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Speaker 1: Sits in with that.

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Speaker 2: Well, we do have a world champion. I'm not talking

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Speaker 2: about you with your record as well.

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Speaker 3: Mate in the studio UFC, I just defended his title

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Speaker 3: once again against Max Holloway. He is an absolute gun

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Speaker 3: Woollongong boy, alex Va.

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Speaker 2: Can ask you.

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Speaker 4: How's the intro made to think Max could come back

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Speaker 4: and have another crack at you?

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Speaker 5: Silly man?

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Speaker 4: Can you tell me what it's like? Because you've got

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Speaker 4: your belt in the studio. I can't believe the size

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Speaker 4: of the belt. I can't believe the weight in the belt.

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Speaker 4: But when you've exhausted everything, right, you've had the lead

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Speaker 4: up to a fight, You've exhausted yourself in there in

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Speaker 4: a UFC fight, and then that moment happens where you're

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Speaker 4: declared the winner and that belt's handed to you must

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Speaker 4: be like.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember one of those moments you do it?

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Speaker 1: It's just as I always say, it's like a relief,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it's a you know,

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Speaker 1: finally we did it, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: It's a mass, long journey to.

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Speaker 1: Get this, mate, A lot of hard work, whole lot

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Speaker 1: of sacrifice. Is you know a lot of people put

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Speaker 1: their time and effort into it, so to win that

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Speaker 1: it means a lot.

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Speaker 5: It's much bigger than just having a belt, you know.

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Speaker 5: Can you tell me about body hits? Body shots?

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Speaker 4: The body shots and we don't know what fits in.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand them. But we've had Jeff horn in

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Speaker 4: here before and he's talking about how it wears you

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Speaker 4: down after a while, or how hard a body shot

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Speaker 4: can be. But you know everybody's attacking the head, trying

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Speaker 4: to land one on the chin. How bad is a

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Speaker 4: body shot?

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Speaker 1: I always talk to people it's like it doesn't hurt

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Speaker 1: when you're fighting. Nothing hurts. You don't feel punches to

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Speaker 1: the face. You do feel body shots. That so when

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Speaker 1: someone lends a good which max end up lending a

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Speaker 5: It takes a windown a bit.

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Speaker 1: So you're like, oh, you know so that you actually

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Speaker 1: notice that affair bit sure.

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Speaker 3: But you don't until it affects you a little bit,

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Speaker 3: doesn't it. Yeah, the wing's been taken out of Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So that's more painful where punches, you know, even if

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Speaker 5: Is, you don't feel a thing, you know. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 5: not at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm different, but I don't feel a nose, no like

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Speaker 1: I just no, I don't feel don't feel a think.

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Speaker 4: When you look at kind of a gregor right, obviously

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Speaker 4: most noise, So Connor McGregor, great fighter, but he was

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Speaker 4: part time fighter, part time marketer because you know that

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Speaker 4: talk that came drove the fans, drove the money and

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Speaker 4: the success. Do you feel that pressure as well to go, yeah,

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Speaker 4: a UFC fighter, I need to market myself by making

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Speaker 4: doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: Well, it seems to be that way, you know, but

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Speaker 1: it's just you look, it's there's there's different ways to

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Speaker 1: go that blueprint, right. They want to go, oh hey,

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Speaker 1: e Conor McGregor. You know, even you may make noise,

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Speaker 1: trash and just you know, just controversy. However, they can

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Speaker 1: But I just it's just not me. So it's just

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Speaker 1: something I can't do. And you know, again, I'm just

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Speaker 1: a little bit different. So that's why a lot of

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Speaker 1: people like Oh yeah, you know, what are you going

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Speaker 1: to do? You know, what's gonna win things?

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Speaker 5: Exactly exactly right. So at the end of the day,

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Speaker 5: people remember winners, you win, you keep winning. That's it.

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Speaker 5: You need anything else, I mean, that's it.

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Speaker 1: And that's where this sort of for me, this is

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Speaker 1: this is where my book comes into play. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's a because again, as you said, a lot of

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Speaker 1: as save if they looked at as thugs or they

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Speaker 1: see the trash, and that they feel like that's how

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Speaker 1: they're meant to portray themselves, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So that's sort of how it is. But for me,

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Speaker 1: it's just not how I am. And there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of UFC fighters, a lot of fighters in the world

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Speaker 1: that are nothing like that, some of the most respectful

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Speaker 1: people you ever meet.

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Speaker 5: And you know, that's what this is sort of.

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Speaker 1: You know, my book is actually about, so that this

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Speaker 1: is my children book I'm talking about.

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Speaker 5: I love great kids.

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Speaker 3: Pocket's called Alexander the Great and it's great for kids

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Speaker 3: because it does tell you about hard work, training and

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Speaker 3: setting goals and dreams and fulfilling those dreams. Like alex

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Speaker 3: As it's brilliant and it also teaches you kid the

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Speaker 3: overhand right, which is.

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Speaker 2: No, it doesn't at all. But no, it is a

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Speaker 2: great book.

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Speaker 5: Mate.

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Speaker 2: You've done a really really good thing here. You've got

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Speaker 2: two kids yourself.

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Speaker 5: Is that career? So two two and a four year old,

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Speaker 5: two girls, two girls. Now.

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Speaker 3: One of our producers here, Nicola is Macedonian, so we

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Speaker 3: went to her wedding.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, there was forty eight drums and it went

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Speaker 2: for three hours.

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Speaker 5: It was like it was.

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Speaker 1: Probably it's a yeah, it's it's it's it's unreal, like

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Speaker 1: it's a for for people, like when I have much

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Speaker 1: fun when I had my wedding, because I had because

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Speaker 1: I'm half Greek, half Macedonia, so i had everything. I

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Speaker 1: had obviously drums, R and B going on on stage,

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Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is. I've got the drums out,

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Speaker 1: Macedonia music and the Greeks smashing plates.

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Speaker 5: I've done it all mate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I had all my right, it was like

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Speaker 1: three hundred and something people I had at my wedding,

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Speaker 1: my wedding.

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Speaker 4: Just family. Yeah, believable.

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Speaker 3: You're now the man that's being chased. You're the world champion,

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Speaker 3: so are you right? With that, I mean, everyone's coming

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Speaker 3: out after you now. So have you have you declared

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Speaker 3: your next fight yet or what you're going to do now?

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Speaker 5: We haven't. We haven't.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is, I just for so the good things.

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Speaker 1: I can let the division play out a little bit

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Speaker 1: and we've got a couple of big fights coming. So again,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you're at the top, you've got everyone

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Speaker 1: calling you out. I've got guys and even in my division,

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Speaker 1: guys that are retired call them out.

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Speaker 5: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: There's guys that haven't fought for a year, call them out.

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Speaker 1: But that's just this is how it is at the end.

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Speaker 5: Of the day.

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Speaker 1: You know that was me, except I was at least

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Speaker 1: trying to put myself in a position where no one

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Speaker 1: can take that number one can tender spot from me.

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Speaker 5: It just seems that a lot of people aren't doing

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Speaker 5: that hard work.

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Speaker 1: You've got to put yourself in a position where no

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Speaker 1: one can take it away from you.

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Speaker 3: You are one of the fittest boats on the planet,

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Speaker 3: alex and we appreciate your time. Alexander the Great. Now

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Speaker 3: you can go get it at any good bookstore. It's

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Speaker 3: great for the kids as well, Just for hard work

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Speaker 3: and sitting a dream and that's what Alex has done.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate your time, money, and good luck, no worries,

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Speaker 3: thanks for having me sits with.

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Speaker 2: Let's go on.

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