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“This will be the first fight since the first (Jussier) Formiga fight (in September 2013) where . . .. I’m octagonside for. I have the utmost confidence in his ability; I know how hard he works, and there’s nothing I can do to help. I haven’t watched in a really long time. I haven’t watched a lot of his other fights back, but I will be watching this one. . . .
“Our friends and family are all coming, so I have an awesome support system, and he is so great on fight day that I don’t have to worry about him. He’s not nervous or like, ‘I don’t know if I should do this.’ . . . He’s genuinely so excited and can’t wait to go out there that it does make everything so much easier for me.
“It just solidifies that Joe is one of the best. Oftentimes they say, ‘Oh, he’s the best UFC fighter to never have a belt.’ The belt is just an object that shows, yes, you are the best in this division. But I think there’s been many times that Joseph has been the best.
“He’s been in the WEC bantamweight, UFC bantamweight, not to mention flyweight once they created the division. I don’t think people have ever looked at him and been like, ‘Oh, he’s not that good.’ He’s always been one of the best. He’s in the top two or three of two divisions for over 10 years.
“It puts a final stamp on it like, ‘Yeah, your name goes on that list of champions.’ He says there’s an extra line on your Wikipedia page. But I think professionally, it does so much for Joseph. And I think personally, yeah, he would be really happy . . . I think he’s such a whole person and has so much to offer, that adding that belt on top would be a really beautiful thing.”
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