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00:00And now you will be fighting on the 28th out there in Albuquerque headlining that card against Vexad Usmanov
00:06You said you want to stay active that you could have waited from the figure things out
00:09Is that why this fight is happening because when we talked to you after that Larimore fight you said you want to shot the title
00:14You thought that that you know, just domination by you 21 second finish
00:18Proved why you are still a top contender in this division. You wanted a shot at redemption against Blas
00:23But that obviously is not where we're coming out here. We're not even getting another top five opponent against you
00:28How did this fight come about it's just because you wanted to get back in there and get working and get paid or is it?
00:33That you know for another reason that they're putting this matchup together. Um
00:37Yeah, like, you know, pretty much like like that. I'll
00:41Fix that was supposed to be my opponent
00:45originally for the
00:48Date on there the Larimore flight. Um, yeah
00:53Like I don't think too many guys in the division really want to fight me right now
00:57like you have
01:00But because I'm not a guy that like, you know will turn down fights. Yeah. I told them I wanted to stay busy
01:05I want to stay active, you know
01:07Thanks, uh, you know stepped up so like, you know, we're fighting
01:14You know pretty much like, you know, my my mindset is
01:18That you know right now. I'm the number one contender
01:22Um everybody else like, you know, they can either they'll either get it now or when I've got the
01:29Or when I've got the belt doesn't really matter to me. There's only one guy that one guy ahead of me
01:34You know, that's work is everybody else
01:37now
01:39If I've got to take them out first, that's fine. If like, you know, I want to stay active
01:43I want to stay fighting. I want to stay sharp
01:46Yeah, like that was the only thing that really bothered me
01:50After I won the title was like, you know, I went from fighting
01:54four times in ten months
01:56To taking and to not getting a fight for nine months, you know
02:02Yeah, I did I just didn't like that like, you know, I like to like to be in there
02:07I like to be fighting like to be scrapping. Yeah, I don't want to
02:11Don't want to waste a lot of time
02:14Yeah outside there, you know, I'm not fighting
02:20We're saying that everyone in division is you know, other guys are scared to fight you have you had
02:24Have you brought these other names to the BK FC as there have been discussions with any of these guys?
02:27Because when you're looking at the other guys in the top five
02:29I mean, obviously you and Ibarra are two guys that are you know on great win streaks?
02:33He has you know, I'm defeated so far
02:35I mean some of the other guys like Reber just lost you're gonna send him not being in there or you know
02:40Maybe even a Garcia, you know has a great win streak going as well as the other guys in that top five
02:45Have you brought up any of these names to the BK FC to try to you know, propel that that fight?
02:50Oh, you know that situation where there's no way they could deny you a title shot
02:53Or is it just other things are going on and just whoever they propose to you is what you're gonna go with
02:58Really like yeah, like I'm not a huge call-out guy like, you know, it's just not my just not my not my style
03:04not my thing, um
03:07You know
03:10Anybody like anybody that wants can get it like, you know, I feel like you know, I'm in this to be the best in the world
03:17Why am I gonna turn down? Why am I gonna turn down fights?
03:21Yeah
03:23Like
03:25Yeah, everybody like, you know, everybody below me right now like that's right below me
03:32I feel like I am ranked ranked ahead of them for a reason. Yeah, everybody else is just a meal
03:40Well, you are always game to go and to fight and scrap and you've never been one to turn anything down
03:44You said it was Mon off was a guy you were supposed to fight and unfortunately didn't happen
03:49You had to fight in Laramore instead and putting an exclamation point on that victory
03:52Now do you think it makes it I'm not gonna say easier for you
03:56But like that you're already kind of mentally prepared for his model before that you you know
04:00could find even more things that you have almost extra time to prepare for him between
04:03What you were doing leading up to that last fight and then now preparing for him this fight camp as well
04:09um
04:13Not like I wouldn't say uh, yeah, I wouldn't say it makes it easier or harder like, you know, like, you know
04:21Like yeah, I do a decent amount of studying but a lot of it like, you know a lot of it's like, you know
04:27There's there's always certain things that we said that we're gonna be looking for and stuff like that
04:33Yeah
04:35I'd say like the
04:37Probably the weirdest thing for me right now is like this is the he's the first non Southpaw I've had in quite a while
04:45which you know doesn't really matter to me one way or the other because I switch so much but yeah, it's just uh,
04:53It's kind of
04:55It's kind of kind of nice going ortho ortho a little bit