Nathan Rivera Embraces Home Advantage in Upcoming Bout

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00:00You're fighting in Georgia, this is in the area that you live, you train, you have grown

00:08up in.

00:09How excited are you to get this fight here?

00:10It's always great, I'm sure, to get a fight when you're in this, when you're as locked

00:14in as you are.

00:15We'll talk about what you've been up to recently to get ready for that in a minute.

00:19But to have that home crowd behind you, to have all these people, do you love that?

00:23Or does that add extra pressure for you to have to make sure you put on an even better

00:26performance for them?

00:27And do the things like to sell the tickets and things like that, do you like the pressure

00:31of being at home?

00:32Or does it add a little more distraction for you?

00:34Man, I love the pressure.

00:36You know, more pressure, more diamonds.

00:38So I'm here, I'm on a high pedestal with all my friends and family gonna be watching me.

00:43And I think it's gonna make me perform at such a higher level.

00:45I love going to people's backyards and beating up the hometown boy, but fighting home is

00:50very special to me.

00:52And you'll get to do that.

00:53You know, I saw the article they wrote about you getting ready for this fight that, you

00:56know, of course, everyone around there is gonna be talking to you like they usually

00:58are.

00:59You know, whenever you got to fight, people are gonna say what they think, or, you know,

01:01how you should do this or do that, or, you know, when they're gonna be there, it's even

01:05more so.

01:06But I heard you wrote that you said that one of your co-workers was trying to change how

01:10you fight because, you know, you've had some quick knockouts here, so far in the BKFC.

01:14He's trying to get you to stretch out a little bit.

01:15This guy wants more bang for his buck.

01:16I mean, come on.

01:17You're going for your win.

01:18It doesn't matter how you do it, right?

01:20Right.

01:21I mean, look, man, I got one thing in mind, and that's just winning.

01:24That's winning the fight and going to perform.

01:27I'm so prepared to go for five rounds, and, you know, in my training, mentally, physically,

01:33spiritually, I'm ready to go five hard rounds.

01:36And, you know, this guy might be someone that could take me there.

01:39And if he can, then I look forward to it because I have so much to show.

01:42You know, I think together, my two fights have been maybe like two or three minutes.

01:46So the world hasn't even seen half of what I have to offer.

01:51Now they've been two, yeah, 243, one minute and 21 seconds, one minute and 22 seconds.

01:55So we haven't even gotten to the minute and a half mark here.

01:58I don't know if you've been really breaking a sweat so far in the BKFC.

02:01You know, how do you look at that?

02:02Obviously, you're going to look at it with success, that you're getting the win, you're

02:04doing what you need to do.

02:05But, you know, when you talk about what you can really show, what you haven't shown yet

02:10for the BKFC fans, you know, getting into a three, four, five round battle, having to,

02:15you know, fight back after some adversity, what do you, you know, think that people are

02:19going to get from you that they haven't seen yet?

02:20These first two fights.

02:22Man, I think I think it's going to be either way it goes, you know, I think it's going

02:27to be awesome.

02:28I mean, the adversity that I face in the gym every single day, it's like none other.

02:32You know, I mean, I'm I'm going through these grueling sparring sessions where I have to

02:36face this adversity.

02:37So I'm I'm friends with the with the adversity and the struggle.

02:40So hopefully, you know, the fans will be able to see a great, a great long fight where I

02:45overcome a lot of adversity and we can both get out of there with very, very, you know,

02:50giving the fans what they deserve.

02:51And that's a that's a banger fight.

02:54And you talked about, you know, one of your recent posts about your motivation, about

02:58what drives you, and you know, you said that originally, you know, before it was an unhealthy

03:03fear, you know, you didn't want to be the didn't want to be, I guess, disappointing

03:08to people, disappointing to what you thought you should be doing to what God thought you

03:11should be, that, you know, it was kind of more of a fear of being a failure than anything

03:15else.

03:16But now you've changed things, you know, you focus on different ways to look at it.

03:19How is that you think that's helped you grow as a fighter as a person?

03:23And you know, how do you think that helps you driver drive you in your career in a more

03:26healthy way?

03:27Yeah, I mean, you know, there's a there's two ways, I think, to to really, to get good

03:34success.

03:35And, you know, some things are going to help you out long term, and some things are going

03:39to, you know, they might they might help you short term.

03:43This is something that where I've changed my whole mindset around the sport itself.

03:47And I walk in a different light now.

03:50And I believe that, that people will see that come December 6, at the Gas South Arena.

03:56It's a, it's a weight lifted off my my shoulders.

03:59A lot of people say like, you need to have that on, you need to have that fear of this

04:02and that and that.

04:03And I just don't think that's the right way to operate.

04:05So, you know, going through going through my career this way, I think it's going to

04:09be a lot more beneficial to myself, to my team and everybody around me.

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