Bryce Mitchell and Jean Silva have stolen the present within the construct to UFC 314, and their faceoff at Thursday’s press convention was no completely different.
Mitchell and Silva compete on the primary card of Saturday’s pay-per-view occasion in Miami. Each fighters have had headline-worthy feedback about their opponents for the previous a number of weeks in anticipation of the matchup, and issues bought intense when the rivals went face-to-face, and nose-to-nose.
“I completely beloved the press convention, I really feel just like the Holy Spirit was talking by means of me,” Mitchell stated on the UFC 314 Weigh-In Present. “With my eyes, I conveyed the message that I’m able to die and I’m able to kill, and I stated all the things that I wanted to in that faceoff with my eyes alone.”
In direction of the top of their staredown, Silva feinted in the direction of Mitchell as if he was attempting to make “Thug Nasty” flinch. It didn’t work, and in Mitchell’s thoughts, it will by no means work.
“He couldn’t presumably make me react,” Mitchell stated. “There’s completely nothing that man can do to instill any worry into me. I’ve the Holy Spirit and the Lord, and worry isn’t an choice.
“I’m combating him with the complete pressure of the Lord within my coronary heart — the true Lord.”
Mitchell is coming off of a knockout win over Kron Gracie at UFC 310 this previous December, whereas improved to 4-0 within the octagon with a bonus-earning first-round end of Melsik Baghdasaryan at UFC Seattle in February — which led to Silva calling for the struggle with Mitchell.
After trying in Silva’s eyes on Thursday, Mitchell says he noticed a little bit of himself; no less than, the previous model.
“I see overconfidence,” Mitchell defined. “I see the youthful man that I was.”
