LFA lightweight Max Metzgar isn’t very impressed with his opponent at LFA 214 where he faces Steve Collins in Sioux Falls, SD on Friday night.
Metzgar (5-0) faces a fellow undefeated lightweight in Collins at LFA 214. Someone’s 0 will have to go, but Metzgar isn’t focusing on that at all.
If anything he doesn’t seem worried about much of what his opponent will bring to the cage on Friday.
“Records don’t really mean a lot. He’s 5-0, but he’s not on my level,” Metzgar told Cageside Press.
“I’ve watched film on him. There’s really nothing that stands out to me that’s particularly impressive.”
When the skillsets matchup Metzgar truly doesn’t feel like Collins stacks up to him. Outside of his striking Metzgar doesn’t feel like Collins has a lot to offer against him.
“He’s a small 55er. Not particularly great wrestling, not particularly great kickboxing, not particularly great Jiu-Jitsu. He lets his hands go, that’s what I will say, he has a good calmness to him, but I’ve seen him get dropped in the first round in multiple fights of his,” he said.
“I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but I will. I’ve never been dropped, never been taken down, never lost a round in 12 fights. I know what I’m going to do. I’m going to go out there and make it look easy.”
Both Metzgar and Collins are from Chicago which brought a hilarious response from Metzgar and his friends.
“We never heard of that dude, man! I was asking the boys in the group chat. I was like this guy wrestled. Have ya’ll ever heard of him? He said he’s from Harvey. A lot of my teammates grew up wrestling for the Harvey twisters which is an elite youth program in Harvey, Illionis,” said Metzgar.
“I have a lot of buddies that I grew up with all wrestling for Harvey and they never heard of him. We’ll see who the king of Chicago is, but I’m based in Columbus (OH) now so it might be a little bit of a conflict of interest.”
A win at LFA 214 gets Metzgar to 6-0, and with dreams of making it to the big show, his sights are set on the UFC. If not he definitely has a name in mind for his next target.
“The path forward I see for myself after this is pretty direct. There’s actually some 6-0 guy that I watched. Adam Livingston I think his name is? He’s also a lightweight. He’s like 6-0 right now,” he said.
“6-0? This dude looks like food. I want that matchup or I want to fight for the LFA world title after this.
While the hope is that the big boss at the UFC gives him a call he’s not beyond stacking up wins in LFA and grabbing a belt as well. With the title up for grabs at LFA 215 between the champ Richie Miranda and Ilay Barzilay coming up later this month Metzgar has plenty of options.
“What I really want is hopefully Dana White calls on the Contender Series which is obviously about to start up. If I’m one-and-done at LFA that would obviously be ideal. If not, either the title fight against the winner between that fella from Israel and the dude that just knocked out Richie L. They’re fighting for the title,” said Metzgar.
“I’d like to be next in line for that. Or scrape off this dude Adam Livingston who’s 6-0. 5-0, 6-0 opponents back-to-back. Go out there and finish both of those guys that’s definitely going to turn some heads. That’s what the UFC wants to see’s that you’re not ducking any matchups.”
Watch the entire interview with Max Metzgar above. He faces Steve Collins at LFA 214 on Friday night in Sioux Falls, SD.
