UFC lightweight Daniel Zellhuber respects his opponent at UFC 318, but doesn’t believe Michael Johnson will show much improvement on Saturday night.
“Every fighter evolves in each fight. He’s not the exception. He’s still evolving,” Zellhuber told reporters including Cageside Press on Wednesday.
“After all these fights as you say we can always expect to see the same version or at least kind of like the same things in his fighting style. That doesn’t mean that he is not a dangerous fighter, but it’s just that at this point I know what he’s going to try.”
Zellhuber (15-2) respects Johnson, but doesn’t want to be fighting at 39-years-old because he needs to. If he’s still fighting at that point it has to be because he wants to.
“I don’t envision myself only as a fighter. I like to do investments. I don’t want to be one of those fighters, like Michael Johnson, that I need to be fighting at 39-years-old,” Zellhuber told Cageside Press.
“If I want to fight at 39-years-old I want to do it because I want (to). Not because I need to.”
Watch the entire media day scrum with Daniel Zellhuber above. He takes on Michael Johnson at UFC 318 on Saturday night.
