Mando Gutierrez Triumphs in PFL First-Round Matchup

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00:00There was Mando Gutierrez, of course,

00:01got a great victory in his first round

00:03matchup for the PFL

00:05at the beginning of this tournament.

00:07He had a great win over Nuzi, was

00:09underestimated by his opponent, was underestimated by plenty

00:11of people coming in, I'm sure, and made

00:13sure that they know now who he

00:15is, what he's about, and how tough he's

00:17going to be in this tournament. Thanks so much, Mando,

00:19for joining us. We appreciate it.

00:21I saw you celebrated the win and the nice little

00:23trip out afterwards, out in the

00:25sticks there, as you put it. You had some great food.

00:27You had the dogs out there. You're getting some

00:29time away from things. What was

00:31it like for you, having that nice relaxation

00:33after that victory? I'm sure you felt a lot better

00:35going out there after winning than if you were trying to recover

00:37from a loss. Oh, yeah,

00:40absolutely.

00:41The thing is, you've got to take this sport for

00:43what it is. It's a journey

00:45no matter what. I tell you,

00:47I never let myself get too high. I never let

00:49myself get too low. Regardless,

00:51that was going to be the plan. I was going to

00:53go out there, take time, be a good

00:55boyfriend to my girl who

00:57she didn't sign up to be a fighter. I

00:59did. So I go out

01:01there. I do what I do.

01:03I go through my entire preparation and she's

01:05right there alongside me. So

01:07she deserves to, you know, get some

01:09get some alone time and we get to hang out and

01:11take the dogs out and do all that good stuff.

01:13You know, there's nothing wrong with smelling the

01:15roses a little bit as long as you get right back to work.

01:18And right back to work is what you're going to have

01:19to do now as you move on this tournament. Obviously,

01:22you know, not like a regular situation

01:23with your fight career where you get a fight

01:25and then you might be waiting three, you know, six,

01:28eight months, maybe years sometimes

01:29if you're coming off injury. You know, I saw you had a post

01:31at the top of your Instagram there

01:33from a couple of years ago. We just pretty much begging to fight.

01:35You're like, someone give me a deal. I want to fight somewhere.

01:37You know, I have that weight. So obviously you're not going to

01:39have that this time around. You got to get right

01:41back in there and have a great fight, which we're

01:43going to talk about coming up in a few minutes

01:45against Justin Wetzel. But let's talk about

01:47this fight you just had against Newsy first because

01:49you felt disrespected

01:51coming in that you said after that, that you

01:53said there's nothing about you that impressed him.

01:55But, you know, hopefully he's impressed now.

01:58Do you feel like that was maybe just

01:59some, you know, some trash talking, hyping up the fight

02:01like, you know, you had to do as part of your job almost

02:03or you think this guy really didn't think that

02:05much and, you know, it bit him in the butt there

02:07as you fly in there and get the victory

02:09against him in the first round?

02:13Typically,

02:13there's a lot of guys that, you know, want

02:15to sell the fight and do things like that. You know,

02:17there's nothing wrong with talking. There's nothing

02:19wrong with, you know, going about your business

02:21and doing things the way you feel like you want to do them.

02:23But, uh, when you start

02:25talking about my body of work and

02:27my livelihood and what I've

02:29done throughout my career, like

02:31nobody can deny that I show up.

02:33You know, I'm out there whether

02:35win or lose, I show up,

02:37I give the, I perform.

02:38Uh, I'm a man of honor, I'm a man

02:41of respect and I deserve

02:42that respect and if I don't get it,

02:44I take it. And

02:46that's just, that's just how it was to me.

02:48For whatever reason, this particular fight

02:50felt a little bit different.

02:52I don't know what it was about him that

02:54struck a chord with me, but I felt like he was a bully

02:56and I don't like bullies. So,

02:58uh, it was just a little bit of added fire.

03:01Uh, like it was just added fuel

03:03to the fire for me and, uh,

03:04it made it really easy to get through fight week.

03:06Let's put it that way. Uh, once I heard

03:08that, uh, I was hearing them talk about

03:10the things that he said during his interviews

03:12and stuff like that. Uh, I was

03:14just extra motivated, you know, put a

03:16little bit of extra pop on my mid sessions

03:18that week, run an extra mile,

03:21make sure I stay super, super

03:23sharp while I'm cutting the weight,

03:25keep myself in a good mental

03:26state, mental zone

03:28and, uh, you know, just cruise through everything

03:30because I knew, I knew what was coming.

03:32I could feel it all along and I knew that

03:34it was going to be a long night for him

03:36or a quick night, however you want to put it.

03:38But, uh, thank God I came out with the dub.

03:41Uh, I was able to keep it moving,

03:42but one thing's for sure, uh,

03:45regardless of what people say

03:46and regardless of what people do in the fight,

03:49it's not like me to act out of character.

03:51It's not like me to push somebody after

03:53or, uh, take jabs at somebody after a fight.

03:57Uh, but it was just heat of the moment.

03:59You know, I was just, I was real emotional.

04:00I was carrying the weight of that all week

04:02and I was just pissed off.

04:04So

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