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What's up everybody? Clinton Fouchet here
and and this is front Porch Chronicles,
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and we have a repeat offender,
my brother by another mother repping Saint Louis
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now in Las Vegas with extreme couture. Mister Josh Aggi Augustine, thank you
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so much, brother for coming on. I know you got a busy schedule.
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Hey, thank you guys for having
me on. I just appreciate the
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push. Yeah, no doubt,
And guys, you're going to stay tuned
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because at the end of this one
we got some great merch. My mind
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blown. I'm telling you right now, it's gonna be legit. So stay
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tuned. We got a lot of
info coming up on Aggie. And at
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the end, I'm just telling you
now, you're gonna want to hang around.
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So so we know you've been put
in more lately. We saw you
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on some really cool clips. How
was it training with al Jo and Morob
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for UFC three hundred That was pretty
epig Yeah, one hundred percent. I
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mean those guys are at the top
of the food chain, So you know,
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I have a lot of friends in
the game that aren't like directly,
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you know, training with them and
like with him having the big fight with
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Cater coming up. They kind of
were like, you know, like almost
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like fans about it, like,
oh, I don't know, man,
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I don't know if he can handle
one forty five. And I was like,
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look, I'm telling you, like
this dude's about to be if the
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champ. If not, he's going
to be right there fighting for the title
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once or twice more before his career
is over. Like this dude is a
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great one forty five as well,
and he's fitting the mold, and you
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know, then they were all like, I don't know, I don't know.
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And then obviously we all saw how
much he dominated a guy like Cater,
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and it's like, man, what's
next for that guy? And but
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yeah, it was fucking It was
incredible just to be a part of training
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with them. I learned and grew
so much just just working with them.
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Morob I didn't like do. I
was doing more stuff with al Joe MMA
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for his camp at the beginning of
camp, but with Morab I we just
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happened to train together at tenth Planet
Henderson out here oh here and there.
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We're usually both there on Sundays and
we do the open mat together. But
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since him and I are like,
you know, one of the couple like
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fighters there. We end up just
slap boxing each other most Sundays, and
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I just try to keep him from
wrestling me. Yeah, and then we
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you know, we'll we'll roll a
little bit. But everyone else we just
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roll with. But him and I
we kind of just like end up having
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a bare knuckle MMA fight. It's
it's funny you say that because I spoke
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on this when we were leading up
to UFC three hundred. Uh oh,
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Joe is always been one of my
favorite fighters. Uh And I don't think
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he's ever gotten the respect, like
even like when we're talking about like people
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are like, oh, I don't
know if he can go to one forty
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five, Like He's always been doubted
and people have never really given him the
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respect that he deserves. That dude
is always being a one. Even more
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so he got dropped from the main
card too, which was interesting. Yeah.
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Yeah, but you know what,
one of the biggest things I respect
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about him is he doesn't wind and
cry about it. He doesn't. He
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straps up, you know, laces
up the gloves, gets back in there,
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works hard and puts thus So you
know, al Joe gets and has
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always gotten mad respect for him.
We definitely need to shoot our shot too
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and try to get him on big
Yeah, I'd be down like Lee Roy
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Brown. So yeah, I know
you've got a fight coming up, speaking
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of you with a Samurai MMA in
Montreal, Canada against Alex Morgan. And
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no, we're not talking about the
female soccer player. When when we when
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it popped up and said Alex Morgan, Albert was like, dude, do
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you know Alex Morgan? The female
soccer players? I might know she's Yeah,
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do you know what that is?
She's the US was until I googled,
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until I started. Yeah, and
when I when I googled, yeah,
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she's part of like the dream team
like in the early two thousands,
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went with what are you talking about
with soccer looks? Oh, well,
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buddy, with with looks, she's
top ten, she's top ten on that
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list. I would say top on
that list because she's ten out of ten.
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I'm going twenty out of ten.
We're going next level. Uh,
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so what are you look in you
know, with that fight coming up?
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What are you looking uh to showcase
in this fight coming up? I think
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that my hands and my speed are
going to showcase themselves. I think that
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I'm going to show the level of
striking that I'm at in this fight and
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this you know, this past year
and a quarter that I've been out here
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in Vegas, my grappling has grown
a ton, and I think that Extreme
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Couture is a perfect camp for rounding
out your game. So I think that
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being around a lot of high level
guys and getting like having my game so
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well rounded now at this point,
I think that that's going to show itself
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as the fight goes. Like,
I'm going out there and i have a
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certain game plan that I'm expecting to
show, but I think just naturally the
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fight is going to with him being
such a veteran and me having ten fights,
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it's it's going to be a fight. So once the fight gets going,
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I think that my game is going
to just show how much evolution I've
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had in so many different areas.
Yeah, definitely, Well, you see
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here the confidence going. We got
the privilege of hearing your story last time
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when you're on here too, and
you said how much Extreme has been a
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huge part of your journey and making
sure that you're surrounded by a top tier
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guys. So I'm sure with training
guys like Al Joe Morob and just getting
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that that consistent grappling. You're going
to see it like in June when you
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when you fight against Alex Morgan,
for sure. And I plan on showing
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off my stand up though. I
plan on you know, if if he
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gets grappled up, then then he
might. But you know, I'm going
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to be trying to really put the
hands on him. I think that,
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you know, I think that he
shows some holes in his game and I'm
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looking to exploit those. Sweet So
exciting. Is this the first time you're
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going to be traveling up to Canada? I know it's in Montreal. Yeah,
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first time in Canada. I'm looking
forward to checking out Montreal. It's
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it's it's a pretty cool privilege,
you know, to be getting to travel
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the world doing this thing and you
know, making a little bit of money.
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Like it's, uh, it's pretty
cool man, It's it's fun.
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Yeah. I'm I'm interested to go
to Canada too, right, especially you
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guys have been. I have never
been to Canada. Now I've I've got
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buddies in Vancouver. I know it's
on the opposite side, on the West
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coast side that I'm considering going soon. It's just you know, making the
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chip up there. It's it's a
different world. I've heard it's fucking cold,
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but it's beautiful, I've heard.
So yeah, with that going on,
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Like, how's training camp going,
can you give a little bit of
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update, Like what's uh what the
mindset's going into? It? Just mean
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mean And I told my son's mother
we're staying together right now. And well,
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I made her watch swamp Kings on
Netflix. I don't know if you
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guys have seen that. I'm from
Alabama. You know that was probably one
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of my cousins, my camp folks. That's funny. So I made her.
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I made her watch swamp Kings and
I made her watch the two episodes
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where you know, the year before
they win the national title and then after
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they lose it. In like the
intensity of the training and the mindset going
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into I'm not we're not going to
a football season or like a game or
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a fucking MMA fight. I'm going
in there to train like my fucking life
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is on the line because it is
my career. You know, Like if
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I'm gonna make this happen, I
need to make it happen now. And
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to have a fight like this,
you can't make any mistakes. You got
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to be mentally one locked in.
And that's the whole idea for this camp
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is to be mean, fucking gritty. I'm going in there hurt this motherfucker.
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I'm going in there break his jaw, break his eye socket, tear
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his fucking rip, break his knee, do whatever I gotta do to make
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him fucking quit. It's it's funny
you say. Look, it's funny.
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You said swamp Kings on it the
Florida Gators shirt. You know I'm a
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Gator. I can't see. Yeah, I'm a diehard Florida Gator fan.
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So you just said swamp kings.
I thought you were talking about the show
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where they hunt, but swamp Kings
and swamp Kings, Tim Tebow, Brandon
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Spikes, Brandon, James Percy,
Harvin, all of those guys. Oh
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my gosh, that that show had
to be amp. It was like I
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did math for three days after I
watched that show. I was so hamped.
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Yeah, yeah, I've watched it
a few times now, me too.
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Uh. Stylistically, and I don't
want you to give up too much,
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but stylistically, how do you guys
match up or what? What have
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you seen stylistically. How you you
know, how you guys are going to
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go at it. Oh, he's
a fantastic muyti fighter. He has really
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great kicks, and he puts he
puts his punches together. His last fight,
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he has an incredible highlight real head
kick knockout, knocks the dude dead,
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sets it up with his hands perfectly, So you know he he has
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a lot of great attributes. He's
a really good stand up guy. But
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I don't think he's as well rounded
as me. I don't think that he
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hits as hard as me, and
I don't think he comes to hurt people.
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All of his finishes come later in
the third, fourth round, other
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than that last head kick knockout in
the first, but a lot of his
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finishes come later. He likes to
build steam and get going as the fight
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goes. All my finishes are in
the first in the second round, all
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my finishes are early. The second
I walk in that cage, I'm looking
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to get you out of there.
I want you out as soon as possible,
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and I'm not going to go at
it with reckless abandoned by any means.
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I've never done that in any of
my fights. I'm going to be
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very methodical and smart. But as
soon as that ref says go, I'm
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coming for him and as no breaks. That was the model on the first
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shirt, and that's that's going to
contend. You know. That's kind of
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where I just see my advantages at
this point in my career. I think
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that I need to use the youth
as my friend. I have the speed
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advantage, I should have the strength
advantage. I'm going to be more physical.
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I'm gonna be faster, stronger,
taller, So I really need to
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use those and I'm not going to
let him get comfortable and get going.
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Fuck that, He's going to get
right out of the go and contract.
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Let me ask you this, do
you have anybody in your jam that you're
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using that resembles his gang. We
have so many guys. That's one of
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the great things about Extreme couture.
You got so many different, well rounded
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guys. It's got to be a
big advantage. Yeah. I mean,
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like one of the main guys I've
been going with his Marion Santos. He's
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supposed to be on the Ultimate Fighter
this year. Brazilian kid, super skilled
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Muay Thai yah, and I think
he actually has better grappling than Morgan.
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He has a brown belt in jiu
jitsu and he's you know, I think
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he said like thirteen pro So he's
got pretty decent wrestling and stuff too.
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So he's a good partner. Julian
A Rosa another really awesome partner for me
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to go with. Uh. One
guy you're probably not familiar with. He's
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still coming up. His name's a
Baijah Cleo Hawaiian kid. His fucking stand
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up is so good man. So
having having to work with these guys and
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set my rounds up. Arthur Duflo, he's a He's a Frenchman right hand
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or stiff stiff jab you know this. You know he's got a lot of
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I have so many guys that I
have so many guys that are around his
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height and size, body frame and
can emulate the style. Yeah, you
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know, I feel like this is
about to be one of the best camps
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that I've ever had. I'm bringing
in Anthony Injakwani. Anthony is going to
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be helping me out with this camp
as well. He's a multai world champion.
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And then yeah, him and Biaggio, Ali Walsh. I mean,
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I got I got a good list
of guys that are all right around that.
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But I can feel I can feel
not that you never lacked, but
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I can feel the swagger and the
confidence, uh, and the evolvement of
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you's just the last few months.
The mental focus that you have right now
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is like, Okay, I'm going
to war right now. Yeah. I
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think there's something too that you can
you might want to touch on too,
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is a respecting your opponent, but
not over respecting your opponent. You know,
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understanding that they too are a professional, but not giving them all that
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satisfaction of like of taking over that
mindset. And that's cool to see.
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Oh, I'm fully aware of him
having ten more fights than me. It's
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nothing to sleep on. It's nothing, it's nothing to put away. And
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I'm also I'm I'm fully whenever I
sign that contract, I'm fully accepting the
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fact he might knock me the fuck
out in front of all my family and
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friends on UFC fight pass and set
my career back another year or two.
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But that is what it is.
If you're going to take a dangerous fight,
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and you're gonna take a hard fight
and a fight against the number one
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guy in Canada, like it's it's
not all sunshine and rainbows. Fucking sushi
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rolls and strippers, like you know, it's it's a fucking battle, and
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there's two sides of the coin.
Yeah, hopefully I go out there and
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clip him in ten seconds and he
goes to sleep, But I'm expecting fifteen
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minutes of a dog fight. I
think that he took this fight thinking that
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it's going to be a little bit
easier because I have less fights than him.
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My fights go kind of quick.
He's seen some fights where there have
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been some obvious holes in my game, but the past year and a half,
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I've closed a lot of those holes. In the past year and a
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half, I've been working with the
best people in the world, and I
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know where my game's at now,
and I'm I'm accepting of the challenge of
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going into his hometown, into another
country, into his backyard, and against
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a super skilled guy. Guy he's
not gonna go lay down for me,
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just like I'm not gonna go lay
down for him. And he's got his
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skill set and I got mine.
So you know, it's almost kind of
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feels like this could be the This
could be like my UFC debut kind of
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type fight, just because of the
level of opponent, and you know,
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going into unfamiliar territory, unchartered.
I love them. I love that mindset.
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I love that mindset, and that's
what's gonna earn me this UFC contract,
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not not beating up these four and
O five and oh guys and just
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in like kind of beaten guys that
I should beat or like old washed up
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veterans. I need to beat a
guy like this. Not only do I
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need to beat a guy like this
for my resume, but for myself for
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whenever I step into the octagon and
the UFC and I no, I fucking
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belong there. Not. Oh man, I hope this goes well. No,
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I already beat that Muytai world champion. I already know I can go
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with five rounds of julian A Rosa
if need be. It'll suck, but
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I know I can get through a
lot of shit, you know. So
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that's what I look forward to in
this fight. So I don't know if
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it's like the ultra confidence or anything. I know that I have to execute
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my game planner. It could be
a really short, fucked up trip to
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Montreal. But if I go out
and execute appropriately and I stay calm and
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cool and collect it and I do
the things that I've been training with with
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Dennis Davis and Danny d One and
Eric Nixon, then I know that I
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have the abilities to come out on
top and really show my athletic ability and
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my my worth of being in the
UFC. The reason that they would want
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to bring me in. I'm calling
the dub now. I mean, you
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got me if not just because you're
my boy, but I'm telling you now,
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like the I don't think you even
like if you've ever seen the movie
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with the Bruce Leroy, like you
got the shining, you got the glow
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right now, and like bro,
I'm I'm willing to sign sign away the
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house, bet the house and everything
on you right now. You got me?
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Look hard, don't we hear something? I'm ready to roll up my
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sleeves and go train. I'm like
this guy. Yeah, So leading up
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to the fight, is there anything
that you do for certain rituals that you
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do to mentally get focused either day
of week of to get you prepped to
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get into that octagon. Now,
I'm just trying to do what is it.
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It's called the biohacks for yeah,
before training that way, I you
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know, hit a certain like you
know, do a few breathing patterns that
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I'm to day of the fight,
and that way, I'm just like you
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know, turning myself on, turning
the outside noise off, and just I
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keep I'm keeping it really simple,
you know, do a few meditations here
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and there, but honestly, the
biggest thing is just keeping my feet and
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my shoes, not thinking about what
opportunities come from this fight, but just
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focusing on being present every single day
and making the most of five minutes with
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my son, and between training,
making the most of every training session,
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making sure whenever there's ten seconds left, I'm fucking digging for that last inch
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versus like, oh I coasted through
it, Like I want to make the
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most of this opportunity. So for
this next five six weeks, everything's going
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to be about being present, being
locked in and just get and just squeezing
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the juice of every moment that I
have. Love. Yah, yeah,
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I love it. I think I
know what the next question is, But
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I was just curious, like throughout
the whole fight camp, you have like
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weight cuts, all the sparring sessions, the grueling sweat and blend tears that
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you do what drives Augie to maintain
that focus. Honestly, it's my kid,
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bro. It's like, I mean, I got to change my life.
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I want to give him an amazing
life, and I know that I
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have the ability to do it,
or else I would just do something else.
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But I know that I can get
something through this, and it's very
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meaningful to me to show him that
you can accomplish your dreams and and uh
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you know, do whatever you want
in life. And with having him here
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in Vegas with me, and you
know, like whether I bring money home
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or I don't, is like if
he eats or not, So you know,
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like that is the ultimate driving force. You know. I don't think
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that I could be as focused if
I didn't have him out here. But
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yeah, that's that's really the number
one thing other than just I have so
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much love and respect for the game, and it's always been a dream of
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mine to be a world champion.
So obviously, you know, you got
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to win fights like this to become
that. So I have to you have
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to and uh so that but that
falls so short and secondary to the fact
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that this is how I'm going to
get to the UFC, and this is
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how I'm going to make bigger paychecks, and that's how I'm going to pay
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my bills. Well, I'll tell
you this, uh you know, I'll
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follow you and to keep up with
whether you know it or not. The
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amount of love and attention that you
give your son to me is so respectful,
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and it's kind of like how we
talked about earlier about people taking care
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of people for the love of the
person, not just the fighter, but
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the amount of love and attention and
nurturing that you give him. On a
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deeper level, you can see that, and it's one of many reasons.
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You know, I respect Aggi the
fighter and love Agi the fighter, but
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the man that you are and the
father that you are for me, you
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know, just to tell you straight
up, you know, I respect the
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hell out of that more than anything
else. And it's why you'll always have
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me on your squad. So thank
you, bro. You know I feel
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the same way about you. Yeah, And for me, you know,
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like I guess, it's just kind
of turning thirty and you get a little
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more wise when you get a little
older, and you get a greater perspective
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on things. You know, but
fighting doesn't mean shit, man, like
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it does, like I love it
and I want to be great. I
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want to be world champion. I
want to make all the money and fucking
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being roadhouse and all this shit,
you know, like like we all we
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all want that, you know what
I'm saying. We want every yet perfect.
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But but like, man, all
you have at the end of the
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day is your family. All you
have people, and whether this works out
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or it doesn't, Like I don't
want my son to think I'm a piece
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of shit whenever he's at my funeral, like, I want him to respect
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me and love me, like I
can remember at my father's funeral, Man,
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so many people came up to me
and told me how much they respected
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my dad and why they respected him, and they shook me and shook my
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hand and hugged me and told me
how much they loved me if I ever
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needed anything, And that meant so
much to me. I saw how much
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he affected other people's lives in such
positive way, and that kind of shifted
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my perspective on what's important and what's
not and like yeah, like I said,
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like yeah, we want to accomplish
all of our goals. And it
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doesn't make me less gold driven or
anything, but it does make me focus
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on taking that extra five minutes whenever
I'm at home, or just trying not
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to get too pissed off when the
gallon of milk hits the floor, you
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know what I mean, whatever it
is, like just trying to trying to
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be there for him and just be
the best dad and just the best person
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I can be, honestly, like
twenty four hours a day for like anyone,
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whether it's a friend, you know, some dude I'm driving by on
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the street, like some homeless do
whatever I can do, Like it doesn't
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it doesn't matter, Like I just
want to be that person. Yeah.
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I think sometimes we get too focused
in on what we're trying to do on
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the grander scale. We forget about
those small moments too, and it's like
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so easy to get, like you
said, pissed off at like the gallon
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of milk that you drop, someone
cutting you off, and it's just like,
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well what am I actually mad at? You know, Like let's take
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a step back. We're good,
We're in good health, and just be
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grateful for what we have, you
know, the people you got, Yeah,
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one hundred percent. And I fell
victim to that for years, Like
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I let my thought of my outside
image, like how I was being projected
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affect how I felt about myself and
who I was so much for such a
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long period of time that after you, you know, you lose someone really
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close to you, I think that
really opens That's one of many things that
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can open your eyes and show you, like, man, none of that
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means fucking anything. Like, yeah, if someone is a fan of what
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you're doing or whatever, yeah it's
cool. It's cool that you're making some
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noise and like you just be cool
with them. But it doesn't mean shit.
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It really doesn't. What means shit
is who you're affecting in your life
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and how you're interacting with them,
and if you're taking care of your family
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and doing the right things. Yeah, definitely, that's That's one of the
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things for me is kind of the
same way with you, being a slave
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to that anxiety of wondering and caring
what other people thought. And it was
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once I let go of that,
I learned to be my authentic self and
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I learned to take care of the
people that I know genuinely needed, you
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know, because you know, sometimes
we get caught up in self perspective and
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we don't think about checking in on
our friends that might be having a bad
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day or going through a bad season
or bad time. We only check with
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them when they go through the divorce, but we don't say, hey,
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man, like deeper level. Is
there something It's kind of like we talked
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about with the management company. That's
what I wanted to create, is like
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a brotherhood and sisterhood where we don't
just take care of each other financially or
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we don't just fight, but like
we take care of each other as people.
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And when you have that, man, it makes the world so much
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better and it makes your peace of
mind so much easier to live with.
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So well, it's all about who
you said around yourself with, right and
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so whenever you're surrounding yourself with solid
people and people you can trust, people
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you know that have your back,
you feel that security. You feel like
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like you have like someone has your
back. Since I last taught to you,
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I opened up thirty twenty seven promotion. So we signed hafa uh.
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We're fixing a sign. The girl
will have on Nicole. She's an Ammy,
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she's only had one fight, but
she's like nasty. She's from Norway,
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so she's gonna be going over to
Germany. You're able to produce your
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own guys, you're able to build
them from the bottom all the way up
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to the UFC basically and exactly,
then that's where you get your return.
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And that's honestly the best way to
do it because you're covering all bases versus
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just investing in a guy. Well, and it's kind of like what I
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was telling you before, what we're
going to do from the management side of
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ideas to make them not slaves to
the system. I'm going to be setting
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up with them also investment properties,
stuff like that so that they too,
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so they have residual income coming d
you know what I mean. You get
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a fight check, you know you
FC you get a fight check. You
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know you can throw one hundred K
in Alabama, I can buy you one
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to two Section eight houses. You
got an extra three to five thousand dollars
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coming in per month, you know
that's sixty K. I mean lowing that
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fucking money. Well that or you
blow that money, or you know,
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you have to pay this and you
have to pay that, and you look
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at the bank account You're like,
it's empty. So now I've got to
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take a fight when I'm not at
peak performance. When I'm not that's bigger
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than that is, I want to
look out for the fighters so that they're
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not having to fight in compromise positions, so that that way they're more apt
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to get w's because they're not worried
about fighting for money, they're not worried
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about getting a torn knee, torn
worse, broken handbroke worse. They don't
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have to fight compromise. They can
fight at one hundred percent peak, not
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having distress about anything but making sure
they make way. And then we got
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nutrition is for that exactly. And
so for me from a management standpoint of
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it's one of those things you take
care of your people and they're in turn
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going to take care of you.
So that's where I want to be a
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helping hand from them from the bottom
up, not where most management companies and
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whatever they make you prove that you're
worthy of them. I want to make
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people that are worthy from down here, come all the way, all the
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way, and so started from the
bottom. Now we're here, I'm gonna
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be here from the mud to when
we get there, not just when we
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get there. You're bringing the Southern
hospitality in mm A. Man, that's
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fucking that is some g shit right
there. That is you know, you
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see, like I'm with a ridium, you see, like all those guys
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like that's kind of what you're talking
about, Like, Yeah, they'll invest
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in you if they believe in you. After you've established a reason for them
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to believe in you. You guys
like, Okay, we believe in you,
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and we're going to show you that
we believe in you or or if
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you fit there or if you fit
their narrative. And so that's where again,
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I believe in taking care of people, and I'm very brutally honest.
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So I have had people that reached
out to me and said, hey,
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we would like to look at you
managing us, and to be honest,
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I said, hey, man,
look I love you. You're a great
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guy, right and I think you
can do really big things, but you're
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no more than an lfa lifetime fighter. You just don't have the tools or
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the skills. So that's where also
I'm gonna be brutally honest with people because
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I don't want, you know,
I don't think it's fair to string people
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along, and I'm just gonna be
creating fights for you so that I can
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get a little, you know,
a little money off of So yeah,
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bro, I would rather say,
hey, you know what, man,
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this is what you're going to be
relegated to. I love you, and
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if you find somebody that can tool
you to get to that, I'm with
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it. But at the end of
the day, that's kind of what you're
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relegated. But the people that you
know are blood, sweat and tears.
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I'm down to blood, sweat and
tears too. And that's where from the
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management side of it and from the
business side of it. And I understand
411
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it's a business, but I think
the fighters put way too much on the
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line and they have to sacrifice way
too much to get to a point where
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people put out a help in hand
only when it's going to help them.
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And it's such a short window by
the time you get to that point from
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to the end, and then it's
just over. Well, and then let
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me tell you this. Guess what
they do when they when you can't make
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them any money anymore. The person, Yeah, I'm going to be the
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guy that keeps up with you after
your career is over and done. That's
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gonna make sure you keep rental properties. Hey, it's a brotherhood with me,
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and so that's I could have went
and signed fifty fighters I had people
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reach out. We have five fighters
that we've signed so far that I don't
422
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have to worry about going anywhere.
They're not trying to and I don't want
423
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to get this huge. Rather than
having one hundred fighters that I don't,
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you know, know anything about.
I don't know about their mental health,
425
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I don't know about their financial problems, I don't know about their health problems.
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I would much rather narrow that down
to twenty to twenty five guys that
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we ride or die together from the
mud all the way up, rather than
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signing one hundred fighters and just collecting
checks. I want a brotherhood yet,
429
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bro, That's that's you know.
I want a brotherhood, not just not
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just you know, making money off
of people. It's definitely the first of
431
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I've ever heard of this. Yeah, you know what this is coming from
432
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a really genuine space. And it's
funny that you said guys that I know
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aren't gonna go anywhere, because the
first thing that I was thinking whenever you
434
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were saying all this was like,
well, what happens whenever? Like,
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because you're you're obviously investing a lot
into this, so then what happens whenver
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someone just says, oh, Ali's
ready to sign me, I'm gonna go.
437
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I gotta do what's best for me
and my family, you know.
438
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And then it's like that attitude sort
of changes a bit. Or I could
439
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see how it would change a bit
if it were me. But yeah,
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if you have the right people and
like you know who they are, then
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that also changes that variable a bit. And that's why I say you narrow
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it down to who the people are
rather than who the fighter is, because
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to me, I want to help
the people, not just the fighter.
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I want to help the people,
and that to me is a bigger,
445
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a bigger thing. I see the
system is broken. I've seen fighters,
446
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and I'm not gonna call any names. I know a fighter that told me
447
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that his manager didn't even know that
he had a fight lined up, Like,
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bro, how are you collecting ten
percent? How are you collecting ten
449
00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:07.519
percent? He negotiated his own contract, you know what I mean. And
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I'm like that that's not right.
And when I saw the system was broken,
451
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that's when I went to my business
partner and I said, hey,
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man, we I want to create
something different. I want to create something
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that's not been done. I want
to create something so authentic and real that
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I don't have to worry about people
going in signing with who they deem is
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the big guy, because we're going
to become the big guy by taking care
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of the people. When you look
at Kings Queens, all of those people
457
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that were successful in at Last,
they took care of the people. And
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that's what I want to create a
village of brotherhood and sisterhood to where we
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dominate the game, you know,
on a personal level and on a fight
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level. Yeah that's bad, Well, results will come with yeah, yeah,
461
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exactly. And so that's you questions. That's just no, no,
462
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but no, I love I love
well. And to be honest, we
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have people on here and you kind
of talked about like that. It's the
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same thing with this podcast. I
take on people. I don't just shoot
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my shot or have people on here
that I don't research. We research people,
466
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We look at who the people are. We we take on people who
467
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are genuine people. And that's what
this podcast is about, is about not
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just you guys as fighters, but
you guys as human beings and people that
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00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:46.680
are in a career that is very
hard and complex to let people know you
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are human, You got kids,
you you know you do all of these
471
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:54.680
things. So it's a bigger thing
to it than just Hey, these guys
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are fighters and this is cool.
They do this, this and this.
473
00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:01.559
No, this guy is a good
guy. I would go to war with
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this guy in the octagon or on
the streets wherever we are. All Right,
475
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.440
so we're gonna jump into we got
something new that we started doing since
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you came on last time. We're
gonna do rapid fire questions. Uh.
477
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:20.000
And what we're gonna do is ask
you a series of about six questions.
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First person that pops into your head? Ready? Alrighty, who was Josh
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00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:32.240
Augustine's favorite fighter growing up? I
first person that jumps my head is Connor,
480
00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:37.519
but as a kid it would have
been Roy Jones. We just have
481
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somebody off from Pella to pe Cola. Stand up? What fighter have you
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trained with or fault that hit the
hardest? Good question? Probably Kirsha Karakov,
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He's a PFL European guys. Yeah, I know, yeah, yeah,
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I have a fucking bricks and uh, what fighter would you want to
485
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:13.000
be friends with outside the octagon?
H John Jones? Who who would you
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most want to fight? If they
said you could fight anybody in the UFC.
487
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:23.280
Right now, Connor McGregor, come
on, baby red pan, shout
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00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:29.559
out Dana, and then who are
your top five fighters of UFC all time?
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00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:34.079
O? Man, great question.
This one's tough, you know.
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00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:42.480
John Jones a fanboy? Yeahn gsp
uh Anderson Silva, I'm old school.
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00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:52.760
I think you gotta throw the fuck? Is this hard man? You gotta
492
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:58.320
throw? Uh? I think you
gotta throw Max and Vulcan there too.
493
00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:01.000
All right, So last one,
last one. If there was a zombie
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apocalypse, walking Dead style, what
one UFC fighter would you want on your
495
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:16.280
side? I think that's easy.
It's Brockle wasn't. Oh yeah, Oh
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my gosh, yeah that one I
did not think. Oh my gosh,
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bro, what are you talking about. I'm making a saddle on his back.
498
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:31.400
I'm riding him like a backpack.
Bro. I'm getting you know how
499
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:36.360
they wear the kids on the backpack
in the front. Bro, I'm riding
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the backpack in the back to make
sure I don't get nibbled on. And
501
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:45.840
I'm turning the back way so I
didn't get his six. Yeah, all
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00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:52.239
right, So we'll wrap it up. Apart from your reputation as a fighter,
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00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:59.280
we know your beast what quality do
you want people to recognize or to
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00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:04.840
know about Aggie as the man.
Oh, it's a great question. Just
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resiliency, man, resiliency, Just
fighting for what you believe in, what
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00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:12.920
you love and the people you love, and doing whatever you got to do
507
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:17.519
by any means necessary to provide for
your people. Man, do what you
508
00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:22.119
gotta do. Love love it,
love it. Yeah, and just being
509
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:28.559
an authentic good person. That's what
I'll say when I say about you,
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00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:32.159
Like when people are like, oh, solid guy, Like, there's just
511
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:38.239
certain people that like and that's low
key. That's you said. You pick
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00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:42.239
your circle, and that's like when
they ask about I'm like, solid guy,
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00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:45.440
Like, that's for me. That's
what I have to have. I
514
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.519
can't have no sometimes ease well,
and even going back again your travels from
515
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.880
Saint Louis all the way here,
it's always been about resiliency. You talked
516
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:59.000
about your mismanagement of the managers that
you had previously, and now you decided
517
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:00.360
to take a leap of faith and
be like, nah, dude, I
518
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:05.119
need to handle my shit and go
with legit killers and I ain't training with
519
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:07.039
them. And now you're like,
Okay, I gotta take this next step
520
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.719
and take my chance. Like you
said, it's like a UFC career right
521
00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:14.239
now about to start. And so
it's always been about resiliency. It's always
522
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:16.440
been about taking that uncomfortable step that
you need to do, not just for
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00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.760
yourself, but for people around you, for your son, and just be
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00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:22.880
the man that you want to be. So it's cool. Thank you for
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00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:27.400
thank you for showing us. Thank
you all right, guys, form You're
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00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.239
welcome. So so to camp it
off. I know we talked about this
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00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:37.320
earlier. I'm super stoked about getting
some of this new merch coming out.
528
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:39.800
You want to tell us a little
bit about it and then we can drop
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00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:44.800
a link down below for everybody to
get in on it while it's hot.
530
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:49.199
Yeah. I just got a dope
little shirt coming out. See that new
531
00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:53.239
summer swag, that oversized shirt.
Just something for people to represent, you
532
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:57.559
know, especially back in Saint Louis, get your get your Augie merch.
533
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.000
It's a little nice Augie shirt.
A couple of cool picks on there,
534
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.800
and me kicking some asks and looking
shredded, and uh, you know,
535
00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:07.079
I'm planning on having a few different
watch parties, one here in Vegas and
536
00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.599
then one in Saint Louis, So
you guys could just rep the Merge,
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00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:14.679
come out to the watch parties,
and uh, just turn up for the
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00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:15.880
fight, baby, because I'm gonna
have a few people there reporting, and
539
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:21.920
I want to see people going crazy. I don't want to see that gets
540
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:25.599
tore up. I want to see
somebody's shirt off. You want to,
541
00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:29.440
you want to, Mally, and
I can go. I can go full
542
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:34.519
Superman with the shirt cut that right, that won't be right there. I
543
00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:39.039
don't care if I'm missing, so
definitely get us the information. We've been
544
00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:45.599
talking about having a trip over to
Vegas. Uh anyway, so what we'll
545
00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:49.400
do is we'll come over for the
watch party and extend it out a week
546
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:53.280
so that way we can have some
signs for you whenever you fly back in
547
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:59.559
at the airport and show you some
lived we can get some food that sounds
548
00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:04.440
awesome, and we'll drop that link
down below for everybody. You're not gonna
549
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:07.719
want to miss it at all his
limited quantity, so please go get it
550
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:10.440
before it's too late. We'll have
our We'll have ours in the next couple
551
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:14.960
of weeks, so we'll be flossing
on y'all. We're getting it hot off
552
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:19.199
the press. Don't be salty,
don't be salty. But there's levels to
553
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.079
the game. There's levels to the
game, so we're getting it hot off
554
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:24.920
the press. Thank you so much, Aggi. You know we love you.
555
00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:30.360
Man. If you ever need anything
from us, we are most certainly
556
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:35.039
here. Let us know about the
watch party in Vegas where we definitely take
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00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:38.079
you up on that and be there. I'll even go full Hulk of Maniac
558
00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:44.760
ripping the shirt off. Please guys, tune in, and if you don't
559
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:50.920
already, we're also gonna drop his
instagram down below. Go follow Aggi the
560
00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:54.920
man, the myth, the legend. He's super solid fighter and even more
561
00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:00.280
super solid guy. Thank you having
me on. I appreciate you, brother,
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Yeah, thank you. M m
hmm
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What's up everybody? Clinton Fouchet here
and and this is front Porch Chronicles,
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and we have a repeat offender,
my brother by another mother repping Saint Louis
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now in Las Vegas with extreme couture. Mister Josh Aggi Augustine, thank you
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so much, brother for coming on. I know you got a busy schedule.
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Hey, thank you guys for having
me on. I just appreciate the
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push. Yeah, no doubt,
And guys, you're going to stay tuned
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because at the end of this one
we got some great merch. My mind
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blown. I'm telling you right now, it's gonna be legit. So stay
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tuned. We got a lot of
info coming up on Aggie. And at
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the end, I'm just telling you
now, you're gonna want to hang around.
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So so we know you've been put
in more lately. We saw you
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on some really cool clips. How
was it training with al Jo and Morob
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for UFC three hundred That was pretty
epig Yeah, one hundred percent. I
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mean those guys are at the top
of the food chain, So you know,
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I have a lot of friends in
the game that aren't like directly,
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you know, training with them and
like with him having the big fight with
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Cater coming up. They kind of
were like, you know, like almost
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like fans about it, like,
oh, I don't know, man,
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I don't know if he can handle
one forty five. And I was like,
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look, I'm telling you, like
this dude's about to be if the
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champ. If not, he's going
to be right there fighting for the title
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once or twice more before his career
is over. Like this dude is a
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great one forty five as well,
and he's fitting the mold, and you
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know, then they were all like, I don't know, I don't know.
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And then obviously we all saw how
much he dominated a guy like Cater,
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and it's like, man, what's
next for that guy? And but
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yeah, it was fucking It was
incredible just to be a part of training
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with them. I learned and grew
so much just just working with them.
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Morob I didn't like do. I
was doing more stuff with al Joe MMA
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for his camp at the beginning of
camp, but with Morab I we just
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happened to train together at tenth Planet
Henderson out here oh here and there.
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We're usually both there on Sundays and
we do the open mat together. But
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since him and I are like,
you know, one of the couple like
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fighters there. We end up just
slap boxing each other most Sundays, and
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I just try to keep him from
wrestling me. Yeah, and then we
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you know, we'll we'll roll a
little bit. But everyone else we just
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roll with. But him and I
we kind of just like end up having
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a bare knuckle MMA fight. It's
it's funny you say that because I spoke
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on this when we were leading up
to UFC three hundred. Uh oh,
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Joe is always been one of my
favorite fighters. Uh And I don't think
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he's ever gotten the respect, like
even like when we're talking about like people
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are like, oh, I don't
know if he can go to one forty
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five, Like He's always been doubted
and people have never really given him the
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respect that he deserves. That dude
is always being a one. Even more
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so he got dropped from the main
card too, which was interesting. Yeah.
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Yeah, but you know what,
one of the biggest things I respect
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about him is he doesn't wind and
cry about it. He doesn't. He
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straps up, you know, laces
up the gloves, gets back in there,
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works hard and puts thus So you
know, al Joe gets and has
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always gotten mad respect for him.
We definitely need to shoot our shot too
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and try to get him on big
Yeah, I'd be down like Lee Roy
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Brown. So yeah, I know
you've got a fight coming up, speaking
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of you with a Samurai MMA in
Montreal, Canada against Alex Morgan. And
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no, we're not talking about the
female soccer player. When when we when
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it popped up and said Alex Morgan, Albert was like, dude, do
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you know Alex Morgan? The female
soccer players? I might know she's Yeah,
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do you know what that is?
She's the US was until I googled,
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until I started. Yeah, and
when I when I googled, yeah,
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she's part of like the dream team
like in the early two thousands,
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went with what are you talking about
with soccer looks? Oh, well,
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buddy, with with looks, she's
top ten, she's top ten on that
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list. I would say top on
that list because she's ten out of ten.
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I'm going twenty out of ten.
We're going next level. Uh,
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so what are you look in you
know, with that fight coming up?
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What are you looking uh to showcase
in this fight coming up? I think
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that my hands and my speed are
going to showcase themselves. I think that
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I'm going to show the level of
striking that I'm at in this fight and
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this you know, this past year
and a quarter that I've been out here
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in Vegas, my grappling has grown
a ton, and I think that Extreme
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Couture is a perfect camp for rounding
out your game. So I think that
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being around a lot of high level
guys and getting like having my game so
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well rounded now at this point,
I think that that's going to show itself
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as the fight goes. Like,
I'm going out there and i have a
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certain game plan that I'm expecting to
show, but I think just naturally the
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fight is going to with him being
such a veteran and me having ten fights,
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it's it's going to be a fight. So once the fight gets going,
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I think that my game is going
to just show how much evolution I've
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had in so many different areas.
Yeah, definitely, Well, you see
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here the confidence going. We got
the privilege of hearing your story last time
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when you're on here too, and
you said how much Extreme has been a
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huge part of your journey and making
sure that you're surrounded by a top tier
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guys. So I'm sure with training
guys like Al Joe Morob and just getting
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that that consistent grappling. You're going
to see it like in June when you
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when you fight against Alex Morgan,
for sure. And I plan on showing
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off my stand up though. I
plan on you know, if if he
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gets grappled up, then then he
might. But you know, I'm going
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to be trying to really put the
hands on him. I think that,
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you know, I think that he
shows some holes in his game and I'm
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looking to exploit those. Sweet So
exciting. Is this the first time you're
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going to be traveling up to Canada? I know it's in Montreal. Yeah,
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first time in Canada. I'm looking
forward to checking out Montreal. It's
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it's it's a pretty cool privilege,
you know, to be getting to travel
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the world doing this thing and you
know, making a little bit of money.
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Like it's, uh, it's pretty
cool man, It's it's fun.
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Yeah. I'm I'm interested to go
to Canada too, right, especially you
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guys have been. I have never
been to Canada. Now I've I've got
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buddies in Vancouver. I know it's
on the opposite side, on the West
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coast side that I'm considering going soon. It's just you know, making the
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chip up there. It's it's a
different world. I've heard it's fucking cold,
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but it's beautiful, I've heard.
So yeah, with that going on,
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Like, how's training camp going,
can you give a little bit of
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update, Like what's uh what the
mindset's going into? It? Just mean
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mean And I told my son's mother
we're staying together right now. And well,
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I made her watch swamp Kings on
Netflix. I don't know if you
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guys have seen that. I'm from
Alabama. You know that was probably one
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of my cousins, my camp folks. That's funny. So I made her.
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I made her watch swamp Kings and
I made her watch the two episodes
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where you know, the year before
they win the national title and then after
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they lose it. In like the
intensity of the training and the mindset going
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into I'm not we're not going to
a football season or like a game or
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a fucking MMA fight. I'm going
in there to train like my fucking life
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is on the line because it is
my career. You know, Like if
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I'm gonna make this happen, I
need to make it happen now. And
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to have a fight like this,
you can't make any mistakes. You got
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to be mentally one locked in.
And that's the whole idea for this camp
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is to be mean, fucking gritty. I'm going in there hurt this motherfucker.
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I'm going in there break his jaw, break his eye socket, tear
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his fucking rip, break his knee, do whatever I gotta do to make
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him fucking quit. It's it's funny
you say. Look, it's funny.
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You said swamp Kings on it the
Florida Gators shirt. You know I'm a
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Gator. I can't see. Yeah, I'm a diehard Florida Gator fan.
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So you just said swamp kings.
I thought you were talking about the show
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where they hunt, but swamp Kings
and swamp Kings, Tim Tebow, Brandon
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Spikes, Brandon, James Percy,
Harvin, all of those guys. Oh
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my gosh, that that show had
to be amp. It was like I
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did math for three days after I
watched that show. I was so hamped.
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Yeah, yeah, I've watched it
a few times now, me too.
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Uh. Stylistically, and I don't
want you to give up too much,
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but stylistically, how do you guys
match up or what? What have
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you seen stylistically. How you you
know, how you guys are going to
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go at it. Oh, he's
a fantastic muyti fighter. He has really
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great kicks, and he puts he
puts his punches together. His last fight,
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he has an incredible highlight real head
kick knockout, knocks the dude dead,
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sets it up with his hands perfectly, So you know he he has
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a lot of great attributes. He's
a really good stand up guy. But
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I don't think he's as well rounded
as me. I don't think that he
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hits as hard as me, and
I don't think he comes to hurt people.
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All of his finishes come later in
the third, fourth round, other
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than that last head kick knockout in
the first, but a lot of his
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finishes come later. He likes to
build steam and get going as the fight
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goes. All my finishes are in
the first in the second round, all
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my finishes are early. The second
I walk in that cage, I'm looking
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to get you out of there.
I want you out as soon as possible,
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and I'm not going to go at
it with reckless abandoned by any means.
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I've never done that in any of
my fights. I'm going to be
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very methodical and smart. But as
soon as that ref says go, I'm
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coming for him and as no breaks. That was the model on the first
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shirt, and that's that's going to
contend. You know. That's kind of
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where I just see my advantages at
this point in my career. I think
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that I need to use the youth
as my friend. I have the speed
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advantage, I should have the strength
advantage. I'm going to be more physical.
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I'm gonna be faster, stronger,
taller, So I really need to
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use those and I'm not going to
let him get comfortable and get going.
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Fuck that, He's going to get
right out of the go and contract.
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Let me ask you this, do
you have anybody in your jam that you're
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using that resembles his gang. We
have so many guys. That's one of
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the great things about Extreme couture.
You got so many different, well rounded
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guys. It's got to be a
big advantage. Yeah. I mean,
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like one of the main guys I've
been going with his Marion Santos. He's
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supposed to be on the Ultimate Fighter
this year. Brazilian kid, super skilled
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Muay Thai yah, and I think
he actually has better grappling than Morgan.
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He has a brown belt in jiu
jitsu and he's you know, I think
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he said like thirteen pro So he's
got pretty decent wrestling and stuff too.
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So he's a good partner. Julian
A Rosa another really awesome partner for me
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to go with. Uh. One
guy you're probably not familiar with. He's
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still coming up. His name's a
Baijah Cleo Hawaiian kid. His fucking stand
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up is so good man. So
having having to work with these guys and
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set my rounds up. Arthur Duflo, he's a He's a Frenchman right hand
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or stiff stiff jab you know this. You know he's got a lot of
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I have so many guys that I
have so many guys that are around his
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height and size, body frame and
can emulate the style. Yeah, you
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know, I feel like this is
about to be one of the best camps
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that I've ever had. I'm bringing
in Anthony Injakwani. Anthony is going to
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be helping me out with this camp
as well. He's a multai world champion.
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I got I got a good list
of guys that are all right around that.
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But I can feel I can feel
not that you never lacked, but
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I can feel the swagger and the
confidence, uh, and the evolvement of
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you's just the last few months.
The mental focus that you have right now
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is like, Okay, I'm going
to war right now. Yeah. I
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think there's something too that you can
you might want to touch on too,
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is a respecting your opponent, but
not over respecting your opponent. You know,
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understanding that they too are a professional, but not giving them all that
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satisfaction of like of taking over that
mindset. And that's cool to see.
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Oh, I'm fully aware of him
having ten more fights than me. It's
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nothing to sleep on. It's nothing, it's nothing to put away. And
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I'm also I'm I'm fully whenever I
sign that contract, I'm fully accepting the
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fact he might knock me the fuck
out in front of all my family and
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friends on UFC fight pass and set
my career back another year or two.
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But that is what it is.
If you're going to take a dangerous fight,
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and you're gonna take a hard fight
and a fight against the number one
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guy in Canada, like it's it's
not all sunshine and rainbows. Fucking sushi
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rolls and strippers, like you know, it's it's a fucking battle, and
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there's two sides of the coin.
Yeah, hopefully I go out there and
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clip him in ten seconds and he
goes to sleep, But I'm expecting fifteen
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minutes of a dog fight. I
think that he took this fight thinking that
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it's going to be a little bit
easier because I have less fights than him.
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My fights go kind of quick.
He's seen some fights where there have
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been some obvious holes in my game, but the past year and a half,
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I've closed a lot of those holes. In the past year and a
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half, I've been working with the
best people in the world, and I
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know where my game's at now,
and I'm I'm accepting of the challenge of
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going into his hometown, into another
country, into his backyard, and against
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a super skilled guy. Guy he's
not gonna go lay down for me,
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just like I'm not gonna go lay
down for him. And he's got his
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skill set and I got mine.
So you know, it's almost kind of
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feels like this could be the This
could be like my UFC debut kind of
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type fight, just because of the
level of opponent, and you know,
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going into unfamiliar territory, unchartered.
I love them. I love that mindset.
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I love that mindset, and that's
what's gonna earn me this UFC contract,
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not not beating up these four and
O five and oh guys and just
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in like kind of beaten guys that
I should beat or like old washed up
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veterans. I need to beat a
guy like this. Not only do I
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need to beat a guy like this
for my resume, but for myself for
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whenever I step into the octagon and
the UFC and I no, I fucking
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belong there. Not. Oh man, I hope this goes well. No,
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I already beat that Muytai world champion. I already know I can go
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with five rounds of julian A Rosa
if need be. It'll suck, but
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I know I can get through a
lot of shit, you know. So
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that's what I look forward to in
this fight. So I don't know if
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it's like the ultra confidence or anything. I know that I have to execute
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my game planner. It could be
a really short, fucked up trip to
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Montreal. But if I go out
and execute appropriately and I stay calm and
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cool and collect it and I do
the things that I've been training with with
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Dennis Davis and Danny d One and
Eric Nixon, then I know that I
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have the abilities to come out on
top and really show my athletic ability and
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my my worth of being in the
UFC. The reason that they would want
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to bring me in. I'm calling
the dub now. I mean, you
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got me if not just because you're
my boy, but I'm telling you now,
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like the I don't think you even
like if you've ever seen the movie
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with the Bruce Leroy, like you
got the shining, you got the glow
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right now, and like bro,
I'm I'm willing to sign sign away the
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house, bet the house and everything
on you right now. You got me?
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Look hard, don't we hear something? I'm ready to roll up my
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sleeves and go train. I'm like
this guy. Yeah, So leading up
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to the fight, is there anything
that you do for certain rituals that you
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do to mentally get focused either day
of week of to get you prepped to
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get into that octagon. Now,
I'm just trying to do what is it.
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It's called the biohacks for yeah,
before training that way, I you
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know, hit a certain like you
know, do a few breathing patterns that
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I'm to day of the fight,
and that way, I'm just like you
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know, turning myself on, turning
the outside noise off, and just I
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keep I'm keeping it really simple,
you know, do a few meditations here
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and there, but honestly, the
biggest thing is just keeping my feet and
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my shoes, not thinking about what
opportunities come from this fight, but just
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focusing on being present every single day
and making the most of five minutes with
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my son, and between training,
making the most of every training session,
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making sure whenever there's ten seconds left, I'm fucking digging for that last inch
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versus like, oh I coasted through
it, Like I want to make the
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most of this opportunity. So for
this next five six weeks, everything's going
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to be about being present, being
locked in and just get and just squeezing
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the juice of every moment that I
have. Love. Yah, yeah,
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I love it. I think I
know what the next question is, But
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I was just curious, like throughout
the whole fight camp, you have like
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weight cuts, all the sparring sessions, the grueling sweat and blend tears that
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you do what drives Augie to maintain
that focus. Honestly, it's my kid,
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bro. It's like, I mean, I got to change my life.
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I want to give him an amazing
life, and I know that I
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have the ability to do it,
or else I would just do something else.
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But I know that I can get
something through this, and it's very
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meaningful to me to show him that
you can accomplish your dreams and and uh
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you know, do whatever you want
in life. And with having him here
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in Vegas with me, and you
know, like whether I bring money home
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or I don't, is like if
he eats or not, So you know,
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like that is the ultimate driving force. You know. I don't think
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that I could be as focused if
I didn't have him out here. But
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yeah, that's that's really the number
one thing other than just I have so
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much love and respect for the game, and it's always been a dream of
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mine to be a world champion.
So obviously, you know, you got
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to win fights like this to become
that. So I have to you have
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to and uh so that but that
falls so short and secondary to the fact
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that this is how I'm going to
get to the UFC, and this is
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how I'm going to make bigger paychecks, and that's how I'm going to pay
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my bills. Well, I'll tell
you this, uh you know, I'll
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follow you and to keep up with
whether you know it or not. The
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amount of love and attention that you
give your son to me is so respectful,
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and it's kind of like how we
talked about earlier about people taking care
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of people for the love of the
person, not just the fighter, but
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the amount of love and attention and
nurturing that you give him. On a
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deeper level, you can see that, and it's one of many reasons.
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You know, I respect Aggi the
fighter and love Agi the fighter, but
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the man that you are and the
father that you are for me, you
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know, just to tell you straight
up, you know, I respect the
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hell out of that more than anything
else. And it's why you'll always have
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me on your squad. So thank
you, bro. You know I feel
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the same way about you. Yeah, And for me, you know,
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like I guess, it's just kind
of turning thirty and you get a little
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more wise when you get a little
older, and you get a greater perspective
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on things. You know, but
fighting doesn't mean shit, man, like
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it does, like I love it
and I want to be great. I
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want to be world champion. I
want to make all the money and fucking
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being roadhouse and all this shit,
you know, like like we all we
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all want that, you know what
I'm saying. We want every yet perfect.
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But but like, man, all
you have at the end of the
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day is your family. All you
have people, and whether this works out
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or it doesn't, Like I don't
want my son to think I'm a piece
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of shit whenever he's at my funeral, like, I want him to respect
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me and love me, like I
can remember at my father's funeral, Man,
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so many people came up to me
and told me how much they respected
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my dad and why they respected him, and they shook me and shook my
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hand and hugged me and told me
how much they loved me if I ever
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needed anything, And that meant so
much to me. I saw how much
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he affected other people's lives in such
positive way, and that kind of shifted
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my perspective on what's important and what's
not and like yeah, like I said,
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like yeah, we want to accomplish
all of our goals. And it
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doesn't make me less gold driven or
anything, but it does make me focus
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on taking that extra five minutes whenever
I'm at home, or just trying not
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to get too pissed off when the
gallon of milk hits the floor, you
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know what I mean, whatever it
is, like just trying to trying to
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be there for him and just be
the best dad and just the best person
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I can be, honestly, like
twenty four hours a day for like anyone,
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whether it's a friend, you know, some dude I'm driving by on
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the street, like some homeless do
whatever I can do, Like it doesn't
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it doesn't matter, Like I just
want to be that person. Yeah.
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I think sometimes we get too focused
in on what we're trying to do on
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the grander scale. We forget about
those small moments too, and it's like
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so easy to get, like you
said, pissed off at like the gallon
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of milk that you drop, someone
cutting you off, and it's just like,
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well what am I actually mad at? You know, Like let's take
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a step back. We're good,
We're in good health, and just be
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grateful for what we have, you
know, the people you got, Yeah,
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one hundred percent. And I fell
victim to that for years, Like
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I let my thought of my outside
image, like how I was being projected
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affect how I felt about myself and
who I was so much for such a
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long period of time that after you, you know, you lose someone really
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close to you, I think that
really opens That's one of many things that
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can open your eyes and show you, like, man, none of that
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means fucking anything. Like, yeah, if someone is a fan of what
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you're doing or whatever, yeah it's
cool. It's cool that you're making some
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noise and like you just be cool
with them. But it doesn't mean shit.
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It really doesn't. What means shit
is who you're affecting in your life
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and how you're interacting with them,
and if you're taking care of your family
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and doing the right things. Yeah, definitely, that's That's one of the
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things for me is kind of the
same way with you, being a slave
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to that anxiety of wondering and caring
what other people thought. And it was
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once I let go of that,
I learned to be my authentic self and
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I learned to take care of the
people that I know genuinely needed, you
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know, because you know, sometimes
we get caught up in self perspective and
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we don't think about checking in on
our friends that might be having a bad
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day or going through a bad season
or bad time. We only check with
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them when they go through the divorce, but we don't say, hey,
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man, like deeper level. Is
there something It's kind of like we talked
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about with the management company. That's
what I wanted to create, is like
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a brotherhood and sisterhood where we don't
just take care of each other financially or
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we don't just fight, but like
we take care of each other as people.
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And when you have that, man, it makes the world so much
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better and it makes your peace of
mind so much easier to live with.
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So well, it's all about who
you said around yourself with, right and
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so whenever you're surrounding yourself with solid
people and people you can trust, people
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you know that have your back,
you feel that security. You feel like
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like you have like someone has your
back. Since I last taught to you,
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I opened up thirty twenty seven promotion. So we signed hafa uh.
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We're fixing a sign. The girl
will have on Nicole. She's an Ammy,
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she's only had one fight, but
she's like nasty. She's from Norway,
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so she's gonna be going over to
Germany. You're able to produce your
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own guys, you're able to build
them from the bottom all the way up
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to the UFC basically and exactly,
then that's where you get your return.
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And that's honestly the best way to
do it because you're covering all bases versus
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just investing in a guy. Well, and it's kind of like what I
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was telling you before, what we're
going to do from the management side of
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ideas to make them not slaves to
the system. I'm going to be setting
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up with them also investment properties,
stuff like that so that they too,
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so they have residual income coming d
you know what I mean. You get
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a fight check, you know you
FC you get a fight check. You
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know you can throw one hundred K
in Alabama, I can buy you one
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to two Section eight houses. You
got an extra three to five thousand dollars
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coming in per month, you know
that's sixty K. I mean lowing that
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fucking money. Well that or you
blow that money, or you know,
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you have to pay this and you
have to pay that, and you look
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at the bank account You're like,
it's empty. So now I've got to
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take a fight when I'm not at
peak performance. When I'm not that's bigger
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than that is, I want to
look out for the fighters so that they're
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not having to fight in compromise positions, so that that way they're more apt
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to get w's because they're not worried
about fighting for money, they're not worried
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about getting a torn knee, torn
worse, broken handbroke worse. They don't
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have to fight compromise. They can
fight at one hundred percent peak, not
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having distress about anything but making sure
they make way. And then we got
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nutrition is for that exactly. And
so for me from a management standpoint of
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it's one of those things you take
care of your people and they're in turn
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going to take care of you.
So that's where I want to be a
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helping hand from them from the bottom
up, not where most management companies and
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whatever they make you prove that you're
worthy of them. I want to make
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people that are worthy from down here, come all the way, all the
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way, and so started from the
bottom. Now we're here, I'm gonna
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be here from the mud to when
we get there, not just when we
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get there. You're bringing the Southern
hospitality in mm A. Man, that's
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fucking that is some g shit right
there. That is you know, you
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see, like I'm with a ridium, you see, like all those guys
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like that's kind of what you're talking
about, Like, Yeah, they'll invest
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in you if they believe in you. After you've established a reason for them
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to believe in you. You guys
like, Okay, we believe in you,
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and we're going to show you that
we believe in you or or if
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you fit there or if you fit
their narrative. And so that's where again,
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I believe in taking care of people, and I'm very brutally honest.
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So I have had people that reached
out to me and said, hey,
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we would like to look at you
managing us, and to be honest,
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I said, hey, man,
look I love you. You're a great
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guy, right and I think you
can do really big things, but you're
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no more than an lfa lifetime fighter. You just don't have the tools or
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the skills. So that's where also
I'm gonna be brutally honest with people because
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I don't want, you know,
I don't think it's fair to string people
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along, and I'm just gonna be
creating fights for you so that I can
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get a little, you know,
a little money off of So yeah,
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bro, I would rather say,
hey, you know what, man,
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this is what you're going to be
relegated to. I love you, and
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if you find somebody that can tool
you to get to that, I'm with
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it. But at the end of
the day, that's kind of what you're
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relegated. But the people that you
know are blood, sweat and tears.
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I'm down to blood, sweat and
tears too. And that's where from the
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management side of it and from the
business side of it. And I understand
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it's a business, but I think
the fighters put way too much on the
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line and they have to sacrifice way
too much to get to a point where
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people put out a help in hand
only when it's going to help them.
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And it's such a short window by
the time you get to that point from
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to the end, and then it's
just over. Well, and then let
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me tell you this. Guess what
they do when they when you can't make
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them any money anymore. The person, Yeah, I'm going to be the
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guy that keeps up with you after
your career is over and done. That's
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gonna make sure you keep rental properties. Hey, it's a brotherhood with me,
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and so that's I could have went
and signed fifty fighters I had people
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reach out. We have five fighters
that we've signed so far that I don't
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have to worry about going anywhere.
They're not trying to and I don't want
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to get this huge. Rather than
having one hundred fighters that I don't,
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you know, know anything about.
I don't know about their mental health,
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I don't know about their financial problems, I don't know about their health problems.
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I would much rather narrow that down
to twenty to twenty five guys that
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we ride or die together from the
mud all the way up, rather than
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signing one hundred fighters and just collecting
checks. I want a brotherhood yet,
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bro, That's that's you know.
I want a brotherhood, not just not
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just you know, making money off
of people. It's definitely the first of
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I've ever heard of this. Yeah, you know what this is coming from
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a really genuine space. And it's
funny that you said guys that I know
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aren't gonna go anywhere, because the
first thing that I was thinking whenever you
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were saying all this was like,
well, what happens whenever? Like,
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because you're you're obviously investing a lot
into this, so then what happens whenver
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someone just says, oh, Ali's
ready to sign me, I'm gonna go.
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I gotta do what's best for me
and my family, you know.
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And then it's like that attitude sort
of changes a bit. Or I could
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see how it would change a bit
if it were me. But yeah,
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if you have the right people and
like you know who they are, then
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that also changes that variable a bit. And that's why I say you narrow
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it down to who the people are
rather than who the fighter is, because
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to me, I want to help
the people, not just the fighter.
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I want to help the people,
and that to me is a bigger,
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a bigger thing. I see the
system is broken. I've seen fighters,
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and I'm not gonna call any names. I know a fighter that told me
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that his manager didn't even know that
he had a fight lined up, Like,
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bro, how are you collecting ten
percent? How are you collecting ten
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percent? He negotiated his own contract, you know what I mean. And
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I'm like that that's not right.
And when I saw the system was broken,
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that's when I went to my business
partner and I said, hey,
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man, we I want to create
something different. I want to create something
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that's not been done. I want
to create something so authentic and real that
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I don't have to worry about people
going in signing with who they deem is
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the big guy, because we're going
to become the big guy by taking care
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of the people. When you look
at Kings Queens, all of those people
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that were successful in at Last,
they took care of the people. And
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that's what I want to create a
village of brotherhood and sisterhood to where we
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dominate the game, you know,
on a personal level and on a fight
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level. Yeah that's bad, Well, results will come with yeah, yeah,
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exactly. And so that's you questions. That's just no, no,
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but no, I love I love
well. And to be honest, we
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have people on here and you kind
of talked about like that. It's the
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same thing with this podcast. I
take on people. I don't just shoot
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my shot or have people on here
that I don't research. We research people,
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We look at who the people are. We we take on people who
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are genuine people. And that's what
this podcast is about, is about not
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just you guys as fighters, but
you guys as human beings and people that
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are in a career that is very
hard and complex to let people know you
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are human, You got kids,
you you know you do all of these
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things. So it's a bigger thing
to it than just Hey, these guys
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are fighters and this is cool.
They do this, this and this.
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No, this guy is a good
guy. I would go to war with
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this guy in the octagon or on
the streets wherever we are. All Right,
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so we're gonna jump into we got
something new that we started doing since
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you came on last time. We're
gonna do rapid fire questions. Uh.
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And what we're gonna do is ask
you a series of about six questions.
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First person that pops into your head? Ready? Alrighty, who was Josh
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Augustine's favorite fighter growing up? I
first person that jumps my head is Connor,
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but as a kid it would have
been Roy Jones. We just have
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somebody off from Pella to pe Cola. Stand up? What fighter have you
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trained with or fault that hit the
hardest? Good question? Probably Kirsha Karakov,
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He's a PFL European guys. Yeah, I know, yeah, yeah,
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I have a fucking bricks and uh, what fighter would you want to
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be friends with outside the octagon?
H John Jones? Who who would you
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most want to fight? If they
said you could fight anybody in the UFC.
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Right now, Connor McGregor, come
on, baby red pan, shout
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out Dana, and then who are
your top five fighters of UFC all time?
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O? Man, great question.
This one's tough, you know.
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John Jones a fanboy? Yeahn gsp
uh Anderson Silva, I'm old school.
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I think you gotta throw the fuck? Is this hard man? You gotta
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throw? Uh? I think you
gotta throw Max and Vulcan there too.
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All right, So last one,
last one. If there was a zombie
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apocalypse, walking Dead style, what
one UFC fighter would you want on your
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00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:16.280
side? I think that's easy.
It's Brockle wasn't. Oh yeah, Oh
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my gosh, yeah that one I
did not think. Oh my gosh,
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bro, what are you talking about. I'm making a saddle on his back.
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00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:31.400
I'm riding him like a backpack.
Bro. I'm getting you know how
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00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:36.360
they wear the kids on the backpack
in the front. Bro, I'm riding
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the backpack in the back to make
sure I don't get nibbled on. And
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00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:45.840
I'm turning the back way so I
didn't get his six. Yeah, all
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00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:52.239
right, So we'll wrap it up. Apart from your reputation as a fighter,
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we know your beast what quality do
you want people to recognize or to
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know about Aggie as the man.
Oh, it's a great question. Just
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resiliency, man, resiliency, Just
fighting for what you believe in, what
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you love and the people you love, and doing whatever you got to do
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by any means necessary to provide for
your people. Man, do what you
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00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:22.119
gotta do. Love love it,
love it. Yeah, and just being
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an authentic good person. That's what
I'll say when I say about you,
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Like when people are like, oh, solid guy, Like, there's just
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certain people that like and that's low
key. That's you said. You pick
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your circle, and that's like when
they ask about I'm like, solid guy,
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00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:45.440
Like, that's for me. That's
what I have to have. I
514
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.519
can't have no sometimes ease well,
and even going back again your travels from
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00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.880
Saint Louis all the way here,
it's always been about resiliency. You talked
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00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:59.000
about your mismanagement of the managers that
you had previously, and now you decided
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00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:00.360
to take a leap of faith and
be like, nah, dude, I
518
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:05.119
need to handle my shit and go
with legit killers and I ain't training with
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00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:07.039
them. And now you're like,
Okay, I gotta take this next step
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00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.719
and take my chance. Like you
said, it's like a UFC career right
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00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:14.239
now about to start. And so
it's always been about resiliency. It's always
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00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:16.440
been about taking that uncomfortable step that
you need to do, not just for
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00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.760
yourself, but for people around you, for your son, and just be
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the man that you want to be. So it's cool. Thank you for
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thank you for showing us. Thank
you all right, guys, form You're
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00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.239
welcome. So so to camp it
off. I know we talked about this
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00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:37.320
earlier. I'm super stoked about getting
some of this new merch coming out.
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00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:39.800
You want to tell us a little
bit about it and then we can drop
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00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:44.800
a link down below for everybody to
get in on it while it's hot.
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00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:49.199
Yeah. I just got a dope
little shirt coming out. See that new
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00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:53.239
summer swag, that oversized shirt.
Just something for people to represent, you
532
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:57.559
know, especially back in Saint Louis, get your get your Augie merch.
533
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.000
It's a little nice Augie shirt.
A couple of cool picks on there,
534
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.800
and me kicking some asks and looking
shredded, and uh, you know,
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00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:07.079
I'm planning on having a few different
watch parties, one here in Vegas and
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00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.599
then one in Saint Louis, So
you guys could just rep the Merge,
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00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:14.679
come out to the watch parties,
and uh, just turn up for the
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00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:15.880
fight, baby, because I'm gonna
have a few people there reporting, and
539
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:21.920
I want to see people going crazy. I don't want to see that gets
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00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:25.599
tore up. I want to see
somebody's shirt off. You want to,
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00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:29.440
you want to, Mally, and
I can go. I can go full
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00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:34.519
Superman with the shirt cut that right, that won't be right there. I
543
00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:39.039
don't care if I'm missing, so
definitely get us the information. We've been
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00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:45.599
talking about having a trip over to
Vegas. Uh anyway, so what we'll
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00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:49.400
do is we'll come over for the
watch party and extend it out a week
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00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:53.280
so that way we can have some
signs for you whenever you fly back in
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00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:59.559
at the airport and show you some
lived we can get some food that sounds
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00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:04.440
awesome, and we'll drop that link
down below for everybody. You're not gonna
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00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:07.719
want to miss it at all his
limited quantity, so please go get it
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00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:10.440
before it's too late. We'll have
our We'll have ours in the next couple
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00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:14.960
of weeks, so we'll be flossing
on y'all. We're getting it hot off
552
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:19.199
the press. Don't be salty,
don't be salty. But there's levels to
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00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.079
the game. There's levels to the
game, so we're getting it hot off
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00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:24.920
the press. Thank you so much, Aggi. You know we love you.
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00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:30.360
Man. If you ever need anything
from us, we are most certainly
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00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:35.039
here. Let us know about the
watch party in Vegas where we definitely take
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00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:38.079
you up on that and be there. I'll even go full Hulk of Maniac
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00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:44.760
ripping the shirt off. Please guys, tune in, and if you don't
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00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:50.920
already, we're also gonna drop his
instagram down below. Go follow Aggi the
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00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:54.920
man, the myth, the legend. He's super solid fighter and even more
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00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:00.280
super solid guy. Thank you having
me on. I appreciate you, brother,
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Yeah, thank you. M m
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