Brandon Moreno reminisced in 2022 about the negative feeling from his only street fight.
Moreno may have little interest in fighting at the White House, but the location for his next bout is understandably something that means a lot to him.
On February 28, he’ll headline UFC Mexico City in what is sure to be another stunning homecoming for the former flyweight champion.
Fighting in his home country is nothing new to ‘The Assassin Baby’, but brawling on the streets isn’t something he’s well-versed in or enjoys, as he revealed several years ago.
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Brandon Moreno didn’t like how he felt after winning his only street fight with just one punch
Brandon Moreno didn’t take any joy in winning a street fight against someone that he doesn’t believe knew what they were doing.
The former UFC flyweight champion was asked by a fan during an appearance on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast in 2022 to offer some tips.
His response was to avoid fighting in the streets, before he went on to tell the story of the one and only time he found himself in this situation back when he was 15 or 16 years old.
Moreno’s repeated tackling of one individual in a soccer match led to the person getting in his face, only for ‘The Assassin Baby’ to drop his aggressor to the floor with one jab.
“I don’t feel good, man,” he recalled. “Because, when I fight with some guy who I know knows how to fight and I beat him, it’s like, ‘Okay’. I don’t feel good when I do that like I remember I saw the guy on the ground like, ‘No, man, that’s fine. I don’t want more problems, man. Everything is fine’. I went out of the field and I went to my house and I felt weird.”
Moreno said that he’d been training for 2-3 years at that point, but being able to beat people up wasn’t why he pursued martial arts.
He went on to add that proving people wrong is something that motivates him a lot, referencing how people that he grew up with were surprised that he decided to become a professional fighter.
“I love that because I proved they were wrong,” Moreno said.
Brandon Moreno has the most UFC fights in the history of the flyweight division
Brandon Moreno may be inexperienced when it comes to fighting on the streets but he lets his skills do the talking inside the Octagon.
This weekend’s main event, where he faces Lone’er Kavanagh, will be the 20th time that he’s competed for the leading MMA promotion.
No flyweight fighter has ever accumulated more UFC bouts under their belt than the former two-time champion.
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