Christine Vicens Discusses Victory and Future Strategy in MMA

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00:00how are you feeling after the fight you know a couple days later obviously you know you look

00:04great we talked before you came on I mean I don't know if she even got like more than a couple

00:08punches on you because it just right away from the gates you smell blood before you even threw

00:12that first punch and just went right at Kenny Savage and just completely demolished her in

00:16that first round yeah I mean thanks for having me on the show again I feel great you know after a

00:22win after that victory um I feel great you know just a couple of punches that might have landed

00:29giving me that bruise but can't complain healthy and happy well we'll talk about more of that fight

00:35in just a second but before we get more deep into that I want to talk uh go back a little bit

00:40obviously you know you're a perennial contender in this division you you know you've reached the top

00:43of those rankings you got your shot at the title against the Misfit uh unfortunately got stopped

00:48by a doctor uh you know TKO fourth round of that fight what were you seeing and what do you think

00:53about that fight a couple months later you know now you've gone back and probably watched a couple

00:57of times and you know now it's not just in the moment what were you seeing when you go back and

01:01watch that fight against Christine and you know do you find things that you think you can improve

01:05upon to give you uh you know better shots should you get that chance against her again yeah absolutely

01:12um uh so that fight I I got injured you know from the get-go on round one so it wasn't

01:20my game plan didn't go as I had wanted it to uh definitely you know but I did what I could and I

01:27stayed on my feet and and got as far as the fourth round but I don't like to dwell on my losses I

01:33definitely went back to see what I could learn from it uh and I I did I picked up a lot of things that I

01:39could do better just using more fight IQ being a little more patient and that's what I've been working

01:44the last few months I have a new boxing coach that's been working with me as long um along with my MMA

01:48coach and I think you know I I think I played out well for this fight you know I tried to be a little

01:55bit more patient until like you said I smelled blood and I said it's now's the time to go in and finish

02:00it and that's when I was able to charge forward and get that TKO you certainly did that you talk

02:05about your training about getting you know ready for this fight and what you've been like uh you know

02:09in your preparation I saw that you've been training with uh you know some of the best too I saw you

02:13hanging out with Palomino a little bit training with him and his crew I saw you know some of the

02:17other great fighters that have gone through that gym that you got to uh meet and probably talk you

02:21know chop it up a little bit to get their opinion on the fight game and I'm sure that helps as well

02:25tell us a little bit about that about uh training with some of these top level fighters and you know

02:28how that's helped you uh you know improve your game as you continue to try to grow and become a

02:33better fighter than the BKFC yeah absolutely um like I said I I'm still with Freestyle Fine

02:39Academy my MMA coach there they've gotten me on top of my clinch game my inside game

02:43but in order to work more of the boxing I started training with Palomino's coach his name is Coach

02:47Maha he's got like 250 you know at fights with 70 something KOs the guy's a master uh over at Boxer

02:56Gym um has great connections has worked with so many champions and he's really got me focused more on

03:02on fundamentals on going back to the basics on my footwork my head movement throwing the right style

03:08punch uh things that I although I've been training for 20 years you know uh you kind of just go on

03:14autopilot and go with what you know and I really needed to take that step back and just be smarter

03:19when I throw my punches and and like I said fundamentals

03:22you