Tatsuya Kawajiri went from thinking he might be released to realizing he could still be UFC champion.
The Japanese fan favorite said after his unanimous decision win over Dennis Siver at UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk vs. Penne on Saturday in Berlin that he believes he could become UFC champion once the organization's new drug-testing policies begin next month.
"I heard from July that the drug-testing policy is going to be very strict," Kawajiri said at the post-fight press conference. "So I think [without] those monsters of fighters in the UFC who may have had a problem with these things, I may be able to win this division now.