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UFC Flyweight- Chepe "Machinegun" Mariscal · Caught on the Mike...

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  SPEAKER_00: Disclaimer, the views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listener discretion is advised.
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  SPEAKER_00: For years there have been whispers asking about when my next guest would make its debut in the premier MMA promotion to UFC.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on June 24th, 2023, he did just that on 10 days notice and put on a performance that is already getting talked about as being fight of the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Chicago, Illinois native trainee out of Denver, Colorado, with our good friends and elevation fight team.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am proud to welcome Chefe Machine Gun Mariskal to Caught on the Mike today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Caught on the Mike.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, you might have seen him on UFC Fight Night just a few weeks ago, June 24th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chepe Machine Gun Mariscal.
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  SPEAKER_00: How the hell are you, man?
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  SPEAKER_00: Doing great, man.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Doing great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for being here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh I I know it's been a crazy few weeks.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about what's happened and the whirlwind that's gone on in the two weeks since the fight.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh well, a lot of people want to see me back in the cage.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: I know that, you know.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh people just keep sending me messages, they can't wait.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um I've been doing outside things like moving apartments, um, and spending time with my son, but still in the gym, I just started coming back to the gym, uh, got done sparring, uh, and then just waiting for the next uh next fight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you took this fight on 10 days' notice.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you don't want to give up the details, that's okay.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: But did this fight and the UFC contract all kind of materialize that fast?
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, like I I had this management team that ended up talking to the matchmakers and they and they get they threw an offer, you know, and it was obviously uh a 10 days notice and it was upper weight class, you know, and then they were like, if your guy wants it, he can have it.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I thought about it real quick, but then I just said yes, you know.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um I only had one coach's approval really, but you know, I was like, let's go, you know, I'm ready, you know, it's for the UFC, you know, they kind of want those kind of um, you know, they kind of want those kind of guys ready for, you know, ready to fight in kind of the their schedule.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, man, I just it it just all planned out pretty well.
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  SPEAKER_00: You fought as an amateur from 2011 to 2014, and you've been fighting as a professional since 2014, and you fought for various organizations like LFA, Cage Fury, Cage Warriors, and now the UFC.
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  SPEAKER_00: So has it always been your dream to be a professional fighter?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: I th uh like I started at the age of six fighting, uh doing jujitsu and judo, and then boxing, kickboxing started getting mixed up.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, mixed in, and then um at the age of nine, I got snuck in into an MMA promotion by from the head coach at the time, and he stuck in me and he was uh he was like, Oh yeah, he's my son, you know, and they're like, Oh, okay, little man, you know, and uh I got in and I and I got um a good seat like in the stands, and then it was like I don't know, like fourth, fifth fight, and somebody got knocked out.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: And suddenly when they got knocked out, the crowd went crazy, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, and then I was like, Whoa, I had goosebumps, all this like, and then I was like, you know what, I want to be a professional MA fighter.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's amazing, and yeah, I've been I've been chasing it since.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it's it's good to you know finally be living that dream, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and how long have you been in Colorado?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh six years, seven years, actually.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep, yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you were in Illinois before that?
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yep, yep, yep.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: One of the things that I looked at some of your stats is six of your wins came from knockout, three wins by submission, and five first round finishes.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of excitement, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure, dude.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what drives that?
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: What fuels that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what goes on aside from just the love of fighting, that drives that idea that you're not only gonna be a great fighter, but you're gonna be an entertaining fighter as well.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: I I've always wanted to be like um like the outcast kind of guy, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everybody was like, you know, I wanted to be a lawyer and a doctor and wanted to be a pro MMA fighter, you know.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: And then not just being a pro MMA fighter, I wanted to be the most exciting MMA fighter out there, you know.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like I I like after a few of my amateur fights, people were like, man, I would pay to watch you, you know, and I was like, damn, like it's like okay, you know, it's going on a good path, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then the competitiveness started definitely getting in there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I loved to compete.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love winning, you know, winning's definitely a huge thing on this, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I love the the art of it.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's two styles going against each other, and it's you know, it you would say one guy's has a better style, but it's who brings out that style that night, you know.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what I love of a body, you know, it's it's it's it's um you have to be in your eight game in this game, you know.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: You can't you can't um you can't kind of half ass it in this, you know, and it's it's just it's awesome that it's like you know, it's uh and they make it competitive, there's rankings, there's wealth, you know, you get paid, you know, like it just started evolving, you know, a lot better, you know.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: When I was it like when I was telling people I wanted to be a pro fighter, guys were getting paid 200 and 200, like 400 bucks a night to fight.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and they had this crazy cool fight, and I'm like, damn, like I'm like, man, I wanna fight for like good money, you know.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to fight for no trump money.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it was it was definitely a way to build up, you know, and get and get there.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, man, I just I love fighting uh and I love getting paid, you know.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what are some of the things that inspire you as far as your pathway to success?
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: Man, what it's tough to say.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like I I never even had an idol either.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: I never looked up to anybody.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: I always wanted to be like I'm I look up to the future me, you know, the the the the one who's doing it, the one who's living it, you know, like that's who that's who um I kind of look up, you know, I look I look at, you know, I uh I'm inspired by myself, you know, like the story that I've been through, you know, like where I come from, you know, um the the journey I'm going through.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I didn't make it into UFC easy, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I went through like all these wins, these losses, these bad some bad managements, some bad teams, uh, some bad coaches.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: So it was definitely um, you know, I it it was you know, it was confusing at first because you just don't know at first.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: And then you you start growing into the sport, and then suddenly it was just like, okay, like if I want to do this, I gotta know the drama, the goods, the bads, the okay's the all rights, the excellence, every emotion in this game, you know, even the diets and everything else.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I felt like, man, um, and I and I definitely when I'm done fighting, I definitely want to go into coaching.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: I want to help others, you know, win, succeed.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's a great feeling.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: I've always loved the art of MMA for some reason.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: Even wrestling, jujitsu, kickboxing fights.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: I loved just being around that kind of environment and something I know too, you know.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like uh that was something that I couldn't like relate like with family or friends around my area because everybody wanted to do something different.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: So when I got with other fighters, it was cool to see other people chasing the same dream.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, man, I just want to be like I'm inspired to inspire others.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yeah, I love that, and it's an unrelenting work ethic, too, because your your path wasn't short, like you've made a long journey.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's basically nine years of a professional career before you got to the UFC.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you a little story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it almost exactly a year ago, this very week, I got to visit high altitude martial arts, and when I got there, you were on the mats before everybody else, you were on the mats after everybody else, and I'm sitting there on the side and I'm just watching you kick.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I looked over at my best friend from high school.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: He came with me.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I have never seen a motherfucker kick so hard in my entire life, bro.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: So what would you say is the your special science?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what what is it that you know makes you different from any other fighter?
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I feel like I just have uh the the one thing for sure is experience.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I've been doing it since I was small, and I was able to collect all these weapons, all this experience, all these, you know, all these these cool gadgets that not not a lot of people have, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I have a big thing, you know, I have a black belt in judo, and there's not a lot of guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I I even go through the team like asking if anybody knows judo, and a lot a lot of people don't know anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't even they think it's Japanese jujitsu, you know, and and it's like, man, it's it's more than that.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: But that's why it got, you know, like I got at judo, I got boxing experience, I'm a golden gloves champion.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I was on the USA team for kickboxing, I'm a Pan American kickboxing champion.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, like I I did everything to fill in my resume.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: I went to wrestling in college just to get my my takedowns and my takedown defense good.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I tried to I try to do all the world things like Muay Thai and stuff like that.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: It just what sucked it was like everything was kind of close to the same schedule.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I couldn't compete in everything, you know, like one was in Russia and one was in Peru, and I was like, man, I can't make that flying so but I was still like sharpening, I I just wanted to always be the sharper fighter in one end, you know.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: If somebody had better boxing than me, I'm gonna have better kickboxing than them, you know, or better jujitsu, better ju uh uh wrestling.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I've always uh just wanted to be the sharper guy, and it takes and I and I could tell like every other art, it takes um repetition, consistency, dedication, you know, and and I was like I was doing that kind of like like without knowing, like I was doing those kind of things, but then when it took like all wanting to do it more, like and wanting to be the best, it definitely like it changes levels on that.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So six years in Colorado, uh train at high altitude, like I had already mentioned, member of Elevation Fight team.
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  SPEAKER_00: There have been some people that I'm sure you've worked with in your six years out there that have helped you add to your toolbox.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are some of your favorite training partners and who are some of the guys that you like working out with, and girls for that matter, because they're kick-ass females all over the place out there, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, your partner being one of them.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but let's uh, you know, who are who are some people that you've learned some big things from?
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: Man, to man, it's it it is kick um it's crazy because it's a lot of people, man.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: And it's and it's and especially because you've been in our room.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: There's just so many UFC fighters, and you know, and they're and they're all awesome, you know.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: They have there's no beef, you don't know, you don't see anybody.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: I hate that guy, I hate this guy.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's more of like everybody coming together, just sparring, you know, because I know everybody has different gyms, so they you know they come in and they spar, they go do their own thing.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I picked up a lot of advice, man.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so much advice.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: And like I even tell guys they could bring an empty book in here and they won't be able to finish it.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's right, it's endless advice, endless things, you know.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and and in the even with seven years being here, I'm still a student.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: I I still act like a student, I still act like I don't know shit.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm not, I'm uh still keep learning from these guys.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Even if they told me this last year and they're repeating it again, maybe I need to repeat, you know.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: Life like that happens, you know.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: So I I like I like that, you know.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: I like that these guys are open.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: Even sometimes when, you know, if we had a hard run and we're kind of like a little like, you know, like F you, you know, I still go up to them and be like, hey man, thank you.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: And if you there's anything you could give me, um, and anything, any uh advice you want from me, like hey, I'm open to it, you know.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: Because end of the day, that's what it is in this sport.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, a lot of people back in the day kind of stayed quiet, stay, you know, didn't ask, you know, they were just doing things with emotion, and now it's people are building fighter IQs, um, you know, making the sport uh uh smarter.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: You know, a lot of people used to brawl and do all these crazy things.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's where I'm trying to like I bring the old school style into the new style, you know, and that's what I'm trying to like clean up.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, when you've been doing it so long and you got something going for you, and you gotta just sharpen some stuff.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes that that's what it takes you to take uh to go to the top.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: So but yeah, man, it's just you know, yeah, there's a lot of dudes.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Corey Sanagens one who says some who says some deep stuff, uh Justin Gagey, uh Neo Magney, yeah, man.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, there's a there's definitely a list of people that I could just name.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: And um, yeah, it's just it's just awesome to have them around and and then the coaches too, you know.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's just you know, it's just um, yeah, man.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: What's awesome is like endless results here, you know.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: And you have no you have no no excuse to fail here but yourselves, you know, because everybody's gonna help you out, you know.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: This team is like they they want you to win sometimes more than they want you to win, you know, and that's how crazy, that's how awesome this team is.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I love it.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: I I I just learned it just today too.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: We got more more advice from UFC fighters, you know, and then there's more coming out um that we know that they know of me from the fight, you know, and then they got some advice from me, and I got some for some people, you know.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like I don't like to tell upper rank guys or UFC guys what to do, you know, because I'm not there yet.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: But if they ask, I'd be you know, open to share or whatever, you know.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, dude, I just like sharing the experience too.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I've been doing it for a long time.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: I run into some people that were on the USA team, they came over here to visit, try it out.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, man.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: So I and getting advice from them.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: So it's endless advice, endless just like it makes me want to be here.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like I've traveled all over the US.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: I've I've met so many fighters, so many coaches where there's like one good fighter, and it's one good coach.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and here we have I don't man, I I I I couldn't ask for more.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: We have more than five, you know, coaches that coach in the UFC or big promotions, and then we have a bunch of UFC fighters, you know, that fight even out of the side of the UFC, a bunch of upcomers, guys in Bell Tor, guys in PFL, like making noise, and it's like, man, we're just we're doing it, you know.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like our like I don't know how many, like I don't know if they really tally all the wins and stuff like that, but I can see man elevation fight teams doing making a lot of noise and making uh putting a lot of tallies on that one column.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, and it it is one of those things where having been in that room, like I swear my neck was hurting from like snapping it around so much with everybody that was walking in and out, but it's almost like fighters church because because it is a different feeling in that room, like this sense of community and the sense of support, and uh there's a good sense of core values with everybody, too, that they genuinely are looking out for each other, and I think that's something special and not something you can find in any gym, any place.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure, man.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I'm taking as much uh you know, advice, experience as I can, you know, because you man, this could be to me, I look at it as a one million, one in a million kind of thing because I've traveled so much, I've I've done so much of the seeking and searching, and that gets tiring.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: And then you're you're like, oh wait, my training and all this stuff, you know, like where's my career going?
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: So it was cool, it's cool to be here at the and I like to say right now at a good time, you know.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we just never know what happens in the future.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I hear a lot of great gyms end up blowing up for some crazy reason, and it's like, man, I just want this to last as long as it can because it's a beautiful thing, you know.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: We we all come together, you know, we we all obviously have each other's friend groups, you know, we have each other's uh corners.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, man, it's just it's just a great mix right now.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: And then like, you know, we're we're not all like kind of like um uh spooked out by the cameras because everybody's fucking getting recorded here, you know.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then we know you got like a camera guy over here, over here, you know, and you and I feel like that gets it helps other fighters get ready.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, like hey man, there's a camera right there, it ain't pointing at me, but I gotta practice like if it's it is pointing at me, you know, and that's that's where I feel like I I got to evolve a lot just being with the team and experiencing the coaches and uh and the fighters.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: It just man, it's just yeah, man, it it's endless things for sure.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: So taking yourself outside of the fighting arena and the fighters mindset, who is Chepe as a person?
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what kind of things are you into, and how do you unwind when you're not in that zone?
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I'm just I'm a big anime guy, so I like watching animes.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: I play Call of Duty, Pokemon Go.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like things like it's half a little bit of me, but like, man, even when I'm outside of the gym, I'm watching film, I'm watching fights, I'm watching it.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's always just been in my thing.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: I I've I've like I even had old partners who were like, man, that's all you do.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: Even my parents and my friends, and that's why, like, man, I was like, Man, I don't care if I have no friends.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I just love doing this, you know, I love fighting, I love just watching.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's like a human chess game for me.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh, that guy took a better angle than this dude, or he threw his punch a little higher than the other guy, or he's punching at the chin, so the guy picks up his chin and then he gets hit with an overhand, you know.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I will always like got just picked out little things from people, and I looked at it as like, man, I'm like, uh I like to um, you know, do the same things, you know, like uh copycat all their styles and stuff, and and always be like, oh, if they could do it, I definitely could do it, you know, like besides the backflips and stuff like that, you know.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: But like all the all the fighting stuff is is like something where I'm like, man, I could I could do it.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: And it just takes and I and I've proven myself by doing repetition and you know, training and uh watching my old fights, watching film, um, and then yeah, man, just outside, like chilling outside, you know, go out and you know, it's uh my some of the fighters just chill out, unwind, you know.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: And but sometimes I say that, but we end up talking about fights, you know.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: We end up talking, you know, it's like yeah, it's total opposite.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: We're like, we're trying to we even talk about it, you know.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: We're like, all right, no, talking about fighting, blah blah blah.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then Sandy, that's the only thing we're talking about, right?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: But man, I tell you what, sometimes if you want to experience success, you gotta live in the moment of success and like fully embrace it when it's happening, and it it seems to be a moment for you right now.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll wrap this up because I know you are really crunched for time, but what's your advice for making the world a better place tomorrow than what it is today as you see it?
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: Man, is as long as you're doing something that's not hurting anybody or trying to hurt somebody, you know, and you're and you're doing the opposite, like you know, trying to make people's day, you know.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: I I know people say, Oh, that's my good deed of the day.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, man, you I like to look at it as like I want good deeds throughout the day, you know, throughout the month, throughout the year, you know, and I felt like that's something that changed in my lifestyle too.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the more you want good for others, the more good that's gonna come back to us.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I absolutely love that.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna sneak a uh another one in.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: Or how close are you to being able to announce a follow-up fight?
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: I already asked them.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I asked the UFC to put me back in.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it wasn't them reaching out to me.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, it's definitely I'm trying to get back in September.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: If I get any word, I hope I get any word today because I already I've been blowing them up, so we'll see.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, man, I'm trying to see when I could get back in.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not trying to take no short notice fights anymore either.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like I would I would like uh you know a nice camp and you know a nice training session, something scheduled and set up and and give a better uh performance and hopefully get a finish.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: So are you hoping to go back to Featherway?
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, for sure, man.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was fun getting a uh lightweight, you know.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: It was the weight cut was easier and stuff like that, but you know, it's it's obvious that you're you're uh sacrificing other things like height, size.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't know about the power part because I have a lot of power, but like it's it like I I like to look at it like that way, but I'm like, man, I'm I'm just a dog.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: When I get in there, dude, I don't care how big, how short, I would let this fucking go, you know.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: So that's it's definitely it's definitely like featherweight for sure, you know.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: But like if they have any super fight or something crazy they want to make up at lightweight, uh we'll maybe, you know, test it out.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: I love it, man.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: I love seeing you in there, and I am hoping for hundreds of fight of the night bonuses coming your way because that's what it's really all about.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get you paid, my friend.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, dude.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: Hey man, thanks for doing the podcast.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad we finally got to make this happen, even as as short as it is.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: For sure, man.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I got you next time with some more time for sure.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, brother.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Once again, I want to thank Cheppe for doing the podcast today.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: He has sincerely been talked about almost secret, legendary, urban legend-like status in the MMA world for years.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: I am really happy to see him make his way to the UFC.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I have a feeling we are going to have big conversations about him in the meantime.
• 22:54
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• 23:01
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• 23:11
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• 23:15
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• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: This has been Caught on the Mike with Michael Clark.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Michael Clark.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, thank you.