UFC 265 Press Conference | ESPN MMA

is an enormous specimen of a man undefeated he's got it all to the ufc 265 press conference from the toyota center in houston texas the home of this saturday's championship heavyweight headliner first up a rising contender from arizona and an accomplished judo black belt here is dana white contender series alum casey kenny kenny faces a promising young star from china a 23 year old who's already racked up three performance awards in the ufc welcome song moving on to the women's strawweight division one of the most active fighters in the sport who will fight anyone anytime anywhere looking to avenge the first loss of her pro career and show how much she's evolved in the sport here is angela overkill hill she faces the tiny tornado riding back-to-back winds and ready to recline the mountain into tidal contention here's a karate black belt please welcome tasha torres [Music] business picks up in the welterweight division in a must-see matchup between top six contenders number six in the world a brazilian mauler 20 wins 17 finishes fresh off his destruction of former champion tyron woodley this is the silent assassin vicente and his opponent a former ultimate fighter winner the grappling ace from the pacific northwest has found his home at 170 pounds with wins over carlos condit rafael del santos and neil magne here is michael the maverick [Music] kiasa moving on to a phantom weight scrap that promises to deliver an all-action brazilian fighter who's been awarded three fight of the night bonuses in his last four fights including a win over former champ cody garbrandt on saturday he looks to dethrone another former ufc champion this is pedro munoz there is no bigger star in brazilian mma than this man an octagon legend and sure fire future hall of famer the former featherweight king introducing jose aldo [Applause] [Music] and in the show closer the interim ufc heavyweight champion will be crowned a rising star from france is ready to paint a masterpiece inside the octagon this saturday he's an undefeated muay thai specialist who has dominated every ufc foe to date please welcome cyril gone [Music] and finally he is one of the most exciting and engaging fighters in ufc history the ufc's all-time knockout leader fighting in front of his hometown crowd prepping houston texas here is the black beast derrick [Applause] lois [Music] [Applause] what's up houston how are you guys we're back thank you guys we appreciate all the support here who's got the first question or uh derek derek uh obviously you you mentioned you know you kind of envisioned this moment fighting for the title in front of your city now you're here big stage you know crowds here what does it feel like right now at this moment to be in front of the was city you fought for the title and uh you fought for the title of course before in 2018. i'm just curious if there were kind of any lessons anything that you took out of that fight week or that experience that you can apply here to help you get over the hump this time around i'm just trying harder this time around you know [ __ ] i got to represent houston no elastic derek i know you said that you know you kind of see cyril as a boring fighter but is there anything that he does that's that's dangerous or that you're concerned with in this matchup no i'm not concerned with nothing you got [Music] cyril i'll ask you two i mean obviously a big moment in your career big stage big press conference what's what's your emotion like right now wow i'm a little bit nervous that's that's cool that's cool that's my first time but i'm okay i'm okay very nice big opportunity but uh honestly you have a child coming in a couple of weeks i'm wondering has this been a difficult time for you to focus on on the fight only when you know you've got big things happening in your family as well at first it was a little bit difficult but now i did my choice and now i'm really focused on my target and i hope just my my daughter gonna waiting for me nice and your last two fights very dominant wins but decisions um and you got some criticism for it so i'm curious do you feel like you can't just win here you've got to get a knockout or a big finish so people really look at you as a champion yeah some people like this this style but for me it's really not my style and when you look at guys like mayweather or some some some fighter like this nobody talk about this but like that but i'm a young fighter i'm going to do my way and the people are going to like me like i am maybe they won't boo you afterwards we'll see because if they wanted to ask you uh nine and one in your last ten you know but when people talk about the the title if you're not in that top level of names yet do you feel disrespected at all that maybe people aren't putting you in there with those other top fighters in the division man uh you know i don't really care about respect or not i care about my doing my job going out there putting on the best fights i can and i know the fans respect my fighting style that's what i'm gonna bring every single time and i think now i'm getting a great opponent michael's a tough guy coming off four wins so this is a big fight and i think one of us you know whoever wins is definitely going to be in that title picture [Music] and with that in mind do you feel like it's important again like not just to go out there and get a win but to go do something dominant like really make a statement here so that maybe they're talking about your name a little bit more man every every single time i got to do something dominant and that's what i do every single fight you know i go out there and throw everything i can i try to finish every single fight i think i've only one of my wins wasn't by finish so that's what i'm going to do saturday night that's what i'm going to do every single fight i get in there my god i'll ask you i mean longest win streak of your of your ufc career right now i mean it just seems like everything's clicking what what's the key to your success right now welterweight you know when i was killing myself to make 155 pounds now i'm able to train adequately absorb the knowledge more and took a lot of maturing as well i think that as i got older i kind of kind of just grew up a little bit and just kept myself a little more a little more humble and i think that that's really paid off i'm not i'm not focused on what comes next i'm not gonna let my pride get in the way i'm going to stay focused on the moment i'm going to stay humble maintain my humility and i think that's very important going into this fight that said you said i don't want to look forward i don't want to say what i'm guaranteeing anything but do you feel like it's important to not just get a win but to go out there because your last one was a very dominant win right but you didn't get the finish i know it's tough to finish neal maddie but you feel like you got to go out there and not just win but you have to get a finish to prove what you deserve uh winning is everything you know and a fight fight winstry could be great but like i said i'm not going to let my pride get in the way of me looking ahead at what comes after vicente luke i'm going to stay humble like i said i'm going to stay in the moment maintain my humility and just take it one day at a time and right now i'm just focused on making weight tomorrow i'm focused on stepping on the scales saturday it's the fight i'm not looking at anything beyond that eric over here on your right derek you said in the past that the belt doesn't matter but you're fighting at home you've never lost in houston how big of a pressure is it with the belt on the line and also fighting for these fans of course it's a little pressure because houston never had a heavyweight champion before so i want to be the first one i want to make history and they got to go down now why in the world would you take up a fight against this guy outside of the money knowing for the well that you've already beat francis and gono and that's the guy you're gonna fight after this so why would you take this fight it don't matter who it is they're all going to end the same way looking up at the lights thank you cereal bonjour sabah all right um on saturday you stand the chance to actually be the first ufc fighter to win for france how big is that going to be in the streets of charlotte elysee and sanderni to see you actually carry that bill you like my country yeah it's a big opportunity i noticed that [ __ ] too yeah yeah that's true yes it's a big opportunity for me i'm a young guy i have a young career and i'm the ufc put me on on on on the headline and uh i want to do this for me for my country for my team and for for my family for my fan and i want to do my best for this yeah now you're fighting a guy that's never lost a home you're the favorite in his city is there any pressure going in that fight no no no no pressure every time i i got a challenge on my own career every time more experience experimented guys uh every time sometime in canada it was in front of the old steel fan like that so no no no i'm okay with this situation uh question for angela i'm curious what's the biggest difference in the fighter you are today than the one who fought teisha last time hello what's up houston this is my first uh press conference this is kind of weird um i usually don't have makeup on when i talk to people but um i think uh the biggest difference is i'm just a better fighter now i'm more mature i've left the ufc come back stronger come back uh more educated on the ground educated in my striking game and my footwork um i'm just a better all-around fighter and i feel like my last six fights have proved that and um yeah we'll see what happens you said yesterday that you wanted to make sure this fight was exciting what do you have to do to make that happen on saturday um just put the pressure on uh try to hit her more than she hits me try to keep her stuck more than she can keep me stuck i think the main reason our first fight was born was because i didn't know how to get up i was i was even holding her on top of me so she couldn't hit me so like being more aggressive being more dominant we're both going to come at it so i'm ready to put it on at this time and for teisha have you seen improvements from angela that makes you feel that she'll be able to do that she'll be able to combat your wrestling i've definitely seen it well hello everybody hi [Music] i've definitely seen improvements in her you know it's been six years since we first start in this game you have to evolve unfortunately for her she's evolved and you know left ufc come back so she's a great fighter but do i think she's at my level no wherever the fight goes standing ground wrestling i'm going to dominate i don't think she has anything for me she's a tough fighter she's not going to be an easy win but i'm coming out victor victorious i got something for you don't worry i got something oh you got something for me i'm sure you do but thanks guys [Applause] wanted to ask uh start with casey and uh and song for a long time the lightweight division in the welterweight division the ufc was always kind of viewed as like the two top division but it feels like 135 uh has kind of emerged as maybe the best division in the ufc you know pedro and jose are out here too um casey do you think that that bantamweight has kind of eclipsed those divisions and now bantamweight is the number one division in the ufc yeah exactly you know it's been uh first time in history really the lightweight's got uh some respect and you know this is one of the best divisions in the ufc and that's the division i want to be a part of what about you song do you think that bantamweight is now the best division in the ufc yes it is thanks a lot i appreciate your brevity uh for vicente uh i know that if you beat if you beat michael on saturday night you'll be very close to a title shot but there's another guy that i know that you've talked about he's talked about you and that's nate diaz i was wondering if you win might you call out nate diaz on saturday night and i'm always down to fighting atheists uh i think that's the kind of fight that will always excite me will always you know make me train harder and yeah if that fight happens i said it before uh he likes five five five rounds we could go six rounds seven rounds how many rounds he wants and that's that would be a pleasure for me and would you want to do that before the end of the year do you think before the end of the year yeah i mean i i gotta focus on this fight first i got kiessa i don't know how i'm gonna get out of that fight if i'm gonna be healthy but if i am yeah i would i would fight this year again thanks vicente and i just wanted to go back to angelo and teach because i sent a little uh simmering tension between you guys i know it was very respectful for the first fight when you guys fought seven years ago but is there some is there a little personal tension going on right now between the two of you i don't take it personally i don't know is it personal teacher i don't think there's any tension but there's been comments that were made prior to me signing this contract for the second time um since i signed my contract it's been like crickets from you but prior to signing the contract you were talking about it so i just thought that was funny there was like two comments that you know one you said i was scared i fought all the champions at our weight class never scared one of them two you said i beat you pre usada well i've been tested by usada probably one of the most tested athletes and you thought for me it's a compliment thank you my body is beautiful i know you guys are you know i feel like when girls talk about me and talk about um how i look and want to say comments like pre usada post usada there's like they're jealous they envy me for my you know my awesome physique so um going into this fight with you post usada six years later i'm just gonna tell you right now you're getting the best of me the ooh it's like so exciting that i get in there and get to fight you it doesn't matter if it's you or someone else i'm just super pumped for this fight and like i said the comments that were made i just think are ridiculous but so shadow is personal um the main reason i haven't talked any [ __ ] since you signed a contract because that's the reason i was talking [ __ ] i was annoyed that you said i didn't deserve to fight you even though we were scheduled to fight i had to pull out unfortunately i got covered and when they tried to rebook it you said no so that's why i said that you were running and you know you haven't fought since you haven't fought you haven't been able to fight since so now that we're finally matched up there's no beef let's go let's go i don't know if it's love though like the whole scare thing i get but you talking pre-usado i beat you like that's some [ __ ] there like and why you started that [ __ ] all right how you started that [ __ ] yeah i've heard i've heard old teammates of you old teammates of yours confirmed that you were dope and that's why they kicked you out of the gym but that was a long time ago i've never been kicked out of any gym so i don't know that was a long time ago hey no there's no long time ago it's okay that's a yes yes there's some tension there's definitely tension dj dillashaw has a juice bar it's all right nobody cares if you're doping it i can okay okay just one last question for dana um there's a rumor uh that that cm punk of course ufc veteran cm punk coming back to pro wrestling i'm not sure if have you spoken with him recently have you have you guys had a chat at all cm punk you no no i haven't is he still under ufc contract that i don't know i don't know that off the top of my head but obviously if he's going to go back to wrestling he's more than welcome to do that got it thank you guys i'll do what [Applause] [Music] um [Music] so uh there's an interview recently from you in which you mentioned that you actually went too hot and heavy for the title when you actually moved to division and you decided to go more step by step does this mean step by step right now and then does pedro munoz in your way does that mean you're going step by step towards [Music] that's how i feel i actually feel that i went kind of hard heavy for it i went too straight at the title and i do feel that right now this fight means i'm going step by step and that's what we want i'm looking for the title [Applause] although the position is um a lot has been said as well as you being a complete fighter and becoming a more complete fighter you've actually proven in the past categories actually previous fights that you've been a champion in other categories are you a more complete fighter now is your ground game improved [Music] a lot of my last rights before were standing up and a lot of striking and we've always talked about being a more complete mma fighter really being an mma fighter and that's what we're looking for actually become more complete in the process and pedro basically you because it can be said that you're going the opposite way as he's doing instead of going step by step and going straight for a former champion to just go straight a shot yes uh so first should i respond in portuguese and english i'm gonna respond in english for this school right here what's up houston [Applause] first of all i'm very excited to be back and fighting in front of the crowd you know this is something that i always enjoy because that type of fight that i always bring to the table very entertaining you know so uh i was missing actually the crown you know uh my last my last five fights three fights of the night so you know i'm very excited to fight jose aldo like i say in the previous interview you know he's a hello fighter and i take like jose aldo was saying i take step by step you know and uh every ev every time umc offer me a fight i'm always say yes you know i you know a type of fighter that i'm always ready to go anytime and saturday's gonna be a firework that's right in portuguese [Music] [Music] um you fought in the previous two fights you've actually fought champions twice once knocking one out and once losing by decision um can you say with two questions right now one is could you say that this is was the most important fight that you have with um gizelle and also is he the biggest name yeah when i fought cody he was definitely a big name back then you know the fight that was knowing that the biggest knock house power in the division so it was definitely a a big step up for me in the division when i fought frankie edgar you know i uh i was just rushing there to knock him out five rounds i was right on top of him and definitely aldo is is another big name very popular in brazil you know people champ you know so it's something that i admire a lot and i'm very excited and i'm very excited for this opportunity uh and answer your question it could be one of the biggest names that i have that i'm gonna fight go ahead this question is for derek derek obviously you're beloved here in the city of houston what specifically about your personality your fighting style though do you think makes you so beloved not just here in the city but throughout the country in the world as well [ __ ] it's probably because i'm real i'm not fake like everyone else is in the sport i speak my mind i don't care what you think of me i'ma still speak my mind no matter what what are your plans for after the fight here at houston um we're going to little woodrows sunday sunday buy me five shots you already know i'm not buying you [ __ ] so come on out oh jesus this question's for dana uh where's amanda dana where's amanda at she has covey it's it's not too late to get it here i heard that she tested negative oh yeah i didn't know that you didn't even know that soon honey you will be fighting soon get back enjoy the fights this weekend and you will be fighting very soon when i heard december is that true i don't know if that's true or not all right let's see we'll see how this plays out soon as soon as we can make it we'll make it all right thanks all right thank you good to see you how excited are you to come to h-town and beat your opponent in front of his of his own fans [Music] how excited are you to come to h town and beat your opponent in front of his own fans yeah no no no no i'm really excited i really i'll say enforcer i'm really excited about this fight i'm really excited about this wide and if tomorrow i win uh i'm gonna be pride and i'm just gonna be pride i'm i'm a simple guy yes of course i want to win i want to beat derek of course i want to do the show for the fan i want to finish the fight before the end and i want to have the belt go to the next step and i want to this all of this for me for my family for my country that's it what would be the next step because the next step would be probably your former uh partner training partner exactly exactly but i don't want to talk to my fight again directly with at the moment i'm really focused on what i get and that's it derek uh how would it feel to get bit by a frenchman in front in front of your fans [Applause] you gonna have to excuse my french but [ __ ] you and [ __ ] him we remember that on saturday night write that [ __ ] down take a picture i don't give a [ __ ] all right thank you houston we're gonna rip this stuff out of here and uh square these guys for some photo op we'll see you at the weigh-ins thank you hey dana [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] huh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [ __ ] you guys [Applause] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] okay [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that's good thank you thank you [Music] so when i started my career in the mma was really fast after only uh six months in the mma i did my first fight take care for the belt [Music] after only three years i'm fighting for the belt in the ufc this is a anatomy belt but this is my ticket for the champion francis in ghana to me i'm going out there to fight for the rear belt it's not intern champion i believe it's the rear belt because we are fighting in my city so i'm all about the belt now baby let's go you will see the black beast come out of me making his way to the octagon heavyweight contender derek the black beast lewis he has that break your face open type of power one shot from derrick lewis can put you to sleep [Music] he might be the biggest power puncher in mma he hits so lewis hard it again with the knockout he's got a dozen tied for the most in ufc history this is the most important fight in my career we're coming straight at 100 it's going to be new heavyweight champion of the ufc i think all the fun in that in houston waiting for a knockout from derek lewis but instead i'm going to give a good master class to very close it's been hard to find a point of comparison for sedogan in the ufc's heavyweight division given the way he moves oh i mean that was so fast such a big man the speed of him we rarely see a guy that moves so lightly on his feet and a guy who's so technical he's looking for the heel hook wow this guy can do it all whether that be heel hooks take down wrestling but we're using his poi tie on the feet oh god flattens junior dos satos and that is it this guy really is the limit for this guy absolutely dominant my goal for this sport put my name on the history of the ufc i just want to be one of the best in this world [Music] he's well-rounded and it looks pretty when he do you know but i got that right hand if i touch him one time i know he's going to fold like a french fry and i'm just laying them out with something i like this i like the contact i like this violet i like that you can expect a big firework let's go you

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Published: Thu Aug 05 2021