"Taking away from this-keeping my fight clean, maybe putting a little more effort in the first couple of rounds, listening to my coaches. I could hear them, mentally I was really focused, I was just physically out of focus."
"I was like, 'I'm gonna get the neck at some point. Four to five times [I tried].' I was lucky it worked. Otherwise, that would have been 25 hours of flying home thinking about how bad I did."
Wesley Schultz faced Ben Johnston at UFC Perth, initially struggling in the first two rounds. Johnston led on the scorecards, but Schultz turned the fight around in Round 3 with a guillotine choke. Johnston had to spit out his mouthpiece to breathe as Schultz intensified his submission attempts. Schultz acknowledged his lack of focus in the early rounds and the importance of listening to his coaches. He has a history of finishing fights via submission, with six of his nine wins coming this way.
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