For Alex Caceres, Giga Chikadze is correct one other struggle.
Caceres (21-13 MMA, 16-11 UFC) meets Chikadze (14-3 MMA, 7-1 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 225 featured bout at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore. The match streams on ESPN+.
“Every struggle is continuously the greatest take a look at of my life,” Caceres told reporters at UFC Fight Night 225 media day. “There is no struggle that is less or bigger than one other. I don’t leer at it as a progression. I leer at it as a doing or staunch an movement that I’m performing in vow to head looking for where I’m at in the standings for the time being of time, not the leisure to halt with the long term or previous.”
Beating Chikadze would give Caceres a probability to enter the tip 10 featherweight rankings, however he’s not paying an excessive amount of strategies to the standings.
“I feel like rankings are form of fickle,” Caceres acknowledged. “Some folk are ranked above their accurate field, and I’m right here to show masks it.”
Caceres’ carefree mentality has helped him toddle from shedding five of seven bouts, to now a hit seven of his previous eight.
“I took the struggle on shorter look for than I’d on the whole take the struggle. It’s staunch I don’t care,” Caceres acknowledged. “Let me struggle. Let me halt the item that I cherish to halt doubtlessly the most in life. So, I halt realize that a hit this struggle and beating folk at increased rankings does push me further and closer to a title shot, however as soon as again, I’m right here to show masks how staunch I am to myself and has nothing to halt with the accolades and treasures that I will luxuriate in in attaining such rankings.”
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