Worth the weight: Paul Craig feels he's close to UFC peak after shifting the pounds
PAUL CRAIG is talking about making food which feels almost like a form of self-torture given he is voluntarily starving himself.
Undeterred by that setback, Craig has been slimming down again for a third bout at 185lbs, this time against rising Brazilian star Caio Borralho on the bill of UFC 301 in Rio de Janeiro. “A lot of things have happened in the last few years of my life. I changed gyms, signed this massive contract with the UFC and moved down to middleweight. It took a while for all that to bed in but I believe now I’m in a much better position than I was two years ago.
“But I had to take the chance to headline against Brendan Allen. It was one of those dreams to be the first Scottish fighter to headline a card in the URC but it wasn’t my night. That hurts still to this day. I have a poster of the fight in my gym and it gives me extra motivation to keep working even harder.
“Scottish MMA is on the rise,” he adds. “It shows with Cage Warriors putting on a show like that and then deciding to come back again to Glasgow in September. That’s huge. I train with some of the best up-and-coming talent at Higher Level gym. I’d say Sean Clancy is a guy who has the potential to become the next champion fromat just 22. But I’m still hanging in there with him. He’s still taking some second prizes off the old bull here.
“It’s much easier being the bad good than the good guy on a night like this. I found that out in Glasgow when everyone was showing me so much love and the noise in the place was almost overwhelming. I know the UFC don’t want me to get the victory tonight. I’ve build my career on upsets and that’s what I’m going to do again. I’m going to make that arena in Rio go very quiet.
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