Davey Grant | 'I'm Going In There To Knock Him Out'

Davey Grant probably longs for the cold and rain of his native England right about now.

“We've been roasting,” laughed the bantamweight veteran, who faces Da’Mon Blackshear in Abu Dhabi this Saturday.

In the UAE for over a week, and in Las Vegas for a month before that, the 39-year-old from Bishop Auckland, is certainly acclimated to the heat, which will hit a high of 104 degrees Fahrenheit on fight day.

You might wonder if this all matters when fighting inside a cooled arena, but it does, especially when a fighter has the experience edge on his opponent, Da’Mon Blackshear. So all the lead-up ultimately pays off on fight night.

“Oh yeah, a hundred percent,” said Grant. “I feel like I'm used to…