Dos Anjos: I want to make McGregor quit
Rafael Dos Anjos: “Sometimes you knock someone out and the way they go down isn’t nice, but when you submit someone… I want to make him quit, I want him asking me to stop.”
UFC lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos recently spoke to MMAFighting about his fight with McGregor and sounded as confident as ever in his prediction:
“It’s going to be beautiful,” dos Anjos said. “I don’t see this fight going five rounds. I see myself dominating him completely. The way I train, the way I spar, I’m out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights. I was tested several times, I proved myself. I’ve been through good and bad situations inside the Octagon, and this guy only knows the good part of the game. I will show him the worst side of the game.”
“Aldo was going to be the first to show him that, but there was no fight,” he added. “I won’t call it luck, but a moment of distraction from Aldo. Maybe he got too emotive and tried to finish it quickly, but I won’t be like that. I will be calm and kick his ass for good. I want to finish him. I want to submit him, actually. Sometimes you knock someone out and the way they go down isn’t nice, but when you submit someone… I want to make him quit, I want him asking me to stop. That’s what I want.”
Days after beating Pettis to claim the UFC gold last March, dos Anjos revealed he whispered “the show is over” in Pettis’ ears during the final moments of the fifth round. Ready for another big challenge in McGregor, he already knows what he wants to tell “The Notorious” after the fight.
“Pettis was too cocky in that fight, but McGregor… I would tell him to be humble and go back to his division,” said dos Anjos. “It’s tougher at 155.”
