UFC light heavyweight, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira has been giving his thoughts on facing Rich Franklin later this summer on the UFC 133 card in Philadelphia, explaining he’s expecting an interesting fight with the former champion and that his preparations have already begun. Speaking via Tatame Magazine, Nogueira said:
“The bout will be a good one, Rich is a guy who likes the stand-up game. He’s skilled, left-handed, a former champion a he has a big name. It’s a pretty interesting matchup.”
“I’ll train Boxing for a while with (Luis Carlos) Dorea in Bahia. I’ll do sparrings with professional athletes and train Muay Thai with Anderson (Silva), who’ll help me a lot due to the fact he’s also a left-handed guy.”
Nogueira’s torrid time continued inside the octagon just last month when he came up short against rookie Phil Davis on the UFC on Versus 3 card. Prior to that he’d been smothered on route to a loss to Ryan Bader and squeaked past Jason Brilz via split decision.
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