Charles Oliveira (30-8, 1 NC) stod inatt för en imponerande seger mot toppfightern Tony “El Cucuy” Ferguson genom enhälligt domslut i Las Vegas, Nevada. Efter detta valde UFC:s VD Dana White att hylla Oliveira och segraren själv anser nu att han förtjänar en titelmatch.
White valde efter Oliveiras dominanta seger att hylla brassen som en av de farligaste fighters i sporten just nu. BJPenn.com citerar White som följande:
He is definitely one of the best in the world in the nastiest division in the sport.
White var ändock imponerad av Ferguson förmåga att överleva den armbar Oliveira fick in på honom i slutet av första ronden:
10 out of 10 people would have tapped to that armbar but somehow Tony Ferguson survived.
Oliveira vill ha titelmatch
Innan matchen blev Oliveira intervjuad av Combate där brassen sade att han i och med en seger vid nattens gala borde få utmana om den vakanta lättviktstiteln som nu Khabib Nurmagomedov lämnat ifrån sig. Oliveira anser att han förtjänar att gå titelmatchen mer än fighters Justin Gaethje med flera:
I took this fight already knowing what was going to happen.Who’s going to fight for the belt? Justin Gaethje? He ran away the whole time in his fight against Khabib. He fought an ugly fight and got finished in the second round. The only reason why he didn’t get finished in the first is because time ran out.
Dan Hooker is coming off a loss. Rafael dos Anjos comes off a win. He’s a former champion, all right. He lost when fought for the welterweight title. Now he just got back and he’s fighting for a title? There’s no way. I’m on a seven-fight win streak and the three guys ahead of me are all former interim champions. The only one who was an undisputed champion is Conor McGregor. There’s no way out, no logic.
Vill möta segraren mellan McGregor och Poirier
Oliveira tar i synnerhet sikte på att få möta segraren mellan den kommande matchen mellan Conor McGregor och Dustin Poirier, som äger rum i början av nästa år, om den vakanta titeln:
Everything is in motion. That guy retired, there’s nothing you can do. He sworn on his father’s grave that he wouldn’t fight again. He promised his mom. A man must keep his word. If he sworn on his father’s grave that he wouldn’t fight again, he sure won’t fight again. There’s nothing you can do. Who wins between Charles Oliveira and Tony Ferguson, and I’m sure that’ll be me, is the next title challenger. Then there’s Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor. Who wins that gets to fight me (for the title) in the middle of next year. There’s nothing else to be said.
Oliveira har nu åtta raka segrar i UFC.
