You know, back in your home, given ready for USC to 48.

Mork.

Seventh and good.

Pete, you're not sure about you.

And you started doing that doing good, though very calm and collected.

Now talk to me for a second.

How many times this week?

It's the week before heading into the big fight.

Have you been tested by Asada?

Ah, this week?

None.

But this year, five times which I saw was which is the most with Diego Sanchez.

So last year I had the most This year I mean, we got the most so far so.

But as of right now, we had two tests pending.

Those two came back, were good.

And now I have one test pending and we'll get that test result back, like three or four days before the fight.

So I'm just hoping we're good.

I mean, I think we're good, so but there's always just that question in my mind.

So three or four days I think we get the results back from that last one, but I think we're good forthe time being booked for fight the past couple of years.

I know the emotions have been up and down as long as you're under 100 PICO grams.

Is that what it is?

You're all good, exactly under 100 it's considered a negative test.

Excellent.

Now your opponent, Jose Key known is what you expecting out of him when you guys dance?

March 7th?

Um, he's got Jiu jitsu tattooed on his chest.

So I think I kind of got gave it away what his game plan is.

But we'll see who's more Mexican.

We'll see who's going to stand in.

Bang.

So I know obviously everyone knows what I'm trying to.

I'm gonna try to go out there and knock him out.

Um, I think he's gonna go in and try to pressure me if he can pressure me.

He was getting backed up by a dude who was like, 53 in his last fight.

So if that dude could back him up in land shots give me a long and short night for him.

Um, but he's gonna try to pressure me up against the cage and take me now to get me in a body lock that that's kind of his his style.

Um, but even if it goes to the ground, I'm really not.

I'm extremely confident on the ground, but I'd like to keep it standing in knock amount.

Young, exciting fighter 25 years young.

Your time off from being inside the Octagon.

How would you say your games evolved?

The mental fortitude evolved for sugar.

Sean O'Malley.

I just think grappling as much as I've been the last two years is really because going into fights, it was kind of like, OK, I hope I don't get taken down and held down like that was kind of always in my back with mind.

Like, I don't wanna get taken down to hell down now.

I just don't feel like that.

Like, I just don't see that happening.

My DJ ITU is involved so much, which, for me mentally is like I'm going into this fight so confident that any where this fight takes place, um, I can finish it.

So I think I think just the the mental aspect of how confident I've gotten in my grappling is evolved.

Mia's a fighter.

Speaking of that, grappling, the last time we saw you was in December Quintet Ultra getting that submission over Takenori Gomi team UFC that grappling has a ball.

I know that's helped your confidence, man.

Would you make of that experience?

Yeah, I gotta choke out talking Arrigo me, Um and I got to go the distance with Gilbert Melendez, and then I got ah, he'll hook or ankle lock Hector districts.

He got me.

But I know the whole experience was it was so fun being ableto like I knew going into this I was gonna be I was gonna be able to perform really well.

So it's nice to be able to go and show everyone else.

Okay?

He is getting good.

Like, I think it opened a lot of people's eyes.

And you have anti rumble Johnson on that team.

You had Clay Guida on your team.

You had anti lionheart Smith Rumble.

Did he talk about when he's returning to the U.

S.

Easy talking about getting that itch to go back and compete?

He talked about it a couple times here and there.

I don't know if I don't know this game.

You have to really want it.

Okay, I'm gonna go in there and get in a full training camp and get into a fight.

So I don't know if I feel like you got to be 100% mentally into it.

Um, I couldn't tell.

He seems like he wants to.

I mean, it sounds fun.

It always sounds fun, but really, when it comes down to it, when you're like, Okay, I'm gonna make that come back, it's It's got to be for real.

But Gilbert Burns, he was on our team also, and he was probably the best grappler there that do the stud.

I'm excited to keep watching him compete.

Very exciting.

Welterweight Gilbert Burns and his brother Herbert, also in the UFC.

Yeah, that was a sweet knock out.

His last fight.

That was badass.

It's good stuff.

Now talk to me for a second.

Top of the bantamweight division.

A lot of people making noise about Henry Cejudo fighting Jose, although off all of the guys at the top, making the rumblings the Cory Sam Pagans, the Al Jemaine Sterling's the Petri Yang's, who do you think is most deserving of that title shot?

It's hard to even talk about that just cause, like the I don't know the rankings air really like, if you're coming off a loss, it has lost the last two.

Although, yeah, it's I don't know.

I love the USC, and I love how they put the fights that people want to see.

But do people really like?

I don't know?

Do people really want to see Henry Suit over?

Told, Although I saw that fight and it's not fair to the top guys that are winning fights, it really isn't.

And I personally don't really.

I mean, I'll probably watch it.

So I guess I can't say I don't really care to see it, Watch it.

But I don't know.

I think it's just like Henry's is not really a draw.

And I don't know that from business standpoint.

I'm just saying, Like when I think of fighters like, uh, disease fighting soon I wanna watch that, even you.

Well, I don't wanna watch that, would you?

Well, was coming off multiple losses.

That's true, but yeah.

Got C Stop me.

That's true.

I don't know.

Maybe it's just Henry.

I just don't care for much.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Is Evers you?

Well, um, because you could say, although won that fight against Marlon, I thought he I thought it was a close fight.

It could win either way.

Um ul versus, um um who's that Jack motherfucker?

Paulo Costa.

That was a close fight.

Paul is a fucking beast.

That's gonna be a sweet fight whoever whoever he fights next.

But, uh, yeah, I guess you stumped me there because you was coming off coming off a loss.

Fighting too.

So, um yeah, I guess I don't know.

I ate my words can reverse hose, Adam.

Do you care to see it much, or would you rather watch Henry versus who would be next?

I'll, uh, I'm asking you.

You know, there's a lot of guys Al Joe's out, right?

Cause it's surgery.

Um, sandbagging would be a fun matchup to watch tall, lengthy guy like yourself in that division.

And Peter, Petra, Whatever.

Yeah, there's a lot of good matchups there, so I guess it doesn't matter.

I'm gonna be watching the fight so we'll see where it goes from there.

But it is weird that it's coming off.

Two losses fighting fighting, Henry One year from now, where will we see Sugar Sean O'Malley in the band?

Um, rate rankings Or where you're at in your career in the UFC on one year?

Yeah.

It's hard to say with with everything that's happened in last two years, if everything goes right, I think I want to fight three times this year.

Um, And the performance.

I'm gonna go out there and have against Jose.

It's gonna be they're gonna have.

Like, I'm gonna have to fight someone up there is gonna have to I'm gonna jump up competition quite a bit.

I'm gonna go out there and look as good as I'm gonna look, so I don't know.

We'll see, I think.

Definitely.

Definitely.

Top 10 maybe Top five next year?

Um, I don't know.

We'll see.

He's the pro.

I'm the Schmo inside your home getting ready for UFC to 48.