IUR Fighting Championship XIV - Jake Ngai

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IUR Fighting Championship XIV - Jake Ngai Jake Ngai, the newest IÚR Championship Belt holder winner, reflects on his win, emphasizing his relentless fighting style and strong ground game. Despite early struggles, he pushed hard in the final round to secure the win. Looking…

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[Music] everyone I F championships um first of all let me welcome Mr Jake n or Jake too PLA and I yeah um congratulations thank you how's that feel feels good yeah this is my uh third Regional Bel now so colleting days you know yeah sorry everybody collecting them yeah yeah and uh yeah I'm happy enough for that performance yeah you know I I came out and third round I fought like I like I lost the last two rounds like I need to get like a 108 or something like wi like that's how I always fight you know I always try to get fight for the win and uh you know go push my hardest know absolutely uh you really it was a very technical fight on your end like you clearly have a ton of confidence on the ground and then not to mention your flexibility is ridiculous like I saw you uh you're bringing your an your shin up to your head a couple times there I think shooting for triangle sort um and nearly had it once or twice um how do you maintain that flexibility is that just from Rolling doing jiujitsu what not or to be honest you know a lot of people might be surprised by maner like I don't actually stretch that much to be honest like really yeah not really you know just the odd little like you know like the regular stretches but but uh my flexibility just comes from doing it in the rounds and sping to be honest yeah and I I probably that I probably should stretch more but like I notic I wasn't as flexible when I started training but as I kept you know doing the moves and training like the flexibility just came fold yourself into a ball if you uh if you actually stretch no that's crazy that's awesome um how much time did you have to prepare for this uh I just um I'm kind of just training all year around anyway so doesn't really matter ready yeah ready always always ready like you know excellent um did you do anything specific for this particular opponent uh cuz I I know he likes to to wrestle a lot you know and like kind of grind people against C and Stu so I was trying to work more on that like you know rubber guard like high guard style stuff uh you know cuz a lot of the times you know when wrestlers are trying to hold you not really doing that much damage but they can still score from that you know cuz I'm losing I'm not doing anything like so I always try to be active on my back and then uh when I stand you know try to be active on my feet and just at all times just like try to put some pressure you know show the judges that I want to win you know gotch you uh was there any particular time like whoops I didn't expect that to happen or to be honest he was a lot stronger than I thought like he was able to hold me down the first two rounds and I was kind of just like I have to stop like I'm I'm doing I'm doing too little to like a shoulder Jes I'm trying to win you know so the I was like I have to I have to like go for it you know yeah yeah I should have like kicked into that second gear earlier on but you know you know we did it in the last round uh let's talk about your Corners yeah um what's it like having or excuse me yeah what's it like having like you know kind of training partners and what not in your Corners to kind of to coach you through your fight yeah so so good you know had Keith Ross and jordo in the corner they're both they're all like really experienced you know all really experienced guy even my head coach Alexandro s he's so experienced he he couldn't be here cuz he's out in Seria I'm from Europeans shout out to Ka by the way who uh won she won comption yeah I just heard just as you came out yeah um yeah so shout out to her she's such a beast like she's so so high level so well arounded she she's a St the highlights I saw from the imaps of her was so good oh yeah it looks like it looks like something she's been doing for decades you know she's so comfortable so she's so calm too like there she's always kind of got I don't want to call it a stone face but uh it's just she's so prep she looks so prepared honestly I want to be like her like she's so good she she's she's like so high level you know I see her SP spying the men even like she's just so much more Tech I would say she's the most technical in the whole gym to be honest yeah know she every time like she's a very tactical fight I really like I like prefer to watch women fight because like I like Jiu-Jitsu like right ground stuff um and to watch women do they generally are more technical but yeah Kai is amazing nothing about Kai back to you okay um what say uh did how did did this fight get like did you have a game plan kind of come into this or did you just we just kind of like figure it out on the on the way so the game plan was I knew he wanted to close the distance so I wanted to kind of keep the distance a little more a little bit more but obviously when the cage is kind of small you know like it's a bit hard and stuff uh but uh I was expecting to I was just expecting everything like I can't like I didn't have a specific game plan for this fight just I just wanted to show my skills in all areas cuz I know how good he is at implementing his game so uh I just wanted to be better everywhere out that was my game plan wherever the fight goes I'm comfortable and I'm just going to do my best in every position that was that was really my game plan awesome um is there like one specific instance or one specific thing that you have benefited from um you know training in MMA or TGT or any kind of comics sport uh it's like the benefits of of training just like any one thing in particular uh is there something that maybe uh it has helped you overcome just just confidence you know like like I wouldn't say like I was like like I didn't have any confidence but like no martial arts and just like uh gaining so many like different friends you know with your training partners and people from gy and people that you compete against you know you just gain a lot of confidence that that you know that you probably wouldn't have like like if you weren't a fighter you know you can be calm like when you're in a room you kind of know like you know what you're doing you know so you do combat Combat Sports and stuff and it's just it's just a very good like like uh kind of like a community feeling you get like you know you have you you kind of it's like a big one big family you know I'm I'm a part of like a community like absolutely that's kind of the main thing like yeah that's that's one thing I try to tell people who maybe are unfamiliar with the sport that like it really is like a it is a family it is a like you're doing something something that's pretty intimate you know very close quarters to someone else um and then you're also doing something that's very physically challenging and then there's a lot of bonding the the natural bonding that kind of happens because of that talk to me about IR like what um how many how many fights have you had with iur this is actually my first I yeah yeah I fought with kage Legacy I fought with a show called EFC in my last fight and I fought were birus as well yes and then I fought like some like you know the IM man national championships IM and stuff like that so yeah that's really all the plac i f in this my first time on and a title a title contention there awesome clearly uh they knew who they uh Dey knew who he was scouting there yeah um you know what would you like to do with this uh to be honest like I want to have uh I'm pretty close to going pro now like I'm thinking of going pro soon I want to have like one more fight maybe in uh like a against a tough guy in the UK and then you know Go Pro from there you know I feel like I'm ready I've had loads of hmer fights now and uh I say just one more solid opponent in the UK uh hopefully for belt as well as you know it's good to collect the belts you know and and then leave the H career behind you know and go pro absolutely um what's your overall career goal then like where where do you want to be in five years in five years uh UFC I want to be in UFC 5 years yeah I don't know maybe it'll take 5 years maybe it'll take 10 years but but I want to be in UFC I I want to be UFC champion you know that's my goal you know well you're certainly on the road thank uh look I appreciate your time thank you very much and I can't wait to see you fight again thank you bro talk to you yes [Music] a [Applause]