As he prepares to meet Demetrious Johnson with the flyweight title on the line Saturday night, Reis will enter the fight as a massive underdog to the incumbent champion.
UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson will have the opportunity to tie the record for the most title defenses in UFC history come Saturday night. Call me when you want me to come fight again.' And thats it. "You have to train hard and believe in yourself and I believe in myself and my training", Reis told FOX Sports. I'm going to start collecting these belts.
Throughout his career, Reis has faced plenty of challenges including much of his career spent as a featherweight and bantamweight where he often faced opponents who had huge advantages in size and power.
"What separates me is my experience as a fighter. And every time I've fought in Kansas City, I've won".
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This is a close, competitive fight, but I'm leaning a little towards Namajunas who is more naturally suited to the weight class and has a slight height and reach advantage, together with the more unsafe submission game that I think may catch out "The Karate Hottie". Or my Brad Pickett fight.' But I always remember the past and remember what I did to get here. There's nothing he's going to do to me that's going to impress me.
As tempted as I am to pick Whittaker to create a disturbance in the middleweight division, Souza has proven tough to beat and shown a willingness to be patient in searching out his openings. Reis was originally scheduled to face Johnson at UFC 201, but the bout fell through due to injury.
"You know what? I'm getting pissed off about this", Johnson said with a smile. "I'll give him an immediate rematch and that's what I'm planning on doing".
"At the end of the day, everybody keeps saying it's Anderson Silva's record, but it's not about chasing him, it's about about chasing number 10", said Johnson during the UFC on FOX 24 open workouts (h/t MMA Fighting).
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