He’s not only won eight in a row, but nine of his last 10. His consistency is really what lifted him to the title shot.
“I felt I had answered any of the questions.” “To me, it just seemed like that would be the next challenge, and that’s why I was so vocal,” he said.
Whether it was against Nurmagomedov or someone else, he wasn’t sure, but he felt he’d proven himself during his run. The UFC president tried to persuade Nurmagomedov to continue fighting.īut Oliveira said he was confident that, one way or another, he’d be fighting for the belt. Less than two months earlier, Nurmagomedov had announced his retirement, though White didn’t immediately accept it. He opened 2020 with a guillotine of Kevin Lee and finished it with the win over Ferguson. He scored rear naked choke wins over Christos Giagos and Jim Miller to finish 2018, then got an anaconda on David Teymur and back-to-back KOs over Nik Lentz and Jared Gordon in 2019. The streak began on June 9, 2018, at UFC 225, when he submitted Clay Guida with a guillotine. The unanimous decision win over Ferguson was his eighth win in a row, but snapped a seven-fight streak of finishes. “Tony Ferguson is an incredibly tough guy, but that didn’t surprise me because I knew that before,” Oliveira said. Virtually every other opponent would have tapped to that arm bar, but Ferguson gritted his teeth and survived until the bell saved him and forced Oliveira to release. It was only sheer toughness that prevented him from getting a 20th submission, as he caught Tony Ferguson in a deep arm bar near the end of the first round of his most recent fight, on Dec. The plan against Oliveira always has to be similar because he’s so dangerous as a grappler. I’m notorious for being able to have a sixth sense inside those grappling exchanges, mainly because of my wrestling background and now in the sport of mixed martial arts, keeping my limbs short and keeping my neck tucked and staying explosive and athletic in those positions.”
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“But Charles Oliveira knows how to finish you in any aspect of the grappling department.
Nurmagomedov had 11 submissions in his 29 wins, but five were by triangle. It’s not like Oliveira has a particular go-to move that one has to prepare for rigorously. In his career, he’s won six by rear naked choke four each by guillotine choke and anaconda choke and one each by arm bar, knee bar, triangle choke, reverse calf slicer and an inverted triangle with an arm bar. What makes Oliveira particularly dangerous is the variety of submissions he has in his arsenal. “The guy’s a killer, man,” UFC president Dana White said. Oliveira, a -140 favorite at BetMGM, enters the bout with a 30-8 record and one no-contest, but has remarkably finished 27 of his 30 victories. If he is to succeed the legendary Nurmagomedov as UFC champion, it’s likely he’ll do it the way Nurmagomedov did: by submission. The young boy who was submitted repeatedly by a smaller girl in his first weeks in the gym now has become one of the most feared submission artists in the game. “It took me a while, and a lot of determination and a lot of hard work,” said Oliveira, who hopes all that effort will prove fruitful on Saturday when he meets Michael Chandler at UFC 262 in Houston for the lightweight title vacated by the retired Khabib Nurmagomedov.
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