Lou Valentine had $100 in his bank account before last win

Fighter profile of Lou Valentine by Chris Karter

LOS ANGELES – "The Wolverine" Lou Valentine beat Rigel Ko Nachi with a third-round submission on the preliminary card at Combate 164 in Los Angeles.

Take a look inside the fight with Valentine, who picked up his first Combate win after a rough outing in 2022 that saw him go 5-7-1 throughout the year. “I can’t remember if the sequence happened where I had a kimura grip earlier in the fight and I kind of abandoned it or felt like it wasn’t quite there, or if it was the same sequence and I readjusted. But whatever it was the second time, or maybe it was the third time, or even the fourth time, the time that I got the finish, it started off not too deep, and then something happened. I don’t know, I shifted on my hip a little bit, and I felt it kind of slide in there a little bit deeper. “Once he rolled to his back, I knew he was kind of in trouble. I thought about using it just to sweep and get on top and go back into mountain and kind of control the round like I did in the first round. But somewhere in there I heard him whining a little bit and just decided to crank on it and got to finish.”

“I definitely knew if I took this loss, I probably wouldn’t be in here for the next fight in the same breath. I also know that I have my back, and whatever happens, if I did lose, I would find some way and life would go on. Combate is the top of the game, and it’s been my dream, but you never know what life is going to deal with you or you never know what hand life is going to give you. And if it did give me a loss, I was going to keep going. This is my life. This is the way that fighting is, the way that I learn who I am. It’s the way that I become a better person. “Even if I took a loss, I wasn’t going to stop. Even if I was out of Combate, I wasn’t going to stop. So once you commit to being, I guess, a lifer in the sport, it doesn’t really matter if you take three or four losses in a row. You just know you’re going to keep going. And whether that’s in Combate great, whether it’s not great, I’m just going to keep going, and it’s the way I want to live my life. “I’m a riser. When my back is against the wall, I claw out. I don’t shell up. I don’t hide from adversity. I have my back, and that’s a comforting feeling, and world is getting crazy. It’s a good thing to know you have your own back, and I have a whole team of people that have my back, as well. I’m just I’m blessed.” Valentine on what he wants next “I don’t have any callouts. All I want to do is: Mom, Dad, if you all end up watching this, thank you all so much. The world gets real small when you lose a couple of fights. But throughout the whole thing, ups and downs, and not just my pro career, not just my Blaze career or what will turn out to be my Combate career, but my amateur career, every sport I played growing up, my parents had been there through thick and thin supporting me – the whole way through. And I owe you all the world. Thank you all. I love you all. “(My first Combate win) means a lot. I need the money. I had probably $100 in my bank account, and that’s probably going to be gone, whatever this hotel charges me my fee. So, yeah, to have money in the bank account and not hit an overdraft fee will be huge.”

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