After a lengthy, gruelling training camp, Tyson Pedro just wants to get down to business at UFC 293 in his native Australia.
“I just want to go to war now man. I want to get this over and done with. It’s been a long camp, I just want to punch on, honestly,” Pedro (9-4) said during this week’s media day. “Extreme violence and shocking the world. I just want to put on a good show for Sydney.”
That’s after dropping his last fight, at UFC 284 in Perth, to Modestas Bukauskas, a decision loss that hasn’t sat well with Pedro to say the least. “I feel like I was lacklustre the last one, after obviously being sick, so I want to come in and punch this swear-word guy’s face off.”
Yes, Pedro actually said “swear-word” rather than actually swear. But he let his feelings be known when talking about the time spent away from his family during training camp. He also revealed that he used criticism from the Bukauskas loss as motivation moving forward.
“Obviously I got a bit of hate after the last one, a lot of gambling addicts lost some money on me. Screen-shotted some of their negative comments, and that gave me some drive. I was straight back into camp after I got better,” admitted Pedro. “It was probably my longest pre-camp, then I went to nine weeks of camp now at City Kickboxing. So I miss my family, and this motherf*cker’s been keeping me away from my family.”
That would be Anton Turkalj, a.k.a. “The Pleasure Man,” a nickname that gave Tyson Pedro pause.
“That one caught me off-gaurd. I can’t remember what I was thinking about, but you know when Mike Tyson said, ‘what is it called when violence gets your d*ck hard?’ I was like, you don’t want to fight someone who’s getting their d*ck hard when they’re fighting. So I don’t want to be fighting ‘The Pleasure Man.’ Like, what’s going on here? I was like, maybe we should look into the nickname. I don’t know what that’s about. No pleasuring, please, in the octagon. Afterwards maybe,” Pedro said with a laugh, before adding “No, I’m joking.”
Watch the full UFC 293 media day appearance by Tyson Pedro above.
