Competing at home is always something special for an athlete, but when you’re a Brazilian fighter competing in the UFC, home games are a little bit more special than most.
That’s what Ricardo Ramos will experience on Saturday night when he returns home to make the walk for his bout against Türkiye’s Kaan Ofli at UFC Fight Night: Oliveira vs Gamrot in Rio de Janeiro.
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It’s an opportunity that doesn’t come around too often – this will be the 15th fight of the Ramos’s UFC career and only the third time he’s fought on home soil, with the last occasion coming six years ago in São Paulo.