Khalil Rountree Jr.

You know, like that was just really like internally, like, okay, sure.

I knew how I've been training and what I'm prepared for, and I know the type of athlete and fighter and man that I am, and I just knew that it wasn't going to happen.

I was just that confident in my abilities and the work that I put in that I just knew it wasn't going to happen.

100% because the loss just showed me that there's more work to do.

People always say back to the drawing boards and it was more than the drawing boards for me.

It was like back to the dirt, back to the Vegas weather, back to the dying on the assault bike, back to challenging myself, back to going deeper.

Who am I really?

What am I really capable of?

That was it.

It was just like deep, deep internal digging to get out and to discover what I'm made of.

And so in that comes confidence.

In that comes like I know what I'm capable of and I know what I can do.

And so that's how I felt.

Wow.

So that's why I walked out like that because I was just like –

Because it was kind of wild.

I was going, what is he doing?

But I was also prepared, you know?

Like, I didn't want to rush anything.

Like, nothing needed to be rushed.