What does it feel like to knock someone out?
To land any good shot, it’s a rush. You never know what’s going to happen when you hit somebody. The feeling of knocking somebody out, it’s like a hole-in-one at golf, it’s like that one shot from half court. You know that you were the superior fighter that night.
When you get the KO it’s like all the training, all the hard work you’ve been going through leading up to the fight, you made someone else pay for it. When you connect you just know the fight is over, even if they still want to fight, their body just won’t let them. You turned that light switch off.
Have you always had KO power?
I’ve knocked plenty of kids out on the corner. Where I grew up, if you couldn’t knock anybody out it was a problem. I’ve always had it in me, I’ve always been a strong kid, I don’t even lift weights. I just naturally have that power.
In South Central, Los Angeles you grew up fighting on the streets from an early age. What was that experience like for you?
To be honest with you, I’ve never lost a street fight. It’s a whole different game when you’re fighting on the street. All the stuff you can’t do in the ring you can do out there. We used to have a lot of backyard fights. My buddies would bring their boxing gloves, and if anybody had a problem in the neighborhood we used to just settle it in the backyard.
When the person didn’t want to fight anymore, we would shake hands and we were cool. Whenever problems came around, we dealt with it the best way we knew how, and the best man won. Afterwards we really had to agree not to mess with each other anymore, because the whole neighborhood knew what happened, they knew you settled it, and that was the end of it.
Savant Young is one of the true nice guys in mixed martial arts, but don’t let his jubilant personality deceive you. In the ring this 5’6” dynamo from South Central, L.A. is all business.
Source: http://www.lockflow.com/young-talks-knockouts-cars-and-next-fight
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