Belfort celebrates the KO: “It was perfect”

By Guilherme Cruz

Photo Josh Hedges

With no losses since 2006, Vitor Belfort returned to the UFC last Saturday. Against the former champion Rich Franklin, who was knocked out only three times in 29 fights, the Brazilian entered in the fight as the underdog, but needed three minutes to change the story. “The train was perfect, everything worked out fine, thanks God. Our expectations was exactly that, make him lose his time and, when he wasn’t expecting, we caught him“, revealed Belfort, who dropped Franklin with his devastating exchanging.

Rocking one of the big stars of Ultimate on the first round, Vitor became a strong name to fight for the title. “It’s in God’s hands. I’ll keep working and training hard, getting better... I’ll go with everything now. I’m here to do my job. What they want is ok“, said the Brazilian, who has to steal the belt of Anderson Silva’s hands, dominating the category for three years.

“It wouldn’t be nice, I like Anderson a lot, a have a big admiration for him, he’s a tough guy, but is hard to predict. It would be a tough fight, definitely“, said Belfort. “It’s hard to talk about a fight that didn’t happened yet, there’s nothing confirmed. Fight is fight, each athlete works in a way against each other, you gotta see what will happen on the fight. That’s an unpredictable fight. It would be a tough fight and hard to know who would win“.

“I didn’t expect to do this fight, I just got in UFC, but I’m an employee and I don’t have this power. Who has the power is the champion, but this isn’t a fight that I planned. He isn’t a person whom I wanted to fight, but we’re professionals and we don’t have anything against each other. I admire him a lot as a fighter, he’s an excellent athlete, but business is business”,