Francis Ngannou doesn’t care if UFC fans believe in him because he believes in himself ahead of UFC Beijing rematch with Curtis Blaydes.

Francis Ngannou’s UFC career began with a bang. He won six straight fights, including back-to-back first-round knockouts that propelled him straight into title contention. Unfortunately, the power hitter has suffered greatly in 2018, being handed back-to-back losses and fighting the losing half of one of the UFC’s most boring fights to date. Now, ahead of his rematch with Curtis Blaydes, he’s standing on the precipice of continuing down a long UFC career or derailing it with a third straight loss.

No pressure or anything.

Ngannou, who many believe has lost the spark he once had, says he will use that doubt to his advantage.

“That is the story of my life,” Ngannou told FanSided. “If someone thinks I’m done, that’s OK. I only have one answer back for that. I’m here and I’m going to keep fighting. Look at how people are when I’m winning, they’ll come back. All the people that are doubting me, that are wondering if I can come back. That doubt, back before I was winning, no one believed in me. Then at some point almost everybody believes in me. So if someone believes in me, or someone doesn’t — I don’t care. I just have to have confidence, that’s it.”

He’ll be taking on a familiar face in Blaydes, and a certain level of comfortability in that he’s already defeated him once, though he isn’t underestimating what is before him.

“Of course he’s improved,” he said. “That’s something that everyone does, but he’s still pretty much the same fighter. He’s aggressive, good striking, ground and pound, that’s pretty much the same thing all the time.”

Ngannou who most recently fought Derrick Lewis, says that his bout with the fan favorite taught him a lot about himself.

“Of course after the Derrick fight I had to learn to see things differently, in a new way,” he said. “I let myself get too into the fight, and then I left myself in that fight. Now what I have to do now, is just leave that behind. I have to forget that loss and move forward. I don’t really even think of that as a loss, I didn’t even fight.”

Ngannou will face Blaydes in the main event for UFC Beijing which will air on UFC Fight Pass exclusively at 3 AM ET/12 AM PT. The main card is set to begin at 6:30 AM ET/3:30 AM PT.