{"id":272359,"date":"2018-03-13T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=272359"},"modified":"2018-03-13T06:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:40:52","slug":"exclusive-205-pound-prospect-dominick-reyes-wants-villante-or-cannonier-but-has-one-main-priority-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-205-pound-prospect-dominick-reyes-wants-villante-or-cannonier-but-has-one-main-priority-1\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | 205-pound prospect Dominick Reyes wants Villante or Cannonier next, but has one main priority"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having gone 2-0 since joining the UFC, stopping both Joachim Christensen and Jeremy Kimball in the first round, undefeated light heavyweight prospect Dominick Reyes feels he’s earned a top-15 opponent.<\/a>\u00a0To that end, he believes Jared Cannonier and Gian Villante would both be solid options \u2013 though the latter was recently linked to a bout with Sam Alvey.<\/p>\n

“I’m thinking either May or June,” Reyes said of his next fight on the latest stacked episode of BJ Penn Radio<\/a>. “I tried to get on a card in Utica, but it didn’t work out. So I’m still working to get that fight. I’d like to fight Villante, maybe then Cannonier, and get in the top-15, man. That’s what I’m looking at right now.”<\/p>\n

“We were looking at Villante, but then Alvey came out, so that put the brakes on that. So, we’ll see…”<\/p>\n

Whoever he’s locked in the cage with next, Reyes has one main focus at this juncture of his career: becoming a true force of destruction with no deficiencies in his game.<\/p>\n

“My main focus is just becoming an absolute beast that can’t be stopped,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I was completely unknown [when I joined the UFC], but I’ve always been here working, man,” he added. “Just working and working and working. I always knew when my time comes, I want to be ready. I want people to not really [say], ‘oh, well there’s a hole here, or a weakness here.’ I wanted to be complete when I came up to the scene so people could get behind me and not be like, ‘oh, well, he’s got good striking but his wrestling sucks,’ or whatever.”<\/p>\n

“So for me it was about being complete before I made the jump here and not trying to rush it. I’m not trying to rush it. I took my time in my amateur career. I’ve done things at my own pace based on how my progression is going, not how the promoters think I should fight.”<\/p>\n

“I wanna do it at my pace,” he concluded. “Fight the right fights. And then there will be a time when every fight’s the right fight. But right now I’m still relatively young and I would like one, maybe two more. And then start making a run at the title.”<\/p>\n

What do you think the future holds for the undefeated Dominick Reyes?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 3\/12\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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