“In my daily sessions, the goal is always to hurt and hit hard. My coaches tell me I have a lot of power, so I trust them. I trust what they say and try to carry that into the Octagon. My opponents tell me that too, so it’s good to know I’m on the right track.
The right path, indeed. Lemos’ last outing was his first UFC title shot at UFC 292 in August. Things didn’t go as planned that night against current champion Zhang Weili, but his reason for being there was no mystery either.
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“I didn’t lose this fight by knockout or submission. Despite everything I went through to get into this fight, I managed to go five rounds and that was a comfort to me.
Like it should be. It was Zhang’s first five-round decision victory since her epic fight with Joanna Jędrzejczyk years earlier, widely considered one of the greatest fights in company history. They say hindsight is 20-20, but even if that’s the case, Lemos isn’t interested in how his fight could have gone differently.