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about dispute at UFC flyweight champion and at the main event after Moreno was belted all eyes were on Clover to Shara here in Rio but Jamal sweet dreams Hill is the new king King 205. with that for Paul Felder Daniel Cormier Megan Olivia and the rest of our crew John Anderson and so long from Rio we will see you all next month from Perth Western Australia for UFC 284 post show starts now on e-plus good night foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign laughs thank you now go across pretend to go down the stairs thank you again foreign foreign foreign good evening everybody first of all thank you very much for your support this week and a return to Brazil with UFC 283 the attendance tonight was 13 604 the bonuses uh fight of the night goes to Hill and Glover the performance bonuses go to Ishmael bonfan and uh Shelton Almeida um any questions I can answer I’m curious what you think you made to the night itself right okay so maybe some of the results didn’t go Brazil’s way but we still had a celebration of Jose Aldo love to share and show you gotten retired and then we had these new up-and-comers how would you rate tonight as a celebration for Brazil’s return on the MMA stage post covert yeah it was pretty solid it was pretty solid all right I mean first of all nice to return I’m not sure if you guys were able to catch the kind of two and a half minute open that was on the prelims we had a running in the U.S we had in our Global feed we had it running on the Brazil feed as well and I think that kind of encapsulated um you know how we feel the FC feel I think that piece was driven by Mike Ritchie and Zach and then Eduardo and Fernando for the Brazil team um and it was something where you know captured the importance of mixed martial arts to the Brazilian people um and I think a lot of that was reflected in the athletic performances tonight I mean we had uh 17 Brazilians all right yeah 17 Brazilians I think 9-1 obviously there were two bouts on the prelims where two Brazilians were fighting each other but yeah the the Aldo uh ceremony was nice um you know it’s too bad that Shogun didn’t get the win to go out but he certainly got a sense for how much he meant to everyone here in this building and I’m sure as we’re going to see through all the media Outlets over the next few weeks uh the importance is going to shine through in the articles that people are going to be writing so it felt really really good cool just one last one for me I’m curious I’m sure there isn’t one right now but any estimation on a return when we could expect to be back yeah uh we’re trying to figure out the the schedule for the second half of the year we want to be back here at least one more time um we want to get back to pre-covered levels as quickly as we can so um no exact date or time but you know especially with the launch of UFC Fight Pass here in Brazil it’s important for us to be in the market as frequently as possible uh I wanna know do you have any updates on Dave Sophia Desai I don’t I don’t we had a number of transports um there’s some violence tonight um but yeah nothing specifically on on him and mega Manuel leave you mentioned that was some kind of uh altercation between Morena and Portage backstage oh I didn’t I didn’t see that but that might set something uh something up nicely Kenny so I kind of one I don’t know if you’re going to disclose this but do heaven uh a number of uh five percent subscriptions in Brazil you guys did a like a special price in the first two weeks of the year so they have a number of how how many people signed up for the for the service yeah I mean we know the number it’s you know like we do on the global side it’s not a number that we’re going to be disclosing um but I can tell you like you know it’s been a long three weeks in speaking to the market and making sure we’re connecting with as many people across the country to ensure people know exactly what’s going on we’ve seen this time and time again in uh switch overs change of broadcasters change of content distribution strategy it takes a long time to make to convince people to inform people that they need to go to a different place you know we’ve people ask us all the time like you know why are pay-per-views always at 10 pm in the east in the United States it’s because it’s a dedicated time people know exactly what time and when we do a shift we tested it once I think kind of like 2011 or 2012 like what if we shift an hour earlier it might be a little better for the East Coast but a little you know worse for the West Coast in the U.S and even an hour shift really had an impact on on viewership and so the point is is that you know people are used to consuming content a specific way and I think you know as we’re going to experience here it’s going to take you know it’s going to take a while we’re really happy with the way things have have kicked off the you know technology works really well transmission you know worked really well we thought like having a localized Portuguese feed that our team is managing and our talent is managing um is incredibly important for us I think was received really well we’re going to continue to increase the access points for flight pass across the country we’ve got a number of Partnerships that we’re going to be announcing over the next couple months it’s all in an effort to again deliver you know the most fan focused and fan first digital product for UFC content that we’ve got but you know the the partnership with Bungie TV has worked out really really well um I’m not sure if they’re going to release their viewership numbers but really pleased with the way things turned out for the prelim block so we’re off to a really good start and last time we were here in November you said they were going to plan 243 events this year in Brazil to have any dates in mind locations for the next events no I mean we talked about it earlier um we don’t have any specific dates or cities to mention yet um so listen more more on that when we’ve got it but you know like like we did pre-covered we want to be all across the country super important for us the Benji TV deal was important for us because it allows us to connect in the way that we want to with you know 200 plus million fans across our you know population 200 million plus and 50 plus 50 million plus fans for us in the same way that our content reaches the people all across the country we want to have events in a variety of cities across the country like we did pre-covered I know it’s always kind of tough you know trying to keep in touch with the market back in the States as well is there ever a possibility for one of the future fights to have the fight earlier in the evening so Brazilians can enjoy it earlier in the evening and not ending at three or so in the night in the morning I don’t know I get a sense for Brazilians like the time this is everything’s a bit later dinner’s later bars are later mma’s later I think it’s something that people are used to as well I mean this is no change right pay-per-views I mean our main cars for pay-per-views are always been around midnight here in Brazil just depending on the time of year of daylight savings um so I mean yeah it’s 3 30 right now there are 15 fights it’s a big night for everybody um but you know I think if it’s a Fight Night the change it could shift or the time could shift a little bit but for pay-per-views it’s gonna stick where it is and last me I know a lot of people were wondering if Dana was going to be here did you speak with them tonight what was his initial thoughts on the tonight’s action I mean he’s pretty pretty fired up about you know the quality even chatting with Mika Mick was chatting with Dana and Hunter just about the performance bonuses and they were going through a bunch of different reference options to choose from they’re pretty they’re pretty pleased thanks Dave all right guys thanks for your support all week really appreciate it and we’ll see you guys soon foreign foreign don’t know okay foreign foreign foreign foreign thank you [Music] foreign good night I mean that felt like a bit of a statement to me did it feel the same for you yes I I had to finish this guy you know for sure I was prepared for war every every time I do is a little mental thing you gotta accept that I might get hurt I might leave a piss in there I gotta I gotta make a piece with that but I I on the same time I want to finish you know and then when I saw he kind of that was so long it was I don’t know for you guys watching maybe looking close but he was so freaking foreign I said okay let me try it right-handed and then I throw and then I okay if I miss him I’m going for the takedown and when I fell in on the floor said okay that’s gonna be a it’s gonna be a quick night okay I’m just gonna take my time but I had to make a statement you know no one wants to fight me a little bit of frustration uh ranking system those guys might please put me back my place you know one position it doesn’t matter but they offered a fight he’s supposed to come here to Rio he said no and he was rewarded with my with my position so I want my position back but I was a guy you mentioned to me today but it was Kobe that he called out after the fight do you think if you had to pick one it’s called be the one that makes more sense for you for sure Kobe caught being calling this guy out for years I heard the UFC wants to make the ultimate fighter Oscar who you who you think the Reno and Kobe or below and Kobe what you want the fencing everyone we’re gonna like just be honest I don’t care if you say below but who you think I think both of you have issues with Colby so it’s probably about which one they want to tap into but if they’re trying to build Fight Pass in Brazil they have a Brazilian that could help with that so if they wanted to do that that would be your choice wouldn’t it even if they do in the U.S they think they’ll sell way more you know and uh it must die with you you know so yeah I I would love to do the the tough me against Kobe but I I I can sell a lot of options I can go to London for a backup if if you’ve seen is a backup if something happened I’ll go there and make weight I can be below there I can fight Below in London if they want to if I match you down in London I can I haven’t fought in April and then I freaking fall for four minutes I have a lot of energy I’m not going to sleep tonight but I’m gonna stay in shape you know I’m gonna be back to Florida if I’m gonna stay here till Friday Saturday morning I’m back in Florida Logan stories a very close friend of mine has a big fight coming up in Bellator I’ll be helping and all the guys with the big fights at the jeans so I’ll be back you know for sure rest this week five days I think will be enough I didn’t it was a quick fight but I wanna I wanna have a busy year you know and I’m not I’m not asking for for easy fight that that’s the thing that people don’t get it I’m not asking for easy for I want to work I want to be anyone I’m calling for the big guys if I Kobe like I said five miles Muhammad I’ll be back up I want to work I want to become a champion but I’m not begging for anything I want to work I want to stay busy just give me the opportunity you know the ultimate fighter idea I like look I’m curious like with Colby there’s an interesting thing that happened when he started when he it was in Brazil and called everyone what he did and stuff like that and that was the start of his character and then over the years people sort of grew to like him I’m curious did you ever grow to like him or have you always had a personal issue with him after what he said to be honest I saw Kobe three three months and a half ago I was in the guitar they have a Brazilian concert in Florida in the guitar and I think he just left the poker room and then I was passing by then I look at this yeah that’s cool over there and I look at him and I just like it shook my head and they said come here and I say oh he’s on and I walk through here and I said okay my wife always there say wait I’m coming for and I was ready I don’t know what it was gonna say what’s up and then you know I’m a huge fan brother you are super cool I’m I’m I’m I’m pretty honest right now I I don’t have to lie he was super cool oh I’m huge fan you know I’m a character I just want to make money I appreciate you I know you have a beautiful family and he was super cool and it was getting even weird because he he was over and over for over like two minutes bro I like what you do your last fight and I was just like man look at this guy but whenever I go to a fight new magazine might be a very nice guy too I have all due respect but bro whenever I mean there something on me clicks and your enemy bro I’m gonna finish so I have nothing against Kobe I know what he’s doing I respect what he does I don’t agree you do whatever you want if that’s making you help you to make a leaf do whatever you want but I want to become a champion I believe you’ll become a champion and he’s the guy holding on that position or he’d say yes to that to the tough or March is going to be one year day for months without right yes or kicked that guy out of the ranks out and get my position back below beat Sean Brady before I don’t even know who he beats why he passed me and he ducked me come on you guys that do the ranks put my name back in there this guy’s stalking me he don’t want to fight Kobe has to say yes or take this guy out of the rink and I’m I’m gonna keep fighting anyone like I said I want to work or scary I’m not asking hey please no I want to work give me work I’ll beat These Guys Moreno said maybe not your day but maybe not tomorrow but I’m gonna become a champion I’m I’m chasing I’m freaking hungry I’m going after the title that’s awesome uh main question are you going to to keep this hair going forward yes you guys like it or no yes yes okay I will I will my I my kids both they they make the place today they are both looking good and then they asking me and they say okay I’m not gonna hurt these here this year I’m going to say that I’m for sure I’m going to clean up but I’m not cutting the right answer uh speaking of koviton uh do you think he’s gonna take the fight I hope so I already annoying the out of Dana and Hunter and pricey I heard about the tooth and I think it makes sense I think I do I do believe it makes sense and uh but if not I I give a I I I I give a whole plan if you’re not I go to London as a backup like if I match download like if I belong in London I didn’t get hurt I didn’t I want to see the stats on this fight because he didn’t touch me so yeah I want to say oh keeper didn’t get touch this I want to see like they do Hamza doing meet you I want to see the stats I didn’t get no nothing not even scratch it’s a funny one for me uh I want to light you against your your thoughts on the retirement of Shogun and Glover tonight yeah we said for sure I’m happy for your mouth here the guy got the opportunity to show up great fight but man those guys are legends to me you know especially Shogun rule but those guys did everything especially Pride champion UFC champion so many wars that I I can clear say so many fights that he had a war with with little nog in Japan with a we’ve uh they handed some couple times the guy is a freak so I’m a huge fan of sugar I hope he he has a good life right now he he should enjoy you know guy he was being a hero for everybody and in Clover brother Glover is a freaking monster I hope and I believe he’ll become a champion before 43 but he’s he was just a guy that like man I can do with you you know if I have to I hope not but he just opened the doors from opening my eyes and I saw I saw he training the whole week so so much respect and the generation for both Shogun and Glory that’s it is foreign foreign foreign familiar foreign foreign foreign PG wife’s economy page is 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nice obviously you’ve had to fight this guy so many times is it nice to have a performance like this where you can truly say like look I’ve gone out and I’ve proved I’m better than him for once you know yeah I mean a lot of people ask him ask me about that like hey what what can you change after three fights with the same guy and man so they all and I say this before like the only thing I can change is like be more I mean have more experience about this about this situation like use all my my new tools all the the new things I’ve been working with with my coaches I I really like that and I know it I I knew it if I can very I can keep my plan uh going around the Octagon you know in the middle of the fight I mean that I can do a performance like like tonight I know the coaching change wasn’t ideal but how good was coach saving your corner tonight and how much of an impact did he have I mean I mean he keep my mind on point like keep my mind like very focused very disciplined uh and I’m I’m very happy to to ask him on the corner obviously I mean everybody everybody knows right now the the thing with James I love him and hopefully like everything can be like very clear in the future in that aspect but I mean I’m so happy with with save and I mean he said he don’t want like like any credit but man thank you so much for this man he sacrificed a lot because I I think I wasn’t ready to do another change because I was in Kansas then every all that the bad thing happened I I came back to Vegas and I wasn’t ready to do another change so he decided to come with me every single every single like weekend or even before like more days than a weekend to start to work so I really appreciate it so maybe in the next one I need to go to to Dallas now with the the punch that started to finish right he grabbed his eye and suggesting his knife like to me it looked like a punch did you think I’ve definitely got I mean he’s faking or that I’ve heard him how did you feel when he saw his reaction man and I think that’s why the people was like very angry at the end Maybe but so I started replay actually the the guy he kicked me I passed the leg and I told the the hook the hook was clearman was click clear right in his uh right eye and then maybe that’s why the people’s a little confused because I pushed his hand with my uh his face with my hand but I mean my my hand was like in this position wasn’t here so I don’t know maybe that’s why the people was a little bit mad with me but what can I say man I mean they were mad with you but it also seemed like you kind of enjoyed running out with them throwing stuff wait what’s funny I I even I wasn’t expecting that I think at the end the people will be very happy with my performance but I don’t know I just I was just trying to enjoy the moment it was crazy how all the bodyguards was around me that like pushing me I throw the Bell to the floor like oh they have not all living there and they start to run again I went to with my training partner at the end so I was funny thank you first question uh how many Tequilas have you had already since the fight I need right now to fix that we we heard people saying that there was some kind of uh talk and altercation with pantosh after the fight backstage as I saw a video of you guys hugging each other how was this uh I got with him so yeah he came with me and he was very very friendly with me to be honest I when everything started he came with me and said hey man today I feel so happy for you congrats for the the Bell whatever and in that point everything was fine there he started to ask me hey but when is your fight like in two months three months tell me right now like like man like I don’t know to be honest you know uh and then he started to to he started to look a little bit aggressive to be honest but man my only point was like man just let me enjoy today man just give me today just let me have this moment with my with my friends with my training partners with my wife with my manager and then we can make another circus and do social media and the trash like if you want I don’t know but just give me this moment but it was my my only Point are you are you tired already just coming from this uh with uh figueredo and everything he was saying to you for all these years no I I think I think hopefully I don’t know but I I think with with Pantoja will be would be different I think right now he’s very excited because uh and he’s a little bit desperate to to get the the the fight for the title because with all these uh revalid with Davis and ferrell I mean we started in 2020 and we finished in 2023 it’s crazy I understand the the other challenge the only Challengers but man uh I’m ready hopefully nothing happened with my knee I don’t know but I’ll be ready in in a moment when I feel it Fantasia wasn’t a post-life show and he said he’s not impressed that he beats you twice already he’s willing to fight you in Mexico if that was the the UFC wants uh do you want to fight Max on X or do you want to fight in the US what what’s the the ideal scenario for you I think as a Mexican uh with a server a pay-per-view again in Mexico City uh right now I think we have an amazing position where Jerry Rodriguez is fighting in favor Alexa glass is fighting in March nothing is official yet but Irene aldana sounds like a really clear possibility for Amanda so I think this is the journey for the year for the Mexicans in you know in mixed martial arts so I’m excited and I for sure I want to go there and find a one for me what do you expect from figario to fighting at benzo where he announces he’s done with flyweets he’s moving up to 35 do you think he’s good enough to to win about there as well yeah I man I I say this before he’s man he’s huge he’s very very huge um obviously it’s not my decision um it’s not part of my team but I say this before I even like maybe you can feel much better if you move to 135 let’s see what happened in the future because the 135ers are huge too so let’s see what happened with him foreign location Moreno Nevada is foreign super comprendo FSA [Music] New York area foreign foreign foreign [Music] if Wiki emotional uh questions thank you [Laughter] inspirations right now here uh this event this night will forever be remembered by the night that you got the title back but also the same in the same night true Legends retired what do you have to say about Shogun Rua and globetera man they are like they are living legends man I mean let me let me tell you something so I’m I’m sorry this is sporting in 2006. so Pride for example was already like doing events and I don’t have never the opportunity to watch the fights of I don’t know this is all these ladies who was fighting their in dreaming in in Pride because I don’t have the uh first of all I don’t have like cable I don’t know like cable television cable I don’t know cable TV cable TV and I mean mixed martial arts in Mexico in that year was like doesn’t exist for nothing so after that when I’m starting to do the sport and I started to watch like highlights in in YouTube and that that stuff is when I start to meet the lanes like Shogun Rua now glorious and Shera I mean I love his boxing I think he’s still an amazing wire but I mean I don’t know I think they put all all his uh hair in this Sport and I mean I’m just like very grateful to share the octane with them tonight Brendan I would like to hear from you uh how was the experience of fighting in front of the Brazilian crowd we saw that after the fight the security team had had your back maybe afraid of something happened but I saw a video that you was like screaming and like maybe enjoying that that moment that moment not not screaming afraid of the situation just putting energy out you know how was that moment how was that moment for you oh man what’s crazy I mean first of all this experience I mean will be part of my of my mind forever I will be part of my nature since since today um I wasn’t expecting that to be honest you know I wasn’t I I was expecting like a little maybe more a lot from them I think they they are a little bit confused with the end of the fight because they think I poked the eye of Davidson but I mean they can they can see the replay I was a clear hook I talked to him and that’s a that’s called uh he’s closed his eyes but I mean they are very passionate you know and nothing nothing I’m just happy to to get the the Victory and man I have a lot of respect for the for the Brazilian fans and actually I love I love how they uh put a lot of respect of the Mixed Martial Arts of the fighters like maybe maybe they they don’t they don’t know you but they they see you on the street and they’re like it looks like like with some kind of respect and I really appreciate that Brendan which Fighters do you think will give you the most uh the hardest fights from now it’s like my future my next fight yes man so I I understand how’s the the line right now I think for sure Fantasia deserved the next the next fight for the title uh nikolao is doing an amazing job right now too uh Manila caved I think those three guys are are the next ones at the end I I don’t I don’t took the the decisions I’m just ready to fight and I’ll be ready for the for the guy uh UFC put me on the line in the front foreign services foreign Atlanta yeah we did it Joe let’s go hey come on [Applause] foreign