00:00 Well Jan, we'll get to the fight of course, but I guess just can you comment on it, what
00:06 it means to you to be recognized as a clean athlete?
00:09 What does it mean to me?
00:10 I'm just proud that I, whatever I've done in my life, in my sport career, I did it thanks
00:14 to hard work, wasn't shortcut, no cheating.
00:18 I do this because I believe in myself, hard work, and I'm proud.
00:23 I'm proud.
00:24 Thank you.
00:25 Congrats.
00:26 Well, you do continue to put yourself into big fights, right?
00:28 I mean, I know December was incredibly disappointing.
00:31 It's just such a weird result.
00:32 I mean, were you able to move past that?
00:35 Has it been easy to put that in the rear view mirror?
00:37 Or has it kind of lingered with you a little?
00:39 No, no.
00:40 Of course, after a couple of weeks after the fight, I think about this, but I don't think
00:45 about this anymore.
00:46 New experience, new lesson for me.
00:50 Now it's new chapter, new story, and I'm happy, motivated to do this again.
00:55 And this time, you know, finish fight before the time.
00:59 A fresh opponent here in Alex Behera.
01:01 I guess, how much of his career were you watching not being in your division?
01:05 And what did you think of him as a fighter?
01:08 Great fighter, great sportman, knockout punch power.
01:10 I watch almost all of his fights in MMA.
01:16 So yeah, now we've got him in 205.
01:19 When I hear, when I hear that he say he want to go to 205, I talk with my manager, send
01:25 message to UFC, I want him.
01:26 And we have him, so I'm happy that I can fight against someone like him.
01:32 And that's it, you know.
01:33 I want to check my stand-up against him and try to knock him out.
01:38 But if, you know, something goes wrong in stand-up, I can use my wrestling and take
01:41 him down, finish him on the ground.
01:42 This is what I want to do, win the fight.
01:45 You complimented his power, which obviously at middleweight was insane, but you fought
01:48 other guys that have moved up in the division.
01:50 Do you expect his power to transfer to 205?
01:52 Or do you think when he's in your division, now he's just another guy in the weight class?
01:57 No, I think he's got knockout punch power, even in my division.
02:01 So I have to be careful all the time, you know, keep my hands up very high.
02:07 But you know, I also know how to knock out people, so that's going to be good matchup
02:11 to watch.
02:12 Very nice.
02:13 Last thing for me, it's a little bit of chaos at the top of the division right now, right?
02:15 I mean, are you considering this a number one contender fight and you think you win?
02:19 I mean, you should be fighting for the title again next?
02:22 Of course, UFC tell me that after this fight, next fight we're going to fight for the title.
02:27 So nothing changed.
02:28 OK, Jamal here, he left the belt.
02:30 I wish him very fast recovery.
02:33 But my next opponent will be, I don't know, maybe Prochaska and we're going to fight for
02:37 the title.
02:38 So we will see.
02:39 But now I focus only about Saturday.
02:40 I don't want to think about that.
02:41 After the fight we can talk about next step.
02:44 Was there any talks in making this a vacant title fight after Jamal vacated the belt?
02:49 Yeah, we talked about this, but it was like short conversation.
02:52 They say they know it stay like this.
02:55 Why do you think the UFC always seems to turn to you to welcome these middleweights up from
02:59 the middleweight division?
03:01 I don't know.
03:02 I don't know.
03:03 Maybe this is my job, you know, in UFC to send them back to the lower division.
03:09 I don't know.
03:10 But I'm OK with that.
03:12 Is there any part of you that like uses this like since Glover's retired and his relationship
03:17 with Glover, this is the next best thing you could have to maybe avenging that previous
03:20 loss to Glover considering Glover will be in his corner?
03:23 Yeah, a little bit.
03:25 I treat this like my personal image against Glover, you know.
03:29 Yeah, two completely different fighters, but they train together.
03:32 They are friends training in one gym.
03:34 He's his coach.
03:35 For me, that will be, you know, like personal image.
03:39 Did I see a photo of you with a samurai shirt from Cyberpunk?
03:41 Yeah.
03:42 Yeah.
03:43 I like it.
03:44 You like that game?
03:45 Yeah.
03:46 I like it.
03:47 I like it.
03:48 No, Witcher is one of the best, but still not the best for me.
03:50 But Cyberpunk also is very high.
03:51 Do you like it better than Skyrim?
03:55 You know, this is high level of the games, you know.
03:59 I know.
04:00 You say about one of my best titles, you know, like Skyrim and Cyberpunk, Witcher.
04:06 But my favorite is like, I don't know, did you play?
04:09 It's very old game.
04:10 In 2002, I think, they show up Gothic.
04:15 So you need to check it.
04:16 All right.
04:17 Deal.
04:18 Can I get your thoughts on the main event between Justin and Dustin?
04:19 Who do you think wins the BMF title?
04:21 I don't know.
04:23 I focus about myself, about my fight.
04:25 I went after, you know, choke out or knock out Pereira, go to green room, grab beer and
04:32 watch good fight, both of them.
04:34 Jan, right over here.
04:37 You faced three UFC former champions in your career.
04:40 Where do you think Alex stands amongst those of Luke Rockhold, Israel Adesanya and Glover
04:45 Shara?
04:46 Hmm.
04:49 I don't know.
04:50 For sure, he's one of the toughest opponent for me in stand up, of course.
04:56 You know, we will see what's going to happen when we start doing wrestling or ground game.
05:01 I don't know.
05:02 I will tell you after the fight, you know.
05:05 But I have to be careful, you know, keep full concentration all the time.
05:09 Hey, Jan.
05:11 Looks like you've embraced your cowboy, cowboy roots.
05:15 How are you enjoying being a cowboy?
05:18 Finally, I was a cowboy for a moment, you know, when I was a kid, everybody playing
05:22 cowboys.
05:23 So now I can feel how it is for real.
05:26 And I was, you know, just happy.
05:27 I was happy like a little kid.
05:30 So I've got my whole outfit.
05:32 Maybe I'll wear it someday, somewhere.
05:34 I just want your thoughts.
05:37 Jon Jones made his heavyweight debut earlier this year and you guys were kind of like,
05:42 you know, trying to fight each other when you were still at light heavyweight.
05:45 What were your thoughts on his debut at heavyweight?
05:48 Yeah, this debut was amazing.
05:50 A little bit fast to me because what can I say?
05:53 Nobody knows how he's going to feel after one round.
05:55 So maybe with Miocij will go a little bit longer and then we can say something more.
05:59 But the debut was just amazing.
06:01 He just go there and do what he have to do.
06:03 That's it.
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