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00:00Mr. Pantoja, congratulations.
00:02Thank you, dude.
00:04What does it mean to you on a show like this?
00:06This might have been one of the best cards in a long time with all those crazy knockouts.
00:11For you to perform the way you did, it seemed like in December you had a really big performance.
00:16And you took it to another level tonight.
00:18What was that feeling like?
00:21It's amazing fighting in Las Vegas.
00:23That atmosphere, you know.
00:25Fighting here in T-Mobile.
00:27I think every fighter here thinks the same thing, you know.
00:30That's the Coliseu.
00:32I feel that.
00:34That's the new Gladiator.
00:36The new generation of the Gladiators, you know.
00:39And here we have the best arena for that, you know.
00:43T-Mobile Arena looks like the new Coliseu, you know.
00:46The same goal, the same team, you know.
00:49The crown is so good.
00:51Yesterday to the Waynes.
00:53That's full arena, you know.
00:55That's like you have a fight here.
00:58And I think everybody wants to perform like that tonight, you know.
01:03Caicara Frey is a very good fighter.
01:05I train a lot for him, you know.
01:06I train a lot for every fight, you know.
01:08I'm part of the America Top Team.
01:10Best team all the world.
01:12I have so good professional fighters there.
01:16And, yeah, I mean, I do my best all the time.
01:20I go to the octagon, I do my best, you know.
01:23I think right now I deserve a better position in the pound for pound, too.
01:26I knew you were going to get to that.
01:28Oh, yeah.
01:29Dan Lambert said the other day that there's nobody.
01:32You and Kayla Harrison are the only two that do every class, every drill, all the things that you're always the hardest worker in the room.
01:39Do you feel like, you know, this was a long time coming, like this dominance that you have, right?
01:44You know, you were in a crowded space when Brandon Moreno and Figueredo were the champ before.
01:50But, like, did you see this coming, this run that you're on?
01:53I try to be my best.
01:55Like you say, I'm the one most training in the gym.
01:59We have 100% fighters in the America Top Team.
02:03And feel that I'm one of the more training in the gym with the best fighters in the world.
02:08That's amazing, you know.
02:10Go to the gym.
02:11I have so much inspiration in the gym.
02:16I have Kayla Harrison, that's a huge inspiration for us.
02:20But in the same gym, I have Paulo Macedo, one of my training partners.
02:25He came to train with me, leave and go to work with a regular job, and back to the gym training again.
02:33How I can say, I train very hard with him.
02:36How I cannot try to do my best to him too, you know.
02:42That's for all the guys, you know.
02:45That's it.
02:46I train very hard all the time.
02:48Try to be humble, you know.
02:49Try to be a good champ, you know.
02:51Try to be a good example for everybody, you know.
02:55Especially in my gym.
02:57Everybody, when I go to the gym, people say, hey champ, hey champ.
03:00And it doesn't matter for me.
03:02I don't want to be a superstar in my gym, you know.
03:04I want to show to everybody the right way to be a champ, you know.
03:08Respectful, train with everybody.
03:11Try to help all your training partners.
03:16Show to my gym how to be a good guy to your coaches.
03:23These guys, my coaches, deserve so much appreciated, you know.
03:28And some fighters don't give to coaches what he needs, you know.
03:34Because if you're good, if you win, you need to bring your coaches with you, you know.
03:39You need to show it to people outside deserve a piece of that too.
03:45You talk about being a respectful fighter.
03:48It seems like another respectful fighter would be Joshua Van, the way he carries himself.
03:52And I saw you guys embraced in the Octagon afterwards.
03:55Does he remind you of a younger Pantoja?
03:58When I have 23, I'm working in the restaurant, clean dishes.
04:04Look at that.
04:05The guy who has 23 is going to fight for the belt, for the World Championship.
04:09I think this guy is going to be my tough challenger, you know.
04:13He's young, he's hungry, and he don't make wars like I did in the past, you know.
04:19I make my 35 professional fights tonight, you know.
04:23And that's a lot, a lot of wars I make.
04:26I pass through, you know, with a lot of very good fighters.
04:30And the UFC gave me this new guy.
04:33I think everybody wants to see the new normal rematch for me, you know.
04:37And I want to fight with that guy too.
04:40I want to fight, I want the challenger, you know.
04:42Fight with the new blood, new kid, with the very hungry.
04:46I found a couple fights from Josh Ivan.
05:12And I know what I want, I want this belt again.
05:21Last question for me.
05:22You know, last time you were here, you said you wanted to fight Demetrius Johnson.
05:25And I think it was because you respect him as the greatest flyweight of all time.
05:30Do you think that Joshua Van is good enough to make people recognize how good you are?
05:36Definitely.
05:37Joshua Van is so good.
05:39Who can say it's different, you know.
05:41She beat Ravel.
05:43I think Ravel makes some mistakes with him.
05:47Try to rush too much the fight, don't try to grapple a lot.
05:51And about Demetrius Johnson, I said before, I really want to fight with him.
05:55He says he retired, he's not going back.
05:57Maybe it's not his comeback, maybe.
05:59Maybe it's not good for his comeback.
06:02Because the flyweight division right now is so different, you know.
06:06This high level is different.
06:08I respect all the guys opening the doors for us.
06:12But right now, you see, especially in my division, you have Holy World in the same division.
06:18Top 10, you have guys from the whole world.
06:21Japan, Africa, Brazil, Russia, Australia, New Zealand.
06:29That's so amazing to be part of that.
06:31Pantoja.
06:33Pantoja, here.
06:35Pantoja, many people said that you had passed through all the most of your category.
06:41And it was for you to get to the division.
06:43And you always stayed there.
06:46And now you came up with this guy, that's the guy, Joshua Venn.
06:49This shows that you were right?
06:51And there are still many challenges in this category?
06:53Without a doubt.
06:55I think I have a lot to show in this division.
06:58It's my division.
07:00This thing of everyone wanting to get to the category.
07:04I think I have a lot of problems in this division.
07:09I defend my division.
07:11We already had a lot of problems in this division.
07:14People were talking very bad about this division.
07:17And both I and all the players in this division.
07:20I think we try to show differently.
07:22We try to show our best performance.
07:24I believe that Josh Venn and Brennan Reval did the night.
07:29Another bonus for our category.
07:32Showing that the division Peso Mosca is one of the best in the UFC.
07:37And to be champion in this division is very important for me.
07:40Your career goal is to beat the record of Demetrius Johnson?
07:43My goal of my career is to win my next fight.
07:46To win my next fight.
07:48To win my account.
07:50To win my children.
07:52I don't need to worry about anything.
07:55To help my family.
07:57To help people from my side.
07:59I don't worry about breaking records.
08:01I don't worry about anything.
08:03I love to fight.
08:04I'll see you, too.
08:05I love to be home.
08:07I love to be home.
08:09I love to be part of America Top Team.
08:11And...
08:12I don't know more at the end of the game.
08:13I'm going to see you in the next fight.
08:15I'll win my next fight.
08:16I'll fight again for that situation.
08:17And to finish, I know that you are a fan of flamenguist, and tomorrow there is a game against Bayern.
08:22Today we are very much for you, I and all of the Brazil.
08:25Do you think it's more difficult to fight or fight?
08:28I think it's more difficult to fight. I see it for my family, my wife and my children.
08:33They were very nervous before I came to the fight.
08:36I have the privilege to have my family always with me before my fight.
08:40They were with me in the hotel, in the room.
08:44My wife has all the time nervous, my children nervous.
08:48So I believe that it's more difficult to be there.
08:51When I'm in there, it's on my hands.
08:53Amanhã will be a ball in the Bayern.
08:55We will win again.
08:57And it will be a play of the Pantoja and the Flamengo.
08:59Do you want to send a message to the players?
09:01Ah, man.
09:02Let's play with race, show that we have a selección.
09:06The Flamengo is a selección.
09:08We can play in front of any one.
09:09This Mundial Club is really cool.
09:12I'm going to play a lot with the PSG.
09:15I'm going to play with the Palmeiras.
09:16I'm going to play with the Fluminense.
09:18I think it's a lot of us.
09:21The football moves a lot to the Brazil.
09:23I'm going to play with the fans of the football too.
09:28To look a little more for the MMA.
09:30To look for our players,
09:32that we need this proportion that the football is in the Brazil.
09:37We also have to do this proportion to the MMA too.
09:42Pantoja, obviously a dominant performance tonight against a familiar opponent.
09:45Just curious, you know, any surprises tonight?
09:47Did you feel he was a different fighter than the first time you fought so long ago?
09:51Or did he feel like the same guy there tonight?
09:53You know, I think when he comes to fight with me, he wants to show it.
09:58He lost his mistake, you know.
10:01And I feel the same, you know.
10:03Same thing I think O'Malley and Merab.
10:05O'Malley think he changed something, going to beat Merab.
10:08Merab show to him, no bro.
10:10And I think I show the same to Kaikara France.
10:13If he think a mistake, I think I can finish his better, you know.
10:17When I fight with Kaikara France for the first time,
10:2010 days ago, I fight with Moreno.
10:22I make a war with Moreno.
10:24One of the best, the ultimate fighters,
10:26fights in the house.
10:2810 days, I fight with Kaikara France.
10:31Now I have only camp just to Kaikara France.
10:34He's an amazing fighter, you know.
10:36But when in the octagon, when I step in the octagon,
10:41I'm no more champion of the world.
10:42I'm the challenger, you know.
10:44I have the opportunity to get this belt.
10:46Challenger spirit, but champion mentality.
10:51Nice.
10:52And you talk about Joshua Van.
10:53I mean, like you said, so young, relatively new to the UFC,
10:56but it sounds like you're actually excited about fighting him, right?
10:59I mean, why is that the case?
11:00Because, I mean, you've had to toil away.
11:02It took you so long to get here, right?
11:04And now he gets these opportunities.
11:05Is there any part of you that's like,
11:07I don't want to fight that guy.
11:08You know, let him do more.
11:09But it sounds like you're excited.
11:11Of course.
11:12That's the UFC, you know.
11:14That's American dream, brother.
11:17That's amazing.
11:18This kid has this opportunity, you know.
11:20Why not, you know.
11:21He can't change his life, you know.
11:24I love to fight for UFC.
11:26I love to fight, brother.
11:27For me, it's always an opportunity to go to the inside of the octagon.
11:31Have million people watching me, what I did.
11:33You know, people talk a lot of bullshit about Instagram.
11:38You need a million followers and everything.
11:40Man, when I start to fight, it's not to get a followers.
11:44I fight because I like it.
11:46When I'm in the octagon, I'm the fighter.
11:48Then, when I want the cameras.
11:50When I finish Carrefour France and come here,
11:52I love to see the cameras.
11:54But when I go back to home, Monday,
11:56with my kids and my wife,
11:58I don't want to show my life, you know.
12:00That's my life, you know.
12:01I try to make a good example for my kids.
12:04I don't have time to take the phone and show everybody what I did, you know.
12:09I try to make my kids good men, you know, be a good husband.
12:15I don't have time to show all my life, you know.
12:18I think, of course, that's important for the business and everything,
12:21but my situation is, I'm a fighter, you know.
12:26When UFC calls me, you can put 100 cameras.
12:31I can talk with 100 people.
12:33I can take one million pictures, you know.
12:36But when I go back to home,
12:38I'm the Alexander Pantoja, Passidomo, Gabi, my husband,
12:43Kawan and Nick's father, you know.
12:45I need to do my shit in my home, you know.
12:47I need to clean my dishes.
12:49I need to walk with my dogs, you know.
12:51I don't think everybody wants to see I walk with my dogs for my neighborhood, you know.
12:57That's my life, you know.
12:59But when I go to the octagon, I give to everybody what you want to see, you know, the war.
13:06Last thing for me, I think most people agree that you need to be a little higher in the pound-for-pound rankings.
13:11Do you have a spot that you feel you belong?
13:13I mean, is it number one, or do you be like, well, maybe there's some behind...
13:16No, no.
13:17It doesn't make sense.
13:18If I'm not the number two, I'm just behind of the Islamakachev, you know.
13:22That doesn't make sense.
13:24Five fights for title.
13:26Eight victories in streak.
13:29Second submission.
13:31Four title defense.
13:34Numbers don't line, brother, you know.
13:37The only guy I accept that is Islamakachev because he has the numbers, you know.
13:43I try to understand the pound-for-pound rankings.
13:47I think maybe it's more victories.
13:49Maybe it's victories with the ranking guys.
13:54Maybe it's... I don't know.
13:55The guys think I need to beat someone to...
14:00Like a...
14:01You put Jack Magdalena in the front of me.
14:04You think I need to beat Jack Magdalena to get his position?
14:07That's crazy, you know.
14:09I think it's time to respect more flyweight, you know.
14:13Like I say.
14:14Josh Ivan and Brendan Reval make maybe the fight of the night tonight.
14:18I make a very good fight with Kaikara France.
14:21I think it's that.
14:23It's time to people start to change his mind, you know.
14:25The flyweight is very entertainment division, you know.
14:29And I think it starts... things need to change, you know.
14:34Antoja, phone right here.
14:36Were you able to actually sit and watch the van, Reval play?
14:40Of course.
14:41Because people are saying that that could be one of, if not the best flyweight fights they've ever seen.
14:45Who?
14:46Just the fans online say that's one of the best flyweight fights they have ever seen.
14:49Oh yeah, I agree too, brother. He looks phenomenal, you know.
14:54Of course, like I said before, he don't have a lot of fights, you know.
14:58He fights with Brendan Reval.
15:01What I think...
15:03I see...
15:04Of course, I don't can see the whole fight because I make my warm-up and everything.
15:08But I think if Reval don't rush too much and he get the flash down in the last 10 seconds of the fight,
15:17Maybe Stinks is different, you know.
15:19I don't know.
15:21Like I said, I don't see the whole fight of his couple of seconds of the fight.
15:27But that's back in four fights, you know.
15:32But Reval make a lot of mistakes.
15:34I don't understand how Reval don't try to grapple him or put his guard up.
15:39You know, he take too much damage, you know.
15:42But...
15:43Congratulations to Joshua.
15:45Like I said, he's not just the fight.
15:47He fights with the Bruno Bulldog and he passed through.
15:50With Tatsura, the Japanese guy, he looks phenomenal too.
15:54And he deserves to fight for him.
15:57And I say, I think that's my biggest challenge in my career, you know.
16:03Fight to someone new, 23 years, young, hungry, very good striking, very good take-down defense.
16:13It's a challenger for me.
16:15Were you able to watch the Ilia-Charles fight?
16:18Nah, man.
16:19I just see the last punches, you know.
16:23Like one year, one year and a half.
16:26I see Tupulia in some events.
16:28I'm on the gas fighter.
16:31And I talk to Tupulia brother.
16:33I'm a huge fan, you know.
16:35The way you did, the way you fight, it's so nice, you know.
16:39And then when he put this fight to Tupulia, Tupulia is so tough to me, you know.
16:45But of course, I need to support Tupulia.
16:47Tupulia is an icon from Brazil.
16:49And this loss don't change anything about Charles, you know.
16:54Charles supports Brazil so much peoples, you know.
16:58He changed his whole peoples on his side.
17:04He brings a lot of kids.
17:06He brings a lot of teammates to come to Las Vegas to feel everything, you know.
17:13That's amazing leadership he has, you know.
17:18But Tupulia is phenomenal brother.
17:20Tupulia for me is one of the best step in the octagon.
17:25Also in Europe.
17:26Tupulia, se liga na missão.
17:28Ih, caralho.
17:29He entregou tudo no octagonal.
17:31Se o Alexandre de dez anos atrás pudesse te ver agora, o que você achar que ele te diria?
17:43Yeah.
17:44You're a friend of the Erica Borra, assim?
17:46No.
17:47No?
17:48Because, ele fala se liga na missão.
17:50Se liga na missão.
17:51Yeah.
17:52No, you know, I think if I'm back to four, ten years ago, I'm not changing anything, you know.
17:56Just, I think, all the God listens, you know.
18:02God listens, you know. You need to respect your past, because your future is a death decision, you know.
18:09I'm very proud of myself. I'm very proud of my choices.
18:13You had to conquer everything with a lot of effort, without anything being given to you.
18:23So, do you feel that you finally exaggerate as a real champion?
18:31I answer in Portuguese or in English?
18:33What else?
18:35Yeah, I think, like, I pass through for so many things, you know.
18:39I try to hold my division, couple guys two times, some guys three times.
18:45And, you know, I don't want to try to get the respect of nobody, you know.
18:53I just want to give a good example to my kids.
18:57I just want my wife to respect, you know.
19:00Like I say, I'm a regular guy, you know.
19:04I'm just training hard every day in the gym, you know.
19:07God gives me a gift, I learn fast.
19:11Try to be a good guy.
19:12I think the more important thing, I think if people have this belt, it's like a...
19:18I don't know if I say that the right way, but like a...
19:22You know the Thor, he grabbed the hammer, he's the only one who can grab the hammer.
19:26I think it's like that, you know.
19:28People don't have some gift, don't can grab this belt, you know.
19:32That's why some champions just grab this belt one time, because he don't deserve, you know.
19:38Maybe there's some matrix mistake, you know.
19:41But I think...
19:43I don't try to say I'm the best guy in the world, you know.
19:49But I think if you want good things in your life, you need to be a good person.
19:53Alessandro over here.
19:54Alessandro.
19:55Not only did you win, but I feel like the flyweight division as a whole won tonight.
19:58Obviously in the world stage, we saw that banger that was Roy Val and Van.
20:01And we saw your amazing performance.
20:03I think this is a division where we've seen some great fights, even some number one contender fights.
20:07Be landed on some prelims on some cards.
20:09And you just mentioned there, things need to change in terms of respect for your division.
20:13So, do you think after tonight, the division has caught the attention of the casual eye and will be a stable on these stacked cards moving forward?
20:19I think little by little we change that, you know.
20:21Fights like that, Josh Van and Reval.
20:24My fight with Kaikara France.
20:27Fights like Morena and Albazi.
20:29You have so many good fighters, you know.
20:31I see about the last year, 2024, we have a lot of main events with the flyweights, you know.
20:37And I think things start to change, you know.
20:41That's so cool.
20:42I see in some YouTube and Instagram people saying things bad about my division.
20:50And I don't need to say anything about the haters, you know.
20:53Like hardcore fans go and say, hey, shut your mouth, casual.
20:59And, you know, people realize how good this division is right now, you know.
21:03And I think just us can change that, you know.
21:08And I think because that whole division respect each other, you know.
21:12It's not bad blood with us, you know.
21:15But, of course, when you go to the auction, you try to do the best thing ever, you know.
21:20Pat Tosha, back here.
21:22Alessandre.
21:23I'll ask you a question.
21:24Alessandre here.
21:25Here.
21:26Okay.
21:27Yes.
21:28First of all, Alessandre, congratulations on your victory.
21:32I wanted to ask you about your fight in general.
21:34Because we saw a high display of fight IQ by yourself.
21:38We saw you exchanging punches against Kegara France.
21:41And then when you know that maybe it was dangerous, you throw into wrestling.
21:44Do you think that even though you have a lot of good fighters in the flower division, your wrestling is the key in order to keep your success?
21:51I think my mind is the key, you know.
21:54I have a very good, strong mind, you know.
21:57I passed for a lot of things for that camp, you know.
22:00All the camp is different, you know.
22:02This camp is not different out there, you know.
22:04Couple injuries, couple troubles in the gym, you know.
22:08Staph infections.
22:10I use antibiotics like two weeks after the fight, you know.
22:16Get injections.
22:17Man, like, that's so tough, you know.
22:22But at the end of the day, I think my mentality, my head makes the difference, you know.
22:30And I talk about that, like, I go to fight like a challenger, you know.
22:34But now, because I have this belt, I have all this experience, my challenger spirit but head champion.
22:43And the last one for me, Alexandre.
22:45Obviously, four defense in a row, you clean up the division.
22:48You are the only champion remaining that's never been knocked out and never been finished.
22:52I mean, you made a statement tonight.
22:54Are you looking forward to do your next title defense in Brazil?
22:58Man, I love to fight in Vegas, brother.
23:01I love to fight here, brother.
23:03I love to fight in Las Vegas, Timo Barina.
23:06That's, like I said, that's the Coliseu.
23:08I feel the gladiator here, brother.
23:10Especially because you have the PI, Institute Performance here.
23:15It's so easy to ever think, you know.
23:18But, of course, Brazil is my hometown, you know.
23:20If UFC want to go to Brazil and show to Brazil, the champions have a name.
23:26It's Alexander Pantoja.
23:28Thank you, man.
23:29Pantoja back here.
23:30Congratulations.
23:32We saw the video of you with Merab after the fight.
23:36Everyone talks about, oh, Pantoja needs to move up.
23:39What is it like to say, no, I have my division and I also have the respect, not just Merab, but a lot of the other champions and fighters.
23:47What is that like to have that just respect from your peers?
23:50Merab is a huge guy, you know.
23:53He's small, but he's a huge guy, you know.
23:56He's a horse, he's a spirit, he's so nice, you know.
24:01One of the best.
24:02He's so good horse.
24:05He deserves this belt, you know.
24:07And I have my division, man.
24:10I'm a 125 champion, you know.
24:12Why do I think about going to the bento weight?
24:15I don't think about that.
24:16If I go to the bento weight and then I need to lift my belt, no way, man.
24:21You need to beat me in the octagon to lift this belt.
24:24I have so much more to prove to myself, you know.
24:27Like I say, I'm a work guy, you know.
24:30I go to the gym, Monday, training hard.
24:33And I'm going to keep this belt for a long time.
24:36Final question, and it may not be that important.
24:39A lot of fans think you might have some of the best custom shorts.
24:42Oh yeah, I have.
24:43Out of any of the fighters.
24:44I have.
24:45What does it mean to you that the fans like your design so much?
24:48You know, I make my dragon in my shorts, you know.
24:51This dragon, I make it when I have 17, you know.
24:55And a long time ago, and it's still with me.
24:58That's, I mean, power in eternity.
25:01And I have my shorts, you know, people appreciate that.
25:05I think everybody need to buy one.
25:08Maybe buy two.
25:10And that's so amazing, you know.
25:13I have this.
25:14See where I come from, and now what I get, you know.
25:18Top of the world.
25:20I have so much good example for my kids.
25:22Special in the cut to weight.
25:24My kids with me, you know.
25:26See all the sacrifice about that.
25:28You don't eat food, don't drink water.
25:32And my kids don't drink water too, you know.
25:35He's waiting to the moment.
25:38I just gonna drink when you can drink, daddy.
25:40That's the best thing ever, you know.
25:42I'm at the top of the world right now.
25:44But Monday, everything is the same, you know.
25:47What I try to say, like, tomorrow when I go to home, lock my door.
25:52It's all the same.
25:53I'm Alexander Pantoja Pasidomo.
25:56Kawai, Nicholas' father.
25:58Gabi's husband.
26:00And I need to clean the dishes.
26:02I need to walk with my dogs.
26:04And I appreciate my life.
26:06Congrats.
26:07Thank you, guys.
26:08I appreciate it.
26:09I appreciate it.
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