Khalil Rountree Jr.

Um,

I have been, since the Pereira fight, I've been to, I'd say, more than six countries.

And there's fans there.

Everyone knows who I am now.

And that is something that was a shock to me.

Especially coming off a loss and just knowing that, like, I gave my all in that fight and that's, I guess, what the people wanted from me to get that type of, like, acknowledgement.

Because I'd been in the UFC for so long.

but that fight I guess really showed people like who I am and I got to show the world who I am and against the guy like Alex so now I feel like I've at least kind of made my mark and been like hey I'm here you know and so people are now like okay Khalil I know this guy as you can say the name and now people kind of you know they're they're familiar with with who I am now um

But the other thing that it showed me was that I now know who I am and what I'm capable of.

I spent...

Majority of that fight just Soaking in the moment and just like I'm here.

I'm here.

I'm here.

I was excited to be there I gave everything I had but then going back and watching it I'm like I saw a lot of the mistakes that I made what mistakes specifically the number one mistake that I think was made in that fight is that it was my first five-rounder and I

when i was going into the fourth because i took a lot of damage in in the in the end of the like middle to end of the third so i was up one and two the beginning of three i was starting to kind of he started to kind of take over halfway through the round and once he started hitting me i was like oh he's established his range and now i'm feeling it so it wasn't necessarily like a cardio thing it was just like i started taking damage and everybody knows this guy hits hard so

I was taking the damage.

I was rocked.

I was dizzy going into the fourth in the break.

I remember John Wood saying, all right, man, you're doing great.

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