Guilherme Pat and Steven Asplund left the octagon victorious at UFC Vegas 112, closing out the calendar for the promotion with wins over Allen Frye and Sean Sharaf, respectively, and the Brazilian thinks it just makes perfect sense to match them up against each other in 2026.<\/p>\n
Pat won a decision in his debut, improving to 6-0 in the sport against a previously unbeaten opponent. Asplund demolished his opponent with 170 significant strikes landed in just under nine minutes of combat, scoring a TKO to earn extra $50,000 in bonus after an equally impressive 16-second Contender Series knockout in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not a very experienced guy either,\u201d Pat told MMA Fighting about Asplund. \u201cAsplund, who also fought there, is an interesting guy, someone who\u2019s on the same track as me. I think he\u2019s the one on the card who\u2019s closest to my level so it would be interesting to make that next fight. I think the promotion would be interested in matching that fight up. Let\u2019s see what their next steps are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pat said he wasn\u2019t able to watch Asplund\u2019s full fight just yet, but got a glimpse of the highlights and liked what he\u2019s seen so far.<\/p>\n
\u201c[He has] a very interesting pace, different for a heavyweight,\u201d Pat said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t stop throwing, keeps moving forward all the time, turns it into a hell of a war in there. It\u2019s going to be good. His pace makes for a very open fight, no hugging. It\u2019s going to be a real brawl, and you\u2019ve got to be well prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Brazilian also wanted a finish to cap off a perfect first night as UFC fighter, but credits Frye\u2019s chin and gameplan \u2014 and his own octagon jitters \u2014 as the reasons why they went 15 minutes at the UFC APEX.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really wanted it, wanted it like hell, but every time I hit that guy he would come in and grab me,\u201d Pat said. \u201cHe was very resilient, he took some shots that made me think, \u2018that\u2019s over.\u2019 But he would bend over, curl up, and keep taking shots to the head. I also noticed that, maybe because of the nerves, a lot of my punches were just grazing him. That\u2019s why his face got pretty cut up too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very satisfied with what I was able to show there,\u201d he continued. \u201cI managed to keep it together even though I was very nervous. Debuting is really tough, a lot of new things. When I was watching the screen there in the warm-up area, [Jamey-Lyn Horth] finished [Tereza Bleda] really fast and I thought, \u2018man, it\u2019s almost time to go in.\u2019 My heart started pounding. All that anxiety and nervousness is part of it. I managed to do what needed to be done in the fight and I\u2019m very happy with the performance, and I\u2019m sure I still have a lot, a lot to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guilherme Pat and Steven Asplund left the octagon victorious at UFC Vegas 112, closing out the calendar for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-366906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}