In the lead-up to his November 21 bout against Brandon Royval, Mexico’s Brandon Moreno made it clear that he thought he deserved to fight for the flyweight title that night when Cody Garbrandt pulled out of the UFC 255 main event, leaving Alex Perez to battle champion Deiveson Figueiredo for the belt.
But what was that old saying about things happening for a reason?
“Everything was surreal,” laughs Moreno. “I knew I deserved the title fight even before Cody Garbrandt and Alex Perez. Then everything happened for one reason.”
That one reason was Moreno getting his crack at Figueiredo exactly three weeks after he stopped Royval in the first round.