Las Vegas — Popular lightweight Drew Dober finally faces Michael “The Menace” Johnson at UFC 326 this Saturday.
It’s a fight that has long been talked about, yet somehow didn’t materialize for years until finally coming together at the last moment for the upcoming card in Las Vegas.
Johnson said this week that he hadn’t really had a fight camp for UFC 326. Dober (28-15, 1NC) doesn’t seem to believe in camps period.
“I think we’ve dismissed the idea of like, camps. It’s just like, MJ knows. He was preparing for another fight, I was trying to prepare for a potential fight in March. We didn’t know who we were fighting, but we’re going to fight somebody,” noted Dober during this week’s UFC 326 media day, speaking with reporters including Cageside Press. “And so it’s not really a camp, it’s just your lifestyle.”
Expanding on that, Dober added that “you go to the gym, you eat proper, when you get the fight offer, then you might have to eat a little less. But yeah, I don’t really believe in camps.”
Dober, however, is one of those fighters who would constantly be fighting if he could. It’s the weight cut, not the fights themselves, that slow him down.
“It’s different for me. I’d fight every weekend if I could, I just couldn’t make weight every weekend. So for me, I need to make the weight, and that requires more effort. But fighting, I’ll do it next week if I could.”
Dober later reflected on his match-up with Johnson in the broader context of UFC 326, which features Max Holloway vs. Charles Oliveira in the main event. Not for a divisional title, but for the UFC’s symbolic “Baddest Motherf*cker” championship.
“UFC 326 is the card of the badasses. We’ve got the BMF title, and then we have the main [card] which is all just a bunch of killers. And I’m excited to be a part of this,” exclaimed Dober. “It’s like this old school mentality of, we’re not fighting to win points. We’re fighting to win in actual combat, like violence, and bring the violence.”
“Between MJ and I, we like each other, we respect each other, and that’s why it’s going to be exciting. And this is the kind of fight that people are paying to see, and that’s why Paramount is bringing us in to highlight this even. Because these are the people we want to watch.”
Dober recently revealed some of his cheat foods, and shockingly, while ice cream was on the list, pizza was not. So just what did pizza do to Drew Dober? Seems it’s more Italy in general.
“I’m going to break your little heart— I’m not a huge fan of Italian food. And so, yeah, like the noodles, the crust. I know, people are dumbfounded. My wife has to find other people to eat pizza with. It’s depressing,” Dober revealed, before adding “I make it up with the amount of doughnuts I eat though.”
Watch the full UFC 326 media day appearance by Drew Dober above.
