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Brandon Moreno recently made a big decision to change gyms after losing his UFC flyweight championship. The decision to leave his home country of Mexico was met with many angry fans as they felt he was betraying them.
The decision was a very difficult one for Brandon Moreno but he needed to do what was best for his career going forward. The former UFC champion recently spoke about the difficult decision.
“Of course it was very hard. It was very hard,” Moreno told MMA Junkie in Spanish. “Raul (Arvizu) has been my coach since I started at 16, 17 years old – of course it was hard. But people need to understand and not confuse loyalty.
“I still care about Raul, I still care about my team, and that has nothing to do with loyalty and everything to do with my career, the things I want to keep achieving, and the hunger I have to accomplish my dreams.”
The UFC flyweight went on to explain why he made the decision and what led to it. Brandon Moreno felt he needed a change in order to benefit his career and achieve success.
“I personally felt that I needed a change, something new,” Moreno said. “We often talk about the comfort zone, but what I have learned throughout the years is that the comfort zone can come in through where you least expect it. When you’re least expecting it, you already have the comfort zone on your neck, and you don’t know how to escape it.
“And I’m not talking just about training in a nice place. It doesn’t matter if the place is nice or ugly. It doesn’t matter if you have all the commodities, the comfort zone will find a way, and you need to realize that and learn how to identify it. Something that’s brought me success personally is that I’ve never been afraid to make decisions just as long as they take my career further.
“So I decided to make one of the toughest changes of my life – because all my life I trained at Entram Gym. I still love all my training partners, but it was time for a change.”
