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Santa Monica, ကာလီဖိုးနီးယား (နိုဝင်ဘာလ 15, 2016) – Before the cage door closes ဒီစနေနေ့မှာ San Jose အတွက်သည် SAP Center မှာ, the main and co-main event fighters from "Bellator 165: Chandler vs. Henderson "participated in a media conference call. If you weren’t on the line, you can listen to it ဒီမှာ, or read a couple of the quotes below.
"Bellator 165: Chandler vs. Henderson " features current champion မိက္ခေလသည် Chandler (15-3) ဆန့်ကျင် Benson Henderson (24-6) အခေါင်းကြီးအခန်းကဏ္ဍတွင်, while co-main event action will have undefeated British phenom မိုက်ကယ် "Venom" စာမျက်နှာ (11-0) and California’s own ဖာနန်ဒို Gonzalez (25-13) duke it out in a welterweight thriller. Bay Area’s own Keri Melendez makes her professional MMA debut, as does Kevin Ferguson Jr. better known as Kimbo Slice Jr.
The event airs LIVE and FREE at 9 p.m. AND/8 p.m. CT on Spike and completes three consecutive weeks of championship fights on the Viacom-owned network. Tickets for the event remain on sale and can be purchased at Bellator.com, as well as SAP Center Box Office and Ticketmaster.
မေး: For Benson…Is there any extra motivation to prove yourself in this fight after the way the last fight ended?
Benson Henderson: I would say that there’s not a whole lot of extra motivation this fight. I’m a pretty highly self-motivated individual. I want to win all of my fights. I don’t need any extra incentives. I want to have my hand raised in every single fight.
မေး: This is your second title fight in Bellator. Is there anything you learned from the first go-around that you’re bringing into this fight?
Benson Henderson: I don’t know if there’s anything that I learned from the last title fight, just being more comfortable inside the Bellator cage and getting used to the walkout and finding my rhythm.
မေး: You’re fighting for the title now. Do you think of yourself as a lightweight? Is this where you intend to stay or is another trip to welterweight a possibility in the future?
Benson Henderson: I wouldn’t say that I think of myself as a lightweight necessarily. ကျွန်တော့်အတွက်, ကန် 155 ပေါင်. သို့မဟုတ် 170 ပေါင်။, just wherever the more interesting and fun matchups are. ဒါပေမဲ့, first things first, I have to take care of business စနေနေ့မှာ ည.
မေး: You mentioned fun and interesting fights. Is the title something you think about as well? The story line of the week is a two-division champion in the other promotion. Is that a dream that you have for yourself in your career or do you just want to stay and be the most dominate lightweight champion that you can be?
Benson Henderson: I’m going to go get this belt at 155 ပေါင်။, but after that I wouldn’t say that belts offer a whole lot of extra incentive. Obviously belts are great and the meaning behind the belt is that you are the best in the planet and that means a lot to say that you are the best at that weight class, but I don’t fight necessarily just for the belt. You do want the belt, but right now all I’m concentrating on is four days from now and a man named Michael Chandler.
မေး: For Michael…Have you ever thought about trying for another belt? I know it’s early in your title reign, but has that ever crossed your mind? နှင့်, if you did go for another belt, would it be for welterweight or featherweight?
မိက္ခေလသည် Chandler: I haven’t put a lot of thought into it. ကျွန်တော့်အတွက်, I’m just looking for the biggest fight I can get. I know there’s no way I could make 145 ပေါင်။, since I walk around at about 190 ပေါင်။, between fights. ဒါကြောင့်, I’m not interested in losing the muscle mass that I’ve worked so hard to build. ဘာမှမယ်ဆိုရင်, I would jump up to 170 ပေါင်။, but right now I’m focused on my fight ဒီစနေနေ့မှာ night and I’m excited to get out there and perform.
မေး: Why is Henderson an important opponent for your career?
မိက္ခေလသည် Chandler: Every opponent is important. Every single time we fight, we’re putting ourselves, our livelihood, our records, and our reputation on the line. It just so happens for me, I get an opportunity to fight a guy who’s been a champion and has done some great things in the sport. But luckily, it’s the right time for me and the wrong time for him. I’m extremely excited to go out there and make a statement with this fight စနေနေ့မှာ ည. He’s definitely a great, willing opponent, but I’m excited to go out there and get the finish.
မေး: For MVP…Obviously, it’s been a fantastic year for you in Bellator, especially your performance in London. Have you got your finger on the pulse of pop culture right now and is there something out there that you’re drawing inspiration from that you’re looking to utilize in some entertainment factor on fight night?
MVP: အင်း, I’m always socially aware, but I have to get the job done first and that’s the most important thing.
မေး: At the moment, fighting at multiple weight classes and fighting in multiple divisions seems to be the rage right now and I know in the past you’ve mentioned the possibility of dropping down to 155 ပေါင်။, is that something that you’re still interested in?
MVP: At the moment, မလုပ်ပါနှင့်. အခုချက်ချင်း, I’m just focused on fighting in the welterweight division.
မေး: If you can record a win over Fernando Gonzalez, how many more fights and how many more wins do you think before you are in that title picture and fighting for a title shot?
MVP: That’s not really my main concern. I just go out there and entertain and I’ll keep doing that until I end up in the position I’m supposed to be in.
မေး: For Michael Chandler…With you watching Benson from a far for a long time, what did you think of him as his career progressed?
မိက္ခေလသည် Chandler: Benson’s had a phenomenal career. နောက်ကျောသောနေ့၌, he was the UFC champion and I was the Bellator champion. He was ranked number one and I was ranked number three in the world and it was always that “what if” matchup. What if these two guys could fight…and now we finally get to see. He’s continued to impress. He’s continued to win. Great careers and great legacies can’t be had without great opponents. I look at Benson Henderson as exactly that, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to step into that cage စနေနေ့မှာ night and lose this belt. I’ve trained my tail off, I’ve gone through some of the toughest hardships that anyone can go through in this sport…losing three fights in a row, coming back, and believing that no matter what, my next big breakthrough is right around the corner. I never once thought about quitting, where I think a lot of people in that situation would. Where I’ve been and where I am now, I’m confident and I’m excited to just go out there and put it all on the line against one of the best in the world and one of the biggest names in the sport. This is a great opportunity on Spike TV, အသက်ရှင်နေထိုင်နှင့်အခမဲ့ဖြစ်သည်.
မေး: For Fernando…question regarding the video packages that Michael Page has produced and released this year, most recently during Halloween. Did you watch them and what was your reaction to the video packages?
ဖာနန်ဒို Gonzalez: I watched both of the videos and thought it was kind of funny, especially the last one. Bad choice of food products I guess. He’s basically eating balls and drinking milk, while cupping and savoring the taste. ဒါကြောင့်, I don’t know if I should take that as a call out, but I think the victory alone will be enough for me.
မေး: With Michael (စာမျက်နှာ) on the line right now, does Fernando have any sort of message for him leading up to the fight?
ဖာနန်ဒို Gonzalez: It’s the same message that I gave before. Just show up. I respect the fighter, but after this he’ll congratulate me and thank me for making him a better fighter. သူကခက်ခဲတဲ့ရဲ့, but he hasn’t been tested and I’m going to give him his first loss.
မေး: Michael do you have a response to that?
MVP: I’m allergic to bullshit, so there’s no point in responding.
မေး: For Benson Henderson…In the title eliminator fight in Anaheim, you had a calm and deliberate demeanor throughout that fight and before we could really see you explode, Pitbull was taken away with an injury. Are you going to look to set a faster pace with Chandler, or are we going to see a more measured response?
Benson Henderson: We’ll see how it plays out. It’s hard to dictate and say exactly what I’m going to do. If I was an NFL coach, I would not be one of those coaches that has the first 15 plays of the game scripted out and no matter what happens, we’re sticking to these 15 plays. ကျွန်တော့်အတွက်, I have to feel it out and go with the flow. ဒါပေမဲ့, for me I don’t think this is going to be a slow pace fight. I’m expecting this to be one of the most high paced, action-packed fights you’ve seen in the Bellator cage.
"Bellator ဖြည့်စွက် 165: Chandler vs. Henderson” Main Card:
Lightweight World Title Main Event: မိက္ခေလသည် Chandler (15-3) vs. Benson Henderson (24-6)
Welterweight Co-Main Event: မိက္ခေလသည်စာမျက်နှာ (11-0) vs. ဖာနန်ဒို Gonzalez (25-13)
Light Heavyweight Feature Bout: Linton Vassell (16-5) vs. Francis က Carmont (25-11)
Lightweight Feature Bout: အာဒံကို Piccolot (8-0) vs. Brandon Girtz (14-4)
Flyweight Feature Bout: Keri-Anne Taylor-Melendez (ပွဲဦးထွက်) vs. Sheila Padilla (2-0)
Complete Preliminary Card:
Welterweight Preliminary Bout: Kevin Ferguson Jr. (ပွဲဦးထွက်) vs. Aaron Hamilton (0-2)
ပေါ့ပါးသောပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: Carrington Banks (5-0) vs. Jake Roberts (7-0)
Middleweight ပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: Diego Herzog (3-2) vs. နစ်ခ် Pica (5-0)
Bantamweight ပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: ယေရမိက Monaghan (9-5) vs. Vince Murdock (8-2)
Welterweight Preliminary Bout: ဂျိမ်းတယ်ရီ (17-9) vs. Justin Baesman (19-10-1)
Bantamweight ပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: Alvin Cacdac (16-12) vs. စတိဗ် Ramirez ဖြစ်ပြီး (5-1)
ပေါ့ပါးသောပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: J.J. Okanovich (2-1) vs. Luis Vargas (ပွဲဦးထွက်)
Featherweight ပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: ဗစ်တာဂျုံးစ် (0-2) vs. Beau Hamilton (1-7)
ပေါ့ပါးသောပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: Hugo Lujan (0-1) vs. Cesar Gonzalez (ပွဲဦးထွက်)
Welterweight “VOW” Preliminary Bout: Dominic Sumner (ပွဲဦးထွက်) vs. Justin Roswell (1-0)
Welterweight Preliminary Bout: Danasabe Mohammed (5-0) vs. Dwight Grant (6-1)
Flyweight Preliminary Bout: Sarah D’Alelio (10-6) vs. Jaimelene Nievera (4-1)
