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Jon Jones Post-Fight Press Conference _ UFC 309 · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: My stylists made me wear those goofy ass song glasses.
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  Speaker 2: Work.
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  Speaker 3: You're feeling it cool, well, jockeyngratulations on a successful title
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  Speaker 3: defense at heavyweight. So I guess you know, like you
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  Speaker 3: talked at media day, fighting in Madison's Cork Garden was
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  Speaker 3: important to you. Fighting in New York fighting stefe. So
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  Speaker 3: now that you got through it in like such impressive fashion,
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  Speaker 3: I guess what are the emotions now?
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  Speaker 1: I feel really really great, and you know, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: watched the fight yet, but based on my team's reactions,
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  Speaker 1: you know that they said, John, you you performed, are
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  Speaker 1: great being out there. You want things to go perfect,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing ever goes perfect in the cage. You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to land every shot. You're going to get hit.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel really good. I just can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: watch it.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to say what my reaction is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've won a lot of world championships, so
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  Speaker 1: this it's a very familiar feeling. But I am very
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  Speaker 1: very grateful. I'm so grateful.
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  Speaker 4: You Not everything goes perfect in there.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess relative to what you the game plan
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  Speaker 3: you guys put together and how it played out, is
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  Speaker 3: that relatively how you saw it like the trip at
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  Speaker 3: the beginning, the elbows, the twelve six we saw in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the coaches, the coaches definitely wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to find that twelve to six elbow. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: could have landed more legit. Steve I did a really
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  Speaker 1: good job with his defense and the bottom. The trip
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  Speaker 1: was completely unexpected. It was It was a takedown that
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  Speaker 1: just kind of came to me in the moment, and
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  Speaker 1: I was grateful to have been able.
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  Speaker 2: To pull that off.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that I'm really excited about was that spinning
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  Speaker 1: bat kick. That was the one thing I'm really excited about.
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  Speaker 1: I have amazing coaches. Brandon Gibson, Greg Jackson, coach Alex
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  Speaker 1: coach Aaron. I mean, I'm just naming some of my
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  Speaker 1: striking coaches right now, but I really want to give
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  Speaker 1: a shout out to my taekwondo coach, a guy named
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  Speaker 1: Paige Baits from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His family owns Baits
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  Speaker 1: Taekwondo and Albuquerque, New Mexico. We started about about six
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  Speaker 1: months ago. We started doing the spinning bat cake. He
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  Speaker 1: would come over my house three days a week and
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  Speaker 1: I've worked that same kick from both stances three hours
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  Speaker 1: a week for several months, and Bruce Lei says that
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't fear the man that knows a thousand, ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand kicks, but the man who has worked one kick
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand times. And man, I put a lot of
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  Speaker 1: work in with that spinning back cake and it's getting
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  Speaker 1: faster and more unpredictable. There's really no tell when it's coming.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a devastating shot. You know, I didn't hit
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  Speaker 1: Stepe's liver. I hit him on the opposite side. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it just it sends shot waves to a
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  Speaker 1: person's body. It can break a rib. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: really powerful shot. So I'm really proud of landing that
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  Speaker 1: shot after so many hours of working a shout out to.
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  Speaker 3: You page and then throughout the fight, especially at the beginning,
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  Speaker 3: it looks like that job was really frustrating him, and
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  Speaker 3: then the kicks to the just by the time you finished,
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  Speaker 3: it looked like it had taken soul. He was getting
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  Speaker 3: slower and slower and slower. Is that just the plan
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  Speaker 3: to just like methodically break him down until he just
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  Speaker 3: can't really element?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my goal was to h I want I really
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  Speaker 1: wanted to steep a Steepe. You know, he he beat
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Cormier with that left hook to the liver. He
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  Speaker 1: did it over and over again, and I really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to hit him with that same shot. But once I
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  Speaker 1: felt his punching power, I didn't want to lean to
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  Speaker 1: the right, well my left. I didn't want to be
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  Speaker 1: by his right side at all because catching one of
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  Speaker 1: his straight rights could end your night. And so instead
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  Speaker 1: of working that left hook to the body like we planned,
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  Speaker 1: I worked teeping to the body and the spinning kegs
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  Speaker 1: and jabbing to the body and.
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  Speaker 2: It worked out great.
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  Speaker 1: But I watched his DC fight and h and we
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  Speaker 1: noticed that steep A can take punishment. He's a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: He's a nightmare. You can hit him and hit him
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  Speaker 1: and hit him, and he shows no emotion. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's why he's a six time world champion. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we put him down, and I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 3: He announced he was retiring. He said, I'm retiring, I'm
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  Speaker 3: hanging him up. Did you get a chance to talk
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  Speaker 3: to him after the fight.
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  Speaker 1: No, I didn't get a chance to talk to him.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke to every one of his coaches at different times,
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  Speaker 1: someone Octagon and some backstage.
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  Speaker 2: And they're all very.
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  Speaker 1: Respectful, very respectful man. Again, you can see why Steve
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  Speaker 1: Bee is such a longtime champion. He has a really
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  Speaker 1: solid group of men around him.
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  Speaker 3: And Dana was in here and you know, you said,
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  Speaker 3: if you if you want to if the Tom fight, you.
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  Speaker 4: Want to be well compensated.
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  Speaker 3: Dana said, his quote was, he will be, but he
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  Speaker 3: knows you're going to disappear.
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  Speaker 4: He probably won't hear from you.
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  Speaker 3: We won't hear from you, and then when you want
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  Speaker 3: to talk, you'll quote emerge and talk with you know,
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  Speaker 3: Dana and Hunter.
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  Speaker 4: So I guess what is your plan moving forward for the.
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  Speaker 1: Next few weeks. I'm not really worried about the Tom fight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really worried about the Peri fight. That's that's what
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  Speaker 1: I want to do. That's what I want to do,
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  Speaker 1: and I think, uh, I think if the UFC wants
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  Speaker 1: to have me back, then I think that's the fight
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  Speaker 1: they will make.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I've been really clear about my intentions. That's that's what
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  Speaker 1: I want. And I mean, I just feel like anybody
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  Speaker 1: would understand at this point, like, you know, I'll retire
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  Speaker 1: the heavyweight belt if I have to.
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  Speaker 2: It's like dude, give the fight.
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  Speaker 1: Give the guy what he wants at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, you know, And I'm not talking to Dana directly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I feel like I'm at a place now where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I want to take what I find
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  Speaker 1: to be super fights. I don't want to fight dangerous
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  Speaker 1: up and comers anymore. I want to fight dangerous, established champions.
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  Speaker 1: So to don't have the heavyweight championship, I don't really
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  Speaker 1: care about it that my buyer doesn't lie in belts anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I've created something much bigger I want.
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  Speaker 5: Prayer Den wasn't here, and he said that he really
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  Speaker 5: like not to make the Praira fight, but if you
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  Speaker 5: and Alex did hound him, he would consider it. But
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  Speaker 5: he said that realisently that's not a fight he wants
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  Speaker 5: to see because he thinks you your skills with the
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  Speaker 5: wrestling and the size would sort of outweigh what Pereira
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  Speaker 5: has to offer. I'm sure it's what you think about
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  Speaker 5: Data's take on that.
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  Speaker 1: Man styles mixed matchups, and and I'm sure Pereyer has
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  Speaker 1: knocked up many heavyweights in his day. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: has a knockout power that transcends like it's it's bigger
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  Speaker 1: than weight, very special, and for me, it'd just be
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  Speaker 1: worth my while fighting against Pereira. You know, people can
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  Speaker 1: call me a duck and a chicken. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: home and cash a massive check and so the duck
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  Speaker 1: and chicken thing, it's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's kind of what I want.
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  Speaker 1: And if and if if it doesn't a line up,
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  Speaker 1: then then professor my for Jesus in front of everybody
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  Speaker 1: tonight and telling the world how proud I am to
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  Speaker 1: be an American champion and fighting in front of my president. Man,
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  Speaker 1: if that was my last fight ever, then I'm cool
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 2: That that was the way to do it. I did
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  Speaker 2: the Donald Trump that was the way to do it, man.
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  Speaker 1: So I think one of the really good things about
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  Speaker 1: negotiating is being willing to walk away from a deal.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the deal that I want.
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  Speaker 1: And if that's not what the fans want, then I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'll say.
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  Speaker 5: Sarenata, you mentioned about sometimes you would hit Steep and
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  Speaker 5: he'd showed no reaction in the first round. I actually
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  Speaker 5: couldn't believe he showed no reaction to the elbows or
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  Speaker 5: the fact that he wasn't cut when you were landing
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  Speaker 5: those elbows, were you a little bit surprised?
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  Speaker 6: Like?
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  Speaker 5: What is this guy actually made of him?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was weird bro standing in front of him.
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  Speaker 1: His head seemed massive, Like seriously, and I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to insult him, his head seemed massive. It was like
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  Speaker 1: a video game character. I'm like, I've never seen anything
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  Speaker 1: like this, you know, I had to get past that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, what the what is this?
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  Speaker 1: And then and then when I would hit him, it
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  Speaker 1: just seemed like he didn't fill a dog one thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he just showed no reaction. I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fighters would have would have quit getting that
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  Speaker 1: level of ground and palm, but he has, he has
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  Speaker 1: his ability to just take shots, and I knew. I
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  Speaker 1: started to know as the time was going on that
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  Speaker 1: his body was going to be the only way to victory,
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  Speaker 1: and I started to really look for the for the
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  Speaker 1: body shots.
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  Speaker 5: Two more quick ones from me, Uh, you know obviously
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  Speaker 5: mentioned about the disrespect Stepez showed you, and you mentioned
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  Speaker 5: the clip of him talking about your children. There's been
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  Speaker 5: a clip going around online of him on a podcast
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  Speaker 5: I think with Rampay Shacks. Was that the clip You're referring.
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  Speaker 1: To No, No, No, it was. It was him in
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  Speaker 1: his living room, and I don't remember exactly how it
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  Speaker 1: was said, but pretty much what he was saying was, well,
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  Speaker 1: my kids back on me and my past. At least
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  Speaker 1: my kids would never think that I'm an asshole, and
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  Speaker 1: the MMA fan base they're good. I know they're going
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  Speaker 1: to find it. And I wouldn't make that up. And
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  Speaker 1: even if I did make it up, it's the fight business.
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  Speaker 1: If I need to hype myself up, I'll hype myself up.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is he did say it. He did
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  Speaker 1: call me a bitch, and tonight I made them pay
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  Speaker 1: for it.
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  Speaker 5: The last one for me. You mentioned training the spinning
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  Speaker 5: back kick for three hours a week and stuff. Did
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  Speaker 5: you do that because you thought, oh, this will work
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  Speaker 5: on Steepa or do you just fancy adding something cool
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  Speaker 5: to your arsenal and wanted to work on it.
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  Speaker 1: I realized that I did the spinning back kick pretty
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  Speaker 1: pretty naturally from the south pas stands, and I can't
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  Speaker 1: call it naturally. I spent many years working with Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Gibson on that move, but I wanted to make it better.
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  Speaker 1: I realized that the spinning kick is a move that
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  Speaker 1: can drop an elephant.
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  Speaker 2: If you do it right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a devastating move, in my opinion, the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: kick in martial arts. And you know, we've all seen
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  Speaker 1: me fight for a while now, I don't really have
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  Speaker 1: one punch knockout power. So my mind was, John, why
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  Speaker 1: not develop a technique that could stop any man? And
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  Speaker 1: I came up with a spinning back caick And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can be you can be any fighter, and if
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  Speaker 1: I catch you just right, You're going down, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how well trained you are. So I'll continue to work
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  Speaker 1: it and I'll have some you know, I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to continue to work it. I'm sure all future opponents
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  Speaker 1: saw that and it was just like that could easily
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  Speaker 1: happen to me.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm want to work it more and more and more.
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  Speaker 7: John, both of your brothers were in the NFL. You're
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  Speaker 7: the greatest of all time. I want to know, honest answer,
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  Speaker 7: who do you believe is the best athlete out of
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  Speaker 7: you and your brothers?
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  Speaker 1: Best athlete Chandler, my little brother, Chadler. Chandler is an
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary human being. He's a really special man.
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  Speaker 2: I love him to death.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, Chandler, challenges are freak. If you decided to
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  Speaker 1: be an MMA fighter, I think he do very well.
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  Speaker 1: He's very dedicated athlete.
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  Speaker 7: And speaking of your family, your mother would be so
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  Speaker 7: proud of you today. I want to know if you
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  Speaker 7: look back from you know, when she passed to now,
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  Speaker 7: I like to know, like, how much have you felt
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  Speaker 7: you've grown as a person, and how proud would she
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  Speaker 7: be of you? And what would she think of how
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  Speaker 7: you did today?
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  Speaker 1: My mom used to worry about me. I was the
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  Speaker 1: one son that she she stayed up all night. I
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  Speaker 1: was the first one to stop coming home at night
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  Speaker 1: and spending the night staying out at parties. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my mom used to worry about me a lot. She
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  Speaker 1: used to pray for me a lot. And and I
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  Speaker 1: know for a fact that she'd be incredibly proud of
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  Speaker 1: the man that I'm turning into. I can't say turned into,
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  Speaker 1: because we are all works in progress, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: the man that I'm turning into know for a fact
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  Speaker 1: she would be very proud. And I shouldn't say she
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  Speaker 1: would be. I know for a fact that she is
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  Speaker 1: very proud of me. I actually had a dream about
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  Speaker 1: her this morning, where I was hanging out with my
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  Speaker 1: dad and I kind of we kind of got sick
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  Speaker 1: of each other, and so I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go call mom. And the moment that I
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  Speaker 1: was heading to call my mom, I woke up this
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  Speaker 1: morning and I know that was a dream that was
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  Speaker 1: meant for me today, just to let me know that
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  Speaker 1: I can talk to her. And it was a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 1: I was at breakfast with my team and I was
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  Speaker 1: just crying. I was just crying this morning just thinking
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  Speaker 1: about my mother. And my mom used to be in
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  Speaker 1: the audience saying Johnny, get them, Johnny, and I felt
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  Speaker 1: her today. I really felt my mom today. She was
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  Speaker 1: here with me today. It was a really beautiful day.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for giving me the chance to acknowledge her,
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  Speaker 1: John right here.
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  Speaker 8: You've always been a visionary or the big things you
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  Speaker 8: talk about the fight against Alex. Have you envisioned a place,
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  Speaker 8: a perfect location for that fight?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I haven't. I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many questions when it comes to what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen as far as Alex and Tom and my future.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even think about it right now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: all I want to do right now is is take
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  Speaker 1: my team out and get them the biggest stakes in
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  Speaker 1: New York City.
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  Speaker 2: These guys deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: They deserve ice, cold beer, whatever they want because they
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  Speaker 1: have really committed to me so much. My team is
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  Speaker 1: an amazing group of men, amazing group, and that's all
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  Speaker 1: I want right now is just see them happy.
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  Speaker 8: I just got two real quick ones. But just for
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  Speaker 8: suggesting you just want here in New York City. The
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  Speaker 8: last two years before that, he won here in New
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  Speaker 8: York City. So there's a lot of history right there
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  Speaker 8: with Peier. Yeah yeah, I mean he won two years
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  Speaker 8: in a row and headlining here and then you just
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  Speaker 8: want to hear.
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  Speaker 1: So the one thing that's really cool is that I'm
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  Speaker 1: noticing that the fans are starting to shift. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, This Porrified is absolutely massive as well,
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  Speaker 1: and that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you guys are seeing it.
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  Speaker 8: So two quick ones. You talked about your team. You
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  Speaker 8: kind of amass this like dream team for this camp.
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  Speaker 8: One of the guys that was in your team was
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  Speaker 8: Gable Steveson. I mean, I think the world would love
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  Speaker 8: to see that guy come to MMA. You chirping him
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  Speaker 8: at anything, kind of suggesting him to come over.
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  Speaker 1: Gable has everything that it takes.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: He one of his first days at practice, one of
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  Speaker 1: my teammates got injured, aspiring with me and Gables like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go in. I'm like, I'm like Gable, you might
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  Speaker 1: want to learn how to block and you know, defend
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  Speaker 1: yourself first. It can be a lot more difficult than
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  Speaker 1: what it seems. But that let me, at that moment
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  Speaker 1: know that he is very game. I need him in
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  Speaker 1: the face. At one of his very first practices, he
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  Speaker 1: ate it and he just had He looked like a
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  Speaker 1: little kid, like he just developed a new toy. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to be scary. He's going to be very scary
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  Speaker 1: when he decides to do mma. He's just he knows
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  Speaker 1: how to make men appear very weak, not me being
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  Speaker 1: one of them. And when he learns how to box
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  Speaker 1: uh and learns a little about jiu jitsu, it's not
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  Speaker 1: a matter of if he'll become a UFC champion, it's when.
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  Speaker 1: When he'll be at the UFC champion And whether he
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  Speaker 1: trains an Albuquerque with our family or he finds a
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  Speaker 1: different team. Whoever whoever has him are going to be
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  Speaker 1: really blessed to have him.
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  Speaker 2: He's an asset.
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  Speaker 8: So my last question Obviously in media days, there's a
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  Speaker 8: lot of sound bites is what everyone likes hearing. The
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  Speaker 8: big sound bite this week was you saying you wouldn't
• 15:50
  Speaker 8: want to do business with Tom Asmoke. You said he's
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  Speaker 8: an asshole. A lot of people in the media kind
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  Speaker 8: of laughed about that, and even the US broadcasts is saying, like,
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  Speaker 8: what are you talking about? Tom ass is the nicest
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  Speaker 8: guy in the plan it he ever disrespects Johnny, says
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  Speaker 8: nice things about John. So what what specifically has he
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  Speaker 8: said or done to make him an asshole?
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  Speaker 1: There's just a lot of people on his nuts right now.
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  Speaker 8: And what has he done though.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up with John Jones, T shirts, buying a little
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  Speaker 1: duck and just a little just a little ship that
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  Speaker 1: he does.
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  Speaker 2: He's annoying to me.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: He's annoying to me, and and that's my own personal
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: He annoys me. I get to you guys, you find
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: it entertaining, But I find him annoying and and and
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I just don't like him. And at the end of
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: the day, if I give him the opportunity to fight me,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I want to be so compensated.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I want to say it.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I want that fuck you money, honestly, and that's just
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: what it is. That's just what it is, or else
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: my life is perfect without him. I don't need him
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: at all, and he needs me, and that's a good
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: place to be in a negotiation.
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: So I'm sorry. One more question. You love Muhammad Ali.
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: You've talked about a lot. A lot of this week
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: was comparing this fight in the Ali Frasier you being
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: the Ali side. What does that mean to you?
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know's I don't try to be Muhammad Ali.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: You know, I really want to be the best John
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Jones that I can be. And I really feel like
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I'm doing it right, you know, I'm really I'm really
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: proud of marching to the beat of my own drum.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: It really feels good, I am. I'm doing it my way.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I'm doing it my way, and it feels good. I Mean,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: you see athletes stick around too long and and I
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: don't want to be one of those guys.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I just want to win in every form. I want
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: to win in the record books, I want to win financially.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I just want to win.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people that I piss off
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: right now, and it just lets me know that I'm
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: doing it right.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I'm doing it my way.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: It should only make sense to me, it should only
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: feel good to me, and right now it does. I
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: know I didn't answer your question, but I just wanted.
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: To say that, John, down here in the middle, down
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: here in the middle. I know you said that you'd
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: be willing to walk away from negotiations if your demands
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: aren't met. I know you haven't made those demands yet,
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: but have you said a timeline for those when those
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: you want those negotiations to have been concluded by.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to call them demands, you know.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to put the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: wrong energy in the room when it comes with to Dana.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I respect Dana so much. He changed my life completely.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I don't want to call it demands. I'm not demanding anything.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to run anything. I'm not trying to
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: boss anyone. I'm just clearly like letting people know my intentions.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: And whenever Dana wants me to fight is when I'll fight,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: you know, as long as we can come to an agreement.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: You know, I really want to make that clear. Like,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go there with the word demand.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Respectfully at data and I have been closer now than
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: we've ever been before. And as a young man, well
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: not even a young man anymore, as a man, I
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: want to respectfully have a conversation with him and see
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: if if we see eye to eye, and if we do,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I'll fight whenever he tells me to.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, two very quick questions.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Is there a dollar figure that equals fuck you money?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: A very very high number. It's going to be a
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: very high number.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Don't want to define very high yet.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: No.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: No, I've learned over the years not to really get
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: into finances publicly, but I want to be compensated to
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the point where if I won or lost that it
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: really wouldn't matter.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: And the last question.
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: You've obviously have mentioned obviously that you would like to
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: fight prayer for the BMF belt. So last question I
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: have is why are you ducking Max Holloway?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I like that you're funny.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: No, no, all right, I'll give.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: The guys a sound back, a sound bite. Quack quack
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: quack John over.
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: Here, John, I know, I know you're a big Lebron
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: James fan. And he's in his late thirties, still dominating
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: the sport for straight triple doubles. You're in your late thirties,
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: still the goat. I just want to know what is
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: it that you guys have in common from a mental
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: perspective that allows you guys to still perfect your craft
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: even into your elder years.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is you know, but I'm
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: grateful to have whatever it is it is. I definitely
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: know that this is what I'll say first. I'm going
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: to say my relationship with God. You know, I'm far
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: from perfect human being, but I do love God, and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I feel like He loves me too, loves us all. Really,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: my fiance, She's She's taken me very far. Without her,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I would not have made it this far. I know
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: that for a fact. My team, the men in my life.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I have extraordinary men in my life, and I'm I
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: am strong enough to know how to ask for help.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: And I know that we were designed to be together
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: and to have many people that has your back. And
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I'm just surrounded by powerful, intelligent men, and I think
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: that's why I'm still here.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: John over here, to your right.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Down here, you like to the right, I'm like, you're
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: other right.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: So Frances and ganho paid a little tribute to what
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: you said after his fight. I think he came on
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: social media says Jones look great out there tonight. Congrats Johnny, But.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I see you.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Is that a fight that maybe interest you? Like obviously
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Prayer is number one on your list, but is that
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: one that maybe interests you more than even Tom.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I'm here to talk to UFC business tonight.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: So he's I mean, Turkey Allo Shake has been able
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: to get these kinds of fight stone in boxing. Maybe
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: you could make it happening in the UFC.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Whatever whatever Uncle Danny tells me.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: I also want to ask as well, because obviously you're
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: someone who's considered, you know, the greatest of all time
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: in your sport. Another goat was on last night in Dallas.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Did you were you able to catch any of the
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Mike Tyson fight and what was your your thoughts on
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: him getting back in the ring at fifty eight?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I did. I did catch the fight.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: It was hard to see him so old, uh, you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Red John's junior kept saying it, man, those legs aren't working.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: It was really hard to see. He really sold it,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you know, with the highlight videos of him training and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: his physique. I wish he went and showed us his ass.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: That was a little while, Mike, you didn't have to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: do that. Mike's a freak, I bet dude like Mike,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you old nasty, old old man, you old dirty bastard. You.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: It was hard to watch, but I respect him so
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: much for getting in there. You know, that was the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: cool part. You know, It's just I'm sure you know,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: they compensated him very well, and uh, he got to
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: give a bunch of fans what they wanted, which is
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: just to be alive, to see him compete. And for that,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: for that part alone, I thank him. I'm sure a
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: lot of us thank him.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: And then you respect to Jake for not you know,
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: because I mean when holy Field came back, Bellefort went
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: and just kind of iced him in in very quick fashion.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: And I think Jake probably could have done that later
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: on the Vibe, but he opted to might get to
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: the bell.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I don't think Jake gave him mercy. I think Jake
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: played it smart. I think that's what it was. I
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: think Jake knows that you're winning, Let's stop while you're ahead.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Let's let's let's coast, Let's get through this fight. Because
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Mike can drop anyone with one shot. You know, his
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: legs weren't working, but that epper body was still moving
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and those punches were still swinging. And I don't really
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't view it as Jake Kevin a mercy. Jake
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: coasted through that and like an intelligent fighter would John.
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: So I saw yesterday there's a video you're praying with
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: Charles Olivera and today on the backstage, you guys were like,
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: looks like exchanging really beautiful words to each other.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: How did this relation did start? When did you matt him?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Why do you guys were praying to yesterday? How did
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: you guys get kind?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure we met each other in the past,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: but yesterday we were on the same spinner van heading
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: to we're heading to press conference, and I.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Could see that he was having a rough.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Weight cut and he just was real quiet, and he
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: was just, you know, he looked like he was hurting,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: and everybody on the bus we were all laughing, and
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: we're all, you know, speaking English and everything, and I
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: just wanted to include him, and so I was just
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I just looked back and I was like, bro, you
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: may not be feeling good, but you look great.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: That suit looks great. You know.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I was just I was just probing at him to
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: try to like just start a relationship and and and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: his translator started communicating for us, and uh, and you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: know that big old smile he has and everything, and uh.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I just I was like, man, this this guy's cool.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: And then at the press conference, I realized how much
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: people love him, and uh. And then and then we
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: were watching me and my wife were watching him bedded
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and my wife's like, John, he's a Christian too, He's
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a Christian as well.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh really, And so then I
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: liked him even more.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And and when I saw him I saw him. Next,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I asked my pastor. I was like, hey, would you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: pray for both of us? And my pastor was like,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: of course. And we came together and we bowed our
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: heads in it, and even though he probably didn't understand
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: anything we were saying, we we had that agreeance right
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: then and there.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And after we're done.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Praying, I was like Tim Crystal, which is christ from Portuguese,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and he understood that, and we just had kind of
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: an agreement that we're both going to represent, We're going
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: to do our absolute best and when the pastor was praying,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: he actually was saying that the victory is already yours.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: The victory is one, it is yours. And I believe
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: him when he says that. And so now it was
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: our job to do our part and give it all
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: we had. And when I heard that he won, because
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: we turned the TV off in my locker room, all
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: my guys were watching the fights. My bro, what are
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: you doing? But anyways, when I heard that he won,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: it just it was one piece of the puzzle that
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: was already written. And then I just knew I had
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to go out there and do my part.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Just John here, Yeah, give this man. Well, I'm going
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: to answer your question.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Come on, I have at least fifty questions and I'm
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: not going to answer question.
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: I'll ask just one. You prove again, but you're the
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: greatest of all time. Tonight it was an excellent performance,
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: pretty wise, pretty patient like it was. It was a
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: perfect performance. I really have a lot of questions, but
• 27:09
  Speaker 12: I only ask one. Uh you, I had the great career,
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: like best fighter ever for sure. What was the most
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: memorable moment for throughout your career? The most like important moment?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Tonight?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: It was Stephen Bonner, Rachio Shogun who and tonight it
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: was incredibly special finishing DC is up there too. Stephen
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Bonner was the first star that I thought as a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: young man. Everybody around me told me that I was
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: noe and I couldn't do it, and and I had
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: to really work on meditation and and and bringing up
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: my self esteem for the first time and like to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: beat Stephen Bonner Rachio Shogun beating Showgun taught me that
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: that I could be right kid from a small town,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: never good at anything. I became a champion d C
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: we have. It was just very personal and tonight, tonight
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: is is the biggest moment of my life. Like I
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: said earlier, you know, to to talk about Jesus in
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: front of our president and let the world know how
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: truly proud I am to be an American champion. It
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: felt awesome, man to finish, to finish Steepe, it felt awesome.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: It felt awesome, And that's why I know for a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: fact that I can.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I can. I can retire.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: After night like tonight, I can't pronounce it, but the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Italian term vd vd VT, I came, I saw, I conquered.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I feel that tonight very proud.
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: John right here, just speaking of the fight tonight. Yeah,
• 28:50
  Speaker 13: I was watched the clip a bunch of times on
• 28:52
  Speaker 13: that on the spinning back kick. Were you able to
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: see it, Land?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't see it, Land, but but I felt it.
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: Do you feel like that it was a clean That
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: was way you were going in the moment.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if he heard a rib. It'd
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: he fractured a rib, you know. I guess we'll find out.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you went to the hospital or not,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: but you know, the liver shot is the liver is
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: on the right side of the body.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I hit him on the left side of the body.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: But those organs in there when you rattle them, you know,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the liver's not too far away. So either he felt
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: his liver when I hit or he felt his rib.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: But I hit clean, really clean.
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: So you didn't see that he was down until he
• 29:29
  Speaker 13: turned around and then faced him. That's when you came in, right.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with the new rules, I wanted to kick right away,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: but I'm like, let me not mess this up, and
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: then I went in for the punches and I really
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: want to take the moment. Also, just say thank you
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to Steep Am Yochic, thank you for being a first responder.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I absolutely love you. I love our law enforcement. I
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: love being an American. I love our military, I love
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: our firefighters. I love our nurses and our doctors.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, even though I did not like you
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: during this event. Appreciate you and I respect you so much.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you to you your family. God bless you. Sincerely.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put these funky, these punky shades back on
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: What's up?
• 30:17
  Speaker 14: Did he No? I did it? That's pretty cool.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: H