Catching up with Carlston Harris

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Following two impressive first-round wins, Carlston Harris is going to face the biggest challenge of his career on Feb. 5 in Las Vegas, when he will lock horns with undefeated prospect Shavkat Rakhmonov, who owns submission wins over Brazilians Michel Prazeres and Alex Oliveira.

In the following exclusive interview, the Luta-Livre representative, born in Guyana, revealed how he expects to stop the sequence of 14 wins (7 wins via KO and 7 via submission) from Rakhmonov. Harris also talked about his win over Michel Pereira in the final of XFC Grand Prix in 2015 and revealed an interesting influence of B.J. Penn.