Reigning UFC Flyweight Champion Brandon Moreno is kind of joyful that his rivalry with Deiveson Figueiredo is over.
Moreno and Figueiredo fought for the fourth time within the co-main occasion of UFC 283. Moreno scored the third-round TKO end to develop into a two-time UFC Flyweight Champion.
Throughout an look on MMAFighting.com‘s “The MMA Hour,” Moreno informed Ariel Helwani that there’s a weight off his shoulders now that the Figueiredo chapter has ended.
“It feels very cool,” Moreno informed Arield Helwani on The MMA Hour. “It feels superior, simply to be out of all of the stress, all of the stress, win this rivalry, make historical past. To be sincere, the primary time I gained the title was extra particular as a result of it was the primary time, that’s it. It’s quite simple. This one, I felt like I may beat this man, so I knew it. Even earlier than the struggle, I knew I may beat him. I simply went to the octagon, completed the job, and I simply really feel very joyful to indicate to the world I’m actual.”
So far as the end to the fourth conflict goes, Brandon Moreno stated it boils all the way down to Deiveson Figueiredo having a restrict on how a lot punishment he’s keen to take.
“He doesn’t just like the stress,” Moreno stated. “He doesn’t wish to be strolling again or in a whole lot of transitions, as a result of he begins to get drained and he begins to get pissed off. At some little level of his thoughts, he likes to stop. I can see it, and I noticed it earlier than, particularly within the second struggle towards him