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Nathan Rivera Embraces Home Advantage in Upcoming Bout
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12/6/2024
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You're fighting in Georgia, this is in the area that you live, you train, you have grown
00:08
up in.
00:09
How excited are you to get this fight here?
00:10
It's always great, I'm sure, to get a fight when you're in this, when you're as locked
00:14
in as you are.
00:15
We'll talk about what you've been up to recently to get ready for that in a minute.
00:19
But to have that home crowd behind you, to have all these people, do you love that?
00:23
Or does that add extra pressure for you to have to make sure you put on an even better
00:26
performance for them?
00:27
And do the things like to sell the tickets and things like that, do you like the pressure
00:31
of being at home?
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Or does it add a little more distraction for you?
00:34
Man, I love the pressure.
00:36
You know, more pressure, more diamonds.
00:38
So I'm here, I'm on a high pedestal with all my friends and family gonna be watching me.
00:43
And I think it's gonna make me perform at such a higher level.
00:45
I love going to people's backyards and beating up the hometown boy, but fighting home is
00:50
very special to me.
00:52
And you'll get to do that.
00:53
You know, I saw the article they wrote about you getting ready for this fight that, you
00:56
know, of course, everyone around there is gonna be talking to you like they usually
00:58
are.
00:59
You know, whenever you got to fight, people are gonna say what they think, or, you know,
01:01
how you should do this or do that, or, you know, when they're gonna be there, it's even
01:05
more so.
01:06
But I heard you wrote that you said that one of your co-workers was trying to change how
01:10
you fight because, you know, you've had some quick knockouts here, so far in the BKFC.
01:14
He's trying to get you to stretch out a little bit.
01:15
This guy wants more bang for his buck.
01:16
I mean, come on.
01:17
You're going for your win.
01:18
It doesn't matter how you do it, right?
01:20
Right.
01:21
I mean, look, man, I got one thing in mind, and that's just winning.
01:24
That's winning the fight and going to perform.
01:27
I'm so prepared to go for five rounds, and, you know, in my training, mentally, physically,
01:33
spiritually, I'm ready to go five hard rounds.
01:36
And, you know, this guy might be someone that could take me there.
01:39
And if he can, then I look forward to it because I have so much to show.
01:42
You know, I think together, my two fights have been maybe like two or three minutes.
01:46
So the world hasn't even seen half of what I have to offer.
01:51
Now they've been two, yeah, 243, one minute and 21 seconds, one minute and 22 seconds.
01:55
So we haven't even gotten to the minute and a half mark here.
01:58
I don't know if you've been really breaking a sweat so far in the BKFC.
02:01
You know, how do you look at that?
02:02
Obviously, you're going to look at it with success, that you're getting the win, you're
02:04
doing what you need to do.
02:05
But, you know, when you talk about what you can really show, what you haven't shown yet
02:10
for the BKFC fans, you know, getting into a three, four, five round battle, having to,
02:15
you know, fight back after some adversity, what do you, you know, think that people are
02:19
going to get from you that they haven't seen yet?
02:20
These first two fights.
02:22
Man, I think I think it's going to be either way it goes, you know, I think it's going
02:27
to be awesome.
02:28
I mean, the adversity that I face in the gym every single day, it's like none other.
02:32
You know, I mean, I'm I'm going through these grueling sparring sessions where I have to
02:36
face this adversity.
02:37
So I'm I'm friends with the with the adversity and the struggle.
02:40
So hopefully, you know, the fans will be able to see a great, a great long fight where I
02:45
overcome a lot of adversity and we can both get out of there with very, very, you know,
02:50
giving the fans what they deserve.
02:51
And that's a that's a banger fight.
02:54
And you talked about, you know, one of your recent posts about your motivation, about
02:58
what drives you, and you know, you said that originally, you know, before it was an unhealthy
03:03
fear, you know, you didn't want to be the didn't want to be, I guess, disappointing
03:08
to people, disappointing to what you thought you should be doing to what God thought you
03:11
should be, that, you know, it was kind of more of a fear of being a failure than anything
03:15
else.
03:16
But now you've changed things, you know, you focus on different ways to look at it.
03:19
How is that you think that's helped you grow as a fighter as a person?
03:23
And you know, how do you think that helps you driver drive you in your career in a more
03:26
healthy way?
03:27
Yeah, I mean, you know, there's a there's two ways, I think, to to really, to get good
03:34
success.
03:35
And, you know, some things are going to help you out long term, and some things are going
03:39
to, you know, they might they might help you short term.
03:43
This is something that where I've changed my whole mindset around the sport itself.
03:47
And I walk in a different light now.
03:50
And I believe that, that people will see that come December 6, at the Gas South Arena.
03:56
It's a, it's a weight lifted off my my shoulders.
03:59
A lot of people say like, you need to have that on, you need to have that fear of this
04:02
and that and that.
04:03
And I just don't think that's the right way to operate.
04:05
So, you know, going through going through my career this way, I think it's going to
04:09
be a lot more beneficial to myself, to my team and everybody around me.
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