Anthony Hernandez guarantees he had nothing private in opposition to Roman Dolidze, however he’s additionally acquired a imply streak that led to a press release submission win of their struggle at UFC Vegas 109 on Saturday evening.
It was a very lopsided struggle after the opening spherical with Hernandez pressuring Dolidze, punishing him on the toes after which scoring a number of takedowns spherical after spherical. By the point the struggle made it to the fourth, Hernandez was nearly enjoying along with his meals as he simply battered Dolidze from one aspect of the octagon to the opposite till lastly simply snatching the neck and ending the struggle with a rear-naked choke.
Within the second, Hernandez confessed afterwards that anger truly drove his need to place Dolidze away nevertheless it wasn’t as a result of he truly held a grudge or shared some dangerous blood along with his opponent.
“I nearly misplaced my cool,” Hernandez defined on the UFC Vegas 109 post-fight press convention. “I used to be pissed off and I noticed the neck and I used to be identical to f*ck you. On the finish of the day, hats off to Roman. He’s a tricky motherf*cker. I’ve acquired nothing however respect for the man. He’s f*cking tremendous superior. Tremendous good, all media day.
“Once I get hit and shit, once I begin preventing I lose it and I get mad and I need to kill you. Nevertheless it’s nothing private to you. It’s simply f*ck you for hitting me.”
Hernandez revealed there was truly one other second earlier within the struggle the place his risky mood practically boiled over as he pursued Dolidze throughout an trade.
He credit his coaches for pulling him again from the brink because the veteran middleweight was simply going ahead weapons blazing with no regard in direction of his personal private security.
“I acquired sizzling headed that one time and began strolling in direction of him and speaking hella shit like come on bitch!” Hernandez mentioned. “However my coaches, I heard them yell ‘hey motherf*cker, keep calm!’ after which I used to be like all proper.
“It’s a struggle. Typically shit occurs. I’m a f*cking sizzling head. My coaches know me so f*cking nicely that they know the way to chill me the f*ck out. If I’m going to hearken to anybody, it’s my individuals.”
Whereas the struggle didn’t finish till the fourth spherical, Hernandez knew he was in management a lot earlier after he absorbed some punches from Dolidze and walked away unphased.
That gave him all the arrogance he wanted to successfully do no matter he wished on the toes till mercifully ending the struggle with the submission on the bottom.
“Once I seen how sluggish his punches had been and he hit me along with his hardest shot, I knew immediately,” Hernandez mentioned. “I instructed everybody, I’m a f*cking kickboxer, bro. I’m very snug on my toes. I’ve been studying the way to wrestle as a result of it breaks individuals and I’ve a crew that has a sport plan they usually inform me technique and I hearken to my coaches simply because they’ve led me this far and this can be a crew effort.
“This isn’t only a solo mission. I would like us all to have that belt. All of us deserve it. All of us put within the f*cking work for it.”
In an ideal world, Hernandez would roll proper from his eighth consecutive win right into a title shot however he additionally is aware of it’s doable he may need to compete once more earlier than getting his probability at turning into champion.
That mentioned, Hernandez plans to depart Las Vegas and make his option to Chicago subsequent week for the middleweight title struggle headlining UFC 319 when Dricus du Plessis places his belt up for grabs in opposition to Khamzat Chimaev.
Ideally, Hernandez would get the winner but when that doesn’t occur, he’s open to regardless of the UFC throws at him.
“That’s what I’m listening to. I’m flying to Chicago. So I’ll be there,” Hernandez mentioned. “Once I say I don’t give a f*ck who I struggle … sure, I’m critical about that shit. I don’t give a f*ck who I struggle. I believe it could be cool if there was a contender, ‘BMF’ belt or one thing like that.
“However I would like the f*cking title. That’s the one motive I do that shit for is to get that cash and alter my household’s life.”
