Welcome to another episode of W Fan Daily with your host, Pete Hoffman.

I'm going to be joined in a second by a very special guest.

I have been loving these UFC fights on Paramount Plus.

The numbers have been fantastic so far within UFC 324, 325,

and now we have UFC Fight Night 266, Bautista versus Alivaara.

And I'm bringing in the Bantamweight himself, Mario, Batista.

Thank you so much, Mario, for hopping on with me for a few minutes.

I appreciate it. How's everything going?

Not a problem. Thank you for having me.

Everything's going good. We just got here for the beginning of Fight Week and, you know,

getting ready for this fight Saturday night.

And I know it's a little early in the fight week, but for you, being the main event,

how is this week changed for you?

You know, not a whole lot has changed. It's still kind of the same process. There is a little bit of a different feeling, you know, this is, this is my first main event, my first five-round fight.

So, you know, just settling in right now.

But as far as preparation, it's about making the weight right now, and nothing's really

changed.

And, you know, still early in the process, you get away on Friday and stuff like that.

So there's still plenty of cutting and whatnot.

How are you right now mentally, physically with the weight cut?

Is everything going well as expected?

Oh, everything is going great.

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