A longtime veteran of the game with 33 professional fights across multiple weight classes, 42-year-old Francisco Trinaldo sees his UFC Vegas 28 bout on Saturday night as the beginning of a new journey.
Nine years after joining the UFC through The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 1 as a middleweight and scoring big wins over the likes of Paul Felder, Jim Miller, Yancy Medeiros and Evan Dunham at 155 pounds, “Massaranduba” makes his welterweight debut opposite Muslim Salikhov at the UFC APEX on Saturday.