A week before his Saturday headliner in Mexico City, Yair Rodriguez isn’t thinking about his opponent, Jeremy Stephens.
“I'm not focused on the fight right now,” said Rodriguez the day before he would climb once again to the fourth highest peak in Mexico, Nevado de Toluca. “I'm just focused on myself. If I focus on myself in every moment that I have and if I can transform that in a positive way, that's what I'm trying to do. The fight is going to go easy if I can do that.”
He might be right, considering that the featherweight contender spent three weeks training at a location with an even higher elevation than Mexico City’s 7,382 feet.