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Alexis Myers- MMA Announcer · Caught on the Mike...

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  SPEAKER_00: Disclaimer, the views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entity today represent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listener discretion is advised.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I decided to stamp act a bunch of great episodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first episode of this series features the voice of Dynasty Combat Sports, Alexis Myers.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is a DJ of multi-fight sport athlete, as a 2 and 0 MMA record herself.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's an advocate for anti-bullying and so much more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Caught on the Mic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Caught on the Mic.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: It is that week.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is Dynasty Combat Sports Week with Caught on the Mike.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got really ambitious and I decided to do a metric crap ton of episodes leading up to the May 3rd fight at Pinnacle Bank Arena, Dynasty Combat Sports Spring Brawl.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my next guest is no stranger to any of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have seen her face light up the octagon announcing your favorite local fighters, Alexis Myers.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: How the heck are you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Mike on the mic.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's going on, man?
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, this is awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Henry suggested this, he was like, Why haven't you hit up Alexis?
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, oh my gosh! Like uh Dynasty Combat Sports Announce team, like, let's let's assemble.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's been a ball.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So how long have you been doing the ring announcing for Dynasty now?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, it's going on.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: It'll be a year in June.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I feel like time's flew really fast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Between my first, my first uh little intro there and then um just you know going with the flow until this moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it's been it's been a ride.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've enjoyed it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I've enjoyed getting to know the fighters and being, you know, their um support system throughout that night and you know, just giving them a good intro to help them, you know, encourage them throughout their fight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um because yeah, everyone, everyone always, you know, remembers how they're announced.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I just want to make sure that I do a good job for them.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's what it's all about.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all about the fighters, it's all about promoting them and getting their name out there and making sure that they're getting the exposure that they need as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because being in the fight world's tough, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and it's all about who you know, it's all about who knows you as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um that's just the goal, is just to get them more exposure, to bring more exposure to dynasty overall, bring more exposure to combat sports in Nebraska.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, that that's the goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sounds like you and I are so much on the same page, it's not even funny.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: Because that's that is a it's it's crazy because I get asked, you know, I've done I think three, maybe four, doing the pay-per-view commentary now.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, sitting cage side, and uh, I get asked multiple times, how do you suppress bias whenever you're you're sitting cage side?
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's like it can be tough because you see your friends making that walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and you have friends that go uh to different schools or are affiliated with different teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: So like it's it's a tightrope walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the thing is, is we want to celebrate the sport as a whole, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And make sure people are putting eyes on the dynasty product and what we have to offer in Nebraska because it's outstanding.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, and we got some good fighters here too, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I train with a lot of the fighters that you know are on the cards, so I'm familiar with how tough they are, and they need to be they need to be uh represented, you know, a little bit better.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think Dynasty offers a great platform for that introduction, um, their introduction into the combat world and into the the fight community for the fighters here in Nebraska.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for sure, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's funny because I think about some of the things that I've experienced in my short time working with the organization, and it's like you never know who's going to show up at some fights.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, like, you know, both of us got our picks with Bud at one of the last events.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jamal's no stranger.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like, well, I mean, he's no stranger to your gym either.
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  SPEAKER_00: But but it's it's really cool because I I think people don't realize how much of an impact our little organization has on the community at large.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah, we have, I mean, we have a lot of the UFC fighters have come through, like Ryan Jensen, Derek Miner, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, there's just a lot of people that that have transitioned from Dynasty onto bigger cards, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So even a lot of people that at Skywalker 101, you know, with um all the fighters there that just made big platform fights happen and take place.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Dynasty definitely sets the stage for um opportunities for um any amateurs that wanted to get involved in the sport to start their career there and then professionals as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, we have our first bare knuckle fight coming up and continuing to keep on growing, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um is coming up, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's just a lot, you know, in the works with Dynasty that's coming down the ballpark.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um, we're excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we're excited to be the first uh combat sports team to um promote uh bare knuckle fight at the Pinnacle Bank Arena.
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  SPEAKER_01: So not only is the is it gonna be Dynasty's first bare knuckle fight, but it's also gonna be the first bare knuckle fight at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're just continuing to make history here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um we're just getting started.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so it's gonna be an exciting road coming up here.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I I agree.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm I love hearing all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've touched on everything that I wanted to promote that week.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_00: So did you have a mentor before you made the transition to Ring Announcer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you have somebody that kind of mentored you into that role?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I so I'm actually like a DJ and um and uh MC for events and and uh mostly wedding events, but that's some also corporate events.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um I'm used to being on the mic, uh, and then just being involved in the sport as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um actually, I actually had a dream that I was gonna be a cage announcer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I so that kind of what sparked me into um uh pursuing that, you know, and then you know, anytime you have a desire or a dream that sticks with you, or you know, guys telling you to pursue, pursue, pursue, you just gotta say, okay, uh, you know, let me find out more about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I did.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_01: I I I shadowed uh um Jeff Houston with BKFC.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: I shadowed Mike, uh the old um um LFA announcer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and he was actually the dynasty announcer when I first started getting into this route, and he kind of helped me along, um, gave me some tips and tricks that I can use.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: And it was honestly just perfect timing, how everything kind of aligned and came together because he was on his way out of Nebraska, moving, um, just in expanding his career as far as LFA goes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and then I just came into the place.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it was just a smooth transition into that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I honestly didn't think that I was I honestly never thought I'd be a cage announcer to be to be honest with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you had asked me like two years ago, you're gonna be, are you gonna be a cage announcer?
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  SPEAKER_01: I probably would have looked at you sidely like, no, I'm I'm fired.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, that's my only my only thing too.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I still train, you know, I still I I will never say I will never fight again, but um, I have a lot of op I have a lot of open doors for me right now, and I'm just um going down whatever road that the that guy wants me to go down, um, and just kind of going with the flow as far as that goes.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: So whatever's meant for me will be mine, and whatever's not will not, and I'm happy with with whatever.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's great.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's great.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was just gonna say that that ladies and gentlemen, if you did not know that and you're still new to the dynasty product product at large, Alexis is a fighter herself.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: She's got a 2-0 amateur record.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was going to ask you, do you plan on setting foot in the octagon again as a fighter?
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I will I'll never say never.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I'm I'm gonna be 34 this year.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm kind of up there now as far as like, you know, uh age range, as far as like what I can do, um, just realistically.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: But I will never say never.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: It would that just have to make perfect sense for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um but I still like to fight, I still like to train, I still like to spar, you know.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: We have our women's sparring group that meets up once a month um just to get together with other women who are in the combat sports to link up and to get some work in.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um so I still love it all, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what was your trajectory, like your personal interest?
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  SPEAKER_00: How did you find your pathway into the sport, like just from a hobbyist level and as something that you maintain as part of your fitness regime?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I I was actually a cheerleader and tracks and did track in high school and college.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and then after college, I transitioned to to play football actually uh from LFL as a cornerback there and um did that for four years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh loved that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, got out of that um and started doing bodybuilding competitions.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and then that was very subjective to me, and I like to eat and kind of, you know, I like to know if I if I win is due to, you know, either I'm typing someone out or, you know, it was more point-based in that trajectory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then so I got into combat sports uh really to start off with boxing in 2015.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then I transitioned into jiu-jitsu.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh fell in love with jujitsu.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that transitioned to Muay Thai.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: This is Muay Thai for a while.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: I really just got into it for fitness.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love the just the workout of it.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't ever really think I was gonna be a fighter.
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  SPEAKER_01: I did do uh, you know, jiu-jitsu tournaments and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thought I was a fighter doing jiu-jitsu tournaments and like, yeah, I gotta fight this weekend, just a match, just a little, you know, roll.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but yeah, it's a different uh mindset.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh stepping into the cage for fighting.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: I was actually, um uh when I first got a fight, I was actually surprised because I didn't think that there was any other girls training because it was just me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was the only girl in the sport for a long time.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: There was nobody, there was nobody else to fight.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we had I had Josette Cotton, uh, but she's in a totally different weight class than me.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so there was really no one else around the area.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: So that was really the holdup.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh otherwise I would have fought, I would have started fighting in 2015, you know.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but there was just no other girls involved in the sport at the time.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, one of your former opponents and friend, uh Hope and I had this exact conversation about how much potential there is in our area for women's MMA, and it's just really untapped right now.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: I would love to see it grow more.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what we're working on.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why we try to offer, you know, that that free once-a-month um women's group, even for people who aren't, you know, necessarily involved in the sport, but just come in and try it out because sometimes as a female, it's hard to go into a combat gym um and not know, you know, what's going on without the proper, you know, training and mindset a little bit.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: And people don't want to just pay.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, a lot of gyms offer, you know, two weeks for free or whatever, which I think everyone should do.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like combat and knowing how to defend yourself is a life skill.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um kind of like swimming, you know, it's just something that people should know how to do.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you never know when you're gonna be caught in a situation, and really not even just combat sports, but just even because combat sports is a little bit different than self-defense, um, you know, and I feel like all girls especially should should know self-defense and um a good foundation is combat sports.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: So absolutely, absolutely.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: So fun story.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: You've met my daughter Liz.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: She sang the national anthem a few times.
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  SPEAKER_00: So beautiful voice.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I will, I she I told her I was talking with you tonight and she was excited, and she wanted me to tell you hello.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: But her and her brother got into they got into martial arts at relatively different times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her brother, who is younger than her, he started about oh, I'd say two or three years ahead of her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then eventually her mom was just like, okay, Liz, you need to do this too.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: Liz was resistant, resistant, resistant.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: She finally got into it.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: And the thing is, is she hates it, but she she takes home golds at every single tournament and sparring that she does.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: Just because she's big and lanky, she's tall and lanky, and she can kick, she can get them head kicks and stuff.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: She's just so naturally good.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: It frustrates me because it's like, why do you hate this?
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: You're so good at it.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure that'll bounce that's probably a fluctuating thought, too.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: She may like it at some days, and other days she's like, I don't want to do anything with this.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: So that's just kind of how it goes.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she did a uh she did a kickboxing class for Mercy's Day of Discovery last week, and she called me immediately afterwards and she's like, Dad, I think I could do this.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: She goes, she goes, like, I'm like, like Mui Thai?
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: She goes, No, I'm talking like fitness kickboxing.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, like Muey Thai.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: You should try a Mui Thai, Liz.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: But hey, you never know.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: You ever know what will come from that because a lot of girls, I feel like a lot of people just get it into it first just by um the workout of it.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of where I started as well, was just the workout and you know, coaches seeing like, hey, you need to fight him like I do.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, lo behold, you know.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so you never know.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: So your entirety of training, have you spent your whole time training at Skywalker or have you tried a few different gyms?
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: No, I've only been at two two gyms.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: I've I started at a Premier Combat Center, um, trained in with Ryan and Derek.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then I transitioned to uh Skywalker shortly after um our jiu-jitsu coaches left from Premier.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so I that was the time I left and went to Skywalker.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I like talking about Skywalker in particular a lot.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm I'm friends with Danny and we trade texts from time to time, and there is something, and I I have to give a little disclosure here.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm not trying to express bias by any means, but there is something definitively different when the Skywalker team is in the room, like in a good way, like in a good way.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Dang, good job um making us all feel like family, you know, and we support each other.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, and we're just we all want the same thing, and we all show up every practice um and put in that work and we encourage each other.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I feel like just that team uh ramodity is just something that you can't really replace as Skywalker.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's just we're all in it together.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: We all call each other bros and sis and all that.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: So we are like a big family over there.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um and loyalty is important with us, so yes, absolutely, and you can see that.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like anytime somebody goes to a dynasty event and a Skywalker fighter is on the card, watch the walk to the cage.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like, watch how the tea the whole team comes out, and it looks it looks like a congregation, and they are going to church, and it is phenomenal every time.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like I get I get chills, and it doesn't matter what song is playing as the walk is happening.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, wow, something big is about to happen.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's inspiring.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: I love watching it every single time.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I think uh my heart is always pumping really hard anytime one of my uh Skywalker, well, really anyone I know, I any really anyone that because I because I I love all my training partners at Premiere too, you know.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: So uh really anyone that goes in there that I've personally sparred with, like my heart's always pounding because I want them to do a really good job, you know.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: So yes, yes, yes.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: But the that's the beautiful thing about this sport, and it's something I talk a lot about a lot on my show.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: And even Caleb, uh you know, my co-host on uh at the desk, we talk about a lot.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: He asked me recently, and he says, you know, Mike, you have everything from musicians to actors, and you spend a lot of time talking with fighters.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: Why why MMA and why fighters?
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, my biggest goal as a fight fan myself is to dispel any stereotypes that were previously established in the fight community because the sport has evolved so much and it has such a legitimate brotherhood and sisterhood attached to it.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: Two people go into that cage, that cage locks, they fight, but they leave best friends a lot of times.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me another sport where you can do that.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: That there's really I feel like everyone should at least experience that one time in their life.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: Just go out there and just have that experience just at least once.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: So that way you know, like not everyone, there's probably about 0.3% of the world population can say that they've actually been, you know, in a cage fight against standing against someone that is trying to literally hurt you, you know.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: But at the same time, it is a sport, it's all calculated, you know.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um there there are rules with it as well.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: So it's not it's different than you know, fighting on the street where there's no rules.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: That these are actually, you know, um, there's actually a set of policies that we have to follow in the cage.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: So and and it's just and it's just a good adrenaline dub for me at least.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: Not everybody likes it, you know.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: I I feel like I'm a martial artist uh that just knows how to fight.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm I I never grew up, you know, being a fighter or anything like that.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um I got in it for uh uh really mental stability, emotional regulation, because you have to you have to regulate all that when you know, walking into the cage, preparing for that, preparing for the fight, discipline, you know, um waking up and doing the training even when you don't want to do the training.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: So it really builds resist, um, you know, um, it really builds character, you know, um, and you're resistant to quit because if you're signed into up to a fight, you don't want to just well, some people do you shouldn't you shouldn't pull out from a fight once you once you say okay, unless there's you know some type of you know life-threatening injury or something like that, or you know, um you're committed to that.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um so it just it just builds character, it builds honesty, it builds a lot.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: Just preparing for a fight.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: So everyone try at least one time.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: I tell you what, I there is no bigger adrenaline rush for me as a fight fan and as somebody that participates with uh dynasty than that drive home after an event is over.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: I am usually on such a high from everything that has gone on, you know, the wins, the losses, the fanfare, all yes, yes, the the who's who of his who's ever in the crowd or in in the cage or what have you.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: All that said, is there a specific fight on this May 3rd card that you're looking forward to?
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh well, obviously, I'm looking for all the fights, you know.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: We have a couple of Skywalker guys on the card as well.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I'm I'm really excited for the bare knuckle fight.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, like I said, it's the first bare knuckle fight for Dynasties, the first bare knuckle fight at Pinnacle Bake Arena.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's the first bare knuckle fight that I'll announce for, so I'm excited for it.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: You can take all of this into consideration, all the things that you kind of have interests in, and the fact that, yeah, you do DJs and you you DJ and do events and stuff along those lines.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: What have you gained personally from your experience not only in the MMA world, but kind of merging those two worlds together?
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, well, um it made me understand that I'm not limited and I feel like everyone should not limit themselves to their abilities, you know.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever you want to do in life, go and go and do it.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, um there there's it I feel like anyone that has a desire to to do something, there that desire is there for a reason.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um so don't let fear stop you.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like this was a a very fear overcoming thing for me to to step into this field.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: But I feel like I was prepared as well.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like it was divinely guided.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: So and just go with the flow.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like also pray about what you want and trust that, you know, those doors of opportunity will open at the right time.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because sometimes it's all about timing, you know, and and delay is not a no.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's just a preparation.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: So um just just go day by day trying to be the best version of yourself and everything else will fall into place.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: So you've been calling events for over a year now.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: Has there been um any intentional or unintentional um opportunities that have come your way as a result of calling these events and you know announcing these fighters in front of thousands of people essentially once a month every month like has it provided you another platform that maybe you didn't have before?
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I don't really know I haven't really thought about it like that.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know when I'm preparing for these fights I'm really just thinking about the fighters and uh you know their background and um what we're what stats they have and how we can promote them.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know I I help prep for the little promotion videos for the fighters just to get their name out there as well.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I it I haven't really thought about how it affects me because I'm really focused on them and just putting out you know their information and doing my best for them so that way they can go in there.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: Feeling like people are excited about their fight um and helping people get excited when they come out.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: So it's really not about me.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's really all about the the fighters um is and but I feel like um people know me more uh I don't know and I don't know that necessarily good thing.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: You know I I try to stay under the radar uh but you know um that's just I guess comes with the territory of absolutely and that's definitely where I was coming from with it because first of all I I gotta give kudos to you um selfless acts of service is something I personally believe that the world needs more of right now.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: People not so much putting a shine on themselves but putting a shine on other people and giving people another opportunity to kind of tell their story and you know plant the seeds and provide a platform for somebody else and everybody wins in the end.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I absolutely agree with that.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: And uh but yeah I'm I'm sure you have people that all of a sudden know your name that never knew your name before that talk to you like your old war buddies.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah I yeah people do you know like come up or message me or whatever and um we'll just ask questions about fitness or not fitness ask questions about combat and getting involved in the sport uh which I feel like just me being a minority as well it helps reach out to other minorities um so that way they can see like you we could do this as well as too you know this is a good avenue for um people of color to be involved in because it gives them an outlet you know so I I have I've started you know um what we call the bullyproof academy which is for girls um who experience bullying either at school or on sports teams um and just being able to teach them self-defense skills to be able to use not just physical self-defense but emotional verbal mental emotional because I feel like it all ties together and you have to have all of that in order to be able to defend yourself in certain situations.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: And um if people have kids especially girls can learn how to master their emotions which is to tend to be a rough one especially that middle school high school age when you have all that clicks and the the social exclusion and the physical even sometimes and sometimes girls just don't necessarily know how to defend themselves in the right way.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: So we do host those free community events for uh the public as well um for just girls uh middle school high school girls to give them the tools and skills that they need to defend themselves and then if they want to transition um into combat sports after that then that's an avenue as well that they can take but at the bare minimum at the bare minimum know how to defend yourself um and it's and it's gonna look different between people that you know you're gonna defend yourself different with people that you do know versus people that you don't know.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: So just going over different scenarios with them to help prepare them.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm big on prevention versus let's fix the problem.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: You know, well what did we do to prevent the problem in the first place?
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: Did we give them and provide them with the tools and skills they needed to address the bullying or are we just now waiting for them to have you know anxiety and depression and you know thoughts of suicide because we do see that a lot.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: And now we're trying to fix the problem you know so it's all about prevention um and um b versus intervention after the problem has already arised.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yes yes there's so much power in being proactive as opposed to being reactive I absolutely love that.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: So if you had the opportunity to have the the floor and sell an audience on what they are going to see on May 3rd at the Pinnacle Bank Arena what is your pitch for the fight night yeah it's just gonna be a lot of knuckin' and bucking literally you know we're literally going to be knockouts, bloodshed, um like we always see at all the dynasty fights they're always good they're always bangers.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: We always got stat cards.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: So there is there's no disappointment when it comes to any of the fights that we have um pinnacle a bank arena May 3rd is going to be the best fight of the night there's gonna be a lot of best fights of the night we're gonna be trying to decide which ones you know Neymar uh and Brett Minner main main event of that night that's gonna be a banger um that's good there they're those are both really talented fighters different degrees of talent um going head to head that's gonna be really and they're both so young and they are both so young yeah so yeah that that's that's that's the best thing is when you have these young fighters that are coming up um and being able to you know start their careers and um continue on to be a professional they're both pros now you know they've been around the game for a long time um so it's exciting to see of course I'm all I'm like I said the bare knuckle fight's gonna be a great one uh Brady Miner is always fun to watch as well we got Justin Weaver coming back finally you know so it's gonna be it's gonna be a lot of good fights so definitely exciting car definitely don't want to miss out um so definitely if you're in Lincoln Pinnacle Bank Arena is the place to be we won't talk about the other promotion that's going on but Pinnacle Bank Arena is the fight to see fights scene to be at don't want to miss it.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: I love it I love it my closing question is my most favorite question I ask it of every guest that is on my show because I love everybody's answer and that question is is what is your advice for making the world a better place tomorrow than what it is today.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: Go day by day be the best version of yourself each day go do everything from the root of love and giving and serving others um and from that you'll be blessed with abundance so come always come from a place of love.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: I love it Alexis Myers I love knowing you I I'm so glad we're friends the world is a much better place with you in it.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to see you on May 3rd.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you Mike is good seeing you I missed you last week last show I know I was in Mexico I was on vacation I took all the girls to Mexico for their senior trip so so I get an excuse real real subtle with that that's good dynasty announced team assemble once again I'd like to thank my friend Alexis Myers for joining me on the podcast today make sure you are giving her a follow at Alexis underscore stayfit underscore myers on Instagram she is a gem fantastic ring announcer great personality and she is always working for the greater good I am so excited about her bulletproof campaign and I couldn't be happier for her success with that.
• 30:56
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• 31:15
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• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: This has been Caught on the mic with Michael Clark.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Michael Clark until next time thank you