FORTALEZA, Brazil – Heading into UFC on ESPN+ 2 on the heels of a three-fight skid, Demian Maia tried to put the rough stretch into perspective . Maia (26-9 MMA, 20-9 UFC) had, after all, dropped those losses to none other than champ Tyron Woodley , former interim champion Colby Covington and title challenger Kamaru Usman – the welterweight division’s top three in both the UFC’s rankings and in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA welterweight rankings . But that doesn’t mean that wasn’t any pressure heading into Saturday’s meeting with Lyman Good. It just meant that the former two-time title challenger, who ended it in the first-round with a submission , has gotten better at dealing with it. “I’m a competitor – I hate losing,” Maia said during a press conference at Centro de Formacao Olimpica do Nordeste in Fortaleza, Brazil. “I had never lost three times in a row in my career, it had never happened.
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