Latest / Gil I Am / UFC 314...In Ring Post Fight Interviews
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Referee Mark Godard has called us soop to this contest,
- 0:09Speaker 2: not two minutes what you for? Seconds of the very
- 0:11Speaker 2: first round declared the winner by no.
- 0:16Speaker 3: Cock domo Ark the devis Kaye.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Where Dominic ras, what a journey you've been on.
- 0:30Speaker 1: It was a long road back. But boy, are you back?
- 0:34Speaker 5: Hey, I'm not back.
- 0:35Speaker 1: I'm better back and better. You look fantastic tonight.
- 0:39Speaker 4: You're t You caught him with a jab and rocked
- 0:41Speaker 4: him early in the fight.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Give us your thoughts on this fight.
- 0:45Speaker 5: I mean fighting Nikita Krauloffs no joke. He's a guy
- 0:47Speaker 5: that's relentless, presser, extremely tough, He's never been knocked out
- 0:51Speaker 5: in here in the light hibway division, and he's just
- 0:53Speaker 5: a solid competitor. Bro, He's one of the hardest matchups
- 0:56Speaker 5: in the division in my opinion. And I got it done.
- 0:59Speaker 4: And I Baby, this is a very emotional moment for
- 1:01Speaker 4: you because if you've gone through so much, you had
- 1:04Speaker 4: so many losses in a row where, I mean, give
- 1:06Speaker 4: me your thoughts on what was that like for you
- 1:08Speaker 4: and the doubts.
- 1:10Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what, man, it sucked.
- 1:12Speaker 5: But man, my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, my
- 1:16Speaker 5: faith and myself and my family.
- 1:18Speaker 1: It kept me grounded right, kept me here.
- 1:21Speaker 5: And I'm still here fighting anything's going on in your life, guys,
- 1:25Speaker 5: just keep.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Fighting, never give up. You go down, get up again.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Just keep going.
- 1:28Speaker 5: Baby, there are brighter days ahead. Jesus has your back.
- 1:33Speaker 1: I love all you.
- 1:35Speaker 4: You didn't look better than ever tonight, and I want
- 1:37Speaker 4: you to look at it tonight and enjoy this.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Look up at the big screen.
- 1:41Speaker 4: He charged for it, and you caught him with this
- 1:44Speaker 4: beautiful left hand. We're gonna show it against You had
- 1:46Speaker 4: a better look at it as he's.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Charging for you. Slip back and boom.
- 1:52Speaker 5: That's my patent in pull two, I said, don reyes
- 1:55Speaker 5: too right there, Well.
- 1:57Speaker 4: Domino Gras, this puts you back at the top of
- 2:00Speaker 4: the heap, three in a row.
- 2:02Speaker 1: Now, give me your thoughts on who you'd like to
- 2:03Speaker 1: face next.
- 2:04Speaker 5: Oh I'm gonna be in the top ten now, uh,
- 2:11Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Man, anybody just listen, just enjoy this one more and
- 2:15Speaker 1: than a title. That's all I'm saying. One more in
- 2:17Speaker 1: a title. Let's go. We'll enjoy this, Dominik, give's a
- 2:19Speaker 1: pleasure to.
- 2:20Speaker 4: Call you fight thank you, Sir Dominic rays ladies and gentlemen.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
- 2:30Speaker 2: After three rounds, we go to the judges score cards
- 2:33Speaker 2: for a decision. All three judges scored this contest thirty
- 2:37Speaker 2: twenty seven for the winner. Why you doe of a decision?
- 2:42Speaker 1: Y well, pet Rock think gooden.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen. I'm here with Yai Rodriguez. Yai ear,
- 3:11Speaker 4: what a performance you. You never looked better physically than tonight.
- 3:16Speaker 4: You looked in tremendous shape and your performance was.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Just outstand Thank you so much, like what I wore for.
- 3:24Speaker 4: Well, your your kids were such a huge factor in
- 3:27Speaker 4: this fight. Were you surprised that he stood at distance
- 3:30Speaker 4: like that for the first round?
- 3:32Speaker 6: No.
- 3:33Speaker 1: I knew he was going to be tough.
- 3:34Speaker 7: Honestly, I was picturing on my head a little bit different.
- 3:37Speaker 7: I wanted to finish him in the first round. I
- 3:39Speaker 7: was preparing for that. I had like a good light
- 3:42Speaker 7: taking ex prepare for that.
- 3:43Speaker 1: But the guy's good. How's the old experience in the world.
- 3:46Speaker 7: All the respect to Patre's your people, don't get new
- 3:48Speaker 7: YORNI here in the UFC. I wish him nothing but
- 3:51Speaker 7: the best. But now It's time to be focused on
- 3:53Speaker 7: what's next. And what's next Hunter Combo, we talk over
- 3:58Speaker 7: the phone, miss me. He say, if you win your
- 4:01Speaker 7: next five title shot is next. Let's do for Mexico September. Well,
- 4:08Speaker 7: I want to fight for a title there. Whomever wins tonight,
- 4:11Speaker 7: I want to fight that guy in Mexico.
- 4:12Speaker 4: Well, you absolutely earned that, sir, and just what a
- 4:16Speaker 4: sensational performance. Talk about your training camp for this, because
- 4:19Speaker 4: you you clearly prepared for one of the best Brazilian
- 4:23Speaker 4: introducing black belts in the sport and the real knockout orders.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Tell me what you did differently.
- 4:27Speaker 7: I was just in the gym on time. I did
- 4:31Speaker 7: my diet with the help of the UFC Performance Institute,
- 4:34Speaker 7: Charles being my main nutritionist, and I was helping my body,
- 4:38Speaker 7: you know, with nutrients, the best food, sleep quality, on meditation, visualization,
- 4:45Speaker 7: and I live with the best team. I couldn't I
- 4:47Speaker 7: couldn't have done this with all my team, coach Mike Baye,
- 4:50Speaker 7: coach Islam Alberto, another team back home guys in Chicago.
- 4:55Speaker 7: I love you guys, thank you for supporting me. And
- 4:57Speaker 7: I also want to say, Miami, what have you stitty
- 5:01Speaker 7: and longer guys, thank you so much.
- 5:03Speaker 1: My family is up there. I love you.
- 5:05Speaker 7: Guys.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Is going to make my phone tap? Everybody has n
- 5:10Speaker 1: I thought, if.
- 5:11Speaker 7: I'm looking any more, how don't make it go? We
- 5:13Speaker 7: wanna make.
- 5:15Speaker 4: Congratulations yea, your spectacular performance.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Yeah you Net Rodriguez. Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Rebory Harry hot Ley has called us off to this contest.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Got three minutes seven seconds of round number three, declared
- 5:33Speaker 2: the winner.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Why Duke kay Powter? What powder? Patty the Batty?
- 5:48Speaker 4: There was a lot of questions coming into this fight tonight,
- 5:50Speaker 4: and you had.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Nothing but answers.
- 5:52Speaker 4: It was a completely dominant performance against one of the
- 5:56Speaker 4: top contenders.
- 5:57Speaker 1: In the lightweight division. Just a super performance.
- 6:01Speaker 8: Lad Literally everything I have worked with my team, Paul Els,
- 6:06Speaker 8: Adam Chris everything, we have worked, all the fight run twos,
- 6:10Speaker 8: we've done the fight sims. That's just happened here. This
- 6:14Speaker 8: is how we win the game plan. We use our
- 6:18Speaker 8: fight IQ and we beat so anyone else, got any questions, Patty?
- 6:25Speaker 4: This is a stellar performance and a performance that really
- 6:29Speaker 4: elevates you to the top of the heat. Who would
- 6:32Speaker 4: you like to fight next?
- 6:33Speaker 8: Anyone in the top four, top five. I want that
- 6:36Speaker 8: world titled all laugh wall us once and say I'll
- 6:39Speaker 8: never be champed, just like you said, I'll never get ranked.
- 6:43Speaker 8: I'll never be on the top ten. But what now,
- 6:46Speaker 8: your gang of mushrooms?
- 6:48Speaker 1: I want Dustin, Justin, Charles.
- 6:56Speaker 8: Or the little postboy Arman, any of them forbo out
- 7:00Speaker 8: of them all, Yes, Katy Jay, I've respected Buston, Justin
- 7:07Speaker 8: and Charles. Charles is the biggest legend out of them.
- 7:10Speaker 1: All, and he gets called the.
- 7:12Speaker 8: Best submission asis the UFC's ever seen. Well, I dispute
- 7:16Speaker 8: the amia so meves Charles common He's a little helmet.
- 7:22Speaker 8: That's sausage.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Listen, you can talk all the trash you want, sir.
- 7:27Speaker 4: After a performance like that, all questions have been answered.
- 7:30Speaker 4: Congratulations on a spectacular performance, Patty to Patty, Ladies and gentlemen.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
- 7:42Speaker 2: After five rounds we go to the judges score cards
- 7:46Speaker 2: for a decision. The judges score the contest forty eight,
- 7:50Speaker 2: forty seven, forty nine, forty six and forty nine forty
- 7:53Speaker 2: six with.
- 7:54Speaker 3: A window by you No, oh, no, sooner you would
- 8:03Speaker 3: see by the way, champion.
- 8:06Speaker 4: Of the world.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Oh I sa.
- 8:11Speaker 4: Correct Oh, good, good, Alexander Volkanovski. You just became the
- 8:26Speaker 4: first man over thirty five in the lighterweight classes to
- 8:32Speaker 4: ever win a world title.
- 8:33Speaker 1: You were the undisputed fatherweight.
- 8:35Speaker 4: Champion once you are now once again the undisputed fatherweight champion.
- 8:39Speaker 1: How good does this feel?
- 8:43Speaker 6: Oh man, it's good to be back. Might have never
- 8:51Speaker 6: felt a lot so much. Ah Man, I look sign
- 8:56Speaker 6: old waka. Even to the camera before I walked out,
- 8:59Speaker 6: I said, you know, I promise my girls I'll.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Bring the belt back to them.
- 9:04Speaker 6: But then I was thinking, look, it doesn't matter about
- 9:06Speaker 6: bringing the belt back. I think the message was, man,
- 9:09Speaker 6: a lot of people can to me out right, coming
- 9:11Speaker 6: off two knockout losses, the thirty five year old curse,
- 9:15Speaker 6: thirty six years old, big break and come out, come
- 9:18Speaker 6: back and beat a gun like Diego Lopez, who come
- 9:22Speaker 6: and brang it mate. It's good to be back. Forever
- 9:26Speaker 6: I'm watching, Hey, adversity, it's the privilege.
- 9:29Speaker 1: You hear people talk about that all the time. It
- 9:31Speaker 1: truly is.
- 9:32Speaker 6: This moment is incredible. Easy had a big moment here.
- 9:36Speaker 6: Last time I had a big moment. Shout out to Easy,
- 9:39Speaker 6: but I I love you soah. I really appreciate this.
- 9:43Speaker 4: That is a beautiful statement that adversity is a privilege
- 9:46Speaker 4: and to overcome adversity like this.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Please speak to us about what was.
- 9:50Speaker 4: It like to have those two knockout losses, to have
- 9:53Speaker 4: the creeping doubts.
- 9:54Speaker 6: Well, it's an opportunity. You get adversity. If you build
- 9:57Speaker 6: yourself back, it's only going to make it stronger. Even
- 9:59Speaker 6: if it it doesn't work out, but a lot of
- 10:01Speaker 6: times it does if you really pursue it.
- 10:03Speaker 1: And look what can happen. Break records.
- 10:06Speaker 6: These people are gonna write books about These are gonna
- 10:08Speaker 6: be movies, you.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Know what I mean. That's topic. That's what it's all about.
- 10:12Speaker 4: Hi, Miami, I love you, Alexander. A truly spectacular performance.
- 10:19Speaker 4: You look like the Alexander vol You look like the
- 10:22Speaker 4: world champion that you are.
- 10:23Speaker 1: Congratulations sir.
- 10:25Speaker 4: It was an honor to call your fight and it's
- 10:26Speaker 4: a beautiful thing to see you once again as the
- 10:29Speaker 4: world champion.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I think we're do for another bod guys, let's do it,
- 10:31Speaker 1: my brother. They need to talk about congratulations, sir.
- 10:34Speaker 4: Are shoeing for the Hall of Fame, Ladies and gentlemen.
- 10:36Speaker 4: Alexander Volkanovski