Alexander Gustafsson met Heavyweight kickboxing contender Benjamin Adegbuyi when the latter was flown to Sweden to be the sparring partner of light-heavyweight's fight with Jimi Manuwa.
Adegbuyi was surprised of Gustafsson power that he believes that he can knock out Jon Jones in their fight.
Adegbuyi came into the spotlight when Gustafsson mentioned him in Facebook saying that he should be in the running for a shot at the GLORY heavyweight title.
Adegbuyi was overwhelmed by Gustafsson's message of support saying "Yeah he saw the news on the GLORY website where [heavyweight champion] Rico Verhoeven was asking 'who's next?' to challenge him."
He added "Myself and Alex stayed in good relations ever since I was part of his training camp for the Jimi Manuwa fight earlier this year. I didn't ask him to put that out on Facebook, he did it himself, I thought it was nice."
"It got a really good reaction, much more than I would have expected. Within a few hours I had so many friend requests on Facebook, from all around the world, and a lot of people offering me support and saying it would be nice to see me fight against Rico."
Gustafsson fight with Manuwa ended in an epic manner as Gustafsson was the first fighter to beat the previously undefeated Manuwa but also managed to do it by way of stoppage on the feet. A lot of fans was surprised over the turnout of events except Adegbuyi saying he knew how strong Gustafsson is.
He said "I had a strange feeling when I first sparred with him. You go to any mixed martial arts gym and you're like OK, they have good Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and wrestling and of course they have stand-up and Muay Thai, but obviously you wouldn't expect that their pure striking would be as good as in a kickboxing gym."
He added "So I was very surprised by Alex because he has very quick hands, good boxing, good kicking. If you went in there and didn't take him seriously... well, he would quickly make you take him seriously, you know?"
"Andreas [Michael, head coach] at All Stars is former boxing coach to the Swedish Olympic team so I think he's a big part of that. They have a good Thai coach there as well. Actually I think if Alex ever came over to fight in Glory he would do very well."
