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Speaker 2: is one of the best banding weights in the world.

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Speaker 2: He is Corey Sanhagen. Fought for the UFC Championship, has

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Speaker 2: had viral knockouts, He's won fights. He's honestly one of

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Speaker 2: the smartest guys in all the mixed martial arts. But

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Speaker 2: Corey keeps you sharp while he's joking. He doesn't smile,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't laugh. He's one of the most genuine guys

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Speaker 2: you could meet in this game. But he's an absolute

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Speaker 2: killer when he's inside the octagon. He still has dreams

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Speaker 2: of becoming the UFC World Champion. We'll get into that.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into his upbringing and everything that makes Corey

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Speaker 2: Sanhagan Corey Sanhagen Today. I'm joined by the one and

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Speaker 2: only Corey's Hagan so much.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, my brother?

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Speaker 1: I'm good. This chair is I think built for guys

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Speaker 1: like you and not for skinny guys like.

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Speaker 2: Well see I put that so last time. Last time,

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Speaker 2: I put a black pillow behind me and I had

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Speaker 2: a black shirt on. They go, DC, how big are you, bro?

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Speaker 2: You need a bigger pillow there it is?

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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 3: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: I'm good, man, I'm good. You're a Colorado boy through

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Speaker 2: and through, born and raised. Yeah, yeah, you're sitting a

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Speaker 2: little more comfortable. Born in uh Aurora, Colorado. Colorado's a

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Speaker 2: beautiful place. But what was life like for you growing

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Speaker 2: up there as a kid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I grew up in the suburbs. I honestly it

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Speaker 1: was just like a normal Colorado suburban upbringing. I was

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Speaker 1: so I was kind of all I did as a

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Speaker 1: kid was play sports. Growing up, I didn't that was

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Speaker 1: like my entire life. We were a sports family. I

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Speaker 1: grew up playing basketball, so that's why I spent a

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Speaker 1: lot of my time doing I was outside playing all

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Speaker 1: the time. We didn't really do like a lot of

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Speaker 1: natury stuff when I was a kid, but I would

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Speaker 1: like snowboard, ski, do a just like all the Colorado stuff.

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Speaker 2: You know, So when when your parents are traveling, like

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Speaker 2: who are you with?

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Speaker 1: We were at daycare a lot, and then my parents

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Speaker 1: had to kind of like alternate when they were around.

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Speaker 1: So like when my mom was traveling, my dad would

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Speaker 1: what did they do? They both worked for the post office,

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Speaker 1: but my mom did sales and then my dad was

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Speaker 1: a postal inspector.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so you do daycare and then they would

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yeah, but yeah, it was totally normal. Man.

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Speaker 1: I don't really I was kind of an aggressive kid

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Speaker 1: growing up. I don't know where that came from, really,

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Speaker 1: but I was just that way.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've talked a lot about the influence your

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Speaker 2: as close today? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: We're tight. Yeah, I mean I mean yeah, we Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we came a long way as a family growing up,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, we're we're real close. My mom loves fighting.

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Speaker 1: My dad's kind of My dad's on the older end.

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Speaker 1: He's like seventy four, seventy five, so he kind of

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Speaker 1: he'll still come to the fights, but there's a stint

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Speaker 1: But my mom loves it. My mom would be like,

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Speaker 1: she's she's in all the MMA gossip and stuff. That's

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Speaker 2: How was uh, how was dealing with that? Right? Because

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Speaker 2: for a lot of boys, making their dad proud is

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Speaker 2: your father like, you know, kind of like sick, how

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Speaker 2: hard was it to like be accomplishing all these great

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Speaker 2: things while knowing man, that's kind of messing with my

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a little. So I wasn't forced to do anything

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Speaker 1: as a kid. What do you mean like we were.

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Speaker 1: I was a sports kid because I wanted to, like

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Speaker 2: That is just the craziest thing I got later in

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Speaker 2: the interview. But that is just the craziest thing that

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, so I knew I was short because I

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Speaker 1: grew up really small too. But there's this guy, Earl

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Speaker 1: Boykins who used to play No.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, big Ol'd ears too. Yeah he get dunk though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah he was a good dumb Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I liked all of the short players Alan Everson's.

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Speaker 2: But you said you weren't forced to do anything.

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Speaker 1: No, my parents let me do No. I was given

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Speaker 1: a lot of freedom. They They were never like, hey,

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Speaker 1: be good at this. Like I was never pushed, you know,

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Speaker 1: like my parents they just that's just not their style.

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Speaker 1: They just weren't like that. But I always worked real hard.

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Speaker 1: I think I got that from him. My grandparents are

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Speaker 1: from Ireland, so my grandparents came over immigrant family. My

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Speaker 1: mom grew up in Queens, New York, real real rough

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Speaker 1: like upbringing kind of and then she was just like

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Speaker 2: Do you speak about that work ethic? How important was

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Speaker 2: seeing that, right, obviously they're sacrificing time with all the

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Speaker 2: you became as a person, as a fighter and as

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Speaker 2: a person that works as hard as you do.

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Speaker 1: I think it almost made it better. I mean, everyone

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Speaker 1: and I don't really know how people work completely, but

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Speaker 1: I think because I was just given freedom to be

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Speaker 1: you actually have. Like, what do you mean, Like.

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Speaker 2: You keep saying you had all this freedomly?

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Speaker 1: I mean they, I mean they just kind of they

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Speaker 2: Is your canvas pain as you see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. They let me be how I wanted

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Speaker 1: Like they were just cool like that. You know, not

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Speaker 1: a lot of parents I know are like that. And

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Speaker 1: my parents were just cool like that. They just let

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Speaker 1: it kind of made me carve my own path and

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Speaker 1: it just made me kind of a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a free thinker and all that I think a little

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So what is that one thing specifically that you

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Speaker 2: saw from your parents that really did stick with you

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Speaker 2: as you're grown.

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Speaker 1: I mean they worked hard, dude, Like both of them

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Speaker 1: worked real, real hard. My dad was a really sharp guy.

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Speaker 1: Me and my dad were really close growing up. Me

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Speaker 1: and my mom not as much. We're much closer now,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, my dad was. Me and my dad were

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Speaker 1: real tight, but he wasn't like a hovering dad, he

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Speaker 1: kind of I remember me and him used to go

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Speaker 1: about like, hey, do we really think that that is

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Speaker 1: I remember me and my dad being really really close,

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Speaker 1: which is kind I almost say, like sad now because

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Speaker 1: my dad's getting a little older, you know what I mean, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you want to be as close on to day, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean we are close. I'm definitely really nice to

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Speaker 1: him now, Like I'm like, damn, you know, like dad's

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Speaker 1: getting the old dude, I got you. I mean I

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Speaker 1: their parents, right, Is that true? Were you nice to

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Speaker 2: I was the guy that my mom and dad. My

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Speaker 2: mom was like substitute teacher at times at my school.

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Speaker 2: My sister would I'm like, I run it up to

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Speaker 2: my mom. Every was like, yo, what what is wrong

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Speaker 2: with you?

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Speaker 1: That's like, I like my mom, Yeah that's cool.

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Speaker 2: You weren't like that?

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Speaker 1: Not really?

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Speaker 2: We would you have done if your mom was walking

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Speaker 1: If I could describe my mom to you, she wouldn't

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's kind of hard. Oh yeah, she was tough, bro.

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Speaker 1: I mean she grew up in Queens, New York, with

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Speaker 1: what I mean? So my mom was, Yeah, she's a

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Speaker 2: Did did you U? Did your parents have an idea

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Speaker 2: that you would be something special they let you do?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: They had no.

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Speaker 1: I mean I knew I was good at sports, like

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Speaker 1: doing anything athletic, But no, I mean I was little, dude,

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Speaker 1: probably like four eight, four foot eight and then shot

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Speaker 1: up one year. But no, they I mean I thought

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Speaker 1: I had athletic dreams. But they didn't. You know, they didn't.

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Speaker 2: They didn't think, well it is, dude, but with a

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Speaker 2: cheering and screaming when you play in these basketball.

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Speaker 1: Really they didn't. I mean they weren't. They weren't really

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Speaker 1: just the way that we were.

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Speaker 2: You you talk about basketball. You think you could have

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Speaker 2: guarded me?

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Speaker 1: You me?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Do you think you could have guarded me?

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Speaker 1: Could you have guarded me?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Locking you down court?

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Speaker 1: No way, bro, no way. I was fast corey. You're

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Speaker 1: you look powerful, but I don't know you're fast too,

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Speaker 1: though I'm pretty fast. Can you shoot, dude? I can't shoot.

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Speaker 2: I am lights off with you. You know my producer

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Speaker 2: of Luise, I'd be busting his ass on the basketball court. Really,

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Speaker 2: we played three boys shootouts and I just be busting

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Speaker 2: his ass. You don't.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't position court your guard?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, guarden, he started m du Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I actually, you know what, now that we're talking about it,

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Speaker 1: I do think that a piece of The reason why

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Speaker 2: Do you think there was a moment where when you're

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Speaker 2: That's how you decided you wanted to fight professional.

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Speaker 1: Like I almost feel like I live for it my life.

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Speaker 1: I'm a rest Yeah I do. I usually have one

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Speaker 1: day like that in training camp, because I do twelve

440
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Speaker 1: week camps, and I usually have one day where I'll

441
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Speaker 1: call the coaches and be like, guys, I cannot come

442
00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,960
Speaker 1: in today, Like I need a day to just sit

443
00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,879
Speaker 1: and just not really rest my body but just rest

444
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Speaker 1: my mind on stuff. And so I do get those days,

445
00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,520
Speaker 1: but they're kind of far in between. But yeah, I

446
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 1: don't know, man. I the more I kind of think

447
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:57,280
Speaker 1: about it and the more that I reflect on a

448
00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,720
Speaker 1: lot of stuff, I do think I try to be

449
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,679
Speaker 1: normal because I think normal is inspiring. But I do

450
00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,879
Speaker 1: know I got something unique about me in the level

451
00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,679
Speaker 1: of push that I can do and the consistency of

452
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,480
Speaker 1: push that I can do. I think I haven't seen

453
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:14,679
Speaker 1: in a ton of other people.

454
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Speaker 2: Do you worry? Do you worry that kind of putting

455
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,200
Speaker 2: stuff away when it's trying to show itself. We'll come

456
00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:26,879
Speaker 2: up later in your life and you'd be like, I

457
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 2: have to deal with all those emotions because I do

458
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,720
Speaker 2: that bad. I'm a comportmentalizing person, Like I'm the best

459
00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 2: at it. I can be like super jacked up and go, ah,

460
00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go to work today. Nothing nobody from

461
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,919
Speaker 2: the outside will see that anything is bothering me because

462
00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:43,919
Speaker 2: I just don't want to feel that way today.

463
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying though, So you have that control

464
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Speaker 1: over yourself. Yeah, I think that sports teaches you that.

465
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Speaker 1: I think that sports teaches you how to or a

466
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Speaker 1: competition or a goal or some type of higher purpose

467
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,480
Speaker 1: or whatever, and all of us, I think it gives

468
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Speaker 1: us something to ignore our feelings about and still drive forward.

469
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,760
Speaker 2: But they will show at some point.

470
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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, Yeah.

471
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 2: They Corey, Corey, I'm telling you, they are going to come.

472
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 1: Why how did they come out for you? Like when

473
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Speaker 1: you push something down a bunch, what's what's it looked like?

474
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Speaker 2: When it comes out bad, it's bad? Okay. For example,

475
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 2: when I was when I was wrestling, when I was younger, obviously,

476
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 2: I lost a kid, a daughter, very young, and I

477
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 2: just suppressed it. And then I started going to practice

478
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,360
Speaker 2: and I couldn't get through a practice without like bawling,

479
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 2: Like I could not get through anything that was hard

480
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 2: without like completely breaking down, because I needed to deal

481
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Speaker 2: with those things that were inside of me that just

482
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 2: were knocking, like, please let me out, let me out,

483
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 2: let me out. Then eventually I let it out.

484
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,439
Speaker 1: And what it letting it out look like?

485
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Speaker 2: Though, crying and shit like. And then I went and

486
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 2: saw some I didn't so you was being a sports

487
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 2: psychologists and all kind of stuff to kind of learn

488
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,920
Speaker 2: to deal with my emotions. And when it was time

489
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,680
Speaker 2: to let it out. How have you dealt with your

490
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,640
Speaker 2: loss to Morob, what did you do?

491
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Speaker 1: I just I just told myself I got to get

492
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 1: better man like onward, you know, like whether I win

493
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: or lose any fight, nothing changes on that Monday coming up.

494
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Speaker 1: You know, it was just like all right, whether I

495
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,919
Speaker 1: win or lose, I still got stuff to work on. Like,

496
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,359
Speaker 1: I have a whole checklist going into every week or

497
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,159
Speaker 1: every month of what it is that I got to

498
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Speaker 1: work on big time. And that's that's just that's literally

499
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Speaker 1: where I put all in my attention. Yeah yeah, but

500
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I don't know, I think that. Uh yeah,

501
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 1: I mean I've probably had to deal with some stuff

502
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,679
Speaker 1: that I shoved down for a really long time, but

503
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Speaker 1: I think that sports helped me work through that still too.

504
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 2: You know, possibly plunging and kicking people is like a

505
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Speaker 2: release for.

506
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Speaker 1: I never saw it like that. It was always a

507
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Speaker 1: sport to me. I don't like hurting people.

508
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Speaker 2: Really.

509
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I know that some people like hurting people, and

510
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,919
Speaker 1: that's okay, you're in the right sport, you know, if

511
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 1: you're doing that. But I never got The only thing

512
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 1: I cared about was building skills. That's all that I

513
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: cared about. This is literally all that I cared about,

514
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: really yeah. Everything else I kind of was able to

515
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: just be like, whatever, that's just a feeling or whatever,

516
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: that's just this or that's just that. Everything for my

517
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: entire life has just been what do I got to

518
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 1: get better at today? And tomorrow Core.

519
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Speaker 2: Before you became a full time fighter, you worked in

520
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 2: a trauma center with kids.

521
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to work it was called Mount Saint Vincent's.

522
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: That place taught me a ton of stuff about myself.

523
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: I wanted to maybe do social work when I was

524
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: growing up. I went to school for psychology, and I

525
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 1: kinda I grew up in so Aurora is kind of

526
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 1: a weird place because it's Colorado, but it's very diverse

527
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,159
Speaker 1: in the types of people that you'll get, or at

528
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: least for Colorado. But I grew up with poor friends,

529
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 1: rich friends, you know, black, brown, white, all kinds of

530
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: different friends, and I remember everyone just coming from different places.

531
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Speaker 1: And we were not wealthy. We were like normal suburban

532
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: like both my parents worked for the government, so we

533
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 1: were never hungry or anything like that. But I had

534
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: a lot of friends that were like that, and I

535
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: always remember reflecting a lot of a lot of it too,

536
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: is just I think grown up religious too, and having

537
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 1: conversations with my dad about that and just reflecting on

538
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 1: like why do I not have to deal with what

539
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: my friend has to deal with, which were like really

540
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: heartbreaking stories. And I think that a part of me

541
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: wanting to go and do social work is because I

542
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 1: wanted to help all my old friends just be just

543
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Speaker 1: help them out, you know, because I feel like, compared

544
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 1: to them, I was very fortunate.

545
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Speaker 2: How did that like, how did that experience shape you? Well?

546
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Speaker 1: It taught me a lot about self awareness because the

547
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 1: kids that we would work with all came from very

548
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: traumatic pasts and we had to learn how to work

549
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: with them, which meant learning how like we operate. So

550
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: I remember when when I first started working there at

551
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: twenty two. I remember being like, oh, so when this

552
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: kid starts wandering or starts being fidgety or something, he

553
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: has something inside of him going on. And I was like,

554
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 1: what do I do when I have something going on

555
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: inside of me? And then I just started building a

556
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 1: lot of self awareness. But I don't think I would

557
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: have been able to go down that path had it

558
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: not been for working at that place. So those I

559
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: owe that place in those kids, I feel like a

560
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: lot in just my like who I am.

561
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 2: Now that changes you when you see kids going through

562
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 2: hard times. Right, like you said, you were aware enough

563
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 2: as a kid to recognize the differences in life. In

564
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 2: our life at times can seem a bit unfair. But

565
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 2: you're already fighting. While you're not fighting full time, you're

566
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 2: fighting and working in this situation. Does that change a

567
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 2: little bit of the mentality when it comes to the

568
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 2: fighting and the approach, Like do you realize, like, man,

569
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 2: this is fighting and I could potentially make a boatload

570
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 2: of money in this or I could lose, But ultimately

571
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 2: it's not that. Yeah, it's not what these kids are

572
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 2: going through.

573
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: It was that. I think I had two major experiences

574
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: when I first started training that shaped me into like

575
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: full dedication and shaped me into being like I'm doing this.

576
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: When I was eighteen, I lost my best friend and

577
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: I remember that was like my first close experience with

578
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,679
Speaker 1: losing someone that I really really loved and cared about

579
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: a lot. And I remember being like, oh, so this

580
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: thing doesn't last forever, so life mean life, And I

581
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: was like, I'm just gonna do I'm literally just gonna

582
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: do what makes me happy, regardless of what type of

583
00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: situation it puts me in. And to address, could I

584
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: ask you what happened? Uh? Yeah, he I mean he

585
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: just just college stuff. He just got drunk and fell

586
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: on his you know, he fell and then he was

587
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: in ICU for a while. And he hit his head

588
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: hard enough to not be able to make it through.

589
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: So really, yeah, it was It was really tough on

590
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 1: all of us. His name was Ross. I'm still really

591
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: close with all of his family. But that was a

592
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 1: big thing for me at eighteen. That was a That's

593
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 1: a big thing for anyone to just be like, WHOA

594
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 1: death is real, you know, like that and then to

595
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: try to wrap your head around that for real is

596
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: sometimes very difficult. But yeah, it just kind of made

597
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: me be like, man, I'm not doing this bullshit that like,

598
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: I'm just not going to do some bullshit with my

599
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: life that I don't want to do, and I'm not

600
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: gonna play by the rules that other people are playing

601
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 1: by because I'm going to do this thing the way

602
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: that i want to do, which is what makes me

603
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: a little weird too.

604
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 3: But which you know, WHOA I'm just saying, but does

605
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 3: it It would seem like pressure for you, you is

606
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 3: different than for most whenever you see life in the

607
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 3: way that you do, because most people can.

608
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 2: Get crushed by pressure. You don't come off as a

609
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 2: guy that will ever get crushed by pressure.

610
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: There's no way that you could hurt me like I

611
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,239
Speaker 1: went on this whole. I don't even want to call

612
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: it a spiritual thing because I think that's corny. But

613
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: I did go through some years where I was like

614
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: just I was just I was just like, I'm just

615
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: going to do this thing how I want to do it,

616
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: and like the pressure all of that stuff, I was like,

617
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,959
Speaker 1: I mean, who really cares anyways? You know what I mean? Like,

618
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,479
Speaker 1: as I I've always believed in if I'm doing my best,

619
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: I'll die a happy guy when I'm done with my career.

620
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: And I know that I put every single ounce of

621
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: everything into it. That's where what else can I do?

622
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: I can't do anything more than that. Yeah, and we

623
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: can't all be Lebron James. We can't all be kabeb

624
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: And I'm not an undefeated guy and I've lost, and

625
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: that doesn't that doesn't hurt me, you know what I mean.

626
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: There was the same way that I think it maybe

627
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: hurts other people, just because that's not where I like

628
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: put my attention. I just put my attention in building

629
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: skills and trying.

630
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Speaker 2: Does your wife like this approach, because it would seem

631
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 2: like it would allow for a lot less stress, especially

632
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 2: going back into the house after the last fight. You

633
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 2: know what. I would lose a fight, I would literally

634
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 2: be in my room for like a month, and I

635
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 2: would put like black curtains over the windows and I

636
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: would just go morn.

637
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been there too, I mean I do. I

638
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: mean that that is a part of it also, But

639
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: that's just the body doing what the body is gonna do.

640
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: You know. That's just us really wanting something and then

641
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: the universe not giving it to us. And that can

642
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: like really hurt us sometimes. But once you kind of

643
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: snap out of that, because we do get hurt and

644
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: we do have feelings. But once you snap out of that,

645
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: it's like, oh okay, because there is a grieving process.

646
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: But if we were in control of it, we we

647
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: would move past it quick, you know. But it's not

648
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: in our you know, we don't get to decide some

649
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: things about it.

650
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: So many fighters rush to the Internet after they lose

651
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 2: because they want to feel better. They don't want to

652
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: sit in that sadness. I think it's the dumbest thing

653
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 2: in the world today. When you have Instagram, when you

654
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: lose a fight, how quickly do you visit Instagram?

655
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: When I lose I like a couple of weeks. I

656
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: won't read anything.

657
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: There's most fighters, especially young ones, on the way back

658
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 2: from the octagon, they go, tonight wasn't my night, but

659
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 2: I'll be back. You want to know why. I think

660
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: they do that because generally the people that are following you,

661
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 2: they want to support you. So what messages do they

662
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: get when just tonight just wasn't my night. You'll be back, champ.

663
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 2: We all still love it like that. That's why young

664
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: fighters do that.

665
00:30:55,600 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a really low I don't trust people

666
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: to like tell the truth most of the time. So

667
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: I don't even like play with people's ideas about that

668
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: stuff because a lot of the time, like you said,

669
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: they're just trying to make me feel better anyway.

670
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 2: But that's what they want to do, right that that

671
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 2: because that that emotion feels like it's what you want

672
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 2: to hear. But in reality, you should separate yourself because

673
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 2: you should live in that to make sure that you're

674
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 2: not doing it over and over and over again. People

675
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: people do. Don't I made a mistake and I got caught. No,

676
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 2: you lost, most of the guy was better.

677
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean my favorite thing after anyone loses is

678
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: especially on like the team or something, they'll come back

679
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: and they be like, oh, you know, it was something

680
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: mental or it was this, and it was that, and

681
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, there are this whole thing is x's

682
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: and o's. You do the right thing at the right time,

683
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: you win. There's like mental x's and o's too, where

684
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: you got to think in a certain way and that

685
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: like will up your odds of winning and stuff. But

686
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: the a lot of the time it's not mental. It's like, dude,

687
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: that guy was just better than you and that's okay,

688
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: that's okay, that's okay. We literally can't all be Lebron James.

689
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: But you can try as hard as Lebron James and

690
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: maybe you'll turn into Lebron James or you'll write a

691
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: better story than Lebron James. But you're not gonna be

692
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: able to do that if you don't get to work.

693
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,719
Speaker 2: You know, you know, I've lost in some big spots

694
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 2: NCAA Finals, Olympic bronze medal match, Olympics of my finals,

695
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 2: John Jones fights DPA fight, But I'm like, whoa, what

696
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 2: if I didn't take my shot? Right? You can write

697
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: your story, and you can build a pretty nice story

698
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 2: even if you're not kel Sanderson are those guys right.

699
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 2: I don't think enough people take the chance on themselves

700
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: because people don't think big enough at times. But you

701
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 2: thought big, right. You take this thing and you say

702
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it the way I want to do it.

703
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 2: That leads to you being seven and one. You get

704
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 2: the call from the UFC. The you remember about that

705
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 2: first fight and what you felt like walking into the

706
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: octam Was it nerves? Was it fear?

707
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:09,239
Speaker 1: What was more?

708
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 2: Were the feelings going through Cory sandagen On tonight? Yeah.

709
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: So by that time I had gone down that little

710
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: stint of like self exploration or spiritual whatever stuff where

711
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: I really sat down with my ego and I asked

712
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: myself where all of these things were coming from. And

713
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: I really, man, I really try to turn myself into

714
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: a person that just can't be hurt by the things

715
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: that life throws at me. Yeah. And so by that

716
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: time in the UFC, I was really good at being

717
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: really fearless. And I still carry that with me because

718
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: I know that like a loss will hurt and it

719
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: will suck, but it's not going to impact me, Like

720
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: it's not going to change the soul of me. So

721
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff is just like, whatever, you know,

722
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: just keep it moving. That's it.

723
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: How much that's obviously helped you because in big moments

724
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 2: you had to deal with some huge setbacks, Right. I

725
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 2: think back to the Aljemine Sterling fight. You won five

726
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 2: in a row. You're in this fight with title implications, right,

727
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 2: some people come into this thing with massive expectation. I

728
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 2: don't know if you were one of those guys. Yeah,

729
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 2: but a little bit, a little bit right, But when

730
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 2: you get on that to that spot and it doesn't

731
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 2: even feel like you get a chance to compete? How

732
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 2: hard was that? How difficult was that for Corcinning?

733
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one definitely hurt the most because.

734
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: It won.

735
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: It was the first one and two it was my

736
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: first time being finished, which was just not cool with me.

737
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,959
Speaker 1: I reacted to that one, I think in a really

738
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: positive way in that I worked really really hard after

739
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: that one to like really dial in some things that

740
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: I just didn't know about. But a lot of losing too,

741
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: man is like oh I didn't know any better, you

742
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like how much of the guys

743
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: that you coach is like it's okay, man, Like you

744
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: just literally you just didn't know that move or you

745
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: just didn't know how to do that, and like how

746
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: much can you beat yourself up over that? And I

747
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: think that life sucks and this sport sucks a lot,

748
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: and you can either have a good attitude about it

749
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: or you can have like kind of a crummy attitude

750
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: about it. But regardless of what attitude you have about it,

751
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: it's still gonna come with its trials and it's still

752
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: gonna come with it sucks. So to me, it's just

753
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna not let it impact I mean, it

754
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: does impact my joy, but it doesn't really touch me

755
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: as deep as you know it maybe hits other people.

756
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 2: You always talk about not feeling pressure. You don't feel pressure,

757
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 2: Like do you think that's helpful or hurtful in those

758
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: big spots like where you almost like you don't realize that,

759
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 2: I mean there's pressure being a world champion, or you

760
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 2: ignore the pressure of being a world champion and then

761
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 2: sometimes it doesn't work out.

762
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I acknowledge that it's important to me,

763
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people feel pressure because

764
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: they are afraid of external stuff. I still go into

765
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: a fight fully being like no I care, I personally

766
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: care about winning this fight A lot I personally care

767
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: about doing the best. But that's not that doesn't feel

768
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: like pressure. That feels like just me having you know,

769
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: it's time to hit a home run, like lock in

770
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: and try to hit the home run. It's not a

771
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: it's not like a, Oh, if I don't hit this

772
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: home run, so and so won't like me, or I

773
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: won't accomplish this amount of financial whatever, or I won't

774
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 1: accomplish this type of dream that I've had. It's it's

775
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: not that it's just like a it's just like an

776
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: acknowledgement that I really care about this, so I'm gonna

777
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: do this as best that I can. And that's you know.

778
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,919
Speaker 2: When you, uh, you said something that said, I felt

779
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 2: like I got caught in the river current after that,

780
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 2: what what did that mean? Yeah? You said I felt

781
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 2: like I had caught in the river current. Nin you

782
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 2: ultimately came back into your own river. You said you

783
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 2: got back into your own river. What did you mean there?

784
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: Uh, that was a long time ago. I don't know

785
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: the context of it.

786
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 2: But if you hear that, what do you think like?

787
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 1: I probably got swept away with some of that pressure

788
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: stuff because I am a human being and every single

789
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: person goes through the pressure piece, and sometimes we get

790
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: swept away, especially nowadays, because everything's in our face and

791
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: I feel like the bar of what people want you

792
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: to accomplish is very, very high now because everyone's like

793
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: so accessible and everyone's showing off everything and all of

794
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: this stuff. So it feels very like it's just easy

795
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: to get caught up and swept away and external stuff.

796
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: But it's the nicest part about losing is remembering that no, no, no,

797
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: like this you're doing this for you. Yeah, it's a

798
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 1: nice feeling about. There's one of the few.

799
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 2: The next fight Frankie Edgar. Dude, you're fighting a former champion.

800
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,320
Speaker 1: The next one was Marlon Moround Marlin.

801
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 2: But then when we get to Frankie Edgar, that's what

802
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 2: I want to get to Frankie. You get to Frankie Edgar,

803
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 2: a future Hall of Famer, former world champion, flying the

804
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 2: knockout bro That was one of the craziest knockouts of

805
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 2: all time.

806
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:22,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a good one.

807
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 2: Was that something you practiced and said, Oh my god,

808
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 2: I know he's going to go forward and this is

809
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 2: going to happen, and how does it feel Whenever all

810
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: those thoughts really show themselves in the fight like.

811
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, it felt good. I was kind of in yes,

812
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, if I'm being really honest, that fight

813
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: could have gone that way or it could have gone

814
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: a million other ways. It was not luck because it's

815
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: something that I definitely practiced. But to say that I

816
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: was fully in control of knocking Edgar out is it's

817
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: like it's two dance partners, it's me and him. So

818
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: he had a lot of saying that I just didn't

819
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: get lucky in landing that, but I just that's just

820
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: what happened in that fight, and it could have gone

821
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: a thousand different ways, and it went that way, and

822
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: that's great. And you roll the dice enough times, you'll

823
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: knock some people out too, you know. Like that's why

824
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: I don't trip out after even like a not so

825
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: great win, is because it's like, oh, you know, like,

826
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: not all of this is totally all in my control.

827
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: I don't get to go out and just starch people

828
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: and put them out and walk away the exact same

829
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: way that I want to. It's it's not up to me.

830
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's up to the universe and then and and

831
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: that's just how it is. So you just keep it moving.

832
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: Were you a little scared when he was like out

833
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 2: like that bad? It was bad? Were you a little scared?

834
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was a little scared. And it was at

835
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: the apex it was dead quiet. It was dead quiet, dude,

836
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: it was I remember when I got done yelling because

837
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: I was celebrating and still really into it. I remember

838
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 1: being like, ah, shit, you know, like shit, his kids,

839
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: his kids saw that, Like, because I don't like hurting people.

840
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: This thing is a big giant sport to me, So

841
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: that that was sad.

842
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 2: How do you how do you deal with that, that

843
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 2: that that desire to not hurt people in a sport

844
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 2: that is as violent as anything in the world.

845
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't think about it really. I mean,

846
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: he's all right, right, Like that's he's bad now, But

847
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: he didn't. Yeah, But that's what I mean is he's

848
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: all right now. It's not like anything severely damaging happened

849
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: to him. And also he that could have easily happened

850
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: to me too, So it's it's just and I would

851
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: have been all right, you know what I mean, It's

852
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: like we're not killing each other literally, so like you know,

853
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: anytime that anytime someone's gone through something really hard or

854
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: something bad happens or whatever. It's like, but did you die?

855
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: You know?

856
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 2: Yeah people say that all the time.

857
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, people said, but did you die?

858
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, could have?

859
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: What I'm trying what I'm trying to find pity, right.

860
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 2: Like, I'm like, why I kind of could have?

861
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: He maybe could have? Yeah, that would have been sad.

862
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,959
Speaker 1: I probably would have quit after that real.

863
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course I think most people would if something

864
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 2: like that happened. You fought some really high level competition.

865
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 2: How much have you grown in those moments, win or lose.

866
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've had to. That's the piece of

867
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: my career that I'm super pumped about is I've literally

868
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: had to get good at things that I maybe wouldn't

869
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 1: have wanted to get good at things, or maybe wouldn't

870
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: have if I wasn't fighting that level of competition. But

871
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: I'm literally fighting some of the best fighters in the

872
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: entire world. That's why I had to become a good wrestlers,

873
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: because it's like, hey, Corey, like you could do this

874
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: striking stuff, but then you're gonna run into someone that's

875
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: gonna be able to take you down and hold you down,

876
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: like Al Jamaine did, and that's not gonna be very fun.

877
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: And so it's like just fighting that caliber a person,

878
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: literally you either have to get better or you just

879
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: lose and your career is over.

880
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 2: But I mean, you are fighting the best at the best,

881
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 2: and even just sharing the octagon with those people, it's

882
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 2: like you feel yourself leveling up.

883
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

884
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 2: I remember after we left an Abu Dhabi when you

885
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 2: and Umar fought. Umar just could not sing your praises

886
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 2: anymore because of your abilities in who you are inside

887
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 2: the octagon. Corey, you speak a lot about mental right,

888
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 2: you talk about manifestation, you talk about visualization. Is that

889
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 2: a power move of yours in regards of you use

890
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 2: it against other fighters knowing that you have a mental

891
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 2: edge over most.

892
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: I think that all of the I think all of

893
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: the mental stuff just puts you in a better place

894
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: to where like the opportunity that you'll have to win

895
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: just gets higher. So it's not like there's no secret

896
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 1: sauce to any of this shit. Like you know, it's

897
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: just you win or you lose. And it's not like

898
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: because someone's doing X in training camp or training with

899
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: X in training camp, there is no secret sauce it's

900
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: it's you either win or you lose. And uh, but

901
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: I do think that believing in yourself, like, that's something

902
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: that I've kind of Trevor's helped me a lot with

903
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years, is being like, hey, man,

904
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: you have to have like an unbreakable belief in yourself.

905
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: Where I thought confidence was just something that you just

906
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: kind of like faked, you know, But Trevor's been helping

907
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: me believe, like truly believe, like, hey, no matter what happens,

908
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna win this fight, and telling myself that whether

909
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,760
Speaker 1: it's a delusion or not doesn't matter. It still puts

910
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: me in a place in my mind that's gonna give

911
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: me the best chance at winning. So when I fought

912
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: Morob and I got dropped in the second round, that

913
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: if I didn't fully believe in my heart that I

914
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: was still gonna go win that fight that fight, he

915
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: could have finished me in round three, round four, whatever.

916
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: But I believed I was still winning that fight all

917
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: the way up until the very last bell. I didn't,

918
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,439
Speaker 1: so my belief was wrong, But I believe that that's

919
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: the reason that I was able to fight the rest

920
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: of that fight well. And not get finished or have

921
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: anything worse happen.

922
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 2: Are you a naturally confident person?

923
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: I think so? Yeah, I think so. I don't know.

924
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: What do you think? Do you think I am? I

925
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: don't really know. Really, I don't know. I guess I

926
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: don't really know. I think confidence is like a confidence

927
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: isn't to me much of like an X and A. Oh,

928
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: so I don't care about it a ton. You know

929
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: there's one of my favorite.

930
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 2: Well, you you literally live in.

931
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: Do the right thing at the right time and you win. Yeah,

932
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: that's where I live. Do the right thing at the

933
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 1: right time and you win and be in a headspace

934
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: that's going to give you the best opportunity to win.

935
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: And that's all that I care about.

936
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 2: Mental How important is that to fighting though? Because I've

937
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,280
Speaker 2: heard people say stuff like wrestling is ten percent physical

938
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: ninety percent mental. Do you buy into like mental is

939
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 2: more important than physical in a fight.

940
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: No, I think that they're both equally as important. If

941
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: you if you're mentally strong as shit, but you suck

942
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: like your skills suck like, doesn't matter. Yeah, you're gonna lose,

943
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: you know. Most of the time. Fighting is interesting though,

944
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: because and wrestling is really unique too, because you can

945
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: get someone tired and break them and then still win

946
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: and still win. So like, mental fortitude and mental toughness

947
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: is incredibly important in our sport in particular because we

948
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,720
Speaker 1: have one of the most exhausting sports in the entire world. Too.

949
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,399
Speaker 1: Like football players, NBA players, I'm sure they get tired,

950
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 1: but they don't get tired like we get tired, you know,

951
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,959
Speaker 1: So we have to be able to be strong enough

952
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: to still make good decisions under like incredibly high levels

953
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,959
Speaker 1: of fatigue. So stress, and that's and that's like, that's

954
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: something that's really truly unique. And I do think that

955
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 1: fighting is way more mental in that regard than all

956
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: of the other sports.

957
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 2: Do you practice like meditation and mindfulness before fights? And

958
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 2: if so, what does that look like?

959
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I try to be present. What do I do?

960
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: I it's kind of it's just it's like transformed so

961
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: much through the years that it's kind of hard to describe.

962
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: But I do think, like like I said, man, I

963
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: think that putting yourself in a state of belief where

964
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna win and you'll do anything to win and

965
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 1: you totally buy into that with your heart, that's important,

966
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: you know, That's that's as important as being really technically skilled. Corey.

967
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: You Uh, the reason I was so drawn to you

968
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: is because your personality and humor. It's dry, yeah, but

969
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 2: it's it's very funny. Like I don't think I've laughed

970
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 2: more than that time we did that live stream.

971
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 1: You Uh, but you lie, man, Yeah, I'm a liar.

972
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 2: He was saying some crazy stuff. You said you were

973
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 2: homeless at one point, he did the only fans think.

974
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 2: But humor is a big part of Corey Sannyegen. Why

975
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 2: is it so important in a sport that's so violent

976
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 2: to have a sense of humor? And and uh, I

977
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 2: look at your threads and I'm like, what is he

978
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 2: talking about?

979
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: I just laying in bed thinking, dude, yeah, what what?

980
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: Why a sense of humor? And I feel like, because

981
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: this thing is an entertainment sport too, and you know that.

982
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: So I have to be like a something to people.

983
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,439
Speaker 1: And I don't want to be a douche. I don't

984
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: want to like come off negative and trash talkie and

985
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. So the way that I can

986
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: do those things, the way I can be unique in

987
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: a sport where it's kind of saturated with like macho

988
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: ness and talking shit and stuff is to be a

989
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,959
Speaker 1: lot more lighthearted and I'm tough too, like I'm rough

990
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: in my head too, Like I'm not like, oh this

991
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: is silly, you know, Like I still want to beat

992
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: up my opponents really bad, Like I don't, but I can.

993
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: But as far as like the personality of who people

994
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: have to fall in love with and build rapport around,

995
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: I'd rather than build rapport and some type of connection

996
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: with me through thinking that I'm funny versus thinking that

997
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: I'm a dick. Yeah, yeah, for sure, because I could

998
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,479
Speaker 1: be a dick too. I definitely can be a dick,

999
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: you know. I don't want to show those sides of me.

1000
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 2: Corey. You recently called out Sean O'Malley for a fight,

1001
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 2: wanted to fight him at the White House or anywhere else.

1002
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,439
Speaker 2: Why is Sean O'Malley right now?

1003
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: It's the only fight that makes sense for the both

1004
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: of us. One two, I like to fight. I know

1005
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: that I'll beat O'Malley, and I know that there's a

1006
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: lot of people that are like, oh, Cory's gonna take

1007
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: him down, He's gonna wrestle, Like, I'll out strike O'Malley too,

1008
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 1: So that one just bugs me and irks me that.

1009
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we got egos, like I know

1010
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: that I'm better than him, and I want to go

1011
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: beat him, and I want to prove that I'm the

1012
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: better striker, I'm the better fighter just all around in general.

1013
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: And that's why I want to fight him. And it

1014
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: makes the most sense right now. And I hate the

1015
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: way that he answers questions when he gets asked about me,

1016
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,320
Speaker 1: because he said.

1017
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 2: He's never turned down a fight against you though never

1018
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 2: he said he's never been offered a fight against Corey

1019
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 2: Sanhagen that he said no to that.

1020
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 1: So is he blaming it on the UFC not want that.

1021
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,240
Speaker 2: Fight then, I don't know. I'm just telling you.

1022
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: I mean because I'm asking for the fight. I don't

1023
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,439
Speaker 1: know that Sean. Sean's been on the record for being

1024
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: like this is a this is a business. To me,

1025
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: I want to take the easiest fight for the most

1026
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,720
Speaker 1: amount of money. As a fan like Sean as a person,

1027
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: I'm not going to carry any hatred towards him or

1028
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,240
Speaker 1: jealousy or anything like that. I like Sean as a person,

1029
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: I as a fan. I don't think the way that

1030
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: that type of character or whatever is interesting or inspiring

1031
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 1: at all. I think that one of the most biggest

1032
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: gifts that we have as athletes to give to people

1033
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 1: is inspiration to like, go do something cool with your

1034
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: life too. That means stepping up to the plate, taking

1035
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: big risks like I have in my entire career. I

1036
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: do it for me, but I also do it because

1037
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: inspiring and giving back. That's one of the few ways

1038
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: that I get to do that in this sport is

1039
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: by inspiring people. It's like, why would you take a

1040
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: fight against Umar, He's done in the rings, But because

1041
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:58,919
Speaker 1: if I win, then I get to inspire a bunch

1042
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,280
Speaker 1: of people. If I go out and I beat Morob

1043
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: or I beat Yan or whatever, I get to inspire

1044
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: a bunch of people because I know that I took

1045
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,479
Speaker 1: the hard road to get here. O'Malley's not about that life.

1046
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: So I can't be like a fan of that dude

1047
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: in that way. On a personal level, I think he's good.

1048
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: I think he's just a normal other human being trying

1049
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: to do his best in life, and he has his values.

1050
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:24,479
Speaker 1: But as like a fan, I just can't respect that much.

1051
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 2: Do you think that he's avoiding?

1052
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, Matchell, why watch the way that he answers all

1053
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: of the questions. I don't know why.

1054
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 2: I honestly don't why because you name in the division

1055
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 2: as there is that.

1056
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: And it's the biggest fight. Neither one of us lose

1057
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 1: anything in that fight by fighting each other. If Sean

1058
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: in a worst case scenario for him, he goes out

1059
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 1: and he loses, he doesn't lose anything. Man, Like, I'm established,

1060
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: I'm known as one of the best in the division,

1061
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: So why don't you want to fight? From from a

1062
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: perspective of my own, from his perspective, it's like, Corey

1063
00:50:58,120 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: is a tough fight. Why would I not? Why would

1064
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: I've take a tough fight when I could take it

1065
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: easier fight and make just as much money. That's like

1066
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: not the type of thinking that I walk around in

1067
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: life with. So we're just different and that's okay. But yeah,

1068
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: I definitely think he doesn't want that fight or else

1069
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: I think it'd be booked by now.

1070
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 2: Are you gonna keep staying on him to try to

1071
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 2: get it?

1072
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: Yeah? Until Yeah, pretty much that's the fight to make.

1073
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,760
Speaker 1: There's literally no other reason he's in the same spot

1074
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: as me. His fight against Song was not title like

1075
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: title worthy in my opinion. It was a slow fight

1076
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: song almost one. Sean did what he had to do,

1077
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: but it wasn't like he went out there trying to

1078
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: hit a home run. And when I go out and fight,

1079
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: I fight like the entire time, like that's something that

1080
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: you can't take from me. Like I'm gonna go out

1081
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: there and I'm gonna fight you hard. And I try

1082
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: really hard to to kind of pander a little bit

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Speaker 1: to the fans and to the UFC and being an

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Speaker 1: exciting guy and taking more risks and just pressing people

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Speaker 1: and being in their face and being impossible to hold down,

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Speaker 1: like I do all of that so that these things

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Speaker 1: are exciting, fun to watch and it's cool, efficient looking

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Speaker 1: martial arts and not everyone does that in the sport,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes I do, if I'm being really honest, I

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Speaker 1: do get a little bit jealous that other people maybe

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Speaker 1: get rewarded for not doing that where I know that

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing, but that's just the way that

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Speaker 1: I handle things and he does it differently.

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Speaker 2: So before I let you go, when this thing's all

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Speaker 2: sit and done and you retire, what do you want

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Speaker 2: people to remember about Corey Senig.

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Speaker 1: Now, he was one of the best champions to ever

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Speaker 1: do it because he didn't give up. He had hard road,

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Speaker 1: he took some losses, but he still got to wear gold.

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Speaker 1: And in a worst case scenario, if I don't ever

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Speaker 1: get to wear gold, I still hope that people get

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Speaker 1: to look at my career and say, I can respect

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Speaker 1: that dude because he didn't cut any corners. He did

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Speaker 1: everything that he could, and whether the odds were in

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Speaker 1: his favor or not, he still showed up and he

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Speaker 1: still tried his best.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 1: I could live with that.

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Speaker 2: And either way, that's that's Corey san Haagen. You become

1110
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Speaker 2: the champ, you don't become the champ, You'll be Corey

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Speaker 2: because that's what you are.

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Speaker 1: Right exactly. I'm the guy that just I took risks.

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Speaker 1: I did everything that I could. I tried to make

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Speaker 1: this thing as exciting for fans and for myself because

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Speaker 1: I hate watching boring fights like I hate it, so

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Speaker 1: I like to do it for myself too. I want

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Speaker 1: to look back on my entire career and be like, damn, dude,

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Speaker 1: you performed really good. Yeah, like you were a great

1119
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Speaker 1: mind for the sport. You tactically did things really well,

1120
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Speaker 1: like I just want to go down as one of

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00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 1: the greatest. That's always what I've wanted to do, and

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Speaker 1: whether I do or not, that's up to the world's

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Speaker 1: narrative about me. But to me, I know that I'll

1124
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: always have acted and been a champion in my heart,

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Speaker 1: whether I get to wear gold or not.

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Speaker 2: You're a man, you'd a man or Sanhagen, Guys, Corey Sanhagen,

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Speaker 2: one of the smartest guys, well thought, tremendous fighter, tremendous person.

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Speaker 2: I cannot wait to see what you have next up

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Speaker 2: because whatever it is, you guys know to be fun.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you guys go tapping everything Corey's doing. Thank

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Speaker 2: you again for joining me, Corey, and thank you guys

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Speaker 2: for watching another episode of The Daniel Cormier Show. For

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Speaker 2: Corey Santagan, I'm DC. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Peace,