Transcript for #83 - Bas Rutten

SPEAKER_01

00:00 - 00:10

American ingenuity at its best. Wow. What are you doing? He did up in microwave. Thank you. Don't recommend that. I think that guy. Wow. Damn it's your penis.

SPEAKER_02

00:10 - 00:53

You know what? Did you see they they call it like the jerk off cups. They have like cups in Japan and you and you I swear to God and has a little like cello thing on it. You know so to keep it moist and it's a little hole in it and it's actually you can use it in a throw away my body. Yeah, we went up to the Room, my buddy goes right away. He says, man, they're reusable, let's say. That was not right. The best was that my other friend, he forgot it in a little paper bag. And there were some poor magazines in the bag also. So when we left, there was a Tokyo in Hilton to Hilton Hotel. We walked up in this little girl. Goes like, sir, you forgot your and she looks in there.

SPEAKER_00

00:53 - 00:57

And she looks in my body. She's like, and she goes, yeah. I know.

SPEAKER_01

00:57 - 01:03

And so she knows exactly what it is. It's very common in Japan. She was there a bunch of freaks over there, right?

SPEAKER_02

01:03 - 01:04

They're all this small.

SPEAKER_01

01:04 - 01:05

Wow.

SPEAKER_02

01:05 - 01:07

Yeah. So the whole cup, the whole cup.

SPEAKER_01

01:07 - 01:10

So your penis can only go in. It's for small penises.

SPEAKER_02

01:10 - 01:12

I guess you have to make a hole in the other side.

SPEAKER_01

01:12 - 02:34

Yeah, well, how's that work? It's not designed for American or Dutch cocks, right? For those who don't know who we're talking to, this is a true mixed martial arts legend, a real pioneer. Boss Rooton was a former UFC heavyweight champion and when I first saw Boss Fight, I saw you fight back before there was any real good striking in mixed martial arts. Mixed martial arts was a lot of it was karate guys and weren't that good. There was a few people that were just wild and crazy that were getting in there and trying it. And there was pancreas was going on over in Japan. And a buddy of mine, it sent me a tape. And they said, I forgot who gave me the tape, but he goes, you got to watch this motherfucker, boss root. And like this is finally a guy who's over there that knows how to strike. And you were blasting guys. Like in pancreas, it was a lot of like they had these shin pads on for folks who haven't seen it. And you weren't allowed to punch to the face, but you could use open palms. So a boss figured out how to do was pull his hand, way back. So he was punching with his palm where everybody else was doing bitch slaps. Boss was blasting guys with straight, right palms and not going to unconscious and body kicks that they just couldn't believe how much pain they were in. You were one of the first guys from Holland that you know that hard Dutch style of kickboxing to enter into mixed martial arts.

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02:35 - 03:12

I, I, I, I, I worked, I, I used that already post-strikes when I was a bouncer. Oh, I didn't like to mess up my fist. So, and I always thought, you have a way longer reach, like friends is a left-to-grade straight. You know, that combination is, it's great. But if you, if you connect with the left hook, you're too close for the straight punch. You see, and the longer the punch is the more power it has. So, I say, why don't I eat with a poem? You know, because then it becomes almost as long as my straight punch. So, the straight will have more effect. You know, and then people started thinking and I said, and if you hit behind the air, if you can see when I'm fighting, I'm hitting right here, just behind the air at the jaw, when the jaw starts. And if you tap it there, you'll drop.

SPEAKER_01

03:12 - 03:29

Well, you're one of those guys, too. You analyze different ways to attack opponents. And that's why you've got all these videos online of self-defense techniques and bars. If you haven't seen these videos, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them, if you've seen them

SPEAKER_00

03:30 - 03:33

Oh, look, you look what we got here. How did that get started?

SPEAKER_02

03:33 - 04:31

How did you start doing those? It was the funniest thing. I made the big boss ridden's big books of combat. And then I promised that the first three other people were going to get a self-defense book, a small one, a small book like 50 pages book or something. But then this guy screw me over with the books. And when it all happens, you know, I left this guy, but I came back to him. I said, listen, I told the people that the first three hundreds were going to get it. And I want to keep my words. But I don't want to do anything with this guy anymore, because, you know, it took too much for me already. So anyway, we said, why don't I make a video? We do an instructional DVD and then we give that to the first 300 people. Oh, that's great. And she said, what do you want to say? Well, get the camera. It was like totally non-scripted. You know, when we started at the bar, how funny was that? You know, that I go around the bar and I see a little, what do you call it? It's a saucer or something. I said, okay, well, this, you can throw at him to distract. You can break it. Now it's got sharp edges. You can slice him.

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04:31 - 04:45

You know, and then when I go through that thing that holds the receipts, you know, that's been, I grab and I look at the thing that I go. I don't need to tell you what you can do with this. It was the funniest. We had to stop so many times that we were dying left.

SPEAKER_01

04:45 - 05:16

And that's all one take no preparation. Nothing. We'll see you don't have to worry about things. You think like that all the time. Yeah. And being a bouncer, that is one one. I've never been a bouncer, but I did. Well, I actually did work as a bouncer at a concert place at Great Woods. It was a concert center and there was a lot of fights. It's constantly dealing with fights. different than a bar, because a bar is more dangerous, it's more contained, the concert place is big and wide open, it was outdoor venue. You know, when you're at a bar, you must have seen a lot of shit, especially in Holland, Holland's a fucking crazy place.

SPEAKER_02

05:16 - 06:19

It is a crazy place, you have to watch out, and you know, I wasn't in that era that they really started to come with the weapons. I was always fortunate to know to The big guys would come in and they would actually give their guns to us, you know, we put them to the side. And when they come in with their guns, oh yeah, and they will be starting for them before they went in. Yeah, it was crazy. You know, one guy, it was high up. It was actually cool because I worked there only for two weeks. It was a big place, the galaxy and set open bus. And very no place, a good big way, had some epic fights there, man. Really cool. And this guy, well, shit, anyway, something broke out. And right away, the big guy, the guy was on the top of the letter. He grabbed me from the front and he bare hugged me. And he says, we're just going to stand like this. And I said, whoa, I just want to take the worst one, the most dangerous one, I just want to hold you with like this. So that was kind of a compliment because all the other monsters heard it. They go like, who's this guy? And then the world starts to travel, you know how to go.

SPEAKER_01

06:20 - 06:37

So Holland, the fights that happened in bars. It seems to happen a lot with MMA guys. I know you've been in the bunch of them, Alster Overeem fucked up his hand, bought our harry, got in a big one. And it's just constantly. A kickbox isn't MMA guys. They're always getting barf fights involved.

SPEAKER_02

06:37 - 06:45

It's the bunch. The bunch is really think that they can do something. And I don't know why, maybe it is because they got more of them. And they think, you know,

SPEAKER_01

06:46 - 06:58

So they give you shit. They want to give you shit. They know what you want to do. Do you find that because of you have such a reputation, do you find that like guys get drunk and then they want to test themselves and you know what happened?

SPEAKER_02

06:58 - 07:06

I had that deal that whole bar fight in Sweden happened and after that for some reason I never had it anymore.

SPEAKER_01

07:06 - 07:10

And what was the bar fight in Sweden? Because that was a very famous like that was what happened with that.

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07:11 - 07:19

Well, I walked in. What year was this? Oh, God. I don't know. I was like 96 or 7.

SPEAKER_01

07:19 - 07:31

So you weren't the UFC champion then? When the UFC was at 99? 99, I think. So, but they, you know, put it back in all about you from kickboxing and from MMA. You already famous in the MMA world and the, you know, the

SPEAKER_02

07:32 - 09:36

Oh yeah, yeah, I was there for seminar people knew me, you know, and the bounces right away when I came in they say hey Routin stay calm tonight, and it wasn't a little alarm bell going up in my mind, you know, maybe I shouldn't go in, but I go, huh? I was drunk already. Why not, right? So I go in with my buddy, crazy friend from Holland, that house, and and sure enough, they started, they suddenly asked me because I'm jumping around and having fun, you know, hey, but so I pay for top everybody and I mean, I try to make friends with everybody, try to speak Swedish. You know, and they say, can you come with us? So we go to these two doors, two doors, and there's a big fire stairs, like a marble stairs giant. And he says, well, we want you to leave. I said, why? So well, you're too much energy, you're flopping around. It's not good. You're bothering the customers. I said, sure, okay, but K you tell my friend, my buddy's over here, he's also from Holland, the K you tell him that I'm gone, because otherwise, you know, he can't find me. So they didn't expect that. They thought I was going to do something, of course, so he pushes me. And I said, I want you to push me. I said, I want to go. It's okay, you know, I don't want any trouble. And he stopped putting his finger on my chest, which is something I really can't stand, right? So I said, okay, don't touch me because if you do that again, it's going to go wrong. I'm sure enough that we're looking for a fight, of course. He did it again, so I pushed him. And another guy behind him jumped over him and he stabbed the finger in my eyes and said, guys, come on, let's stop this right now. I don't want to boot my other eye. And there I went boom. And there I went down. He went down like one point, so I've never seen anything I heard and over the music. Yeah, that was the wildest thing ever. And then they had these little microphones, right? So yeah, I don't know, but fast. It was like five guys, four, five guys. And they started finding one, the guy that I knocked out constantly because he would wake up, right? And everything went good and went good. But then I started realizing, wait a minute. This, these guys are gonna come back up all the time, you know? This is gonna come to an end. They gotta get a hell out of here.

SPEAKER_01

09:36 - 09:42

So you're knocking them down. So you're hitting them, they're falling down. Everyone that's coming out to you, you're knocking. Now, but you realize, and you gotta get out of here.

SPEAKER_02

09:42 - 10:06

I had to get out of there. And there's one part, and Phil, this day, I had no clue what this was. I'm, I'm falling against the wall, and there's a hole in the wall, you know, with the little, um, like bar in front of it, and there's broomsticks. broomsticks. But no, brooms on broomsticks. Just, So I'm grabbing one, but right away when I grab one, I think to myself, I say, if I grab one, they're going to grab one.

SPEAKER_00

10:06 - 10:14

So I leave it. But they passed it and they all took it for your room. Oh, you know.

SPEAKER_02

10:16 - 10:47

It was wild and then I had to get that out there. So I went all the way down and I remembered that this day was a door that you know one of these copper things that you have to push in and then open up so I click and it's closed and I'm going okay And now what, you know, so I turn around and I thought, okay, now I'm gonna go only 40 ice. I'm gonna hit him in the throat. I'm gonna kick him in the balls. There's the only thing I'm gonna go for now. And they looked at me and they all stabbed back. So I go, whoa, they can't see.

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10:47 - 10:54

I can't see, I can't see. But behind me is the whole police force on its side because they were windows.

SPEAKER_02

10:54 - 11:43

So they throw me in jail. And because apparently one of those bonuses was a cop. And yeah, and I knocked him out, of course. Also, but he never told me that he was a girl, but nobody's up and I've done that. Anyway, we're there, and this is also, this is actually the funny story, because before this all happened, I'm talking to my wife, and I'm already tanked, right? And she says, why are you laughing? Why have so much fun? I said, I'm drunk. I'm having a lot of fun. She's no, you're there with two Swedish blonde girls, I said, I don't worry about you, no, me. If I'm drunk, you know, I don't care about anything, especially not that. I just want to have fun. So after two days, they allowed me to give my first phone call. And I'm calling my wife. And she's freaking out. So honey, you got to be, okay, relax. Well, I said, I got some good and some better news. Why you want to hear first? She's a good news. I said, I didn't fuck through Swedish girls.

SPEAKER_00

11:43 - 11:54

She says the bad news that's not me, Jill. Is that fun? She's going to hate me before this story because every time she says, she should tell us, you know, it's not funny.

SPEAKER_02

11:54 - 11:55

I think that's a hell of a story.

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11:56 - 11:59

You can't write a movie.

SPEAKER_01

11:59 - 12:04

Yeah, first story. That's an outstanding story. So how did you get out of the country? What happened?

SPEAKER_02

12:04 - 14:12

You know what? I asked them if they press charges and they said no. So I said, OK, I'm not going to press charges either. But apparently, they did press charges. And then I had to go to court. So I get this lawyer. And also, they drive me from the normal police station to jail, right? This is like a move, Joe. You drive into a mountain and the road stops in the middle of a mountain. out this elevator like two elevators I don't know if I go in the elevator I go like four stories up I go out they can other elevator go like two down go out take another elevator go like things up I go oh my god what am I you know was so weird jail with I was sitting there with like murders and rapists it was the wildest thing ever but all the older all the guards knew me so I had a VCR I had coffee cookies. I was playing cards with the guards. They actually gave me my phone. They said, I call. Yeah, it was nice. So then the lawyer comes to the lawyer goes, I say, OK, so when can I go? And he said, well, you're probably going to get like six to nine months. I said, well, back up now. I said, what? He says, yeah, one of them was a cup. I see you're kidding, I said, but they started it, you say, well, they fight against one, you know? You can't say anything. So anyway, it went to court and my friends, some friends were suiting, they started, they talked, apparently they talked to those guys and they said, man, come on, take your charges back, and that's what they did. Wow. Imagine six months. Yeah, that was weird. Man, that was like a movie, like a movie with a guy from a high leather. Remember, he made a movie one time in a jail somewhere really weird. And then when you had to let you out you know to go you're one hour a day it was like a circle and it was divided like like a pie like an eight And but with the fans like you she fans like that in eight so you would you have a piece of pilot a you know, that's based to yourself from here to you to the world. Wow.

SPEAKER_01

14:12 - 14:19

And that's another guy right next to you that he's and you're not interacting with them. You're not in the same jail as them. You're not in the same cages them.

SPEAKER_02

14:19 - 14:26

No, not in the same cage. Everybody has a room here. How weird. That was wild. Yeah. Scary stuff. Because it's funny now.

SPEAKER_01

14:26 - 14:45

But that moment is really not sweet. And this is where it happened in Sweden. This is the place where all this shit is going down with WikiLeaks. So they're trying to put that guy in jail for rape because he had sexual assault on the condom broke and he didn't tell her. Sweden is a strange place and they take like violence and crime very, very seriously.

SPEAKER_02

14:45 - 14:52

They had, uh, it is the suicide rate as the highest in the world. That really, yeah. Japan is too, but Sweden is one I had. Wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_01

14:52 - 15:03

Why is that? Why Sweden? That chicks are so hot. Yeah. That seems like they would cut back a lot. You know what I should say? Who's killing themselves in Brazil? The girls are so hot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

15:03 - 15:27

You know what I mean? It's like the flight over. That was a funny story too, because I would go up my crazy friend from Holland, right? So we get thanked on the plane and he says, I got to go to the restaurant and I said, well, go. But he sits here that the aisle is next to me and he sits on the other side. He said, well, but they just turned the light on because we're landing. I said, what are you going to do to get the stuff playing?

SPEAKER_00

15:27 - 15:33

Let's go. Take a leak, man. So he goes up and he's like walking up, you know, because we're going down.

SPEAKER_02

15:33 - 15:53

He goes to the rest of my people complaining complaining, you know, and finally he comes back. And he wants to get in, this before 911, okay? He wants to get in and I say, no, you can't go in and I look to the front and I see the pilot there. This is true story to the sweaters and the doors open. I say, I want you, I like you and if you go to the front and touch the pilot's head.

SPEAKER_00

15:53 - 15:57

And he says, okay, so we're working down here like this.

SPEAKER_02

15:57 - 16:11

And you put his hand on his head. And people like, oh, you can't do this with, but not as bad. So for some reason, they let us into the country. Wow. That was the one. Skate, you made you think it happens now?

SPEAKER_01

16:11 - 16:44

What are you going to do? They're going to shoot you. If you shut yourself on off, they'll put you in jail. Yeah. Yeah, they'll pull turn. They're playing right around and you don't know. Wow. So this is 96, 97. Yeah. I remember when you could get on a plane with just, you didn't even have a driver's license. So you had to have. You didn't even have to have a driver's license. I remember when you didn't get on a plane with nothing. You just go on with a ticket. That's what I meant. When I used to compete, when I was doing type one, no tournaments, we would fly. I had a ticket. I didn't have a driver's license.

SPEAKER_02

16:44 - 16:49

It's a little bit of a candidate for a long time. You could go with your driver's license, too, right? Two candidates, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

16:49 - 17:05

Two candidates into Mexico. But then the United States started being douchebags about it. And they'd cut back on Mexicans and Canadians coming over here. And so they made it more difficult. And so Canada and Mexico made it more difficult, too. But yeah, when I first used to go to Montreal, when I used to do the comedy festival up there, I didn't have a passport.

SPEAKER_02

17:05 - 17:12

You got trouble at the border there all the time for some reason they always get me out. I have no clue why that is.

SPEAKER_01

17:12 - 18:15

I have. Well, it's your record. They find your record. I mean, you, if you have a, um, a salt, like, like, what happened to Sweden, but what happened to Sweden? No, that was not because they went to court and they threw it out. It doesn't matter. The fact that you got arrested and you went to court and all that and you were in a jail for a little bit. Even if there's no charges that stick, they still have that on your record. Eddie Bravo got arrested once for legally having a gun. He got pulled over for a traffic violation. This was when he was working for a check cash in company and he used to carry around a big bag of cash with them and he had to carry a gun with them. And it was totally legal. But he had done something like not stopping that a stop sign or something like that. So they pull him over and he said, I just want to let you know, I have a gun, a loaded gun in the car because I do this. They arrested him, they released him because, you know, it was all correct. They checked his paperwork, it's all good. It doesn't matter. Every time he goes to Canada, every single time he gets pulled aside and they check his shit and they ask him questions and it takes like an extra hour and a half. I got stuck with him the last time. It's really annoying. And he had no record. I mean, he did nothing. You know, never, never stuck as a record, but just the fact that he was even arrested.

SPEAKER_02

18:15 - 18:21

Yeah. Yeah, just a big Roy the guy one time standing there all messed up and he goes, get any Roy to the back.

SPEAKER_00

18:22 - 18:31

That's what I got. I looked at him and I said, right, it's the magazine. It's funny, right?

SPEAKER_02

18:31 - 18:38

Yeah. I did that same line or nothing. I did the same line twice, also in America. Same thing. I came back from Japan. Same guy.

SPEAKER_00

18:41 - 18:48

You said you got a new Royce. I mean, why do they ask you to ask you? They always ask me. Brian's on me.

SPEAKER_02

18:48 - 18:52

Yeah, yeah, you know, but he's one of those just to be a man.

SPEAKER_01

18:52 - 19:12

He wasn't on Royce to be a girl. Who asked that? Yeah, the funny thing is you could say that Roy's are for Faggot's and he won't say anything because no guy on Roy's ever wants to admit they're on Roy's Yeah, I think it's fucking most gigantic ridiculous human beings out of it. I don't power lift in our ears

SPEAKER_02

19:12 - 19:30

six meals a day. How much pork? Well, that's the guy took that's a romsky. No, no, no, that's a romsky. The strongest men, Puchinowski, Puchinowski. They were saying that he ate like a handy and bacon. They have a 12 part of bacon or something like a day something. He turned purple.

SPEAKER_01

19:30 - 19:31

Did you see that? Yeah, when he fought Tim's a lot.

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19:31 - 19:34

Yeah. He got purple. Like the weirdest color.

SPEAKER_01

19:34 - 19:58

Yeah. Yeah. It's not good. His body's your body's not supposed to look like that's not supposed to that is not a fighter's build you know when you see these guys like there's guys in the UFC a lot of times in their first couple fights You'll see them that come in they're just too big and it looks good and it might be good for the first 30 or 40 seconds You know that's it you can you could really gorilla fuck a guy for 30 or 40 seconds, but then that lack the gas it builds up

SPEAKER_02

20:01 - 20:27

Yeah, I always said it. I never cared about it. I never cared if somebody said, oh, he's on Royce. I said, you know, to me, it is that you're insecure already. You know, there's something wrong with you because you're not happy with yourself. Let's go to that and that bullshit thing that they say, you know, but everybody does it. I mean, it's insane. I did this. For the amateurs, they, you know, they did the chemo. I'm the board of the chemo. Right.

SPEAKER_01

20:27 - 20:34

And they asked me to go and chemo is the, for people, no, no. The California amager makes martial arts organizations.

SPEAKER_02

20:34 - 21:07

Yeah. And they asked me to speak to the guys, you know, to help them out in the future once they're pro, what to watch out for. And then the last, the most important thing, what is the most important thing to say? And I said, well, don't do roach. I mean, if you if you already did Roach or are thinking about doing Roach, I mean, you might as well stop your career because in this particular stage right now if you're already thinking about it, you're going to fail. You're going to be a loser because you you went Roach. I never got that and how dangerous it is that you know what I hear the EPO you know people doing that. I go mad. It doesn't make you blood really thick.

SPEAKER_01

21:07 - 21:57

It's very dangerous and very common, by the way. Yeah. God. Boxers have been caught with it. Sugar Shay Mosley got caught with it. You know, EPO is what they always accuse cyclists of using. Yeah. Yeah. And it was a professional cyclist and he was on it. And he said that when he was on a tour, they were on a tour with the, they would ride on a bus and then they would, you know, compete in these tournaments and these races rather. And you would hear guys in the middle of the night, unwrapped their bikes and go ride. They had to. The heart rate goes down or something. Well, it's too much blood, too much blood builds up in your body because what, what EPO simulates is it's like artificial altitude. You know, like this. The effect that happens it out too, where your blood thickens because you need more oxygen because it's a low oxygen environment. So these guys, and they take this EPO, they have to exercise. But they'll wake up at like three o'clock in the morning, and they're like, they're parts off fucked up, and they gotta get on the bike and go.

SPEAKER_02

21:57 - 21:59

Yeah, otherwise it can have a heart attack or something like that.

SPEAKER_01

21:59 - 22:17

Yeah, you could have strokes. You can, it's very dangerous. I know mixed martial arts guys that have done it. And I know guys that have done it that, you know, their trainer found out like after the fight and they were like, what the fuck man, you got to let us know that you're doing this. So if you get knocked out, we can tell the doctor, hey, here's something you should consider.

SPEAKER_00

22:17 - 22:24

You guys on fucking LPO, you know, use a pen as a syringe, you know, you need to evolve like this because it's so thick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

22:24 - 23:04

It's coming out like lava. I was talking to a Joe McCarthy and I said you know what the new or no, no, he asked me so she know what the new was the drugist like a for finding I said tell I said Foyagra and he goes how do you know that? I say I ran an article about it like a week before that and apparently guys are doing that taking Foyagra and apparently Foyagra is one of these wonder things. It's really good for your kidneys, for a blood pressure, for, I mean, I read an article in, um, yeah, that's why I tell you. It's some magazine and it was like raiding about it. It's a real good medicine apparently, but can you imagine?

SPEAKER_01

23:04 - 23:21

Well, what it does is it increases your nitric oxide and all those, those supplements that people taste, you know, nitric burn, all these different nitric flood, all these different things. This is the exact same thing, increases your nitric oxide. That's where your dickets are. It's so quick. Your muscle fucking flare around. Yeah, stop helping.

SPEAKER_00

23:21 - 23:24

Yeah, until it goes to the ground, then it'll be uncomfortable. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01

23:24 - 24:03

You know what I mean? It's like to keep your cup in place. It'll take a little... The pens on, if you have a dick, they get fit into one of those Japanese masterpieces. People might not even ever know. And that was funny. You're one of the guys that you're one of a few guys that has gone through a mixed martial arts career and has successfully transitioned to a broadcasting career. I mean, you made, you're very smart in how you handled it because first of all, you didn't take too many fights. You didn't go with your ego and have fights after you weren't, or you were busy with other things or weren't fully concentrated on it. You stepped away in full health.

SPEAKER_02

24:03 - 24:18

And how did you manage to do that? Not full health. not full health. My knees were very bothering me and one of the worst things that I have is tendonitis in both my arms. And if that hits, if that starts, then it's... I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

24:18 - 24:19

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

24:19 - 25:59

Yeah, help. Do you have ever had... Yes, I have. Okay, now I have both here in the arms upstairs. And if it hits, it's about a 45 minute hour. a pain which is unimaginable. It's right. Yeah, you have no clue. It's like coming from the outside. It's like, you can't describe it. There's no pain like it. And there's nothing you can do. You can take pain pills for nothing. Wow. I have to write it. I would lose weight. You know, so when I made that comeback in 2006, six weeks before it hit it. You know, I had nine weeks to prepare. I think two times three times five days I took off. that I literally only worked my legs, because I had to tend to notice. And then, because you lose weight from the pain, and then I start realizing, okay, this is the reason that I stopped, because it's not fun anymore. You know, you're in the ground, everything hurts. I was rolling with, uh, in Eddie's class, and with Goliath, you remember the big guy there? And I was going to fight Leo Bolo. And he very much looks like him like built a man get a role with you because I need to just get up and just strike get up. And I had to tend to night us and I'd man everything was hurting and I could see everybody look like, oh, is this boss who doesn't know? So I go, okay, my please give me number. You know, so I got his number at five this later. I said and I took five this off set come back again, and he was like, whoa, what's going on now because it's a whole different ball game. But so that means that every time when you train with that, it man, it It's so much pain that, yeah, you lose weight, you can't eat. You know, yeah, tears of your eyes from the pain as well.

SPEAKER_01

25:59 - 26:02

And so what exactly is tendonitis? What is it? What is it from?

SPEAKER_02

26:02 - 26:28

I have no clue. And you know what? I realized that beginning in the early days when I did trek and field. I already had it there. I think that it comes from all the cordi zones that I took. I was a very sick kid. Bad asthma, bad agema everywhere. And they gave me a lot of cordi zones. You know, the horse, we're afraid somebody was going to happen at the end. And that has an effect I hear when you're skeleton. You know, it melts, they say, but I guess if it's

SPEAKER_01

26:29 - 26:42

That's crazy. So you were a sick kid and you transitioned somehow into a martial arts champion. Wow, right? Did you start training really hard because of your sickness because of your asthma?

SPEAKER_02

26:42 - 27:08

Yeah, I got bullied a lot. I was a very lonely kid. I was I was in the trees. I was I had a really cool skill. I could climb in a tree in the forest and I could like 45% of the forest I go from tree top to tree top. I would say swinging. Yeah, why don't the next way? Yeah, they would float if they would come out to me. I'm pretty good. Yeah, and I climbed in a tree.

SPEAKER_01

27:08 - 27:11

So they would go after you and you would jump from tree to tree like a monkey.

SPEAKER_02

27:11 - 27:31

Yeah, that's what I did. And a few of them fell. You know, one was almost, they almost didn't make it. You know, I mean, his hat fell like next to a rock. But that scared everybody so much that that was my Harvard. That was my safe Harvard. You know, every time something happens, I just climbed a tree. And it was it. But I think that that's where I got my athleticism from just climbing climbing all the

SPEAKER_01

27:33 - 27:55

That's fucking crazy. It's amazing how many mixed martial artists were bullied. People look at a guy like you and they would go, there was no fucking way this guy was ever bullied. It's amazing how much of that happens and what the fuck? How do you stop that shit from happening in school? I know you're involved in a lot of anti-bullying programs and I've seen you do public service announcements and stuff like that. How do you stop that in school?

SPEAKER_02

27:55 - 28:37

You get it. It's hard. You have to make sure that that the whole school note, like I would do, how do you say that? And I would tell there, if I would speak in front of those people that the bullies that they're, we gotta have sympathy for those guys, I mean, it was obviously something's wrong with them. They only can't team up, you know, to get somebody and they pick the weakest guy. I mean, seriously, if you guys think this is school, That's the biggest loser of the whole school and I think that human nature thing. It really is. It's like, it probably got beat at home, you know. And if you start talking like that, hopefully it brings a bell with a bully because otherwise you can't stop this.

SPEAKER_01

28:37 - 29:26

You know, you hear every now and then about guys who are fighters who are bullies, you know, who you hear about bullying in the gym. Guys who are really good fucking other guys up like young guys, you hear a little like about Hector Lombard, you know, I don't know if it's true, but you hear a lot of stories about him beating the shit out of young guys and hurting people. Yeah, you know, and you know that that has to be something from their childhood. It just has to. Something happened there. Yeah. Yeah, it's very stuff. You would think that a guy who's a trained fighter though, you would think, well, that's like, that would be my solution. Like, how do you get bullying out of the schools? I really think you should teach kids out of fight. I don't think they should have to fight, but I think, you know, offer in physical education, offer it because For a man, it's one of the most important things you could ever learn. For developing your character, for being just being more confident and getting out of aggression. So you can think things more clearly.

SPEAKER_02

29:26 - 29:30

I, we, we at KTLA this morning at a gym. I was, I was, I was, you know, you're gym.

SPEAKER_01

29:30 - 29:38

By the way, for people don't know, you have a great gym and thousand oaks and how do people get there? What is, what's the, what's the name of it? It's Boston's elite MMA.

SPEAKER_02

29:38 - 29:38

It's on 80, 80.

SPEAKER_01

29:40 - 29:49

Hampshire wrote in thousands of this is a rare opportunity if you live in this area to train with you know a true legend and apparently and I'm every day there.

SPEAKER_02

29:49 - 30:35

I'm trade I'm teaching every day so it's not like my name is under Jim and I'm not there. I don't like this You know, and so KTLA was at your gym. KTLA was a gym. Frank Shammer because of my friend, Hulk McKellen, you the guy from lights out to the new TV show in FX. Great show. And it's a boxing show. Yeah, yeah, he's next heavyweight champion, you know, and now he's got to cope with all the problems. You know, the money has gone. It's kind of a little bit soprano, meets, rocky, meets, you know, like serious like that. And yeah, all of us were bullied also. Frank also was a little fat kid he said. And then he also, because he went to boarding school in Scotland, his father sent him over there. He was the only American there, so they went broke. And with me also, it's because of the axiomia and all of my asthma.

SPEAKER_01

30:35 - 30:37

You had asthma and asthma.

SPEAKER_02

30:37 - 31:06

Yeah, they went ahead and had to take care of that, hardly fix that. I grew over there. You know what the biggest thing is, when I stepped into the states, when I was fighting in bankers, if you see some fights, you'll see, I still have everywhere, have spots. You know, and when I came into America, I think within a month, everything, I mean, you sort of almost disappearing, like, what's gone? I think also the climate, maybe I have something to do with? California climate? Yeah, I love it. This is actually, it's not too hard, not too dry, you know, it's, it's, it's perfect. It's pretty good place.

SPEAKER_01

31:06 - 31:12

Yeah. Yeah, we just said it, right? Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Yeah. Here are people in Minnesota, freezing their decks off.

SPEAKER_02

31:12 - 31:16

Like I said, I give it to the states and say, why doesn't everybody in America live here?

SPEAKER_00

31:16 - 31:19

What would you say they do though? There's no houses.

SPEAKER_01

31:19 - 31:31

There's a lot of people living here. Yeah. There's a lot of people. So you didn't exactly transition out without any pain. That was one of the reasons why you cut your fighting career. Yeah. Ten to nine.

SPEAKER_02

31:31 - 31:48

Yep. Yep. That and my knees. I have no cartilage on my kneecaps, really. Which sounds as a very easy thing to fix. In reality, it's the worst problem in a week and a half. I mean, the cartridge in between the knees, when a bunch, they could do something about that, you know, but cartridge on the knee cap, they can't.

SPEAKER_01

31:48 - 32:28

My friend has his knees resurfaced. He had a resurfaced with steel. They put some sort of a steel or titanium plate over the knee. My friend Steve was on the US ski team, and the 80s, and he fucked his knees up really, really bad. Like he's had, I believe, 16 or 17 surgeries on his knees, and they're mangled. And they just recently put artificial meniscus in place. This like white padded stuff in between the knees. His cartilage is so chewed up that they actually resurfaced it with metal. So he has like it's a crazy look in thin man. It's like metal like on top of kneecap. I have it here somewhere in my opinion. I'll find it for you before we leave tonight so you can check it out.

SPEAKER_02

32:28 - 32:59

But so there is a solution that my friends do you know it's it's hard they can't for instance they can put in me kept as a consummotion, you know, so it's not like you can put something on there and then because it gets Red off right away again, but it can do it's like drill a hole in there and then I put a Teflon plane in it But then the Teflon if you drill the hole the knee becomes 35% more weak So yeah, wait more chance to break the knee and watch you break a knee cap You know, that's why it was my doctor said that's why the above yours is they break your knee caps because that's like the worst thing to do to somebody

SPEAKER_01

33:01 - 33:32

Yeah, the knees are brutal, man. I've had three knee operations. I had my left ACL reconstructed, my meniscus scoped, my left knee. Here, I got a picture of it here if you want to check it out. Check this out real quick. You see that? This is a resurfacing. This is where They took his cartilage with so fucked up, took it off, and they resurfaced it with steel. And this white stuff in this picture, this is the Artificial Manuskis. I'll put this picture on Twitter later on, so pretty fucking weird.

SPEAKER_02

33:35 - 33:38

Man, the stuff that they can't do nowadays is bizarre.

SPEAKER_01

33:38 - 33:58

Yeah, it's pretty fucking crazy. Yeah, I don't know I mean this is really new stuff that they're doing But I mean his knee looks like it looks like but how does he feel? It feels great. He said he's the wildest motherfucker I've ever met he was a flight surgeon he's in his 50s and he's still trying to fight It's crazy. It's how it was mine.

SPEAKER_02

33:58 - 34:38

It's a very hard thing to step away from. You know, to come back to it. It's very, when I have students of mine or friends of my fighting, it's a way more nervous than they are. It's like, because you can't control it. It's like sitting next to the driver, and they go fast, you go like, I wrote, I have the wheel, so I'm going to control here. You know, and that's now it's hard. There's no feeling like it like when you win or when you for six or eight weeks you work on like five special combinations, you know, underground and standing and then to see if if you get a land one of those and then 90% of the time you do, you know, it's something that you really were done and then you land that thing and then it's like a whole and one I guess that's what I always say has to be feeling like that.

SPEAKER_01

34:38 - 35:05

Yeah, a lot of things much crazier than that. I think that it's just the ultimate gamble, you know, you're out there throwing your bones at some guy, you know, trying to hit his vital areas. And it ain't just a regular guy. It's a fucking expert and he's doing the exact same thing. So much of your success is based on how much dedication you have, how much time you put in, how much you can keep your shit together under pressure, the ultimate high, right? When you win, it's the ultimate high. It really is.

SPEAKER_02

35:05 - 35:21

And what you say, the thing is, can you always say, Can you bring the dojo, the way you fight and train there? And spar there. Can you bring that game to the ring? Because I can't do the problem. That's the thing. That's the big thing. The pressure.

SPEAKER_01

35:21 - 35:40

You know what guys with your fingers, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. A lot of guys fold, like you'll see them. They'll do great. No, they'll be like dominating. And then the guy will still be there. Yeah. And then you see the adversity. You see doubt. You see all kinds of creepy things about, you know, whatever the fuck hunts their subconscious, whatever the fuck is in their personality that they don't like. You see it's surface.

SPEAKER_02

35:40 - 36:14

Most of the time is that you see a guy when again hitting him at a hard bottom shot. You know, and it's most of them, the muscular guys, by the way, can get out and the big bone up dudes. When they hit somebody with their best bang and the guy recovers and comes back and then you see him go, and down, or they haven't made a submission and they think they had them and then the guy escapes. You know, that's like a mental break for them and they give up. It's like the weirdest thing you go, like, whoa, man, it's so good. I know so many fighters who are like that and I just do it again. Do it again, and make it a little bit more tight. Why won't you do that?

SPEAKER_01

36:14 - 36:27

You know, but don't they give up? The fear of losing is a tremendous burden that a lot of guys have, and it eventually manifests itself in a fight. It's like they're so afraid of losing. They're so afraid of fucking up that it's just, it's just, they make it happen.

SPEAKER_02

36:27 - 37:34

But it's afraid of losing in front of an audience because they have to listen to what those people are going to tell them where you should have done this. And Chris Lieben said, it's really funny a long time ago. He says, you got knocked out by a silver, right? And then he said, It's bad if you go to the bloodbuster and the guy behind the desk tells you what you should have done You know because everybody knows better and that's horrible and that's why I always say I say you fight for yourself You say your boss or you fight for your family and wife and your kids now I fight for me because that takes a lot of pressure off because really think about this and if if you have a fellow fighter and you go both into a room you lock the door you guys fight Do you really care if you lose? I don't think I really care. I love to win. But you know, I don't know. You know, he's the best man that day. He won that fight. Now, if it's in front of an audience, you gotta go to all of that BS that these other people say, we have no clue what it's all about. But just you know what I mean? It's all you're fighting for those people. And it's so much pressure. That's why I stay away from the, I'm going to rip his head off. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that because all that, they will play at the moment you walk to the cage.

SPEAKER_00

37:34 - 37:36

And you hear yourself saying, what are you going to do?

SPEAKER_02

37:37 - 37:42

Oh yeah, because that's why I never did that because you put a lot of pressure on you. Now I better do what I said.

SPEAKER_01

37:42 - 37:52

Yeah, guys I don't think guys realize it, but you see it in their face sometimes when they step into the octagon. You see all the shit talking they've said and they're like, Here we go. Like wow, one of my fucking done.

SPEAKER_02

37:52 - 37:57

There's only there's a few shit talkers who are actually really good, you know? Chelson and pretty good.

SPEAKER_01

37:57 - 37:59

That was, yeah. But he's the bastard.

SPEAKER_02

37:59 - 38:03

Josh Barnett's pretty good at it too. George Bernett is really good at it too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

38:03 - 38:04

Yeah, there's a few guys.

SPEAKER_02

38:04 - 38:17

If you guys have noticed, tomorrow guys, Frank Shamrock was good at his smart comments make, and Tito made a whole career out of it. Also, you know, and everybody says, I said, those are not the guys that you see, you know, they're playing a smart game, Nick Diaz.

SPEAKER_01

38:17 - 38:19

Yeah, he loves it.

SPEAKER_02

38:19 - 38:23

He loves it. And he's a really nice guy. You know, like him.

SPEAKER_01

38:23 - 38:27

Well, he gets fired up though when he fights, when he fights is not such a nice guy.

SPEAKER_00

38:27 - 38:28

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

38:28 - 38:51

So that's the way psychological warfare is a part of fighting, right? That's it. Who can, I always say, he's got the biggest balls. Who can, you know, keep going, keep on going. That's why I always say stamina is the one number one thing. You know, that's one thing they can never say for me. My whole MMA career never run out of gas because that's the only thing you can control, you know, when you train. Go run an extra hill. I'm nothing for government.

SPEAKER_01

38:51 - 39:14

I'm losing. How difficult was that for you though when you started to get the tendonitis? Because you know, there's like a there's stamina from you know from grappling that you probably couldn't get like I know for a fact that Tio Shikosaka fight. Yep. When you fuck Osaka when you won the title, right? That's what you want to title. No, that was you first fight. No, it's not for management. When you when you fuck Osaka, you had a problem like you couldn't do any grappling for a while, right? Do you have a neck problem?

SPEAKER_02

39:15 - 39:54

my get the against the Darrell Golar the wrestler very good. I got him in a triangle at the gym and he lived me up and he slammed me down with my neck into the corner. He had to go long time. God knows the whole thing. I just had surgery comes from that all the way back and that was the injury. It was I have no clue but it was so painful. I had a daughter at the time. She was like nine months old and she could not lay on my chest. I was cuffing you know and everything was I would it was funny because I had this big syringe of light okay and I'm injecting myself in between my ribs. Oh my god, you have she comes in with the cameras, right?

SPEAKER_00

39:54 - 39:56

And that was at the time with the movie with universal soldier

SPEAKER_02

39:58 - 40:14

And these guys are freaking out, you know, I said, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in,

SPEAKER_01

40:17 - 41:19

That was painful. Lido King is like the gay cousin of cocaine. Oh, don't know. It just numbs things up when I got my nose fix. I got a deviated septum fix and they squirt Lido came out there when the cleaning it out. So it doesn't freak you out because they go up in your nose with a vacuum cleaner. Yeah, it's like you know when you're vacuuming your car at the car wash and the get stuck on the floor mat and go That that happens to the back your fucking skull right where your brain is when they're cleaning out you know blood clots and you know and then try to boogers and shit and they spray lighter came up there and I felt fucked up for the whole day like I was like what is wrong with me? I'm like out of it and I realized oh that lighter came So then I go online and I'm like, what is the effects of light again? People fucking die from it. Girls that put it on their legs when they go to get their legs laser, they get the hair laser off their legs. It's painful. So they cover their legs with light again. Some girl died in a fucking car. She covered her legs in light again and then wrapped her legs up. And you're shooting it into your ribs.

SPEAKER_02

41:19 - 41:43

And my ribs, I used to many times that I would go to the fight and then when my wrestling shoes were going to be at to where she was at the banquet, they would be open like an ankle injury and I would wait until they called my name because one time I broke my hand at the knuckle. and they said, oh, we put the lighter cane in there and it's going to work for like an hour, but it's not, it's like 15 minutes, especially when your heart rate is up, it goes really fast.

SPEAKER_00

41:43 - 41:49

So at the moment I stepped into the ring and I go like, oh no, it's back, you know what I said? They're not going to do this again, you know?

SPEAKER_02

41:49 - 41:56

So I did it on the, at the moment they would call my name. I would put it in and then hopefully I was not going to feel it.

SPEAKER_01

41:56 - 42:00

Fuck, yeah. So you were fighting on lighter cane to shoot it in you and then fight right there.

SPEAKER_02

42:00 - 42:35

Because you go, you know, I made a really bad trip Thank you very much. when it was running the day before it jumped on the plane and it was against Vernon Tiger White it was like my fourth fight or something similar to and and it's like it's unbelievable he takes me down and he goes for a toe hold on that ankle like I mean it's like I'm sending out a signal you know take this this is a weird signal because whenever I get a tattoo somebody fucking slaps me on where the tattoo it's always if you have an injury yeah here where you never get hit if you spar you're gonna get hit there it's that it is what it is if you hurt your hand for sure someone's gonna squeeze it when they shake it

SPEAKER_01

42:36 - 42:53

a lot of times you'll go a whole year without a guy giving you one of those douchey handshakes. You know those douchey handshakes where he grabs a tip of your phone. You'll go a year for that. But if you hurt your hand, it's right away. That's the first thing that's going to happen.

SPEAKER_02

42:54 - 43:00

Fucking strange. It's the same. You got two lines. You always pick the line that's the longest way. Yeah, this one is way longer.

SPEAKER_00

43:00 - 43:02

You've got the shortest and there you go.

SPEAKER_01

43:02 - 43:08

This guy goes for a break and the fucking replacement comes in. They got to redo the register. Yeah, check the old grandmother, you know.

SPEAKER_02

43:08 - 43:12

Oh, what is the day? How much again? Oh, oh, sorry. I got taken on the one.

SPEAKER_01

43:12 - 43:16

I see people paying with checks. I'm like, why don't you just fucking whip out beaver pellets?

SPEAKER_00

43:16 - 43:21

I cannot. I saw one the other day at the grocery store. It's like really you're still using this.

SPEAKER_01

43:21 - 43:28

Yeah, that's where I last time I saw it, too. It was at the grocery store. Yeah, checks. People will allow you to just write on a piece of paper. Yeah, the Big Lebowski.

SPEAKER_00

43:28 - 43:32

It's like seventy nights on that milk. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

43:32 - 44:57

the opening movie so if you didn't have all these injuries do you think you would have kept going or do you think I think I would have kept going a few more more for more years yeah because it was not a problem not having stamina and you know I always been very blessed with my body you know not people look at me now the whole time they say oh my god how much you train well I didn't train for a year you know it's like I've just genetically really put together because of my dad my brother has the same he's a lawyer but he looked it's the same he's got no fat just good just good base good genes yeah the whole athletes the root inside you know so you know never the problem that The question was whether or not you would keep going because you know like I said or it's nothing like it but at the moment the fun is gone out of training will be so much fun for me because you know somebody every time you know when you roll every time something pops up oh god that's cool And then there's some new thing and then you start using a lot of people in the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and the works and

SPEAKER_01

44:58 - 45:02

So you can't roll it all right now. No, no, I know, especially just after my surgery.

SPEAKER_02

45:02 - 45:02

I get it.

SPEAKER_01

45:02 - 45:07

But this surgery is the same surgery from the down of Golar incident that you just had? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

45:07 - 45:11

I think it added on maybe, you know, that was the first time it got hurt though.

SPEAKER_01

45:11 - 45:14

Yeah. What was the actual surgery? What they have done?

SPEAKER_02

45:14 - 45:29

Between C4 and 5 and 5 and 6, my nurse were flat squashed. So I lost at the feet, my whole arm and shoulder. So now they home to holes open around it. They make so that the nerves are, they can breathe again.

SPEAKER_01

45:29 - 45:39

So a lot of guys get that. Joe say, I don't know, just got that. He has a nerve issue as well. And Carwin. Carwin had it as well. He just had surgery on. Carwin didn't.

SPEAKER_02

45:39 - 47:01

Oh my God, that for Jose Aldo base, one of my favorite guys. That's not good man. This is a bad injury because this is going to take a long time. I mean, this is over two months ago, and I I noticed things like I can push brush my teeth the harder. She's a little bit harder when I watch other my armpit or I can shave my whole head now with a razor blade which I couldn't do before. Things like that but power wise. I do 15 pounds. That's it. Wow. Yeah, it's really it's really weak. So when you roll around it's it's not fun. You know, yeah, of course they attacked that arm. There we go again. Everybody goes in that. I had Jake giga was such he was over and his brother and his brother said that nobody could they could break his grip at an arm bar I have a really weird way of putting an arm bar on but the way I do it nobody can escape you know and I do that I control the hand I make sure that the elbow points up you know and I control the such a way that you aren't you can get out I can just cover your face the other leg I just can put away and you still can't get out really Yeah, and he said to me, uh, oh, but he's getting doing it to me. So I'm trying, trying, I can't break because apparently he's known for it. It's very strong. And he says, she's here. Go ahead and say, flip her out. He says, why I said, this is my wrong arm. So I could get us out of the go. I got him in the arm by the way. I said, listen, I can't do 15 pounds with this. You know, it's a very weak arm right now.

SPEAKER_01

47:01 - 47:03

So is it eventually going to come back to 100%.

SPEAKER_02

47:03 - 47:11

You know, it They say it's like a millimeter a day and it's two months ago, so that will be six centimeters. Go starting from my neck.

SPEAKER_01

47:11 - 47:16

Let's gotta go all the way to here. The six centimeters of one of healing of healing.

SPEAKER_02

47:16 - 47:32

The nerve heals like a millimeter a day they say. Okay. Yeah, so nine months to a year, I should expect at least he said. It comes back because I was very late with it. They miss diagnosed me. So I walked around with this thing for a long time.

SPEAKER_01

47:32 - 47:37

So what is the thing that was the actual injury? So it's the compression of the depression.

SPEAKER_02

47:37 - 47:57

And the pain, all the hard pain that I had, that was the nerve apparently is a whole bunch of little cables he says. And outside there's the pain thing, you know, once you squished that, you know, you're already really far gone. And that happened with me. I had no pain anymore. And he says, man, that's the worst thing because That means that's already died.

SPEAKER_01

47:57 - 48:09

So you're damaging and you don't even feel it. That's it. Wow. So when they go in there, they drill it out and then you you have to wait forever for it to heal up. Yeah. Wow. And there's nothing you could do in between time. You just have to wait for nothing.

SPEAKER_02

48:09 - 49:53

I started actually. Yesterday at this I think on a two days ago I started running on a trapmill but only with the incline so I can roll in the balls of my feet so I don't have my knee shaking and I'm actually feeling okay today my knees so I figured okay if I can do that then I can at least start doing my sprints again that I used to be a freak man I could these these what I do is I run 10 miles 10 minutes 11 miles an hour that's the warm up And then I jump off I start stretching while I put the ink line all the way up go to nine miles an hour and then I jump on for 45 seconds and off for 30 and I do those 10 10 of those rounds after that I run like five minutes to run it out Done take a five minute break and then I do my power training workout. This is what when I was we had a top of my game because that's really hard So you would do your sprints first and then you would do your power train later Yeah, that everybody thought it was weird, but for me, if you do the park feeling first, it hinders you with your running. Sometimes I would do it to mimic the fights because that's what I think is the biggest problem with a lot of guys. They don't realize that you, you know, you pumping everything. You should do apps a lot of apps before you fight and stretch them out because what happens is your apps they start filling up with like that's the behind your app for your lungs and it's done that's why you see the right guys because they have the right away they go strong boom and then they drop and I think it really is because of the app's day because if they do 10 times this it stays like this right? It pops up. Well imagine that happens to your core and with everything while you're fighting you using your core, take the Audi fans everything. So that's not blowing up. Stop your long from breathing. That's why you get tired.

SPEAKER_01

49:53 - 49:56

So you think your abs are important for stamina.

SPEAKER_02

49:56 - 50:41

That's very important to keep them loose. To keep them loose and to stretch them out. This is very important. I would take before and fight also aspirin. You know, to make my blood thin, because in Thai boxing, I would never wear wraps. I don't like to have wraps around me. So I go bare knuckle in the gloves. And with the shoes, I hated those things. You know, this was totally Japanese rules, right? The pancreas shoes. Yeah, because what happens is those Japanese guys are really good on the ground. That's what they say. Okay, and the striking not so. Okay, so let's put them on shin guards. Let's put them on knee protection and push shoes because they're good with leg locks. And no gloves because they're good for the real naked choke channel. I mean, they're totally adaptable. When I left Bankbus, I think two, three months later, it was de-chased the rules. It was closed fist. I go, whoa, I've been waiting for a long time for this.

SPEAKER_01

50:41 - 50:48

Yeah, they had to try to adapt to be mixed martial arts. Yeah. Yeah, eventually. So is it pancreas where you hurt your knees?

SPEAKER_02

50:50 - 51:03

I, you know, I don't know. I have no clue. I think I'm so, uh, I'm very explosive. And I think over the years that just scraped off of my, my things are bold. They say they're bleeding bone marrow out of one knee. So it's like, yeah, it's like very painful, man.

SPEAKER_01

51:03 - 51:14

It's, uh, it's so fun. Do you do any other martial arts exercises? I know you have that thing that you sell, uh, well, that's, that's part of it because you, you don't want to hit things, right? Exactly like that, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

51:14 - 51:44

Because it has no impact. You don't get the, uh, the tendonitis. Every fighter should use that thing like 12 days before the fight. Not to have you back anymore. That's what an accident happened. You know, you get tired, sweat on the back, but your gloves and slips or the wrist hurts. There's always things happen with a heavy bag. And they like to hit a heavy bag, which aren't it also because it's a cool thing. But there's always that moment when you hit really hard like a liver shot and you feel think And then I know, okay, tomorrow I got the 10 and 90s.

SPEAKER_01

51:44 - 51:49

Did you develop this thing? It's called the bus system. What is it? What is the stand for?

SPEAKER_02

51:49 - 52:07

The body action stand. So what Apple was this? There's a long time ago or long time ago, like four years or something ago. My agent tells me that this woman wants to see me. They have a product. And it started out with the stand with two of those kicking things.

SPEAKER_01

52:07 - 52:08

I know that. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_02

52:11 - 52:17

So I came to her and I was hangover hungover. It was one of the last period that I was still drinking.

SPEAKER_00

52:17 - 52:20

And I walked in and I said, OK, I'm telling you right now, because you can breathe.

SPEAKER_02

52:20 - 54:51

You can smell it. I'm little hangover. Let me take a look at this thing and I call you back tomorrow. What I think. So I looked at the thing at the next day, I called back and said, okay, now this is what we should do. And I had this whole list ready. And she goes like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we thought you didn't notice anything else there. I said, oh, and then I came up to do a hat to do a body patch. You know, I make targets on there. And you know, but then it starts because people think this is an easy product. There's no cops from these things, right? They're already selling knockoffs. If you buy that thing, then that was our early stages, what you're going to have. They're going to flop around, they're going to break because you need to find a spring that is just right to not be too floppy and not too stiff. If it's too stiff, the whole stand will move. If it's too floppy, you can't knock it for the second punch because it's still moving. You know, it needs to be just right. Now the foam in there needs to be just right. Now foam, the density, the density, if it's really tight foam, it's heavier. So if you say, okay, this is a little bit too hard. I want different foam to put different foam but now because it's lighter. Then the spring needs to be changed again. So every time I got like 8 prototypes and I have to train on those things the whole time to see and find out which is watching what's the best way and the best form with what spring it took two and a half years. Really, two and a half years to find that. They hit that thing. I mean 30,000 times with him. She don't, don't, don't, don't. That thing when you buy a warm break. Two guys. There was two heads broke, but that was from a shipment that we right away took out because there was something with the glue that it didn't connect with the it was it was vaporizing or eating the glue. So it didn't work. There was too only we sent a new heads back and we never and we saw a lot of those things. Do you use those yourself? Do you use every time when I train? Yeah, what I now right now I can't I use a lot I can do hooks like she that's weird weird angle for me in uppercuts if I make 10 uppercuts the last uppercuts goes slow up because it's yes biceps now you really realize that you need your biceps in order to put your body weight into a punch you can't lock it up now a straight punch I'm okay with but hooks I can eat with the glove I can hit you as hard as I want to your belly. You're not gonna go down Yeah, it's really it's pathetic, but I look at it like I did you like having no wraps on I always have that I want to have my blood flow Keep going for some reason I have the feeling of this happens that it doesn't circulate anymore naturally It's a bathroom and you got a tight wrap.

SPEAKER_01

54:51 - 54:53

Yeah, I don't like it.

SPEAKER_02

54:53 - 55:24

Yeah, you go needed if you hit the right way all these guys are so Like Tyson, I'll always give you the example. Just know or just learn how to hit the correct way and nothing will happen. These guys, they come into the room and they got the special guys, they got a stitch there, on call every day, two times a day, wrap the hands perfect. He can hit it in any angle. It doesn't matter. So then, when you, when this guy, that's why when you had a street fight, he would always break his head, right? That's right. Because you don't know how to hit. He had some with a pinky or whatever, wrong technique.

SPEAKER_01

55:24 - 55:32

But just when you're fighting because guys move and sometimes you wanted to hit them with these two knuckles, be accidentally catching with the last knuckle.

SPEAKER_02

55:32 - 55:57

You know, of course, it's always, it's, You have to, yeah, you know, especially in the crowd of at the cube she grew out of here sparring in as baronocle and some of these guys they have a key and some guys have their hips here, right? So that's how I broke this one also you had a hip you think you have to get the liver It's a it's a hip bone. Yeah, that dial hurt. That was the good thing it makes my slides because now you can see what you're hitting everything.

SPEAKER_01

55:57 - 56:01

Did you start it out? You started on and then type one does that were you? Type one though.

SPEAKER_02

56:01 - 56:29

That was my first sport. Yeah, I did that for about I don't know, four weeks or six weeks, and I was already beaten up the Brown Bells. You have to understand my parents are very conservative. They were never allowed me to do a martial art, but I always got bullied. And I saw Bruce Lee movie in 76, and to the dragon in France when we were in the holiday. And I came out and said, that's it. I want to be Bruce Lee, you know? So I made these new chucks.

SPEAKER_00

56:29 - 56:31

And I was wondering, like, come free shoes.

SPEAKER_02

56:31 - 57:50

I had the whole onions. I was really... So I asked my parents, please, please, please, please, but they wouldn't allow me. So I kept going and kept going, training myself, so watching moves and just kept training. And then finally after two years, they said, OK, stop that crisis. Go. And we had a neighbor, the girl next door, she had a boyfriend. It was the cool guy from the town. And he said, OK, come with me. He took him kind of under a swing. And I went really good. I started being up like I said to Brown Bell, so I was like within six weeks. So I said, man, you got a good feeling, show my confidence rose. And at that moment, I was driving and riding my bike on the street. And the biggest bully comes with six of his buddies or something. and they set something and I shouted something back and they all laughed, we're laughing and they right away came after me and when I saw them coming from me I stopped my bike and I put it down and it was just waiting for the guy and then the biggest bully comes to me and you spook you know that in the early days you push with your chest and you push against my chest and I go bough and he goes down, broke his nose out Anybody more? Nobody did anything. I come home. Police was already home. And that was it. No more type one for me, sir. But I moved out of the house when I was 21. You know, that's when I started fighting.

SPEAKER_01

57:50 - 57:56

That's when you start kickboxing and everything else. Do boxing, yeah. Mootie and how did you transition into pancreas? Where did that come about?

SPEAKER_02

57:56 - 58:13

You know, this is, it's cool. We got time, right? Yeah. Okay, cool. Now, um, Let me go back. Let me see. I was fighting Thai boxing in Holland. I want a lot of fights but not. I like my first 14 fights I won by knockout 13 in the first one.

SPEAKER_01

58:13 - 58:20

One, I was sick. What was your final kickboxing record when you were 16 and two?

SPEAKER_02

58:20 - 01:01:15

No, 14 men's two losses. I fought this guy who wasn't jail for a long time. Frank Lottman, a very powerful fighter, had a record like 52 with like three losses and like 48 knocked out some monster. Apparently, I was a bouncer at the time. Apparently, on New Year's Day, when I was bouncing, I was also drunk. Oh, that's an example of it. And somebody asked me if I wanted to fight him. And I say, sure. So in, I think, at the end of January, I get a phone call. They asked me where to send the posters to. And I say, what posters from the fights? So it was going to fire you against Lopman. And I go, who? We'll set that. He said, you, you told me that you got to fight it for it. So now they had posters already. I go like, OK, you know, like, might as well. Yeah, I got to do it now because otherwise you're going to think I'm scared, right? So I had about five weeks to train. Now you get understand that I got tired. from jumping rope at the first time. I was so out of shape it was not even funny. So anyway, I go to the fights and I just had my knee, my shin at this here. There was a huge hole. I did some crazy stuff and a wall. There was a wall I jumped on. I was always really good in jumping up like a randle milled it. You know, I could jump this high like on my chest here. I would stand in front of it and jump on a wall. But I had been raining and I jumped on him. My toes slid off and I landed on my shin on it. So the rip my shin opened. So the day of the fight was all wild flashing. We had to tape you know and it was like a super glue and everything in my friend says, okay, lighter cane, there it is again, right? He says, you know, I said, just put it right. He says, no, we'll numb up the whole act. You know, don't worry about it. He says, and he said, he put it in my butt. So he says, the leg would be numb. And you'll see that fight. You'll see that fight. I'm like jumping. I'm never jumping when I fight. And all the time, I'm, you know, and I'm shaking my leg and I can't feel my leg. It's like they were here to spin you there. Oh, no. So then, if they said there was a knockout, it was knockout. When you look at the fight, you'll see, I don't think he even hits me. But I'm landing on my butt and I want to get up and I can't get up. My leg doesn't work. And I go, whoa, you know, I said, man, my leg doesn't work, you know, so and they have referee says stop the fight. Then all the people start saying, see, I always said that he cannot fight. So that really bugged me, of course. Anyway, I said, okay, I'll fight another fight. Shouldn't have done it either, because on the three days or four days before the fight, I held the body of my out, they'd really beat the crap out of him yet, this jaw all the way wired, you know, and this is marked as close. So we went to the guys who did it, and we got in a little scuffle there, of course, and they threw me in jail for a couple of days in the jail.

SPEAKER_01

01:01:16 - 01:01:18

But one is why I can't get in Canada.

SPEAKER_02

01:01:18 - 01:02:06

Right. But it's a long time ago. In the jail hat for some reason, I got an infection in one of my testicles. And it became like really big. And they was hurting a lot. And they let me out because there was only a few days. So they did the whole test that they found out that what the guys did, they say, you know what? We're not going to bring it to court. They kind of felt that we were right doing what we did. Anyway, I still fought and I shouldn't have taken it at fight. I knocked the guy down three times in the first round, and then, and then, and actually, I win, I make a spinning of a back fist. Oh, yeah, that was it. He's standing in front of me and I'm so tired, you know, my body is so tired, and I go, boom, I make it give him a back fist in his neck.

SPEAKER_00

01:02:06 - 01:02:09

And he goes down. And so I think I won the fight.

SPEAKER_02

01:02:09 - 01:04:13

And apparently, like a month before there was a rule that if you did a bad fist, you only could do it with the turn. Some bullshit would have, yeah, it was bullshit. Anyway, I couldn't come out for the second round because I was too tired and they said, OK, now it really started at home. You see, I always said, it's not so good, blah, blah, blah. I said, OK, I never fight for Holland anymore. This is over. If these fans are like this, I don't want to fight in front of people like this. But it was always, yeah, it is because, you know, it's your life. But it was always that I wanted to do something with martial arts, so I bought your mind. We both together, we made this show. It's like a, a martial arts show on music and we start doing this in like nightclubs and we would like but really cool really cool stuff I would kick him in the belly like Bruce Lee and that's a dragon right you would grab my foot throw me back and I would make his flying kick in his face and land and you know we did all that cool stuff we I would come on with like a car wheel flick flag and that's the way we would talk to a walk to the place and we had both, and we did new juxtapes, and we did like brake test, the crazy stuff, and little cups on his mouth. I will kick back spinning back again and jump up and jumping, flying back at the cup of his head. So good quality martial arts, but we start putting comedy in there also, like funny things that For instance, I would I would stand there for a series with a suit and I go get the cups and the guy would come back and he had done these little cups and I kept looking straight ago note the other ones what the other ones and he got okay, so that he would walk and he would come back with cups like this and like Now, stuff like that. We started doing stuff like that. He would have, and there was also a funny one. I would do a break there, so the same thing. He would come with the break to think, oh, he got the ones. So then he came back, and he had like, these wooden things that were this thick.

SPEAKER_00

01:04:13 - 01:04:24

He was pretty much like a deck cart, and I would pick one, right? And he would hold it, and then I would stand in front of it, and I would go, and then he would buy, because of fear. He would break it all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_02

01:04:24 - 01:05:54

Stuff like that, we would do it. And that caught on real fast. People really started and seemed to like that. So suddenly, we were doing this on bigger shows. First and night clubs, then we started doing it on shows like events, big events, what came in when it was fighting. I think that when he had to main event one time, we were in the break, you know, showing this to the people. So they got aired. And then we were on Dutch TV. And then your Eurosport saw it. And they had an event yearly in France. And we went to there and we started traveling now and doing these shows all over the place. And Tom and he was always the thing. Once we started doing the comedy, people will know me. There's a few of those things on YouTube, actually. So on one of these shows, because we came up with all these flicks and some salt and all that stuff, Chris Dalman was sitting there. And Chris Dalman is one of the forefathers in Holland. He was a judo champion, tough guy. And he called me to him and he says, man, you got some really good abilities. And did you ever think about free fighting? You know what it is? He says, no. He says, well, we do that in Japan. Are you interested? I say, sure, because they go, okay, that's not Holland. That's Japan, right? So it says comment, try it out. So I walk in there and at that moment I was, you know, you're being championed by boxing. So it was, because it was two fights weren't for a title. So I thought I was the cool dude. And that was literally like hoist grace in the beginning. You know, I walk in and they killed me. And they would put on these jokes, not blood jokes, but like on my windpipe, you know, Pulling pulling because those are no grappling back then.

SPEAKER_01

01:05:54 - 01:05:59

Zero. Did you know that they were gonna grapple when you went there? No.

SPEAKER_02

01:05:59 - 01:06:03

No, nothing. Nothing. I had no clue. I saw them on the ground and then they said, okay, just go. Wow.

SPEAKER_01

01:06:03 - 01:06:07

No, so you showed up. You just thought it was just some kind of a crazy fight yet. No, I just said.

SPEAKER_02

01:06:08 - 01:07:59

So we're training and I literally, when I drove back, I had to stop my car and actually the road and I had one of the first Phillips telephone cell phones. It was really cool at the time. I remember this, and I called my wife, I said, listen, my car next to the road here, I'm going to sleep. I said, I can drive. I broke me. I really, I had to drink liquid food for like three days because my whole throat was messed up because I thought I could hold that. You know, so I was just fighting it, and they were pulling, pulling, dilly, yeah, they had to, I would tap, but it was all crossed up, and my wife was already laughing. She says, oh, okay, so that's it, right? I said, no, no, I'm gonna go back, and within six months, three, six months, I'm gonna tap everybody there, you know, because I want to learn this, I want to learn this game. But things started happening, and I got an injury here, an injury there, and I had to work, and it was a boner, and you know, once a month I would go over there, and it kind of faded away. Then my wife looks at me in the beginning of her career and she says, you're going to be a famous fighter in Japan. And I go, well, when you say that, she says that just came up with me. I said, no, I'm not going to fight anymore. I told you, she said, yeah, you said Holland, but you're going to go to Japan. Six months after she made that comment, I got a phone call, and I never pick up the phone, and the answering machine was broke. Or turned off because my crazy ass wife was calling all the time, so I didn't turn on. So I pick up the phone for some reason, and it's Chris Coleman. He says, boss, you got to come tonight. You got to come to Amsterdam. There's a try out. There's two guys here. So Zuki, for now, you're looking for fighters for a new organization, bankers. So I went through the tryout. I had a scuffle with one of the rings champion because they were fighting for rings. But it was a lot of work I heard already that they were having works which by works mean fixed fights.

SPEAKER_01

01:07:59 - 01:08:01

It was a lot of the empancras, right?

SPEAKER_02

01:08:01 - 01:10:21

No, and there wasn't rings. Empancras I would come back with. No, no, I believe so did the wash, but enough that the people said, like they never asked me. Well, I'll come back to that awesome. Anyway, because he told me right there, he says, you know, it's probably going to ask you a little later if you want to lose fight. Anyway, I started sparring with this guy. This guy was a rings champion. He tried to hurt me because they were filming. Result was me knocking him out with a high kick, boom, and his whole eyebrow was open. He had to go to the hospital for stages. Suzuki and Funauki, I saw them pointing at me. So, they wanted me. I think two months, two and a half months later, I was in Japan. And before I went, I got that speech from Christophony. He said, they're probably going to ask you to lose or to win a fight. I said, Chris, I don't want to do that. He said, if I want to, if I fight, it needs to be real. Otherwise, I don't. I hated those guys who were there. And they would come back and they would say, yeah, champion. And I said, they were all cool, but then when they came back and they had to lose, they would come back and they say, yeah, I lost, but you know, they I had to lose. Yeah, last time they made you win, you know, but you don't say that, but you only say it when you lose. So I hated those guys with that. You know, you're not a real guy. So I knocked the first guy out, and in the second fight, I knocked the other guy out, uh, uh, full K. And then by the way, we had dinner with Franakia Suzuki and I thought, oh, god, here we go. You know, so dinner, they gave me a book from Fujiwara, a really good wrestler. And, uh, we had great dinner and they put me on a cap. and just before they walked in. I said, I thought you guys were going to ask me something, so what do you mean? It's a small crystal, I told me that, you know, that you're probably going to ask to throw the fight. And Suzuki told me straight in my face, I will never ask you such a thing. He said, we will never do that. Now, over the years, I've been hearing, of course. And some fights, when you look at fights, it looks really smooth and going over. And like in Shermrock said, he lost. also he lost the lost fights for all works you know it's also you go like okay he lost twice by exactly the same combination he looked into a knee bar against the same opponent and you go like if it was not real wouldn't you come up with something else which would you really do two times the same you see so that's been also in my head I got you ever see Bart Vail versus Ken Chamberlain

SPEAKER_01

01:10:21 - 01:10:32

No, it looks so fake. It's one of the early ones that looks really like a work. There's a few that look like a really like a, yeah, that's one of them. You know, you've seen the ones in Pride, like, remember one Coleman.

SPEAKER_02

01:10:32 - 01:10:34

Oh, God.

SPEAKER_01

01:10:34 - 01:10:35

Oh, my God.

SPEAKER_02

01:10:35 - 01:11:57

I hate it, my God. It's because there's the funniest thing ever. We knew that Coleman was going to lose a six minutes for the heel hook, right? No. That's what's the word. I heard that. So when the reporters came in, they asked me, would you think he's going to win? And I say, I say, that God is going to win in about six minutes with the hill. at the ground and they changed it but like faster or something they didn't really like that that I was doing that but I go like that's that's something again I can that's why I get sometimes I get emotional from it when people say order was fake and then the worst one what they say is yeah but sometimes it was fake and boss didn't know of it so they told the opponent to lose against boss You know, like against, um, I fought against Foonaki. And then, uh, one guy said one time, he said, uh, yeah, that was the work because she, uh, didn't, uh, hurt you. I said, when did he decide that he was going to lose? Was it before or after he tried to break my freaking leg? I mean, I don't. If you don't, if you see the fight, he pushed me a heel hook and inverted a heel hook with a toes in his neck. And my heel is 180 degrees there. I'm literally looking at my own leg. And I go, oh my god, I don't feel that, you know, that I thought nobody else. That was a big risk what he was going to take. If this was a fake fight, right? I needed to like two or three times. So you'll see my leg completely be turned the other way.

SPEAKER_01

01:11:57 - 01:12:02

Did you suffer any damage? Because no, I have no clue how the first heel hook is one of the worst.

SPEAKER_02

01:12:02 - 01:13:25

It's the worst one. I broke this. I'm walking on the street, right? And we certainly be here with all the fights for you. I've heard wrestling playing for us. And we look at this giant screen. And the first thing you see is me buff, giving a bomb strike in the guy goes down and we go, yeah, you know, that's the promo for the next day. So I see this guy, like a high she's sitting in a, in a, in a half-gart and he grabs a heel and he falls back. And I go, this is at the time I had nobody to roll with, right? I trained on the back two times a day. My first year to have him, bankers, wasn't me training on the back pretty much. No, no, no, it's pretty much nothing. Like, if you're rolling a rock, if there was somebody who knew judo, he would come. I mean, I'm talking about once every three weeks. I'm not kidding. So next day, I'm in the position. And I go, oh my, it's well, try it. So I grabbed that heel, but since I never did it, I didn't realize how much pressure I put on. So I grab it and I fall back, use my body weight. I snap the shin and I have. So first we here, we put, you know, so I go, whoa, you see me letting go. and then he feels his knee and he's like, do I feel you want to fight it? So yeah. But I go like, well dude, I hurt your knee snap because we thought it was a knee. But apparently it was still like a little stuck on that leg. So then he kicks with that leg. And I flex my muscles. And then when he puts the foot down, he bends all the way out.

SPEAKER_01

01:13:25 - 01:13:51

I've seen that a few times. I've seen a few times with checked legs. Only in person once, Corey Hill. And I really fight it. I feel he fought. Uh, Brennan. No, what tells his name? Anyway, whoever he fought, he, uh, he checks, uh, his kick and Corey Hills leg snaps backwards. The referee didn't even see it. So Corey goes down. The referee was in a bad angle. We're all screaming. Stop the fight. The referee didn't even know. And he's just on his back like freaking out. That's dangerous, man.

SPEAKER_02

01:13:51 - 01:14:22

Especially the shin when it splitter. You know, and it's a wrong, uh, you can put it out. You can bleed out. the guy that you you you showed me I think on Twitter you said a tweet that the guy was fighting with the broken arm yeah remember I mean how tough is that dude and he didn't feel it then the referee saw it in the wrong three and then they stopped the fire but this guy was just going and not letting the other guy with it it was unbelievable the both of these guys were actually really good I go what organization was that well you know Richard Rich Franklin when he fought chocolate that I was I mean punch Chuck with it after it was broken yeah

SPEAKER_01

01:14:23 - 01:14:35

Yeah, so you went and after your fighting career was done, then you started doing the commentary in Japan. You had a couple of fights after the Ruben Villabri, you had the WFA.

SPEAKER_02

01:14:35 - 01:15:50

What happened was that I would have Marker and Marco who was a bit or he's all these guys that were training with us at the Beverly Hills Jutsu Club. And I would train those guys and I would go with them as a tournament. And in Japan, when you fight, you see the fights are on in the dressing room. So I'm sitting I'm watching there and you keynote and and he take those two guys that the people from Pride who live in America, you know, where the in between persons are the same. are there also, and I go like, oh look at that, he's going to go for straight armor. It sounds right arm. Watch out, watch out, there he comes, there he comes, there he comes, boom, and the guy's got straight armor. So they look at me. And then the next fight, it's right away also again. I said, oh my god, he's looking for a knee bar. Oh, he's going to roll in a light button. He's going to roll and he's going to go for knee bar. I just don't know if he rolls any goes for knee bar. And he goes like, how do you notice? I said, you can see the setup. And they look at each other and said, did you ever think about being a commentator? And that's how I got the job. Who was doing it before you? Nobody, because they were looking at that moment, they were looking at new people because they had the first nine or something. Quartos and I, we did that in a studio later. But I think the first one was

SPEAKER_01

01:15:51 - 01:15:57

Um, because I know Eddie did it with cruddles for a while. Eddie Bravo. He did it also. Yeah. You came in and did it. Oh, it's basically.

SPEAKER_02

01:15:57 - 01:16:01

Oh, it's basically the first one I was there. That was the first one. I think the broadcaster to this thing.

SPEAKER_01

01:16:01 - 01:16:14

Now, this is it after you'd fought in the UFC after you'd won the title. Did you? Were you completely done? I mean, you obviously had another fight in the WFM for that. What was it like being there and pride during the glory days? And, you know, did you think about making comeback?

SPEAKER_02

01:16:14 - 01:17:13

Because I know there was a block. Yeah, yeah. No, I did. I did. I was two times, two times. One time it was against a ventilator silver because they needed an opponent for him that was at the event that dynamite of a 91.5,000 people in life outside crazy. And it couldn't fight in the opponent. And I said, listen, I didn't rule for a long time because that problem was I said, but everybody wants to see us strike anyway. And it was also the same card was K-1. You remember, Jumbo Miller was fighting Don't fight K-1 rules. So I said, so why don't we do K-1 rules with MMA gloves? I mean, that's what the people want to see anyway, you know, for much too. But then that's why I didn't go through. They took somebody else. And yeah, that would have been awesome. And because at that time, You man, I was I was hurting like my it guy holds the the tie pads. I mean he would have purple arms. He was got my god. This is no fun anymore. You know because I was in shape, you know, I was real good standing. Fuck, that would have been a great.

SPEAKER_01

01:17:13 - 01:17:17

You know, against Vanilly, holy shit of pure stand up fight.

SPEAKER_02

01:17:17 - 01:17:31

And then and then when when Ken came to Pride, I was the first one to say, I say, I come out of retirement if I can find him, but can't say no, we did it already, so I swear we don't need to do it the third time.

SPEAKER_01

01:17:31 - 01:17:33

Really? So he declined to fight in pride with you.

SPEAKER_02

01:17:33 - 01:17:38

Yeah, that's what he came personally to tell me. He says boss, I told him that I didn't want to do it because we were ready for two times.

SPEAKER_01

01:17:39 - 01:17:43

What does I mean? Yeah, I don't any fun pancreas. He never fought in any way.

SPEAKER_02

01:17:43 - 01:18:33

I would have loved. But also at that time, I was a totally different fighter. Like he can't fight against me. Made me who I am. That fight was like literally God was watching and he says, OK, I give you this. One guy to train with in the hall of 19 year old Leon Vendike, Freakin monster. He did on a machine with 275 pounds. He would do curls. It was bizarre. I would have him in an arm bar and I'd better do two halves because he literally would start doing this. It was insanely strong. And I started training, but both we didn't know anything. And we would watch tapes. I would watch tapes. I would see a hill hoop for instance. I would write down how it works. Next day we start rolling. I would go hill hoop. Go hill hoop. I say, OK, now let's break this time. Let's see how we can make it better. Say, OK, how can you escape? Well, if I push this way, OK, so I can stop you from doing this. And we start breaking down every little thing I say.

SPEAKER_01

01:18:33 - 01:18:38

OK. basically did it by yourself. Everything. I have no high level instruction at all.

SPEAKER_02

01:18:38 - 01:20:02

Nothing on it. Everything myself. And you know, and that's the cool part because what I might have got a phone call when my big DVDs have come back and I was at the time and BJ Ford met use all the way back. and B.J. called me and I say, hey, boss, it's B.J. so B.J. Ben? Yeah, I say, wow, I say, what do I owe this pleasure for? It says, just want to tell you, you made the best instructions of everything. I said, man, that is so good. It says, got to go. I got to do my run. So wow, let me, can I use your quote? It's simple, but that's cool stuff. And I saw, and I realized also that a lot of people A lot of fighters took everything straight up, Jitsu, and they put it into mixed martial arts, and a lot of stuff straight up, Jitsu doesn't work, it makes martial arts, because it needs to be more compact. The sleeve will take care that it's hard of you to roll out of an arm bar, so that's why by arm bars with me, I always control the inside of the hand, so you get rotate your hand. Whatever arm bar pretty much I do, it's always control, control, because they don't want to rotate. You know, and I would heal, and I would start breaking everything down, and I said, okay, if I would tap in front of this with an arm bar from the mountain, I'm just making something up. He would, after three times, he wouldn't know my setup. So I would create a different way to go to the down bar. He would find that word out, and then I would create a different way. So then suddenly I start for every move. I start having three or four different ways to go to that submission, and then I start tossing those rounds.

SPEAKER_01

01:20:02 - 01:20:06

That seems so crazy. It's like you had to learn your jitsu on your own on my own.

SPEAKER_02

01:20:06 - 01:20:23

You had to figure it out like look at how people are doing it and deconstruct it and then my next eight fights I transferred three months I think two times a day sometimes I would wake up at night with Colin and we'll go row. I think I was always game. Always and we would train and my next eight fights I won by submission

SPEAKER_01

01:20:25 - 01:20:33

That's ridiculous. So when did you ever get real legitimate jujitsu instruction? Did you get someone to never? Never. You're whole career yourself taught.

SPEAKER_02

01:20:33 - 01:21:29

Yeah, everything. That's cool. Wow. And the cool part. And I always say this because I'm very proud of it. And that's why I'm saying it. It's you if you look at the record in punk was that rope escapes, right? That means that if you could get in the choke, but you could touch the rope, you have to let you go. but on the other side it's really good for you as a fighter to develop because now you have to make more strategic now you have to make sure that you have to end the center of the ring before you go so that again if you're going to miss it you're in the center of the ring so there's more thinking with sometimes I want to fight with like four submissions so instead of going out there I had now four submission victory is pretty much in one fight and I think that that's why The pancreas guys were so good in UFC I think 6 or 7 guys from pancreas became all UFC champion because they of that rule I truly believe I know it's crazy I always said as long as I don't get have to escape because if I escape for me that would feel like a loss, but I didn't

SPEAKER_01

01:21:30 - 01:21:41

You see, so even allowing them to escape to you, it's good because it just means you get more submission work in. Yeah, I have a not a fight now. So the need to have more fights on it. So you feel like you won, you won already, and now let's do it.

SPEAKER_02

01:21:41 - 01:22:22

And let's do it again. And then if you look at the ways I submitted people, you can call a submission. Okay, a go-go plot I didn't do, but you can come up with some crazy stuff. I put it every. He looks normally, he looks, if you're the knee bar triangle, show triangle arm or a figure force, how many fights did you have over in, uh, pancreas? 31 31 yeah holy shit over the course of how many years that was only over because of five years I fought the first year of foot nine fights in the second nine again one night eight again I mean that was an eye go I thought that in a pretty short time so by the time you got to the UFC you had a shit lot of fights like

SPEAKER_01

01:22:23 - 01:22:28

All the boy tie fights, all the pancreas fights, and then finally you got to fight MMA style.

SPEAKER_02

01:22:28 - 01:23:03

Finally because I I want to go to the UFC for them for the entrance song. I kid you not. I thought that was the coolest thing all the rich know. You know I want to come up with that song that is so cool and that really that's they came ask me I said but that was the The deciding fact that I said, okay, I want to do it. Because they just loved that stuff.

SPEAKER_01

01:23:03 - 01:23:12

And then what they promoted the shit out of you when you first came up. I remember that. I gave you one of the posters Brian sold it on eBay. I used to have the old posters. The world's best martial artist.

SPEAKER_02

01:23:12 - 01:23:37

I created his martial artist. But it was cool. And I had a great idea. I had that, the three-tenors, no poverty. These guys, they had this, they did it a tour. And on one of those tracks, I like to be in America. And it's a 43-second clip. And I told him I said, oh I look to be in America, you know, and I thought, okay, please let me put on that clip for 43 seconds and then do you have C2 in comes up?

SPEAKER_00

01:23:37 - 01:23:40

I mean, I'm gonna score.

SPEAKER_02

01:23:40 - 01:23:51

Oh man, that was it for every fighter. I always got that. That's right. Did you read the script already for Kevin's movie? No, I haven't read it. Oh, okay, because you're in it, right? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

01:23:51 - 01:24:06

So it's really fun James. You don't know who's trained with you a bunch of times, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's very talented martial artists. He really has people going to, you know, the people who are talking a lot of shit like Kevin James, the comedians, they're going to do a UFC movie. Kevin James can hit the fucking shit out of the past.

SPEAKER_00

01:24:07 - 01:24:09

Yeah, I see who likes you going to freak.

SPEAKER_01

01:24:09 - 01:24:17

What I was in Boston when I was doing that zookeeper movie with him. We trained with Mark Deligrate, and I was like, God damn, dude, it's fucking technique. It's Chris.

SPEAKER_02

01:24:17 - 01:24:23

And you know what? If you, if I say, okay, you need to open it a little bit more, he'll do it the next time.

SPEAKER_01

01:24:23 - 01:24:24

It's not very smart, dude.

SPEAKER_02

01:24:24 - 01:24:31

Yeah, he is. He really, he hates it when we say this, because she said, oh, dude, what people, you know, I'm just, he's a very, very humble guy. He is.

SPEAKER_01

01:24:31 - 01:24:33

For a very successful guy.

SPEAKER_02

01:24:33 - 01:24:47

Oh, yeah. I met him. When he lived on that apartment on Ovaland, and a one bedroom apartment, which he shared with another guy. And now he lives in a house, yeah, you know where he lives. And then you go like, he's the same dude. Same guy. Same guy. Same guy.

SPEAKER_01

01:24:47 - 01:25:08

I don't have him since he was basically an open maker. I just want to talk to him in my manager and to signing him. Oh, wow. He had only been doing comedy just like me. We were both basically open micers. We had done a little bit of professional work, but I mean, we've been doing comedy two, three years. You're really an open micer that's getting paid. You're an amateur, right? Basically. That's when Kevin and I met. We met in like shit, 91, maybe 92.

SPEAKER_02

01:25:08 - 01:25:13

Yeah, you said that you and he would watch the pancreas fights.

SPEAKER_01

01:25:13 - 01:25:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That used to come in my house and then seen it. We would watch him, man. I had a buddy of mine from Canada who would get them from Japan, the other a connection in Japan. So he would get them, they would send them to Canada, and then he would send them from Canada to me, and then we would watch him at my house. I got all Japanese commentary, you know, I watched all of them. I watched, you know, I would get a stack of them every month. Yeah. This was before I was even working for the UFC, yeah. There was a, you know, before I ever even started thinking about doing commentary. Yeah. Yeah, we were just fans.

SPEAKER_02

01:25:43 - 01:25:48

That's what I hoped did you ever get than that, because you went From fear factor before that.

SPEAKER_01

01:25:48 - 01:27:00

I started working in 97 before you came to the UFC. I've done a done the postfight interviews. Oh, two years. I started at UFC 12, Dolphin Alabama, Vitor Belferts debut. Okay, and I did it then. I was on news radio and what happened was they just needed a guy to do the postfight interviews. They didn't have anybody and my manager was friends. with the guy who the same guy who signed Kevin I was my manager was friends with the guy who was one of the producers of the shows guy Campbell McLaren was also the guy who tried to get me to fight Wesley Snipes one day. They needed someone to do the postfight interviews and so he just sent me to fucking Alabama out of nowhere and before you know what I'm doing it was very unorganized though, it's not like the UFC today. I did it for, you know, maybe two years, but I saw a lot of great fights, you know, shamrock versus an OVF. I saw Frank, I saw a Randy Couture's debut, Vito Balford's debut, Dan Henderson's debut. I mean, I was there for a lot of great great fights, but it started to cost me money, so I quit. It was like, I would make more money doing comedy than that, so it was a little too. And I was on news radio at the time, the sitcom, so I was too busy. So I quit and then when the UFC came along, when Zufra rather purchased UFC, then I started working for them.

SPEAKER_02

01:27:00 - 01:27:03

But what did you feel fear factor? That was at that time also?

SPEAKER_01

01:27:03 - 01:27:25

Yeah. To fear factor was 2001 I believe it started and I was already on fear factor when I started working for the UFC. But I did it as a favor. The first, I think, eight shows I did for free. Yeah, I just said, you know, they wanted me to do commentary and it's like, all right, I'll do it. I'll sit in there. I'll just just talk it, you know? Yeah, I really honestly shouldn't have been paid for the first ones. It wasn't very good.

SPEAKER_02

01:27:25 - 01:27:33

Yeah, no, but still, you know, that's the same as fighting you. You don't care about money, but until, you know, something you go like, okay, well, I actually should get paid for it.

SPEAKER_01

01:27:33 - 01:27:59

And then it became, you know, that became the thing that I enjoyed most. I mean, it's like stand up comedy. I enjoy the most. I'm always be a fan of mixed martial arts, even when I'm not doing, if I retire one day and stop doing commentary, I'm always going to watch the fight out. I'm always going to be a fan. But I'm always going to do stand up comedy as a profession. So that's my number one thing. But other than that, all the things that I've ever done in my life, like you have, or a fear factor, or a news radio, or the UFC's the greatest fucking job ever. I mean, I love it.

SPEAKER_02

01:27:59 - 01:28:23

I always love it, though, so in Japan, I will say tomorrow, I would say tomorrow. We're the only two in six billion, right now, who see Frick and Fador versus Crow Cup, or Fador and Nogera. You know, those epic fights and, and Vanilly Silva, annihilating, you know, uh, such a horrible, like, wow, crazy stuff.

SPEAKER_01

01:28:23 - 01:28:58

And they were there for some crime. Oh, it's pride. For people who don't know, weren't aware, pride and need, and the hey day was one of the best, if not the best organization in the world because they had so many different rules. First of all, they had a lot of things that I like. They had 10 minutes for the first round. I like that because then a lot of times a guy would take a guy down with five minutes into the fight and then the round would end. And he was just starting to get and impose his part of the game. But in the in the the pride rules. They would give them a full 10 minute first round and they allowed soccer kicks and stomps. I mean it was a lot of the ways in the ground. No elbows on the ground. No elbows.

SPEAKER_02

01:28:58 - 01:29:10

You had less cuts. That's that's what I always say. I want to have the Melonese underground. You know, I get away from the guts. Yeah, we know how many knockouts you see when I'll bow right. Five. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

01:29:10 - 01:29:16

If that. Yeah. Ever. Well, it's a good weapon. I mean, like John Jones, when he used it on branded vera, I mean, he broke his orbital bomb.

SPEAKER_02

01:29:16 - 01:29:19

Oh, yeah. But that's then, but of the five. Yeah, named me out of four.

SPEAKER_01

01:29:19 - 01:29:25

Yeah, shit. Not that many. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. But a lot of fights get stomped my cuts and a lot of guys.

SPEAKER_02

01:29:25 - 01:29:33

And I hate that because on the street, you wouldn't stop if you get cut. You can put fighting. You know, it's not a real win. I'm going to discard you guys who make careers out of it. You know?

SPEAKER_01

01:29:33 - 01:29:38

But still, it's an effective weapon. I feel like you can't take it away either because it's so good. It's a good technique.

SPEAKER_02

01:29:39 - 01:30:01

But okay, maybe what they should do is if you have it again, but they don't pat it. Yeah, so something around it at least it doesn't cut. I'm totally for it if you knock him up and I'm the biggest guy, but not like laying on somebody and literally do they don't even load them up? Right, right. He just rub a rub a rub a rub a minute. It gets cut and then wind the fire. Yeah, I want to find no you didn't wind the fire for me.

SPEAKER_01

01:30:01 - 01:30:05

I didn't wind that fire. Do you think they could solve that with a neoprene sleeve on the elbow maybe?

SPEAKER_02

01:30:05 - 01:30:18

Well, I mean, you know, it's like disgracey type. We tight things that have a run. You know, that always starts moving and a run is going to be annoying people got it. You know, maybe surgically they have to in plan to one.

SPEAKER_01

01:30:18 - 01:30:31

It's surgically implanted pad over your elbow. Man, it's not here or not. Yeah, it's you. You're all fired up. Yeah, it's also like that. So you've done you did two fights in the UFC after you won the title with random and what made you, what made you stop?

SPEAKER_02

01:30:32 - 01:31:38

a pain pain chain that that neck injury I brought it all the way to the rental month fights it was still not gone I was hurting I couldn't sleep I wasn't sleeping pills for such a long time because of the pain there was always pain pain in my neck and then I said you know what I'm gonna so I tore it by steps like throwing a left hook in the air pocket I go on my god what's going on now you know it's not breaking down breaking down and then I started I didn't do anything then I started training like three years after that I started training and it and it went to start going good and the graphs started going good and you know okay everything feels good and then I stopped And then like two years later, two and a half years later, they, that's when they call me for the WFA. If I was interested, they offered me a lot of money. And apparently what happened, this was funny also because they chemolyopoldo to him, they said, he says, who do you want to fight? And I said, Hickson, I went to first, I said, Hickson. They said, we don't have the money for that. It's never going to happen. Okay, then uh, it's crazy right?

SPEAKER_01

01:31:38 - 01:31:39

He wants millions.

SPEAKER_02

01:31:39 - 01:31:49

Yeah, that was at the time, you know, and I was just want to see what you can do against it, right? And um, so they uh, by the way, that would have been another awesome fight. That would have been awesome fight.

SPEAKER_01

01:31:49 - 01:31:53

Oh, yeah. You against Van Delay or you. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

01:31:53 - 01:32:01

Yeah. That's the same. Anyway, then I said, uh, I don't know, you know, I don't, so you don't feel the real.

SPEAKER_01

01:32:01 - 01:32:04

So, no, no, no, they said keep only your polo. That's the positive for steroids.

SPEAKER_02

01:32:04 - 01:33:06

Yeah, but when they said keep only polo, say I sure, I said man, I'd just hang out with the mid-Japan when he fought in Japan, it's kind of weird. If I don't know, he actually wants to fight you. I said, I'll cool. So then when we had the photo shoot, I go to the photo shoot and he's there and he's acting all weird, like giving me hand, but like shine away and I go like, wow, he's taking his, uh, this five very serious, right? I mean, what's going on? Oh, yeah, we told him that you specifically asked for him. And then I thought, you know what? Am I going to tell him? But then I thought, no, I'm not going to tell him. Because if I tell him, you know, then maybe he's not going to train a shot. I wanted to have a tough fight. You know, so I thought he's angry. He's going to train harder. He's going to be awesome fight. And then I thought, That was my crazy mind. I say on the day of the fight, I would deliver a letter to him in the dressing room saying exactly what I just said. So he would read. Like I knew this already, but I didn't want to tell you because I want you to be 100% before you fight me and a full of stamina because you're going to need it. And that was I think that would be totally backfiring, right?

SPEAKER_00

01:33:06 - 01:33:07

I just before you fight.

SPEAKER_02

01:33:08 - 01:33:14

So that was the set up to play and then yeah, you got that's positive. So the Ruben had to take his place.

SPEAKER_01

01:33:14 - 01:33:14

Ruben took his place.

SPEAKER_02

01:33:14 - 01:33:23

No, no, no one wanted guys. Thank God, but they didn't want to do it. And then there's a lot of bunch of guys there went over because I said anybody they came up with that because I didn't.

SPEAKER_01

01:33:23 - 01:33:43

I was just the only one who was willing to take the fight. Yeah. Now, when you were over there in Japan, and you were there for all those great fights, like no garovourses, no garovourses, cro-cop, and no garovourses, fade-or, and what was that like sitting there rings on them? Did you want to just fucking jump in there sometimes? No, you get crazy. You get crazy.

SPEAKER_02

01:33:44 - 01:34:19

You were with their view. Some of the greatest fights ever. Ever. Ever. Nobody get to take that away from you. You know what they said about my fights also. I want to fight the first two fighters and one guy in Holland says he says bus. Everybody was saying, oh, he's going to lose. He's going to lose. You know, like a very negative public country. And one guy says bus, whatever happens, they never take this away from you anymore. So lock this up, they got you got this, you know, and that's what with those fights also. That's something that you carry on with the rest of your life. They were great moments and to interview those guys, you know, to reenact to them and to crazy stuff. And then when I quite a start doing this crazy opening, you know, this was a fun man.

SPEAKER_01

01:34:19 - 01:34:21

I like those. Who didn't like those?

SPEAKER_02

01:34:21 - 01:34:36

They pulled those that Jerry Millen came. Yeah, you know, he was suddenly everything needs to be the same as boxing and I go why is it gonna be the same as everybody else? You know, let it let it let it be like how many fights did you do over there in pride?

SPEAKER_01

01:34:36 - 01:34:37

How many cards?

SPEAKER_02

01:34:37 - 01:34:47

Oh God, I don't know. I mean, but when they started Bushido also I was there 12 times a month a year I was like five six that I've Yeah, I have no clue what I'm doing today.

SPEAKER_01

01:34:47 - 01:34:57

It must have been completely insane. I mean, I heard stories about guys getting paid with stacks of money stacks of money with all crisp old numbers exactly in a row.

SPEAKER_02

01:34:57 - 01:35:03

I mean, I think if they would walk in there with guns, but yeah, that again, you don't want to do that again.

SPEAKER_01

01:35:03 - 01:35:14

There's a lot of money there. Japan is run by the Yakuza, right? That's the whole deal with pride in all these organizations that are basically, and that's accepted. That's a part of Japanese culture, right? Is that just how it works?

SPEAKER_02

01:35:14 - 01:35:27

No, no, no, no. It's not accepted because when it came out, Then it was over, right? Then because then the TV said, we would don't want to be associated with it. And they pulled the money out or was it?

SPEAKER_01

01:35:27 - 01:35:30

Was that just because it was made public? But it was already known.

SPEAKER_02

01:35:30 - 01:35:36

I think it was made public. I got to forget this. It was the past from Joe Rogan for a buddy of mine.

SPEAKER_01

01:35:36 - 01:35:42

Oh, yeah, I gave my UFC pass from there. That's cool. Is that your phone that keeps going on? I have no clue when you see it.

SPEAKER_02

01:35:43 - 01:35:48

Oh, my battery's still low for use. Okay, good.

SPEAKER_01

01:35:48 - 01:36:03

So when you were over there though, when you were watching all these classic fights, I mean, like I said, you'd been there for, I mean, you were there for show gun Mark Coleman, you were there for you show gun versus rampage, rampage versus a roan, I mean, some of the greatest fights of all time.

SPEAKER_02

01:36:03 - 01:36:46

Rampage, the things that we did with Rampage, how I remember my first when he fought Sakuraba and he lost that fight, I took him to the side, I said, listen, you got it man, you got this thing, they love you, I said make sure this doesn't happen anymore because they actually had to get him out of jail. to get that fight. There was a whole stress thing going on because he had a he had a warrant out of him or something and he was at the airport and they got him and they put him in jail. Real. Yeah, but that the pride people started talking. They got him out. They made pictures of it. He's studying in front of the jail. There was on the cover of the older newspapers, he studied there with his big chain, you know, and that was, that was quick and he came in.

SPEAKER_01

01:36:46 - 01:37:03

Now, the what was going on back then at that time was pride was a mainstream Japanese sensation. It was huge in mainstream Japan, right? It wasn't like mixed martial arts in America back then was not nearly as successful as it is today.

SPEAKER_02

01:37:03 - 01:37:16

A small show was 43,000 people. Damn. Yeah, and they would sell out all the time. The biggest show, 91 and a half, Tokyo don't 55, 60,000. I mean, it was crazy.

SPEAKER_01

01:37:16 - 01:37:25

And you would go out on the street and you would get mad. Oh, man. Everybody. Yeah. So what happened? What happened over there? Because it stopped being like that.

SPEAKER_02

01:37:25 - 01:37:35

It stopped being like because of that. Because of the accuser. Yeah. When the TV pulled everything out, it was over. That's when everything went down to dread.

SPEAKER_01

01:37:35 - 01:37:39

It was so successful. So many people liked it. I couldn't imagine it. So now it's wouldn't come along.

SPEAKER_02

01:37:39 - 01:38:21

No, no, no, no, no. I think the main reason of this is, Sekaraba started to lose. Like an organization in Japan in order to be successful in the age of any star. And where are you going to fight good luck to find another Sekaraba who beats four graces? Now, unbelievable fighter. You know, but it is K-1 never got big in America. Why they don't have an American champion. They have an American champion in America. K-1, but that guy doesn't do good at the final tournaments. But once an American guy is going to read in Japan, you watch then K-1 becomes very interesting for the people. It is logic. You know, you want to root for your own guy.

SPEAKER_01

01:38:22 - 01:38:53

That's funny, though, because, you know, I mean, horse Gracie when he won an America, he was a hugely popular guy and he's from Brazil. Yeah. I think if they had K-1 over in America, I just think people that, you know, Dana White and I had a conversation about this. We were just talking about how kickboxing has a negative stigma in America because of P.K.A. karate. Yeah. The old boring kickboxing just to have an E.S.A. kicks above the waist or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise, you could even kick low. Yeah, it took a low at all. Very few of the, I mean, they would occasionally, they would show you a low kick fight, you know, allow special rules or special rules.

SPEAKER_00

01:38:53 - 01:38:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

01:38:54 - 01:39:18

For the most part, it was like they would wear those big stupid slippers on their feet. Yeah, they wouldn't really kick. It wasn't exciting. Yeah. What's the deal is exciting is boxing or moitai. But the K1 now, like if you watch the Grand Prix now, that's bizarre. So exciting. And Max as well, you know, the K-1 match of the week, guys. And George York chose the enemy. Yeah, I believe we'll, right? Tell me that I couldn't be a star in America or, you know, Alistair, especially.

SPEAKER_02

01:39:18 - 01:39:25

Yeah, but the thing is, um, into beginning, it will work. But eventually people want to see an American champion.

SPEAKER_01

01:39:25 - 01:39:41

Well, I think it was really big and successful over here. You would have some Americans that would do well. But they would have to know that that's a legitimate avenue for a profession. They love that Barry. You know, guys who are real serious fucking strikers. You know, you just did just not that many of them.

SPEAKER_02

01:39:41 - 01:39:44

There's not, no, just really not. And you know, the

SPEAKER_01

01:39:45 - 01:39:50

In America, there's no venue. They have to go out of the country to get like real high level. It's very harsh.

SPEAKER_02

01:39:50 - 01:39:59

It's very marvellous mid would say, you know, he was at the top of the pyramid at that time and he didn't make it over there. So then, you know, they're like, okay, but just who was going to beat Marvellous mid in America?

SPEAKER_01

01:39:59 - 01:40:38

Nobody, right? Yeah. Maurice, that was, he was another interesting guy when he first came to the UFC. I was there for his debut. I was there when he fought Mark Coleman. No, but he gave him a chance. You know, everybody thought Maurice is going to get killed. Yeah, I remember backstage he's so relaxed. Yeah, he was hanging out and goofed around and laughing and like this is guy. No, he's going to go get Yeah, but the biggest guy in the game, you know, Mark Coleman was a fucking monster. Yeah, but Maurice just it was the first guy to have like that real high level cardio. You know, it was the first guy that just not get tired. You knew Mark was going to get tired. Yep. And I thought of my foot. I'm twice. Maurice, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

01:40:38 - 01:41:05

He's admitted him, didn't you? Yeah, twice. Yeah. It was fun. You know, the best one was the first time. I'm standing here and he makes a kick, I go back and punch him and it goes well fast and right away I give him my kick, and it's like it's on his defense. It's quite very close so I think, oh cool, I'm making another one, right away I make a switch kick and I kick and I slip and I fall in the ground and he wants to jump on top of me and I go wait. He stops and I get up when I go, thanks.

SPEAKER_00

01:41:05 - 01:41:12

You said the way. Yeah, you just listen to you. And you got to see that fight. Is the funniest thing? Hey, it's legal, right?

SPEAKER_02

01:41:12 - 01:41:40

That's hilarious. Yeah, that was hilarious. That was funny. And then he tried to take my back. This was the coolest. I did a mini bar upside down, a knee bar. On my head, feet up, knee baring him. I'm standing against the ropes and he's trying to get my back. So he just dove down on Neibar. That's it. I go and like, okay, get my back. So right away, but he did, I dove in, but he grabs the ropes. So I'm standing upside down at the top of my head and have the Neibar. He's, he's tapping in the ropes and rope escaping.

SPEAKER_01

01:41:40 - 01:41:57

Wow. Yeah, that was well. Then you were really there for some crazy times. What is it like now going from like your very beginnings where there was no mixed martial arts? Well, you went over there. You literally had no idea what it was like to see what it's like now. You know, with my cane Velasquez and all these guys.

SPEAKER_02

01:41:57 - 01:42:25

Oh, unbelievable. You have to understand that what I came from tie boxing, right? You got weight classes. It's like boxing. So I came to Japan and the first thing I see is my opponent is 245 pounds. And I'm 195. So I go like, okay, but I didn't want to show anything, of course, because okay, this one of this, right? You got to fight. So I go, okay, cool, cool, cool. So how many rounds to say one round? So awesome. How many minutes? 30. Say, awesome.

SPEAKER_00

01:42:25 - 01:42:27

I didn't think inside. Awesome. I go.

SPEAKER_02

01:42:28 - 01:43:35

30 minutes. I'm gonna fight 30 minutes. You know, that's why I put those arms on my hand. I have to stay relaxed because I'm such a honoured. Well, that's what the R stood for. Yeah, relax. Yeah, in Holland it's rustic starts with an R also. So what's going to that, please? I thought it was a rotten. No, no, no, no, for rustic, stay comfortable. Every time when I get hit, you hear my corner, you listen to the fights. You go, stay calm, stay calm, stay calm because they know I want to. That's right, in Holland, my whole first round of knockouts, I would come out very technical. So I figured I said, man, if I'm going to fight a guy like a working machine, you know, we can take a lot of punishment, but then come back and I got 28 more minutes to go. We're going to shoot low. I don't want to have that. So I put the two arms on my hand and they would shout, they never shout in an instruction. The only instruction they shout is like, when I'm in a guard, I would tell them, right? This is my easiest guard escape on a planet. Imagine the guard is here and it's left foot is on top, right? I would look at my corner and it would show and it would go right and I would swing back and underrockets and grab it.

SPEAKER_00

01:43:35 - 01:43:42

They would be the ice for me and I feel this day. I don't get it that nobody does this. It's the simplest thing on the planet.

SPEAKER_01

01:43:42 - 01:43:46

You know which foot is on top so you can push up. Yeah, because it's not being held up.

SPEAKER_02

01:43:46 - 01:43:50

So you just look at him and they go right and then you relax and I'll pick it up.

SPEAKER_01

01:43:50 - 01:43:57

That's hilarious. Do you do that for your guys as well? Oh, yeah, yeah. I did it also. Yeah. You gotta be careful. You don't get kind of triangle though, no?

SPEAKER_02

01:43:57 - 01:44:00

No, you gotta, you know, you know that, right? Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

01:44:00 - 01:44:04

Yeah. This is not like what, why are these pulling on your arm? Let's try it now.

SPEAKER_01

01:44:04 - 01:44:36

Now, how am I going to play? How crazy is it watching the evolution of the game? I mean, we literally in America, there has never been a sport like mixed martial arts that has exploded and changed and grown right before our eyes. Yeah. I mean, the some sports got famous like skateboarding and, you know, BMX riding. I mean, some stuff that wasn't a viable way to make a living when I was a kid became one, but nothing like mixed martial arts where it was just constantly in the public eye and movies and jammed down your throat on television. I mean, it's pretty fucking strange, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02

01:44:37 - 01:46:18

It's, I, I, I predicted it right away after my first fight. They did an interview with me and I said, this is like a rollerball that movie. These people going to need like an outlet, you know, and this is it. This is going to be very big. I say, you're watching four years from now. Yeah, I said it four years from now this will be the biggest thing and it was like seven years later or something I was like way off in time but eventually it got there I go like what is what is better than this? I knew at that time already that everybody likes to be to know who's the toughest guy on the planet and this is literally being the toughest guy I was an insider in May last week, and I was ashamed about a comment that I made against Frank, because we had a comment that one guy says, oh, we're MMA is just like two guys rubbing against each other on the floor. And then I told him the story that I was fighting Frank, and then I stood up and I said to Frank, come up, he says, no, no, you come down. I said, no, come up, fight like a man. And I go, I'm eating those words right now, because when I broke that guy's shin bone, because I had no clue how much power that wasn't a joint. You know, that really started making me think, and I go, you have to understand it. The ground guy can break whatever he wants in your body. You got so much dominant power. If I roll with guys, my students, they brought a stand with me down the ground. Because on the ground, they say, you always, you're there. Standing, they can move around, you know? And they get a lot of days, but it's way harder on the ground. So I go like, wow, listen, I can dislocate, break, snap, I can do whatever I want. If I say, okay, your right arm is going to go, your right arm is going to go to any guy on the street. You know, I mean, talking about power compared to knocking somebody out. You know, I can put you to sleep, but I can just some crazy things with you.

SPEAKER_01

01:46:18 - 01:46:51

It just came out of nowhere. I mean, when I was a kid, it was all about striking. There was no one ever took judo. Yeah. I wrestled in high school, but, you know, I just did it as a sport, you know, and I got bored with it quick, because it just didn't seem like there's anything going on, you know, the guy down, but it wasn't submitting, submitting him. And once Jiu-Jitsu came along, man, it's amazing how much it's evolved. You look at, like, MMA. You look at the Jiu-Jitsu that was in MMA in 93, and look at the Jiu-Jitsu he's now with, like, Chakura, you know, Jamie and Maya, you know, it's fucking, so many levels above it.

SPEAKER_02

01:46:51 - 01:47:43

The thing is what I always say, I said, all the moves are pretty much invented, right? But it's the setups. They found such a creative way to go to a particular move. That is the cool part about makes martial arts style. If you have that setup that nobody noticed yet, you show me how many times you see. Remember the first time in the end of Honda got introduced in the Pride, you know, the guy from the Garus camp. They said, we called this on a Honda. That was no guarantee. Because nobody saw the freaking thing before. Well, everybody's not landing on a Honda. You know, Darstoke, same thing, but suddenly there's the Darst, you know, oh, you can do it on the other, it's not the armpit, you go to the, you see, so people start playing with it. And they create these different ways, like, deal history against the, uh, suck, what is the, a little, the Italian guy, suck, uh, unless you suck. It's a guy. The way he said that's right, but choke up. I mean, wow, that was so cool. It was so sneaky, slowly, but surely in that poop. You know, you go like, listen.

SPEAKER_01

01:47:43 - 01:48:30

That is cool. Listen, there's a master. It's pretty cool, right? Yeah, I mean, Lister, if Dean Lister was around the early UFC, nobody had GG2 like him. 93. You know, even the horse crazy didn't. GG2 was very basic. It wasn't nothing like, you know, the GG2 that you see today. You know, there's, there's a few guys that they say when they compare GG2 this, they, you know, like, kicks in as a perfect example. People today even high level black belts that roll with him just say that guy is on another level. There's just a few guys that are just, you know, laborio, Ricardo laborio is another one they say about that. He's just on another level. Just there's just a such a high level of jujitsu. But overall, the level of jujitsu from the new guys like the Marcelo Garcia's, you know, these new guys coming along. It's so high level. It's so much more advanced than it was just 10, 15 years ago, you know.

SPEAKER_02

01:48:30 - 01:48:57

You know what a cool thing is with Libario. He saw me rolling with Joaquin Manson in China. He was watching there and then he's first show we started showing me things and I said what he could do with those particular leg locks and how he could do this and they would make it that stronger and he was sitting looking at me and he was like, Oh, I said, oh, you thought I was a striker, right? And he goes, oh, I didn't know. And then it's finished that he wanted me to come to America top team to teach a ground fighting seminar.

SPEAKER_00

01:48:57 - 01:48:59

That is good stuff. Well, it's good.

SPEAKER_01

01:48:59 - 01:49:23

You have a fresh perspective. You know, I mean, you never know that everybody has their own way of doing things. That's what I haven't seen it before. That's right. Now, there's so many different techniques. So what people don't understand that don't do Gigiitsu, there's so many different techniques. It's like available. It's like a, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a, if you had a million pieces. You know, there's so many different submissions, there's so many different transitions and chains of submissions and new techniques and new counters.

SPEAKER_02

01:49:23 - 01:49:41

Yeah, but I believe in it's good to know them all, but for every fight you have to say, okay, I'm going to use this particular move for that guy. I don't go crazy on this, because you know, and then have those different setups. That is the key, man. I would and set up one to four. I'd go for one to four to two to back to one to boom card.

SPEAKER_01

01:49:42 - 01:50:04

Well, this guy's like, Jake Shields is very basic. He doesn't do a lot of different techniques. We're gonna make a choke, arm bar, guillotine choke, but he just fucking gets them. And he knows it. Yeah, his path to those techniques is so sharp. What do you think? So what do you think about guys today? Like, when you look at these guys today, and do you ever wish, like, man, I was, did you ever say, like, I came along too late? Like, what, why, why? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

01:50:06 - 01:50:21

On one side, yeah, but you know, I always go with the classes have full with me. You know, I, I, I'm in a great position right now, man. I mean, I got a movie coming up with a big part for this, you know, the Kevin James comedy, you know, I got the TV show. My wife predicted that one also, by the way.

SPEAKER_01

01:50:21 - 01:50:21

What's he saying?

SPEAKER_02

01:50:23 - 01:50:42

I mean, this is like, oh, we go in, it is a fourth year. It's crazy. No. And my wife, when she predicted that I was going to be a fighter in Japan, and I said, no, because I'm not going to fight, she says, yeah, it's Holland. You're going to go to Japan much six months later on in Japan. And two years into that, she looks at me weird again. I said, now what? She's going to go to America. You're going to be in TV business.

SPEAKER_00

01:50:43 - 01:50:52

So how did you ever get the a part of the grand theft auto like the men's room was probably one of the funniest things ever? Are you gonna ever do another one? What is it? I haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_02

01:50:52 - 01:50:53

Oh, go on YouTube.

SPEAKER_00

01:50:53 - 01:51:01

You have to show it. Yeah, it's the inside the grand theft auto. I would just sit there to watch his show inside the video.

SPEAKER_01

01:51:01 - 01:51:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

01:51:02 - 01:51:33

Yeah, boss was GTA 4. That was just a disguise from bar fighting this short. And what they did, they gave me a script. And I said, can I treat this thing? And they say, sure. So I would start building sentences in the middle of the sentence. I would stop and then restart it. So it looks like I'm a total freak of cycle when I'm talking. It's like really weird because it does a work. And the result when you see the result is one of my final workmen. I had to set people out there. I say, you can't because they were cracking up so hard.

SPEAKER_01

01:51:33 - 01:52:02

There's a lot of other guys who have fought though. You're the very best in my opinion at transitioning into a career outside of fighting and you do inside MMA, you do commentary. You're always used to, by the way, you and Michael Chievello when you did the commentary for Strike Force for the Undercard. So fucking best part of the night. I love that. I love that. You guys need to do it together. I love Sheo Velo. I think that's fucking hilarious. You guys together were awesome. Somebody really needs to scoop you up and have you guys do more commentary.

SPEAKER_02

01:52:02 - 01:52:35

Yeah, you know, I love to do again, but this right now, you know, this is one of those things that I thought I would never say, but I'm so busy. I don't have the time for it anymore but anytime I have a chance like for instance now I go to Brussels you know and then I do this just like three days before I have to go to Boston to shoot say why do you do it you don't need to do it I say yeah but I enjoy it I enjoy it so much to go there and there I'm also the ring announcer and they let me free I can't slap the girl I do you know I have to find stuff you know what is Brussels that makes martial arts makes martial arts and the K1 tournament You know, both at the same time, the talking is fighting?

SPEAKER_01

01:52:35 - 01:52:37

I've seen that they had one before, right?

SPEAKER_02

01:52:37 - 01:52:38

Yeah, also on inside MMA.

SPEAKER_01

01:52:38 - 01:52:59

Yes, yeah. Inside MMA, by the way, if you don't have HDNet, you're missing out. HDNet is the best for watching fights. There's always K1, K1, max. They have 100 different, you know, MFCs on 100 different mixed martial arts organizations, fights from Japan, fights from Europe. It's really interesting. That's where inside MMA, your show is on as well.

SPEAKER_02

01:53:00 - 01:53:36

I love it. And the thing I love about it, I see my old buddies again, whether they're still fighting order and I'll put coaches from guys. And then I see the new talent coming up. And we all have them on the show. You know, we would have thought you're going to get a Basie award. You know, like, you can win a Basie if you have the greatest knockout of the year or something. How cool is that? You know, it's really going to start doing that thing. I think in the front of the live audience, that will be cool to do also. But it's really getting that. We never thought it was going to go like that. You know, when it just exploded from the half-hour show, we went right away through an hour, and now commercials are there. So that means we're doing a good thing with the hottest show on the HGNet.

SPEAKER_01

01:53:36 - 01:53:55

Yeah, it's not in my mind. It's great. It's a really, really fun show to watch. Now, what about guys that you know that you started out with that have taken a lot of damage? You know, I mean, you didn't take damage. You took damage to your body, like you have 10 to 9, but you have no problem with your thinking. No, yeah, but what is it like when you see guys that do because it disturbs a shit out of me?

SPEAKER_02

01:53:55 - 01:54:12

Really, it's it's really sad that we I know a few guys that you know start lisping and and it's scary stuff, you know the like Aloski fight though, you know Andre, you know, I love this guy. It's a really nice guy. Somebody I know he wants to fight and he already wants to prepare for the next fight. I think somebody should say you know what? Let's not do it

SPEAKER_01

01:54:12 - 01:54:26

What do you think about Greg Jackson saying that he's going to get right back in there? They're just going to fix it and he did some things wrong, but he's not done. He's going to come back. It'll be even sweeter than ever. And I'm listening. I'm talking. I'm like, mother fucker, do you know that this guy knocked unconscious? You can work times in a row.

SPEAKER_02

01:54:26 - 01:54:43

You can kill everything for the rest. Yeah, you know, I mean, maybe he's, he's not going to be a teacher anymore, nothing but mixed martial arts. That's the, the, the bad thing also is like your legacy is going down. When you're going to be a coach, you're going to go to a gym to train with a guy who lost his last seven fights and imagine your guy like that.

SPEAKER_01

01:54:43 - 01:54:44

I know I knock out.

SPEAKER_02

01:54:44 - 01:55:12

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So, you know, what I said, what they should do, should tell them, okay, you know what you're gonna, you're not gonna fight for a year. And in between, we're gonna do some grappling tournaments to keep the competition on there, and in your business, and it doesn't matter if you're gonna lose. Who cares about it? Just be busy with competition, so you perform under pressure, and then if everything feels good, you know, then maybe try it one more time. But then really say, okay, if this is gonna go the wrong way, you really gotta stop like that.

SPEAKER_01

01:55:12 - 01:55:15

So I'm about to get a year off from the bad Rogers fight. Did they?

SPEAKER_02

01:55:16 - 01:55:25

Yeah, but my book, if I was my student, it was no. Yeah. I would say no, this has been shut off too many times. Yeah, because I don't want to be that nail on the coffin that's going to say, God knows what happened.

SPEAKER_01

01:55:25 - 01:55:40

What about a guy like Alstar, the gut stopped a bunch of times. I mean, Alstar got stopped like thinking nine times in his career, Bobby Hoffman knocked the mouth, chocolate, they'll knock the mouth so many guys stopped him. Yeah. And look at him now. I mean, I know the greatest comeback ever.

SPEAKER_02

01:55:40 - 01:56:18

I know, but you see this fighting style, how he fights. He doesn't throw, I was looking at, so let it go. Make three, four shots. Papa, Papa, I do doesn't do that. Everything is single shots. His defense is perfect. Boom. Boom. Boom every watch, you know, there's no three a ride-up like that left took. He's very good. No, you know, yeah, of course tries not to get hit. That's not to get hit and it's gonna be hard for people to hit him. It's so much power. You know, I mean, look at the striking as bizarre. The guy is so strong. He's taken out his fence. He's getting really good. He's a great submission. His ground control is really good. No one has ever been.

SPEAKER_01

01:56:18 - 01:56:26

like Alster that won the K-1 Grand Prix and is a mixed martial arts champion. Yeah, Dream, Dream Strike. And Strike Force. Three builds.

SPEAKER_02

01:56:26 - 01:57:20

Pretty fuck crazy. Yeah. Yeah, that's really cool. So that's a guy, you know, this is cool. He trained in the early days. He trained with Chris Dolman when I was training there. He had this brother, Valentine. and I would submit them and then they would they they're very competitive and then if I wouldn't come over there they suddenly would call and they say oh we're at your gym we want to train now because now we're going to get you I said okay and then they went again and they say how is that possible I said because I'm training to others there You know, but I always said that's the guy. Those are the guys because they keep on coming and keep on coming and want more and travel for it. He wants it. The guy who really wants it, it really is like that. It's like the book I always say, the alchemist, you know, if you set your goal, you say, that's where I want to go. Whatever you do, you don't get off the path, you know, you are going to get it. I truly believe there's something up there that helps you for that. You know, Go. Don't. Relad this. Don't walk over people, though, in order to get there.

SPEAKER_01

01:57:20 - 01:57:30

Unless you're on your Alaska and you've been there for four times in a row. Yeah, that's true. But physically you have to stop and look at it and go. All right. What are we going to do here?

SPEAKER_02

01:57:30 - 01:58:14

Yeah, that's true. I don't know how you say this. I think that how do you tell when to tell them? I think that people inside deep down inside the fighters know if they can become a champion or not. I think they already know that. When I was fighting and I started winning in Japan when I got that grand game I look at my wife and say, I think I'm being real champion this thing. I truly believe I can be all these guys now. And then it started. I think you feel that. I think that a fighter will actually know himself they will keep on trying and keep on trying. But I think once you No, that it's not really there. That's not a good feeling. They won't say it, but it is. Just like the guy who you mount, you hit, they turn on the back and they get choked. A lot of these guys, they give the choked.

SPEAKER_01

01:58:14 - 01:58:20

Speaking of that, what did you think about the Fedor fight when Fedor was fighting on Bigfoot? I mean, he gave up his back a couple of times. He had to.

SPEAKER_02

01:58:22 - 01:58:38

It was too big actually we said too big with too big and combination yeah, and then and then being what 60 pounds heavier, you know, that's a big difference man. I always said I wanted weight class 205 to 35. Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_01

01:58:38 - 01:58:39

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_02

01:58:39 - 01:58:40

It's the too big of a leap.

SPEAKER_01

01:58:41 - 01:58:44

Yeah, those big giant guys are cutting weight to get down to 265. That's a huge percentage.

SPEAKER_02

01:58:44 - 01:58:47

They said that he was too 90 today. How could you gain 25?

SPEAKER_01

01:58:47 - 01:58:57

This fucking head looks like it's 29. That guy's big. Yeah, it's big. When he got on top of Fedor and mountaineer, you see how wide is he like, that's a giant person.

SPEAKER_02

01:58:57 - 01:59:00

It's stopped by a big foot. Did you see the foot bridge down his back?

SPEAKER_01

01:59:03 - 01:59:09

Don't fade or man that was a that was a tough thing to watch and it's tougher even still to watch all those people that are behind himself fight again.

SPEAKER_02

01:59:09 - 01:59:22

He should fight no people booing when they don't let the fight continue I say is I is just closed he can't see anything coming from the left you know at all yeah, it was gonna be the same thing anyway.

SPEAKER_01

01:59:22 - 01:59:30

He's gonna get taken down smashed That was it. That was it. Is it hard watching a guy like that? I mean, you watch them enter into very hard pride and then see him get beat down like very hard.

SPEAKER_02

01:59:30 - 01:59:34

Yeah, that that that's something to you know that you get emotional. I don't get emotional from that.

SPEAKER_01

01:59:34 - 02:00:00

It's a crazy thing, right? But in this game and the game of fighting, we're gonna see it no matter what. I mean, I was there for Chuck Liddell's debut. I was there, you know. For actor console, so I think those guys named me fought if I get the guys named me fought I was there for that. Noi Gonzalez, maybe I was there for that fight and then to get to see him, you know all the way to the end to the rich Franklin fight, you know, it's like wow You know, seeing guys like at the top, but they're most vibrant when they're just dominant.

SPEAKER_02

02:00:00 - 02:00:50

You know, with Chuck, it's a mental thing. But I always say with Chuck, if he has the right person who can't talk to him, that he's too hungry. Like, if he lands, if he smells the victory, he starts also committing to it. And all the knockouts he had is because of that. If he would step back, relax. I mean, he was doing really good against French, frankly. This guy still can be the top guy. That's his only defect. With him, it's not that he lost his timing and lost that. It's only that. He's too hungry. You know, he's been knocking out people too easy, you know? That's the same. You can also see what the training, when he fought Couture. You know that when he trains, he puts everybody backwards. And then Sunday when Couture came and started pushing him backwards. That was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What now what? He never was there. That fight made them again. Way better after that make him a better counter strike man.

SPEAKER_01

02:00:50 - 02:01:02

Yeah, he learned how to fire him off as he was moving backwards. And one of my favorite guys still was amazing. Yeah, he also lost the ability to take a punch. I mean, if you go back and watch his first fights, like, you've watched the payla fight. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that was crazy.

SPEAKER_02

02:01:02 - 02:01:04

It was a WVC, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

02:01:04 - 02:01:07

That was not too bad. It was very knuckle. Yeah, not cool.

SPEAKER_01

02:01:07 - 02:01:20

It was guys with the raise and that underneath the rope. So you couldn't escape. It's stuck in there. It's on top of pale. It punched him in the face with bare knuckles. People could stab in the eyes. I'm sorry. I do this with grab the balls. Remember?

SPEAKER_00

02:01:20 - 02:01:24

Yeah. Why don't we, I was going to say it. Who's it? The paper. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

02:01:24 - 02:01:40

Who is it? It's pants and crushed his dick and balls. He said if I agar on him, he'll literally grab the guy by the car and it's, yeah, what the fuck? And it was totally completely legal. Yeah. I mean, nobody had ever done it, but Gary. And while it threw though, anything goes. Yeah, that is anything go. Were they allowed to bite down? I have heard that.

SPEAKER_02

02:01:40 - 02:01:51

You know, well, it's almost, I read the books from a big John, because I wrote the forward for the book. And man, that's a cool book. What is your John's book?

SPEAKER_01

02:01:51 - 02:01:57

It's a song. But where do you think John McCrante is next? No, no, no, no. What is this line? Oh, let's get it on.

SPEAKER_00

02:01:57 - 02:01:58

Let's get it on.

SPEAKER_01

02:01:58 - 02:02:03

But that's sort of Mills Lane's line. Mills Lane in boxing had that way before the US.

SPEAKER_00

02:02:03 - 02:02:04

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

02:02:04 - 02:02:28

Well, I don't even... If I were you ready, if I were, let's get it on! Come on! Okay, that was his thing. And they like had made some sort of an agreement where John was going to use it in MMA and Mills Lane was going to use it in boxing. Okay, but I remember when, you know, there was like some words that people were saying, oh, you know, only John McCarthy could say, let's get it on because he ever referees got to figure out a thing to say. It's Martin Gay. There's no one that started it.

SPEAKER_00

02:02:28 - 02:02:30

Marvin Gay Martin.

SPEAKER_01

02:02:30 - 02:02:33

It's Martin. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, let's get it on.

SPEAKER_02

02:02:36 - 02:03:19

you see it all boss you've been there from the beginning you know you're you're a real legend in this this crazy sport I'm a very happy person I'm a lot of pain when I walk you know everything hurts but it's good worth it and I know that with the stem cells and everything it will something will pop up you know and I'll put it back I'm not going to find any way you know I'm also you know there's also a thing that I had when in 2006 when I made the comeback I knew that like I would roll and everything would go really well don't get me wrong but the worst things that I say I would have had that normally and normally I would have had that I noticed that I was getting slower you know and that my reactions were not there as they were before so you know you got to be You don't be very realistic to yourself.

SPEAKER_01

02:03:19 - 02:03:26

What do you think about a guy like Randy Cotours older than you? I mean, how old do you know? Yeah, but 45 46 40 40.

SPEAKER_02

02:03:26 - 02:03:36

Yeah, it's crazy, but he's got the O2 trainer. The boss was an invention, the long training device.

SPEAKER_01

02:03:36 - 02:03:37

What is the O2 trainer?

SPEAKER_02

02:03:37 - 02:04:06

You know what? This is a fun thing when I came up with this. Yeah. When I was 15 years old, around that time, I was very bad as well, but I also did track and field. So when I had an asthma, I think that would be like a two week episode, which from the two weeks, I would be like five or six days in bed, because I couldn't eat and can breathe, because you can't eat. No, you can't breathe. Drink it. They'd like this. 24 hours a day. Oh, yeah, no really bad. So I couldn't walk stairs, nothing, everything and bad.

SPEAKER_01

02:04:06 - 02:04:07

You don't have any of that anymore?

SPEAKER_02

02:04:07 - 02:05:21

No, no, no, sometimes I do. Sometimes a little bit. Yeah, but you're digging it in hell and it's gone. But then after I had an attack and I would do the trick and feel, I would realize that my lungs would work better. And I go, why is that? And I start, oh wait a minute, it's an infection in your lung pipe. You know, it closes the lung pipe. Your lungs have to work really hard to pull that air in. Then when the infection is gone, you know, because they worked all the time, they're used to pulling hard, air comes in easy. I go, so why don't I come up with something that controls the air intake? So I started thinking about, like, it's a stupidest thing, man. You're going to laugh. Like, I will hold my mouth in a certain position and try to memorize that position and it's stupid stuff. So you get much air in? Yeah. Like, and then make it every time a little smaller and I go, man, I get to come up with something. So I tell all these, oh, my buddy's here and America, everybody knew and the whole thing that I wanted to make that thing. And then when Vendolet came on TV with a snorkel, I think I had six or seven phone calls. They said, you got to do that thing that you're talking about because somebody's going to find it out. Somebody's going to come up with an idea. You know, so I started looking at a pattern to a lawyer and buddy, you know, man, nobody made it. I got the pattern to have everything to work with.

SPEAKER_01

02:05:21 - 02:05:24

So what's the problem? The boss route is go to trainer. The O2 trainer.

SPEAKER_02

02:05:24 - 02:06:27

That's why I was laughing because because what I saw this is, it controls the air intake. It's a very simple thing. So imagine this week you do all your hard work outs, like only four times also because you don't need to do that every way because you're actually turning your muscles. The testing in the Texas right now, the University, that guy in 12 days, he had a great long volume. He said, man, you made something really cool. Can I put my track team on it? He's got his female track team on it. They're going to run tests on them now because he thinks also that because it's a little small diet biodegradable little compartment that's flexible all so so you can get hurt. because you read the little tiny bit of carbon dioxide which I want to stay away from because I don't want people to get this. He says, no, no, you don't get this. You're carbon dioxide. I want it to. Anyway, he says, he thinks it's just enough to spark a more red blood cell production. I said, you give me, he said, I don't know for sure yet. He says, but I will be icing on the cake. Wow. What does this thing look like? It's an, you know, I hope I still get better.

SPEAKER_01

02:06:27 - 02:06:28

Is it online? Can I find an online?

SPEAKER_02

02:06:30 - 02:06:39

Let me see you go to ototrader.com and people are watching me now. You can't buy it yet. It's on there, but you can't buy it yet.

SPEAKER_01

02:06:39 - 02:07:03

So don't hit buy O2Trainers.com 0202 or O. Oh, the O2. Check this out. And this is something that's going to be available soon. Very soon this week. This week? Yep. What does it look like? It's not coming up.

SPEAKER_00

02:07:03 - 02:07:12

It's not coming up. You're probably getting smashed right now. You just sent it. Yeah, you set it on lawn. You almost have 40,000 people in the industry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

02:07:12 - 02:07:20

Okay, guys, everybody watching, don't buy it. You cannot buy it. It's okay. It's not in. So don't hit buy. Come back at the end of the week.

SPEAKER_01

02:07:20 - 02:07:24

So it will be something that you think is going to make a big impact on.

SPEAKER_02

02:07:24 - 02:07:26

I think it's going to be the major impact.

SPEAKER_01

02:07:26 - 02:07:27

If you look at it, describe what it looks like.

SPEAKER_02

02:07:28 - 02:08:25

Okay, it is a it is a it is a portable but a vife. It's a mouthpiece like a like when you die, you know, let it start and it comes to the front with two little things. It's like a square and it comes to the front. Here is the air a hole in as a cap. The cap you can take off and you can put screens in there. Little rubber screens with all smaller holes. They go from 14 millimeter all the way to one millimeter. So this week you train all your hardware. That's 14 millimeter next week. You do 13. Then you do 12. You go slowly gradually. You're going down. And I want you down, you know, you really, you love to have to pull the air in. And it's the voice, my wife was saying, like, after three weeks of training in restaurants, she said, I mean, keep your voice down. You know, because your voice gets really loud, so I go, man, it's for singers. It's for people who play low instruments, it's for school with divers. Anybody who needs a lung. You know, you should see the commercial one that I made for it. We shot that thing in 15 minutes or less. And you're gonna laugh you as if when you see that thing, you're gonna go, wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_01

02:08:25 - 02:08:41

Yeah. Well, I'll definitely check it out. Yeah, you got to check it out. And if you haven't seen Boss Root and show inside MMA, it's on HDNet. You got to check it out. Follow him on Twitter. It's Boss Root and MMA, R-U-T-T-E-N-M-M-A on Twitter. And thank you very much for coming in here.

SPEAKER_00

02:08:41 - 02:08:41

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_01

02:08:41 - 02:09:11

Really appreciate it. And yeah, thank you to the Flashlight for sponsoring the podcast. If you go to JoeRogan.net and click the link and input the code name, Brogan, that's the buttold version. I don't recommend you jump right in. It's like you're your 13 millimeter, you know, you don't start. You don't want to get just to the butt hole flesh life. But thank you very much and we'll be back next week this weekend. I got to go to Australia for the UFC anything else you want to plug anything.

SPEAKER_02

02:09:11 - 02:09:19

Godspeed party on and at a little tiny screen, you know, it's for exercises. You can literally sit here and just do it. I do it in my car right now. I go

SPEAKER_01

02:09:20 - 02:09:29

The boss rooting. Oh, two dreamers. Boss, you're a fucking legend. Thank you very much for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. Man, it's been a blast. Our awesome.

SPEAKER_02

02:09:29 - 02:09:37

We'll see you build it again. For sure. Okey dokey. A lot of stories. Holla, action boy. Man, I have to be for so long. Go to do now.

SPEAKER_00

02:09:48 - 02:09:57

Excuse me, the men's room is occupied here. And now, for your host, Baz Ruten and Jeremy Siddar.

SPEAKER_02

02:09:57 - 02:10:10

Hey, why not, Madway? Hey, good to see you. Good to see you. All right, hey, everybody, my name is Baz Ruten. And I'm welcome to the men's room.

SPEAKER_00

02:10:10 - 02:10:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

02:10:11 - 02:11:00

We're men can hang out at night in the mans room. We're going to get personal. On this show, we're going to be discussing a lot of aspects of health, especially how to endanger the health of others with Advers, did you not mean artists? Now we've got relationship advice, like how to avoid bruising the face, we're going to take some calls, advising women how to deal with their men. But that's pretty easy, right? I mean it's just something that you need to do, it's a clack through the groin right there. And when your body connects with the reproductive organs of another man, let me tell you, buddy, it's pain and beauty also. We have a special, and we call this special, the cubicle, the copier, and stemming a co-worker in the eye with a little pencil.

SPEAKER_00

02:11:00 - 02:11:02

Back like this. Look at the glue. Look at the glue.

SPEAKER_02

02:11:02 - 02:11:04

This is going to be a good solution.