“It was very tough because the first time when I came here I was 17 and I had my wife – she was my girlfriend at the time – already,” he said. “So I would stay here a couple months, then go to Brazil, stay there a couple months, and we kept the relationship. And then when I turned 22, we married, she finished college, then she moved to the U.S. with me and it was very hard because I wasn’t in the UFC yet. I had no money, I had to work and stay away from my family. My wife was away from her family, so it was very hard for her, also. And I also had to train very hard because my goal was to be in the UFC. It wasn’t easy at all.”
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His wife, Maria, must like him a little bit.
“Yeah, she must like me,” laughs Moises.”She had a good life in Brazil, but she left everything behind to come believe in this dream with me.”
Today, the dream is alive and well for a fighter who would like nothing more than to get a second-consecutive win this Saturday and then start planning his road to a rematch with a fighter who didn’t only beat him, but then went on to win the UFC lightweight title. Yeah, Moises has Makhachev in his sights.
