Brandon Moreno and his massive LEGO collection: UFC flyweight loves collecting construction toys
Brandon Moreno is one of the deadliest fighters in UFC sitting at the top of the Flyweight rankings. However, outside the Octagon, he is a 29-year wholesome person who loves to play with legos. The Mexican fighter is an avid Lego collector and has expressed his love for Legos on many occasions.
Brandon revealed his whole collection in a youtube video. The enormous collection includes a hulkbuster from Marvel, a batmobile from DC, a Flying Dutchman from Pirates of the Caribbean and many starships from star wars besides many others lego sets. Besides Lego sets Brandon also has a sizable collection of Funko Pops of many comic characters and UFC fighters like Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, and Jon Jones.
‘The Assassin Baby‘ even celebrates his victories by buying lego sets. He was seen at a lego store after defeatingDeiveson Figueiredo at UFC 263. His collection was showcased in a UFC episode embedded ahead of UFC 263. Before his title defenses at UFC 270, he spoke to MMA Junkie about what has changed since he became the champion. He joked, “Just more money for Legos and that’s it.”
Big trip to the Lego store to celebrate getting the gold!
Brandon Moreno isn't just the best 125er on the planet but he's a master builder! 🧱
Get him his own mini-figure! pic.twitter.com/vUobNiQXDw
— UFC on BT Sport (@btsportufc) June 23, 2021Seeing the 29-year-old’s passion for the Toy brand, even his fans started a petition to make him the ambassador of Lego. However, the deal between the toy company and Brendon Moreno never materialized.
Related: Deiveson Figueiredo takes a cheap shot at Brandon Moreno’s “lego belt”
When LEGO gave Brandon Moreno a UFC Title belt made Lego bricks
Ahead of his title defense at UFC 270 the Danish toy company reciprocated Brandon’s love towards Lego toys and gave him a life-size UFC Championship belt made fully of lego bricks. UFC Espanol even Posted a pic of Brendon with the belt gifted by Lego.
Moreover, LEGO informed Moreno’s fans through social media that they won’t be able to sponsor the fighter at the moment stating his fans are not the desired age group that the company targets.
It appears that the corporation is concentrating more on the younger demographic, even though LEGO sets are intended for people ages ‘4-99’. It seems that they are uninterested in Moreno’s millions of followers who don’t fall in the age range. However, Moreno said he’s still willing to collaborate with LEGO in any capacity possible.
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