Interview: George Sullivan talks Igor Araujo and Gives his Predictions for UFC Dublin

Interview: George Sullivan talks Igor Araujo and Gives his Predictions for UFC Dublin

by Chris Houten - @mrhouts

Early last week, news broke George Sullivan will be returning to the octagon to face, Igor Araujo at a UFC Fight Night event in Brazil in September. We caught up with Sullivan to discuss fighting in Brazil, his opponent Igor Araujo, and to get his predictions for UFC Fight Night Dublin.

You last fought in January, talk us through what you have been doing over last few months, and how does it feel to be back in action?
It feels great to be back in action after a long layoff. I got married and went to Hawaii for a little bit. Feels great to be back and training hard.
 Your fighting Igor Araujo in Brazil in September, how do you feel about fighting in Brazil, a notorious difficult place to win?
Going to Brazil is awesome I can't wait to travel the world and fight the worlds best. It's a honor to be in Brazil and fight there.

As far as preparing myself I don't mind getting booed, it fuels me. I fought in places and have been booed hard, but after I won they cheered. You get both types of fans, respectful ones and diehard, I wanna kill you ones haha. But all in all just getting to fight in Brazil is awesome!
 
And you opponent Igor Araujo, would you say this is the toughest test of your career, and how excited are you to be fighting Araujo?
Igor is a great BJJ artist and I know he's always looking for submission, I'm very excited to test myself against him. It's classic grappler vs striker [match up] and I'm always looking for the knock out, it's what I do. This fight is awesome in my opinion, our stats are opposite, yet identical - This is gonna be a great fight!

On Saturday the UFC will be in Dublin for one of the biggest MMA fights Europe has ever seen, give us you predictions for the fight.
I've got Conor winning by TKO in round 2, Gunnar by Sub - round 3, Brad by knockout round 2, and Naoyuki to take a decision over Parke.