RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Thiago Santos returns to the Octagon for the fourth time in 2018 to make his light heavyweight debut against Jimi Manuwa on Sept. 22, and feels that he only got that opportunity by talking trash on Twitter.
“Marreta” is not very active on social media, but was advised by his manager Alex Davis to use the app to try to convince Manuwa to accept him as a replacement after Glover Teixeira was pulled from the UFC Sao Paulo main event with an injury.
”We volunteered to fight Manuwa and he didn’t accept it at first,” Santos told Brazilian reporters during a UFC media day Tuesday in Brazil.