00:00:00.000you feel fear while you're going into the rink or at that point you're not when you are in backstage
00:00:05.100you feel that you feel fear backstage of course adrenaline right here of course you do everyone
00:00:10.440does it everyone how do you deal with it how do you deal with it i i use it like uh from a positive
00:00:17.740way i use it from like i don't know the first thing that happens where you are in backstage
00:00:27.080you you might you might used to take you to to the octagon and in reality you are in the backstage
00:00:33.660and i'm like listen right now i'm with with my people wrapping my hands warm up i don't know
00:00:40.340whatever i'm doing but i'm not fighting with with anyone so don't worry about anything just
00:00:46.140save that energy because you are going to need that that concentration that focus inside the octagon
00:00:52.480so if you are able to don't let your mind to travel to the future you are ahead of of your
00:01:01.020opponents when you're backstage and your anxiety goes is there anybody you want around you that
00:01:06.660brings you down no or is it like your brother calms you down is it a coach that calms you down
00:01:12.920you just want to be left alone to yourself to have the conversations in your mind yourself
00:01:16.700myself nobody else nobody else i just go i watch myself in the mirror and i'm like this is the
00:01:23.200the person you have to beat the person in the mirror yeah this is the person yeah this is the
00:01:28.220person yeah are you listening to any music or no i don't like whatever like oh i play the music
00:01:35.580someone from my team plays the music i don't have any uh
00:01:39.800i don't know how to say it in english ritual supersticiones oh supersticiones got it you're
00:01:47.360not superstitious yeah you're not at all not so you will step on a line you won't step over a line
00:01:52.860you're not if you touch something you won't have to touch it three times exactly you're not like that
00:01:56.800no no no no really no not at all why not that's interesting because i don't like to to depend on
00:02:04.140anything i'm like you wake me up at four o'clock you tell me that i gotta fight with someone i do it
00:02:12.500i don't care so that's why it's like i don't need my shorts if i don't have my shorts i have a bad
00:02:20.660lack or if i'm not wearing this or he's not able to come to watch my fight or whatever i don't know
00:02:27.940nothing you're that ice cold nothing mentally you're that ice cold they call that ice cold that's
00:02:33.800great i don't know nothing gets through nothing i can walk like i can go alone like just imagine
00:02:41.560that my coaches can come with me but my brother can come with me no one and i have to go alone
00:02:48.100no problem can anybody get under your skin does anybody get under your skin you know what that
00:02:55.300means like you know what i'm saying like somebody that knows to say something that triggers
00:03:01.300they see your face is saying something though
00:03:03.960i think the only person is my wife probably
00:03:09.320she's the only person no one else i think seriously i think so that's very good yeah you know because
00:03:19.660um you know that that is that is a a big strength of a lot of uh great ones were like that some of it
00:03:28.080you wanted it some people wanted like michael jordan's was he he wanted you to say something
00:03:34.360to him yeah and he would convince himself that you said something about him really bad and then he
00:03:39.420wanted to kill you that's what michael would talk about you know yeah but at the end end of the day
00:03:44.340he was playing basketball right and i have enough of that energy that i want to i want to go in and
00:03:50.560take his head off you know i'm fighting what are you telling yourself when you're looking at your
00:03:55.180opponent are you telling anything yourself about the opponent right before the fight or no before
00:03:59.180the fight no i'm just telling to myself that i need myself called to be calculated this is how i need
00:04:05.560myself emotions underground i don't need my emotions at that moment who taught you this who shared this
00:04:13.760with you who is it a mentor a coach somebody that book or brother or family or no it's just you
00:04:20.580maybe i read it somewhere because i used to read a lot of books but it was like i always had that kind
00:04:28.860of mentality and also i i proved it that it was working for me in the in the fights so all the time
00:04:37.180i go in i'm like my emotions are under zero underground i'm very calm yeah because you know when you when
00:04:47.620you think about rituals right like you're saying superstitious i remember uh back in the days
00:04:52.200diego sanchez i don't know if you remember the he's one of my favorite guys to watch yes yes yes
00:04:58.860and he was just fire young exciting uh uh ali used to predict rounds i'm gonna beat you in this round
00:05:06.740right tyson used to look at the person in the eyes until the person looked away like he wanted to kind
00:05:11.200of do that tyson fury would sing after the fight and he would like to sing for uh the fighters manny
00:05:17.680pacchia would take ice showers ice cold showers and pray before the fight there was another guy
00:05:21.980uh uh uh lioto or something lioto machado where he would drink urine before a fight i don't know if
00:05:28.680you've heard this or this or not very weird stuff that you think about before fights you don't have
00:05:33.140no rituals like that no ritual i i used to pray of course i used to pray and i used to yeah i used to
00:05:40.440pray this is what i do all the time i wake up in the morning i pray and i feel thankful about
00:05:47.560everything that's happening to me for the opportunity and i thank the gods before i'm getting the victory
00:05:54.360i'm i'm i'm thinking to him like thank you for the victory as a kid did you watch something a lot like
00:06:01.820are you you know do you link your mindset to like a rocky did you watch gladiator were you a movie
00:06:09.240person did you watch somebody as a fighter coming up did you aspire to be somebody did you look up
00:06:14.360to someone what was it for you as a kid as a kid my my coaching in greg romo wrestling he used to
00:06:21.980say it like this like you were you were you win the medals in the training you just go to collect them
00:06:30.280in the in the fight so this like my mentality i think so i work so hard i know everything that i did that i did everything that i could and there's no way that i'm not gonna walk out from that octagon with the victory this how i feel
00:06:49.400really what's the one fight where you got a call for a fight i think it was two weeks out
00:07:00.040where you got kicked on the side who who was that the the and jai herbert that's right jai herbert and
00:07:06.040i think even rogan talks about this where yeah he explains where you got kicked and you know and then
00:07:13.000everybody's like oh my god this thing's done with and then boom boom boom it's over with yeah right your
00:07:18.040opponents who you've gone up against who have you fought where you sat there and when they hit you
00:07:24.600obviously let's just say he's one of them who hits you where you felt the pain or you saw their technical
00:07:30.200skills to say this guy's legit this guy's very capable your opponents people you've gone against
00:07:36.920the last two opponents i had wolk and max holloway they both were very skillful what was different about max
00:07:44.360versus vogue what was the difference between max and wall good question i never thought about that