Randy Brown isn’t fighting for a world title when he meets Vicente Luque this Saturday in Las Vegas. But the way he’s approaching this fight and every other one from here on out would lead you to believe otherwise.
Simply put, the MMA apprenticeship of “Rude Boy” is over. Entering his tenth UFC bout, he knows that every win moves him closer to a welterweight title shot, while every loss knocks him a couple notches down the ladder. That pressure could break some people.
Not Brown, who just turned 30 on July 8, but came to this realization two years ago before his fight with Niko Price.