Manchester – UFC flyweight Jake Hadley took a very short-notice fight to take on bantamweight Caolan Loughran at UFC 304 on Saturday night and the gamble paid off.
“I feel like my career was potentially on the line. I stepped up on short notice, took this on a week’s notice, done it for the UFC,” Hadley told reporters including Cageside Press at his post-fight scrum.
“I’ve had a bit of…not a great run the last two, but I took this on short notice. All I ask for now is that they get me a fight again before the end of September.”
Hadley (11-3) snapped a two-fight losing streak against a big bantamweight in Loughran. On just a week’s notice the flyweight actually missed the bantamweight limit by one pound.
“I thought I was doing kind of everyone a favor by taking it on a week, but then missing the weight now I’ve just put myself back in even a worse position. The pressure was on. I just went out there and just did my thing,” he said.
Although he fought a 135er Hadley had his eye on a flyweight fight earlier in the night. Muhammad Mokaev scored a decision victory over Manel Kape, but it’s Mokaev who Hadley has had issues with in the past.
“I thought he was boring, but he’s an idiot man. He’s just trying to fight everyone in the back. He sucker punched Manel Kape. He’s a clown man,” Hadley told Cageside Press.
“He tried to start on me on the bus yesterday, but I’ll smash his head in. That idiot. If he wants to come up to 135, I’d even go back down to 125, just to smash his head in. He’s never wanted that fight in his life so whatever. He don’t want the fight and I’d kill him.”
Watch the entire post-fight scrum with Jake Hadley above.
