LAS VEGAS – Anthony Hernandez is like many MMA followers.
He doesn’t know what to anticipate out of opponent Michel Pereira come battle night time, nor does it trouble him.
Regardless of being one of many highest-ranked middleweights on the earth, Hernandez (12-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) is basically unplugged from the MMA scene. He has a low-key social media presence and doesn’t analysis the percentages or different divisional happenings.
Positive, he is aware of Pereira (31-11 MMA, 9-2 UFC) does backflips and leaps off the cage. However Hernandez isn’t concerned about predicting the unpredictable.
“I don’t know, and I actually respectfully don’t care,” Hernandez advised MMA Junkie and different reporters at a UFC Combat Night time 245 pre-fight information convention Wednesday. “I’m simply going to type 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 type of how I hold issues mentally for myself.”
Hernandez laid out a really simplistic learn of the battle – 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 seems 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 the whole lot goes proper and my palms are up, I believe I end him simply due to the way in which he finishes and the way in which I don’t fuel. 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 suppose he is aware of what he’s doing. I believe he even talked about that he type 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 power. 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 positively assist his fuel tank, for certain.”
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