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Karyn Bryant, Din Thomas and Michael Bisping react to Steven Nguyen’s TKO win vs. Mohammad Yahya that featured Nguyen knocking Yahya down a record six times during the fight. Nguyen also speaks with Heidi Androl about the win.
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Video Transcript
Dr. Stop it at the end of the second
round against Muhammad Yakyah who showed
us so much heart. But Michael, it was
Wednesday night.
What was the referee waiting for? I
mean, what do you want to see? One, two,
three, four, five, six, seven times
you're going to hit the canvas. And he
still even didn't want to stop it. You
know what I mean? I don't know what Yaya
has done to annoy Jason Herszog, but
it's like
he's an Aarati fighter and he wanted to
give him every chance.
He should have come into it. Simple as
that. Now listen, Jason Hersog's a great
referee, but it was a stunning
performance by Steven Win. It's got to
feel good after coming off the contender
series three times, losing his UFC
debut, but showing a lot of promise. And
then tonight showing what he's truly
capable of. He's got good power in the
hands. He's not afraid to have a dog
fight. And tonight, every time he
connected almost, Yaya would hit the
canvas and he would hit it hard. A great
performance. Yeah, I'm not one for to
allow a ref to to let a fighter have a
moral victory. But this is a situation
where I was like, "Okay, I mean, this
guy doesn't have heaven had a win in the
UFC. This guy comes out in front of his
hometown and puts up that gutsy
performance. I'm okay with letting him
go a little longer."
Yeah, I hear you on that one. And as I
said, you know, just an incredible
display of heart from Yaya, who did
absolutely get a CT scan of his head and
um uh face. Everything came back
negative, so there's no broken orbital.
It did look pretty gruesome, but uh
that's great news. So that is uh it. We
do want to hear from the victorious
Steven Win. He also spoke with Heidi
Androl backstage.
Thank you very much. Well,
congratulations. I spoke to you
yesterday. You said you were going to
probably black out when you walked out
with the fans. Here you are getting your
first UFC win in front of a crowd. Just
take us through this moment.
I'm honestly still soaking it in right
now, you know. Um yeah. Well, that it
was right cuz I blacked out. I had
blacked out, but now I'm here talking to
you, so I know I did the right thing.
Most definitely. You did a lot of right
things in this fight. Uh you said you
wanted to push the pace more in your
last fight. So obviously, was that
something that was top of mind coming in
and you have so much experience on the
Dana White's Contender Series?
Yeah, you know, I definitely wanted to
finish the fight tonight and that's what
I did. Um I wanted to be patient. You
know, my coaches told me to just be
patient and the right time was going to
come and the right time came and and you
know, he knocked me down too. You know,
it was it was a back and forth battle,
but I stayed patient. and I knew that
time was going to come and he didn't
answer that third round and uh you know
here I am talking to you so I'm very
happy about that
you know six knockdowns the most it's a
UFC record uh in a single fight in any
weight class uh that has to feel pretty
good but how frustrating was his will
and his heart given that amount of
knockdowns
look man he he he came here to fight you
know he came here to fight he came to
win this is his hometown you know so he
wasn't going to give up but I wasn't
either so you know it it was a back back
and forth battle and much respect to him
and I have all the respect to and
everybody in Abu Dhabi like this is I
love this place. It's amazing and you
know no disrespect to them or anything.
I had to come in here and do my job
tonight.
Well, you most definitely did. Your
right hand on the money, your left hand
on the money. I he is one of those guys
who kind of rushes in to strike. Was
that something you noticed or that
surprised you or did you kind of
telegraph that in researching him?
You know, definitely I do my homework
and stuff like that, but I was also just
being patient with my strikes today too.
All I heard was Saladi in the corner. Be
patient, Stevie.
So, you know, I was patient. I knew the
right time was going to come. I know I
was I'm more faster and more or
explosive than him. So, it was all about
timing tonight.
Most definitely. I have to ask you,
what's next? I have a feeling it won't
be a year before you fight again. So,
who do you want?
Uh, there's nobody that I want in
general, but I'm I'm going to go back to
the drawing board. I'm going to keep
training. I'm going to keep getting
better, and I'll be ready for the next
challenge.
Excellent job tonight. Congratulations
on a great win here in Abu Dhabi.
[Applause]
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