September 13, 2024 • 18 mins
Alexa Grasso makes her DEBUT on the Daniel Cormier Check-In ahead of her title defense at UFC 306 in the Sphere vs. Valentina Shevchenko! Grasso GOES IN ON why she has one major advantage over Valentina headed into this historic event in Las Vegas. Alexa GOES IN ON her rivalry with Valentina, and why there's no questions she won their previous fight. Plus, Alexa talks about how much it means to her to fight at Noche UFC on the week of Mexican Independence, and what makes Mexican fighters so exciting. Catch Grasso, Shevchenko, Sean O'Malley and Merab Dvalishvili headline UFC 306 this Saturday at the Sphere! #Volume #Herd
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (01:51):
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Speaker 1 (01:54):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Alexa Grossel defends her championship this weekend against Valentine's Chowchenko,
stopping by so trilogy fight, first female trilogy fight in
the history of the UFC. What does that mean to you?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It means a lot. You know, we've been showing like, uh,
tons of skills, heart and toughness, and you know, I'm
I'm super excited for this to be part of the
history of first Mexican female champion, first trilogy and women's image,
you know, be able to submit Valentina like one of
the tough and most amazing fighters in the world. And
(02:28):
it it means a lot. You know.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You when you came up from one to fifteen, right,
no one expected this because at one fifteen you were
a very good fighter, you weren't the world champion. What changed?
What changed from that move up to one twenty five?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Mm? Well, I think it changed a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
My body change. I was super young when I started
in the UFC was like like a big change in
my life, you know, being in the UFC, like the
big screen, the big lives, big huge of everything, and
I don't know, I just uh. Also, my body changed
a lot, you know. I was super think when I started,
and then every Friday come as I noticed I was
stronger and stronger, stronger. I even I don't know if
(03:09):
like for females at twenty five years, you know, but
your bott to change, the heaps your arm like something changed.
I don't know, but something changed. I'm I'm I'm aware
of that. And I did the measures in the PI,
and you know, they have like the body weight of
every single athlete and I was, you know, they say like, hey,
I said, but you were kind of fly weight and
I was like, oh, like, how how are you doing
(03:31):
one fifteen? And well, yeah, I mean, don't you wanna try?
And I said, yeah, I'm gonna try and talk with
my team. The PI also helped me, you know, we
had this uh uh big support from them, and you know,
it was a great change in my life. I felt
so good. I was able to live more weight because
I was, you know, trying to not to eat that
much to be small. I was eating more than I
(03:53):
was bigger, and I was able, you know, to let
my body, you know, to be stronger. And I think
it changed a lot. And I also started to where
you know, we often work a lot of Howard buddies,
but sometimes in my with you too much. And I
started with a mental coach with Aleta, and it helped
me so much. And I don't know, I just think
I did everything, you know, better than before. I started
(04:15):
to read more, I investigate, you know, everything that I
was able to to do. I started to look for champions.
Why do they do, how did they train, how did
they leave? What do they think? And I don't know.
I just think I just started to know to nutrite myself.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
On that two years in a row. Now you fall
on Mexican Independence Day. That's a big deal because for
a long time that fight always went to superstar Mexican
fighters as Canelos fighting this weekend also, but you have
done it now two years in a row. Last year,
I gotta be honest with you, it was one of
my favorite nights in the year because the music was
fucking great.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I heard you were going it.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Was awesome, like the whole time. The music was great,
the energy was great. What does it mean to you
to headline this car.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well, it means a lot of Last year was like
kind of the test they wanted to sell do to
see how this worked, you know, and also the part
of the people. You know, Mexican people did amazing passionate.
They're so passionate. They love, you know, their athletes, they're like,
you know, they're so so nice. They pray for us.
You know, we do a lot of things that stand
a lot of big nice energy and also the fighters.
(05:22):
You can notice that, you know, even dan And said,
like the Mexican heart, they are always going forward, doesn't
you know what? They are always chasing and chasing, trying
to kill the rope on. And we're not pointing, scarring,
We're not no, we're you know there. I wrote a
guill Ins this this is I think it's important, you know,
for combat sports because I mean, excuse who does not
like to was you know, a big war and I
(05:44):
think that's that's great.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
The crowd was crazy, the music was just so. It
felt like I had a couple of Kingsgaros in my life,
and I had a Kings in Europe. I have a
gym right in Gilroy, California, which is heaviest Spanic community
and best Mexican food outside of I had a place
one time in Mexico that was really good, but I
(06:07):
take up my wrestling match, built a dance floor and
had a little girl's keeps and euro best time ever.
She's one of the wrestlers on my team. Had her keys,
Inerra at my you had keys in her?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
No idea it I didn't have, But why my my didn't?
My parents didn't have money at that moment. I mean
it was like you have to spend like it's like
a wedding kind of yeah, like a big draft, big party.
I mean we were not able to let's do one.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You got money, now, let's do you why it's over.
But it was like it was like the funniest night.
It was so awesome. But fighting with Mexican Independence Day
is a big deal to you, but fighting for the championship.
Ask the matamore, how different is it for you that
two years ago going into that fight, it wasn't after
(06:59):
thought that you gonna be another victim. Voltehill is continue
to dominate like she was, but today so many feel
like she's up against it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well, I trained so hard since I moved to the
flyway division, even that I was training for my open,
and she was always a goal. You know, she was
always I was starting her, I was watching her fives,
I was watching her style. You know, she was always
the goal. And every single fight that was improving. You know.
I had, you know, my first takedown in my first
flyw division fly and I was able to control, you know,
(07:28):
to do different things. In the second fight, I was
able to almost meet her a little to punch to be.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I was at.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Fifteen, then ten, then five, and then I was, you know,
getting better, and that took me for the championship time.
So I was radio was training super hard. I t
I started her like doing really what a.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Video of you getting ready for that kick? And then
she does that kick. That was a crazy I I
it's so weird when stuff like that happened. You remember
when mas Vidal jumped and need been asking and he
was practicing it. It's always weird when that happened. So
to see it coming fruition was crazy. And I remember
calling that fight and being so surprised. But it wasn't
like she says she made a mistake in the fight.
(08:10):
When you watch the fight, you were winning the fight, right,
is it just was it just a mistake that I
allowed for you to win that first fight?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Well, the first round definitely, I was, you know, touching
her the bugs and then she realized that. So the
second and third she wanted to keep it to the
ground and I said, okay, you don't want to strike
with me. So I was, you know, in the first
round when she did the spinning keg and the spinning yevel,
I was not in the good arrange for taking her back.
But I knew that she was gonna do do it
(08:40):
again because she's always going back, back back, and yeah,
because she's a counter striker. And I was just waiting,
you know, for that moment. I knew that every time
I was teaching her, she was doing something crazy and
like to trying to take me down, or she was
to go in to spin because you always do that.
You know, I've watching all her fights and she doesn't
like you know, these changes, and you know, I was
just ready and prepare for that moment. I knew that
(09:01):
she was gonna spin. And I also did that with
Joan Color because shed that too, and you know, I said, Okay,
these work, so I'm gonna do it again. So I
took with my coach and said, yeah, I mean we
could try that. We have a lot of things to
do on the fight and and yeah, I mean it work.
And I trained that really cold Joe every single day,
and there were days that my arm were burning and
(09:22):
and I said, my god, please don't do please don't anymore.
He said one more. Well, well, he was trying to
make me submit every of my fighting. Oh my god.
And it's really nice because I trained, like I don't
know how many times at that situation and.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It worked for it to work really well. Second fight
much closer. She's insistent that she won the fight. When
you go back and watch that fight, how do you
look at it, like was it as close as people think?
Or do you feel like you did what you needed
to do?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I mean, I think I won the fight. You know
it was all come to the fourth round, yep, because
I mean it was uh first for her, second for me,
s third for her. In the fourth round, she said
that if you watch a new accounting video, then you
have like a a bigger few view of the knees.
Her hand was not on the ground when I touched her,
(10:09):
like all the knees, and in the postfire interview, she
was saying, those needs hurt me, those needs. I felt
those knees like she really was saying, like I thought,
she caught me, of course, and if you can measure
the damage of those knees to take them the submission
attempt that that round was completely mine. And on the
fifth round, of course, she was jabbing and she was
running all the time. But she didn't want to change
(10:32):
with me. She didn't want she didn't want and when
I was able to stay there, it was even if
it was one thirty min one minute and thirty seconds,
I was on her back. I was punching. I was
trying to submit her, even if it was like I
sure amount of her, but I was doing a lot
of damage and I was trying to finish her. The
third round, yeah, she got my back, but if you
can see I was punching her. She was not trying
(10:53):
to submit me. She was just you know, staying there.
And this is something that she surely does. She always
just to stay alight to put control time. Yeah, but
I'm not you know, I'm always trying, you know, to
move to do to do something. I was watching her.
I was I think it was to to to the
fourth and in the fifth round, I mean it was
(11:14):
completely mine because I mean at the end of them,
will almost have made her her I punch her and
I was doing a lot of damage on the ground.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Hound. You know, you too have had some tremendous fights.
What is it about your style, Alexa grosseol style that
proves to be so difficult for her because with everybody
else she just kind of beat them up, right, But
(11:41):
you you don't make the mistakes at most make against her.
Your boxing is always really good, your hands are always
where they're supposed to be. You never overextend on your combinations.
It seems as though you don't leave her the openings
that she usually takes advantage of. Are you guys really
making conscious decisions to limit the amount that you're throwing
(12:05):
or you just know that your style fits valienteer that
shows she ain't going you can beat her.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I mean, I think it's my style because I love
I love the change. I love through embrays. I love
to be there. I love, you know, to help, Like
I don't care if I could get punched on the face.
I don't know. I don't care if she kicks me.
I can't handle you know, damage, And I'm not scared,
you know, I'm more. I don't care if you you
know the thing I was scared that was most about,
uh caught in my head or in my face and
(12:31):
it haven't and I didn't feel it, and it was like, oh,
and did I just fell in? And it was oh,
but now I like when you uh get over your
fears and do you realize that you can handle like
more and more and it doesn't matter like anything. Just
don't be afraid. Just you know, go there, you know,
try to do your best because she's always just waiting
(12:52):
and just counter attacking. Yeah, if you pressure pressure pressure
pressure pressure. I mean there's something that I do all
the time. I mean my fight I go go, go, go,
go go, and my cardio and my resistance and like everything,
I put a lot of power in there. And I
think the the the thing that I did different wh
was that you know, to just go and be yourself
(13:14):
and punch and use your boxing and if it goes
to the ground, like go to the ground, it's okay.
Like I mean, I I was excited to fight with her,
like honestly because she has a lot of white tie
and kickboxing tournaments and championship and I consider myself as
a good striker, but you know, winning or test yourself
with someone who had a lot of com Yah, Yes,
(13:37):
was exciting for me. But since she does not want
to test, you know, on the striking inside, it says
a lot to me. And well right now, I mean,
if she wants to go to the ground, we're gonna
go to the ground.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Do you think that she'll engage you more on the
feet this weekend.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I hope, So I hope that would be happy. You know.
I I admire some longified between Wayley and Johanna. Yeah,
and honestly, I wouldn't like, you know, I dream with
having a fight like that. Well we're we're like all
the time going forward, you know, I don't know. I
I will love that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well took it? Why did it take so long? Why
haven't you fought since you guys fought last year.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well, first, because we both uh broke our hands and
in the fight, we both needed surgery. I mean it
was tough surgeries for both of us. I just heard
that she had twice, you know, in in the hands.
So it talks about like how hard that surgery was.
My hand was hurt too. It is my hand, you know,
(14:34):
like yeah, my my strongest, my strongest web one. And
I think that first because uh, we we wanted to
make the the fighting there. But I mean we were
both you know and like man, I can't hit and
she she couldn't do that too. And because it was
a drug, this this is the fight that had to be.
(14:56):
So then they told us like, hey, we have this,
uh we would like to repeat what you will stand
or it's kind of like kind of big lea, but
we would love you guys to be there. And we
were like, okay, well, I mean I I can't say no.
I can't say no to you, say to my boss
and I'd say of course. And then they had this
idea of uh being the ultimate fighter coaches.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Did you like that? The ultimate fighter?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I mean it was different. It w it was. I
mean not that I didn't like it, but it was different.
I think it could have been different if I teach women,
because they were men, they were bigger, they were like
champions in their leaves in their countries and like to
be coach or teach by a girl like it's like
gonna uh, you know, it's weird. At the end, they
(15:44):
called me coach and it was really nice. You know,
I was I I made myself part of the team
instead of being like they were the isn't do that now?
I just made myself part of the team, like be
the friend, like be there to support, like let me
know what you wanna do, and we wanna do that
like n because they are professionals and I unders do that.
I can't tell them what to do because they know
what to do, right, now, and I don't know it
(16:06):
was it was a different experience.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
With Valentina, like being around Valentina for so long.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I've been we're professionals. We we tried our best to
make you know, the production and and the crowdises of
their job. Uh. We were there to make the guys shine.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
You know, you know, what does Saturday look like?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Like?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
What is your ideal way for this fight to play
out and end?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Wow, it's gonna be a huge, huge event. It's gonna
be different. I was able to be there in this
sphere to watch. It's gonna be different.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You know, I've never I've never been in there.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
It's it's gonna be different because it's a big, big
screen like in here, and all the crowd's gonna be
just one side. So now I'm focusing that, Okay, I'm
just gonna hear a crowd from one side. I don't know.
It's different and it's challenging too, because it's different from
everything that you have fought before. And I just hope
that you know, we can do like the best war ever.
(17:02):
It's gonna be the first women trilogy. It's gonna be
like the most higher revality of girls and you know,
I'm just happy and extremely how they said, proud to
be competing at this level with someone like her.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You know what Gilroy is. You've heard of Gilroy before?
Gilroy California. Have you ever heard of that place? Oh?
I thought you heard of it. Hey, do you remember
Ian Lario's the chef. He works for Jelly Role. Now
you know Jelly Roy is the singer, the big country guy,
kind of fat country singer. He's like Ian's on.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Tour traveling the world.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He's really good. But I mean, what fucking he and
Larrios is traveling the world with a celebrity. He was
at all the books delicious.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And good cooking all day last week and this week
for us. I mean, I'm eating a delicious the week
of my life, you know, all the year. I don't
know these two week they are so professional, they know
what when, how much much I have to give you,
and the taste of the food they do.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It doesn't feel bad, it doesn't feel it doesn't make
the way.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I'm so good a way And I was a I
think Sunday I ate a homebringer and I was like,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
This is that's the best there he is right there
you're also doing great work on the commentary. You do
a tremendous job, guys. Alexa Grosso fights UFC three or
six this weekend. She defends her title for the third
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Speaker 2 (01:51):
Thank you for checking in with me, champe I think
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Alexa Grossel defends her championship this weekend against Valentine's Chowchenko,
stopping by so trilogy fight, first female trilogy fight in
the history of the UFC. What does that mean to you?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It means a lot. You know, we've been showing like, uh,
tons of skills, heart and toughness, and you know, I'm
I'm super excited for this to be part of the
history of first Mexican female champion, first trilogy and women's image,
you know, be able to submit Valentina like one of
the tough and most amazing fighters in the world. And
(02:28):
it it means a lot. You know.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You when you came up from one to fifteen, right,
no one expected this because at one fifteen you were
a very good fighter, you weren't the world champion. What changed?
What changed from that move up to one twenty five?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Mm? Well, I think it changed a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
My body change. I was super young when I started
in the UFC was like like a big change in
my life, you know, being in the UFC, like the
big screen, the big lives, big huge of everything, and
I don't know, I just uh. Also, my body changed
a lot, you know. I was super think when I started,
and then every Friday come as I noticed I was
stronger and stronger, stronger. I even I don't know if
(03:09):
like for females at twenty five years, you know, but
your bott to change, the heaps your arm like something changed.
I don't know, but something changed. I'm I'm I'm aware
of that. And I did the measures in the PI,
and you know, they have like the body weight of
every single athlete and I was, you know, they say like, hey,
I said, but you were kind of fly weight and
I was like, oh, like, how how are you doing
(03:31):
one fifteen? And well, yeah, I mean, don't you wanna try?
And I said, yeah, I'm gonna try and talk with
my team. The PI also helped me, you know, we
had this uh uh big support from them, and you know,
it was a great change in my life. I felt
so good. I was able to live more weight because
I was, you know, trying to not to eat that
much to be small. I was eating more than I
(03:53):
was bigger, and I was able, you know, to let
my body, you know, to be stronger. And I think
it changed a lot. And I also started to where
you know, we often work a lot of Howard buddies,
but sometimes in my with you too much. And I
started with a mental coach with Aleta, and it helped
me so much. And I don't know, I just think
I did everything, you know, better than before. I started
(04:15):
to read more, I investigate, you know, everything that I
was able to to do. I started to look for champions.
Why do they do, how did they train, how did
they leave? What do they think? And I don't know.
I just think I just started to know to nutrite myself.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
On that two years in a row. Now you fall
on Mexican Independence Day. That's a big deal because for
a long time that fight always went to superstar Mexican
fighters as Canelos fighting this weekend also, but you have
done it now two years in a row. Last year,
I gotta be honest with you, it was one of
my favorite nights in the year because the music was
fucking great.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I heard you were going it.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Was awesome, like the whole time. The music was great,
the energy was great. What does it mean to you
to headline this car.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well, it means a lot of Last year was like
kind of the test they wanted to sell do to
see how this worked, you know, and also the part
of the people. You know, Mexican people did amazing passionate.
They're so passionate. They love, you know, their athletes, they're like,
you know, they're so so nice. They pray for us.
You know, we do a lot of things that stand
a lot of big nice energy and also the fighters.
(05:22):
You can notice that, you know, even dan And said,
like the Mexican heart, they are always going forward, doesn't
you know what? They are always chasing and chasing, trying
to kill the rope on. And we're not pointing, scarring,
We're not no, we're you know there. I wrote a
guill Ins this this is I think it's important, you know,
for combat sports because I mean, excuse who does not
like to was you know, a big war and I
(05:44):
think that's that's great.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
The crowd was crazy, the music was just so. It
felt like I had a couple of Kingsgaros in my life,
and I had a Kings in Europe. I have a
gym right in Gilroy, California, which is heaviest Spanic community
and best Mexican food outside of I had a place
one time in Mexico that was really good, but I
(06:07):
take up my wrestling match, built a dance floor and
had a little girl's keeps and euro best time ever.
She's one of the wrestlers on my team. Had her keys,
Inerra at my you had keys in her?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
No idea it I didn't have, But why my my didn't?
My parents didn't have money at that moment. I mean
it was like you have to spend like it's like
a wedding kind of yeah, like a big draft, big party.
I mean we were not able to let's do one.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You got money, now, let's do you why it's over.
But it was like it was like the funniest night.
It was so awesome. But fighting with Mexican Independence Day
is a big deal to you, but fighting for the championship.
Ask the matamore, how different is it for you that
two years ago going into that fight, it wasn't after
(06:59):
thought that you gonna be another victim. Voltehill is continue
to dominate like she was, but today so many feel
like she's up against it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well, I trained so hard since I moved to the
flyway division, even that I was training for my open,
and she was always a goal. You know, she was
always I was starting her, I was watching her fives,
I was watching her style. You know, she was always
the goal. And every single fight that was improving. You know.
I had, you know, my first takedown in my first
flyw division fly and I was able to control, you know,
(07:28):
to do different things. In the second fight, I was
able to almost meet her a little to punch to be.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I was at.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Fifteen, then ten, then five, and then I was, you know,
getting better, and that took me for the championship time.
So I was radio was training super hard. I t
I started her like doing really what a.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Video of you getting ready for that kick? And then
she does that kick. That was a crazy I I
it's so weird when stuff like that happened. You remember
when mas Vidal jumped and need been asking and he
was practicing it. It's always weird when that happened. So
to see it coming fruition was crazy. And I remember
calling that fight and being so surprised. But it wasn't
like she says she made a mistake in the fight.
(08:10):
When you watch the fight, you were winning the fight, right,
is it just was it just a mistake that I
allowed for you to win that first fight?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Well, the first round definitely, I was, you know, touching
her the bugs and then she realized that. So the
second and third she wanted to keep it to the
ground and I said, okay, you don't want to strike
with me. So I was, you know, in the first
round when she did the spinning keg and the spinning yevel,
I was not in the good arrange for taking her back.
But I knew that she was gonna do do it
(08:40):
again because she's always going back, back back, and yeah,
because she's a counter striker. And I was just waiting,
you know, for that moment. I knew that every time
I was teaching her, she was doing something crazy and
like to trying to take me down, or she was
to go in to spin because you always do that.
You know, I've watching all her fights and she doesn't
like you know, these changes, and you know, I was
just ready and prepare for that moment. I knew that
(09:01):
she was gonna spin. And I also did that with
Joan Color because shed that too, and you know, I said, Okay,
these work, so I'm gonna do it again. So I
took with my coach and said, yeah, I mean we
could try that. We have a lot of things to
do on the fight and and yeah, I mean it work.
And I trained that really cold Joe every single day,
and there were days that my arm were burning and
(09:22):
and I said, my god, please don't do please don't anymore.
He said one more. Well, well, he was trying to
make me submit every of my fighting. Oh my god.
And it's really nice because I trained, like I don't
know how many times at that situation and.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It worked for it to work really well. Second fight
much closer. She's insistent that she won the fight. When
you go back and watch that fight, how do you
look at it, like was it as close as people think?
Or do you feel like you did what you needed
to do?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I mean, I think I won the fight. You know
it was all come to the fourth round, yep, because
I mean it was uh first for her, second for me,
s third for her. In the fourth round, she said
that if you watch a new accounting video, then you
have like a a bigger few view of the knees.
Her hand was not on the ground when I touched her,
(10:09):
like all the knees, and in the postfire interview, she
was saying, those needs hurt me, those needs. I felt
those knees like she really was saying, like I thought,
she caught me, of course, and if you can measure
the damage of those knees to take them the submission
attempt that that round was completely mine. And on the
fifth round, of course, she was jabbing and she was
running all the time. But she didn't want to change
(10:32):
with me. She didn't want she didn't want and when
I was able to stay there, it was even if
it was one thirty min one minute and thirty seconds,
I was on her back. I was punching. I was
trying to submit her, even if it was like I
sure amount of her, but I was doing a lot
of damage and I was trying to finish her. The
third round, yeah, she got my back, but if you
can see I was punching her. She was not trying
(10:53):
to submit me. She was just you know, staying there.
And this is something that she surely does. She always
just to stay alight to put control time. Yeah, but
I'm not you know, I'm always trying, you know, to
move to do to do something. I was watching her.
I was I think it was to to to the
fourth and in the fifth round, I mean it was
(11:14):
completely mine because I mean at the end of them,
will almost have made her her I punch her and
I was doing a lot of damage on the ground.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Hound. You know, you too have had some tremendous fights.
What is it about your style, Alexa grosseol style that
proves to be so difficult for her because with everybody
else she just kind of beat them up, right, But
(11:41):
you you don't make the mistakes at most make against her.
Your boxing is always really good, your hands are always
where they're supposed to be. You never overextend on your combinations.
It seems as though you don't leave her the openings
that she usually takes advantage of. Are you guys really
making conscious decisions to limit the amount that you're throwing
(12:05):
or you just know that your style fits valienteer that
shows she ain't going you can beat her.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I mean, I think it's my style because I love
I love the change. I love through embrays. I love
to be there. I love, you know, to help, Like
I don't care if I could get punched on the face.
I don't know. I don't care if she kicks me.
I can't handle you know, damage, And I'm not scared,
you know, I'm more. I don't care if you you
know the thing I was scared that was most about,
uh caught in my head or in my face and
(12:31):
it haven't and I didn't feel it, and it was like, oh,
and did I just fell in? And it was oh,
but now I like when you uh get over your
fears and do you realize that you can handle like
more and more and it doesn't matter like anything. Just
don't be afraid. Just you know, go there, you know,
try to do your best because she's always just waiting
(12:52):
and just counter attacking. Yeah, if you pressure pressure pressure
pressure pressure. I mean there's something that I do all
the time. I mean my fight I go go, go, go,
go go, and my cardio and my resistance and like everything,
I put a lot of power in there. And I
think the the the thing that I did different wh
was that you know, to just go and be yourself
(13:14):
and punch and use your boxing and if it goes
to the ground, like go to the ground, it's okay.
Like I mean, I I was excited to fight with her,
like honestly because she has a lot of white tie
and kickboxing tournaments and championship and I consider myself as
a good striker, but you know, winning or test yourself
with someone who had a lot of com Yah, Yes,
(13:37):
was exciting for me. But since she does not want
to test, you know, on the striking inside, it says
a lot to me. And well right now, I mean,
if she wants to go to the ground, we're gonna
go to the ground.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Do you think that she'll engage you more on the
feet this weekend.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I hope, So I hope that would be happy. You know.
I I admire some longified between Wayley and Johanna. Yeah,
and honestly, I wouldn't like, you know, I dream with
having a fight like that. Well we're we're like all
the time going forward, you know, I don't know. I
I will love that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well took it? Why did it take so long? Why
haven't you fought since you guys fought last year.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well, first, because we both uh broke our hands and
in the fight, we both needed surgery. I mean it
was tough surgeries for both of us. I just heard
that she had twice, you know, in in the hands.
So it talks about like how hard that surgery was.
My hand was hurt too. It is my hand, you know,
(14:34):
like yeah, my my strongest, my strongest web one. And
I think that first because uh, we we wanted to
make the the fighting there. But I mean we were
both you know and like man, I can't hit and
she she couldn't do that too. And because it was
a drug, this this is the fight that had to be.
(14:56):
So then they told us like, hey, we have this,
uh we would like to repeat what you will stand
or it's kind of like kind of big lea, but
we would love you guys to be there. And we
were like, okay, well, I mean I I can't say no.
I can't say no to you, say to my boss
and I'd say of course. And then they had this
idea of uh being the ultimate fighter coaches.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Did you like that? The ultimate fighter?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I mean it was different. It w it was. I
mean not that I didn't like it, but it was different.
I think it could have been different if I teach women,
because they were men, they were bigger, they were like
champions in their leaves in their countries and like to
be coach or teach by a girl like it's like
gonna uh, you know, it's weird. At the end, they
(15:44):
called me coach and it was really nice. You know,
I was I I made myself part of the team
instead of being like they were the isn't do that now?
I just made myself part of the team, like be
the friend, like be there to support, like let me
know what you wanna do, and we wanna do that
like n because they are professionals and I unders do that.
I can't tell them what to do because they know
what to do, right, now, and I don't know it
(16:06):
was it was a different experience.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
With Valentina, like being around Valentina for so long.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I've been we're professionals. We we tried our best to
make you know, the production and and the crowdises of
their job. Uh. We were there to make the guys shine.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
You know, you know, what does Saturday look like?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Like?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
What is your ideal way for this fight to play
out and end?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Wow, it's gonna be a huge, huge event. It's gonna
be different. I was able to be there in this
sphere to watch. It's gonna be different.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You know, I've never I've never been in there.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
It's it's gonna be different because it's a big, big
screen like in here, and all the crowd's gonna be
just one side. So now I'm focusing that, Okay, I'm
just gonna hear a crowd from one side. I don't know.
It's different and it's challenging too, because it's different from
everything that you have fought before. And I just hope
that you know, we can do like the best war ever.
(17:02):
It's gonna be the first women trilogy. It's gonna be
like the most higher revality of girls and you know,
I'm just happy and extremely how they said, proud to
be competing at this level with someone like her.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You know what Gilroy is. You've heard of Gilroy before?
Gilroy California. Have you ever heard of that place? Oh?
I thought you heard of it. Hey, do you remember
Ian Lario's the chef. He works for Jelly Role. Now
you know Jelly Roy is the singer, the big country guy,
kind of fat country singer. He's like Ian's on.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Tour traveling the world.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He's really good. But I mean, what fucking he and
Larrios is traveling the world with a celebrity. He was
at all the books delicious.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And good cooking all day last week and this week
for us. I mean, I'm eating a delicious the week
of my life, you know, all the year. I don't
know these two week they are so professional, they know
what when, how much much I have to give you,
and the taste of the food they do.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It doesn't feel bad, it doesn't feel it doesn't make
the way.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I'm so good a way And I was a I
think Sunday I ate a homebringer and I was like,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
This is that's the best there he is right there
you're also doing great work on the commentary. You do
a tremendous job, guys. Alexa Grosso fights UFC three or
six this weekend. She defends her title for the third
second time against Valentine's Chacko. Make sure you hit that
buy button and make sure you like and subscribe to
this channel and go and check everything that the champ
(18:37):
is doing. Champ, thanks for checking it would be I
appreciate you. Until next time, guys, Peace,
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Colin Cowherd
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