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Carli Judice Post Fight Interview w/ UFC vets Jessica Penne and Angela Hill
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Jun 16, 2025
Carli Judice is coming off her first win in the UFC in a big way, huge headkick KO! She talks about coming off 2 losses, getting over the feeling of starting late, learning how to fight during the Covid lockdown, getting the call to the UFC and keeping her mind right in order to secure the win. She also shares her favorite sweets and things to bake, what she's gonna do with her 50K and who she thinks she'll get next. ( We tried to get her to talk a lil smack but she wasn't having it) #UFCVegas104 Powered by Duelbits. Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join
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hi Carly hey y'all can hear thanks for
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joining us of course thank y'all for
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having me i've been excited to talk to
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y'all all day so
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a excited to talk to you congratulations
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on your big victory last weekend thank
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you appreciate it what's uh what's that
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feeling like uh I'm still on still on a
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high from it you know it feels amazing i
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haven't um won like that in a while i
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lost my last two fights so it feels
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really good to uh to go in there and
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perform but um yeah I'm still you know I
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feel I feel great with the win but I
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also feel very like I'm full of
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gratitude just from for for my life and
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the people in it that helped get me to
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where I am so yeah I'm just like full of
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gratitude for for everything well you
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haven't been in the game that long so
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for you to make it to the big stage in
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such a short amount of time is extremely
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impressive what do you um I guess how
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did you get your start into MMA um so I
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played softball my whole life right so I
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competed all the time and then uh I went
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to play college ball for about a year
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and a half and then I moved home i was
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kind of burned out with softball it's
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something I did my whole life and uh I
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was just kind of done with it uh and
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then when I moved home I wasn't doing
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anything right like so I went from
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competing and playing sports every day
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of my life to working at a restaurant
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eating bloom and onions and bread in the
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back so I was like "All right this trash
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let me find something do." And my
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brother is training at trained at the
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gym that I train at now and he was like
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"Why don't you come try it out there's a
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two-eek trial you get some free gloves
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for the twoe trial." So I went I got
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some free gloves or fire um and I did
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the twoe trial and then I never left
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since so I'm still at that same gym and
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uh yeah we just hit the ground running
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when I started so what year was that
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after you started that was uh right
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before COVID so 2020 I started trained
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for a month covid hit so then I had a
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lot of time to train at home and like I
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was watching YouTube videos i remember I
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was uh hitting mits like with you on the
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YouTube you know how they do
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that and I'm sure I have videos i've
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posted it before i look terrible but um
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came a long way so glad I don't look
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like that anymore that's insane so uh do
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you kind of attribute a lot of your
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growth to doing it on your own like that
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or do you think it it helped a lot to be
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able to get back into the gym setting
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and and really like sharpen everything
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up uh I attribute a lot of the growth to
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that but not all of it there's there's
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so many things that play into it you
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know so many people that play into to me
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growing so uh that was a good chunk of
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time that I got to to sit home to stay
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at home and break down a lot of
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techniques because when I started
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something new it was exciting and it's
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MMA is fast right like throwing punches
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is fast so I just wanted to throw i
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remember my coach telling me that she
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was like "Carly," he was like "Carly
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slow down." Because I was just going ham
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right i was just like throwing punches
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like crazy and uh so co really helped me
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to slow down all those punches and
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things so it definitely helped but it's
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not the only thing you know that got me
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where I am
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it's it's really wild watching you fight
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because you look like a
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lifetime athlete when it comes to
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striking you know like you look like
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you've been doing it a while like you
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come from a kickboxing background do you
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have any type of like kickboxing boxing
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any type of uh amateur record like that
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or was it straight into MMA uh no i I
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just went straight into MMA remember um
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I didn't even have like a kickboxing
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smoker or any like any sort of practice
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fights besides sparring before my first
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fight wow my first amateur fight and I
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was a catcher that's the the only thing
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that had to do with my legs growing up
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was me being a catcher that was my
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position oh yeah yeah funnest one for
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sure how um so how long what is your
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time frame how long was it from when you
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first picked up the gloves to your first
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fight and then your first amateur fight
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to your pro uh to your pro debut um the
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first time it was a year from when I
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first started training to my amateur
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fight and then I think I was uh I had
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four amateur fights within like a
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two-year span or a year and a I think
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two years because I went pro uh October
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of 2022 and I started training in 2020
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so yeah that was it was pretty quick cuz
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we couldn't find uh any more amateur
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fights we found four and I remember for
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like a six-month period we were trying
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to find fights everybody uh kept turning
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them down locally um so that's why we
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decided to go pro it was a little soon
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but uh we couldn't find any more
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amateurs to fight so we just did it and
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uh I mean it turned out working out you
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know cuz I am where I am now but uh of
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course my first two fights in the
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contender series in uh in the UFC there
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was an experience difference like with
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nerves and stuff like that that I hadn't
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experienced but um just this this last
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fight everything you know I'm I'm
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starting to come into come into it you
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know it just I I started a little late
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so I mean but I'm learning every time I
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step in there i'm learning more than
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just physical it's just like mental you
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know learning how to be in high pressure
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situations and getting better every time
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no I I consider myself starting late i
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started when I was 23 but I feel like uh
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the reframe that I have for that is I
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started when I was ready to you know
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when it was the best time and I feel
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like for you just what I've seen from
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you it's it's a great time for you to
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start it is a challenging learning curve
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but the adjustments that you're making
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from fight to fight seem to be really
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putting you in a great place thank you i
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appreciate it is that Yes same i started
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when I was 24 so you're way ahead of the
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game for both of us we're like you
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started early girl you started way early
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start telling people I started early
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yeah there you go it's a mindset thing
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uh one thing I did want to ask you about
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is your mindset i I heard on one of your
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post-fight interviews um that you wrote
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a letter to yourself on your way to
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fight week and um there were other
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little key words that I heard like
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gratitude uh being grateful for where
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you're at uh do you do a lot of mental
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work before you fight is that something
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new that you started doing or did you
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just figure it out on your own like hey
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let me do this thing to get myself in
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the right mindset to just put my best
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foot forward yeah it's definitely
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something that I've kind of always did
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but um my strength and conditioning
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coach uh Claire Savage she helps me like
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I used to just kind of write stuff down
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but she's helped me helped me to break
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it down and really like understand why
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I'm writing what I'm writing so I
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definitely journal um and also when I'm
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not journaling I'm just anytime a
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negative thought crosses my mind I'm
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trying to like shake it out because when
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I used to play softball or just when I
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was younger I was a mental I was a
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basket case right like I would strike
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out and I would go and cry like throw my
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helmet like just crazy stuff and to see
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how far I came from that you know it's
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it's amazing but like I'm just I'm
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always trying to get better and I know
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that if I want to perform at a high
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level like high level athletes don't
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strike out when they cry I mean cry when
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they strike out
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like take you know they take losses and
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they turn them into something good you
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know because like it's easy to take
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losses and think you're going to lose
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again but I decided to take those two
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losses I had in a row and decide I
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wasn't gonna lose again like so and I
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wasn't gonna be scared to go back in
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there because you know when you lose
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twice in a row it's like well I'm g just
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lose again but like anytime like those
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thoughts uh like they crawled into my
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mind sometime during camp too especially
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when I had a bad practice it was like
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you're going to lose again and like
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right when those thoughts hit my brain
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you got to like shake them out like no
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you're not you're not going to lose
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again you're going to lose again if you
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say you're gonna lose again so I've said
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lose again like 8,000 times i'm sorry
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but
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it's okay the fight's over now you can
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say it
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sorry i got I get hit a lot but I didn't
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get hit this fight so I don't have like
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an excuse for forgetting stuff or
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talking to
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that's great well you you get hit a tiny
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bit but the one thing that I noticed the
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most about this performance compared to
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your last ones was that it didn't shake
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you like you if she landed some glancing
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blow or whatever it didn't make you go
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back into the center of the cage you
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stayed in her face the whole time you
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kind of suffocated her with your
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footwork and with your pressure so when
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you said that you wanted to just really
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go back to your old self I kind of felt
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like that was part of it is that true or
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is that right yeah definitely i I wanted
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to you know I I'm walked forward in my
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last two fights i let people walk me
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back and I didn't like that feeling and
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I knew that she you know watching tape
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people know that like couldn't say that
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I don't like to go back i don't like to
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be in my but so that's one adjustment we
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made uh this fight camp also besides the
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mental physically we wanted to make sure
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that my chin was down because in my last
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I'm up hopping high right and if I get
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hit I'm falling back and I'm I'm backing
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up so we just changed a slight movement
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of like my chin coming down and it made
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me press forward like so just that one
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adjustment we made I think changed a lot
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and uh you know I'm glad we caught it
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and I'm glad that I adjusted because
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from a contender series to my debut I
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got a lot better but I didn't fix the
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obvious thing that lost me the fight
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backing up right so I'm glad that I was
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able to fix it this time because I think
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it made a huge difference nice i'm
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clipping that out yeah I'm clipping I'm
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clipping that quote out and I'm showing
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it to everyone who I say to put their
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chin down because yeah that's that's the
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name of the game it's balance like if if
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I'm up here I'm going to fall back you
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know so I'm glad I
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fined too long to
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Do you have any uh tips or tricks to
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what helped you do that or was just
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constantly like a verbal cue reminder
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anything tennis ball to the chin like
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anything no con like when I got hit and
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I fell back I was like oh I'm looking up
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now that like not right me I'm sky so
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yeah anytime I got hit I was like oh
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okay that that's
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so I want to go back to when you first
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got the call that they wanted you on
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Contender Series what did that feel like
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and I I saw uh your fight before
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Contender Series where you got that
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really nice body shot knockout i think
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that was the one um what was it like
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getting that call and how did you know
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how that happened like how they got
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their name or your name and uh yeah walk
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us through that yeah I mean I can thank
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and I still do all the time i I try to
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thank Sucker Punch for that my managers
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um
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Hey called me that day uh he said he was
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kind of like you know sprinkling my name
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to Mick in the matchmakers um just up uh
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when I was coming up as a early pro so
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he was helping me i still am early pro
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but uh yeah he definitely I can thank
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him for that i can thank him for where I
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am now uh Brian with Sucker Punch but um
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they called me i was at the bakery that
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I work at right i worked at uh Great
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Harvest Bakery here in Lafayette i
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worked there for three years they called
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me i was on a Saturday shift making
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sandwiches and I was like "Y'all make
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the sandwich i got to go get this." And
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I remember Brian uh was like "Hey we
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have this the contender series someone
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dropped out only problem is in 10 days
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and can you make weight?" And I was
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pretty far out i think I was 17 pounds
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out in 10 days um yeah so I called my
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coach that was the only the only uh like
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reason we wouldn't have took the fight
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because it was like you don't say yes to
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the UFC and then miss weight right you
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like you got to make sure that you can
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you can make weight but um I called my
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coach and I was like "Are we going to do
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this like do you think I can make
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weight?" And he was like "I have no idea
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but we're not going to say no so we're
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going to have to figure it out." So we
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said yes uh I remember the rest of the
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day I was just like overcome with
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emotion i was crying all day everybody
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probably thought I was like "Why are you
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crying?" But I was like "This is this is
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like insane because I didn't expect that
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at all right it was just like I had
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three fights like I didn't expect that
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till five or six." Um so it was
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definitely crazy and it's like one of
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the biggest blessings that happened you
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know i I'll never forget that day i'll
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never forget the feeling and it was it
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was amazing i love the image of you
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crying into people's sandwiches just
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seasoning them with your tears yeah like
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when you go to Subway and they put salt
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in
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a little extra special sauce yeah
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exactly oh that's great um and uh that's
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funny that you said you were 17 pounds
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out do you feel like um flyweight is the
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perfect weight class for you because
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when you fought Fernandez I think a lot
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of people were taken aback at how slim
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you looked in comparison to her and yeah
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bit different body types are within the
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weight class but would you ever think
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about going down the straw weight or are
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you like "No never never no way." No I
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don't think I can do straw weight
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because like I don't think I could go I
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couldn't go up and I couldn't go down i
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think I'm just in a weird position uh I
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am trying to constantly trying to put on
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muscle so hopefully I can be a bigger
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flyweight but I think um I think I'll be
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at flyweight you know forever here
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unless I like lose a limb or
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something weight but I'm not a limb so I
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mean how does it feel in there though so
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you know there is critique that maybe
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your frame is a little bit smaller for
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that division but how do you feel in
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there like strengthwise strength-wise
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against Ernesa on Contenders in this
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past fight I felt totally fine i did
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feel a strength difference with uh
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Gabriella but she she's jacked so I give
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her that she's She could be a banttom
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yeah like with all the flyaways that I
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fought I felt great except Gabrielle i
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did feel the strength difference there
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but that's about the only one yeah you
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still did a good job though i I liked
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seeing your grappling in that fight for
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a split second uh do you think you'll be
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working more of your wrestling or your
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grappling and your future fights or do
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you like to just stand and bake uh yeah
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I'm definitely going to start working uh
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grappling more you know I grapple almost
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every day but I uh I'm getting with a
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wrestling coach just to make sure that
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once they do throw me in there with a
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gra wrestler that I'm prepared i mean um
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they get I've been blessed with like
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three strikers in a row which is every
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striker's dream right we want to but I
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know that's realistically I'm going to
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be in there i'm a mixed martial artist i
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got to be ready for everything so I'm
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going to make sure that I'm ready for a
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wrestler when they want to put me put me
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in there with one nice uh do you have
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any possible matchups any uh any words
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after calling out for the UFC Louisiana
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the the New Orleans card any rumblings
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from that stuff uh no not really i've
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seen people try to post like who I
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should fight i think they may try to put
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me up with Juliana Miller they I didn't
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hear anything that's just my guess
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because I was supposed to fight her she
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got injured and I hadn't seen anything
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for her lined up so they may try to
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match me up with her again so we'll see
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if that happens all right how do you
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like that that that's actually one of
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the one of our old training partners but
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I still want to know how do you like
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that matchup
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so but I mean anytime I get in there I
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try to make it exciting so I don't know
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maybe I'm just being biased by myself or
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something i don't know we're gonna be
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like "Yo Juliana she was talking mad
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about you on our podcast."
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Don't tell her no I'm joking no um that
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that would No we're clipping it and
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putting it out there
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yeah I you'll be talking and I'll be
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saying stuff i'll her up i also met
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her with Twister
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u I I actually I really like the matchup
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um K what is her name kong Wang uh she
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last fight Gabriella the your last
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opponent and it was a really epic back
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and forth fight she ended up uh getting
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dropped and submitted how do you like
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that matchup as a as a future one i
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think that would be a fun one for sure
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yeah I uh like I said I don't really you
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know another striker though yeah just
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another striker i I would fight i mean
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whoever they want to put me in there
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with I'm like I'm just going to go and
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go into the fire and perform as best as
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I can and you know so whatever I haven't
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really been looking or like I don't have
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anybody call out but you know whatever's
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next is next and I'm going to face the
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the challenge when it comes nice nice so
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you've you're in the UFC you're in the
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biggest show obviously the the goal for
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pretty much every fighter is you know to
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get to that title shop uh do you have I
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don't know a time frame do you um have
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any goals outside of fighting or
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anything because we're in this great
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amazing platform that the UFC provides
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um do you see yourself branching out and
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do anything else um not I haven't
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thought about much right now i was just
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trying to like get my first win so I was
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beyond that like I was I gota I got it
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girl
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caliber and then so I hadn't put too
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much thought into it i definitely want
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to do more with this platform you know
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uh I'm still not huge yet so that's up
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to me to get wins and perform to you
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know to be bigger but um yeah I I forgot
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the question here we go it was it was
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kind of a long like four-part question i
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just kept you know I was I was feeling
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it um I don't know what are what are
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your goals inside the UFC besides you
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know getting the belt do you have like
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an end goal in sight yeah I definitely
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you know would love to have the belt
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wrapped around me one day but with that
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that being said I'm also not rushing it
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i'm young i want to get experience and I
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want to get hella fights in the UFC so
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uh I just want to be in front perform
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for a crowd and wherever that leads me
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however long it takes I'm not really
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rushing it i just want to you know I
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love fighting it's fun to me so just you
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know I'm down to fight whenever and if I
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get a belt that's the goal but when it
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happens it doesn't matter to me nice
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nice i um I I feel like now that you got
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your first one out of the way you need a
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stick so you know like everyone knows uh
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Kong Wing Kong's name because of her
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Joker thing her Joker face paint so you
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need a stick is that Is that a word you
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you kids use you don't know
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a a gimmick she's got that RZ i don't
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know
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the kids are saying "So what I'm
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thinking cuz I saw your uh your crispy
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cream thing you can show up with a
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crispy cream donut and I don't know like
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smash it in your opponent's face or
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something next time you weigh in." I
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don't know if she's a a food smasher in
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the face or donut a food smasher
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i can like offer it to her that's a
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little nicer like okay all right i I was
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trying to add the drama but that would
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be cute too then people would get the
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get the nickname put two and two
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together yeah i mean I try to be very
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respectful unless someone disrespects me
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then I'm kind of like wait then I was
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just being respectful for nothing you
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know so but so I might end up smashing
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eventually if someone's like rude to me
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nice i'll just like hand that if if
18:44
they're pretty cool so just bring a box
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and have them handy you know have like
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reserves so you can like chuck them at
18:50
them too yeah and if they're rude I'll
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get the like the the one that's most
18:53
stale and throw it at them
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ah not the worst in a stale donut you
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think it's good and then it's just Yeah
19:02
like Dunkin' Donuts oh wait no I am Am I
19:04
Don't put that in there i don't know if
19:05
I'm supposed to be dogging on brands or
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whatever
19:09
girl do you whatever comes naturally hey
19:11
she might get a Dunkin Donuts sponsor
19:13
don't set her
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up they were like you know what we were
19:18
thinking about it but never mind and
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throw the papers out the
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door take our money back yeah there's so
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many doughnut shops out there like every
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every 10 feet you're driving you see a
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doughnut shop so okay so what is your
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favorite baked good you work at a bakery
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your name's based around sweets what is
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your favorite well I wish I could say it
19:41
was donuts right because that's my whole
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brand but cookies my I have seven
19:45
cookies in my fridge right now that I
19:47
ordered from a company they got
19:49
delivered after my fight but I wasn't
19:50
gonna eat all of them right away right
19:52
because that's insane so I put No we've
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all been there
19:57
are my favorite which I love them but
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cookies a good chocolate chip cookie
20:02
it's my favorite okay chocolate chip
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okay what do you have any fancy kind in
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your freezer right now yeah what do I
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have on my uh I had a Biscoff cheesecake
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yesterday
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i think No I don't know what's in my
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freezer so we're not going to figure it
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out we could we could go with you yeah
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let's check it out let's
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Yes
20:27
you know that place by uh Wet Method has
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a really good Biscoff cheesecake that's
20:32
the one that Butcher drooled all over
20:35
the couch when he saw me eating it he
20:39
left a puddle of jewel on the couch when
20:42
he saw me eating that Biscoff cheesecake
20:44
okay what we got here all right we got
20:46
chocolate chip so it's pretty pretty big
20:50
it's those are hefty half baked so fudge
20:55
brownie chocolate chip cookie dough
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bites stuffed with Nutella and a scoop
20:59
of chocolate chip cookie dough on top
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like another cookie what company is this
21:03
it's PDX cookies it's in Portland Oregon
21:06
oo and then lastly the one I found cuz I
21:09
think the other one fell down this one's
21:11
cinnamon roll oh dang stuffed with oh my
21:15
gosh wow periodically don't worry
21:20
there's no judgment here there's no
21:21
judgment no bulk season is on you won
21:24
your fight it's time to bulk up yeah you
21:26
got to be a big straw uh flyweight now
21:29
bulking now uh I also have a bunt cake
21:32
from a nothing bun cakes because I had a
21:34
free birthday thing but it expired on
21:37
like March 9th so I was like "No." When
21:39
was your birthday it was on March 2nd oh
21:42
happy birthday thank you
21:44
so I got my cake and I put it in the
21:46
freezer so I got a like a full full iced
21:48
cake it's tiny you know the bunk cakes
21:50
but they're in the freezer so cuz I
21:52
wasn't missing the free the free
21:56
[Laughter]
21:58
i love it fatty on a budget that's like
22:00
every MMA fighter start they're always a
22:03
fatty on a budget you know get it in
22:05
when you can gotta be but I'm also I
22:07
also bake a lot too so that's why I put
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them in the freezer because I might bake
22:11
something by the time I eat before I eat
22:13
the cookies i think you need to have
22:15
like baking with crispy yes okay idea i
22:20
think that's your YouTube channel yes
22:22
start making reals of you baking it'll
22:25
take off all right all right i'm start
22:27
planning that and you got to add some
22:28
martial arts in there like you spin kick
22:30
the dough and and then it like lands on
22:33
the baking tray and you know just some
22:36
creative editing for sure but you can
22:39
like Oh you need it yes yeah see we're
22:43
we got you we got you
22:46
yeah that's perfect
22:48
nice well what do you plan to do in the
22:51
next couple of weeks while you're
22:53
waiting to hear news do you have any
22:55
like celebration i know they were
22:57
talking about you getting the bonus you
22:58
got the bonus right
23:00
yes that's awesome yes so what are you
23:03
going to do with all that money so I was
23:06
supposed to go when I was supposed to
23:07
fight on uh February 15th so I planned a
23:09
cruise right after that and then my
23:11
fight got moved back a month so
23:12
obviously I didn't go on the cruise i I
23:14
could didn't get a refund so they gave
23:16
my ticket to somebody else uh I missed
23:18
my vacation so we're going on vacation
23:20
uh we're going to go to Tennessee um in
23:23
a few weeks so I'm going to do that but
23:25
um besides that I'm just going to be
23:27
training while I'm in town and then I'm
23:28
going to go on vacation come back and
23:30
hopefully by then I will have some fight
23:32
news or you know something on the
23:33
horizon but uh yeah that's about it not
23:36
much you know eat some cookies go on
23:38
vacation bake i uh made bread rolls the
23:41
other day for the first time uh I have a
23:44
blind dog so I hang out with him
23:46
sometimes so much
23:49
we are animal lovers we I I would love
23:52
to see your dog Joey
23:55
yeah you just shot Jess in the heart
23:57
right there
24:00
with the other day and he's blind so
24:03
like ran into it because you know he's
24:04
not he knows the house but if there's
24:06
something in the floor oh oh what a
24:10
sweetheart i haven't even seen him yet
24:12
i'm already like oh
24:13
so hi baby
24:18
hello hello sweetie oh you're perfect oh
24:23
my goodness
24:25
he has the same coloring of my dog
24:27
really what kind yeah he's he's a mut
24:30
he's a TJ Mut Tijana special yeah Tijana
24:34
special but he's great
24:37
really
24:39
yay have you ever seen those like um
24:41
they have these little like bumpers that
24:43
you can put around their collars for
24:45
blind dogs so that they kind of um like
24:48
it's usually when they're not familiar
24:50
yeah yeah it just helps them like lets
24:52
them know when they're close to
24:53
something and when I put anything on him
24:55
like a shirt or anything he just stands
24:57
still he doesn't walk so I don't like
24:59
that at all but I might try i'll just
25:02
return it if it doesn't work take take a
25:04
few videos post it
25:10
cool well thanks for uh your time is
25:13
there anyone you want to shout out any
25:16
sponsors any coaches you want to thank
25:19
for anything like that promote uh yeah I
25:22
would like to thank my head coach coach
25:24
Aaron Phillips he uh is my head coach at
25:26
the gym that I train at uh I would also
25:28
like to thank my boxing coach Walter
25:30
Mono uh he met me about uh right before
25:33
my first amateur fight and he has been
25:35
amazing ever since u constantly helping
25:38
me grow so Coach Aaron and Coach Wall I
25:41
can't thank y'all enough for everything
25:42
y'all are half the reason that I am
25:44
where I am and uh y'all push me and
25:45
inspire me every day so thank y'all for
25:47
that hey and what's the bakery you work
25:51
at again we'll get a bunch of creepers
25:53
to come
25:54
through sandwiches i was able my job
25:58
after a few fights ago but um that was a
26:01
great harvest bakery in Lafayette they
26:03
can still go get some uh king cake or
26:04
some sandwiches without tears
26:08
gota start selling the the special sauce
26:11
the special tier sauce
26:15
we're just We're just trying to help
26:18
youtube channel or special tier sauce or
26:21
maybe maybe both yeah oh both both all
26:25
right out the leg that
26:29
nice well thanks so much for taking time
26:32
yeah thank y'all for having me i
26:34
appreciate it yeah i can't wait to see
26:36
your next fight maybe we could get you
26:37
on before your next fight once it gets
26:40
announced and uh yeah we'll catch up
26:42
with you then oh yeah let's do it all
26:45
right thanks so much bye all right thank
26:47
you