Jens: Good.

MMAYOU.com: What's new with you? How is training coming along?

Jens: Training's great, just tryin to do my thang, you know? Getting ready to go to the gym pretty soon. Getting back into the swing of things. I've been going for about a month now and I'm just starting to pick it up even harder.

MMAYOU.com: You're set to face Urijah Faber next, please give us your thoughts on how you match-up with him.

Jens: If the fight happens and it is. Nothing has been made official but that's who I want to fight next is Urijah for sure. Matching up with him is simple. He's fast, he's powerful, he's explosive but he's got the wrestling background and it's just a matter of being able to uh, I gotta disassemble his gameplan. I gotta stop his takedowns, I gotta stop his clinches and I need to be effective in the standup area. If I'm not then I'm going to have to come at it differently but my goal is to alleviate anything he has standing up and take the wrestling to him. I want to take him to the ground, I want to get after him. The biggest thing is is don't end up on the bottom. I want to end up on top. I want to be the one landing the damaging shots. With a guy like this you just gotta keep moving. It's gonna be a scramble and those are the kind of fights he loves. He likes to invent things as he goes out there and my job is to capitalize and catch him with my reach, my kicks, my punches, and I gotta beat him standing up and then like I said take the wrestling away from him.

MMAYOU.com: I spoke to Urijah recently and he mentioned that he feels one of the strengths he has over you is his conditioning. What do you have to say about that?

Jens: Yeah, by all means if that's what he's banking on then fight off. If that's what he thinks his strength is is conditioning then he is going to be absolutely surprised. Nobody really got to see my new strength and conditioning in my last fight because it went thirty seconds but the reality is I was the king of going twenty-five minutes. It may have not been the most exciting fight in the world but this isn't my first time going five, five minute rounds and I can do it all day long. If you're going to question my conditioning that's great. If that's one of his hopes then that's phenomenal because the reality is I know what I'm doing. I know what it takes to get ready for a twenty-five minute fight. Been there, done that and I've got no uh.,. I've got no lack of confidence in my coaches, in my training, and in my preparation to go 25 minutes.

MMAYOU.com: Nice, well then I am glad I called you with some good news then. It's been rumored that Zuffa is picking up some Japanese featherweights. Is there any chance of us seeing a fight with you and Kid Yamamoto in the future?

Jens: I always pushed for a Kid Yamamoto but I do know, I have heard they have picked up Jow Hawkins. I mean not Jow Hawkins, sorry man I'm going way old school, but little Nogueria, little pequeno Nogueria, which you know is pretty exciting because he left the belt in Shooto. He was the long time reigning 143lb champion in Shooto. I was working my way to fight him at point and he left, went another avenue and that fight was vacated and they were asking me to fight Takaya, but at that point I bumped up and they asked me to fight Gomi at a different weight so I took the fight with Gomi. I'm pretty excited. I am excited Nogueria is in there. I'd love to fight Kid Yamamoto. I think Urijah Faber is exactly that. He is the same thing. There is no difference between Yamamoto and Faber other then Yamamoto has explosive standup power which we know he has. I'm just excited for 145lbs, bottomline. I'd like to see the 145lbers and the 155lbers, I'd like to see them start making money in this sport, big money. It's just our job to get out there and get after these fights and make them exciting and make the fans want to see these. Maybe then they won't spend so much putting it all into the heavyweights so we'll find out but I'm excited and I'll fight anybody. Everybody they want to line up at any time. Right now my goal is to get the title but beyond that it is to fight the best 145lbers out there.

MMAYOU.com: Is there anyone in particular you would like to face or just whoever is the best that's who you'll fight?

Jens: For me, I've been around a long time, I've been in there with the best fighters, I'd like to just keep fighting, pound it out, I'd love to go after this belt. The next fight for the title, that's all I think about. After that, get that belt, sit back, and let them come to me. I'll fight whoever they put in front of me, I don't make a choice. If something were to happen, I gotta climb that road one more time, like I said, let them come to me. I'll fight anybody and everybody.

MMAYOU.com: I want to touch on The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) show for a second and ask two things; 1) How is Corey Hill doing? & 2) did you ever train get to train with BJ Penn?

Jens: Never got a chance to train with BJ. In fact when I was really looking forward to doing it this time around, Urijah was up there training with him. So it kind of would have made an awkward moment if BJ was training myself and Urijah at the same time so I felt it probably not the best idea.

Corey Hill on the other hand is doing everything I said he was going to do. When I said at the end of the show in six months to a year from now nobody is going to want to meet Corey Hill, guess what? They should have fought him in the very beginning because they do not want to fight him now. You cannot, I don't care who you are at fifty-five and I am going to say right now not even Sean Sherk, you cannot outwrestle this guy. And of course he's learned how to use his 6'4 reach and he's gonna be nothing but a problem. You see his last fight? He just decimated the guy. Corey is starting to relax. Corey when he gets four or five fights, that's all she wrote. Nobody's going to beat this guy. He is going to be the next world-champion at 155lbs. I said it when I seen im. I can tell by the intensity. You can't get the guy to stop trainin. I've never met anybody like this. He's got unbelievable amounts of talent and he's the kind of guy that's not gonna waste and I think comin over here and trainin with Pat has done that for him. He's coming along nicely.

MMAYOU.com: Well there you go. If anybody is the man to teach him, Pat is definitely the man for that. Going back to your last fight at 145lbs you looked so quick and strong at 145. How much has coming down in weight helped you?

Jens: See that's the thing I never really came down in weight aside from the simple fact that I was a 151 when it was time to get on the go in cutting weight. I did forty-five minutes in the sauna and never missed a meal, never missed a meal, never missed water, never did anything like that and made 144. That's just my natural weight. The only thing different this time around training and stuff was the mental aspect. I felt great, I felt good, I was excited. My training camp was phenomenal. I got in there with some new styles of lifting. I got in there swimming. Kevin Yontz, unbelievable conditioning coach, Karo Fitness Extreme, they've just been amazing, CFX. I just had a rebirth. I learned how to train like an old man but at the same token all of a sudden all these things just started popping up. I was like, oh my god, I found my fountain of youth. I feel unbelievable. Once the stress and the pressure were out of my head and my personal life quieted down, I was ready to go.

MMAYOU.com: Speaking of your last fight, many people might not know this but Cub Swanson is a very accomplished grappler. Did you think you were going to win this fight by submission?

Jens: I knew exactly that I was going to win by submission. That's why I never threw a single punch in the beginning of the fight. I was going after him the whole time. I got a new grappling coach, I said his name, Pedro Silveira. He'll be back up here again at the beginning of April and that was the game plan. From day one with working with Pedro is I take my weaknesses and where I am weak and attack. Don't sit back and try to defend things like I did with BJ and make the mistake and basically let him just climb up. Cause in the standup world I would never sit there and try to block everything and never throw a punch until they finally sneak one through after trying to block ten and then they get one through. Same thing on the ground man, don't sit back and wait for them to climb all over you and then oops well they finally got me. Attack, get after them and that's exactly what I did. And my strong points, where I'm strong, then you sit back, focus, aim your shots, boom boom boom, be a little more calculated. But then your weak shots, that's when you get after it, you start putting them on the defense, and slow them down and that's just what we worked on. I've got nine million ways to lock up that neck man and I just now am going to start using them.

MMAYOU.com: In closing, is there anything you would like to say to your fans?

Jens: They all know the same thing, man I love em! Period. I love you all and that's all there is to it. I love the fans. Then just to make sure you check out www.jenspulver.com . I'm on there. I try to blog as close as 3 times a week and I'm constantly writing back so they can check me out there. Keep up the support, I thank you very much, and I love hearing from them.

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