Jason Norwood Looking Forward to Fighting at Home For CES MMA 52

Jason Norwood spoke with MMAjunkie ahead of his fight with Jeremiah Wells at CES MMA 52. Highlights are below:

On having his first fight at home: “I have 21 professional fights, and I never fought at home. My daughters mean everything in the world – sorry, mom – so it’s hard to be away from them. But I’ve never been able to kiss my mother and then go to a fight. So this is going to be different for me, in that aspect. I’m about to go have dinner with my family – my family I’ve never had dinner with before a fight. That’s always enjoyable. I haven’t seen my father’s church in three years, my father’s a minister, so it’s good to go back and see that again, too.”

On his striking power: “I hit hard. I hit hard to the point – when I hit you, you feel it. It comes back. I hit you, it’s like an earthquake. It comes right back into my hand. And then you know, I’m a different man. I’m ready to put all this power into him and break him down.”

On his plan for the fight: “What I’m going to do is, I’m going to take all these unconventional tools that he uses and I’m going to take them away from him, conventionally.”

On his confidence in himself: “When I was a child, I got stung by a bee. I was in the hospital for a couple of days. I was pronounced dead for like 10 minutes and everything. But I came back, I weathered the storm, I learned how to walk again and I’m here. I think God put me here for a reason. He put me here in his shoulders, showed me what I’ve been blessed with. With this talent, this ability to put a person down and I’m ready to shock the world, pause the crowd.”

On the financial rewards that would come with being champion: “This money enables me to stop taking money from them to do my non-profit, because that’s what I’m doing. So this is some money that goes to my non-profit, so I stop dipping out of my kids’ mouths.”