Michael Chandler on UFC 309

Lightweight on his journey to dominate again.

Transcript

00:00What about Oliveras? You fought him before. It was at UFC 262 three years ago.

00:04He won that one in a second round TKO. As you look back on that night, what kind of thoughts do you have?

00:09And what kind of adjustments do you make coming into this fight?

00:12A lot of adjustments, man. I have changed so much since the first time we fought.

00:16Shoot, I have changed so much since my last fight in November of 2022 with a little bit of time off.

00:23I wasn't ready, you know, just to be quite honest.

00:28I was ready physically, but I wasn't ready mentally.

00:30The way that I fought, make no mistake about it, I still will be the most exciting guy at Madison Square Garden on November 16th.

00:38But there's going to be little tweaks to the game plan.

00:40There's going to be little tweaks to my approach to the sport from a mental and spiritual aspect.

00:47And I made a lot of big mistakes, left some gaping holes.

00:50Charles caught me, but he remembers the power, he remembers the speed, he remembers the tenacity.

00:55And I think this time it's going to be a more whole performance.

00:59And I'm not only going to win, but I'm going to dominate.

01:02And I'm going to cement myself as the number one contender.

01:04And I will be there, cage side.

01:06I believe it's going to be January, Islam Mahachev fights Armin Saroukian.

01:10And I will be the number one contender.

01:12And we'll see when that fight happens.

01:14Or we'll see if Conor can finally get his house in order.

01:16And that fight's on the table as well.

01:18As well as a fight with Max Holloway in 2025 for that BMF belt that people have been talking about.

01:24So we've got a lot of big fights, man.

01:26And I took a little break, and now we're about to hit the ground running.