The Combating Nerds are reaching nice success within the UFC, with Borralho’s team-mate Mauricio Ruffy taking up Benoit Saint-Denis within the co-main occasion in Paris.

Ruffy, like Borralho, has had an unbeaten begin to his UFC profession, profitable his first three fights and knocking out Bobby Inexperienced with a spectacular spinning wheel-kick in March.

Carlos Prates, in the meantime, is producing fanfare after knocking out Geoff Neal final month. He faces Britain’s Leon Edwards in November.

Borralho says their success is all the way down to intelligence and strategic planning moderately than their physicality.

“I believe it is an important factor – your struggle IQ, your intelligence, your potential to keep up your techniques even beneath nerve-racking and precarious conditions,” stated Borralho.

“What individuals often see is a bodily factor however what individuals do not often see is how the thoughts is concerned on this sport, and I believe that is loads.”

Borralho factors to a win over Paul Craig final Might, when he waited for the Scotsman to regain his ft moderately than have interaction with him on the bottom, of an instance when his intelligence gave him the benefit.

“I do know that I’ve good jiu-jitsu to commerce with him however I used to be good sufficient to make him arise and I wished to knock him out,” stated Borralho.

“Not due to ego however as a result of I knew that was one of the best ways to do it. After which I did it.”

A win over Imavov may put Borralho in pole place for a middleweight title shot in opposition to Khamzat Chimaev.

Borralho has one eye on championship gold however trying ahead, he desires to write down his title into the UFC historical past books.

“I wish to be essentially the most clever fighter within the historical past of UFC,” stated Borralho.

“When individuals take into consideration struggle IQ, they consider Georges St-Pierre, they consider Jon Jones, they usually’re going to consider Caio Borralho. That is how I wish to do it.”