Patchy Mix doesn’t think much about his next opponent.
Angola, from Angola, New York, will make his long-awaited Octagon debut this Saturday night at UFC 316.
There, Mix meets Streaking’s outstanding Mario Bautista as part of a stacked main card headlined by not one but two UFC titles Tilts.
Before the UFC signed, the mix was told by many as the best bantamweight on the planet. Now he has the opportunity to prove it, but “love” appears to have no love at all for the man standing across from him.
“I’ll f*ck him,” Mix said of Bautista in a recent episode of UFC 316. “I’m a three-time world champion. This guy is a Journeyman fighter. I’ll submit him.
Bautista enters the match on a seven-inning solid winning streak, but he sees serious criticism robbing his path. Especially after the roughly split decision victory over featherweight great Jose Aldo in October. Before that, he won consecutive unanimous decisions on Da’mon Blackshear and Ricky Simón. We will need to go back all the way until March 2023 to find Bautista’s final finish within the Octagon where he played against Guido Cannetti.
Patch Mix is sure he can replicate his Bellator run within the Octagon
Mix quickly rose Bellator’s ranks and won the promotional Bantamweight Grand Prix Tournament in 2023. Seven months later, he became the uncontroversial king of the Division.
With an impressive 20-1 record and a 70% finish rate, Mix is naturally full of confidence ahead of a major premiere on MMA’s biggest stage, and he has long planned to add UFC Gold to his collection of achievements.
“Two years ago, that was our first world title. I knocked out a guy in a minute. I’m the submitter,” Mix said. “It was my first knockout. That’s how I won $1 million and my world title. Since then, we’ve won two more belts.