00:00Well, the first thing will be making it down those stairs. I don't know if you've seen the venue.
00:05When we came to look at it a few weeks ago, I remember thinking, or Stanky said,
00:11so the fighters will get changed up here on the mezzanine floor, which is above the Great Room.
00:16It's in this building, isn't it?
00:17It's in this building downstairs. So the Great Room, it has a mezzanine floor around the top.
00:22So there's about three flights of stairs to get down. We're getting changed on the mezzanine.
00:28Music comes on. We walk round the mezzanine, down the stairs to where everyone's sitting and into the ring.
00:37So first of all, we walked through it. Stanky said, so this is what's going to happen.
00:42You'll get called. Your music will come on. You'll come down these stairs.
00:46Do what you like. Get into the ring. And we walked down the stairs.
00:49And four weeks ago, when we came to look at it, I was nervous coming down the stairs then.
00:54And we were just lucky enough to have a little look around today with the tables out.
00:59They've got, I think it's a big farmer's convention going on this weekend.
01:03So we got to see the tables in the venue. And again, as we're coming down, or we didn't get to go down the stairs,
01:10but I was looking, thinking, that'll be the first goal of the evening, getting down those stairs unscathed
01:15when you're in your robe and your gloves and the rest of it.
01:19But it's just going to be the whole night. You know, you're going to have, I'm going to have my missus,
01:24my family, my dad, my brother are coming, my brother's wife.
01:29So there's going to be people, I've got friends coming at the tables.
01:33You sort of start thinking about, you know, you want to put, not so much a show,
01:37but you want to get through it where you want to make them proud.
01:40It's certainly a sport that people can feel proud of what their loved ones are doing,
01:46because it's that sort of gladiatorial sport.
01:50You come through, I think success will be getting through the three, two-minute rounds.
01:54If you hear the bell at the end, win, lose or draw, I think that'll be a success.
01:58Amazing. So what I'm hearing as well from that is I'm expecting to be seeing you,
02:04like videos of you walking down your stairs at home with a robe on,
02:07getting prepared for those stairs for the next week.
02:10Well, we ain't got that many stairs in my house, believe me.
02:13But it's always a massive staircase, you'll be like, right, this is my exercise.
02:16I need to go to someone's manor house to practice coming down them stairs.
02:19But yeah, like I say, you're going to be nervous.
02:24It's certainly going to be excited, nervous, scared, whatever you want to do,
02:30but it's that buzz. I think sportsmen look forward to that buzz,
02:33whatever, that adrenaline, if you like.
02:35There's certainly, that is going to be flowing through the veins on October the 18th.
02:40And like I'm saying about hearing that final bell,
02:43that will be a release that you'll feel you've got through something special.
02:49And then you can enjoy the night.
02:53Yeah.
02:54Not before, not before, but after we certainly will.
02:56So you're not enjoying the fights that have happened before.
02:59Well, I'm on second, which is quite a good draw, I think.
03:02So you're not first on, you sort of know what to expect a little bit.
03:07The crowd are a little bit more warmed up from the first fight of the evening.
03:11And then, yeah, I mean, Bentley and Jodie are going to be last fight on in the evening.
03:18But then there's more time for that tension to build.
03:21By the time they come on, I'm probably, I'll be half cut by then.
03:24I'll be half cut by then.
03:25I'll be half cut by then.
03:25I'll be half cut by then.
03:26I'll be half cut by then.
03:27I'll be half cut by then.
03:28I'll be half cut by then.
03:29I'll be half cut by then.
03:30I'll be half cut by then.
03:31I'll be half cut by then.
03:32I'll be half cut by then.
03:33I'll be half cut by then.
03:34I'll be half cut by then.
03:35I'll be half cut by then.
03:36I'll be half cut by then.
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