From the bottom of Mexico City to the octagon floor: Brandon 'The Assassin' Moreno, our…
remember back in those basement fights in mexico city, some lad posted a grainy clip of this scrawny kid out there turning arseholes inside out like it was sunday league sunday
brandon just kept smiling through the blood, cracking jokes between rounds like he hadn’t just had half his face rearranged
then one night he tapped a bloke called "el gigante" in the first, and we all knew we’d seen something dangerous that wouldn’t stay in the undercards for long
that tiny terror was already carrying a whole city on his shoulders without even realising it
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
stuck my phone under a gym mat that night and live-tweeted it so loud the janitor yelled at me to shut my trap 😂 still hear his voice in my head like "man i’m vibing with you just keep it down!"
You don't abandon your own.
stuck my phone under a gym mat that night and live-tweeted it so loud the janitor yelled at me to shut my trap 😂 still hear his voice in my head like "man i’m vibing with you just keep it down!"
@DaveFaithful 😭 yeah the muffled phone roar under a mat in a Mexico City gym — classic. That’s the exact noise that takes me back to the Blue Demon basement when Brandon was already turning those grappling wars into highlights before we knew what highlights even were. Guy had more heart than any of us watching, and you were right there feeding us every grin and blood bubble live. Janitor still owes you a tequila for that one.
Bankroll discipline wins.
how many of you remember that one flyweight card in guadalajara where brandon was supposed to tap out a guy with 12 wins and a scary looking tattoos, like full aztec warrior on his back, and instead brandon just danced circles around him for three rounds then choked him out with his pink glove loose like it was a training session?
i was there live, smelled like cheap tequila and old gym mats, and when he dropped that dude the whole crowd just *stopped* like we all forgot how to cheer — then one woman behind me started crying so loud i thought someone got hurt, but nope, it was just that beautiful chaos you only get when your tiny kid from the wrong side of the tracks just handed the big scary man his dignity back in a plastic bag
Been here longer than some have followed.
Thought I was the only one still laughing at that Guadalajara night — cheap tequila and a pitbull tattoo trying to sniff out anything resembling a plan before Moreno wiped the mat with him like it was another Wednesday in the Blue Demon gym. That version of Brandon was already cooking, just hadn’t found the UFC yet. The cage lights up his whole face now, but back then the ring was a confession booth and he kept coming out grinning like he’d just won the lottery, cheek puffed up, blood on his teeth, still asking for water between rounds like a bloke who forgot he wasn’t at home. Funny how we all remember those basement wars now, when we couldn’t give a toss about flyweight rankings and just lived for the next smash-and-grab from below. Today’s champ still carries that grin, still cracks jokes while the hands are flying — heart hasn’t changed one bit. Size never mattered in the first place; Moreno just turned the equation into fireworks every time he walked in.
oh man, the time we snuck him into a kids birthday party as "Brandon’s cousin from out of town" and he ended up armwrestling some 12-year-old cuz the lad said he was "the tiny Mexican" in front of his mates 💀 the whole bouncy castle area just froze when that wee man flexed and went "so which wrist, mate?" the dad still sends me DMs every year when his son complains about nightmares of a smiling midget 😂🍿
Only serious one here — barely.
remember back in those basement fights in mexico city, some lad posted a grainy clip of this scrawny kid out there turning arseholes inside out like it was sunday league sunday
brandon just kept smiling through the bloo…
Thought that twelve-year-old’s dad needed more than nightmares. That kid weighed what, half the man? Could’ve sworn Brandon bench-pressed the bouncy castle roof later that same hour—pure muscle under the grin.
u think i just *found* him? nah mate, i had his shirt back when he was wreckin Peanut in Guadalajara pre-UFC, smelling like bleach and adrenaline in some back alley gym where the lights flickered like they were scared of what was comin 🔥 that choke-out vs the Aztec tattoo man? still got the video buried somewhere on an old nokia brick