The only time Baisangur Susurkaev didn't have a smile on his face two weeks ago was for a few moments on a Tuesday night in Las Vegas -- when his team tried to tell him he wasn't allowed to eat a steak.

Susurkaev had just scored a first-round knockout on "Dana White's Contender Series" and earned a UFC contract. Naturally, he was in the mood to celebrate, so he went straight from the UFC Apex to Herbs & Rye steakhouse. But when the waiter came to take Susurkaev's order, his team reminded him the UFC was working furiously to book him a fight at UFC 319 in Chicago on Saturday -- four days later.

"I told him he should probably order salmon," Susurkaev's manager, Jamie Gall, told ESPN this week. "If the UFC did get him a fight, he would have to make weight on Friday. He looked so sad that

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