Brad Doerges – So it’s a 3 days before your fight on Dec 2nd at King Of The Cage Do you know who you are fighting yet?
Nam Phan – This dude named Chris Solomon. I don’t really know that much about the guy but he is supposedly a very good wrestler.
Brad – Some people from Gokor’s camp told me that KOTC was thinking of putting you against Manvel Gamberyian.
Nam – Really when was this?
Brad – My sources told me that he want’s to start fighting again and that you were one of the fighters whose name came up.
Nam – On December 2nd?
Brad – Yeah…
Nam – Yeah I didn’t know about that…
Brad – He beat Sam Morgan from The Ultimate Fighter… and Sam KOed Duane Ludwig… How long ago did they tell you that you were fighting Solomon?
Nam – About a month ago…
Brad – Well that’s good the last few times it seems like they told you the day of the fight.
Nam – (Laughs) Yeah sometimes they say “Sorry Nam you have to fight this guy now…”
Brad – So where you been training to fight?
Nam – I have been training with Jeremy Williams at APEX Jiu Jitsu for no gi… I’ve been also training with Art James from Team Punch out…
Brad – So was it all the training at APEX that helped you beat Joe Camacho at the last Never Tap tournament?
Nam – Oh Heck yeah! Jeremy has helped me so much with my grappling… I’m from Franco’s (De Camargo) and we did mostly gi. I didn’t realize that there is a lot of tricks to no gi. Jeremy has helped me realize the things I was doing wrong and helped me correct those things for when I compete.
Brad – So did you stop training at Gracie Barra?
Nam – No I still train there… but they’ve been having some problems right now…
Brad – Yeah I heard…
Nam – Yeah so I’m taking a break… when they get things figured out I will go back… I learn a lot of Gi tricks at Gracie Barra and a lot of no gi tricks at APEX…
Brad – I hear that Pancrase was also looking into you…
Nam – Yeah but I can’t say much about that right now… I can say we talked but that’s about it…
Brad – Ok… Final question who had the best fried chicken KFC, Churches, or Popeyes?
Nam – Dude… Popeyes of course. I love Popeyes… you and I are gonna eat Popeyes after the fight…
Brad – Sounds great! Thanks for the interview.
Brad Doerges
