When it comes to fighting, there are a worse things to be known as than a “Brazil killer”.
While Rob Font hasn’t earned that moniker just yet, he does seem to have earned the ire of the South American combat sports hub somehow. Font meets top bantamweight contender Raphael Assuncao at UFC 226 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, an encounter that will mark his fourth consecutive pairing with a Brazilian fighter.
The 31-year-old Massachusetts native has no idea why the matchmaking has gone this way.
“I don’t know if it’s (UFC matchmaker) Sean Shelby doesn’t like me or Brazil got it in for me, but definitely I’m fighting all the Brazilians,” Font told MMA Fighting.