“When you step to the cage to fight against me, you need to be very, very prepared, physically, mentally,” Kape said. “To fight against me, you need to be prepared everywhere, so if you aren’t like that, you better step away.”
When Kape faces off against Perez on Saturday night, he wants to be explosive, putting on a technical and impressive performance.
And when he looks at the rest of the flyweight division, he gives props to current champion Brandon Moreno, but knows that the time is coming when he’ll be the one to hoist UFC gold. His fight against former title challenger Perez is just another steppingstone on his way to the title.
“This win is going to be important for me because he’s a former contender,” Kape said. “This win is going to put me right to the belt that I believe that I deserve, and right now it’s the most important fight of my career, the most important fight in UFC and this is the fight that I’m going to make look easy and show to everybody that I’m the next king of this division.”
