Rising star Raul Rosas Jr. opens up on first loss: ”There was hate”

Raul Rosas Jr will return to action at Saturday’s Noche UFC. Photo via YouTube

Being a hyped fighter is easy when you win but tougher when you lose.

Talking about his first loss, the young bantamweight prospect Raul Rosas Jr claimed he got both support and hard words from the MMA fans after his unanimous decision defeat in April.

“I got more love than hate,” Rosas said regarding his first defeat. “Everyone telling me since I lost that they can’t wait to see me come back, so I appreciate that, but of course, there was hate too. I knew this is how the sport is.”

“Even if Khabib would come back and lose, the fans would turn their back on him. Every time I would go to a UFC event and saw a star of the show, he lost, everyone would turn their back on him, so we knew since we were little that that’s how the sport is, so it doesn’t really matter.”

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Raul Rosas Jr still wants to be the younges UFC champ

As the youngest fighter on the UFC roster the bantamweight still aims to make history as the youngest champion the promotion has ever seen.

“Everything I’ve said in the past, all the goals I’ve set in the past, nothing has changed,” Rosas told MMA Junkie at Wednesday’s Noche UFC media day. “Everything remains the same. I meant everything. If you bring up something I’ve said in the past, I’ll still admit to it. I still think the same way. Nothing has changed.”

Raul Rosas Jr will face Terrence Mitchell on the main card of Saturday’s Noche UFC.

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