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March 8, 2025 12 mins

Rafael Fiziev is BACK on another episode of DC Check-In where the guys talk about his upcoming lightweight fight vs. Justin Gaethje at UFC 313. Fiziev is looking to avenge his loss to Gaethje at UFC 286 back in 2023. Fiziev says he feels LUCKY that Justin is giving him the opportunity to fight him again, and needs to capitalize on the opportunity. And Fiziev explains to DC why he declined several fights after his loss to Gamrot before accepting the Gaethje fight at UFC 313.

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Let's go. Thank you for checking in with me, man.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I appreciate it, guys, and we will rap you off
a Zeve fight. Justin gats you this weekend at you
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Speaker 3 (01:45):
Today.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
We spoke earlier and you said, I feel lucky to
be getting this fight.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
How can you feel lucky to.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Be getting this fight when all you've done in your
UFC career to this point.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Because it's a yeah, it's a second chance. Was a
guy with a guy like Justin first one first time
when I fight was him for me? He's like, wow,
I fight was a guy like him, you know because
when I'm just before you see I fall, I follow
him like I like his style, like I watch him
a lot, and like I said, like all my people
who around with me and my friends where everybody like

(02:19):
I love him, where everybody liked his style and almost
his friends, all my friends, his fans honestly, and I
get it one time, first time, and now I get.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
It they gain.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
So that's why I say, like, I'm a lucky And only.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
When when you when you're in there right and you
have like seen a guy and like you said, you
held him in such high regard.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
At times it can be a little bit overwhelming.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
So when I fought Anderson Silver, I look across and
I go, shit, and that I'm fighting Anderson Silver, right,
So it took me a little bit of time to
snap out of that. Did did you Did you deal
with that or were you able to just kind of
fight him effectively from the very start?

Speaker 4 (03:00):
I think I think a little bit, yeah, a little bit. Yeah,
I don't remember sure right now, how it's uh, but.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Maybe a little.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Bit from the beginning, yeah, maybe a little bit on
the beginning when I yeah, I remember when I say,
when I say him like, we touched the gloves, Yeah, yeah,
we touched the gloves, and he said like yes, and he.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Said him fighting justin Gates, right, guy, we touched the
gloves and we have a fight, started fighting.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, you know, it's it's amazing how fast time has
passed since that first fight. The very beginning of the fight,
you're fighting, well, right, you're fighting excuse me, all right,
all right, you're fighting.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Really good at the very beginning of the fight.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
As the fight went on, he kind of started to
use his experience to pull away from you. Uh, what
are you gonna do to make sure that that doesn't
happen again.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, like a like a first fight.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
I also have a plan like move a lot, not
going to forward, not born and bone, you know, and
stay far from his jets, stay far from the this
what he liked, the whole close distance this one am Yeah,
stay far from this, use more distance, use the timings.

(04:26):
But this time I have to I just have to
follow this, Yeah, because before on the first fight, I
don't I don't follow that.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, like zero, you know at one fifty five, Right,
there's a lot of guys that have been there for
a long time. So it's Dustin Poitier, Michael Chandler, Justin Geechee,
now Islam and Serukian has worked his way into that.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
And so did you?

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Were you surprised the first time you got to fight
Geechee because those guys have been unwilling to let the
new guys in. Right, it's this great group of new guys.
It was you Sukian gam Rock, but you guys always
stayed like six seven eight because you couldn't get those
guys to fight you. Were you surprised that he fought
you the first time? And are you surprised that he's
fighting you the second time.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yes, very surprised the first time and very surprised the
second time.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Like, uh, these guys, who who you talk about? This
is everybody stars like a star.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
They're all stars and they want to fight just each other.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, but the division has to move forward.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah, the division has to move and uh have to
mix it, you know, like I fight Gay j send
Ben or send for Dust.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
But you guys started that before nobody could break in,
and then when Justin fought you, everybody else kind of
started to mix the younger guys and.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
I don't believe for that first time, and right now
it's same like for me, like wow, I fight they
came again. It's just a second chance, and like wow,
let's go.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
But before it might have been a little bit of
a like I'm at all, but like now it's more
like I gotta beat this guy. Right, you gotta feel
like now this is an opportunity where you lost to Justin,
then you got injured in the fight against gam Rock, right,
you got injured against Gambrock to fight behind, so now
you've dropped two in the row. This one has to

(06:16):
feel like an opportunity. That you have to win, right
because if one went over justin gae Chee, put you
right back in line where you want to be.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
For me, he's the same, like, yes, I like, wow,
I fight just engaging and like I have to win,
like like a first fight. Also like oh wow, I
fight to just engage and like I have to win
him because like yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
After after after the win, what this happened to me?

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Like close to the belt, Yeah, can't fight to his
other star and like many many ways to open.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
So it's it's it's both.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
It's both.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
I'm happy to fight him again like a miracle and
uh and I and I understand like I.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Need to win.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
I need that so much.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Right now, do you feel a little more pressure to
get a victory this time or no?

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Honestly, yeah, yeah, of course a little bit that it's
just two lost, two lost on mister two lost.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
And I don't I know tween like two more years.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
I know, I don't feel this, this taste like my
hand is raised. Yes, so so right now it's flairing
important to me. It's I can't say this is pressure
to me, it's I think this is more motivate me, Yeah,
motivate me.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
To make it smart.

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Speaker 3 (09:01):
So you do your training camp in Thailand? You like
it there? Huh? I? Like you came in here with
a jacket on, like your freezing? Like what is happening round?

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Look outside there?

Speaker 3 (09:11):
There'll rain, but this rain feels.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Like snow, you know? For me?

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Is it hot in Thailand?

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Very hot?

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah? Here's a thirty thirty five plus plus thirty thirty
five celsius.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, I don't know how much in Americans, like.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Maybe like ninety degrees. Yeah. So how long have you been?
How long has you always trained in Thailand? Has it
always been at that place.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Yeah, from since fifteen, wow, twenty fifteen.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
I'm there.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'm just I do my camp sometime when I have
time before a fight, I do my camping KILLFLI for Florida.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah, yeh yeah, Henry Hoof.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, but this time, yeah, so Saturday, we walk into
the arena, right, the feeling of being in there after
be it's already been almost two years, like you said,
the feeling of being in there when you've been so close.
Because I heard that you've been offered multiple fights over
the course of this time.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
You're ready to fight since August.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
What do you anticipate it is gonna feel like when
you first walk into the arena and it's almost time
to get going, Because that's a feeling that most can't
truly understand.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
You know, that's feeling I do. But what about you?

Speaker 4 (10:24):
When I start, when I start walk, when I hear
my walk music, like I forget about everything. I start
to enjoy it, really really I love that, and I
start to enjoy one hundred percent. I forget about everything.
I know I have a guy who I have to fight,
and uh, I don't think about anything. I'm going and

(10:47):
I know people watching me, people wait, how I go
into how I how I fight right now?

Speaker 1 (10:51):
People waited, people wanted.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
And uh, and I'm sure I believe like I can
show them like what they want.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, I'm really enjoying all this time.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Justin took you down last time.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's not something he does very often inside the octagon.
You think he's gonna try to wrestle a little more
frequently this fighter. Do you anticipate he's gonna stand again?
Because I believe he took you down because you're being
so successful with you strike it.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I think did he did it because?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Uh, because because he understands this fight going to to
the ncision to judges, and he he needed to make
some some points for the.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
For the win.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Yeah, so maybe if this fight going the same to
the judges, maybe he try again.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Maybe I try.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Who know, have you been working on it? Have you
been working on a take down the fencer? You you're
not a guy that gets taken down very easily, like,
but he was able to secure a couple Has he
been working on it? Who's even working with Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, yeah, I working about it.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Always always wrestle, like how many the days a week?

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Always train my wrestling? But yeah, he catched me on
good good time. I remember. Yeah, I go in like
because I remember.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
You, start going for one, two, three, and he and
he he go down level change, level change, and yeah
he get it.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, this is an amazing fight. I cannot wait. I'm
glad you got it, my man.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Guys.

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Rafaelfhazi takes on Justin Gats this weekend UFC three thirteen
in the Cold Made of It. Three round fight. Yeah
you wanted three rounds of five rounds?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh right now?

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Three rounds all year right, just three? Yeah, takes on
just to Gates you the cold made of it.

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