Tell Joe Schilling all you want that you're going to stand and trade with him. He's not going to buy it.
The Bellator MMA fighter and GLORY kickboxing standout meets Hisaki Kato at Bellator 139 on Friday in Mulvane, Kan. On paper, Kato is a karate fighter who has won all of his pro MMA fights via knockout. But Schilling thinks the Japanese middleweight will try to take things to the canvas early and often -- much the same way his last foe, Rafael Carvalho, did.
"Especially after the last fight, I just think anybody that says they're gonna stand up with me is just blowing smoke," Schilling told Ariel Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Beat.