00:00if you're a combat sports fan you've seen arguably the knockout of the year one of the
00:05knockouts of the year one of the coolest uh finishes to any fight ever uh actually let's
00:09bring in a man who's fought in a lot of fights uh before but this one had to be right
00:14up there
00:15in his backyard jimmy rivera steps up in it jimmy welcome back to the program my man congratulations
00:21on an epic result as i said you broke in the internet uh congratulations must have been a
00:26hell of a rush uh hell of a rush bro yeah i mean it was unbelievable be in my backyard
00:32at the rock at
00:33the prudential center get my hand raised especially a knockout like that was it was uh felt bad it was
00:39a very violent knockout you know we've talked about like you know life is a journey you can't always
00:44predict the future you don't know where you're going to end up and you and i talked about this
00:48before about ending up and fighting at the prudential center again and here you are at this uh this stage
00:54of your life it just has to feel good to perform get a win and walk away healthy as well
01:00right
01:02yeah i mean it feels unbelievable i mean walking away i got like a little scratch on me that's it
01:06um i know the fight was a little slow in the beginning but i i actually anticipated a little
01:11faster paced fight with him coming out swinging uh for the fences and trying to really finish it he
01:17was very tentative and uh not as aggressive as his past seven fights he's had at bkfc
01:23yeah so i you know i could understand that everybody thinks they know when even fighters
01:28jimmy i'm sure you've heard a lot of breakdowns and even you've broken down other fights and it
01:32never goes the way people think right you don't know i mean a guy has a tendency or something it
01:37could be a different night form he could be hesitant he could be worried about the opponent could
01:42have been worried about you but brandon is the type of dude that generally just tries to knock
01:46your head off i mean he's had his own highlight reel chaos yeah i i mean totally agree with you
01:53um wasn't prepared for that adjusted a bit but then one thing that you know we talked about a lot
01:59my
01:59coaches just being patient don't rush in um don't take that unnecessary punishment and just look for
02:05the shot and then you know between the third and fourth round we were talking about more just hey
02:09let's follow it up more let's throw some more shots let's let's get it going now let's finish it
02:14now if you're trying to knock someone i always talk about this in like other sports you'd be like
02:17if a golfer tries to smoke a golf ball he'll put it in you know in in the woods a
02:23hockey player you see
02:24you know defenseman all the time tee up a slap shot it ends up in like the 13th row you
02:29know i mean
02:29because they're trying to crush it so much fighting is the same isn't it in a sense it's not just
02:35easy
02:35to say i'm gonna throw a punch and knock someone out it has to sort of happen organically and this
02:41is
02:41just one of those textbook combos that wrote wrote themselves and you kind of had your head down as
02:48well did you telegraph this did you think all right this is going to be a boom boom boom or
02:53does it
02:54just sort of happen walk us through that moment the second that it started to happen
02:59yeah i had him in the third round backing up and he started roping dope with me and hit me
03:04with a shot
03:05when he was covering up and the whole thing was you know hit the body work up to the head
03:09afterwards
03:10and then in that fourth round he backed up again i made sure to keep him on the ropes i
03:14threw the two
03:15three down and then like a four three up and i know i connected i didn't realize he was out
03:21on top of
03:22me i thought he was still fighting me so i went to roll under and once i rolled under and
03:27i saw him
03:27just fall face first i was like all right fight's over that's what i'm saying so i was right you
03:34really didn't know at the time right because your head's down you're thrown and you sort of see you're
03:39like oh he's coming with another one and you're like no no he's not coming another one he's falling
03:42right now and then boom just like boom the you know the the face plant that just makes it uh
03:49so epic
03:50after the fact so obviously everybody asks you so what are you going to do your future and all this
03:55and
03:56you and i have talked about this in the past jimmy it's like it's the most personal and one of
04:01the
04:01most important decisions of your life with you and your family and stuff and i guess you'll just kind
04:07of know i mean to me it doesn't feel like it's the end right you know i guess i guess
04:12the best way
04:12to ask you jimmy is people see this and they say oh wow look man he's still he's still on
04:17top of his
04:18game he can still fight he can still handle himself but there's a lot of work that goes into it
04:23as
04:23well right i remember when john elway retired he won two superbowls in a row they said why are you
04:28walking away he goes i can play in the game on sundays he goes i can't do the week leading
04:33up to
04:33the sundays uh every week i don't want to do that where are you at right now with this um
04:40are you just
04:41sort of you know you take it take it a call at a time a couple of months at a
04:44time how are you
04:45handling your future right now no i mean i'm just uh taking it one call at a time i'm you
04:51know
04:51staying training i'm taking this week and just training light get back into next week i don't
04:57think i'm at a point where especially with just the boxing if the state was you know keep doing
05:01the bkfc fights where my body isn't holding up um i do have something that works in december that i
05:07can't talk about just yet um but i'm staying active i took a lot of time off and i thought
05:14i was done and
05:15i realized i still had a lot more in the tank and i'm like oh you know i have a
05:19couple opportunities so
05:20i'm going to take advantage of those opportunities
05:21you
