Jacare Wants to Fight for The Title Next But Would Rather Not Wait

Speaking at the post-fight press conference for UFC 208 (via MMAjunkie), Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza discussed his submission win over Tim Boetsch and what fight could be next for him. Souza defeated Boetsch by submission in the first round. Below are some highlights from the presser.

Jacare on wanting to fight the champion but not wanting to wait for the fight: “I want to fight the champion. But if I have to wait too long, I’d rather take another fight because I wasn’t born to wait for others. I was born to make things happen.”

On a potential rematch with Yoel Romero: “It certainly would be an option. It’s a fight that I want. I never lost a rematch, and with Romero it won’t be different. I will prove that I didn’t lose that fight to him, and that I lost it to the judges.”

Jacare on wanting to fight: “I think a singer sings, a dancer dances and a fighter fights. We’re here to work and we work for the UFC. The UFC works with fights. I was ready to fight a top contender in November, a former champ, and everyone knows that he chickened out and ran. He’s kicking and training even more than I am. He says he has a knee injury. He doesn’t even know what an injury is. The truth is that he’s chickening out. And man, I’ve got to fight. What I’ve been noticing is that all the athletes who sit out for too long don’t come back well. I went approximately eight months without a fight. I was going to fight a top contender in the division who didn’t show up, who chickened out and ran. So I had to work.”

On his win at UFC 208: “I thank the UFC for this opportunity to work here at UFC 208. Nobody here is swimming against the current – everyone’s happy to be working. I have a good salary. … Every fight is a fight, and every win pushes you forward in spite of it being a top-ranked fighter or not.”