Builder, security guard, cook, hairdresser, motorcycle driver. No one knows what kind of life the 33-year-old went through in the first half of his life before he tied up the UFC flyweight championship gold belt.
In 1999, on the banks of the Amazon River in Brazil, "small town youth" Figueretto packed his bags and left his hometown of Sol alone, saying goodbye to his father in front of the farm where he had lived for nearly 10 years, Figueredo was confused about his future life. He was only 13 years old that year!
Because I really don't want to see little Figueret like myself, clinging to this barren land all my life. Under the fierce heart, his father could only send him to the city to join his relatives.
In order to get rid of hunger, Figueredo, who is in middle school, begins to learn the skills of simple livelihood. By chance, Figueredo came into contact with Capoeira, a traditional martial art that is both ornamental and spread throughout the streets of Brazil. In fact, as an indigenous person of the Brazilian jungle, Figueredo, who has amazonian warrior ancestry, has lived in a fighting atmosphere since childhood.
At the age of 16, Figueret met Brazilian ufc veteran Yuri Alcata in the training gym, and couldn't stand the shy but studious guy's soft and hard bubbles, so Yuri took Figueredo to train with him.
From the very beginning of Muay Thai to the later mixed martial arts, Figueret finally waited for the moment to truly show his talent. It was also in that year that Figueretto played the first amateur game of his career.
But when he thought it was time to think about his career. However, the change of parents' feelings and the financial pressure of the family have forced Figueret to consider more realistic problems.
So at the age of 19, Figueredo returned to his hometown, went to the construction site to become a bricklayer, and worked as a security guard at a club in the town on weekends without work.
In 2012, Figueretto once again went to the big city of Belém to work, continuing to work as a security guard in a large barbershop. It was this job that gave Figueredo a chance to become a hairdresser's assistant in his free time.
Also that year, the 25-year-old Figueretto officially launched his mixed martial arts career with the help of his previously mentioned friend and UFC veteran Yuri, in a local tournament, a round ko opponent Arucio Ferreira, laying the perfect start for his professional debut.
Despite this, the low appearance fee still could not maintain Figueredo's training and life, so he became a sushi chef at a Japanese restaurant on the recommendation of his club friends. During the day, Figueretto was a hairdresser, and at night, he became a Japanese chef.
But one day, while Figueredo was doing the hair for his customers, he became very upset when he saw his compatriot Jose Aldo appear in the UFC, once again defending his championship gold belt.
"He's fighting in the top fighting ring and I'm here to do hair for someone else, and I should have something more important to do."
Eventually, Figueret quit his job as a hairdresser and chef and went into training full-time.
In 2014 and 2016, Figueretto played a total of nine matches in local fighting events, winning 9 of them and ending eight of them early. The outstanding record also successfully attracted the official attention of the UFC.
One day in 2017, when UFC officially called Figueredo to issue an invitation to sign a contract, he knew that he was finally going to realize his dream by being a motorcycle driver.
UFC 212, UFC came to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11 wins Figueredo and Jose Aldo played together, that night, although the official champion Aldo, who had ruled this class for six years, was tragically killed by the younger interim champion Holloway Tko, Figueredo, as a new Brazilian force, ended the game early with a wonderful performance in the flyweight debut.
Although Figueredo scored another 5 wins and 1 loss in the next two years, due to the attention of the weight, Figueredo still has little presence in the star-studded UFC. And these two years, with the departure of the previous two champions "Hercules" Dimitris and the "Triple Crown" Sehudo, a generation of new people replaced the old, Figueredo finally in 2020, in this special year, with 4 games, ushered in his own highlight moment.
Because former champion Sehudo suddenly announced that he had given up the flyweight gold belt, the long-awaited Figueret finally ushered in his first championship battle on February 29, 2020, but this match was indeed as fateful as Figueredo.
Although at 1 minute and 54 seconds in the second round, Figueredo's left-handed stab hit Benavidez in the face, directly ending the opponent.
However, this original flyweight championship battle did not end because of this tko. Due to the fact that the winner Figueretto was overweight before the race, Figueredo did not qualify as the official champion of the UFC flyweight class.
However, 5 months later, he played against his old rival Benavidez. In less than five minutes, Figueredo knocked down his opponent three times, deployed four threatening naked strangulations, and finally directly stunned his opponent Bernavidez, becoming the third champion in the history of flyweights after Hercules and Sehudo.
Tonight at 22:30, Qinghai Satellite TV's "Dragon Fight" will bring you the UFC 256 issue, and the headline main match is Figueredo, who has just taken the flyweight belt, against the challenger Morano.
Brandon Morano currently has a record of 18 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw, including 3 ko and 10 surrender wins. In the previous match, Morano defeated No. 6 Royval in the first leg to challenge for the title.
In a year's time, he completed 4 matches, in addition to drawing with Aska Askaroff by disagreement, he also defeated Kai Carla Francis and Jushir Vermiga with unanimous decisions, and the UFC ranking rose to 2nd place in this category.
Interestingly, figueredo and Morano both appeared in the ufc 255 issue 3 weeks ago, especially for Figueredo, which is also the fourth championship game he has played in 2020, so this game is extremely limited for both sides to prepare, is figueredo "old emperor quelling the chaos", or Morano "new king usurpation"? Stay tuned!
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At 22:30 on the evening of January 8, 2021, Qinghai Satellite TV's "Dragon Fight" will bring you the UFC 256 issue, and the headline main match is Figueredo, who has just taken a flyweight belt, against the challenger Morano.