Danny Sabatello was expecting to see Raufeon Stets in his cage following his Bellator 282 victory. After a tight faceoff, however, he is even more optimistic about their fight.
“Dude! I am already in the motherf *****”s head,” Sabatello stated Monday on The MMA Hour . I put my middle finger in his face. My finger touched his f ****** nose, for five seconds. He didn’t do any s ***.. I was standing there, like, ‘Is this motherf***** going to do something? I don’t know what the heck is going on. Like, do something, bro.’ He’s scared, dude.”
Sabatello was “actually surprised” he didn’t punch the interim champ and was shocked to hear the crowd cheer for Stots’ teardown of his performance against Leandro Higo this past Friday.
Stots screamed “terrible” and a few other choice words when asked by Bellator commentator John McCarthy to rate Sabatello’s performance.
“And the crowd erupted,” mused Sabatello, who flipped the bird to his future opponent (and took a $5,000 fine for “abusive language.” “He said one word. “I’m standing here, looking like these people are f ****** idiots.” He only said one thing. But yeah, it makes it even better … It’s going to be even better when I beat the s*** out of him.”
As Sabatello says, boos are music to his cauliflowered ears. Now, he won’t have to do all the work to sell the fight.
” I like the way he speaks ***,. But, let’s be honest with you: he is not very good at it.” Sabatello stated about Stots. He does speak trash. But he isn’t f ****** great at it. He stutters. You can tell he scripts his s***. This is not good.
“I’m very happy that I get to fight him, because I know that he’s going to talk s*** to me, and it’s a perfect matchup for me. He isn’t a threat to my final victory. I think his standup is average. He likes to believe he is a ground man, but his ground is not. It’s just a fight where I think I’m better everywhere.”
Stots took the interim title of bantamweight with an impressive knockout at Bellator by Juan Archuleta, ex-featherweight champion and bantam champ. As you can imagine, Sabatello wasn’t impressed.
“He was losing against Archuleta before he got that lucky f****** head-kick, and it wasn’t even a head-kick – his knee caught Archuleta’s f****** face because he was a little too close,” Sabatello said. Stots is not an excellent fighter. I’m going to f****** finish him.”
Bellator has not booked a date for the interim title match. Sabatello hopes it’s in his native Chicago but adds “it might not be a good idea, because my boys will probably just beat the s*** out of him before he gets off the f****** plane.” As long as in the U.S., “The Italian Gangster” is game.
In Sabatello’s mind, he’s fighting for the undisputed belt when he steps in the cage against Stots. Sergio Pettis might have some words to that effect, but Sabatello counters Pettis is not the current champion, as he withdrew his support from the tournament.
This gave Sabatello the opportunity to win both gold and the $1million tourney prize. So he’s not all crazy.
“Thank you Sergio, from the bottom of my heart, for you being a little b****,” he said. Stots is the winner in my book. He’s better than Pettis. I mean, c’mon.
“This fight is for the belt. I don’t want to hear s*** about interim belt, I don’t want to hear any of that nonsense, this f****** fight, Sabatello against Stots, is for the title.”
