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ESPN app. Former Ultimate Fighting Championship champ Deiveson
Figueiredo has finally locked down his next training camp. After having the door closed by Team Alpha Male, as team staple
Cody
Garbrandt decided to move down to 125 pounds, Figueiredo
decided to make his next camp in Arizona with wrestling coach Eric
Albarracin. Figueiredo will be facing Brandon
Moreno for the third time in a row in December at UFC
269. The ex-champ’s manager, Wallid
Ismail, spoke to Sherdog on Friday about his camp change.
“Daico” was
originally planning on staying in his home country of Brazil,
but he elected to come to the U.S. for two months of his
training.
“We are traveling on Oct. 9,” said Ismail. “He will train for
almost two months in there. Albarracin has [Henry] Cejudo and his
brother there, and a nice group of sparring. Deiveson is also
bringing his new nutritionist with him this time.”
Always thinking two steps ahead, Ismail abruptly changed topics
from Figueiredo to another one of his fighters, Paulo
Costa. He commented that “Borrachinha” is in great shape and
focused on his return against Marvin
Vettori on Oct. 23. The manager also noted that Costa is paying
attention to MMA legends crossing over into boxing, and that the
former title challenger might want to get in on the action.
“Those [boxing] events were great,” Ismail admitted. “We have to
applaud [Vitor] Belfort and Anderson [Silva]’s standup. When
everybody thought they were done, 44 and 46 years old, they
reinvented another way to make a lot of money by fighting. Of
course, [Costa] would love to fight boxing challenges, but his
focus right now is 100% on Vettori and getting the UFC belt. But
for sure, in the future, [boxing] is something he would love to
do.”
