Reigning UFC Flyweight Champion Brandon Moreno is kind of completely satisfied 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 turn out to be a two-time UFC Flyweight Champion.
Throughout an look on MMAFighting.com‘s “The MMA Hour,” Moreno advised Ariel Helwani that there’s a weight off his shoulders now that the Figueiredo chapter has ended.
“It feels very cool,” Moreno advised 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 might beat this man, so I knew it. Even earlier than the battle, I knew I might beat him. I simply went to the octagon, completed the job, and I simply really feel very completely satisfied to point out to the world I’m actual.”
So far as the end to the fourth conflict goes, Brandon Moreno mentioned it boils right 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 mentioned. “He doesn’t prefer to be strolling again or in lots of transitions, as a result of he begins to get drained and he begins to get annoyed. 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 battle in opposition to him
