Felipe Arantes has looked impressive as a bantamweight, and one of the things that helped him perform better has nothing to do with weight cuts.
"Sertanejo" tapped Yves Jabouin and Jerrod Sanders in his first bouts at 135 pounds, and explains that facing mixed martial arts as fun instead of a cash-grabbing activity helps him inside the Octagon.
"I’m not the type of guy that wants to fight every three or four months," Arantes told MMA Fighting. "I have other things to take care outside of my fights, like my gym.