Raul Rosas Jr. on the Raoni Barcelos Scare: 'I Thought I Killed Him'

On the Masvidal Podcast, Raul Rosas Jr. says he was scared after the Sept. 26, 2026, UFC main event and thought, in his words, that he had killed him.

Clip: Masvidal Podcast interview on Full Send MMA, from the full source linked below.

Quick answer: On the Masvidal Podcast, hosted on Full Send MMA, Raul Rosas Jr. tells Jorge Masvidal he was scared after his fight with Raoni Barcelos. "I thought I killed him to be honest," he says, "and I was scared." He adds that he wants both men "to go back to our families," and that he is "glad that he's back home he's with his family and everything's good." UFC and ESPN record the bout as the bantamweight main event of UFC Fight Night: Rosas Jr. vs. Barcelos, on September 26, 2026, at Meta APEX in Las Vegas, with Rosas Jr. winning by TKO (slam) at 1:38 of round 5.

The official YouTube title, for an upload dated November 11, 2026, is Raul Rosas Jr. On The Raoni Barcelos Scare (Masvidal Podcast). The UFC report also calls it Rosas Jr.'s first UFC main event. That billing is not spoken in the used clip. There is not yet a RealNameOf biography or real-name page for either fighter. This article stays with what Rosas Jr. says in the used portions of the interview, and with those labeled official results. It does not make a medical claim about Barcelos's condition.

"I just hope that he's good now"

Rosas Jr. starts with a hope, not a ringside diagnosis. "I just hope that he's good now," he says. "You know, his health is good and everything's good with him and his family."

Then he describes how the finish looked to him in the moment. "I thought I killed him to be honest and I was scared." He does not, in this part of the conversation, walk back through the sequence of the slam, or quote the official time. The UFC report does that separately. It says that "a little over a minute into the round, Rosas Jr. toppled Barcelos to the canvas with a thud and the Brazilian went limp, with Rosas Jr. quickly recognizing his distress and signaling to the referee to stop the fight."

What scared him, as he tells Masvidal, was how he would feel afterward. Fighters, he says, want to hurt each other in the cage, "but I want both of us to go back to our families." Masvidal answers, "Amen brother."

After the event, Rosas Jr. says, he "was a little bit worried." The update he gives in the interview is simpler than a medical report: "Now I'm glad that he's back home he's with his family and everything's good." This article repeats that as his account, not as an independent health finding.

Risking their lives, as he tells it

Later in the same conversation, he steps back from that one fight and talks about the sport. "It's hard to see that in the sport in MMA because we have small gloves," he says. "Usually one shot puts you out." He compares that with boxing, where, he says, "you've seen some uh people die because it's big gloves so you can take more punishment."

That boxing comparison is his opinion in the interview. It is not a medical finding, and this article does not treat it as one.

His conclusion is the risk he thinks both men accept. "It's just like it's crazy how the sport is," he says. "We are really uh risking our lives every time we step in there."

The used clip ends there. He does not, in these segments, name a hospital, a diagnosis, or a recovery timeline, and this article does not supply them from elsewhere in the interview.

FAQ

What was the official result of Rosas Jr. vs. Barcelos?

UFC and ESPN list it as the bantamweight main event of UFC Fight Night: Rosas Jr. vs. Barcelos, on September 26, 2026, at Meta APEX in Las Vegas. Rosas Jr. won by TKO (slam) at 1:38 of round 5. That date and result are not spoken in the used clip.

What did Raul Rosas Jr. say scared him?

"I thought I killed him to be honest and I was scared." He says he wants both fighters to go home to their families.

What does he say about Barcelos now?

He hopes Barcelos's "health is good and everything's good with him and his family," and later says he is "glad that he's back home he's with his family and everything's good." Those are his words in the interview, not a medical update from this article.

What does he say about risk in MMA?

He says MMA's small gloves mean "usually one shot puts you out," contrasts that with boxing's larger gloves, and concludes that fighters are "risking our lives every time we step in there."