Eliot Marshall vows his old style of cruising to decision wins are behind him ahead of Cane showdown

Perhaps one of the unluckiest men to be cut from the UFC’s roster over the past five years, Eliot Marshall, returns to the octagon later this month hell bent on putting on a better showing second time around, explaining the days of him cruising to a decision win are well behind him.
Speaking via UFC.com, Marshall said:

“It will be almost 365 days since my last fight in the Octagon when I step in on the 19^th. The old me was more of a boxing style. I could sit back there and not get hit all day. Win decisions all day. The new me is let’s go get some. It is win or lose. Someone is going to win or lose decisively.”

Marshall returns to the octagon later this month when he steps in for the injured Karlos Vemola at UFC 128 in Newark, New Jersey, taking on heavy handed Brazilian, Luiz Cane on the preliminary card portion of the evening.

“I contacted the UFC actually. I saw it on the internet that Karlos Vemola got hurt and I told my management group let’s jump on this. What’s the worst that could happen? I’m already out of the UFC. If you want to fight for the UFC and you keep up on when people get injured and you don’t try and get a hold of Joe Silva every single time then to me you would be an idiot. I don’t know about them, but I want to fight in the UFC.”

“He’s a tough guy, but I don’t care. They could have told me that Junior Dos Santos got hurt and I was fighting Brock Lesnar and I would’ve done it just to get back in the UFC. A fight’s a fight. Cane comes forward and scraps, so I guess we’re going to have to scrap.”

“I’m excited to go in there and get tired and see who is going to fall apart first. I’m excited that I’m getting some closure to this situation. It bugged me every day and it bugs me right now because I haven’t fought yet in the Octagon. I hope I go in and destroy Luiz Cane in about a minute – that would be phenomenal,” continues Marshall about an ideal outcome, “and I also hope he doesn’t lose his job. The reality is I just have one thing to do; I have to whoop his ass.”

Marshall was cut from the UFC ranks last year despite owning a 3-1 record inside the octagon including a split decision win over Jason Brilz. He has since put together another three fight winning streak on the local circuit. Stay tuned to MMABay for more build-up to this one as we get it.