Wolves fan Jai Herbert pledges to use UFC fight to shift focus from impending relegation

“But I’ll get the win for Wolverhampton on Saturday and that should give the people something to cheer about anyway.”

The “Black Country Banger” remained optimistic about his team’s chances of immediately returning to the Premier League, adding: “It’s one of them ones, man. They’ll come back up next season.

“He [Edwards] has got the experience in the Championship and we’ve still got some decent players. So I think they’ll come back up.”

Premier League survival could become mathematically impossible for Wolves this weekend (Getty)

Over a year on from his last outing in front of a partisan crowd at UFC London, Herbert will tasked with dealing with quite the opposite environment as he takes on a Canadian fighter in his own country.

But Herbert is not bothered by being the subject of hostility, saying: “I’m not ready to play the villain. I’m just ready to go out there and get the win, get a knockout.

“I’ve dealt with it before. I’ve been to different places where people have their own crowd. But at the end of the day, they can’t fight for you. That’s the way I see it, they literally can’t do nothing for you.

“It actually helps you to be honest, when they’re giving you stick and that and stuff, it gives you powers. You’ve got to use it – it’s motivation.”