Modestas Bukauskas shouldn’t have been this cool. The Lithuanian light heavyweight was making his UFC debut against a short-notice opponent with the world watching, and you would have thought it was sparring day at the gym.
It wasn’t. But you couldn’t have told him that. He had been waiting for this moment forever.
“I must have replayed that fight in my head a gazillion times,” he said of the lead-up to his July debut. “All the feelings you get, even driving up in my car, listening to music and thinking of certain actions in the fight, playing it along to the music, I've seen it in my head so many times.