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00:00Now, moving over to the PFL,
00:02what has the transition been like for you
00:04from fighting for Bellator to the PFL,
00:06buying him and now you being part of the PFL?
00:08What has that been like for you
00:09to get to learn the new bosses and see some new faces
00:11and, you know, just get a whole new lineup
00:13of fighters to face off now against in PFL?
00:17The octagon size, okay, so, you know, nothing different.
00:23One thing that will be different for a lot of the other fighters
00:25but not for you is obviously, you know,
00:26in this tournament format that Bellator are in
00:28for a long time in the PFL,
00:29you know, change their regular season
00:30to this tournament format.
00:32How do you like that, the kind of bracket
00:33going through from one opponent to the next
00:35where you can kind of see your path going forward?
00:37Do you like that better than having to, you know,
00:39than are you used to it?
00:40You feel like your advantage in that
00:42and having gone through Bellator before
00:44is going to be working to your advantage
00:45that it might not for some of these other fighters
00:47who haven't experienced something like this?
00:50Well, it's just like normal competition for me.
00:56The only thing that interests me and make me feel good
01:00is that I get to fight three fights in four months.
01:03So, you know, you have to be strategic and game.
01:07So, I'm known for that.
01:10I know how to survive.
01:11Another element, yeah, another element to this
01:13that a lot of guys don't think of, you know,
01:15people think of the fights like,
01:16all right, just go fight
01:17and then whatever's next is next.
01:18But like you said, you got a finite window here,
01:20a short window that you got to get these three fights in
01:22that you have to make sure you don't come out too damaged
01:24and you make sure, you know,
01:25you're not leaving yourself open to something
01:27that could end up knocking you out of this tournament.
01:29So, that's definitely thinking parts
01:31with a lot of people aren't going to obviously realize
01:33having not done this before,
01:34that maybe you have that advantage.
01:35So, we look forward to that.
01:37You're headlining this first card April 3rd now
01:39down in Orlando.
01:41You'll be going against Koreshkov.
01:43I mean, this is when we were looking at the rosters
01:45before they released what the brackets were
01:47for this fight and this division.
01:48You know, we're saying you guys, two of you
01:51were two of the tops in this division.
01:53You know, when usually a lot of times
01:54you see a bracket like this, guys are kind of,
01:56maybe the best guys are on opposite ends
01:58and they meet at the finals.
01:59You guys are matching up right in the beginning.
02:00What do you think of that, that you're getting
02:01this tough opponent right out of the gates here
02:04in the first fight of this tournament,
02:05the first main event?
02:07Well, like, we got to kick it off with a bang,
02:11put everybody's interest because, you know,
02:13it's on Thursday night.
02:15A lot of people are not really thinking about
02:17watching fight on Thursday night.
02:19So, we got to get the audience involved.
02:21We got to put the best on if we're coming out
02:23on Thursday night and me and Kershkoff is the guy
02:26to set it off with.
02:27You know, he's excited and I'm excited.
02:30And we never crossed paths in the Umbrella Tour.
02:34So, now it's like, you know what I'm saying,
02:36old champion versus new champ type of thing.
02:40So, it's one of the best fights, I think, in my opinion.