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Borralho at a UFC event. Photo: Reproduction/Facebook/UFC
Seventh place in the middleweight category (up to 83,9 kg). Caio Borralho seeks to return to winning ways this Saturday (7) against Ridder's Reinier in the co-main event of UFC 326 after the tough defeat to Nassourdine Imavov September. Beyond his personal triumph, the athlete sees the next fight as representing the end of the negative phase for the entire Fighting Nerds team.
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During the half day UFC 326 Last Wednesday (4), Borralho took responsibility upon himself and positioned himself as the last representative of Fighting Nerds to return to winning in the Ultimate.
“Yes, it’s the comeback season, and nobody’s going to stop us. We’re back working with our team. We’ve reconnected. We’re putting our feet on the ground more often, and you’re seeing the results. I’m very proud of the guys. I’m happy for them. I was the first to enter the UFC and I’ll be the last to complete the comeback season,” stated the man from Maranhão.
Caio Borralho and Ridder's Reinier face off for the first time 👀 #UFC326
— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) March 4, 2026
Coincidentally, the four most famous members of the academy suffered consecutive heavy defeats between April and September 2025. However, Carlos Prates, Mauricio Ruffy and Jean Silva They returned to the octagon in style by winning. Geoff neal, Raphael Fiziev e arnold allen, respectively. Now, it will be the turn of the team's longest-serving representative in the Ultimate to repeat the feat of his teammates.
Caio Borralho acted as a leader after Fighting Nerds' defeats.
Jean Silva, Caio Borralho, Mauricio Ruffy e Carlos Prates represent Fighting Nerds. Photo: Reproduction/Instagram
During that difficult period, the athlete from Maranhão himself starred in a video that went viral on social media, in which he warned his training partners about the need to reinvent themselves to get back to achieving positive results. At the time, he highlighted how the rise in popularity of "Nerds" (a term used to describe athletes who are highly skilled and often overly sensitive to their abilities) had changed the way their opponents prepared to face them.
“What we failed to pay attention to is that one of the main objectives since we started the team and this new philosophy of how we view fighting has been achieved. We changed the mentality, the way of acting and studying fighting, not only here, but in several teams in Brazil and around the world. And this perhaps hindered our knowledge. The guys are behaving differently, studying more and approaching the profession differently because of our influence,” the fighter stated at the time.
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