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00:00Coming into this fight, you guys, you know,
00:05were doing value that first round.
00:07He was throwing out that jab a lot early going,
00:08trying to keep you at bay, trying to keep you,
00:10you know, at distance, but you got in there,
00:12got a couple shots here and there throughout that round
00:15and really towards the end,
00:16started to seem like you found your distance,
00:18found your timing and opened up on him a little bit.
00:20How did you feel as that first round
00:22was going on through that fight?
00:26Most definitely, I felt great going in that fight.
00:29I did want to fill out the process a little more.
00:32I knew I could have got him out in the first round
00:33if I really wanted to, but I kind of wanted to push it.
00:36I kind of wanted to give the fans a better show,
00:38especially since it was in my hometown.
00:40I kind of wanted to push it to the second and third round.
00:44But unfortunately, one of the times in the clinch,
00:46I believe I hit him in the stomach
00:48and he just made the weirdest noise ever.
00:50And I want to say that I had to pay,
00:52to play a big part of him throwing up in that corner.
00:58Yeah, that's for the people who haven't seen it yet.
01:00You go back and watch it.
01:01Obviously, he's got some great punches,
01:03especially at the end of that first round,
01:04he had a big flurry.
01:05And then all of a sudden,
01:06we're watching you guys in the corner,
01:07getting ready for a second round.
01:09And then they get to the,
01:11they're watching you first
01:12and then they go over to his corner
01:13and you kind of see the bucket up.
01:15And many people might be familiar with,
01:18obviously there's a lot of times
01:19where there'll be water in the bucket,
01:20they might put water on you, cool you down,
01:21something like that, wipe off the blood.
01:23But the bucket was pretty close to his face.
01:25And then all of a sudden, we hear him puking.
01:29What did you, were you in the other corner?
01:30Did you know what was going on?
01:31Or are you just kind of locked in here
01:33and your trainers and all of a sudden the fake is called
01:35and you have no idea what's going on
01:36until they tell you what happened?
01:40So I rewatched the fight and I saw,
01:43you know how you said they showed me,
01:45I was just telling my coach,
01:46I said, he hit me with his best shot.
01:48I got him, he's nothing on me.
01:50And I said, I'm going to go in for the kill.
01:52And I was excited.
01:53I got up a little bit earlier
01:54than when the bout was intended for me to get up to.
01:57And I just looked up and I saw them wave it off.
01:59And you know, I was upset.
02:01You know, normally you like to be excited
02:03to end fights early,
02:04but I wanted to do more of this fight.
02:06And unfortunately it happened that way,
02:08but you know, there's nothing we could do about it.