LAS VEGAS – Joe Pyfer doesn’t appear too involved with public notion after his first UFC loss.
Pyfer (12-3 MMA, 3-1 UFC) turned many heads together with his efficiency on Dana White’s Contender Sequence in 2022, together with the tagline UFC CEO Dana White dropped when saying he was heading to the massive present: “Be Joe Pyfer.”
“Bodybagz” lived as much as the hype in his first three fights. Pyfer completed Alen Amedovski, Gerald Meerschaert and Abdul Razak Alhassan all earlier than the third spherical. Nevertheless, in his fourth outing, he reached the third spherical, and even the ultimate horn, however misplaced a unanimous resolution to Jack Hermansson.
Pyfer instantly felt individuals leaping off his prepare after his first UFC loss. He seems to rebound at UFC 303 towards Marc-Andre Barriault and has stayed true to his self-imposed promise of being quiet within the lead-up.
“The one factor that modified was the social media world, however nothing has modified in my coronary heart and nothing has modified in my thoughts,” Pyfer informed reporters on the UFC 303 media day. “… We stay in a woke f*cking world with a bunch of little weak b*tches. So, I don’t have a lot respect for lots of people that should chunk their tongue as a result of it’s the social norm. Social norm doesn’t make it proper, so there’s numerous sh*t that I don’t f*ck with.”
Whereas tuning out the change in public notion, Pyfer says he has been working exhausting at getting again into the win column. Throughout this camp he targeted on dialing in his diet plan and feels nice simply days forward of his combat towards Barriault (16-7 MMA, 5-6 UFC). If he performs like he believes he can, and picks up his fourth UFC stoppage, he expects individuals to right away come again round.
“All people’s performing like I obtained knocked out, choked out or one thing,” Pyfer stated. “Bro, I misplaced a call and I misplaced by one spherical, and in that third spherical, I obtained hit within the eyeball, couldn’t see the man for the remainder of the combat. So, it’s simply individuals’s delusion. It’s like I misplaced by that a lot. Dude’s obtained 17 UFC fights, that was my fifth one, and I’m on the market acting at that on my fifth combat.
“I’ll be proper again the place I belong, belief me.”
For extra on the cardboard, go to MMA Junkie’s occasion hub for UFC 303.
Make sure you go to the MMA Junkie Instagram web page and YouTube channel to debate this and extra content material with followers of combined martial arts.
