Alfie Davis Discusses PFL Tournament Preparation & Strategy

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00:00Sitting here training, getting ready for this upcoming fight of yours.

00:03It's going to be huge.

00:04I know you were kind of surprised from previous interviews I've watched

00:07that you even got into the tournament, given that your last fight,

00:10the first of the PFL, was a loss.

00:12But obviously, Sean, while you're in this tournament

00:14and doing great things so far in the first two fights,

00:17how have you felt through these first two fights?

00:19How are you feeling going into the finals?

00:21And what has it been like getting into this tournament format for you

00:24and doing all these three fights in five months

00:26as opposed to one every six months that you've had pretty much

00:29the last couple of years?

00:31Yeah, I felt good in the tournament.

00:33I grew up kickboxing.

00:35Kickboxing was tournament-based.

00:37So I was actually privileged to be very experienced in tournaments.

00:41Also, I'm not a fighter that gets injured ahead of a lot.

00:45I don't take much damage in training and in fights.

00:48So the tournament base, it really suits me, to be honest with you,

00:51because it allows me to have sort of a season

00:53where I can just stay in shape all the time and compete.

00:56I have been known after a fight to eat fried chicken

01:00and drink lots of beer.

01:02I'm not being able to do that.

01:04But apart from that, it's been helping my career.

01:07And in terms of how I've felt in the fights,

01:10I feel like this is the peak of my career.

01:13Something's clicked over the last year.

01:16I think it took the loss to really,

01:18for me to take a backseat on what I was doing wrong,

01:20to be honest with you.

01:21And this is me so much since that loss in November last year.

01:25And as you can see from my recent performances,

01:28I've really come into my own,

01:29and this is my time to show what I'm capable of.

01:33Yeah, obviously, you built up a great record in your time in Bellator,

01:36now transitioning over to the PFL.

01:37You've shown everybody how good you can be in these first two fights.

01:40I mean, different stylistic matchups with your opponents,

01:44but still great results for you.

01:46The first one, of course,

01:47that spinning back elbow knockout in the first round.

01:49I'm sure a lot of people might have been a little surprised,

01:52you know, that coming as fast as it did.

01:53But anybody who's watched over the years

01:55knows how you can throw these great attacks that you do.

01:58What was it like for you?

01:58Is that what you expected to be able to use that to fruition,

02:01you know, catch him when he least expected like that?

02:04I did actually, that elbow,

02:06it wasn't for when he was shooting because he was coming in,

02:09but Clay Collard in particular does this thing

02:11where he rushes in with four punches.

02:13So I did practice that elbow,

02:15but I'll be lying if I said I expected it to happen that quick

02:18and in that situation, yes.

02:22I wouldn't say it was a lucky shot,

02:24but definitely it was early on and it was nice.

02:28To be honest with you, I was just trying to run from him.

02:30I was like, get away from me.

02:31And then, yeah, sort of hit him on the way out.

02:35Well, you know, some people might say it was lucky.

02:37You wouldn't, I wouldn't.

02:38You know, like you said, you trained for that,

02:40but, you know, people, if they want to, you know,

02:42poo-poo on what you did,

02:43will say, well, let's see what he gets in there

02:44with a guy like Sprimis, you know,

02:45a guy who's going to drag him to the depths.

02:47Well, he tried to do that.

02:48And, you know, you probably made him look feeble

02:52compared to some of his past opponents.

02:53I mean, he tried to pull guard.

02:55He couldn't.

02:55Every time, you know, maybe he got in that first round,

02:57maybe the second, third round, I think it was all you.

02:59You're finding your distance.

03:00He could not get you to the ground like he wanted.

03:03And, you know, you even have a little fun with it at times,

03:05you know, doing a little bit of the, you know, the moves,

03:07you do a little dancing.

03:08As you're getting set up for the shots for him,

03:10you're definitely feeling in that one.

03:11And, you know, it went to distance.

03:12You showed against a high-level guy like that,

03:14that you can go all the way and you can stop him from his game plan.

03:17Do you think that, you know, was an even bigger, you know,

03:20stamp of what you could do in this PFL tournament?

03:24Yeah, Sprimis was, yeah, he was an amazing former champion.

03:27So to do that in the way that I did it and styling him like that,

03:32I think it shows my level in martial arts.

03:35So more of the same to come.

03:38And we're looking forward now against Robodinov.

03:40Now, obviously, you have no love lost for this guy.

03:43You know, I've seen posts, you know, you mistyping his name.

03:46You're talking about, you know, how he's enhanced,

03:48but you're better skilled.

03:49You know, is there any, there's no paths between you and this guy, right?

03:53It's just, this is where it is now and you got to hype it up.

03:56What's going on?

03:56Are you trying to get in his head?

03:59I think it's a bit of both.

04:00I think I'm just actually telling the truth.

04:03I mean, the man from the Olympics for a reason,

04:05he was a sniffer crotch wrestler for many fights.

04:08And then he started knocking people out all of a sudden.

04:11So there's definitely question marks about what he's been doing.

04:14But the reason that I'm saying that is because I want him to feel like

04:17he's got all of those advantages, but he hasn't.

04:20Like, he's not going to hit me with bombs that he's been throwing

04:24and I'm going to kick him right in the face.

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