Andre Petroski UFC Vegas 97 Post Fight Interview

well congratulations how are you feeling after that performance thank you um it was good a very you know all things considered a very dominant dominant Victory so obviously I would have liked to have gotten the Finish but um dominant Victory I'm healthy um anytime you get the Victory and you're healthy you got to be grateful and I feel like I just had this talk with you recently because you just fought recently how are you able to get fights so fast when most Fighters are complaining about looking for fights I haven't said no yet so I think that that helps um I I'm I'm I'm incredibly grateful you know they keep me active they keep me busy they keep more than enough food on the table for my kids so um we just keep showing up and and uh and doing the best we can what did you think when you saw your opponent weighing in yesterday I thought that he had one foot out the door I thought that um I mean any anyone could tell it was an act you know um he had weight to lose his face look even if you're a heavy you carry more body fat um like you can't say you're sucked out and you're dying and your face is full you know what I mean like I've cut weight since I was literally 5 years old uh so like I know when someone sucked out I know the face of someone who just quit you know what I mean who just said [ __ ] it and um you know like the UFC tried to help him all week and and you know he didn't take the help so it's just a lack of discipline and and when I saw that I was like all right he's got one foot at the door I got to give him a reason to quit and um you know I will give the kid credit like he but after every round he stood there and was like I'm ready to fight so I I give the kid credit you know he might be he might be undisciplined a and that is not you better be spectacular if you're going to be undisciplined in this sport but I'm not his coach I I'll give him credit and say that every round he came out ready to fight you know there's obviously the big debate about weight cutting and and punishment for missing weight what what are your thoughts on it do you think that 20% was fair do you think there needs to be harsher punishment I don't have the solutions right I don't I don't know I don't have the answers I will speak for from my experience and like my first five fights one of my opponents made weight like in this sport i' I've never missed weight in my entire life the last time I missed weight was uh in Middle School wrestling like I've I've never missed weight in my life I'm disciplined like when I say I'm going to do something I do it I do it the right way but I don't know like I don't give a [ __ ] to be honest like they already knew the answer from me they're like do you want to take the fight I was like don't don't even ask me that like I I don't care like the less what are you tell me you're undisciplined yeah I want to fight you now I want to fight you now more than more than I did before like yeah I don't care I I grapple at heavyweight like I'll go up I want fights at 205 like I the bigger guys fall the bigger guys are softer and they fall I think a lot of people were uh fans were a little shocked that he was cleared um which based off what you said about you know seeing him on there and maybe it was a little act do you think that's why he was cleared maybe because yeah it was an it was an act like when the doctor was there he was fine yeah you're distracted by the fight too aren't you this is a good fight uh so what's next for you when would you like to fight again when they call me I say yes so that's that's up to the UFC whenever they I'm excited though you know I mean two wins in a row I'm excited to see who they give me next um I think that there's a lot of fun matchups um but we'll see yeah we'll see give me one of those fun matchups I'm not going to keep saying the same name over and over um I don't know I I I don't I don't really have any names right now I I'm I'm I'm open to whatever you know I mean I I there's a lot of matchups that aren't in the top 15 but there's some matchups in the top 15 that that I like too I think that there's a lot of okay Alex Pereira give me Alex Pereira there you go there's a lot of guys that can grapple at the top you you know what I mean thank you speaking of grappling are you going to do any grappling anytime soon yeah I would love to you know the date uh yeah October uh there's a fury card in October um but I'm open to any promotions that that that have any fun matchups for grappling I'll grapple anyone like I don't care any weight any style I don't care uh I know karate combat does grappling I know Craig Jones has grappling like I'll do whatever call me did you watch his last uh promotion that he put on here in not every match but I did watch a few I I would have liked to take that Pat Downey spot um he he got that last fill in against rockold I would have loved that like that would have been yeah I was I like that you know I like doing the grappling um I just wish there was more opportunities for me I was going to say even speaking with that now that Craig started doing his thing it certainly seems like the grappling is starting to grow more there's there's more opportunities out there um um who's the 205 pounder that's um that just got a fight um UFC one yes our our um God damn it black guy cry K rry he said he wanted he's like I want more grappling matches then he got booked for the fight but that I would love that like more grappling matches 205 85 heavyweight that I I'm here I was going to say I think your last one was at 200 so you like you like wrestling heavy my last one was at heavyweight yeah do you feel strong in that do you feel quicker or heavy weights are fun like it's more exciting like people are like oh [ __ ] like let's go let's dude like the old Pride days it was you fought any weight didn't matter like I'm big enough I'm not like a little guy like I'm not like 160 five asking to go against heavyweights like I can get to 220 if I'm 220 and and a heavyweight is 250 that's nothing to me you know what I mean my training partner's Sean's 240 IED upop what do you cut down for this what's your typical fight week cut down not fight week but for a fight what so so I only had six weeks I think it was six weeks from my last fight so I I fought when was the Denver card seven weeks ago something like that yeah so I didn't have time to get big right we we jumped right back into Camp right away so I was only I think I only got up to like 208 um but this was one of the first camps where I water loaded like right the right way and uh made a huge difference that's awesome yeah I guess one one last one um when's your next commentary gig you actually have a pretty decent talent for i' I've actually seen seen the shows my boy Morgan says that you're you're Top Notch John Morgan's a good dude man he he always obviously he knows his his [ __ ] like he he's he knows what he's talking about he always comes and has me prepared you know he's got my cheat sheet ready I like I do the research before I like I love commentating like I've commentated the cfffc cards a bunch um I'm always available for commentating if there's any other promo ions um I do I'll do my homework like I do the I like it you know what I mean it's the front I'm a fan of martial arts like I'm a student of the game I watch it I love seeing these guys that are hungry and just like want to get in the UFC and you know they're ready to kill someone they fight for $300 like I love that [ __ ] does that carry over to your fight or do you just do the fight analysis for for actual work gigs like so for your fight do you study your typical opponents or is it when you're doing a commentary then you tend to go back to tape and stuff if there's one thing that I do well that I do better than than everyone else it's I study film like me and my coaches Eddie Torres Sean Jonathan John we all sit down we sit down we watch film like that's what we do I have the I have the the Henry cejudo TV uh the TV where you watch it you can freeze it you can Circle it like we we break everything down like we knew Superman punch overhand right check left hook you switch kick like we we watch film like Jon Jones talks about it like he he's like my team is the best team in the world at rematches cuz we watch film we study [ __ ] like a lot of these Fighters like they're really tough they're really great Fighters but like they're not students they're not students like my team we watch we students you know that's awesome congrats on the win thank you brother awesome performance that 3027 speaks for itself I'm just curious what were you cutting weight for at 5 years old I wrestled since I won my first wrestling tournament when I was uh four years old um and funny story my my dad wasn't like big on cutting weight so like I don't want to paint him out to be like this monster but whatever so he wasn't huge on cutting weight but I did have a tournament I was in fourth grade and I had a tournament and it was like I couldn't eat launch that day to make weight well like you know I I wasn't like cutting massive amounts of Weights it wasn't unhealthy I just had to skip a meal and of course like the the the Teacher Calls the principal next and O dius are having a whole meeting uh whole student meeting with the principls and they think I'm being abused but uh no I mean I literally been wrestling since I was four years old like my dad was a coach that's when I won my first wrestling tournament and um yeah that's awesome man you born into this you just been born yeah my dad uh my dad um has a black belt in in karate he wrestled at Penn State uh did some boxing um my dad was how I got into martial arts my dad would watch the old kung fu movies we'd watch old MMA my the first fight I ever watched was Jen's pver your ey Faber um Miguel tourz like I grew up watching it since I was a young age from a young age yeah that's awesome man did you out of curiosity when Jacqueline came out did you hear her come out to that Pride theme did you catch that at all uh when bodka no tonight uh when uh jacqulyn walked out I think she fight after years N I didn't see it it's awesome it's just so nostalgic when you hear that came out to the pride Song WoW and and last for me that uh the new strategy that employed is that going to be something new going forward that you're going to implement with the water or it was just the one and done no no no water loading has has made the weight cut so much easier yeah I think that like I said like I have been cutting weight since I was young but with that being said like the the science behind it has evolved like we're we are smarter about it you know what I mean like um so as much as can sit here and say like oh I know what I'm doing I know what I'm doing like no there's more there there's new techniques that that can be greatly beneficial so it's like you know I'm I'm a black belt but like I need to be a white belt you know what I mean and be more teachable like that's humility like being teachable yes sir I've heard a couple Fighters say that same thing like regardless of what how many stripes you have and all the trophies on the wall and y y y to keep a white belt mentality a white belt yeah that's what's up look I'm the strongest guy in the UFC but I still need a strength and conditioning coach you know what I mean yes sir congrats on the win my man see you guys