{"id":40660,"date":"2026-09-23T04:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Caio-Borralho-explains-why-he-accepted-risky-UFC-334-matchup-202924"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:49:45","slug":"caio-borralho-explains-why-he-accepted-risky-ufc-334-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/caio-borralho-explains-why-he-accepted-risky-ufc-334-matchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Caio Borralho explains why he accepted risky UFC 334 matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Caio
\nBorralho<\/a> is willing to take a risky matchup to stay active.<\/p>\n

The
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> middleweight is set to face
\nYousri
\nBelgaroui<\/a> at UFC
\n334<\/a> on Nov. 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Borralho
\nis among the top-ranked contenders at 185 pounds, while Belgaroui
\nis unranked. The former recently detailed his reasoning for
\naccepting the fight.<\/p>\n

\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Caio Borralho prioritizes activity against Yousri Belgaroui
\nafter emergency surgery<\/h2>\n

Borralho had been sidelined following emergency surgery. Eager to
\nreturn to competition and avoid another lengthy hiatus from the
\nOctagon, the Brazilian told Sherdog that he\u2019ll accept whatever is
\noffered to him to avoid ring rust.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been almost six months without fighting,\u201d Borralho said. \u201cI
\nhad to take some time off because I had to undergo emergency
\nsurgery on my rib. I want to stay active. I believe I\u2019m one of the
\nbest in the world. Whoever they put in front of me, I\u2019m going to
\nhave to prove that I\u2019m one of the best in the world. If this is the
\nfight you guys think makes sense, I\u2019ll take it, because I\u2019m a
\nfighter. This is my job.\u201d<\/p>\n

He acknowledged that the bout carries more potential downside than
\nupside from a rankings perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I beat him, I maintain my position in the rankings; maybe I
\nwon\u2019t move up,\u201d Borralho continued. \u201cBut there are all the other
\nthings I talked about: not being inactive, beating a guy who is
\ncoming in on a roll and who everyone thinks is going to knock me
\nout. This is a fight where I\u2019m only moving forward. I\u2019ll win this
\none, move on to the next, win again and then go for the belt.
\nThat\u2019s how I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Borralho beat Reinier
\nde Ridder<\/a> in his last outing, which saw him bounce back from
\nthe lone defeat of his UFC career so far, against Nassourdine
\nImavov<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caio Borralho is willing to take a risky matchup to stay active. The Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight is set to face Yousri Belgaroui at UFC 334 on Nov. 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Borralho is among the top-ranked contenders at 185 pounds, while Belgaroui is unranked. The former recently detailed his reasoning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40660","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\/40660","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=40660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}