Mauricio Ruffy won’t have the Fighting Nerds in his corner as he heads to Australia for his octagon comeback – but promises he is still on the team.
The Brazilian crew entered 2025 riding the high of all highs, before being brought back down to earth with a string of embarrassing defeats. Ruffy suffered his first loss inside the octagon against Benoit Saint-Denis last time out, and now returns against Rafael Fiziev at UFC 325.
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In order to properly acclimatise to the Australian timezone and climate, he has spent camp in Australia where he is training with legendary featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski. And while he claims his old team will be back in future, he won’t have them with him this time around.
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After a difficult year for the Fighting Nerds in which the entire team lost their unbeaten UFC streaks, Mauricio Ruffy is changing things up. He claims to still be a member of the team, and will return in future, but won’t have them in his corner for UFC 325.
“I’m still on Fighting Nerds but in this fight Flavio [Alvaro] and Pablo [Sucupira] will not be in my corner,” he told Ariel Helwani via a translator on tonight’s episode of his Uncrowned show.
“One week before Pablo has Jean Silva’s fight, then after the fight he needs to go stay one month with Caio Borralho in Vegas.
“He’s a dad right now,…
2026-01-14 04:00:00
