“Spend my day at the farm”- Fight of the Night winner Bryan Barberena hints at retirement if UFC doesn’t re-sign him
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Bryan Barberena and Matt Brown
Bryan Barberena and Matt Brown put on a show at the UFC Columbus fight night and took home the ‘Fight of the night’ bonuses, each fighter took home an extra $50,000 for their efforts. Brown also got a trip to the hospital for precautionary reasons. Bryan won the bout via a split decision.
In the post-fight interview, Barberena said “This is absolutely everything I dreamed of fighting Matt Brown,”. “That’s everything I wanted. I knew I had to put on a performance.” The crowd was not pleased with the decision as it furiously booed the result while Barberena conducted his post-fight interview. “You can boo me, but I love you guys.” Barberena told Daniel Cormier after the fight.
A winner of back-to-back fights, Barberena has been victorious in three of his most recent four. Other wins in that stretch include Anthony Ivy and Darian Weeks. Bryan however said that he would ‘Be done’ if the UFC didn’t renew his contract, says that he talked to his wife about this, and added that “If the UFC don’t want me to come out and put on shows anymore, I’ll hang ’em up and go spend my day at the farm, with the family…”
“Make it a war of attrition” Matt Brown wanted to take Bryan Barberena into deep waters
When the promotion announced they were heading back to Columbus, Brown immediately asked Sean Shelby to get him on the card. He was one of the only fighters from Columbus on the roster. “It was just surprising, like why would they not want me on the card,” Brown said.
Eventually, Shelby called Brown to offer him Bryan Barberena for UFC Columbus which ‘The Immortal’ accepted right away. “It’s very exciting. Every fight is exciting in its own way but it’s cool to be able to do it at home. It was like 11, 13 years ago the last time they had it here and I was on that card. To do it over a decade later is badass, it’s great,” Brown explained.
When Matt Brown was asked about how he saw the fight going, he said “I see myself knocking him out, probably an elbow or knee. Just pull him into deep waters he hasn’t been in,”. “I want both of us to be in the deep waters and make it a war of attrition.” Although Matt
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