Cory Sandhagen believes he’ll as soon as once more be a tough matchup for Mario Bautista.
Sandhagen is ready to rematch Bautista on the principle card of UFC 329. The 2 fought again in January of 2019, with Sandhagen profitable by first-round submission, but that was Bautista’s UFC debut, and a combat he took on brief discover.
Though Sandhagen doesn’t view it as a rematch, he does count on an analogous outcome. And, with the combat solely being three rounds, and never 5 rounds as he’s used to preventing, Sandhagen believes it will likely be a troublesome matchup for Bautista.
“I feel that that’s most likely how Mario’s going to view it, is it’s like a dash. However I’m nonetheless gonna do my identical shit that I do in all of my fights,” Sandhagen stated at UFC 329 media day. “I really feel like I don’t actually consider tempo. I consider like who’s profitable each 10-second interval or no matter, you recognize? My plan is to only be the perfect me, whether or not it’s five-round fights, three-round fights – however that being stated, my greatest rounds are normally my earlier rounds, and that’s going to be arduous for Mario to take care of.”
Cory Sandhagen doesn’t view Mario Bautista combat as a rematch
Though Sandhagen has already overwhelmed Bautista as soon as, he views this as a contemporary matchup.
Nevertheless, Cory Sandhagen remains to be assured in his instruments that he’ll be capable to get his hand raised, particularly with it being three rounds.
“Outdoors of Mario, I do know, having a chip on his shoulder and doubtless actually wanting this one, which has been one thing in my thoughts the whole time that I’ve been coaching, it doesn’t actually really feel like a rematch,” Sandhagen advised reporters at pre-fight media day. “My reminiscence is a couple of month lengthy, so something that occurred greater than like a month in the past, would possibly as nicely have been lifetimes in the past. So yeah, and I additionally didn’t lose.”
Sandhagen enters UFC 329 with a report of 18-6 and is coming off a choice loss to Merab Dvalishvili final October for the bantamweight title.
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