UFC heavyweight Jairzinho Rozenstruik knows his opponent at UFC Riyadh, Sergei Pavlovich, has some heavy hands but he’s not ready to hit the panic button just yet.
You can have power, but if you don’t reach your target, does it matter?
“Thing with power is you got to land to show it,” Rozenstruik told reporters on Wednesday.
“If you can’t land it you have no power basically.”
Rozenstruik (15-5) is no stranger to Pavlovich. The heavyweight revealed the two actually trained together for a while.
Quite a while.
“We used to train together. Two years,” he said.
Apparently the two sparred a lot during those two years, and it’s something thet
“I mean sparring is fighting. You don’t want to kill each other, but you have to do it as a fight. He might have something, he might (have) changed a lot, he changed gym,” he said.
“Soon as the fight start, and then it’s another thing. There’s no right or wrong in fighting.”
Rozenstruik said all of it with the calmness of someone who already has a feel of what the fight is going to look like. Include in that what he’ll be looking for with a win over Pavlovich at UFC Riyadh.
“A win this Saturday would definitely put me in the top five,” he said.
“I’m looking at fighting one more guy and then looking up to a title conversation.”
Watch the entire media day scrum with Jairzinho Rozenstruik above. He takes on Sergei Pavlovich at UFC Riyadh on Saturday.