New Pound-For-Pound king Islam Makhachev answered questions from UFC’s McKenzie Pavacich following his main event …
Mackenzie pavsage here in Perth joined by the lightweight champion of the world Islam mahasha following his first successful title defense now Islam I want to start this a little differently I want to show you your reaction when they were reading the scorecards because it’s rare that we see this amount of emotion from you say you win four three rounds don’t worry when I ask them just they Arena it’s so crazy that’s why I just try to hear what the and when he say and still I just was like very happy you know because I did Long Camp hard work and I was happy you know you went from being in just four months you went from a title Contender to the champion and now the number one pound for pound fighter in the world it seems as if you’ve always believed that you were anyway but how good does it feel to finally sit up top you know I always know Me Myself and Habib we best in the world because I don’t know some people training like us you know we’re training so hard changing every day morning evening all the time away in the gym like from this fight I don’t have many days many weeks for the recovery for rest I’m gonna still improve I did many mistakes I’m gonna improve improve always and now I am best fighter in the world and people I know want to take this but I don’t want to give some change to anybody when you have a career that has very few losses you just won loss and you’ve reached the Pinnacle you are the champion how hard is it for you to find ways to challenge yourself I like Challenge and I need real contenders I need real fight plus my like how many fights I was like it was easy but this fight five rounds I show good skills my striking skills and I improve a lot from this fight was there anything that Alex did that really surprised you today nothing surprised because I know it’s it’s gonna be tough fight because Alex real real you know strong guy short but strong and he’s a best fighter in the world he was but you know that’s why I’m not prepare myself for the easy fight that’s right good experience he was the best fighter in the world now that is you when you think of what is best for you are there any names that come to mind that would challenge you as much as Alex did just don’t give me like fake contenders I need real real who deserve I need real contenders you know guys who are talking about I don’t need this fake contenders give me real upon it and last I didn’t want to bring this up because it’s less about you and more about Habib but how was this fight week this fight camp with Habib not in your corner we just called him I told him it was hard fight but if you come to help me it’s not not same you know and he said I’m sorry congrats but it was good experience for you excited to see where we go from here thank you very much congratulations