SALT LAKE CITY – Gabriel Bonfim has a job to do Saturday in Utah. He no doubt knows that.
But that doesn’t mean the unbeaten 25-year-old Brazilian can’t be a little bit future-minded. He sees the calendar and knows the UFC has a return to his home country planned for November in Sao Paulo. It’s not hard to connect the dots.
“I’m winning here,” Bonfim said at Wednesday’s media day for UFC 291. “I would like to fight a ranked guy. If someone wants to face me, if that’s a possibility, I want to fight an opponent like that – and if possible, in November in Brazil with my brother.”