Inglewood – UFC middleweight Reinier de Ridder shocked Kevin Holland by submitting him at UFC 311 on Saturday night.
‘Shocked’ is what Holland said he’d be if de Ridder was able to submit him in their main card fight at Intuit Dome.
“He said a lot of stuff. If you shoot 10 times you might say something wrong once,” de Ridder said unable to hold back laughter in front of reporters including Cageside Press at his post-fight scrum.
“They’re cheering ‘Holland’ for me so nice.”
De Ridder (19-2) who is from the Netherlands appreciated that cheer…as tounge-in-cheek as it was.
“It’s very nice to be a part of this. Just cool man. So special to get in here, go through all this stuff, yeah. It’s nice,” he said.
After joking that he’d be able to fight tomorrow he got serious with some names of guys he wants to fight.
All in the top 5.
“Sounds good. All of them. Khamzat (Chimaev), and (Robert) Whittaker, yeah. Khamzat would be cool for a grapplers matchup. Whittaker would be cool for all that he’s done. I hope they give me this. It would be amazing. I could be ready as soon as they are,” de Ridder said.
“Israel (Adesanya) and (Nassourdine) Imavov will fight soon as well. One of them would work too.”
One more name outside of the top 5 that he would like? One of the leaders of the Fighting Nerds, Caio Borralho.
“Yep. Definitely. I haven’t really watched a lot of his fights yet,” de Ridder told Cageside Press.
“I’ll study and I’ll be down for that too.”
Watch the entire post-fight scrum with Reinier de Ridder above.
