Jorge Masvidal appears to have a date and location for his UFC return as he recently confirmed in an appearance on Jake Shields' Fight Back podcast. "Gamebred" has been talking about stepping foot inside the Octagon once again for several months now but it now looks like plans are starting to be putting in place.
His last fight in the UFC to this point came at UFC 287 in Miami where after a loss to Gilbert Burns, he announced that he would be stepping away. This decision loss in April of 2023 marked his fourth outing in a row without a win, suffering defeats to Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington in the run that followed his three-fight win streak that turned him into a major star.
Masvidal then stepped into the boxing world where he lost a majority decision to Nate Diaz this past July having previously beaten him in the UFC to become the inaugural BMF titleholder at UFC 244. He told Shields that his return will take place in the same city two years on from his loss to Burns though he doesn't have an opponent confirmed as of yet.
He has been very outspoken about wanting to settle the score with Leon Edwards which stems all the way back to their backstage altercation at the O2 Arena in London over five years ago. With "Rocky" recently stating on a DAZN broadcast over the weekend that he will be making his return to headline the London card on March 22, it doesn't look like he will be a potential candidate to welcome Masvidal back.
I will be back. April next year in the UFC. Yes sir. We don’t have the opponent yet. Hopefully, by December we get the opponent. In April, Miami card.
