Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00It was a very technical fight for both of you guys
00:03throughout the fight, but I think the big thing for you
00:05obviously was the pressure coming forward,
00:08putting him on the back foot.
00:09I think that helped in the eyes of the judges.
00:10Was it always the plan for you to kind of come forward,
00:13put him on that back foot, and then just look
00:15for those openings to try to pick him apart
00:17throughout the fight?
00:19Yeah, it was a good fight.
00:24My goal was to either knock him out or put him
00:27on his backside, but that didn't happen.
00:30He's a great contender, a great fighter,
00:33and it had to go to the decision, man.
00:35I was trying to keep pushing forward and hitting him
00:39and left, right, hooks, everything,
00:41and he wouldn't go down, and I was like,
00:43man, I have to figure something else out,
00:45and I was trying to go for the knockout,
00:46but it didn't plan out.
00:49Well, it seemed like you were in control
00:50for much of the fight, if not all of it at least.
00:53Obviously, you get it on the judges' scorecards.
00:55They give you a unanimous decision, 50-45, all three.
00:59If you're looking for it the other way,
01:01if someone was rooting for him,
01:02maybe they could have given him a round at best.
01:04I think that you were in control of it.
01:05I agree with him on that, but were you surprised
01:07by the way he fought, that he never made that adjustment,
01:10that he never maybe got a little more desperation?
01:12When I was watching the fight, I think it was
01:14after the third round, his corner was basically telling him,
01:16you got this, you're doing great.
01:18Are you guys watching the same fight?
01:19Because to me, he's down all three cards.
01:22What's going on here?
01:23Do you think he just had too much confidence
01:25in the way he was fighting to switch it up
01:27and put a little more pressure towards you?
01:30Yeah, he had a lot of confidence fighting me.
01:34This is bare knuckle, this ain't boxing.
01:38Any punch can knock anybody out in this sport,
01:41and that's what I love about it.
01:43Honestly, he was coming forward,
01:45taking all my hits that I was giving him.
01:47So it was very hard to knock him out.
01:50So he had combos coming in, pressuring me,
01:55and I thought he was going to bring more pressure
01:57than he was at first, but then he didn't.
02:00So I was like, man, I got to step on it.
02:02So then after the third round, I kept going forward
02:05and tried to knock him out, hit him on a couple of rights.
02:08He wouldn't go down.
02:11Yeah, you got some good punches there
02:13at the end of the third round.
02:14And I saw, you were trying to bait him in,
02:16you were trying to get him to do more action.
02:17I felt like in that second round,
02:19you were sticking that chin out a little bit
02:20with the hands down, kind of telling him like,
02:22go ahead and swing.
02:23You wanted him to get involved
02:25and maybe open himself up a little more
02:26so you can throw some bigger shots.
02:27But were you surprised that he didn't take the bait?
02:29Are you surprised that he never flipped a switch
02:32at some point and said, all right,
02:33I got to do something to really show
02:34that I am in control of this
02:36when he was backing up the whole time?
02:38Yeah, he was cautious, you know what I mean, coming in.
02:41That's why he wasn't engaging at the whole fight,
02:43you know what I mean?
02:44Because I was bringing it to him
02:46instead of normally me just being on the outside
02:49hitting people.
02:50I wanted to be the aggressor of this fight, and I was.
02:54I thought he would bring more grit.
02:56He was fighting more like a leprechaun the whole time.
02:59And I was like, man, it was hard to get in at first
03:02because I didn't want to get caught,
03:03but I had to just pot shot him and go forward,
03:07and that was the only thing.