Renato Valente Discusses Career and Joining Lights Out Fighting

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00:00You're coming in here and you've had a long fight career already at 32, 17 fights under your belt.

00:07You fought for Bellator, you fought for a bunch of different organizations, now coming in here for Lights Out Extreme Fighting.

00:12What drew you to fighting for Lights Out now?

00:15What made you want to fight under this banner and for Sean Merriman?

00:20To be honest, I'm a fan of him.

00:22And I was looking at a bunch of companies here around Los Angeles or the whole U.S.

00:29And he put like a great show, you know, every time that's going to be 25, right, I think.

00:35And yeah, to be honest to you, I had a really, really big problem the last year to find opponents to fight.

00:44And then I'm really glad Melendez, you know, took the fight.

00:49Super excited to fight him.

00:51And that's one of the reasons, you know, first of everything, I think Lights Out is a great show.

00:57You know, Merriman is doing a great job.

01:00And second, it was just like the opponent situation, being really hard to find someone to want to fight or, you know, just being tough.

01:08But here we go.

01:11Well, it should be a great fight.

01:13We'll talk about the fight itself in just a minute here.

01:15But I want to give a little more background to people who may not have been following you as closely as they should have over the years.

01:20Who might not have seen some of your fights that you've had.

01:22You know, obviously, you're originally from Brazil.

01:25You know, you have the Indio nickname.

01:27You know, you have the headdress that you wear out to the cage.

01:30I want you to tell a little people about, you know, where you're obviously now you're out of Cunnington Beach.

01:34You're leaving in California.

01:35You're training here in the U.S.

01:37But tell people about, you know, your past, about Brazil and about, you know, your ancestry and how you represent that.

01:42And how you, you know, are out there showing people, teaching people and, you know, doing your best to make those who came before you proud.

01:51100%, man.

01:52You know, I'm a Brazilian native born in Amazon.

01:56So whole family is a native.

01:58All the ancestry is native.

01:59And, yeah, bring that with me.

02:01You know, all the native power we have.

02:03You know, the blood and everything.

02:05And, you know, have some faith on that.

02:08Also, you know, the flores, the jungle and everything.

02:12It was just like, give me the power, give me the strength to, you know, keep doing.

02:16That's what I want to show everyone.

02:17It's something we need always to take care about it also.

02:21And, yeah, every single opportunity I'm going to have, I'm always going to be there as a native person.

02:26I hope, you know, Native American.

02:28And preparation here in California is also great.

02:32You know, I started my career there in Brazil.

02:34And, you know, along the way, Mexico, now the U.S.

02:39I think I'm in the right place, you know, but also never lost this, you know, ancestry power that I bring with me wherever I go.

02:49And, you know, you've talked before on social media just last month.

02:52You're talking about how important it is, you know, the dedication, the hard work that it goes into being there.

02:57You know, not everyone has gone through the struggles that people, you know, especially in the fight community, go through in order to get here.

03:02They just see a guy in there and they just, you know, they don't think about everything it takes before that.

03:06All the hours in the gym, all the training, you know, for a lot of fighters who aren't on the upper levels of a UFC or something like that.

03:12All, you know, working, you know, a regular job on top of, you know, being a pair and on top of training.

03:17You know, that should be a full-time job for, you know, the best fighters as well.

03:21So how you talk about that in your post, you know, having, it's not just about talent, not about strength.

03:26It's about everything you put into to get to this point as well.

03:28And, you know, what has that journey been like for you so far in your career?

03:32Amazing, amazing.

03:33I've been thinking a lot about that.

03:35These pictures I also post.

03:36I was in Italy for the last two months, you know.

03:39I went there to clean up my mind, see things differently.

03:42I was like kind of, like I had so much like people pull it out for fights last year for me.

03:47It was like a tough situation, you know, get prepared.

03:50And then a week at the fight, someone get hurt, you know, something happened and being really, really hard for me.

03:55And to be honest, the journey, the exercise of day one, I've been enjoying, it's amazing.

04:00You know, we get lost sometimes and you come back and then every time I feel I come back and I come back strong.

04:06And I think this Saturday I'm going to show everyone how, you know, how better mentally I am and physically I am.

04:13I've been training so hard for this moment and everything, every mistake and every opportunity took me at this point, to be really honest.

04:20And I'm ready for it.

04:22Whatever he's going to bring it to me, I'm going to be there prepared to, you know, overcome any bad situation or whatever.

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