The Thomas Almeida who’ll meet Jimmie Rivera this Saturday is not the same one who lost to now-champ Cody Garbrandt in May of last year. Neither is he is the same Almeida who went on to recover from that by beating Albert Morales four months later. And that, the 25-year-old Almeida believes, is where the danger lies. “I never settle; I never get comfortable,” Almeida told MMAjunkie ahead of the FOX-televised UFC on FOX 25 main card scrap, which takes place at NYCB LIVE at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. “I always want to improve. “That’s the important thing, and that’s what makes me a very tough opponent, in my opinion: because I’m always looking to improve and evolve.
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