LONDON – Welsh knockout artist John Phillips finally is a UFC fighter, and he can’t wait to jump into the octagon for the first time. Phillips told MMAjunkie the experience of being a part of a UFC fight week took him by surprise a little, leaving him surprisingly emotional. “It’s an absolute emotional rollercoaster,” he said. “I remember watching my fellow old teammate Brett Johns fight (in the UFC), and he’s crying all the time! I thought, what the (expletive) is he crying for? But now I’m here, I understand why he was crying all the time. “The amount of times I’ve nearly burst into tears – it’s just an emotional rollercoaster and it’s a relief that you’ve trained so hard and sacrificed so much and put so much in to get to this stage.
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