PHOENIX – MMA mathematics doesn’t constantly work, however for light-weight champ Charles Oliveira, this is the formula heading into UFC 274.
“He battled a person for 3 rounds. I knocked him out with my left hand,” Oliveira informed pressreporters, consistingof MMA Junkie, at Wednesday’s media day. “So whatever the buzz is, whatever the talk is, I wear’t listen to it. The champ is Charles Oliveira, and it’s gonna stay this method.”
“He,” of course, is Justin Gaethje. And as for “him,” that’s Michael Chandler Oliveira is talking about.
Oliveira (32-8 MMA, 20-8 UFC) dropped Chandler with a left hook that led to a second-round TKO last May to claim the uninhabited light-weight title. Six months lateron, Chandler pressed Gaethje (23-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) to the limitations in the 2021 Fight of the Year, which Gaethje won by choice after 3 hellacious rounds.
That Gaethje success made the previous interim champ an indisputable title shot versus Oliveira, and the 2 wi