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PFL's Impa Kasanganay Discusses Aggressive Strategy in Tournament
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11/15/2024
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How do you like fighting in the tournament format that the PFL has, you know, a lot of
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fighters, it's different.
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You see a lot of guys kind of do the decisions and kind of play it safe through the first
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couple of fights because you don't want to get hurt and knocked out.
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But you know, that doesn't seem to be the way you go.
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You go full steam.
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You go exactly like you would as in any other fight and just running through guys.
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Yeah, I believe when you're a champion of life and anything like that's your standard
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of who you are.
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It's not, oh, let me play safe and try to play this point system.
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I think that's the smartest way.
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Like, you're going to look back on your life one day and say you kind of did the bare minimum
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just to make it, right?
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No, like I take them out, right?
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And that's what prepares me for moments like this fight with an excellent opponent.
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When I fought Nadal, it didn't matter who it was.
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I'm not going to play safe because I won the title before or this like, oh, you know, you
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can clinch it.
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No, like you're fighting, right?
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Somebody's trying to take you out.
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Like the best way to respect your opponent is to beat them as badly as they can be beaten
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by.
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And these are excellent fighters.
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These are top fighters.
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We want the PFO to grow.
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You can't go out there and just like slow pedal.
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You don't fight where you're taking people out left and right.
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That's my standard of who I am.
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I always want to raise it to be better.
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Going through the season, like I love it because I get to stay active and fight.
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Do you have different moments where you feel it on your, you feel it on your body?
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Yeah, you have different challenges, but that's part of it.
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Like you're on a warpath.
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For me, I look at it like, I look at, I'm very, very blessed, you know, we'll see next
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year.
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I mean, like I've taken guys out in the light heavyweight division back to back years.
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Now it's like when I claim this victory on the 29th, I just want to, I just want to see
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who's the best ones yet.
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Right.
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It'd be fun to do some crossover fights and take out the best fighters in the world.
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Like, you know, for three-odd season to set that up or if, you know, PFL set it up, whatever
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the case might be.
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I want to fight the best fighters, you know, taking out Johnny Eblen after and Francis
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Ngannou.
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Those are the guys that I really, really want to fight, but, you know, I have Douglas Sun
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right here.
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One fight at a time and I'm grateful that these opportunities by fighting the season
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twice has really just like put me in a position to fight the best in the world.
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