Jared 'Killa Gorilla' Canonier not only remains one of the scariest power punchers in the UFC, but also one of the most popular athletes in the middleweight selection.
Modest and gently spoken, if you came across Jared Cannonier on the street, you may not realize that you were in the world opposite one of the most dangerous and versatile hunters.
Versatile; Not for his fighting style, which has remained the same since his promotion debut in 2015, but because he is one of the few hunters who has found success in three separate weight classes.
While the vast majority of those cases athletes go up, Cannonier defied the expectation by falling from heavyweight to light heavyweight, and eventually again to the middleweight – with a reasonable part of insane Kos en route.
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Jared Cannonier went from 300 pounds to three weight UFC Danger Man
The year was 2009 and after it was fired from the US Army due to a positive drug test for marijuana, Jared Cannonier worked as a air traffic control engineer in Alaska with a weight of 300 pounds.
“When I and Jared came together for the first time, he wasn't really that big,” his wife Cat told Marc Raimondi of ESP in 2019 we became really tough. “
Cannonier soon started to compete in MMA and while he was still in Alaska, six stop profits (including five-first round finishes) achieved in the short term but even when he signed at the UFC schedule, he knew that heavyweight was not his home .
“I already knew when I was on heavyweight that I was not a natural heavyweight compared to the other boys I would compete,” said the future UFC -Titelkandaat.
'I am a realist, I am not living in a fantasy. I know what is what is [and] It was just a matter of time, I knew I had to let that happen. '
After scoring a vicious ko in the first round about Cyril questioner, Cannonier would make his first drop; The jump car on light heavyweight and 2-3 will go between 2016 and 2018.
Cannonier, still far from his physical best, then decided to make the transition to 185 pounds again – a movement that paid more than his dividends when he rose to the top 10, and he stayed there.
Jared Cannonier stares 'Robocop' down during the UFC Vegas 102 this weekend
Cannonier is currently retaining a 7-4 Middleweight Record (17-8 General) and wants to return to the win-column after a controversial loss of stop for Nassourdine Imavov and a heavily fought decision loss for Borralho in Caio Borralho in his last game.
'Killa Gorilla' Headlines UFC Vegas 102 on Saturday evening against Brazilian Juggernaut Gregory 'RoboCop' Rodrigues in a fight that many fans expect to end in one way – by Knock -Out.
The bookmakers have Cannonier as a slight underdog, although users in tapology predict a 'Robocop' -Beatdown with more than 70% of the community picks that go in favor of the Brazilian.
Can this popular UFC veteran reverse the clock? Discover it on Saturday 15 February.
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