“I’ve fought since I was 11 years old, and that’s why I don’t have pressure,” Fiziev said. “Doesn’t matter if you fight in America, Canada, still everybody is watching you online. For me, it’s not stress, no pressure, I just love it so much when I start to walk to the cage. I hear my walkout song, and I start enjoying. I’m like an actor who starts to work.”
The fight itself has Fight of the Night written all over it. Being the smaller fighter against a 6-foot-3 Bahamondes, Fiziev knows he’ll have to lead the dance. This should produce a head-on collision with the Chilean, who rarely is on the back foot.
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“Ignacio, he’s a big, hard guy,” Fiziev said. “When he’s in the cage, he always goes forward. He doesn’t try to put himself in the fight to be safe. He’s ready to fight. He has a big heart. He says yes to fight me in my home. Flight from America to come here. It’s a big risk for him and I’m sure in his career, he hasn’t fought fighters like me. It’s going to be a tough night for him.”
While you’d think Fiziev would want to get his hand raised by any means possible, a boring decision is not on his cards. Regardless of his recent skid, if it’s not a beautiful performance, Fiziev doesn’t want it.
