Före detta lätt tungviktaren Rashad Evans har förlorat fyra av sina sex senaste matcher, och nu har han valt att ta sig ner till mellanvikt. Evans ser fram mot att få börja om från början i en för honom ny viktklass, och detta hade han att säga via “UFC Unfiltered”:
I’m enjoying the process a lot more, and I’m enjoying being more of a student and really getting back to my roots of dedication.
Dropping to 185 is the best thing for me because for the first time I’ve got to really make sure I’m doing everything correctly as far as taking care of my weight. I’ve been flirting around with the idea for years now.
When you’re in there and you’re going, you don’t really feel it. But at the same time, I don’t have that, ‘Get over here, I’m going to slam this mother(expletive)’ strength. That’s what I was missing, and I feel it had a lot to do with just the weight and how strong I was and my size for that weight class.
I had to really make a change and just having new competition, having to feel like the new kid on the block and have to earn my way through another division and pretty much just reinvent myself was my motivation to really want to do it.
Rashad kommer härnäst att ta sig an ingen mindre än Tim Kennedy, då de möts under UFC 205 den 12 november i New York.
