Den första juni kommer Jimmie Rivera att möta den forne WSOF-mästaren Marlon Moraes under UFC Utica i New York. Från början ville Rivera dock möta den tidigare bantamviktsmästaren Cody Garbrandt som han nu misstänker undviker honom.
Det här berättade Rivera via ’Submission Radio’:
I know Cody was saying, ‘oh, maybe we’ll do another fight with TJ or fight Cruz.’ I just think he’s trying to duck me. I’ve sent plenty of stuff on social media and he won’t say one thing back. So, I just think he doesn’t want a hard fight, he wants an easy fight. He wants people that he thinks he can beat or that he knows he could beat, not guys that he doesn’t think he could beat.
Det här berättade Rivera via ’BJPenn Radio’:
I think at the end of the day, Marlon’s manager [Ali Abdelaziz] is really not protecting Marlon. He’s just protecting his golden boy which is Cody. So, I think Ali is just protecting his golden boy Cody, because he knows if I get to him, I’m gonna whoop his ass. So I think at the end of the day, you know, they just throw people around to try and derail me. And I like it. And I’m just gonna fuckin’ keep training harder to go in there and fuckin’ whoop some ass.
Garbrandt kommer den 4 augusti att möta bantamviktsmästaren T.J. Dillashaw för att förstöka ta tillbaka bältet han förlorade när de senast möttes under UFC 217 i november förra året.
