![]() “I’ve held my own against the best the world has to offer. “If you can survive against those guys, then you’re pretty good,” Abdallah said. “What we do is open up and hear what everyone else is doing, and everyone is successful is their own right, so we take the bits and pieces that we like and bring it back home and myself and my head trainer Kelly (Seif) will work on that and mould the fighter that I want to become.”Ībdallah was confident he held his own against heavyweight powerhouses Nelson and Barnett. With coaching, there’s no right way or wrong way, it’s what best suits you. We’ve been to America four times now and Thailand twice. “So when we can, we get away for a two-week period. “We’ve got a good base down here but you can never stop learning and never stop growing, Abdallah said, revealing he was invited to train at the famed Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. Hailing from the renowned XFC - Australian Top Team gym in Carrum Downs, Abdallah recently returned from America, where he trained with the likes of Roy Nelson and other world-class fighters. Rameau Sokoudjou after his brutal win against Marcelo Tenorio at AFC 19 in China. Whatever opportunities are out there, I’m going to take them.” “Where it takes me, it takes me, but there’s no point talking about ‘this is my goal’ every day. AFC in China was great and I want to keep growing in the sport. “I’m taking it fight by fight and loving the journey. ![]() “There’s big things happening in Australia and great opportunities internationally with AFC and other major promotions worldwide, but I’m at the point where I don’t want to look ahead. “Once I get the win, it’s going to catapult me back into the mix of all the big names,” Abdallah said. The UFC and other major promotions have been circling and Abdallah knows a victory over Sokoudjou will open doors. Nobody will walk through me, and if he thinks he will, he’s got another thing coming.” “That’s one thing I can say, I come to fight. “You think you are going to come to my home town and destroy me? If that’s what you feel you’ll do, good luck, but no one has ever walked through me. “There’s a way of going about it, but I thought he was a bit rude and brash,” Abdallah said. He claims he’s big, so I’m going to come to his house and beat him up.”Ībdallah felt Sokoudjou (18-18 in MMA) was disrespectful. “I’ve got to take a trip to Australia and beat his a. “He’s been talking trash so I’m going to beat him up,” Sokoudjou said moments after his win over Tenorio. The pair has traded barbs in recent months, with Sokoudjou telling the Herald Sun in April he was going to shut Abdallah’s mouth. “Maybe he’s looking at my footage and saying ‘don’t get in the clinch’.” Most of my wins have come from a clinch uppercut. Tenorio made the drastic mistake of entering the clinch with Sokoudjou, but Abdallah said he would happily challenged the former KSW light heavyweight champion in close. Melbourne's Jamie Abdallah after his big win over Daniel Almeida at AFC 12.
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