UFC welterweight Ramiz Brahimaj lost his opponent days before UFC Vegas 107, but fight luck took effect when Billy Ray Goff lost his too and the two matched up for this Saturday night.
“It doesn’t affect nothing at all. At the end of the day I’m a fighter, right? In my heart I’m a fighter. In my soul I’m a fighter,” Brahimaj told reporters on Wednesday.
“Nothing really changes. Fight’s a fight. We adjust a little bit, but we continue moving forward. It doesn’t really matter to me.”
Brahimaj (11-5) last fought at UFC 309 in November. He was supposed to face Oban Elliot this weekend, but his opponent pulled out. Goff stepped in, different opponent, but Brahimaj isn’t worried about the game plan.
“Too many times we get caught up in thinking ‘oh this one thing that I really needed to do and now I can’t do it.’ I’m a mixed martial artist. I have plenty of tricks up my sleeve. Feel comfortable and confident anywhere we go,” he said.
One of his teammates is the former UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad who lost his title in his first defense attempt to Jack Della Maddalena. Muhammad may have lost his title, but Brahimaj still sees him at the top of the division.
“Belal, even though he lost, he’s still right up there. Just in general this division it’s gotten a lot better and it’s super dangerous,” he said.
“I saw a man motivated and dedicated to try to win that fight. I don’t know what it was, but there’s no shame in that performance. He can hang his head high. I never understand the kind of hate that guy gets. He’s such a workhorse. He’s such a great human being inside and outside the octagon. It doesn’t truly make sense to me.
“He fought like a true warrior. He’s the epitome of a warrior.”
Watch the entire media day scrum with Ramiz Brahimaj above. He takes on Billy Ray Goff at UFC Vegas 107 on Saturday night.
