Bryce Mitchell and Jean Silva have stolen the present within the construct to UFC 314, and their faceoff at Thursday’s press convention was no completely different.
Mitchell and Silva compete on the principle card of Saturday’s pay-per-view occasion in Miami. Each fighters have had headline-worthy feedback about their opponents for the previous a number of weeks in anticipation of the matchup, and issues received intense when the rivals went face-to-face, and nose-to-nose.
“I completely liked the press convention, I really feel just like the Holy Spirit was talking by means of me,” Mitchell mentioned on the UFC 314 Weigh-In Show. “With my eyes, I conveyed the message that I’m able to die and I’m able to kill, and I mentioned every part that I wanted to in that faceoff with my eyes alone.”
In the direction of the top of their staredown, Silva feinted in direction of Mitchell as if he was making an attempt to make “Thug Nasty” flinch. It didn’t work, and in Mitchell’s thoughts, it could by no means work.
“He couldn’t probably make me react,” Mitchell mentioned. “There’s completely nothing that man can do to instill any concern into me. I’ve the Holy Spirit and the Lord, and concern isn’t an possibility.
“I’m combating him with the total pressure of the Lord inside my coronary heart — the true Lord.”
Mitchell is coming off of a knockout win over Kron Gracie at UFC 310 this previous December, whereas improved to 4-0 within the octagon with a bonus-earning first-round end of Melsik Baghdasaryan at UFC Seattle in February — which led to Silva calling for the battle with Mitchell.
After wanting in Silva’s eyes on Thursday, Mitchell says he noticed a little bit of himself; no less than, the previous model.
“I see overconfidence,” Mitchell defined. “I see the youthful man that I was.”
