There's more ... we also spoke to Buckley, who is intent on spoiling Colby's return, and himself climbing his way to the top of the division.
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00:00Very excited, you know, I'm just about to go out there and do what I do best and go
00:05out there and give guys or give people a show that they never going to forget.
00:09And especially it's the last fight of the year, you know, not just the last event, but
00:12I'm the last fight of the year.
00:13So we got to show up, show up, man, and do our thing.
00:16Coming off a pay-per-view where everybody's talking, how about the opponent change?
00:20Does that matter to you?
00:21Not at all.
00:22Not at all.
00:23Not at all.
00:24You know, we, we, we make the good calls and we look at the switch up and be honest with
00:28each other.
00:29I'm liking the switch up for us.
00:30I love the Kobe Covington fight for me, the type of style that he brings, the pressure
00:34that he has.
00:35I feel like it's just him going to run into a brick wall and him going to be flat on his
00:40back.
00:41You know what I'm saying?
00:42Yup.
00:43That was the next question.
00:44When you imagine and go to sleep at night, how this is going to end, is it, is it some
00:47violence?
00:48Violent knockout?
00:49Yeah.
00:50It gotta be a violent knockout.
00:51You know, that, that's how I come.
00:53That's how I fight with my fights in the UFC.
00:58I got seven knockouts, you know, and I, and I really feel like even with the ones that
01:02I haven't knocked a person out, they still was exciting.
01:05There was still something devastating about it that people watching and they always going
01:09to be entertained by.
01:10So either way, you know, I, I feel like, you know, my performances kind of speak for themselves,
01:14you know, and everybody is always going to be tuned in.
01:18In a way, the change of opponent gets you even higher in the rankings with a, with a
01:22win, I think one spot.
01:24Do you look at that, that you, you beat him and you go up and take the six spot?
01:28You're a fight away, two fights away, max, right there for the title.
01:31Right.
01:32I already think I'm number one, if not champ.
01:34So at the end of the day, those rankings don't mean much to me.
01:37But when you talk about just strategy and trying to move up the ladder, yeah, this is
01:41a better fight for me.
01:42Yes.
01:43When you look at the fight last week and you see the two undefeated guys going at it, do
01:46you, do you look at them both that, that you no issues taking those guys out?
01:50Man, I ain't gonna lie to you though.
01:52Like with seeing that fight and, and having both of those guys, you know, go, uh, go at
01:57each other.
01:58Uh, like, you know, you get this certain aura about certain guys, especially if they undefeated,
02:03you know what I'm saying?
02:04And just to be like, ah, man, they, they, they really liked that, but they really showed
02:08that, you know what I'm saying?
02:09They just some regular guys, you know what I mean?
02:10They just regular fighters.
02:11And I feel like if I would have fought either one of them that night, I would have knocked
02:14them out.
02:15Period.
02:16What do you think of, of Colby as an opponent?
02:18The guy's been, you know, the top for a while now, right, right, right.
02:22I mean, as an opponent, you know, I'm just happy that, uh, I got a competitor that's
02:25going to step into the cage with me, but you know, you already know he's the type of guy,
02:28man.
02:29He talks a lot of trash and you know, he, he gets the fans, you know, emotional about
02:32certain things and certain topics.
02:34Uh, but at the end of the day, you know, he comes in there and he comes to fight.
02:38So as long as I got somebody to, uh, come into the cage with, you know, and we got to
02:42dance, let's get it, you know, not looking, not looking past Colby at all, but is there
02:48a name that you have in mind if you get by chaos on Saturday night?
02:53Uh, no, I ain't got no name.
02:54I just want to belt, you know?
02:56So at the end of the day, I feel like I didn't put in all the work that's necessary in order
03:01to put myself in a position.
03:02So get a knockout over Colby Covington, uh, I believe puts me in, in, in a position where
03:08I can fight for a title next 20, 25 belt around your waist.
03:12There it is.
03:13There it is.
03:14I'm calling that shot.
03:15Yup.
03:16So is there somebody that you want to have the strap to take it off?
03:19Is there a fight that would mean more or it's whoever is that you actually, that's a great
03:23question.
03:24I ain't gonna start with you.
03:25That's a great question.
03:26Right.
03:27Cause a lot of people ask, you know what I mean?
03:28Uh, like who would you rather fight for the belt and all this other stuff.
03:31And to be honest with you, it really wouldn't make me no difference.
03:34But if I was to choose anybody, it will be shot.
03:38I want shot to be, you know, undefeated and be that boogeyman that everybody thinks.
03:44And to take that shot from, because if I fight somebody like below, you know, I'm not
03:48going to get the credit.
03:49I feel like it deserves, even though I know below is a great competitor, he's a great
03:53champion.
03:54Like people not going to give me the credit because they already don't like below.
03:57So if below is a blues and I feel like I'd rather fight shot where I knock out the undefeated
04:03dude, you know what I mean?
04:04From a Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan lasting for you, if people weren't already tuning in,
04:10why do they got to check out UFC Tampa on Saturday?
04:13Oh man, the reason why they got to check out UFC Tampa this Saturday is that y'all already
04:17know, man, what I bring and how I show up, you know, somebody going to get laid out.
04:21So y'all already know, man, tune in.