Matavao warns Vemola and fans who underestimate him: if I shoot, everyone will fall

Just a few more days and Karlos Vémola will be officially back. On April 15th he will be challenged by the underrated Al Matavao in the Home Credit Arena in Liberec. But what is the Terminator’s message to his opponent and to the fans of Oktagon?

It was July last year, when Karlos Vémola was last seen in an Oktagon cage. That’s when he defeated Aleksandar Ilic in Prague’s Štvanica. Then came the expected duel with Patrik Kinclo, but the Terminator’s parts broke down.

He wants to warm up and so he will be challenged by Al Matavaa relatively shortly before the fight with Kincl. Fans underestimate him, but promoters and Matavao himself warn that underestimating him could pay off heavily.

Matavao has only lost to Samuel Kristofich in the Octagon so far, and it should be noted that even he was in danger. At least until he found out that Matavao was pretty much a zero on the ground. He was a threat in the standup though.

And it was fighters like Pavel Salcak and Marek Mazuch who felt the hard grenades in the stance. Matavao shut them both down in the first round. The same could threaten Terminator if underestimated.

“I guess most of you underestimate me against Carlos, but I shut down one opponent after another and that’s what got me to the Contender Series,” Matavao says in a video shared by Octagon.

“That young man Mazuch is the only one in the Octagon who has shut down Apollo. I finished him in the first round. Trust me. When I shoot, everybody goes down. And on April 15, count on me to strike again,” he added.

However, Vemola is a huge favourite and it shows in the odds and the amounts bet. Can Matavao really shock?

Source: Octagon MMA