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so here’s Half-Life was even in London how’s London been treating you so far for five weeks oh London is good but cold a little bit after Thailand yeah staying all right good this is uh I mean this is a fight that you’ve been looking at for a while right I mean to just just to be here I mean London’s great and everything but even embedded you’re like I’m not thinking about London I’m thinking about Justin gaichi I mean how excited are you just to have this fight here uh very excited because uh or in all my UFC career I want to fight in England because I see like England English fans is like it’s screaming a lot they love the fan you know and also fight with Justin I waiting this a lot I ask this a lot I make a lot of stories a lot of something you know in Instagram about Justin and I make him sad little bit Yeah but I’m happy and excited I’m happy now I have this opponent and uh Big Challenge I like I love challenges did you say you made him sad a little bit I didn’t yeah for sure for sure because like because I make couple of video like in Instagram about him and Conor yeah and they’re like that’s why I think a little besides do you feel like uh you basically feel like you worked to get this fight like you had to go out there and really really call for this fight otherwise it wouldn’t have happened yeah yeah that’s uh that’s that’s what I’m talking that’s what I talk you know I’m I’m told a little bit bad in Instagram yeah and uh but this this is what I need to do with this with him because I understand he now have opponent he now have opponent he makes surgery like same time a nice I make surgery like same day I think and I understand like he ready for fight same same date and I’m and I and me too that’s why I’m calling him a lot yeah we have it do you think at the end of the day this is a fight that he didn’t really want um I don’t know I think he he’s on the level where you you just keep doing what you’re doing he just he just going and uh and that’s it you know I don’t think he he don’t wanted this fight but of course he wanna he won like something like more more famous somebody somebody like McGregor or some I don’t know but but still I don’t think like attacking me or this or something like that do you think that could be an advantage for you though that this is a fight that you really want and I think this was a kind of a fight that he he had to take basically do you think that that’s an advantage for you um I don’t think so I don’t think so um because uh he’ll he’ll he have big experience and I have and I for me for me I’m just happy I’m just happy and uh happy like never yeah and uh it’s it’s motivated me a lot it’s motivated me a lot because uh I see a guy who I watch his career all his career in UFC and uh yeah this it is so nice to make highlights you said on embedded that you’re looking forward to smelling his blood and then eating his heart you just kind of talk about the mindset that you have coming into this fight and is it the same for everyone or is this one a little bit it’s always the same it’s always the same I I always try to I always wanna want to smell blood in my opponent and smile his heart and eat his heart yes all the same goal in a fight he said on the bed that he he and he is he has talked about this before that he likes to take opponents to a dark place do you feel like you’ve been to a dark place in a fight have you had that moment in your UFC career or your your MMA career have you been to like that dark place I already have it before I already have it before in my career it’s it’s nothing yes and I already have somebody like Hotel talk like this before before my fight it was him um I’m I’m happy for him he want to do it because I wait like hard fight from him I wait like strong jousting I wait uh Justin who wanted to kill me and uh just make me happy do you think uh do you think the fight will be like that do you do you expect this fight to be really back and forth or do you see this as potentially something that you can run away with and really make a statement that like I’m much just better than this guy yeah yeah I’m just I’m just better than this guy and uh whatever he do wherever he try some if you try something I I have key for everything what you what he want to do for me I know that a lot a lot of different things can happen in the division we need to see what happens with the Neil Darius and um and Charles Oliveira but do you kind of feel like if in your gut do you feel like this is your last stop before title fight um I I don’t think now about it when you when you when you have Saturday like after a couple days you have a fight I don’t I don’t think about belt now but but um if you have seen give me give me give me title shot after this fight I’m more than happy if if not if not if I give to Darius okay I’m 30 years old I have I have time I have time for for going for going to this title I I take it for sure thanks for watching ESPN on YouTube for live 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