Brito believes he won that fight<\/a>, but wasn\u2019t enough to the eyes of the judges.<\/p>\n\u201cI and many other people involved in MMA saw that I won that fight,\u201d Brito said. \u201cBut when something isn\u2019t meant to be, there\u2019s nothing you can do to make it happen. Everything is in God\u2019s hands. I respect that, and I\u2019m going to keep moving forward. Now I feel like this is another opportunity for me, and I\u2019m going to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were several moments when I came close to finishing the fight,\u201d he continued. \u201cAt no point did I feel like I was going to lose that fight, but it happened. I always look for the finish, whether it\u2019s a submission or a knockout, and that isn\u2019t going to change. I\u2019m calm, I\u2019m at peace, and the only thing that\u2019s different is that I\u2019m in a different moment now, with a different mindset and more prepared, and I\u2019m going to put on a show in there. I have nothing to bring from that moment except the desire to be even better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brito scored a quick finish in the Brazilian circuit after DWCS before returning to Oktagon and eventually regaining the belt, stopping Ronald Paradeiser with a wild spinning back knockout in February. He was expected to defend the throne against Amiran Gogoladze in September before the DWCS call came.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a little difficult [to leave Oktagon] because I had already gone through the journey again,\u201d Brito said. \u201cI had built the story again, walked every step of the path again, earned another opportunity, and became champion again. I have a huge amount of love for Oktagon, but my goal, my dream, is the UFC. It always has been, from the very beginning, to put on a show and build a legacy there. I built a beautiful story in Oktagon, but for me, that ended there. I really want to make it to the UFC and make history there. I see my future there. It wasn\u2019t easy, but that\u2019s the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Namo Fazil, Brito\u2019s opponent on Aug. 18, enters the octagon riding a seven-fight winning streak across promotions like ONE, UAE Warriors and most recently MVP MMA, where he tapped out Jake Babian.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a very dangerous opponent, and you have to respect him,\u201d Brito said. \u201cI see that it\u2019s a little bit of a mental game as well because he likes to get under your skin and talk trash, but that doesn\u2019t affect me. What I hope is that I\u2019m able to do what I do in training and come away with the victory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaik Brito once again vacated the Oktagon welterweight title in order to try his luck on Dana White\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-860082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860082","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=860082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}