UFC 264: Tai Tuivasa vows to feast on Greg Hardy before rising the ranks
- Australian heavyweight says attitude change has him on a pathway to the top ahead of return against American Hardy
- ‘I’m going to bring it. Let’s just hope he sticks to his end of the deal because I always bring it,’ says Tuivasa
Tai Tuivasa has been sitting in his Las Vegas hotel room with the Aussie heavyweight forcing himself to avoid all the culinary temptations Sin City has to offer.
It sounds like tough work, given Tuivasa’s love of a good feed, but the rising star says such sacrifices will spell trouble for Greg Hardy when the pair meet at UFC 264 at the T-Mobile Arena on Saturday.
“I’ve not been eating much because it’s fight week,” Tuivasa explains to SCMP MMA. “It’s tough but I’m just watching a lot of food shows and I’m just waiting to punch on. If you watch the food shows it makes you want to eat more, and that makes you angry. You end up thinking ‘[expletive], I better give this guy a hiding’.”
Hardy should take note.
“Bam Bam” Tuivasa is on the improve, having changed his attitude to the fight game, both inside and outside the cage, after an 0-3 run woke him up to the realities of life at the top end of the UFC. The 28-year-old (11-3) is now on a two-fight tear and sees this match-up with the 32-year-old American (7-3, one no contest) as a pathway to both ranked fighters and to a return to the rankings.