Rashad Evans Says He’s Going To Punish Ryan Bader

In an interview with MMA Junkie, Rashad Evans said that he plans to punish Ryan Bader for his recent comments when the two meet at UFC 192 on October 3 at the Toyota Center in Houston. It airs on PPV after preliminary fights on FOX Sports 1 and UFC Fight Pass.

On Bader’s trash talk: “It’s funny, man. Bader is talking a little reckless, and it definitely makes me want to punish him. I’m going to sleep thinking about some of the things and I’m like, ‘I can’t believe he’s saying all of this.’ I made a comment to him first and I was just kind of teasing. But then he kept going. Then he brought out the fat picture and then he just kept going and going. So, it’s like, ‘Okay, he wants to keep on going?’ Now I’m starting to believe that he really thinks this. Now, because he really thinks this, I’m going to punish this dude. I’m going to punish him. Bad.”

On Bader’s lack of fighting intelligence: “I’m going to stop him in the second round. How? I just see him getting desperate after trying to take me down, and that doesn’t happen. Then I’ll lay some hands on him. I think that Bader is good and I think that Bader has gotten a lot better. How Bader used to fight – his fight IQ used to be really low. He would clutch defeat out of the jaws of victory. You used to be like, ‘How the hell does he do that?’ That used to be how Bader fought. He wasn’t a very smart fighter. He’s gotten a bit smarter. But, at the same time, he’s still Bader. He still makes mistakes like that. He still is not a very high IQ fighter.”