Ray Borg Thinks He’s the Guy to beat Demetrious Johnson

Ray Borg discussed his fight with Demetrious Johnson at UFC 215 with MMAjunkie. The highlights are below:

On Johnson’s future: “For the sport he’s getting old, especially as long as his title reign has been. He’s never been in any crazy wars, but people don’t realize that you don’t have to be in a war to be getting taxed on your body and stuff like that. Training camp does enough of it. Going through as many training camps as this guy’s gone through, he’s getting older. He’s getting to the end of his career, and I think I’ll go ahead and put a stop to the end of his career for him.”

On getting a title shot: “I believe in my abilities to get to this point this early, but did I see it happen from a realist point of view? No, not really. I told myself when I was young I want to be signed to the UFC by the time I’m 23. Now I just turned 24, and now I’m fighting for a world title. I’ve shown time and again in all my fights my whole career that whether people think I’m too young or not, I rise to the occasion and make it happen and I win fights. That’s what I do: I rise to the occasion and I win fights. Nothing is going to change from this. I’m going to go in there and rise the occasion. No matter how young I am, I’m going to win this fight.”

On his mindset going into the win at UFC 215: “After watching some of (Johnson’s) previous fights, seeing how he is evolving, getting into his older years, coming into his career, I just know that I can do it. Especially after his past few fights. I just know I’m the guy to do it.”