LAS VEGAS – Lorenz Larkin still isn’t sure how exactly he feels about fighting on Saturday’s UFC Fight Pass prelims rather than the pay-per-view main card.

Larkin (17-5 MMA, 4-5 UFC), who recently stepped in as an injury replacement for Dong Hyun Kim (21-3-1 MMA, 12-3 UFC), meets Neil Magny (18-4 MMA, 11-3 UFC) in the “featured” prelim on the UFC’s digital service. It’s one of three matchups that stream on UFC Fight Pass from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas before the rest of the card shifts to FS1 and PPV.

Regardless of its slot on the card, Larkin knows it’s a great opportunity. Magny is on a 10-1 run in the organization and ranked No. 10 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA welterweight rankings. Larkin, who’s 3-1 at welterweight since moving down from middleweight, is still unranked in his new weight class, but a victory over Magny could certainly get him in the top 15.

Larkin, though, just wants to assure this fight gets as big of a push as possible. Although UFC officials have assured him it won’t be overshadowed by the televised fights, he wants to see how it all plays out before he makes a judgment.

“We were originally slotted for, I think, the second fight on pay-per-view,” he said. “The viewership number would’ve been crazy. But, if we’re on Fight Pass and we get marketed the right way, then it makes sense. Because a lot of things, I always look at it from a fighter’s aspect and look at it from the business aspect too because you can’t just be one-sided all the time.

” … It’s not just for me. It’s for Neil too. … If they’re pushing us and they’re marketing us on Fight Pass, it makes sense. Because we wouldn’t have got that if we were the first or second fight on pay-per-view. So I’ll take marketing over viewership any time.”

Check out the full interview, in which he further discusses the UFC Fight Pass dilemma as well as his own standing in the division, above.

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