HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Typically instances fights settle the variations between fighters, however that wasn’t the case in Impa Kasanganay’s most up-to-date outing.
The 2023 PFL gentle heavyweight champion defeated Josh Silveira this previous Friday in the principle occasion of 2024 PFL Playoffs 2. This was a rematch between the 2, as they’d fought in November ins the 2023 PFL remaining for the 205-pound belt and the $1 million prize. Kasanganay (18-4) and Silveira (13-4) had just a few heated moments within the buildup to the combat, and now that Kasanganay has the win in hand, he had just a few tings to say to the American High Crew fighter.
“Like I stated earlier than the combat, ‘How does a fish get caught?’ A fish will get caught, will get killed on that hook,” Kasanganay advised MMA Junkie and different media on the 2024 PFL Playoffs 2 post-fight interview. “He opened his mouth and obtained hit with the hook. Return and watch it. He’s missing focus.
“To me, respectfully, it’s an insult to his dad and his workforce. You’re sitting in entrance of your dad, who I actually respect, and also you’re taking it as a joke. You’re higher than that, and I problem him for that. … For Josh to indicate up the way in which he’s and simply mess around an excessive amount of, and simply not be the fighter that he’s, I’m disgusted by that. You’re in a combat, and also you assume it’s a joke to alter your loved ones’s life?”
Kasanganay, who now strikes to the 2024 PFL remaining, doesn’t assume Silveira improved since they final fought. He thinks Silveira did carry out higher, however total was nonetheless the identical fighter.
“I feel he made a option to go for it extra so than exhibiting he’s a greater fighter,” Kasanganay stated. “If he simply sat down on some punches, he in all probability might’ve gotten higher pictures in. He dedicated to issues – that was good. But it surely’s like going for broke each time. He nonetheless misplaced focus screaming in there. …
“Josh himself, to say he obtained higher is like for one thing that he’s performed for therefore lengthy, I anticipate extra out of him. I feel his commonplace modified. The primary combat, he completed Sadibou (Sy), Sadibou obtained damage. In Salt Lake Metropolis, he was speaking to Rob (Wilkinson) by means of the TV, ‘Let’s go mother-this.’ Josh, simply deal with who you might be. This combat, he’s speaking to me and staring me down, and I’m like, ‘You’re so missing focus.’ He has such a great dad and workforce, and he’s insulting them by that. In order that’s my message to him.”
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