5 on Dana White’s Contender Series, tells the story. Since then, he has gone 4-0-2 in the UFC, won the belt and helped reinforce a Tijuana team of fighters.Īnd if you weren’t sure of Moreno’s emotional investment in his teammates, footage of him in the corner of Valdez, for his frenetic second-round TKO victory over Patrik White featuring a blistering and breathtaking first round on Oct. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Brandon Moreno celebrates after defeating Deiveson Figueiredo to win the flyweight championship during their UFC 263 match at Gila River Arena on June 12, 2021, in Glendale, Arizona. He went and won the LFA flyweight title and got signed back into the UFC in 2019. Moreno himself was among a flurry of 125-pounders let go in 2018 as the flyweight division was on its deathbed. Then came “The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America” reality show series, but as fighters were signed, a number of them were later released. He was one of many sent to Albuquerque in 2014 – all expenses paid – to train and evolve the sport. Moreno watched as the UFC launched its Latin American developmental program in 2012. I think what Brandon has done is really opened the doors wider for other teammates to have these opportunities,” House said. “This team has a great culture, they’re family, and it means the world to me. Having all four of his clients on the same card has been as convenient as it’s been meaningful for manager Jason House. Strawweight Silvana Gomez Juarez looks to avenge her first time in the Octagon. Lightweight Genaro Valdez and welterweight Michael Morales make their UFC debut.
“Four or five years ago? Yeah, I mean, four guys from a Mexican team of mixed martial arts fighting in a pay-per-view card?” You know, because think about these kinds of moments,” Moreno said with a wide smile. “The most important thing right now is extra motivation. What he’d rather highlight is the fact he is joined on this card Saturday by three of his teammates from Raul Arvizu’s Entram Gym in Tijuana. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno will face former champion Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 270 at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Saturday, Jan 22, 2022. Their third fight comes with Figueiredo, who exuberantly and graciously congratulated an emotional Moreno seven months ago, bad-mouthing the Tijuana native for some perceived old bad blood involving his new coach, former UFC double-champ Henry Cejudo. Moreno and Figueiredo fought to a majority draw 13 months ago, then Moreno tapped out the Brazilian champ in the third round in June to win the belt. The 125-pound king known as “The Assassin Baby” won’t let anything deter him from Saturday’s mission. And you got to have a Mexican-born champion, and now we finally have one,” White said.Īnd the flashpoint for the revolution might be in Tijuana. “What you got to do is you have to get the younger generation training in MMA. So White knew what needed to happen in Mexico.
Patterns had developed for the sport’s rise in other countries, based largely on fans being able to aspire to become champions like Conor McGregor in Ireland, Kamaru Usman, Israel Adesanya and Ngannou in Nigeria and Robert Whittaker and Alexander Volkanovski in New Zealand and Australia. But that kind of does make sense because those people have boxing gloves running through their veins,” White said. UFC President Dana White, with his background and affinity for boxing, has long had his eyes on making MMA thrive in Mexico. And the boats being lifted are the Latin American fighters benefiting from Moreno’s meteoric ascension. The rising tide is in the form of Moreno, who became the UFC’s first Mexican-born champion when he dethroned Figueiredo in June.
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