""Actually, I always stay active," Almeida explained. "Even when I don't have a fight, I'm helping my teammates. When the UFC offered the fight three weeks ago, with the option to renew the contract, I talked to my manager and we decided to accept this first fight of the new contract.""
""Kuniev is a very dangerous guy, that's why nobody agreed to fight him," "Malhadinho" expressed. "Everyone thought he had won the fight with Curtis Blaydes, but I'm going there to play my game, come out with the victory and get back on the path to the belt again.""
""There is no defeat. There is learning. I controlled the fight from the top, but I lacked aggressiveness, obviously. I was trained for that, but I wasn't confident enough to execute it. I think that was the only detail," the Brazilian analyzed."
Jailton Almeida accepted a short-notice fight three weeks after the offer with a contract renewal option and will face Rizvan Kuniev at UFC Vegas 113. Almeida remains active in training and helps teammates between fights. Almeida sees Kuniev as a dangerous, stylistically challenging opponent and believes other fighters avoided the matchup. Almeida reflects that his close decision loss to Alexander Volkov involved top control but insufficient aggressiveness and confidence to execute planned offense. Almeida, 34, is the highest-ranked Brazilian heavyweight, debuted in 2012, entered the UFC in 2022, and holds a 22-4 record with 21 stoppage wins.
Read at Sherdog
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]