Israel Adesanya | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #485

today's guest brings us to New Zealand. and we're happy to be here and uh he is. he is a fighter a kickboxer a. artist um he it's fascinating to watch. him experience the world he's a damn. human vanen go of some type of sorts um. he's had one of the greatest runs as a. UFC champion uh I'm just grateful to. spend time with him today Mr Israel.

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yeah good as I'm look yeah it's about it. healthy. eight I'm an eight you're pretty you're. you're I mean they don't have a lot of. like well let's still [ __ ] go down. that road man I can't call another. fighter handsome yeah you can good. looking I like the hair if I could. mullet I'd definitely do it like for a. season really yeah [ __ ] yeah well they. need someone and I don't want to say who. but someone of certain culture yeah. would be need to see the Jerry curl.

really yeah I know what you mean I used. to have Jerry curls when I was younger. it was a thing maybe in the late 90s. early 2000s but then it's not good for. your scalp not good for yeah all the. chemicals in there you also the last. time I did it I burnt my scalp oh damn. really yeah I left it on too long so. then I was like right we're done with. that but also it's not good for your. scalp for your hair cuz my hair is meant. to be as you say nappy like texturized. you know so having to burn it out to. straighten it then put perm and all that.

stuff it's not oh you got to do that so. it's like you got to straighten it and. then yeah so the relaxa straightens it. and and then you can put the Jerry curl. in there and that makes it curly but. yeah I Never Had It long I had it short. but still I mean a mullet would be nice. though yeah I be it be a cool fight I. mean who Miguel Torres Ricky Simone. Ricky Simone yeah he's got a nice one a. lot of guys at the gym who else Ortega. has did he have one Orga just had locks. like nice Arnold Allen video I'm trying.

to think I a lot of kiwi guys like my. guy toes him up a lot of the guys in a. lot of damn women in this country have. this you're not wrong D to be honest bro. you'll see a grandma with a hatchet in. this head like this is real it's. standard yeah yeah um but it would be. awesome on some of the highlight videos. just to see the. [ __ ] whip when you hit someone bang. or even getting hit that's one thing I. I'm grateful for is like cuz I know it. looks worse sometimes when you have long. hair and you get hit and and maybe even.

if you roll with the shot yeah the crowd. goes oh yeah and then you're like [ __ ]. they thought that bro that I whisp pass. me but it look like you go to hit. because of the dude that's what's. interesting about you you're that. intricate to detail that you want to. even man like you want to have a say so. and how you even get hit if that makes. any sense like how does that look to. people yeah you know like you're such an. Entertainer it's like I even want to. make that look as perfect as I can yeah.

I try not to get hit but if I'm going to. get hit not being hit by the best you. know a lot of them so um and they're. always iconic moments but still like. yeah the game is hit and don't get hit. so I can preserve my uh my Noggin yeah. my brain want to keep this intact so I. can keep doing this and I don't have. to you don't want that yeah bro it is. kind of crazy like reporters will. totally look over that a guy can't even.

speak just to be like hey how do you. feel about this next fight I mean that's. why Joe shout out to him he stopped uh. interviewing guys after they've been. knocked out cuz oh really yeah he said. that I think it was after one of the. overing after the overing fight and over. him there's a famous meme or saying he. says I clearly felt a tap cuz he had. steepe and a guillotine and he thought. he tapped but again he just got rocked. so you know your brain is not really all. there I've been knocked out before like. cold once shout out to Pereira um yeah.

perea is that how you say it yeah perea. Alex pan Pera oh he's a he's he's really. yeah I feel like you prob favor yeah of. course yeah I look people think I'm I'm. not a hater man I'm a guy who we're all. in this game together right we're all. trying to better our our lives for our. family and all and generations and all. that and he's achieved it you know in. the beginning when he first came to the. UFC granted he didn't have the run that. I had he got got to the spot he got.

because he already beat me in kickboxing. and I don't want to hop on too much. about this like I'm but I want to give. you the history for those for those for. those who don't know I'll yeah cuz I'm. sure new people will be watching this so. they they could understand it was. literally 3-0 oh two and no two and0 two. and0 so technically the first fight I. thought I won you know anyone who. watched it oh he edged that out and they. gave it to him and I was like what okay. cool second fight we go to Brazil thanks. Sal Paulo beautiful oh and I was there. on kind ofal but I was I was cutting.

weight so I couldn't be. outside but I tell you what I'll never. forget this I go downstairs from the. hotel when I get to Sal Paulo cuz um you. have to get like a a plug that works you. know conver and then I my phone was on. 1% so I left it in my room I go. downstairs and I'll never forget it I. see this guy and two girls and then one. of them kind of looked back to see was. behind her and smiled and just had the. most most beautiful racial atits I've.

ever seen in my life and I remember. thinking like [ __ ] I wish I could. capture this moment but I just right. there I just right there so but I think. they were hookers though cuz he was. getting it was probably like 2: a.m. we. landed or something so he was getting. some for to go yeah yeah yeah yeah get. something to but um yeah that that was. beautiful just right there anyway back. to the fight so I fight Alex and then oh.

especially if you hadn't eaten in a. couple days oh man you know what I'm. saying I'm hungry hungry but um yeah I. get to the fight with doing work beating. them and then he catches me cuz I rocked. him in the second round and in the third. round he just came back rallied up and. just caught me Flatline me that's the. only time I've ever been knocked out and. was that the kickboxing yeah kickboxing. and then yeah when when I came I was I. came to hour and I remember like they. were rushing me trying to put oxygen. mask on me and I was like I don't need. that hold up and they tried to take me. out on the stretcher as well and I was.

like chill champ like it's not that deep. but then I walked to the back and I. remember me and you just walk silently. to the back to this white space and just. kind of like huh I like what do he hit. me with he goes left hook he. straightaway just told me LIF hook like. your hand didn't come back fast enough I. was like uh but again in. that that time from being knocked out to. that moment having the mic in my face. and then so how do you feel about this. fight that wouldn't be ideal so I'm glad. Joe stopped doing that um just so the.

guys don't have to embarrass thems or. say something that they might regret. later on yeah yeah I never I didn't. think about how crazy that is that they. even do that it's almost like like kind. of like when you have to do that dizzy. bat game you know where you spin your. head in my gym we have this drill that. we haven't done in a while actually but. the Dizzy back game and then you do it. 10 times then you get up and you have to. hit the. pads just in case you never know in a. fight where you might get rocked and. then you have to keep your keep your. composure so yeah dizzy back game and.

then you know most times it's like you. have to run straight but this one you. have to write there one two ba ba one. two three and you're just but again. that's what it's like when you get. rocked sometimes and you just like oh. [ __ ] you have to keep your composure so. oh that's interesting it's a old school. drill that the Le go boys balur leag go. boys hat so Eugene's done it a few times. but I might bring it back for some fun. actually I might do it for some content. that'd be a good idea it's I feel like. it'd be fascinated I never seen that you. trained uh yeah I've trained but I'm. just a one stripe white belt ah I see. nice but there's still some possibility. oh you can still there's levels yeah.

there L you can three stripes imagine. that [ __ ] You' be a badass oh I [ __ ]. somebody up outside of Jimmy. Johns you give me three stripes um dude. I watched the documentary man it was. really cool thank you it was really. interesting for you to just like share. about like it felt like what it's like. to to like not only kind of to be to. have some of your history but then also. to like the pressures of how things. change once you achieve your dreams and.

your goals and then how some of that. feels like it doesn't really fulfill. maybe what you thought it was going to. do yeah um like I could relate to that a. ton man I'm sure wait when did you when. did you kind of like like blow up what. what age would you say I would say like. five years ago I think work started. getting busier for me probably maybe so. about 5 years ago you would have been. yeah I'm glad I didn't find Fame at. young age like say 25y old Izzy with.

everything that I have now bad idea. yeah hey Theo bad idea that's that's. that's a story for later on but um yeah. I'm glad I found Fame later on but but. still you know they say be careful what. you wish for yeah and I don't regret. anything I I'm I'm ready I'm prepared. for this life but it's it's still. surprising yeah there's levels there's. all these variables you don't expect and. I've kind of set myself up now now to. the point where okay I've I've expressed.

enough like how I example what's one um. after the UFC 2 243 in Melbourne um I. defended my belt wh against Whitaker so. I defended my belt the first time I like. to put it and then going to the airport. I remember just thinking in the car like. [ __ ] cuz I was kind of just it was so. much stimulus cuz I just did what I did. and still the to this date the highest. attendance in UFC history of 6 57,124. people and all these everywhere I went.

you know it was just crazy even the week. fight week I went down the strip just. walked alone just cuz I was like let me. enjoy this while I can you know cuz I. didn't know how long I would have that. for I can still do it now but because. I've I have boundaries now I didn't have. that for a long time but what I did on. the way to the airport going back to NZ. I I just put out a thing on my story or. a tweet just saying look if you see me. at the airport just approach me. cautiously you don't have to come. yelling cuz for me I was oh my God I'm. it's very scary sometimes you think.

you're on the bit in the movie where I. didn't even plan it and they just kind. of like drove by and I'm like what the. [ __ ] oh yeah and it raised my adrenaline. up and then they came to my door and. that's why I moved houses cuz people. would just come to my door and oh oh my. God I'm and this is like 9:00 p.m. at. night I'm like yo and I had to B let me. borrow some key. sh a guy tried to sell me a watch Once. oh that's perfect yeah and then I was. like hold up and I went upstairs came. back down I was like I already got this. watch bro it was a G-Shock like a black.

and gold one classic but then for me I. just boundaries I had to learn. boundaries for myself yeah cuz you burn. out yeah it burns you after I do any. kind of Media stuff or anything with. fans my people just know my friends my. security they just know okay I just go. to my room and I just re regroup or. replenish my social battery if you will. and I'm sure you've had to deal with. this as well yeah I didn't know that I. had to do that when it like about 2 and. a half years ago things were going well. you know was like being able to sell.

tickets and stuff and just like you work. so hard for it you know and I didn't. know like I would go meet every fan. after I didn't know I felt like I it was. I could never do enough to make people. think that I was enough n you got to. there's more they'll never there's never. enough cuz you give them an inch it'll. take a mile I haven't stopped signing um. these uh guys who just come camp at the. fighter Hotel I don't even stay at the. fighter Hotel anymore I always get my. own space now just cuz I remember like.

oh can you sign this please and then. they have like a stack of [ __ ] oh. totally and then you know I didn't want. to be the bad guy so I'd sign everything. but it got to a point where I'm like. hang on that's not just for you you're. selling that and yo just be honest but. again don't take the piss and have like. 20 [ __ ] gloves for me to sign I'm. like yo no no no you sign this from my. daughter you sign this from my my. grandson oh my god when they use their. kids I don't like it when they use their. kids as as a trojan horse they come with. a kid I'm like don't and I'm like do you.

want to take a picture because sometimes. the kid would be like who the [ __ ]. this guy I'm like do you want to take a. picture or does your dad want to take a. picture because if he just said oh bro. I'm a big fan you know can I take a. picture that's cool but again it's just. boundaries boundaries and respect like I. just came back from the gym I actually. go to a a public gym once in a while now. cuz after the the last lockdown again I. come out into the world and people are. all locked down they're excited the. energy was always just and I just know. how to deal with it cuz again I'm human.

and I'd get really anxious and sometimes. a little bit short with my fuse oh me. too for sure bro what the [ __ ] like yeah. let's take a photo but chill and then I. realized now I got to fix this so I went. to a public gym just cuz I was like. immersed myself in people and again I'd. have to tell people nah not right now. I'm working so that was my way of. learning the Reps of saying no you have. to learn how to say no cuz if you don't. say no they'll just take they'll take. and they'll hold you hostage with their. conversation as well yeah I don't like. that oh like we FaceTime my Stepmother's.

dying you know we FaceTime like. look she don't want to see what am I. going to do tell her some jokes and then. I I get on there and she's like who is. no and the lady it's like what the [ __ ]. she doesn't give a [ __ ] she doesn't give. a [ __ ] she has bigger problems she's. trying to die she's trying yeah she's. trying to like she's trying to like hide. whatever bad stuff is left in her home. before God comes and gets her and now. she has to like pretend that we can talk.

but no I just found it to be fascinating. because I I thought that once I got to a. certain part of success maybe or if. enough people knew me I thought. everything inside of me would be cool. and it bro when it wasn't it I mean it. knocked me out cuz I was like if this. doesn't fix whatever's going on inside. of me then I don't know what else could. fix it you know it's never external it's. always here internal so I had to learn. that from watching other people like. example Rashad Evans when he won the.

belt UFC 92 he said just he thought it. would be different but nah didn't feel. any different he just. felt me kind of like okay I've done it. and I felt the same way so when I won. the belt I was like did it feel. different I like I still feel the same. because I always felt like I was the. best I always said this is just a fancy. Tiara it comes with me just keep winning. so I never chased a belt ever I've never. chased a belt I've never even identified. myself on my bio or to people as unless.

for a promo I say UFC middleweight. champion but apart from that nah I just. I know who I am so it never I don't the. Belt doesn't make me I make the belt I'm. still me look how many people are. calling me out and I'm not even the. champion currently it's I'm Israelite. dis I I feel like my name has. transcended the belt itself I don't need. the belt to show I'm a champion because. how you carry yourself is is is what. makes you a champion yeah I'm still. learning though constantly every day.

yeah know that's what I got from the. documentary too it was cool man it was. inspiring it was inspiring um appreciate. that it really was man cuz a lot of that. I could relate to too like I remember. like when I was growing up I just wanted. to be seen I remember you saying that at. one point and it was like for some. reason I just I was like I'm going to. make people see me and I don't even know. what it meant or anything it was just it. was like a like a lighthouse that was. inside of me I I just got like were you. a bully wasn't a bully I just didn't get.

any attention now this haircut might. have bullied this haircut might have. [ __ ] you're like the same size just. like give me your lunch look I was. feared in a lot of softball circles. because of my haircut they like this. guy's dangerous yeah yeah this. guy this fella um but no I think I just. did I think I just felt like I I didn't. want anything to Define me except for me. yeah that was like hu it was like and I. don't even know where it came from but. it was like. I didn't want to attach myself to.

anything I wanted to walk to school and. not take the bus I didn't want anybody. determining the only way you were going. to learn about me was through me wow. that was it there was nobody else you. could add there was it was. all especially my voice it was the only. thing that I had that was mine and so it. was like I'm going to use this are you. an only child no I got three siblings. but I think I felt like an only human. probably wow felt like an only human wow. a lot of like Solitude when growing up. yeah just a lot of like lack of. connection like with family just like.

felt like I was in my own world yeah. just working freelance it felt like were. you the oldest or no I got an older. brother older brother you're middle yeah. I'm middle but we had like a lot of just. like addiction and people it just wasn't. like a no connection so I felt like I'm. sentenced into this family but there's. no real family here that yeah you guys. didn't have dinner at the table none of. that no we just had fights it was always. like fighting and a lot of violence and. it was like it just didn't feel like. anything so it felt like I'm never going. to let anything to find me again you.

know not like God got me one time with. where I'm born you know like he got me. there but after this where's this for we. I'm from Louisiana I was gonna say same. as um DC yeah Cormier Cormier and um. Dustin porier porier and uh who else is. from there um Alan Joan is from down. there now he's he's real cun you know. he's another he's a handsome fighter God. yeah good looking he's a model actually. he used to model for Calvin Klein dude. if you and then he's modeling against. Calvin Qatar you know you got bro pick a.

p like if I were that good looking I. don't think I would have got in the ring. you know I mean what did Ali say it's. it's a pretty on you got to watch out. for cuz you try I. mean I used to do fashion week when I. was younger but I think it's just. because I'm one of the only black guys. out here so it was. just yeah I thought there would be uh. cuz there's Mo Mor people here Mai yeah. Mai yeah you got it and there's um the. Islanders as well like the the Simons. and Tongans they the Big Fellas oh yeah.

there's some people you can't get around. them you got to yeah I had to go around. the block H around one guy get in the. orbit no but um there was um who else. yeah there's not a lot of like I guess. what Mo most of the universe would. probably consider black folks here is. that yeah facts um even when I first. moved to New Zealand I was in a little. town called roroa and yeah one of the. only black families there and you would. have seen in the doumentary definitely.

uh even when I went back to the creek I. used to play at kids they were amped up. and I'm like yeah bro I used to play on. this creek cuz my house was literally. right there and it's I'm surprised it's. still there it was beautiful um but. again one of the only black kids so. people didn't understand so they pick on. me but my way of getting around that was. dancing dance was my where I got my like. street cred you know yeah oh it was. incredible man watching the documentary. was cool like cuz one thing I learned a. lot is that just you're such an inner. you like to be an inner Entertainer huh. yeah you just love it I love it I love.

entertain yeah cuz I'm I I think for me. early on it was just to get people to. like me yeah that's in back in Nigeria. or when I lived in Ghana for a brief it. was just my way of expressing myself but. when I moved to this country and I. realized I dance better than everybody. in my school I was like okay that's my. thing so then I kept on and I I tried to. make people like me just so I could fit. in oh yeah again not everyone's going to. like you and I didn't understand how to. deal with that when I was 13 14 12 oh. yeah you know like night manare.

especially if nobody's telling you how. to deal with it I'm trying to do that. now with the young guys the young guys. around me I try to tell them like cuz I. try to be honest with them this is this. is where I'm at in my career this is. when I was your age I was here and I. give it to them raw like let them know. the truth without sugarcoating it and. then they appreciate that because then. they can take from they'll make their. own mistakes you know but they can take. from my mistakes and try not to make the. same mistakes or dumb mistakes that I. made yeah yeah I think when I was a kid. I wish somebody just would have given me.

a little more information about what was. going on I was making up all my own. rules in my head and so then I created. this own universe and checks and. balances you know God yeah that's how I. lived this episode is sponsored by prize. picks do you love firing on Sports well. prize picks is the best daily fantasy. sports app for you you can fire on all. your favorite sports like the NBA NHL. UFC and more more instead of choosing. teams you choose individual players this.

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door Dash use code Theo 24 and get 50%. off up to a $10 value when you spend $12. or more after signing up for dash pass. subject to change terms apply yeah. that's how I lived um when yeah like. what was it like in Nigeria do you have. any memories of It kind of heaps yeah. Nigeria I grew up uh I was born and. raised in Lego City and I my family was. quite fell off um and when I say this.

people normally think like oh it was. born with a silver spoon in his mouth I. was but my I still had to do chores I. still this is why sometimes people. trying to help me iron my clothes I'm. like no I got it CU my dad would be like. Bo come on come on eye on my shirt like. you know for work all that kind of stuff. I did the dishes I swept the compounds. you know clean up the kennel the dog. kennel so I just cuz my parents were. Rich doesn't mean I didn't have to work. I had to earn my keep yeah and um yeah I. I learned hard work from them as well. even moving to New Zealand when my mom.

became a nurse or she was in nursing. school my dad would let her sleep and. her cleaning job me and him will go to. the bank and clean around 4:00 a.m. this. is in RoR the the town I was talking. about around 4:00 a.m. go and help her. clean just so she can get enough sleep. to go to school the next day oh that's. nice your dad sounds like a thoughtful. guy huh yeah my dad oh my dad's the best. my dad is a real G he's one of the. coolest gangsters I know and I'm I'm. talking Street gangster he's just a. mathematical word contract type like.

business gangster you know I've said. this before look you know rest in PE. peace to khabib's Dad he was in his. corner and fighting Michael Jordan has. his dad on the on the court so is Steph. Curry a lot of other dads as well in. football but my dad helps me off the. court and I've said this again and I'll. say it again and again the UFC knows. what I got paid or what I get paid but. they don't know what I'm worth and. that's thanks to my dad oh yeah cuz my. dad is a chared accountant by by by.

trade and he just knew how to flip my. money for me cuz every time I came back. from China every time I and I I had I. think I came back my when I lived there. I came back with six figures or five. figures high five figures and then he. tried to help me invest in I was like I. don't want to have a house he has too. like too much responsibility because I. was young and dumb and I went and broke. again so I realized every time I don't. listen to this guy I go broke I should. start listening to him so as soon as I. go in the UFC I was like right what do I. do first thing we did by my first house. yeah and then now we've just it's gone.

crazy but again that's thanks to my dad. but who else would you rather have in. your corner than than has the best. interest if without him I would have. been ripped off so many times man yeah I. would because people it's just in their. nature they take advantage they they. they see like oh this guy's not really. paying attention oh he didn't he just. signed that contract he didn't even [ __ ]. so I don't sign [ __ ] without my pups. looking at it and then giving me the. green green llight yeah it's cool boom. because he will send it back with. highlighted bits amend that that's what. imp perpetuity no we can't have that.

amend that b b b yeah it's it's. interesting because sometimes you'll. feel like you trust somebody else more. than you would trust your own like Ken. or family you know been there yeah it's. weird I don't know why that is I don't. know if it's you grew up with them we're. familiar with them yeah you want to. Branch out you're like I can do this. myself yeah it's probably it n silly um. what other like was there Traditions. that you missed about Nigeria cuz [ __ ] I. mean it's to somebody it sounds. fascinating to a lot of people you know. yeah no there's a lot of see like even.

now afro beats has taken over the the. globe with our sound I think we created. afro beats and that's mainstream now um. dances that we do the way that we dress. but again I love my people I love my. culture it's just the the government. like the the greedy [ __ ] the. old ancient dudes that are still running. the country still finding ways to just. rip people off and bezel money all that. kind of stuff it Happ worldwide but it. happens really bad in Nigeria and then.

they're just kind of selling the country. to different entities and whatnot. but in time the Young Generation the. guys now who have grown up with the. internet they're the ones who are seeing. the [ __ ] and change it changing it. yeah um UFC was saying that they might. do their first uh start a fight Center. in Africa mhm how that has to be does. that feel kind of cool to you do you. feel any connection to that or 100% like. I feel that's that's crazy humbly I feel. like guys like myself kamaru and Francis.

even before Soju pay the pav the way you. know for them to do that and now drias. dup he's an African Champion I would. never ever take that away from him even. though he tried to do that from us but. um yeah so we're Paving the way for the. next generation and I think not even. think I know I've said this once we. grasp this MMA [ __ ] once we grasp it cuz. I've seen the talent out. there I don't look at me I'm scrawny I'm.

the I keep saying I'm the Run of my. people you look at guys like kamaru and. Francis there's so many of them just. walking around just rocking the streets. brick laying mechanics and you see them. they just brolic as [ __ ] working at a. pet shop could you honestly imagine. [ __ ] selling you a bunny you're like. man you you missed out you should be a. fighter you should but like there's so. many of them over there and they don't. even have the best nutrition sometimes. they don't have the best of you know. what we have so oh it's going to change.

the game BR and now that they can see. that's happened now there's four African. Champions that have come from the the. country or the continent of Africa sorry. so czy it's CRA yeah exactly because the. level of inspiration of like some kid. lay and he sees the fight he gets off of. his brother's phone he's watching or. something and then he lays in his bed. and the electricity in his body I get. the messages all the time [ __ ] like. this could happen to me like something. could happen to me they see that we've. done it so it's like the 4 minute M. we've unlocked that in their brain like. it's possible even me when I told my.

parents I wanted to fight what the no. like yeah we just left a country fight. yeah so it's like why why do you want to. fight no no no no cuz it was my parents. thought it was beneath me they wanted me. to do something that was more. prestigious like being like my dad is an. accountant or lawyer or you know doctor. but my grades weren't they weren't [ __ ]. he had fighter grades yeah. yeah yeah I was that guy so I was I was. not cut out for that even though iier. man yeah he's like I got eighth grade. he's like actually I did it twice though.

so I was like well I guess that kind of. counts I did form three twice well some. classes I had to repeat but. again that's I wasn't cut out for it it. was my brain was always just wired. differently whenever I might be dyslexic. I don't know I've never really looked. into diagnosing myself with anything. because I felt I don't want it to limit. me so I just but I know the way I read. words sometimes like it'll it's it's. even when I read a book sometimes I. won't I won't get the whole thing so I. have to go back and read that's why I.

love audio books and podcasts so I can. just listen and do other stuff but. reading is a little bit weird to me but. um yeah uh I lost my train of thought we. were just talking about the inspiration. for the kids I mean just like the fact. that some kid could like they wanted me. to be something prestigious but nah um I. just I'm a dreamer I'm a Daydreamer I. could sit there and I still I still do. emotes as a 34 year old like I'll just. be in the gym and you'll see me emoting. but my head is somewhere else. oh yeah same man I think sometimes yeah.

I got late to the emote game I think. somehow and a lot of the [ __ ] [ __ ]. still dropping off sometimes you know. I'll just do make my own ones up and I. yeah I'm a creative person and I feel. like it's just how you express yourself. I'm this is this game of life is it's. it's a game of life it's dangerous game. of life if you make it but I feel like. you can play the game how you want to. play the game this is your avatar this. is your character you can customize this. however you want regardless of what. anyone else thinks you know as long as. you're not hurting anyone unless it's.

signed on the contract but just doing. you it's the best way New Zealand's kind. of interesting like that I think there's. a lot of interesting characters here oh. yeah I'll Take You Down K Road it's just. up the up the street somewhere ketamine. Road yes yeah it could be it could be CU. there's some street over here we've seen. some people you got a guy just War up. like this you can't tell if he's on like. meth or yoga both n it's it's crazy on. kro it's not too bad like in the daytime.

oh you now you get some crazies yeah you. get some I've almost been uh what was. one a guy tried to stab me with a. stapler oh this is outside the sky tower. I finished this is probably like six. seven years ago and he was getting. cheeky or something you to stay here. yeah you might leave yeah try to stay. with me I was like the [ __ ] like a state. where first of all you're homeless. where'd you get a stapler. [Music]. from like what is he going to do like. hit me with a stay but yeah people are. crazy though yeah drugs will make you do.

weird things yeah I'm I'm I feel lucky I. mean I went down that road but I'm not. down it anymore that's good um yeah if. they well what's interesting too I think. for Africa is say if they um if you. start to get organized fighting in a. place right and it's real organized it. almost takes the value off of the. [ __ ] fighting people are doing for. no re you know what I'm saying streets. right it starts to be like I'm if you're. a street fighter you almost feel like. I'm dumb out here because that's where.

at least the you know it starts to. change where the focus of it is so I. could see that being super helpful to. like just curb a lot of that that type. of violence and stuff that they have I. think even even me it's been a long time. since anyone's tried me in the streets. cuz now I'm kind of known but before. that when I was only known in Auckland. you get people who just you know they. drunk I'm drunk on a night out they. think oh this guy oh yeah you're tough. guy you're that kickbox a guy hey hey. but I'm just like bro I'm not going to.

whip your ass for free I get paid for. this [ __ ] I'm not even working for free. yeah I'm not nah why would I whoop your. ass for free like it's even now my. Knockouts in the UFC you get a bonus 50k. uh and I get paid crazy money to fight. um but I'm why would I do that for free. and also if I if I hurt someone it's. assault with a deadly weapon because I'm. a trained professional so I don't want. to put that's why I have people think I. have security for me no it's for people. for the public. cuz sometimes people will try and get a.

reaction out of you and I'm a very. patient guy as I've said. and sometimes no oh yeah so I'm glad I. have them to be like right let's change. the situation so that way I don't get in. trouble for yeah I've had a couple. instances where it's like uh I needed a. security person because my perspective. wasn't good no like people that have. come up and start filming you and. they're [ __ ] with you though yeah and. they're trying to get a reaction right. and I like yeah one time I like I don't.

even want to talk about it too much cuz. then people are going to start doing it. more but yeah it was uh I'm just. glad yeah I'm glad it just ended because. it could have got bad cuz then you get. heated and next thing you know human. being you're a man you go testosterone. and someone tries to punk you you're. like who the [ __ ] are you yeah okay this. allegedly allegedly I might have slapped. a couple people yeah allegedly cuzz okay. example I hate when when they do this. man like I'm walking through a crowd and. a guy.

just let's go champ out of nowhere just. slaps me on the back like four time what. the [ __ ] and I was like bro it's kind of. like when Will Smith did he did that to. he did it to what's it called Chris Rock. not like that but he did it to this. reporter one time where he backhanded. him like cuz the guy tried to like he. was messing with him tried to kiss him. he's like what the [ __ ] man like yeah. you know like some there a reaction what. are you gonna do yeah I think well I. mean they say what hit first or if you. get wait what you call it wait till you. get hit or if they [ __ ] with you but I'm.

like n I'm not like chill some I can't. let you get close I can't let once you. break that barrier that range and you. seem like a threat it's I have to defend. myself yeah and your instincts are so. tuned to that [ __ ] that you got to trust. your ins my friends don't scare me. anymore it was funny at first but they. don't scare me anymore jump scares cuz I. don't like them oh you from behind [ __ ]. no no when they trying to scare me I'm. very quick oh yeah yeah I but luckily. and I'm controlled with what I do but I. can just turn around and P yeah some.

Kung Fu [ __ ] and then like oh [ __ ] yeah. yeah watching you like it's feels like. you're watching like a. um a [ __ ] violent drawing or. something you know damn I like that. that's interesting no good adjective. violent drawing you were at you know one. the one I think my first fight you ever. saw was me versus Gastelum y it was. amazing I got to meet your brother you. guys walked by in the hallway and I got. to meet David man and it was uh that. when my face was all Lumpy a potato bro. that was a insane fight classic one of.

the best fights in history of mankind it. was. unbelievable yeah that fight I think was. and then that that was also poier and. Holloway were on that card oh they. [ __ ] set it up for the co Main Event. God so then for us to have to do that at. the main. event so cool yeah um if there's a fight. in in Africa like a the first card is. that something that you I'm I'm come on. this yeah yes definitely 100% it should. have happened a long time ago but again.

so many red tapes to get over dude it. would be like the thrill in Manila. remember that bro I mean it's going be. we going to Africa. yeah people going to be outside [ __ ]. just I mean honestly I already SE I've. seen it I've seen this look I've said. this many times but the shower is the. most honest place in the planet I feel I. can just be I'm in my birthday suit and. I have the element of water running over. me so it helps me just create all this. white space and I can just go in my head. and just create and I've seen I've.

predicted I've manifested I've made. things happen in there that come to. fruition and I've seen that so many. times when I get to to to South Africa. or Morocco or Nigeria wherever it is the. event is when I get there and my people. see me it's just it's it's mob City it. becomes it's like that when I when I. last time I went to Nigeria at the. airport there was just it was insane the. police officers the the street thugs the. area boys who were doing for. like they all just yeah they [ __ ] with. me even the people like in the Comas are.

[ __ ]. up the dead budes on the road just like. oh [ __ ] I just want I'll die tomorrow. yeah nah but I love I love the love I. get out there man I love the love I get. out there well the energy of that would. be crazy um do you and would that. probably be vers DDP for the belt you. think ders yeah definitely I'm oh. there's some things that were meant to. happen uh they summoned me they summoned. me I'm sure this is out there now Eugene. said some stuff. but they summoned me they summoned me. for 300 and I was like yep let's roll.

but their side didn't want it so I was. like well [ __ ] it I'm just going to keep. who DDP side yeah they didn't want it. but I you know they just fought. Strickland so maybe he had a little bit. niggly injuries and stuff but hey we all. we all got you know n niggles and. whatnot so yeah um but I've I've fought. injured for the last how many fights so. that's why I took time off just to let. my budy heal and has healed and yeah um. I'm sure there'll be more injuries it.

just happens through training like what. we do for work I can't even imagine it. just constantly it's always something. your finger your toe your back your legs. your whatever it might be your ankle. there yeah I heard my neck the other day. just looking for something yeah out here. yeah I was just kind of looking like. that and I was like ah [ __ ] something. got me be like that man well you're 43 I. forget yeah shit's it's crazy man you. train at all what do you do like yep I. do yoga I about 12 miles a week yeah I'm. doing pretty good man cuz on stage I. want to be able to show as much as I. canity you're very animated you know.

it's really important uh cuz I like to. move and also when you move sometimes a. new thought can come into your head. because you hit emotion and that's what. keeps me inspired that's all dancing. that's what that's what happens that's. how you freestyle wow Next Movement it. just leads to the next movement and it. can create new thought that's beautiful. the way you put that I didn't realize it. was like that for you as well yeah. sometimes I'll be like oh man if I just. hit that and then it's almost like if. you use your instrument it will use you.

kind of in a way and you know sometimes. I feel that yeah. um what about like yeah Demetrius. Johnson was talking about to beat DDP. you would need uh you need to brush up. on your ground game off of me yeah yeah. I got something I got a little something. do you prefer to fight guys where it's. more like cuz some people like to fight. up top like por is like that he likes to. and it's fun to watch him there you know. and some of the fights where it's on the. ground honestly respect 100% but they.

can be a little less exciting yeah um. especially for the fans CU they been. there since five hours six hours. drinking and they just like go stand. them up ref I enjoy grappling I enjoy I. love it uh but no one's been able to. keep me in that position that's the. thing in how many UFC fights and people. think oh he's about to get exposed in. this fight it's like actually the only. person would no Yan but he didn't do. anything he just used the weight he. didn't try and finish me really try and. beat me up to the last like eight.

seconds but yeah he just wanted to win. the round so he kept me and use his. weight and I wasn't really used to that. at at the m at the time so um it's a. good point yeah Costa couldn't CCH yeah. a lot of the guys they can't catch you. so you can't say hey this guy doesn't. like to go to the ground it's like well. if you can't get him to the ground he. shouldn't lay down there and meet a guy. down there what am I going to butt scoot. be like come on buddy I'm G to get you n. um I'm I'm great on the feet so I like. to keep the fight standing but I do. enjoy the clinch I enjoy the clinch I.

enjoy I enjoy the ground as well but in. the gym it's different than in a fight. and I'm getting more comfortable on the. ground in the gym which makes me you. know even better in a fight but um yeah. just no one's being able to like take me. and keep me there to see anything yeah. yeah that shouldn't be like yeah that's. not a fault of yours it's interesting. cuz you'll just hear a lead yeah yeah. you'll hear a lead and you be like yeah. that's right yeah not I mean fake news. it happens all the time they just throw. something out there hope it sticks and. everyone latches on to it and then that.

can just be clicks oh yeah clicks views. attention that turns to money for them. is that the same in New Zealand you feel. like yeah everywhere worldwide now. everyone got these so everyone just. thinks like you people just run up on. you stop filming like someone try to get. a randomly what was I doing I was about. to go fishing so I was filling up the. skis and then um a guy waiting there and. watching me I was like you want to take. a pick okay let's get step away from the. gas pump cuz it say says no phone we. took a pick and he goes oh hold on hold. on hold on no so um what I was like what.

are you doing I'm not like a random. pop-up interview you think you are TMZ I. I wonder what made like in our society I. guess we just see that more because you. see like younger younger people do it. without even thinking that it's weird. entitlement yeah it's entitlement and. I've had people even say like oh but. you're famous I'm like [ __ ] no I'm a. human being like no yeah just cuz look. I've always said this [ __ ] but I like I. like the perks if I had known what Fame. would have brought I would have just.

rather been Rich you know I only wanted. to get famous so I could be rich so I. can have money so I can do whatever I. wanted to whenever I wanted to the life. I live right now so but the fame was not. what I expected and I'm grateful for it. but at the same times I had to I had to. learn how to adapt to the new found Fame. when it came oh it's heartbreaking some. of it yeah I mean people don't want to. hear that I know it's like people don't. want to hear that a part of you. disappears that you didn't even realize. was about to leave and I didn't even get. to write everything down that I knew.

about that guy and that's the [ __ ] that. sometimes makes me. um kind of bum like I don't know I'm not. trying to sound like self-pity or. anything but be H be vulnerable yeah. there's a cost to everything you know. and there's a part of me it's like man I. I don't even I I wish I remembered a. little bit more what I was like because. I really liked myself then and then now. it's like a different self you almost. have to learn about a new self yeah you. have to make make peace with with your. new life like yes that's a thing yeah. make peace with your new life this is it.

now this is my life now I think I did. that about two years ago cuz. Okay I used to love gr grocery shopping. I'd have my headphones in and I'd just. be blah blah just listen to a podcast or. music maore maybe yeah you know sliding. around on the C that was fun I don't do. that anymore you know cuz the grocery. store will you know you just get every. step go can I get a photo and then. becomes a meat and Greek I'm I No. Boundaries I've had that before where. people just around me and my boy Matt. was like bro you're just like a toy that.

pass around cuz people were just like oh. my turn my turn my turn and some of them. would even know anything about fighting. that's the worst and then they just who. are you my husband said something oh my. God the the worst is when especially. when [ __ ] trying like who are you I'm. like it's all good don't worry about it. no but like me who are you and I'm like. baby who are you I don't know who you. are either it's it's mutual they do it. on purpose to lower you but they think. it does but i'm like [ __ ] I don't give. a [ __ ] like who are you who are you I'm.

like well who are you and thing I. actually enjoy meeting people for the. first time because it's rare for me. these days so when I meet someone and. they're like oh I'm sorry I don't know. you it's okay my I'm Israel what's your. name oh nice to meet you and I can. actually meet them without them having a. preconceived notion of who they think I. am from TV or YouTube or my promos or. anything like that they can actually. meet me for me face value rather so I. enjoy that but people people think I. because of how they would be if they. were in my position they think I'm going.

to be like everybody knows me no matter. where I go I still introduce myself yeah. cuz it's just rude if you don't like. it's weird when people don't but no I. agree one of the things that I miss I. used to love meeting people it was one. of my favorite things to do because it. was like a new it was almost like a. brand new show you got a new chance to. feel a certain way with somebody you. could brighten their day you could do. you could have there anything the world. was any all the options were there. and then the fact that that's not the. case um sometimes now it's uh it's a.

blessing I'm not saying that but it is a. bummer sometimes cuz I miss that thing. like oh here's a new like space I get to. play in you could make things up it was. just fun I love that like I said new. people or new countries whenever I go. there like I was just in Switzerland and. I met a couple new people but I was. there for some uh some work and um yeah. new culture new food even the weather. was muggy but I loved it I was like I'm. I'm me I'm experiencing what it's like. to be in Switzerland when it's cold and. I saw the Sun out of three days I saw.

the sun once wow you know and the guy. who even brought me there was like yeah. last time I saw the sun was like two. weeks ago you know it's different out. there but I enjoyed it I enjoyed the the. the the vibe and just meeting new people. it's like this world's too big man like. we can't all just be in our own little. bubble yeah it's so important to get out. man even coming here was interesting. coming to New Zealand first time yeah ah. see what it's like it's I had no idea. what it was going to be like people are. like we don't have any uh we don't have.

any uh snakes you know yeah we don't. nothing dangerous not not the not these. kinds but there's some snakes in the. streets oh like you don't have a [ __ ]. ozone layer either I'm likeing dude my. guy when you got here how black were you. were black I was black yeah I swear but. I've been I think. I may lightskinn now semi lightskinn in. two days people are going to start. calling me Nelly around here I think. no but um for me I went fishing the. other day uh no this is this one the.

other week so I thought you know what. I'm black I'm protected by melanin Yeah. by God Amen ordained but um yeah for me. h i don't need sunblock but I Put On My. Tattoos just to kind of protect them but. then my skin started peeling the next. day like my shoulders cuz the life. jacket was on me so my shoulders were. peeling my neck my face and I was like. what the [ __ ] is this and then someone. told me oh your sunburned I was like. what and I was like oh that's right cuz. in Nigeria or in the continent of Africa. we have an ozone layer they don't have. that here so when I get hit by the sun.

here it's yeah it's like God's not even. wearing a condom out here actually. raw my God raw dogging you the sun is. it's unbeliev it's really crazy you're. like have you been say any beaches here. yet we're going tomorrow to maybe Wahu. or or oh wahi island is okay you'll. enjoy it there yeah some nice beaches. there blackand ones people like you got. to get out we just got here people like. you got to l you got to get out you need. to go to here you need to it's just like. everybody wants you to leave it's like. we just got here there's some fun stuff.

in Auckland auckland's fun I like the. city because yeah what makes you stay. here cuz my gym my gym really definitely. my gym 100% I would have been [ __ ] off. by now like gone some or just Gypsy and. traveling around but my gym keeps me. here because they're my people and. they're the ones that got me to where. I'm at so that's loyalty and huge you. got great guys over there Dan hooker. there I love Dan is he a cool guy he's. the best he's the best bro he seems so. entertain he's he's an [ __ ] but he's. the best I love. him uh car France um so many guys I'm.

sure that I don't know I don't know a. lot of the fighs the new ones coming up. as well like caros is now in the UFC. Kevin's in the UFC even Tyson Pedro is. training with us now Tyson will be. coming tonight um to see the. showet yeah so I can't wait for that how. was last night that was that was the. show it was good yeah yeah I thought it. was good it was kind of scary CU you. don't. know say yeah and you don't know you. you'll be telling a story you're like oh. [ __ ] they don't have this business on. about does a relate yeah so now you've.

gone six minutes into a story you just. have to give up like a senior citizen or. something I get the references sometimes. when I like maybe even Eddie Murphy. delious there was a few references I. didn't understand when I watched it the. first time cuz I was like I didn't I you. know I didn't live in America so I. didn't know what he was talking about. but yeah you get older so you understand. like ah yeah that's that that's that. [ __ ] he was talking about have you ever. looked back at your bu. that rear Carriage baby that.

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and around but I think the gym keeps me. here and I like the fact that New. Zealand New Zealand's not too grandiose. in a sense like auckland's not so big. where it's going to take me unless it's. traffic it's going to take me like hour. and something to get across town you. know yeah I don't like that in Sydney or. certain Australian territories it takes. you an hour and a half to go from here. to here and I'm. like that's a no for me yeah yeah yeah. no I think this is a it's a super unique.

place I'll say this it's one of the most. unique places that I've been I wish I. was going to get to travel around the. country more I'm going to come back and. do it again South Island next time. that's what everybody says and you're. like [ __ ] I wish I would have asked. anybody yeah s island but um but it's. great though it's been everybody's been. super nice like um it's interesting what. how what people think of what life means. here it's kind of interesting I find. it's a bit more compared to the maybe. where you're from laidback you say yeah.

yeah they don't take themselves as. serious you know and I think it allows. for a lot more peace probably in their. own world and um a lot of individuality. here and that's one thing I could see. like cuz you like a hyper individual it. seems like so I could see it be like oh. this makes sense why this is a very this. it cultivated me in a sense because I. was trying to fit in but I wasn't meant. fitting you know I don't even sound like. I'm from here right cuz I was influenced. by TV and all that kind of stuff but um.

individuality here or. individualism you still get that crabs. in the back bucket mentality like people. will try. and do that oh people don't want you. being fancy here they don't want you get. in braces here nah man kind of we like. hey bro you going to be the [ __ ]. mayor man they want they want you to be. like they'll try to support you and I. think it's worldwide but it's a weird. thing with Australia and New Zealand I. can't remember what the history is but. you downplaying your achievement you.

know a lot of humility yeah no but. that's that's that's not real humility. though that's that's [ __ ] that's. like saying like you don't want to seem. bigger than yourself like if I know I'm. the man I'm going say I'm the [ __ ]. man like I know I know who I am cuz how. I'm treated you know wherever I go but. they don't like you saying that. outwardly here because it's not humble. but I'm like nah that's not that's. that's being fake because I'm not really. expressing how I feel like example one. of the national teams will win something.

crazy like the World Cup or whatever. they get on the mic and it's like oh. yeah no we did all right yeah we just. want to thank the Lord Jesus for I'm. like bro say how you feel say it with. your chest like [ __ ] did it yeah like. you know like I want I want people to. exess and i' I've said this already. there was a viral video that went when I. won this um sports Sportsman of the Year. New Zealand award and I gave the speech. and it went viral for a while but it. wasn't going to change the culture but. just I'm just staying the fact I was. like like I'm being humble is when Dan.

hooker punches me in the face that's. real humility right because then I have. to address like okay how do I deal with. that you know when um Carlos kicks me in. the leg you know that's real humility. like but me trying to be confident yeah. but me trying to like say be subservient. to make other people feel feel better. about themselves put it this way even. recently it's interesting it's like you. want to be subservient to your own spe. yeah you know like I myself a disservice. yeah so for me even recently I.

realized how do I put this without. seeing see pompus I realized I've. lived I've lived the peasant life if you. put it this way I I you know I've my. last time my last job was September 4th. 2013 next day I moved to China I planned. for months to make that happen I failed. three times before it actually happened. um I've lived that life I've lived for. the weekend all that kind of stuff but. then the bigger I got I still fell into.

that trap where I didn't want to seem. like I was too cool you know oh yeah I. get afraid a lot of times of uh being. proud I'm almost it's a weird thing I'm. almost being proud of yourself in a way. you should be you don't want people to. know you're proud of yourself yeah but I. didn't want to see like I'm too cool so. I still try and relate to the commoners. if you will like when I'm out you know. I'm at a. bar yeah I want and I am normal but I. can still walk around the street Bo I. just know I know I'm the [ __ ] but I know. I ain't [ __ ] that's like a a good. balance to have it's always fluctuating.

I know I'm the [ __ ] and sometimes I. ain't [ __ ] so it's a good it's a good. balance to have I think it's a good. balance for anybody it is and yeah. you're right I think the society here. maybe they have a different approach to. some of that but and maybe some of that. needs to evolve you know but um yeah I. think it's it's it's okay to you're just. learning about your own spirit and how. do I navigate this no one gave me a book. and being like this is how you now. you're famous here's what you do nah. even me sometimes I I might not be in.

the mood I might be having a [ __ ] day. the day my cat died I was having a. really [ __ ] day and the guy at the gas. station again was like oh my God bro bro. hold up hold up is bro at a Sonia bro. can you talk to my cousin I'm like H bro. my cat just died this morning I don't. really I'm not and he's like all good G. I'm like and I bad and I was like give. me the phone and then I grabbed the. phone I was talking to him I was like. wait hang on [ __ ] I'm pumping yes like. [ __ ] go away I was like bro and then I'm. a bad guy forever and then that's the. only story they have about me but again.

I'm comfortable with that now when. people have a bad story about me I'm. like they probably deserved it cuz when. people bring manners and respect I. reflect that back and they get more out. of me I stick around with them and I. even if even if I I'm I'm too I'm in a. rush I still try and make people feel. seen I still want to make them feel like. we connected yeah you know just even for. brief like bro I'm not doing photos. right now I'm in a rush spot I love you. I love you I love you and I just move. yeah but again I'll try and connect with. them and let them know I really.

appreciate you but um I think it's the. best that you can do man I really do I'm. human he I'm human so that's and it's a. crazy thing that you don't learn how to. be and it's there's there's so many like. nice Parts about it but there's there's. Parts about it that are like especially. nowadays with like VI the viral of. things you can't ever go back you know. and so then it's um anyway we're going. to start to sound like a couple of. psychopath. we talking about. it no but thing is it's relatable it's.

to to you and me it's relatable cuz you. you live this life as well and I don't. get to talk about this for most people. that's a good point man like my friends. they can understand because they see it. you know but most people don't get it. yeah you know they'll never get it. because they're not in this position. yeah I've been afraid to like I've been. afraid sometimes to get like like I have. a nice home you know I've been afraid to. like even go look sometimes at like a. real like fancy home or something or. maybe they had a little bit more space. or a garage where I could put two cars. or something you know like you can only. put one in your garage now yeah really. so I just like cuz I think there's a big.

part of me that humble well it's like I. don't know who would I be who I don't. know how I who I am if I'm in this if. you extra space for the car yeah no I. think it's like I just I know I it's so. much of my life I've been able to like. cont like manage what's going on and. it's gotten a little bit tougher for. sure over the past few years but I'm. like if I had another element then will. I even know like am I going to get. further away from like you'll be fine.

myself I guess knowing who you are You'. be fine you'll be able to handle having. a nicer house it's just B things are. easier you know but money would have. changed me if it was going to change me. it would have changed me years ago. probably. about four years ago it would have. changed me if if money was going to. change me you get to a certain point. when you make so many M and you're just. like it doesn't really really matter cuz. you're already as long as I can put a. full tank of gas in I don't even check. the price of gas I just put a full tank.

in that's when I know I'm good like I'm. good cuz I remember the days when I be. like y um can I get can I get $10 on. number five please thank you I remember. those days I did that I was me even $5. just $5 a number five please thank you. very much appreciate that but now I can. just go Phil boom I didn't got to go. inside I use my card bang that's when I. know I'm comfortable and as long as I. can do that I'm good anything else is. just bonuses yeah you know it's just. bonuses like I said I would rather be. rich than famous but I do I do.

appreciate the fame because it brought. me this life so I'm grateful when you're. a good Entertainer and that's one of the. interesting things to see too it's like. it's a blessing and a it's like one of. the cool things about being a good. Entertainer is sometimes God will even. move this Entertainer along so that more. people can see him yeah you know it's. like I was interviewing this guy Billy. strings a couple weeks ago this. guitarist and he grew up in um Michigan. like in just just like drug and like big. drug culture like people all around him. dying you know opioids everything and he.

has a big a tough time with like people. coming to see him and paying tickets to. see and stuff and and I was like but. dude you don't know like the guy who's. cleaning up after your show he's might. be listening to your music that's making. him keeping his [ __ ] day you know. it's like sometimes God uses all of us. as like candles I feel like at certain. moment we're all vessels we can all be. used at any moment any given moment I. felt you water I'm good for now I'm good. for now yeah now you're you're a guy on. you're great on the mic so you've. definitely been a vessel you know at.

times yeah I think there was how I. actually became a fan of you wasn't just. your comedy it was it was it was um One. Clip if you probably scroll up to our. first conversation I would I would have. sent it to you it was something of you. being vulnerable on the mic and I I. think you even got tear andal I related. to what you said and I was just like and. that's when I dm'd you and I was like oh. this guy follows me so I followed you. back and then talk like bro I really. appreciate you being this vulnerable I. can't remember what it was but I felt. that I felt that I think even Berke.

kusher same thing he was talking to Tom. and talking about his daughters and. something how he feels like he's not. doing enough and whatnot and I was just. like that [ __ ] hits me bro I'm a softy. man I I'm a softy I'm I'm like I'm hard. as [ __ ] cuz look what I do for a job but. I am a softy like oh my heart strings. Sometimes some something would just hit. me and I'm just like yeah. oh I see two people hug at an airport. and I just start [ __ ] you know or. somebody waiting with flowers for.

somebody to come I'm. like those moments man yeah I'm crying. in the. handicap like what's. going no it's interesting man well I. don't think I started to evolve like I. got into recovery from drugs and alcohol. like probably six years ago and that's. when I started for the first time in my. life before that I'd been kind of was it. bad bad it wasn't crazy bad but it was. getting like a little you adult you were. just living your life yeah but it was. like I didn't I wanted to have some. cocaine sometimes so I got afraid to.

have a beer because I was worried I. would have cocaine ah one leads to the. other yeah and I never had a drinking. problem but I was just if I do have a. beer then if somebody has cocaine I'm. done yeah even me right now like so I. lost my license because of this DUI oh. you DUI yeah I know first one but um it. was a silly mistake I had dinner two. cocktails it's it's out now but um then. there was some reports I couldn't speak. about it then cuz it was still an. ongoing court case but then there was. reports coming out saying he was two. times over the legal limit and all this.

and there's no excuse I just if I'm. going to go out out yeah I have people. to drive for me but this was just dinner. two Cocktails so I was 07 over the legal. limit and everyone else that they've had. this and they've had their license they. were like how come you weren in court. all I got was a fine and they did and. I'm like yeah but you're not me this New. Zealand media finally got me so they. wanted to got him they want parade him. but I I handled it well and um shout out. to the judge for being kind and. thoughtful and could see this is just a.

silly mistake that this guy can learn. from he's done more good than and this. doesn't take away from that so I'm I'm. grateful for that but um even me at the. moment I haven't drank since [ __ ] last. year oh really yeah I just look I I went. I had this procedure done with. uh stem cells last year and then I was. like you know what I want my body to. heal properly so I just kind of stained. yeah keep all the negative toxins out. exactly and I started I have my one of.

my boys who's a chef for 13 years he. works for me now he [ __ ] every day I eat. is a culinary experience one of the best. investments I've made in the last four. years really I love it oh my God [ __ ]. buying all that kind of [ __ ] like get a. chef it's the best if you love food and. you can afford it get a chef holy [ __ ]. damn it's the best every day casadas and. everything every he can his phrase I can. cook anything oh oh my God he can cook. anything so for me um I would have. something I would have prob fish at. night I think we're going to have horse.

maybe sometime in two weeks I want to. try some horse tacos bro they got. reindeer in damn Sweden yeah I was at a. restaurant they pull up with the [ __ ]. R deer bro [ __ ] in China I I didn't. question too many things I ate there but. I ate some. things I ate some I know I've eaten. donkey I don't know have dog a cat I. can't remember I've eaten pigeons. eatting alligator oh yeah um my buddy. just got a read on some um penguin meat. oo damn penguin what would that be like.

cuz it's fluffy feathers and then it's I. guess insulation and then meat would it. be lean no they're fat they fat they. blubber they' be a little bit of. marbling yeah might kind of a marble. chicken o it's a bird yeah it might be a. marble chicken like a steak chicken yeah. or do you have to cook it medium rare or. do you have to cook it all the way. through I don't know I hope it's. headless though that's the head looks. too cute that's the thing I think their. their PR is so cute you're like yeah. Happy Feet yeah yeah you're like. damn sorry Happy Feet yeah they're the.

damn French Bulldogs of the of the north. you know actual yeah they kind of look. like them without the face yeah so maybe. I don't know but I'm I got to email them. back but um so when you do look at like. so you've had some time off and stuff. when you was it to like did you want to. recalibrate what you cuz you've you've. gotten to achieve your dreams right and. there's something over and over and over. and over again yeah like I mean it's. unprecedented you know like you've you. mastered what you set out to do so then.

it's interesting because now you're a. master who is um who's already achieved. everything you can achieve in the game. but there's still more that I want to do. for myself right that's one right I I. guess I'm wondering like how does that. how do you start to separate those two. and what does that even you know I. haven't mastered the game yet I'm still. learning every day even right now we're. working again on my jab cuz I'm changing. it up now cuz there's so much footage on. me people can watch the smart coaches. and they can kind of game plan like my. question mark KCK was [ __ ] everyone.

up early on got to like maybe after the. Robert Whitaker fight maybe the Romero. fight no Costa fight actually Costa. avoided it but he he didn't fall he fell. for a different kick but um so from that. fight people kind of like know the. question marks coming so they're all. scared of it my jab was vicious it still. is but I'm just bringing it back I'm. tuning it up again so it's it's it's. constant ution constant learning every. time and with my grappling as well I. want to show it off I do want to show it. off in the cage I did a little bit in my.

fight with Alex in New York a little bit. but um you want to more you want you. still have things you want to do [ __ ]. yeah oh wow [ __ ] the belt and all that. it's more about highlights yeah for me. I'm a highlight guy yeah I know that's. what's interesting it's like that's what. I was wondering I was like does he miss. some of the trash talking and just the. [ __ ] you know like when it's raw when. it's honest yeah like me and Costa it. was good cuz I didn't like the guy he. didn't like me and Barina is that his. name boina B I didn't boina whatever.

yeah he's yeah so again like he's a guy. that when I fought him and again I had a. lackluster performance against Romero. because he didn't want to engage so. people were like oh [ __ ] him and it was. I have the most exciting title fight in. history and the most boring title fight. in history I do it. all but um after that fight people were. talking [ __ ] like oh this and that R. he's a b fighter and it's weird I see it. now they just forget they forget and I'm. like bro I gave you so much Classics so.

quick people forget man yeah but then um. for me when that fight came about I. didn't like him and he reminded me of. every J I had oh yeah he was very you. know goodlooking and like just very. muscular conditioner yeah oh bro the guy. and he was talking so much to everyone. and then the streets was like he went. three rounds with Romero he went three. rounds R like yeah I went five rounds. with Romero like well you didn't do [ __ ]. [ __ ] you I was like okay watch this. watch this so when I fought him I. remember I just I was so I was dialed in.

bro I was D I remember watching that we. went to after the show we went to a bar. I think we're in Indiana somewhere we. were in the Apex at the oh not the Apex. um the fight Island that was fight. Island and yeah I um I took him out I. took him for for a ride I took it I took. virginity well nah he didn't touch me. once apart from in the legs well seeing. that yeah and he just approved 100% well. it's also in some cultures it's more. it's dominance it's more appropriate too. yeah but I mean like for me I just felt. it was the most dominating thing I could.

do to him cuz he was in that position so. yeah in Brazil being engag just like two. guys dancing you know or just Dan high. five you know oh so they have some high. fives that'll last a look at the. technique look at the squat on the man. that's. crazy ra dog him it was good heart. breaking it was a good time I enjoyed it. no regret what did you think of his uh. of his fight with Whitaker it's a good. fight I liked it I liked his jab in that. fight I was like okay he came back but. man that end the first round when he. when he rocked him with the wheel kick.

yeah W did not expect that and then. again at the end of the round so he got. Saved by the Bell came back and Whitaker. just just out guts them he just out guts. them I thought it was close I thought. maybe maybe Costa might have won I felt. he might have won but then when they. gave it to Whitaker I was like huh okay. well it wasn't a robbery but I thought. Costa probably had it um but yeah he was. good he look good in that fight he's he. wasn't the same after this everyone. keeps telling me that you ruined that. man really you think that.

ah I don't think after that fight he. wasn't the same he was on a run he had. this I'll tell you this you look at the. fight you look at the first round the. way he looked at me and they look at the. second round when he's. like like you see his face the demeanor. changed I love those moments you take. the soul away you just know like this. guy knows he doesn't want to be locked. in here with me and video game but their. controller's gone yeah bad dream for him. bad dream for him so it's like yeah I.

like that moment um but yeah I like the. guy he's funny he's I think he's an. Entertainer he's on Twitter uh he's got. secret Juice secret juice and all that. it's fun there's there's so many uh. that's one thing I was wondering do you. miss sometimes just in the past year. being off or so like do you miss some of. the entertainment like like because. there's been a lot of great like the. trash talk and everything that kind of. like you know like like Strickland so. ridic like him and MGK are arguing like. that [ __ ] is it's hilarious though like.

do you laugh at some of it like like. it's just so I didn't really I didn't. really pay attention to I was like oh. Strickland I mean strickling you put him. in public it's uh it's a different story. yeah yeah he's always got something to. say man yeah um is that a fight that you. feel like you want to go like oh 100%. yeah 100% come on man I don't know I. don't know what like if guys get like um. that's it they're like about going and. revisiting that not because of the fight. but just because you care or not care so. for me when Pereira beat me he beat me.

the first time I went to Brazil he beat. me knocked me out and I didn't chase it. I was like you know what I'm done with. kickboxing and then he said he got. motivated cuz he saw me you know talking. about him and then decided I'm going to. go MMA and chase this guy and he did and. then go to the UFC they fast-tracked him. he got to me and they did FASTT trck him. yeah I mean it is what it is I don't. blame them it's it was look at what we. have now we have Classics so um he beat. me in almost similar fashion in the way.

I was beating his ass and then in the. last round he just had that spirit and. just something behind him some kind of. Shinigami he just came and just beat me. and I was just like [ __ ] again how is. this guy and then I let it go and then I. just knew this is the last one like. after this I'm I'm done with this guy. but I have to get him now I have to get. him now and in that moment when I when I. got it done I got it done it took me six. years and then I went after his kids too. I was like yeah where you at cuz I'm a. petty [ __ ] so you want to end.

you know just let the lineage know. what's up of course not like cuz CU you. don't want their kid fighting your kid. at school or something yeah n it won't. even go to the same school but like the. fact is I had to teach this kids a. lesson because of what they did prior. and this took me what six years to. accomplish with Strickland it wouldn't. take me that long uh let me just get. through DDP first let me handle I I look. I I look to the next fight never I look. ahead like a little Peak at the future. but I don't try and focus on it and I. just know the stricking fight will come. back around and I'm I'm in a good place.

now healthwise mentally and I know. exactly what happened in that fight that. just wasn't for me he's a great fighter. put a he's also a good Champion what a. rain I mean he did what he did uh. stricking yeah but I mean like he did. what he did everybody can beat me upside. laugh no but I mean like he did what he. did look even the way he beat me it was. spectacular it was his moment it was his. moment like like sometimes Dave. Chappelle said something in this dreamer. special he said oh how did he put it.

hold up I got I have it saved here find. it no no I have it saved here give me. two seconds I'll I'll play right now in. five 4 3 2. one and that's the trick to life you. have to be wise enough to know when you. were living in your dream and you have. to be humble enough to accept when. you're in someone.

else's they said that in the his new. special um I think dreamer and I felt. that and I was like yeah cuz look life. is a game I always use this mono of. player one and even people sometimes. think oh he's so narcissistic he thinks. he's player one I'm like don't you are. you a bot like everyone can grab the. controller and play the [ __ ] game but. most people don't most I'm sure you see. it most people just go through life just.

on the programming they just go with the. flow whatever it's good to go with the. flow but whose flow are you going with. oh yeah so for me I had to like pause. and question everything and I. realized that was his night that was his. night he was just he just fought the. perfect fight no matter what I made no. excuses I gave it to him but again like. I say I'm a patient [ __ ] I take. my time I. reassess and yeah I go for what what I. want you know yeah but you still feel a.

real fire for it oh yeah of course yeah. I mean even the way look I had bars. ready but I. just the way he reacted when DDP. mentioned some of his stuff his trauma I. was like H yeah that let me that let me. know something again even look that. moment you guys had was beautiful I'll. say that that was beautiful cuz I never. seen him like that like after the fight. he's crying cuz he's so in like what the. [ __ ] I just be I I I clocked it and I. was like as a joke I was like hey you're.

crying like a [ __ ] he kind of laughed I. was like come here and whatever but then. when he was talking with you and then. you guys kind of got really vulnerable I. was like man no kit you have to you know. go through that yeah it's heartbreaking. yeah it was heartbreaking to even see. that but again look I'm a human being. and I can connect with people on a human. level but doesn't mean I'm not going to. get you I'm not going to look I even. this about Silva look just cuz I'm a fan. doesn't mean you can't catch these hands. you know Silva was my Michael Jordan of.

this [ __ ] game and I was just like I. was NE I thought I would never fight him. and the opportunity present presented. itself and I was just I had this trip. planned for Amsterdam France all this. kind of stuff and then the opportunity. came and I was just thinking like I got. to do it I have to do it and I did it. and it was a beautiful fight beautiful. way to like like I I wish he stopped. after that I wish maybe he moved to. boxing after that cuz he even he said to. me in the casage like I passed the Bon. to you and and just kind of like bless.

me all these words and I'm there. like like just cry you know for me cuz I. that was never meant to happen ah [ __ ]. it was never meant to happen but it. happened and I even have it framed in my. house we're fighting on this chess piece. like a chess board cuz that's what the. fight was and I hit him with that rock. LE stand from Naruto. and he's standing there like gar it just. looks so cool like that fight was. electric it was beautiful just a master. just a masterful way to play the game.

from two Tai Jutsu Masters if you will. yeah there's a composer element to you. that I think is really interesting. because it's like and that's why I. wonder about like yeah does he still. love like what does he want to do with. fighting just because there's a lot of. options in life yeah and sometimes. creativity can you know flow and just. you know you can decide like I've you. know what else do I want to [ __ ] you. know be uh an actor do I want to you. know I'll act I've already like turned. down a few roles a few high-profile.

roles because I wanted to make sure I. focus on fighting that's the one thing I. wanted to focus on was fighting I don't. ever want to get sidetracked and look. else yeah cuz I I know what I can focus. on and then if I do then things can get. squirely so I'd rather not but um yeah. dude if you were like a fighter pilot or. something be so sick or if you were like. in a War like in war movie yeah. but I wouldn't say it I wouldn't say. I'll say it off I'll say it after this. but like but yeah um I'm definitely.

going to have you know I already got. ties in Hollywood like people want to. work with me which is cool and I do my. own stunts I mean save money what I'm. saying I like what you're thinking yeah. save money I do my own stunts you don't. have to get a stunt double um but also. I'll have my own production company and. I will like maybe make some some. characters like some anime or just have. weird ideas bro like sometimes I'm I. don't know how to write a screenplay but. I'll get someone who can I can just.

vomit words at them and they can just. put it in a way that's digestible for TV. or Netflix or you know a crunchy roll or. whatever yeah style Bender Studios I. mean style Bender is such a great it's. like the greatest moniker honestly in a. lot of ways because there's just so many. you don't even know what it is but you. know what it is yeah I got from even. they just dropped the live action. the Avatar series The Last Air bander. just dropped yesterday oh yeah in New. Zealand I'm going to watch it tonight. but um for me I when I was watching that.

I I I love that show I grew up on that. show so for me I got the name because I. felt in this realm I want to master all. the elements of martial arts and realize. my destiny as the Avatar and I felt like. I was the one so I have and I'm still. doing it and now you know the. middleweight division needs me again so. this this I'm it's all about the story. you're telling yourself signal yeah.

exactly like what story are you telling. yourself this is the life we live and. most people don't they just kind of go. with the flow whatever you're so true. and because that shapes your perspective. and then your P that's the huge. ingredient that I think so many people. that um have that I didn't realize for. years yeah is that perspective because I. can walk I can walk into the airport and. be like. I'm gonna be bummed I'm gonna be. perturbed if people say come want to. take a picture of people and I know it's. a crazy attitude or I can walk that.

airport bomb though oh yeah I was like. wait where's he going with this okay be. bomed by people yeah but or I can walk. in and be like hey man you're going to. get to meet some people today you care. about people you love people Embrace. this Embrace this opportunity and moment. to be uh to have a nice moment with. someone else and it's all that that's. all it is even me now 6 months without. driving I'm like oh well I'm saving gas. for 6 months and then while I'm not. driving I'm busy doing other [ __ ] making. [ __ ] happen so I just flip it around in.

my head so that way it's more tolerable. was it um when you got when you got to. walk out with like Fury what was that. fight you guys Wu yeah oh bro what was. that like bro it was like three kings. back together kind of oh that was. beautiful that was a moment I'll tell. you one thing M I'm very. layback like contrary to popular belief. I'm very lay back but for me I wish I I. dressed a little nicer for that walk out. it still look good we still we still had.

our moment but like I kind of wore it's. it's cheek like lowkey like just it was. too lowkey for the moment the look I. would there's there's other outfits I've. worn that I'm like I could have still. worn my slides and like have that moment. like it was beautiful like you know. three kings but regardless we just. looked Epic Walking together and Francis. just the the Adonis that he is just just. his story itself is is bananas like if. you know his history you've listened to. it on JRE and whatnot M the way he's.

come up now and now he's doing this when. people said he wouldn't do this yeah. making crazy money crazy money so I'm. happy for him even Mike Tyson right. there it was a moment bro it was a. moment for just for history I love that. these are moments for life I would never. forget these moments man yeah it's crazy. I mean it. just it's almost like like you could. never even understand what's going on. you know yeah that's so cool yeah see. kamaru was dressed with that I kind of. had a similar outfit that I was in mind.

but then I was like nah it's his moment. Francis so I kind of want I think that. was fair you pay homage to him you're. like I'm going to dress down this is. about looking at him yeah but then I. still think like for moments like that. next time Israel don't be so again. another moment where I was like I shied. away from shining but again regardless. if I was dressed with a [ __ ]. headdress or whatever he would have. shine in that moment cuz it's his moment. so I just wanted to make it about him. that's why when when you see stuff like. this like fights like this do you get. tempted when you see these guys fighting. like Jake Paul's mom and stuff like that.

like fighting like um kid ly or whatever. like there's always this [ __ ] online n. you mean like the the the boxers that. everyone wants to box now yeah there's. always like a Care Bear fighting like. like sneo or something you know like. every week There's somebody's like. fighting um like drawing of somebody's. grandparents it's good for the sport I. think it's good for boxing because look. look what it's done for but also shout. out to his exellency turkey the guy that. organized all this he has lit a fire in.

the Combat Sports World in a sense bro. they they've been sitting on how much. money of oil money like just crazy. amounts just disposable income like. const and even the ad there was a ad for. um uh um Fury and yusk and they had all. these mainstream Hollywood actors and. actresses in it and I'm like because. they just have the money huh just here. but they've that's good for the game. because now they forced Vegas you know.

everywhere else to like raise the bar so. it's good competition is good yeah this. ad insane look at the production and. this is a ad for a boxing fight wow yeah. and they pulled out but you know the. fight will still happen later in the. year I think they've rescheduled but. yeah like this is is that Clint Eastwood. yeah that's what I'm saying Jesus for an. advert and he's not cheap nah-uh not for. that not for acting but um oh wow so. you're saying that they have all this.

money like at like it's just like. they're doing with live golf where. they're like yeah so that they bought. that as well so for me I've been invited. now three times to Saudi Arabia and each. time I went back it just felt like it. was more they were doing more with the. ne with the next seven years eight years. is going to be bigger than Dubai I think. or like the UAE or match them for like. touris cuz now they just even lifted um. the alcohol ban they had yeah they had I. think it was end of this end of last. year or this year they lifted the. alcohol drink there now now I haven't.

been back since you can but apparently. you can that's going to change. everything it will it will invite more. people through and then there's more. buildings going up every time I go over. there so yeah are you impressed by it. over there then it sounds yeah I am very. impressed also one thing I'm the culture. I like the culture over there they. they've preserved their culture still. even as the the landscape moves into the. 21st century a little bit more invites. the world into the even in Dubai and and. the Abu Dhabi they still you see the.

culture is heavily present there and I. respect that I love seeing that when you. go to a place so it's not too I guess uh. westernized you know like you MC. McDonald's or whatever all that kind of. stuff you still see Essences of their. culture everywhere which is good and I. feel like over there they've they've. done that heavily in 1 Saudi Arabia. first alcohol sales in 17 years dividing. a opion can you zoom in on a little bit. the news that Saudi Arabia will. allow go down a little the news that. Saudi Arabia will allow its first.

alcohol shop has citizens and foreigners. alike mulling one question is this a. minor policy tweak or a major up people. sources familiar with the preparations. for the store disclosed details of the. plan on Wednesday located in the. capital's diplomatic quarter the store. it looks like one store will be. accessible only to non-muslim diplomats. what's a diplomat that's that's that's I. don't know I'm not I'm not really. political enough to know what that is. but um all it takes is one that's a. trojan horse I mean kind of like um. medical marijuana that was the Gateway.

now now it's going to be a bunch of. people just doing Fireball on camels I. love Fireballs I on camels doing. Fireball yeah um what's your drink of. choice when you drink when I drank I. liked beer I think and I like sometimes. like a dang like a p colada sometimes. like a Captain Morgan Coke like I'm I'm. a sweet tooth guy but my standard is. bourbon and Coke but I like a sweet. cocktail I love a sweet cocktail it's.

just I look bear my dad used to. distribute Guinness all over West Africa. when I was a kid what do you mean he. would distribute like he was part of a. group that would so he help trucks. trucks all over West Africa yeah cargos. and we had so much in the house and one. time I was like maybe six or seven I. like Can I taste that he's like yeah. sure had a taste and I did not touch. alcohol from that point till one time I. think I was 18 maybe a little bit. heartbroken and then hanging out with my. boys and you know I just have and I have.

I found Woodstock Bon and Coke and then. when I first got drunk it was at this. park with my boys I realized why like. this is why that girl outside the party. is crying this is why that guy wants to. fight everyone this is why that guy. wants to because it opened my eyes to. understand what being drunk was like but. um yeah it it's so interesting man cuz. one thing it's interesting I think about. you man this is a judgment but you are. you are yourself but you also are able. to watch yourself be yourself and some.

people it's a it's something that we all. need more of self-awareness it's we have. to find ways to get it because I think. it used to be the Crux of a human being. like you had a relationship with. yourself that was evolving constantly. like um you know a lot of the greats. like uh Marcus aelas and stuff Not only. would they learn something but then they. would sit there with what they learned. and develop a relationship with it you. know like what have I learned here what. does this mean to me what am I getting. from this what is this serving me do I.

need to let go of this right I'm. constantly questioning even things that. I've been told uh that's interesting bro. nah not not I think just living life and. okay example when I was young Sunday. school I remember you know you learn. about God made the world in seven days. and this and that right and Eve yeah and. then for me I remember asking the. question to my Sunday school teacher was. that well if God made the world who made. God and there no answer just kind of.

like what that then I asked my parents. asked the housemates my aunties and then. eventually one of my aunties was like if. you keep asking that question you go mad. and then I kind of thought like these I. don't think they understand I don't. think these [ __ ] understand. what's really going on so it made me. question you know what they tell me and. over time through life I've had moments. when I've done stuff and I'm just like. why did I do that why did I feel that. way and then again I call it like you. identify the monster that you can kill. it so once I identify the feeling of you.

know maybe Envy or anger or sadness I'm. like why am I feeling this way and I can. backwards engineer it or something so go. go into that a little bit because I. think that's important man because I. think a lot of people deal with that so. say if somebody's kind of going through. that like what like what kind of process. are you kind of talking about okay so. example if um say. okay it's a it takes a skill to be happy. for someone and I've noticed this. because when I was younger and growing. up in nzed the culture kind of caught me.

a little bit Weir if someone's doing. well you know it might it might look. like a cuz I noticed myself one of my. friends old friend I noticed myself like. distancing myself away from him because. he was doing so well yeah and then I. realized I was like wait hang on so I. had to kind of cuz I was like this my. boy I was like why am I. why am I feeling this way why am I. feeling like I'm jealous of him when. he's not doing anything to me and I've. seen people do it to me as well the.

bigger I got it kept on getting people. start oh must be nice type type [ __ ] you. know yeah like oh and then you see them. start to treat me differently so for me. I start I noticed myself starting to. treat him differently and distance. myself from him so I pulled the brakes. sat with it for a few weeks probably and. just kind of identify like why I should. be happy for him and it takes a skill to. learn that and then becomes your second. nature over time once you become like. reps reps reps reps cuz to learn to be a. hater was just natural in the.

environment I was in so I had to learn. nah that's not the way I want to be so. you can unlearn behaviors as well even. as I get older. things things even women I have to. unlearn certain behaviors and be okay. yeah you have to know like this is maybe. approaching this being more honest or. being more communicative and all that. kind of stuff you have to unlearn. unlearn and constantly learn new ways of. being. yeah um when you uh when you look at the. UFC today like who really kind of um.

excites you like are there guys you're. like oh this is fun I like this. storyline like um are you able to get a. different look at it being away from it. a little bit like do you have yeah thing. is before the UFC I watched everything I. would watch all the embedded all the. countdowns all the shows they have on. the UFC websites I would watch. everything but then. even when I was in it I was watching. everything but then over. time I'm starting to understand. sometimes the way maybe Nate and Nick.

Diaz feel because you've you've you've. done so much for this game you've put so. much in this game and then you still. feel sometimes disrespected and then. you're just like man [ __ ] this [ __ ] like. [ __ ] this game but I've cuz I don't. remember the last time I watched the. countdown I don't remember the last time. I watched I don't even watch the. embedded anymore I've kind of like it's. played out to me in a way but I was. watching it when I was coming up and. that that helped me a lot because when I. got to the UFC it was I just knew what. to expect I was like oh yeah I've seen.

this before oh I see yeah because at. that point you're also surveying the. like the stage so you know like I know. where the camera's here I know where to. look up right there this is why I have. these moments man this people think it's. all it's all like not a chance N I have. these moments cuz again the shower I. operate there and I just know like. example the speech I get after I knocked. out Alex I remember being in in the. shower visualizing winning in Miami and. just like cuz I I put myself I immersed. myself because of my imagination in that.

moment and I remember feeling so happy. and in that moment I was just like I. just [ __ ] I just want everyone to feel. how happy I am and that's all I wanted. to say yeah and then the rest came. vessel I was just like BL blah BL BL and. I just said what I said and people [ __ ]. with it and it became this moment and. I'm glad I'm glad it became that moment. because people still this to this day. that's like man you made me feel so. happy I remember that speech and this. and that and when I speak from the heart.

I. feel it hits people cuz I'm trying to. I'm trying to connect we're all human. beings no matter what ra like you just. when you speak from the heart I can. touch people man I don't know if it's my. mom says it's a gift but my mom's. supposed to say that but so fny she yeah. no she's supposed to say that but like. no you're right it's tough to even trust. our own mom but like I I think from. doing it over time now with reps even. one of my my boys's uh I was I was a. groomsman at this wedding I didn't write. [ __ ] for the speech I just spoke from.

the heart and I was like man I killed. that. [ __ ] and yeah it's you know it's a skill. in a way but at the same time might be a. gift but who knows we're all gifted we. just have to you get more practice with. it you've gotten practice over the years. after fights after fights in China. people speak. English like I just said whatever I. wanted you got 40 reps over there nobody. even watch I'm going to go back man. that's the thing cuz people actually. they like they make a joke of it not my. time in China but I'm grateful for those. times man like China man Adventures.

really like unicycles and stuff or like. what are you talking about talking like. Adventures [ __ ] I don't this is a. worldwide internet thing but uh. Adventures like say just after fight. okay so me and me and my my one of my. teammates blood diamond we kind of had. each other's back in China he's a. Zimbabwean guy MH and so we'd be living. we uh at one point we were in Hanan. Province Jen Joo and we were just.

outside the city at this camp that was. our base after a fight we come back to. the camp you know wherever we are I. traveled so many places in China some. places I can't even pronounce I don't. even know or I forgot I'd go straight. from the hotel fight fight Hotel Airport. but then we get back to our base and. then would take a weekend away just to. go to the city which is like 40 30. minute drive boom get a hotel go out. there and they they like foreigners in. their clubs cuz it looks like the club. is more popping so we just get given.

free boost Black Label Johnny Walker you. know sit down and have have a time oh. some things I can never say on the. camera but we had some good fun in China. oh the hotels over there the the the the. they they massages all that it was it. was a good time but I again I I fought I. was there for maybe 10 months I fought. about 24 or 25 times one of those months. I fought every weekend CU I had four.

fights that month and I had two. Knockouts but I was fighting constantly. and it just elevated me because it's. just reps I'm fighting you know I'm. training with these guys and they Spa. hard over there the Chinese you ever. want they Spa hard and sometime well. back then they were still in the mindset. like to train your chin you have to so. it did stand in yeah which is not really. the smartest well the Russians do what's. that clip with do we have that clip with. the Russian have you seen this kind of. stuff yeah the Russian it's like uh.

[ __ ] yeah it's like instead of fiber. they use this thing oh no he's going to. hurt himself no oh what the [ __ ] what in. the ctra. it's oh what the. fck what the [ __ ] is that is that. punishment that's got to be punishment. that's torture n this is training bro. this is for what it makes him. stronger they're trying to separate the. man from himself Jesus it kind of looks. fun BR it a shadow.

anymore just rip a solar pot what what. is that training for I need to know the. Russian Fitness Training Method prilo is. still used in many boxing gyms today to. increase strength and punching power can. you look it up too I'm okay I'm trying. to even see what the physics is how. would you so w do you have to restrain. yourself I don't understand well I guess. if you let yourself sag. if you have to pull on all the ropes and. like hold your core yeah like Samson. just ah May that's something yeah I have. to ask my strength coach cuz even that's.

why I have someone who's smarter than me. I wouldn't ask anybody about that. because I don't think I that looks like. some torture he might be like that's a. good idea let's let's add that to your. regimen I don't want to see uh Jean. setting that up for you is that your. coach Jean now Eugene yeah he's uh he's. my and he goes by Eugene yeah Eugene. yeah sorry no he's good I just call him. yeah a lot of we call each other a lot. of names. well you guys have had a long. relationship machine builds strength. Mobility the oldfashioned way stretching. out yeah let me see a little bit more. that I mean that I'm intrigued I'm I'm.

straight because you could just tie like. there's a torture method back in the. medieval times where you can like tie a. guy to this horse and this upper body to. this horse and then they just like hit. the horse and then they separate so. maybe that could be a old school version. but that was a way to kill people. torture them yeah it works to stretch. and strengthen the internal framework of. joints tendons and ligaments as well as. improved mental Clarity and ability to. work under stress okay by stretching all. the connective tissues and removing.

knots blockages okay prilo practice. increases blood flow to the entire body. I bet it definitely yeah I mean if it's. you know the Russians are pretty good at. sport um so yeah and what do you do it. looks like your wife's mad at you I. thought I was about to get 10 lashes or. something neck minute damn it kind of. looks fun Tedd I'm crazy so I like crazy. [ __ ] so while I wasn't. fighting I um I took up other things. like okay September I feel like when.

you're not fighting I feel like you're. in Zelda breath of the. wild that's what it's like I think from. perspec like not playing the game. literally yeah I know but you're in the. in the like I can do anything like I'm. I've got money I've got a. passport [ __ ] go anywhere but um for. me I took up things like golf gos my new. favorite pastime in a way because I like. it cuz it's it's soft it's it's a bit. more um slow Pac people say oh what.

about tennis or something I'm. like something soft something that's. true cuz my life is chaos when I'm in. the gym murderers trying to kill me all. the time working out cardio strength so. then when I'm on the golf course I mean. I'm going to try to even flex but I got. pretty good I want to see it I can't. believe it I got I got pretty good in. about how many months let me say say I. got pretty good I'll send you guys this. clip as well I got pretty good in about. five. months so this is me.

now oo my it's not bad look at the hips. on them that's clean bro yeah wow wa. like the last one this is my was my. final one I was like you know. what there's a lot of great golfers from. your country yeah from Nigeria oh no New. Zealand see I sent that [ __ ] to the Moon. I sent that [ __ ] to the Moon I was like. yeah and look again emotes this how I. live my. life I said that yeah cuz when you're a. kid you be doing [ __ ] like this and then. you get to H bro I be I'm a Power Ranger.

when I was a kid I was a Ninja Turtle I. was action man like you can be anyone. you want I was a bus boy for Halloween I. was like [ __ ] I was like yeah a bus boy. I was like hopeful yeah like we had a. lot of like low low hopes in our area. well I mean I didn't really have the. costume but in my mind I was I was legit. a Power Ranger I was always a black. Ranger either him or the Red Ranger. that's fair but yeah um um what was I. saying before before I go on this tender. of golf yeah so I like golf just CU it's.

something different and who do you play. with golf yeah you justed go by yourself. oh my homies oh go to the driving range. but like last time was a Slava Joe. Hopkins and my boy Matt and this other. guy Jackson I believe oh some local guys. yeah my friends oh nice uh Slava and Joe. are Fighters as well um Joe still fights. Slava is just a big time businessman now. but he just likes to you know hit the. hit the the golf sticks once in a while. Club yeah you golf oh yeah I like to. golf I'm not good at it but I do like to.

do it yeah I I would say I'm coachable. I'm very very coachable because I'm the. guy like the details cuz at first I used. to do this I was this guy want hit the. so I would like yeah and then I'll. strike it down and then it wasn't until. um this this guy what's his name Daryl I. believe out South walkand at the airport. there's a golf a driving Ranger over. there he told me like I've watched your. videos mate um see the way you when you. set up your kicks you know and he. explained to me and showed me my hip.

faint and said like that's the way and. then from then I got to this where it's. like my bad like and from there ah I can. get that in there so once he once he. told me that you can fix the frame sorry. once he told me that then I was. likeing and that's that's the day I. started sending and I was like oh I'm. getting this [ __ ] now but now it's about. learning what face of the club I want to. hit with so I can determine which way. the ball goes if I wanted to go a bit to.

the right or to the left CU right now it. goes to the right at. least 60 65% of the time but oh yeah. that's what I'm doing I yeah I'm. constantly and I'm okay maybe change the. club face so the details of it intrigues. me and again it's slow Pac and it just. gets in my brain so I I suck my teeth. into that last year I went skydiving. never it first time did it in uh Abu. Dhabi and that was dope it was [ __ ]. sick no way who you go with other. Fighters or no n uh Devin Haney was.

there actually he did it right after me. yeah the boxer and then um yeah uh dude. that's crazy it's fun like I can't. believe you've never been N I wanted and. you only have to do it seven more times. and I can go by myself so there's a. place like a bad idea no no I'm going to. do it you are bro so even okay bro this. is me and I'm already even I've got a a. motorcycle riding lesson on Saturday cuz. and again my mom's a nurse so she's. already told me nope nope oh cuz she's.

seen the worst yeah a lot of the organ. donors are come from motorcyclist that's. what I've heard you could do pink slips. with Strickland if you guys didn't oh. does r oh it does ride motorcycles that. would be but somebody would get i'. rather to fight him i' rather to fight. him yeah do what we do the man dance I. want to do a man dance but um yeah so. for me skydiving motorcycle riding I. might get into that unless I get t fed. out of it but um yeah something that. just gets me going that's why for me I. know when I'm done with this. game at least every few months I need to. do something that will make me feel like.

I'm about to die like something scary. something that makes me go [ __ ] like. this is this is happening this is legit. this is real [ __ ] I could die in this so. why is that so important you think to. people I think it's for me I'm an. adrenaline junkie really yeah I'm an. adrenaline junkie I I've accepted that. about myself um. and I think you just I I even Alex spoke. about it after his Islam fight where he. said like you know just sitting around. like you you know you need to do.

something you need to do something and I. felt that a lot of Fighters felt that so. for me that's why I say giving me free. time with what I have now can be a bad. idea but I'm glad that I'm older now a. little a lot wiser a lot wiser now I'm. surprised I don't have any babies out. there well did I know of maybe in China. but wait another we'll. see we'll see but like no I've just I've. lived a life Theo I've made some dumb. decisions you know I've been places I've. been places some scary stories some good.

times and some bad ones but no regrets. cuz it all led me to these moments and. the lessons I've learned from them. Priceless and. stories um I'm sure you got some stories. as well oh yeah something I got to keep. to myself what I'm saying for me cuz. I've never really Express this maybe. after I'm done fighting I'll I'll make. like another doco or docu series and. then I'll go deeper cuz or Memoir Even. book yeah I mean get someone to [ __ ].

write that co-write that with me because. even while I was in the UFC man [ __ ] I. was just I went through my own ups and. downs but I'm glad they weren't caught. by the media because then one thing is. like sometimes if if someone goes. through something you want to go through. it alone without the world watching you. cuz there's already like a magnifying. glass on your life you know everyone's. watching you and waiting for you to fail. or something like that so yeah people. take their own lives because they can't. handle what the media does the media has.

no accountability the media has no a lot. of people living Our Lives they would. have definitely uniz themselves. unsubscribed from life cuz it's it's a. lot and I've been there before where I'm. just like [ __ ] this is too much and I. just I find myself going in my shell. I'll just become a crab and I just and. then I. just I wouldn't really want to you don't. trust the world then I don't trust the. world N I feel like I got to protect. myself so I become a turtle Ninja Turtle. but then little less ninja a little more.

Turtle more Turtle yeah less ninja more. turtle ninja oh bro man for me it's just. about learning learning how to come out. of that and that's where you've seen in. the in the doer uh talking to jenet. who's my she doesn't like to call. herself a therapist she calls herself a. possibility manager bro she's impressive. I was actually going to ask you for her. information crazy she's here she's she. might be I think she might be in she she. retired and just travels the country now. in a caravan seeing her grandkids wow. that's her life so she's already set.

herself up she's left that life behind. of the nine of five or whatnot so she. just lives a life she asked the best. questions it felt like yeah that's what. it is people think therapy is this thing. where this [ __ ] don't know [ __ ]. about me but that they don't need to. that's why you talk so and it's like. dating in a sense you kind of got to try. different people 100% so many times. people go see the first therapist and. they stay with them for years it's like. are you changing are you evolving it's. nobody's fault if you're not but you got. to put yourself into like some boiling.

water yeah because you want to see what. the [ __ ] flavors are in you bro you got. to figure it out and if you get the. wrong person they can see like a. therapist could sit there and be like oh. this chick with blue hair ch- ching and. then just keep him for two years and. just keep making money off them a great. therapist or not some asking you about. Billy Alish all the time come but like a. a great one is one that would um kind of. like a doctor a doctor shouldn't keep. you sick constantly she try to help you. like okay Jenna last time I saw her. would have been over a year now I talked.

to her maybe about two months ago. briefly through text when things were. getting Rocky but thing is she's given. me so many tools that I can use that. when things get a little because I'm. human and life be life be lifing so then. I have the tools I can use to help me. but then someone who just kind of keeps. you in that suffering phase and it can. milk off you is not someone you want to. be with so chop around find the right. person that can kind of want the best. for you and then you see am I getting.

something out of this once you're not. getting anything out of it pull back I'm. sure there's something that's going to. happen life is always lifing something's. going to happen that'll rock my world. and then boom jenet are you free can I. talk to you boom yeah and that's it but. yeah at the moment I haven't seen her. because I've just been I've been awesome. I've just been living my life and I've. had my ups and downs but again she's. given me the tools to use that could. help me bring myself back to balance and. that's what you want no bro I think it's. just so important because you don't hear.

that part about therapy you just hear. like go see a therapist people are like. this didn't work I'm not doing it. anymore [ __ ] and it's like bullsh. somebody yeah there's somebody that. works um you talked in the documentary. about and we'll get out of here in a. minute man you talked in the documentary. about how long has it been see time. flies when you're having fun wait what. probably a couple hours huh near two. hours hour hour 50 no way [ __ ] off we. barely even got man you wait till I. retire we'll do this again we'll talk. about some. [ __ ] I cuz one thing I like is your.

perspective on things you just oh the. clips [ __ ] there's I think even the. Instagram page theovon clips that sent. to our group chat a lot and I just crack. up like you just say the most out. thegate [ __ ] I'm how did he even think. of that yeah I don't know no it's you. it's your perspective and that's the. beautiful thing of it you're able to. express it so people can follow the way. your mind works you know what I mean. it's cool to see thanks man yeah I like. to I don't know I was just always like I.

just wanted to find a way to be myself. whatever that even means it was just. like man authentically be yourself yeah. and what who even am I I just had no. idea I didn't know what I I built this. kind of thing I didn't even know what I. was doing for so long life's crazy bro. it is especially the life we live I'm. grateful but it is crazy all all of it. [ __ ] unbelievable that we're just you. know loud animals you know like what if. you were in the woods and you saw a bear.

like on his computer or something you be. like this bear is Yogi yeah you like. this bear is mentally unwell you know. but it's like um it's just weird being. in society but um what about iasa did. you ever try it you talked about it so. that's on the list it's definitely on I. like the segue it's like you got to get. it man it's so fascinating have you been. yeah damn I just went a couple of weeks. ago did you like uh did you go to the. the jungle or you found a guy that can. actually do it properly cuz for me I've.

heard like because of the popularity now. there's a lot of shamans who aren't. really Chans that they just oh come sit. down in a circle with us Kumbaya and. then give you the drug and or the plant. medicine and then you know you don't. really get the you might get the trip. but you don't really get the benefits. from like the the the sh to guide you. through that you know the purging and. all that kind of stuff but um it's it's. been on my list but the reason I haven't. done it yet and I told even Mike Tyson. this was.

because uh you probably haven't watched. Avatar but that's the best way I can. explain I've seen it it's about the the. air whatever Blues yeah no no the wrong. one Avatar the the the last airband of. the series not the not the the Tuskegee. Indians or whatever something like. that no no no no no that's you're. talking you're thinking James Cameron's. Avatar I'm thinking the the cartoon okay. I got to watch the cartoon yeah there we. go so yeah this Avatar yeah the show the. I I'm I'm a big fan that's my one of my.

favorite animes but um they gets to a. point where this guy doesn't know how to. fire Bend anymore because he became. friends with this little kid Ang so for. me I felt like if I go to the jungle and. then I realize a lot of my [ __ ] oh yeah. and I I actualize my myself and I I I. come out you know Clare Clarity and I'm. just like will it affect my fighting. that's the thing cuz I fight I mean. you've seen this in the doco I got chips.

in the dip you know I'm I'm very I'm. very I have something to prove you know. I got to prove something you know so for. me it's not always to other people it's. to myself to my younger self cuz I used. to get [ __ ] with a lot so as as a way. of like let I became strong so no one. could [ __ ] with me so no one could you. know I'm I'm fortified in myself and I'm. like yeah you can't [ __ ] with me and I. can that's why I'm able to be vulnerable. about all this kind of stuff cuz I'm. like you can't beat my ass it's all good.

right I'm safe enough now that you know. what that's interesting man I can relate. to that it was like once I got like I. always just felt like people judge me so. much because I was poor where I lived. how I got to school uh what we drove how. we were you know and it just like I was. just like I just wanna. you I want to be able to be in control. and like and that younger kid like now. like that kid that was all bummed out. like now I can still notice when he's. upset about something it comes up right.

but as an adult I can be like hey uh. it's cool right I got you right cuz if I. sit here and cry if I sit here and cry. with him then I'm making him suffer two. times exactly oh that's so good where. you put that the kid inside the cuz. sometimes someone would do. something okay I'll say this I was in. Switzerland right and then we're in this. like. thing um the setting classroom setting M. and I went to go get a coffee came back.

and this lady had moved my stuff when. they put me in the front of the class. she moved my stuff and I was like what. are you she oh I just she kind of like. made an excuse like I wanted some girl. time with her and I was like oh that's. cool I prefer the back of the class. anyway but then I sat there and for the. first 15 10 minutes of the lecture I. remember just feeling rage I'm like who. the [ __ ] this [ __ ] if you want to sit. with her get her to move all you have to. move my stuff and again it's this all. the white lady and it move my stuff and. it just felt like it just took me back.

to that moment like just young Izzy and. I could feel myself boiling so I kind of. calm him down like it's okay it's all. right you're fine you're safe yeah and. then focus on what was doing but then. that was just recent that was like two. weeks ago and again people can do. something that triggers you triggered. and then but you got to notice where. that trigger is because it's not. attached I'll get so angry and then. afterwards I'll be like oh my what was I. so that wasn't even whatever happened. had nothing it's old [ __ ] I know it's. old [ __ ] that we've.

just taught to rip press to put down and. that's what I that [ __ ] turns that old. [ __ ] into a champagne bro yeah champagne. bubbling up bro like damn it is a party. I be some trips like example uh before. the Miami P fight I was micro doing and. I micro do a little bit on cybin and I. went on some Journeys Within Myself and. I just sit on my couch was the lights. and just listen to this kind of like. lowy music and just question everything.

even deeper like who am I why am I this. why do I feel this way and then speak to. my younger self but tapping into that is. key because if you can make him feel. safe you're able to go through life. easier because you'll be surprised how. many moments that just it raar itself. even like I said my people pleasing. thing I I know how to identify it when. it comes up now and I just did it I did. it straight away even me like people I. told you I don't live like the commoners. anymore because I realize I've lived.

that life because when I'd be at a bar. like hey can I get 30 Fireballs you know. shots why and then people start to hang. around me because they they know I'll be. like shouting drinks and whatnot and. then I get to the point where I'm just. like the next day I wake up I'm like why. did I have let those guys around me oh I. didn't like those. people but then boundaries when I'm. drunk I'm like a labrador I just think. everyone's my friend yeah I'm I'm the.

opposite of some people drink Bourbon. and they think like oh it's they call it. fighting beer I'm like hell no that's. the last thing I want to do I want to. hug people I want to high five I'm I'm. super nice super flirty frisbe in your. mouth yeah why not yeah it's like golden. retriever turn into I am no but I I you. know like a golden retriever just. friendly with everyone so that's what I. become when I'm when I'm drunk but yeah. for me I just realized you know. what boundaries for me boundaries so. that way I don't have to I don't have to. I don't have to be liked I don't need to.

prove to you that I'm down that I'm just. I'm just another dude cuz sometimes I. feel like I have to do that to people. but I'm like if you can't handle who I. am [ __ ] bounce I don't have to prove to. you that oh I'm I'm cool no it's you. could I can relate to you I like n I've. lived your life you've never lived mine. right right I don't have to constantly. I have to constantly adjust every moment. of my life to reassure every single. person that I come in contact with. that's what that [ __ ] yeah that's what.

that humble [ __ ] is when they talk about. in New Zealand where it's like oh he's. humble it's like oh some people I see. them I'm like not that they're not. humbled I just know that they're. different off camera or they're. different when other people are are. around yeah but when they're in the. public they want to you know be. relatable and that's cool but but I'm. like nah bro you're not they already. they relate to you because of your story. like they relate to you because of what. you've done in your field you know and. they they they [ __ ] with on some level.

so you don't have to constantly bring. yourself down to their level just stay. where you are and connect with them yeah. that's one thing I learned as well don't. have to raise because when people come. yelling at me now back in the day I'd. have to like hey what's up man even if. I'm feel you know like get it but now I. just let's watch wrestling or whatever. my phone or something. talk to my dead. aunt but um like for me it's like nah if. if I'm at a three and you come at me at. a seven or 10 I'mma keep it a three hey. what's up man how you doing oh I'm like.

chill bro what's up how you doing man. you good and I can bring them back to my. my level of CH oh my God I'm such a big. fan I'm like that's cool come here give. me a hug give me a hug and I love those. moments man when people are really. genuine H fills my heart I know huh cuz. you want to be genuine too yeah and so. it's tough because people don't know. where you're at sometimes because it's. been a unique experience um and yeah I. think um it's a it's a learning curve. and it's a learning curve for both for. both people you know and yeah life such.

a learning curve man and I'm glad it is. because it would get [ __ ] boring you. know we keep learning I'm still learning. even even to this day like I said two. weeks ago that happened in Switzerland. and I had to okay calm down young Izzy. calm down it's okay but then there's. going to be something else that comes. through something else that comes. through great [ __ ] good bad beautiful. ugly smiles and frowns whatever it is. I'm going through it all and right now. I'm just taking my time that's all I can. I'm taking my time with everything. because if I I don't know if you feel.

this way sometimes if I if I try and. think cuz you know you got too many. things to deal with you know you like it. can get overwhelming yeah so I'm okay. okay that's too much then I just have to. like right let me think what can I. handle I can handle this right now and. just prioritize what I do yeah still. learning though adulting. yeah it's interesting I'm glad that God. are the gods that are out there let us. adult that they let us um experience and. evolve and learn and pretty masterful.

what has been created out of life is. pretty it's unbelievable it's like a. it's it's definitely one of the best. zeldas probably yeah yeah Zelda I see. I've only played one of it I never. clocked it not even close but like I. know link that's the main character. right yeah did you play a lot when you. were a kid yeah I played it when I was a. kid and then breath of the wild came out. and I played that on swi on DS switch. Yeah so that's the one I have breath of. the wild it's good and they just came. out with a new one oh yeah and it's cool. too but breath of the wild is still cool.

so you could stick with that one too. yeah no I still got that one but right. now I just started playing um hell. divers it's a great game hell divers. holy [ __ ]. like whatever it's like Halo hell divers. too it's like Halo but and I never even. played Halo I played Call of Duty but. it's just so you you go liberate these. planets or these worlds from these. robots or these aliens but it's just the. way the game play um the the you play. with your friends online it's yeah it's. it's it's keeping me out of trouble put.

it that way yeah yeah oh it's important. dude knowing when to get in trouble and. not yeah I I mean I like a little bit of. trouble once in a while but at the same. time I'd rather not cuz it always finds. me somehow it's it's a challenge it's a. way that like you say God would just put. this problem in front of you so that way. oh this is what I have to learn from. this situation learn this if I don't. learn it guess what it comes back again. it always does it'll come back again I'm. like [ __ ] I thought I learned last time. years a decade you'll be doing the same. thing and trouble's always in a it's.

always Gift Rap too trouble it's not. like trouble's not like [ __ ] hey I'm. trouble trouble's like looks cool a nice. ass yeah trouble got that rper dump y oh. [ __ ] there we go trouble got yeah got. the yeah but um I've learned though. that's the thing even younger guys I try. and teach them just don't think with. your dick just yeah you got to you got. to use this and yeah many many many. mistakes have been made but many great. great connections have been made as well.

so yeah yeah I thank God for it all but. I still try to tell the young guys that. watch me I just teach them. just don't do this yeah cuz there is. some like you're like [ __ ] I learned. such the hard way like I have got to. tell somebody oh yeah some it's not even. like you're preaching to people you're. like for the love of God don't do this. let somebody know then that's not good. even another one is like I'm not married. um but I don't even know if I want to I. didn't really want to but I don't know. it'll happen maybe yeah one day you'll. do it it'll be the next adventure I'm.

not married but I would like to be. married but I have a tough time of doing. commitment yeah I'm I'm in my selfish. era right now I feel like this these. next few years uh I'm definitely I'm. definitely on the back end of my career. so and I said I was I was the most. active Champion me and volovski the most. active Champions Crazy you know and bro. most people get the belt right now D has. got the belt he kind of wants to chill. they want to hold the belt for a little. bit you know look look nice you know.

what I'm saying I was like who am I. fighting next cool put that guy on who. am I fighting next because you risk it. every [ __ ] time every [ __ ] time. that's how I have so many defenses. because I'll be like who am I fighting. next boom let's go you know but um for. me everything I have to do right now is. going to was this bro I only just. started having. breakfast oh well context I used to wake. up and just go straight to the gym work. out like two workouts back to back and. then have breakfast around one I'm 34.

now you know almost 35 I know my body's. different I have to put the right Fs in. my body I was living off Uber Eats bro. like just really yeah man I was training. for fights off Uber Eats yeah that was I. because of skills I was so of a damn. taqu yeah you know what I'm saying like. cars Jr. uh Indian food anything Chinese you. defeating other other men on Carl F like. Carl's Jr yeah anything Burger King like. my God McDonald's only when I'm drunk.

cuz I didn't really like the quality but. um yeah it's gone yeah it's like paper. it's really yeah like oh man I ate Big. Mac one time that did not sit well with. me and I was like yep so only when I'm. drunk I'd have McDonald's but yeah if a. brother can't have a burger in this we. doing bro I I've had so many I've had. over a 100 fights so I didn't really. think like the way I ate would affect my. skills but again it does at a certain. point cuz when I was younger bro when I. was 26 25 I'd be out you know I'd be.

getting home around say. 4 trying to get some [ __ ] and from. there you know you sleep around 600 6:30. and you have to wake up at 10:00 to go. spot at 11: get punched in the head hung. over and I it's like I could do it and. just kick ass but then the older you get. yet you can't do it your body doesn't. metabolize Al the same oh it's that's. what I'm saying now I'm like how did I. do that yeah that was [ __ ] wild how. did I do that no so then now it's about. like I said putting the right fuel in my.

body like I said I've got my boy Matt. who cooks for me now every day is a. [ __ ] Cuisine oh yeah you know and I. feel better as well my body I feel my. skin too y'all ever had that lamb we got. lamb got we got more sheep than people. in New Zealand really yeah I think 5 to. one and well a lot of people are sheep. but yeah there's some people definitely. sheep furry hind in the area hey you can. see them they got mullets in the back as. well same same um if the world ends. what's your strategy what's your plan.

well right now I'm building um also. having a bunker in there allegedly maybe. I shouldn't have said that [ __ ] it's all. right but um yeah I just feel I mean you. saw that world the the movie The Leave. the World. Behind yeah that's possible very. possible what if the internet shuts down. who knows yeah you wake up and the phone. doesn't work they've shut down all New. Zealand's connection to the world or you. have two calls left what are you doing. where do you go oh I call my dad first. person call my dad and um I'd probably.

go yeah drive down to wongo but thing is. funny enough during lockdown people were. doing that when they they they made the. call or like you get the alert lockdown. starts at midnight ton night some. [ __ ] Purge type [ __ ] people were. getting out of Auckland people were. going down to their batches if they. could people trying to see with their. family and some people these guys got. caught going to Hamilton which is about. 45 minutes away from Auckland um oh. maybe an hour away they went over. through like some Farm roads just to get.

KFC in Hamilton yeah just to get KFC. Hamilton and bring it back I think they. were gang members as well I swear to God. yeah yeah look up looking for KFC they. were looking for KFC during lockdown. look kiwi um MS13 Ms yeah I don't I. can't remember which gangs it was but n. we don't have no SOS out here oh really. n no no Mexican gangs but um yeah you. know they're prevalent KFC Hamilton KFC.

uh lock down lock down I just want to. see start yeah right there yeah it'll be. there man caught yeah there it. is look at I love how the police. confiscated it yeah man we got that. that's their lunch right there for the. next three days it just at least there's. no crime in this country if this is a. bad deal yeah this is like oh we got you. now a couple Wings in a. breast New Zealand Police have made a. bizarre arrest after a pair of alleged.

gang Associates were caught trying to. enter Auckland with a boot full of KFC. chicken sell that [ __ ] on the. low why are you not allowed to bring it. in no you couldn't leave the Auckland. District so they left to go get KFC and. bring it back a couple storm Hunters huh. actual so everything was shut down the. lockdown was bizarre man did you guys uh. where were you living I moved to. Tennessee during the lockdown and it was. wide open it was oh you dance that's why. everyone moves to Texas as well yeah.

yeah Texas changed everything that's why. the com the com comedy scene moved over. there once Joe and the mothership and. and there's a good energy there now of. like possibility and new and like people. are excited there man I love watching. kill Tony cuz dude it's so good I used. to watch it back in the day just talking. about actually I us I I used to watch it. no I used to listen to it at my old job. used to listen to it and roast battle um. and then when I saw Tony in Texas one. time he's like yeah man.

we've super gay he like yeah man and he. was telling me how it's gone up and I. was like all right bet I'll have a look. so then I watched on YouTube and I got. my flatmate hooked and now we've just. been watching it like the whole Hans Kim. Rick Diaz thing just took it to a new. level Rick Diaz has got some [ __ ]. konas on him man out of nowhere the guy. just like stop protecting him I want his. spot and I just I saw it about two weeks. ago where um did the light cut out and. he came out and then was flipping him. off [ __ ] yeah no he just he just uh Rick.

Diaz appeared after the New Year's show. he just the next week the lights cut out. and then came back on and then Hans. Kim's doing a set on stage and then Rick. Diaz is right there just flipping them. off was it's like a soap oper now it is. yeah it's got story line it's got a. story line to it now it's so amazing to. go there and watch I'm going to go one. day like definitely I know Shan Ali went. and then he did the New Year show but. then at some point I will go to Austin. Texas and I'll go to kill Tony I just. want to sit there I don't even got to. talk I'll just sit there answer.

questions and just watch the the chaos. ensue just live in front of me it's so. crazy and they got the blind guy you're. like what oh yeah what's his name and. he's playing uh is it bones no I don't. know the blind guy that hates gays yeah. what's his name I can't remember his. name now oh my God [ __ ] I know his name. it's going to come to me I hate they got. Chris Rogers the painter there painting. the whole time they got the crazy part. is you get one minute which is. impossible it would almost be like hey. be the best UFC fighter in one minute. you got to Thorn h no but um but then.

they roast the guy woman if they suck. and if they're obnoxious then you can. see Tony's like oh I got a good got a. live one and he can just roast a. [ __ ] they dude the other day. they I was I tuned in um on YouTube it. was streaming live they had 81,000. people watching damn live it's worldwide. bro unbelievable yeah for I mean the. concept itself is wild but then now to. do it in an arena and then they've have. these main characters now like the. regulars like Hans Kim and uh David.

Lucas yeah and now oh Cam Newton P oh P. [ __ ] yeah racist cam. Patterson but um yeah even he's funny. he's hilarious dude I want to have him. come on here sometime soon where are you. based right now I'm based in tenness and. Angeles and La I see you go back how. often do you spend between both um I. tour probably 6 months and the rest I do. like four months in Tennessee road dog. two two months in La so what where's.

next after this you're going to. Australia right we're going to Australia. and then we got like Atlanta New Orleans. New Orleans we're going to put a show up. at Iowa sometime soon yeah so a lot of. great places still to go perform man. it's been awesome man world's a big. place man I mean I know we want to go to. South Africa we want to go perform there. wait till the UFC goes there yeah yeah. wait yeah like the UFC is definitely. going to go there and when it does I'll. be right there too I think well what you. perform tonight I think it'll be my. first time seeing you live oh yeah dang. well we better go get ready too yeah.

I've only seen you on Netflix but yeah I. can't wait oh it is so hopefully be. better I think or David enjoyed my. brother enjoyed it last night he yeah. [ __ ] yeah Fair he said it was dope yeah. so I can't wait I'll BR some of the gang. yeah let's get it huh easy um Izzy. thanks so much man I don't think there's. anything else to say right now I wait. till I retire and we'll talk all right. yeah we'll get deep deal bro I. appreciate it man thank you so much time. man thanks for thanks for being. vulnerable I really respect that. especially when people in opposition.

don't have to fake the funk you can just. be honest about what's really going on. so I appreciate that and that's good for. everyone else to see we're human yeah. we're trying our best to that's I'm. adulting I don't even know some I'm like. how did we get here how do I I know like. I'm like am I just meant to I have. houses now I know that's. crazy I'm like I'm doing all right I. know even Rogan told me one time he's. like sometimes it's scary cuz I'll pull. into my house and I in the garage and. I'll feel like somebody's going to come. in right after me and just take it all.

away damn he said sometimes I keeps you. hungry though it's a thing that just. happens to people um but Israel thank. you so much thank you Theo gang baby we. see you we'll see you in Africa baby. Praise Baby throw it up [ __ ]. now I'm just floating on the breeze and. I feel I'm falling like these leaves I. must be. Cornerstone oh but when I reach that.

ground I'll share this pie of my life. found I can feel it in my. bones but it's going to. take.