Liberty’s Dylan Bowker had a great talk with Noah Ali ahead of his Unified MMA 33 Bantamweight title fight with Michael Hay.
We discussed taking fights at Featherweight on short notice, prior experience going five rounds in a 135lb title fight helping him going into this championship effort (1:51), not letting the surrounding excitement of the event affect his mindset (3:21), finally making his Unified MMA debut after fighting for so many big Canadian promotions (4:05), thoughts on Michael Hay’s skills going into their title bout (5:07), moving on from Champion’s Creed after several years to switch up his training (6:16), how his years of teaching martial arts has informed his efforts as a fighter (6:42), plans for opening a gym post-fighting (8:38), overcoming some tentative tendencies he noticed after getting a concussion/ having tension in the cage that stemmed from a troubled past (9:18), his experience as a pro boxer (11:00), listening to rap, hardcore rave, and classical music while training (12:04), plus so much more!