"Even going back to like your wrestling days, you don't want to get beat by someone that gets f*cking beat out of the tournament right away. You don't cheer for other people in this sport, but still like okay, that's if you got if I would have got beat by someone that wouldn't like 0-2 to and got cut I'd be like f*ck."
"I know this works and I'm going to try it because I'm crazy. I use that more for like a sweep just get people back down, but my coaches were like man, you have it f*cking just f*cking put your hips in and I did I f*cking got it which I never submit people with that in the room. So that was actually kind of a surprise."
"I think I'm a little bit more crafty and I go around issues. If I meet resistance doing something, I'm usually not going to try to go through it. I'm just going to find another way."
Wes Schultz initially lost his first Dana White's Contender Series appearance to Mansur Abdul-Malik, but gained confidence watching his opponent succeed in the UFC. After approximately one year, Schultz received a second Contender Series opportunity against Mario Mingaj. He won decisively using a suloev stretch submission—the first in Contender Series history and only the third under Zuffa. The submission surprised Schultz himself, as his coaches encouraged him to fully commit to the technique. Now competing in the UFC against Damian Pinas in Mexico City, Schultz attributes his success to technical craftiness and problem-solving ability, preferring to navigate around resistance rather than force through it.
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