00:00all right so you're not getting a layup though that's the difference you're not getting a layup
00:04in your hometown here you've got a tough ass fight but you want the toughest ass fight yeah i mean
00:10you're kind of you know you're kind of climbing the rankings quickly here
00:14so i mean everybody in front of you right now they're all tough aren't they mike so it is what
00:19it is and like you don't really care who the opponent is do you you're like you're gonna
00:23line up you're gonna do your thing you're gonna fight yeah i just want to fight um yeah really
00:27i was a 185er so my first few fights for bkfc it was 185 pounds no one asked me to
00:33move up to 205
00:34they just you know i bugged them saying hey i want to fight and they offer the fight at 205
00:38so now
00:38now i'm a 205er you know getting ready to fight the number one ranked guy there so
00:43do you like it not do you like is it more comfortable for you not making weight if
00:47you're grown into this so to speak do you like this body weight yeah i love not cutting weight
00:52like i you know i still have to cut a few pounds but it ain't the brew yeah yeah 85
00:56so i feel way
00:58better what was it like before how 85 it must have been tough because you're i see your shoulders
01:02you're pretty big dude well what were the uh were the weight cuts tough before yeah it's and they're
01:08not fun and you know my whole life is way better now i'm happier my wife's way
01:15my life's way better yep how did you how did you transfer you know do the transformation from
01:23mixed martial arts into bkfc were you a fan of bkfc did you see it before like how did you
01:30end up in
01:31bare knuckle fighting i just like to fight um for mma whatever i just wanted to fight all the time
01:37um
01:38and i was more of a striker i seen bkfc come in i didn't really pay attention much and then
01:42they did
01:42the like tryouts out here in salt lake and they were going to do a show out here so i
01:46was like
01:46let's see how much they're paying and they paid a little more than i was making at the time so
01:51we
01:51went and do it to me it's all fist fight the you know it's just now we're just fighting just
01:57punches so yeah really no difference to you huh like you're like ah it's a fight it's like a fight
02:03i've had 30 30 something fights in my career so far now so it's just a fight but a couple
02:10of things
02:10and i've learned a lot more about the bare knuckle world and i think a lot of casuals sort of
02:17think
02:17all right it's just you know bare knuckle fighting sort of savage type thing but there is an element
02:22an element of mixed martial arts in it mike in my opinion like the clinching man is a big part
02:28of
02:28this type of stuff right like they you know like there is a parse little mma in this let's just
02:33be
02:34honest isn't it yeah the clinching for sure look at kai stewart college wrestler he uses almost looks
02:40like he's shooting in on a double leg to get that clinch like he uses that to his advantage so
02:44yeah
02:44there's there's more than just just you know throwing hands i don't want to say boxing because
02:50we're not really boxing out there if you watch like it's a lot of falls down which i don't like
02:56to do but
02:56that's kind of where the sport's at right now it's kind of new and that's kind of where it's at
03:00exciting i guess
03:01you
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