UFC middleweight, and “The Ultimate Fighter” season 7 finalist, C.B. Dollaway (11-2) will meet NCAA Divsion I National Champion Mark Muñoz this Thursday night on the main card of UFC Live: Sanchez vs. Kampmann.
One might expect that a match between Dollaway, Division I wrestler himself, and Muñoz would turn into a pure grappling match, but the former “TUF” finalist feels that he’s grown as a fighter who posses more than just one aspect of the fight game. Dollaway earned a submission over Joe Doerksen, a notable submission specialist, last September at UFC 119 in his last fight showing fans and critics how much he’s grown as a fighter.
Dollaway and Muñoz will meet on March 3 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky and will fight on the Versus televised main card.
“When I first started fighting, wrestling kind of ruled all. You know, I’d be able to go in and take guys down and not have to worry about other parts of my game as much. I kind of skipped over the jiu-jitsu side of things, and I think maybe that loss to Amir Sadollah the second time was one of the best things for my career.”
“(On defeating Doerksen) You know, sometimes, you yourself think, ‘Oh, my game’s getting good,’ but you don’t know how good until you do something like that, you know? It’s kind of like a payoff for all the hard work you put in, when you can do something like that. It just makes you open your own eyes and give yourself … it makes you believe in yourself and know that you can finish guys on the ground and that you can be a threat there as well.”
HT: Quote MMAFighting.com