Cortney Casey Hopes Jessica Aguilar Is Aggressive At UFC 211

In an interview with MMA Junkie, Cortney Casey (6-4 MMA, 2-3 UFC) spoke about her UFC 211 strawweight fight with Jessica Aguilar (19-5 MMA, 0-1 UFC). Here are highlights:

On how she gets her fights: “They just come to me. (UFC matchmaker) Sean Shelby gives me a call, gives me a name, and I say yes 99 percent of the time – so he knows who to call. … I don’t want any easy fights. I don’t want any hand-picked fights. I’m here to do my job, and my job is to fight and fight the top fighters – and that’s what I’m here to do.”

On getting to fight Aguilar: “We’re here to fight the best, we’re not here to have sandbag fights and hand-picked fights. We’re here to fight, and if you want to be the champ you have to fight the best. That’s the only way you’re going to get there. I think the fastest road to that is to fight top-10 fighters, top-15 fighters, regardless of if you’re ranked or not. When those hard fights come, it really shows who you are, what your character is.”

On how she hopes the fight goes: “I still feel like she’s going to be really aggressive, a lot of head movement, and obviously she’s going to rely heavily on her right hand, like usual. From watching the Claudia fight, she’s going to wrestle a little bit. I hope she doesn’t – I hope she sticks to her Mexican ways. She claims to be a Mexican-style fighter, so hopefully she goes to the center of the cage and we get to bang.”