Free agent Eduardo Dantas wants his shot at the UFC
Used Bellator bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas is now not signed with the second greatest mixed martial arts promotion on this planet.
While ‘Dudu’ assessments free agency following a knockout loss to novel champ Juan Archuleta in his closing day plod, he does inquire of to land in the larger firm on this planet, after dedicating the bulk of his profession to Bellator.
In an interview with Ag Fight, Dantas shared his wish to compete in the UFC, where he believes the greatest challenges of his profession could perchance well well be for the time being. Furthermore Dantas is captivated with demanding Petr Yan’s title, while he would also ride being below the identical roof as his teammate and buddy Jose Aldo.
“I’m peaceable studying my chances. I’ll take a look at with Dede (Andre Pederneiras, Nova Uniao’s head coach) and peep what he thinks,” Dantas mentioned. “We possess some offers and we’ll peep what the prolonged bustle has in store for us. I stop (eradicate to be in the UFC) and I’ll uncover you why. We are motivated by challenges. If there’s no distress, there’s no development. There are colossal challenges for me there. There’s Petr Yan, who’s the champion and defeated Aldo, and he has knowledgeable with us earlier than. There Marlon Moraes and Junior (Jose Aldo), who’s my brother, my partner. He inspires me and offers me strength. It’s a put where my coronary heart will beat more challenging.”
Despite the indisputable truth that the coronavirus pandemic is peaceable a ways from below protect watch over in the USA and Brazil, Dantas feels healthy and intends to combat now not lower than once earlier than the year ends. To this level, the single component stopping the 31-year-veteran from taking a combat is taking the time to accept the honest provide.
“I intend to combat this year,” Dantas mentioned. “I’m very hungry. My physique wants that adrenaline. I’ve been coaching since Jose Aldo’s camp for Marlon Moraes. We factual wish to negotiate to study what’s the single probability in pronounce now not to abolish the error of accepting the relaxation.”
The motive at the lend a hand of Dantas’ hunger to combat over again comes from a aggregate of doctor’s orders and factual unsuitable timing. After his loss to Archuleta, Eduardo turned into once suggested to stay away from suffering any strikes to the head for a month. Quickly after that period turned into once up, the coronavirus pandemic struck the world and rendered the Brazilian with out a combat ever since.
“After my closing combat, I made a decision to study for a health care provider to study if I could perchance well well combat over again soon. He told me to head one month with out suffering any head trauma and I followed his advice. I done up now not battling in November after which in January I took a inch to. Then the pandemic hit us in March. On the time, I turned into once going to procure my contract and I seen that it turned into once up. I made a decision now not to negotiate with them and leave things as they had been.”
“The pandemic occurred and so they didn’t train the relaxation,” Dantas continued. “So I made a decision it turned into once time to yell it. To present the of us that apply me some more or less clarification. I spent nine years in Bellator, I truly possess a vogue of history with them, I turned into once the champion. Now I need fresh things to motivate me to rise up in the morning and plod my dream.”
Sooner than his June 2019 loss to Juan Archuleta, Eduardo Dantas (21-7) picked up a unanimous resolution victory over Toby Misech, in February of the identical year, at Bellator 215. The buy snapped a two-combat skid, by which he lost to UFC vet Michael McDonald after which challenger to Dudu’s belt, Darrion Caldwell.