Diego Lopes is aiming to struggle and play cornerman in two weeks when he travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the promotion’s long-awaited debut at The Sphere for Noche UFC.
Combat followers have seen Lopes rise the featherweight ranks over the previous two years and he’s nearing the highest of the burden class. Lopes was anticipated to struggle Brian Ortega at UFC 303 this previous June, however “T-Metropolis” pulled out of his struggle with hours to spare and was changed by Dan Ige. The swap didn’t impact Lopes because the Brazilian contender earned a unanimous determination win to push his UFC report to 4-1.
Lopes is now scheduled to struggle Ortega once more at Noche UFC in two weeks from inside The Sphere in “Sin Metropolis.” It’s an enormous struggle for each males, but when Lopes wins he must be quick tracked to his first UFC featherweight title shot. The one downside — exterior of defeating one of many hardest featherweights on the planet in Ortega — is the truth that Lopes additionally needs to nook teammate and present UFC ladies’s flyweight champion, Alexa Grasso, who defends her title on the identical evening in a trilogy struggle with Valentina Shevchenko.
As of now, the plan for Lopes is to complete his struggle towards Ortega in shot time with a view to assist Grasso for her title struggle. It could be slicing it shut, however Lopes has been in Grasso’s nook since she moved all the way down to 125 kilos again in 2020.
“We’ve talked about this rather a lot, how we’re going to deal with this, as a result of I’ve been in her nook ever since she moved to 125 [pounds],” Lopes instructed MMA Combating. “We work collectively, we assist one another, I educate her and be taught from her, however we do not know what we’re going to do. I’ll struggle my struggle, after which comes Alexa. We all know how we come out of a struggle, particularly figuring out how powerful Ortega is. It may very well be a battle and we each would possibly come out dangerous. [Laughs.] However I’m targeted. It’s additional motivation to return out wonderful on this struggle, to win rapidly and rush to the locker room, change garments and be in Alexa’s nook.”
