Pedro Munhoz Was Impressed With Damian Stasiak in Their Fight Night 109 Fight

Pedro Munhoz spoke with MMAjunkie about his win over Damian Stasiak at UFC Fight Night 109. Highlights are below:

On Stasiak’s performance: “I was impressed. There were a couple of times when I had control, I tried to guillotine him, and he defended it pretty well, so it looked like he was expecting that. Also, I was commenting with my corners at the beginning of this camp that he can take a lot of punishment. Besides that, he was a karate world champion. So it shows that his striking is not bad at all. Besides that, like I mentioned before, he can take a lot of punishment. Many times, I landed hard shots, hard kicks. His knee, his face. A couple of times I felt my knee right in his jaw. He ate it and got right back up.”

On being the favorite in the fight: “For me, being an underdog and a favorite doesn’t mean anything. And we could tell tonight. The guy from Sweden – (Nico) Musoke, or something? He was a big-time favorite, and he lost to the kid from Serbia (Bojan Velickovic). This sport, MMA, is one-on-one. It’s a pretty tough sport, and I don’t think being a favorite or an underdog counts for anything.”

On his performance: “I have to watch and see what I did wrong and what I can do better, but I’m happy. I’m happy that I’m safe, no injury. I’ll be back to the gym in a week, and I’ll be ready to fight again soon.”

On his next fight: “(I’ll fight) anyone the UFC wants me to fight. I’m going to step up in the cage. (You’ll) see what you guys saw tonight: walking forward the whole time, throwing punches, kicks. I’ll be comfortable in any circumstances in the fight. Anyone the UFC wants to give me, top-5, top-10, whatever, in two, three-weeks notice, I’m going to go in there and brawl.”