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Welcome back everyone to another edition
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of Combat Corner powered by Come on now
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the podcast. I am your host Rudy
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Rodriguez Shamat. for you. Before we
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jump in, be sure to hit the like button,
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subscribe to the channel, leave a
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comment, let me know what your thoughts
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are. We have an exciting guest for you
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today. I actually had the opportunity to
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meet him in
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Clearwater. I met him twice though,
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technically. First time I didn't know
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cuz I couldn't see very well. We'll talk
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about that in this video because that
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was a story among stories that I I just
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a very interesting conversation.
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But I have the privilege of bringing on
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Harrison the head hunter
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akin. What is going on? What's up,
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brother? Thank you for me on, man. Let
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me get you on here. Okay. Okay. Boom.
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Sorry. There you go. You're good. What's
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up, man? It's great to see you again.
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Um, yeah, that uh that original story of
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how we met was actually it's funny now,
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but at the moment I was like I don't
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know how to how to move forward from
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this situation because I'm a very I'm a
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very nice person and like I I talk to
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everybody like that's my I make my
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rounds whenever I get to any VF BKFC
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event and I just like to show face. Um
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but yeah, it actually is very funny now
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at the end of the day like looking back
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but I was confused. I was like,
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"Yeah." So, continue. You were confused
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about what was going on. Your phone just
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rang, folks. So, yeah. I don't know if
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you want to go ahead and just tell the
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back story. Yeah. Yeah. So, um I was at
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BKFC Clearwater. I'm interviewing Julian
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Lane. Now, um this was the day before
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the fights in Clearwater at the at the
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uh at the weigh-in talking to Julian
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Lane or about to start talking to Julian
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Lane. He has a potential fight that I
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don't think is happening at this point
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between he and Go Slovesi. There's been
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back and forth on social media about
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them fighting. They were supposed to
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fight according to GoGo in June and then
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again in July at the Hard Rock. Go says
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that Julian Lane has not signed the
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contract. Lane says, "I've not gotten a
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contract." And Go hasn't signed the
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contract. So, we're about to start this
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interview and Harrison walks up. Now,
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for those of you not familiar with the
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the OC Roadhouse, I had a glare and I'm
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focused here and I and I guess you said,
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"What's up? Hello." And I talked to
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Cameron Deleno about it. He says, you
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know, Harrison has a way of saying,
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"What's up?" Whereas some people might
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think as like, "Well, what's up?" Like,
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so like you're up on him or something.
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Yeah. Yeah. So Julian Lane kind of
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spazzes out and you're like, "What? What
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the what the hell is happening?" I
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thought it was a I thought it was a fan.
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I couldn't really see. I don't I don't
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know everybody by face. So I I called it
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a fan in my video. And I am a fan of
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Julian. Like not no [ __ ] Like I've
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been watching Julian Lane since his
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UFC. So, like when he came up to me
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actually after my BKFC fight in Atlanta,
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I was like, "Bro, thank you for just
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showing some love like I appreciate."
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He's like, "You He's like, "You took on
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a Bellator vet and you put it on him."
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And I was like, "I appreciate that. I'd
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love to like chop it up with you
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sometime." And that was basically our
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the our conversation at that point
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because I had to go make my rounds and
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talk to fans and [ __ ] like that. So, I
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was like, "Cool." I was like, "This
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dude's cool as shit." I was like, "We're
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cool now." Yeah. So, I pull up. I pull
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up and I'm like, "What's up, dog?" And
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he's like, "What's up?" I was like,
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"What's up? How are you?" And he was
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like, he's like, "What's good?" I'm
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like,
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"Um, do you remember me or like what
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what's He's like, "What you trying to
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do?" I was like, "I don't know. What are
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you trying to do?" So, in the middle of
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all I'm sitting there, I'm like I'm
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confused. I'm like, "Am I about to get
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in a fight? Do I now I do do I have to
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switch my mind because I'm a very I love
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talking to people. I love chopping it up
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with people. I'm like, "Okay, this dude
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obviously doesn't remember me, you
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know." And also, you know, like you
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said, there was a glare. I mean, it was
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it was very packed in there, too. So, I
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was just like, "All right." And then I
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had all my people around me and they're
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confused. So, they're like, "What are we
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about to get into?" And I was like, "I
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don't know." I was even walking to the
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car. I was like, that was the most
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confusing hello I've ever said in my
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entire life to somebody. I was like, I
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didn't know whether I was about to get
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in a fight or if I was about to dap him
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up or if or if he was joking with me.
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And I I for a second I was like, "Bro,
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that it threw me for a [ __ ] loop,
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dog." Like I And then I then I hit him
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up on IG and he was like, "Bro, my bad."
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I was like He was like, "I was already
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pissed off. I was in that mindset
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because this dude's been talking [ __ ]
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and I didn't know if that was you. I was
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like, "Nah, bro." I was like, "If you
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you gonna if I'm gonna talk [ __ ] I'm
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gonna come up straight up to you and be
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like, we just gonna go right at it." And
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uh but no, I I I respect Julian. He's a
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cool ass dude. He's he's got a great uh
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fan base. Um and uh you know, we
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actually talked a little bit at the
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event and he was like, "Man, come down
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to Florida. let's get some rounds in
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together. Um, and I yeah, I I like him a
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lot. I I like I respect him as an
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athlete and he's got, you know, he's
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he's been in the game for a very very
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long time. So, like to to have somebody
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like that in your corner and stuff like
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that and showing support and then have
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that funny backstory with it, it's uh
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it's pretty cool. So, it it it was funny
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as hell because the next night, well,
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the next day I spoke to GoGo Seves.
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Uhhuh. And he says, "I'm not going to do
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that. I'm just going to go and knock you
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in your mouth." Like, that's what's
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going to happen. Same type of thing,
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right? I'm not gonna I'm not going to
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say, "What's up? I'm just going to knock
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your ass out." type of thing. And I'm
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with my wife the next evening and she
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says, "That's the guy from
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yesterday." Who? Like the guy in the
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Dolphins jersey. I said, "Really? I
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thought the guy was bald. That's how
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bad." like eyewitness eyewitness
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testimony is some of the worst testimony
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on earth because you don't even know
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what you're looking at, you know, and
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when it gets, you know, kind of a little
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chaotic, you're like, "Wait, do I got to
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get my wife out of here?" Because my my
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wife is behind the camera. Yeah. And I'm
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s because we had a previous experience
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at a BKSC event after a fight at the
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Hard Rock where a fight broke out in the
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back hallway. People may not know about
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it, but a fight broke out in the back
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hallway between a fighter who had just
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fought and a group of fight I'm sorry, a
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fighter who was there and a fighter with
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his entourage who had just fought and it
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happened in the back hallway next to the
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press room and she almost got trampled
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in that situation. I'm like, yo, this is
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craziness. So
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is there's always a lot of
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confrontations that actually happen
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right when podcasts or like interviews
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are about to start and I was like maybe
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he thinks I'm just trying to push up on
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them because now I get now I can get it
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on camera and I as I'm riding back to I
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was like yeah maybe I should have like
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waited or like you know it was bad
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timing on my part but like with me I I'm
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I just like I said I say what's up to
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everybody that I like I don't like you,
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then I'm just going to push up on you
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and you're going to know right off the
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rip that way we're just going to get
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after it. Yeah. So, I everyone that was
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the story behind it. If you saw the
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video and it's been it's been dubbed
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again by uh I don't know if you saw the
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golees version that he posted on uh IG.
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No, literally hilarious. Check it out.
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It's funny as [ __ ] actually. Send it to
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me. Uh I'll send it to you. It's funny
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as [ __ ] Um, and uh, no, but that was
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that was a story in Clear Water. That's
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how I met Harrison the next night and
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miss my wife tells me and then I and
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then you message we message back and
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forth. I was like, yeah, you called me a
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fan. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, damn, I got
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fanboyed, but it's all good. If I if I
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don't I don't really get upset about
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[ __ ] like, you know what I'm saying?
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It's uh, it is it is what it is. I've
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been in this game far too long now to to
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let [ __ ] [ __ ] like that bother me. I
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mean, so you're so you're in uh in in
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Albuquerque right now. You're training
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uh with Donald Sanchez for his title
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fight against David Mandelle. It's funny
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we meet in Clearwater. You were working
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out with Dave Mandel's team, I guess, to
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throw, you know, to work out with I
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guess you had Cameron with you and so
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forth. Right. Right before I actually
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had talked to you or met you with the
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weird confrontation, I asked Mandel, I
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was like, I want to get some rounds in
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with you. I want to see, you know, I
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want to see what that number one
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power-forpound smokes like. He was,
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"Yeah, let's get together." So, Donald's
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my boy. We actually we fought um in
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Turkey and you know how it is. You fight
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somebody and you sort of you got that
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mutual respect now. And uh but yeah, I
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didn't even know that I was going to be
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coming out here until about a week ago.
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And then um you know, it's I got some
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good rounds in with Mandelle. Um me and
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Donald have been talking about getting
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me out here, but they were actually
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thinking about putting me on the
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Albuquerque card against one of his
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teammates. So that was like a conflict
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of interest. So we were like, let's wait
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off wait it off. My fight got pulled off
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the card. Um, don't know really know
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what happened with that, but you know,
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it is what it is. Fight fight fights
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fall through and um, now, you know, I'm
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just helping him get focused and
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finishing his camp. Um, you know, it's
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uh, he he's ready. I know that he's
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ready. I know that Mandelle's going to
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be ready. So, I'm I'm definitely excited
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to watch that fight. Also, because now I
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am coming down to 175 from 185 and um
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you know, see who I'm going to have to
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get my sights on.
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I mean, talk about talk about that. I
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mean, you you know, you fight a guy and
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now you're training with the guy. Like
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you said, there's respect. I mean, what
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do pe what do people not understand
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about combat sports athletes who I see
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this a lot, you know, guys train
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together after they fought each other,
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you know, and so forth. Because of that
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respect, what do people not understand
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about it? Because some people would say,
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"This guy just punched me in the face.
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How am I friends with him?" Yeah, man.
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Honestly, like to to spend that time
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with somebody in a ring, it's almost
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like a it's a weird way of saying, but
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it's like a bonding experience because
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you sit there and you throw everything
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you have at this person with the kitchen
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sink and like Donald beat me and I give
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him, you know, I show I he but you know,
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a lot of people were sleeping on me that
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fight that. A lot of people said that I
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was going to get knocked out in the
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first round. And um I I think I gained
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more fans and more respect from Donald
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and the people of Albuquerque by putting
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on a five round war with a guy who is
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now fighting for a world title. And they
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saw my heart that night. Like I had
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Donald's fans coming up to me telling me
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like you have the the heart of a
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warrior. Even though you got dropped and
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you were facing adversity most of the
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fight, you you changed your game plan up
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and you started to make it a fight like
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and he had to work for his win. And um
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you know like it's it's all like it's
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almost a mutual respect thing when you
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go in there and you try to take somebody
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out and and you've given it your
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absolute all and they you're both still
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standing there bloody battered at the
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end of five rounds. It's it's almost
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like you got to hug it out. You're like
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man you you you're you're you're a
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warrior. I'm a warrior. We we just put
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on for the [ __ ] city and and we were
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the only fight that night to go five
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rounds. Yeah. I I actually I just
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rewatched it actually before we got on
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here because I wanted to remember, you
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know, get bring it back to myself. He
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clipped you in the first seconds, bro.
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Did you get did you get up too fast? No.
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So, what happened is my my coach because
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I'm right-handed, but Yeah. You were
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fighting left-handed. Yeah. So, I'm a
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right-handed southpaw and that's how
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I've trained. I've trained right-handed
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southpaw for 12 years. Mike at the time,
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we're not together anymore because of
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things, but um he was like, "No, man."
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He's like, "You need to fight
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right-handed." So, I went out off the
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line right-handed through a double jab
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cross. He clipped me right in the
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temple. Boom. About sent me through the
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ropes. And I was like, "Okay, yeah, this
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isn't going to work for me." I was like,
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"So, we're going to have to switch and
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go back to what I'm comfortable at." And
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then once I was able to really settle
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into the fight, yeah, I got dropped
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again actually in the first round, but
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once I was able to settle in, I really
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do don't come out the the greatest in
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the first round. Um, second, third, and
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fourth, I'm really good. My cardio is
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has always been really good. Um, fifth
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round, that Albuquerque elevation whoop
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my ass. So, I was like I was on skates
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for a little bit. I was just trying to
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survive at that point. But um you know I
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I tried to keep the fight as close as I
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possibly could. I know that um I won a
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few rounds. Um but you know, you come
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into somebody's territory, you have to
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knock
them out. You got to and and
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especially facing the adversity I did so
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early in the fight. If I did not knock
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him out, then there was no way of me
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being able to take that win. So I
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always, you know, I show respect to
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Donald and I, you know, he had a good
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game plan. He he stuck to his game plan.
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Um, I know that I earned the respect of
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him and his coaches obviously because
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they brought me here. They flew me from
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Atlanta, Georgia to here because they
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see what I'm capable of doing. They see
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the heart that I have and they know that
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I'm going to be like the icing on the
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cake at the end of this fight camp. And
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you know what's crazy is I'm a
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right-handed southpaw and Mandelle is a
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right-handed southpaw.
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So you write with your right hand? Yes.
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Okay. So yeah, that's why I asked you
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like did did you think you got up too
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quick because you got you you got
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clipped and you jumped up like that.
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Yeah. And then you got clipped again
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like a few seconds later. That's why I
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was asking if you maybe you got up too
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quickly cuz you got hit square in the
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temple from what I saw. Yeah. Yeah. And
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that's why I asked that question. I I
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don't really like to sit down long
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because I want to show them. I'm like,
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"Yeah, you clipped me, but I'm not going
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to sit down there and like harp about
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it. I don't care how hard you hit. I
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want to get up and be able to like look
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you right in your face and be like,
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"Okay, you got a good shot. Now it's my
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turn." What's What is the elevation in
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Albuquerque? Um, I think we're currently
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right now at 6,000 ft, but uh we're
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going to be doing some training here in
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the next day or so at 13,000 ft. So,
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we're gonna be going up to the top of
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the mountain uh out here in Albuquerque
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and we're going to be doing some workout
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there. Um but yeah, we got some really
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good hard sparring rounds in
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yesterday. Um you know, they had a full
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gym ready watching us get him ready and
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he's he's dude, he's just doing good.
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like he I've never, you know, I I I just
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now have become very close with Donald,
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but
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the this dude is on a mission. He is
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straight. This is all he's focusing on
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right now. He is he he has the right
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team around him and you know, they're
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making sacrifices day in and day out to
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make sure that they win this fight. and
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I I'm here and I see it, you know, and I
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I don't know how Mandel's camp is going.
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All I know is that I got, you know, good
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five to six rounds in with him. Um, but
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it's going to be a hell of a fight. A
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really, really good fight. You got a man
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that is running through the division at
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um Donald and then the guy who's at the
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top who is considered to be the number
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one poundfor-pound fighter in the entire
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world. So I honestly I I I don't think
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that Mandelle should be sleeping on
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Donald because this dude is on a on a
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war path to to make a name for himself
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and bring that belt to Albuquerque.
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you
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um you're also working with uh Cameron
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Deleno, the bull rider. That's how you
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know we met and I talked to Cameron and
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got his backstory. I mean, it's crazy to
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listen to it. I mean, you know, you're
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fighting 2,000 pound bulls and getting
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smashed in the face. He told me his face
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got crushed by with a mask on. Yeah. Um
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what has it been like, you know, working
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with him and and helping him get ready
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because he says he's fighting in Austin.
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Um, don't know who don't know who is it.
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We just got the contract um few days
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ago. Uh, obviously I can't release.
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Yeah, of course. Um, until the BKFC puts
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out, but the contract's been uh sent
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over. It's been reviewed. We're we're
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getting a little few more things uh
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knocked out. But um I know that Cameron
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is very uh excited. He's he's taking on
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a lot of uh sacrifices well to make sure
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that he's going to be prepared. He is
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fighting at 175, I believe. Um so, you
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know, he's a big dude, man. He holds he
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packs some muscle. And when I met
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Cameron, he was like 195 pounds. So,
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he's been working hard. He's staying
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consistent. He he has also a local gym
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and he's coming and training with me
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doing more bare knuckle boxing cuz like
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I want him to to really be have a home
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gym but come to me to really tighten
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those screws when it really gets down to
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like the end of the fight camp. I told
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him I was like, "Bro, if you can go five
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rounds with me, you're going to smoke
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smoke some fools." And that's the plan.
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like I know that he is working very very
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very hard and uh I'm excited to see how
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well he does because you know it's
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almost like having a a protege and um I
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know he can take a [ __ ] hit because
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I've I don't know if you saw Cameron the
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next day at the BKFC event. Yes.
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He had two black eyes. And I mean, I I
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tell him, I'm like, "Dude, I'm not gonna
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take it easy on you, but I want you to
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give me your heart and soul every time
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we spar." And he just takes them and he
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and he dishes it back out and that's all
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I ask. You know, you can you can't teach
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heart and that he definitely has that.
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So, um, he's going to make some noise
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and, uh, I'm I'm very excited to see
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him, um, perform because I know that
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he's on that daily daily grind doing two
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a days doing the doing whatever it takes
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to to make this [ __ ] happen. How did
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you How did you guys meet each other?
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That's crazy. I was actually I reached
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out to him. I was like, "If I train you
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to [ __ ] uh fight bare knuckle, you
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train me how to ride a bull." He goes,
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"Deal." I was like, "Yeah." So, I was
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like I was like, "Yeah, bro. I I'll ride
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a damn bull. I I would love to ride a
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damn bull." Um, and then he started
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telling me these stories. I was like, "I
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don't actually I don't think I want to
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ride a bull." I was like, "I I like I
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like the way I look. My wife likes the
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way I look." Um, bare knuckle is rough
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enough already. Um, but yeah, man. It's
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uh it's you got to be you got to be
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mentally like right up there to like get
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on a [ __ ] wild bull and be like be
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prepared to get yourself you could get
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killed just in an literally 8 seconds
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that's all they have to I mean 8 seconds
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is not a long time but against a 2,000B
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[ __ ] bull that would seem like a
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lifetime. I mean, I I couldn't I
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couldn't imagine the adrenaline going
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through your body when you're sitting
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there in that cage and they they just
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let that thing loose. It's uh I mean it
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it's not it it ain't there's nothing
00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:06.390
comparable to that. I don't even think a
00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:08.390
bare knuckle fight would be comparable
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to that. So, I think uh I think he
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mentally he's he's prepared to be able
00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:15.830
to take on any man. I mean, if you're
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riding bulls like that, dude, for the
00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:21.350
PBR, too, those are the biggest baddest
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bulls in the world. Yeah. I mean, he he
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uh you know, he told me one one bull
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riding event, he had his head split open
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and they had to just glue it. Glued it.
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Had to glue it because if he stay if he
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if he stitched it, he wouldn't ride the
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00:21:36.549
next day or two and he was out. So, he
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just glued it. Yeah. Then he's mentioned
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his face getting crushed where he broke
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his nose, his all his entire face. If he
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didn't have a mass, he'd have been dead.
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He also mentioned to me that when you
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when you squeeze your legs around the
00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:50.149
bull, you have to be tight, but you have
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to be loose. So, it's like a
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combination. Yeah. But 3 seconds on a
00:21:53.600 --> 00:21:56.230
bull feels like a multiple day leg
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workout where you're so damn sore the
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next day. Yeah. Like that is insane. You
00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:03.430
ride for a whole weekend. That's like,
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bro, you just go ahead and put me on a
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gurnie. Take me to the hospital. I'm
00:22:07.280 --> 00:22:10.789
gonna be sitting there for a month. Like
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I wrote, bro, let me tell you this. I
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rode a mechanical bull at the fair. I
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was like, "Listen," I was like, "You
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ain't going to be able to throw me off.
00:22:19.679 --> 00:22:21.510
I'll be on this [ __ ] for one minute."
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And he was like, "I'mma throw your ass
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off. I get I get thrown off at 59
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seconds." And the dude just launches me.
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I got off the bull. I had so much
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chafing between my legs. And I woke up
00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:38.870
the next day. I was like, "Babe, who the
00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:40.789
[ __ ] leg kicked me?" And she was like,
00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:43.909
"No, that bull you rode you." Like I had
00:22:43.919 --> 00:22:45.669
bruising on the inside and this is a
00:22:45.679 --> 00:22:47.630
mechanical bull. We're not talking about
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like a real Were you in shorts or in
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pants? That's okay. So, your skin was
00:22:53.360 --> 00:22:55.590
rubbing the hell out of it, right? Bro,
00:22:55.600 --> 00:22:57.830
my whole skin was rubbed raw. I had
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bruising on the inside of my knees and
00:23:00.080 --> 00:23:04.029
it it was but yeah, imagine just
00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:08.230
I I can't even fathom riding a a [ __ ]
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rule bull. So you're you know I heard
00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:14.310
you in another podcast. Um what was your
00:23:14.320 --> 00:23:16.149
road like to the BKSC? I know you you
00:23:16.159 --> 00:23:18.630
you went through some hard times in your
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younger years. Do you care to talk about
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that? Is that something you would want
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to talk about? I mean I heard you
00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:24.789
mentioned you were in prison. I mean
00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:26.870
what what happened in your life? What
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and how did your how what happened and
00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:31.430
how were you able to change your life
00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:33.830
after that? That's a story that people
00:23:33.840 --> 00:23:35.830
should always hear is like how people
00:23:35.840 --> 00:23:37.830
can change super open. I'm I mean if
00:23:37.840 --> 00:23:39.590
anybody asks I'm always willing to tell
00:23:39.600 --> 00:23:41.430
them just because I have changed my
00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:46.070
life. Um I do have a story and you know
00:23:46.080 --> 00:23:47.990
without being able to open up and let
00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:49.750
people know like that you can change
00:23:49.760 --> 00:23:51.990
your life. You just honestly have to get
00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.830
out of your own way sometimes and give
00:23:53.840 --> 00:23:57.110
it to God. I'm a big um person that
00:23:57.120 --> 00:24:00.230
believes in faith and faith got me
00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:01.870
through some of the darkest times in my
00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:05.190
life. But, you know, I I I grew up in a
00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:09.029
family of addicts and um you know, apple
00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.510
doesn't fall fall too far from the tree.
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So, I uh I I dealt with addiction
00:24:15.360 --> 00:24:18.269
basically ever since I was 13 years old.
00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:23.590
Um, and you know, now I'm 35 and I have
00:24:23.600 --> 00:24:26.149
two years of sobriety under my belt now.
00:24:26.159 --> 00:24:28.230
Um, completely changed my life. But, you
00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:31.350
know, early on in my BKFC
00:24:31.360 --> 00:24:34.149
um, career, I was dealing with my the
00:24:34.159 --> 00:24:38.310
the peak of my addiction and I was
00:24:38.320 --> 00:24:41.350
really, you know, I was riding the wave
00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:44.470
of the BKFC. It was all new. I wanted to
00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:47.350
be in there and I had had multiple uh
00:24:47.360 --> 00:24:49.350
title fights, you know, had multiple
00:24:49.360 --> 00:24:53.269
title belts under my name, but in MMA, I
00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:55.110
was a good boxer as well. I' never been
00:24:55.120 --> 00:24:58.310
dropped in a fight. Um, and then, you
00:24:58.320 --> 00:24:59.590
know, Bare Knuckles completely
00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:01.669
different. And you you don't realize it
00:25:01.679 --> 00:25:04.630
until you actually get in there that you
00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:06.789
can't box these dudes. You have to
00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:08.630
literally fist fight them. It's like a
00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:11.269
it's it's it's like a it's like a
00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:15.110
getting a fight in jail. And um you know
00:25:15.120 --> 00:25:17.430
I was always a the bigger guy when I was
00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:19.190
locked up so I didn't really have to
00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:21.510
worry about [ __ ] like that. But um I've
00:25:21.520 --> 00:25:26.230
been in some serious I but because of my
00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:28.390
addiction and what I've gone through
00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:30.390
I've you know I've had to pay the
00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:34.870
consequences of my actions and um I I
00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:37.669
can truly say that I did that to myself.
00:25:37.679 --> 00:25:39.990
You know that what outside looking in
00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.230
years back I'm like, "Oh, wo is me. Why?
00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:44.390
What? Why is this happening to me?"
00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:45.669
Well, dude, because you're a [ __ ]
00:25:45.679 --> 00:25:48.230
addict and you can't get your [ __ ] right
00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:50.549
and you're you're you're living life
00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:53.350
like like you're just this [ __ ]
00:25:53.360 --> 00:25:56.310
cowboy and this superstar when actuality
00:25:56.320 --> 00:25:58.029
you're you're just have you're
00:25:58.039 --> 00:26:00.470
delusional. You're And so I had to
00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.269
really look at myself in the mirror. And
00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:06.630
when I decided to get sober, I I
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:08.310
couldn't even look at myself in the
00:26:08.320 --> 00:26:10.390
mirror because I was so ashamed of what
00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:13.909
I had become. And it took me a long time
00:26:13.919 --> 00:26:16.950
to be a be able to love myself again.
00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:19.909
But eventually over time and over like
00:26:19.919 --> 00:26:22.230
working the steps of the programs that I
00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:25.510
was in, I was able to get through some
00:26:25.520 --> 00:26:28.149
of these things that I that had been
00:26:28.159 --> 00:26:30.710
really taking me down a level of like
00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:32.549
inconsistency.
00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:37.269
uh not believing in myself, um losing f
00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:39.350
friends, family, like I all of these
00:26:39.360 --> 00:26:41.990
things that I've done in my life were
00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:44.549
able to be mended through the work that
00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:47.110
I did getting sober and it changed my
00:26:47.120 --> 00:26:48.950
life. It changed how people looked at
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.789
me. It changed how people um support me.
00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:55.630
Um, you know, the people that were my
00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:58.470
biggest haters, the people that didn't
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:01.110
even want me in their life are now my
00:27:01.120 --> 00:27:03.510
biggest supporters today. And that's
00:27:03.520 --> 00:27:07.350
because I've done the work. Um, you
00:27:07.360 --> 00:27:11.510
know, you can always bounce back, but
00:27:11.520 --> 00:27:14.310
you have to surround yourself around the
00:27:14.320 --> 00:27:16.630
right people. I had to learn to change
00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:19.909
people, places, and things early on in
00:27:19.919 --> 00:27:22.070
my life. And that's that that goes for a
00:27:22.080 --> 00:27:23.669
lot of people dealing with addiction.
00:27:23.679 --> 00:27:25.350
Like if you you can't hang out with the
00:27:25.360 --> 00:27:27.510
same crew. You can't go to the same
00:27:27.520 --> 00:27:29.669
places that you frequented and you can't
00:27:29.679 --> 00:27:31.590
do the same [ __ ] You got to change your
00:27:31.600 --> 00:27:33.909
life. So you got to make these these
00:27:33.919 --> 00:27:36.149
simple changes. And it's not that simple
00:27:36.159 --> 00:27:37.430
when you're when you're sitting there
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:39.350
down and down and out because you're
00:27:39.360 --> 00:27:41.029
like, man, I'm losing friends. I'm
00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:44.230
losing losing a lot, you know? Yeah. I
00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:47.630
almost lost my life because of it.
00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:50.870
So now today, my life is completely
00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:53.909
different. It's not this glamorous like
00:27:53.919 --> 00:27:55.750
thing that you see on the movies where
00:27:55.760 --> 00:27:57.909
you're partying and [ __ ] Like my two
00:27:57.919 --> 00:28:00.549
best friends are my little girls, dog.
00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:05.549
My I almost lost them. Like I I was
00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:09.190
almost not able to be a father. I almost
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:12.470
lost my wife. So, the fact that I was
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:14.310
able to bounce back from that, I even
00:28:14.320 --> 00:28:16.149
get a little emotional just thinking
00:28:16.159 --> 00:28:18.789
about it because how far I've come to
00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:21.750
where I am today, people trust me, they
00:28:21.760 --> 00:28:23.750
believe in me, they would give they
00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:25.750
would like and they know that I'm a
00:28:25.760 --> 00:28:28.870
dependable person. So, like you call me,
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:31.669
I'm there. Like, back in the day, I
00:28:31.679 --> 00:28:33.430
wouldn't care because all I cared about
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:36.870
was myself. I was a very selfish person.
00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:39.350
So, that's a little bit Yeah, I got a
00:28:39.360 --> 00:28:40.549
little deep on there, but you know what
00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:42.470
I'm saying? I just uh I want people to
00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:45.269
know like there is a way out no matter
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:47.909
what you go through. Um you just have to
00:28:47.919 --> 00:28:49.389
surround yourself around the right
00:28:49.399 --> 00:28:52.310
people. And uh you know, for me at
00:28:52.320 --> 00:28:54.950
least, you had to you you have to sort
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:56.710
of get out of your own way and give it
00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:58.549
to God.
00:28:58.559 --> 00:28:59.990
Were you already married when you were
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:01.990
going
through these things? Uh we were
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.310
together. We've actually So, our our
00:29:04.320 --> 00:29:06.710
anniversary is in July. It's It'll be
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:09.909
eight years. So, you can only imagine uh
00:29:09.919 --> 00:29:11.750
I've I've been only two years of
00:29:11.760 --> 00:29:14.990
sobriety. So, six years of
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.070
uh some some [ __ ]
00:29:18.080 --> 00:29:20.149
When did you get married? Uh we're
00:29:20.159 --> 00:29:21.510
actually getting married actually at the
00:29:21.520 --> 00:29:23.110
end of Oh. Oh, you're getting married.
00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:24.870
Okay. Or my wife. I call her my wife.
00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:26.230
We're actually She's She's She's my
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:29.269
fiance. Um you know, I put a ring on it
00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:32.470
already. Um, but yeah, she is in uh
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:35.110
school right now and when she graduates
00:29:35.120 --> 00:29:37.350
school, we're going to get married. What
00:29:37.360 --> 00:29:39.590
I mean, I'm sure that there are times
00:29:39.600 --> 00:29:41.830
where you guys talk about this type of
00:29:41.840 --> 00:29:45.990
thing and the path and how you've when
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.590
and how you've worked through these
00:29:47.600 --> 00:29:49.990
issues for yourself individually, but
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:51.750
also within your relationship with your
00:29:51.760 --> 00:29:54.389
children. Do you ever sit back and
00:29:54.399 --> 00:29:57.350
think, my goodness, I mean, how lucky
00:29:57.360 --> 00:30:00.310
you are. They're still there, you know,
00:30:00.320 --> 00:30:03.630
grateful. Yeah.
00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:05.870
Um,
00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:08.549
like it's like a whole different meaning
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:11.350
to fighting now because I used to fight
00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:14.470
for myself and I'm a very emotional
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:18.870
person. Um, what I before I fight, dude,
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:20.149
you you would think I was getting ready
00:30:20.159 --> 00:30:24.710
for a funeral. Like tears in my eyes
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:26.710
because I'm a very I'm I'm I'm very in
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:28.470
tune with my emotions. And a lot of
00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:30.630
fighters, bro, I was in the back back
00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:32.870
room in Albuquerque. All these dudes are
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:36.190
like, "Ah, getting ready. I'm crying,
00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:39.029
dog. I'm over here crying." But dog,
00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:41.990
like that's how I heal and that's how
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:44.230
myself ready because I think about
00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:46.230
everything that Harrison has been
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:49.830
through over the past decade and where I
00:30:49.840 --> 00:30:52.389
and it's almost a an emotional thing
00:30:52.399 --> 00:30:55.750
because I'm I'm happy. I'm where I'm I'm
00:30:55.760 --> 00:30:58.389
where God has has led
me to be in my
00:30:58.399 --> 00:31:02.230
life. But also, it's just another thing
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:04.950
to fight for, to show my kids, no matter
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.590
what you go through, addiction, life
00:31:07.600 --> 00:31:10.630
problems, relationship problems, you can
00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:12.789
get up, dust yourself off. And that's
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:14.310
why when people are like, "Oh,
00:31:14.320 --> 00:31:15.350
Harrison's going to get knocked out of
00:31:15.360 --> 00:31:17.830
the first round." You can drop me. Yeah,
00:31:17.840 --> 00:31:19.830
you might drop me, but I damn sure going
00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:22.470
to get the [ __ ] back up. And that and
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:23.909
that goes for everything. You know what
00:31:23.919 --> 00:31:25.590
I'm saying? I've been knocked out. I've
00:31:25.600 --> 00:31:28.389
been knocked down so hard in life. There
00:31:28.399 --> 00:31:30.630
ain't nothing nothing another man can do
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:32.710
to me that would hurt more than what
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:34.909
I've already been through. You you know
00:31:34.919 --> 00:31:37.669
you you mentioned uh where was I have it
00:31:37.679 --> 00:31:39.470
right here.
00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:43.029
Um you fought in multiple organizations.
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:46.470
Yes, sir. BYB, BKFC. What do you see
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:47.830
differences in how these organizations
00:31:47.840 --> 00:31:50.310
are run? And what what do you like about
00:31:50.320 --> 00:31:52.149
the BKFC since that's the organization
00:31:52.159 --> 00:31:53.669
that you're in right now? I actually
00:31:53.679 --> 00:31:57.669
started with the BKFC. Um, and you know,
00:31:57.679 --> 00:32:00.549
I I I flew out to their one of their
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:03.750
first um, tryyouts in Kansas City and
00:32:03.760 --> 00:32:05.430
Nate Shook and I really hit it off
00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:08.230
pretty well. You know, I've known Chris
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:11.710
Lidle ever since then. Um,
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:15.509
and they just showed me the respect of
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:18.789
like, okay, like we know you're going
00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:21.509
through some [ __ ] they could tell, you
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.470
know, sometimes you you it's not too
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:28.389
hard to see. Um Yeah. But um they gave
00:32:28.399 --> 00:32:30.630
me a chance when no one else would.
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:32.950
Yeah. Uh I had to really go through some
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:34.950
hard times like with this with the
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.269
self-belief and not believing in myself.
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:39.350
Like I took some L's, bro. Like back to
00:32:39.360 --> 00:32:41.590
back to back. And then when I changed my
00:32:41.600 --> 00:32:44.149
life, I just skyro it just kept going up
00:32:44.159 --> 00:32:45.669
and kept going up and I'm kept winning.
00:32:45.679 --> 00:32:48.070
It kept winning and you
know I did just
00:32:48.080 --> 00:32:49.830
All right. Yeah. Yeah. So, what I was
00:32:49.840 --> 00:32:53.509
saying, uh, you know, I felt like I even
00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:56.110
walked away with more respect from the
00:32:56.120 --> 00:32:59.509
BKFC by showing my heart in this last
00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:01.909
fight. Like I was saying with the uh
00:33:01.919 --> 00:33:04.549
with the Donald's fans, I mean, a lot of
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.310
people were sleeping on me. I said in
00:33:06.320 --> 00:33:07.990
the in the pre-fight interview, I said
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.310
the only way I'm going out of of this of
00:33:10.320 --> 00:33:12.950
this city is if he's going to put me in
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:14.789
a body bag. and he was like, "If he
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:16.230
wants," and then he goes, "If he wants
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:17.830
to be in a body bag, then that's why
00:33:17.840 --> 00:33:20.389
we're gonna do this." But like that's my
00:33:20.399 --> 00:33:22.310
mindset walking into these fights now.
00:33:22.320 --> 00:33:23.750
I'm like, "You know what? I've been
00:33:23.760 --> 00:33:26.789
beaten down so hard in life, and now
00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:29.269
that uh I've changed my life, I I I can
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:30.789
go through anything." But like, back to
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:33.430
the original question, BKFC is a great
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:36.549
organization. BYB is both another great
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.190
organization. I just see the growth more
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:41.029
in BKFC.
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:43.110
I've seen, you know, how they have Conor
00:33:43.120 --> 00:33:46.430
McGregor on, you know, Dave Feldman. I I
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:50.870
really respect Dave a lot. Um, he's had
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:52.870
it he and he had it rough. And he didn't
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.509
give up on his dream. He wasn't just
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.509
handed [ __ ] You know what I'm saying?
00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:00.070
He had to work his ass off to get to
00:34:00.080 --> 00:34:02.389
where he is today. And he's a self-made
00:34:02.399 --> 00:34:05.430
man. And like that's me. That's what I
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:07.990
I've been grinding my whole life. Like I
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.950
I own my own business. I had I had I get
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.349
up at 5:00 a.m. I go do workouts at 5:00
00:34:13.359 --> 00:34:15.190
a.m. I go work for eight hours. Then I
00:34:15.200 --> 00:34:18.790
go train for two hours after work. And
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:22.950
like I know I can see that same mindset.
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:25.109
And that's what BKFC is looking for.
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:27.109
Like they're not they're not telling you
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:29.990
you need to be this absolute animal like
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:32.629
this this absolute best in the world
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:34.790
because you can get there. You can get
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:36.550
there. As long as you show up and you
00:34:36.560 --> 00:34:38.629
show out and you put on a show, they're
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:40.710
not going to kick you out of the [ __ ]
00:34:40.720 --> 00:34:43.669
uh organization if you take an L. I got
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:48.550
more praise from BKFC from my last fight
00:34:48.560 --> 00:34:50.470
because they were like, "Man, we didn't
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:52.069
even know you had that dog in you."
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.349
Like, in Donald Sanchez is a [ __ ]
00:34:55.359 --> 00:34:58.150
real fighter. This man had over 80
00:34:58.160 --> 00:35:01.829
professional fights. 80, which is I
00:35:01.839 --> 00:35:03.950
think the most in this
00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:07.670
organization. Um, and you know, I I I I
00:35:07.680 --> 00:35:10.630
know that he didn't look past me either.
00:35:10.640 --> 00:35:12.390
We've had our, you know, our heart-to-he
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:14.390
heart conversations. He's like, "Man, I
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:17.829
saw the potential in you. Um, and I've
00:35:17.839 --> 00:35:19.430
done my research and I know that you've
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:21.190
been through some [ __ ] and I think that
00:35:21.200 --> 00:35:24.390
that made you more dangerous because of
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:27.109
what you've been through. Uh, people
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:29.349
were sleeping on you, but I wasn't." You
00:35:29.359 --> 00:35:30.630
know, when you when you you mentioned
00:35:30.640 --> 00:35:31.750
earlier, you talked about, you know,
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:33.190
when you get knocked down and you're not
00:35:33.200 --> 00:35:34.310
going to stay down, you're going to get
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:36.069
back up and all that. Did you see the
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.109
fights this weekend? Yes. Uh are you
00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:40.630
talking about Salt Lake City? Salt Lake
00:35:40.640 --> 00:35:42.550
City. Yes. Yes, I Yeah, I was watching
00:35:42.560 --> 00:35:45.109
it. Okay. We all saw I mean what the
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:48.230
champion the title fight my god. Did you
00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:50.550
see the pictures? That was insane. I
00:35:50.560 --> 00:35:52.310
mean I'm friends with both of them on
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:54.310
Instagram. So he got us I mean Richmond
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:57.030
had a slice through his head. He is one
00:35:57.040 --> 00:35:59.510
of the toughest people that I think I've
00:35:59.520 --> 00:36:02.150
ever met in my entire life. Like it was
00:36:02.160 --> 00:36:03.349
like they were talking about how I was
00:36:03.359 --> 00:36:05.910
like if Josh Dy had razor blades on his
00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:08.230
knuckles because of the cuts that those
00:36:08.240 --> 00:36:10.069
are different type of cuts like that you
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:12.150
see you don't typically see. It was it
00:36:12.160 --> 00:36:13.990
was it was crazy and the toughness in
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:15.750
Richmond that he wasn't going to stop
00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:16.710
fighting.
00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:20.230
down. He didn't touch the canvas like
00:36:20.240 --> 00:36:21.910
well he got knocked down the one time. I
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:23.190
think that was almost like a delayed
00:36:23.200 --> 00:36:25.589
reaction like he got but other than that
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:28.310
he just like zombie coming forward. I
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:31.510
mean he he has I want to say I would
00:36:31.520 --> 00:36:33.829
like to say that he has about more heart
00:36:33.839 --> 00:36:36.870
than 90% of those fighters that are in
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:39.349
any organization. Yeah. I mean he fought
00:36:39.359 --> 00:36:41.990
155 in MMA. I mean he's fighting fight
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.390
at 185. I have so much honestly I I have
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:46.230
so much respect for both of them because
00:36:46.240 --> 00:36:49.870
you know the only loss that u that Dyer
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:56.710
has was Lorenzo and um I think Richmond
00:36:56.720 --> 00:36:59.030
had two losses but he lost to Hunt and
00:36:59.040 --> 00:37:01.750
then he lost to somebody else but I mean
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:03.510
these guys are the cream of the crop.
00:37:03.520 --> 00:37:06.069
You don't get any better than that div
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:09.030
than that weight division. Yeah. I mean
00:37:09.040 --> 00:37:11.349
Lorenzo Hunt I've trained with Lorenzo
00:37:11.359 --> 00:37:14.470
Hunt. I've gone down to Jacksonville and
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:17.270
had like a fiveday camp with him. Yeah,
00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:21.829
bro. He is hard. Talk about dog grounds.
00:37:21.839 --> 00:37:23.349
I thought I didn't know if I was going
00:37:23.359 --> 00:37:27.510
to be able to drive home. Like this dude
00:37:27.520 --> 00:37:29.990
waking up at 3:00 a.m. We're going on
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.470
runs. Then we go back to the gym. We
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:34.310
train for two hours. Then we go home and
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:36.550
nap. Then we come back. We train again.
00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:38.950
We were doing three days. Three times a
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:40.470
day for five days. I was like, "Dude, by
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:42.870
the end of the week, I was like, bro, I
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:44.710
don't know how you do this. What you got
00:37:44.720 --> 00:37:46.790
like an Energizer pack in you, but like
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.670
this is [ __ ] insane." Uhhuh. Yeah.
00:37:49.680 --> 00:37:51.190
Um, I wanted to bring up this one
00:37:51.200 --> 00:37:52.230
particular fight because you mentioned,
00:37:52.240 --> 00:37:53.829
you know, knock you get knocked down,
00:37:53.839 --> 00:37:56.630
you get back up. The Jose Naldo Silva
00:37:56.640 --> 00:37:59.589
fight where the guy got dropped three
00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:01.190
times. The first time it looked like he
00:38:01.200 --> 00:38:03.510
was going for a double leg takedown and
00:38:03.520 --> 00:38:08.950
then he lands this punch out of bow bow
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:13.349
and I mean sleep good night and you're
00:38:13.359 --> 00:38:16.829
sitting here saying this is what
00:38:16.839 --> 00:38:20.470
BKFC is. I which is why you get up. If
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:23.750
you can get up, you get up cuz you can
00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:26.150
land those types of shots.
00:38:26.160 --> 00:38:28.310
Bro, I thought and honestly the other
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:30.550
dude, props to him because he had he was
00:38:30.560 --> 00:38:32.790
doing great. Like he was doing great. He
00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:35.750
I I honestly think he was up every round
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:39.109
up to that dominating. And this dude
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:42.550
just threw a looper and just just
00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:46.230
dropped him and I my mouth was like I
00:38:46.240 --> 00:38:48.069
was speechless. We were all speechless.
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:50.790
Holy [ __ ]
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:52.950
That was a that was that was a really
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:56.069
good fight, too. I mean, that was you.
00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:57.910
And you're you're never out. You're
00:38:57.920 --> 00:38:59.510
never out in this fight. So, I want to
00:38:59.520 --> 00:39:01.430
go back to my fight with Donald. Uh,
00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:04.790
fifth round, I was tired. He was tired.
00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:06.950
I hit him with a switch. Like, I like to
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.109
do these switch step crosses and I hit
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:11.270
him right under his eye, but I was so
00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:13.030
[ __ ] tired at I could hear after
00:39:13.040 --> 00:39:15.510
re-watching it, I um like you could hear
00:39:15.520 --> 00:39:17.109
my corner screaming. He's hurt. He's
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:19.430
hurt. And like I talked to Donald a
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:20.950
little bit afterwards and I was like,
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:23.349
"Did I get you?" He was like, "Bro," he
00:39:23.359 --> 00:39:25.109
was like, "If you would have charged me,
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:27.270
I know you didn't have like barely any
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:28.870
energy left because we had just brawled
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:30.710
for five rounds." He's like, "I would
00:39:30.720 --> 00:39:33.349
have had no choice but to take a knee."
00:39:33.359 --> 00:39:36.150
I was like, "Damn, I wish I I was like,
00:39:36.160 --> 00:39:38.470
damn. Wish I would have known that. But
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:41.190
you know I like that but fifth round
00:39:41.200 --> 00:39:42.710
when you're throwing as hard as you're
00:39:42.720 --> 00:39:44.310
throwing and you're like basically on
00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:46.150
survival mode. Sometimes you just feel
00:39:46.160 --> 00:39:48.710
like your feet are just glued to the mat
00:39:48.720 --> 00:39:51.670
and you're like I I'm really just like
00:39:51.680 --> 00:39:54.150
it's really honestly looking back on it.
00:39:54.160 --> 00:39:55.670
My friends ask me they're
like how does
00:39:55.680 --> 00:39:57.190
it feel? I'm like out of body
00:39:57.200 --> 00:40:00.390
experience. You don't even know like and
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:01.990
like I have to go back and watch myself
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:03.750
on TV and be like [ __ ] I would that
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:06.430
that's [ __ ] me. like
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:10.150
[ __ ] because there your sole focus is on
00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:11.750
handling what's in front of you. You
00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:13.109
don't care about the crowd, the
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.349
screaming, like anything. Like I I don't
00:40:15.359 --> 00:40:17.430
I'm I'm there to fight. I'm there to put
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:20.069
on a show and I'm there to win. So, I
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:23.270
got one final uh question for you. You
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:25.270
told me you have a person that you want
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:28.470
to fight. Yeah. Call out.
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:32.069
Tell tell us who it is, the story behind
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:33.910
it.
00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:36.230
Yeah. you know, and all that. He's the
00:40:36.240 --> 00:40:41.750
biggest duck of BKFC. He he in like I
00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:43.910
know what he's doing. I mean, he he's a
00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:46.390
businessman. I get it. Like, do your
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:49.510
[ __ ] I get it. But the only reason why
00:40:49.520 --> 00:40:52.349
I have such a beef with this
00:40:52.359 --> 00:40:54.790
person, boy, let's go back to the Julian
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:57.109
Lane thing. Like, I introduce myself to
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:59.670
people. That's who I am. And that's what
00:40:59.680 --> 00:41:01.829
I was trying to do when I was in
00:41:01.839 --> 00:41:04.550
Hollywood, Florida a few years ago. I
00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:05.910
think it was the first Hollywood,
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:09.030
Florida event. I walk up to Mike Perry.
00:41:09.040 --> 00:41:10.150
I'm like, "Hey, brother. What's going
00:41:10.160 --> 00:41:11.910
on?" Boom. Boom. Boom. His He has a
00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:13.910
security guard with him at the time. I'm
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:15.750
like, "Bro, you're a fighter. You Why?
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:17.430
What the [ __ ] you need a security guard
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:19.910
for?" Me and the security guard. Get
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.190
into it. I like I'm just like I'm like,
00:41:23.200 --> 00:41:24.790
"Hey, I'm just saying what's up." He's
00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:25.910
like, "I don't give a fuck." I'm like,
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:28.309
"Well, [ __ ] you. How about that?" like
00:41:28.319 --> 00:41:31.190
you. So then Mike Perry throws a drink
00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:34.069
in my face. So then I'm now I'm ready to
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:36.630
fight. I'm And then the cops because I'm
00:41:36.640 --> 00:41:40.069
like getting ready to swing. The cops
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:41.910
just grab me and they're like, "What the
00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:43.510
[ __ ] going on?" And I was like, "Bro,
00:41:43.520 --> 00:41:45.430
this [ __ ] [ __ ] just drew a threw a
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:48.309
[ __ ] drink on me." And uh yeah, they
00:41:48.319 --> 00:41:50.390
were like, "Well, you got to go." And I
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:52.309
was like, "I gotta go." I was like, "I
00:41:52.319 --> 00:41:54.069
I'm on the front row. you got this dude
00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:55.589
all the way in the back throwing drinks
00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:58.390
on people like and so needless to say I
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.550
get escorted out by the police cuz I'm
00:42:00.560 --> 00:42:01.550
ready to
00:42:01.560 --> 00:42:03.470
fight.
00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:07.030
Um haven't ran into him since. Been
00:42:07.040 --> 00:42:09.829
trying to confront him, make posts about
00:42:09.839 --> 00:42:13.270
him. Like he just he he don't care. He's
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.990
in his own lane. He he's he's ducked
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:20.230
Mandelle. He's ducking Dyer and he wants
00:42:20.240 --> 00:42:21.910
these big money fights. But you know
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:24.309
what's funny is he said that he would
00:42:24.319 --> 00:42:27.109
fight Cameron Deleno, the person that
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.470
I'm training. I'm like, Cameron Deleno
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:34.069
is my friend obviously, but he has not
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:36.230
earned his stripes yet in BKFC. He
00:42:36.240 --> 00:42:37.990
doesn't even have a professional fight
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:40.390
under BKFC yet. So why are you calling
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:43.750
out a guy who has not even fought yet?
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:45.349
that just makes you look like even
00:42:45.359 --> 00:42:48.069
bigger of a hoe because now you're just
00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:50.470
trying to take fights that you feel like
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:52.630
you could just have the upper hand on
00:42:52.640 --> 00:42:54.069
people. I'm like, why don't you fight
00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:56.630
somebody like me who's been in there
00:42:56.640 --> 00:42:58.230
seven times? I've been in there more
00:42:58.240 --> 00:43:00.309
than Mike Perry. So, I'm like, I've been
00:43:00.319 --> 00:43:03.349
in this game for just as long as he has,
00:43:03.359 --> 00:43:05.990
if not longer. He I know he has his UFC
00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.950
and all that [ __ ] like that, but I don't
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:11.190
respect him. I don't like him. Like I I
00:43:11.200 --> 00:43:13.750
I wanted to introduce myself because we
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:16.069
have a lot of mutual friends. A lot of
00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:18.069
people know about this confrontation.
00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:19.990
They're like, "Damn, man. Like we think
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:21.349
me, you and Mike would have been cool."
00:43:21.359 --> 00:43:23.190
And I'm like, "No, [ __ ] Mike." Like, I
00:43:23.200 --> 00:43:25.109
don't care about that. I just want to
00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:27.190
get I just want to punch him in the
00:43:27.200 --> 00:43:29.109
[ __ ] mouth. Like that's it. I don't
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:31.589
care even if I get paid for it. Like, I
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:34.550
want to fight this dude. And you know,
00:43:34.560 --> 00:43:38.870
he he does not respond to anything on on
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:41.349
social media unless it's beneficial to
00:43:41.359 --> 00:43:44.150
him. Uh Mandelle's called him out.
00:43:44.160 --> 00:43:45.990
Dyer's called him out. I've called him
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:48.309
out. And he it's crickets. That's all
00:43:48.319 --> 00:43:50.870
you hear is crickets. Um he he says he
00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:54.230
wants to fight at 185. Great. I fight at
00:43:54.240 --> 00:43:57.030
185. Why don't you try to use me as a
00:43:57.040 --> 00:43:59.349
stepping stone and see see how well you
00:43:59.359 --> 00:44:01.349
do in a bigger division? cuz we all saw
00:44:01.359 --> 00:44:02.870
what happened when when you went up a
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:05.349
weight class and you were boxing. You
00:44:05.359 --> 00:44:07.829
got your ass beat by Jake Paul and
00:44:07.839 --> 00:44:10.150
that's it. Like why don't you take a
00:44:10.160 --> 00:44:12.790
fight, see how you do a 185. You don't
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:14.390
even have to take the cream of the crop.
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:16.150
Take somebody like me who's been in
00:44:16.160 --> 00:44:17.990
there a while and then we'll see what's
00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:19.990
up. And I don't I don't need to talk
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:21.510
about it. I'm just going to be about it
00:44:21.520 --> 00:44:23.270
and when we get in there, we'll see
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:25.430
who's the better fighter.
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:27.910
Yeah, Dyer called him out after the, you
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:29.750
know, well, he says that Perry was in
00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:33.670
his DMs in the postfight interview. I
00:44:33.680 --> 00:44:35.270
don't think that's a fight that happens.
00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:37.589
No, I don't. There's no way. There's no
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:39.910
way. Dyer's massive. Like, I cannot see
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:42.309
that fight happening. He and he he's
00:44:42.319 --> 00:44:44.470
ducking Mundelle. Mandell has already
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:46.870
fought him twice. A good like obviously
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:49.190
it was in MMA, completely different
00:44:49.200 --> 00:44:52.230
sport. Mandell was not as good as he is
00:44:52.240 --> 00:44:56.790
today when he was in MMA. So I And this
00:44:56.800 --> 00:44:58.230
is at a lower weight class. So the
00:44:58.240 --> 00:44:59.910
reason he doesn't want to fight Mandelle
00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:02.390
is because he says it's at 175. Well,
00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:04.069
now you're coming up to a big dog
00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:06.790
division, too. And you're getting called
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.030
out by the big dogs. And now you're just
00:45:09.040 --> 00:45:13.109
Where's Mike
Perry? Hello. No. Nobody.
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:15.430
He's not responding. So, but he's
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:17.990
begging BKFC for a fight. He just to
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.550
stay relevant. And I'm like, which one
00:45:20.560 --> 00:45:22.470
which one are you a gangster? Cuz you
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:24.150
you you play this card like you're
00:45:24.160 --> 00:45:27.109
gangster and [ __ ] So, let's fight.
00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:28.630
Let's see who's the let's see who the
00:45:28.640 --> 00:45:31.109
real gangster is. Well, there you have
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:32.710
it, everyone. Ladies and gentlemen, this
00:45:32.720 --> 00:45:35.430
is Harrison, the head hunter, Aken. Man,
00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:37.510
I appreciate your time today, man. I
00:45:37.520 --> 00:45:38.950
thank you so much. It's been a pleasure
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:40.710
speaking with you back and forth on on
00:45:40.720 --> 00:45:42.630
DMs and here, of course, learning so
00:45:42.640 --> 00:45:44.390
much more about you. And obviously
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:46.870
you're the fan um from my Julian Lane
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:50.710
video. But uh shout out to Jul, you
00:45:50.720 --> 00:45:52.550
know, but I I greatly appreciate this,
00:45:52.560 --> 00:45:54.230
man. I thank you so very very much. All
00:45:54.240 --> 00:45:56.309
the best to you and Donald in this
00:45:56.319 --> 00:45:57.670
fight, you know, in this fight next
00:45:57.680 --> 00:45:59.190
month. I mean, that's going to be a
00:45:59.200 --> 00:46:01.670
scrap, man. I'm looking forward to it. I
00:46:01.680 --> 00:46:02.790
tell you what, they finally have a
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little break, you know, between cards
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where we can all decompress. Yeah.
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Because even even as fans and covering
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it, like you almost need a second to
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give me a few weeks cuz Huh. just a
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process like that last week you're like
00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:18.950
wow there's just they they have them so
00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:20.790
often and I do get worried that at times
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they might be putting too much too fast
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and that's what the UFC did and like it
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it just give me a second so I can like
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decompress get through the like so we
00:46:30.640 --> 00:46:32.630
can get this together cuz now you're
00:46:32.640 --> 00:46:34.630
gonna have a it's gonna be back to back
00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:36.470
to back to back and then they're going
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.710
to go into July. Do you know when you're
00:46:38.720 --> 00:46:40.870
going to fight next by the way man? my
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:43.510
I'm let my my manager handle all that
00:46:43.520 --> 00:46:45.510
right now. I really really want to get
00:46:45.520 --> 00:46:47.750
on the Sturgeis card. I think that I
00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:50.390
would love to be at that rally. That'd
00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:52.550
be sick. I haven't fought outside yet
00:46:52.560 --> 00:46:53.950
either, so I would love to fight
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:56.710
outside. Um and then Sturgis is the
00:46:56.720 --> 00:46:58.870
biggest bike rally in the in the North
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America, so that would just be super
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[ __ ] cool. Um you know, I'm letting
00:47:04.240 --> 00:47:05.910
my manager do his thing. That's that's
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:09.190
that's what I have him for. Um, but they
00:47:09.200 --> 00:47:11.510
know that I'm training consistently.
00:47:11.520 --> 00:47:13.670
Like I'm out here in Albuquerque. I'm
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training when I'm in Clear Water. I'm
00:47:15.040 --> 00:47:16.470
training when I'm at Atlanta. I'm
00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:18.630
training other people to get ready for
00:47:18.640 --> 00:47:20.950
fights. So I this is my life. I I've
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:22.710
dedicated everything into this sport
00:47:22.720 --> 00:47:25.190
now. Um, so they know that they can call
00:47:25.200 --> 00:47:27.430
me whenever they need me and that uh I
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:29.430
will always be ready. And that's one
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:30.870
thing that they've they've really
00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:33.270
praised me uh about at BKFC is that I
00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:34.710
show up, I'm professional, I make
00:47:34.720 --> 00:47:36.870
weight, and uh I'm ready to go at a drop
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of a hat. Now, there you go, folks.
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That's Harrison, the head hunter Akin. I
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appreciate you so very, very much.
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