With the retirement of Jack Shore and Cory McKenna’s launch this 12 months, Elliott is now the lone Welsh fighter underneath contract within the UFC.
He insists he doesn’t really feel the strain.
“I do not put strain on myself or my fights,” mentioned the Merthyr-born fighter.
“It is the identical sport and artwork I’ve all the time executed since a child once I did it totally free, did it for enjoyable, so I am simply grateful I get to do it.”
When requested what recommendation he would give his youthful self, Elliott mentioned:
“I’d simply say do not even take into consideration stopping but younger man, maintain going.
“You see that imaginative and prescient that you may see so crystal clear, by no means let go of it, chase it and chase it, maintain digging and digging.
“Will probably be so distant after which within the palm of your palms so maintain going and keep out the pub!”
Elliott was again within the Shore Combined Martial Arts fitness center in Abertillery only a week after his efficiency in New York.
“In fact I am again within the fitness center,” mentioned Elliott.
“Each single second I put in on that mat. I do not see it as a chore, it is one thing I’ve executed for enjoyable, to self medicate all my life and it is one thing I see as cash within the financial institution.”
Elliott says protecting a grateful angle has been key to his successes.
“I really feel just like the extra grateful you might be for issues, the extra the great issues come to you and I am simply having fun with the experience
“I am unable to wait to see what I do subsequent and the way far I can take this.
“If it is something like how I see it going then it’ll be enjoyable.”
Elliott has made no secret of wanting to honour his late father Paul in his career.
The struggle in Madison Sq. Backyard supplied a second of celebration for his or her household, particularly his mom.
“It is simply actually emotional for me to speak to her, to see how blissful she is for the life we have needed to endure, the properly documented darkness we went by means of.
“It meant the world to offer one thing again in a optimistic manner.
“As I look again now, that chapter of my life, I’ve capped that off, my debut 12 months within the UFC, my manner of avenging my hardships was all the time attending to the UFC.
“My first 12 months I capped it off like that, it was prefer it was written as a result of I consider it genuinely was written, onwards and upwards.”
