The co-main event of Friday’s Bellator 156 inside the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California will be a welterweight bout as Chidi Njokuani looks to improve to 2-0 in Bellator when he meets Thiago Jambo.
Njokuani (14-4, 1NC) is coming off a win against Ricky Rainey last year in his Bellator debut and was initially scheduled to meet former Bellator welterweight champion Douglas Lima. However, Lima was pulled from the event last week to replace Josh Koscheck against Paul Daley at Bellator 158 and Bellator turned to Jambo to face Njokuani.
During Sunday’s edition of “The MMA Report Podcast,” Njokuani was a guest on the show and one of the topics he discussed on the weekly podcast was treating MMA as a business and not a sport.
“It was at the point where I really started taking it serious,” Njokuani said on The MMA Report Podcast about treating MMA as a business and not a sport. “I started to understand that it’s all about who you know or what you know or what you can bring to company. I just have to sit down and be ok with everything.”
Check out Njokuani’s complete interview from Sunday’s edition of “The MMA Report Podcast” below and be sure to subscribe to the show on iTunes and Stitcher.