“It’s incredible, and then I think, ‘I’ve been training with this guy, he’s been my main training partner for the last three or four years.’ In the gym every day, we’re working alongside each other, pushing each other. The level of the gym? We know where it’s at, and Quillan is a representative of that, and I know when I get my time, it’s gonna be the same thing.”
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“Obviously, it’s different divisions and stuff like that, but it’s the skills, and at our gym, we have such high skills, and I feel like I can do it too —I just need to get healthy, get a bit of momentum behind me.”
The opportunity to start building that momentum again is just a couple of days away now, and when I asked Haddon how it was going to feel to finally have the UFC canvas under his feet again, the bantamweight lit up.
“I feel like entering the Octagon, feeling the fence, walking around, and seeing all the logos, the lights, my opponent, the referee, the crowd — it’s gonna be a reminder that this is what I was made to do and I belong,” Haddon said. “I belong here! This is my habitat. This is where I thrive. This is what I was born for.
