Former UFC light weight champion Charles Oliveira has built extensive highlights in the Octagon.
In 2025 Oliveira is one of the best fan favorites in the UFC. 'Do Bronx' has achieved the rare performance of star row in sport, even though they are unable to speak English.
A large part of that success was the finish tendencies of Oliveira, who pushed him to the top of many record categories in the leading promotion of MMA.
Oliveira established the UFC stop -record record on UFC 262 when he eliminated Michael Chandler to win the empty lightweight title. Shortly thereafter, Oliveira Dustin Poirier submitted to defend the belt and extend his lead to finishes.
The Brazilian used a rare step to force a Poirier crane, but it was not his first time he brought it within the UFC.
Joe Rogan recalls the standing choke of Charles Oliveira against Efrain Escudero
Oliveira held Poirier's title ambitions on UFC 269 when he locked up a standing choke. Interestingly, it was the same entry that Joe Rogan first introduced to the then Future Champion.
During an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, days after the Triumph of Oliveira about 'The Diamond' in December 2021, the UFC color commentator spoke about the Jiu-Jitsu competence of the Brazilian hunter.
Rogan pointed to the other standing behind naked choke on the record of Oliveira as the moment he first saw potential in the then unbeaten prospect.
'That choke [against Poirier] Was so good. And that is the same way as the world discovered about him, was Efrain Escudero, who won the ultimate hunter. He was a very good hunter himself.
'He fought against Oliveira and Oliveira took his back in the same way [as against Poirier]Get up and choked it out.
“That was when we first saw him, and the first time I recognized, I like:” Man, this boy is talented. ” … His level of Jiu-Jitsu is a leap higher than most people he competes “
Escudero won the Season Eight Van Tuf in 2008 before taking victories at Drew Dober, among others.
Charles Oliveira could become the very first two -time lightweight champion of the UFC
Oliveira stays at the top of his game and he gets another chance to write history quickly enough.
With Islam Makhachev wanted to leave the lightweight Kroon and move to the good weight, Oliveira will fight against Ilia Topuria in the main event of UFC 317.
A upset victory over 'El Matador', which moves up to 155 pounds after a title line in featherweight, 'Do Bronx' would make the first double champion in UFC Lightweight History.
Oliveira comes from a dominant victory over Chandler in their rematch at UFC 309 in November 2024. He will be looking for a similar performance during the International Fight Week to alleviate Topuria's perfect record.