WEBVTT - UFC Fighter Chris Weidman 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:13.000 Steve Smith Senior and I and this is cut to it. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.919 Good do it, Good do it. They's getting down to 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.720 do it. Good do it. We asked the questions you 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.200 always want to know, but no one ever asked, let's 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:29.840 cut to it. You ain't heard am about it? Then 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:40.360 we're about to let you know. It's all. Hey, welcome 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.640 to the cut to the podcast. We got Chris White. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:52.080 That's right. How are you you? F C former UFC 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:58.320 middleweight champion ranked number fifte Have you dropped down any 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.520 Are you still fifteen? Sleep don't even know the bank. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.160 I'm guessing I'm fifteen, So that's code for he hope down. 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.280 But if I if I dropped down any more than that, 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.120 you don't see your name there anymore. So I hope 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.520 I didn't drop down all the way. But honestly, I 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.600 don't really care to be honest, I never cared about 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.960 rankings ever. Ever. We'll explore that a little bit later. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:27.360 Middleweight Mixed Martial Arts signed to the UFC, and you are, uh, 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.399 you have a wife and three kids, and for some 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.319 odd reason you decided to move down to South Carolina. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.920 South Carolina. Welcome to the cut to a podcast, so 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:44.840 you'll care, Lenny. And now two years bro, He's like 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.160 you claimed, not two years Carolina yet, not two years yet? 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.920 I am you know, Long Island is in my heart. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.320 I'll always uh you know, I love Long Island, but 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.480 I am I love it out here. This is this is, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.640 this is home. Now. That sounds like he loved him. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:04.320 Prices way different and that's for me right now. Southern 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.120 hospitality extends all the way into your into your pockets 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:13.040 to Yeah, he's gonna be some random questions. Lets nothing 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.639 to do with anything, but just the randomness to kind 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.839 of let you settle down. You seem Michael, you seem 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.480 a little nervous, very uptight' very nervous. Why are you 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.080 up type next to Steve Smith, you know in his 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.840 podcast room. I don't know what to do right now. Yeah, 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:32.720 someone waked me up. Look you say that's all the 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:42.160 podcasts they call that Patroniz's patronized, right podcast, You're the 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:48.280 only one. Just be tutoy. This is my first podcast, 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:55.040 being honest. If your house was burning down, unfortunately and 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:59.080 you can only save one item, what would it be 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.799 and why? I mean, at the top of my head, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:07.799 I'm gonna go with my my math book. I got 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:09.880 my math book. You know it's got my messages on 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:15.080 their uh you know, all my photos and videos. You know. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.760 I think that would have been That's probably what I 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:21.520 would do. Just no right answer. What about you might 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.799 be on something that you gotta grab. That computer's got 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:30.639 everything on there, your payment information even even if you 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.280 you can't there's some websites you can't go into, like 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.480 if you have to change identification, order new stuff. All 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.400 my crypto stuff is on there. That's what I'm saying. 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.240 You can't do it for me access to your phone 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.160 to some degree your card to say you don't here 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.880 he got what about you? Backstage? Though? Probably my kids 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:53.560 and my wife. But I thought that, I thought that 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.520 I'm gonna get you're trying to get Brownie trying You're 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.880 trying to I or it's the opposite. You're trying to 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.440 itemize your family like we assuming they already out. Yeah, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.120 can I have a take to? Like this is the 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.720 dumb button? You don't get a take to? Okay, Hey Joe, 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:16.760 you got a little bit on your mustache A little bit. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.520 I gave it to him after being next question, Please, 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:30.240 what's the craziest thing you've ever done? Chris Um? This 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.240 is a family friendly show. You don't include me? Say 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.960 this doesn't include Joe's mustache? I mean this family feud. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.560 Next you can pass come back, come back to me? 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.560 All right? Like that? See fighter, you didn't have an 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.400 answer right one of the minute times somebody as I 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:54.159 was gonna say, somebody out he got. That's my issues 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.240 with like adrenaline stuff, because it doesn't get crazier than fighting. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.640 You're going to a pge with another like like legit 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.840 weapon and you know what could possibly happen to you 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.839 every time? I'm the weapon too, But there's another weapon 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.919 in there. You know someone's gonna go down and it 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.280 could be pretty bad, that really bad. What does that 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.159 have to do with, bro, what's the craziest thing you 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:21.400 ever did? Like walking into how about saying just it's 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.520 a little crazy? Okay, are you finished? I mean that's 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.680 a good going south quickly? I mean, goodness, gracious, he's 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.800 so like on his podcast he was ready to go. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:39.360 He got my mom's if you want to vocabulary exam 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.360 right now, spelling, Look, I already know I can't, so 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:48.560 I guarantee you can't. All right? For all right, for 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.039 a high motor guy like yourself, what do you do 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:59.000 to slow down the world around you? Uh? Man, I 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.600 just I don't know. I go, I go chilled. My family, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.320 you know. My wife kind of puts me to my 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.640 place when I got home, tells me what to do. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:10.960 I do the honting to do list. Play video games. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.599 I'm just you know, Madden. Madden is probably my favorite. Yeah. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:16.880 I've been playing with the same group of guys since 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.400 high school, since since like oh one. That's kind of 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.440 how we stay in touch. Who are you run with? 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.320 Who are you playing with right now? Right now? Right now? 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:31.200 The Cowboys, Cowboys, Chiefs. You know you're not in the 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:38.680 playoffs though, right not the playoffs. I'm a quick play mode, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.200 all right? How you being man? Highest things been going 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.039 for you? I'm doing good, man, life is good. Just 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.960 focused on rehab, working out. I'm talking about Are you 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.120 talking about rehab physical rehab from other rehab? No, just 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.880 just physical rehab. I do have a mental coach, though 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:58.680 you do. I do have a mental coach. Is good. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.680 I just I just had my my pop guest why 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.240 do you have a mental coach? Because we always do 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:09.479 say of of it is mental, temper cent is physical. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.440 I feel like a lot of athletes say that. But 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.560 how much time do you actually put into the mental world. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.480 There's a lot of there's a lot of effort that 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.200 you should be putting into that that I think we 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.960 kind of skip over, and uh, we see it as 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.360 a weakness to have someone help get our head in order, 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.400 you know, But I think that's the most important part, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.880 is to have a good mindset and to have your 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.600 your crapping over. How long have you had that coach? 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.160 Right before this last fight I got I have my 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.880 bachelor's degree in psychology. I always just kind of felt 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:42.040 like I was good mental wise, and I feel like, why, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.720 what's up? Just because you said you have your back. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.560 You have your bachelor's in psychology, So you know what 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.760 they say when you go you know what they say 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.280 when I got my masters in uh, you know, from education. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.160 I got my doctorate in the medical field of some sort. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.960 I'll play it AFTERR on television. Do you really know 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.120 so you've been doing it and so you've been just 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.360 doing this recently, then yeah, can you tell a difference already. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.520 It's just you know what. It's not like I'm telling 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.440 him my you know, my inner secrets. It's not like 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.240 a therapy session, which I kind of expected it to 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.960 be that way. It's more it's more just like kind 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.040 of getting your life in order, like having you organize 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.600 your goals the right way, like if you if there 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.280 were certain things that you want to do in the morning, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.880 making sure you're on top top of it, on task um, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.800 and just having your y on why you're doing it. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:40.440 You know, oh, thirty seven, this may come across the 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.880 wrong way, but at thirty seven years old, you're just 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:50.920 discovering your why in such a dominant player in the 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.640 UFC or or sportsman. And then you have you've been 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.360 to school. You didn't go like, you didn't go to 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:06.000 a school where education was not up there, very high 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.760 end school, hosh University, School of Greatness, and I agree 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.760 it is one of those places where it's not known 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.959 to really be about sports. It's more about academic. Sports 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.120 is his secondary well, and it depends on the sport. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.400 At the time when I was there, we were top 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:27.800 ten Division one, so I went there primarily for sport wrestling. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.160 The wrestling team no, but you went there for sport. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.040 But you have to have pretty good grades. I went 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.920 to a community college first, I went to junior college. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.880 I yes, I went to Scenic Route. I stepped it 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.160 up and then I was Then I got into a 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.880 school that I wouldn't have been able to get to 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.679 UH without, you know, in out of coming out of 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.320 high school, man, I stepped it up. Well, what I 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.959 was saying is thirty seven years old. You know whether 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.080 the ranking is true. I'll if you're off by four, 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.400 off or add on too. You're pretty ranked high in 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:05.400 the UFC, and yet you're just figuring out to some 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:11.800 degree in a better capacity of what's your why. No, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.559 that's you got a little wrong. So see, that's why 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.760 I was double checking A part of what my wire, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.000 A part of dealing with a mental coach is to 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.240 figure out your why, to talk about it, and to 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.120 write it down. All this stuff. I've always had a 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.439 good idea of what my wires. I'm just saying, I'm 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.880 always looking to learn. As a champion, you never a 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:38.320 close minded slight flesh multiple time world champions, you never 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.200 you never are done learning. You're never done learning from 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.480 you know, I'm not a champion, but I'm not. I mean, 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:51.760 I've had but I've had time. I've been thinking sometimes. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.000 So I'm just always open to learning and uh and 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.720 and anybody who could teach me something. I'm always over. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.480 What kind of movies do you there? What kind of 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.600 movies do I like? I like? I kind of like whatever. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.079 I'm not a big movie TV show guy. I watched 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.880 yellow Stone. I like yellow Stone, Dude that I haven't watched. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.360 I like that. What is yellow Stone? Yellow Stone is 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.920 basically the mafia of cowboys, but the cowboys aren't from 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.040 back in the day. It is right now. And you 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.800 don't realize that living where we live, that there's legitimately 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.480 like ranches and there's families and it's been generations and 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.080 generations of like this dynasty that they created where they 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.199 only these ranches and there's other people nearby their own 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.200 different ranches, and there's these like family battles basically that 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.000 go down, and uh, it's pretty cool to find out 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.920 that this is going on right now, and it's it's 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.640 just basically like the mafia, the way they play power 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.880 and everything and start taking over and people getting killed. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.960 You know, dirty things are happening. So it's fun. Where 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:54.920 are you from in a place you call your hometown, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.160 It's called it's a town called Baldwin, Long Island, New York. Okay, 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.160 how far is that from? What? What? I'm not in 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.800 New York City, so I'm like, it's a it's a 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.959 thirty five minute train ride, which I was like right 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.000 next to the train to get into Manhattan to Penn 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.040 Station to get to Queens is like, you know, ten minutes, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.040 so you're right there? Any yes, sir, yeah, right there, 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.920 all right? What was your child? Uh? It was good? 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.760 Had an older brother, you know he was he was 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.719 a really good athlete. Whoa what do you consider a 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.080 good athlete? We're gonna get into that later. Um he was. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.520 He was, you know, fast and strong. Whatever he did 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.680 was what do you consider strong and fast? I'm gonna 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:45.000 get pretty granuly. He I just well, we've had some dialogue, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.920 so I just want to see. It's kind of setting 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.240 up for some other questions. I think at his peak, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.160 he was you know, he was mentioning to because he 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:59.760 was doing football. He did five times linebacker, so six 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.880 to oh yeah, he's not snot out of yeah, he 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:15.640 was not just I mean, wait a minute, it's pretty good. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.880 I've only went seventy many times. You do one time, 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:30.000 probably that's pretty good. But what you said, that's like, yeah, 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.400 so that's why that's why I asked. Yeah, no, he was. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.559 He was bigger, stronger, and fast, more athletic than me 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.920 for sure. So I was just kind of living in 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.800 the shadows, working hard. Okay, yeah when he rose. Did 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.360 you have growing up? Who alize you talking about your brother? 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.040 But whose did you adolize? You know, my dad? I 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.640 would say my dad was my idol. I didn't really 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.480 like have any you know, people on sports teams or 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.280 anything like that that I was super into. Maybe some 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.840 wrestlers as I got older. There was some college wrestlers, 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.160 some guys who wrestling the baby what about what about 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.319 like wrestling wrestling prest progress. Maybe when I was a 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.200 little little I was into it. But like woically he 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:21.440 tossed that aside, broking about rddy ddy pipers like that, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:30.240 it's fake. Don't crush my dreams, bro, do not do that. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:31.920 you go to those wrestling events. There's a lot of 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.920 people that you don't want to crush your dreams. Yeah, 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.760 don't don't be in a dream crush. It's real, all right, 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:47.280 so condescending all right? So do you believe you rep 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.160 New York the right way? Because you know how you 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.920 meet people like Geez from Geez from North Carolina, he's 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:59.640 from Alection to my man will rep. He will tell 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:05.520 a about Lexington. I love he won't He want to 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.120 ask stuff about Lexton. I'm like, oh, I don't know 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.800 about that one, but I'm using as an example of like, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.600 you know, I love l A. I always always wrap 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:20.000 l A. So I just wonder going backwards living here 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.880 now in in in Charlotte, do you believe you rep 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.280 in New York? Yeah? Always? You know what I mean? 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:30.360 Why well born raised there, never left until a year 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.800 and a half ago. Um, you know, I mean, I 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.640 just what do I I think? New York people are 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.760 tough people, They're resilient. It's it's a very competitive atmosphere 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.800 because there's so many damn people and there's only so 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.360 much there's out there, so like, in order to survive 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.920 in New York is very difficult, and only the strong survive. Yeah, man, 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.120 I try my best. I try my best for sure. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.480 What do you miss about it? I mean, it's all 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.400 the stuff that's not that good for me, like the 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:04.200 pizza bagels. That's the one thing in covid bro. That's 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.720 the one thing about traveling. I missed like we had 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.040 a New York Thursday night game and we did it 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.480 from the house, got off at like there was no 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:18.120 piece of slices waiting for me when I got off 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:26.320 just I do like j though, but nothing is better 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:30.960 than like uh for me, a Sicilian slice of pizza 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:36.360 late at night, that's good, that is good. Yeah, I'm 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.240 if I had to do I usually when I would 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.120 eat like crazy bad, I would have one regular slice 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:42.600 because that's how you kind of tell how good the 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.480 pizzaree is, and that's to be legit. Then you got 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.880 I got two specialty slices. Usually it'll be a ZD 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:57.520 slice slice. So it's basically like penny. You know, penny, 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:05.200 you said, Penny Abraham or Hardaway. That's only two pennies 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.560 I know. Um yeah, yeah, so yeah, I would eat. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.119 I would I would eat half of the z D 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:12.920 off one side of the slice, and then you then 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.880 you then you can fold it in a half past 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:22.960 on the pizza pasta samaranara. Yeah, oh so good. Yeah, 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.720 yea chicken rolls. Do you ever have a chicken roll? 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.399 Do I look like I eat a chicken roll? I 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:37.280 can't judge. Nobody said roll right, Joe me here talking. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.719 Joe wanted to say something might come off, is not 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:47.000 gonna come off? Well, that's awesome. Chris was like, I 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.800 don't know what these guys are doing. It's kind of stereotypical. 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.360 I like chicken, but I never had a chicken roll. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.920 Chicken roll, it's fried chicken inside of bread that's that's 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.560 fried with so basically pizza dough that's wrapped the chickens 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:09.960 wrapped inside of with mozzarella and marinarrow, cheese, marinara and cheese. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.359 Or no, it's not agg rolls, not an egg roll. No, 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:31.359 that's not Chinese food. It's real pizza, real pizza. 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So, like I was saying before, 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:24.800 my brother, like he would have me fight his friends 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.000 all the time. It was you know my parents. Yeah, 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.000 my parents weren't around that much. So you know, parents 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.040 were working, so my my my brother would be physical. 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:42.000 You just threw your parents New York streets. But they 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:43.520 let us kind of figure out a lot of stuff 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.880 on our own. So that old school, old school parenting, Yeah, 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.240 pretty much. Well they was actually working as well too, 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.800 they were working. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Um yeah, So I 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.719 just fought a lot as a kid. And so next thing, 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.040 I know when I started wrestling, which kind of put 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.199 me on the straight and arrow, and I started being 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.720 able to focus on something that goal. And then after 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:04.399 I was done wrestling, I was training for Olympics in 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.800 two thousand and eight, got injured right before Olympic trials, 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:08.520 So I was kind of at a crossroads. What I 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.320 wanted to do for the rest of my life, and 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.240 fighting I saw it was a big thing and then 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.159 so I just always felt like I always even if 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:16.919 I lost someone in wrestling match, I was like, I 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:18.960 know I could definitely you know, beat him in a fight, 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.359 but uh and then ufuly start coming around. I was like, man, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.280 this is my opportunity. And the people that like knew 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.600 me as from when I was a kid, and people 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.440 that knew me from the wrestling world, They're like, you know, 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.320 you're literally like the perfect fit for fit for fighting 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.480 because of how you grew up and then with the 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.000 wrestling background and all these wrestlers are killing it in there, 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:37.919 like they just you know. I was like, you know what, 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:39.840 I think you're right. And that was it. I started 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:44.359 my my my road to uh into mixed martial arts. 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.000 So when you get into the wrestling, because I know 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.400 you wrestled in college, when you can do the wrestling 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:51.800 as a youth, I wrestled in second and third grade 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:56.760 and then stopped until yeah, yeah, elementary wrestling. Oh yeah. 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.080 I got my kids in wrestling. I recommend everybody get 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.400 their kids in wrestling. I don't think there's I don't 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.600 think there's a better sport, you know, you get into 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.399 it like middle school down here, Well you can't, yeah, 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.399 my kids. Yeah, there's there's plenty of clubs out here. 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:12.640 You got dark Horse Wrestling in Charlotte Club Wrestling dark 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:25.920 Horse it's once terrible. So yeah, you've got a couple 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:27.920 of clubs around here. Yeah, you have plenty of options. 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:32.680 But wrestling is wrestling. Wrestling is one of those sports 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:34.720 is a one on one competition, you know, and you 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:36.840 get to go against someone your own size and your 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.280 own age when it's all on you. Yeah, it's all 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.840 based on weight class. So when you're getting thrown around 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:44.719 as a young kid in front of your dad, you 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.080 have no excuse other than to look at yourself and 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:49.719 to learn how to lose, learn how to win. You 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.280 have no excuse. Man, Listen, I remember in in middle 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.200 school and when you're losing basketball or football, you could 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.760 blame it on your teammate. There's way more one on one. 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.679 This is all on you, you know, and it's embarrassing. 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:04.240 And when you get thrown anybody get thrown around. I'm 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:08.800 getting man handled as as a man as more. It's 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:14.480 amistading and getting thrown around in a small tidy whitey. Yeah, 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:17.160 exactly in front of your family. In middle school, people 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.040 are already cutting to make weight, people wearing trash bags. 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.000 It's like, yeah, not that that was good. That's it 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.679 was bad. Like a lot of the educational weight cutting 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:28.159 has got way better. But uh yeah, I know I 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.520 feel you. I wasn't one of those kids, but I've 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:36.000 seen it. Yeah, do you believe that the just random? Now? 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:38.600 You think the weight cutting all that stuff kind of 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:42.359 has a you know, maybe least possibly eating disorders or 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:46.960 or or body shame into some degree. No, not body, 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.240 I would say the only I'm just asking just because 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.159 I just think, as you're saying that, I'm going and 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.320 what could it look like a ten year old kid 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:57.960 who's just naturally big, who has to cut weight to 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:00.280 be able to participate in the sport that he only 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:04.160 figures out, Hey, I can participate in this. I'm good. Wait, 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:07.680 you know my size is not a deterrent anymore. But 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:11.600 being not being the deterrent, that's still that little gray 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:15.120 area where you know, five pounds too much or two 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:17.399 pounds too much for a kid and ten years old, man, 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:20.240 that's a lot. Yeah, I don't think any kids should 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:24.000 be cutting weight um, even in high school. I would 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:25.720 say the more of the issue with weight cutting has 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:27.960 been happening in high school a few years. Little kids, 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:30.040 I hope no little kids are cutting weight like you know, 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:33.720 but there are some parents that you know, for whatever reasons, 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:36.879 they want this kid to be successful and then lived curiously. 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.520 It's crazy to watch, but yeah, for them to have 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:44.680 their kid cut way to win, you know, some little 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:47.280 elementary school tournament. But you no matter how big they 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:49.760 think it is, I think it's ridiculous. Yeah, but if 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.800 you just said it, you know, you get thrown around. 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:55.399 There's one on one right, you get the wrong parents 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.760 take it the wrong way. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:01.159 mean I was. I mean, like this is this is 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:03.080 late nineties when I was in middle school. But I 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:05.320 can only imagine it's it's probably gotten worse. I would 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:08.199 imagine the ain't got better. I think the education on 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.520 weight cutting has been better, like getting passed you know, 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:14.600 down by professionals to the coaches, now to the athletes. 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:17.520 I think the education has got better to where it 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:19.240 it's definitely think it's definitely better than when I was 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:22.800 in high school. What do you think about how hard 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:25.040 is it to move up? And down in the different 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:30.200 weight divisions. I mean, it's it kind of depends. I mean, 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:34.199