UFC lightweight Ignacio Bahamondes had a dream just weeks before the fight that he would submit Jalin Turner at UFC 313 on Saturday night.
Then it came true.
“Honestly, I don’t know what’s happening. I’m kind of getting scared. I don’t know, maybe I got super powers,” Bahamondes joked with reporters including Cageside Press at his post-fight scrum.
“I can see the future or something. I dream about this like a month ago, and I don’t know. I’m kind of getting scared.”
Bahamondes (17-5) did in fact submit Turner on Saturday night, but he didn’t think it’d be by triangle choke.
“Not really (a triangle), but it was a submission,” that Bahamondes pulled off in his dream.
“We got like an exchange, then we went to the floor, and then I got him in a submission and I submit him. Then I wake up and said oh I guess that’s how I’m going to win.”
Turner announced his retirement just minutes after losing the fight with Bahamondes which didn’t sit well with the winner. He felt compassion for his opponent, and hopes he doesn’t actually call it a career.
“Yeah I told him don’t do that. Don’t do that, come on, if you need help, if you need something, I’m here,” he said.
“If you need to come to Chicago and train so just to love it again I told him he could stay in my house. No problem. I’m open to help him, our team is open to help him. I just told him to go back home, just think about it, but please don’t do it. He pushed me to my best and make me so better. He’s still got a lot more to give to this sport.”
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Watch the entire post-fight scrum with Ignacio Bahamondes above.
