Giga Chikadze doubts Alex Caceres will stand and commerce with him at UFC on ESPN 225.
Chikadze (14-3 MMA, 7-1 UFC) returns in opposition to Caceres (21-13 MMA, 16-11 UFC) in Saturday’s featured bout at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore. The event streams on ESPN+.
Caceres is coming off motivate-to-motivate bonuses, along with a head-kick knockout of Julian Erosa. Nonetheless no matter “Bruce Leroy’s” standard willingness to strike, Chikadze sees him implementing a special sport knowing in opposition to him.
“I feel adore I do know his sport knowing, which I’m now not going to talk about through the media and are living, but as I mentioned earlier, he’s now not the man who’s going to ascertain out and arise with me,” Chikadze told reporters at UFC Fight Night 225 media day. “Pointless to claim there are somewhat quite lots of magnificent strikers, and he fought many magnificent strikers, and he’s a striker. Very interesting guy, very chaotic fighter, but I’m a special breed, and he knows it.”
Chikadze hasn’t competed since January 2022, when he noticed his 9-fight winning walk snapped by Calvin Kattar. The Georgian fighter has struggled to salvage a ranked opponent to fight him, but Caceres known as him out – and he plans on making him pay.
“For me, it’s a in point of fact powerful time to return motivate,” Chikadze mentioned. “All my lights are now on Alex. I of direction contain an opponent who’s been round for a in point of fact prolonged time, and he’s the first one from top 15 who known as me out, and I clutch this sh*t non-public constantly. It’s now not magnificent a sport to me, and I’m coming here to shut his lights off.”
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