LFA 6/AXS TV Fights video: Ex-football standout Eryk Anders has title-plan future mapped out

Former University of Alabama linebacker Eryk Anders is well-versed at pounding quarterbacks and running backs into the turf. Lately, he’s been pounding MMA opponents into the canvas.

Anders (5-0) will make his LFA debut tonight when he meets veteran Jon Kirk (19-13) in a middleweight bout at LFA 6, which takes place at Cowboys Dancehall in San Antonio, Texas, with a main card live on AXS TV.

It’s a home fight for Anders, who moved on to MMA in 2012 as an amateur, and as a pro in 2015 after his football career was over and he needed something to stoke the competitive fires. After his final season at Alabama in 2009, in which he had 66 total tackles and six sacks, he had shots in the NFL, CFL and Arena Football League, but nothing panned out the way he wanted. He turned to MMA, and the rest is history.

“I’d describe myself as a winner: I can win standing up, I can win in the clinch, I can win on the ground,” Anders told AXS TV Fights’ Ron Kruck. “So no matter where the fight takes place, I’m more than capable and will win the fight.”

Unbeaten at 5-0, Anders has shown he can indeed win in a variety of ways. At Bellator 162 this past October, he took out Brian White in just 23 seconds. In a V3 Fights bout against Dekaire Sanders in June 2016, he won by rear-naked choke in 33 seconds.

Against Kirk, Anders is planning on moving to 6-0, and then sees his middleweight future at LFA coming together pretty quickly.

“I’ll fight as often as possible,” he said. “I really don’t take a whole lot of damage in my fights, and I’m not looking for this one to be any different. I’m not seeing a whole lot of competition in the middleweight division. I believe it’s mine to take, and I will take it. In the next few fights, I’ll be fighting for the belt.”

Check out the video above for more from Anders with Kruck ahead of LFA 6.

And for more on LFA 6, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.

LFA 6 is live on AXS TV tonight at 9 p.m. ET (8 p.m. CT). Make sure to tweet along using #LFA6. AXS TV airs new, live fights almost every Friday night in 2017. Find AXS TV on your TV right here: www.axs.tv/fights.

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