From being an undefeated UFC champion just five years ago, Cody Garbrandt’s recent career trajectory has been predominantly downward. Beginning in 2017, “No Love” has been on a 1-5 run, with four of those losses ending via KO or TKO.
Reigning flyweight champion Brandon Moreno saw it all happen, and he couldn’t help but feel for Garbrandt.
“It was sad,” Moreno told MMA Junkie’s Danny Segura in a recent interview. “You get carried away by the hype because they start doing all the promos, and they start promoting Cody Garbrandt, and you kind of start believing like, ‘Hey, he could be something interesting in the division.