“Every single fight, as soon as I finish, I start to think about the next one, like ‘When is the next one?’ I just switch off — I switch from the fight — and as soon as I step out of the Octagon, it’s done; it’s already the past, so there is no reason to think about this.”

Everything for Gautier is simple and focused; he prepares, he competes, and he starts over again.

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After his win in New Orleans, he joked backstage that his coach was annoyed with him because all he did was stay in his hotel room the entire week, and when asked if that had changed this week in Las Vegas, Gautier’s idea of venturing out was going from the Air BNB he and his team initially stayed in to the UFC Performance Institute and back.

It extends to celebrating his successes too, as his only post-victory wish is to hang out in the hotel with plenty of good food. In New Orleans, that meant chicken and rice, but should he earn that third straight UFC victory this weekend, there is only one thing that Gautier wants.

“Here in America, they have the best pizza ever, and when they say, ‘large pizza,’ it’s a large pizza,” he said, his entire body emphasizing the word large to correctly convey just how colossal his post-fight pie he will hopefully be devouring is in comparison to what he’s used to enjoying. “(I’m getting a) big, big, large pizza — a pepperoni pizza and a lot of cheese.

“And when they say ‘large,’ it’s really large. I love it!”