Keith Richardson Headlines Albuquerque Card Against Veko Usmanov

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00:00And now you will be fighting on the 28th out there in Albuquerque headlining that card against Vexad Usmanov

00:06You said you want to stay active that you could have waited from the figure things out

00:09Is that why this fight is happening because when we talked to you after that Larimore fight you said you want to shot the title

00:14You thought that that you know, just domination by you 21 second finish

00:18Proved why you are still a top contender in this division. You wanted a shot at redemption against Blas

00:23But that obviously is not where we're coming out here. We're not even getting another top five opponent against you

00:28How did this fight come about it's just because you wanted to get back in there and get working and get paid or is it?

00:33That you know for another reason that they're putting this matchup together. Um

00:37Yeah, like, you know, pretty much like like that. I'll

00:41Fix that was supposed to be my opponent

00:45originally for the

00:48Date on there the Larimore flight. Um, yeah

00:53Like I don't think too many guys in the division really want to fight me right now

00:57like you have

01:00But because I'm not a guy that like, you know will turn down fights. Yeah. I told them I wanted to stay busy

01:05I want to stay active, you know

01:07Thanks, uh, you know stepped up so like, you know, we're fighting

01:14You know pretty much like, you know, my my mindset is

01:18That you know right now. I'm the number one contender

01:22Um everybody else like, you know, they can either they'll either get it now or when I've got the

01:29Or when I've got the belt doesn't really matter to me. There's only one guy that one guy ahead of me

01:34You know, that's work is everybody else

01:37now

01:39If I've got to take them out first, that's fine. If like, you know, I want to stay active

01:43I want to stay fighting. I want to stay sharp

01:46Yeah, like that was the only thing that really bothered me

01:50After I won the title was like, you know, I went from fighting

01:54four times in ten months

01:56To taking and to not getting a fight for nine months, you know

02:02Yeah, I did I just didn't like that like, you know, I like to like to be in there

02:07I like to be fighting like to be scrapping. Yeah, I don't want to

02:11Don't want to waste a lot of time

02:14Yeah outside there, you know, I'm not fighting

02:20We're saying that everyone in division is you know, other guys are scared to fight you have you had

02:24Have you brought these other names to the BK FC as there have been discussions with any of these guys?

02:27Because when you're looking at the other guys in the top five

02:29I mean, obviously you and Ibarra are two guys that are you know on great win streaks?

02:33He has you know, I'm defeated so far

02:35I mean some of the other guys like Reber just lost you're gonna send him not being in there or you know

02:40Maybe even a Garcia, you know has a great win streak going as well as the other guys in that top five

02:45Have you brought up any of these names to the BK FC to try to you know, propel that that fight?

02:50Oh, you know that situation where there's no way they could deny you a title shot

02:53Or is it just other things are going on and just whoever they propose to you is what you're gonna go with

02:58Really like yeah, like I'm not a huge call-out guy like, you know, it's just not my just not my not my style

03:04not my thing, um

03:07You know

03:10Anybody like anybody that wants can get it like, you know, I feel like you know, I'm in this to be the best in the world

03:17Why am I gonna turn down? Why am I gonna turn down fights?

03:21Yeah

03:23Like

03:25Yeah, everybody like, you know, everybody below me right now like that's right below me

03:32I feel like I am ranked ranked ahead of them for a reason. Yeah, everybody else is just a meal

03:40Well, you are always game to go and to fight and scrap and you've never been one to turn anything down

03:44You said it was Mon off was a guy you were supposed to fight and unfortunately didn't happen

03:49You had to fight in Laramore instead and putting an exclamation point on that victory

03:52Now do you think it makes it I'm not gonna say easier for you

03:56But like that you're already kind of mentally prepared for his model before that you you know

04:00could find even more things that you have almost extra time to prepare for him between

04:03What you were doing leading up to that last fight and then now preparing for him this fight camp as well

04:09um

04:13Not like I wouldn't say uh, yeah, I wouldn't say it makes it easier or harder like, you know, like, you know

04:21Like yeah, I do a decent amount of studying but a lot of it like, you know a lot of it's like, you know

04:27There's there's always certain things that we said that we're gonna be looking for and stuff like that

04:33Yeah

04:35I'd say like the

04:37Probably the weirdest thing for me right now is like this is the he's the first non Southpaw I've had in quite a while

04:45which you know doesn't really matter to me one way or the other because I switch so much but yeah, it's just uh,

04:53It's kind of

04:55It's kind of kind of nice going ortho ortho a little bit

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