Top welterweight contender Gilbert Burns sat down with members of the official UFC 283 Weigh-In Show crew to discuss his main …
one of the best welterweights in the world Mr Congeniality for me Gilbert dorigno Burns man you look great you sound great we appreciate a few minutes this morning how you feeling great bro just make the way with to be honest was pretty easy I woke up I have two phones to cut it was pretty easy now I’m hydrating already and looking forward to the fight you know uh April last year it feels like a long time you know it cannot wait for tomorrow night super excited but yeah excited to fight so often times in this UFC welterweight division you are giving up some size you have fought longer opponents in the past but how do you expect to be able to navigate you know that nine inch reach disadvantage against Neil Magnum again one more time one more one more disadvantage on the on the hot on the not on the way you know but these guys are very tall all those guys are weltery they’re bigger see Damian was bigger than Camaro then uh Wonder Boy everybody know Hamza so I think I’m getting used to these and then my my teammates chew Jason Jackson there’s a lot of things you know they they prepare me very good so I think I’m gonna do pretty well against against New American for sure I’m not say it’s gonna be easy but I think it I got it you know I got his number I believe the Reno when you look at the odds you are a massive favorite over Neil magnet when you look at that it seems as though you’re supposed to go out there and really kind of separate yourself from him but no magni isn’t a guy that gets wiped out no magnets in every fight how do you plan to go out there and dominate a guy that does not get dominated [Music] just gonna do me you know and I don’t even look at the artist to be honest I just he’s always a pressure on my back to finish these guys I put that pressure I want to finish and I just gotta to be honest right now I’m just gonna rest I gotta relax and tomorrow night I gotta be a hundred percent present if I’ll be there if I don’t know you know we don’t know what what’s going to be there Fight Night with the life comes on but he found their present 100 in there I’m gonna finish new magazine we’re not doing more than 10 minutes tomorrow if I’m president tomorrow Gilbert I know that Neil wasn’t necessarily your your first choice of opponents but you appreciated him stepping up as you started to game plan for Neil Maggie what aspect of his game caught your attention the most uh I think he freaking guys very long use the distance very good uh throw a couple of the guys is smaller than he he tends to throw a lot of knees clinch a little B I still think he’s going to clinch with me uh but yeah those are the I think the the main things is these three parts because it’s very long I think his knees and the clinch those are the best foods that he do he’s not a critter you know but I do believe with a good pressure throwing a couple good punch inside and outside of his guard with a good changing level good takedowns my power and my heavy graph and everything is going to be the keys to beat new Mega Gilbert we know that you’re a guy that is super prepared for all your matchups right you take notes you you study your opponent you think about the game plan and you bring people in and I think for this one in particular when we talk to you in the meeting you really talked about a particular sparring partner can you tell for the people at home watching this how important that was to bring in somebody that really could replicate the size and that reach of somebody like Neil Maggie yeah it’s super important I think you know so I’m fighting a tall guy I need to train you the tall guy even if at that time everything was I’m I’m fighting a tall guy I he’s black my guy is black is tall he’s just the same you know I’m a guy he’s freaking guy I’m cutting away I was I was already 180s get into to 70s and the freaking guy was 205 the whole week so yeah I’m pretty confident these guys but I think it’s the if you fighting a small wrestler you’ve got to bring a small wrestler if you’re fighting a tall guy you gotta bring your tall guy so luckily a kill Cliff FC I have Jason Jackson the Lana Taylor those are the two guys that I trained the most uh shavika was there for a little bit gave me a couple good rounds too uh Ian Gary he’s so all those guys I’m used to the longer guys you know and uh it’s gonna be one more but I think it’s very and nowadays all every single detail matters you know so I gotta bring a guy that’s gonna be he’s gonna look like my opponent and then I make sure I watch a couple videos with these guys and we got a tendency he changed things like that he does that you think you can do it yeah okay let’s do that little B and then kind of getting more and more prepared to the guy that I’m facing you know I gotta be there the key to beat these guys is to be there as many times as I can so whenever it’s a fight time I’ve been there many times so I’m used to this all right Gilbert Burns before we let you go we have all been working on our Brazilian Portuguese we want to play a little pronunciation game with you because you sound so beautiful in two languages so as I understand it you’re going to hold up a card and we are going to uh try to pronounce it and uh I guess you’re gonna see who pronounces it the best so uh if you wouldn’t mind taking it away she’s doing that oh yeah oh yeah I think DC is a little bit underappreciated I’ve got great Portuguese yeah let’s go that one is easy okay but I’m I’m looking for the accent let’s go okay who’s first obrigada Paulie Obrigado Obrigado I will say who is that who say say again say again John Obrigado that was good this guy’s biased man oh yes now we’re teammates Obrigado I like that too okay I need my shot I need my shot here because I’m a girl I’m gonna say that hey do you see you said the a yeah I said yes she was so bad everybody was good she was horrible no DC was horrible you have a point Gilbert who gets the points thank you uh no John John Paul second Laura was good too louder and po they they they they even in the second place and this is the yeah went to the playoffs what do we got here yo de Janeiro that was better it was better hio de Janeiro all right they both butchered that middle it’s not day it’s D now a lot of Brazilians will tell you it’s to De Janeiro but we go Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro yeah no you don’t want this one oh my God from Florida because you got the you got that Florida that Portuguese the the Spanish in there so all right what’s the uh next word [Applause] uh okay morning come on let’s go morning hey man that’s not that’s bonjour that’s good that’s good morning good morning I’m not doing this bull crap I want to say bonjour all right almost almost yes I was gonna say Manya Manya no come on that’s Laura Laura Laura got this one can you say that Forest Gilbert how do you say that yeah yeah and that’s the easiest one come on oh yeah I know this one turbo bear sound like a beer Doodle Bear where’s to the bear to the band to the bank yes yes let’s see John Joe and Laura Laura got this one and uh we got a tiebreaker for that night yeah come on DC to go champ what do you got why do I have to go first every time I don’t know what this is yeah that is the point wow almost not bad almost because like that accent the other word too right the cheese bread cheese bread yeah pow pow pile piles no you ready no I don’t know this one pile I said oh Laura who the hell bro all right final word and we’ll see if somebody can tie Laura senko come on TK hard come on DC okay okay I gotta start because I’m gonna lead go to sound Yes Yes sounds good brought us out yeah I’m just scared bro you ready Gilbert I got a coconut over here hey okay you’re my parents hey my turn that was pretty good yes he got it more at least Burns we appreciate the extended time man all the best Saturday night we will see you at the fights all right brother thank you guys take it easy