LAS VEGAS – Mateus Mendonca was quick to impress at Dana White’s Contender Series 56.
Mendonca (10-0) needed just 48 seconds to knock out CES MMA champion Ashiek Ajim with a blitzing combination that earned him a UFC deal on Tuesday at the UFC Apex. The undefeated Chute Boxe Diego Lima fighter already has his own catchphrase and sent a warning to the UFC’s featherweight division.
“Look at ‘The Cat’!,” Mendonca told MMA Junkie and other reporters through an interpreter.
He continued, “I have a lot of faith in God, and Diego Lima always says to me, ‘You came here to get what’s yours. I came here to have fun in the octagon. I just came to have fun in there and do my thing and just show people the problem has arrived.”
Watch the video of Mendonca’s complete post-fight media availability above.
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