Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? Sean Merriman A one hand effect.
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Speaker 1: with another Lights Out podcast with me Sean Merriman, And
Speaker 1: today I want to dress something. Yesterday I've made a
Speaker 1: post as I would normally do. Obviously, you guys know
Speaker 1: that our own Lights Out Extreme Fighting. Um, I'm a owner,
Speaker 1: not only a owner, but a promoter, and so for me,
Speaker 1: part of my job is to promote certain fights. Um
Speaker 1: when I see two two people and you know, it's
Speaker 1: funny for me right now, I really do enjoy posting
Speaker 1: these and kind of uh making light of some of
Speaker 1: these beefs is happening between athletes, celebrities or entertainment in general. Right,
Speaker 1: So I post things all the time. Follow me at
Speaker 1: Sean Merriman on Instagram. Yesterday Kwanbie Brown Uh, former number
Speaker 1: one pick from the Washington Wizards. Uh some time ago
Speaker 1: and straight out of high school when you know, let's
Speaker 1: be quite honest with it. I mean he just didn't
Speaker 1: live up to expectations. He was a bust. Uh never
Speaker 1: really panned out. Um, it's for whatever reason that was,
Speaker 1: we we don't know we're here that you know, Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan was too tough on him. Maybe he was too
Speaker 1: young coming in or too immature. Whatever. That reason for
Speaker 1: Kwambi Brown not being successful in the NBA was it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, right, he just wasn't successful. Now yesterday, Uh,
Speaker 1: he came out and had some back and forth talk
Speaker 1: um with Matt Barnes NBA, Gilbert Arenas and Stephen Jackson,
Speaker 1: and you know, it started on the podcast and he
Speaker 1: were just really talking and and and in my opinion,
Speaker 1: let me say this, in my opinion, nothing was said
Speaker 1: that hasn't been said about Kwambi Brown for the last
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen years or so, right, So it's nothing
Speaker 1: new there, But I think it's struck a different chord
Speaker 1: hearing to come from. Uh. You know, Matt barn Stephen Jackson,
Speaker 1: and Gilbert Arenas, guys who are very respected, uh and
Speaker 1: then be a very respected as a you know, post
Speaker 1: career analyst. Uh. So when Kwalmy Brown seeing that, he
Speaker 1: reacted and he just went on a entire rant, uh,
Speaker 1: saying a bunch of different things, and it was it
Speaker 1: was kind of crazy. I think that he was just
Speaker 1: fed up with the talk. Now, I'm always going to
Speaker 1: promote a fight. I mean, I really do believe this. This,
Speaker 1: This is what I what I believe. I believe that
Speaker 1: you know, next year, two years, three years, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have athletes challenging other athletes and they're going to be
Speaker 1: uh real life fights and exhibition matches, pro matches, amateur matches,
Speaker 1: or whatever you wanna call it. It will happen. I've
Speaker 1: been saying it for the past couple of years. Uh
Speaker 1: as we see now with the Jake Paul's and these
Speaker 1: guys uh Nate Robinson in these fights lamar oldom my
Speaker 1: belief has a fight coming up. It's gonna become more
Speaker 1: frequent than it ever has been in the past because
Speaker 1: the crossover there. It just makes sense. Um, people always
Speaker 1: want to see their favorite athletes scrap, right, That's that's
Speaker 1: why this country loves football. That's why you know this
Speaker 1: country loves the parts of hockey when they're fighting. I mean,
Speaker 1: people love to see their favorite athlete scrap is just
Speaker 1: what it is. And so I posted, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of making a you know, a joke of it, but
Speaker 1: it was you know, when I say it's always some
Speaker 1: seriousness in a joke. I literally just posted, uh that
Speaker 1: if Matt Brown, Matt Barnes, and Stephen Jackson Gilblderina's wanted
Speaker 1: to squash this and maybe I can set up a
Speaker 1: fight for them, that offers still on the table. But
Speaker 1: the bigger part of that is, um, look in NFL,
Speaker 1: we we see guys come in all the time and
Speaker 1: and and and don't perform to Ryan Leaves, JaMarcus Russell.
Speaker 1: I mean there's been tons, tons tons of number one
Speaker 1: picks or high draft picks that don't succeed. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I took from that conversation that I don't think they
Speaker 1: were ganging up on call me brand. It was all truth,
Speaker 1: but it's for me. It was nothing and that we
Speaker 1: haven't heard for the past fifteen years. Uh. It sounded
Speaker 1: like and it looked like they called call me Brown
Speaker 1: was just fed up with it. He was completely fed
Speaker 1: up with it. Uh. He wanted to do something about it.
Speaker 1: And they're still going back and forth on social media. Now.
Speaker 1: I always said this and and I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've ever said this live on there, but you know
Speaker 1: I tried to leave when I was at the University
Speaker 1: Midal of my sophomore year. If it wasn't for uh
Speaker 1: Maurice Clarette and Mike Williams wide received by the USC.
Speaker 1: If they were to pass that rule and getting there
Speaker 1: after year, after being two years in college, I would
Speaker 1: have been right behind him. I would have left after
Speaker 1: my sophomore year. I felt I was ready. I felt
Speaker 1: I was ready. I didn't say I was ready. I
Speaker 1: felt I was ready to play UM in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and I felt I was ready to go. But I
Speaker 1: can tell you when you get up to the professional
Speaker 1: level level, the game changes. And not just physically. Obviously,
Speaker 1: guys are bigger, stronger, faster, uh more athletic and explosive.
Speaker 1: And this is in the NFL and NBA, but the
Speaker 1: mental aspect, guys get smarter. Guys get a lot smarter. Um.
Speaker 1: They start to watch film and read the playbook and
Speaker 1: out with you and smart you on the football field,
Speaker 1: and so that way it starts to take away some
Speaker 1: of your athletic god given ability. I was fortunate that
Speaker 1: that rule didn't pass for them because I wasn't ready.
Speaker 1: And so when I'm talking about, you know, a guy
Speaker 1: like Kwambie Brown, and I'm looking at myself being a
Speaker 1: sophomore coming out in college. It doesn't matter whether it's
Speaker 1: a football of NFL or NBA. You're coming in there
Speaker 1: and basically as a kid. And there's only a handful
Speaker 1: of guys that, if you look back, that's had real success.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about real success, not guys who played in
Speaker 1: NBA fourteen fifteen. I'm talking about real success and Kevin
Speaker 1: Garnett's of the world, the Lebron's of the world. You know,
Speaker 1: those those guys who left straight from high school, Kobe
Speaker 1: straight from high school and became stars in the NBA.
Speaker 1: You know, in my opinion, one of one of Qualmie's
Speaker 1: biggest mistakes is he wasn't ready. You know, he didn't
Speaker 1: have the mental mental capabilities of playing on that level.
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm looking also at at the things that
Speaker 1: have said and look like I said, Kwamy Brown isn't
Speaker 1: the first top draft pick that wasn't success successful. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna be the last. There's plenty of guys who
Speaker 1: have not lived up to the hype, has not gotten,
Speaker 1: has not performed, has not done anything on the next level,
Speaker 1: and been great college players or great high school players.
Speaker 1: I mean, it happens all the time. So I'm sitting
Speaker 1: back and I'm looking at some of the things that
Speaker 1: are being said, and and my question is this, you
Speaker 1: know why now you know my opinion? Why now? So?
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I got I go and and I
Speaker 1: talked to these high school kids all the time. I
Speaker 1: talked to college players, and the first thing they'll ask
Speaker 1: asked me when I get uh to the campus, how
Speaker 1: is it to play in the NFL? What is it like? Right? So,
Speaker 1: if you're talking about college, look across the board, look
Speaker 1: at your standout guys in college, the All Americans, the
Speaker 1: All SEC, the All big you know, the Big ten,
Speaker 1: all a CC. Look at the top guys, and then
Speaker 1: go to the next level. Take those best to take
Speaker 1: your best guys there was in in uh you know,
Speaker 1: in college on your team, and you put them in
Speaker 1: NFL and watch how many of these guys become average.
Speaker 1: So when you're talking about the levels of the game,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking to these players high school in college,
Speaker 1: that the first thing I say is it. You know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You can be all world here, it
Speaker 1: does not matter. You're getting up there now where everybody's great,
Speaker 1: everybody's fast, everybody's athletic and explosive. So you know, I'm
Speaker 1: going back and I'm kind of reminiscent of my own
Speaker 1: situation and possibly coming out of college, my sophomore year
Speaker 1: at the University of Maryland, and how I would have
Speaker 1: not been ready. There's no way I would have been ready.
Speaker 1: You're going up there with grown men, guys who has
Speaker 1: been around with five and ten plus years. And I
Speaker 1: always used to laugh, and you know, I'll be thirty
Speaker 1: seven coming up next week. I always used to laugh.
Speaker 1: And when somebody said old man strength, old man strength,
Speaker 1: I never knew what that was until I got about
Speaker 1: you know, after thirty five years old, where that strength
Speaker 1: kicks in. Where it's not about how, uh you know,
Speaker 1: lifting weights, working out, No, you just have natural strength
Speaker 1: that old man I'm a grown man strength. And what
Speaker 1: happened what Kwalmi Brown is he got up there with
Speaker 1: grown men and not only was he not physically ready
Speaker 1: to handle that mentally, because I'll tell you this, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of responsibility when you are hydrated when you're
Speaker 1: high draft pick, top ten, top fifteen, first round, hell
Speaker 1: even second round in some cases. But when you were
Speaker 1: top ten, top fifteen draft pick, and I'm speaking from experience,
Speaker 1: you know, being selected twelfth overall by the Charges back
Speaker 1: in two thousand five, I can tell you there's a
Speaker 1: lot of growing up you have to do. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of responsibility. And I was twenty years old when
Speaker 1: I got drafted. I was still in in in their eyes,
Speaker 1: in the NFL's eyes, I was still a baby. So
Speaker 1: I don't fault Kwamie Brown. Look, he had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to change his life and his family's life by leaving
Speaker 1: you know, leaving school world is skipping college, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: going to play with the Wizards organization, being beside George,
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan and the there was more than enough reasons
Speaker 1: to go. That's that that step. But I can tell
Speaker 1: you that if you're not ready, which not everybody, not
Speaker 1: everybody is. If you're not ready, don't make that decision.
Speaker 1: Don't make that decision. And you know a little bit
Speaker 1: of me say I want to sit back and say,
Speaker 1: you know, with the rule changes that they make you
Speaker 1: go to college for a year, or so before you
Speaker 1: go there, be a professional you know, professional basketball player
Speaker 1: or in in some cases in football, uh you know,
Speaker 1: be there for a couple of years and then go pro.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that rule let's implemented because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that aren't just ready and Kwamie Brown was
Speaker 1: a victim in a way of not being ready both
Speaker 1: mentally and physically to planing that and uh NBA period.
Speaker 1: So that that was my thoughts to me. I look,
Speaker 1: I joke around a lot on social media. Um, obviously
Speaker 1: I'm in the fight business. So it's something I love
Speaker 1: and enjoy doing. And I on sleep to my heart
Speaker 1: of hearts, believe that the next couple of years, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of athletes and entertainers and bunch
Speaker 1: of other um, you know, people from different backgrounds and
Speaker 1: walks of life and genres that are going to be fighting.
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen. Mark my words. You guys gonna see
Speaker 1: some of the most outrageous fights or matches here coming
Speaker 1: up shortly in the next couple of years, because that
Speaker 1: it'll just get there. It's gonna happen. Thanks guys, and
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