Drew Stuve Reflects on Easy Victory and Future Challenges

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00:00But how do you feel, all things considering, a couple of days after the fight?

00:04I feel great.

00:05Like, I didn't really take any damage.

00:08I would have liked more of a fight.

00:10Honestly, Santiago just quit.

00:12Like, you can see right there, I was just throwing him all around.

00:15Like, I thought he was going to get up.

00:17He was trying to pretend like I hit him in the back of the head.

00:20Like, he fought the UFC, man.

00:22He has, like, 25 pro fights.

00:24I thought he was going to put up more of a fight.

00:26It was a little too easy.

00:28You broke his will early.

00:29And I know as a better, bro, and I've been betting on fights for years,

00:33I can sort of tell right away.

00:34And I'm sure you can tell watching a fight, oh, this guy's screwed,

00:38or this guy's going to win early.

00:40You kind of know as a fighter, too, don't you?

00:43And I know you're confident all the time,

00:45but you felt confidence, like, after the first time you hit him in this fight, right?

00:48You could see it in his eyes, and he didn't want this.

00:51Man, I felt confident after what happened at the weigh-ins.

00:55I knew he did that because he was scared.

00:57We were talking in the back.

00:59He was, like, trying to be all buddy-buddy with me.

01:01And then I said to him, I was like, let's go out there and put on a show.

01:05And he's like, oh, you do whatever.

01:06I'll just follow your lead.

01:08And then I got off the scale.

01:09This guy tries to double-leg me, double-leg takedown me.

01:12He's like, as soon as I got off the scale, I didn't even say anything.

01:15I didn't even touch him.

01:16I was like, what the f***?

01:18And then I turned him, and then they made us come back out

01:22because they didn't get any of the actual face-off pictures.

01:25And he had to go live in the corner to calm down.

01:28I'm like, man, I was laughing the whole time.

01:29I'm like, what are you so fired up about?

01:31And you're just calm, and you're feeling it.

01:36But at the same point in time, and I've talked to people about this,

01:39you don't learn much, right, when you win easily, right?

01:43It's how you're saying.

01:43You want a little bit more.

01:44You want to be tested.

01:46And maybe you want to test something and work on your skills as well.

01:53I've heard you don't want to lose a fight.

01:54No one wants to lose a fight.

01:55But I've heard fighters often say, you've been in MMA before,

01:58you often learn by losing that time.

02:00So when you said you want a little bit more,

02:02that's what I took away from that.

02:04Yeah, man.

02:05And, like, I trained myself for eight, nine weeks.

02:08Like, I was ready to go all five rounds if I needed to.

02:11But, like, a minute.

02:13Like, it's nice to get in and fight and get the job done

02:16and not have any injuries.

02:17But, like, I wanted to test myself a little bit more,

02:20especially being in my third fight, being main event.

02:22Like, I wanted to put on a better performance,

02:24but he just didn't really give me the opportunity.

02:25I often find that fighting in your hometown, in your home area,

02:30in your backyard, could be a negative with friends and family

02:33and maybe pressure.

02:35But you seem to have thrived off of it.

02:37What's it like fighting in Edmonton?

02:40Oh, it's awesome, man.

02:41Like, I sold, like, 300, 350 tickets for that fight.

02:44Like, I had so much support.

02:46All the people there cheering me on and supporting me

02:49just fuels me even more and just makes me want to fight harder

02:52and put on even better performance.

02:53And it's pretty cool, too, that BKFC kind of believes in you, right?

02:58Like, how did this start?

02:59I know you were in mixed martial arts before.

03:01No, I was in boxing.

03:04Yeah, but so you were boxing, right?

03:06Exactly.

03:06In combat sports.

03:07But they had an open tryout at a gym.

03:10How did you get involved with BKFC?

03:13Yeah, they actually hosted.

03:14They do this show where they do tryouts.

03:17And then they take a couple guys onto the show.

03:19And then they take them and do some stuff.

03:21And they do interviews.

03:22And then they put up footage of the tryouts.

03:25And they actually contacted us to see if they could host the tryouts

03:28in Edmonton at our gym.

03:29So, obviously, like, I never really had any interest in doing bare knuckle.

03:33I didn't think much of it.

03:34But, like, just it being at my gym, I was like, well, yeah,

03:37of course I'm going to go.

03:38And then I ended up being, like, one of their top prospects.

03:41They asked me to be on that show that they did.

03:43And then, yeah, I got a fight on that first prospect series.

03:46And my first fight was the same kind of thing, man.

03:48It was a guy.

03:49The guy came out hard.

03:50He cut me.

03:51Gave me, like, 15 stitches.

03:52But as soon as I connected and landed a couple times, he just quit.

03:56Same thing.

03:57He, like, I hit him and he fell into me.

03:59I turned him.

04:00And then he tried to pretend that he rolled and hurt his ankle.

04:04Like, these guys just, they don't want to fight.

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