Deiveson Figueiredo: I want Merab matchup after victory

Merab Dvalishvili is presently successful an unfortunate concern wrong the UFC's bantamweight division. Although helium is acceptable to combat 1 much clip earlier the extremity of the year, helium is moving retired of challengers. He has already beaten each 4 of his top-ranked rivals, and immoderate adjacent twice, including the fashionable Sean O'Malley.

The astir apt adjacent hostile would beryllium Petr Yan, but Merab has already defeated him precise convincingly once. The question is whether they volition determine to look their defeated opponents again oregon look for caller challenges. The UFC could determine to lucifer him with a lower-ranked combatant to support the matches interesting. For example, Song Yadong is 5th successful the database and Merab has not fought him truthful far, nor the sixth-ranked Deiveson Figueiredo.

Deiveson Figueiredo, the erstwhile champion of the flyweight category, volition execute contiguous successful the "co-main" lawsuit of the UFC amusement successful Brazil against Montel Jackson, who is ranked 15th. Figueiredo believes that a triumph implicit Montel tin propulsion his presumption person to the adjacent challenger rubric again.

"Merab has fought astir everyone and beaten them all. Looking astatine the standings, I'm the lone 1 helium hasn't fought, and those 2 losses person enactment maine retired of contention. Now I'm backmost and acceptable to get backmost to winning ways. God willing, I'll beryllium the victor of this combat and past a combat betwixt Merab and maine tin beryllium arranged. I privation to combat him and I privation the UFC to springiness maine that opportunity," Figueiredo said.

Series of six consecutive victories

He besides spoke astir his hostile successful the bid of six consecutive victories: "His tallness and magnitude are the lone challenges helium presents for me, but helium besides has a beauteous bully boxing. However, I'm a feline who truly likes boxing. After my past combat I continued to enactment connected boxing, and helium comes from wrestling. Watching his past fight, I noticed however easy helium was taken down, and I fought immoderate large grapplers and bushed them. I won't underestimate him, but it's clip to get backmost to winning ways."

However, it is hard to expect Figueiredo to instantly scope the presumption of the adjacent challenger. To bash that, helium volition person to bushed idiosyncratic successful the apical 5, due to the fact that helium has failed successful some specified fights wrong the bantamweight class truthful far.