Rodolfo Vieira is one of the best grapplers to ever compete in jiu-jitsu and shutting that door is a difficult task even if he considers his UFC career his No. 1 priority. That said, “The Black Belt Hunter” is ready to start saying “no” to lucrative offers.
Vieira only fought once in the octagon in 2020, tapping Saparbeg Safarov in three minutes at March’s UFC 248. An injury forced him out of a planned UFC middleweight bout with Markus Perez in October, but it wasn’t serious enough to prevent him from agreeing to a jiu-jitsu rematch with Kaynan Duarte, the only man to beat him in five years.