Robelis Despaigne honored to share GFL team with ‘Cuban legends’

MIAMI – GFL’s Miami workforce options numerous Cuban energy, and Robelis Despaigne is over the moon that he kinds a part of it.

GFL, the newly launched team-based MMA promotion that’s anticipated to start in April 2025, had its official draft this previous Friday. The Miami workforce landed adorned veterans Yoel Romero and Hector Lombard.

Despaigne, a fellow Cuban, feels honored to share the workforce together with his countrymen, who he’s lengthy seemed as much as in MMA.

“I used to be very glad to be on the identical workforce and on the identical stage with fighters resembling Yoel Romero and Hector Lombard, who’re legends of Cuba,” Despaigne advised Hablemos MMA in Spanish. “I can solely think about after we get to combat at an occasion, the three of us sharing and being collectively. That’s stunning. ”

Despaigne entered the UFC in 2024 and received his debut with an 18-second KO. Nonetheless, he misplaced his two subsequent fights by resolution and was minimize from the promotion earlier than the yr’s finish. Since then, he’s competed twice beneath the Karate Fight banner and, as anticipated, has picked up two fast knockout victories.

Despaigne is having fun with this Karate Fight chapter of his profession, and needs to take it even additional. But, MMA remains to be his major purpose.

“You at all times look to be on the largest levels,” Despaigne mentioned. “I do like lots Karate Fight, and I wish to win the title in Karate Fight, however the dream has at all times been to be within the UFC. I already completed that, however I wish to return and combat MMA, and do attain every part potential that’s in attain.”