Lightweight contender, Rafael Fiziev, took questions from the press ahead of his fight against Mateusz Gamrot in the main event …
welcome back Serio fantastic fight last time out obviously didn’t necessarily get the result you wanted I guess but what what lessons did you take out of that matchup I learned how to how to cook very good Humble Pie yeah I’m joking yeah I’m learning a lot good experience good good rounds with with Justin this is I forget already about it this is going to experience yeah point of your career as much experience as you have I mean are there still lessons to be learned in fights and things that you can improve on or do you feel like you know at this point you you know of course never stop learning we’re learning every day we’re learning every day what would you say your primary focus has been in the time since that fight until now repeat please there’s been a primary focus like in training was like they’re one thing that you really dialed in on that you wanted to get better at or to focus on such I’m focused for my next guy for my next opponent Focus for this come back uh because lost is lost I’m sad for lost in the night everybody don’t like lost and uh yeah I want to come back to to Goodwin do I wanna I wanna make a show again and I wanna make my head hand up you know nice despite the loss I mean you’re in a main event is that important to you that they still put you in a spot like this yeah that’s that’s important for me five round it’s good for my future good for my experience because it’s one more fight for five round and also with Elite Grappler Elite wrestler like my opponent and um I want to know I can’t stop guy like him okay can’t stop his take down or not most people kind of look at this as Striker versus Grappler I mean do you feel it’s fair to look at it that way yes it’s it’s always interesting because when we’re totally different different uh different Styles and uh yeah that’s why it’s very interesting for me also yeah is it is it frustrating for you though to get ready for a guy like this to I’m sure you had to do a lot of rounds of wrestling and I think you probably would prefer to go strike and put on an entertaining stand-up fight as all my life I start fight for mixed martial arts rules like from 13 14 years old and all my life I I learned how to stop wrestlers how to different takedowns and continue into the stand up last thing for me I mean a win here I know you just had the setback but you’re still right there at the top of the division so I went here do you call out some names at the top of the division or do you just like you said a little humble now they say I’m humble now I’m always humble I’m always humble yeah but uh no no no have names no I have names uh this is I’m second time learning UFC like how I need to control my emotions I need the I need to stop my fire inside because uh on this fight I going I follow the fire inside of me and uh yeah I feel like here Irina how the screaming and I going forward I want a more I want a more screen and uh yeah I have to I have to stay cold and follow my game plan that’s what I learned and uh your opponent this time around my tennis camera he lasts for Jalen Turner back in March he took the fighter in short notice soon I asked did you watch that fight and what did you make of it if you did yes I watched this fight it’s good fight and short notice yeah but uh yeah like he have a very very simple style or like wrestling style he’s also have a good attack good hands uh good kicks not some time and uh but still simple simple he just need to take down control and all this dirty stuff you know and obviously big title fight coming up in your division soon uh rematch between Islam and Charles how do you see that one going how I see it’s going yeah how it’s I think I took for Islam I think he different belt again I think aloe vera he’s still like a little Grappler and a very good striking also and he’s uh he’s upgrade he’s he’s striking always like a little bit more and more better so but I’m took for Islam I think he have more chance for win this fight started stylistically proper um three weeks great three weeks ago you put out a video of you um outside and there’s someone dancing in back of you in their underwear what was going on Shakira Shakira that’s what’s going on bro huh I don’t know just walk in the in This Time Square Times Square we’ll just walk there and I see this guy and I think like oh try to try to show my my uh My my what now my my actor skills you know just just just fun a little bit and then um finally also uh this fight’s ATT versus kill Cliff FC do you see it that way or or do you not really pay attention to that I don’t pay attention for this job no no thank you