Patchy Combine doesn’t assume too extremely of his subsequent opponent.
After making a reputation for himself beneath the Bellator MMA banner, capturing the promotion’s interim and undisputed bantamweight world titles, the Angola, New York native will make his long-awaited debut contained in the Octagon this Saturday evening at UFC 316.
There, Combine will meet streaking standout Mario Bautista as a part of a stacked predominant card headlined by not one, however two UFC title tilts.
Earlier than being signed by the UFC, Combine was heralded by many as the most effective bantamweight on the planet. Now he’ll have the prospect to show it, although ‘No Love’ appears to have completely no love for the person who will probably be standing throughout from him.
“I’ll f*ck him up,” Combine stated of Bautista throughout a latest episode of UFC 316: Embedded. “I’m a three-time world champion. This man’s a journeyman fighter. I’ll submit him. And whoever’s educating him Jiu-Jitsu, I’ll submit the entire crew.”
Whereas Bautista goes into the bout using a stable seven-fight win streak, he’s seen vital criticism lobbed his approach. Significantly, after a sketchy break up choice victory over featherweight nice Jose Aldo in October. Earlier than that, he earned back-to-back unanimous choices over Da’Mon Blackshear and Ricky Simón. You’d should go all the best way again to March 2023 to seek out Bautista’s final end contained in the Octagon, which got here towards Guido Cannetti.
Patchy Combine Assured he can duplicate his Bellator run contained in the Octagon
Combine shortly rose via the ranks in Bellator, successful the promotion’s Bantamweight World Grand Prix event in 2023. Seven months later, he turned the division’s undisputed king.
With a formidable 20-1 document and a 70% end price, Combine is understandably brimming with confidence forward of his huge premiere on MMA’s largest stage, and he plans on including UFC gold to his assortment of accomplishments earlier than too lengthy.
“Two years in the past, that was our first world title. I knocked a dude out in a minute, and I’m a submission man,” Combine stated. “It was my first knockout, it’s how I received 1,000,000 {dollars} and my world title. Since then, we have now received two extra belts, and now we’re over right here and we’re coming for this belt. We actually need to win that UFC strap.”
