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UFC vet Robelis Despaigne honored to share GFL group with Yoel Romero, Hector Lombard

January 28, 2025 11:59 pm ET MIAMI – GFL’s Miami team features a lot of Cuban power, and Robelis Despaigne is over the moon that he forms part of it. GFL, the newly launched team-based MMA promotion that’s expected to begin in April 2025, had its official draft this past Friday. The Miami team landed

UFC vet Robelis Despaigne honored to share GFL group with Yoel Romero, Hector Lombard


MIAMI – GFL’s Miami group options lots of Cuban energy, and Robelis Despaigne is over the moon that he varieties a part of it.

GFL, the newly launched team-based MMA promotion that’s anticipated to start in April 2025, had its official draft this previous Friday. The Miami group landed adorned veterans Yoel Romero and Hector Lombard.

Despaigne, a fellow Cuban, feels honored to share the group along with his countrymen, who he’s lengthy appeared as much as in MMA.

“I used to be very pleased to be on the identical group and on the identical degree with fighters equivalent to Yoel Romero and Hector Lombard, who’re legends of Cuba,” Despaigne instructed Hablemos MMA in Spanish. “I can solely think about once we get to struggle at an occasion, the three of us sharing and being collectively. That’s lovely. ”

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Despaigne entered the UFC in 2024 and gained his debut with an 18-second KO. Nonetheless, he misplaced his two subsequent fights by determination and was reduce from the promotion earlier than the 12 months’s finish. Since then, he’s competed twice below the Karate Fight banner and, as anticipated, has picked up two fast knockout victories.

Despaigne is having fun with this Karate Fight chapter of his profession, and desires to take it even additional. But, MMA continues to be his most important objective.

“You all the time look to be on the largest levels,” Despaigne stated. “I do like quite a bit Karate Fight, and I wish to win the title in Karate Fight, however the dream has all the time been to be within the UFC. I already completed that, however I wish to return and struggle MMA, and do attain every part attainable that’s in attain.”

Take a look at the Hablemos MMA YouTube channel for Spanish-language movies and interviews with MMA Junkie’s Danny Segura.

Be sure you go to the MMA Junkie Instagram web page and YouTube channel to debate this and extra content material with followers of blended martial arts.

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