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\nPaulo Costa is ready to get back to work. | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n
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Paulo \u201cBorrachinha\u201d enjoyed a successful light heavyweight debut at Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Costa\u2019s sense of urgency to get back to work is compounded by the \u201cSince I defeated Azamat in April, I have been looking for the next \u201cI want to fight. I don\u2019t want to wait. I have just one more fight Since I defeated Azamat in April, I have \u2014 Paulo <\/center><\/p>\n After a rough stretch from 2020 to 2024 where he lost four of five Paulo Costa is ready to get back to work. | Getty\/UFC Paulo Costa wants to keep the momentum going, but it appears that he and the UFC aren\u2019t on the same page in that regard. \u201cBorrachinha\u201d enjoyed a successful light heavyweight debut at UFC 327, where he finished the previously undefeated Azamat Murzakanov with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCosta<\/a> wants to keep the momentum going, but it appears that he
\nand the
\nUFC<\/a> aren\u2019t on the same page in that regard.<\/p>\n
\nUFC
\n327<\/a>, where he finished the previously undefeated Azamat
\nMurzakanov<\/a> with a head kick in the third round on April 11. The
\nvictory seemingly opened up a variety of new possibilities for the
\nBrazilian. Thus far, however, he\u2019s been kept on ice.<\/p>\n
\nfact that he is entering the last fight on his current UFC
\ncontract.<\/p>\nThe Waiting Game<\/h2>\n
\nfight,\u201d Costa wrote on X. \u201cI\u2019ve eventually opened the door to fight
\nat heavyweight. UFC told me to wait\u2026wait\u2026 Here we are, it\u2019s already
\nJuly, and [I\u2019m] still looking to fight someone else at light
\nheavyweight, middleweight or even heavyweight but the answer from
\n[the UFC] by Hunter Campbell is the same: \u2018Wait.\u2019<\/p>\n
\nat my contract, and I want this fight happen soon, but for some
\nreason they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\nbeen looking for the next fight. I ve eventually opened the door to
\nfight at heavyweight. UFC told me to wait\u2026wait\u2026
Here we are it\u2019s already July and I still looking to fight someone
\nelse at Lightheavyweight, middleweight or even\u2026<\/p>\n
\nCosta<\/a> (@BorrachinhaMMA)
\nJune 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nUFC appearances, Costa has raised his stock with back-to-back wins
\nover Roman
\nKopylov<\/a> and Murzakanov. The 35-year-old began his Octagon
\ntenure on a roll, earning a title shot after five consecutive
\nvictories. \u201cBorrachinha\u201d suffered a second-round stoppage loss to
\nIsrael
\nAdesanya<\/a> in a 185-pound championship clash at UFC 253. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"