CHICAGO – With four straight wins – all in the UFC – and Saturday’s destruction of a would-be No. 1 contender, the suddenly surging Ricardo Lamas is packing up for Las Vegas to get a look at his possible next opponent.

Lamas (13-2 MMA, 4-0 UFC), who’s followed a 4-2 record in the WEC with an undefeated run in the UFC, delivered a vicious second-round TKO of fellow featherweight Erik Koch (13-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) in a UFC on FOX 6 main-card bout.

The signature win came in the Chicagoan’s hometown. Now, Lamas is heading to Las Vegas for an up-close look at Saturday’s UFC 156 pay-per-view headliner.

“There’s a fight happening next weekend, I’m going to be there watching, and I’d love to have the winner of that fight, the main event of Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar,” Lamas told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) after Saturday’s UFC on FOX 6 event.

Koch had similar plans for a Sin City trip, but after Lamas badly battered and bloodied him with elbows, he’s lost his place in the title line. That leaves just Lamas and fellow contender Chan Sung Jung, who’s still recovering from a shoulder injury that likely will keep him out of action until this summer.

UFC President Dana White wouldn’t say Lamas gets the winner of UFC 156, where Aldo looks for his 15th straight win and fourth consecutive title defense. But he’s liking what he hears.

“I have no idea, but I like that he wants it,” White said when asked what’s next for the title and Lamas. “I like that he wants it.”

Lamas, fighting in his hometown for the first time since 2008, said it took him a round to get his bearings. But once the fight hit the mat in the second round, Lamas unloaded a violent barrage of elbows that caught Koch flush.

“Erik is a very unorthodox fighter, and he’s very pinpoint accurate in his striking and everything, so I think after the first round I got a little bit better of a feel of his movement, and I started applying pressure to him instead of having him back me up,” he said. “I knew once I got a takedown I’d be comfortable on top.”

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