00:00event uh you're getting in there and you know it's the semi-finals of this tournament one step
00:03away from having a shot at a big check what's uh the feelings for you as you get ready for this
00:07i just want to say thank you for having me on by the way i appreciate that completely and thank you
00:12for the acknowledgement i mean i'm super grateful that this is the first i mean it's the first time
00:16i've been on the main card and look at that we're jumping from main card to be straight into a
00:20main event headlining with jason jackson you know nonetheless and i mean everyone has their time and
00:27i believe that this is my time so i'm excited to just show the pfl that this is this is this is
00:32the guy that can get behind this is the next superstar that they can get behind and what
00:37has that been like for you this journey that you've been on to uh you know throughout your career you
00:41know you had a couple fights in the pfl before this but like you said you never made the main
00:45card before and to get thrown right into uh that tournament you know that the last minute addition
00:50to it uh was that something that you know you had to think about for a minute was that something you
00:53were ready for and trading for no matter what even though you had another fight in front of you what
00:57was that like when you got that call to join into this tournament and try to become a champion for the
01:01pfl man all glory to god i want to say god's plan because i'm always ready i'm always ready i'm always
01:07ready for it to come out i'm ready for whatever comes up i'm not that fighter that that goes into
01:11training gym as soon as he gets a fight notice or something like that i'm training 24 7 365 days a week
01:18i'm always in the gym i'm always training mentally physically and spiritually man
01:21and when i got them when i got the call for the alternate i was like all right whatever i mean
01:27i'm still i've been praying in the beginning of the year to be the winner of this tournament so i know
01:30my time will happen because every alternate gets a shot at being in a tournament if we've looked at
01:34the past in the pfl so i was like i mean i'm an alternate now but i know if i stay ready if i stay
01:39humble i know that my shot will be my shot at the actual tournament this year will happen and you know
01:45what i didn't even get to fight in the alternate i got shot right into the tournament before the season
01:50well before the tournament even started and i was like you know what i had to be ready this is what
01:53i wanted this is what i've been praying for this is what i've been asking for now i got to go out
01:57there and make a statement and that's exactly what i'm going to try and continue to do is make a
02:01statement and that's what you did in your first fight obviously the fight over berkhamov you jumped
02:07in there right away you got that first round finish for him right before that round ended
02:10uh what was the game plan coming in for you were you looking at uh you know did you even have a
02:15game plan coming in was it you had the one fight and then when you made the switch it's just this is
02:20what i want to do i don't care what my opponent does or did you have to try to make a quick study
02:23and figure out what he was going to try to do against you you know what it was it's honestly was
02:28the same game plan because going against joseph luciano i know his whole thing would try to be
02:32pressure to take down so i knew berkhamov was uh you know he has that russian style and he's not he's
02:39not really more of a grappler like that but i knew that if i put my striking on him i'd force him
02:43into a grappling situation so i knew that he would go into grappling uh caught him with a guillotine but
02:49wasn't able to finish off of that but i knew that if i stayed up and and he kept his hands out like
02:54he did in his past fights i'd be explosive enough to catch him and just like i did i caught him so we
03:00always went into a fight with a game plan doesn't matter when it was if it was a day before or 20 or 10
03:06hours notice we're always going to go into a fight with a game plan we're not we're not
03:08medieval warriors out here we're professionals so we're definitely going to go into a fight knowing
03:13what what do we want to do what tactics do we want to do what what do we want to exploit when it comes
03:17to this guy what are his weaknesses what are his strengths what are some things that we need to use
03:22to our advantage to make sure that we come out on top let's not go into a fight thinking that
03:26this guy isn't prepared for us as the same way that we are prepared for him to be so to to be so
03:33cocky like this is how you lose
03:35they're for disciplining that's just like what that's actually going to do next
03:39but we can actually see no way of shill as affl 15 said
03:43you
03:46hear also and then he starts working on fire
03:49all this guy says
03:50this guy is doing opini stores
03:51as well and he is doing this thing now
03:54there's a weight loss for him and that whole thing thatSecra
03:54is exciting now so you can even really start searching for himself
03:56I think he and this guy did a lot of work I think
03:58he did the last one on top part of him says
04:00and then he actuallyил two other people
04:01for a lot of them where first he was Antony
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