Is this Oliveira’s long sought elite breakthrough fight?
What an interesting run Oliveira has had in the UFC.
Oliveira is just 30, but he’s been with the UFC since 2010, debuting on a VERSUS event in San Diego headlined by some guy on the rise named Jon Jones. He earned what at the time was considered a stunning 41-second submission of Darren Elkins, which should have been a sign.
Since then, he’s gone from a featherweight who wanted to stay there despite missing weight 5,428 times (don’t quote us on that number) to a record-setting submission machine to a spoiler in the lightweight division who has six straight finishes and a plethora of bonus money.
The one thing that’s eluded him? Legit contender status in the sport’s deepest division. It’s getting to be now-or-never time for “Do Bronx” in that regard, and he’ll never have a better chance at cracking that elite echelon than now.
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