‘He Doesn’t Know How Bad I Want To Be Champion’

Charles Oliveira is able to let his preventing do his speaking in opposition to Arman Tsarukyan at UFC 300 on Saturday.

Oliveira is ready to combat Tsarukyan on Saturday in a possible No. 1 contender combat at light-weight. It’s a very intriguing matchup, and within the lead-up to the combat, Tsarukyan took purpose at Oliveira’s file as he stated the Brazilian is restricted to taking his opponents’ backs and submitting them with rear-naked chokes.

“Individuals say what they need, proper?” Charles Oliveira stated in an interview with MMA Fighting. “If I solely have that, and I’ve 16 submissions on my [UFC] file, I assume they have been all from the again, proper? And I assume the knockouts I’ve weren’t knockouts, they have been submissions. It’s an excessive amount of bulls*** they discuss. It was stated that I’m a quitter, however I used to be knocked down, walked ahead and knocked them out. I additionally heard I’m not hungry, that I don’t need it anymore. He doesn’t understand how unhealthy I need to turn into champion once more.”

Oliveira is aware of Tsarukyan is a stable well-rounded opponent so the Brazilian is anticipating a really robust combat on Saturday at UFC 300.

Charles Oliveira vows to complete Arman Tsarukyan at UFC 300

Charles Oliveira enters his UFC 300 scrap because the betting underdog, however the Brazilian has confidence he can pull off the upset.

Oliveira believes he has all of the instruments to defeat Tsarukyan, and thinks he can end him to have one other assertion win.

“In fact, I need to knock him out. I need to submit him. I need the win, and I don’t need to depart it to the judges. The worst factor that may occur is depart it to the judges, so I’ll go for it the complete time. In fact, very strategically, making issues occur. He’s tremendous robust, has good putting and good takedowns, however I’m 100% prepared for this. I’m not frightened about what Arman can deliver, however with what I can do. It’s all about me being completely happy and daring, and having my hand raised.”

If Oliveira wins, he thinks he may get a title shot subsequent, however isn’t ruling out being Conor McGregor’s return opponent.