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the jurogan experience well you're not just the ufc champion you're one of the best champions it's very it's very unique to watch you fight because you're you're one of those people like anderson silva in his prime where you've kind of cleaned out your division you know and there's no disrespect to your opponents but some of your opponents when i'm watching you fight them i'm not thinking are they going to beat you i'm thinking what are you going to do to them that's it's a strange position to be in where you're almost like competing you're competing against these women but your level is so much higher than everyone else in this 125 pound division that there's just not much there for you in terms of like valentina has to fight this woman there's no fight like that for you i think that um definitely this is one of my goals in my uh performance in my training and um definitely is this is like what i uh the idea of my fight style to be able to win the fight made the fight very beautiful from the technical side very intensive very like just high level martial art but in the same time without do it like dirty fight like street fight just like different level when you can finish your opponent without them touch you so this is kind of like like ideally idea ideal well you can see how you sometimes impose the opponent's style on them it's almost like you're challenging yourself like the jessica andraj fight like in the coming of that fight most people thought the only way she would have any sort of advantage at all would possibly be grappling and so what did you do you outgrappled there like did you do that on purpose no no no no i don't know this is what i think it's no because uh maybe people just like was speaking about that so much so frequently before the fight maybe it's just stay in my like mind and was there but you know i never felt that
this is a position dangerous for me since the beginning since they're like i i know exactly uh what is my strengths i know exactly what is my power um that's why it never was a doubt would i be good there no i know what i can i know exactly uh what i have to be worried about what i have to worry about um in the fight i had i know that i have to be careful like to see everything because it's mma everything can happen you cannot just go there and say okay i'm a champion everyone has to fall down no you cannot you ca you have to be wild you have to be like a wild animal ready for anything and but in the same time you just you cannot overestimate your opponent because you are overestimate them it's gonna be like not interesting fight you're gonna be like uh just afraid of throwing anything and that's why it's you have to find the balance and the balance is everything where you are um like you can do whatever without any fear but in the same time very careful and um i know i never before the fight put some like challenges for me would i be good there would i be good like what i do like for the my next fight i train myself for the different situation and this is what we are working like and it's not just my work it's uh like teamwork pavel antonina we all watching our opponents and we share what we think about them what we have to be worried what we have to work on and through our training camps through trainings we just work on every possible situation and even for example i saw some situation in the fight what's happening like not with my opponent or like different completely different fight and we tried this situation we uh we try what how i will what i will do how i would escape or how i will finish from this situation so we just getting ready for anything and this is what i think helped me to take right decision during the fight because i don't have time to think about
what i will do next what my technique will be next in the fight it's everything happened like instantly and i have to be sure that my brain and my body ready to act well it's very clear that you have a very well-rounded skill set but it's also clear that when you're faced with particular challenges your preparation for those particular challenges almost puts you in a situation where you want to try like the julianna pena fight is a good example that right like you shocked the world when you arm barred her ever because everybody felt like if she had a chance to beat you it would be grappling and you as a muay thai champion if you had a chance to beat her would be your striking but then when you submitted her everybody was like holy like that was a wake-up call for a lot of people that you're not just well-rounded but you are capable of finishing everywhere that you're lethal everywhere yeah this is what uh every time was in my training my goals for the competition uh not just go there and compete but um go there and win doesn't matter what i have to do to win the fight i have to find the solution i have to find the way to win the fight and every time it was like my mindset i'm i don't like like um this idea just go and have fun in the fight i don't like idea just be there and like just to experience the feeling i think for someone it's good but if you have like higher goals for yourself you have to put higher goals like higher like things what you're thinking for this is in my head this is what i had since the beginning that uh no matter what happening i have to find solution to turn the fight to my side and wins the fight and definitely i was like i understood fighting in mixed martial arts i have to have more arms i have to have more advantages like um if we are comparing with the uh other fighter because uh more advantage you have it's kind of like um in the war right you have a handgun you have like a certain like percentage to win you have like uh more like arms in your like position you have more percentages so i want to have like 100 percent and uh percentage to be in the fight that's why
i was training like everything and like training not just pretend to do technique but know how to make people tap after this technique yeah so when you say more arms you mean more weapons right exactly watch the entire episode for free only on spotify