Kai Kamaka III had no thought he can be cornering at UFC 303.
Kamaka fought in South Dakota within the PFL on Friday night time as he beat Pedro Carvalho by choice to punch a ticket to the playoffs. The Hawaiian received on the aircraft to return to Vegas on Saturday morning and anticipated to spend the day at house together with his household watching UFC 303.
Nonetheless, whereas he was exterior within the pool together with his youngsters, Kai Kamaka had a few missed calls from Eric Nickick to say he wanted him to nook Dan Ige for an excellent brief discover struggle. What transpired subsequent was a busy couple of hours for everybody concerned.
“The fights begin at 3 and I’m not even actually watching the fights as a result of I simply received to my youngsters. I had simply gotten house from my struggle, and so they have been swimming within the pool and spending time with them, and checking on the fights. I checked my cellphone and had two missed calls from Eric Nicksick, and I’m pondering we simply gotten again, everybody goes to their households, I do know he was going to the sector to nook Roman. Like why the f**ok is he calling me. Then, I had a textual content message, stated name me ASAP. I known as him and he instructed me the scenario, and he stated we might should go,” Kamaka stated to BJPENN.com.
“We get to the sector, the safety checkpoint, and the safety comes up and asks for our names, Dan is driving, and he doesn’t know what to inform them as a result of he received instructed to maintain it on the down low. He was stuttering, Ali came to visit and was like ‘Brother, we don’t have a lot time.’ We see UFC personnel operating to the safety so we drive previous the safety,” Kamaka stated.
“At that time, I used to be like that is on. They begin filming us strolling in and that’s simply getting there. We began strolling in and he has to go weigh in, Dan didn’t even know he needed to weigh in, he simply instructed them he was 165. He didn’t learn the contract, however he didn’t know he was weighing in, however fortunately he was like 164.5. He was nonetheless on weight. They requested him concerning the struggle and he stated 165 randomly and wasn’t even 100% certain,” Kamaka added.
As soon as the weigh-in and the struggle was confirmed, Kai Kamaka stated one individual began watching tape on Diego Lopes whereas the others have been simply serving to Dan Ige work out and get unfastened. They knew they didn’t have time to coach something particular.
Though Ige misplaced a choice to Lopes, Kamaka was nonetheless happy with what his fellow Hawaiian achieved at UFC 303.
“Dan was dictating the struggle, he wasn’t successful the struggle, however he was attempting to create the motion. He didn’t wish to go in there and simply maintain Diego down. He got here to struggle. He needed to ship to the gang, however he additionally needed to win,” Kamaka concluded.
