You've both fought Frank Gomez. While you came away with a win, he was submitted in the second round. Are you able to draw confidence from a situation like that, knowing you've beaten a guy he's lost to in the past?

I don't get overconfident. I'm confident, but I never get to a point where I'm like I know I have everything. I gotta be ready to fight.

Noah is in the WEC for a reason; we're not just pulling bums off the street to fight for us, so the only thing it does is, on one hand, I fought Gomez and dominated him. I imposed my will on him and won very quickly.

On the other hand, Noah couldn't get anything going against Frank. Frank dominated him, imposed his will there, so it makes me look at it from two different ways. Either Noah's not willing to fight as hard as Frank and as hard as I do, or Frank is actually that much better than him and I put it to Frank in a minute nine.

They're both tough guys; I don't look at it any other way than he got beat up and I didn't. When I go into this fight, it's just going to be my gameplan: face paced, in his face, on the feet, I'm sure it will hit the ground, I'm sure we'll be back up and I'm going to finish him before the third round.

That's my plan from now on, to finish guys. No more decisions; I can go the distance, but I want to finish.

Last time out you lost a split decision to Antonio Banuelos. Looking back on the fight, what are some things you could have done differently to maybe sway the decision in your favor or do judges sometimes just not see things the same way as you do inside the cage?

I think it's partly that, but like I said, I wouldn't change anything. The only thing that I think kind of changed that fight was the first round.

He looked really good that first round and I didn't and unfortunately it was because I couldn't see. The first punch he landed landed on my eyeball; it wasn't an illegal blow or anything like that, it's just those small gloves fit right in my eye socket.

Rather than call a timeout, have the doctors come in and look at it because I didn't think they'd let me fight. So I faked as much as I could and tried to keep moving and use my advantage. That's why I kept clinching. I was just trying to hang out, let my vision come back. I knew I was safe and I'd probably lose that first round, but I couldn't see.

That's the only thing that sucked, dude. I think that first round made him look good enough that the first part of the second round, when I really couldn't see perfect yet, he looked good and that's what kind of won the fight.

I would have fought the same way, just been able to see.

Yeah, being able to see usually helps.

I just wish they would let us go one ten minute, one five minute like they do in Japan, because you put me in a ten minute fight, a ten minute first round and I'm going to hurt some people. I'm going to make them quit, so that's the only thing.

It slowed me...