It’s not that lightweight champ Thiago Moises wasn’t in good shape – he’d trained for his RFA 35 title fight with the famed American Top Team, who’d taken him in after his work with the 011 MMA Team in Sao Paulo. But all the training in the world doesn’t prepare you for fighting at altitude, which is what he did when he fought David Castillo. “As I was warming up, I did feel the altitude,” Moises (7-1), who defends the belt Friday at RFA 38 against short-notice replacement Jamall Emmers (9-2), told MMAjunkie. “I hadn’t quite warmed up by the first round. I wasn’t in the fight yet. I actually warmed up during the fight.” Warming up, in this case, meant almost getting finished in the first round.
See the original post here:
For RFA lightweight champ Thiago Moises, warming up meant a rough night to win belt – MMA Junkie