Austin Lee sent along the following:
I wanted to share with you BuddyTV’s exclusive one-on-one interview with Jens Pulver, TUF5. Here’s the link and a short excerpt below: http://www.buddytv.com/articles/ufc/exclusive-interview-the-ultima-7628.aspx
We all expect to see a different Jens Pulver in the upcoming Penn fight for sure what we saw on the Lauzon fight. Now that you’ve beat BJ once before approaching this fight–is this upcoming fight with him any differently than when you beat him back in 2002?
Oh absolutely. I mean I mess around people ask me you know I got to state the fact. The fact is I was an underdog the first time and I came out, I beat him. In my fight in the same BJ, no way. If he’s gonna fight the same Jens Pulver, absolutely not. For me it’s a kinetic. I got the game plan, I’ve been training extremely hard. There are no excuses. I’m ready, I’ve already had my embarrassing little bump in the UFC road so I got no excuses there. I’m ready to get after it, I know BJ is gonna come and break shape, I’m definitely gonna be fighting the toughest BJ Penn anyone’s ever seen because one, he’s gotta run just to make 155. He’s gonna be in better shape just cause of the running he has to do to make the weight. And we’ve come so far from five years ago, we fought the first time you know he’s got a lot of great fights. He’s been to different weight classes and won a world title he’s always been gaining for, you know this is just something else. We were pitted against each other from the beginning, we were rivals from the minute he stepped on the scene and that just never died. It never went away, and now we get to turn around and we get to fight again. Do I sit and go “Oh I’m winning. I’ve got the upper hand.” No. But at the same token, the reality is that I was the underdog the first time you know going into this one, BJ’s got a little bit you know… Favorite, underdog, to hell with that. I was the favorite last time and I lost so he looks at himself as being the underdog and I don’t necessarily really want to fight underdog feeling BJ Penn. That’s gonna be tough so I just always put myself on the same spot. I’m an underdog, you know, I’m counted out, and I just need to prove people wrong and that’s what I enjoy doing.
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