Following one of his top client's wins at UFC 113, strength and conditioning coach Kevin Kearns spoke with FiveKnuckles.com about Marcus Davis' knockout win over Jonathan Goulet.

"Marcus showed up to fight," Kearns said. "He wasn't going to let it go to the judges. No way. He didn't want that to happen, not in Montreal."

Kearns scored the first round even, with Davis landing some good shots before Goulet scored a take down. But in the second round, while standing, Davis tagged Goulet with a two-hit combination, dropping the Canadian to the mat.

"The Dan Hardy fight could have gone either way," said Kearns. "I had Marcus ahead. Obviously, the Ben Saunders fight, he got knocked out. But yes, the goal [against Goulet] was speed, speed, speed, speed, speed. Speed was gonna kill. That's the way we worked him. Speed, agility and the whole bit."

Overall, Kearns was impressed with Davis' performance, but was anxious when the fight went to the ground. Throughout the training camp, Kearns and Mark DellaGrotte drilled "getting back up" into Davis' head. This idea was built into his strength training also, as they concentrated on getting Davis back to his feet to eliminate some of Goulet's wrestling advantage.

Kearns agreed with a statement Davis made, admitting that another consecutive loss would have meant a cut from the UFC for the Maine fighter.

"Three losses isn't gonna be good," he said. "So the goal was to get him through this one."

While Davis is currently slated to take on Nate Diaz at UFC 118, earlier rumors indicated that Davis might fight Phil Baroni. Kearns was open to that fight, but was interested in seeing the "Irish Hand Grenade" have a stand up war against Paul Daley, who has since been released from the UFC.

UFC 118 will take place in August in Boston. While contracts have not been signed, Davis and Diaz have both verbally agreed to meet at the event.