Neil Berry ”Leading up to this fight, my anxiety isn’t nearly the same”

Neil Berry takes on Anton Tokarchuk for the Rumble in the Cage light-heavyweight championship. It goes at RITC 62 on October 19th in Lethbridge, Alberta. Berry was cordial enough to give me some of his time ahead of this main event prize fight. (This interview took place ahead of the last Unified MMA card)

We talked about: multiple people at Canadian Martial Arts Centre preparing for high stakes fights around the same time

-his MMA journey that began in 2004

-returning to MMA competition after a lot of mental fatigue and working in a coal mine

-getting a win in less than a minute after being out of MMA competition for close to a decade 

-maintaining his one hundred percent finishing rate

-the anxiety of his first title fight compared to this championship bid

-his thoughts on Tokarchuk's skillset ahead of this fight

-the kind of music that gets bumped at CMC MMA