Stephen Thompson may be one of the nicest men to ever enter a cage to fight, but Gilbert Burns won’t treat him any different at UFC 264.
“Durinho” meets “Wonderboy” in the co-main event of Saturday night’s pay-per-view show in Las Vegas in an attempt to bounce back from his first defeat at welterweight, a loss against 170-pound champion Kamaru Usman. He sees Thompson as “one of the toughest opponents I’ll face so far.”
“He seems like a nice guy, but he wants to knock out you, he wants to spinning kick you in the head, he wants to win the fight,” Burns said in an interview with MMA Fighting.