“I think this collab of Norma and Chute Boxe is going to bring an even scarier version of Norma to the Octagon,” she said with a smile as members of the team milled about behind her at the UFC Performance Institute.
The team has been hyper-active of late, with Daniel Santos scoring a win at UFC 320 before Charles Oliveira showed out in Rio de Janeiro. This weekend, both Dumont and Allan Nascimento take to the Octagon, while Dumont’s partner, surging middleweight Marco Tulio, is up next before Ian Machado Garry rounds things out in Qatar.
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“It’s a very powerful energy. We’re loaded with energy,” Dumont said of the Sao Paulo fighter factory. “(It was) ‘Willycat’ before Charles, and then there is Charles, and then there is Allan, then there is me, and we ‘Matuto’ coming up, then after that, Ian; there is so much activity. It’s not just in the UFC; there are so many athletes competing elsewhere as well, so many athletes doing well, and everyone feeds off one another because when one wins, everyone wins and grows.
“It’s a lot of good energy coming up, and everybody is just helping each other to grow.”
And Dumont is ready to carry that good energy into her bout with Vieira and add another victory to the team’s recent run of success on Saturday.