Luke Rockhold (14-2) kommer att utmana om mellanviktstiteln mot Chris Weidman (13-0) på UFC 194 och är säker på att han kommer att dominera matchen.
Weidman är känd för sin brottarbakgrund och Rockhold förklarar att han är van att träna med större och bra brottare då han har tränat och sparrats med Daniel Cormier (17-1) och Cain Velasquez (13-2) hela sin karriär.
”I just got done sparring Daniel Cormier,” sa Rockhold. ”I’ve been sparring Cain (Velasquez) and Cormier my whole career, basically, so I’m very used to the bigger, better wrestlers of the UFC and beyond. (They are) the best guys in the game and much bigger (than Weidman), so I’m used to the pressure.
”Weidman has to think twice if he thinks his wrestling is going to dictate where the fight takes place, because I deal with that s**t every day.”
Rockhold förutspår att han kommer att dominera och avsluta Weidman, då Rockhold förklarar att Weidman har många luckor i sitt game.
”I’m not really concerned about prior résumé. I know exactly who he fought. We’ve fought the same guys,”sa Rockhold. ”I know how he fought them, and I know how I fought them. I’ve fought some very, very tough guys in my time. Chris is about to find out, he’s got a lot of holes in his game and he just hasn’t fought anybody who’s been able to exploit them until now. He’s going to fight a guy who’s not going to… I’m not going to sit there and cower down and let him control the ring. I’m going to stop him in the middle of the cage, I’m going to dominate him, and then I will finish him.”
Rockhold förklarar att han är bra på att anpassa sig ifall en gameplan inte skulle fungera, så är det lätt för honom att anpassa sig till en annan. Enligt Rockhold blir Weidman frustrerar när han blir slagen och det kommer att skapa problem för Weidman i matchen mot Rockhold.
”Adjustment is everything,” sa Rockhold. ”Adjustment is what fighting is all about. It’s about who can make those switches, who’s got the A, the B, the C, and back-up plans, because things don’t always work out the way see them sometimes. For the most part, they do for me. I’ve seen this fight play out many, many times over the years, and I really haven’t had to do too much homework.
”I adjust well. I stay relaxed, I stay focused, and we’ve all seen with Chris, he gets frustrated when you hit him. When things don’t go his way, he sacks up, he fights with his balls. Good for him, it got him by to a certain point. But it’s about to get him in big trouble. He’s got his wrestling gameplan, he’s going to get hit, he’ll start to strike. He’ll go from A to B, you better have C, D, before he realizes he’s going to have an F, and he’s going to fail.”
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