at the Apex he'll be coming up in about 40 seconds so go I just want to talk about the Kobe AI last night uh loss to Joey Chestnut and the Hot Dog Eating competition beef that started 15 years ago I was there kobashi wore a free coat shirt to the event got arrested for not understanding the language and the next day in Time Square when I had the world press on me for the as I rode into town with this jersey and that message to change lives worldwide as soon as walked out of jail they everybody put their cameras away they drug The Mask down on the van everybody drove to Brooklyn and they wanted to like coming out of jail with this publicist this PR firm and I got beef with Kobe 158 pounds I'll fight him anywhere any time I want my title back all right I want I want the belt how about droing to 155 I'll come down to it come down to 155 I'll come down to and we'll reach out to him done you get down to one I ain't shaking your hand shake my hand I don't want to touch you big swear no come on dude what do you guys do how do you make it solid what do you mean you guys spit Brothers this personal now you want a cut what do you do to cement the deal that is real wait I just wanted what I do is ignore you is Steve on the line yet I I just want to show how how aware Matt is he is wearing the same shirt oh today bril oh you just said that he said that oh I didn't realize that's the you can say it again that is ridiculous this shirt how old I'm surprised he can still get into it 2010 2010 that's a 24y old sure all right let's go to the phone lines as we uh get ready for Saturday's UFC Fight Night 242 and uh welcome uh Steve Garcia Steve how are you I'm doing well man how are you not too bad we appreciate your time uh talk to us about fight week it's just the started you're just starting to do your your media obligations what's fight week like for you yeah man it's it's uh it's pretty book throughout the week you know we get inot like yesterday got in about I want to say like 230 maybe I don't know 3:00 here I think and uh yeah from there we just do all our check-ins we get all our bags we do all that type stuff by the time we're done it's about five o'clock and then uh you know me and my dad depending on what you know what's going on we try to find the tea time couldn't find a tea time um we just went and walked around the outlet mall cuz I'm not I'm not from uh Vegas so we went around kind of just shopped around and stuff and then we hit a big workout this morning and then you were my first uh media obligation so I'll talk you my man I got you got two or three more hours after this well I appreciate that and I'm normally I save the giing till the end but I if you and your dad can come to the Tampa Bay area we will hook you up with all sorts of cool stuff but the main thing is I will set up a tea time for you and your dad with Steve Monroe now write it down to you his name Google him and I think you will want to come to town to play golf this guy let's go I'm I'm I'm all about it yeah you if you uh don't have my or you have my number you call me do me a message you know what I mean if Tampa will play we'll set up we'll set up a time man I'd love to do that I love I love playing golf with anybody really but we we just you know well it's a good time you know we'll do a lot of things but when I say when I say golf with Steve what I'm basically saying is I'm gonna go sit in the card and watch Steve play golf he he's the former World Long Drive champ he hits 380 390 off his knees my god oh he's a trick he's everything but just watching him play and we'll all go play but I'm saying watching him play is a true experience yeah man I these guys they do the long drive uh contest man they they they do they sway but you know both ways and they crush it man it's wild on how these guys freaking hit the ball man I he's gonna look terrible but hey bro it's a round of golf let's freaking go so Steve we just have to wait I'm still I'm still trying to figure out the swing both way things but I'll let that go we since we're in Florida so so Steve we just have to wait for governor de santis and Florida to clear out all the trees in the state park and then we'll play that round of golf oh yeah man yeah let's do it man you you could just hang out just hang out with us who cares you know what I'm sure you you know you can still get the ball down the Fairway oh no we'll definitely have a good time let's let's get back to uh talking about fight week and I'd like to ask Fighters This are you the the type of fighter where you don't want to think about Saturday until maybe Friday night maybe Saturday morning or do you want to clear you don't want to think about it you know it's it's going to come no matter whether you think about it does that put too much pressure on you thinking about the fight this early you really don't ever like let off of think about your opponent it's not so much about fighting you know when you come to fight we you're like it's really happening you're like I really got to get into almost like this car accident of a situation uh on Saturday but I really really focus in and like where I really uh have more a lot of my energy towards the fight is when I'm working out like when I'm working out with cut weight and everything like that like that's where I actually like start to visualize the fight that's where I I really just start channeling into the fight itself uh like right now I'm in I'm in my room right now just because uh I just got done you know working out and stuff showered and uh we got uh medal obligations here in bit but I'm not I'm trying not to think about it man I know it's cool I'm at the hotel we saw some Netflix so I've been watching uh just a bunch of different random shows I just fought five weeks ago so I watched the whole like receivers on Netflix it nice it keeps your mind kind of busy and stuff because man dude your your mind will take you places bro um so yeah man that's that's kind of more or less where where I I'm at I feel bad because like I a wife that especially in Camp that I think about my opponent more than I do her and it wasn't the smartest thing to say but uh it uh I I just had to put in perspective because you know I train long you know because of him and it just it I feel bad because I take a lot from my family so after this man I'm going on vacation I'm going to disappear for a minute go spend some time with my family and my wife and uh you know make up for some time Steve I one of the one of the problems of being successful you know you're on a four-fight knockout streak uh how much pressure are you going into this fight thinking I have to knock this guy out because then I'll have the most knockouts you know in the UFC at the moment in a row I mean do do you feel like do you feel like the the the success you've had these past four fights has almost given you more pressure in this in this next fight I've never really felt the pressure of this one I don't know I don't know why uh I definitely felt a little bit of pressure on this one um but truly man like I just want to go out there and just put it on this guy I mean that's always how I always approach all my fights and um it definitely something I'd like to kind of continue to do you know what I mean I I don't want to be these these fights Fighters that like barely winning by decision man that's not me you know um unly sometimes I I'll go out of my shield if I have to right um but uh it's man like I'm gonna go out there and give a hell bro and he's on the other end of it you know what I mean if he can still you know stand at the you know at the end of the fight you know do him man because you know I can take my hat off to him uh but you know my head majority of my focus into the training and um that's that's where if I'm going to have energy that's where I want it to go unfortunately we live in this world all the social media so I need to I need to step up my game but as far as like you know the obligation part like I I don't mind it at all you know what I I really don't um you know for the most part everybody's respectful uh I don't have any issues I've had a few people like in the past where you can tell they're very very biased um and those are not the fun ones you know as long as you're you're you're good with me I'll be good with you you know what I mean but it's it's not a bad thing usually it it's funny how you said that because you know social media started I'm way too old way to a lot of other things that say publicly and I'm like I just don't care Steve uh Len game got involved and in six months he has this over 34 million views on YouTube so whether you might not want to do it I don't want to do it just find somebody that's willing to do it for you and watch everything explode from that yeah man I gotta find me some find me what's his name Steve I gotta find I'll text you his number uh you you mentioned uh and and I I saw this you mentioned that you or so weeks ago were you able to enjoy anything you know after the a lot of Fighters want to stay ready but this is such a quick turnaround did did you get to enjoy anything at all before you you got back into training to get ready uh you know I was able to eat a little bit of you know food that I normally don't eat in in Camp that's about it it's uh it kind of suck because I wasn't able to like smell the roses in a sense you know what I mean like after you win like my my camps are brutal you know what I mean so like after I win I felt like there's like 100 pound weight vest like lifted off me and um you know I it was It was kind of shortlived but man like if you do if you want to do great things around here man sometimes you got to take you know opportunities like this and uh you just got you got to make the most of it and um yeah man I'm going for it but like I'm I'm here I'm trying to do great things I'm trying to do things that people you know don't typically do and it's cool because like even the record thing with the Knockouts like I I I I didn't have that in my mind like I never thought I'd be making know knockout records in the UFC like that is insane to me uh I mean this this this organization has so many killers in it and just the whole day is very very cool y ultimately you know I'm I'm I'm just back on the grind man I'm back on the grind I I had to move my vacation I had already planned uh after my last fight uh one week so I was actually supposed to be in Quarterlane today actually I was supposed to be in quane today at home and uh we my my wife family has like a lake house up there and we just fish off the dock and we'll go play golf like uh a little bit later on like you know noonish and man it's such a good time but we moved it to next week and uh it worked out I know we're almost at the the top of the hour but I'm curious where is your fight Camp you know where do you train out of I TR Al Mexico okay so are you still with Greg yeah I'm with uh Greg and wink okay so this worked out even better than I anticipated and I got to talk real fast so uh we I I'm going to call Matt Matt the mouth cuz he likes to run off with the mouth he loves to say stupid stuff that he really doesn't mean he wants to go to a fight camp and literally get the crap beat out of him and he feels that that's the responsible media thing to do yeah I'm going to call Greg Jackson today who is a very good friend of mine I've stayed in his house and we're going to set it up as as you promis to beat the living crap out of mat during uh some training I love it hey he has to sign a waiver first I'll deal he will I'll sign it and we'll go to Dion to get that green Hatch Chili from Albuquerque because they do it the we we had Matt choked unconscious by Ben Saunders and he thanked Ben for doing it oh yeah I love that stuff so yeah I'm I'm surprised you you know Dions man Dions is awesome that was one of the places I got to enjoy after my last fight nice but yeah come on down bro might need get usada in the room make sure you taking I'm good on pizza baby I just do pizza naturally I will definitely set it up it's good stuff I have so much more to talk to you about we do something on Wednesdays called Victory Wednesday so I want to get you back on after this Victory this weekend we'll get you back on Wednesday to talk more I'm going to put you on hold we need to get your address uh going to send you some gifts from 8man strong and from bucked up energy drink but you keep saying family who's in your family what's your family uh well I mean I have my wife uh her name's Mariah and then I have my my son he's four um crazy little guy's name is Terk Legend um and then uh I have an autic daughter's she's actually my stepdaughter but she's uh her name's Haley and she's 11 years old that's like pretty much my life man everyone and you know that I just said right there is the reason why I fight the reason I asked for that I I asked for that is I I thought it might you might have some children so we're going to send some stuff from fantasy pets as well you know for both of your children and then I want to talk to you later my daughter is a autistic therapist taking care of autistic non-speaking children so we're going to hook you up we're at the top of the hour don't anywh we're going to put you on hold Steve oh that guy's awesome yeah that guy is so cool it's first time I talk yeah I got a fight camp and I got a fight and you got a date at Pizza uh Dion green Hatch Chili with pepperoni on the pizza five I might set this up go I just need sponsorship need get M some got to pay for something [Music] somebody just try to keep it out this way more I don't want it close like it was before after that I don't know how this it's good don't worry about it don't worry about it next time I'll next [Music] radio those how many minutes we got if you live with a passion for great and strength towards all obstacles that may attemp to derail 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though I I think I camp thing is stupid and you know you want to go for a day I know you've done a bunch of that stuff you know back in the day I get all that but I might have to call Greg I went out there I stayed at Greg's house I think it was two nights you know went to the gym and then I kind of like drove around absolutely nothing couldn't really find so so you had a pretty uh typical Al Albuquerque experience yes you know went downtown and it was looked like a lot of Indian shops and turquoise stuff and you know it was cool but you know I wanted to really do I didn't want to train necessarily ones in the likes but I would have wanted to do something you know but he was so busy taking care of his Fighters so maybe with Steve maybe we will set something up and uh any I can get to beat the crap out of Matt I'm willing to do well that was fun I mean I could definitely see you know Matt's he's kind of a good sport when it comes to things like that well he's kind of an idiot too that too but okay he's our idiot though we've tried for him not to be but you know it's we can't get rid of him until now he had to go pick up his his girls so uh very cool so coming up Andre um also fights as we have the UFC fighters on the week that they fight we really should get some Fighters that fought a couple weeks ago or fighting a couple weeks but it's always good to get fighters on the week of you know their fight mind fights you know in the in their front of their mind and the back of their mind you know so so that is uh that is the way we're going to do it um We are continuing to talk about the NFL Survivor League that we're doing with Ken Shamrock um and he is huge into football you know he loves it you could tell that you know when he was on and we talked about it and uh and I'm looking forward to uh seeing how far he goes well I'm I'm looking forward to see how far I'm going to go because I've never done a Survivor pool in NFL and I'm I'm I'm excited about it well what I I think a mistake that happens and falling into this a few times myself I'm so concerned about 3 weeks from now that I don't look at two weeks from now you know I went with the what I'm thinking is the safe pick right now but like next week don't think necessarily about week four think about week two but you do have to think about week four because come week four week five you may not have any of those picks left of a shoe right now it's a crap shoe and you know will they win are they going to have a problem back go down you know and like I said that's why I didn't take Cincinnati over New England I want Cincinnati against a better team right if New Orleans gets by Carolina I may take whoever New England's playing next week could be the Jets could I I I don't know but Cincinnati I want Cincinnati if they're play a buffalo a Kansas City you know whatever because you can take and for those people that didn't think about this if New Orleans beats Carolina you can still play Carolina you know down the road Carolina's not out of play just New Orleans now you would never take Carolina is what I'm saying New England might get off on a roll rookie quarterback may come in they might be do well you might be able to take a New England against a a no a lesser you know so we'll continue talking about the NFL picks with Ken Shamrock uh throughout the showout the weeks we will be doing that every Wednesday right now we continue talking about this weekend's uh UFC Fight Night 242 it's been a little while but let's welcome gram my fellow City of Brotherly Love Andre patoski how are you thanks for having me guys uh we appreciate it you know it seems like yesterday you were on you were on the ultimate fighter but do does it seem like just yesterday to you or does it seem like it's been a long time since being on tough no honestly it it has it hasn't seemed like I think it's been three years right um and it doesn't seem like that at all but you know this is my ninth UFC fight so you know obviously it's been a while we've been busy but um it's good it's good it's been a great my life's been totally changed from the UFC and fighting has given me such a great life what's it like uh walking around our cities you know Matt gives me a hard time I was only born Philly and stationed there I didn't live there other than those two times what's it like walking a white City like Philadelphia you know getting more known getting popular now the UFC tag that's been you know on your name for three years what's that like walking around that city of Philadelphia like that it's cool like um it's good like we we me and my family just moved to like a new area in Jersey um and uh like everyone in the neighbor like we're meeting new people in the neighborhood and they're all like dude I had a watch party for your feet like I'm a big fan blah blah blah like that's so cool you know and they're like oh I'm having a pool party Tom like bring your kids over like it is cool there there is a lot of it so we're very lucky what what's the drawbacks again just being recognized and talked in at the wrong times yeah and like I I you feel like a douchebag saying that but like there on times where it's like it does get old and people like sometimes will ask like ignorant questions like are you g to win like uh no I'm going out there to lose right you know it's funny overall I always tell this I told it last week on the show I Matt Sarah told me whenever he loses that's when everybody comes out of the woodwork and says he said I can go down to the dunk of donuts and get a cup of coffee and the guy at dunk of donuts says you know what you did wrong because then I go to the gas station and gas station you did wrong in that fight and it just cracks me up how everybody's a Monday morning fighter as well as a Monday morning back but they love to talk to you guys because I think you guys are you UFC fighters are more accessible because you guys are more down to earth I think you guys are are you're you're in your communities where a football NFL star is not going to you know live with you know amongst the the the proletar you know what I mean and I I think that that's yeah I just think I think Fighters are much more down to earth most of us not that not that a lot of football players haven't come from humble beginnings but I mean the the majority the UFC fighters or the fighters in the UFC do not come from wealthy you know areas or Lifestyles we we we understand we've been through the humble and the struggle and we were broke at one point you know so I think it makes us a little bit more down to earth and uh easier to talk to well I agree 100% I don't know if if you saw the the story when uh Lake Mary won the uh the Little League World Series a couple weeks ago up there in Pennsylvania and the co the New York team which was from the Bronx went very public and and was criticizing the New York Yankees and criticizing Aaron judge because he wouldn't turn w to his team while he was on the on Deck Circle getting ready to go up and hit yeah I mean I two sides to that for sure I mean maybe the guy's just focused on on on what he's doing one but I do think that like it's important to like um to support like the upand comers you know what I mean for the peak like don't forget the people that supported you you know no no 100% And and I agree with you and I I've I've even said this about at some UFC fights you know fans you know stick you know magazines or whatever out asking you sign autographs on the way to the cage I mean at least wait and I've seen Fighters sign after fight but on the way to a fight it's just common sense and you know you've got a job to do let them do their job and then let's you know do all the other things that are involved yeah for sure yeah that that you can't you I wouldn't think it would be smart to ask on the way to the fight you know that's the Mr T thing in or uh yeah the Mr T in Rocky reaches out and like yells at him as he's walking to the to the to his the fight with Rocky Mr T shoves him back into uh hey audre how how tough was it to to fight up in Colorado as far as the you know the altitude and there's no air up there and you know your your last fight you had a lot of wrestling in there and you was a lot of out of you yeah so we we we spent two weeks out there we went to uh the bottom of Pike Peak which is more so Colorado Springs and we spent 10 nine to 10 days there uh we hyped a lot of we did the Mana incline so we did a lot of working out at elevation even higher than Denver so that when it was time to go back to Denver when it was time to go to Denver we had already been like acclimated to and 5 didn't seem so much nice and I think that that was very beneficial for for me at least and was that your was that your coaches that help with that plan or do you have it how involved are you when it comes to the the game plan uh that your coach has come up with yeah so my manager um the one that suggested that you know make sure you get out there two weeks early and get acclimated and then with that information you know my me and my coach sat down and found the Airbnb that would be best which would be Colorado Springs which would be which would be the best air area for us to do this 10 days of acclimating before we go to Denver right and you know on the subject how unsung are the people around Fighters you know we always hear about the famous trainers like Greg Jackson you know John Daner but but you know we don't hear about every single solitary trait there is in in amongst UFC fighters how how unsung are the people that work work work with Fighters all the time yeah it it's an individual sport Sport and it's a very lonely Sport and you know when that cage door closes you're the only one in there it's a very individual sport but like I we can't get to where we we can without without a team behind us like there's so much that's done behind the scenes that um like I can't do like I can't I can't be the coach I can't watch all the film break it down come up with a game plan do all the logistics and the fighter like I need help wow you know they're they're they're hugely beneficial let's move it to uh Saturday night fight night 22 I ask Fighters This a lot youve fought in the Apex obviously how different is it to fight in the Apex over fighting in an arena and do you need to do a different to get ready different because it is different fighting in the Apex yeah it's definitely different um the fans they can give a boat of energy late in the fight the cheers help for sure but I fought in the Apex this is probably my six or seventh um fight in the Apex between the alternate ver and the UFC so I'm I'm I'm very comfortable there and I'm used to it and it's uh you know we know exactly where the warm-up room is we know where the bathroom we know we know the layout perfectly and uh we're well prepared to give the you know I judge here in the State of Florida you know it's in a small building does it give that oldtime smaller show kind of feeling you know it's it's not 42,000 you know it's you know you can almost hear somebody talk kind of thing which I like does it feel that way I think it's pretty the facility is pretty state-ofthe-art but um it is it is you know when you can hear the other coaches yelling it does uh it is interesting Audrey what was how's it like being a you're a new father right yeah well I got three kids so as then I got a baby baby at home right so how has that changed you know this fight k for you yeah so um you know sleep sleep is important for for a professional for any professional athlete really and babies so you got to find ways you know you gotta find ways to um compensate for having a baby up all night so um but but you know like I said it's not my first time around my my daugh five I've been through it early in my career and uh you just learned from your you learned what what's more efficient what's more yeah you become a better parent honestly better parent better father talk uh to us a little bit about your opponent your thoughts um do you worry about what he does or is it more important what you're going to do I think the the the time you spend the beginning of Camp so if it's an awe Camp you spend the first couple weeks focusing on the things that he does you watch a lot of film on he does what his habits are all all those and then you build a game plan kind of considering those factors but once you get later and closer to the fight it's all about what you do it's all for me it's all about doing what I do best awesome great stuff how old are are your other child you told us too yes I have daughter that's seven my daughter's five and then my son uh three months okay perfect I always uh like like to give thank you gifts so a we are going to send you as always the eight man strong box a box from Buck but I've also come across a new sponsor it's called fantasy pets and they make pets out of uh printers 3D printing they're pretty cool and so I want to send you three of those as well and so each each one of your children's going to have a gift coming as well that's awesome I really appreciate that appreciate your time have fun it's Christmas morning uh Saturday uh and just as you've always done and enjoy Saturday thank you guys thanks for having me yes sir take care as Andre peroski peroski um fighting this Saturday I wasited that I love giving the the children the this you know as you may or may not know I've been always giving guests something um my way to thanking them they don't have to do this um and I think it's just a nice gesture and then when I ran across fantasy pets I get kind of Tongue Tied cuz to me it's so exciting to give a child something like this as well yeah absolutely and and like he said he's at fight camp and he's got to go fight so he's away from his family for a long time and at least having something that to show for it you know even if it comes from knockout radio it's like hey you know Daddy was still thinking about you while I was away and it it goes a long way when you're a kid so thank you for that as a father myself I think that's really cool of you to Doo it's it's cool I mean there's I I learned it from something and I know we need to hit this break but um so I used to be involved with the mar Mar Lions Foundation okay and Marty the Marty Lions Foundation we granted wishes for terminally ill children a little different than a lot of the other organizations in that we didn't publicize we and I get if you publicize you get sponsorship but Marty was big on not publicizing not you know so we didn't publicize at all and I remember a child came up to me we were doing something for their sibling I don't remember male or female and this child probably seven or eight said something to the effect of I wish I was dying wow and I mean it still kills me and this was 40 some years ago 30 some years ago and now put yourself in that child's you know who's seven and they're 5-year-old or 9-year-old or whatever sibling is getting all this attention for the wrong reason for the right reason if that makes sense yes it does and and when that child said I'm I'm still I'm getting Goosebumps right now reliving that it was crushing yeah that is crushing you know and so now that I'm able to you know I've always looked for something to give the children as well cuz I think it's cool you know it doesn't have to say that it's from us or knockout radio or whatever you know hey Daddy did this and look what I got for you I'm cool just I think it's cool to do some really neat things for not only the the fighters we gave Mike Perry's wife something because I had a sponsor for it's just whatever we're able to to gather during the time so yeah I I get a little excited when I'm able to give some cool stuff to to these children so all right let's go hit a break we will continue uh third UFC fighter coming up uh at the bottom of the hour Brandon 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Philadelphia Underground King that would be amazing what a great card would be well Edd's fought bkfc no but I mean Philly in a long time last time he fought in Philly I can't even remember well definitely before I don't think he fought UFC I don't think he fought in Philly was there at least twice that I remember I remember the local promotion after he came out of dream in Japan he fought in Philly is my mic on yeah that's a great question to ask yeah okay well very good I can't tell if it's on or not but so uh bkfc David said that Rocky Balboa might be there he said might be now he said he might be right y now we have I want to tell the people out there in radio land and YouTube everything like that that we have uh knockout radio we have a community messaging back and forth to each other and I put this in our messaging about a week ago I had inside information and I don't know if you could drop it ahead of time or whatever but I'm just saying I had that information a week ago son did you it's in there it's written in there I can't go back and reproduce it and put it ahead of everything well first of all you you can't release if you were if you found that out it could have been like off the Record like I don't didn't know that right and I have a direct line to the president so I didn't know that who says that the only one has a direct line I'm not maybe there's a certain bkfc fighter that calls me on the phone oh C said the blind man I believe Steve has a friend that used to be a BFC fighter that calls him on the phone wow man people go through in and out yeah oh okay I thought you once you're just like a marine it's only Marines Marines are the only one that always okay you know everybody else is you know um former so I'm just saying you think that your cameraman is a peon or your limo guy is a peon and then then or whatever else you know the other hats are keep talking we got okay Welles I'm just letting you know that this person talk right now is bigger than you think I'm just letting you know that you are okay yeah yeah I might have to meet you there okay very good so what's the card this week on UFC well I can tell Andre's uh Andre's fighting I don't know which one's yours okay kind keep talking no no so that's not your oh you you'll be this one that's the one you'll turn you off um what's do do you have the rest of the card in front of you yeah uh main card is Gilbert burn versus Shawn Brady then we have Jessica andr versus Natalia Silva Steve Garcia versus Kyle Matt Schnell is taking on Cody Duran Trevor Peak versus Janel ashmos Rong zooo versus Chris Padilla Ryan span versus OSP uh Isaac dulgarian taking on Brendan Marat and Philip do Santos Andre Lima yea versus Gabrielle Santos Jacqueline versus Vanessa Demopolis Andre Petroski versus Dylan buka and then is Nathan Fletcher takes on Zig mantis rasa of lania I like it yeah there's a lot of fights for a for a TV show you know it's it's you know it's an ESPN ESPN Plus card right next week's the uh the big sphere card yep next week is the most anticipated UFC event in a long time not because of who's fighting but because of the production that Dana's been talking about for months now so hopefully it it delivers now I'm not so sure if the sphere production value the in the what the sphere is offering is this in person like if you're in there we'll we'll get back to talking about next week let's finish uh our third and final interview of today getting ready for this weekend's UFC and then we can move ahead to next uh once again UFC Fight Night 242 let's welcome to the program Brendan Mora Brendan how are you good man how you doing today not too bad we we appreciate your time um last UFC fight was your your first and I'm curious as this is the of your second fight week for the UFC does it feel different you have different feelings different emotions as you get ready for this fight yeah AB 100% uh my my first fight in the UFC was on four days notice I flew from a New England where I lived sou New Hampshire all the way to Vegas did all the medical jumped up a away class but still had a crash cut like pounds in four or five days um against a guy who had six SES in the UFC already and one of them was a record knockout so this is completely different I had time to actually have a camp I had time I've been spending most of my time here I've been living here in Vegas training at yep and um yeah back at my weight class 145 so it's been a whirlwind of a difference all for the better I as a short fat old guy you know I I don't want this to sound wrong were you a enjoy the process I mean your your work it's your job I mean it so it's not necessarily qu fun but all of you Fighters there's something wrong and you all think it's fun to go in there and fight each other were you were you able to enjoy that with all of that process of taking on a shortest fight just like you said it's a job at the end of the day but we wouldn't be doing this job if we didn't love something about it I personally F fight um you know I force myself to get up and train and to eat good but the part that a lot of people are nervous about a lot of guys are athletes and they're nervous about the fight obviously I get nered but I enjoy it I look forward to it just having a full camp and time instead of for days having eight weeks I got to enjoy all the fun stuff gradually cutting weight doing the interviews and just watching the camp Excel and get better at what we're working at so mentally it's been a lot brenon do you know much about Isaac doarian and his fight history I'm I'm sure you've done work you've done tape work and and and seen his fights but have you have you have you been heard much about him have you watched him during his career yeah I I you know I least say my opponents pretty extensively uh see what they do what they don't do if they Flinch simple stuff but once I study it extensively I'm like all right I don't overanalyze it and I understand I still have to fight My Style and what I do but you know just things according to them but if I'm speaking truly from the heart I've always spoken about my opponent i' I've said hey this go three rounds this one I'll clip him here this guy you know he might get me here and I've been pretty accurate well honestly what I'm saying he doesn't have the experience that I have I have almost double his fights and um you know I'm a lot bigger of a fighter and I'm the better well-rounded I respect his wrestling but it's College style wrestling once he hits the take down not gonna contr me I'm gonna get back up like just welled anywhere from theet but I respect him I respect what he brings to the table but uh you know that night that night 100% And I'm G be happy to give him his first let me ask you this you said that you were pretty accurate with that how pretty accurate could you be with the lottery numbers what's up I said how accurate could you be on the lottery numbers I could use some of those so that's the thing that the predictions are only good for the fighting okay how will you handle the next couple days I always ask the fighters because there's two ways to look at it you're so focused you're thinking about the fight it's kind of that Rocky bboa thing with the picture on the mirror or do you not want to think about it Friday night Saturday morning no I love thinking about it um I replayed the fight in my head probably a thousand times there and I'll do a thousand more times in that one fight week I enjoy it I enjoy the butterflies you get in your stomach um the nerves like I said everyone gets them but they're not fear neres are be they're happy they're EXC I'm doing something that 1% of the population can do or even has what it takes to do so I enjoy it I I bask in it as much as I can I take everything in and uh I love it I love fight week it's great besides the dieting which isn't Fun cutting weight but mentally I love it I can't wait it's like being a little kid for Christmas I can't wait for that day well and it's funny that you say that because that's what I always end with enjoy the process it's Christmas morning on Saturday you know I've been told by a good friend of mine Eve Edwards longtime older UFC fighter he goes the work is everything we did up until we get to the fight area whether it's wherever now it's your reward your reward is this week and Christmas is on Saturday aund 100% I agree with that you know we go a whole Camp putting in the work stressing training fight week is just about dieting cutting that weight which sucks but uh forget the rest the work's been done as long as you put the work in you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor on the weekend and amount of stress is going to help you no amount of fear is gonna help you uh so stay positive you know and try not to stress out you know a great old quote is don't you suffer more in your mind than you do in reality if all goes in that cage or in the middle or whatever even if you unless you kill fight there's a little bit of suffering whether it's your cardio it's damage so don't suck before you get there that's the mindset I try to do I like Brendon one thing you said I really appreciate uh your your take on it that Collegiate wrestling is than MMA wrestling can you just elaborate on that yeah Collegiate wrestling these guys are really good at entering shots uh and hitting the initial down but once someone's back hits the mat in wrestling it's over uh there's no weird position to get stuck in the scrambles um get up they scramble they're just trying to hit that Tak down um and when you go in MMA it's not just the Tak down it's the way we we take people down and defend if you don't hit the taked down off the rip we're scrambling and if you put my back up my shoulders on the mat it's not over right I can sweep you I can start wrapping you up I can start elbowing you in the face pulling your head down it's just a whole different pie so it's really good in MMA for hitting the tape now after that MMA wrestling the whole SP what's uh what's the story behind uh the nickname the kid it was kind of family name um I know like oh is that because like it's kind of been like a famous fight name of Fighters boxers back in the day no I was uh the first grandson and the only grandson for like I want to say like nine 12 nine years or whatever and I had a bunch of girl cousins and so whenever my uncles came around we have a huge family they're always like oh where's the kid at where's the kid knowing that it's where it's bred so it was kind of just a family name that stuck um and father called me kid all the time and kind of just that's where it came from it just blew in the fighting very cool what uh what what can the fans expect to see when you get uh in the Octagon on Saturday oh man as always I promise a show uh of excitement and you will be entertained what as a fighter first and an athlete second I understand this is the entertainment business I don't want to win by points I don't want to win by laying praying uh because at the end of the day what pays the bills is the fans and if they're not watching something exciting why the hell would they pay any pay-per-view ESPN Plus or any of that bull crap right so excitement that's what I want to give no matter if it's on the feet or on the ground I'm going for the finish at all times but ideally I can tell you that I'm confident myself this ends would be liing him on the feet and he's going to drop uh he can't handle the power or the speed I have or the Striking capabilities I have good stuff Brendon thank you very much for your time I know we have your address we're going to send you a care package from eight man strong as well as a box from bucked up energy drink as well I love it man thank you so much and thanks for having me on guys I appreciate it very much absolutely like like I said enjoy the week enjoy the process Christmas comes in what four days yeah absolutely man we get the 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people at the arena in the full building in the full building wow it's a shame that you missed the funniest part of the whole day which was you know you you got there a little bit later um and Steve didn't see it either so I was the first one in the suite uh along with Wes and the med the representative came over we started to talk and talked about my credentials and whatever and um I had him go from he turned that smile upside down when we talked about and I'm going to show into the camera the Fred McGriff bobblehead that was given away and you should have seen his face drop when I said I disagree with Fred McGriff going in the raised Hall of Fame so I'm surprised that we were in there long enough to be loud and obnoxious it's good it's good because I needed those chicken fingers pretty badly well that's what I was going to mention earlier when Matt brought up the Hot Dog Eating competition last night on Netflix I was like I haven't had a hot dog oh wait a second I had I had two on Sunday the race game all right so it was your first experience in the trop I I don't understand why well I guess I do understand St Pete is really not B all capital I I don't necessarily think it's that but it's a lot of things all right first and I would have thought how long have you been in the Tampa Bay Area three years okay so I would have thought in three years you would have known by now Tampa hates St Pete St Pete hates Tampa Tampa yes some people from Tampa come over but whole Tampa doesn't want to support SA Pete oh if you move to Tampa will'll come to the game and the St Pete residents that have been the other 14 that were there they're like I won't go to Tampa and support them I've been supporting them here it it's hated so much Tampa people well it's pain in the ass to get to the stadium it is it is it is no of course it is do you know what a pain in the ass it is to get to Tampa Stadium yeah do you know what a pain in the ass it is to get to Emily Arena I do well not for me because I just hop on trolley but I'm saying it's the same thing it's everybody is concerned about themselves yeah so well isn't that okay that's yeah it's life no I understand that but maybe there's one sports team St Pete St Pete supports the box but St Pete also doesn't have the Commerce that Tampa has so when you're talking about like say a Cosmopolitan a city they can you know in nework what you're saying if the New York Yankees played in the they wouldn't get they wouldn't get as many uh fans well L do the Giants play there yeah the Giants play there the Jets play there because there's no place to put a football stadium in New York City but you know but there is a place to put a baseball stadium in Tampa there that's in lobby this is what I'm going to I don't like the raise at all so I I'm not lobbying for them to to go anywhere all right I'm going to put it in in this scenario I saw that's true we do absolutely no research and we we do not fact check it I fact I saw something thing that said the Detroit Tiger and the Lions really talking Lions I said Tigers I'm screwed up the Detroit Lions are the highest most expensive ticket this season okay because they're good but what about the last 30 years that you stunk and that all those people all those people went right so it sucks so it would be very similar but it would be very similar especially because the two cities hate each other even though it hasn't been a huge attendance at least they've had crowds for however many years they've been there and now all of a sudden you want to go to Tampa and St Pete's like f you no I'm not interested and so but it's not up to St Pete well it is up to St Pete well it's it's up to the raay organization yes and noan okay see there's contracts okay and there was contracts I don't know all of the what was in it but that didn't allow them to go over to Tampa right and then once they started to talk there was I was told again no fact check it was a former city Congressman that said that there was a line in the cut that said if they were ever given permission to speak to another town another city whatever it voids the contract okay okay which means they could have left and gone anywhere and so a lot of people are like well why aren't they going to Tampa because they couldn't because if stord or said this is just what I was told just for legal reasons you know this isn't making stuff up on on the fly if they would have said yeah go if we didn't go to Tampa sure well then that would have avoided it and they could have left and gone to Toronto they could have gone to Montreal they could have just gone up and trct there so they're not leaving well then why has there been so much talk about the Rays moving to T we had this whole thing in eore city where I live where they got rid of a bunch of uh housing projects they were going to tear them all down the stadium right off of eore City yeah and it's been it was like something that was talked about as as I moved down here like wait till the come here it's going to be it's going to change everything for eore it wasn't like I'm making this up it was like but if that's the case then why if Tampa know and mirrors smokes and mirrors and and maybe they thought that they could convince you know it's all about you know pressure and who you know and how can you do and is there enough money money walks BS walks all that kind of stuff well not necessarily that's not what you're saying you're saying there's a contract well but if you paid the city of St Pete X I'm not saying I'm just saying there's always loopholes the loophole maybe you pay the city of St Pete X the contract to make it them willing to get rid of that white elephant that's down there on Central Avenue that most people hate now you didn't go down and sit in the seats the seats are not necessarily angled towards home yeah you mention so if you're sitting in right field you're looking at the right fielder yeah and then you got to turn and not looking in the ear hole of the P well I'm sorry there is nobody sitting next if somebody was sitting I will say that food was great I I had no complaints about you weren't in the bleachers your expectations are really low yeah yeah okay yeah I mean it just it was really good I I enjoyed it okay I really eat finger food a lot and I I thought it was funny you get for being funny it's the funny B ouch a I think it's this felt thing you took you didn't take the pins out of it the producer does all of that you I tried to help and I got yelled at because I I didn't put the banner in the right spot next week just for everybody to know uh Matt and Mike will be coming to you uh live from the WT studio and Steve and I will be coming to you from the couches at the Apex that's right in Las Vegas very exciting they moved us to this really cool room it's right by the stairs right next to us they're doing UFC Media stuff so we're able to grab and uh I don't know if you remember or told you the story what happened last time we were there no so we were talking about Daniel um some negative some oh and he came in and he came in and Steve's like he's been standing there the whole time listening um so they're all right there so we our list yet we also don't know who might walk by and we'll put on but what my thoughts are uh which is different than normal now that we have a professional here while I'm gone you and Michael or you and Matt will be doing the show I'll pop in here and there and then ler then I'll do some stuff and um yeah so it should be fun and less work for me so both is kind of cool yeah sounds good you get to control Matt for three hours well as 's in the studio because last time we were over there Big Ed was was Mia and I was I couldn't even get the Wi-Fi password so big Ed I'm not sure Big Ed's there going to be there but maybe you can put out a I don't know a smoke s was that guy first day bring him some Buck energy drinks because he likes those um luckily they're a sponsor so maybe if I I don't what his favorite flavor is or or I would call and try to get him out there in time but uh next week's going to it's a long ass walk from parking to the sphere it's it's kind of like uh where was I just St where there was no parking um everywhere everywhere everywhere it was literally I don't know a mile walk from where we parked to get to the sphere there's no parking right there that's why there's this thing uh this a new invention called Uber yeah okay you might as well Uber then they have to walk a well but see first of all and it's not that it cost money even it's part of it but it's not all of it you'll walk there faster than riding an an Uber that's right it's got to be an hour and a half ahead of us and if you don't know me by now I'm not a patient you know Mr okay I'm out of here let's care no that I I normally don't I don't say that I said all right I'm out of here bro okay yeah I don't make anybody leave with me except for when we're with a celebrity I make Matt leave when I leave and and that is going to be in writing moving for well I don't think it matters what you put in writing with Matt yeah yeah no for sure but yeah next week this week it'll be good watching and then next week uh the sphere event what's your thoughts on them putting uh Canelo as 5D mobile Mexican Independence is this a a jab at Dana or is this just hey it's Mexican Independence and it's a jab at Dana but Dana's done it to the to box too so you know they just go back and by by the way you have to uh create a market for your for your for your stuff so a boxing match on the same weekend as a UFC match it's it's great for business everybody everybody gets like who would even more excited to watch like if canel was fighting just on a regular weekend nobody really cares but now they're talking about well it's going to be the big sphere show during that fight you know and here we are talking about it but well then we'll stop I yeah I mean I don't listen I a boxing match outside of that stupid Jake Paul stunt events in a long time I mean I guess I bear knuckle is still boxing however it's not you know the sweet science of boxing like like sweet science is science do right are you a boxing guy oh I used to be last last live fight I went to was H Holyfield versus Bobby Chaz wow I can't even I can't even name boxers like back in the day you know Hitman Hearn sugar rade Leonard you know all those those GES uh Mosley obviously Mayweather I don't know if I could name other than I just named Canelo Leon Spinx Mike there's so many great Fighters back then Tyrone booze you know who that is yeah veto anero hold on hold on let's go back to team how do you know about because you talked about you talked about time I couldn't hear you because our producer was right well we were in Stereo we said the same thing well no I get excited when people even remember about Tyro because you up once a week perfect yeah well you know especially after you away people need to continue talking about well you know what my one a very smart person once said to me Mike when I was complaining that people were hating on me on the internet and all this stuff it's a daily occurrence for me yeah well every time you you're on something you know people are going to hate on you I was doing my Spike TV show I was getting this hate and I was like why why am I getting so hate and my friend said Mike if you want people to say nice things about you die right that's true it doesn't matter how awful you are as a person but if you were famous then as soon as that person dies oh he was such a great guy no he every hated but no when he dies and oh it's a shame he's going to be missed no right you didn't miss him when he was here yeah right so unless you can turn like I said where you turn that frown into a smile or you turn that smile upside down or whatever um the biggest fan knockout radio has ever had and probably will ever have Shane grman celebrated his 50th birthday I flew up there for it hated me so much at the beginning um all for the wrong reasons even though there's plenty of reasons he hated me for all the wrong reasons so why did he hate you um I've told this story numerous times than for tuning in so Bubba the Love Sponge who I've known for a long time started a streaming service you know at his studio in Tampa and he asked if I'd be interested in run and knockout radio on there and so yeah another Avenue to get it out I get one guest or I mean one fan or one person to listen and it was still the same show that was on well we we went there for a while and then we condensed it so we did it at the tan Studios and then they took the stream and they reran it and uh all of a sudden Shane gross big fan of Bubba the Love Sponge heard this MMA show he loved MMA he L MMA it's his passion it's his this it's his that who's this old fat dude that's now talking about MMA that's not true that is true that's that's what he said no but I mean you're not old and fat no I'm old and Slimmer now I just did a mat go ahead I'm 24 pound um and and he just thought I was an old guy who didn't know MMA and all of a sudden up and on the bandwagon and then he would text some or not text tweet like I would say in my opinion Jon Jones is the goat right and he's like no crap it's your opinion you're the one that said it you know so he would always do these Digs at me and stuff and and then I guess finally he saw the light and he's like well he's still an old fat guy but I guess he's been around a while yeah UFC won um I did a show in Cleveland at the RO Roll Hall of Fame and he won won tickets and he went to it and the pr person goes oh no he's been around and said two letters that I didn't know what meant um Dana White at uh the Super Bowl in Miami during the interview called me the OG interview ends I told Matt you cannot talk to Dana you cannot look at Dana and then we went slapped I wished I would have said it then because that was the worst embarrassing thing ever but Dana leaves I go what's OG me I mean I old guy yeah my wife says it means old guy but so Shen kind of found that out and you know we got great interviews and great guests and great this and great that and you know I turned that hate into being a gangster I I yeah that's great I got on a plane and flew to Columbus and drove 200 miles to go to his house well I look forward to meeting him he looks like somebody I can have a couple beers with looks like he's had a couple beers love the guy to death he'll be here in November uh Shane and er are coming for uh my induction into the Florida MMA Hall of Fame that's November are they Mar Coleman with them oh no but maybe I will now how come I didn't get like say Mark Coleman brought to my birthday party because I didn't get invited to your birthday party oh I got invited to shanes and I just didn't tell him I wasn't coming so the guy that hated you the most on the planet loves you the most now on the planet and invited you to his 50th birthday party probably knowing cuz you knowing I wouldn't come no that you know Mark Coleman hey whatever whatever all right hey good show fellas the good stuff especially the last hour first two was good the last hour was fantastic uh everybody thank you our guests brought to you by eight man strong Staff Zone and bucked up energy drink don't forget get your NFL picks in before tomorrow night's game one pick one team who is going to win week one it's all you need to do right here in the comments right there in the comments see everybody next week with Ken Shamrock with Ken Shamrock awesome see I love that last hour just like sometimes I'm like oh my God we have a whole hour left and there's like nothing like no guess whatever and then like well when you have to guess it's so yeah so much easier so we're still live hold on good cuz I got to say