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**MLS** · 02-15-2008, 05:02 AM

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“The Natural Born Killer” Carlos Condit continued his reign as the World Extreme Cagefighting welterweight champion by finishing Carlo Prater in the first round on Wednesday night. The New Mexico native was proud to perform in front of his hometown crowd and was happy with the victory.

“I’m still kind of speechless about it,” said Condit about fighting in front of his hometown fans. “It really hasn’t even set in for me. Two or three months of really hard training, and thinking about it constantly, trying to keep my mind off it before the fight, and now that it’s over and now that it went my way, I think it’s going to take a second to set in really.”

As the fight started, it was questioned if Prater would choose to stand and trade with Condit, who has a reputation as one of the most dangerous strikers at 170 pounds, but the champion wasn’t surprised when he went for the takedown.

“He is really good at throws from the clinch and that’s something we saw in a lot of his videos, that he can break balance and trip and sweep very well,” Condit stated. “So, once we hit the ground, it was plan B.”

Plan B worked just fine, as Condit was able to apply a fight-ending guillotine choke just minutes after the takedown and finish the fight.

“I draped my body over, maybe looking for a kimura or maybe a switch to a sit out,” he commented about his positioning. “There’s a couple different things you can do from there, and he defended some of that stuff well. But when you defend on your side, sometimes you can leave your neck open and I just snagged it. He put an arm in to defend, but I was able to get enough pressure around his neck to get him to tap.”

After winning the title by submission, Condit has now finished his last two opponents in the first round, also by submission, but the New Mexico native is hoping to one day again show off the stand-up game that most of his recent opponents have feared.

“I’d definitely like to have somebody, an opponent who would stand, so I could exhibit my skills and show people what I can do,” Condit said. “I’ve been, as well as working on my jiu-jitsu, I’ve been really trying to perfect a lot of my tools in my stand-up. So when I get a chance to get somebody like that, people are going to be very impressed.”

Now Condit will take a few days off to relax, but then he’ll head back to the gym and keep his game ready for the next opponent that will try to pry the welterweight title from around his waist.

Rumors have surfaced recently that the upcoming welterweight match-up between Brock Larson and John Alessio will crown the No. 1 contender for Condit’s title, but having defeated both fighters in the last year, the incumbent is hoping for new opposition.

“I haven’t heard much about that. I guess they’re going to make one of those guys the contender, supposedly,” he commented. “I kind of wouldn’t be too happy about that. I think I beat those guys pretty decisively. I know John Alessio has had a chance to… he’s really worked his way back up, but I’d kind of like to fight somebody new.”

One day in the future, Condit would also like to unify titles with the Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight titleholder and that’s a challenge he welcomes at any time.

“I hope so, that would be an ideal scenario,” he said about the possibility of unifying the WEC and UFC titles. “I definitely want to fight some of their (fighters). They have the top welterweights in the world, and that’s where I want to be, so I’ve got to fight those guys, right? Hopefully that happens, and I’m doing my job one fight at a time and see what’s on the horizon.”

For now, Condit will wait to see who is next to take a shot at his welterweight title.

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I'm not sure about their #1 contender since Condit beat both of them within the last year. But to see him stepup and try to unify the belts would be cool. I don't want to say that he wouldn't win, but he would give whoever he is fighting one hell of a fight.

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