“To hell with fans, reporters and everyone else – we both know what I can do with him,” MMA Fighting quotes the Nigerian. “I know what he is capable of. Every time I fought him, I won the fight up to a certain point. If he beat me from the first to the last second, I would still be confident and say all sorts of shit, but this is not at all the case. I always beat him, always dominated him until he found a way to win.”
“It challenges me, and I love challenges. This weekend I have the opportunity to remind people and show them how great I am. They have a memory like a fish, and they forgot what happened in my story, but I don’t blame them for that – it’s human nature. But it forces me to be true to myself, to be true to my team, and to be true to my values, which I stand for as a man and as a fighter. This is what will help me do my job this weekend.”
Recall that the middleweight title fight on April 8 will head the UFC 287 tournament in Miami.