Aaron Pico Makes UFC Debut Saturday: ‘I’m in the Right Place’

Aaron Pico makes UFC debut Saturday: ‘I’m in the right place’

Even one of the most-driven athletes in combat sports sometimes needs a push. So any time Aaron Pico needs a little motivation, he pulls up one specific video. “When I have like 10 minutes left on the treadmill and I’m hurting, I put it on and it goes by so fast,” Pico said in April. Yet this isn’t any old “Baba O’Riley” by The Who. This is the UFC’s brilliant reimagining of one of the all-time rock anthems played before the main card of their l…

UFC 319 Co-Main Event Preview and Prediction: Aaron Pico - Lerone Murphy

BELLATOR MMA/LUCAS NOONAN Tomorrow night in the co-main event of UFC 319, we are going to see a huge matchup in the featherweight division where the winner will likely vault right into the title picture. It will be the highly anticipated octagon debut of Aaron Pico (13-4) who is jumping right into the thick of things at 145 as he’s taking on the unbeaten Lerone Murphy (16-0-1). Starting with Pico, this will be his first fight since he stopped He…

Lerone Murphy Says Short-Notice Nature of UFC 319 Fight with Pico a Blessing

Chicago — Lerone Murphy has a rather unique match-up at UFC 319. With Movsar Evloev dropping out of a fight with Aaron Pico at UFC Abu Dhabi last month, it’s Murphy who now welcomes Pico to the UFC. The Bellator star will be making his debut, and as such, he’s unranked. That doesn’t bother Murphy, who considers himself an MMA fan, and is well-versed on Pico. “I don’t think rankings have anything to do with it. Most of the time they don’t mean an…

Aaron Pico eyes Volkanovski but Lerone Murphy stands in way at UFC 319

Aaron Pico has spent his entire mixed martial arts career as a Bellator MMA fighter but will make his UFC debut this weekend against Lerone Murphy in the UFC 319 co-main event. The featherweight standout has been sharing an amusing anecdote this week in Chicago, explaining that when he told his four-year-old son he was going to be fighting in the UFC on TV, his son said: “Wow, dad, you’re finally a professional!” Of course, Bellator was a profes…