JRE MMA Show #152 with Sean Brady

Joe Rogan podcast check it out The Joe. Rogan Experience Train by day Joe Rogan. podcast by night all. day right well what's up what's going on. thank you for having me man so we were. just talking about injuries like uh the. life of a fighter there you always have. something wrong right yeah it's uh it's. rough like especially someone me like. I'm getting a little bit older now and. I'm being smarter but like I was. training and I still kind of do like.

almost three times a day so like I would. do a morning skill session an afternoon. run or an afternoon strength session and. then another skill session at night and. I did that for 10 plus years so but I. but I love it though so I'm but I'm. finding now like I'm find trying to find. that balance of like if it's a hard. morning like MMA like sparring session. night time will be Jiu-Jitsu and I'll. try to make it light but you know how. that like you drill then you start. rolling and when you're rolling hard.

it's almost just as I get injured. sometimes more Doran Jiu-Jitsu so the. whole rolling light is it doesn't Happ. never happens I was telling my wife cuz. my hand I was coming out here I was like. maybe I can go and I can just like drill. with Gordon and those guys she was like. you ain't [ __ ] drilling with no if. you guys start rolling light like there. ain't there's not going to be any of. that and I'm like you're 100% right so. yeah that's smart though that's like. smarter Sean like older 100% and that's.

where like before i' like nah [ __ ] that. like I'm going I'm going to go hard and. then I'd be injured and then I wouldn't. be able to fight so the problem with. injuries is if you don't give them. respect they get chronic they just they. they if there's so many guys that have a. an injury and they try to train through. it and it just gets worse and worse and. worse and then instead of being out for. six weeks now you're out for six months. and that was me after my balal fight so. I came home from Abu Dhabi I didn't have. any injuries I wanted to get back and I.

want to get that taste out of my mouth. so I'm back training I'm back running. and then I start to feel that pain I was. telling you about and I literally just. kept running like I'd run once I was. warmed up like you know how it is you. warm up the injuries kind of go away. like you feel good until you cool down. and I did that for a couple months and I. had a fight scheduled and I tore my. groin and then I rescheduled the fight I. did my rehab and then first week back of. training it tore again so it was a. shitty Road any surgeries I've been I.

had my Devi septum done obviously they. didn't fix the outside cuz this shit's. [ __ ] up but uh besides that like I. broke my thumb i' never had knee never. had any I've been pretty lucky with no. surgeries but a lot of injuries isn't. the DV have them one amazing when I got. it done and they when you have to have. those things in your nose for a week. though as soon as they pull them out you. feel like a new human like it's. like oh it's the best it's incredible. it's the best I never knew like how much.

cardio I was missing not being able to. breathe out of my nose MH look at like. draus like dupy when when he got his. nose fixed like he used to always fight. with his mouth open and people thought. he was out of shape and the guy just. can't breathe out of his nose I think at. some point though you have to open up. your mouth obviously like but I do all. my zone 2 now on the Echo Bike mouth. closed like and now I just started doing. um mouth tape when I sleep my [ __ ] my. recovery on like my O ring went through. the roof just just from mouth tape just. from mouth tape yeah like hostage tape.

um I have this one called dream that I. got but hostage it's the same it's the. same thing does it [ __ ] with you with. the mustache though no I mean sometimes. if I have like too much facial hair it. doesn't stick that good my buddy Simon. was saying that uh cuz he had some like. cheap one he was like he was like. doesn't it bother you when you pull it. off I'm like yeah a little bit but no I. don't mean that I mean it doesn't stick. good oh no these ones they stick good. like you have to you have to pull it off. yeah the cheap ones just fall right off. I'd wake up and it'd be like on my. [ __ ] shoulder right but uh that's. interesting that it had that much of an.

impact on your recovery yeah so you you. wear an AA ring and like so what is uh I. my wife war is one of those but I've. never worn it like what is how does it. work like what is the uh what's the. metrics it gives you so I used to have. uh whoop and whoop couldn't like I was. getting in I couldn't shoot through my. tattoos so I would get inaccurate. readings on all my [ __ ] and I actually. like messaged them and they're like hey. like it's just the kind of lighting we. have we have like so I would wear it. here but then it would come up on my.

wrist and then on my like I have nowhere. I could wear it so this um was like the. next best thing and but it does the same. it does HRV heart rate your sleep deep. deep sleep REM it does fit it does. tracks your workouts but like I really. don't care about that like if I'm going. to track my my workouts I wear the polar. or like the um my zone so I'll wear. those but um yeah does your sleep does. your does a lot of things and uh this I. got a new one uh Morpheus I have Mor I. have Morpheus too is outstanding too I.

have moras um I really like that you do. the HRV in the morning and stuff like. that I just I love buying them and I. just try them and I like compare them. like I'll wear everything and I'll do. the Echo Bike workout and I'll compare. like my heart rates and stuff like that. so yeah it's fun but when I got my nose. fixed it was a it was a game changer for. sure yeah it's just such a different. thing to be able to breathe out of your. nose but it's interesting to me that the. the sleep that your recovery is better I. just always wonder why why breathing. through the nose while you sleep. improves your.

well I'll I'll snore like I'll if I. sleep on my back my wife will hit me and. she like you're [ __ ] snoring I'll. turn on my side and I won't snore. anymore and then I added the mouth tape. and I just started doing no THC but just. CBD gummies and my wife too she's a. nurse she's like getting the best. [ __ ] sleep she's ever had our deep. cuz you can see the Deep Sleep on there. I have the eight sleep M mattress too so. I can I can like compare and our deep. sleep is from the CBD for me and the. mouth tape is through the roof she. doesn't the mouth tape but she does the.

she does the CBD and our deep sleep is. [ __ ] is great that's interesting so. like does it give you a score and like. what what is your score that you get so. it will give you like can I pull my. phone out sure yeah yeah yeah like I'll. I posted one the other day so here it is. Jamie's pulled it up here so it shows. you Readiness Readiness uh so uh time to. recover is 44 that's me today for sure. try carefully is 75 and then good day. ahead is 96 this was my one when I wore.

the uh the the mouth tape and the CBD. okay my heart rate was 38 optimal yeah. that's great no that's awesome and like. my and usually my deep sleep doesn't get. um doesn't get as. deep resting heart rate 38 is pretty. [ __ ] low dude yeah especially not for. in Camp B description of what makes it. maybe a little different it says each. person the unique version of normal. rather than your base averages on. impersonal population benchmarks like. hit 10,000 steps Aura gets to know you.

and provides you with personalized. baselines and insights whether your. sleep took a hit after a night out or. you're prioritizing balance in your. Wellness routine Ora helps you reach. your goals by delivering the best 360. degree view of your health I like it and. but can't wear it during MMA practice or. anything like that so I'll take it off. but I was getting almost too caught up. with the with the whoop cuz like you. wake up when you're in a training camp. like you're most likely going to be in. the yellow or the red you know like. you're not always going to be in the. green it's like telling you to take it.

easy it's like I [ __ ] can't take it. easy I have a fight and [ __ ] so you. have to find the balance of knowing like. I actually really feel like [ __ ] or. these things just tell me I feel like. [ __ ] it's really funny that balance. between like especially when someone's. just completely obsessed like I was. listening to this uh or watching this. video where Craig Jones was talking. about when he was training especially. when he was first starting out he was. training every day yeah and he went to a. doctor and the doctor's like you like. might have cancer like you might have a. serious illness what's wrong with your.

body and it really was just that he was. just worn out he was completely. overtrained yeah and with MMA like we. just have so many things we have to. cover like we have to do boxing we have. to do wrestling we have to do Muay Thai. and then I'm biging the like strength. and conditioning so I have to lift I. have to get but that's something I've. gotten better with I lift three days a. week now I have um a strength coach that. works with the with the Eagles his. name's Gabe and he's like we go in we. warm up like we're doing all this [ __ ]. I'm like [ __ ] like I don't want to do. this but now like I love it like it's.

like just getting me more athletic and. it's more just like gpp just keeping me. prepared and just getting me ready for. my MMA sessions and just keeping me. strong like we do trap bar deadlifts um. we do front squats like I don't get. crazy with like like a lot of the lists. I used to do like I used to want to lift. like a [ __ ] powerlifter I'd be. benching and straight bar deadlifts and. back squats I'm like I don't get that's. not what we do you know so why did you. get into that initially was it just for. jiujitsu strength um I started off. lifting before I started MMA so I. started training when I was like 16 but.

I started off lifting at like my local. like Rec Center like just benching every. day and then I really got into lifting. and I would s like I would have the. squat bench deadlift like trying to get. my numbers up and then eventually I kept. hurting my back I was like 21 years old. with a wrecked back so now I just do. trap bar deadlifts no more straight bar. anything like that so um I think the. straight like the straight bar just put. you in like a bad position whereas the. trap bar puts you in like a more natural. position to squat down and lift and you. can still put on some good weight on. there so it does does a job for me yeah.

there's a lot of people that think that. deadlifts are just not worth it yeah the. amount of possibility the possibility of. injuring your back that there's other. ways to like you saw that machine we had. the belt squat machine the best which is. such a great machine for your legs I. mean it just puts all the weight on your. hips you're not compressing your spine. at all yet you can get like big numbers. in yeah you don't have that bar on your. back that's like in Camp we do a lot of. uh the belt squat walks so we'll do. three five minute rounds of we'll put on.

like if I'm fighting I fight at 170 we. put on 170 lbs and we walk for 5 minutes. like just side to side rest one minute. and we do it for three rounds so but by. the end of it you're [ __ ] your hips. are cooked but it's but it's good though. like I don't have that that bar on my on. my back and like you said compressing. you and that's how you that's another. Lou Simmons invention that [ __ ] guy. was a genius the best he was such a. genius that's like the method we do is. like the conjugate so we do a dynamic.

upper Dynamic lower Max effort Max. effort so a lot of SL like we do a lot. of um sled pools backwards forwards so. it's a lot of like the Louie the Louis. stuff it's really good it's interesting. when you see uh Fighters training and. like their strength and conditioning. routines because it's so hard to figure. out what's the optimal balance between. strength work and skill work and then we. were talking about how GSP especially. towards the end of his career all he did. was do skills that's all he did didn't. really do any strength conditioning yeah.

well because if think about like the. foot like NFL like if you go into the. Eagles or the Steelers like they might. have different coaches and small things. they do but almost everything they're. doing is going to be the same like they. have that strength system figured out. MMA guys I know guys who don't work out. at all I know some guys who do. bodybuilding I know guys who do. powerlifting programs so no one has it. like figured out yet to where like maybe. in 10 20 years from now they will but. right now no one's got it figured out so. we're all kind of just trying to see.

what works best yeah I think there's. like the Sam. calavita method which a lot of people. really like I was listening to uh bow. with he's he's a wild man um Sam Sam. does some crazy [ __ ] he does but like. you were saying the um B I think there's. definitely a point of no return where. you go too hard and those workouts like. they kind of start to pull away from all. your skill training because yeah if I. have to recover for [ __ ] four days. from a bike workout I just missed maybe. potentially eight sessions that I could.

have been working on my skill yeah so. and that's something I'm still like I. had to figure out well you know Marv. marinovic who was training BJ Penn when. BJ was the [ __ ] man there was a time. where be like people forget there was a. time when BJ was in his prime where I. would put BJ against any 155 pounder. that ever lived he was a monster and. when he was training with marinovich. they really didn't have him doing any. skill training it was almost all cardio. and Plyometrics and these Dynamic.

sprinting things and their idea was like. BJ already knows how to fight like that. the the problem is the gas tank like. giving him a [ __ ] insane gas tank. where he can go as hard as he wants so. do your drills do your stuff but to but. but to have extensive MMA training. they're like for six weeks or eight. weeks you already know how to fight yeah. just the 6 weeks 8 weeks just we're. going to blow it out with this insane. cardiovascular routine and they got him. in just [ __ ] superhuman shape yeah in.

superhuman shape BJ was scared yeah Sean. sh BJ that knee against cage oh yeah Joe. Stevenson when he beat Joe Stevenson up. that was a he was a monster man did he. move up to 70 before or after that well. he moved up to 70 I think for fun you. know cuz he didn't even really move up. to 70 he just didn't dieet yeah yeah he. just he probably walked down 170 lbs he. was pudgy like he wasn't when he beat. Matt Matt sah or excuse me um Matt. Hughes he wasn't big yeah no Matt Hughes.

was a monster monster monster he had. that farm strength he was Jack he was. [ __ ] strong and now we all walk. around close to 200 lb you know that. wild close to 200 like I cut from fight. week I show up I'm 190 lbs what's the. heaviest you ever get I used to get. heavy like I'd be like 205 but when I. was younger I'd go out after a fight and. celebrate and eat like [ __ ] and drink. now like I don't drink I don't drink. alcohol don't eat bad like I I ate uh.

bad Sunday the day I got home from. Austin with my wife and I felt like a. piece of [ __ ] like I go so hard I'm like. I never want to feel like this again so. now uh like 195 197 is like the heaviest. I'll get that was a big win for you. though you need to stop that was yeah it. was but I I needed it I need to get back. and I got into it but 195 um like 10%. body fat like that's where my Dex scans. at and that's where I feel great like. 195 and then I'll slowly get down to 190. and that's where start my like actual. water cut from so I they weighed me in.

the back at that fight I was 193 right. before I fall Kelvin so really put put. 23 lbs wow that's nuts how bad do you. feel when you step on that scale not. that bad it this last one was my I was. on weight the night before I had um I. had like probably three B like three. liters of water that day before I even. went to sleep soow I woke up I was 178. on Thursday I went to the sauna we went. to like a [ __ ] LA Fitness right by us.

I cut 8 lbs by accident I cut all my. weight I weighed myself in an hour I was. on weight so I hit up I work with. Charles from uh the pi like they're the. best hit him up told him what happened. he was like Hey like gave me the exact. amounts to drink and I was drinking and. eating on Thursday I think I put back on. four lbs I went to the sauna that night. I cut all of it in 30 minutes I was I'm. always on weight the night before I. never ever want to wake up and know I. have to go cut weight cuzz those sweats. are so hard to to break like when your. body Fat's that low to break that first.

sweat like it's [ __ ] hard so I'd like. to get on the night before and just be. done with it there's different schools. of thought some guys like to just have a. good night's sleep because they say they. can't sleep when they're cutting yeah I. feel like you're already like you're. already into that cut though so you're. like if you're going to sleep bad like. you're going to I think you're going to. sleep bad regardless so I just rather. not have that stress of like [ __ ] I got. to wake up and cut I know guys who wake. up they cut 10 15 lbs but that's how we. used to do it when the ways were at 6. :00 cuz you had all that time now.

they're at 9: so I try to sleep till 700. get up and then you have to be over. there by 8 8:30 try to be one of the. first ones on the scale and then just. start hammering those hammering those. liquids back in I wish they would let. people do IVs I feel like if you're. going to allow people to have these. massive Cuts they would have better. performances if you get let them do IVs. we used to [ __ ] like we get hooked up. with the IVs and we'd feel like Superman. like 10 10 lbs. immediately only negative aspect of it.

they say that it can mask performance. enhancing drugs but I think the solution. to that is test the guys like as they're. cutting like test the guys before they. rehydrate test them then so that way you. know like they they're not on if if you. took something then it's not going to. help you in 10 hours guys are definitely. still doing it though they have to be. guys are doing it 100% And now with this. new thing that we're on you think guys. are doing IVs oh 100% really 100% no. [ __ ] yeah cuz if you're if guys are. cheating and getting away cuz guys are.

definitely getting away with taking. peeds there's a way to get away with. like how what are they going to test for. the traces of the plastic in your blood. I think that's it yeah but from what I. heard that we're drinking [ __ ] that has. plastic in it all the time so but how. are you going to know it's an IV that's. a good question you know I was hoping. that with this new thing with usada. being done we were going to be able to. IV but uh I was talking to Charles from. the pi he's like he said like the the. science I don't know behind it but he. was saying it's better early to do it. anyway way like you're better off doing. it with the amount of time we have than.

IV so I'm like hey I get all my weight. back on I can't complain but um why is. it better orally that seems like getting. it right into your bloodstream would be. quicker have you obviously you do IVs so. I I used to like it'd be after cutting. weight so I'd be super bloated. afterwards I mean you get bloated from. drinking your your liquids you have to. put back in anyway but that's the only. thing I'm thinking like maybe it'll just. [ __ ] up your stomach more but I don't. know it's such a weird balance and it's. so interesting when you have something. something like the ufcpi which is like.

super Hightech super scientific they can. tell you how much water to drink and it. used to be guys were just kind of. winging it and and they would [ __ ] it up. one time and get it right the next time. like they give us a sheet cuz I we have. uh Joey Piper fighting December 10th he. has a main event so I'm going to go out. there do all my test my testing and they. give you a sheet like they know how many. calories you burn at Absolute rest like. they know like your body like better. than you do and they give you a sheet. like after you uh weigh in you need. 4,500 calories you need like a th000.

gram of carbs you need like all these. different macros and it's [ __ ] it's. right there like it's do they provide. you I know they do that with some. Fighters they give you like meal prep. yep like what how how are they how are. they doing that so they do it based on. each athlete your weight as far as I. know yeah they um and I've like I've. like hired other nutritionists and stuff. like that but the pi does it great like. it's free for all UFC fighters and if. you're just in contact with them all the. time like I am like they make it so easy. for you and they they hand you your.

meals and they're like listen eat this. eat this eat this and then you should be. good to go like they're taking your. weight they tell you how much water to. drink like they make it pretty easy for. us you know and do they provide you guys. with supplements because I know Thor. Thorn okay so it's all set up for so if. you want all Thorn like now we have an. app that we go on and we can put in um. an order every month that we want so. they do a lot of good [ __ ] for us like. what do you not like what are you not. allowed to take you're allowed take. creatine right creatine okay any.

supplement that's third party test it so. I use this company called allmax they. have some things that are thirdparty. tested and some things that aren't so. all the things that are third party I. think it's inform choice so inform. Choice BSC like I take shroom Tech from. on it you guys have BCG I can take I can. take that um but if it didn't I like you. you can take it but now it's at your own. risk so anything that's third party test. it we're good to go um but I thought. going into this now like we'd be able to.

do more stuff and I like I was asking uh. Jeff about I text Jeff ninski and I was. ask about peptides like I just want to. see like maybe for my hand or any like. just any injuries I'm like are we going. to be allowed to take this and it's an. absolute no yeah I was talking to them. about that too and as well as the new. guy from drug free sport I forget his. name um but uh the guy was taking over. from usada and they were saying no. because peptides you'll get popped for. it at each IND idual commission so if.

you're in Florida and they don't allow. it you test there the Florida commission. will pop you for it yeah cuz I was. asking he said uh even if they didn't. allow he said all the states like they. won't give you it's called a Tue some. kind of exemption and they said none of. them will do it so I'm like all right. well just good to know not to but like. stem cells and stuff like that like as. far as I know like that's all good to go. yeah that's all good to go yeah creatin. protein like all that [ __ ] like you. should there's so many companies now who. have third party test of stuff like you. can take take plenty of stuff fish oil. like and then if you don't want to go.

outside the realm just stay with Thorne. cuz their shit's super high quality and. the UFC gives it all that stuff you for. free yep that's nice yeah so do you ever. do a camp at the pi or do your camps all. in Philly I've done all my camps in. Philly and that's something like that. I'm super like proud and happy about. like I'm born raised in Philly I never. left um we have a small team it's called. Marquez MMA we have like six guys in the. UFC right now we have me Joey Piper Pat. sabatini um Andre Petroski Jeremiah well.

so like we have a a great crew we got a. good we got a good squad we had Paul. Felder um Paul was like the one of the. first guys out of Philly besides I do I. train with Eddie Alvarez so like we we. we have a good uh good group of Philly. guys so that's nice yeah when I um I. fought Christian aguiler and I put him. to sleep with a guillotine Eddie was my. main training partner cuz it was during. Co he was fighting for one FC no one was. training and he hit me up he's like yo. are you guys training I was like [ __ ]. yeah we're training we had all our. Windows like ducked cuz in Philly like. like you weren't like they were shutting. [ __ ] down and but we all had fights so.

we're we're like we're [ __ ] training. so me and Eddie got super close during. that when Cormier fought um Stipe he got. Co during camp and just trained right. through it just kept going I fought um. first time when you interviewed me and. you weren't even in the cage it was when. they were still doing oh that was. ridiculous Jake Matthews I had Co two. weeks before the fight remember that how. crazy that was you just had a [ __ ]. cage fight so you're on top of each. other swe pound on each other everyone's.

tested I'm tested all the announcers are. tested all the referees are tested and. we still couldn't be next to each other. when I interviewed you that was so dumb. so I had Co two weeks before that no. only symptoms I had were I lost my taste. and my smell which that [ __ ] sucks. for food right food and like I love. drinking coffee especially when you're. in Camp and you're cutting weight like. that's the only like thing you really. get to enjoy so um I get to I get the. fight week show up cuz I tested negative. before I got there I L UFC no I get. there I take my first test they and so.

when you were getting tested they would. call you get a text you're good to go to. work all my coaches sitting around me. all got their text at 7:00 a.m. my phone. never goes off I'm like [ __ ] I'm like. something's not right I get a phone call. they're like hey like you tested. positive I'm like I'm like no no no no. no like I had like so I sent them my. results like it was a false it was a. false um false positive so luckily I. sent them all my stuff and let them know. I had Co two weeks ago so like.

everything obviously went through but. like if I didn't do that they would have. canceled my fight right there I was. getting calls from the CDC cuz I was in. Vegas they're telling me um I can't. leave the state like I can't fly home I. was like [ __ ] that I was like I'm fly. I'm driving the next city over and I'm. flying home if I can't fight like I'm. not staying here so yeah that was uh. what a wild time but still it's still. lingering sort of they're trying to. bring it back in some ways I still see. people like in restaurants I saw the. other day I was like server was wearing. a mask I was like okay the best is when.

you're in your car by yourself nuts. you're by yourself wearing a mask. there's no one around you it's insane. yeah these people are just insane yeah. yeah some people just lost their minds I. mean they just broke they broke a fuse. yeah yeah and but hospital is like uh my. wife's an RN and she said they're. they're reinstating the uh Mass mandate. but I think it might be there's flu and. then there's Co and [ __ ] so who it's. just not even scientific that's the. thing it's not even based on science. like you're doing it to make people feel.

better yeah yeah cuz the science doesn't. support Mas use it just doesn't be uh. before the Kelvin fight like three weeks. in um I had lost my taste and my smell. I'm like I definitely have Co I refused. to test myself though I'm like I'm not. testing myself like I'm not doing it. like I trained and I'm like if I because. if I tested myself and if I if I had it. then I'd be like [ __ ] like I feel bad. are they testing anybody anymore no no. no no and I'm like I'm just sick like. I'm just normal like my normal sick like. you can get normal I'm like all I taste. is metal for 3 weeks but I'm like I.

don't know what that is isn't it crazy. though that it feels like normal sick. but because you have this lab on it's. not the same Co anymore it's just not. and they're still treating it like it's. this deadly disease yeah I I don't know. like I knew a few people who got like. you got [ __ ] up but people also get. [ __ ] up from the flu like people get. [ __ ] up from normal normal sicknesses. so like yeah no it never I a friend. who's just in bed for 10 days with the. flu sick as [ __ ] sick as [ __ ] like no. one shut anything down and that was.

that's normal but now like you said. there's CO's attached to that and if you. post about it or you say [ __ ] about it. like these [ __ ] are trying to. come at you and cancel you so like I try. to like on social media you just got uh. kind of got to just sit back and let. these crazy ass people just say their. [ __ ] because there's just so many insane. people on social media they're so insane. and and Co just gives him an excuse to. be a [ __ ] yeah he just gives so many. people an excuse just yell at people. we're starting to get tired of it though. like people like me and you and like. people who want to just go about their.

life and like 2 weeks in I was back to. my normal [ __ ] like I was running I was. doing all my [ __ ] like I thought like we. weren't like I thought it was never. going back like I'm like this is going. to be [ __ ] nuts like I would go to. parks and they'd have the parks closed I. like you're telling me I can't go run a. a wood it Trail by myself there's people. in the then it would start people would. start coming out they all had mask on. I'm like you're in the woods and they. were you were supposed to be 6 fet apart. from each other like what the [ __ ] are. are we doing here it's so silly they. they arrested a guy the Coast Guard got.

a guy who was surfing this dude's on the. Ocean by himself on a [ __ ] surfboard. and the Coast Guard rolls up on is this. a good use of resources folks like uh. let's go buddy you're getting locked the. [ __ ] up so dumb man I'll never forget. how dumb it was it's it's like it's all. kind of normalized now and for sure it. just a couple of years ago everybody had. lost their minds well we look back at. I'm like it's not that long ago our. whole country was just [ __ ] up and now. we're just like it's like it never.

happened I'm like this is crazy well it. it seems always seems more Preposterous. to MMA fighters or Jiu-Jitsu guys or. anybody who does anything that's. actually dangerous yeah you're you're. doing something dangerous all the time. and then all of a and also you're in. Supreme health and condition and then. they ask you to do something ridiculous. y forever y forever stay in your house. for a year like what that's the wor. thing you can do yeah but they don't. want they don't want you to be healthy.

they want you to be fat they want you to. be lazy they they don't want you working. out they don't want you eating right. they definitely want you to comply that. that was the most important thing that. they wanted during that time they wanted. full compliance from people and if they. could scare you into compliance that's. the way they did it it [ __ ] worked. for a lot of people boy it did it scared. the [ __ ] out of me because I was like oh. my God there's so many [ __ ] out here. yeah there's so many people that will. roll over for the government even if. what they're saying doesn't make any. sense even if it's not scientific it's. just really disheartening but they even.

put us like it was almost like a. position where I'm like damn like I I'm. not vaccinated I'm like am I going to. have to get this shot so I can fight I'm. like then it's going to come like do I. retire because I don't want this [ __ ]. shot you know so like I'm like I don't. know what the [ __ ] to do so luckily it. didn't come to that because Choosing My. Career or getting that [ __ ] shot like. I don't know what I would have did but I. almost got the shot the whole UFC uh the. UFC staff they allocated all these uh. vaccines they had had set up and so Dana. and I were talking he goes if you want.

to get vaccinated we have them for I go. great I wasn't even remotely hesitant in. the beginning yeah and just by luck I. get there on Saturday for the fight and. uh I call the the doctor and I say hey. um can you I thought they could do it. for me at the arena so I was going to do. it get vaccinated and just call fights I. mean like how bad could it be I I wasn't. hearing anything bad about it and he. said no we we have to do it at the. clinic can you come on Monday and I I. said I have to go home I go but we'll be. back in two weeks cuz we had fights in.

two weeks yeah and then within two weeks. they pulled it sh up bad that's when. they pulled it when Johnson Johnson one. and then I knew two dudes who got. Strokes two guys it's like I was like. what is going on and so then I started. getting a little weird and then I. started like listening to these doctors. that were speaking out against this. technology and then I I listen to Dr. Robert Malone who he owns nine patents. on the creation of mRNA vaccine Tech ol. and he had a very reaction to the vacc.

and he posted about his reaction and. then I had him on and then people start. getting mad at me this guy's a legit. doctor yeah well my my mom's a nurse too. and um she got her like yearly flu shot. and the chick who gave it to her like. must have gave it to her wrong like. [ __ ] her shoulder up so like she had. like problems in her shoulder and then. it came to the getting the co shot she's. like I'm not getting it and it wasn't. like any like uh like reason like it. wasn't like she didn't know she about Co. at the time she's like I just don't want. to get another shot so they were getting.

tested they made they made a super small. window where they had to be there. whether you had work or if you didn't. have work and you had to get tested like. three times a week or some stupid [ __ ]. like that so they were making it super. hard for the nurses who didn't get. vaccinated to to do their job I'm like. yo these are the people who are saving. these [ __ ] people who are coming in. who are sick and almost all of them get. exposed to it and almost all of them. develop and Immunity natural 100% they. were trying to pretend that natural. immunity was [ __ ] i' I've heard.

people say it recently natural immunity. has been debunked yeah like no it hasn't. there's there's actual studies that show. was multiple times better than the. vaccine yeah yeah when I uh when I faced. Craig Jones in that grappling match my. whole [ __ ] team was sick and at that. point we're like none of us were getting. tested I'm like I'm like dude we. definitely all have Co like but I'm like. I'm not getting tested like I'm not. doing it just cuz I just I feel like. [ __ ] I don't know if I'm run down or. whatever it is but I'm not saying it's. co and I can't go do what I'm going to. do this weekend like I'm not doing it.

when you do something like that like so. you're one of the most promising. welterweight contenders in the sport you. know as your career progresses you'll. probably get a shot at a title within. the next couple of years taking a. grappling match is that's a risky move. especially against a world class guy. like Craig Jones yeah well it's funny. because so only thing Craig couldn't do. in that match he couldn't heal hook me. but he could uh straighten bar me. straight ankle lock me anything besides.

heel hooks so after the match like. people is that your idea no that was. that's the UFC's so Fury was working. with the UFC and they're like the UFC. told them like hey all UFC guys just. know heel hooks even like Alo just did. that match for them and the only thing. they couldn't do was no heel hooks so I. mean just because of the likeing yeah. but like a leg Locker like Craig or. anyone else like you still have all. those other submissions you can do so. it's not like you're getting handicapped. that [ __ ] bad where like people are. giving me [ __ ] online like oh you had to. handicap him this and that I'm like I. was like I'm a UFC fighter like this was.

the rules I didn't like he you didn't. make the rules you could knee bar me you. could straight ankle lock me you could. do all these other things so you could. tow hold me but yeah but I like that. they don't do the heel hooks yeah it is. a risky one man I mean how many guys. have ripped their knee apart he looks oh. yeah it's bad a lot a lot did you see. that Mikey musi one in one FC where the. guy wouldn't tap horrible horrible oh. dude I can't watch that one he ripped. that guy's knee apart I don't know how. that guy's doing right now he's probably.

not doing well I I got to imagine his. knee is ruined for the rest of his life. was it um see see if you can find that. video because it's so hard to watch cuz. Mike we were talking about Mikey before. yeah cuz he's calling out some dude. who's a bully yeah dude he destroys this. guy's knee I mean destroys it the guy. won't tap he's got him in a knee bar. here the guy won't tap so now he adjusts. and now he's ripping it sideways I mean. look at the guy's knee look look at the. motion of his oh godamn so you see you.

see the way he's you see the way he's. holding that he calls that the uhe the. Mikey lock and um the guys I train with. at movement art they show it and dude. it's nasty he's a monster man he's so. good yeah I heard he does very well. against all the biggest like even guys. who are a lot bigger than him oh I'm. sure he's so technical well we were just. talking about Craig how about Craig. versus uh Vinnie oh yeah he broke his. leg broke his leg and Vinnie went tap. I'm like bro his leg and Craig's like.

your leg your leg is and then he went. again and then he finally was like all. right I'm done I'm done like insane but. yeah I did that match with Craig and I. did another one with uh Ben Saunders and. it was the same thing same rules just no. no uh no heel hooks so yeah but beating. Craig Jones in a grappling match even if. there's no heals dude that was gigantic. I just went into it I'm like I'm going. to stay on top I played by the rules and. I'm like if he doesn't sweep me or get. under me like I'm gonna win and then. like he there was odds for it I was like. a like he was I was like an like a 18.

to1 Underdog or something like that he. was supposed to smoke me which he should. have but like people were giving me [ __ ]. online like you didn't I'm like listen. like I just went in there and just did. what I knew I was going to do and that. and that was it oh so this is what the. guy would happen with the dude torn ACL. torn MCL torn meniscus and a broken. ankle oh my God so Mikey said I'm really. sick to my stomach I never felt. someone's leg explode like that in a. match oh my God he goes I've been. training for 22 years I never broke.

someone's leg that much I've broken a. lot of legs he said but that leg. exploded I didn't know what to do and it. was disgusting and gross I really wish. he tapped the result didn't change and. now he's in the hospital so I don't know. but what a warrior is for showing his. will I mean it is the dude is a warrior. but I mean that's crazy you got to tap. you're you're losing anyway for for sure. tap anything knees shoulders like I'd. rather almost nut tap maybe in like if. I'm going to pick something it'd be like.

an arm bar straight arm bar where's the. elbow a cur like your shoulder your not. just the shoulder but that spiral. fracture like when Frank Mir gave it to. minaro and you see his arm snap just. like a chicken wing oh that guy done oh. that one so scary and minaro they he had. a giant scar up his arm where was like. it was a spiral fracture when he uh when. he rolled through the way he did it was. it was beautiful though he turned it and. put behind his back oh done God. Frank Mir has broken two arms of World. Champions who else did he do Tim Sylvia.

remember that snapped his forearm in. half he was dude he was good I was just. watching him versus DC the other day. when I'm on the Echo Bike I always just. watch fights and I was watching uh him. versus DC and I'm like damn DC was a. [ __ ] back in the day dude and he. was not even really a heavyweight no I. mean d he so small DC could have been a. 185 you're so small yeah look at him. look at him I mean he carried around so. much body FB but his wrestling was so. [ __ ] high level man and he's such a.

tank the uh outside like high crotches. he would hit when he dumps the dudes. yeah no DC was the man and he was. actually hurting Frank on the I I don't. think there was one takedown scored on. like either side here I think they just. struck the whole time but like DC kind. of just just put it on them DC was an. animal man yeah and you know that was. one of those things you know iron. sharpens iron cuz DC was training with c. with Kane was the [ __ ] man Kane was.

that's another guy like when people look. at alltime greats you got to look at. them when they're in their crime yeah. you know sometimes guys get injured they. fall apart things happen they they get. old and then you looking at these fights. where they're getting beaten up you. can't look at those fights you got to. look at the fights like when they were. at their highest RPMs how did they. perform Anderson same thing like guys. who are watching fights now I'm like you. guys don't I remember it was they were. came to Philly it was Anderson vers is. uh Forest Griffin like that's when I. first got like in the watching fights I.

think it was. 2009 and he did that like step back and. [ __ ] was dipping the punches and they. hit him once and Forest just quit I'm. like this guy's a [ __ ] he's the best. like and he moved up to 205 for that I. heard that Forest though got knocked out. twice in Camp yeah for that fight that's. what I had heard oh and happens all the. time and I think it that's true because. I think Forest at that time was uh you. know Forest is look at it's like he like.

he wanted to help him Jesus right here. he's just like it was just complete. level like ran out of the uh the arena. yeah it's that that. right-handed that's it far as like. that's but I I I genuinely think. genuinely think that those concussions. that he got in Camp had an effect yeah. there's quite a few times where you see. guys fight and you're like man. something's wrong like that guy got. knocked out too easy and then you'll. hear oh he got knocked out in training. two weeks ago and and that and even if.

you don't get knocked out like you're. [ __ ] getting hit in your head you. might not be going out but like I. definitely left practice before and I'm. like damn like I'm fuzzy you know like. guys are definitely and like we're. pretty controlled like I only go with. guys I trust too like and that's. something I think a lot you have to do. like guys I only TR I'm like don't like. yeah injuries can happen but I'm not I'm. not going to try to knock you out you're. not going to try to knock me out and you. that's how like a small team like our. team like all of us came up in the same.

gym like we all we only have like we. have one head coach we just brought in. like Dean I'm working with Dean Thomas. now but like I love Dean the best he. comes he's coming down to Philly all the. time he was in my corner for that fight. and uh great addition to the team but he. loves our team cuz we're a small team. but we just [ __ ] we just grind and we. just want everyone to keep getting. better but um John Marquez is our head. coach and like we go hard but now like. if it gets out of control like he steps. right in and shuts that [ __ ] down um. we're we're all wearing headgear now I.

got this uh I [ __ ] hate headgear. though cuz I just feel like you get hit. more right so I got a headgear from Onyx. and it's the small one and it's it's. thin you can actually see like Trevor. Whitman's yep I hit I hit them up and. they sent it right out to me and it's. good like cuz you can grapple with it he. makes the best [ __ ] best [ __ ] the best. [ __ ] the best gloves they sent me gloves. and I was like yo can I get your MMA. gloves like I'll pay whatever cost and. gatei was like nah they're not they're. not out yet I'm like all right well when. they're out dude the UFC I don't know. what happened I don't know how it went.

wrong but the UFC was talking to Trevor. about using his MMA gloves he has. absolutely Superior MMA gloves they're. the best no one even comes close and. when you make a fist with those it. actually it encourages a closed fist you. have to work to to open your hands like. this you have to actually work against. the glove whereas the UFC gloves they. kind of open your hand up more and you. have to work to close it the arm like. you you [ __ ] know that arm pump we.

get from when I put like I get the. smallest hand wraps like I tell. whoever's I'm like give me a Grappler. wrap like I almost want nothing because. once you have that wrap on you have the. glove on like when you're trying to. close your fist I'm like I'm getting. [ __ ] arm pumped just from trying to. close my [ __ ] hands after the fight. like your like my forearms are like. double the size cuz the arm pump you. have from grappling so there's got to be. like there's got to be telling you it's. Trevor's gloves I mean I should probably. reinstitute these talks and try to get.

it going again I really should you know. what I'm going to do that because. they're Superior they're absolutely the. best it's a problem it's a it's a. problem for I don't know what happened. what went wrong but Trevor uses Superior. foam like he like if you use his boxing. I have them the best they M they mold to. your hand they're the best they mold to. your hand and it's also there superior. protection too like he'll show like he's. done demonstrations where he shows how. much better the foam he to other cheaper. phones because it's Fighters making stu. for Fighters it's not people who aren't.

doing it like G is the best one to do it. and then obviously Trevor too like. they're an amazing combo and they're. making amazing [ __ ] like the headgear is. great cuz headgears like your windows. this big next thing you know like you're. trying to kickbox and you can't see the. guy's legs you're getting [ __ ] kicked. in the head and uh you're trying to. shoot you're shooting into a knee but. his like super wide and it's so thin and. you're really just wearing it to prevent. Cuts cuz like realistically if you have. a big ass headgear on like when I see. someone wearing a headgear I'm like I'm. like that's a bigger [ __ ] Target like.

it's going to be easier to hit but with. a small one it's just enough padn to. just enough to keep you safe remember. Mike Tyson back in the day he used to. wore the real thin one real thin one. when he was training it was almost like. it was almost like a like a wrestling. like head gear yeah yeah I think that's. uh the way to go and I think that that. you know it's it's just unfortunate that. there's no other way around it there's. nothing better yeah you know there's no. like better solution if you want to. prevent Cuts kicking and punching I I do. not like like when people have the face.

bar and this like you can't see I wore. that um for a while like I broke it I've. broke my nose so many times but in the. beginning of training camps like I've. like broke my nose so you have to spar. the entire C with that nose guard and it. [ __ ] sucks and it still touches your. nose and you probably get [ __ ] up more. with it on like definitely get more head. shots oh yeah you head gear yeah you. can't see [ __ ] and that bar it sticks. out like this far so that bar gets. touched and it would touch your nose so.

I would even wear um like you see. basketball players like the one. basketball player always wore it I. forget what his name was but I would. wear this plastic shield on my face even. when I would roll cuz my nose would be. [ __ ] up I'm like I can't miss training. and that's like what we were talking. about earlier I'm like maybe I should. stay the [ __ ] home but I'd be in the gy. I was duct taping it to my head and [ __ ]. but um yeah it's it's getting better. with the Innovation but we got a long. way to go though so uh you were telling. me that you had hurt your hand in the. Kelvin fight but it's not a break so. it's just you're just trying to like Let.

It rehab or recover so I'm trying to and. that's like me trying to be smart a. little bit at my older age of 31 there. I'm just trying to let it heal and um. before I get back I I just don't want to. start another training camp with an. injury whereas before I would do that. but um yeah I'm just trying to be smart. like maybe get some get some stem cells. and like some [ __ ] like that and just. take and just rest it let me see if Bram. came got back to me. uh not yet I'll call him I'll call him. when we get out of here but I I think we. can get in there but yeah just just rest.

and rest but I can still I can still. work on my kicks I can still punch and. so yeah you were always getting in. training yeah yeah yeah that was a big. win for you man Kelvin I I really think. and I I I've said this to Kelvin I this. is back when he was fighting at 85 after. he knocked out Bisping I was like dude I. think you're a world champion in 170 I. really do this is years ago he just. didn't want to make that weight cut and. he's not a big guy he's not big man he's. not he's not even big for one no he's.

not guys like Philly you know like yeah. like even like when I grabbed him like I. was like oh these are like the easiest. takedowns like I've ever got in my life. like I couldn't believe how easy it was. to get him down and even when I wrapped. around his legs he had he has a big like. framed upper body but his legs like I. lock under his butt they're and it was. so easy to take them down and um yeah. like like I was saying to you earlier I. walk around 195 200 like most guys like. we're not like I think he's better off. at middleweight cuz I think he found a.

niche where he was a lot faster than a. lot of those guys so like BisMan he was. like in and out on them Tim Ken like all. these guys he was [ __ ] up with his. hands he was just a lot faster then well. the Tim Kennedy fight I know for sure. for a fact that Tim Kennedy overtrained. yeah and that that's what because Tim. Kennedy who's known for his cardio. gassed out in that fight and I watched. that fight a million times studying it's. the fight sucks cuz Tim's a friend. know how good he is he beat bis like.

Kenedy was aing monster he uh but yeah. and he just he did went through two. camps in a row yeah and it's almost like. in our minds we think always we always. think more is better and when I I'll. take a day off now or even just a. session like a night session and I'll. come in the next day and I'm like and. you want to get after it more like it. gives you that like like I [ __ ] can't. wait to get back in there and then you. feel fresh when you go into that like. we'll train till 8:30 9:00 at night and. then we have practice at 9:30 the next.

morning so like you're at the gym you go. home you sleep you're right back at the. gy like I'm I do the same drive from my. house to the gym so like I just I could. close my eyes and drive there cuz like. I'm there all day [ __ ] long but when. you have those little breaks in between. you go back in you're like all right. like I can't wait to [ __ ] get back in. here yeah that was interesting talking. to Bo nickel about that because B takes. two days off a week yeah and I listen to. that yeah I I was like why do you do. that and he's like just it's the right. way to do it like Sundays are are my day.

like i'. like like I try to do nothing like not. live like if I'll go on like a long walk. or like walk my dog or run my dog or. something like that but I tried no no. training on Sunday regard this but I. think two days is probably like the way. to go or even like Thursday like I'll do. a Jiu-Jitsu session in the morning and. take the rest of the day off and that'll. be like a lighter day or something like. that cuz we're doing so like I've. counted my sessions and by the end of it. including like every workout I do I'm at. like 22 or 23 workouts in a week like so.

insane there's no other sport like nuts. it's nuts and then we start like I'm. eating like 3,000 calories 2700 25 and. I'm cutting my calories down like and. you're still and we still in our minds. we like we have to keep that same that. same workload or ramp it up even more. cuz when you're in Camp you're trying to. you're going a little bit harder so it's. a [ __ ] it's got to [ __ ] with. your mind right yeah especially when. you're cutting the calories down oh yeah. cuz you're like damn like I'm supposed.

to feel this way and I [ __ ] feel like. [ __ ] yeah you know and you know fights. four weeks out three weeks out two weeks. out and then if you miss a session. that's where you're like like oh [ __ ]. like he's [ __ ] training you know and. I'm not [ __ ] training so that but. that's where you got to be like like I'm. I'm recovering like you trust the. process I have the sauna I have the ice. I have the like normant Tech boots like. I have all this things but even just. like sleep like I'm in bed in training. camp like no later than 9:30 I have like. 9:30 at night I'm asleep and I'm up at.

6:00 like no matter what my schedule is. like I'm [ __ ] on that [ __ ] and that's. the best like sleep is the number one. thing you can do 100% yeah that's the. superpower Tito Ortiz used to sleep 12. hours a night I wish I could sleep 12. hours night yeah he would [ __ ] close. all the windows the shades make the room. dark as [ __ ] and just conch out all. night I think like seven like 8 hours is. like I minimum seven like seven to nine. but if I get like eight hours like I. feel like that's like the sweet spot for.

me like I feel I feel good like it is. interesting that this sport which is. relatively recent right the the UFC. didn't even exist before 1993 and yet. guys you know here in 2024 are still. kind of just dialing it in and there's. no there's no like a stablished protocol. that everyone uses everyone's got their. own kind of methods that are using. different individual coaches yeah well. even like like I know guys who are. highle fighters who don't know dick.

about nutrition don't know dick about. nutrition recovery nothing I'm like and. they're just like just naturally. talented and I'm like man like these. guys don't even know like yeah so it's. it is crazy it's going to be crazy to. see where it goes but um like you were. saying about Tim though I hit up Tim. before I was coming out here and before. my my hand was hurting me too much I was. going to try to work out with him. because he does some [ __ ] hard ass. workouts and I love that [ __ ] so he told. me he was traveling but um I'm going to. come back and like train with Gordon and.

train with Tim and cuz Tim's a. [ __ ] he's a Savage bro he does. some animal [ __ ] is those his cardio. obessions legendary on the like the ski. herbs and I love that [ __ ] it'd be super. fun to to get in on that and the guy is. not even fighting anymore he's still in. [ __ ] tip Topo shape yeah he's an. animal he's jacked yeah and that that. fight always bothered me that Kelvin. fight because I I knew what was wrong. with him knew he had he had had a fight. uh he went into camp and then the the. fight got cancelled and then it got.

rescheduled he either got rescheduled or. got a new opponent I remember which. happened but then he went right back. into Camp so he essentially in Camp for. like probably 16 weeks yeah something. something nuts where you can't you just. can't do that your body's going to break. down and then you're cut in weight and. then you have to gain the weight back. cuz you don't want to stay too low like. that's that's where it starts to get. like like this is [ __ ] up like I need. to let my body like my body recover like. there's some guys where I look at them. and I'm like how are you making like Joe.

how are you making 185 Joe pyer yeah. he's big boy how you makeing 185 big boy. that doesn't even make sense he's so big. yeah he uh he's so [ __ ] big man he. gets like 25 220 that's it yeah no he. doesn't get that bigger than that yeah. he doesn't get that big 2 no no no yeah. he does he does when he's in the Octagon. heavy yeah he um but like 215 220 for. him he's got a big fight coming up he's. fighting uh Hermanson that's right at. the main event yeah that's a good fight. for yeah that's a good fight that.

[ __ ] hits so hard we should tell. everybody that he broke Francis and. gano's record on that punch machine and. they weren't trying to give it to him or. something like that the guy they want to. register which is I don't understand why. I've trained and want to give it I don't. know the guy was saying like something. was weird with the machine and Joey was. like I he did it like three times like. three times in a row oh so the guy. didn't want to believe it yeah yeah he. didn't believe that it was real like how. hard Joey was hitting it like Joey Joey. cracks he's by far the hardest person.

I've ever been hit by who was his last. fight who was his last fight um. Abdul holy [ __ ] he submitted him yeah. but bro he was putting it on him before. that he's on another level right now Jo. good he's on another but it's there's a. real clear difference every time you see. him in the Octagon he's just getting. better like at a high accelerated rate. like I said me him Jeremiah Andre. petros's another one like dude we have a.

[ __ ] we have a good squad and we just. it's a small small gym in Philly we're. on a [ __ ] fourth floor and like an. old warehouse and uh and a pretty bad. neighborhood in Philly so but it's. awesome like well there's like a there's. two schools of thought right there's one. school of thought you should be in the. biggest Camp possible like ATT they're. bringing in people but you know I've. talked to guys that train there and go. yeah but then you're in these sparring. sessions with these Russian guys you've. never heard of and [ __ ] straight up. killers and that's the crazy we're. starting to get in like we have a good. group of Russian guys coming in I have.

this kid eigor he's like my main. training partner I think he's four and0. kid came over as a refugee from Ukraine. he's one of the he's a [ __ ] Savage. dude he got carjacked in Philly whoa bro. if I don't know if Jamie can go on my. Instagram it's pinned to the top he was. delivering for Uber Eats and um guy two. guys came up to him they showed him his. gun and he didn't know what was going on. he getss he walks over to his car. they're [ __ ] stealing his car he's. hanging on the side of the car they're. going 40 m an hour they shoot at him two. times oh my God they shot at him while.

he was hanging shot at him two times. yeah oh my God how did he get out of. this on street they point a gun at him. right here and then he's like all right. let me off let the dude told him like. I'm going to [ __ ] shoot you and he. finally gets off like um Jesus in the. beginning of the video you can hear him. he get shot at [ __ ] who's filming. this so uh just some dude in a car. behind him did they ever find the car no. they didn't so we actually started a uh.

I started a GoFundMe for him and I. raised like 15 grand for him and he got. a new car oh wow but yeah like they they. shoot at him and what people like don't. realize he's hanging on this car they're. like oh why won't he just let it go his. documents are all in the car so like all. the money these guys have to pay for. lawyers and [ __ ] like that um yeah all. of his [ __ ] was in his car and he just. came from practice and was [ __ ] doing. Uber Eats so like he doesn't have any. money to [ __ ] pay these lawyers and. [ __ ] wow crazy but Philly's wild right.

now yeah Philly's Philly's wild Phil I I. carry everywhere I go in Philly I do um. I'll not [ __ ] around but his best. friend's um yav am yav from um Bellator. I don't know how to say his last name. he's going to come over and train with. us too so like we like I brought in Drew. Dober my last Camp um so we have Neil. Magny come in Eric Anders was just up so. like our Gym's starting to get. recognized which is cool aome yeah yeah. yeah so it's it's cool well I mean for a. small gym you got six guys fighting in. the UFC and a bunch of [ __ ] real. killers yeah so it's cool we have.

amazing yeah it's and uh we got like. Pat's fighting in AC Andre's fighting in. AC so we'll all be on like kind of like. like fighting around the same times. which there's nothing better than that. like when your teammates are fighting. and you're in Camp sucks being in Camp. when you're by like by yourself you're. like [ __ ] when you went to the Bala. fight were you were you 13 and0 14 and0. 15 and0 wow yeah 15 and0 that's a bitter. pill to swallow right yeah it it sucked. like it was the like I thought it was. going to be the worst thing that ever. happened to me and I kind of going into.

that like I just didn't feel right like. travel at first time I've ever left the. country like I've never been outside of. the United States travel there all my. coaches were getting sick they were all. like super jet lagged and um all week I. just kept having these like like thought. I'm like I'm like I'm going to lose this. [ __ ] fight and uh usually like you. have those thoughts but I couldn't I. couldn't like flip my mind back to like. yo you're going to win this [ __ ] cuz you. always have doubts but I would having I. was having dreams I was going to lose. and I'm like dude like I can't get this.

out of my head and I told my wife like. the day before I'm like I was like I had. a dream last night I lost and um I. thought when I lost like I thought being. undefeated like it gets tied to you. everyone sees you they're like you're. going to [ __ ] be the champion you're. going to stay undefeated you're going to. and like then you become like you're. like damn like I'm not even fighting to. win this fight I'm just fighting just to. stay undefeated if that makes sense like. I'm like I can't lose this record and. then uh in the fight first round like it. was real like it was super competitive I. went back and watched it and I I thought.

I did a lot better than I thought I did. and then in the second like I got. clipped and I was like there the entire. time but I just I just couldn't throw. I'm like I was just like I just kind of. quit like I was like I I I just didn't. know what to do in that moment and um. that's the only time I ever quited. myself like practice anything and uh. ever since then like I started working. with uh two mental performance coaches. and I'm just like a completely different. person now but it's the best thing that. ever happened to me that's a lot of. times Fighters say that it's like you.

need to feel a sting of defeat the I'm. telling you Joe the minute I lost it. felt like like a [ __ ] like a Bronco. was lifted off my shoulders like I was. so like I was like yo like this is going. to be this is going to be the best thing. that ever happened to me because the. just the pressure of being undefeated. Let It Go like every time like I was. going to a fight I'm like I had the. pressure of not only just losing and. what comes with losing but I'm like if I. lose my record like no one like it's. it's over and then I'm like it's one. [ __ ] fight like I've won 15 fights in.

a row I lost one fight like it's not how. it works and I just thought like I just. thought like my life was going to like. implode and it didn't you know um I had. a hard like I said I came home and I. definitely trained way too hard because. I wanted to come back and fight again. and I [ __ ] myself up doing that but. that even gave me more time to sit and. reflect with myself and just get my [ __ ]. right and realize like like it's not. it's not it doesn't mean everything to. be undefeated like the best fighters in. the world take losses and um yeah I I.

needed that for sure yeah the only one. who did is John Jon Jones the only. didn't but if K if he would have stuck. around long enough you know um so you. never he had a couple close ones close. one with glazon tbal Glon tbal is very. debatable I watch that back watch it. again yeah very close but we're all it's. you have a 50% chance of going you're. going to win or you're going to lose and. when you're fighting the best guys in. the world like B's like I know I can. beat Bal but I'm happy for him to he. went on he beat Gilbert he's going to. fight for the belt next and I is that.

established is he definitely fighting. for the belt next they haven't announced. it but there's nobody else no uh I would. hope nobody Le he deserves he deserves. it 100% he's beaten the most guys in the. top 10 you know he I think he's on a 10. fight win streak yeah he deserves it. yeah and um I think he has a good chance. of doing also fought before and he got. IED so it's it's it's there for him like. he deserves it and he should get it and. I'm happy for him he [ __ ] I don't. know why he gets so much hate like he's.

not he's not a he's not a bad dude he. trains [ __ ] hard and um he won't even. swear yeah you know when he was in here. I'm [ __ ] cursing a million times I. did too but he would say what the fudge. he says like what the fudge I like. you're a goddamn cage fighter yeah he. gets a lot of a lot of hate but I'm. happy for him and that's going to be a. good uh that's going to be a good fight. he's a big guy for 170 man yeah bal's. very large yeah yeah you know he's not a. small 170 at all no it's going to be. that's going to be a good fight very. good fight I uh I wasn't super like I.

wasn't super impressed with that uh. kobby Leon fight you weren't no. definitely not on Kobe side no not on. Kobe side I was impressed with Leon I. want the I want the Kobe fight I think. that the problem in that Kobe fight is. Leon he was so dangerous he was so sharp. yeah he he's so technical on his feet. and I think in that fight he was you. know cuz Kobe Fed so much [ __ ] I think. he was [ __ ] with his dad was [ __ ] up. like you don't uh like say whatever you.

want about me my team whatever but like. you start talking about people's like. their parents their wives their kids. especially if one of them's dead like. you're a [ __ ] like that [ __ ] you get. [ __ ] up in the parking lot for like. you don't do [ __ ] like that you know. what I'm saying so well you know that's. kobby he's the master getting under. people's skin but I think in that fight. a backfired yeah and he looked like I. was watching I'm like what the like I. didn't know what was happening with him. like he just wasn't doing anything no he. didn't look good um and then Leon shot. on him was like I think he want to just. make a point like I can take you down.

and um no Leon's [ __ ] good yeah his. grappl is very good Leon's good but it. almost he he got reversed a couple times. and those so he shot and then Kobe kind. of switched it up top yeah well I think. that was where the Tactical errors were. made and you know that's what I was. critiquing at the fight I was like I. don't think he fought the smartest way. cuz I think he could have avoided those. exchanges and he had this massive. Vantage in the stand up super clean like. he would have came out of that fight. like unscaved if he if he didn't do that.

but um yeah theis still won the fight. but at the end of the fight when Kobe's. on top of him at the very end of the. fight that doesn't look good no no. that's you know he won 100% he look. great and on the feet man he is so sharp. his South ball is um is really [ __ ]. good he's sharp as [ __ ] no he's good and. he's long he's big too we're all [ __ ]. all 70 Pounders are big yeah there's the. day of the 70 pounder walking around at. 70 those are gone long gone 55 Paul used. to get up to 200 lb when he'd fight at.

55 I would like dude he' like I weigh. 203 right now I be bro you're 8 PBS. heavier than me like but he'd be like. fat like he'd be drinking ipas and like. after he would fight he would get huge. like Patty pimpl fat not that fat that. boy is fat he got fat so quick you see. him in December after his fight his face. it he just goes on I'm like dude like. you're going to a different but we have. like Fighters have [ __ ] eating. disorders like we 100% all have Eating.

Disorders cuz you're eating this way and. then you're cutting out food and then. you're craving all these foods like it's. a [ __ ] it's a it's a wild wild way to. live but yeah there there's Patty now. look at him look all fat and happy look. how tight that shirt is on him he is. it's so crazy how much weight he gains. it's so nuts cuz he was shredded during. that fight yeah he uh he gets big he. does gets big you know he got a lot of. [ __ ] from that Tony Ferguson fight but I. was very impressed I was very impressed. with his grappling I was impressed with.

his striking I think everything looked. better and at the end of the day he won. the fight like he found a way to win he. definitely the third round got a little. sketchy but he found a way to win like. yeah but people saying that he didn't. look good and it's just I thought I. thought he looked great you know Tony. Ferguson is still dangerous he's still. dangerous I mean he was dangerous in the. gatei fight until gatei started beating. him up he was you know dangerous in the. Chandler fight yeah like he's still. [ __ ] I don't think people realize. like you go in there and you have 15.

minutes and you could have woke up that. day had the [ __ ] worst headache like. you could feel like [ __ ] or it just. could not be your night you know so. that's why like in that moment you have. to make the the best of it but some days. just it's just not your day you know. what I'm saying and but in the gym like. you get that day you get to go back the. next day but a guy like Tony like at. what point does someone step in now you. think yeah it has to be it's what six or. seven fights I think it's seven in a row. yeah yeah and he's not and it's not like.

if you would have won that fight I would. still liked to see like I me and my. buddy I was cheering Tony Tony and I. anytime he would do anything just cuz I. [ __ ] love Tony Ferguson but it's time. like yeah think so and uh like it was. awesome like having goggin there and all. that [ __ ] but like like just hang it up. like you're just doing more damage you. know I also don't know what he's doing. in train training like the goggin stuff. is great and everything like that but. who is he sparring with is he sparring. you know is he are you doing skill work.

yeah I don't know what he's doing like. if you're going to do this [ __ ] with. goggin like do that outside of training. camp do that like when you don't have a. fight build you build up that aerobic. capacity when you're not getting ready. for a fight like I'm sure he was but it. kind of seems like he always just did. whatever he wanted to do you know like. well it worked for a long time when he. was the Boogey Man he was [ __ ]. everybody up those chokes that he was. hitting on people the dares. yep Bara fight he would lock that [ __ ]. on you and you were done Cowboy he was.

cutting Cowboy Up Pettis he was [ __ ]. people up Tony was a a real scary man. for many many years then he tripped on. one cord and it all changed isn't that. [ __ ] crazy getting ready for the. khabib fight Madison Square Garden trip. on a massive fight and trips over Court. just blows his knee out doesn't make any. sense and then he came back from that. super fast beat Pettis yeah he won after. that oh he beat Pettis after beat [ __ ]. out p i remember I remember the fight he. beat the [ __ ] out of Pettis but I didn't. know I didn't know if that was before or.

after that was after that was his. comeback F cuz Pettis was kicking the. [ __ ] out of that leg and it was only if. I want to remember correctly five months. or so after five or seven months it was. short very quick [ __ ] short and I. don't know [ __ ] about niece but I know. that sounds very short it was. ridiculously short when I talked to. people that knew about that surgery and. knew about like how bad his knee was. yeah and he did his own rehab of course. yeah he's just amaz yeah but he was the.

man but I think uh I think it's that. time like Father Time wins all fights. yeah yeah like him it was nice to see. Cowboy be done when he was done cuz like. I was telling you earlier being at cow. when cowboy was on he I think he was the. best fighter in the [ __ ] world he was. so goddamn good and um he would [ __ ] us. all up down to the ran like me jonovan. web Paul he would be be the [ __ ] out of. everybody and then uh yeah like even Jim. Miller like I remember him head kicking. Jim Miller when they first fought in AC.

knocked him out and then his last fight. was Jim Miller and Jim got the best of. them so it's like all right it's time to. yeah at a certain point time but he knew. like he knew but look at him now he's. [ __ ] all saw stuff he's [ __ ] he. looks great he's ja I love it dude he. looks got a hair transplant he looks and. that's another thing I think F like I. just did uh I started working with mer. health I just did all my blood work last. week so I'm waiting for that just to. like see where we're at like after. fights you know so like check my. testosterone just check check all my.

[ __ ] I'm trying to like really like dial. all that [ __ ] in and a lot of guys don't. do that you know well I think if you. want to compete against the best of the. best you got to cross all your teas and. Dot all your eyes you got to make sure. every every all your ducks are in a row. and the difference between the guys who. are just super talented who don't take. care of nutrition and still perform at a. very high level and the guys who are. also talented like your but dialed. everything that's how Mak difference. yeah cuz even when I'm done fighting. like I'm going right into jiujitsu like.

I can't wait to compe Jitsu like that's. going to be like so fun because noi's. getting so [ __ ] big now and like you. got guys like Vagner he's like 45 years. old still competing and winning so I'm. super excited to get into that too you. know but I got I got a lot more fighting. in me that's you think when you stop. fighting MMA you'll compete in Jiu-Jitsu. oh that's all that's what I want to do. yeah and I obviously like I want to open. a gymm one day but I want to compete. just straight Jiu Jitsu like no ghee I. did ghee for 10 years so I did ghee for.

a long time I haven't done it in a while. because like I get feel to a certain. point like it's like all right like I've. done this I'll pick it up when I'm done. for sure but um I love just hard like. noi like I love it it's so [ __ ] fun. to me and it's getting so big like these. guys are ADCC it's at the T-Mobile next. next year so that's like Gordon and he's. the [ __ ] best but um at the last one. that they did AC in Vegas and it was an. enormous Place yeah like and like it. like you said it's getting huge I didn't.

realize he was sitting next to you at. the fights when I was talking to you. he's the man I was going to train with. him this week I can't wait to train with. him though but I remember seeing those. guys back at henzo because I was going. up to henzo a couple times a week. training in the blue basement and I see. like Gordon and Craig when they were all. still together and they were Savages. back then and they're still [ __ ]. doing it it's crazy yeah he's completely. extraordinary when you look at a guy. who's 28 years old he's universally. accepted as the greatest ever next next. nuts he's next level and that. [ __ ] doesn't take a day off yeah.

yeah crazy no days off crazy 365 days a. year they're training they're working on. something and I'm sure they're training. hard training hard and working on skills. and they watch tape and they break. technique down it's not just like ah. good enough go home it's very systematic. and that John Donner having that guy as. your coach what a [ __ ] cheat code. that is I've seen the room it would be. like John Gordon GSP will be in there. I'm like dude this room is [ __ ] is. crazy that like the people that they.

would have in there so you're only for. you're going to get better regardless. you know uh I remember seeing gsp's. Corner it'd be like John Donair frosta. hobi Greg Jackson back when he would. fight like he was so ahead of his time. like with like doing [ __ ] like that like. yeah there's I think gsp's he's like my. like goat of of MMA just a way like. being a true martial artist like even. how is now like guys when they're done. they get fat they're done training like. they're once they're done fighting like. they're like they're done he like still.

trains he probably looks better now than. he did back then so I'm trying to I'm. trying to follow I'm trying to follow. that for sure he keeps coming down here. to train I see him in Austin all the. time he's here all the time I'm like I'm. surprised he doesn't move down here he. just comes down to train I think he. likes Montreal yeah I don't yeah that. gym kind of uh trar was the [ __ ] for a. while I haven't heard like too many guys. coming out of there I just feel like. there's there's so many gyms now there's. so many more gyms like but it was GSP. they had Rory McDonald Rory was Rory was.

a [ __ ] I remember watching him. in his prime when I was young I'm like. this [ __ ] guy is great he he was. pretty [ __ ] sharp he was very very. couple of those uh Wars though with um L. definitely uh shortened his career it. was very nice seeing Robbie go out like. that yeah yeah that was beautiful yeah. it was uh barbarina right no it was um. who [ __ ] I thought it was Brian. barbarino. no God damn it so the tip of my tongue.

I'm looking at his face right now I. can't pull up n Price N price niik price. tough dude and niiko price is [ __ ]. he's got some crazy Knockouts and sub do. that dud a dog but Robbie went out right. like he went out in a win like that's. got a feel beautiful win first round. knockout didn't even get hit yeah. everybody went crazy that's got to feel. good we played this video it was yeah. for a guy like him and he's still he's. one like the main guys down at Kil Cliff. like he's still he's like coaching.

that's great to see too like it is cuz. when a guy like that if he's done he. leaves the gym like a part of like like. you lose part of that gym yeah yeah this. was awesome him winning like that it. really was [ __ ] cool it was really. cool because it's just like that's what. you want to see from a legend yeah yeah. but people forget the ruthless Robbie. Lawler days like when him and Rory had. that fight that was just. guts and just survival yeah in this in. lip when it was split like that and I.

was interviewing he screaming when his. lips spit R you could tell Rory had it. his nose was smashed so bad that last. punch I think it was probably a straight. left he's like I'm done like I just. can't take any more pain at this point. like yeah he was destroyed when your. nose is broke and you get hitting it. it's it's not fun his face was pale too. like he had lost so much blood face was. pale he was uh he was [ __ ] up yeah. what a crazy fight look at his face I.

mean his face was just a mask of blood. and this part this is like so I just. staring at each other look how flat his. nose is there I mean Rory's just face is. destroyed look at his no Jesus it's just. destroyed his face is destroyed I mean. that is as close to death as I think. we've ever seen anybody get inside the. oct yeah yeah look at that look how pale. he. is. and he went on to have some [ __ ] good. fights after that but I was watching his. career in pfl and it was just sad to see.

the kind of the way he went out well I. mean I think you go through a fight like. that you don't ever recover fully no you. don't and then you're you're back in the. gym you're training and then you fight. again like everything's Amplified in a. fight like it's just it's training times. 10 you know and uh you come out like. I've came out of fights where quick. fight for me me uh but I still like I'm. like I don't even like I'll hit my elbow. I'm like what the [ __ ] did I do to my. like you just come out of a fight and. you're like you still feel beat up even.

if it wasn't like a super hard fight. like even my fight with Kelvin like I. didn't land like any crazy right hands. but my [ __ ] hands been killing me for. the last month so it's always it's. always something and then you go through. something like that do you do uh any. hyper Barrack chamber work my uh my. strength coach has one and I got in it. and um I was having like MJ or something. and I got in there and my [ __ ] ear. started to pop and I got kind of freaked. out and I got out but I need to do it uh.

I know like off Camp but he's like dude. you got to get in you got to get in and. I that's like the one thing that and Flo. tanks are like the two things like I. haven't got into yet but um yeah I need. to do the I need to do the FL like the. um hyper barar they say it really really. helps recovery I know that Uriah Faber. used it after the Jose Aldo fight. remember when he got his leg destroyed. yeah yeah I think um I know especially. for your head too they say like it's. super super good for your head yeah post. concussions yeah but like I said um stem.

cells stuff like that like it does suck. we can't like do other like pep peptides. cuz that [ __ ] helps and it's not like. test us for everything else like may. like be there on site or whatever but I. think that stuff would um would really. help us out yeah I don't know why it's. illegal I mean I think there I think the. argument is that it gives you a. performance-enhancing benefit but I just. think all it does is Aid recovery from. injuries yeah and I think if you're. dealing with a sport where guys are. literally training and preparing to.

injure each other that's what you're. doing and you're getting injured while. training preparing to injure each other. you're going to get injured there's no. no if hands or buts about it and it. would be better for the sport overall if. that was allowed yeah and I don't know. why these athletic commissions don't. recognize they're like hey this is not. like steroids this is something that. just helps your injuries helping you. recover yeah I'm definitely happy though. that we're done with usada I'm hoping. that if they're obviously they're going. to come and drug test us but don't come.

to my house at 6:00 a.m. or 7 a.m. and. don't come when guys are cutting W they. uh they came to my house the one night. it was 9:30 at night I was get it. luckily there was fights on I was in. Camp or else I would have been asleep I. was watching like Bellator on a Friday. night they knocked on my door I look at. my ring camera my wife's like it's. [ __ ] usada I'm like I've never been. mean to them and I wasn't even I'm like. dude I looked at them I'm like I'm like. I'm about to get in theed they're like. we're sorry like they have a protocol. they had to do it I'm like I get it how. long does it take it's quick it can be. quick if they do blood you have to sit.

there you have to sit down they time you. for 10 minutes and then they take your. blood then you have to do piss so that. can be annoying but like if you just. have to pee you can run through it real. quick but you have to get out all your. supplements you have to write all that. down so takes probably 35 40 minutes so. every time they come you have to show. them your supplements yep every time. they they had them saved at one point. but then they went away with that so. you'd have to redo it. any medications you take and then the. dude has to come watch you piss you have. to pick out a cup so I never like I. haven't been drug tested by these new.

guys yet but come at 3:00 like come when. I'm home and I'm just sitting on my. couch well I think the argument against. that is if they can catch you like if. you're if they come to your house at. 9:30 a.m. if you take something that is. in your your system for a short period. of time but provides benefits like if. you take some sort of oral testosterone. at 9:30 p.m. right before you go to bed. like we're going to get you and then. like that was what they were doing with. the gummies right with testosterone. gummies and baseball yeah something like. that so the idea is that you take it and.

then by the time they tested you it. already. system I think guys like if you have. enough money I'm sure guys are gaming. the system somehow you know have you. heard anything about how guys could do. it no I I haven't but I just feel like. guys like there like guys have people. are going to if you can cheat somebody's. going to cheat like they're they're. going to find a way but even with the. IVs I've have heard of guys doing I. still and I'm like I guess like you said. like they say the trace plastic but I'm. like how could you even test for that. cuz if you're drinking [ __ ] gallons.

of wood or whatever you're drinking with. plastic I guess there would be traces of. plastic maybe it's a different plastic. why don't you Jamie Google please how do. you detect if someone has had an IV. usada see if there's like if explains it. because they they were explaining to me. that there is a workaround and the. workaround would be if you got all the. liquid into a glass vile I was literally. that's what I was thinking yeah and then. you injected the liquid back into. someone's body slowly and instead of a.

drip like with a hose you're you're. you're just going straight from a glass. bile yeah sounds like a [ __ ] process. sounds like a real process for just just. for an IV the craziest one it the. craziest uh weight cut that I ever heard. someone was cutting weight by getting. their blood removed so they're getting. their blood pulled from their body they. were chilling it and then putting it. back into their body time for you to. just move up a weight class right but. here's the question cuz blood doping. that was uh way that like tour to France.

and a lot of those guys would do it. where they would take blood out of their. body they put it back in right yeah. their body would recover and build that. blood back up and then they would put. that blood back in so they'd have all. this extra blood and it would give them. extra oxygen that like blood doin that's. like the craziest one like if you're. going to do anything if if you just. never get tired like that's like that's. the most superhuman thing you can. [ __ ] do like strength like strength. and all that like is cool but if you can. just never get tired that's like next.

level [ __ ] well there's been guys that. get popped for EPO and um TJ yeah well. there's actually a documentary that the. UFC did that just came out last week. yoube I watched it started it's wild. when you see like what he looked like he. was a skeleton he looked like a dead man. he looked like a guy who was starving to. death and he was about to fight Henry is. that what he was he saying he was doing. the EPO to help him cut weight is that. what he was essentially saying no no he. was essentially he was anemic I mean.

that that's what it really is it's. anemia it's it's for anemia God he's. anemic he had gotten to a point where he. he couldn't do anything yeah I mean his. his body was just he should he should. have pulled out it's really what he. should have done yeah but or what he. should have done I think is probably had. a test cut yeah and if he had a test cut. like he where he's at he was down to 135. and then cutting the weight and when he. was down to 135 you looked at him you're. like oh my God he was bad I remember.

seeing a picture of him in Camp I'm like. I'm like this dude looks horrible when. he was uh preparing for the fight and. then they were it was like the day of. the weigh-ins you see him walking around. you're like what in the [ __ ] yeah he his. whole face was just skeleton and then. like you get [ __ ] hit like that right. like I don't care if you have 48 hours. like yeah so that's that's what he. looked like oh is that so insane man. it's so insane that weight cut look at.

his yeah look at him there listen all of. our cheeks get sucked in but that's uh. that's different I mean that's not just. a cheek suck it's like you're losing. your jaw muscles and that's the thing. it's like you you're losing muscle man. you're losing muscle now you see him now. he's he's not a small dude like he's. pretty [ __ ] big like well TJ also had. had shoulder problems whole career I. think he had torn two torn super. spinatus muscles uh in both traps or. both uh shoulders and just never got it.

fixed he was so good I love watching him. like his uh just his strike in was so. good like I feel like he was like one of. the first guys to start doing like to. switching stances and throwing like he. was he's [ __ ] good dude the H and. baral fight holy [ __ ] the first one also. it's also like his ability to perform. Under Pressure like when the Stakes were. high and the the pressure was high Cody. garbrandt fight yes yes he got dropped. in that first round and came back and. knocked Cody out and I [ __ ] love Cody.

that it was nice to see Cody get back on. track um but yeah that was he can [ __ ]. he's a competitor like he's a competitor. and uh it worked for him for a long time. you know yeah just the shoulder thing is. just so unfortunate because now he's. [ __ ] and he's he's had multiple. surgeries and he's hoping that he can. still come back cuz he fought in um Abu. Dhabi on that car me and his shoulder. popped out like immediately or something. like that well he had actually told the. referee before the fight he said my. shoulder's going to pop out he said just.

just let let me fight and I'll put it. back in it pops out all the time like. that's not I've seen I've seen that. though I've seen guys like in the room. like they get like sprawled on their. [ __ ] shoulder pops out and they like. they hit they're like I need a second. and they snap it back I'm like I'm like. dude I don't know if you should be doing. that like that's like supposedly what. happened with Yuri like his coaches were. trying to like put his [ __ ] back in the. place and they just totally destroyed. his show I'm like yeah probably. shouldn't be doing that it's not like a. finger like a Jiu-Jitsu finger where. you're doing ghee and like you're like.

your coach [ __ ] snaps your finger. like that's your shoulder well it's also. when your shoulder gets destroyed like. that and they have to replace your. shoulder that's it yeah I don't I I know. guys have gotten their hip resurfaced. and continue to compete I know Frankie. Edgar did that yeah but I think. shoulders like once that's shoulder. shoulders and knees like I've been. pretty knock on wood like I feel like. once you have a problem with your. shoulders or your knees you're [ __ ]. like you're always going to have same. thing with like if you do that back.

surgery cuz the back surger is a big one. I think see and your neck like if you do. any of those surgeries I think you're. [ __ ] done that's what's crazy about. Alain I mean he did his neck and then. won and defended the title multiple. times yeah and he looked great he looked. great besides showing him Aly like yeah. came back and that Peter yaan fight he. looked [ __ ] he looked great in that. with a fake disc in his neck he got an. artificial disc in his back and he's. competing in MMA and winning as a. champion it's nuts Chris weyman's coming. back again too he's Bruno I was there I.

was there for his fight in um in Boston. and uh it was good like good to see him. like get back in there like that break. was so bad I watch I guess they're. putting out like miniseries the UFC I. watched that one and um that on him like. coming back from his leg I was like. almost crying watching it like seeing. like the pain he was going through like. he had like two or three surgeries after. that and it wouldn't like it like his. leg like wouldn't take or his uh he. would like start feeling a weird pain. and they go back in and do another.

surgery he'd start getting better they'. do another surgery it's like it's the. same thing as that TJ one if you get. like 25 minutes watch it one day it's. [ __ ] good well that's the case with. Connor as well I believe I think Conor. Connor's had multiple surgeries as well. well a break like that like it's a crazy. break the only one guy you know I'd said. no one's ever come back from it but. apparently the guy who won the pfl. heavyweight division uh he had a a a. broke really broke leg like that and he. came back and he he's competing at a.

high level well how about Chris Weidman. does it to Anderson Silva and then he. gets it done to him like that is like. what kind of like how does that happen. like that's odds that's nuts especially. when you think about how few leg breaks. like that have been in the UFC I think. there's only been four he's been a part. of two of them yeah that's crazy I. that's I can only think of those two um. who else was in the UFC that uh the. first one was uh what was the. gentleman's name Corey was it Cory Hill.

y yeah I remember that I think he's dead. he is dead yeah I don't know what. happened to him yeah but I remember that. one and then Chris is involved in two of. them so was Corey. Anderson uh. Chris who else there's one other one. someone else got their leg broke I don't. know Conor Conor that's it that's it. four so those are the four the the. biggest one talking about yeah and then. uh outside of that I've seen it with uh.

tyon Spong yeah he he with the gokkan. fight that was nasty that's the only. time I've ever seen it in kickboxing. which CRA he's [ __ ] his highlights. are crazy oh he's a killer you ever see. the one where uh I think he D comes out. drops tyon he gets up shelling up and. throws that over hand and cleans him I'm. like God damn he's still uh he still. trains like he's down at Henry's and. like one of their main guys what did you. doing this this this was not in the UFC. but it's on combat combat oh this his. like femur comes.

out oh I saw this one yeah he gets taken. down that's a crazy one right this one's. bad and it's weird how it goes down like. oh look how it goes. backwards oh look at his pain the pain. he's in oh my God it's weird how it goes. backwards oh God look at it poking out. like that is that his feur yep yep yep. yep. yeah he's like my leg my leg oh my God. oh my God that's bad they're hard to.

watch that's uh my dad broke his femur. he was a construction worker he had a. bunch of stones fall on his leg snapped. his [ __ ] femur in half he had a a. metal rod in there for years they they. he got his knees redone they had to take. the metal rod out of his knee like his. like bone like I guess like formed to it. they said taking it out was rough yeah. it's the biggest bone in your body I. think oh I think so too God damn yeah. Frank me when he get hit by a car. remember that he uh broke his femur yeah.

he was riding a motorcycle guy ran a. light T-boned him he went flying through. the air and he it took a long time. before Frank got back on track that's. like one of the hardest things with me. and like like I grew up riding dirt. bikes and like I love doing [ __ ] I'm. like but our job so dangerous already. I'm like I can't afford to to do any of. these other things like we were up to. mountains over the weekend like my. brother's like let's go snowboard I'm. like bro like I can't dude like I want. to so bad but I'm going to do all that. [ __ ] when I'm done fighting like you.

just can't stack another thing on top of. [ __ ] like I have a I have a Ford. Raptor I got it all souped up I'm like. that's my that's my thing you know like. I got a nice truck but I can't I can't. ride bikes yet I can't like we just. can't afford to stack all those other. things on top of our dangerous ass job. already did you see what Sean Strickland. was doing the other day shooting like. like Roman candles at each other. firework fight yeah bro I'm not doing. that three weeks before he's fighting to. to he had like burns on him he's so nuts. he's nuts he's so out of his [ __ ].

mind but that boy can. fight all he does is Spar he probably. looks at he looks at a treadmill he's. like get the [ __ ] out of here he's like. I'm going go Spar what's crazy is his. conditioning like look at that Israel ad. asagna fight this his first time. fighting for the title he's fighting a. legend and in the fifth round he's not. even breathing heavy floor him too. amazing amazing hits him with that one. two drops him pummels him afterwards and. then but dude he's like he's not even. jumping like dirt bikes he's jumping.

like motorcycles in the desert I'm like. what the [ __ ] is this D he's out of his. [ __ ] mind and that's also how he blew. his knee apart oh oh yeah cuz he used to. fight at 70 people don't know him and. kamaro fought at um at 170 back in the. day Camaro put it on them pretty good. well I think he's one of those guys that. really was cutting too much weight he's. definitely he's that point of. diminishing returns that'd be like Joey. trying to cut that the 170 like you be. [ __ ] just cuz you can make something. doesn't mean you should do it you know. like it's I'm going to be interested to.

see that fight next weekend I can't if. anybody wants to see the extreme version. that watch that TJ documentary it's. pretty heavy his fight with drus is. going to be uh very interesting draus is. [ __ ] scary that and that's a guy. who's so big for 85 the way he looked. against uh I counted I didn't give him a. [ __ ] chance against Robert Whitaker. and boy was I wrong. well also that's after he got his DV. surgery which I think I mean it's a big. factor being able to breathe out of your. nose can't breathe you can't fight but.

it's also it's like drias looks awkward. when you fight he moves different but. that movement and that awkwardness makes. him difficult to time it's like his. timing is off and if you don't have. anybody that can imitate that kind of. Stutter Step motion that he does yeah he. fight weird yeah it's deceptively. technical though ly it's his style you. can't you can't say it's wrong you know. like that's how that's how he fights and. it works and he's like you can tell he's. strong like I think he's going to come.

in and really try to like put like a. hard grappling Pace on Shawn and but. Sea's hard to take down like you don't. see many guys taking sha down like he's. not well he's a very good Grappler he's. not yeah he's not easy to to take down. I've talked to guys a roll with him was. like that [ __ ] is very good I. seen he was out at um I think he was. training with jao and those guys yeah. yeah Jo told me Joo goes dude he's. [ __ ] legit yeah he's really legit. long too like I'm sure he has good good. Jiu-Jitsu yeah but that's that's a good. fight there well here's an interesting.

statistic because you know the UFC was. it a mouth guard that they gave you guys. show how many shots you take something. like that yeah he gets hit the least and. he spars the most the most see it's like. his defense is so underappreciated yeah. cuz that was a big factor in that fight. too without asna osna just couldn't find. him yeah he's like like it's like a. weird like Philly shell that he does and. then he's lifting that like lead leg to. like teep yep he's front kicking you. with that lead leg Yeah and that and. he's just always jabbing like and it. comes like you would think a jab coming.

from down here like it'd be easier to. time but it's not cuz it's coming from a. like you don't [ __ ] see it and then. bop bop and then he's hitting you with. the jab but it [ __ ] it works for him. it works for him amazingly I don't think. Izzy was 100% in that training camp. either like he had that that DUI thing. or DWI like right before that I was like. two weeks before that fight and I think. he just thought he was going to [ __ ]. blow Shawn out of the water and Shawn's. a tough [ __ ] and after the. aboose fight you someone should have.

looked at that fight and go listen this. guy is always there he's always there. it's crazy how it can flip so fast like. a year ago he lost to Jared caner and. now he's [ __ ] UFC champion yeah oh I. mean how about the the paa fight yeah he. gets Flat Line in the first round. against paa and then you think this. guy's not going to be the champion a. year later he's a champ champ yeah and. went to train with P that shows you how. smart yeah he's like I'm going to go. learn from this [ __ ] guy P will teach. you which is even crazy oh yeah Alex is.

uh he's a bad [ __ ] he's a big. dude he's gigantic that guy making 185. was ridiculous nuts ridiculous like how. how dides you do it cuz you look at him. at 205 he's so big at 205 I think he's. way better off at 205 though I think so. too yeah like I don't know who he's. going to fight next but I'll be watching. yeah I mean I mean I would imagine it. would be Jamal I just don't know when uh. Jamal is going to be fully recovered you. know Jamal blew out his Achilles a bad.

that's a hard one to come back from yeah. it's a bad one that's what um Aaron is. that what Aaron Rogers did yeah that's. got to be weird like you're just going. and then next thing it's done yeah it. just pops off and yeah but uh Aaron. Rogers is doing great he's they're. saying he might like play like pretty. sure he was hoping to oh yeah but it's. only been how many months since the. injury four. what was the beginning of the season in. September I guess that what it was it. started okay October November December. January so four months yeah not long not. not long at all for such a catastrophic.

injury yeah I think Alex would be. champed for for a while though it's got. to until someone comes along and exposes. his his ground game's not where it needs. to be well that's what's interesting. with hamzat right if if he fights hamzat. jayv at 185 lbs that that gets very. interesting yeah you know but I think we. saw in the hamzad fight against Usman. that you know hamzat against a really. big strong Grappler yeah is still very. effective but you know not to the level.

where like it it should be well Usman. exposed some holes in his game and Usman. had no camp that was a five round fight. yeah like and Usman took it on short. notice even on short notice if there was. two more rounds of that who knows where. that could have gone Usman was putting. on I rewatched it uh recently and he was. getting the better of him in the third. round for sure especially in the strike. game because I think something happened. to hot's hand in the first round I think. he broke his hand yeah yeah he's got. some injuries going on but um yeah some. but even like someone like that someone.

like Bo nickel Bo's going to be a. [ __ ] and then Joey's right Joey. Joey's known for knocking guys out but. Joey has [ __ ] really he submitted. Abdul in his last fight he's got really. good wrestle and really good submission. so it looks like 185 doesn't have like. those gra like 170 like we're stacked. with Grapplers 155 stacked with gra like. 85 kind of doesn't have that so if you. come in 185 and you have that good. wrestling and grappling pedigree like I. think you can do really really well it's. interesting with bow it's like they're.

they're let it's like some Fighters get. thrown to the Wolves yeah and some. Fighters they lead he's doing like the. slow nice and slow like every fight he's. his giant yeah giant favorite and the. next fight same thing yeah and he smokes. them yeah he hasn't fought since much. July I I listened to the podcast it was. really good but I think he's doing it. right like he's like listen and I'm. going to kind of slope cuz he's 27 28. he's already in the UFC couple fights. away from being in the top 15 why rush. and I feel like that's something I did.

early on that I wish I wanted to be in. the top 15 so bad then once you get. there you have to wait for the division. to play out you have to wait for guys to. fight and then you get hurt and then. you're sitting on the sidelines whereas. if you're not in the top 15 you can kind. of rack up these wins fight these guys. who aren't world class but they're still. good Fighters you can get that. experience and then then go to the top. 15 yeah well that's what they do in. boxing and it's always been the way they. did it they test guys you get tested but. not a fight that you're going to lose a.

fight their guy's going to show you some. different looks you're going to get you. know maybe this guy likes to fight. inside maybe this guy's long fights on. the outside you get these different. looks and you you learn and grow and. develop new skills and get experience. and then you fight for the title well we. have um D boots joh Andis his dad was my. boxing coach for years I boots holds. pads for me all the time bro. guy is a wizard a wizard I'll watch him. hit pads from Orthodox to Southpaw how. hard he hits like I'm like yo I wouldn't.

I would but I would I'd be butt scooting. towards boots if I had a yo come here. because he thumps and he's 25 or like 26. like he's not even a man yet like I used. to think the man strength thing was. [ __ ] it's true like the older you. get you definitely get stronger and he's. getting stronger and he's getting better. it sucks like they G they gave him the. belt I guess cuz Terren get like got. stripped so he didn't get to earn it he. he was the inum champ but he has a he's. having such a hard time getting a fight.

like yeah nobody wants to fight him and. Terrence wants the big money fight and I. get that I get it but boots is gonna. [ __ ] any of these dudes up like I would. love like I like I think Terren is great. but like boots is that next Generation. Well I I think that fight would be very. competitive and I would really love to. see that because I think Terren is the. [ __ ] man yeah but I think that Terren. is 35 36 somewhere in that range and for. him it's like all about big money fights. that's why he's trying to get that. Canelo fight I get that like you get to. a certain point in your career like you.

deserve that but I'm happy that they did. strip him so now they're going to give. boots that clear path to go let him. build his resume and fight the guys but. I don't even know who's in that division. like well it's like right now Terrence. is locked up with Errol Spence again. because Errol Spence he exercised the. rematch so they're going to fight yeah I. think you know know if I was being. cynical I would say listen Errol Spence. fights someone else how much is he going. to make Errol spites Errol Spence fights. Terence Crawford again he's gonna make a.

big payday yeah you know and I think. that's probably why he's doing this. rematch again also he knows he's getting. paid yeah knows he's getting paid but. also not happy with his performance in. the first fight and thinks he can do. better I get get I think Terence is on. another level yeah yeah he's [ __ ]. he's good we were we had like the UFC. fights and that those fights going on. and he just seemed like he was on a. different different level the entire. time but yeah he's he's so smart and. he's so Technical and he also has an. incredible ability to shift he can.

switch stances and fight just as good. Southpaw Orthodox he uh I think it was. like I think he was fighting Shawn. Porter and his coach was like telling. him like yo he's it was like the 10th. round he was like yo he's up and it. didn't register for he was like he. looked at back he's like he's up he's up. and he went out there he's like all. right bet went out there smoked him the. next round I'm like yo this dude is. [ __ ] he the man but yeah boots like. boxing's hard to follow though cuz. there's so many it's not like the UFC is. the UFC and there's like Top Rank and.

there's showtime and there's this and. and the belt like who who has the belts. so makes it hard to follow well there. does because there's not just way more. weight classes but there's also four. sanctioning bodies yeah and so it's at. least four might WBC IBO WBO yeah ibf. right. so what how many boxing it's at least. four I think it's at least four yeah WBC. WBA WBO ibf that's four right there is.

that it there probably four more yeah. there's a lot it's just like why yeah. why are there so many sanctioning bodies. like that doesn't make any sense it's. not like we're in MMA like yeah there's. Bellator well not now p i mean there. still is but like so Bellator is going. to still exist overseas right yeah with. pfl but like in MMA like you want to be. a UFC champion when you're a boxer. you're like who do you I want to be uh. WB like it's so hard to you want to beat. the guy who's recognized as being famous.

as a champion and what do you want to. have do you want to have all four belts. cuz if you don't have all four belts. you're not really you can make oh that. guy is still out there you know it just. gets like [ __ ] hard to follow so it. does but yeah boots is uh he's scary. yeah he's scary as [ __ ] I love watching. him he's uh he's crazy and his dude his. dad's like 70 years old still spars. really yeah he's still spars so he I we. live in the same neighborhood I'll see. him running he'll be running I'll. [ __ ] beat my horn I'm like yo bo his. name's bozy and he's just still just.

getting it yeah it's crazy W 70 years. old still sparring that's crazy still. sparring still running like comes in the. gym sweatpants sweat top like he like. holding he doesn't hold pads anymore cuz. his shoulders but he holds noodles so he. holds like the noodles for him and still. just [ __ ] just loves it that's what. he just loves to do yeah that's awesome. crazy I love the fact that he can keep. doing at that age I mean Floyd. Mayweather Senor was doing it he was. sparring like yeah pretty pretty late.

into his life yeah I mean when I'm done. fighting like I'm 100% like obviously. Jiu-Jitsu is going to be huge I'm all I. like I want to compete but I still want. to train like I like there's nothing. better than waking up every day and you. get to do what you love to do you know. like there's rough days of course but I. get to go train and there's no other. place I'd rather be like if I had I'm. billion dollars in my bank I would still. do the same exact things I do every day. cuz it's what I love to do that's. beautiful you know that's a successful. life yeah that's that's all that's it.

yeah that's that's a truly successful. life if you're actually doing the things. you love all the time and if you can. make that your job amazing you go to 9. to5 like you're sitting in traffic dude. I [ __ ] hate this like we get that. like we have a SK like we have a. schedule but like you still get the kind. of make your own that's bie 70 years old. this is old too yeah he might couple. years old yeah right yeah so what is he. 65 whatever like still that's incredible. he looks. great oh he is boxing still look at.

that wow this is. crazy 65y old bozy sparren. 65 and he's just [ __ ] around but bro. he he's talking [ __ ]. too. I. did just popping with that jab and the. the jab as you were saying before about.

Sean the jab real low coming down coming. down from low yeah and same thing I was. saying about like rjy Marquez MMA like. bro they're in just these like these. gritty gyms like there's no no super gym. like there's no super gym in Philly like. well that's the the the question is like. what is the best is it best to be with a. small gymm with really good coaches. where they give you individual attention. they really know what you're doing when. you're on when you're peing where you're.

at versus going to like a Mega Gym like. at MH well M so my coach John like he. only person that holds pads for me he. watches all my sparring sessions like he. does for all of us and then he'll send. my sparring to Dean Dean will break it. down and then like my wrestling coach. Cody like everyone it's only three or. four guys but but the head guy is John. and he oversees everything and when you. have a big gym if you're if you're not a. top guy like you're not getting that you. know like because there's so many like.

yeah like you have the training Partners. but you're not getting that oneon-one. that unless you're a champion unless. you're a champion you know and um then. it's still even hard cuz like you got. like your your training partner is like. [ __ ] like I want to help these guys out. but I know like American top team like. they have different sets of coaches so. you might work with this coach like they. have Mike Brown's like the main guy so. you might work with Mike but you might. not work with this guy but I just think. it's like I'm lucky enough I don't have. to travel like my whole family lives in.

this like I thought like there was. definitely times when I was coming up. I'm like damn like where would I go. would I go to Florida would I go here. would I go there and then I got lucky. enough that I was just winning fights. and our team was growing and we have the. training Partners now and I don't have. to go anywhere no you listen man the. results speak for themselves obviously. so tell me more I want to hear more. about this mental training and what's. involved with that so you decided to do. this after the balal fight yeah so so. what you you you said you made like some.

decisions in that fight that you like. you never had made before yeah I feel. like I remember like you're in there and. fighting like being in a fight is the. weirdest feeling ever like sometimes. like you're super present and then. sometimes you're not like I remember. just being in that fight and for with. Kelvin for 15 minutes I was where my. feet were I was super present like I had. like I was locked in that entire time. when I fought BW I remember like I was. just thinking about other [ __ ] and then. I'd come back to like like like the.

present I'm like what the [ __ ] are you. doing like like I'm in the middle of a. fight I just wasn't what kind of other. [ __ ] I just wasn't present like I wasn't. even like wor like I just wasn't. thinking about the fight like I just. didn't want to be there that's so weird. and I didn't and I never felt like that. before so now I started working with. this guy Brian Kane he worked with GSP. after GSP lost to um Matt Sarah first. fight he he I started working with him. and then I started working with Brian. and it's just all about just being super.

present like not even just in fighting. but just in life like not worrying about. what I got to do later or stupid [ __ ]. like that just being in that moment and. just focusing on that cuz that's all you. can control I was so caught up and. thinking about the future or what like. happened the day before like if I had a. bad day of training like I'd let it. bother me and it just came out of the. fight but I just wasn't in the moment. and that's like now like I just try to. be in the moment in everything I'm doing. just super present not thinking too far. ahead not thinking about the past and.

that's something I used to get caught up. in a lot just not not being focused on. in like I was just so worried about my. next session or my next this or like. thinking about my fight like things I I. can't control like I can't control that. far but all I can control is what I'm. doing in this moment so how what is it. that you do so like we just have like. just like drills like say if um if I'm. sparring and if like something's not. going my way just like little like. signals just to like bring myself back.

into what I'm doing like if if a round. doesn't go my way like not getting too. caught up on that and just and just. knowing like I have another round and I. can just get back into that and just. having these like signal lights like he. it's called like red green red red. yellow green so green all systems go. you're having the best training session. of your life yellow. you're starting to get in your head in a. little bit it's not working out like. you're not getting off your shots not. getting off your takedowns red is like. you're getting pieced up like your. mind's going other places like you don't.

want to [ __ ] be there anymore and. when you get in the red you have to have. like like he works with baseball players. say like uh you hit a like you get. you're about to get struck out they got. the batter will step out of the box. they'll take off their gloves and. they'll like they'll like do like. they'll like tap their shoulder or. something and it's just like something a. reset and that's exact that's exactly. what it is so like if I'm having like a. bad session like obviously I'm not going. to [ __ ] like tap my head or something. like that but just like talking to. myself and just just KN like I'm all.

right like you're good like bring it. back like so how do you reset like is. there a very specific just I just talk. to myself just and like what do you say. to yourself just looking at myself just. um we have like uh our affirmations for. my last fight were um I control what I. can I control what I can control I trust. my training I'm aggressive and always. moving forward and then we'd have a. funny one to make it not that serious it. was uh I'm confident I'm cocky I'm. [ __ ] Rocky and it would just. make you laugh and in before my fight.

with Kelvin I'm [ __ ] in the bathroom. and I'm saying these affirmations and. then I'll laugh because it's like it's. not that serious but like small little. things like that just to just to bring. it back and just be just be. present and um I think that and then I. started then I started working with. another guy through um my management. company his name. uh Brandon Epstein and we would do like. visual like visualize like the fights so. every week we'd meet on the call and we'. go from visualizing being in the locker.

room well even before that the first. like the nervous like the most nervous I. would get before a fight is like that. shower at like 12:00 fight day like you. get a shower and you know the car is. coming to pick you up in like 2 hours so. we'd like close our eyes and we'd start. in the shower I'd shower it get changed. car would pick pick you up we're walking. to the locker room we're in the locker. room we're hitting pads we're warming up. getting your hands wrapped making that. walk and then like for 5 10 15 however.

long I'd be just eyes closed visualizing. how I want the fight to go bad. situations good situations and then. eventually winning the fight and. visualizing talking to you or talking to. DC and I would do these mental reps over. and over and over again whe sitting in. the sauna I would do it sitting in the C. tub I would do it I would have my. affirmations so like timed up if I was. going in the cold for 3 minutes I knew. how many times I would have to say them. and then my 3 minutes would be up and.

that's all in training camp and I would. just do that [ __ ] over and over and over. again and and that was something you had. never done before never done before cuz. um you would never like I would never. think about it and then before you know. it you get there and you're like [ __ ]. like this it feels brand new to you. again because you only fight a couple. times a year if you're lucky but instead. i' seen these things a million times in. my mind already like yeah physically I. wasn't there but mentally like I I'm. already in this locker room I'm already.

I've already walked in the cage I. already made the walk like they would. make custom uh music for me that I would. listen with my walk out uh music. kelvin's walk out music crowd noise and. I would listen to it before sparring and. when I'm Shadow Boxing and [ __ ] like. that like and I just like felt so. prepared doing it and I just never did. anything like that before and um yeah. it's a [ __ ] game changer that's. interesting because they do say that. visualization actually helps skill. learning as much as training like if you.

are training but then also visualizing. things and spending as much time you. you're training your improvements will. be compounded oh 100% And like I'm. blanking on a million other things we do. but like that's like the big ones like. just visualizing what you want to do and. not just the good the bad too like so I. would think about like if I getting. ready for Kelvin everyone is like I'm. GNA get knocked out I'm G to get this. I'm going to get that so I would. visualize getting [ __ ] dropped and. having to get back in or getting rocked.

or going for a takedown getting stuffed. and having to recover from that and go. and win the fight because they're not. going to you're not going to it's not. always going to go your way so. visualizing the bad but still making it. out with the good which I didn't do with. balal like he rocked me in that moment. and I was still there instead just. making that switch and be like you're. good like go back and just getting back. to the fight I just never could get back. does is that partially attributable just. also to getting hit like because.

sometimes when guys get hit they get. they're out of it like you've seen many. guys that go back it's the fourth round. and they they don't know what round it. is no because I was I remember. everything I I wasn't like I was. definitely definitely buzzed me but like. I remember just putting my hands up and. I just couldn't throw I'm like punt and. I heard the 10-second clap go off I. thought I was going to get Saved by the. Bell and I was going to make it to the. next round and I never did well it was. an interesting stoppage because it was.

it was one of the rare UFC stoppages. with the guy standing up yeah very rare. yeah I never and that's what I'm saying. like I didn't get dropped and I remember. everything I remember hearing The. Clapper my coaches were right behind me. I could hear my coach John screaming. he's good he's good he's good and he. stopped it which good on him but I like. I just couldn't could I couldn't do what. I wanted to do it was the weird. subjective like when a fight gets. stopped and when it doesn't get stopped. and the thing that sucks the most is.

when a fight is stopped too late yeah. you mean like for sure you know the. Jaylen Turner Bobby green fight Jesus. Christ that was bad that was so bad you. were cage side for that right oh my God. I was like stop the fight what is. happening it was like 20 something. unanswered strikes or something like. that that is so hard to watch yeah it. was um so unnecessary it it was bad but. yeah back to like like the mental. performance stuff like it was just. really just all came down to just me.

just being focused for 15 minutes cuz. like we you can be doing anything and. just you're [ __ ] driving but you're. looking off like you're not you're not. in the moment you know and that's. something like now I try to like I try. to do and everything I do in my life if. I'm walking my dog I'll leave my phone. at home and just try to be present doing. the you're doing at the time not wearing. there's so much noise and other [ __ ] and. when I'm fighting like the only thing. I'm [ __ ] thinking about is fighting. and well just having the tools in terms.

of like having strategies and having a. pathway that's already carved in your. mind for all these different scenarios. has got to be beneficial it's way better. than just winging it no yeah and that's. the thing if you're just winging it and. like he uh they wanted me to even get to. the arena and like go walk it before the. fight I couldn't get in like he would. have they used to have GSP go in the day. before the fight and like actually. already be in the arena and feel that. and already like see that I couldn't do. that this fight but if I get the chance. like before I go and fight my next fight.

I'm going to go [ __ ] walk around that. cage feel the canvas and just yeah CU. you only get to do it once so Kelvin was. ranked right where was Kelvin at he was. ranked at middleweight oh right yeahwe. cuz it's debut he I was number nine. going into that fight I'm number seven. now but cuz he was originally supposed. to fight shavkat shavkat got hurt and. then um they matched us up and I don't. know what he's going to do if he's going. to stay at 70 go back to 85 but I'm. number seven at 70 now so it's I don't.

think he has that of a heart of a time. making it down 7 I just think he has to. make some adjustments yeah for sure you. know I mean when you go back to when. Kelvin was in his prime I mean just I. just really think 170 was always the. wait for him I just think he needs to do. it the right way like he needs to do it. at the pi if you if if you look at the. people he's beat like he's fought. everyone and the guys he's lost to they. were all close fights how about the adna. fight very close very close fight I. watched that fight so many times I'm.

like d he's [ __ ] kelvin's good he's. fast his hands two that right left that. [ __ ] straight left I had so many guys. th like just getting ready for that. fight because I watched all his fights I. watched what he did to all these guys. when he knocked out bisban when he. knocked he beat joare like he's beating. all these he beat um Johnny Hendricks. like he's like you go and look at his. record you're like holy [ __ ] this guy. fought all these guys and he has so much. experience I think he had like five or. six Main Events M he fought uh Chris.

Weidman dropped him bad in the first. round Weidman submitted him in the third. round but [ __ ] got flored before that. so you're thinking like this is at 185. he's going to hit way harder at 170 so I. trained my [ __ ] ass off for that. fight and um but yeah once I got him to. the ground I'm like this is where I'm. I'm going to win this fight well you are. in that weight class one of the absolute. Elite Grapplers and that was really. established in that fight I mean I was. so impressed with your control your.

ability I mean he's a good Grappler. kelvin's a very good Grappler and you. were manhandling yeah I it's like the. same thing uh it's just like having like. I have a path I'm going to do on the. ground and you turn this way I have. something for that you turn I it's like. a map in my mind and it [ __ ] like you. might think you're getting out I'm just. putting you in a Direction I want to put. you on and um yeah I love like that like. almost like that slow cook approach like. take you down wear you out second round.

same thing and then I like I submitted. Jake Matthews in the third Kelvin in the. third obviously if I can get it in the. first round but um yeah when you wear on. guys like there's nothing better than. that feeling like cuz you can feel it. like you can feel when you're on top of. somebody and they're just slowly slowly. like their energy is just getting Zapped. yeah so have there been talks about uh. when you're going to come back and and. who you might likely be facing so. there's that Atlantic City card it's. March 30th so it's still like 12 like 11. 12 weeks away um like I just want to.

make sure my hands good before I go back. into anything so maybe April time frame. will be there. but I would like the kobby fight he's. ranked five now he hasn't beaten anybody. inside the top 15 he has no ranked wins. um mazal doesn't fight anymore all the. guys he's beat like they're not even in. the UFC right so and then there's Wonder. Boy right right ahead of me I don't know. what he's going to do I know like. they're like they don't want to put him. with a Grappler you know like so and I.

get that but if it's going to be like. that I don't think you should be in the. rankings either like if you're if you're. going to pick and choose and he deserves. to he's done a lot in the sport go have. your fun fights like Terence Crawford. but put someone else in the division um. but yeah there's there's a couple big. fights uh luuk a is right behind me so. that could be a fight that they match. they could match us up have they given. you any indication of which way they. might be going not yet not yet how does. that work like do you just get a call. one day they reach out to your manager I.

guess they and then your manager calls. you and they're like hey like this is. what they're thinking and then it's. literally like that simple like you just. go from there but if you have an injury. or something like that you kind of let. them let them know what's going on so I. just told them I'm like give me a week. or two to see kind of how my hands. feeling and cuz I'm going to try to do. absolutely nothing and just let it rest. and if it feels good like I would love. to fight in AC like I fought in AC I won. belts in uh AC like it's it was like my. back fighting in Philly or fighting in. AC like [ __ ] we we'd all go out and.

party afterwards when we were younger it. was great but uh was the drive like 45. minutes like an hour it's the easiest. Drive ever but being hung over driving. home they like all right it's only an. hour it's not it's not that bad we used. to get [ __ ] Rowdy and AC when I was. younger it would be awesome to do that. again but um yeah I just want to make. but I just I don't want to rush into it. and start a training camp with my hand. [ __ ] up yeah especially because I'm in. a good position now you know I'm number. seven I have had a big win and um yeah I.

like I I would like to Kobe just because. he like he's always gotten like not he's. won his fights but he's always kind of. gotten like a easier path to the to the. to the title so I think he should have. to fight somebody younger than him. ranked behind him and then if he Des it. he'll win that fight and then he can go. back but if not let the let the younger. guys move up it's going to be. interesting what happens with him now. after that fight because it's obvious. that you can't give him another title.

shot no right so it's not like he can go. right back in yeah I he absolutely could. earn another title shot in the future. with a bunch of wins it's still possible. but you know what is that path like and. and who do they match him up he calling. out um he wouldn't wonder boy I'm like. no like you're no you like come on like. come let me let's like you're one of the. best Grapplers in the division I'm one. of the best like let's [ __ ] me and. you do it and let's see who wins you. know we're right next to each other in. the rankings like that's what I want I'd.

love to see that F yeah that's what I. want listen Sean you're a bad. [ __ ] appreciate you always love. watching fight thank you Joe super high. level I I just I love watching high. level grappling it's it's it's so. awesome looking up I didn't realize I. seen you and I didn't realize [ __ ]. Gordon was right next to you I'm like I. was talking to Dana I'm like there's Joe. like there's Gordon I'm like damn this. is it was uh it was awesome and [ __ ]. thank you for having me man hey my. pleasure brother it was it was cool. being there inside dude I like watching. fights so much better than compensating.

if you can just get to sit there and. watch it's so fun that fight was really. fun it was really fun to be able to. watch live up front so congratulations. and uh good luck to you brother thank. you brother I appreciate it uh tell. everybody your Instagram and social. media um Sean Brady MMA on Instagram and. yeah that's it okay good luck thank you. Jo thanks everybody. [Applause]. [Music].