Paulo Costa wants the world to know he\u2019s ready to fight and the UFC won\u2019t hook him up.<\/p>\n
\u201cBorrachinha\u201d last competed in April at UFC 327, beating the undefeated Azamat Murzakanov via third round headkick TKO in his light heavyweight debut.<\/a> Costa had hoped for a quick turnaround following that fight. Instead he says he\u2019s stuck in limbo for no reason as the UFC refuses to offer him the final fight on his contract.<\/p>\n \u201cSince I defeated Azamat in April, I have been looking for the next fight,\u201d Costa wrote on X (formerly Twitter). \u201cI\u2019ve eventually opened the door to fight at heavyweight. UFC told me to wait \u2026wait \u2026 Here we are, it\u2019s already July and I still looking to fight someone else at light heavyweight, middleweight or even heavyweight, but the answer from UFC by Hunter Campbell is the same : \u2018Wait.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI want to fight I don\u2019t want to wait. I have just one more fight at my contract and I want this fight happen soon, but for some reason they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Costa has never been much of an active fighter. With the exception of 2024 where he fought twice, he\u2019s competed just once a year if that going back to 2017. He didn\u2019t fight at all between August 2022 and February 2024 as he battled with the UFC over a new contract \u2014 and now he\u2019s in a similar situation where he\u2019s down to the final fight on his deal and he\u2019s wondering why the UFC isn\u2019t giving him a quick turnaround fight which would make him a free agent.<\/a><\/p>\n It cost Paulo a year and a half of his prime<\/a> but he did well for himself in the last negotiations. He walked away with a deal that paid him over a million dollars per fight.<\/a> But over the past two years the UFC has seemed in no rush to put Costa on the path to fame or title. Instead he\u2019s fought tough up-and-coming Russians like Roman Kopylov and Azamat Murzakanov.<\/p>\n Big hype match-ups exist for Costa in the UFC, especially as he opens himself up to being a \u2018moneyweight\u2019 fighter. But will matchmakers book him in them? Not without a new contract, we\u2019d expect. Hopefully it doesn\u2019t take another year and a half for all parties to come to a new agreement \u2014 or for Costa to get his last fight and move on to greener pastures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paulo Costa wants the world to know he\u2019s ready to fight and the UFC won\u2019t hook him up.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-769808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}