""We sparred prior to me having an amateur fight I believe. I was at their gym and I went with all of their best guys," Gantt told Cageside Press at his post-fight scrum. "I was taking him down, but I mean that was all I was doing at that point. We traded a little bit on the feet and I think he might have caught me in an arm bar or something like that, but it wasn't like...it's sparring. A fight's a fight, sparring's sparring and obviously you see what happens.""
""I made a lot of improvements over time. I credit one of my coaches, he like to be anonymous, but he's just set me up with some phenomenal training. From the striking to the grappling," he said."
""I guess the Long Island boys talk a little trash or whatever. Where I'm from we don't really do that because we take trash talk personally," he said. "If you do that you better be ready to stand on it.""
Tommy Gantt improved his record to 11-0 by submitting Adam Livingston with a first-round guillotine choke in under three minutes. A tense weigh-in face-off preceded the fight after Livingston hinted that they had sparred previously and that he might have had the edge. Gantt described the earlier sparring as limited and emphasized that fight conditions differ from practice. Gantt has trained with Daniel Cormier at The Academy in Gilroy, CA, and credited an anonymous coach and training partners like Torrez Finney for sharpening his striking and grappling. Livingston avoided eye contact after the decision, and Gantt warned against trash talk without backing it up.
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