Inatt kommer welterviktaren Kamaru Usman (11-1) att möta Emil Meek (9-2) under huvudkortet på UFC Fight Night 124 i St. Louis. Senast Usman klev in i oktagonen var i september förra året då han vann över Sergio Moraes (12-3) via KO i första ronden. Inför nattens gala har Usman talat om hur han känner sig inför matchen mot Meek i en intervju med MMAJunkie.
The feeling is: A fight is a fight. I need to go out there and do my job and do what I do best, which is dominate from start to finish. There’s no leg up. There’s no recipe. There’s no secret to this – you get out of it what you put in, and I put in more than every last one of these guys. I haven’t lost a second in any fight I’ve been in. I’m doing the right things that I need to do, and the results are proving that.
Han prisar även norrmannen för sin tuffhet men säger att det inte kommer vara tillräckligt då han ser sig själv som den skickligare fightern.
I train like I’m fighting for the title each and every time, which is why I get the results that I get. My preparation is always the same. At the end of the day, you’re locked in with a problem – with me. He’s a tough fighter. He likes to fight. He likes the violence of the fight. That’s great. You kind of need that in a sense. But skill for skill, I excel in every avenue better than he does. It’s not always the toughest guy that wins these fights. We know that.
