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sorry you’re good so can you just talk to me a little bit about the performance are you happy with it did it go the way that you thought it would go oh absolutely I’m happy with it I’m happy with one having very little injury two being able to win and then three I felt like it was a pretty exciting fight um I want to finish of course like it’s been a while since I finished somebody so yeah it’s been since what like 2020 21 or something so yeah of course I want to finish but uh I felt like I was pretty close at least and dropped her at first so yeah overall very happy did you know that her eyelashes flew off when you did that no uh I don’t know how she does that first of all I can’t even wear eyelashes period cuz I every time they try to put it on me I just get sleepy so you know her fighting with it that’s crazy I think that a lot of people loved that moment I just thought it was really it little yeah that’s crazy so what did you think of her as an opponent oh man um yeah I I was very happy with the with her stepping up um I know she’s God-fearing woman so that’s something that I uh admire as well and I I feel like um I think if she keeps walking in that she really um leans into that it can transform her life and and uh she can really Excel um so I think overall I think she’s uh cool from what I could tell um but uh yeah I don’t I don’t really know her but uh very very happy with um sharing the octagon with her tonight was there anything about her that surprised you in there not really I knew she was going to be really tough um I guess she was a little more in shape than I thought she was going to be but at the same time I could also feel like the moments where she started to get a little bit of Hope and like kind of pressure and go for it then it would kind of she would kind of get deflated when I would kind of come back with something and she would recharge again and do something else so like a little bit surprised with with her ability to to um to keep trying keep going for something um even after getting shut down so but I knew she had a lot of heart so sort of yeah what did you think of everything that happened at weighin like that was the the headline the whole day you know it was her cutting her hair and it was you know as you know we have this emotional connection with our hair as you can see had been done that a long time ago so so what you think of that or make of that I mean I don’t know to me it’s just hair you know I get but it is it is I I do sometimes still have dreams with my long hair and I’m like oh so yeah I mean I I know that it’s a big deal but uh I don’t know it’s we’re this is fighting you know so so there’s I I can’t wait till when I’m done fighting to where I can focus on being pretty again hopefully hope hopefully I still have my good looks when I’m retired but um I don’t know it’s just it’s just hard to focus on that kind of stuff while you’re while you’re fighting and um I do feel like I don’t know who is in charge with making sure that the the scale that you check your weight on before you get on the official scale they’re supposed to be the same and they were not the same and so whoever’s in charge of that I need to talk to because that was that was very to me was very suspicious or something didn’t feel right as soon as I not noticed a discrepancy and and uh and then when they said for her to blow out her air then it was a half a pound lighter so I don’t know what was going on with that I don’t know how you can blow a half a pound of oxygen either way it’s it’s all good you know I I I just wanted to fight so it didn’t matter um you mentioned the BMF title who would you want to fight yeah I don’t know actually I I was just I was just joking actually but I mean I know Yan says she would come back for a women’s BMF so you know that would just be for fun I mean I I love her and I think she uh you know I don’t know uh but I don’t I think I was just kind of just joking there I don’t know I don’t know what I was thinking no I think that’s a great idea oh okay well well there you go I keep talking about it um if if let’s say that they came to you and they said you can have a flyweight title or a BMF title which one would need more oh flyweight for sure you know that’s just I don’t know it’s like BMF is it’s fun you know I guess but uh but yeah just want the it’s like give me the champ yeah thank you thank you Rose go ahead oh yeah um when you talk about the scale that you just mentioned was there a discrepancy with your weight personally backstage so so there and you can ask multiple Fighters but basically they give us a scale that’s supposed to be matched up with the official scale like we check it with the officials before we go on the official scale and it was like a pound difference and so that’s never happened before not not as far as I’ve ever um experienced so that was kind of weird cuz it was lighter on the official scale so that’s when I weighed in originally at 12 5.8 and then when I got on a official scale was like 100 I mean I’m sorry uh 124 like whatever seven or something like that so so I was I just I didn’t know what that was about I don’t know why that happened but I wouldn’t have went and cut an extra I don’t know few ounces or whatever uh if if it wasn’t have been different you know yeah and then um just talk about the grappling exchanges that you had in there I mean how nice was it to to have the grappling advantage over Tracy Cortez yeah it’s awesome because uh I I knew she was really good at like getting back up when she would get taken down in her fights I knew her wrestling was really good offensively but um I thought she was gonna um Russell more and I also thought that I was going to like I don’t want to try to hold her down too much cuz I knew I didn’t want to waste my energy trying to like keep her down but it actually worked out really well I was in mount for a long time I wish I wish I could have maybe like uh I just got to work on my finishing um shots on on the top and stuff a little bit more but uh overall it was I was really happy with that and then can you kind of explain that the moment at the end there it almost seemed like a Nick Diaz Anderson Sila yeah I guess I guess that kind of stuck in my mind at that moment so yeah I didn’t mean to rip off of him but I just didn’t want to uh play into her thing you know like whatever like if she can’t catch me she can’t catch me that’s her fault you know what I mean so uh so yeah I uh yeah I wasn’t go to play around with that hey R Kyle new for The Denver Post nice to see you um so obviously the goal is getting a shot the flyweight belt do you feel like you took another step towards that tonight 100% yeah I mean a win all that matters is winning right so here we go hey Rose yeah um Noah F Denver Gazette um in a fight camp where you also fought local metro Denver at social issues such as the dog uh do the dog park um how does headlining a main event here stand out or have impacted your career and how do you plan on continuing the fight that you’re fighting um yeah I mean there’s definitely it’s still we won the first battle but it’s not over we still got to we still have to um maintain the park and help keep working with the city to try to make it better and and it’s not like less people are moving here um so it’s just got to deal with that somehow and um and yeah now I’m I’m probably going to get into some more topics in Westminster too because over at one of my properties in Westminster they’re trying to build a um some like apartment complex over there and and it’s like really like squeezing it in we don’t need no more housing right there so I’m going fight against that too in the latter rounds uh of the fight obviously Tracy kind of kicked into gear how’ you feel like you you know played that defense but also got a few shots in there in the fourth and fifth rounds yeah um I knew that uh I knew I was up three rounds to nothing so it was just all about being smart and picking my shots and um just looking for those openings um I knew she was going to try to make it a little chaotic which she did um in certain moments but uh nothing was really Landing like super solid I think she landed a good punch um with the left hook uh one time but yeah there and there was certain combination was kind of knocking me off a little bit off of balance but uh I felt very comfortable with just kind of like okay you know she wants to she wants to unload here let me just all right time a take down or let me let me just move or let me stick her one time really good um so yeah it was it was a really tactical tactical I guess fourth and fifth round and Drew Dober maybe a fight of the night Contender but the Colorado Fighters were 0 for three when you stepped into to the Octagon did it feel good to uh be a local who you know get get a win in front of the home crowd in this environment yeah it’s a it’s amazing um I really want to just just give give the Denver fans um love and support that they’ve given me you know I go on my runs sometimes and they just champ you know honk their horns whatever you know people are very loving here and um I know that uh there’s also a lot of changes that have been happening to the city so I just want to like try to try to give it um some love and energy that uh I don’t know I feel like just got to keep this place going well yeah sometimes it takes a little bit to get your legs underneath you moving up a weight class you look like you had a lot more pop to your step and just it looked like it was the true Thug Rose back tonight do you think that it that was just kind of it took time to really build your body up to get used to that 10 pounds of difference oh 100% cuz um like putting on that muscle I think um the last the last fight that I had at flyweight um going into that fight I felt a little bit slower and things like that but it was it turns out that I my should both shoulders were partially torn going into that fight so it was just like I it was just taking a while for me to like all the stuff we I worked on it just you know it just building boxing I had to build my momentum to get to this point now my shoulders feel really good my right one still kind of aches a little bit sometimes so just got to you know let it fully heal and then um I think it’s just going to keep getting better and there’s a lot to improve on still does it feel good though now that the power is starting to translate yeah that’s that’s 100% too you know like we’ve been working a lot with um I’ve been uh crisping up my boxing and just kind of fixing some things that I haven’t really corrected in many years I think just some classical boxing stuff with Jake Ramos and um and then yeah some of the stuff that Pat’s been trying to show me for like forever has been finally you know clicking and we’re we’re Comm communicating a lot better and obviously Chico is U you know always great and you know I just have really good people surrounding me thank you do you hope to fight again this year do I help to fight again this year yes I mean that would that would ultimately that’s originally what I felt like I was wanting to do going into this fight um right now I’m a little tired but I I will probably be excited to do that very soon uh Rose over here uh is there any chance we get a Jessica on Judge Trilogy seeing as though she’s like a BM in her own right she is um man I you know that that’s the one thing is I would fight her maybe for another belt and you saying that it’s like eh but I want the real belt you know so if if uh you know that that’s interesting and like any uh I like do you have any ideas of running it back with Macy Barbara obviously she couldn’t make it due to health issues and do you have a message to send to her uh following her issues no uh just you know hopefully she feels better um yeah I don’t know I don’t know what’s going on with her health I just you know wish her wish her well and um yeah I don’t know when when she feels better then maybe we could talk about it but ultimately I’m just forward thinking right now awesome thank you m all right thank you guys e