“This is a guy that I’ve been watching for a long time,” Giga Chikadze talks about his match against Cub Swanson
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Giga Chikadze and Cub Swanson
The Georgian UFC Featherweight fighter Giga Chikadze is booked to face one of the UFC veterans Cub Swanson in his next fight on the 1st May UFC event. Chikadze is still undefeated inside UFC and he is very excited to face someone like Swanson.
Giga Chikadze is riding a winning streak of five fights and he all set for his biggest fight to date. In his latest interview with MMA Junkie, he says, “I got super excited. I couldn’t sleep all night,”
“This is a guy that I’ve been watching for a long time since I started to really recognize some of the fighters in the UFC and especially in my weight division, and that guy’s been around for a long, long time.”
“He was always like a top-five guy, fought a couple of times in a title fight. I’m just excited. I know he’s one that likes to fight. He’s gonna come forward, and that’s what brings the best in me.”
“When it comes to highlights guys and highlights skillset, I don’t know if we need to talk about him in this case. Probably that’s gonna be me,”
“But I’m definitely sure that he’s still gonna bring his grappling and wrestling skills because everyone thinks they need to take me down and they’re right about that because I feel I’m the best striker in the UFC, inside the MMA sport, so that’s what he needs to try.”
Giga Chikadze is hoping a win against Swanson will catapult him into the division
Cub Swanson holds the record for the most number of the post-fight of the night bonuses in the division and with a win against someone like him Giga Chikadze is hoping to catapult himself in the division.
He added, “I really want to have those types of fights, I’m glad I finally get an opponent that people know about because my other opponents, they didn’t really have much of a name.”
“I know the real MMA fans, they knew about them, but this is one that the whole world pretty much knows about. For the next one, I’m looking forward to a bigger name.”
For now, this event will serve as the co-main event on the Dominick Reyes vs Jiri Prochazka fight card and the fans are really excited for this one.
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Shivansh Thakur
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