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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'm your host Rudy
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Rodriguez Shomat. If you haven't done so
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yet, hit that like button, subscribe to
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the channel, leave a comment. I have an
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exciting guest for you today. He's
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coming off of a monster win last week at
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BKFC Clearwater. We talked to him
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briefly after the fight. He was rocking
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the Combat Corner t-shirt, which we
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greatly
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appreciate. He's in the building. We're
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going to go do a deeper dive into this
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man's career. I bring on to you Michael
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Papa G. Larore. I got to know where this
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Papa G comes from, man. Welcome aboard,
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my friend. Thank you for having me,
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brother. But the uh the Papa G thing
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really. So I used to be called the
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vanilla gorilla, but then like a million
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people started using that name, right?
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I'm not saying that I like I came up
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with it. But when I originally named
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myself that I had never heard of it
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before and I pop up a million times, but
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then I had my first kid and one of my
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mentors was like, "Man, you Papa G, bro.
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You a dad now." And so that's where it
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came in. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Because
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Yeah. There's no name. Uh, your middle
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name isn't start doesn't start with a G,
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does it? So, no, I was I was curious.
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I'm like, where does that come from?
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But, you know, man, thank you for coming
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on today. I appreciate it. Man, you had
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a a big- time performance last week. Um,
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God, it was a week ago today. Seems like
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it was seems like it was forever ago.
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Just a week ago. Um, you want to recap
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that fight again? You know, you I mean,
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you dropped him what, four times. He did
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knock you down as well. I mean, it was
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back and forth. crazy, exciting, you
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know, atmosphere in Clear Water. Uh,
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just thinking about it, have you watched
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it back on film and and and just
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recapping what that was like? Yeah, I
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have. I've watched it back more so to
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see what went wrong, you know, and the
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uh so his knockdown admittedly, I just
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didn't have my base under me properly. I
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wasn't and and I had went to go sit on a
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jab and I sat into his punch too and
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just kind of amplified the effect of it,
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but I was still cognizant of everything.
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And even the referee, he was like, "No,
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I know you're good, but I got to do the
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count." That's all good, man. But Ace, I
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couldn't believe that dude got up three
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of the four knockdowns, man. I'm I'm
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looking him in his eyes when he's on his
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back and you can see that he's not there
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and then he just snapped back too and
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he's right back in the fight, dude. That
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dude's a savage. So maybe should should
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they rename him the Undertaker or
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something like that? Like he's walking
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out to the music to be honest, man.
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So I mean, what what was it like
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fighting at home, fighting in front of
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your your your family, your home crowd,
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and and the excitement in that building?
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I mean, what was that like? It was
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electric, man. I never get to perform at
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home anymore. And to be able to do so on
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such a platform as be at as BKFC was
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everything I've ever dreamed of because
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I I felt it, man. And the energy felt
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right all week, even at weigh-ins, you
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know what I mean? There was a lot of
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love in the house. And then I hit that
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that freaking walk, man. And it's just
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there's nothing like it, bro. There is
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nothing like it, man. You told me it
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took it took you 16 minutes to drive to
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the to the
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building, and it would have
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been 17 if you stopped at the gas
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station. Did the drive home take a
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little bit longer? Maybe you stopped for
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a few beverages or something like that
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or an afterparty.
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my uh my homie Andrew, he was just
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insistent on buying me a meal. So, we we
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went eight minutes down the street and
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stopped at IHOP. Dude, we were the
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loudest people in I was trying to keep
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them. I was like, "Guys, just [ __ ]
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relax a little bit." Like, there's other
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people in here. They were more hyped
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than I was, dude. You know, it's funny
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because I mean, we're at this this bar
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and I mean, it's a bar, restaurant,
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museum, and then also fight location.
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And when I'm there and they're telling
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me, "Well, they stop serving food at 10
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o'clock." I'm like, "There's a fight
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going on. You stop serving food at 10
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o'clock at night. This is
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a Does everything close in Clear Water
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at 10 o'clock other than IHOP?" Because
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I mean, when they told me that they
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weren't serving food after 10,00 It's
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Friday. Don't they stay up until like
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midnight at least? Yeah, that doesn't
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make any sense. More drunk you get, the
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I feel like the more food you're going
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to want to get. Maybe maybe they did it
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though because it was so many folk and
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then folks the [ __ ] out of here get them
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their beer whatever and it's I don't
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know. So like I don't drink I mean I
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drink like beer. So I mean who who knows
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bro? I never I've never hung out there.
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I had there a few years ago. Yeah. I was
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familiar with the venue but I'm not
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familiar with the restaurant or
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anything. So what what what got I mean
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coming into let me move it back. coming
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into this fight, you suffered a
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devastating knockout. What what what how
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did you recover from that and and you
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know, obviously I'm sure you saw that on
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film and saw the mistake that may have
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been made that led to that. How big was
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it for you? And I mean, obviously it's
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very important,
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but do you does doubt creep in your mind
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like, damn, like I got caught real bad
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and now I got to get this W back. I, you
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know, this can't be another one, you
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know, I have to whatever it is. What was
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it like recovering from that, getting a
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win and erasing that from your from your
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You can't erase it, but erasing that
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from your the memory, right? I think
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honestly, man, just taking that first uh
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maybe like month and a half to two
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months to really like sit on it and
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study it and and in the reality of it,
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man, Keith just caught me. He caught me
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in the exchange where I just as likely
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could have caught him. And obviously
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that was the first and last time
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anything like that ever happens to me.
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But it was just a matter of like I had
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to accept it which was really easy for
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me. I I I don't have an issue with
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accepting [ __ ] like that. Um because at
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the end of the day it's bare knuckle
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boxing and Keith has also been fighting
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since I was like eight years old.
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So, I knew going into it, man, that the
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the biggest test I had ever had and uh I
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was just grateful for the opportunity
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and I was glad for my health. I was
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grateful that like I was able to come
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home safely. I was grateful that he was
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able to get home safely. And for me,
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man, I just I get more confident the
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more work I put in. And I trained harder
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for Ace than I did for Keith, which is
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[ __ ] stupid of me. But um it it
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definitely lit a fire underneath me,
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man. It was a healthy thing. I took away
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what I needed to take away from it. And
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Keith is an animal, don't get me wrong,
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but I still don't I don't feel like he's
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necessarily the better fighter than me.
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He was the better man that night. He
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might have had the better game plan. And
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uh he [ __ ] caught me. It is what it
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is. So, what was it? I mean, getting
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that next win, getting that win last
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week. I mean, that's obviously huge for
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you and continuing to progress through
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your career. Um, what brought you to the
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PKFC? So, I know you have an MMA
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background as well, and I know you have
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the the life the goals and some of UFC
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you mentioned to me. Um, what brought
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you what brought you to BKFC? Uh, I
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mean, really, like obviously in the
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grand scheme of things, it was God,
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right? But my first opportunity was on a
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two-day notice. Uh, Jiad, my manager,
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calls me. He's like, "Hey, you know how
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we like we do the bare knuckle thing,
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right?" And I was like, "Yeah, of
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course." Like, that's why I'm training
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with you guys. And it was always on my
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mind, but he's like, "Well, how much do
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you weigh right now?" And I was like,
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"Let me hit you with a question. How
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much do you need me to weigh right now?"
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And uh, he needed me to make 45 by the
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next day. And luckily, I was like 10
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pounds out or I think I had two days to
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make weight. So, maybe three days total.
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Uh, two days to make weight. and I made
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45 and then went viral for my first
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knockout, man. And I uh I love BKFC to
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say the least. Like it's it's so much
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fun, man. It's uh I love MMA as well,
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but there's something different about
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just just [ __ ] you getting there, you
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throw these, you know what I mean?
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That's all I got to worry about, too,
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bro. MMA you got to worry about. Dude's
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trying to smell your nuts.
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I guys putting his finger where it
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shouldn't be. Like, guys get weird, bro.
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They'll do anything to win. You telling
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me all I got to worry about is this dude
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trying to punch me in the face. Sign me
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the [ __ ] up. So that first fight with
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the was it Daniel Garry? You You took
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that on two days notice. Yeah. That's
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wild. Yeah, man. My second one was also
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on three days notice tops against just
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what the [ __ ] is that dude's name?
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Justin Watson. Fo. Did they lose your
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phone number or something between
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fights? They're like, "Oh [ __ ] we
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forgot to call you, man. You you want to
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fight on Friday? Yeah. I'm like, I got
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time, bro. Sign me up. I ain't doing
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nothing. Do Do you almost I can't say
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you do you almost prefer it because the
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the the the higher the higher the level
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gets, you don't want to have three-day
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notice fights, but what what do
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three-day notice fights do for you? I
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mean, when you're you're obviously
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staying in great shape to make these
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weights because But you're fighting at
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35, right? Yeah. Yeah. Those were at 45.
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And I think Justin I think we were
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previously um like there might have been
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a matchup but we weren't sure about it
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yet. So I was staying ready anyways and
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I was also in the middle of an MMA camp
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and so I was already in fight shape and
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it was really just a matter of like who
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am I fighting? Okay, we can fight. I get
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[ __ ] I don't know. I I love fighting
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if you couldn't tell. Well, how did how
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did you get into fighting? I mean were
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you did you fight a lot as a kid? I
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mean, some people I know fought a lot as
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a kid and then I've talked to fighters.
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Some fighters that say I didn't start
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fighting till
later and then I just
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enjoyed I loved it. It was fun. I mean,
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I've never I was never much of a fighter
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as a kid. I mean, don't want to get
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don't want to get punched in the face
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personally, but it's funny when I
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started training with a trainer. Yeah.
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Uh a personal trainer and we would box
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and this guy's like 6'3 and like 240 and
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I'm 5'10 and so my reach I got I have a
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fat neck so at least I don't get my head
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knocked off. But it was it kind of was
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enjoyable for me to get punched in the
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head. It sounds might sound crazy, but I
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mean maybe not, but it was enjoyable.
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Yeah. I I can't hear you. I said it's
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true, bro. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um I
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I but he hit me one time and I was like,
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"Yo, no, I got to take a couple days
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off." Because I had I had a headache for
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like three days because I actually have
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a full-time job and I don't know if he
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gave me a concussion in that one shot.
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Do do you know from from training if you
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ever been hit to the point where it's
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like [ __ ] I might need to take a couple
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days off because of it? Oh yeah I have.
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Shout out Brandon Allen. That's my
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homie.
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But he's been one of them man. He uh he
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gets a little excited in sparring
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sometimes and uh he's he's got a lot of
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power man. And he didn't trap me or
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anything, but he caught me on a temple
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once once and I was like, "Hey, Jiad,
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I'm gonna take like three days off
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because if I take like two more of
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those, I might have to take two weeks
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off."
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So, what got you into fighting though?
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That was that was my the question. What
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What got you What brought you to
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fighting just in general sports? Um,
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around like middle school, I started
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dealing with uh a little bit of
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bullying. Nothing major, like average
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stuff that folks deal with. And it uh
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around that time I started seeing like
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Bully Beatdown and it and my sister
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actually my sister and her husband they
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had like all of the UFC cards on DVD,
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right? And so around all this time like
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I start watching it all and then my
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bully happened to live in my
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neighborhood. We're we're great friends
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to this day. But uh we uh you know how
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dudes get down fighting. We're like yo
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buggies.
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And so we had played a game of pickup
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basketball. Me, my cousin, this kid
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Sean. Shawn was the bully at the time
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and like four other kids, right? And me
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and my cousin were really good at
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basketball, really good at football. So
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we prefer to just me and him against
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everybody else. And so it was I think
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like two against four and we smoked him
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in the game. And Sean ends the game with
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like he said something really stupid,
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bro. I think he said like whatever, man.
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basketballs for dudes with little dicks
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or
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something. Schooler would say, "We're in
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sixth grade, bro. We didn't know how to
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insult each other." Yeah. And uh I was
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like, "Oh yeah, being [ __ ] smartass
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as I was." I was like, "You know what?
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Your mom said,
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homie, I remember this conversation to
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this day, bro." And then uh we leave the
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backyard and he's just, "Yeah, we're
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gonna fight about it, Mike, but you
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can't talk about my mom, bro." I'm like,
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"Well, listen, Sean, we're not in
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school. I I'm not gonna get in trouble.
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Well, we can do whatever you need to do,
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man. And he pushes me and I push him
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back and I turn around and looked at my
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cousin acted like I was going to walk
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away and I turned back and says,
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"Smack, smack,
bro." I smacked the [ __ ]
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out of him and he did he did nothing.
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Uhhuh. Kind of you really punched me in
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the face. I was like, "Yeah, stop."
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[ __ ] Like he was picking on me at
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school and [ __ ] man. And so after that,
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of course, my mom came down. I got
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[ __ ]
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grounded. I went home that day and
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started watching Bully Beatdown, man.
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And then we all started like sparring
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with each other and I got to a gym
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shortly after and then uh I started like
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training hard when I was 15 with my
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Rogers in uh Pensacola. Yeah. Under
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Shadow Box Academy. Rest in peace, Coach
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Kenny. Rest in peace, Coach Bill. But uh
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we would go to spar at Roy Jones
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Senior's gym twice a week. Okay. that
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like where Roy Jones Jr. got his start,
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man. So, I got to see that whole [ __ ]
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and I took my first fight on my 18th
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birthday. Like, of course you had
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exhibitions and stuff, but my first
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fight was on my 18th birthday and I
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finished that guy and uh no diddy. I
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knew what I was going to do for the rest
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of my days, bro. Did um So, are you from
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Pensacola? I'm originally from Dayton,
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Ohio, but uh if you ask me,
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Pensacola/Tampa is home because
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Pensacola really kind of like shaped me
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and then Tampa polished it off. Gotcha.
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Gotcha. So, who do you want next? I
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mean, you know, three and one, you're
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among the top fighters in your division.
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You have a lot of fighters that are a I
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mean, that are there. Is there any
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particular fighter that you'd like to
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see next? Uh yeah, I actually I have a
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few in mind. Um and I have nothing but
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respect for anybody who does this. So
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anytime I ask for a fight, there's no
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malice. It just makes sense for me as a
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fighter. Yeah, I want Chris Garcia.
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We we offer that one. So we'll see what
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happens there. Probably crickets to be
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honest. Um I would like maybe like an
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Abdel Velasquez. He's tough. He's a
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veteran.
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Okay.
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Um, who else, man? I would do like uh
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Well, those those are two right there.
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So, I mean, what how quickly how quickly
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do you want to get back into the ring?
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You know, I mean, you know, there's a
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fight card down here in July. Would you
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want to come down to Hollywood or do you
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want to wait a little longer than that?
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Go to Hollywood, bro. That's actually
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the one that I'm trying to get on, but
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finicky about [ __ ] and there's a
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hundred dudes in Miami trying to get on
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that card and they they kind of handhold
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him a little bit if I'm being honest and
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I asked for specifically I asked Chris
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Garcia in July in Hollywood
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and they have not said anything back yet
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crickets
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man that's all I'll say okay so let me
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ask you so we when we were talking at at
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the fight I mean you talked you you
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speaking a lot about religion and and
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God was that something that you were
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raised or is that something at some
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point in your life that you you you
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found um growing up? Uh so me for me
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like I did kind of go to church growing
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up, but it wasn't really my thing. I was
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just kind of forced into church, but I
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knew that I wanted a relationship with
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God. I knew it specifically after uh my
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grandpa Waldo died. I wasn't even
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necessarily that close with him, but it
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made me more curious about death and
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more curious about God and Jesus and
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everything. And uh I I kind of
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like I had a rough go of it in my early
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early teenage years, we'll say. And so
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like around the wrong crowd, you could
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say,
and not in the most safe
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situations. But um I was trying to find
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my way out of it through fighting
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because that was really that's all I've
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ever known. That's all I've ever been
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good at. Yeah. And uh I was looking for
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God, man. And then I met my wife. And my
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wife happened to go to the church that
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we go to to this day. I met my wife.
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We're about to be together seven years
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here in a month. Uh I might get
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emotional talking about this, man. But I
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was looking for God and he showed up in
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the form of a pretty little white lady.
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Man, we met on
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Tinder. We met on Tinder, man. And I
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thought she was a catfish cuz she was
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just way too fine. And I was like, "Now
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you [ __ ] you don't pull into my
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house." and she pulled up to my little
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apartment, man.
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And and so God was present in her life
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and she she walked with the Holy Spirit
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and I was really curious about it. And
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then two days after we met, I believe we
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met on a Friday and she was like, "Well,
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I go to this church called Harborside
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and uh I would really like it if you
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would come to church." And I was in
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search of God anyways.
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Went to church on Sunday, man. And we
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got married at that church. My kids are
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involved in a church. I'm a prayer
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partner in the church. Like at the end
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of service, I pray over people and it's
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an honor and a privilege to say the
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least. But um yeah, it's God is good.
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That's that's great, man. That's that's
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a great story because you know you I
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always ask because I I grew up Catholic,
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my you know, alter boy, the whole nine,
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but you know, some people find it later
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in life in different ways. And that's
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it's a wonderful story. I mean, looking
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at at the at the BKFC as a whole, you
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you've seen the BKFC pre Conor McGregor,
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you now see the BKFC post Conor
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McGregor, when you look at what what the
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difference is and and what he's done for
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this organization and um maybe anything
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that you may have learned from from him
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watching him in action because obviously
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a major part of this is all promote it's
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promotion and and and people shouldn't
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take things personally and be sensitive
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about it. You're promoting a fight,
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people need to watch. That's how you get
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paid. And if people don't watch the
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fight, there's there's no money, the
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type of thing. So, they don't want to
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watch it, man. Yeah. They don't want to
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book you. They don't want to book you.
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You said, right? Yeah, bro. You need
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eyes. Like, they're not they're unless
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they need like a B-side replacement last
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minute. They want fighters on cards who
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make money. They want guys who bring
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eyes and so put uh respect. They're not
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gonna put a Daniel Garry on a card like
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the Clearwater card because they're
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looking to do something there to bring
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eyes. And Connor obviously he's a hell
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of a promoter man, but I I look up to
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the fighter version of him the most.
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Prime Connor, of course. Yeah. But that
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guy for me was he was a staple of my
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childhood, man. And a big takeaway from
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Connor is like believing in your [ __ ]
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and say it. Put it out there. Can do is
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tell you they don't believe in you and
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then I get to say, "Well, watch me."
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You you you have a camp that I mean has
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a lot of I mean big-time fighters,
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right? I mean, yeah. Isn't Mandelle in
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your camp? Is Jar Jared Warren in your
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camp as well? Yeah, Jared. Borga. We
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talked about Borga. I talked to her
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earlier this week when you told me she
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hits harder than most guys. Um,
Brandon
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Allen's in your camp. I mean, you have a
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lot of well-known BKFC fighters in your
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camp. How does that sharpen you all of
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shar How does that sharpen all y'all to
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to get ready for fights? Because it's
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not like you got to call in sparring
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partners. You You've got partners right
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there who are ranked amongst the top
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fighters in the world. It's really cool
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because we all just get to bounce ideas
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off of each other, man. And we all get
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to encourage each other. Like Borjo tell
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you, if she's on pads and I'm watching,
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I'm cheering her on through her pad run.
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And when it's my turn to crack pads and
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I'm tired, she come on champ, let's go,
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champ. We all push each other in there.
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So whether it's a physical push or it's
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somebody filling up the fridge with
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drinks, like there's a camaraderie in
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there that you you don't get in a lot of
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places. And I'm lucky enough to have
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that at two gyms. Okay. My other gym is
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just like that, bro. Like everybody
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takes care of each other. Before this, I
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was at uh I was at it's called Team
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Bamboo. I was at Bamboo's helping one of
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our amateur guys make weight. We all
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take care of each other, man. Because
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last week, they were helping me make
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weight.
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And but to be able to train with and
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train alongside and even just watch
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train all of those guys, dude, is it's a
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privilege. Like we're just a little hole
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in the wall, gym, but we just happen to
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have the best in the world at what we do
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in the hole in the wall.
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Well, that's a pretty good hole in the
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wall because you have some some dogs in
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the hole in the wall. That's that's uh
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that's pretty awesome. OB honestly, you
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know, you have Mundell's now fighting
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defending his belt. Gosh, what in four
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weeks now or something like that? I
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mean, what is it? Are do you are there
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differences when
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you're preparing a a teammate to fight
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for helping prepare a teammate to help
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fight to defend a title in comparison to
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not defending a title? I mean, what is
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the are there differences or are there
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no differences? Just what what is it
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like for that? Because I mean,
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obviously, you want to come home with
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your strap one way or the other. Yeah,
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honestly man, we all we all train like
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it's a title fight every fight. Mhm.
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We're not training for five rounds.
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We're training for 25 rounds. Mhm.
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Couldn't like you lose count of how many
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rounds you're on in that gym because
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you're just working and you're doing
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different stuff. You ain't just on a bag
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for an hour. You're on a bag for 30
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minutes and then you're doing full work
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on the cones for 20 and then you're on
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pads for 25 and then you're on noodles
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and then you're shadow boxing in the
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mirror. Like we put in work, man. And
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then sprint work on the weekends,
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strength and conditioning on top of it.
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We all train like world champions and
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that's why we all will be world
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champions.
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So, you know, fighting at the OC, you
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have uh did you ever watch that show
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back in the day? The the Orange County
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Chopper
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mustache sitting ringside. He was
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sitting right there. Tut Tuttle was
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sitting right there. I remember I
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remember watching that show all the
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time. and and um you know maybe maybe
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Dave Felman next time you guys fight at
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that location you know the the fight of
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the night gets a a chopper. Yo that
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would be fun. Oh come on.
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I I I remember watching that show all
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the time and
watching them build those
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bikes and I mean I had a bike for a
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second. I'm petri I mean it's funny. I I
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I I got one in a midlife crisis rode
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around it. I enjoyed it, but I found
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myself it's so damn hot down here. Like
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I got to put on 18 layers of clothing
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just to get on the bike cuz you might
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burn your legs up and burn and melt the
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hair on your legs and melt your skin and
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if if you're not dressed properly,
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although I've seen guys wear flip flops
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to ride a motorcycle, which is crazy.
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But you know, I'm sitting there and I'm
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like, people down here in South Florida
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are too crazy. Like they don't they
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don't know how to drive a car. I'm gonna
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I'll be riding normally and I'm gonna
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have someone smash right into me or
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something like that. But I had a bike
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for a second. But those those bikes that
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they would make are so dope. I mean, and
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I think that would be a great prize for
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for for a winner of a a fight of the
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night winner in Clearwater at the OC
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because I know they mentioned they want
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to do that a couple of times a year
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there. Would you be down for to fight
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there every single time you could fight
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there? Abs [ __ ] lutely, bro. Give me
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the pound advantage 10 times out of 10,
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bro. I'll fight my back. I'll fight my
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front yard. I don't give a [ __ ] Come
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on, man. Sign me up. What What is a
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location of a fight that you I mean, if
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you could picture the dream location for
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a fight? I mean, they're going all over
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the world now. They've been in Dubai.
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They've been Did you go to Dubai with
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Brandon Allen? Oh, man. [ __ ] it. Yeah.
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So, Dubai, they went to Italy, they went
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to Spain, they're in UK all the time.
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Now, what location would you would be
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that fight place you're like, I I want
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00:25:19.269
to fight here. is a dream fight
00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:21.590
location. Madison Square Garden, my
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dude. I want MSG sold out and I want
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people yelling Papa G at the MSG. Let's
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[ __ ] go.
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That's gonna be a t-shirt, man. But say
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that, bros. Yeah. Papa G at the
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MSG. That's a t-shirt right there. Yes,
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sir. Papa G at the MSG. It was meant to
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be. Yeah. Are you a rapper? Me. You know
00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:47.510
what I'm saying? Are Are you a rapper?
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Did you rhyme? [ __ ] guess so, bro.
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[ __ ] You just did, man. You know, I
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appreciate your time here. What is your
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message to the to the BKFC fans and to
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whoever your next opponent is, whether
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it's Chris Garcia or whoever, what is
00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:05.990
your message to the to everybody out
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there? First and foremost, if you don't
00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:09.830
have Jesus in your life, get Jesus in
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your life yesterday because Jesus loves
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you and he paid the ultimate price for
00:26:13.679 --> 00:26:16.110
you and me. and to the rest of the
00:26:16.120 --> 00:26:18.710
division. Um, I still got a lot of work
00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:21.669
to do, but Alberto Blast, I respect the
00:26:21.679 --> 00:26:25.110
[ __ ] out of you. I am the champion. It
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might not be around my waist yet, but it
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is inevitable that I leave this
00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:31.990
organization with that belt around my
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waist. I'm the
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best. Simple as that, brother. God
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bless.
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Folks, that is Michael Laramore. He's
00:26:41.600 --> 00:26:44.870
Papa G at the end. Michael Papa G.
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Laramore. I appreciate you so very, very
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much jumping on with me today. Folks, if
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you don't know who he is, you're going
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to find out real soon. We'll link his
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social in the description. Follow him on
00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:58.789
his social media again. We'll link it in
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there. I appreciate you so very much
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everyone. This is Combat Corner Power by
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Come on now the podcast. Come on now.
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Up and down through the blood and the
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sweat. Guarantee you can know I'm a
00:27:13.120 --> 00:27:15.510
threat. Up and down through the blood
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and the sweat. And I ain't close to
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being done yet. I'm going all in.