{"id":38038,"date":"2026-05-01T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/No-excuses-from-PFL-Sioux-Falls-Karl-Williams-The-results-have-been-the-results-201020"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:00:40","slug":"no-excuses-from-pfl-sioux-falls-karl-williams-the-results-have-been-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/no-excuses-from-pfl-sioux-falls-karl-williams-the-results-have-been-the-results\/","title":{"rendered":"No excuses from PFL Sioux Falls\u2019 Karl Williams: \u2018The results have been the results\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/no-excuses-from-pfl-sioux-falls-karl-williams-the-results-have-been-the-results.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Karl-Williams-333575\">Karl<br \/>\nWilliams<\/a> knows the drill.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3, 260-pound heavyweight will set out in search of his<br \/>\nsecond <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Professional-Fighters-League-12241\"><br \/>\nProfessional Fighters League<\/a> victory when he squares off with<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Maxwell-Djantou-Nana-410747\">Maxwell<br \/>\nDjantou Nana<\/a> as part of the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/Professional-Fighters-League-PFL-Sioux-Falls-Storley-vs-Zendeli-111849\"><br \/>\nPFL Sioux Falls<\/a> undercard this Saturday at the Sanford Pentagon<br \/>\nin South Dakota. Williams, 36, holds a 1-3 record with the<br \/>\npromotion and last competed on Feb. 7, when he tapped to a<br \/>\nsecond-round arm-triangle choke from <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Pouya-Rahmani-431583\">Pouya<br \/>\nRahmani<\/a> at PFL Dubai. It was his fourth consecutive defeat<br \/>\ndating back to his exit from the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/pflmma.com\/watch\">A world class<br \/>\nwelterweight clash headlines PFL Sioux Falls: Tune in Saturday, May<br \/>\n2 at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Williams makes no excuses for his recent run of adversity.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe results have been the results, and every time it\u2019s like that,<br \/>\nI can only control what I can control,\u201d Williams said. \u201cI go into<br \/>\nthe gym, [and] I work as hard as I can [and] get with the best<br \/>\ntraining partners. I\u2019ve been training with Francis [Ngannou] for<br \/>\nthis camp, and he\u2019s been back training, so I\u2019ve gotten as many<br \/>\nrounds as possible with him. As far as putting stuff out there, I\u2019m<br \/>\ndoing everything I can. Now what I can\u2019t control is what people do<br \/>\non the other side. I got into this sport because I wanted to<br \/>\ncompete and be the best that I can be, naturally, and go from<br \/>\nthere. That\u2019s what I want to do. Just work my hardest for it all,<br \/>\nand then the results will be the results.\u201d<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lL1xqWE9VCU?si=aYWiZ8P9z0NKbBVo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>In Nana, he faces another top international prospect comparable to<br \/>\nRahmani. \u201cLeonidas\u201d has won seven of his past eight bouts, a<br \/>\ntechnical knockout loss to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Justin-Clarke-449293\">Justin<br \/>\nClarke<\/a> in October his only misstep. Williams points to<br \/>\nexperience as one of his clear advantages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean he\u2019s similar to the last opponent I had, a young guy not<br \/>\nreally tested in the sport,\u201d he said. \u201cI think he has a good<br \/>\nbackground in other sports, so he is an athlete, but MMA is<br \/>\ndifferent. I don\u2019t know why they keep giving me prospects, but they<br \/>\nkeep giving them to me. I welcome it. Are they trying to give me<br \/>\nprospects because they think they\u2019re an easy fight for me, or are<br \/>\nthey trying to have the prospect build their name off of me? You<br \/>\nnever know what that backroom conversation is, and I don\u2019t know<br \/>\nwhat the story is behind it, but they keep giving me these<br \/>\nprospects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams has managed to keep doubt at bay despite his recent<br \/>\ndownturn. In fact, by the time he climbs into the cage, well over<br \/>\ntwo years will have passed since his most recent win\u2014a unanimous<br \/>\ndecision over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Justin-Tafa-254717\">Justin Tafa<\/a><br \/>\nin the UFC.<\/p>\n<h2>Struggles aside, confidence still intact<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel I\u2019m in a mental skid at all,\u201d Williams said. \u201cFor me,<br \/>\nmentally, I can only prepare the right way, do the right things and<br \/>\nthen the truth will come out. Certain things will come out, and the<br \/>\ntruth will come out about my last fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams plans to leave the past in the past, all while retaining<br \/>\nthe kind of confidence he needs to succeed at a high level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to give a good performance,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m going to<br \/>\nbring it all and go from there. You\u2019re going to see a good<br \/>\ncompetition. The results are going to be the results. I know what<br \/>\nkind of results I\u2019ve been training for. When my coaches asked me<br \/>\nhow I felt about this fight, I told myself I wasn\u2019t going to say a<br \/>\ndamn thing. Because I\u2019ll go in there and I\u2019ll think everything is<br \/>\non the up and up. Then something happened, and everything is not on<br \/>\nthe up and up, and it\u2019s going to go to crap. So I\u2019ll just go out<br \/>\nthere, and you\u2019ll get a good performance out of me. You\u2019re going to<br \/>\nget a good fight out of me. Then I\u2019m just going to give it to God<br \/>\nafter that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Williams knows the drill. The 6-foot-3, 260-pound heavyweight will set out in search of his second Professional Fighters League victory when he squares off with Maxwell Djantou Nana as part of the PFL Sioux Falls undercard this Saturday at the Sanford Pentagon in South Dakota. Williams, 36, holds a 1-3 record with the promotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}