“I think it’s going to be like our first fight, but this time I’m just going to knock him out,” the Polish fighter told MiddleEasy. “It will be a clean knockout – he won’t have anything to say after that.”
After defeating Rakic, Blachowicz is looking for a rematch with the division’s reigning champion, Alex Pereira, to whom he lost by split decision this past July.
“They should have given the win to me. It was a split decision and I believe the judges gave a bad verdict. Now I have to get a rematch and if everything is perfect, my next fight will be against Pereira.”
As a reminder, the bantamweight bout between Jan Blachowicz and Aleksandar Rakic will take place on January 20 at UFC 297 in Toronto.