Keith Richardson's Journey: From BKFC Debut to Champion

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00:00But first, I want to take you back and we'll talk about what happened before this.

00:06You know, you had the title, you had an insane run through the BKFC last year, going from

00:11debut to champion in a year, you know, just running through people.

00:15Then unfortunately, you had the fight against Blaz, it didn't go your way and it was a tough

00:19one to watch.

00:20Honestly, as a fan, sometimes, you know, we're watching for the violence, that's obviously

00:25fighting.

00:26But the way things went down, the look at the end there, with how banged up you were

00:30from it.

00:31Tell us about the fight.

00:32What happened there for you?

00:34What did you see in there, in the ring?

00:36And you know, how did you recover from that over these past months to get back into top

00:39shape here and show us that you're still the rock star by running through Laramore?

00:43You know, it was one of those situations, I think like, you know, especially after the

00:49year I had, you know, before that, where I was like, you know, I went from debut to champ

00:55in 10 months.

00:56And like, you know, I love being active.

00:58And then once I got the belt, it took like, you know, nine months to finally book a fight.

01:03You know, the layoff, I think kind of had an effect just because I'm like, I'm pretty

01:09much staying camp.

01:10You know, like, I've got my own gym to run.

01:14So like, you know, like, I don't stop.

01:16But it was hard, it was hard, it was hard to stay hungry for nine months waiting to

01:21fight.

01:22Like, you know, especially when I'm always training, like, you know, like, you know,

01:25the next fight is coming.

01:26And it was just one of those situations where, you know, I got a little overaggressive, like,

01:33you know, I kind of got caught up in, like, usually I'm a little bit more predatory.

01:39But like, I got into the mindset of where, like, I really wanted to, you know, really

01:44wanted to just drop bluffs, like right off the bat, like, you know, he was talking a

01:49bunch of smack, getting in my face and like, you know, I've had 45 professional fights

01:54and I think there's only been like three guys I just, you know, didn't care for freaking

01:59in the build up.

02:00You know, and he was one of those, threw a big shot, my shot missed by like, just a little

02:06bit.

02:07You know, his shot landed and then, you know, after that, it was just kind of a blur.

02:12You know, you get clipped in the temple with a good shot and it just, you know, scrambles

02:17the brain a little bit.

02:19But I think part of it was also, like, yeah, like, you know, I've fought where I've barely,

02:24like, you know, where I've fought where, like, you know, I barely remember rounds, like,

02:28you know, because I've eaten a big shot, like the Scoggins fight, you know, I dropped him,

02:32then he dropped me.

02:33And then after that point, like, I don't, like, you know, a lot of the fight was a blur.

02:37You know, so it was kind of that situation, but also like, you know, the way the ref stepped

02:42in because I was still up and fighting and he kind of like slid in between us and I didn't

02:47even, like, recognize he had slid in between us, you know, and at this point in my life,

02:53I've been fighting, you know, in some regard for my whole life.

02:58I don't have a flight response.

03:01So like, you know, I'm just going to keep fighting whoever's in front of me and instead

03:06of grabbing me, he backed up.

03:07So like, you know, the fighter in me thinks I've got him on the ropes and I'm looking

03:11to finish, you know, and it just was one of those unfortunate situations.

03:17You know?

03:18Yeah.

03:19Yeah.

03:20Yeah.

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