Mateo Vogel glad to finally have willing opponent at BFL 72, feels winning title would be perfect reward for years of hard work

Ottawa, Ont.’s Mateo Vogel (5-2) tests skills with Powell River, B.C.’s Nicolas Ouellet (2-0) for BFL featherweight gold at BFL 72. This transpires Thursday night at the Harbour Convention Centre in Vancouver, B.C. The broadcast is set for UFC Fight Pass.

The bout will be Vogel’s first title shot of his professional career, an opportunity he feels is a long-time-coming.

Vogel, 26, said the BFL title is something that would be emblematic of the last several years of his progression as a martial artist.

“It would be the accumulation of my hard work for the past four years. We’ve been grinding for four years straight, man. Been grinding in MMA for four years straight,” said Vogel in an interview with MMA Empire.

“We’ve had so many people who didn’t want to fight me, so many people legitimately refused to fight me. I’ve had long layoffs and we just kept training, kept grinding. We joke at the gym that the amount of fight camps I’ve done is hilarious in comparison to the amount of actual fights I’ve had. To finally have this title shot after five years, it means so much.” Read the rest of the story on MMAEmpire.ca