SpongeBob is not a name you normally hear when talking about UFC fighters. Yet somehow, he ended up being Cub Swanson's inspiration heading into his last fight against Darren Elkins.

Cub Swanson won the fight by TKO in a dominant performance. He later spoke to MMAJunkie and explained how SpongeBob was the inspiration behind his most recent victory.

“I knew they were going to be there, and I knew there was going to be a motivation,” Swanson recently told MMA Junkie Radio. “That’s why I kept the same song. I usually switch it up, but that’s the third fight in a row I kept the SpongeBob song.

“It’s a cool song, first of all. But my kids – me and Kenda would play the song and say, ‘Hey, we’re going to go watch Daddy’s fight’ and kind of mentally prepped them so when they heard the song, they’d cheer. We did all that, and I knew they were taken care of. I knew my wife would do a good job with that.

“Once I was really ready for the fight backstage and in the zone, I just focused on being mean. I felt like Darren is such a gritty fighter, and I was ready to go three rounds with him that I had to go that dark place that I have to go to sometimes to be ‘Killer Cub.'”

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Cub Swanson has continued being an excellent fighter even as he enters the last chapter of his UFC career. Right now, he's hoping SpongeBob will lead him to victory in a potential fight against Urijah Faber.