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LAS VEGAS – Nikolas Motta beat Tom Nolan with a first-round TKO Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC Combat Evening 234 on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Have a look contained in the struggle with Motta, who picked up the occasion’s quickest end, however was left with out a post-fight efficiency bonus.
Motta on the struggle’s key second
Nikolas Motta
“I really feel nice. I did precisely what I’ve been working so much at Xtreme (Couture), and what I’ve been working with my coach and with my coaching companions. My major coaching companion was Julian Rosa, and he has an analogous fashion and comparable physique. Julian is a really tall ’45 with very lanky arms and really, very aggressive, identical to my opponent. I knew that it wouldn’t be a simple process. This man I fought, once I watched his struggle on (Dana White’s Contender Collection), every part seems to be excellent. We couldn’t see nothing. We couldn’t see any mistake in his struggle. I watched Contender Collection and I knew that he was imagined to be an enormous star coming from Australia. And that’s why I’m saying that I simply beat the percentages.”
Motta on differing mentalities
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 13: (R-L) Nikolas Motta of Brazil kicks Tom Nolan of Australia in a light-weight struggle through the UFC Combat Evening occasion at UFC APEX on January 13, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photograph by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC by way of Getty Photos)
“That gave me a variety of motivation, however I don’t know if it was private. I noticed a variety of issues – when he received signed, he stated one thing that when he has an opponent, his entire life goes across the man and he’s attempting to take as a few years potential of the man’s life. I used to be like, ‘Rattling. Why, man? Everybody has household.’ I’m a really thrilling fighter. I wish to entertain individuals. I wish to placed on a pleasant efficiency. I wish to placed on wars and knock individuals out. However on the identical time, I don’t wish to harm no person.”
Motta on what he desires subsequent
Nikolas Motta
“That may be so good as a result of the most effective occasions of my profession was struggle day in Atlantic Metropolis, (N.J.). My finest fights was once in Atlantic metropolis. … That may be so good to stroll out with my walkout track and touching individuals’s fingers and feeling the power of the gang. I really feel at all times once I did struggle with a crowd was my adrenaline made me do some like loopy stuff and I had some good knockouts with the gang.”
To listen to extra from Motta, take a look at the video of the complete post-fight interview above.
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