Alex Perez joins the UFC Fight Night Post Show following his knockout win vs. Matheus Nicolau to snap a three-bout losing streak …
Alex Perez I feel like we need to give a little slow clap absolutely I mean how do you feel about what we’re just talking about here I mean it does seem like um a statement was made tonight from you uh yeah I just you know it helps remind the division I’m still here uh you know my last couple fights weren’t the best and uh you know the maai fight was tough I had a lot of stuff going on uh but I feel like I just set set the whole division back on notice I am still here to stay and uh you know uh people are cting me out you know I prove them wrong hope I made a lot of people some money you know B on me some my my friends or whatever everybody who bet on me man uh thank you guys like I said without them I wouldn’t be here now you came out in this fight and you showed some different things that I haven’t seen from you before in particular the footwork you were entering from angles you were moving with speed I mean is that something I mean where where did that come from uh coach kyama you know we go back to basics every think grinding is always going out there and sparring and going live the whole time there’s times where practice is two and a half hours of just footwork and it’s just like we’re going underneath ropes say hey we’re doing this it’s just a lot of footwork no contact things like that and uh you know I’ve gotten better throughout the last couple years uh obviously training with the guys I do with oyama Tyler ja and all these guys right I’ve gotten better I haven’t been able to show it but I’m also finding the best guys in the world I mean Deon pania M so kind of I haven’t shown it too much and I was able to show a little bit more tonight so just still I’ve still got a lot better and still a lot more to show you were down three fights um coming into this fight you know what was your mind mind set walking into this with a big opponent you know it’s a rank guy and you’re down three fights in your UFC career and you never know when the x is going to chop what were you thinking coming in I just go out there and have fun the best the best performance i’ I’ve have had in the UFC when I’m having a good time having fun you know uh there’s a couple things you know like uh I started before I used to put so much pressure on myself like oh man and now I was like hey man go out I do this every single day I train Monday through Saturday right I train I train with some of the best people just go out there and have fun when I’m doing that in training I’m doing that in a fight that’s usually when I have the best result and I think uh that showed tonight when you were when you watch Nicola and you did your work on him you know he does a really good job of just exploding and Landing that big hand and counter shot what was your game plan like to to really make it past that you know were you really expecting him to change levels or maybe take you down or was it just all looking for the explosive punch uh no he’s a rout round a fighter you know he comes from a great Camp so I knew they were going to mix that in a little bit of level changes kind of take down and see what I had um but I wrestled for so long I’m not too worried when people get on my hips a lot of guys uh start freaking out when people touch the legs I’m not too worried about it I’ve wrestle all the time I still wrestle to this day with uh I go to Gold BL wrestling down the street I have those kids coming at me uh Manny salali uh he’s a Greco All-American you know just plays this week and he’s out there attacking me for 20 minutes just attack and attack and attack and if I can defend shots from those guys I can defend shots from anybody you know I got to ask obviously kind of going off of what Rashad was saying was there ever a moment where you thought hey maybe my time is come and gone maybe I should hang it up and and maybe maybe I don’t have it anymore um yeah I mean I think that runs to everybody’s head every once in a while when you lose do I still glad I don’t but like I said it all comes back to your team the team around you and if they see something in you you know uh the people I I hang around with are not going to uh BS me you know going to tell me like the truth and tell me what’s up whether I need to hang it up or keep going and everybody’s like you still got it we just got to you know kind of work through it and go from there and I appreciate that I don’t like people sugar coating anything I rather be up front and tell me like hey you still got you don’t and go from there but they believed in me and uh like I said that helped so you still got it right coach I love it I love it well congratulation and I believe if I heard correctly you also got a Bonus so let me hold 20 let me hold 20 I mean I did think he was going to win he called it he called it well congratulations to you and I’m glad that you took the advice of the coach and everybody around you saying that you still have it and they uh were not blowing you up at all you definitely uh reaffirmed your position and everybody knows Alex Press is still the real deal [Applause] [Music]