Ultimate Fighter Season 32 Semi Finals Fighter Zygimantas Ramaska interview

[Music] all right guys this is crazy Kev here and I'm here with the one the only Mr zamanis how we doing my man uh hi I'm good just as they say after the training so I'm in puket in Thailand so you know the atmosphere and energy in Thailand is every time good so yeah I'm glad that I arrive in this place so everything is okay on the plan yeah yeah no I'm definitely glad to hear everything's going smooth and uh talk us a little bit more about uh Thailand I know you just kind of got there but uh what's maybe some cool things that you've maybe done so far there maybe some cool things that you've seen at the moment uh I think I just now uh four days when I before four days I arrive so uh uh I'm first time in Thailand you know uh I was spoke with the Valentina and she was invite me you know she fixed for me the trainings for free everything so uh everything is okay I was just check around the pcket check the Buddha you know other things uh and uh we also making a documentary movie so uh so it's like uh a lot of job a lot of filming uh also I have to focus for my training for my next fight and a lot of stuff you know right now in the head and uh also some Visa problems uh and other things you know but it's almost done with the VISA so but still you know still everything crazy a lot of stuff uh hard trainings we I just arrived with some uh names on my t-shirt on my shorts like Ultimate Fighter and so on many many people was watching the T before so um you know many questions many photos you know and um it looks like we very friendly but uh and some people also want to check you you know how you look like and uh uh and for me it's like I'm just uh I have now three sessions or something like that per week and I was just uh you know focusing for my uh I don't know how say in English but adapting the time you know adapting the all the area in the climate and so on and it's for me very difficult because uh in my country it's also different time zone so uh and every and just when I came everyone is trying to check me you know and I was you know already talking to some people dude uh you have to be smart I don't come to like um go so hard or get some knockdowns or something like that and some people just see that we are filming also in the in the in the training session so some people is going wild but uh some people is very friendly you know very good coaches in the tiger gym so I very glad that we are you know give for me the opportunity to train with them with the best guys with the best coaches you know and when I just arrived day before was Valentina was uh came back to America because also he have some works with the UFC so it's a little bit upset but uh we will see each other soon you know so but everything is okay because the plan is was working with the Valentina coach with pav uh all the camp was uh have to be like this with him and the Valentina but uh everything is Chang now I am training with elbach also with Valentina team guy you know with some other persons good persons you know from kirgistan and and so on so everything is on the plan people friendly but just some people you know some some maybe crazy they want some extra not photos but like promotions or I don't know what what it is like so that's why it's like first days in Thailand you know yeah wow no it definitely sounds like you got a lot going on no doubt about it and uh you know when it comes to just training in general I mean you mentioned a couple training Partners um that you trying to train with but um when it comes to your training in general I mean what are you kind of doing in the gym to kind of make you the best version of you I was just you know I'm working in a strange place I'm military guy so uh just want to change the country the place uh want to leave some stress in the in the country that's why I came to Thailand you know basically is like I see now just change the climate zone you know I want to adapt in the where is hot uh like uh I don't know how to explain but in my country it's like not like this um situation in the area you know I was just when I just came out uh jump out from the plane you know I I was just standing the outside and I was not understand what is happening you know in my body because I'm just start of sweating you know and uh yeah many as I say many good trainers in there many good partners from the all the world you know and I hope that it will give for me some good experience and uh My Level will grow up in three weeks uh so um yeah I I I take with Thailand and I think that I I find something special for my next all camps in the future you know because this is the place where I'm feeling good where is like um good training Partners good coaches uh good food uh nice weather you know every time is hot so uh I think for the usually for the professional fighters is very important to be in the place whereas the climate is like almost the same where you will fight in the future you know and uh my next fight will be also in America and there is also hot so I want to adapt you know in the time yeah yeah and I'm definitely ready to see you adapt my man and uh you know on your Instagram we were talking a bit more about it you had some motorcycles you were riding talk to us a little bit more about what motorcycles you were riding and how you got into that yeah I ride the with some nice motorbikes I have one uh I was buy it before two years like uh it's uh Street uh not Super Moto but uh Street classic motorbike awasaki Z 900 ABS it's like uh good model you know very like U how to say like uh uh maybe like me it's like a lot of fire in the in engine you know so I like this motorbike I I'm driving from U maybe 16 years old uh but just uh the not very like uh not very powerful motorbikes before was uh now this one I have some big categories without any uh how to say lims limits and so on so this is the strongest one what I have you know and I like when I you know came uh back after work or when the days like sometimes not the best I just jump out on my motorbike just go around the town go outside to the town maybe go sometimes wild you know a little bit take some good music you know just enjoy a moment you know I'm the person I think who who like nature who sometimes want to be a little bit alone sometimes I need space from everything it doesn't matter that everything is going smooth and uh uh that I will have big like before one month I have a big fight and a lot of emotions uh maybe sometimes all after this you need you need some space you know from everything from some people from from trainings and so on yeah yeah no that's definitely awesome I'm glad that you arriv there talk us a little bit more about that and uh you mentioned uh music and stuff what's maybe some of your favorite uh music that you like to listen to uh I like many of them you know uh it's maybe it will be crazy if I will uh uh I'm I don't know how to say sometimes it depends how you're feeling you know if you're feeling good if you don't have big emotions you you like like uh Call Music you know if you like in not good uh mood in a day sometimes you took something hard you know something hard and maybe go for a run and and so on or to a motorbike you know but especially if you're not on a good mood uh when you took at your motorbike you also have to be have to be smart and have to have brains in your head because in any mistake it can cost a lot you know for you for your future and so on so it's like that's why I'm a fighter maybe you know because everyone I think like dangerous things you know like uh to go fast to go fighting to go to do some crazy things you know jump out from the with the your uh how to say in English uh uh your with your backpack where is like uh oh oh skydiving that you're talking about yeah something like this you know so I think if you will check in the world uh if you will ask many fighters where we are fighting and usually of a professional way are doing some crazy things as you hear also maybe who helicopter drivers or plane we usually in a daily time we using a motorbikes you know to get some also energy and adrenaline you know from there yeah yeah no 100% man that's definitely pretty cool and uh you know obviously you got your ultimate fighter shirt on I mean how was the experience uh being on The Ultimate Fighter talk us a little bit more about that if you can yeah I to I put it on me because uh you invite me in this conversation you know you was say some good things about it and uh yeah it was a crazy experience you know I think it's one of the most in my craziest experience in the Life uh so um it was uh first days was like everything is okay you know without a lot of uh emotions in a house uh but day by day week by week uh when the fights will uh coming closer every one is like in a house is a little bit you know nervous and and so on you know so uh but uh I think uh everything was uh pretty good uh everyone uh after all the show was friends signed on each other Flags uh for the AL also for the jerseys what we give with the tough names and so on so uh and it doesn't matter that we are fighting and uh you know next day we are like a Brothers like we are friends because we on the same same Mission like to get a contract or other things you know so um that's what it is professional people you know so you can't be mad if you uh I think if you will be mad if you lose or or something like that I think you have to check uh in your head something that because it's something with you because you have to understand that it is a sport this day maybe that guy was better and so on and you have to take it you know if you will not take it yeah you will be mad you will have a lot of uh words to explain why you didn't win and so on so uh yeah if if you like professional you just I think every time be friends with your opponent and you don't have a lot of bad things in your head about him you know yeah yeah no definitely man and uh you know you you also had like one of the fights of the season with beide man can you talk us a little bit more about that matchup and what it was like to compete against him uh yeah it was crazy fight I survived a lot you know the crazy thing one of the craziest thing was when we just uh everything was finished you know I and uh everyone is following me all the doctors everything and I can't stop my emotions in my eyes you know and uh later when we jump out after vage we just go straight way to Medical check and my tears from my eyes just going without emotions I was not also understand what is happening with me because I don't show a lot of emotions that I win I am the best and so on I was just uh I was Tred to be you know I just Tred to have patient and how to say don't show a lot of emotions but uh emotions I have a lot of emotions in in my in inside you know so maybe that's why I was like tears was going and uh we just later was check it and send it to the hospital you know and when I was just rabit with my bed you know because I was laying on my bed I they was arri me in the same place where he's you know laying on the bed and he was shouting on me know you he was uh something like that I say straight away to him you you you kick my ass also a lot and we was laughing together in the same room the nurses is laughing from us you know and it was you know the wild night you know and U yeah I get the knockdown you know it took a lot but I still you f you know found some energy in my inside you know uh and I stand up you know stand up and I was you know every second and every minute was thinking that you know I'm not to come to lose you know I come to knock down him you know to make something special today and uh I give a lot of work before so it doesn't matter for me you know or you get some bullets or in your chest or you get some knockdowns you know I still I I will stand up and I will continue you know what I have to do so uh he also a good fighter u a lot of experience before and I was not understand you know he plan he was you know to with me on the feet he was start boxing with me and uh yeah for me was the best because I I I can go on the ground also easily but it tooks a lot of energy and I don't like this fights you know like to grappling to keep each other on the ground and so on and after all the fight I was just put my hands on the cage and I was uh like my head you know like hold it up and I see straight wait in fre in front of me V white you know and he was looking at me like this what the you know I was and that that moment I understand that he arrived and he watching he was watching our fight you know and uh yeah it was a nice moment big guy arrived and in that day only in one day he was uh in all the fights just only in one day he was uh came and check uh the fighters and how they are fighting and so on so good thing he like our fight uh but uh I was just uh I came not that he will like like it but I came just you know how to say to show my technique uh to show the world and I think if I will do this he 100% will see it you know but if you will come to just uh lay on the on your back just do some grappling and then that's it I think it's like you know so many people before as I see was uh going maybe smart or something like that uh we just uh fighting on the ground grappling a lot of grappling uh don't want to get any big uh damages with the punches and so on so I don't know I was didn't think about this I was trying to show uh my best side of uh of a fighting uh to win this fight and not to win by point I want to make a knock down knock down and maybe knock out for him and I almost almost done it just few was things crazy when I was not understand what is going on when I was every time punching to him from my KNE straight away to head and he still on the feet you know and I was in the fight I was not understand what is wrong with the my power maybe or with his head so he took a lot of punches and he survive and I have big respect for him I hope he is good today I was talk with him friend in the tiger gym you know and um yeah they talk good things about me I want talk good things about him and I wish for him good luck and maybe one day we will see each other for much because uh I think he he he want it maybe and uh if he want one day why not you know we can we can make a rematch no that would definitely be a crazy rematch no doubt about it like I said definitely one of the fights this season hands down and uh you know one more thing about me is uh I'm a Taekwondo instructor I've been uh teaching for six years now and I started when I was five years old so I've been training for 19 years now so I love martial arts and uh with all the Martial Arts students I have at my gym uh what advice would you give to them to keep on coming into the gym and to get better and better every class uh you know uh I just only know one thing you know every time is hard every time is hard to wake up uh for running for uh for uh for or all after day you know but you every time you have to have in your have the dream you know and you have to reach your dream you don't have just to only dream about it you have to work about on it you know so uh I recommend for for for that uh don't uh Put Your Dreams in your pocket but work it work on it you know work on it every day uh because on every day you are better and better and better you know and uh when you will see your month before year years ago or something like that you will see how much you will make it which one achievements uh uh you reach and so on so I I hope for them that they will have some dreams in their head and they will not let it uh um leave in in some in some Pockets or or something like that because yeah you have to work on it oh yeah no you definitely have to work on it I definitely think that was an awesome message and uh speaking of messages what's maybe your final message out there to the fans watching this video uh I don't know how many I have them in in the world you know I see that 77.7 Millions was the view of our fight in the UFC you know so maybe uh maybe some of them are fans or just the people who was watching and so on but uh uh yeah I want to say hello I came from liania from small country and and I came to show the world uh as I say in what caliber I am you know so I hope in future they will see me more and uh I don't want to talk so much but soon they will see so uh I have uh prepare some good things in my technique so uh yeah and I'm looking forward for the good opponents you know was uh was fighting with the in Korea you know in combat so I want to find him you know and I was many press uh uh for the Press people told the same that I came for him and uh I hope he was uh watch this video and as I know he was watching my fight in the uh Apex also and uh he was quiet he was wet so maybe one day we will see with him for that much yeah that would definitely be an awesome rematch and again thank you so much for taking the time means a lot to me and uh like you mentioned the fans don't know you yet I think they're going to know about you pretty soon you have an awesome fighting style and uh thank you again for taking the time my man thank you thank you bro no problem no problem all right enjoy the rest of your night next yes sir yes sir I'll see you soon okay byebye [Music]