Will Fleury doesn’t get paid by the hour. His run as Oktagon’s double champion has made that clear. His last two fights have taken just over eight minutes combined and have seen him dust two former European champions. He’ll look to continue that trend on Saturday at Oktagon 92, but with a little more incentive than before.
Fleury, in a rare instance, finds himself the co-main event for the fight card in Prague, Czech Republic. The main event features his partner, Lucie Pudilova, as she looks to get her hands on the bantamweight title. And with Fleury not wanting to miss the occasion, he knows his performance could be an important part of it.
“I will have to go back and do a medical, I assume,” Fleury said. “I’ve kind of been thinking about this. It’s about making my fight as clean as possible – getting out so that medical is as short as possible where they basically look at you and go, ‘yeah, you’re breathing, you’re healthy, you’re fine. Okay. Best of luck.’ And I can head back out and watch hers.”
He’s already considered the time that he’ll likely have for such events. While he’d like to map the whole thing out, he knows that the fight game is not an easy one to predict.
“There will probably be about 15 minutes between my fight ending and her fight starting.
So I will have a little bit of time, and I hope to God I don’t miss much of it because look, it’s fighting, man, it’s crazy, isn’t it?” he said. “We could both end up in the hospital that night – you never know how it’s all going to go. Hopefully I’ll go in and do it clean and I’m able to watch her whole fight.”
And while some might think he’d prefer to be the main event so that he could see what she’s doing, he’s actually happy to be in the co-main this weekend. He feels he simply wouldn’t be able to focus with her doing her thing out there.
“I don’t want to be thinking about her fight while I’m warming up and trying to sneak a peek. It’d be a massive distraction,” Fleury said, “It’s kind of selfish for me to want to be the first fight because she has to deal with that now with my fight, but I’m glad I won’t be warming up while she’s fighting.”
You can catch Fleury looking to get the job done clean as the co-main event to Oktagon 92 this Saturday. The fight card airs at 12:00pm EST and can be seen on Oktagon.tv.
