“I have the utmost respect for Alhassan. He is a good guy, a very strong striker, so I think this fight was a great matchup. We’re going to come out on top and put on a show for the audience,” Ribeiro said of his UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs Imavov opponent. “He is an aggressive guy, just like me, and very good at it. But that’s the thing, right? The way things come, they also come back.”
Both Ribeiro and Alhassan have earned all their professional wins by knockout. Ribeiro has 10 and Alhassan has 11.
Ribeiro is confident that he’ll keep that trend going this weekend.
“There will definitely be a knockout. I have a lot of respect for him, but when the Octagon door closes, I will take a real storm to him. There will be a knockout for me, no doubt,” Ribeiro said.