MANCHESTER, England – Caolan Loughran hasn’t seen sufficient out of Payton Talbott to warrant all his buzz.
Talbott (9-0 MMA, 3-0 UFC) continued to reside as much as his hype after a 19-second knockout of Yannis Ghemmouri at UFC 303 in July.
Loughran (9-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) thinks Talbott is expert, however was notably vital of his UFC debut win over Nick Aguirre, through which he was taken down twice and managed earlier than in the end profitable by third-round submission.
“Payton Talbott is an effective fighter – 100% an excellent fighter,” Loughran informed reporters, together with MMA Junkie, on the UFC 304 media day. “Honest play to him going properly, however Jesus Christ, man: Cool the jets. I watched his debut. At any time when (Conor) McGregor was arising, individuals had been saying when he fights a grappler, he’ll get smashed. When (Sean) O’Malley was arising, when he fights a grappler, he’ll get smashed. But it surely was hypothesis, actually. We hadn’t seen it. I watched his debut, some lad (Aguirre) – I don’t know who the man was – comes out, takes him down, takes the again, flattens him out, gasses.
“Comes out second spherical, gassed once more, finds himself on his again. I’m like, ‘Jeez, lad, you’re giving your again each time.’ He is an effective fighter – 100% and honest play to him. He sparked that child (Yanis) Ghemmouri who pulled out on me Tuesday morning. I’d urge anybody who’s watching this to hit pause and watch UFC France – there’s a video of him warming up for that struggle – earlier than you blow Payton up over that win. He’s good, however he’s getting a wee bit an excessive amount of hype on the weight class. There’s undoubtedly more durable fights at 135 for much less hype.”
Loughran will look to make it two straight when he takes on short-notice alternative Jake Hadley (10-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC 304 (pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+) prelims at Co-op Stay in Manchester, England.
He expects to run by Hadley – who will likely be transferring as much as bantamweight for the struggle, then he’s open to preventing Talbott subsequent.
“If the UFC need me to do this on the finish of this 12 months or the subsequent, completely no f*cking drawback,” Loughran stated. “I’ll struggle Payton Talbott subsequent, no drawback.”
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