“And you can't forget that both of us are capable of getting early finishes.” “I think the reason why people think it's gonna be a three-round war is because he's coming off two three-round wars, and my last two fights were back and forth, losing to Tucker but then beating up on Benitez, so I know a lot of people think it's gonna be a three-round war, but I'm obviously in there to do my job and get a highlight reel first-round knockout or submission,” he said. But if he has his way, he’s getting in the Octagon, taking care of business and having a chance to go out to the floor to watch the rest of the event. Hey, that’s the fight business, and Quarantillo loves it, as well as the prospect of having to go to some dark places to get his hand raised. So in other words, she may be in for a surprise she doesn’t necessarily want to see as the Garden faithful roar in approval. I've gotten stitches a couple times, so she really doesn't understand the type of violence that Burgos is capable of, and she hasn't seen the type of violence I need to bring out to take this guy out.” The time I got a flash knockout loss, I wasn't even really hurt, so I've never had to go to the hospital after a fight. She's been to pretty much every pro fight I've ever had, so she's seen me win a very high percentage of them. “She understands what I'm capable of, so she always has confidence in me. “She knows that every fight I've gone into, people are like, 'Oh, this guy he's fighting is a killer, this guy's this, this guy's that,'” said Quarantillo. That’s not in the fighting vocabulary of either featherweight, and that’s good for us, but sometimes family doesn’t necessarily approve. And if it does, it won’t be because the two played it safe. How good? Good enough that on a card featuring rematches pitting Kamaru Usman against Colby Covington and Rose Namajunas against Zhang Weili, as well as an expected to be epic clash between Justin Gaethje and Michael Chandler, many believe Quarantillo-Burgos can steal the show. UFC 268 FREE FIGHTS: Namajunas vs Zhang 1 | Gaethje vs Johnson | Zhang vs Jędrzejczyk | Chandler vs Hooker | Covington vs Woodley | Usman vs Covington 1 Quarantillo did get in one fight this year thus far, picking up a Fight of the Night bonus for his July stoppage of Gabriel Benitez, but the real action picks up on Saturday when he gets a UFC 268 main card assignment against Shane Burgos. So back to work we go.”īack to work, indeed. “I think it's gonna be over for a while, hopefully, unless my wife surprises me with a couple,” he laughs. “It's been wedding season,” laughs Billy Q, who got married to Brianna in March, celebrated the nuptials of teammate and fellow UFC fighter Matt Frevola in September, then followed it up with a trip to Tennessee to watch another Matt, this one his childhood friend, tie the knot in October.
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