Unveiling a Masterful Fight: Analyzing a Stellar Performance

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00:03You've always put on great performances,

00:04but the one you put on against Christie,

00:05I mean, this was a tough guy.

00:07We said coming in on the show that, you know,

00:08just like you, it was a guy who fought at a higher weight class,

00:10had a lot of success, and then still decided,

00:12you know what, I feel better at the lower weight class,

00:15dropped down, had a great fight in England.

00:17This was his second fight at this weight class.

00:19Coming in there, a former talent holder

00:20trying to take your belt.

00:22What was it that you expected from him?

00:23And, you know, did things go the way you kind of planned

00:26in, you know, your work before the fight at Shift?

00:29Or was there something, you know,

00:30did your power even impress you

00:31the way you dropped him those couple of times

00:33in that fight?

00:34I 100% expect the fight to go exactly how it did.

00:39What I mean by that is I'm very confident in myself.

00:42The amount of work that I put in, what I'm capable of.

00:46One of the biggest things that I pride myself on

00:48is my fight IQ, and I just,

00:52I understand what people are looking for.

00:54I have great eyes.

00:55I can make, you know, defensive movements on the fly,

00:58and I can counter right off of them.

01:00So I knew that going into the fight

01:02that whenever he decided to push,

01:05that I was going to be able to connect clean

01:07and set him down.

01:10I just wasn't sure if he was going to come out of the gate

01:12trying to get me out of there

01:14or if he was going to try to box me.

01:15And for the first round,

01:16he kind of was on his back foot a little bit.

01:18And then the second round,

01:21he tried to engage a little bit,

01:24and I was just already coming forward so hard.

01:26So it went exactly how we had planned,

01:29and it was just a beautiful thing.

01:33It's beautiful when a plan comes together like that.

01:35A great performance by you against a very tough opponent there,

01:39a guy who, like we said, was a former champion over in the UK.

01:43You know, of course, you had that little insight, of course,

01:45with him fighting Jared Warren when he had that title.

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