Unexpected Title Fight: Sawyer Depee vs. Chris Camozzi

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00:00And how did this one happen, though?

00:04Like you said, there was a long layoff.

00:05Obviously, the issues with this title,

00:08with the juggernaut after his suspension

00:10with the McTarrill fight,

00:11how did this fight come together for you with Sawyer DP?

00:14Was it something that just came out of nowhere?

00:16Was it something they've been talking with you

00:18since the suspension of Lorenzo came out?

00:20How did this happen behind the scenes?

00:24You know, your guess is as good as mine, honestly.

00:27I'm not too cued in on what goes in behind the scenes,

00:31but they ended up just contacting me.

00:33You know, I had an idea that it would be Sawyer

00:35because he just came off a first-round knockout himself.

00:39I think it was first round.

00:40He fought my teammate, and, you know, from there,

00:43I think he was ranked number one, actually,

00:45in the division, and I'm either two or three.

00:48So I figured it was going to be him

00:49or there's a couple other guys in the rankings,

00:51but they were all lined up to fight.

00:54So I was assuming it was going to be Sawyer anyway.

00:57Well, you got what you expected,

00:59and you did probably what you expected to do, too,

01:01and we've seen that throughout your BKFC career.

01:04Before the Lorenzo fight was obviously these quick finishes,

01:07these quick knockouts, showing that power.

01:09We see it right there, that right hand that, you know,

01:12was so good, it spun him completely around,

01:14flat down on his face.

01:16You don't even need the 10 count.

01:18Coming into that fight, what did you expect?

01:20Did you expect to be more of a slugfest

01:21and, you know, a war that you would have to go into?

01:23You know, maybe the third or fourth round with him

01:25before you could finish him because of success in the BKFC?

01:28Were you confident in your power like you have always been

01:30and thought it could be a quick finish?

01:31What were you looking for walking into that squared circle?

01:35I was confident and also, like I said,

01:37changing that mentality of win or retire.

01:40You know, I still love doing this,

01:41so I don't want to retire,

01:43but I told myself if I wasn't going to be champion,

01:45what's the point of doing it?

01:46So with that one being a title fight

01:49and the fight with Lorenzo, I was like,

01:51man, I don't see him giving me a third shot

01:52if anything goes south on this one.

01:55So, yeah, I like putting all that pressure on myself

01:57to get it done or be done.

01:59And luckily for me, it worked out.

02:02You know, all the preparation was great.

02:04The fight actually went exactly like we planned,

02:07even down to the finishing combination.

02:09So I think we did our homework right.

02:11And I knew it would be a tough fight,

02:12but I had a feeling I would put him away.

02:17And you certainly did that right.

02:18Gets the finish pretty quickly into it.

02:20Did you know once that landed and you saw

02:22the way he went down that it was over,

02:24was there any thought in your mind

02:25that he was going to get back up from that?

02:26Or did you know once he did the spinarama flat on the face

02:29that there was no chance that this guy was going to recover?

02:33Yeah, I mean, as soon as it landed,

02:34I was 99% sure he wasn't getting up.

02:39As you see me walking off there,

02:40once I turned around and saw he was still face down,

02:43I was like, yeah, there's no way he's getting up.

02:45I felt I hit all of my knuckles flush.

02:49It didn't hurt my hand at all,

02:50where sometimes bare knuckle stuff

02:52makes your hands swell and everything.

02:53So I knew that the punch landed perfectly

02:55and kind of went straight through everything.

03:00And obviously, you know, we talked about,

03:01you know, your girlfriend and those, you know,

03:03her friends being there cheering for you.

03:05Obviously, much of the arena was.

03:06But, you know, an interesting corner person you had as well.

03:09If you're going to talk about chamois chips,

03:10you're going to talk about one-punch power.

03:12No better to be there and talking you through it

03:15than a guy like Chuck Liddell.

03:16How did that come to fruition? How did that happen?

03:18How did, you know, you guys hook up

03:19and him end up being in your corner for this fight?

03:22So Chuck was one of the coaches

03:23when I was on The Ultimate Fighter back in 2010.

03:26So that was when I first met him.

03:28And then I've run into him over the years,

03:29kept in contact, you know, messaging back and forth.

03:32And his company, King of Violence, was sponsoring me.

03:36So his clothing line was sponsoring me for the fight.

03:38And then he asked about cornering.

03:39So who's going to say no to Chuck Liddell

03:41being in your corner?

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