“This fight is very important because I have been in the UFC now for seven years, and if it goes how I would like, it will mean that I have solved my problems, what has kept me from having success in the past,” Cutelaba said of Saturday’s fight with Lins, who enters on a three-fight winning streak after beginning his UFC run with a pair of losses at heavyweight.
“I think this six months was great because it was two camps and they were very intense,” added the light heavyweight stalwart, who was scheduled to face Ovince Saint Preux in August before the bout was scrapped. “I was able to address a lot of things I wanted to work on and continue making changes.”
Cutelaba is cautiously optimistic that those changes will produce another strong performance and positive result. If that comes to pass, it would be the first time in more than five years that he’s registered back-to-back wins.
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But he’s also aware that things rarely go according to plan inside the Octagon.
“None of my fights have gone the way I thought,” he said with a big smile when asked how he sees Saturday’s battle playing out. “Of course, I would love to finish him in the first round, but I would also like to see how I do in a three-round fight, so we’ll have to see.”
