Lightweight Manel Kape answered questions from the media following his UFC 293 victory on Saturday. All OFFICIAL UFC 293 …
congratulations on the win the bonus and a great fight thank you so much how are you feeling about your performance and your opponent I feel good I think I did a good performance I did what I have to do about my opponent I I knew it was a tough kid like I say before he’s a tough kid he’s a debuted you don’t have nothing to lose they come he surprised me with his range have a long arms so I have to make a couple exchange during the fight but all good we we win and this is Allah matter was he tougher than you thought or was it about what you were expecting no I I always expect the fight is a bit off because this is what we do they train to be tough to be to be to be good like he was good so nothing surprised to me you know uh uh the kid was really tough I dropped him many times he didn’t he didn’t break so congratulations to him too after the fight he made it clear that you would like to fight kaikara France um you also use the word uh about his teammates that perhaps was a little bit regret full pardon do you uh you use the homophobic slur in your post fight uh interview Dana White said you were sorry for this I wanted to confirm that you are apologetic yeah I’m sorry for that he’s emotional you know during the fight during the interview we are all emotions we say things that uh we don’t want to say but um for who feel uh we’ll feel bad about that I apologize why is the fight with Kai karafran something you want so bad and what is it about him that you seem to dislike so much um was that moment was a the fight what I want I I really train it hard for for fighting friends and um that’s the the fight that put me in a good spot in the division and that a win in this and in this night was supposed to be to fight to the next for the title and like I say I just believe that they are a little bit hypocrisy because they team say that they have to go in through injuries you know they have to fight um there was talk about the Draco about Israel design and he didn’t fight because the injuries and what happened to kakara we didn’t know really what happened you know so this is my question to him you know how do you think that fight goes it’s going very well you know uh we see his he was not 100 sure to find me because I have an injury a lot of injury in this fight camp even two one week ago one week ago in my cut weight I have a big big injury I have a big injury I didn’t pull out of the fight just so you guys know I have a big injury I didn’t pull up I just stopped three days to relax and I keep going is the injury something you’ll have to have surgery on or is it just recovery uh I have to check because I have to do um a racist if something broke I’m not gonna say what is the part but I just gonna tell you I have a big big injury and like you guys see normal I move a lot in fights I didn’t move a lot I was more concerned about my injury and not to get exposed so uh buyer go into injury this is the mentality of the champion now I’m not going to waste the time of anyone and I’m not going to waste my time staying with with Kai uh he fought the original title not too long ago and he headlines his last card do you think given the heat between you and Kai that you could make this a main event of a fight night and you two would fight for five rounds instead of three definitely not to fight night definitely not pay-per-view and then the last one for me on this fight specifically uh is that is this the type of fight that you enjoy like Felipe seems I know you were injured but he was in there he was throwing a lot of exciting Dynamic strikes he used them spinning back elbows he was going for submissions and everything is this the type of fight that you enjoy in there uh I’ve been have a easy fighting UFC you know all my fight was like easily I feel I didn’t feel like I’m going to I was in War I didn’t feel hurt I didn’t feel anything you know when I say that to the ranking is just a number it’s just a number this kid just proved that he was more tough than anyone I’ve fighted here in UFC you know and I feel more in trouble with this hidden any other Fighters that I fight you know so uh I love the kind of fight I like to feel that I’m hurt I’m going home I’m going to take care of myself you know so I really enjoy actually one more for me uh you and Israel obviously had that exchange on stage at the press conference I’m curious did you watch his fight against Sean Strickland and what did you think of it you know karma is a 35 00:05:18,180 –> 00:05:23,519 you know because he told last time in last press conference to Strickland if we pay attention on our expirator you know I told him hey pay attention your business is against strickler and he was so focused on me then focused on struggling look what happened like I say karma is a congratulations to strickler we go home with two victories foreign