Miller: I want 30 fights in the UFC
Jim Miller is one of the UFC’s top lightweights and fifeteen fights in his career finds himself in the top…
Jim Miller is one of the UFC’s top lightweights and fifeteen fights in his career finds himself in the top ten, but needs a win streak to make another title run. Longevity is hard to come by in the UFC, but Miller is hoping to make it another fifeteen fights before he’s done:
I’m feeling better than I’ve felt in more than a year, and I’m ready to mix it up, he said. I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I used to train like a 24-year-old and go in there and push hard and go basically as hard as you can go. But I’ve learned a lot of lessons and from the mistakes I’ve made in training. Now I focus on technique.
Whether or not those changes in training will have the New Jersey native still rolling along as a contender well into his 30s remains to be seen.
Miller won’t rule anything out, but he’d love to one day be the standard-bearer for MMA longevity – now that he has hit on a new way to get ready for fights like the one against Camoes.
The fights do wear on you, he said. I’ve got 15 fights in the UFC, and there aren’t a lot of guys who have more than 20. I’d love to be the exception and fight till I have 30 fights in the UFC, but there’s that realistic part of the brain that knows I have had a lot of tough fights and fought some really tough competition. It takes something out of you.
