When Raoni Barcelos looks across the cage in a matter of days, he can expect one of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s most promising young lions to be staring back at him.
The former Resurrection Fighting Alliance and Shooto Brazil titleholder will square off against the unbeaten Payton Talbott as part of the UFC 311 undercard this Saturday at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. Barcelos enters his latest assignment rejuvenated. He rebounded from back-to-back losses to Umar Nurmagomedov and Kyler Phillips with a rear-naked choke submission of Christian Quinonez at UFC Fight Night 237 in February.