Cezar Ferreira and Nate Marquardt are set to fight at Saturday’s UFC Norfolk event, but that won’t be the first time they meet in a cage.
“Mutante" flew to Las Vegas to help his longtime friend Vitor Belfort prepare for his middleweight bout with Anthony Johnson in the final months of 2011, and he ended up under the same roof with the likes of Georges St-Pierre and Marquardt.
Ferreira went on to join the UFC in 2013, winning the first season of TUF Brazil, while “The Great” went on to sign with Strikeforce and become welterweight champion.