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UFC 243 set the record for the largest crowd in the promotion's history and, appearing in the last bout before the co-main event, Sunday's fight is another huge moment for Tafa. Yet with the benefit of his Melbourne experience, regardless of the result, he is unfazed by the occasion and ready to show why he belongsat this level.
"There was probably more staff working at than there was in the crowd at my last fight," he joked. "The biggest thing about that last event was that it was so close to home and I had a lot of family and friends fly over. It was a different kind of feeling to what it is now and all that pressure'saway."
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