Miami — Brazilian middleweight Marco Tulio trains alongside Charles Oliveira at storied gym Chute Box, and made quite the impression in his fight with Tresean Gore at UFC 314 on Saturday.
En route to knockout victory, improving him to 2-0 in the promotion, Tulio put on a dominant performance, all while dealing with an injured and possibly broken hand sustained early in the bout.
“I just felt the right thumb kind of like, spun a little bit. I didn’t want to tell my corners between the first and the second round, but I ended up telling them,” Tulio told Cageside Press following the fight at the Kaseya Center. “I just kind of pulled it to put it in place, but that’s what it was. It happened in the first round, and ended up telling them and fought through the second with it.”
Tulio has now won 10 straight fights dating to his time on the regional circuit, his last loss, and in fact only loss, coming in 2018. With two victories already in 2025 he’s hoping to stay busy. “I want to be a very active worker in this company, and perhaps two more fights this year.”
With that in mind, Tulio called out Marvin Vettori on Saturday. There’s no personal beef there, just a good fight as the Brazilian sees it. “I think that he’s a guy I really would like to face, I think he just came out of a war with Dolidze, and I think we can put on a show for everybody,” Marco Tulio said when asked about the match-up.
Watch Marco Tulio’s full UFC 314 post-fight media appearance above.
