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After accepting a short notice fight to step into the U.S.

Vegas 16 main event, my next guest made the most of that opportunity

by earning a unanimous decision over Jack

Ramanson following five hard-fought rounds. He now finds himself ranked among the

top five middleweights in the world in the UFC. With that said let let's talk to my guest, Marvin Vittory.

Marvin, what's going on, buddy?

How are you?

It's good, man.

All slashed up, but other than that, pretty good.

Well, uh, let me start by saying congratulations man.

What an amazing performance and an amazing victory.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

This is kind of the opportunity you've been waiting for a top five

opponent a headlining spot everything you kind of wanted outside of maybe getting the

finish I mean could you imagine things playing out a whole lot better than they did in terms of the result?

I said outside of maybe obviously if you would have got the finish that might have capped it off a little bit different but I mean ultimately going out there

Proven what you said was true getting the finish you'll get know a big win over a top five opponent doing it in a main event five rounds I mean

kind of like the perfect scenario right? Yeah yeah yeah I felt good and then yeah I

expect nothing but the past out of me every time. So yeah, I was I wanted to look for the finish

But then you know as soon as I started like examining things objectively and seeing and

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