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Leon Edward Talks UFC Life, Jake Paul, USMAN, Ian Garry, Abstaining From Sex Before fights + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wait that answer in the morning Breakfast club. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: the world most Dat's wanting to show to Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 1: Charlemagne the God. Everybody had to leave, man, but I
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Speaker 1: had to get my man in here because he's here
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Speaker 1: for the week or the UFC. Well, the way champion
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Speaker 1: mister Leon Edwards was happening. Let's go on. Good listen,
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Speaker 1: my guy right here right, Yeah, he's so excited that
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Speaker 1: you're here. He's a big m This is like a
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Speaker 1: for me like in the year Cat. It's like a
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Speaker 1: big Dealding. Know. So I'm happy to be here and
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Speaker 1: or love. What are you doing in the States. I'm
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Speaker 1: just promoting um media media run okay, mom? Israel's fighting
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Speaker 1: this Saturday. Yeah, so I want to watch him. And
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Speaker 1: that's been busy since the fight I wonder about and
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Speaker 1: two months ago. That's been busy, like promoting that and
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Speaker 1: running off that. So how do you get into UFC? Man? Like?
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Speaker 1: What made you want to beat people up for a
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Speaker 1: little um? Well, I got six sixteen, seventeen years old.
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Speaker 1: I got into mixed martial lots and because I was
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Speaker 1: always getting in trouble as a kid, you know, like
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Speaker 1: it always starts like that on pent. I was born
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Speaker 1: in Kingston, Jamaica. It immigrated to the UK at like
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Speaker 1: ten nine, ten years old. Um My dad died at
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Speaker 1: thirty and got murdered in London in the UK, and
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Speaker 1: from there when like a bad spiral, some of my
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Speaker 1: my um my mom suggested mixed martial arts because I
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Speaker 1: was always good up fighting, you know. So you try
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Speaker 1: this out and fell in love of it. Yeah. So
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Speaker 1: before you, before your father passed, did you have the
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Speaker 1: same anger. I don't know. I guess it would be anger,
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Speaker 1: like the anger and rage with it. The anger and
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Speaker 1: rage you had to kind of like project somewhere. That's
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Speaker 1: why you got into the fighting well before he passed
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Speaker 1: or after you yeah, yeah, yeah, it's after it passed.
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Speaker 1: I think that's why it took a turn, right because
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Speaker 1: um like growing up like in in Jamaica, but that
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Speaker 1: was like the leader after gang where where I grew
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Speaker 1: up in. I was born into Jamaica, and so I've
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Speaker 1: always been around like violence as far as like guns
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. You know, So I was always
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Speaker 1: like like used to it. Then obviously wouldn't when when
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Speaker 1: it passed away. Um yeah, I think more just like
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Speaker 1: the trauma of it like Drava down into like he's
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Speaker 1: not getting into gangs and seeing like same shit he
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Speaker 1: was into, you know, and um too fell into about
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Speaker 1: seventeen UM when I met Martial Arts and Carl Grave It.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember what your your your your your temperament
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Speaker 1: was like before he passed? Um, Yeah, but like similar,
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Speaker 1: like I was like I'm like a humble, calm kid,
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Speaker 1: you know. So that's that was like me before, you know,
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Speaker 1: and then obviously when when he when when he passed,
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Speaker 1: I just remember that like the switch, you know. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: just thinking all the world, like the world like I
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Speaker 1: just moved to a new country. My dad got killed
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Speaker 1: in that country. Who moved to? Um? Single mom? Um,
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Speaker 1: so you go like figure it out, like going to
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Speaker 1: a new country, figuring out with two kids and so
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Speaker 1: like oh that your mom is never in the house
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Speaker 1: because she's always working, you know. So it's um, I
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Speaker 1: think it's the same story for most most people from
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Speaker 1: like where I'm from, you know, well yeah, ask people
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Speaker 1: like from trenches. I'm from temular stories. But everybody don't
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Speaker 1: grow to have success because you know sometimes you know,
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Speaker 1: if you don't, if you don't deal with your trauma
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Speaker 1: and your trauma ends up dealing with you. Clearly are
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Speaker 1: somewhere along the line you found a way to channel
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Speaker 1: that trauma to something positive. Yeah exactly. I remember going
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Speaker 1: it like the first day in the gym. I remember
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Speaker 1: that the just a positive feedback I was getting in there,
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Speaker 1: all your good job, you should you should, like you
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Speaker 1: can do something with it. I feel like that sparred
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Speaker 1: me on. You want to keep going back to the gym,
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Speaker 1: you know that. I feel like the positive reinforcement that
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Speaker 1: I had like made me want to go every day.
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Speaker 1: So like at one point, I was in the gym
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Speaker 1: from like morning until at night. You know, I'll train
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Speaker 1: in the morning, our children all day, and then I'll go.
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Speaker 1: I'll try to get it on the night, you know.
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Speaker 1: And that was my routine from like eighteen to my twenties.
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Speaker 1: And huh wow, I'm interested in, like what did your
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Speaker 1: mom instilling you? You know what I mean? Because for
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Speaker 1: some reason, people think that when you're raised by just
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Speaker 1: your mom, you can't grow up tough. Yeah yeah, yeah, clearly,
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Speaker 1: clearly my mom is tough, had to be tough. I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping you take it off and leave it. I got it.
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Speaker 1: I got it yesterday. Um, yesterday. But over here, the
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Speaker 1: tax over here it's like almost double the price in
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Speaker 1: the UK. And I was like in the UK, like
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Speaker 1: this jacket in the UK is like in pounds, it's
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Speaker 1: like let's say about two two thousand. Yeah, over here
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Speaker 1: it's like two five yeah, you know. Um but yeah,
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Speaker 1: my mom she was like race stuff. She's come from
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Speaker 1: old girls, all girls, older sisters, no brothers. Um. She
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Speaker 1: had me at age fifteen in Jamaica, you know, in Kingston, Jamaica,
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Speaker 1: in poverty. So she had she had, she had to
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Speaker 1: be tough, you know. So um, yeah, she definite raised
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Speaker 1: two tough boys. And my brothers are fading. He does
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Speaker 1: um mixed martial arts as well. He fights a ballatle
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Speaker 1: and he's like one fight away from fight for the
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Speaker 1: for the world tartly you know. So she definitely raised
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Speaker 1: some killers, for sure. I'm surprised you didn't like hate
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Speaker 1: to hate the country y'all moved to after something that
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Speaker 1: tragic happens, like like I don't want to be in
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Speaker 1: the more empty team up by the past. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: it could have passing Jamaicas just in life she was living, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, like to been leader of gang in Jamaica.
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Speaker 1: You have to be be like on some ship gave um.
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Speaker 1: You could have passed it. As a kid, I just
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Speaker 1: knew that that was the outcome. It's like everyone around
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Speaker 1: me it was dying, you know, so like that was
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Speaker 1: the outcome, Like eventually it's even it's even gonna get
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Speaker 1: um to death or prison or something. You know. I
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Speaker 1: was as a kid, I didn't fall out that, But
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Speaker 1: now looking back at it, that's really realistically the only
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Speaker 1: outcome you could have could have happened. Why martial arts
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Speaker 1: like who, um, I don't know, he's like random random. Um.
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Speaker 1: I never know the UC was before that. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know what mixed martial loss was before that, you know. Um.
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Speaker 1: Like literally I was walking to the bus stop my
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Speaker 1: mom and she suggested this a gym getting built in
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Speaker 1: my error where I grew up, and she was, you
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Speaker 1: just try to stop thinking, I'll just keep me away
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Speaker 1: from her hanging around on the street with my friends.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, for her, I'll do it,
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Speaker 1: you know. So I went up to the gym um
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Speaker 1: inquired by the membership. At the time, membership was um
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Speaker 1: six day pound a month, which is like seventy dollars
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Speaker 1: a month, but as a single mom, I know that
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Speaker 1: she couldn't afford it. Now, I thought that's a hefty
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Speaker 1: monthly price tag for a single moment. But she's like,
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Speaker 1: she's like, listen, I'll pay for it. Just go just
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Speaker 1: do it, you know. I was like, Okay, I'll do it.
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Speaker 1: And I did it, and yeah, I just kept growing
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Speaker 1: and kept improving. I'm sure you didn't make the transition
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Speaker 1: from the screens so fast or now. I was still
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Speaker 1: like I thought about six to about sixteen to about
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Speaker 1: nine and a double deal. So you know a little
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Speaker 1: bit of martial arts and you're in the street, who's
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Speaker 1: the first person you kicked in the neck? I sucked
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Speaker 1: a few people, but I thought I was only good
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Speaker 1: up fighting from like just like off the rep and
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Speaker 1: I was just like good to street fighting. But when
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Speaker 1: you go to mixed martial arts to get like technical
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Speaker 1: at fine, you know exactly what you're looking for and
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Speaker 1: how to do it, you know, and um, so yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll took out for you. So when did you learn
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Speaker 1: the discipline, because I'm sure the discipline is probably would
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Speaker 1: help you really make the transition. Um, I would say, like,
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Speaker 1: let you public a year into it, you know because
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Speaker 1: I was. When I was got into it, I saw
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Speaker 1: a researching the sport, like why is mixed martial arts?
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Speaker 1: Like what what do to make? What? What is it?
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Speaker 1: Career in it? You know, and then um, once I
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Speaker 1: see there's a career in it, I was like cool,
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Speaker 1: I'll I'll stick to it, you know when I think
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Speaker 1: over time, just like he gradually, just energy just switches,
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Speaker 1: you know, like like he wanted to be in the gym. No, Um,
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Speaker 1: you don't hear around in the street just getting in trouble.
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Speaker 1: Um in the UK has are it's big like a
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Speaker 1: knife crime. Yeah thing. I hears that guns right, guns
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Speaker 1: as well, but that for the sixteen seventeen, fifteen fourteen,
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Speaker 1: that's like stabbins you know. Um, so it's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's either that or just hang around in the gym.
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Speaker 1: So I didn't hang hang around in the gym. Now
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Speaker 1: all my friends are hanging around on the street and
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Speaker 1: nine in the gym, you know, so just like for
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Speaker 1: me making a switch, now all my friends are nine
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Speaker 1: two martial arts. You know. Wow, I know UFC President
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Speaker 1: Day in the White is confirmed the trilogy fight with
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Speaker 1: you and uh come coming rules man? Yeah, how you
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Speaker 1: feeling about that that's gonna getting England. Yeah, yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: excited for that, you know, like to headline, Um, the UK,
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Speaker 1: um sixty thousand people is trying to get like a
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Speaker 1: stadium shows. It's gonna be big. You know, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be big. And I'm excited. This is uh third time around.
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Speaker 1: He beat me the first time by points and I
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Speaker 1: knocked him out the second time, you know. So now
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Speaker 1: we're going back home on my turf and my backyard,
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Speaker 1: and um, I'm excited. It's gonna be good. Why why
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Speaker 1: why a third time? Though, like like like mentally, why
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Speaker 1: do you need a third fight? Um? I think not
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Speaker 1: not for me. I think for him is it was
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Speaker 1: a long reigning champion for a while. You know. I
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Speaker 1: think in the UFC, if you're righting for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: they will kind of give you like another shot. That about.
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Speaker 1: So it was on the feld for like eight years. Um.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, after knocked him out, there's okay, let's do
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Speaker 1: it now when you're a turf and in your backyard.
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Speaker 1: And but to me, it doesn't it doesn't, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'll do the same thing over and over
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Speaker 1: and over again. So lookod fight ten times. I believe
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Speaker 1: that when none of them at all? How do you
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Speaker 1: how do you think the third fright is gonna pay?
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Speaker 1: Because I always wonder about that when you fight a
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Speaker 1: person three times, like does a person see something in you?
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Speaker 1: Like if I I can expose that weakness, maybe I
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Speaker 1: have a chance. Like um, I think it was when
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Speaker 1: he's like a very heavy base wrestling base. Um fight
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Speaker 1: no this this emboxing more more wrestler than anything, and um,
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Speaker 1: I think now I'd love to see how it comes
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Speaker 1: out after being like it was out cold, you know
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Speaker 1: so I love to see, like how now how he
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Speaker 1: reacts after being put put out cold? Because at the time,
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Speaker 1: I think before it said that it can never be
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Speaker 1: beaten on the fee for eight years, never lost in
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Speaker 1: the year, say um, never been taken out in any year,
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Speaker 1: Say I did? I did it both in one fight,
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Speaker 1: you know so I'd love to see how he comes
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Speaker 1: back now and UM run it back. So either way,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't make no matter to me. Do you abstain
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Speaker 1: from sex before fights? I always hate that about boxes?
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Speaker 1: Um a nomber like three person the fighters another thing
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Speaker 1: like normal like three or four weeks, like a month,
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Speaker 1: like about a month before. Um, I think it's more
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Speaker 1: mental than anything. I did it before. My amateur days
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Speaker 1: were on the same day for a week in your
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Speaker 1: legs after I went to sleep, So no way. Um
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Speaker 1: um yeah, probably like a month before. Just moremental than anything.
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Speaker 1: I don't think physically it makes a difference. But in
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Speaker 1: my amateur days did it like a week off the
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Speaker 1: fight and I was fine. And also but then now
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Speaker 1: you're playing for big money and opportunities are doing like
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Speaker 1: risk it, you know. Yeah, I heard that she was
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Speaker 1: sparring with Ian Gary and you sent him to the
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Speaker 1: hospital after kicking him in the head. Um, it was
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Speaker 1: a light spar we're going that hard, you know, like
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Speaker 1: he came he wasn't clearly, Yeah, it was going. It
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Speaker 1: was a good spad level work you and um yeah
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Speaker 1: he hit me first a head kick, like a good one,
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Speaker 1: you know. It was okay cool. Then um yeah I
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Speaker 1: gave him one back. But my toes his mouth much
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Speaker 1: my my, my shinny know that normally shin hit that's
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Speaker 1: only out you know, and but um, when it tolls,
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Speaker 1: it it's like a slap. It's like so like I like,
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Speaker 1: what's it his teeth? And but it's all good. It's good.
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Speaker 1: Good new teammate. You busted his teeth with your toes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's like a he toes it right, so it's like
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Speaker 1: a slap, you know. But normally no, no, normally when
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Speaker 1: no you it was just tolles. Yeah, because we throw
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Speaker 1: the kit normally trying to land like your your shin bone. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's trying to land on the head and that like
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Speaker 1: put your out cold. But if you if you fall short,
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Speaker 1: then your feet will like slap them. Yeah, and that's
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Speaker 1: what happened basically, and bust is a lip. But it's
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Speaker 1: all good. Do you work at your feet? No, No,
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Speaker 1: it's body just get conditioned over time. I'm hitting shit
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Speaker 1: and does get tougher and tougher. Yeah. You got to
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Speaker 1: negotiate a new deal before theman fight too, right, Um yeah,
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Speaker 1: but now but now I wonder about now it's now
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Speaker 1: it's a new negotiation again. You know. Now I got
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Speaker 1: negotiate pay per view and um percentages and um you
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Speaker 1: get that dope? You know? Is that normal? Is it
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Speaker 1: is a per fight negotiation? Um? Now, normally it's like
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Speaker 1: it's like a contracted like four fights, five fights, but
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Speaker 1: at this level, the top five normally it's like a
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Speaker 1: a longer contract and um, you get to like negotiate.
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Speaker 1: It depends on who you're fighting, Like I fought like
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Speaker 1: eight years before and I renegotiated for that as well,
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Speaker 1: So it depends on the opponent big big the fighters
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Speaker 1: and um, yeah that's normal, Like it goes. Why do
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Speaker 1: you UFC fighters look so bad in the ring when
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Speaker 1: they fight like a Jake Paul. Yeah, but Jake Paul
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Speaker 1: is fining like all the retired YUS fights and like, um,
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Speaker 1: he fought like a silvered over the day. Like for me,
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Speaker 1: that's my idol. When I was like young getting into MMA.
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Speaker 1: He was at a guard that I looked up to
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Speaker 1: like in his prime, you know, and I was not
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Speaker 1: to see that over there when they fought. And he's
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Speaker 1: like forty six years old and slow slowed down. He's
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Speaker 1: reflected in the same and his chinnee is a big
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Speaker 1: gone you know. So yeah, but he's fine, like yeah,
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Speaker 1: like retired YUS fires and he thought no one was
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Speaker 1: like fresh he called out the DS. Yeah but yeah,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, yeah, it took a lot a lot
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Speaker 1: of work over the years, you know, and he's only
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Speaker 1: smallers out. So I think Jake is that what one night.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how big is, but yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: he's small's boxing that I mean. Is UFC and boxing
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Speaker 1: that much different? But um nah nah, I think like
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Speaker 1: a UFC guy can learn boxing quite fast. But I
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Speaker 1: think the opposite around, like a box to learn MMA
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Speaker 1: is it's probably a longer process. You're like wrestling to
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Speaker 1: kick boxing a lot to learn, you know, but we
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Speaker 1: do boxing as part of our training. Um so it's
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Speaker 1: not a big difference. Um, but it's it's like a
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Speaker 1: different range, different timing, it's all different. You're only punching
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Speaker 1: the head on the body, you know as it mixed
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Speaker 1: martial arts, and can kick the leg, can kick the body,
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Speaker 1: you can kick the head, you know, you can elbows
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Speaker 1: and so um yeah, I think it's it's easier to learn.
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Speaker 1: You think facts, Yeah, facts, facts. I think I'm like,
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Speaker 1: can I strike my sounds like striking like my my preference.
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Speaker 1: It's it's a striking. I'm comfortable with boxes, and um,
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Speaker 1: I got a great boxing coach back home that that
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Speaker 1: helps me out and in camp, always get good boxing
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Speaker 1: working because I think it toughens you up for it,
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Speaker 1: conditions your your body, you know, because when the spot
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Speaker 1: boxes to go, oh yeah, is it worth it for
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Speaker 1: you to do something like that? Or you feel like
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Speaker 1: that feels like a side show almost like what boxing
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Speaker 1: or no with with somebody like a Jake Paul If
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Speaker 1: you I'm not now probably not out because I remember
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Speaker 1: Prime now, you know. I just wanted to see about
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Speaker 1: two months ago, and um, this this was my dream
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Speaker 1: and I was like going to the sport is to
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Speaker 1: get it there and use it to turn my family's life,
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Speaker 1: you know. And um also did for the dough. If
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Speaker 1: the dough is good, I'll do it, you know. But
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Speaker 1: right now I'm focusing being like the best right now
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Speaker 1: in my sport, you know. And after that then conventure,
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Speaker 1: right and see what's to say? I saw you uh
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Speaker 1: tell mirror mirror that co that UK like, um that
14:38
Speaker 1: you McGregor fight could happen? I said, be easier, top.
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Speaker 1: We've got the same management team, right, um like you
14:44
Speaker 1: got him? Oh white people, Yeah, that's obvious. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to, you know, make that statement. We know, so
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Speaker 1: we gotta say like management team. Yeah, and if it
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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna happen, but easy, Ye're easy to make, you
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Speaker 1: know because in house talking. But you people want that.
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Speaker 1: Uh uh for the for the money, yeah, but far
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Speaker 1: as like my my career and I don't I don't
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Speaker 1: need it. Yeah, you know what I needed is is,
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Speaker 1: Um it's not well to way. I'm a wild way.
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Speaker 1: He's no like a like a lightweight. I know they
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Speaker 1: put likes muscles on recently. Um, but yeah, I'm feel
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Speaker 1: I'm too big for you. Do you feel love? Kind
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Speaker 1: of agreeing, Um, it's difficult from to come back and
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Speaker 1: compete against top five, I feel, you know, I think
15:33
Speaker 1: he put a lot of muscles out that that affects
15:35
Speaker 1: a fire a lot, you know, especially if you he
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Speaker 1: broke his legs like training properly, and um, well I
15:41
Speaker 1: love him to come back and do well. You know,
15:42
Speaker 1: I'm not hated. I don't like his success, doesn't like
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Speaker 1: didn't mind you know, so hopefully does come back and
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Speaker 1: do well. Do y'all really I mean it might be
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Speaker 1: a stupid question probably, but do y'all really love what
15:52
Speaker 1: y'all do? Are you? Okay? Yeah? I do for sure?
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Speaker 1: Um because just like like I would see go for
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Speaker 1: like moments and the job, right, you go for the
16:01
Speaker 1: most like it's like like training is hard and um,
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Speaker 1: like media runs are hard and just like you go
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Speaker 1: through moments, you know, but overall, uh like it's traged
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Speaker 1: my life. You know, it's changed my family's life, and
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Speaker 1: I'm able to provide for my family. And UM gave
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Speaker 1: me discipline that I've used now to pass down to
16:17
Speaker 1: my son. He does, he does like jiu jitsu now
16:20
Speaker 1: in boxing, you know. So I think like I would
16:24
Speaker 1: never want I never wanted to fight, but I wanted
16:26
Speaker 1: to learn the the hard work, the discipline, the dedication
16:30
Speaker 1: that you can take and using in anything you want
16:32
Speaker 1: to do in life, you know. So, I think mixed
16:33
Speaker 1: martial arts is is definitely helpful for any any man
16:37
Speaker 1: to do and even girls to do. You know. It's
16:39
Speaker 1: just teach easy about yourself because I think about easy, right,
16:42
Speaker 1: And I've had the pleasure of sitting down and building
16:44
Speaker 1: with Issy a couple of times. And you know the
16:47
Speaker 1: thing that intrigues me about all of y'all is you're
16:48
Speaker 1: also humble in cool clearly psychopaths. Yeah, and Ezzi said
16:54
Speaker 1: he's he's willing to die and ready to die in
16:58
Speaker 1: the ring. Do you the same way? Yeah? Facts, I
17:01
Speaker 1: feel like fint night you are, you know, like you're
17:03
Speaker 1: ready to like not going. I think I'm gonna die,
17:06
Speaker 1: like like I was shot to die, I will die,
17:09
Speaker 1: but you you'll push your body to the extreme where
17:12
Speaker 1: that whatever happens happens, you know. And um, because you
17:15
Speaker 1: want to win so bad that it's a weird thing
17:18
Speaker 1: to say. We say a lot of it sounds weird,
17:20
Speaker 1: but I think you want you want to win so
17:21
Speaker 1: bad and that you're willing to go put your body
17:24
Speaker 1: through whatever you have to put it through to to
17:25
Speaker 1: to achieve that goal. You know, would you ever be
17:27
Speaker 1: on like, you know, to the Detai Wild, you know,
17:30
Speaker 1: at one time he said powerful but powerful could catch
17:37
Speaker 1: like a few bodies, you know, even last fighting before
17:40
Speaker 1: that that guy the last time it's like a it's
17:43
Speaker 1: like like a weird hook and like the guy was
17:45
Speaker 1: like shaking on the floor, you know. So, um, now
17:48
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have to look looking to like kill somebody.
17:50
Speaker 1: You know, I would say the game is the game.
17:52
Speaker 1: You know. Are you ever worried about things like brain
17:55
Speaker 1: trauma CTE? Like, Um now no, I probably should. Um
18:01
Speaker 1: not not really, you know, I think there's risk in
18:04
Speaker 1: any sport and any anything in your life, you know,
18:06
Speaker 1: and if it long as you enjoy you're you're good
18:08
Speaker 1: at it. You don't take not going out again getting
18:10
Speaker 1: damage every single fight, then you should be all good.
18:13
Speaker 1: You know. Um, I don't take as much damage so
18:15
Speaker 1: as some people. Um, but not not really. I think
18:19
Speaker 1: it's not worried about that. It's time to retire. You know,
18:21
Speaker 1: he's gonna Fight're gonna fight like scared either, fight like
18:23
Speaker 1: you don't want to be hit, you know, you gotta
18:25
Speaker 1: be You gotta be comfortable, confident in yourself and go
18:27
Speaker 1: out and execute. What do you do to work yourself
18:30
Speaker 1: up before you get into the ring, Like, how do
18:32
Speaker 1: you get into that mind state? Will be killed? Mind state?
18:35
Speaker 1: I was going back to like roots, so like, oh,
18:37
Speaker 1: stretch to Jamaica music just like like just loads like
18:40
Speaker 1: like reggae and umun to kill us even the new
18:45
Speaker 1: ones like scanging all out there like big as well
18:47
Speaker 1: at the moment. So um yeah, go back to roots
18:50
Speaker 1: and just like a school good homophobic Jamaican music. Boom bye,
18:55
Speaker 1: y'all go back to that. Boom bye bye. Went back
19:02
Speaker 1: to the roots and um, just getting out that zone
19:04
Speaker 1: to go out there and work, you know, and um
19:07
Speaker 1: but after that, it's all it's all love you know,
19:09
Speaker 1: it's just like a mind frame of to get yourself
19:11
Speaker 1: into to go compete. Is it all love? Though? Do
19:14
Speaker 1: you leave it in the ring because you've had you've
19:15
Speaker 1: had fights backstage? Yeah, not not with him, not that
19:19
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's what it is. That's beef, you know.
19:21
Speaker 1: But um, don't you really don't like Yeah? I don't.
19:24
Speaker 1: I don't like him? Yeah yeah yeah, Um, why why
19:28
Speaker 1: does it get personal? Um? Backstage? But like a scruffle backstage?
19:32
Speaker 1: You know we throw through shots. That was in London
19:34
Speaker 1: as all my hometown, you know, but they took him
19:36
Speaker 1: and moved him and hit him and flee by the country,
19:39
Speaker 1: you know. So I didn't seen him since that's that
19:41
Speaker 1: three three years ago. But apart from that, everyone else's
19:45
Speaker 1: as soon as you fight, it's a backstage and so
19:47
Speaker 1: like like good luck in your life and your family,
19:49
Speaker 1: the career, and um, it's all love. Like martial arts.
19:53
Speaker 1: It was just like discipline. You know. It's just like
19:55
Speaker 1: look at humble. It does humble to you, you know
19:58
Speaker 1: because some days get you getting your you're the hammer,
20:02
Speaker 1: some days you're the nail, you know, so you are humbold. Um.
20:05
Speaker 1: He's like a little skinny kid that's like sixteen years old.
20:08
Speaker 1: That's good a jujitsu just like choking you out. You
20:11
Speaker 1: know it's like there does humble lot. Why don't you
20:14
Speaker 1: personally like that that hold you joy? I'm sorry, Um,
20:23
Speaker 1: just about wapping backstage. Um, we were like a little
20:25
Speaker 1: back and forth and twyter um he fought at the
20:28
Speaker 1: Old two in London, so did I was calling an event?
20:31
Speaker 1: Um even Dart was the main event. Um, I won
20:34
Speaker 1: my fight, then he won as far as well. So
20:36
Speaker 1: we was meant to fight each other after that fight,
20:38
Speaker 1: and um as as I was just walking past um
20:42
Speaker 1: each other just based on a little scruffle lapping and
20:45
Speaker 1: then from then like well it's never gone and this
20:48
Speaker 1: that's it and and how can you like to go
20:50
Speaker 1: because I can't let go. Hey it's not let go.
20:53
Speaker 1: That's that three years ago. Wow, you know, like, yeah,
20:56
Speaker 1: it's not let go. I like have to get it.
20:58
Speaker 1: I have to get it back and either in the
21:00
Speaker 1: octagon or on the street, you know, I see he
21:03
Speaker 1: has to get back. When the last time you've been
21:05
Speaker 1: angry that it had nothing to do with fighting. Just um,
21:12
Speaker 1: I don't really get angry. I tried to think outside
21:16
Speaker 1: side things just like yeah, this in general, this life
21:18
Speaker 1: like um, I don't really Yeah, I feel that's weird,
21:24
Speaker 1: right because like like we'll just to get that girls,
21:26
Speaker 1: and you got no like emotion, you know, And I
21:28
Speaker 1: feel like after you finished training, like let's see, trained
21:30
Speaker 1: twice a day, when when when when you get home,
21:33
Speaker 1: you just can't be rights documentitation. It's like can't bear
21:37
Speaker 1: to entertain the bullshit, right because he's just like you're
21:40
Speaker 1: like in a zen state if you trained twice a
21:42
Speaker 1: day and your body's tired, the mind is tired, just
21:45
Speaker 1: can't be bothered too entertain the bullshit, you know. I
21:48
Speaker 1: think that's why when I got into me Smatial Arts sixteen,
21:51
Speaker 1: like how it changed me to that person. And because
21:54
Speaker 1: when I was young, girls, I was more angry. I
21:56
Speaker 1: was more like blaming the world for everything. And now
21:59
Speaker 1: there's no that's old to me. Yeah for sure. That's
22:02
Speaker 1: so interesting because it makes you feel like damn, it's
22:05
Speaker 1: it's some sort of violence necessary. Yeah, I believe it is,
22:10
Speaker 1: like like that's what my son does it, and I
22:12
Speaker 1: think it needs to be that's what who does it?
22:14
Speaker 1: My son? Okay, Like I think the need you need
22:17
Speaker 1: like a little popping in those here and there and
22:19
Speaker 1: just to like humble you a little bit and just
22:21
Speaker 1: know that you're you're you're human as well. You know. Um,
22:26
Speaker 1: I think I think violence is definitely necessary, not like
22:28
Speaker 1: bullying people, but far as just like controlled violence. If
22:33
Speaker 1: you can't control it is is. Um, I think that's
22:35
Speaker 1: your sport comes into it. You know, it's definitely necessary,
22:38
Speaker 1: like put the gloves on, because you know, you think
22:40
Speaker 1: about it right throughout the day. Normal people that don't
22:43
Speaker 1: fight for a living think about people, you know what
22:46
Speaker 1: I mean. Like, so both think I'll go to it
22:49
Speaker 1: if you like you both like you and them decide
22:51
Speaker 1: to fight, like you know what fucking this have a fight?
22:54
Speaker 1: They yeah, you have to fight after you feel like
22:57
Speaker 1: like there's there was some good work like good day,
23:00
Speaker 1: you know, but yeah, it's settled it there and then
23:03
Speaker 1: it's done. You get meself. I think that I'm that
23:06
Speaker 1: really might be so good for your mental health. Man.
23:08
Speaker 1: Now it is, man, I'm telling you, Like all the
23:10
Speaker 1: fights that you met, they're all like humble, right, they're
23:12
Speaker 1: all like just like calm homeball and um part for
23:14
Speaker 1: like some of them, but everyone else it's good everyone now,
23:18
Speaker 1: it's all just like this calm and like zen you know,
23:21
Speaker 1: because it's like you know what you can do that
23:23
Speaker 1: far as like fighting, Um, you give you the confidence
23:26
Speaker 1: in yourself to feel like listen, like the most rooms
23:28
Speaker 1: I go into, I probably could win the fight from
23:30
Speaker 1: one to one fight somebody. So give you that confidencing
23:33
Speaker 1: yourself that I don't have to portray like being tough
23:36
Speaker 1: and hard because know that if it doesn't go down,
23:38
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna fuck you up. Yeah you know so
23:40
Speaker 1: um so that and then just part of it, like
23:43
Speaker 1: you've you've let our old anger in like hitting hitting
23:46
Speaker 1: Patterson in bags or sparring or whatever. So come to
23:50
Speaker 1: the real world. Um, you're calm, you know, like I've
23:54
Speaker 1: got friends are like bad world rage You're like just
23:56
Speaker 1: like tracing guys down in cars and everything. Like for me,
23:58
Speaker 1: it's just like Karenry today. You know, Yeah you might
24:02
Speaker 1: can get away with that. In London, nobody shooting not listen,
24:06
Speaker 1: there's they're like they're shooting, they're shoots in the UK,
24:09
Speaker 1: but they're really shooting, you know what. Also for the kids,
24:12
Speaker 1: not crimes is the thing you know, like like that's
24:16
Speaker 1: that's like the thing you know that when I was young,
24:17
Speaker 1: like I've been off to school and ship. You know,
24:20
Speaker 1: it's just what it is, um, I was. It's a
24:24
Speaker 1: sad thing, but that's just what it is. Do people
24:26
Speaker 1: try to like they run up in you screet and
24:27
Speaker 1: be like, oh what's up man? You know, I mean
24:29
Speaker 1: challenge I reckon could like have you was like okay,
24:36
Speaker 1: cool properly but cool you know, um not not not
24:40
Speaker 1: not like a day today, not not in the UK
24:42
Speaker 1: definitely not nah less how You've been in the street
24:45
Speaker 1: fight six years ago probably and I'm like like random
24:52
Speaker 1: like drunken fight. Yeah you know, um, but it feels
24:56
Speaker 1: like like a sober head what happened? Um what I
25:00
Speaker 1: don't remember. It's like a club being the club. My
25:01
Speaker 1: friends started fighting and that was it. It went off. Yeah,
25:04
Speaker 1: so it like me like started mate sat one of
25:07
Speaker 1: my friends and um yeah when like slid from them,
25:11
Speaker 1: damn at least he had you on his side. Yeah, exactly, exactly,
25:14
Speaker 1: like probably why he started fighting. Like you know, when
25:19
Speaker 1: the young like they see the older time, you know,
25:21
Speaker 1: like they're like comfortable they'll be they won't back down
25:25
Speaker 1: from the fight because they know that worst case scenario
25:27
Speaker 1: if those go off, like most of my friends can
25:29
Speaker 1: fight as all, you know, because they're the old narrow
25:31
Speaker 1: during during like mixed martial arts, not to like compete
25:34
Speaker 1: with the training you know and um to the old
25:37
Speaker 1: like good the good street fights you know. So it's
25:40
Speaker 1: so good. Is it true that you like you when
25:42
Speaker 1: you're h the technical fighting you are. You gotta have
25:44
Speaker 1: like registered hands and something like that. Um nah, I'm
25:49
Speaker 1: registered my like my body's registered far as like health
25:52
Speaker 1: insurance not not not. Um. I think you can't go
25:56
Speaker 1: out there like look to like pick fights with people
25:58
Speaker 1: could also get sued right or um, but you can
26:01
Speaker 1: death of self like self defense defend yourself if it
26:05
Speaker 1: feels like yeah you have to yeah facts, well I
26:09
Speaker 1: know you gotta go. Man. I just wanted to thank
26:11
Speaker 1: you for coming through. My brother appreciated like for me,
26:13
Speaker 1: like I said, it's a it's an honor and a
26:14
Speaker 1: big deal for me to meet You're like you're smaller
26:17
Speaker 1: than all before you. Yo yo yo yo yo. Don't
26:19
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26:25
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26:27
Speaker 1: manager like like like in camp, like get trained twice today,
26:31
Speaker 1: like this is my my my my downtime, you know,
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26:43
Speaker 1: with the with the people you know, like you know,
26:45
Speaker 1: make it feel chilled, not that pressure doing it. And
26:48
Speaker 1: so I appreciate it. I'm sorry, NB and you wasn't here,
26:50
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26:55
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27:22
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