I was supposed to fight Cody [Garbrandt, in 2023], when I won my last fight I called out Rob Font, that wasn't going on and you know my last fight was in January and it was getting to the point where it was like, 'I'll get anyone outside the top 15, I don't care I just need to fight,' Bautista noted during Wednesday's UFC 307 media day. "So when I got Jose Aldo I was pretty excited, pretty happy. Ranked, and a UFC legend."
I was pretty surprised to know he's taking on these young guys. You would think he'd come back and fight someone at his age, caliber, or following, you know someone like maybe Henry Cejudo or something like that. Props to him, he's willing to take the risk.
Luckily the gym I train at, I train with Sean [O'Malley], trained with Sean before, with Benson [Henderson] for the past 10 years. Benson, he's a 55'er, he's not taking it easy on me. So I never really had that feeling about famous people, I guess I can say. I just know they're normal people, everyday lives, and that's about it. We're all fighters, we all bleed, that's it.
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