TRAVIS BROWNE: Before, I was little more superstitious
about stuff, and I'd be like, OK, well, everything has to be
like just perfect.
And I still kind of am.
It's like there are sometimes that if something's happening,
I get a little irritated about something.
But for the most part, I learned how to relax and just
go with the flow and know that, at the end of the day,
all the work that I've done was put in my camp.
And the result will be the result no matter what it is.
-This is what we do and why we do it, baby.
No doubt, nobody does it any better.
This is your night, your fight.
You get it right, son.
All that hard work, all that time in the gym, now it's time
to get it done.
-When you get over there today, please, please make
sure when you go up in front of the commission that you
identify specifically the people that you want on your
corner shoot tomorrow.
Travis Browne.
TRAVIS BROWNE: Yep.
The thing about fighting, for two months, we're doing
everything for ourselves.
Like, nobody else is going to get in that damn cage with us.
You know?
So for two months straight before a fight, we are some of
most selfish people out there.
And we have every right to be.
So after the fights or even leading up to the fights--
it gets even that much more intense
leading up to the fight.
I fought Chad in April, and I went back a week later to
train for 146 just as an alternate.
And then I went back two weeks later to train for my fight
with Ben Rothwell.
That got cut a week before the fight.
And then I went home for two weeks and then came back and
did another seven week camp for this fight.
So it was like rough, bro.
-What have you guys been chatting about so far?
They're from New York.
You've got a fight tomorrow.
TRAVIS BROWNE: Yeah, we've got a fight tomorrow.
You guys came in.
-I saw Big Foot in the hotel.
He looked a little scared actually.
TRAVIS BROWNE: Oh, did you?
-He did, yeah.
-He didn't really look as big as I expected.
You're actually a lot taller.
TRAVIS BROWNE: Oh, yeah.
I'm a lot taller.
But he's a big dude.
Did you shake his hand?
-No.
TRAVIS BROWNE: His hands are like this big.
With Silva, there's little things that he does that we
just have to be careful about.
In the long run, I'm just training to train.
I'm just training to fight like I'm going to fight.
My style isn't going to change regardless who it is.
I'm one of the taller guys in the division.
I have one of the longer reaches.
So I'm just going to use that in every single fight I can.
-Travis Hapa Browne versus Antonio Big Foot Silva.
246 for Travis Browne.
TRAVIS BROWNE: I think usually the guys that feel like they
have to try and intimidate somebody are usually the ones
that feel like they have something to make up for.
You know?
I go there.
I do my stare down, and I'm good with just walking away.
But if somebody wants to get in there and get in my face
and try to posture on me to make me back down, they're
going to get it right back.
And that's what happened today.
He got where we are like touching noses and all this
kind of stuff.
And Dana had to come in.
And at that point, I'm not going to back down.
If you're going to bring it up like that, you better be able
to back it up the next day.
-Travis, can I get your autograph?
TRAVIS BROWNE: Yeah.
For sure, bud.
-Thanks, dude.
[CHATTERING]
-Thanks, man.
Can I get a picture with you too, bro?
TRAVIS BROWNE: Yeah.
-Good luck, dude.
TRAVIS BROWNE: Thanks, man.
Fans coming up to you wanting to take your picture, or have
an autograph, or just talk for a little bit or something is,
for me, that means I'm doing my job right.
It means that they're interested in me as a fighter,
and they're excited to watch me fight.
That's why they bought the ticket, to go and spend the
night there waiting for me to get into the cage and knock
somebody out.
Today during the stare down, my opponent kind of got a
little close.
And he wanted to keep an eye on me.
So I was just showing him that he's got a fight tomorrow.
You can't look away, you know?
You can't submit like that.
So he knows.
He knows what's coming down tomorrow.
And I look forward to it.
I try to eat these pretty plain, even
though this is curry.
It's still eight hours before my fight.
So my next meal will be pretty bland.
I just try to eat stuff that gives me energy.
The day of my fight, in the morning I'll be waking up.
And I'll just be warming up with my coach and really just
going over last minute game plan things.
And just break a sweat, hitting pads, doing a little
bit of wrestling, staying focused on our game plan.
That way when I'm in the cage, it's just second nature.
I don't have to think about it.
It just happens.
It helps you get over that first hump in the day where
you might feel a little sluggish, a little slow, or
something like that.
That way when you're warming up right before you walk out
for your fight, you're already on your second wind.
You're like, OK, I'm ready to go.
This is it.
There's nothing holding me back.
And you're walking into that arena knowing that you're
ready to fight.
-Mr. Browne, what's up, baby?
TRAVIS BROWNE: What's up?
-All the way down on the end, baby.
All the way down on the end.
TRAVIS BROWNE: Coach, that spin kick's coming nasty.
-Is it?
TRAVIS BROWNE: Yeah.
With coach Jackson and coach Wink has really helped me in a
couple different ways.
They have the perfect yin and yang tactics, I
guess you could say.
But really it's the environment that they've
created in the gym also with my training partners and the
environment where the gym is.
Definitely my striking has come around a lot.
I've really learned what my body can do.
And I think coach Wink has had a lot to do with that.
He's like, oh, you like that?
Yeah, let's work it.
Let's make it a weapon and go out and perform and
do what I do best.
And I already have the mentality that I'm going to go
in that cage, and I'm going to go in that cage to hurt you.
I'm not your friend.
I'm not your family.
And even if I was, if you're in that cage with me on flight
day, I'm still going to try to hurt you.
Because you're going to try to do the same thing to me.
-Travis Hapa Browne.
[FIGHT COMMENTARY]
-Declaring the winner by TKO Antonio Big Foot Silva.
TRAVIS BROWNE: At this point it just motivates me.
It pisses me off that somebody like that is going to make a
name off me.
He's my first defeat.
And being cordial and all that kind of shit put aside, that
mother fucker doesn't beat me on my worst day.
I got injured in the fight.
And I wouldn't mind that being my first fight back.
I want that fight back, everybody knows it.
And all it's going to do is motivate the fuck out of me.
If I wasn't motivated before, I am now.
My whole thing is that if he was better than me today, I
wouldn't have a problem with it.
But the fact that I got injured and I was hurt in the
first fucking 30 seconds of the fight, just
fucking pisses me off.
And for him to make a staple in his career off of my name,
makes it even worse.