Sergio Pettis blasted Magomed Magomedov with an astonishing spinning again elbow on the 4:31 mark of spherical 2 throughout their PFL Champions Series 2 card in Dubai on October third.
Pettis appeared on Bowks Speaking Bouts, and when requested if he was nonetheless on cloud 9 within the days following the unimaginable comeback end, Pettis said [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“Oh yeah, for positive man. I’m nonetheless feeling the adrenaline. I’ve been watching that spotlight reel each single day, so [laughs]. An unhealthy quantity of instances how a lot I’ve watched that video. However simply glad to be dwelling. I used to be away from my child and my spouse. I simply had a child 5 weeks in the past. So it was; yeah, laborious to be away from my new child.”
Sergio Pettis: “I knew I used to be due for one thing huge”
Referencing an Instagram publish that the previous Bellator MMA champion had posted, it encapsulated lots of the sentiments concerning the very best of highs and the bottom of lows that comprise this sport. Pettis talked about that whereas his story isn’t good, he’s demonstrably in a position to work tougher and tougher to generate these sorts of outcomes when he appears down and out.
When requested if this was an enormous emotional launch for him and the way a lot Magomedov’s largely dominant efficiency earlier than the end represented a microcosm of the excessive highs and low lows skilled in his MMA journey, Sergio Pettis said [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“Oh, for positive. This was an enormous one for me. My final struggle, I didn’t like my efficiency. I fought one in every of my good pals, Raufeon Stots, and it was simply so bizarre going in opposition to one in every of my former teammates for seven years and only a good pal of mine on the whole. So with this one, man, you understand, I positively wished to return out right here and present the world what I’m able to doing.”
“Only a testimony of my profession. I’ve had the ups and downs and simply the adversity I confronted early on in my profession and the place I’m at now. I’ve fought some powerful guys all through my complete profession. So, this one I knew I used to be due for one thing huge. I may simply really feel it. It was simply one thing that was in my soul that I used to be going to harm this man and do it in a devastating vogue and man, it got here true. It actually did.”
