Vitor faces M. Vettori at UFC Oklahoma (Photo: Reproduction /Facebook VitorMiranda)
Without fighting since May 2016, the middleweight Vitor miranda is finally preparing to return to the Octagon. With a fight scheduled against the Italian Marvin vettori at UFC Oklahoma, this Sunday (25), Vithai, who underwent recovery surgery on his shoulder in November last year, guarantees that the inactive time will not be an obstacle to his performance. Recovered, he is confident of returning to the winning path.
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“The pace won't affect me, I'm training well. We've sped up in sparring, we're doing it twice a week, so I'm quickly getting back to the rhythm I was before. The injury is 100% healed, so you will see, on June 25th, the same Vitor who won the three fights in a row by knockout”, declared Miranda, in an exclusive interview with SUPER FIGHTS.
Coming from kickboxing, the sport in which he made a career before moving to MMA, Vitor makes no bones about hiding his strategy for fights: keeping the fight standing. Of the three triumphs he achieved in the UFC, all were by knockout, which makes his opponents try to avoid striking. However, the outcome against Vettori, according to the Brazilian, will be the same as the opportunities in which he emerged victorious in the company.
“My strategy will be the same as my victories. All the guys I faced fought well standing up, but from the moment they are with me in the octagon and realize that I have more capacity to win the fight standing up, they try to put me on the ground. It's going to be the same story, so I'm working towards that. Stay upright, move forward, aggressive and play my game. (…) It will be a knockout, God willing. There's no error. The beginning is that madness, the guy stifling, wanting to impose his game, but I'm sure I'll find my distance, the timing and knockout,” said the fighter.
In case of victory, 'Lex Luthor', as he is known, will once again place himself in a prominent position in the under-84kg category. With the top of the division in shambles, he hopes to soon enter the select group of the 15 best middleweights.
“Today in the top 15, top 10, anything can happen. There's the 2nd in the ranking fighting against the 13th, it's a very big 'salad'. So that's my objective: to recover the victory (on Sunday), win one or two more very good fights and enter the top 15”, said Vitor, who, at 38, discarded the idea of retirement and assured that he can continue fighting. at a high level for a few more years.
“Age certainly influences it, I can’t say it doesn’t, but it’s also very relative. I'm 38, but I have a lot less injuries than guys aged 30, 33 who are stopping (fighting) because they can no longer perform as much as they did before. There are guys who were world champions at 25, and at 35 they are finished. I am not. I've never been world champion and I still can be, because I still have some ballast (to evolve), I'm learning, improving with each training session. I can go up to around 40, God willing”, he concluded.
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