Maw of the alligator
> After his first loss, Agilan Thani has decided to reinvent himself
Favourite cheat meal: Fried chicken from KFC or Texas Fried Chicken.
Best activity on days without training: Fixing, pulling apart and putting together objects.
Famous person, dead or alive, you would like to fight in the cage: Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump. Johor Baru. It was my first, and I had to fight someone that had more experience than me. His nickname was “Raging Bull”. To sell tickets, they nicknamed me “Alligator”, so that it looks nice. “Raging Bull vs. the Alligator”. Marketing, you know? I’m trying to improve on everything, but my bread and butter is grappling. I like jiujitsu, grappling and wall wrestling. I’m good in these areas, but I’m trying to get better at it. I would also like to get better at striking. My girlfriend manages everything for me. She’s always reminding me what I should do, what I should not, how to speak, and how not to speak. There’s a lot of things I’m still learning. My dad always tells me, “If you cannot be a great person, try to be a good person. Set a good example.” I just try to be a good person, and when I fight, I try to rip people’s heads off.
Never, but I get angry very fast. I’m still learning how to control my anger, but when in fights, I don’t get angry; I’m calm, yet aggressive. It’s hard to put anger, calm and aggressiveness together.
During training, I try to stay calm and aggressive, and it never happens, but when I fight, it comes. It is something that I’m blessed with I guess; a state of mind that only comes when it needs to. After Askren, I’m not going to be speeding everything up, and I don’t want to rush anything again. I’ve learned a lot after my loss. I’m just taking my time now, especially to reinvent myself into a better athlete, not only for upcoming fights, but for the future. The best thing you can do against bullies is to ignore them, and prove that you’re worth better in life, and to prove that, the only thing you can do is improve yourself; work hard, study hard, pass your examinations, become somebody.
In the eyes of certain people, you’ll be worth something, but you’ll never be worth anything in everyone’s eyes. Do your best to ignore bullies. That way you stay out of trouble, and they stay out of trouble. Trouble comes from both sides. The only way to live life is to forgive and forget.