LAS VEGAS – Rob Font expects an action-packed battle with Kyler Phillips.
Font (20-8 MMA, 10-7 UFC) takes on Phillips (12-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC Combat Night time 245 (ESPN+) co-main occasion on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
“Kyler, he brings it,” Font advised MMA Junkie and different reporters at a UFC Combat Night time 245 pre-fight information convention Wednesday. “He’s nonstop motion. These sort of men, there’s extra alternatives to counter, extra alternatives to get finishes, they usually’re not essentially a boring battle in any respect.”
Font is not any stranger to dealing with a surging bantamweight contender, and thinks Phillips fashion matches up completely together with his.
“I feel it is a nice matchup. I feel it is a Combat of the Night time for positive,” Font mentioned. “Like I mentioned, he brings it. He begins off quick. I consider I begin off quick, as properly. He has a wild kicking fashion. He’ll pull guard and attempt to leap on submissions.
“He looks as if a lifelong martial artist, like a kind of youngsters which have been within the fitness center since he was like 3 – karate background, jiu-jitsu background, and he’s combating robust guys. He simply beat Pedro Munhoz so, that is one other robust battle.”
Font will look to snap a two-fight shedding skid after losses to Cory Sandhagen and Deiveson Figueiredo. The final time he misplaced back-to-back fights, he was capable of upset Adrian Yanez with a TKO end, and he appears to be like to play spoiler as soon as once more vs. Phillips.
“This feels much like once I fought Adrian Yanez,” Font mentioned. “Sadly I misplaced two in a row, then I fought him, acquired an enormous win after which misplaced one other two in a row. Now I’m again with one other unranked fighter that’s tremendous harmful, so it has that feeling. It simply will get me up and able to go. I do know with an enormous win, an enormous end, the headlines shall be totally different.”
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