LFA lightweight Kevin Carrier cut it rather close at LFA 211 on Friday night scoring a late third round submission of Dey McIntosh.
“We saw a few holes in his game. I thought he was going to be a lot more aggressive than he was. So when he was staying going tit for tat kind of threw my game plan off. One thing I did know what, when he ends up shooting, he reaches,” Carrier told Cageside Press following the buzzer-beater win.
“I have a good guillotine. Haven’t gotten to show it off in my fights yet. When he did that I was like, ‘Now’s the time.’ I took it and I capitalized on it Thank God. God was in my corner on that one”
Carrier (4-1) started his career off in 2017, but a series of events between injuries, world events, and a growing family, had to deal with a long layoff. Since his return in 2024 he’s 3-1 and looking to go all in now.
“Feel good. Thank God I came out on the other side. 4-1 after a big layoff, six-and-a-half year layoff, can’t be more happy. Onto the next,” he said.
Onto the next indeed, but when would that be for the 32-year-old from Rochester, NY? There’s a happy family at home to which he owes some time to.
“I’m not a young man anymore. I got to go all or nothing. The game plan was two more win. I’d like to still relish in this but you hang your hat on something for too long this sh*t passes you by,” he said.”
“Loose game plan going into this was August, November. I already promised my wife and kids this next week is all for them. Right now family time and then it’s back to work the following week.”
Watch the entire post-fight interview with Kevin Carrier above.
