{"id":266534,"date":"2017-12-26T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T18:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=266534"},"modified":"2017-12-26T10:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T18:51:59","slug":"ko-ricardo-lamas-josh-emmett-opponent-mind-next-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/josh-emmett\/ko-ricardo-lamas-josh-emmett-opponent-mind-next-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"After KO of Ricardo Lamas, Josh Emmett has an opponent in mind for his next fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, in the co-main event of the stacked UFC on Fox 26, Team Alpha Male prospect Josh Emmett made good on a short-notice opportunity, levelling long-time featherweight contender Ricardo Lamas with a first-round punch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having earned this career-changing win, Emmett is now ready to run the final stretch to a UFC featherweight title shot. And while he knows the next shot at reigning champion Max Holloway is likely to go to Frankie Edgar<\/a>, Emmett feels he’s at least earned a number-one-contender fight with Brian Ortega, who recently burst into the title picture with a submission win over Cub Swanson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be a world champion like I said, so if something was presented to me like a title shot, like I said, I\u2019ll take that in a heartbeat,\u201d Emmett said on a recent episode of\u00a0The MMA Hour (h\/t\u00a0Shaun Al-Shatti for MMAFighting.com<\/a>)\u00a0. \u201cBut I know (Frankie) Edgar and (Max) Holloway, they\u2019re in talks about fighting. I think Edgar has definitely earned it, so what makes the most sense to me is maybe if\u00a0Brian Ortega\u00a0and I fight. The winner of us gets the winner of Edgar-Holloway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whoever he fights next, Emmett feels he is finally realizing his potential \u2013 potential mentor Urijah Faber has long recognized in him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the longest I\u2019ve gone without a finish, so I knew I was overdue for one and I kept saying, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m going to get one on Saturday,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted to go in there and I wanted to do what the current and former champion couldn\u2019t do Lamas, and I did it in the first round. I just, I know where I stack up. I\u2019ve been with Team Alpha Male for over a decade and I know I\u2019m one of the best fighters in the world. Urijah (Faber) told me that when I was 2-0 as a pro.<\/p>\n

“(Faber) said, \u2018You\u2019re one of the best fighters in the world, just nobody know it yet.\u2019 And I took the hard road, so much adversity, so many injuries, and I fought time and time, \u2018Should I keep doing this? Should I keep pursuing it?\u2019 But my goal was always to get in the UFC, and then once I got here, I\u2019m not going to stop until I\u2019m a world champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who do you want to see Josh Emmett fight next?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 26\/12\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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