LAS VEGAS – Dooho Choi was overcome with emotion after choosing up his first win in eight years.
At UFC on ESPN 60, Choi (15-4-1 MMA, 4-3-1 UFC) stopped Invoice Algeo within the second spherical with punches. It was his first win since stopping Thiago Tavares in June 2016.
Instantly after the referee stopped the combat after Algeo (18-9 MMA, 5-5 UFC) dropped to the canvas, feelings have been absolutely displayed as “The Korean Superboy” started crying contained in the octagon.
“I received emotional as a result of this win was a very long time coming,” Choi stated via an interpreter at a post-fight information convention. “It’s been some time since I gained and the final time it didn’t go very properly. I heard all of the haters, all of the folks that stated I’m finished and I can’t do it anymore. It began to have an effect on me and I began to doubt myself a bit bit. I used to be considering is that this actually it? Am I actually finished? I stored religion in myself and I needed to show it to myself.”
After his win in opposition to Tavares, Choi would go on to lose to Cub Swanson, Jeremy Stephens and Charles Jourdain. Then, in his earlier outing in Feb. 2023 in opposition to Kyle Nelson, the judges declared the combat a majority draw, including one other irritating end result to a troublesome run.
Choi admits that he started to doubt his skills.
“I simply know that is the one factor that I’m good at,” Choi stated. “If I attempt my greatest and go away all of it on the market, then if it doesn’t go my method, then perhaps I can settle for that perhaps I don’t have it. However I stored believing in myself, stored making an attempt, and received it finished.”
Now that he’s again within the winner’s column, Choi needs to get out of the UFC Apex, the place he has competed in back-to-back outings. In spite of everything, simply 4 fights in the past, he was a headliner in entrance of over 10,000 individuals.
“I’m a crowd-pleasing fighter, so it’s a bummer my final two fights have been with a small crowd,” Choi stated. “So, I need to combat in entrance of an enormous crowd, and I need to combat somebody within the rankings.”
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