Latest / Caught on the Mike... / MMA Fighter & Boxer- Sean "P-Town" Wilson
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- 22:00SPEAKER_01: And go as I kind of please.
- 22:01SPEAKER_01: You know, I'll pay whatever.
- 22:03SPEAKER_01: Uh, so uh and they're all still my buddies.
- 22:05SPEAKER_01: I just want to get some good workouts in and yeah.
- 22:08SPEAKER_00: For sure.
- 22:09SPEAKER_00: What do you wish you knew back then that you know now about your career?
- 22:14SPEAKER_01: I wish I knew that it was gonna be like the sport was gonna blossom like it did.
- 22:19SPEAKER_01: Um it sounds silly, but it's absolute true.
- 22:22SPEAKER_01: Back then it was again just get into a ring and fight.
- 22:26SPEAKER_01: I think I f my first few MMA fights was at that bourbon street, and I I fought for a$50 gift certificate every time.
- 22:32SPEAKER_01: I never even used them, but I I uh that was what we were fighting for.
- 22:36SPEAKER_01: People would get in the ring and just call out everybody and wave their hands, they'll fight anybody.
- 22:40SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm like raising my hand, like, okay, I'll do it.
- 22:43SPEAKER_01: But uh uh back that's how I thought it was.
- 22:45SPEAKER_01: I never thought it was gonna be a big sport like this Connor McGregor stuff where you can actually actually make millions of dollars.
- 22:51SPEAKER_01: The UFC giving out fifty thousand dollar bonuses.
- 22:54SPEAKER_01: If I had redone it and pick and choose who I fought like a little, even just a little better or trained smarter and didn't drink, I just always partied and went and fought.
- 23:03SPEAKER_01: I got I have fights where I would drink on the car ride to the fight.
- 23:07SPEAKER_01: It was nuts.
- 23:08SPEAKER_01: But uh, I would redo it all, and I think I would have gone a lot farther.
- 23:11SPEAKER_01: I really do in this.
- 23:13SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 23:14SPEAKER_00: But you know, life is windshields, not rear view mirrors, right?
- 23:19SPEAKER_00: So you for sure you have Friday to look forward to, and it sounds like a handful of fights in your future.
- 23:28SPEAKER_00: Where do you expect this to be two years from now, five years from now?
- 23:34SPEAKER_00: Where do you see yourself?
- 23:36SPEAKER_01: Uh, I mean, I'm trying to get on, I'm trying to get a bare knuckle fight.
- 23:40SPEAKER_01: BKFC, I really love that show, and I love just the whole aspect of it.
- 23:44SPEAKER_01: Stand and stand and fight.
- 23:46SPEAKER_01: You got, you know, five too many rounds to get after it.
- 23:49SPEAKER_01: Um I could see myself doing a few more of those.
- 23:53SPEAKER_01: I could still I'd say I have a good two more two more two years left of me, as long as I keep doing what I'm doing now, as far as the dieting, no drinking and taking it serious and training hard.
- 24:00SPEAKER_01: I think I got a couple more years after that.
- 24:03SPEAKER_01: Uh helping, I I'll never I'll working out is my drug, so I'll have to be in some sort of some sort of gym.
- 24:10SPEAKER_01: I'll always be at my Genesis lifting weights and running, but as far as the fighting part, just trying to help all the new help all the new guys just stay part of it.
- 24:18SPEAKER_01: Cornering.
- 24:19SPEAKER_01: I uh I love cornering guys too, so just stuff like that.
- 24:23SPEAKER_01: I love that.
- 24:24SPEAKER_00: What's important to you in 2024?
- 24:26SPEAKER_00: How do you define who Sean is outside of the arena of fighting?
- 24:31SPEAKER_01: Uh, I mean, I think I've changed my lifestyle 180 degrees.
- 24:36SPEAKER_01: Um, you can ask anyone who knows me, anyone who's kind of paid it paid paid any attention to my life.
- 24:40SPEAKER_01: I did some dumb stuff.
- 24:42SPEAKER_01: Um, well, it's been about six months ago.
- 24:45SPEAKER_01: Kind of kind of a wake-up call.
- 24:47SPEAKER_01: And 2024, I told everyone it's gonna be my year.
- 24:50SPEAKER_01: Just lifestyle.
- 24:51SPEAKER_01: I'm doing great, uh, making good money, I'm working hard, I'm not letting anything bring me down, I'm not drinking.
- 24:58SPEAKER_01: Uh, so I just it's good.
- 25:00SPEAKER_01: This is probably gonna be my best year out of 41 years for sure.
- 25:03SPEAKER_00: I absolutely love that, my friend.
- 25:05SPEAKER_00: So, my last question, and this is my favorite wrap-up question for every guest I have on the show.
- 25:10SPEAKER_00: It's kind of a curveball, but what is your advice for making the world a better place tomorrow than what it is today?
- 25:17SPEAKER_01: I I hate seeing bullying, and I've been seeing a lot of it around here lately.
- 25:21SPEAKER_01: I see a couple of videos that even here in my hometown of Papillion, I wish everyone would just be try to be nicer.
- 25:27SPEAKER_01: These poor kids, a lot of them, um, if they could just be like me.
- 25:30SPEAKER_01: I never never got into bullying.
- 25:32SPEAKER_01: I was always into helping kids, helping anybody anybody.
- 25:34SPEAKER_01: I I was the one who would fight the bullies, beat up the bullies, make the world a better place, just be kind, give everyone a chance.
- 25:41SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's all sorts of different races, colors, sizes.
- 25:46SPEAKER_01: Uh, just be kind to everybody, pretty much.
- 25:49SPEAKER_00: Sean, I am so glad we got to meet and connect for this episode.
- 25:54SPEAKER_00: I'm excited to see what happens.
- 25:56SPEAKER_00: And uh thanks for doing the show, man.
- 25:58SPEAKER_00: The world's a much better place with you and it.
- 26:00SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for having me.
- 26:01SPEAKER_01: I appreciate it.
- 26:02SPEAKER_00: Once again, I want to thank my new friend Sean Wilson for doing the podcast today.
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