Speaker 1: Habib got over the cage, jumped into his corner, and
Speaker 1: all hell broke loose Irish guys.
Speaker 2: And Russians and let's just say they're not drinking water.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that was the problem for the All the
Speaker 1: Irish guys were drunk and the Muslims were so oh
Speaker 1: my god.
Speaker 3: Today we're talking about UFC twenty nine Kabib for Gregor.
Speaker 4: I'd like to take this chance to apologize absolutely nobody
Speaker 4: his face.
Speaker 2: They'll mess with Russia.
Speaker 1: A Bibe's crew could come in here and probably wipe
Speaker 1: out half this country.
Speaker 2: And the guy's wrestling bears when he's a kid.
Speaker 1: Then comes Connor McGregor. He's incredibly witty. His trash talk
Speaker 1: is Ali level.
Speaker 3: Throws the Dali through the bus.
Speaker 1: You got arrest. You're dealing with two hardcore, fucking alpha male.
Speaker 2: Who's the NFL equivalent to Habib?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 1: First of all, I tell Brady this all the time,
Speaker 1: you gave me and my family twenty of the best
Speaker 1: years of our life.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Just everybody was training that year beat the Patriots. That's
Speaker 1: what happens when you're the best in the uf STAY.
Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest, one of the biggest fights. Ever,
Speaker 1: I am so tired of doing podcasts. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: any more podcasts. It's up, buddy. Thanks for joining us,
Speaker 1: man now, thanks for having me man so uh.
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Speaker 5: McGregor could be our first time in the octagon.
Speaker 2: First time in the octagon.
Speaker 3: We've been in the ring once, we've been in the ring.
Speaker 3: One man.
Speaker 2: Michaels, Shawn Michaels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just saw they're they're they're related now, Yeah,
Speaker 3: w W and UFC they're one.
Speaker 2: They're one. Why. I don't understand that, but I get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I love to ask him, and you know, we
Speaker 3: have to. If it's gonna be our first octagon interview,
Speaker 3: you got to bring the guy who invented the octagon, right,
Speaker 3: they invent the octagon or he invented the UFC. I
Speaker 3: don't know that they invented the UFC and succeeded the USC. Yes,
Speaker 3: Dana White, the man. I can't I mean, I can't wait.
Speaker 3: I can't either. The guy's from Boston. I saw him
Speaker 3: at He's always been very hospitable to me at all
Speaker 3: the little UFC fights I've gone to Boston. Guy loves
Speaker 3: the Patriots lost a bunch of weight shredded shred mcdead.
Speaker 5: Oh my, we gotta ask him what his secret is
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what tip? Just oh jackie, Jackie. We get into
Speaker 3: the crazy fight and everything that leads up to it.
Speaker 2: We talk about.
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Speaker 3: from both coastal guy by coastal guy, He's by coastal?
Speaker 2: What is this on a coast? This is this is a.
Speaker 5: Desert West coast technically, I guess if you're PSD, your
Speaker 5: west coast to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty west coast. You're on the you're on
Speaker 3: the time zone. If you're on the time zone, you're
Speaker 3: on the time zone times the West coast. Uh. Maybe
Speaker 3: some has boula talk. What a guy, dude. I can't
Speaker 3: not watch him on anything on social media. Whenever I
Speaker 3: see anything. I saw him driving a car, flipping someone off,
Speaker 3: doing donuts, shooting gun. Yeah, you're shooting Ak's.
Speaker 5: I mean he's like living how we all wish we
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Speaker 1: A clash of styles, bold and brash versus cold and calculated.
Speaker 3: I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.
Speaker 3: This is UFC.
Speaker 2: Versus hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Games with Names, presented.
Speaker 3: By when Beatt. Today we are recording at the Win
Speaker 3: Las Vegas hotel and casino, and we have a very
Speaker 3: special guest. Very special. I mean, look at we got
Speaker 3: so many people. We're here at the wind people were
Speaker 3: all gathering to see them. We got President CEO, the
Speaker 3: man who built the UFC, Dana White.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: Man, Now, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: So you're from You're from Boston. Yeah, so my FA,
Speaker 3: you're also from Vegas. Yeah, I don't know this story.
Speaker 1: So I bounced around a lot when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: You know, we grew up back there. They were paying
Speaker 1: nurses more here than anywhere in the country, and like
Speaker 1: the late seventies, and my mom moved me and my
Speaker 1: sister out to Vegas. I was in fourth or fifth grade.
Speaker 1: Stayed here till I was in high school, then went
Speaker 1: back to Boston after I graduated. Wow, then came back
Speaker 1: here when I was twenty six. So I bounced back
Speaker 1: and forth. Actually really lucky that I was able to
Speaker 1: have that East coast West coast upbringing. Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is that was before Vegas was really.
Speaker 1: Thousand people here when we moved.
Speaker 3: It's it's really like the last five years everyone yeah,
Speaker 3: left California came out here.
Speaker 2: I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, now that sports are here, it's turned into a
Speaker 1: big sports town, and you know, I mean they're gonna
Speaker 1: have fucking ping pong here pretty soon. Man, I mean
Speaker 1: everything they do here slap. I literally just went to
Speaker 1: slap slapped. I literally just went to the w NBA
Speaker 1: game a couple of nights ago at Mandelay Bay. There
Speaker 1: wasn't an empty seat in the house. The place was packed. Crazy.
Speaker 3: The champ champs, Brady owns them exactly what's their name?
Speaker 3: Called them out, say, hey, what, what the hell? Why?
Speaker 2: Why is this the first game you've been to?
Speaker 3: You own us one of their their stars. I gotta
Speaker 3: look that one up.
Speaker 2: You gotta look that up. I saw that.
Speaker 3: Welcome to games with names And uh, today we're talking
Speaker 3: about the Kabebe McGregor UFC to twenty nine fight.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty crazy fight.
Speaker 1: Awesome fight, big one that was a big one for us.
Speaker 1: And uh, obviously a ton of animosity between those two
Speaker 1: going in, a ton of animosity between Habib and Connor's cornerman,
Speaker 1: and it was just, yeah, it was it was crazy.
Speaker 3: At this point, McGregor, he was at like the high
Speaker 3: of the high. He was probably the most famous athlete
Speaker 3: on the planet one.
Speaker 1: Hundred and you know, and Habib at the time too,
Speaker 1: you know. And and when you think about the Muslim world,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, over a billion world wide.
Speaker 1: It might even be two billion now for all I know,
Speaker 1: but you know, and he was like the first Muslim
Speaker 1: world champion in the UF.
Speaker 3: State stud and it was it was crazy that like
Speaker 3: I remember this fight and all the hooplah, before the hype,
Speaker 3: before you know, the guy's throwing you know, McGregor throws
Speaker 3: the dolly through the bus. Like when you're putting toad
Speaker 3: out of these fights, there's like a there's like a
Speaker 3: probably like a meter of where you love that kind
Speaker 3: of shit because it's building the fight, and there's a
Speaker 3: meter where you have to kind of step in and say, hey, boys,
Speaker 3: like how does that work.
Speaker 1: We're at a point now where we don't need the
Speaker 1: craziness to build a fight, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: What we need are it's just a matchup itself. The
Speaker 1: fact that these are two of the best in the world.
Speaker 1: And people think that I love that stuff, but I
Speaker 1: don't because what happens is we're regulated by the government
Speaker 1: bas the Athletic Commission is is the government, and yeah,
Speaker 1: they they don't like that shit, so it's bad when
Speaker 1: it happens. And you know, one of the things that
Speaker 1: I got criticized about by the media is when we
Speaker 1: were promoting the fight, I promoted the whole thing that
Speaker 1: happened uh in Brooklyn with the bus. But but it's
Speaker 1: part of the story. Yeah, you know what I mean exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. It's part of the story.
Speaker 1: We told the story the way that it unfolded and
Speaker 1: how it played out, and you know, obviously it was
Speaker 1: a big fight, lots of animosity and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we were ready for what happened after, but we didn't. Uh,
Speaker 1: we didn't execute perfectly the way that we should have.
Speaker 1: You know, Habib got over the cage, jumped into his
Speaker 1: corner and and then all you know, all hell broke loose. It.
Speaker 2: Did anyone get arrested?
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody got arrested.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, if I'm if the if these questions
Speaker 3: are too much.
Speaker 1: We actually no, no, we actually got it contained pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: We were expecting it. We expected to happen. If you
Speaker 1: look the guys that were inside the octagon when Habib
Speaker 1: jumps over. The guy is like just missus grabbing him
Speaker 1: and he gets over the cage and into the corner.
Speaker 1: But no, we were anticipating it. We got it under
Speaker 1: control pretty quick. Nobody got hurt. The problem was after
Speaker 1: you know, you had uh, you know, Irish guys and
Speaker 1: Russian and Russian guys fighting out in the and.
Speaker 2: Let's just say they're not drinking waters.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, well the problem all the Irish guys were
Speaker 1: drunk and the Muslims were sober.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, no knowing about it. So is this
Speaker 3: is this at this point going into this fight, at
Speaker 3: this point of the UFC, Was this the greatest fight
Speaker 3: you think.
Speaker 1: Greatest fighting Vegas, the big Vegas. Yeah, I mean we've
Speaker 1: had so many great fights. We talk about a great
Speaker 1: fight with a great fight means we've had tons of
Speaker 1: great fights. This is one of the biggest, one of
Speaker 1: the biggest fights ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely.
Speaker 3: It was like, and I wasn't big in the fight
Speaker 3: game or anything, but it was like I watched this
Speaker 3: this guy from Russia, Kabib or Kabib, and the guy's
Speaker 3: wrestling bears when he's a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you got.
Speaker 1: This, he's a freak athlete man, and he's a he's
Speaker 1: a badass dude. It's always talk about, like we talk
Speaker 1: about the pussies that are in this country right now
Speaker 1: with the ones that are going on and everything. But
Speaker 1: you know, we talk about, you know, how Bibe's crew
Speaker 1: could come in here and probably wipe out half this
Speaker 1: country on their own. These dudes are so tough and
Speaker 1: nasty and come from such a tough upbringing, like fucking men. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talk about men. These dudes are like nasty dudes.
Speaker 2: Don't mess with Russians. That's that's a that's a keynote.
Speaker 3: To Dagenstan Oh my god, exactly any of the anything.
Speaker 1: Stay away from.
Speaker 3: Can you can you can you walk us through the
Speaker 3: origin of you taking over the UFC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, uh, back in the day, you know, I
Speaker 1: was involved in boxing, very minor level, you know, uh
Speaker 1: trained guys and all that kind of stuff. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing I ever did was I got a local kid
Speaker 1: here a fight with Roy Jones Junior back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I started to uh take jiu jitsu with with
Speaker 1: my friends, the for Tita brothers. They own station casinos
Speaker 1: here in Vegas, and uh, through that, we fell in
Speaker 1: love with with with the sport, and we started to
Speaker 1: meet a lot of the athletes and I started to
Speaker 1: manage Chuck Ladell and Tito Ortiz. I got into a
Speaker 1: contract dispute with the old owner of the UFC. His
Speaker 1: name is Bob Myerwitz out of New York, and he
Speaker 1: flipped out on me one day and said, you know what,
Speaker 1: there is no more money left. We might not have
Speaker 1: enough money to do the next event. So I was like,
Speaker 1: we hung up the phone. I was like, oh shit.
Speaker 1: So I literally hung up and called the Ftitas and said,
Speaker 1: I think the UFC is going out of business. I
Speaker 1: think we could buy it, and I think we should.
Speaker 1: So Lorenzo went into negotiations with with Myerwitz and a
Speaker 1: couple months later we owned the UFCA for two million dollars.
Speaker 3: God damn, how many two million bucks?
Speaker 1: Two million?
Speaker 2: What are they worth now? You guys were how well?
Speaker 1: We sold it back in twenty sixteen for a four
Speaker 1: point two five billion and now it's worth twelve.
Speaker 2: Is the UFC right now where your original vision?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Was there's still that point? Or are you still think
Speaker 2: it could easy?
Speaker 1: I still have a ton of vision for it that
Speaker 1: we're still working on. A lot of things that you know,
Speaker 1: I was dreaming about back in two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 3: You guys handled it like almost like the NFL thanks
Speaker 3: as far as like just the professional is them, and
Speaker 3: like how you guys handle all the deals with the
Speaker 3: sponsors and all the guys have their like everyone has
Speaker 3: to wear Rebok, right.
Speaker 1: Well, the Reebok deals over now. Yeah, we're the company
Speaker 1: called Venom now.
Speaker 3: But yeah, or even that, I mean, that's very Look
Speaker 3: that's Richie and Cognito. We won't Hey, no bully, no
Speaker 3: bullying dudes. Richie Cognito, that dude has some of the
Speaker 3: best feet. We used to work out together right when
Speaker 3: all that ship was going down about the bullying in Miami.
Speaker 5: He's definitely a bully. But you gotta have a bully
Speaker 5: on team. You gotta have a bully.
Speaker 1: There's a bully. There's bullies everywhere.
Speaker 2: You need that asshole.
Speaker 1: Bullies are everywhere, But you gotta deal with bully.
Speaker 2: Especially on the offensive line. You want to fucking.
Speaker 3: Bully on the offensive line. But I mean, that guy
Speaker 3: used to have crazy, but that's crazy now. You grew
Speaker 3: up in Boston and Vegas. Now you're a Boston fan. Yeah,
Speaker 3: of all of Boston sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell yes, yes, yes, I'm Boston. I'm
Speaker 1: still a Boston guy. I live in Vegas, but I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox. I'm not a big
Speaker 1: hockey fan, but we're going with the Bruins.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Are you any kids stories of you going to any
Speaker 3: games or anything?
Speaker 1: Or you didn't know that kind of money to really
Speaker 1: go to games. I went to a couple of baseball
Speaker 1: games when I was young, but I didn't really start
Speaker 1: going to Celtics games until I, you know, started making money. Yes,
Speaker 1: and Patriots, and you know, I was at the I
Speaker 1: was at the Super Bowl when you guys came back
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and won the won the Super Bowl. That
Speaker 1: night was incredible, What an incredible experience. First of all,
Speaker 1: I tell Brady this all the time. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you now. You gave me and my family twenty of
Speaker 1: the best years of our life. Man, just the Patriots
Speaker 1: run that every Sunday. I stayed home and I watched
Speaker 1: all the games. My kids grew up, we grew up
Speaker 1: in you know, born and raised in Vegas, but they
Speaker 1: grew up Patriots fans and just what an amazing uh,
Speaker 1: what an amazing experience, an amazing time during your run
Speaker 1: at the at New England was in credible.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was, it was. It was a hell over run.
Speaker 3: But you know in Vegas, now, how about Vegas having
Speaker 3: all these sports teams. That's pretty fucking badass.
Speaker 1: It should have been this. This is by design, this
Speaker 1: is the entertainment capital of the world. By design, this
Speaker 1: is a sports town. You know, the gaming thing was
Speaker 1: just always you know, a big problem for people. Now
Speaker 1: that they figured out the gaming side, this is without
Speaker 1: a doubt gonna be one of the biggest and best
Speaker 1: sports towns.
Speaker 3: How are the world?
Speaker 2: How are the like?
Speaker 3: Are the locals of Vegas? Are they like becoming Raiders? Like?
Speaker 2: Are they Raiders fans?
Speaker 3: Or is it because anytime you see away team come
Speaker 3: and play the Raiders, a lot of the fan base
Speaker 3: in that stadium is usually you know, you know.
Speaker 1: Well, it makes sense when you think about the brilliance
Speaker 1: of it. If you're gonna go to an away game,
Speaker 1: you want to go to Vegas. You're going to Vegas
Speaker 1: your boys, right, It's it's it's a no brainer. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the locals that live here have embraced the
Speaker 1: teams like, for instance, the Golden Knights. Huge, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's huge here in Las Vegas. Ever everybody, and what
Speaker 1: was funny is in the beginning, I had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to invest in the Golden Knights. I'm like, hockey in Vegas,
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. But I was way off on that one.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: It is huge here. But now you drive on the
Speaker 1: freeways here you see the Golden Knights license plates, the Raiders'
Speaker 1: license plates, and yeah, it's it's a big sports now.
Speaker 1: I mean every sport. They're gonna have fucking ping pong
Speaker 1: team here pretty soon. I mean, every sport in the
Speaker 1: world is coming to Vegas.
Speaker 3: It's hard not to capitalize on it. If you're a
Speaker 3: professional league.
Speaker 1: Yep, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's a slam dunk. Now that the
Speaker 3: teams have actually done it, I agree, it's been insane.
Speaker 3: Vegas is a sports city versus Boston is sports city, easy.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, listen, the one thing that Vegas doesn't
Speaker 1: have is the history, you know what I mean, in
Speaker 1: the tradition, we're going to build the history here, you know,
Speaker 1: over the next thirty years. But Boston has such a
Speaker 1: great history of sports. You know, it's like Boston, New York, Philly, Chicago.
Speaker 1: It's a you know, we don't have that yet, but
Speaker 1: this is the place to come if you want to
Speaker 1: go to an away game.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like, what is it a great gatsbeed.
Speaker 5: There's East Egg and West Egg. This is like East
Speaker 5: Egg people over here.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's still a little new, but there's
Speaker 3: still they still got some money out here. You know,
Speaker 3: as far as loving equity of sport. Can you give
Speaker 3: us the origin of fuck it Friday?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So I started to uh, I like food and
Speaker 1: uh we ate. We put together this thing. One day
Speaker 1: was when Popeyes Chicken Sandwiches came out. I was like
Speaker 1: one of the crackheads that was running down there getting pop.
Speaker 2: Pipes, were fighting over that.
Speaker 1: It was insane. I'm not shoitting you. This happened. I
Speaker 1: had a guy that worked at Popeyes. He was he
Speaker 1: was talking him out the back door to us. We
Speaker 1: were paying him. He was putting them out the back
Speaker 1: door because they were literally running out there were big lines.
Speaker 1: I got a guy kicking them out the back door
Speaker 1: for me for some money. So we ended up taking
Speaker 1: uh one of the Popeyes Chicken sandwiches and making a
Speaker 1: sandwich with Krispy Kreme donuts, so the donuts with the
Speaker 1: bread and the and the Popeyes chicken. And that was
Speaker 1: how fucking Friday began. I ate it. It was awesome
Speaker 1: and and uh that started the whole thing.
Speaker 2: And it all takes place at the UFC headquarters.
Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest things I do on social media.
Speaker 1: I watch it every time I post that just on
Speaker 1: my stuff it does over two million views. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody loves food, man.
Speaker 3: Everyone loves food. I mean, look at you know, the
Speaker 3: El pres from Arsenal, I mean the pizza.
Speaker 2: He's killing it.
Speaker 1: Pizza reviews kill it.
Speaker 3: What NFL player you think could come into the cage
Speaker 3: and be well and do well?
Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting because a lot of NFL.
Speaker 2: Players Harden, right, Harden did it?
Speaker 3: Greg Hardy?
Speaker 1: Greg Hardy? Yeah, a lot of Uh, there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of crossover. We've had college players and NFL players
Speaker 1: come in and and and and do well. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You're talking about big, explosive, powerful
Speaker 1: athletic guys who don't mind getting hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's it's a different thing. Like we
Speaker 3: were talking before we hopped on, I started taking up
Speaker 3: box and it's so different if you're not like I
Speaker 3: couldn't imagine going and fighting a guy like a Habibe
Speaker 3: or some guy that's been doing this since he was
Speaker 3: two years old.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean I got like different though. But look
Speaker 1: at the athlete for your size. Look at the success
Speaker 1: you had in the NFL. Now imagine if at your
Speaker 1: age when you started playing football, you started training the
Speaker 1: mixed martial arts, you would have done something you absolutely
Speaker 1: positively would have been somebody in the sport. You know,
Speaker 1: Ovid Saint Prue. Who do you play for Tennessee? Ovid
Speaker 1: Saint Prue osp Yeah, he played for Tennessee. He was
Speaker 1: a good player at Tennessee. He actually did really well
Speaker 1: and has been in the UFC for like ten years. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: football player, man. The football players are as far as
Speaker 1: physical attributes. And you could be the greatest physical specimen
Speaker 1: of all time. And you know this better than anybody.
Speaker 1: You have to like to get hit.
Speaker 3: Everyone's got a plan until you get hit in the face,
Speaker 3: as Mason said.
Speaker 1: And you were one of these fast, small guys cutting
Speaker 1: across the middle, wide open with linebackers that were three
Speaker 1: times your side hitting you. Yeah, and uh, so you know,
Speaker 1: I think you would have done damn well in the UFC.
Speaker 3: So we have a segment where we like to go
Speaker 3: back in the date and go over pop culture. So
Speaker 3: this date was October sixth, twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: Number one movie Venom. Do you see that Venom?
Speaker 1: I did? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you like it?
Speaker 2: I didn't want to. I'm hardy.
Speaker 1: I didn't love it. It wasn't my favor.
Speaker 2: You know, you didn't live up to the hype.
Speaker 1: Well, the whole uh comic book thing has gone through
Speaker 1: the roof, so yeah, yeah, but in a different way
Speaker 1: different Some of those movies I can't man won best
Speaker 1: incredible right, the greatest comic MO movie of all Ted?
Speaker 2: The original Spider Man's are fucking good.
Speaker 1: Spider Man's are good. Yep, exactly.
Speaker 2: I started doing them all the time.
Speaker 1: The first Dark Knight I liked, uh.
Speaker 3: The Christopher Nolan Batman's Yeah, those are the best. I
Speaker 3: think those are the best. I agree to hear that
Speaker 3: he's about to do the James Bond I heard. I
Speaker 3: heard that talks. I like that. Christopher nolanly Got who
Speaker 3: directed those dar nineteen might be doing.
Speaker 1: The first X men really goes really good. Yep.
Speaker 3: And around this time October four, Tom Brady becomes a
Speaker 3: third NFL quarterback to record five hundred career touchdown in
Speaker 3: a thirty eight to twenty four win over the Colts.
Speaker 1: Couldn't happen to a better guy on a better.
Speaker 2: Team against a shittier team.
Speaker 5: We love talking smack about the Colts. So anything bad
Speaker 5: you gotta say about the Colt.
Speaker 1: You know what, I bet you know it's funny And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm in a very odd place now because
Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid played football with my son and kind of
Speaker 1: grew up with my son and now he's a Buffalo bill.
Speaker 1: All the places he ends up is a Buffalo Bill,
Speaker 1: so all all, obviously we're rooting for him and we
Speaker 1: love him. But another one, Puka Nakua grew up so
Speaker 1: I funded the team that he played on with my kids.
Speaker 2: He's from Vegas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's a Vegas kid. He grew up with
Speaker 1: my kids since they were this big, and so we're
Speaker 1: really proud of him. We're obviously proud of Dalton, and
Speaker 1: it's and it is impossible to not love the quarterback
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. I fucking love him. Man. He
Speaker 1: is an absolute stud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's a stud.
Speaker 2: He it's a Buffalo Bills, like.
Speaker 1: Dude, every time we play them. Even when when you
Speaker 1: guys were dominant and good, the Buffalo Bills were always
Speaker 1: a problem. They were always tough to play, and but
Speaker 1: they were they were front runners. They never they never
Speaker 1: got to the you know, they.
Speaker 2: Spent twenty years trying to design a team to beat us.
Speaker 3: And anytime he play in that division, regardless of records
Speaker 3: or anything, it's always a super tough game because you
Speaker 3: see him twice a year. You guys see him twice
Speaker 3: a year, every year, every time we played Buffalo, even.
Speaker 1: When we don't know you'd end up in the you know,
Speaker 1: I just I like to.
Speaker 3: You know, I think of it like this, you know,
Speaker 3: like when we were we were the big brother of
Speaker 3: the division absolutely for twenty years.
Speaker 2: Right now it's probably best.
Speaker 1: Well, the champs. You guys were the champs all those years,
Speaker 1: no matter what, even when you know we didn't win
Speaker 1: the championship, you got were champs and you were the
Speaker 1: team to.
Speaker 3: Beat, exactly, and right now, Buffalo's probably the older brother
Speaker 3: of the Vision, right now. But it's kind of like
Speaker 3: I tell the Buffalo fans, which I'm always around Buffalo fans,
Speaker 3: and they're awesome fans, but I tell them like, at
Speaker 3: least when we were the big like the big brother
Speaker 3: of the division, we go out in the block and
Speaker 3: beat the shit out of everyone else. Now our older
Speaker 3: brother is getting his ass beat every time he goes
Speaker 3: out and tries to fight other people. Right, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like, what's going on, Buffalo.
Speaker 2: We got to get on this.
Speaker 1: But you are right when you think about the fans
Speaker 1: of Buffalo, talk about people who have been First of all,
Speaker 1: you got to go out and watch your team in
Speaker 1: the nastiest fucking weather of all time. Okay, the nastiest
Speaker 1: weather other than the Packers, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: other than the Packers, the nastiest weather ever. Your team
Speaker 1: is always the bride's maiden of the bride. They never
Speaker 1: make it. And every year, you guys, God bless all
Speaker 1: of you Buffalo fans. You guys are always every time
Speaker 1: I talk to you, this is our year, this is
Speaker 1: our year. They love their felt now you're here.
Speaker 3: They love that. I respect the shit out of those fans.
Speaker 3: I've never been flipped up so many times, and it's
Speaker 3: by so many different age groups. I've talked about it
Speaker 3: on the pod so many times. I mean three year
Speaker 3: olds to ninety year olds slipping you off when you're
Speaker 3: leaving all.
Speaker 1: You know who else. It's true. I love Buffalo fan
Speaker 1: I love their passion. I love especially the Celtics. And
Speaker 1: we go into Philly, right, Philly, so I would go
Speaker 1: to these big you know, the Philly versus the Celtics,
Speaker 1: and we're getting into the playoffs and I come walking
Speaker 1: in and I wear my Celtics care and stuff. Boo,
Speaker 1: They're yelling at me. You got some balls wearing that.
Speaker 1: UFC sucks. You know. They're all fucking yelling at me
Speaker 1: the whole time that I'm there. And God, God, if
Speaker 1: we can walk out of that arena that night with
Speaker 1: a win, man, it is the best feeling in the world.
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's just I love the rivalry between Philly
Speaker 1: and Boston. It's so fun.
Speaker 2: They're very similar cities, so true. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Well, you got New York Philly and then you got Buffalo.
Speaker 1: So those three rivalries are so fun.
Speaker 3: They are East Coast cold weather people, tough people, blue
Speaker 3: collar people, throwing batteries at Santa.
Speaker 2: If you're in it, I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: And tons of sports history, tons of history.
Speaker 3: You grew up with Pooka Nakoud. Did you ever think
Speaker 3: that this kid would my kids?
Speaker 1: Did? My kids grew up with Pooka?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, was he grew up in our house?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Was? He was? He balling, balling.
Speaker 1: So when we used to fund a team, me and
Speaker 1: Lorenzo used to fund a team called the Little Cowboys
Speaker 1: in Vegas, and he was on the Little Cowboys with
Speaker 1: my kids and a bunch of other guys that are
Speaker 1: playing right now, you know what I mean. There's a
Speaker 1: kid named Cayu Uh he's playing with Uh. He just
Speaker 1: got I think he's with Seattle. And then you know,
Speaker 1: there's a few kids that went to the NFL from
Speaker 1: that team and in good colleges too. And to see
Speaker 1: Pooka doing what he's doing now, it's just it's so
Speaker 1: it could not happen. Two way better human being. When
Speaker 1: you meet this kid, you will love this kid.
Speaker 3: He's such a good, smiling fine And the crazy thing
Speaker 3: to me is that it's so hard for a rookie receiver,
Speaker 3: which he's not, like a overly dominant athletic guy, right,
Speaker 3: like a Jamar Chase who came in his rookie year
Speaker 3: and balled out, you know, but to be able to
Speaker 3: gain the trust of a quarterback, which you know he
Speaker 3: was kind of forcing that role with Cooper Cup not playing,
Speaker 3: but on any situational play, Matthew Stafford for those first
Speaker 3: four weeks was looking at Pook and a coup and
Speaker 3: he was being a dependable, reliable receiver across that. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's been really impressive. There's a lot of there's a
Speaker 3: lot of great athletes. I mean, Bryce Harper's from out here.
Speaker 3: There's like it's like a little hub of studs.
Speaker 1: And it's actually been that way for a bit. I
Speaker 1: went to school with Marty Cordova. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember him, but he was the nineteen ninety five
Speaker 1: American League rook of the Year. He played for the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins, and you know, he grew up with us
Speaker 1: that There's been lots of people that have come out
Speaker 1: of Vegas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy. We got to get back to the UFC.
Speaker 3: That's why we're here. We're talking to hell. Yeah, not
Speaker 3: the founder, the guy who took it over bought it
Speaker 3: for two million dollar are so different four point eight
Speaker 3: Now we merged with WWE. Can you can you explain
Speaker 3: that real quick? I'm getting off my script because I
Speaker 3: don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's all good. Uh yeah. So what we did was
Speaker 1: we went public a couple of years ago with Endeavor
Speaker 1: and Devor went out and and and you know, did
Speaker 1: a deal with Vince and the WWE to merge UFC
Speaker 1: and w w E h under the same stock ticker
Speaker 1: symbol t k O. And you know, I think he
Speaker 1: felt like there were a lot of synergies, Like if
Speaker 1: you look at the UFC, we we are a fucking
Speaker 1: dialed in machine. And I think that when you looked
Speaker 1: at the w W E already saw some some opportunities
Speaker 1: to go out and cut new TV deals because their
Speaker 1: TV deals were up, and get that sponsorship number up,
Speaker 1: licensing and a lot of other things that he could
Speaker 1: add a lot of value to that would make this
Speaker 1: a very powerful stock.
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Speaker 2: I haded that because improv. Let's get back into this fight.
Speaker 3: How important of a character is Connor McGregor for the UFC.
Speaker 1: Well, we've had. When you think about my business, it's
Speaker 1: very star driven. So you know when we started out,
Speaker 1: we had Chuck Laedell, Anderson, Silva Ronda Rowsey. I mean
Speaker 1: you think of all the stars that have come up,
Speaker 1: and every star that has been built in the UFC
Speaker 1: has helped take I'll give you an example, like Matt Hughes, right,
Speaker 1: Remember Matt Hughes came out to a country boy can
Speaker 1: survive and he appealed to a certain audience. Chuck Ladell
Speaker 1: had the mohawk, you know, and knock people out at
Speaker 1: a time when people didn't really understand the ground game.
Speaker 1: And then you had somebody like Anderson Silva who was
Speaker 1: like the Bruce Lee of the UFC at that time.
Speaker 1: He could do anything. So you had all these different
Speaker 1: characters with different personalities from different places who helped take
Speaker 1: the sport to another level. Then comes Connor McGregor. One
Speaker 1: of the things that I always talk about with Connor
Speaker 1: McGregor is that everybody thinks they're Irish when you think
Speaker 1: about you know, you go all over the world, you
Speaker 1: think about Saint Patti's Day and you know the Irish bars,
Speaker 1: and everybody thinks they're Irish. The Irish thing is really powerful.
Speaker 1: So he comes out incredible personality, He's from Ireland and
Speaker 1: he can actually fight, So it was like it was
Speaker 1: such a home run, and it just you know, he
Speaker 1: took us to a whole other level throughout Europe and
Speaker 1: other parts of the world.
Speaker 2: What makes him a special fighter is his hands length.
Speaker 1: He's a lot of things with Connor. One of the
Speaker 1: things with Connors, let's start with his personality. He's got
Speaker 1: this magnetic personality that you were just drawn to. He's
Speaker 1: incredibly witty. His trash talk is Ali level. You know,
Speaker 1: his persona is Ali level. He's a guy that transcends
Speaker 1: all sports. Yeah, you know, he's one of the guys
Speaker 1: that when he walks into a room, everybody's like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: that's Connor McGregor.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What about his fight style?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's one of these guys. He can do anything.
Speaker 1: He likes to stand up, he's got heavy hands, he
Speaker 1: can knock you out, and his ground game isn't bad either,
Speaker 1: you know so, but people like to see him stand
Speaker 1: up and knock you out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack, can you set the stage for this fight.
Speaker 2: Jump into the fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get into this thing.
Speaker 5: So, as we touched on earlier, the lead up, I mean,
Speaker 5: this goes back two or three years. Trash talk camps
Speaker 5: are fighting, slapping in the hallways.
Speaker 3: We got the DOLLI through the And it's crazy because
Speaker 3: they they were kind of boys at the very very
Speaker 3: beginning and didn't habib He kind of like it was
Speaker 3: kind of a parallel rise, right then Connor at the
Speaker 3: very beginning, keep going like their rise was quasi parallel ish.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, their rise it was at the same time.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know the problem that you're talking about
Speaker 1: with these two when you say they were boys, there
Speaker 1: were never really boys. It was like a mutual hair
Speaker 1: or whatever. You're dealing with two hardcore, fucking alpha males.
Speaker 1: Guess these guys are both killers. They both want to
Speaker 1: be the best, they both want to win, and they're
Speaker 1: both willing to fight anybody and do anything to be
Speaker 1: the best. So when you get those two type of guys,
Speaker 1: there is no BM buddies. Those two are on a
Speaker 1: collision course before they even knew they were.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, as we touched on it earlier.
Speaker 5: Also, I mean these two camps, like it was just
Speaker 5: animosity at every turn and a clash of styles too,
Speaker 5: Like you got to be cold, calculated, tough just to
Speaker 5: do the fight, like great wrestler ground great ground game.
Speaker 5: I mean a machine almost like I don't know, like,
Speaker 5: you know, how do you even beat him?
Speaker 3: It seems impossible. I mean, I know, no one's done it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you one of the things that's
Speaker 1: super unfortunate for us, but very fortunate for Habib. You
Speaker 1: know the fact that I mean, this guy, I would
Speaker 1: have loved to have seen him go on longer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so much more. When his dad passed away, it kind
Speaker 1: of sucked all the energy. His dad was trainer growing
Speaker 1: up and trained a whole camp and everything else, and
Speaker 1: the dad had a vision that Habib would be the champion.
Speaker 1: Then when Habib retired, Islam would come in and be
Speaker 1: the champion. Let me tell you what you want to
Speaker 1: talk about. One of the greatest coaches in the history
Speaker 1: of the sport that's never talked about Abib and the
Speaker 1: murder Medoff's dad. You know what I mean when you
Speaker 1: think about what that guy built. So the problem was
Speaker 1: in the Muslim world is he became this huge megastar
Speaker 1: in the Muslim world. So after he beat Connor McGregor,
Speaker 1: he went on like this tour of all the Muslim countries.
Speaker 1: So he's he's going into Turkey, he's going into Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 1: he's going to Abu Dhabi, he's going over to Dubai
Speaker 1: and they're raining on. I mean, he didn't even make
Speaker 1: it back to his dressing room. After the fighting. Putin
Speaker 1: was on the phone and Putin gave him and his
Speaker 1: father like twenty million dollars worth of property in Russia.
Speaker 1: Then he went into you know, the Muslim territories where
Speaker 1: these guys are just cars, money, Jim's whatever, whatever he wanted.
Speaker 1: So once you get to that level, it's like what
Speaker 1: we're dealing with with Connor McGregor. Connor McGregor lives on
Speaker 1: a yacht in the middle of wherever the warmest place
Speaker 1: in the world is at that time, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's just.
Speaker 3: And he's showing you, Oh, man, I live vicariously on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Well, once you get to that level, man, it's just
Speaker 1: you're not getting up and getting punched in the face
Speaker 1: every day anymore.
Speaker 3: It's just, you know, is Habib the greatest?
Speaker 1: The greatest of all time? Is John Jones, John Jones,
Speaker 1: N Jones, John Jones. John Jones is undefeated. Habib was
Speaker 1: undefeated too, But I would have liked to see Habib
Speaker 1: more do more. John Jones has been around forever. He's
Speaker 1: fought everybody in the light heavyweight division. Now he's in
Speaker 1: the heavyweight division beating guys like take three years off.
Speaker 1: Ali never looked the same after three years. He took
Speaker 1: three years off. John Jones went in and made Cyril
Speaker 1: Gone look like he'd never fought in his life. Who
Speaker 1: you know? I mean, Jones is the greatest ever. He's
Speaker 1: so long and he's never been beat never been beat man.
Speaker 1: Peter doesn't know what losing feels like. He's never lost.
Speaker 1: Think of that.
Speaker 2: Who's the NFL equivalent to Habib?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: As a player, it's tough.
Speaker 1: Well, it is because you know, you guys have so
Speaker 1: many legends. You guys have so much history in the sport.
Speaker 1: There's so many legends in your sport. It's hard to say.
Speaker 1: You know, we're thirty years old, but you know the
Speaker 1: sport that me and the Fertida started is twenty three
Speaker 1: years old. Yeah, we're still We're still a kid compared
Speaker 1: to the NFL and some of these other sports.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: And the lead up of this one, I'd be remissed
Speaker 5: if we didn't talk numbers. Have you mentioned this thing?
Speaker 5: Twenty six and oh, coming off a win over Alai
Speaker 5: a Quinto not that long a year earlier Connor twenty
Speaker 5: one and three, but hadn't fought since the mainway weather,
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of talk would he have fared
Speaker 5: better if he'd had a little appearance in the octagon
Speaker 5: in between that you.
Speaker 3: Think he should have had a little a tune up fight.
Speaker 1: No, we don't do tune up fights here, and that's
Speaker 1: not how this w works. Tune up fights are like
Speaker 1: a boxing bullshit thing.
Speaker 3: No stepping stones a step ll for not in UFC FU.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no such thing, double cham Yeah no, he uh.
Speaker 1: It's it's part of the problem, listen, in this sport
Speaker 1: when when you have to be a very special kind
Speaker 1: of person to have fifty eighty one hundred million in
Speaker 1: the bank and still come out and compete at that level,
Speaker 1: it's part of what makes you so bad ass here.
Speaker 1: It's two things. Part of what makes you so bad
Speaker 1: ass here is hunger, all the things you want right,
Speaker 1: And number two is once you get to a level
Speaker 1: of success and monetary success, how do you keep fucking
Speaker 1: training that hard and everybody that's under you is training
Speaker 1: to beat you? Just like you said, that happened you know,
Speaker 1: in the NFL and then the AFC, right, everybody was
Speaker 1: training that year to beat the Patriots. Breaking down your film,
Speaker 1: breaking down your plays, breaking down your defense. Everything they
Speaker 1: saw was to beat you. That's what happens when you're
Speaker 1: the best in the UF state.
Speaker 3: You're measuring stick yep that's what Big called measuring stick
Speaker 3: team guy, fight fighter.
Speaker 5: What Dana said made me think of that line from
Speaker 5: Rocky when you say the worst thing you can become
Speaker 5: is civilized, rock You wouldn't be game civilized when that is.
Speaker 1: You know, what's fascinating is with Stallone. You know, Stallone
Speaker 1: is such a big fight fan. When I see fight movies,
Speaker 1: they're fucking goofy. To me, it's probably like when you
Speaker 1: watch a fucking football movie. It's like, this is the
Speaker 1: dumbest fucking shit that I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: It's literally nothing like any of this. But Stallone always
Speaker 1: had this way of you know, when you watched the
Speaker 1: fucking Rocky movie, man, your ass was getting up at
Speaker 1: six o'clock the next morning and going to work out
Speaker 1: and start training. And they were so motivational, and you
Speaker 1: always had these these things that were were true. Saying
Speaker 1: is about being involved in by boxing or some type
Speaker 1: of combat sport.
Speaker 2: The origin of my beard is because of Rocky four.
Speaker 1: Is it really Russia?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You remember he wanted to go to Russia and.
Speaker 1: He wanted to I saw Rocky one, two, three and
Speaker 1: four a million times.
Speaker 2: Man, you can't you can't not turn it off.
Speaker 1: So true.
Speaker 3: I mean it's always on a TBS or some channel.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're on channels anymore, probably kind.
Speaker 1: Of what's your favorite Rocky? Everybody makes the argument that
Speaker 1: like Rocky one should be your favorite.
Speaker 3: No, that's it's cinematography wise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they got all the best.
Speaker 3: But I loved I loved three and four.
Speaker 1: Three was my favorite. Mister t cl so good and
Speaker 1: the training sequences that he had, you know, clubver Lang
Speaker 1: when he was coming up. But four was great too.
Speaker 1: I love Russian and uh yeah, three and four of
Speaker 1: my are my two favorites.
Speaker 3: I loved three because, just like we were just talking about,
Speaker 3: you know, he kind of was up there and he's
Speaker 3: beating all those guys and then it gets a little
Speaker 3: harder when you're the champ. You know, you lose that
Speaker 3: hunger and then you got that hungry guy that's coming
Speaker 3: in there. You know, my dad used to say that
Speaker 3: when I come home from training and go you out
Speaker 3: train those six guys we're talking about the six guys
Speaker 3: in high school are coming take your job right now.
Speaker 3: They're coming up right now. And you know it's true,
Speaker 3: you know. And that's what Glover Lang was. He was
Speaker 3: that one guy. And then Rocky had to get a
Speaker 3: little rhythm. He had to go to La get a
Speaker 3: little rhythm.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, it was kind of like the uh they
Speaker 1: were They went to Philly. Didn't you go to Philly?
Speaker 1: He went to La though, No, Philly is where they went.
Speaker 1: They ended up at some gym in Philly that that
Speaker 1: Paulo Creed used to work.
Speaker 2: I thought that was in l A.
Speaker 1: No, it was Philly. That's where Paulo Creed came up.
Speaker 3: Is that we gotta gotta I can't think it's l A.
Speaker 3: You might be right, because I remember they would race
Speaker 3: at the beach with a polo.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're right, Well Apolo was from l A. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably right.
Speaker 2: I thought I thought he's from Philly.
Speaker 1: All right? Where did they train? But one of the
Speaker 1: things that Rocky three is about, and we're talking about
Speaker 1: out here, is how he had gotten top, had all
Speaker 1: the money and and all the.
Speaker 3: Magazine anymore, and yeah yeah, and then old Mick lied
Speaker 3: to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he was doing easier fights and.
Speaker 3: You can't beat him, rock, you can't beat him.
Speaker 6: Yea.
Speaker 3: The beach I'm looking at the beach scene right now.
Speaker 3: L A. What's what's up with Dakistan and producing all
Speaker 3: these great fighters? Is it just because they're so fucking
Speaker 3: tough out there?
Speaker 1: They come out of a you know, they come out
Speaker 1: of a really tough place literally wrestling, I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1: All the stands, everything that ends in a stand here,
Speaker 1: stay away from that guy. That's where here he's from.
Speaker 2: Or her Jesus.
Speaker 1: Valentino, ship Shanko too, have you? She's a badass.
Speaker 2: What's it like beating the little HOSPITALA.
Speaker 1: He's awesome. I'm going to see him next week. Are
Speaker 1: you flying on Tuesday? Oh my god, yeah, I'll be
Speaker 1: with him on probably Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 3: We love him over here. We love Magnetic. I mean,
Speaker 3: he was on the phone.
Speaker 5: Magnetic he is. It's incredible.
Speaker 2: He's living his best life.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, just between me and the Milk boys,
Speaker 1: you know, we've made that kid over a million dollars
Speaker 1: just you know, and doing merchandise and doing fun shit
Speaker 1: with Yeah, I put him in the video game. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be in the video game. We paid him a
Speaker 1: shitload of money for that. Uh, you can fight has
Speaker 1: Bulla in the video game here pretty soon.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I cannot wait. And it's time for
Speaker 3: the Bounty wingman question. Bring out the wings. They're there.
Speaker 3: Bounty is everyone's favorite wingman because you can't have football
Speaker 3: without wings, and you can't have wings without Bounty. And
Speaker 3: today's Bounty Wingman question will be going to my day
Speaker 3: one wingman, Kurt de la rosa best friend since birth.
Speaker 3: Pretty much, what is the messiest situation that we've been in?
Speaker 3: I want to hear your story, and then I may
Speaker 3: have one. I would say the messiest situation that you
Speaker 3: have been in. To keep it PG because you don't
Speaker 3: want to talk about being in trouble. You can do.
Speaker 3: You can do our.
Speaker 4: So I don't know you probably you should remember this.
Speaker 4: It's the first year our city entered into Babe Ruth,
Speaker 4: which was a big kind of like thirteen fourteen, fifteen
Speaker 4: Baseball League or whatever, unless we entered.
Speaker 2: The Palo Alto.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're in a completely different city. They have
Speaker 3: you know, ten part ten teams or whatever.
Speaker 4: The league's already set up, like like, hey, Redwood City
Speaker 4: wants to join, and we're gonna put our own little
Speaker 4: all star team together because Redwood City was already a
Speaker 4: big enough city that we had ten teams in itself already.
Speaker 4: And we're like, you know what, we're joining this pala
Speaker 4: Alta league and we're gonna kind of stitch a team
Speaker 4: together to fit in this other league. So we're now
Speaker 4: playing against all the kids that we usually would only
Speaker 4: play in like playoffs or.
Speaker 2: All Stars or whatnot.
Speaker 1: And so we're kind of like you said, the bad.
Speaker 3: News Bad Bears. These people were classy and it was
Speaker 3: people had money. It was also like Jules and.
Speaker 4: I were kind of like, oh, we're kind of getting
Speaker 4: pretty good at baseball. We're gonna be playing shortstop in
Speaker 4: second base. We had all these aspirations to be great.
Speaker 4: And so we're playing at Kenyataa and the rival team,
Speaker 4: I don't remember what their team was.
Speaker 3: They were green, I guess all I can remember.
Speaker 4: And they had this one dude who was like six'
Speaker 4: one two ten.
Speaker 3: Rolled up he rolled up his sleeps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he had guns.
Speaker 3: He was like a pre chunky kid, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. So, you know, but like he rolled up
Speaker 3: his sleeves.
Speaker 2: I mean we're how old were we?
Speaker 3: So we were thirteen or fourteen?
Speaker 1: They went to fifteen, it went to fifteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, you should look at this guy
Speaker 4: who's six' to one, you know, two hundred plus pounds
Speaker 4: at the age of fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 3: When you look at.
Speaker 4: Jeweles and I and we're both still four ten one
Speaker 4: hundred pounds, soaking wet, you know, little little guy like
Speaker 4: and so there was this one play. I think we
Speaker 4: were up by like two runs already, so they're getting
Speaker 4: a little frustrated, and he hits a ground ball through
Speaker 4: the right side. And so, if you know baseball, what
Speaker 4: happens is the first baseman tries to get the ball.
Speaker 4: Second base has to rotate to first to cover just
Speaker 4: in case you want to back to where I'm on,
Speaker 4: you know, if he gets too far around. So instead
Speaker 4: of him kind of running through the line, he just
Speaker 4: plows right through me. I get blindsided, taken out, and
Speaker 4: so I'm like in like a daze like cartoon, like,
Speaker 4: you know, I got dust all over me and I
Speaker 4: sit up and I just see Julian sprinting full speed,
Speaker 4: just launch his full body into this guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, through his glove.
Speaker 5: It was like.
Speaker 3: This guy's holding me like a little fucking ragdall like.
Speaker 4: And you know that's the bounty, you know, pledge right
Speaker 4: there is like hey, like you get a med situation
Speaker 4: and and you got your clean up right here, and
Speaker 4: he came to clean up the.
Speaker 2: Mess for me because you know that's what best friends do.
Speaker 6: Back, like, fuck this dude, I don't sorry about you,
Speaker 6: but yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Second baseline, you want to
Speaker 6: know how our bad news bears. So we make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's just another miss stitution.
Speaker 3: Make playoffs, get to the finals, right, but it's like
Speaker 3: a two game elimination. So we lost one game, I think, right,
Speaker 3: and so then we battled our way back to the
Speaker 3: finals to play the best team that everyone knew, the
Speaker 3: best team.
Speaker 1: We would have to win twice.
Speaker 3: We'd have to win twice. First game we play them,
Speaker 3: we're beating their ass. Were like up like what eight
Speaker 3: or nine? Yeah, we're up eight or nine. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna give no names, but our goddamn fucking manager not
Speaker 3: knowing the goddamn situations, puts one of our boys in
Speaker 3: because he wants to get him in. It's one of
Speaker 3: the last games, and the next next game is like championship.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's in our final sub final sub ends up headbutting
Speaker 3: someone in something no he gets.
Speaker 4: He gets caught in a pick between home and third
Speaker 4: and instead of just getting tagged out, decides to just
Speaker 4: go full spear like into the third basement, like way
Speaker 4: over the top or everyone's kind of like whoa, that was.
Speaker 3: Little aggressive, ejected, full eject.
Speaker 4: We had to force this bottom of six. All we
Speaker 4: had to do was get three more outs in the
Speaker 4: next inning to force a final game to the season.
Speaker 3: The championship Bad News Bears had a forfeit fucking no subs,
Speaker 3: no subs, Bad News Bears knocked out of the game.
Speaker 3: Our whole team like classless as they come, like, fuck
Speaker 3: you guys, We're all like from East Redwood City. It's
Speaker 3: a script. I don't think they had a rather Redwood
Speaker 3: City team ever enter that league. Again.
Speaker 6: We were like fuck you guys and your stupid league
Speaker 6: World champions like literally like the Bad News Bears at
Speaker 6: the end where they're like pouring like beers and stuff
Speaker 6: on him for.
Speaker 3: Losing the game.
Speaker 2: That was us Kenny Inglehart. Why you gotta try to
Speaker 2: take someone's neck out.
Speaker 4: Bro in the heat of the moment, you know, he
Speaker 4: got he got excited.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's why he was a sub.
Speaker 2: Though, And that's our bounty wingman question.
Speaker 5: Storytime, should we get into this, uh this breakdown this fight.
Speaker 5: Of course, lightweight Championship. As we know, the pay per
Speaker 5: view buys were insane two point four million.
Speaker 2: I believe, yep is the highest at that time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, uh crazy, the only the only paper view,
Speaker 1: the only pay per view that beat that was uh
Speaker 1: Connor and Floyd Wow and Floyd and uh.
Speaker 5: Pack y'all, Oh that's right, that's right. But then so okay,
Speaker 5: so this is number one UFC. Yeah, damn insane, I thought.
Speaker 5: So we all remember what happened. Everyone talks before and after,
Speaker 5: but rounds one and two Kabib kind of dominated dominated.
Speaker 3: He was just like just on top of him, wearing
Speaker 3: him out, wearing him out.
Speaker 2: I was watching that fight. I was like, there's no
Speaker 2: way Connor's gonna win this fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah. To Connor's credit, I mean, if you look at
Speaker 1: when he when he fought Poorier, you know when he
Speaker 1: grabbed down to Pooria and did what he did to Poorier.
Speaker 1: He came out of that fight and was like, I
Speaker 1: was freaked out by it. I couldn't believe that somebody
Speaker 1: could do that to me. It was blown away by
Speaker 1: what Abib had done to him. And then, yeah, Abibe
Speaker 1: was a bad boy. I would have loved to have
Speaker 1: seen more of him in his career.
Speaker 5: And there was talk of stoppage in the second round.
Speaker 5: People were calling for it. Even Joe Rogan was on
Speaker 5: the on the mic alluding to like, is herbding gonna
Speaker 5: stop this thing?
Speaker 3: Like what makes herbdin such a good riff?
Speaker 1: Well, he he does. Uh, you know he trains too.
Speaker 1: He trains and he's had a couple of fights himself,
Speaker 1: I think any amateurs. I don't know if he ever
Speaker 1: fought pro but uh, he's knowledgeable. He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Is one of the best refs of all time.
Speaker 2: What was that called to Connor? Like after the bus incident,
Speaker 2: you're like, we fucking doing that.
Speaker 1: Well he got arrested, I know, to go to fucking
Speaker 1: it's just like you gotta.
Speaker 3: The commission, that's what you gotta put. Commission had on.
Speaker 1: That's the mentality, man. I mean, this guy a bebe
Speaker 1: and his crew ran into one of Connor's buddies slapped him.
Speaker 1: He called Connor and told him. Connor loaded up a
Speaker 1: bunch of thugs on a plane and from Ireland. They
Speaker 1: jumped on a fucking on a fucking g six fifty
Speaker 1: and fucking flew out here.
Speaker 2: Rolling deep and uh, you know, Jesus, now.
Speaker 1: What happens when street kids make some money. She's six
Speaker 1: fifty and flat of New York and start a fucking.
Speaker 2: Rumble, a legit rumble.
Speaker 3: It's insane. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: What's a fight day routine like for you?
Speaker 3: Do you get? You get work out in?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, every day. I get it.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm addicted to like cold plunging and and this. There's
Speaker 1: this thing called the Superhuman Protocol. I do it every
Speaker 1: morning every morning when I wake up, and uh, I
Speaker 1: work out out and then I start my day. I literally,
Speaker 1: now that I'm fucking fifty, I dedicate two hours of
Speaker 1: my day to my health. Got you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Since I've retired, it's been so incorporated.
Speaker 3: My life is so routine, you know, wake up in
Speaker 3: the morning, body work, ball drills, meetings, body work before, practice,
Speaker 3: body work after. Like when it's not your priority, When
Speaker 3: your body is not your priority right now, you have to.
Speaker 3: It's a mental toughness for a person to make it
Speaker 3: a priority into their day.
Speaker 1: And for you, what happens to a lot of athletes is,
Speaker 1: how do you know, thirty seven thirty seven? So for
Speaker 1: the last we'll call it fucking thirty years, probably the
Speaker 1: last thirty years, it's been all physical for you. You've
Speaker 1: just been working out and doing all the shit. A
Speaker 1: lot of guys when they retire are like, yeah, I'm done,
Speaker 1: I'm not working and then I'll try to get their
Speaker 1: health back till maybe ten years later.
Speaker 3: You know. But I tried that. Like right when I
Speaker 3: got out, I was so just mentally drained because I
Speaker 3: tore the root of my meniscus and it was a
Speaker 3: fucking grind. I couldn't walk until Friday and playing on
Speaker 3: Sundays and like that was so raw my head were
Speaker 3: like as soon as I retired, I kind of took
Speaker 3: a chill break. And I was always a guy that
Speaker 3: worked out all year round, which you.
Speaker 2: Know, was a strength, but also making me. I broke
Speaker 2: down my body because of it.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent and I was like depressed.
Speaker 3: When you work out, it releases an endorphin, Like when
Speaker 3: you wake up, you work out, you accomplish something, it's
Speaker 3: like then you're ready for the day.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. That's where I'm at, man,
Speaker 1: That's exactly where I'm at. But yeah, I could see
Speaker 1: how that could happen to an athlete when when they retire.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you a question. So you know you're
Speaker 1: you're on one of the greatest teams of all time.
Speaker 1: What you guys achieved and accomplished, the money, the you
Speaker 1: know what it must feel like running through that fucking
Speaker 1: tunnel end of the stadium. You know, whether you're in
Speaker 1: Foxborough or you're going to another place where you're getting booed,
Speaker 1: and you got the animosity in and that's fun to win.
Speaker 1: How fucking hard is it to say, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna walk away from this now it's time to go.
Speaker 1: Was it harder? Did you just feel like, you know
Speaker 1: what it's time?
Speaker 3: It wasn't hard for me because I respect the game
Speaker 3: too much. And when I was turning on the film,
Speaker 3: I wasn't looking like me. You know, when you turn
Speaker 3: on the film and and things that were so remediately
Speaker 3: easy started becoming hard. Like I was like, all right,
Speaker 3: I'm not greedy. I love the game.
Speaker 2: I've accomplished so much from this game.
Speaker 3: I've went above and beyond anything I ever expected. I
Speaker 3: got to get out of here just because I pissed
Speaker 3: off a lot of people. You know, when you go
Speaker 3: when you're in your prime, and I remember watching guys.
Speaker 3: You go against guys, and when I was younger player,
Speaker 3: they were in their prime and they dominated me. And
Speaker 3: then I got into my prime and you could see
Speaker 3: that they were getting out of their prime, and you
Speaker 3: want to embarrass them. You know, there comes a point
Speaker 3: where you can get hurt out there. If you're not
Speaker 3: you know, you get hurt.
Speaker 1: It's exactly.
Speaker 3: You can get hurt if you're not cutting the same way.
Speaker 3: You're a millisecond off. Guys are trying to tee off
Speaker 3: on you. You've been on the Patriots, You've won so
Speaker 3: much everyone, you were circled every year. You know, this
Speaker 3: is the team you want to if guys are getting
Speaker 3: paid off of that game, coaches were getting jobs off
Speaker 3: of beating ut like, so it was one of those
Speaker 3: things where it was hard and it hurt.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It hurt me mentally, but it was like I was
Speaker 3: so thankful that I got to have my career where
Speaker 3: I had it. I got to play on one team
Speaker 3: and I respected the game too much where you know,
Speaker 3: I could have played two more years, right, it would
Speaker 3: have been a fucking like what are you doing? I
Speaker 3: didn't want to be that guy, right. I remember watching
Speaker 3: those guys and when you hurt ye you. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: root of my meniscus in the beginning of the year,
Speaker 3: and and it's usually like a you can get this
Speaker 3: micro fracture surgery that go in there, but it's like
Speaker 3: twelve month recovery.
Speaker 2: I was thirty four.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm gonna try to do it without it,
Speaker 3: and it was just it was a grind mental You know,
Speaker 3: when you're not healthy, that's what wears you out because
Speaker 3: you have to go out and perform and there's a
Speaker 3: standard and there's an expectation, right, you know, you've been
Speaker 3: doing it for so long at such an elite level
Speaker 3: that like when when it's it was so hard to
Speaker 3: just get right. For a Sunday, I was like, I
Speaker 3: can't what am I doing? Yeah, it was it wasn't
Speaker 3: my time anymore.
Speaker 2: Got to hang them up. It was tough.
Speaker 1: How bad do you miss it?
Speaker 2: I didn't start missing it until my body felt good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 3: I remember. I was like there was a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks in my last year where like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna fucking play this game. And I got like
Speaker 3: a big game plan to me, you know, like we
Speaker 3: were I'd have to go and run the day before
Speaker 3: the game. It was COVID, so it was all fucking weird.
Speaker 3: We couldn't like practice or certain certain things. And I
Speaker 3: couldn't even walk Like we played against Seattle. I couldn't
Speaker 3: walk the day before the game, like my knee was
Speaker 3: blown up. And it's just that stress because you don't
Speaker 3: I wanted to go out, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: There's an expectation of how you're supposed to be right,
Speaker 3: and that that that wore on me, you know, and
Speaker 3: it broke me down a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting when you say that, it was
Speaker 1: when you started to your body started to heal. It's
Speaker 1: like these fighters, like there'll be a great fight we'll
Speaker 1: have on Saturday night, right, and I'll go back to
Speaker 1: the press conference and the media will start asking me
Speaker 1: when's you know, when's this guy going to fight again?
Speaker 1: It's like, he just fucking we just finished the show.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? We don't even call these
Speaker 1: guys for weeks till after. You gotta let Once they
Speaker 1: start to go home, you know, they've been away from
Speaker 1: their families, they've been cutting weight, they've been stressed out
Speaker 1: about the fight. The fight's over now, they're all banged up.
Speaker 1: You let them get past all that. When you're when
Speaker 1: you're that type of an athlete, like you just said,
Speaker 1: you start to get antsy. Once you start to feel good,
Speaker 1: you know, then you start to think about what's next
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff. But when you're beat up
Speaker 1: and they don't even want to fucking talk about it,
Speaker 1: think about no, that's what.
Speaker 3: I You know, when the season would end every year,
Speaker 3: Belichick would always say, don't be calling me, you know
Speaker 3: right after the season, saying you're gonna retire.
Speaker 2: Like, take a fucking second.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Because you were right after
Speaker 3: a battle, right after a fucking eighteen twenty week season.
Speaker 3: You're beat up mentally, it's been a fucking grind all year.
Speaker 3: You just want to you know, your you know, you
Speaker 3: let it make a decision a couple you know, just
Speaker 3: like what you guys do.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the fight, Jack.
Speaker 5: Round three, Connor comes out and gets it bounce.
Speaker 2: I thought Habib was kind of like getting his wind
Speaker 2: in the third round.
Speaker 5: It was you were here in the commentary a little bit.
Speaker 5: The muscles were full of blood, all that ground and pound,
Speaker 5: all that domination in those first two rounds, he was
Speaker 5: a little slower, not like didn't look like off, but
Speaker 5: it was a little slower, I would think, right, Connor,
Speaker 5: hebben round three.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know. You know, I
Speaker 1: can't remember what the stat is and if he ever
Speaker 1: did lose one, but he Bib hadn't lost a round, right,
Speaker 1: That was the first one whole frigging career, right, And
Speaker 1: he uh, he was one of those guys that seemed
Speaker 1: to get more dominant as the fight went on because
Speaker 1: he was actually wearing you out and grinding you. And
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't remember how he.
Speaker 3: Was energy a little bit, that's the same same, And
Speaker 3: I don't think he was going to bring him to
Speaker 3: the ground.
Speaker 2: He was, Yeah, it wasn't like he was with Yes,
Speaker 2: he was toying with Connor.
Speaker 5: The only other round he ever lost was justin gafee, so.
Speaker 1: That was on the judge of scorecard he lost.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but then round four comes out that crank is
Speaker 5: it thanks to the ground.
Speaker 2: Wanted to change his face.
Speaker 5: Wanted to change his face. That was the quote from
Speaker 5: the from the All of two twenty nine.
Speaker 3: Honestly, geez, I can't even imagine, because I know, like
Speaker 3: what you're thinking, because I've been arrested and should had
Speaker 3: to deal with the commission stuff. I couldn't even imagine
Speaker 3: what was going through your mind when you see the
Speaker 3: melee is going up after the fucking fight.
Speaker 2: I mean, just a.
Speaker 1: Liability, especially when we were expecting it. We were expecting
Speaker 1: it and we were ready for it, and it's still happened.
Speaker 1: It's just it's yeah, it's it's a.
Speaker 2: Fucking two testos round up. Motherfuckers.
Speaker 7: Just disappointing because I mean it's one of those like
Speaker 7: the lead up was so crazy that like there had
Speaker 7: to be that ex sale of like when it actually started,
Speaker 7: like all right, we got to this point and then
Speaker 7: it ends and afterwards like that's insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah. People think that because I'm a promoter,
Speaker 1: that that that stuff's good for us. It's not good
Speaker 1: for us because the Commission, you know, and we're the
Speaker 1: biggest and baddest in all of combat sports, so we're
Speaker 1: the ones to make the example out of when it
Speaker 1: does happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, you gotta gotta lay down the law. Did
Speaker 3: would you you find find him or something?
Speaker 1: Where they did? What did they find them? Two million bucks?
Speaker 1: Two million dollars fine? Believe got fined two million dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta find two million dollars. That's no fucking joke.
Speaker 1: So that's how how much they frowned on this shit happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: two million dollar fine.
Speaker 3: I mean he got to he gotta do that. And
Speaker 3: I'm a I'm a player guy. Joe Rogan incredible, unbelievable yep,
Speaker 3: when you you hired him?
Speaker 1: M hm yeah, what year? Shit? I mean he was
Speaker 1: he literally was doing fear factor when I hired him.
Speaker 1: So when we bought the UFC, the company was based
Speaker 1: in New York. So I jumped on a plane, flew
Speaker 1: out to New York and started cleaning out the old offices.
Speaker 1: I was emptying all these boxes and and and sending
Speaker 1: ship to Vegas that I thought I needed to keep
Speaker 1: from from the office, and I had a VCR because
Speaker 1: they had fucking tapes for days. I mean I must
Speaker 1: have watched two hundred and fifty three hundred tapes to
Speaker 1: make sure that it wasn't anything whatever. So I popped
Speaker 1: in this tape and there was this talk show, the
Speaker 1: Keenan Ivory Wayan Show, The Oldest Wayan brother had his
Speaker 1: own talk show, and they had Joe Rogan on there,
Speaker 1: and Joe Rogan was talking about and I knew Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan from Fear Factor, you know, I would watch on
Speaker 1: t and Joe Rogan was talking about how bad ass
Speaker 1: UFC fighters were and what they would really do to
Speaker 1: some of these karate guys that were in movies and
Speaker 1: shit like that. And I was like, man, this guy
Speaker 1: knows what he's talking about. He's smart, he's funny, he's articulate.
Speaker 1: So I reached out to Rogan. At that time, I
Speaker 1: think it was on the internet, you know, I reached
Speaker 1: out to him. We started talking and I asked him
Speaker 1: if he would like to work for us and be
Speaker 1: a commentator. So if you look at where the UFC
Speaker 1: was at that time, you know, we were losing money
Speaker 1: like crazy. We bought it for two million, which sounds
Speaker 1: like a great story. Now we ended up being like
Speaker 1: almost forty million in the hole before we turned it around.
Speaker 1: But Joe Rogan did like the first twelve or thirteen
Speaker 1: shows for free. He said, fuck yeah, I'll come there
Speaker 1: and do it and sit in the best seats in
Speaker 1: the house and everything else. So Joe and I have
Speaker 1: been super close friends for a very long time. I
Speaker 1: would do anything for Joe Rogan.
Speaker 5: He's killed It came in at UFC eleven. You in
Speaker 5: the backstage interviews.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so before we bought the company, he worked for
Speaker 1: a little while for the UFC. He was a backstage interviewer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then but I didn't even know that when I
Speaker 1: saw the videotape of them.
Speaker 2: Did you have anyone else in mind for that role
Speaker 2: or was it just Joe Rogan.
Speaker 1: Was So when I came in, I sort of took
Speaker 1: over all the production and revamped all the you know,
Speaker 1: the the commentators and who was going to interview. So
Speaker 1: you know, if you look at our production now, it's
Speaker 1: fucking Our production is so on point. But it took
Speaker 1: twenty three years to get there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it takes a lot of time to
Speaker 3: refine routines, and you're constantly still doing it.
Speaker 1: I betred percent. Yes, we're still evolving.
Speaker 3: You when you're green, you grow, and you're ripe, you're rot.
Speaker 1: That's what my dad used to tell me. Is your
Speaker 1: dad a football coach? Yeah, yeah, it sounds like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a fucking he was shout out Frank,
Speaker 3: shout out Frank Beab's legacy in UFC. One of the
Speaker 3: greatest of all time, one of the greatest. Connor yep,
Speaker 3: one of the one of the one of the biggest
Speaker 3: superstars ever. I think it was the first guy to
Speaker 3: win two titles in two different weight classes, and and
Speaker 3: the guy who really took the company to another level
Speaker 3: all throughout Europe. Yeah, and more importantly, who's your favorite
Speaker 3: fighter of all times?
Speaker 1: It's hard to say that I have a favorite fighter Connor.
Speaker 1: Connor has been an incredible partner, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Usually when you get guys that are that big a superstars,
Speaker 1: they go they become total egomaniacs and they go against
Speaker 1: the fucking and do whatever. Connor McGregor is for a
Speaker 1: kid that you know, when when you think about it,
Speaker 1: he was he was almost called the Dole when we
Speaker 1: signed him, which is basically he was on welfare. Think
Speaker 1: about where he came from. The business sense that this
Speaker 1: kid had is fascinating. And Connor McGregor, everybody always asked me,
Speaker 1: is he a nightmare of dealers? And know he's actually not.
Speaker 1: He's actually a really good partner and and he understands
Speaker 1: the business, and you know, he's actually been great to
Speaker 1: work with. So Connor is one of my all time favorite.
Speaker 1: Ronda Rousey probably the greatest that I've ever worked with.
Speaker 1: Anything you needed, whatever it was, Ronda was willing to
Speaker 1: do it. And you know, I have a really really
Speaker 1: incredible relationship with Chuck Ladell. Chuck Lidell one of my
Speaker 1: first big superstars, and you know, helped help bid the spot.
Speaker 1: And there's there's so many different people along the way,
Speaker 1: and I feel bad not saying everybody. I've worked with
Speaker 1: lots of incredible people in my career. And then that
Speaker 1: doesn't include my staff, the woman sitting behind me, the
Speaker 1: only person in the world that I actually listened to
Speaker 1: and uh respect opinions from and and and many other
Speaker 1: people in our organization.
Speaker 2: Top three fights of all time.
Speaker 1: Jones Gustafson McGregor. Habib and I have to pick this
Speaker 1: one because you know, going into when we first started
Speaker 1: bringing women into the UFC, the backlash we got, how
Speaker 1: I said women would never fight in the UFC. The
Speaker 1: list goes on. And on the night that Ronda Rosie
Speaker 1: fought Carmouche down in southern California, place was sold out.
Speaker 1: When Ronda walked out of the tunnel, the place fucking
Speaker 1: erupted and went crazy. And I stood around. I looked
Speaker 1: around and said, I made the right decision, and now
Speaker 1: look at where women's fighting is now. Yeah, so me
Speaker 1: personally by top three.
Speaker 2: Wow, she was.
Speaker 3: She was an absolute rock star. It was almost like
Speaker 3: when she when she lost, she finally lost, it was
Speaker 3: like it was a big deal. It was huge. You
Speaker 3: never thought she could lose.
Speaker 1: We were in Australia in a soccer stadium, right, No,
Speaker 1: Holly Home, Holly Home in a soccer stadium.
Speaker 2: Soccer that's how big she was.
Speaker 1: Forty seven thousand people for a woman's fight. You two
Speaker 1: women fighting forty seven thousand people in another country, and
Speaker 1: the and the two women involved in the main event
Speaker 1: weren't Australian. Yeahs fucking crazy.
Speaker 3: That's a testament to you taking that making that it's crazy,
Speaker 3: that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Jack. Do we do we miss anything?
Speaker 5: We got a couple uh we were. We got to
Speaker 5: give a shout out to the little cowboys. Kyu Kelly
Speaker 5: on the Seahawks talking hookah Little Cowboys, shout out to
Speaker 5: the little cowboy.
Speaker 3: I want to take them all. I want to I
Speaker 3: want to get a time machine and get the little cowboys.
Speaker 3: I played on the little road with City forty nine.
Speaker 2: Ers in the Bay Area. We wont Super Bowls.
Speaker 3: We won Super.
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus a little forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: I mean movie, should we make a movie?
Speaker 5: And before we leave, I mean you couldn't walk the
Speaker 5: week of the Seattle game. You go out and have
Speaker 5: your career high one hundred and seventy nine yards. I know,
Speaker 5: int cam throwing you the ball. Cam gotta shine, gotta
Speaker 5: use some sho brother.
Speaker 3: I remember that. That was after after that, that was
Speaker 3: like one of my most proud moments was because I
Speaker 3: remember I had to walk with the trainer. We were
Speaker 3: walking just to get the fluid out of my knee.
Speaker 3: I was hitting the bike on Saturday. You fly out
Speaker 3: two days before going on West Coast trips and I'm
Speaker 3: sitting there, I'm walking, We're walking up these hills in Seattle,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I don't know if this is I'm
Speaker 3: talking to my guy mids. I'm like, dude, I don't
Speaker 3: know if we can I can go. You're going to
Speaker 3: be fine. He's from Australia. You're gonna be fine. Mate,
Speaker 3: you gonna be fine. And I'm like, fuck. And we
Speaker 3: went out and did that. After that game, I was like,
Speaker 3: mine is a crazy thing. Mind over matter so true, mine,
Speaker 3: so true.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's when you play in the NFL,
Speaker 1: the level that you guys play on. Again. I know
Speaker 1: you hear this your whole life, but at your size
Speaker 1: to be able to do what you did in the
Speaker 1: NFL and be able to do what you did on
Speaker 1: the Patriots. And like I said when we started this interview,
Speaker 1: the the enjoyment that you guys gave my family over
Speaker 1: the last twenty you know, every Sunday a family member
Speaker 1: either had a Brady Edelman, Ammondola or Gronk jersey on
Speaker 1: We Lovely. Everybody in my family either had one of
Speaker 1: those jerseys.
Speaker 2: Lines my guy. And it's not an interview, this is
Speaker 2: a conversation about whatever.
Speaker 3: This is, this conversation, whatever's going on?
Speaker 1: We started? Whatever's going on here? What does this?
Speaker 3: Does this fight have a name? Because this week we
Speaker 3: call games and names. What is Does this fight have
Speaker 3: a name?
Speaker 1: This fight, this conversation? What I know?
Speaker 3: The fight, the fight that we're talking about, the BIB fight.
Speaker 1: Oh uh, that was just Abibe versus Connor. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: enough vers versus Connor and b versus Connor. Two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are we teasing something?
Speaker 3: No, you said too.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: We have scored the game presented by win Bet.
Speaker 3: We have a thing where we score each fight, each
Speaker 3: game in all sports stakes one to ten. What is this?
Speaker 1: This was?
Speaker 2: This had to be a ten.
Speaker 1: It's a ten stakes, especially with the with the uh,
Speaker 1: all the stuff that led up to the fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ten star power everyone was at this fight.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, the two guys in the ring, everybody
Speaker 5: sitting ring.
Speaker 1: Star parking on the star power on. This is a thousand.
Speaker 2: You got to give a starter level ten.
Speaker 1: Well, this is this is the thing that you think about.
Speaker 1: That's crazy when you think about fighting. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have the most powerful people in the world watching these fights.
Speaker 1: It's like we were just talking about when she goes
Speaker 1: back to her home country. She meets with the present.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. It is gameplay, fight play. It wasn't a
Speaker 3: ten because Kabebe kind of owned them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but but you know what, a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't last four rounds with Habib. Yeah, Connor, did
Speaker 1: you know one.
Speaker 2: Out of ten?
Speaker 3: What you got?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: One out of ten?
Speaker 1: Ranking give us seven?
Speaker 2: Seven. That's a good score. That's honest.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: It's honest. Name a bebe versus Connor?
Speaker 3: Yep, this, I mean that's probably like a I mean,
Speaker 3: there's been some crazy we've had, like some crazy games on.
Speaker 1: You, but those are two of the biggest superstars in the.
Speaker 5: It doesn't need to rumble in the jumble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're a fucking one. Then all right, we'll give
Speaker 1: it a three. All right, that's a three.
Speaker 2: There we go. We gotta come up with the name.
Speaker 2: We'll have to hit the comments section.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get the when we post this, we'll see thirty.
Speaker 2: Now you do that median seven point five? Where is
Speaker 2: it listing the games?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do it?
Speaker 5: Okay, So a seven point five puts us and a
Speaker 5: dead tie. Oh my god, with the true this is
Speaker 5: an insult to Combat Sports. It's a tie with the
Speaker 5: twenty fourteen the basketball tournament team Barstool versus the Notre
Speaker 5: Dame alumni.
Speaker 1: Jesus, I'm gonna I'm just gonna put it out that
Speaker 1: we got fucked because we didn't come up with a
Speaker 1: cool name for the event.
Speaker 2: You got to go marketing's big.
Speaker 1: We got fucked. Listen, when you got two of the
Speaker 1: biggest superstars in the game, you don't need to say
Speaker 1: shame sell it, you know what I mean. I don't
Speaker 1: have to come up with rumble in the jungle or
Speaker 1: anything like that.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Geez, rumble in the desert.
Speaker 3: That's all we need.
Speaker 1: Desert is if I came up with duel in the desert,
Speaker 1: it should be a fucking old point five should be
Speaker 1: our score.
Speaker 3: This scoring is all wonky every.
Speaker 1: Time we got fucked. Yea, I got fucked on the name.
Speaker 2: Man, Dana, Thank you. Do you have anything to plug
Speaker 2: you want to?
Speaker 1: Man, We're good. I'm just happy to be here. Thanks again,
Speaker 1: man for all the enjoyment over the years, and it's
Speaker 1: good to hang out and have a conversation with you.
Speaker 3: Definitely, I appreciate you too. Man, You've always taken care
Speaker 3: of me. I was say you in Salt Lake at
Speaker 3: what UFC was.
Speaker 1: Well, you and I used to bump into each other
Speaker 1: Celtics games.
Speaker 3: Too, Celtics and then at the Boston you guys had
Speaker 3: a Boston fight and.
Speaker 1: What yeah, and a bunch of you guys came out
Speaker 1: for that, came out for that, right, that was fun.
Speaker 2: You've always taken care of.
Speaker 1: I think the last time I saw you was when
Speaker 1: the Lakers and the Celtics were in the finals out
Speaker 1: in LA and we were both coming in that back
Speaker 1: door area. Oh yeah, I lost twenty grand a snoop
Speaker 1: on that game.
Speaker 5: We got Meta World Peace coming on soon to talk
Speaker 5: about that game. Actually, oh really, yeah, what's he doing now?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: He's changing his name now, he's Meta Sanderford Artest. So
Speaker 5: every week we got to stay.
Speaker 3: Up on it.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna a whole digital team that's working on on
Speaker 5: what his name is. Got to keep tabs on him,
Speaker 5: the tabs.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, man, Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's good to see you.
Speaker 2: What an episode.
Speaker 3: Cool dude.
Speaker 2: He knows a lot about fighting and.
Speaker 5: Everything, being a g making money, fighting, making money, fighting
Speaker 5: and dieting.
Speaker 3: And transforming. I mean, if you think about it, he's
Speaker 3: transformed the UFC. Yeah, I mean a huge success, and
Speaker 3: he transformed his body into a huge success.
Speaker 5: I don't see Roger Goodell looking ripped and he's put together.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you're a ripped commission, pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Sterlingksion he does adam silver? Silver or silver?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Who was?
Speaker 5: I think that's Donald Sterling from the Clippers. Yeah maybe
Speaker 5: that definitely not ripped. No bad guy, actually bad, actually
Speaker 5: very bad? Or wait, who was it was before him?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 3: Uh, what am I doing? David stern sterne.
Speaker 5: A lot of ESS's either way, they ain't ripped like
Speaker 5: Dana ripped.
Speaker 2: I ain't Dana rip.
Speaker 3: Thanks again to Dana and thanks to the beautiful win
Speaker 3: Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. This is this is it.
Speaker 3: I think we made it to the bigs when we
Speaker 3: get to have field trips on our podcast. So cool.
Speaker 2: This isn't even really like a field trip. This is
Speaker 2: like a home away from home.
Speaker 5: It's like Dunston checks in.
Speaker 3: It's like what like Dunston checks in?
Speaker 5: You know that Dunston checks in?
Speaker 3: I thought that would be right in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: I'm a blank check kick, I know that.
Speaker 3: You know that?
Speaker 1: All right.
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