Cub Swanson wanted to prove doubters wrong against Dooho Choi at UFC 206

TORONTO – Not a lot of people gave Cub Swanson much of a chance against Dooho Choi on Saturday night.

The oddsmakers didn’t love Swanson’s chances. Most fans and media weren’t picking him, either. And then there was Swanson’s (24-7 MMA, 9-3 UFC) featherweight opponent, Choi (14-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC).

Choi is the one who called Swanson out for a fight – and Swanson took that as a diss, and knew he had to do something about it.

At UFC 206, Swanson and Choi got into one of the year’s most memorable gun fights, trading punches at a furious pace, each walking through the other’s best shots despite being in a fairly continuous state of wobbled.

Swanson said the pace was so crazy, he couldn’t remember the fight when it was over – not because of the punches to the head, but because there was so much going on.

“I didn’t get hurt that bad – my head’s clear,” Swanson said. “But it was just so chaotic, I don’t remember the fight. Everybody’s just saying how great of a fight it was. I was like, ‘I guess it was if you guys keep saying it.'”

UFC 206 took place Saturday at Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.

Choi was a 2-1 favorite against Swanson and came in having blown through his first three UFC opponents with relative ease. But in Swanson, he found a foe who wouldn’t go away – and who could take everything he got and dish it out just as well.

And though Swanson may not have remembered the fight right afterward, during the bout he may have been thinking abou the point he wanted to make to Choi and anyone who doubted him, and that’s that he’s still got it.

“All the film I watched on him, I was a fan of his before the fight,” Swanson said. “When he called me out, I thought it was a little disrespectful just because I felt like he only called me out because he thought I wasn’t as good as I used to be or something. It motivated me, and I was ready to come out here and prove him, and prove everyone else wrong.”

As a bonus, Swanson got an extra $50,000 check for proving Choi wrong at a “Fight of the Night” level.

For more from Swanson, check out the video above.

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