Jimmy
Flick believes — or at least hopes — that his UFC 297
win over Malcolm
Gordon was enough to save his job.
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Flick took on an overweight Gordon to start off the UFC 297 action
in Toronto on Saturday. “The Brick” endured frenetic pressure and
pace from Gordon in the first round and came from behind to score a
second-round submission victory via arm triangle. The win allowed
the grappling ace to snap a two-fight skid.
Flick subsequently revealed that it was the last fight on his UFC
contract which he now hopes will be extended.
“Coming out like that with the fans against me, the guy didn’t make
the weight, everything was against me,” Flick said during a
post-fight media scrum. “If I lost tonight, I feel like I
was going to lose my job, and I was going back to find a new job.
That’s not what I wanted, so this means the world to me.”
“I am 2-2 in the UFC — four fights and never hit the scorecards and
don’t plan on hitting the scorecards. Three out of four fights,
there’s been a bonus.”
Flick made his UFC debut in 2020, submitting Cody Durden
with a flying triangle choke. Durden has since gone 5-2 while Flick
chose to take a sudden and early retirement. The Sand Springs,
Oklahama, native decided to end his retirement in 2022, returned to
action last year and went on a two-fight skid. If he continues in
the UFC, Flick would like to run it back with Durden.
“I want anybody the UFC will give me, but I want that Cody Durden
rematch,” he said. “I know he wants it. I don’t need it as much.
Since I left that UFC Octagon, he built up some wins, he got into
the rankings, so I want to take everything he worked for again.”