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Brandon Moreno is set to compete against Deiveson Figueiredo for the third time when the pair meet at UFC 270 in January. The two know each other well by now but that doesn't mean they necessarily get along in every department.
Brandon Moreno has people he's not fond of on Deiveson Figueiredo's team. He spoke about it with Ariel Helwani.
“I’m tired of thinking about him because all these fake people around him, man, it’s too much to me because I’m trying to be very, very real in my normal day,” Moreno said Monday on The MMA Hour. “I’m trying to be very real with my people, on social media. I’m trying to be very clear in my regular life, but this is guy is like…sometimes, I think this guy doesn’t believe in his words. When he talks, it’s like everything is talk about lies and the fake people around him. It is what it is. I’m tired of that, but a fight is a fight, and I’m ready to fight him again.”
UFC champion Brandon Moreno isn't the type of person to throw around names but that didn't stop Helwani from asking if he was talking about Deiveson Figueiredo’s manager, Wallid Ismail. Moreno still wouldn't reveal any names but did say: “When I say fake people, the first name people say is Wallid. I don’t know. You said it, not me.”
A lot of drama has been added to the UFC 270 trilogy by Wallid Ismail. He got Deiveson Figueiredo to train with Henry Cejudo, who was supposedly good friends with Brandon Moreno.
“A lot of little drama,” he said when asked for his side of the conflict. “To be honest with you, when I heard about that the first time, I was a little bit sad and a little bit disappointed. But man, fake people fake things. Definitely, he has his own version of history, I have my own version of my history, and people can judge that. Now, I don’t care if Henry Cejudo wants to help Figueiredo for this trilogy. I think he needs it, because he needs to do something different because last fight was horrible for him.
“I went to The Ultimate Fighter, he took Pantoja and he said, ‘F*ck Brandon,’ and I went with Benavidez’s team,” Moreno said. “I need to be very clear in that point, because the training with Benavidez was amazing, was very nice, because he gave me different techniques and another perspective on fighting. I want to be very clear on that point. Benavidez was very respectful with me, and he helped me a lot, too. It was a sad part of my life, but we are here, right?”
