For Chris Curtis, this weekend is attain or die.
The frail UFC middleweight takes on the 13-3 Russian Roman Kopylov on the UFC’s first tournament of 2025 this weekend at its Apex facility in Las Vegas as he appears to be like to rebound from a smash up resolution loss to Brendan Allen this previous April and, as he suggested The Mac Existence and quite a few reporters on Wednesday, the stakes for this one are excessive.
“This fight’s valuable to me. I can’t lose two in a row. I can’t, like I in actuality can’t. Especially after the final fight the assign I presumed I had it. For my like mental wellbeing, it’s in actuality laborious to lose two in a row.”
Curtis has also made headlines currently attributable to his decade-lengthy friendship with middleweight contender Sean Strickland, which currently looked on the rocks. Nonetheless as Curtis explained, there will most likely be time to repair fences in future — for now, both non-public their plates elephantine.
“[Strickland] goes on the market to fight for a world title and come by his belt aid. We don’t non-public time to focal level on shit that’s no longer conducive to the aim. One in every of my favourite sayings ever is ‘singularity of motive’. All the pieces we now non-public to attain excellent now need to be with a sole motive of achieving this next aim. We’ll come by along very most bright, we’ll be very most bright for now. We’ll handle it in the ruin. On the cease of the day, I’m continually going to be pulling for him and I’d like him to f*cking be triumphant. I’d like him to attain the cage, I’d like him to attain lifestyles — even supposing there are situations the assign it’s like, ‘Bro I can’t f*cking stand you.”
“We’ll be very most bright, we’ll figure it out later.”
