0:08
one king my mindset the way i think the
0:11
way i approach the game i really am not
0:14
anyone's ever faced in that division in
0:18
i'm the best in the world
0:28
what's the story behind the last i've
0:30
been to monica if you know the the
0:33
the the legend of anger um the last
0:36
he had to master all the four elements
0:38
to realize his destiny
0:40
as the avatar and i feel like in this
0:44
i have to realize my destiny by
0:47
mastering all the elements of martial
0:50
and realize my destiny as the avatar of
0:54
my fight record in mma is 19-0 um
0:58
not 19-0 i should just google this to be
1:07
but i mean my fire record in kickboxing
1:10
and 5 with 29 kos so losses never really
1:14
means anything to me i've taken else in
1:16
my teammates it's just no one in the
1:20
but yeah it's nice it's a nice monika
1:24
yeah i take my licks but i give it back
1:26
as well and anytime in my life i've ever
1:28
been knocked down i get back up
1:29
stronger than i ever was my background
1:32
in dancing has helped the load my
1:33
fighting because there's so many
1:35
um correlations between the two worlds
1:37
uh it was a famous samurai i think was
1:38
miyamoto musashi who said
1:40
never give a man a sword who can't dance
1:43
and you have things like timing rhythm
1:47
creativity and so forth that correlate
1:51
between the both worlds
1:52
and yeah it's just fun both of them are
1:59
being the undisputed middleweight
2:00
champion to be honest i forget that all
2:04
um because i still see myself as me i've
2:06
said this from day dot
2:07
it's never really been about the belt
2:08
that's just been a big
2:10
goal to achieve but now i've done that a
2:13
lot of people get to this point and then
2:14
they fall off they lose the belt and
2:17
have careers that go like this so for me
2:19
that's just being an achievement
2:21
unlocked and i did that
2:22
now on to the next level which is
2:23
defending the belt for that it's
2:25
just taking out the best guys
2:26
taking out the best guys in my division
2:28
in my era and out of my division as well
2:31
so the belt's nice it means
2:34
more money i guess more clout but i like
2:37
apart from that i'm trying to be the
2:38
best fighter of all time
2:41
what makes me different from the rest of
2:42
the fighters on the division
2:45
a lot my mindset the way i think the way
2:49
the way i i conduct myself i really am
2:52
anyone's ever facing that division and
2:56
every time they step in the cage with me
2:58
it's easy to do this before the fight
3:00
but when you're in the fight there's no
3:03
way to run you just have to fight
3:06
any pre-fight rituals that i like to do
3:08
i like to get my hair cut
3:10
uh stay aerodynamic um
3:14
and not just really build myself be in
3:17
my own head be in my own thoughts and
3:19
really be one with myself that's like
3:21
the main ritual i have before each of my
3:23
fights that's that's similar
3:25
yeah mind games uh they're fun like i
3:29
example ufc 230 he was easy to play with
3:33
you know so that was fun for me and i
3:36
i could read the body language and the
3:38
energy so sometimes it's fun to
3:39
dismantle someone before the fight in
3:42
talent or work ethic i'd say work ethic
3:45
even for me people until this day they
3:47
still say oh you know he's so talented
3:49
he saw this but i'm like well
3:50
i work hard and i didn't always work
3:53
hard you know when i started i relied a
3:55
my talent on my skills and my gifts that
3:58
i was blessed with but
4:00
there was a switch when i realized i had
4:03
to put the work in as well because
4:04
there's some guys who have the same
4:05
thing and they're working hard so
4:07
when talent meets hard work
4:11
it's a wrap how important is nutrition
4:15
well i have my personal chef here who
4:18
for the weight cut and supported to me
4:21
i don't know man i just like i like food
4:24
i see food and i eat it
4:25
you know food is nice it's part of life
4:28
but i like to dabble i like to dabble in
4:32
the sweet sweet indulgence of life
4:36
my future goals as the champ is just to
4:39
i'm in here i'm doing my thing just
4:43
um in the stride of my prime
4:47
i'm going to stay on top i'm having fun
4:50
and i'm going to keep it that way until
4:51
how do i mentally approach a fight um
4:54
each fight is different
4:55
there's certain things that are similar
4:57
with with each fight but each fight's
4:59
different my mental approach to it is
5:01
uh like certain rituals like i said is
5:03
the same i keep the same energy but
5:06
yeah it depends on the opponent and
5:07
depends what they give to me depends how
5:10
so i'll tell you a funny story i
5:13
i like to go down to my um
5:16
instagram like my first post like two or
5:21
just to kind of see how i've grown how
5:22
far i've come look at my old post and
5:25
sometimes yeah it's a trip like i said i
5:30
all the time because i just see myself
5:33
and i forget like oh yeah that's right
5:34
you're badass you're on tv
5:36
as long as people watch you because i
5:38
don't put myself on that pedestal
5:39
so it's it's it's been a trip and i'm
5:42
grateful for ever grateful but i don't
5:45
some people some people you see them you
5:46
know when they have the belt they take
5:48
it everywhere they walk around with it
5:50
like it's going out of style but for me
5:53
attached to it in that way because i
5:54
know there's more to life than fighting
5:56
you know this is one aspect of my life
6:00
spoken about forever in history
6:02
throughout throughout
6:03
different lifetimes but for my own life
6:06
my own personal life after fighting i
6:08
i mean i have a title right now but
6:10
there's a title that i want which is dad
6:12
later on in life so that's even more of
6:14
a passion and a dream for me but right
