Kai Stewart Reflects on Dominant Performance & Future Plans

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00:00but now tell me about the fight itself obviously you're a guy who comes in there and you have a

00:04lot of pride in kind of breaking your opponents and of course he came in there confident thinking

00:08he could beat you you know with the experience that he had in you know other fights but it was

00:12completely different matchup when you got in there you had the head movement you were you know picking

00:16him apart you're bullying him up uh it even seemed by maybe the first into the second round like you

00:21know you kind of see towards in that first round that in his face it seemed like he realized it

00:25wasn't going to be his knife that you were doing whatever you wanted to do and he couldn't get

00:30off and couldn't get his shots in and you know i know in your opinion and probably many others it

00:34could have been even worse given that there were two potential knockdowns that were taken away from you

00:39yeah you know and i i'm i am a big critic because one i'm a professional fighter and i i like i train

00:46a certain rule set i train to be the best possible fighter i can be and it seems like every single

00:53fight it's 2v1 in that ring um but yeah as long as i'm imposing my will having fun doing my thing

00:59it really doesn't matter what the ref is gonna do because nobody's gonna take this from me like like

01:03i said and in that order do my thing having fun doing what i um what i train to do as long as i do

01:10that it doesn't matter what the ref thinks he's gonna he's gonna do but uh people make mistakes so i

01:16don't want to dwell on that it's just we're gonna get better from it and uh man four title fights

01:23and i got to be the the last headliner what what a show uh me and duran had uh three title fights

01:29on that card so uh is there going to be five on the next one just to keep uh leveling up my events

01:34i don't know uh but yeah i i'm super grateful to be able to just i go into training and i i i don't

01:42train for a fighter i i train i i want to learn like four or five new techniques uh um a fight camp i

01:49want to grind my ass off drill it 10 000 times and like basically every combo that i drilled 10 000

01:56times i uh you saw it in the fight so now next fight there's going to be a new set of tools that

02:03i'm going to drill 10 000 times and it's going to be it's going to be fun we're talking about leveling

02:09up you talked about in the post fight about how you've cleaned out this division and there really

02:12isn't much else for you to do uh is this leveling up that you're talking about going to another

02:16division i'm assuming it would be going up in weight because you know you're already cutting

02:19down to 145 i don't know you can make 135 if you want to put yourself through that but

02:23are you planning on going to another division trying to becoming a two belt champion as you know others

02:27have is that are you looking for a fight against palomino or tanagli or guys like that at 155 what is

02:33in the plans for king kai i know you always are looking ahead always thinking about what's next

02:38well we looking up and down the 155 division um palomino dominated hd but i dominated hd

02:45you know um i think that's a great fight for me but he doesn't have a belt uh let's let's see how

02:50the 155 division plays out for themselves and see what we can do uh it's going to boil down to contract

02:57negotiations like um there's you guys there's a uk featherweight title um let's unify the world title

03:04let me fight that guy uh but if they want to pay me big money i'll i'll step up and i'll fill big shoes

03:09so um this is a sport of uh a lot of danger and i really hope that i've proven that i am a company

03:16man and i've proven that um i'm here to stay and i'm here to just continue to take over and nobody's

03:21going to take this from me so i'm super excited for my contract negotiation i think we're we're in

03:26a really good spot and yeah two belts is definitely in my future um it's going to boil down to timing

03:32because um obviously uh they're the 155 division now with even trout saying he wants to move down

03:39um is pretty interesting but with that being said uh hd though he did get dominated he was

03:45still throwing big shots he landed a lot bigger shots on palomino than he did me and i i wasn't

03:50really um i wasn't really impressed palomino's getting older he is definitely a former goat um he he

03:57has done amazing things in this sport but it's just my time so well whatever honestly whatever

04:03feldman wants to do with me but in in the grand scheme of things i'm here to make money and i'm

04:07here to get my montana ranch to with a creek running through it so whatever whatever glass

04:11i got to crawl through to get to that um i'm willing to do

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