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Kevin Lee Discusses Transition from UFC & GFL to PFL Tournament
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6/20/2025
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and tell me how this all came to be with the pfl now obviously you fought for a long time with the
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ufc uh you were signed there with the gfl before things started falling apart there how did things
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come through with the pfl was this something had you talked to them before and things just didn't
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happen before you signed with the gfl and then once things fell apart there the opportunity
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rose again or did this come completely out of the blue for you um after the gfl fell apart
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i was looking for another opportunity to to compete so i went to the pfl in orlando
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uh i live in florida now and it was a short drive for me to go to orlando see the first uh round of
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the tournament and in that in that fight i saw gaji perform and he knocked out mark the casey very fast
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uh he looked sharp he looked explosive and the whole reason for me even getting back into the
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sport and signing with gfl is to compete against the best lightweights in the world and when i saw
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the guy in person i said okay that's that's one of the best lightweights um so he was on my radar
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and just so happened you know his opponent got hurt and you know god makes everything happen for a
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reason so when they gave me the call and and they offered for me to step up there was no hesitation
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on my part yeah raban now was definitely one of the guys who looked you know we were looking at this
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tournament who could have been a favorite to win this and now you jump in there against him in the
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semis so you know just going right into the deep end of this tournament with the pfl uh how are you
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feeling as you get ready for this fight because obviously you know you've had some trouble with weight
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at times at lightweight now you're coming in here kind of short notice and trying to make weight for
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this fight and getting in there against one of these top guys you know i'm sure there's a lot
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of focus on training for this guy and getting ready for him how has the weight cut been as you prepared
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for this are you feeling good uh these last couple days yeah i'm feeling great um honestly i haven't
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made the weight in in five years uh my last fight against charles olivera was was at lightweight and
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that was five years ago so there has been a lot of focus on the weight cut um but i feel great with
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it i'm used to doing it i've done it many many many many times in in my career i've done it over 20
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times now so weight i don't think is going to be an issue uh even with it being a short notice fight
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i'm in phenomenal shape right now and i'm ready to prove that i'm still one of the top lightweights
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in the world um all my forays at welterweight were coming because of injury um but now that those
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things are a thing of the past i can't wait to to prove to everybody and prove to myself
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that i'm still here and i'm still back
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