It’s easy to tell that Mike Rodriguez is getting close to fight time. A couple weeks before he steps into the Octagon for the second time against Adam Milstead this Saturday, he’s got that energy in his voice. And when the conversation turns to his first UFC bout in April, the man who will be cutting down to 205 pounds shortly uses pizza as the example for the point he’s making.
“This is a different level,” he said when comparing the regional MMA circuit to the UFC. “No offense to the local scene, but that’s like Domino’s Pizza, and now we’re dealing with straight from Italy, OG pizza.