the main event probably the the easiest call of the night I mean big undefeated heavyweight that gets uh gets finished in the first round yeah I mean uh Igor
de Silva in my opinion was oh Igor’s the best one yeah yeah I mean when you look at
first of all like I said out there you know 20 years old is way too young
guy’s been fighting for five years at 20 years all these first fight was when he was 15. he’s 8-0 100 finish rate four
Knockouts four Subs went in there and looked incredible and uh yeah you know this this kid is also a
champion in Jungle fights so he’s had five round experience too where do you
find a kid 20 years old that has all of that nowhere uh so he was my first choice for
the night and obviously yeah a big heavyweight like that who’s now 11-0 undefeated obviously has big Power one
punch knockout power and at his age he’s a guy you can you can throw that’s what I liked about a couple of you know I got
a guy that’s too young and I got a couple of guys that uh can be thrown right into big fights right now I was
gonna ask you about that because you mentioned Igor de Silva and Kanan 32 years old 20 years old is it you know
for guys that are like the guys that are out there that want to be here right is there an ideal path is it like you know
at Young you know 20 years old you could kind of maybe get a shot or is it hey would you say get more seasoning get
more fights is there is everybody’s unique everybody’s got a different story and a different background and you know
this kid’s been fighting for five years he’s 20 years old some of these kids that we find that are you know 24 25
haven’t been fighting for five years so uh I think that every guy has unique
experience and and you know Kanan is another one uh he’s got 16 fights with
13 finishes so that’s a lot of experience and what does that tell you with 13 finishes he
doesn’t around that guy goes into finish fights so he’s right up my alley when guys come in young like that I mean
we just had Raul roses Junior competing you know a teenager do you tell the matchmakers anything like hey these young guys let’s tell them nothing they
these guys know what they’re doing this is probably other than like
the UFC and and you know guys that are ranked and guys that have made it the
matchmaking on this show is incredible incredible so I don’t question anything I don’t know anything when I walk in I
have no rooting interest at all I just walk in and whatever happens on Tuesday night happens and I make a decision
based off what I see there and then once I you know I’m watching them fight and then as I start to dive into who they
are and where they come from and what they’ve done it’s fun so walk us through the logic on
the draw right unique situation you got a draw so you don’t have a winner and we’re sitting here thinking do you go
zero contracts do you go two contracts you all know what a 10-8 round is now right yes that was a 10-8 round right
would everybody agree that was a 10-8 round 100 complete domination looks like it could be stopped uh you know the the
significant strikes were 50 something to nine that’s a 10-8 round let’s just let’s
start there um yes the first ever draw the minute that girl Stephanie stepped into the
octagon it’s this weird thing that happens to me I was like huh interesting let’s see how she fights
she’s super young she’s 23 years old she’s five and one this other girl’s 32 she’s 4-0 this is
like both ends of the spectrum for me and then as the fight started to play out
um yeah I like Stephanie it’s gonna be I’m interested to see her first fight in the
UFC she goes home and works on some things what I really loved is when you look at Toledo she’s a six-time
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu world champion black belt and she had a lot of ground control
her big thing is the rear naked choke she had her back a few times she couldn’t finish her so
it’s interesting it’s going to be interesting to see what Stephanie can do um I want to ask you would say International flavor night you know we
had Dana White’s considered series Brazil before is there any talk ever of doing like National themed shows like
that again or do you feel like just the one season each year is enough what’s the question you know how you did like uh consider series Brazil before like
tonight we had a lot of Brazilians a lot of that was tonight tonight yeah Thunder series Brazil I was wondering I mean do
you ever talk about doing like International theme Seasons like that again we have talked about it yeah we actually recently within the last week
we talked about it um but I don’t know you know I was worried about coming out of kovid that
you know we’d have a hard time with town it’s actually been the opposite I mean there’s there’s Talent popping up
everywhere so I don’t know could be a couple outside tonight you mentioned the 10-8 rounds I
think we all know what you’re referencing there well we didn’t see you on Saturday so I guess what were your thoughts on the title fight and and how it played out
so I was on vacation when this thing happened and I’m sitting in my house going
10 when I found out that one of the judges scored 10-8 I’m like this guy should be investigated for this
this is the craziest I’ve ever seen in my life and as I started to talk to people
you know I guess there was a you know there’s a seminar tomorrow with the athletic Commission on 10 8. so
hopefully they can get this cleared up especially in title there’s so much at stake in a title fight more than just
money um you know show and win and pay-per-view and championships and and Legacies and it’s
just you have to have the best of the best in title fights so
um they’ve assured me that this guy isn’t a bad guy he just up and made a mistake and it’s it’s unfortunate
and there’s no way in hell that was a 10-8 round Now you kind of wonder what you do next
right I mean it sounds like Valentina is going to need surgery on her hands so I don’t know if that impacts it but do you feel like they need to fight a third
time not the rematch you have to do the rematch we will rematch them it’s it’s the right thing
to do it’s the it’s the fight that needs to happen and uh yeah so let me tell you guys this let me
tell you this text I got today ah what did it go
all right hey Dana your idea to go all in on Mexican
Independence Day paid off Noche UFC was the most watched Fight Night of all time
on ESPN Plus 1.1 million unique views
1.1 million people that had never been to ESPN plus tuned in for that fight
so think about that it generated 167 million total minutes
yeah and it was it did 3x the average viewership minutes watched on the
Spanish feed killed it it was an incredible success you I mean uh do you think you’ll make
that an annual event I think we weren’t really sure going into it I mean it was super I will get that date every year
from now on yes nice uh and you did say that so you’ll match them next chefchenko grass so
we’ll have to compete fight next you think yes great last thing for me I just want to get a follow-up have you had a chance to speak to Israel out of Sonya
yet we’re still kind of waiting I have not I know he’s in LA right now working on some stuff but no I haven’t talked to
him are you waiting to hear from him before you decide what to do at middleweight I don’t know listen he’s
one of the things we were talking about this this week too that we always love about Israel Israel was willing to fight anybody
anywhere anytime love to turn around quickly and and fight again and when he wants to fight
he’ll let us know Dana going back to that 10-8 um obviously we can’t really make an
assumption but what do you think the judge was thinking during that do you think it was like Oh I thought like Alexa won the fight but I’ve scored it
too far to Valentina so I kind of have to make it up did he not see the choke properly like what do you think could have caused him to make that a 10A
unfortunately you’ll probably never have the opportunity to have him sitting somewhere like this and ask him that
question because only he knows the answer to that question Valentina gets dropped in like the
second or third round I remember that’s not a 10-8 but the fifth round is a 10-8
especially when Valentina was winning the first three minutes of the fifth round it literally makes no sense
is that something you would like to see I know you can’t make it happen but would you like the judges to be able to speak to the media after a controversial
decision or even the commission themselves just come out and speak do you think that’s something that could benefit them or is it going to make them
a target of like crazy hate and yeah unfortunately that is part of the
and and I get it why the athletic commission wouldn’t want to put their guys out in front of you know the media and and and and deal
with the fans and all the um but uh
you just don’t throw 10 AIDS around ten eights are
third round tonight was a 10-8 when there is an absolute ass whooping and
the fight could be stopped at any moment and and one fighter absolutely dominates
from Bell to Bell you can score to 10-8 this whole
what was it a domination control and all this other that’s just the biggest crock of of all time for a
10-8 a 10-8 is an absolute ass whooping period if the judges aren’t going to
speak to the media or the fans do you think they should at least be able to speak to the fighters themselves so can Valentina should be able to go to that
judge and be like explain to me how you gave that 10 8 to Alexa do you think you’d like to see that no no no you’re
not gonna see that um and and you have to understand too and I’m not defending anything
these people are human they make mistakes but that’s this one’s total for
that to be a 10-8 round there is no excuse for that there is no excuse for that 10-8
UFC Knight you want to have that on the same date every year this year you pushed Canelo off that date I know
sometimes you guys are Clash in the past but it seemed like you got that and they didn’t want to go against you you think these numbers that you pulled this I I
will go that date every day I don’t care if somebody here in town gets the date at the arena I’ll go in an opposing
Arena and go head to head with them next year I’m doing this for the rest of my reign here
so they can go on the same night we can go head to head I’m going
thing was a massive success for us this was something that I’ve been thinking about since the day we bought this company so we’re finally in the position
I’m all in all my chips are in on Mexico we’re opening the pi which we’ve spent
you know millions and millions of dollars on uh I was in here talking to you guys it
might even have been you or somebody else we were talking about why why aren’t you doing I said you know what you’re absolutely right why am I not
doing that we did it it was huge and we’ll do it again every year regardless of whether boxing goes
or doesn’t go I will go head-to-head with them every year hey Dana yep um I just have a quick
question about powerslap today there was a new rule announced rule change announced what went into that and what
was the decision behind doing that yeah so the uh you know this thing is still evolving and growing and uh
you know the commission was very uh uh they’ve been great with us and and and figuring this whole thing out and
making it as good as possible we just had drug tests again like there was one failure instead of you know it’s it’s no
different than the UFC in the early days I mean we didn’t start spending millions of dollars a year what you thought of
because we thought it was uh you know just something we wanted to do it’s something that we had to do to clean up the sport and uh you know we’re going to
continue to tweak rules and production and work with the commissions all over the country you know as we lead into
next year early next year we’ll be in five six new States so then we’ll start traveling
around and and you know selling tickets and doing things like that so everything’s good man our video game I
don’t know if I told you guys this all right but the video game did 350 million downloads and
um kicking I mean just kicking ass so it’s all good and the commission’s been awesome they’ve been great to work with
I was wondering if you could also just talk to me a little bit about Raul Rosas Jr and his performance what did you
think of that um who’s performance Raul Rosas who yeah yeah
I mean what what could you it was incredible uh you know he came out and
you know absolutely dominated a real guy tough guy um and look good doing it he got the pop so
I don’t know what it was like for you guys but on on my social
I’ll give you an example like like the Face-Off between Valentina and uh Alexa
did 1.5 million views in less than 24 hours he did three
three million views in less than 24 hours he he doubled
what what the main event did and destroyed the rest of the card as far as views um yeah they love that kid do you think
we could possibly see him maybe headlining a fight night coming up soon maybe we have a youngest well after what
happened on Saturday night we’re going to Mexico so yeah he’ll I don’t think he won’t be
headlining Mexico but he’ll be there so we’re uh we’re already in the works on
on the Mexico Fight thank you you’re welcome going back to the noceoc the outdoor weigh-ins in that q a what did
you think about that did you like that and is that something part of it going for well we’ve done it before we’ve done that before
um many times in different cities but yeah that’s always a winner when the weather’s right yeah
yeah and then last thing just to clarify you talked about how Grasso for sure we want to have that rematch if the injury
of shivchenko and the surgery of the recovery is long are you still going to hold out and make that remix well we’re comfortable with with where she’s at as
far as her injury is we’re comfortable with it that should probably start striking again in uh
three months or a little less yeah yep all good
Dina uh as as you mentioned you want to go back to Mexico and it was announced on the broadcast that the the plan is
for 2024. it could be like first quarter or could it like yeah at the same time as the pi opening no
no it’s gonna be separate events and uh unfortunately I believe I would love to have it coincide with with the opening
of the pi but the timing’s not going to work on that and what are the odds for Alexa to be
we’re not right now do you still have a champ now we realized that it could be like a finite or another Noche UFC in
Mexico City is what are the odds for her to be like defending the belt in in Mexico this time very good
very good so it will depend on when Valentina is is going to be is what it will it will depend on the timing on
valentina’s injury to go back no I think that Valentina can start striking in in under three months or three months so
we’re good we speak we spoke for the first time about uh having this Mexican uh nothing
depends because he was about Cinco de Mayo in March so can you tell us about the with the process of what happened
with your team when the first time you told him I want to do this I want to take this Mexican dates from boxing we I
think we can compete now we have enough Talent can you tell us about the process of what happened during this year together I don’t want to take the dates
from boxing they can do whatever they want to do you know what I mean it’s not like oh I’m gonna take this date now you
can’t have it you guys can go the same time and do whatever you want to do you know what I mean so um
but uh yeah I mean as soon as I said yeah why are we not doing this we
should do this we went right back to the office the next day and started working on building the card and you know
um we built what was Saturday there was a few like unique things for
you for Noche like the graphics and uh the music during the cuts and everything and even the Jersey have you seen the
jerseys are around 600 now I mean they sold out like early in the in the card
and they’re like people’s paying 600 700. I heard about that but I didn’t see him
I didn’t see that yeah they’re on eBay around 700 are they really oh all right
um yeah yeah so this was our first time out and
uh you know how we operate it’ll get better every year we’ll make it bigger and better every year that we do it
um we’re all in on this thing obviously it was free this year do you
see that staying the same every year or do you think eventually it’ll be so big UFC no change do you think it’ll be stay
free or can you see it becoming a pay-per-view yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean just like
everything that we do it will evolve and get better and grow and get bigger and with the opening of the pi and and just
I every time I say this to you guys am I Am I Wrong watch what we do in the
next three years down in Mexico watch what we do in the next three years Dana
um can you explain explain a little bit more on why you passed on Daniel Allen um was it just like was it his record
was his no his age listen take it to finish yeah nope none of that I I look
at people and for example you know um Stephanie right young this that but I
I in that fight tonight she was aggressive she tried to finish the whole
time stuffing shots and I think she was on the ground for six minutes and 27
seconds with a six time Brazilian Jiu Jitsu world champion whose thing is the
rear naked choke stayed out of it the whole time she was dominant on the feet
aggressive and I just saw something in her that I liked and I think she can she can
be somebody now Daniel Allen so he goes in you know if you
you didn’t wrestle tonight you had to stand up he was in there with a damn good wrestler um there were a lot of fouls in the
fight um he is 4-0 and he’s 31 years old and
he needs more time um what I did like about him were all the things that I said he’s undefeated
he’s 5-0 he’s a two to one dog he proved the oddsmakers wrong tonight and everybody who bet against him
tonight he proved them wrong and uh he just needs some more time I think with some time
I think we’ll see him again did Daniel Cormier almost convince you to sign him no no I was saying Cormier
and I were on a plane on the way home from New York and uh you know he was
telling me the story about how he watched UFC 100. and he was like this is awesome he’d
seen it before but for some reason UFC 100 hit him different and he wanted to go to 101. so he went to 101
he loved the show and he said I’m going to do this and he fought like four days later or something like that and that
was it I mean it was I think he was 31 or 32. and became one of the greatest of
all time so listening to that story made me think I’m looking at these guys that are in
their early 30s and I don’t think that they they have enough time to become
world champions or whatever I’m wrong so like even listening to that story
like did it kind of almost push you to sign him no not even close I uh I think
this kid needs more time I think that I would be doing him a huge disservice bringing him in at the level he’s at now
into the UFC he could fight in these smaller shows and get more experience with guys that
are his level and I believe we will see this guy some of them again someday this is one of
those things where like I’m not interested in this guy whatever if this kid can keep it right after not getting picked tonight get some more
experience I believe we’ll see him again um with you saying that you know
grasshovers chefchenko is probably next is it safe to say uh Aaron blanchfield
versus monoporos probably going to be next for the number one Contender it would make sense right
um and then finally there’s been some Rumblings China in December um is it uh are you trying to do Wei Li
Zhang versus Yao xionon for the throwaway title uh
uh yeah that’s not true that that wouldn’t be China no okay thank you yep
you know you know we’re we’re getting thin on questions at the contender series when you guys are asking me about China fights this better
be good what do you got all right I’m putting the focus back on Contender um igoro Silva obviously won a
contract today and he’s only 20 years old last year you signed Raul Rose’s Junior who’s going to turn 19 next month uh someone who’s been around this game
for a long time what do you make of all these young athletes making it to the big stage at such a young age and what
do you make of this like in terms of the evolution of the sport where we’re seeing all these young guys make it to the UFC at that age I think think that
every once in a while you will find these these kids that are special that you know at a younger age they can come
in here and they can adapt to it I mean look at Vitor Belfort if you toward Belfort was like 18 years old with his
first fight in the UFC and the guy became a legend and stuck around forever and fought all the best in the world
um some have it and some don’t I think that Igor has it we’re going to find out whether I’m right or wrong so
and uh you said you felt something special and you saw Stephanie make the walk tonight you mentioned like the It
Factor what are some other Fighters you’ve seen that where you felt that same feeling sugar Shawn O’Malley Conor
McGregor the first time I ever met him Ronda Rousey the first time I ever met her um the list goes on Chuck Liddell when I
met Chuck Liddell the UFC didn’t want Chuck Liddell they released them and they didn’t want him in the UFC I mean
when I managed him I was fighting with those guys for like over a year to try to get them to sign Chuck Liddell they
didn’t want him oh wow and uh I wanted to put the folks back on Noche UFC for a second there was a prelim fight between
laserta and chiras where referee Chris taione stopped the fight when he thought leicerta went out I’m not sure if you
saw that after review they made the decision and indeed he was not out and they called it a no decision what’d you make of all that yeah listen it’s
unfortunate it sucks when that stuff happens but when you think about what instant replay was meant to do why it
was you know uh why it was put in place
it did what it was supposed to do and uh and I just kind of bashed on that China stuff but there’s also Rumblings
about Ireland in December is that is that true you had to this whole thing up didn’t you
you were on poor and Ireland I have no idea for going to Ireland yet
you blew it kid you blew it does anybody else have any other stupid questions for
me tonight thank you have a good night
foreign
any good bites congratulations on the Victory and of
course also the UFC contract what are the emotions like for you right now knowing that you’ve got a UFC deals here
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dawned on me yet it hasn’t dawned on me that I’m in the greatest event in the world and I’m ready for it we certainly
put on a great performance tonight uh I can’t imagine you got much to criticize but how do you feel about the way you competed tonight
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I was very preparing for this fight I was actually focused much more in defense than on offense
um I feel that that enable me to actually not have the he didn’t have much much significant striking against
me uh and it then and then I started just to impose that through the box style of fighting which is actually
always pressing forward and I felt that you know that there were some breaches there and then I was able to go in and
started connecting and that’s that’s it you clearly heard him but the guy just wouldn’t go away was there any part of
you that thought I need to slow down a little bit because you know I might run out of energy here we’ll say Clara
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um yeah when I got that knocked down the second round um I started you know still pounding on
them uh while I was on the ground and I I noticed that he was there just kind of
keeping things alive so I just made the decision I was like well I might get tired if I do this so I just kind of
rested on this guard for a second um then but still pressuring still still
putting some elbows there so it’s just you know uh uh still doing stuff and then uh when we came back up I noticed
he was kind of like wobbly he’s like you know I was like softening up a little bit and then that’s that’s when I got
him and I was able to get to that uh to that second big strike and it got him nice last thing for me uh you got the
contract you got to make a debut I know you only fought once this year so I guess what would be ideal for you is it to do it quickly maybe or is it maybe
take some time next year what what’s the plan which my quiz on me yeah
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who cares I’m gonna you know go home uh check if
there’s any you know damage or anything in the sword see if everything’s all right I’m gonna go back home to go
training immediately um and just recover uh regroup a little
bit and I can if the UFC calls up December January I’m ready to go I mean
if maybe you have seen Brazil I’m ready why not
you go over here you had fellow continuous use graduate and now a fellow UFC fighter Joe Anderson Brito on your
corner tonight how is it like having a fighter like him who already went through this process helping you out in your fight for UFC contract is
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foreign it’s very important I mean the fact that he’s been with me all throughout this process always giving me
tips on what to do you know do this don’t do it do that um I I listened to him a lot even like
when I when the fight was happening for example one of the things you would say just you know start this fight very
alert pay attention to his striking you know keep that guard up uh uh and and
I’ve I’m always listening to him because this is a guy that just went through the entire process all the way back to the
gym out there he was always helping me out and and um and he went through the process and
it worked out for him uh and now it worked out for me and I always listened to him it was really important to have
him on my side obviously uh you’re the newest addition to the UFC Flyway division at the top of
this division the belts kind of changed hands quite a bit a couple uh these past couple of years um what do you make of
all that and where do you see yourself in the next coming years for the five-way division is
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start fighting uh as soon as possible because uh at the end I Want To Be A
Champion as well thank you
foreign
contract what’s the emotions like for you right now is
thank you so much as I said it’s the the you know that the call is connecting right now as we like to say in Brazil
just that was Dawning on me that this is happening uh the uh you know the uh sensation of admission accomplished and
to be um to have worked uh throughout my life to be in an organization like the OC it
was a very impressive performance um there were some early striking exchanges between the two of you did you have any concerns with his power at all or how
did it feel in there
uh
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um yeah it started just like we expected and my God it comes from kickboxing something that we have that we had seen
um we basically see the kickboxing and also his right which is I feel that he I
mean he’s got that striking but there is limited from the from the study that we put on
um we we saw that that’s what he had um so he came in and I noticed it was
always at all like The Knockouts that he had always with the right so you always see me moving my head a little bit and
just kind of getting off of their right and we knew that he was going to come in with a jab so after the jab I wanted was
to counter attack and actually that’s what we’re able to do uh as soon as he came with the dead jab at one point I
was able to get the overhand uh right which actually I think is what um really turned kind of like you know
destabilize the fight a little bit and also with um a left cross which is something I have too that I I’m very
it’s very powerful and at this point uh you try to be very intelligent with
things intelligent with things because in fight with intelligence because you when you fight a striker he can knock
you out as well as as quickly as possible as well so I saw the
opportunity to bring him down uh with intelligence and just uh you try to see the opportunity and and that’s what we
do uh you got the choke I mean did you know as soon as it was in that the fight was over here
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foreign oh um yes I am a jiu jitsu black belt so as
soon as I mean I really like to train that stuff it’s something that I always go for I we we always try to get that
neck we I love to train you know Guillotines I like to train arm triangles
um uh rear naked chokes we always try to get we know the adjustments you know
positions so as soon as I got him his back and I took us back and I was still up there my team started the same just
you know be calm here because it’s gonna start shaking you off um and I focused on just basically
getting the hook there and just making sure that I could just lock it in and you know if if I did so much too much
and started sweating or something so I might have uh Fallen uh forward just like you wanted and I noticed that as
soon as you start seeing the opportunity he he moved his right leg and that’s
when I actually came in with the left arm and I actually pulled them in a direction opposite onto the fence at
that moment you know that I I really got it and this is the Jiu-Jitsu that way
that we trained that’s that’s black belt Jiu-Jitsu from reviewer black team for Ricardo Pereira Jiu Jitsu we thank God
got another neck uh lastly for me what’s the ideal scenario now for your USC debut are you
hoping to do it quickly do you need some time off what’s what’s the ideal scenario for you is
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um I of course love to fight in Brazil love to fight in Sao Paulo uh it is where I live and train uh and also I
know someone that that’s very connected with me he’s gonna be uh in the main event and
you know we are from the same city we’re from the same area of of Salvador the
same neighborhood brought this and so I think the water there is kind of blessed right so
um I it’ll be it’ll be I have I have a crowd in Sao Paulo and and it’ll be
great to actually see everybody there and fighting in Brazil now if the UFC uh wants me to fight um I cannot I just
think there’s not enough time for me to fight in Sao Paulo I would love to fight before like the December
just a quick one for me after you awarded your contract Dana said you’re one of those guys that can hop right hop
right in and fight anybody here what was it like here in that statement from the boss man himself
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Sensational to hear that um actually I mean I’ve always been like
this I love to fight um if you think about it like in my my experience I thought I’d run around was
like somebody had that that came in first and foremost actually the beat Islam
and then actually he just tried to make way like I think he says
okay he missed Way by more than 10 pounds and I still took him I I mean I
went at them and that’s that’s what I like to do that’s why I like to fight I’m always ready I mean you know what clowns made people laugh at parties
dancers dance I Wi-Fi that’s what I do I’d like to get out there I like to get
into bangers I like to get get it on with people and um I’m a I’m a also a a an employee uh
who wants to fight and you know what I don’t mind I mean I can go up one division I’m not gonna go down one
because it’s hard for me to to get to that level of weight I mean it’s hard for me to cut that much weight but I
fought I’ve I’ve had an opportunity to I always train when people uh one division
above I’ve had the opportunity to train uh when someone who’s I mean I train a lot with Claudia Rivera uh who’s heavier
than me I trained with people that two divisions above people like you know for me and see that that
um that are two divisions and I’ve always been a good sparring partner I’ve always I’ve always put out there in training so I’m ready to go and it
doesn’t matter what division we’ll we’ll go for it
thank you bro
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thank you
look kind of a unique scenario that you didn’t get a victory but you did get a UFC contract so how are you feeling
right now
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the Moon uh yeah I mean it’s surprising right I didn’t know what was gonna happen there
um I mean the little girl is a great athlete she came in trying to you know impose her game uh then it was my turn
to to impose mining to show her what I’m where I’m about and I think that’s what
made a difference I think that you know you don’t come out with the win but maybe you know you you conquer the
hearts of people and that’s why I was like I think I was able to get what I got yeah I think you’re right there the amazing performance in the third round I
guess how mentally challenging was it to stay focused and to stay positive and to believe that you could have that third
round um
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it was part of the strategy actually uh listening closely to my Corners trying
to understand I mean we knew that she could get tired of this it is not
they said this plenty of times it’s not Jiu Jitsu it’s MMA and you know was able
to when I saw my opportunity um I was able to to put my game in that
we you could see that she was getting tired um and I I mean I went for it and I feel
that I almost bit like I really I could have not drowned but I mean it didn’t
happen so now is is an opportunity to get better so let’s go we’ll be ready and get ready for the next one so when
you got your contract the two of you were holding hands uh yeah I guess you had a little bit of a bond there was it a bit awkward at all that you got a
contract and she didn’t uh one of us says
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um yeah we I feel it we feel it um I I know that she works a lot I know
that she you know she works hard at this um but you know Dana it’s the decision
is there Dana is the one that makes it and I think he looked at my age and I think that might have played a part in
it I might have had some weight the fact that that I come in at a young age and that that’s that’s one of the reasons
why I think he gave me the contract last thing for me now that you have a contract uh what’s your ideal scenario for a debut I know you fought I think
four times last year only once this year so or you want to fight quickly do you need some time what’s the plan
um foreign
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just give me a call and I’ll be ready to fight and and that’s pretty much it
after your fight uh Dana said that he felt something special when you saw your fight mentioned that you have like the
It Factor how special is that to hear from the boss man himself
yes uh I come from I come from the projects
I come from a community uh I and not many people got this kind of success
for us it was just less than one percent of people get out of there and are able to
accomplish this and so for me I’m just very happy to be here and to have this opportunity and obviously both you and
your opponent had to dig deep tonight what are some maybe takeaways that you got from today that’ll help you maybe
get the win on your UFC debut on remains okay
now uh
this is
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um to never give up to to don’t let up until that the fight is not over I mean
a fight you know it can be it’s three rounds and you have to to persevere and you have to have you know Brazilian just
come keep going back this is what I love to do this is what I this is the thing that I love the most I work so hard for
it so um nothing is going to stop me it doesn’t matter what happens like I’m
very happy just to be here and to have this opportunity so why stopping I will stop when the fight is over until the
fight is over it ain’t over till it’s over so um uh I there’s not gonna No One’s Gonna
Stop Me um with the the motivation that I find just being here is a motivation a
motivation in and of itself nobody go thank you
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congratulations on your Victory and on the UFC contract how does it feel to know that you’re in the UFC
is
so far
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because this was my goal since I started my professional career in MMA
nice uh it looked like you might have the victory with the first punch you through uh but then you had to defend
some grappling a little bit I guess what was going through your head if you thought you might have knocked him out
and then you were on defense um
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and we are ready for everything it’s not a boxing match and I was ready and when
he took my back I started to work to escape and whatever happened I was ready
for this fight in this fight you’ve been successful as a fighter at
every level that you’ve been at for quite some time how do you see your path going in the UFC do you feel like you’ll
be fighting ranked contenders very soon or or a slow move up the ranks foreign
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I was fighting high level guys and you know in World Championship in Asia and
in Championship European Championship I won a gold medals and uh best fighters
from each country coming from amateur national teams so uh in UFC as well I’m
ready to fight top guys but if you she will not give me top top guys I will not
be upset I will fight anyone as soon as possible last thing for me what would be ideal
for you for your UFC debut is there a date that makes sense or a location that’s been announced what would you
like for your debut uh
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yes I would I would like to ask you see if
it’s possible to give me a fight where Jon Jones will fight to open the card and
to announce that today I’m opening the card but my goal is to to fight a guy
who will win in main event this I’m going to I want to
do if UFC give me the chance I will be happy to open this historical fight card
after uh you became the first fighter that represents Bahrain to be signed to the UFC you kind of see this as like a
source of inspiration to other fighters from your area that want to make it like you one day
and chapter [Music] um
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how to how to enter the UC and show them the way and we have a lot of talented guys
and we have number one amateur team in the world in ranked in imov and these
guys are slowly coming to professional and
I’m sure you will see more guys from UFC very soon from Bahrain thank you
