Can Neil Magny regain past momentum?
We haven’t seen [autotag]Neil Mangy[/autotag] in the cage since his knockout loss to Santiago Ponzinibbio in Nov. 2918.
That’s in part because of a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency test which took Magny (21-7 MMA, 14-6 UFC) out of a scheduled fight last May. In the long run, that was good for the sport, because his tainted supplement case was so egregiously off-base that it spurred changes to the UFC’s program, so that fighters like him who have done nothing wrong don’t get caught in a needlessly large dragnet.
But Magny’s also 32 and the fact he did nothing wrong doesn’t undo the chunk of his career lost due to this escapade. He likes to stay active — he once won five fights in a calendar year — and he’s never gone this long in his career without a fight. Can he pick up the pace against a fighter as Li Jinliang (17-5 MMA, 9-3 UFC) , who is coming off back-to-back “Performance of the Night”-winning TKO victories? This fight will go a long way to determining where Magny stands.
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