English lightweight John Maguire (18-5 MMA, 2-2 UFC) and Canadian Mitch Clarke (9-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC) both are coming off back-to-back losses inside the octagon. But to Maguire, their common stat doesn’t mean they enter the cage at UFC 161 on even ground. “Clarke’s dropped two, and he’s not won a fight in the UFC, and he’s fighting in his own home country,” Maguire told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “So I think the pressure is on him.” Clarke hails from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which is a province west of the pay-per-view event’s host in Winnipeg. “Of course, there’s pressure on me,” said Maguire, who makes the drop from welterweight
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UFC 161′s ‘thinking fighter’ John Maguire prefers having no game plan – MMA Junkie