Brandon Moreno Wants to Rematch With Sergio Pettis After His Fight With Ray Borg

Brandon Moreno spoke with MMAjunkie ahead of his fight with Ray Borg at UFC 223. Highlights are below:

On working with Joseph Benavidez: “(Benavidez) has helped me a lot with my gameplan. For example, just today I just sparred with him, and he tried to mimic the moves from Ray Borg.”

On training with TJ Dillashaw: “It’s hard. [laughs] I’ve trained before with a lot of UFC guys – with really, really high-level athletes. But T.J. is another thing. His grappling is very good, his striking. His scrambles – I can’t win any scrambles with him. The experience is really hard, but it’s very good, too.”

That intense octagon activity, Moreno said, ended up playing a key part when he walked into the bout with Pettis, not even four months after a second-round submission win over Ortiz.

On his loss to Sergio Pettis: “My technique and the gameplan were good. But my body had a lot of injuries. My mind was tired. My body needed to take a little break…Right now I feel really good. I feel like a new guy.”

On a potential rematch with Pettis: “I know Sergio Pettis is really good, but I think Sergio is a (harder) fight. He’s very very explosive (with) really good wrestling, good scrambles, good positions, good transitions. I’m excited for the fight, because he loves the ground, I love the ground, but (we’re not scared) to exchange punches…Every single fighter who loses to some guy, I think he wants to take the rematch. Just for personal experience. I think I’m still better than Sergio Pettis, but he won the fight. And it is what it is. It’s fine. In the future, I want the fight with him. But right now, I have a very important fight against Ray Borg.”