By Guilherme Cruz

Photo Eduardo Ferreira

Officer from a special squad of the Police and UFC fighter, Paulo Thiago was moving forwards to achieve the top of his division, but a loss to Martin Kampmann backed his plans. Now, the welterweight fighter sees the belt a little bit farther than before. On UFC 121, scheduled for October 23, the Brazilian faces Diego Sanchez, and he wants to get back to the wins.

“He’s a tough fighter, and he’s on the same situation as me, coming from a loss… It’ll be a tough fight, we both want to keep our jobs”, said, revealing he’ll send today his contract signed to UFC, and commented the bout: “Diego is a real warrior, he doesn’t give up and he’s also really tough on the ground. Besides his aggressiveness, he’s also very technical on the ground, he trained for a long time with Saulo and Xande Ribeiro, and he’s left-handed. To train with left-handed is always a hard thing, we’ve studied his game and set a strategy”, concluded, telling he plans to train in Rio de Janeiro along with the guys from X-Gym, in Bahia, with Luis Carlos Dórea and on the United States with Anderson Silva.