If you haven’t noticed by now, Mario Bautista isn’t too interested in the pomp and circumstance that comes along with life as a prizefighter. So if there was an option to fight in an empty warehouse and still get paid to do this, he’s in.
“Oh yeah, I would definitely do this in an empty warehouse for the money, for sure,” he laughs.
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But as he prepares for his fifth fight in the UFC APEX this weekend against Ricky Simon, he does admit that he embraced the energy of a packed arena when he defeated Da’Mon Blackshear in Boston’s TD Garden last August.