Rodriguez vs Mousasi at DREAM in Japan?
riccorodriguez Now they want me to fight Gerad M at 205!!! Read entire twitter… Only hours before Rodriguez’s tweet, MMAFighting.com…
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Now they want me to fight Gerad M at 205!!!
Only hours before Rodriguez’s tweet, MMAFighting.com asked the former UFC heavyweight champion if he would be interested in taking a fight if offered one at this late stage.
“You know, who knows. If Jake O’Brien doesn’t make weight, who knows? Maybe me and Gegard will fight. I did everything, I cancelled other fights to come here, to get this opportunity with DREAM. I’m not going to mess it up, I believe that the loyalty I showed with DREAM will give me an opportunity to step up. I just don’t see them coming up with something at the last minute. But the reality is that they tried to find opponents for me. They tried to contact everybody they knew and every person turned it down.”
“My goal now is to not be in the heavyweight division much longer and to make the cut to 205. Right now, [my weight] is at 230 because I thought I was fighting Overeem so I was bulking up but my walking around weight is around 220. If they told me to fight Gegard, I would have fought him but because I was fighting Overeem I was bulking back up.”
“I’m not getting the opportunity to train for three months to prepare for a fight like all the other guys. My job now is to stay in top physical condition so that when I get the opportunity, I’ll be ready to fight. I know that people wont take me seriously until I execute a big fight in a big show. Then they’ll take me seriously. That’s what I’m doing. I’m waiting. I’m patient. I’m playing the game. When the time comes I will prevail.”
“My weight being a problem in the past and other things, I want people to see that I am very serious about fighting. My goal is to retire at 35 and end on a good note.”