felder says he told UFC president Dana White that he wants to be the one to welcome Michael Chandler to the Octagon.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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