Claude Patrick

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"I watched his fight with Hendricks and I saw him trying to push Hendricks into the cage, and I figured he was pretty strong because Hendricks trains with Laimon and those guys, and Laimon's no joke and anyone there's gonna be solid. But he pushed him against the cage pretty easy. So I'm like 'Eh, let him do it.' He could try to take me down and I figured I could eventually try to.. get something on him." - Claude on defeating Ricardo Funch in a very impressive UFC debut.
"But as a fan, I was watching uhh... Dong Hyun Kim? When he fought uhh... Amir Sadollah the other week, and I was like 'wow, this guy's got some really unique techniques, you know?' and Carlos Newton is like one of my mentors, big on judo. So I was like looking at his technique. It's a lot different than most people. So I'd be honored to face a guy like that, and he's somebody on the rise. I don't pick the opponents and stuff like that, but as a fan, I watched that last week and I rewound it, you know? I downloaded some stuff which is bad, very bad. Don't download. I'm a big fan of his." - Claude on who he wants to fight after defeating Funch.