Roan Carneiro returned to the welterweight division with a victory, and he plans on scoring his first finish as a 170-pounder in the UFC when he steps inside the Octagon to take on Ryan LaFlare at Brooklyn’s UFC 208 Saturday night.
“Jucao” signed with the UFC in 2015 to replace injured Caio Magalhaes against middleweight Mark Munoz, and pulled the upset victory with a first-round finish. He lost his second UFC bout though, and decided to go back to welterweight.
"When the Mark Munoz fight was offered, I was coming off five wins in a row and the win got me ranked in the middleweight division, so I couldn't come back to welterweight after that,” Carneiro told MMA Fighting.