LAS VEGAS – Anthony Hernandez is like many MMA followers.
He doesn’t know what to anticipate out of opponent Michel Pereira come struggle evening, nor does it trouble him.
Regardless of being one of many highest-ranked middleweights on this planet, Hernandez (12-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) is essentially unplugged from the MMA scene. He has a low-key social media presence and doesn’t analysis the chances or different divisional happenings.
Certain, he is aware of Pereira (31-11 MMA, 9-2 UFC) does backflips and leaps off the cage. However Hernandez isn’t curious about predicting the unpredictable.
“I don’t know, and I actually respectfully don’t care,” Hernandez instructed MMA Junkie and different reporters at a UFC Combat Evening 245 pre-fight information convention Wednesday. “I’m simply going to form of go on the market and do what I do. I actually don’t give a f*ck what he has to supply as a result of I’m centered on what I’m going to do nice. That’s so simple as that. That’s form of how I hold issues mentally for myself.”
Hernandez laid out a really simplistic learn of the struggle – the issues he felt he knew for certain. The distinction, he thinks, lies within the cardio.
“It’s laborious to say as a result of Pereira within the third spherical, respectfully, he appears like sh*t,” Hernandez mentioned. “He’s wild as f*ck. He can catch you and knock you the f*ck out. So it’s not like, ‘Oh sh*t.’ However I believe that if all the things goes proper and my arms are up, I believe I end him simply due to the way in which he finishes and the way in which I don’t gasoline. Stylistically, seeing it on paper is ideal for me. However now, it’s simply go do it.”
“… He’s a tough man to f*cking choose. I don’t even assume he is aware of what he’s doing. I believe he even talked about that he form of sees it and goes. However yeah, for certain. It’s like jogging and sprinting. He’s sprinting on a regular basis when he’s doing all that loopy sh*t. That sh*t takes hella vitality. His final two fights he got here out calm and picked up, so I’d anticipate him to return out calm and picked up. That will undoubtedly assist his gasoline tank, for certain.”
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