He is a previous UFC flyweight champion. Prior to joining UFC in 2017, he had assembled an undefeated series of wins of 11-0 and was unbeaten for over 5 years contending on the local circuit principally in his local Brazil. He holds a dark belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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Deiveson’s last name, Figueiredo, in old Portuguese, implies the child of a Figueira, where Figueira alludes to a fig tree. His dad was a bison herder who used to rehearse luta marajoara, a neighborhood style of society wrestling.
Deiveson was a cattle rustler as an adolescent and used to help his dad at an animal ranch until the age of 13. A couple of years before this, he had begun to follow his dad into wrestling.
He had moved to the city of Belém and had begun getting prepared in capoeira, a Brazilian military workmanship that consolidates components of dance, aerobatic exhibition, and music.
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Before he started contending in MMA expertly, he had filled in as a bricklayer, beautician, and sushi culinary specialist. Utilizing the cash that he had acquired through his initial not many MMA sessions, he had bought a pet water bison and had named it ‘Ferdinand’.
In February 2020, he was set to confront Joseph Benavidez for the empty UFC Flyweight Championship. At the weigh-in, in any case, he had tipped the scales at 127.5 pounds which was 2.5 pounds over the title battle limit.
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He needed to relinquish 30% of his tote to Joseph and was thus not qualified to bring home the championship. The match went on, notwithstanding, and he figured out how to win through TKO in the second round.
Coming into that battle, he needed to cut 11 kilograms (24 lbs) because of which he had apparently experienced kidney and stomach torments after which his group had chosen to prevent him from cutting weight further. In July 2020, he had gone into a rematch with Joseph which he won by means of specialized accommodation in the first round, subsequently securing the empty UFC Flyweight Championship.
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