Benito Lopez fought the fight of his life on Aug. 22, but even with that gritty three-round split decision victory over Steven Peterson on the eighth week of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series, the unbeaten bantamweight didn’t know if it was enough to earn a UFC contract.It was, though it took a second for it to sink in.“The first thing that came to my mind was that I was really excited,” Lopez said. “I’ve been chasing this since I was 12 years old, so 11 years now, and I feel like it was my destiny. I felt like that before and it sounds clich&eac ... Read the Full Article Here

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