Who is Paulo Costa ?

Who is Paulo Costa ?

Paulo Henrique Costa (born 21 April 1991) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a Middleweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of 26 October 2020, he is #2 in the UFC middleweight rankings.
Costa, the son of odd-jobber Carlos Roberto and Maria Augusta, was born in 1991. He has an older brother, Carlos Costa, who is a former mixed martial artist and one of Paulo’s coaches. Paulo grew up in Contagem playing football and eventually picking up Muay Thai at the age of nine in order to learn discipline and avoid street fights he was constantly getting into. As a teenager, Paulo joined a jiu-jitsu gym with his brother only to quit the sport after their father died of throat cancer when Paulo was 17. A couple of years later, Costa returned to jiu-jitsu and started competing under the tutelage of his brother who was already a purple belt at the time.
In order to help his mother with bills, Costa worked in real estate and as an IT teacher teaching Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.