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00:00This was your first pro fight first fight with lights out extreme fighting
00:03So I tell people a little bit about yourself, you know, how'd you get into mixed martial arts, you know?
00:07Where you're trading right now and what drives you right now in your career to to do what you're doing and get out there and fight
00:13Hey Brian, thanks for having me on
00:15So yeah, my name is Alan. I was born here in San Diego
00:19But I started training like maybe 10 years ago
00:22And I hit it hard this first couple years because I was really trying to be a pro fighter
00:27You know, I wanted to wanted to do it big
00:29So I was living in the gym training like two three times a day
00:34For a few years and that's when I was fighting got a couple amateur fights that are my belt
00:38I went three, you know in Emmys, but um
00:41for this fight man, it's been
00:43It's been about eight years since I fought last so
00:47Not in the gym like I used to be but always training because I love martial arts
00:51Like it's the most healthy thing I've ever done for my body for my mind
00:55And I was I was home for a few months and I had the opportunity so I wanted to give it a go so
01:02Yeah, it was my first pro fight. I knew it had to be pro because I didn't want to do the two three minute rounds anymore
01:08Just it's just not enough time and amateurs like we do all this preparation
01:12like go through all this fight camp to like show up and we want to
01:16do it for the experience put on a show and
01:19Yeah, I was it was awesome to have these five minute rounds to
01:24Go in there and really get a feel for it. So
01:26Yeah, I did this. I did this for the fun of it really so
01:31Not many people would say getting punched in the face for a living is for the fun of it
01:34But I mean obviously you love it
01:36They stuck with it all this time and you know before making your pro debut and I mean
01:40I don't know why you would need more than a couple minutes there because you showed in this fight how you can get off
01:44Real quick right there
01:45I know you got the finish in the second
01:47But 30 seconds in you let him taste the power right away with that right put him on his ass
01:51He got back up, but you know, I seem like he definitely was hesitant after that despite all the experience
01:55He had he was the only guy who had ten fights under his belt
01:58You're the guy with none and it seemed like you were you know
02:00More of the veteran in this fight the way you were controlling things on the feet
02:03He got the late takedown in the first but seemed for the most part
02:07You know
02:07Especially in that first round before even getting to the second that you were control this one and you know
02:11There were no jitters. No anything. This was just your night your world and you were gonna do everything you wanted to do in there
02:17Yeah, Brian, honestly, it was funny even back in the locker rooms like I was looking around at these guys warming up and
02:24Like this is my pro debut, but I felt like I was the vet in the room
02:27Like I've been around martial arts so long, you know, I've been I've trained with big pro fighters, you know, so like
02:35to me like
02:36It's a big show, you know, and it was a great experience, but it's like it's just another it's a walk in the park, you know
02:43So I was actually I was surprised not surprised but I noticed like you see it in his eyes, you know
02:50Where you you hit him with some things and it's like I know it not it didn't hurt that bad
02:54But I'm getting a reaction, you know
02:56So I saw that where I kind of I kind of saw him waning
03:00Man, I will say like in that first round, you know, I hit him with some good shots
03:05I know he he tried to take that one time and I was kind of on his back
03:09It's like I said, I saw the opportunities where I could have really pushed for the finish, but I wanted to see that second round
03:14I wanted to get that time get a little more experience and just enjoy myself, you know
03:21Well, you definitely enjoy yourself in the second round
03:23Could you tell after the first that he was already gas after those takedowns because you know
03:27He was on top for you know towards the end of that round in the first round you try for that
03:30You know that triangle over the back didn't end up that way and then he got on top got some shots in there nothing
03:35Major but did you know go into your corner that he was shot because you know, it didn't seem that way
03:40But the second you stepped out there for that second round you just mauled him
03:43It seemed like he just had nothing left
03:45I don't know what happened in that corner if it all the adrenaline just dumped out him or what he was zapped and you just
03:50Pulled him from there on until they finally stopped the fight
03:53Yeah, I mean from a couple minutes in I could already kind of feel like
03:58Maybe he wasn't gas yet. But like spiritually he wasn't he wasn't quite there
04:03Like he was kind of wanting to rest up against the cage and I kind of had to like rile him up a little bit
04:08To get a little more fight out of him
04:12But yet like those takedowns like I was comfortable being on bottom
04:16I think I got in more strikes than he really did
04:19So I was happy when it took me down. I was like coming into this
04:22It's like I wanted to fight on the ground. I wanted to fight on bottom. I wanted to fight on top
04:26I wanted to fight on my feet
04:27So, I mean there's only so much you can show in six minutes, but I got a I got a pretty good mix in there
04:33Coming in a second round. Yeah, I was like just looking at him coming out of his corner
04:37I knew it was like it was only a matter of time