By Mike Bohn |
June 21, 2020 12: 48 am
Curtis Blaydes is fueled by the haters following his wrestling-heavy rob over Alexander Volkov at UFC on ESPN 11.
Blaydes (14-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC) utilized his “celebrated recreation idea” of non-cease takedowns against Volkov (31-8 MMA, 5-2 UFC) to rob a unanimous resolution Saturday night on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. He didn’t secure worthy within the style of sail solutions after the fight, though, with UFC president Dana White even asserting he appears “dreary” for no longer backing up his grand talk on a host of issues heading into the fight.
It appears Blaydes doesn’t care about what White or anybody else thinks about his efficiency. Genuinely, he relishes folk that don’t savor the model of fighting he employs.
“I know who I am now,” Blaydes suggested reporters, in conjunction with MMA Junkie, on the UFC on ESPN 11 post-fight news convention. “I’m the heel. You don’t savor what I attain? I savor to accept as true with you mad. I savor to rob. That’s potentially the finest phase about this rob, is I predicted this, and I did it. Twenty-five minutes. Didn’t detect the finest, nevertheless I’m OK with having a gritty rob savor that, and I know a broad range of followers didn’t savor it, and I’m OK with that. It makes me ecstatic.”
As smartly as to his criticism of the in-cage effort, White instructed that Blaydes withhold busy within the heavyweight division while the most modern title scenario unfolds. Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier are scheduled to achieve their trilogy for the belt Aug. 15 at UFC 252, and Francis Ngannou – who holds two wins over Blaydes – is on deck as the following contender.
Blaydes thinks he doesn’t accept as true with higher alternatives than to attend, though, and acknowledged he’s earned the gorgeous to hunt how issues play out.
“Maintain busy against who?” Blaydes acknowledged. “I fought Justin Willis, ranked below me. I fought (Shamil) Abdurakhimov, ranked below me. I fought Junior (Dos Santos), ranked below me. I fought Volkov, ranked below me. Admire what? No. I don’t know, man. Right here’s potentially no longer the finest time to answer to that questions so I’m going to leave that by myself.”
