“First, I was getting ready for a wrestler (from Kazakhstan), like a stocky wrestler. Then I was getting ready for a southpaw muay Thai guy. Then I ended up fighting a Mexican boxer. But I know with the MMA game, be ready for whatever. You’ve got to be ready for the unpredictable.
“I know that the pullouts happen a lot, so I make sure I always game plan and I get all my bases covered and that I’m working every part of the game. So even though there was a change in the game plan, I felt like I was always training with different body types, different styles, just in case things like that happen – which did happen.”
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