Donavin Morris Reflects on Recent MMA Loss and Future Plans

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00:00Thanks so much for taking out the time and joining us appreciate it you know let's talk

00:08about the fight didn't go your way you lost the decision unfortunately this past Saturday

00:12tell us how the fight broke down for you how you saw it in there in the cage as you unfortunately

00:16lost to to Jesse this past weekend first thank you guys for having me on man it's a it's

00:22a blessing um that was a good that was a good uh intro i like it but um you know it happens

00:29you know um he kind of got me on my game a little bit you know i wanted to go out to

00:35knock his head off and unfortunately you know um kind of went out of my game plan you know

00:40i kind of i kind of felt obligated to knock him out you know because nobody really likes

00:45that guy you know i don't really like him too much but you know fair play to him um

00:50fair play to him you know he he he came out there he executed his game plan and he stopped

00:55what i had to do you know but uh the first round was was pretty interesting i feel like

01:00the first round you know um i was i stuffed most of his takedowns um i didn't really see

01:07unanimous you know i i could see split but it is what it is you know i'm back i'm i'm

01:12i'm be back probably um February or March and we're gonna do it again you know just

01:19keep the ball rolling so yeah it's one of the only times in your career you've gone

01:23deep you know most of your fights under the first round and your amateur career early

01:27on even you know you're early in your pro career where you are now uh so it's tough

01:31you need then i was gonna go your way it's one of the toughest things in MMA i think

01:34you know everyone talks about you know we talk about boxing undefeated records i think

01:37mean a lot more than MMA because there are so many ways to lose that it's you know sometimes

01:41it's not your night as you said but you're gracious in defeat there uh and what are some

01:46of the things that you take from that fight you know was it was there any cardio issues

01:49you need to deal with uh for longer fights going forward was there you know you talked

01:52about stuffing the takedowns early was it something that was just hard to do later as

01:56you started to get tired or were there you know other things that maybe holes in your

01:59game that now going back and watching the tape now you think you you have to uh make

02:03sure you work on before your next fight next year um you know it is a touching on what

02:10you said like it is a blessing that uh that i was able to even go like to go three rounds

02:15because you're right most of my fights have ended like pretty early you know so it was

02:19cool to see like all right like oh like i can do five i can do five minutes three rounds

02:24like i didn't even feel tired i felt more tired doing uh my muay thai fights when it's

02:30only three minute rounds muay thai five you know five rounds of that so i actually felt

02:35fine like i didn't really even feel cardio just normal fight fatigue you know um as far

02:40as like the wrestling and the takedowns it was it that was on my part you know i i've

02:44been in all my footwork i was just kind of trying to rush them head on and that that's

02:49what i did wrong you know but um the k i feel like the uh the cage kind of saved him

02:54a lot you know i would sprawl and then i would i would stuff his face but then my back is

02:59to the cage at that point you know so it's like he would double shoot you know and um

03:04so i think you know maybe i could i come to it too i think what i need to work on is just

03:09to be able to create more openings you know in my jiu-jitsu you know i i think that um

03:16i could have took a little bit more chance for my jiu-jitsu the first round i was definitely

03:20taking a lot of chances i was i had like what three submission attempts the first round

03:25and i've seen stuff open up uh in the later rounds like in a i think the third round i've

03:31seen a ninja choke open up i went for that but i definitely could have been a little

03:35bit more risky so i know the next time i'm not you know forget playing it safe you know

03:40what i mean just make it happen so it's a learning experience

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