Ruben Warr isn’t necessarily losing sleep at night that he doesn’t hold the No. 1 spot for the fastest knockout in BKFC history but he would love for the record to reflect that.
As he prepares to return to action in the main event at BKFC Fight Night: Los Angeles on Saturday, the lightweight contender has watched his vicious six-second knockout over UFC veteran Robbie Peralta plenty of times but not because he’s trying to give himself an ego boost. Instead, Warr argues that he should hold the record by a fraction of a second over Uly Diaz, who once scored a blistering fast three-second knockout in BKFC.
“[I’ve watched it] probably a million times,” Warr told MMA Fighting. “I’m always timing it. I was always timing my fight trying to understand why they took so long to call the fight off. Because it wasn’t six seconds. You and everybody knows it wasn’t six seconds.
“I timed it at 2.7 seconds. People can say what they want or time it themselves but I had it at 2.7 seconds.”
Blink and you'll miss it
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Ruben Warr submitted a 6-second KO at BKFC Fight Night Pechanga on Friday night.
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The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it knockout was an insane way for Warr to cap off his fight so he’s definitely happy to make a highlight reel but he’d still like the record to go along with it.
As it stands, Warr’s knockout is the third fastest in BKFC history but he would love a review, especially as he preparest to fight in California again on Saturday.
“I feel like I don’t know if California has a thing against me or what but they robbed me on the [Andrew] Angelcor fight, everybody knows I won that fight,” Warr said. “The dude cheated and they still made it a no-contest instead of putting me as the winner. Then they robbed me on my time knocking Robbie out.
“I just played it over, over and over and try to make it understand why. As of now, I’m No. 3 for fastest knockouts in BKFC history. I’m ready to be No. 1 so I hope Bovar [Khanakov] is ready.”
Of course, Warr touting his knockout record eventually landed on Diaz’s doorstep because he’s the one who provided the documented three-second finish that still keeps him at No. 1 for now.
“He’s always tagging himself ‘I am the fastest, I have the fastest knockout!’” Warr said about Diaz. “I’ll like it and I’ll follow him back. He seems like a nice guy but everybody knows I have the fastest knockout.”
Now just because he delivered an all-time memory with his previous fight doesn’t mean Warr is trying to live on past glory as he prepares to fight on Saturday.
As much as he wants that knockout record for prosperity sake, Warr has long since moved on from that fight and now he’s looking forward to facing Bovar Khanakov with hopes that another win could get him a title shot at new champion Rico Franco.
“I don’t want to try to do it again because this is a once in a lifetime kind of thing,” Warr said. “But I do believe in my skill and I do believe in my power so when I do touch Bovar, it’s going to be night-night. It’s just a matter of reading him and timing everything just like I did Robbie.
“He’s not going to come in the way Robbie did so I know it’s not going to go as fast. If it does, it does. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t. I’m just going to fight.”
