Adrian Yanez believes he may very well be preventing for his job at UFC Vegas 92 on Saturday.
Yanez is coming off back-to-back stoppage losses to Jonathan Martinez and Rob Font and has fallen out of the rankings. It was a tricky 2023 for Yanez as he went 0-2, however he says the blame is on himself as he acquired too snug and began to search out shortcuts in his preparation.
“I acquired means too snug. For these previous couple of years after my coach had handed, I used to be totally concerned in movie examine and made certain I used to be concerned, then I acquired too snug, and I wasn’t doing my due diligence,” Yanez stated on Simply Scrap Radio on BJPENN.com. “The easiest way to clarify it was I used to be going to highschool, I used to be doing all of the work at school, however the motive I had a failing grade was as a result of I wasn’t doing the homework or finding out. I wasn’t doing sufficient, I wasn’t movie finding out or making ready myself the best way I ought to have.”
As soon as Yanez was able to return, he thought he would get somebody simply exterior the highest 15. However, when he acquired the provide to face Vinicius Salvador at UFC Vegas he was shocked by it.
“This one got here out of nowhere… I used to be eager about Daniel Santos or John Castaneda as a result of they’re proper exterior the top-15 and I do know if I beat a kind of guys, I’m in line to get again into the combo. This one got here, and I used to be in Vegas and my supervisor stated they acquired me a combat on Could 18. I stated ‘Cool’ and went again into coaching. Then 5 minutes later I used to be like ‘Wait, who am I preventing.’ They advised me Vinicius Salvador and I used to be like ‘Who the f**ok is that?’ It took me a second as a result of there is no such thing as a Vinicius Salvador at bantamweight and noticed he was arising,” Yanez stated.
Salvador is 0-2 within the UFC with each his fights at flyweight as he’s transferring as much as 135lbs for this bout in opposition to Yanez. Though Adrian Yanez is a sizeable favourite, he says he isn’t taking Salvador flippantly in any respect as he is aware of his job may very well be on the road.
However, Yanez is assured in his hanging skill that he’ll have the ability to KO Salvador and return to the win column in an enormous means.
“I must have the mindset, I’ve to maintain my place, you aren’t taking this shit from me. I wish to f**ok this man up as a result of I can’t let this man be the man, I’ve to placed on a masterclass and show I need to be there… That is do-or-die for me… The way in which I see it enjoying out, I really feel like he’ll depart some openings and I’ll make the most of them. I’ll put him asleep in opposition to the fence,” Yanez stated.
Ought to Yanez get the knockout win, the objective is to get somebody exterior the rankings subsequent outing and finish the yr again within the prime 15 at bantamweight.
“I’m going on the market and starch him, it doesn’t put me within the prime 15, but when one way or the other the individuals who do the rankings wish to put me in there, it’s what it’s. However, I don’t consider it places me within the prime 15, I feel it places me proper exterior the highest 15 to combat a man to place me within the prime 15,” Adrian Yanez concluded.