{"id":40823,"date":"2026-10-01T02:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Payton-Talbott-says-he-reinvented-himself-ahead-of-UFC-332-203028"},"modified":"2026-10-01T02:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:32:17","slug":"payton-talbott-says-he-reinvented-himself-ahead-of-ufc-332","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/payton-talbott-says-he-reinvented-himself-ahead-of-ufc-332\/","title":{"rendered":"Payton Talbott says he \u2018reinvented\u2019 himself ahead of UFC 332"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Payton
\nTalbott<\/a> believes he has become a more complete fighter during
\nhis Octagon hiatus.<\/p>\n

Talbott defeated former
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> two-division titleholder
\nHenry
\nCejudo<\/a> in his most recent outing in December. The bantamweight
\nprospect returns to action at UFC
\n332<\/a> on Oct. 3 after spending much of the year focused on
\ntraining while waiting for his next fight.<\/p>\n

\n

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

Payton Talbott explains what changed before facing Deiveson
\nFigueiredo<\/h2>\n

Talbott, who faces former flyweight champion Deiveson
\nFigueiredo<\/a> on Saturday at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, said
\nthe extended time spent working on his game allowed him to reinvent
\naspects of his fighting style.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it was kind of weird,\u201d Talbott told the UFC when asked about
\nhis nine-month hiatus. \u201cThis is all still new to me, so I tried to
\njust stay training and just stay ready. I mean, I trained pretty
\nmuch the whole year, and I feel like I kind of reinvented myself a
\nlittle bit and went back to my roots, went inward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talbott explained that his evolution has involved collecting
\ntechniques and lessons while making sure he doesn\u2019t lose the
\nqualities that made him successful in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou go and train out of town, and you pick people’s brains and
\nsometimes you take things from them and implement them into your
\ngame,\u201d Talbott added. \u201cBut a lot of the times, the reason you got
\nwhere you are is because of you. And so, you just have to correctly
\nlearn how to implement it and not let it fully change you, but just
\nuse the best of what you learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n

\u201cI kind of reinvented myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Payton
\nTalbott<\/a> (@PaytonTalbott<\/a>)
\nmade the most of his time since his last fight and is excited to
\ntest himself against another former champion in Deiveson
\nFigueiredo<\/a>. #UFC332<\/a><\/p>\n

Fight by Fight Preview \u27a1\ufe0f: https:\/\/t.co\/Sw9Lgv3uJ3<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Zk2RhHK9vV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 UFC News (@UFCNews)
\nSeptember 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Payton Talbott believes he has become a more complete fighter during his Octagon hiatus. Talbott defeated former Ultimate Fighting Championship two-division titleholder Henry Cejudo in his most recent outing in December. The bantamweight prospect returns to action at UFC 332 on Oct. 3 after spending much of the year focused on training while waiting for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40823","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\/40823","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=40823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}