UFC: Jorge Masvidal promises a ‘horror movie’ in 2020 after calling impressive 2019 a ‘movie preview’
- Jorge Masvidal likens his stellar year to watching the preview to ‘a very good movie’; says 2020 will be ‘legendary’
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Freshly crowned UFC performance and knockout of the year awards winner Jorge Masvidal says 2019 was just a preview to the “horror movie” that will be 2020.
The 35-year-old Masvidal had one of the promotion’s biggest career resurgences having knocked out British contender Darren Till, set a record-fast five second knockout of Ben Askren, and won the BMF belt against Nate Diaz – in his 15th year in professional fighting.
“In 2019 you went to watch a very good movie, and the preview was so good that you forget you were here to watch this other movie,” the Cuban-American (professional MMA record 35-13) told Brendan Tobin on Radio Row.
“Well that preview was 2019, and 2020 is gonna be a [expletive] legendary movie. It’s gonna be a horror movie, man.”
Masvidal, who before turning pro used to fight bare-knuckle in Kimbo Slice’s backyard, explained the main difference between being a “journeyman” fighter to becoming one of the UFC’s biggest draws.