Fernandes hopes to comply with within the completed footsteps of Nova
Uniao stablemate Jose Aldo.
Fernandes just lately signed with the Final Preventing Championship
together with his debut anticipated for Nov. 4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. An
opponent has not been confirmed for the bout.
A former Shooto Brazil featherweight champion who most just lately
competed beneath the Legacy Preventing Alliance banner, Fernandes has
been tabbed by some because the inheritor obvious to the retired former UFC
featherweight champion. Fernandes is a local of Rio de Janeiro who
started training muay thai at age 7. Since ending his research,
he did not select the pure path of his classmates. His college
has been the health club, the place he learns new methods, hones the outdated
ones and pursues his coaching as an expert fighter.
The presence of completed athletes at Nova Uniao offers
motivation for the lengthy journey. Inspiration, seen on tv
and within the newspapers, stands proper beside him within the stifling health club
within the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
“It is a terrific inspiration to look to 1 facet and have a champion,
look to the opposite facet and have one other champion,” Fernandes stated.
“It is high-level coaching, it offers you an additional want to coach.
The most effective factor you possibly can have is a bunch of individuals to look as much as
every single day. We’ve Jose Aldo,
Dudu Dantas, Leo Santos, who was superb in jiu-jitsu. That makes
you motivated to present your all every single day.”
