[Indistinct chatter]
Volkanovski: Gonna loosen me up,
get the body moving freely
so I can do my thing.
Man: Still got rocky legs.
Volkanovski: Yeah, got them rocky legs.
The rise of MMA in Australia's, it's huge, honestly,
from when I started.
I remember even just training MMA
and still not many people
even really knew about it and all that.
Till now everyone knows everyone.
Man: Reach out to your left.
Volkanovski: You go anywhere in Australia,
you know, if the UFC holds an event anywhere in Australia,
it will sell out.
It's that big over there,
and it's that big everywhere in the world now.
You're gonna see a lot of young, talented UFC fighters
coming from Australia, I guarantee it.
Man: Volkanovski's rise has been epic.
Along every step of the way,
he's done exactly what he needed to do
to get to the point where he is now.
And that's going from the very beginning of his career to now.
What people don't realize is that his journey started
like long before they made the UFC.
His journey started in the local scene
back in Australia and New Zealand.
Volkanovski: Just gonna get a photo now, you know,
do our post-training photo.
Bareman: And so since then, it's been a long journey,
and right now we're at the pinnacle now.
We just have to put the icing on the cake.
Woman: So when you do a shake, it's just whey protein,
and then we also have a variety of supplements for you
for Fight Week. Yeah, and everything is
NSF third-party tested,
so you don't need to worry about any tainted,
adulterated supplements.
Everything is very safe.
Moraes: Thank you. Woman: Thanks.
Barboza: He's fighting Jose Aldo.
He's a big legend for me, one of the best ever.
One of my favorite fighters.
I'm a big fan of Jose Aldo.
But now it's Magic's time.
Moraes: Fight Week be amazing, you know, start good.
I feel good. I feel strong.
It's a good matchup for me, you know.
I've been looking up to this fight. It's a big fight.
Always the next fight
is the most important fight in your career,
and this one's the next one,
so we're looking forward to go Saturday night
and perform and perform well.
[Music playing]
Covington: I should have played football.
For tonight's training, we're at the UFC P.I.,
Performance Institute.
We came just to do a light little shake out,
little boxing rounds.
De Olivera: Keep it moving, champ. Keep it moving.
Keep your position.
Covington: I had my boxing coach Gabriel de Olivera
from Brazil here.
He's an incredible asset to our team.
De Olivera: Double.
Covington: He's upped my level in the striking game tenfold.
You know, I'm a better athlete, a better striker,
a better puncher because of him.
De Olivera: Nice. I like it. Move your shoulders.
And then ah, ah. Hook.
Ah, ah. Right. Hook. Switch.
Covington: We're just working on a lot of different combinations.
You know, he's developed some punches in my arsenal
that are just a lot stronger now, really using my hips.
And I believe in my knockout power because of him.
De Olivera: Ahh.
Very good, champ. That's good.
Holloway: Had a really exciting night. Family came in.
One of my cousins that's like my brother.
Mini Blessed came in, and dude can sleep anywhere.
He's sleeping--this is cage-side, guys,
during a fight.
It's not my fight, but...
During one of my fights
that he was waiting for me to go on.
Dude's a legend.
OK, boys.
Man: Have fun.
Man: Look like Rush cutting weight right now.
Rush, you act sleepy,
they're gonna think you're cutting weight, my dawg.
Usman: We're heading to the athlete media panel.
We get to sit and talk to the people.
Everything just feels good,
because I accept what's about to happen.
I'm OK with it.
Uh, look at that big face.
Look at that big boy.
Man.
It just goes--I remember when I was a kid
watching Mike Tyson fights over there at the MGM Grand.
So this was it.
You know, they was everywhere
on all the billboards, everything.
We used to buy these fights.
My dad would freak out.
We'd--everybody fight party, house party.
Now when people that are having house parties and fight parties,
they're watching me fight.
That's crazy.
Man: What happened?
Volkanovski: What happened? The whole haircut curse.
I didn't even know about it.
In Brazil, people thought,
"Oh, no, the curse. He got a haircut on 'Embedded.'"
What do I do? I break the curse.
And I've even--I've seen people doing that with Usman as well
because he got it done, and they're like, "Oh, the curse!"
And I feel like just going, "I broke it. Don't worry.
Don't worry."
Is there any other ones?
Any other curses that you want me to break?
Man: Yeah, the mini fridge curse.
Volkanovski: The fridge curse.
No, hey, just so's you know about the fridge...
That was actually broken.
I don't know what it is, but it was like 4 fridges,
and they all done the same thing.
But, uh, they gave me a new fridge,
so that makes me believe there was something wrong
with the fridge.
Olivi: All of the challengers are in the building.
So please give a warm welcome to Colby Covington...
[Cheers and applause]
Who do you guys believe is the MMA GOAT?
De Randamie: I don't believe there is a GOAT.
I honestly don't believe that. Everybody's beatable
and it's been proven over and over again.
There has been a time that a champion has a long reign,
but everybody's beatable.
Everybody has two hands, two feet.
Everybody can be defeated.
Man: Alex, I want to ask you, I mean, give an idea
what the emotion is like, how this experience is playing out
versus the way you had envisioned it
for all these years.
Volkanovski: You know, as a boy, I said always,
just play what's in front of me.
I don't really get too hyped over like these things.
I don't let it get to my head.
But once I get in that octagon,
there's a job that needs to be done.
I'll go and do that, then after that,
that's when I can really soak it up.
Man: Thanks, Alex. Then for Colby if I could please.
Is there anything that you've done along the way
that you regret, that you say,
man, maybe I went too far in fight promotion?
Covington: No, not at all. I've just always been real.
And I've not been afraid to say how it is, you know.
A lot of the stuff I say is truth.
And if people have feelings, you know,
this isn't the feelings championships.
This is the fighting championships.
Man: And then finally for Germaine.
I'm curious, how are you going to plan
to stay so cool and calm this week in Vegas?
De Randamie: It's a waste of my energy to not enjoy this.
Seriously, this is the best thing ever.
You got to enjoy it.
I did everything I could in this camp.
And I will leave it all in there Saturday
no matter what happens.
So I better enjoy it.
Olivi: You guys have anything you want to say before--
Volkanovski: Nothing wrong with being a virgin and a nerd.
[Laughter]
Usman: Oh, no, it's all good.
Man: He's having a little book reading session on the stage.
Usman: Oh, is he? He's reading the Trump book?
What a clown. Jump in, Max.
Whenever you--I know Max
be trying to show me up on the style [bleep].
Holloway: I came walking in, I thought you was a statue.
I was like what? Woman: [Indistinct]
Usman: Yeah, this is it. This is cool right here.
Olivi: So now it's time to bring out the champions
to sit next to these shiny belts.
We have Kamaru Usman, Max Holloway, and Amanda Nunes
all in the building.
Please give them a warm welcome.
[Cheers and applause]
Obviously you guys are constantly training so hard.
Do you ever just have days where you're like,
"Ugh, how do I keep going?"
Nunes: You have to have somebody that push you
sometimes when you really feel like that.
But when I walk out of my bedroom,
I see my two belts,
and that is the biggest thing motivating me.
I want to see those stay forever in front of me
every day that I wake up.
And I will keep going till forever.
Man: Thanks. Max, can you talk about where--
I mean, you fought everybody at 145.
You fought the greats. This guy, it's kind of his time.
Where does he rank? What do you see in him?
Is he a worthy challenger?
Holloway: Yeah, for sure.
He's the number one contender.
He went to Rio, fought the king of Rio,
got a decision in Rio, so, you know, kudos to him.
But this is MMA, man. You guys all know.
You guys all work in the MMA business.
There's a new face every two weeks.
So whatever face, whatever cupcake,
whatever mysterious flavor pops up, let me know.
I want the first crack at it.
Man: Thanks, Max. Kamaru, you are
incredibly relaxed and a bit jovial right now.
So I got to ask what the mood is like for you
a couple days out from this fight finally being here.
And I mean, is this fight personal to you?
Usman: I mean, I'm relaxed because this is--
it's a fight.
At the end of the day, I'm gonna be locked in there
and I'm gonna do what I've been training to do.
So, you know, just because this clown is running his mouth
as much as he wants-- He's worried about me.
I'm not worried about him.
He's the one who's talked all the [bleep] in the world,
so now he has to go prove that.
The pressure is on him. I'm champ, not him.
He has to come out there and prove it.
But you want to be the champ,
you got to come beat the champ.
[dramatic theme music]
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