Nick Hein Looking to Score a Finish Over Tae Hyun Bang on Saturday

– Nick Hein recently spoke with mmajunkie.com, here are the highlights…

On Fighting This Weekend in Hamburg: “This event in Hamburg, it seems that everything worked out perfectly that I’m now able to fight there. People are always saying, ‘I want to fight in Vegas, I want to fight in the MGM,’ No, I want to find in Hamburg, in the Barclaycard Arena, on the third of September. This is my goal. The arena is going to be fully packed. I know of course the major shows usually happen in the United States, but I was at the show in Rotterdam where (Alistair) Overeem fought (Andrei) Arlovski and man, that was stunning. It was also sold out and the atmosphere was crazy. So I couldn’t be happier.”

On Quitting His Job to Fight: “This is something that everyone wants in Germany,” Hein said. “I basically threw that into the trash bin because I said, ‘If that interferes with my dream of fighting, then I don’t want it.’ So I quit my job. I’m the first police officer in Germany to quit his job because of this sports career and I haven’t regretted it to this day.”

On Wanting a Finish This Weekend: “That is really something that is kind of with me, bothering me all the time,” Hein said. “Especially when I look back on my fight versus (James) Vick, I knocked him down two times in the 1st round and I didn’t finish the fight. And then with (Lukasz) Sajewski, I tagged him in the third round, if I would have been smarter I could’ve finished the fight there. “I know I can do it but I must admit I failed doing that in the past and this really bothers me. And it bothers me maybe a little more than I try to show it.”