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Stephen Thompson was scheduled to fight Michel Pereira, but Pereira missed weight for the bout and Thompson opted not to fight a short notice replacement.
There was a time when Thompson was seeking money from the promotion for making weight for UFC 291 and seemingly didn’t get any kind of compensation, but Thompson now says the matter between himself and the UFC has been settled.
“That was all wild and crazy,” Thompson told MMA Fighting. “Me and the UFC, and my management, we’ve settled everything. So everything’s great. We settled with something we were both happy with, and that was it.”
Whatever deal was reached by Thompson and the UFC hasn’t been made public at this time.
Thompson is now looking forward to the future, which includes a bout against Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 296.
“It took a little bit because they have a business and a lot of stuff going on — and so have I,” Thompson said. “So my managers have been taking care of everything. But, yeah man, I was happy with everything, with what the UFC has done for me, and we got away from this last fight with a smile on our faces. Not only that, but then [I got] a fight, obviously, against a top opponent, someone ranked above me, and on one of the most stacked cards of the year — the last card of the year.”
