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UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan
UFC Fight Night 211
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Saturday, October 1, 2022, UFC Apex, Mackenzie Dern vs Yan Xiaonan
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my next guest making her ufc debut october 1st at ufc fight night taking on julija stoliarenko it's chelsea chandler joining me here on the program for the very first time chelsea how are you i'm doing good thank you for having me hey thank you for joining me i see you're in the car right now i imagine you're leaving practice or going to practice where am i getting you yeah i'm going i'm going to practice awesome well don't want to make you late for that but uh first and foremost we just had ufc 279 last weekend how cool was it seeing nate diaz get that win over tony ferguson that that was a great fight i mean things couldn't have happened any better it was like a movie you know it was like he subbed him at 209 time it was great it was honestly the best situation that could happen and last submission went for him since the mcgregor fight which is interesting too right like all these kind of things just sort of worked out so so that was really awesome um let's talk about you though i mentioned the fight there october 1st when did you find out about this fight because it looked like you got a full camp yeah so i had an extended camp to get the weight down um it was four months so it's kind of it's it's hard to juggle when you want to peek at like six seven weeks in a camp uh basically i had two of those so i kind of slowed into it and and originally i was supposed to face leah lutzen so it kind of worked out good because the first two months was primarily striking and then two months ago or about a month and a half ago they were like hey leah lutson's injured you're fighting julia and and that was a complete change in uh in everything i had more jiu-jitsu so um it worked out well so i got enough of a notice to prepare for her versus the other girl and it basically was a brand new camp okay that's good so so plenty of time which is which is great um let's talk about julia style-wise how are you looking at this fight how do you feel like you match up against her i think i match up against her everywhere my jiu-jitsu is really good my stand-up is good and um you know she makes mistakes she falls on bottoms for submissions so i think uh anywhere this fight goes i'll be able to dominate who've been some of your main training partners up for this camp who's helping you get ready for the fight um so i've been training i've been training mostly at uh for the jujitsu portion at cesar gracie's in um pleasant hill so i've been training with black belts uh googa uh sean and then victor galden who's one of my main coaches and we've done a ton of armbar simulations passing the guard doing all that stuff so um i've had very high level uh training partners that's great and where do you do any other training you mentioned just there is do you do cross training at all oh yeah um so this this fight i had to do a lot more jiu jitsu but but i train at csa too uh once or twice a week um and then i also train in stockton i have uh felipe martinez my boxing coach so i've been doing boxing every day and uh uh big boss muay thai for my kickboxing so yeah i've i've done a lot but i've been primarily focusing on the jiu jitsu yeah no that makes sense um who do you get to work with over there at csa i know it's a pretty big gym yeah um so carrie carrie melendez comes in there and uh so i do a lot of stuff with her she's she's a little bit smaller than me but she's really fast so it's it's good and this girl is going to come at me at 100 miles an hour so so it's sometimes the smaller person is a lot faster you can be on your toes um i also i've worked with um amber's over there i haven't really worked with her too much this camp she's much taller than uh than me and my opponent so it kind of wasn't the right look and then uh they have some other girls that i do uh jiu-jitsu with when i'm over there too and and my sister she's she's supposed to be fighting too so i have her she's about the same size as the other girl that's awesome so a lot of variety which is great you know you always want that going into a fight right so yeah yeah you can't just have the same training partner and get ready for a fight you need to have different looks keep you on your toes get your heart rate up so that when the fight happens it's kind of like oh this has already happened in training i'm not gonna freak out about it yeah that's cool um how about the weight cut you mentioned having a lot of time how's all that going ahead of the fight uh it's going okay the fight is now at a catchweight 140 because we had found some medical issues i've been having some issues with my thyroid so that was kind of the reason why my weight wasn't going down as fast and i started medication for that and the weight was still not coming down as fast as it needed to so we talked to the ufc and came to an agreement at 140. okay that makes sense why would you want to fight at 145 because that's a division that they don't really do much with and it seems like they could use fighters like yourself and others to make that more of a division trust me i've begged for that fight i've begged for a fight at 45. i mean they're signing these girls that are from brazil who suck and are losing that island girl the twerking chick she's like just lost got choked out by a 35er and she's asking for nunez and um i think i would maul her then they have uh norma dumont who who's fighting um she gets to fight pro debuters or basically girls with one fight and then she gets to call out the island perez and i'm just like you're calling out these girls that are first of all they have records and they're they're fighters and and they're giving her these fights and i'm just like i'm on a four fight win streak why am i not fighting this girl at a weight class that i would prefer yeah but um i mean ufc i don't know if they're building the 45 and they're just kind of working with the girls they've got left and trying to push them out but i don't know because they signed ireland at 45 so i never know what they're doing but i would prefer to fight at 45. okay yeah no i was curious about that because i always think like and i always think there's a couple girls at 35 that could move up too that have trouble making the limit we just had macy's on last week have trouble making weight in her fight and that's been a couple fights for her now i think she'd be better at 45 too so it's uh yeah it's a pressure that they're putting on girls you know to make that 35 weight class because they don't have a ton of girls at 45 and yeah and then i mean you see the pressure and how it turns out in the fight macy got barely kicked in the liver and dropped and completely you know so when you cut that much weight your chin is gone your organs hurt she's running what 60 miles a week to make this weight i know it's undue stress on the body but you know it's that's what's happening and that's what's being allowed to happen so i mean here i am going to 140. so yeah okay well yeah that's interesting um who's gonna be in your corner for this fight um i'm gonna have uh i still thinking i've got victor galden for sure felipe martinez and then um caesar gracie i think he's going to be coming out for this one and then big boss muay thai so what a pretty good corner how do you see this fight playing out on october 1st uh i see her coming real hard the first round and uh you know i really could see it going anywhere ground standing and then i think maybe i see it going out as a full three-round war i mean there could be a finish but i see it going the full distance um and being an absolute war that i'm excited yeah i'm excited about so i think she takes she takes beatings she takes hits she falls on bottom so i think it's going to be a really good fight to showcase my skills and my preparedness and that i'm well-rounded so i'm really excited for this opportunity you've come through invicta i think the fighters you see that compete in invicta that go to the ufc have a lot of success because you know the match making in invicta's you know very much on point you don't get a lot of easy fights um do you feel like you will have jitters at all just because you've been with invicta like i feel like a lot of the women that come from invicta when they get in the ufc it's no big deal because they've already kind of fought on this big stage already yeah you know i talked to leslie smith about that because uh she's also one of my main training partners um she said when she went to ufc it was like another day in the park it wasn't like a big deal and i also i went to the apex when i was out there uh getting some tests done in i think july and we got to watch one of the fights and it's so quiet in there it's kind of eerie so i don't think i'm going to be like super nervous because i've already i've already been in that room i don't think there's a ton of people in there and uh i think it'll be another day yeah i think it'll be just like being defined i think there were more people at my last invicta fight than they're going to be at this fight so yeah yeah we'll see um we've all talked all about fighting what do you like doing on your downtime what are some of your hobbies outside of fighting um i do i train all the time i mean that's basically what i do i hunt but i haven't really had any time to hunt in a couple years because i'm always training um i i guess watch watch tv and relax but i mean okay well what's like are you netflix what are you watching right now on tv anything in particular watching any series um shoot i've watched a couple different ones uh but normally i'm i'm watching on the tv like csi miami or stuff like that or blue bloods all the the criminal stuff that i like watching yeah you mentioned hunting and you say don't get time to do it you kind of miss like kind of going out in the woods and stuff because i know for a lot of fighters you know it's very intense you're training all the time sometimes you need that break to just get out of the house get away from technology and all that right yeah no it's great um i love hunting um yeah just getting getting out there and it's been harder too as as like civilization and everything increases it's harder to find hunting spots you gotta like go private and have friends and take you hunting because like the public lands are just and the fires the fires kind of mess up a lot of the hunting too the last couple years so um i mean it's something i'd like to do hopefully i get more opportunities in the future yeah get like a hunting sponsor or something you're ufc fighter now maybe they can hook that up or something i don't know that would be great that would be awesome chelsea i know you got to get to practice i want to make you late if there's anyone you'd like to thank any sponsors any social media anything like that you want to plug i'll give you the last word okay my instagram is chelseachand209 my twitter is the same i'm just my gym felipe martinez boxing out in stockton gracie fighter in stockton i've been training at caesars up in pleasant hill and my coaches victor galdon philippe martinez he's a gracie big boss muay thai and the list goes on but yeah that's it thank you for having me
Chelsea Chandler -110 looks good
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UFC Fight Night 211
UFC on ESPN+ 69
UFC Vegas 61
Saturday, October 1, 2022, UFC Apex, Mackenzie Dern vs Yan Xiaonan
https://www.bestfightodds.com/events/ufc-vegas-57-2489
https://fightodds.io/odds/4257/ufc-fight-night-dern-vs-yan
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/89894-ufc-fight-night
https://www.tapology.com/forum/threads/67200
https://twitter.com/search?q=#UFCVegas61&src=typed_query&f=live
my next guest making her ufc debut october 1st at ufc fight night taking on julija stoliarenko it's chelsea chandler joining me here on the program for the very first time chelsea how are you i'm doing good thank you for having me hey thank you for joining me i see you're in the car right now i imagine you're leaving practice or going to practice where am i getting you yeah i'm going i'm going to practice awesome well don't want to make you late for that but uh first and foremost we just had ufc 279 last weekend how cool was it seeing nate diaz get that win over tony ferguson that that was a great fight i mean things couldn't have happened any better it was like a movie you know it was like he subbed him at 209 time it was great it was honestly the best situation that could happen and last submission went for him since the mcgregor fight which is interesting too right like all these kind of things just sort of worked out so so that was really awesome um let's talk about you though i mentioned the fight there october 1st when did you find out about this fight because it looked like you got a full camp yeah so i had an extended camp to get the weight down um it was four months so it's kind of it's it's hard to juggle when you want to peek at like six seven weeks in a camp uh basically i had two of those so i kind of slowed into it and and originally i was supposed to face leah lutzen so it kind of worked out good because the first two months was primarily striking and then two months ago or about a month and a half ago they were like hey leah lutson's injured you're fighting julia and and that was a complete change in uh in everything i had more jiu-jitsu so um it worked out well so i got enough of a notice to prepare for her versus the other girl and it basically was a brand new camp okay that's good so so plenty of time which is which is great um let's talk about julia style-wise how are you looking at this fight how do you feel like you match up against her i think i match up against her everywhere my jiu-jitsu is really good my stand-up is good and um you know she makes mistakes she falls on bottoms for submissions so i think uh anywhere this fight goes i'll be able to dominate who've been some of your main training partners up for this camp who's helping you get ready for the fight um so i've been training i've been training mostly at uh for the jujitsu portion at cesar gracie's in um pleasant hill so i've been training with black belts uh googa uh sean and then victor galden who's one of my main coaches and we've done a ton of armbar simulations passing the guard doing all that stuff so um i've had very high level uh training partners that's great and where do you do any other training you mentioned just there is do you do cross training at all oh yeah um so this this fight i had to do a lot more jiu jitsu but but i train at csa too uh once or twice a week um and then i also train in stockton i have uh felipe martinez my boxing coach so i've been doing boxing every day and uh uh big boss muay thai for my kickboxing so yeah i've i've done a lot but i've been primarily focusing on the jiu jitsu yeah no that makes sense um who do you get to work with over there at csa i know it's a pretty big gym yeah um so carrie carrie melendez comes in there and uh so i do a lot of stuff with her she's she's a little bit smaller than me but she's really fast so it's it's good and this girl is going to come at me at 100 miles an hour so so it's sometimes the smaller person is a lot faster you can be on your toes um i also i've worked with um amber's over there i haven't really worked with her too much this camp she's much taller than uh than me and my opponent so it kind of wasn't the right look and then uh they have some other girls that i do uh jiu-jitsu with when i'm over there too and and my sister she's she's supposed to be fighting too so i have her she's about the same size as the other girl that's awesome so a lot of variety which is great you know you always want that going into a fight right so yeah yeah you can't just have the same training partner and get ready for a fight you need to have different looks keep you on your toes get your heart rate up so that when the fight happens it's kind of like oh this has already happened in training i'm not gonna freak out about it yeah that's cool um how about the weight cut you mentioned having a lot of time how's all that going ahead of the fight uh it's going okay the fight is now at a catchweight 140 because we had found some medical issues i've been having some issues with my thyroid so that was kind of the reason why my weight wasn't going down as fast and i started medication for that and the weight was still not coming down as fast as it needed to so we talked to the ufc and came to an agreement at 140. okay that makes sense why would you want to fight at 145 because that's a division that they don't really do much with and it seems like they could use fighters like yourself and others to make that more of a division trust me i've begged for that fight i've begged for a fight at 45. i mean they're signing these girls that are from brazil who suck and are losing that island girl the twerking chick she's like just lost got choked out by a 35er and she's asking for nunez and um i think i would maul her then they have uh norma dumont who who's fighting um she gets to fight pro debuters or basically girls with one fight and then she gets to call out the island perez and i'm just like you're calling out these girls that are first of all they have records and they're they're fighters and and they're giving her these fights and i'm just like i'm on a four fight win streak why am i not fighting this girl at a weight class that i would prefer yeah but um i mean ufc i don't know if they're building the 45 and they're just kind of working with the girls they've got left and trying to push them out but i don't know because they signed ireland at 45 so i never know what they're doing but i would prefer to fight at 45. okay yeah no i was curious about that because i always think like and i always think there's a couple girls at 35 that could move up too that have trouble making the limit we just had macy's on last week have trouble making weight in her fight and that's been a couple fights for her now i think she'd be better at 45 too so it's uh yeah it's a pressure that they're putting on girls you know to make that 35 weight class because they don't have a ton of girls at 45 and yeah and then i mean you see the pressure and how it turns out in the fight macy got barely kicked in the liver and dropped and completely you know so when you cut that much weight your chin is gone your organs hurt she's running what 60 miles a week to make this weight i know it's undue stress on the body but you know it's that's what's happening and that's what's being allowed to happen so i mean here i am going to 140. so yeah okay well yeah that's interesting um who's gonna be in your corner for this fight um i'm gonna have uh i still thinking i've got victor galden for sure felipe martinez and then um caesar gracie i think he's going to be coming out for this one and then big boss muay thai so what a pretty good corner how do you see this fight playing out on october 1st uh i see her coming real hard the first round and uh you know i really could see it going anywhere ground standing and then i think maybe i see it going out as a full three-round war i mean there could be a finish but i see it going the full distance um and being an absolute war that i'm excited yeah i'm excited about so i think she takes she takes beatings she takes hits she falls on bottom so i think it's going to be a really good fight to showcase my skills and my preparedness and that i'm well-rounded so i'm really excited for this opportunity you've come through invicta i think the fighters you see that compete in invicta that go to the ufc have a lot of success because you know the match making in invicta's you know very much on point you don't get a lot of easy fights um do you feel like you will have jitters at all just because you've been with invicta like i feel like a lot of the women that come from invicta when they get in the ufc it's no big deal because they've already kind of fought on this big stage already yeah you know i talked to leslie smith about that because uh she's also one of my main training partners um she said when she went to ufc it was like another day in the park it wasn't like a big deal and i also i went to the apex when i was out there uh getting some tests done in i think july and we got to watch one of the fights and it's so quiet in there it's kind of eerie so i don't think i'm going to be like super nervous because i've already i've already been in that room i don't think there's a ton of people in there and uh i think it'll be another day yeah i think it'll be just like being defined i think there were more people at my last invicta fight than they're going to be at this fight so yeah yeah we'll see um we've all talked all about fighting what do you like doing on your downtime what are some of your hobbies outside of fighting um i do i train all the time i mean that's basically what i do i hunt but i haven't really had any time to hunt in a couple years because i'm always training um i i guess watch watch tv and relax but i mean okay well what's like are you netflix what are you watching right now on tv anything in particular watching any series um shoot i've watched a couple different ones uh but normally i'm i'm watching on the tv like csi miami or stuff like that or blue bloods all the the criminal stuff that i like watching yeah you mentioned hunting and you say don't get time to do it you kind of miss like kind of going out in the woods and stuff because i know for a lot of fighters you know it's very intense you're training all the time sometimes you need that break to just get out of the house get away from technology and all that right yeah no it's great um i love hunting um yeah just getting getting out there and it's been harder too as as like civilization and everything increases it's harder to find hunting spots you gotta like go private and have friends and take you hunting because like the public lands are just and the fires the fires kind of mess up a lot of the hunting too the last couple years so um i mean it's something i'd like to do hopefully i get more opportunities in the future yeah get like a hunting sponsor or something you're ufc fighter now maybe they can hook that up or something i don't know that would be great that would be awesome chelsea i know you got to get to practice i want to make you late if there's anyone you'd like to thank any sponsors any social media anything like that you want to plug i'll give you the last word okay my instagram is chelseachand209 my twitter is the same i'm just my gym felipe martinez boxing out in stockton gracie fighter in stockton i've been training at caesars up in pleasant hill and my coaches victor galdon philippe martinez he's a gracie big boss muay thai and the list goes on but yeah that's it thank you for having me
Chelsea Chandler -110 looks good
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