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Two Straws on Fightpass! Interview with Lorenzo 'The Juggernaut' Hunt
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Nov 6, 2024
This time on Two Straws we interview the one and only BKFC double champ (and future triple-champ) Lorenzo 'The Juggernaut' Hunt. We talk his fighter origin story, why he's built for bare knuckle and who he's got his sights on next. Brought to you by DuelBits, the official sponsor of Two Straws. All our regular ass episodes are up on UFC FightPass with exclusive content. Go there. Watch stuff.
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what's up everyone this is another episode of two
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straw brought to you by dual bits go check out dual bits.com for all of your online betting needs and today we have a
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really really cool amazing guest none other than uh Lorenzo hunt the Juggernaut he is the current
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cruiserweight and light heavyweight bare knuckle boxing world champion and we're bringing an m right
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now hey everybody what's up
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hey what's up come on this better yeah it's perfect yes perfect you're out
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you're out doing us though I didn't bring any [Laughter]
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bling yeah I'm on my way to uh aw tonight I'm a special guest so I'm all
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blinged out I'm gonna go show out nice do you do that a wrestling um no I don't
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do the wrestling thing but I hang out with the go with those guys a lot and uh I like I like the shows I take the kids
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um U my girl is the uh head makeup artist for aw so we get to hang out with
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everybody and have a good time okay we need to ask her to touch us up when we go to uh bkfc next time right the best
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yeah she's always there she hooks up the uh ring girls and stuff too uh before the bkfc fights so she's really cool
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guys I mean I feel like that would be a really nice transition for you to get into wrestling you've got you've got the
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personality the style the flare like I feel like you were built for Bare knuckle boxing but you were also made
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for wrestling yeah they do too they keep trying to get me they just want want
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somebody to slam this [ __ ] out of me I'm I'm I'm I ain't gonna lie I'm a little
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bit scared Ain no joke well I don't know if
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you saw last video but uh I think Jess would be really good at WWE he knows how
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to I was like no no no don't do it again don't do it again you know what the
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crazy part is she's like wait no let's do it again no I I think I got it this yeah she was all about it I'm like
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oh I'm so scared I'm so nervous she's like do it again do it again send me send
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me oh man I I was really I was really just trying to make it on the crash pad at
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that point I oh the best one I mean the one that had me laughing for days was
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the the one when you said uh uh uh Mike Mike Perry's the when you did the rap
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video the oh yeah better than she
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did thank you thank you I mean too many people are saying
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that I'm like I'm not trying to have beef with sexy red too many people are saying
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that I bet she laugh too yeah yeah fight fan if she knows the people you were
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talking about she you killed it oh thank you man appreciate it appreciate it yeah
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so so go ahead go ahead got going on what's going on um
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we're we're just chilling we don't have a big fight coming up like uh you do we were we're pretty sure you're on the
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February card but we were looking for it and couldn't find it so what's going on with that yeah they're still being
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pretty secretive about it so they actually talk too much about it but I do have an opponent in my sights and they
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don't have a date lock down just yet but I'll be main Eventing uh one of the next two cars coming up so so uh we're gonna
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have some fun um I'm training I'm I'm up in weight so I I will drop that it will
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be a heavyweight fight it will be my debuting as a heavyweight and uh yeah I'm looking to have some
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fun will that one be for the Bel well the way the way it's looking they want
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me to prove that I can be a heavyweight Contender first and since the I've
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literally smashed everybody in the 205 and the 185 division there's no need to
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rush a a int belt or any type of uh there's no need for me to relinquish my
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titles as of yet so I can go hang around and Bully the heavyweight guys and
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still my title if I need to okay so if you can't tell us who this
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matchup is and it we don't know if it's for the ballot could you tell us potentially who would be your dream
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matchup in barle boxing at at any weight class um honestly I would love it if
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they would let me fight Ben um it would be an amazing David and Goliath story I
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have been fighting I I had my first uh martial arts uh tournament in 1988 I've been whooping asses before
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Power Rangers so I believe that I could get in there and literally Shock the World with an amazing
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Underdog this guy's a giant he's gonna kill Lorenzo and then I beat the [ __ ]
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out of him for the whole world to see I just think it'll be Unforgettable and I would love to fight uh Ben
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rthor wow yeah I I mean the uh especially since he keep woofing about
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the title um he's he's got two fights in be knuckle if I I if I get a chance to
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really put these hands on him and really test him and really push him I think that there will no longer be uh title
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talks for him I think I can just send him on into retirement nice nice I mean your last
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fight seemed like David and Goliath already so the fact that guy was was huge Chris kamazi he he was huge and for
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you to go up I mean that's it's just impressive that you want to first of all but um I feel like the Optics of that
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would be really crazy as well yeah It's Tricky um like I said I've been fighting
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so long I'm so good at it I'm so natural at it that if I showed you the fight
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game plan pre fight for Chris kzi you will be like it was like I scripted it
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he had I came all the way from Florida all the way to Denver fought him in his
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backyard stood right in the middle and said what you gonna do now and he did not want to clear he did not want to
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close the distance he he he felt that that that viciousness that I possess
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matter of fact got the props ready there he
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goes so you know when we say David and Goliath we got to remember it was a
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stone a little Pebble that took him out and uh the best at throwing I'm the best
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at throwing stones so you say you started um back before Power Rangers but
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you only started MMA in 2015 so what were you doing in that span of time um
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well I was I was doing a little bit of everything um I actually went to prison
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for about 10 years um but before that I was like you know picking ass I did ta
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kwondo I was a karate guy um I did some some martial arts tournaments and um
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when I came home I got right back into it I started uh doing uh self-defense
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classes and teaching and and all while I was down I really really stayed
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physically in shape I went to bed early I drank my milk I I didn't get the party
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I didn't get to see none of my twinnies like everybody else spent all that time partying and drinking um never drank
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Never Smoke um ran Miles and Miles every day push-ups I literally trained like I
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knew I would come home and become the world champion and I did wow
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wow so when you got your start into into MMA and then transitioned into barck
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boxing I guess what was the driving force to get you into it because I I as a mixed martial artist have no desire to
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do baroa boxing but there's just it's there's a certain type of of person that is very driven towards it and and you
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seem like you were just tailor made for it so how did you find your way um I I had a fledgling family and um I was
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doing um bear knuckle and I I didn't really pick up on the jiujitsu aspect I
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never wrestled I never wrestled in high school I never really learned the grappling part but I had nine Kos as a
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amateur and I had four my first four fights were Kos as a pro I didn't start losing in MMA until guys started taking
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me down and once they started taking me down it just didn't stop so um so I I
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just was about you know after that I was about maybe 35 36 and I just was like I'm too old for this I got a business
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I'll I'll step down you know and then um I got a call from uh Dada down in Miami
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and they just was like bro bear knuckles just was legalized uh you're a dog we've seen all your fights you've been
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knocking everybody out in Florida you know um you can do this and uh I was
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like yeah let's go d i uh gave me a a large check larger than I had made in
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the in the in my little career at MMA um he gave me the the biggest check and
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then after that Dave gave me a bigger one and then the next one was even bigger so um I hate to sound so simple
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but you know coming from where I came from and then trying to make it work and
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trying to stay out of trouble and trying not to ever go back and of course you
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know fighting is my past hard so why not do it and get paid for
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it no I love that I love hearing that um it doesn't their hands in
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prison what did you say sorry nobody wraps your hands for you in prison
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there you go so that's so is that is that the key is that the
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best conditioning oh man so you gotta tell us why you went to why you went to
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present if you feel comfortable no I'm comfor with it because um like I said I was actually wrongfully convicted and I
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did a long C trial and I had to fight for my [ __ ] life but it took so long
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to get it straight that eventually I I timed out and and the case continued and
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thank God that I was able to REM manage my life I went into that place knowing
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that I was innocent so I never became guilty of heart so I I studied my ass
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off I trained my ass off I taught guys how to read I was a college student you know what I mean I I I've been to
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college I graduated so all that time sitting there just just praying to get
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out just praying to get a chance to prove that I'm not some bum some weird
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uh criminal that you could just throw away and forget about and when I came home I showed the world I mean when I
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say I showed the world I mean I showed the world you can't just throw me away wow
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you can't just throw me away I love that I I already loved you as a fighter just from watching your
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highlights and your your pre-fight videos and everything but hearing that backstory that's so inspirational
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there's so many people who have been in your shoes and just let that crush them and let let you know the government or
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whoever decide their future and you were able to turn that around so Bravo to you
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yeah I mean it it is a story and I get chills too every time I tell it because like I know when I when I said after
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Mike Richmond you know he Pok me in the eye and beat me up a little bit and I was able to come out with that win and I
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told him I said you know I've been to Hell already I brought some of it back with
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me and I'm going to show everybody how hot it is how much pressure it is how
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much hell I've been through in order to burn this personality and this person
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this realness into reality I'm not a actor I'm not acting when I punch people
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in the face when I say I'll [ __ ] you up or I'll beat you within the inch of your life I'm not acting I'm serious as hell
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because for so long it's been life or death for me so when guys do the face
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off right and they're trying to intimidate me I've been where the worst people in
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society go I've had star Downs with real killers real psychopaths how you going
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to scare me so when I say I'm going to heavyweight and when I say I'm taking this [ __ ]
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over I'm not playing I'm not joking I'm not you know and and uh it's just it's
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just like I say that part of me you can't you can't you can't get away from it when it's time to work I just go
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right into right into work ni one of my next
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questions I'm like we gotta clip that out that's the promo for the fight right there love
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it that that was really that was going to be my next question is you know I I see such drive and perseverance and
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determination in everything that you do and I was going to ask where it came from but I mean it's just just hearing
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that it it's no wonder you've you've been through so much you've overcome so much and that's just a piece of who you are and I love that you show yourself so
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authentically and present yourself so well it's just it's um it's really easy to connect with you as a person it's
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really easy to get behind you as a fighter yeah thanks I appreciate that for the
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longest time um people visualize me as the villain but if you really pay
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attention to what was going on in the bkfc and in the in the makings of it I
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was a nice guy I was kicking ass before Hector Lumbard punched me in the face and before Mike Richmond threatened to
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slap me and before I shoved a a tomato in Joe rig's mouth I was a nice guy
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those guys kept messing with me and of course one of the things I know is how
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to fan the Flames of aggression if you give me a tiny spark I will burn your
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[ __ ] down with your own spark I didn't start it but I'll finish it that's just
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how that's just how I survive well I really want to hear yes
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I've been begging JZ I'm like do you know the story cuz I need to know the story about the tomato and face like a h
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it was so ridiculous like it's the last thing you'd think would happen to you at a face off and you pulled it off like
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Bugs Bunny in a cartoon like it was so hilarious I had to know the story it's
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so many elements to that story that you would look back at it and think it was
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planned it honest to God wasn't so um I had to cut cut a lot of weight I cut to
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185 and I'm naturally 230 so I do like this all fruit all
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vegetable all juicing diet for 40 days in order to make 185 and then I go to
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the place where I'm fighting early about two weeks early and I train there and
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I'm flying around with my juicer and my bag and a and and and a luggage full of vegetables and everybody thinks I'm
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crazy but I have to make weight you know CH Championship weight and so I just so
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happened to run into Joe rigs at Home Depot when I was jogging around and
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and grabbing stuff from my outfit I ran into Joe Rigs and when he seen me he was super nice and I couldn't even be a dick
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towards somebody who was nice because like I said I need a spark and so he was super nice and then the next day during
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the interview he were like yeah I seen him at Home Depot you know I had my gun
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I could have [ __ ] you know in right then he was talking so reckless I was
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looking at the camera like you were the nicest guy if I had known you would be
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an [ __ ] today I would have slapped you in your mouth and he said I was
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planting my tomatoes I wasn't thinking about you I don't care about Lorenzo hunt I gotta plant my tomatoes before it
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[ __ ] frost over and so when I tried to talk he kept screaming I was planting tomatoes I was
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PL Tomatoes I was PL tomatoes so it it kind of went viral before the wavs ah
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okay so then at the weins I brought a tomato you know and I was just gonna
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like pay homage that Viral moment where he lost his [ __ ] during an interview
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talking about tomatoes everybody's like what's wrong with Joe and when I brought it I was eating and he literally tried
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to punk me now mind you I just cut the last 10 of the 185 and I'm kind
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of and so I'm eating this tomato and he flinches at me he says give me that damn
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tomato just like that oh I'm too drunk to care I'm like eat
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it and just I swear it was organic I had not planned to put a tomato in his face
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look at it he literally says give me that damn tomato you gave it to him you
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sure did and it went in deep I mean like Thro
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like it was coming out of his nose it was bad it was real bad and like
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everybody's like you know he didn't even Flinch but I was so drained I couldn't Flinch I just was like I eat
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it smth but it was smooth though it it turned out to be you know bigger than I
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than I than I intended it to be I thought it was pretty funny but Joe hates me he he hates my
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gut oh man and then that did you see how it ended the fight just with yes yeah
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yes like that five down like a movie
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oh yeah I mean I would be super embarrassed if just the Tomato thing happened to me
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he had to viral knockout me toos just can you stop SM I smoked him and um and honestly I
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had no beef with uh Joe rigs it wasn't his fault what happened um it it actually all was Hector lumbar fault
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they reached out to Joe Rigs and literally placed him in my spot as the number one Contender even though I had
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double the fights double the wins double The Knockouts I was like six and one or seven and one at the time Joe R was two-
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one and they gave gave him a title fight because Hector was scared to fight H so
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Joe's like hey you know it's just a paycheck for me know sorry you know move out of the way I'm gonna I'm gonna fight
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Hector so then when uh Hector beat him then I beat up Hector then Joe rigs
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comes back and tries to get the title and gets beat up so everybody who's literally gotten in my way or tried to
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stop me just gets beat up and it's that's my
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job and you do it so well yeah that's that's just my job and I'm gonna keep
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doing it too and that's why I would like to fight uh being Rothwell because right
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now being as big as he is and as seemingly Unstoppable he is I believe
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that my skill set I can embarrass him I can embarrass him I mean beat him bad
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and um and it'll change the Dynamics of the entire weight division I'll have
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respect as the only ever three Division
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champion reigning defending simultaneous three division at one time there's never been
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another in bck history so I'm I'm coming for it I'm coming for it they gonna have to shoot
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me like Joe rigs wanted to right oh my gosh is there another champ
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champ say that again is there another champ champ and there was um um um Louis
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Palamino did get the first chance to uh challenge for the 165 belt he wanton it
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from um from Elvin buredo in a um in a in
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like no oh no oh no oh he's right
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back pop him right back
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on oh you got me I think we're both clicking at the same
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time so Louis Palamino out of Miami he he he was the first uh two division
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champ and uh he's nine and0 so he's never lost so he is the number one um pound-for-pound in the world right now
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I'm Number Two because I do have a loss on my on my record but I'm 11 and um I'm
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11 and one for the promotion 12- one overall and so until he
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loses I'm number two just because he's undefeated but uh he's no longer the
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double Division champion because he relinquished one title and uh I think they're gonna fight for it again though
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okay he was at the um when I was at the Salt Lake City card uh supporting my
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friend Beck uh Luis Palamino was standing up at the press conference
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trying to get the next after whoever won between yeah I I didn't I didn't see a
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clear path to that actually happening but I appreciate it that he's just you know so willing to step up and and get
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in there and and challenge the upper weight classes but I just don't know if that would actually happen yeah uh Mike
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Perry is an anomaly in um the bkfc um
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he's new he's Sensational he's black
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he's you said it very he's very smart he holds a
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special place in bkfc and I don't mind it I know who I am I'm the gatekeeper
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I'm the best in the world nobody's gonna argue that Mike Perry is the most
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Sensational in the world he's he's literally bringing numbers in like paisan's a did so I'm not gonna get in
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his way that's for damn sure and and we also train together we both fought in Florida in MMA both came up together we
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both trained together so I know all his tricks and he knows some of mine so I think I'm going to stay out of his way
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while he continues to be successful and do his thing I don't have any grip with that I'm going a heavyweight I got my
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own path he's got his and uh like I said as until somebody challenges for the 185
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title or the 205 title you won't you won't see me um um breaking losing any
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weight anytime soon right now I'm 234 well you just kind of crushed my
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dreams because that would have been like my dream bar knuckle boxing matchup is between you and Mike Perry I think that
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would be the most incredible probably like highest pay-per-view um numbers ever in barle
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boxing history but now you just
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thanks I like Mike Perry I've trained with Mike Perry I don't think it's a
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good matchup we are the size differences is ridiculous
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now that's not saying he can't hurt me because I'm going to heavyweight and those guys are bigger than me but I like
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what he's doing I like that he's calling out big names I like that he's bringing attention to the to the show so you
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won't hear no gripes from me I want to be the three Division champion and fighting Mike Perry won't do that for
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me understood so a huge announcement just got made with baroa boxing getting
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sanctioned in California do you have any thoughts on that and what do you think about possibly getting sanctioned in Las
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Vegas Main Event baby we on the way we
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but like I said as the news comes out and everything comes out you guys will see me front and center uh splashing all
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across the West Coast uh continuing to exert my dominance over the bkfc and
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like I said you they somebody better bring a gun C I'm not
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g I'm not gonna stop I believe you yeah and I think
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everyone wants to see it too aside from your opponents people want to see that happen I would love the come up uh
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watching like the buildup of you versus Ben rotha like that I think that would be really fun just because he's a little
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awkward but he he he like gets his point across you know he talks a little bit
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I pitched it to uh to the to the top brass and and for the most part
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everybody still kind of takes me as a joke going to heavyweight but after I
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did to Chris czi with 50 plus pro fights 30 UFC fights World been around the
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world seeing me just completely handled that situation with such Poise such
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control it was not a split decision I don't care nobody say I had a 100%
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strike ratio if you go back and look at it I never missed not to the body not to
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the head I never missed so and so so like I said like uh other
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than giving him you know the hometown bump a point or two um they call it a split decision but it was just was an
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ass whooping if you ask me and then for me to go to heavyweight and do the same thing to somebody else who's bigger and
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better than me in the heavyweight division I'm going to smoke them and then they're going to be like well we
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really don't have a choice thanks uh aside from uh not
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having gloves in present what do you think is really that thing that gives
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you your Edge because you do have a very unique style and I think a lot of people who go from MMA to Bare knuckle or go
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from boxing the bare knuckle they feel like they're going to figure it out once they get in there and then there's a lot
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of of things that surprise you so what do you think is the thing that you can get off over people like Chris kamazi as
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soon as you start fighting yeah mostly it's my courage Under Fire um you're
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throwing punches in and you're afraid and I'm throwing punches and I'm Not Afraid um it's also my my the inability
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to intimidate me um I'm not afraid I'm not I don't have stage fright I'm as
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calm as I am in my living room so when I'm in that ring I'm literally defending my house it's no different than if you
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came in my front door I don't care what you weigh because I won't be able to weigh you on the streets I don't care if
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you have gloves on or not because I won't be we won't be able to put gloves on on the streets I don't care about
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none of that and as far as I'm concerned there are no rules I've seen too much bull to let you convince me that a be
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knuckle fight has rules so when I go in there I'm just as wild and fear
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as I was in prison afraid I might not make it home after this confrontation and that's what that's the edge that I
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have it's not a game to me you guys think it's a game you think it's a sport
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it's not a sport you want to know what the difference why I don't believe that bear knuckle is a sport or will ever be
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a sport because in sports you have
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protective gear in boxing you have gloves because it's a sport in football
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you have a helmet because it's a sport when you take off the gloves and take
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off the helmet it's no longer a sport it's life or
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death every other sport heavy no we're both we're both just like [ __ ] never
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thought never thought about it that way but it's true it's it's not a sport to me so and um
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whatever happens in there happens and then I just and then I get lucky a few times you
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know that's always part of it yeah I get lucky your time too you know it helps
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yeah timing meets preparation in my book exactly yeah I train hard I love
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training I have my own gym in Jacksonville Florida where I train guys every day twice a day so I'm literally
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training six hours a day three hours in the morning three hours at night four days a week I have a class in here with
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Pro Fighters I have a few Pro Fighters here now training for for fights so I'm literally in Camp all year
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around in Camp all year round it's no problem for me so um like I
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said yeah they better get a something big
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something I'm coming I'm coming do you think without your past oh
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do you think without your past experience I think we're at lag just a tiny lag sorry but uh do you think with
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your past experience would you be as comfortable uh in the cage like under
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Fire like if you never had to fight for your life if you never had to
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sorry you hear me now oh oh no problem no problem
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um oh you good I think he has to answer his call
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he's a busy man yeah well we're taking up his time for free so we appreciate
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him for that [Laughter]
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absolutely if y'all can fix that or not okay but
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uh yeah yeah I'm sorry if you guys can fix that or not but I'm super dad too so
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I got my kids getting out of school and stuff oh you're all good if you you need pop off or do that stuff you're good we
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appreciate you being here um but I was going to ask uh do you think um your
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past has given you that confidence in there knowing that you've survived so
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much you can go in and face anything or did you always have that grit about you back before before all that happened um
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it's a little bit of both I always had it I was a star
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athlete like I said I I I did um Olympic level Taekwondo I did uh kmo karate I
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trophied I always builded I I was this is my thing but the confidence as a man
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as a man that can stand on my own two feet you could drop me anywhere on Earth and I'll be fine yeah that came from
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that came from in there you know what I mean from to go through that and then like I said having to beat yourself up
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over something you didn't do and then still having the word withth all to take
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whatever good you could from the situation and incorporate it into your personality while throwing out the junk
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because there's a lot of junk that tries to get in tries to bend your personality into some something that you may not
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even be or someone that you may not be um but overall like I said there is a
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little bit of a switch and you'll see it kind of like when Mike Perry said I'll
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slap you in your mouth I don't even remember slapping him and like tearing
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up the stage like there is a button that you can press that will take me back to
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that very dark place but for the most part I'm just a great father a great
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teacher and I love the routine of training every day and I play like a kid
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I never really grew up so I don't drink I don't smoke I don't party won't catch me out late in clubs or or Gam
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I'm just a big kid but I I'm like a really big kid [Laughter]
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now uh we don't want to take up too much more of your time but I do have one final question what I guess what is your
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like favorite thing about bar knuckle and then what is the least favorite like there's always something you know
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there's always a give and take in in sports and what we do um in be knuckle
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I've figured out a way to use my martial arts and the Open
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Hand of bare knuckle boxing the different strikes that are possible it's
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all martial arts stuff people forgot about the 59 punches of death and the 32
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Fists of Fury that was a reason there's so many things that you can do do with
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the human hand and and now that I am the best be
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knuckle boxer in the world I'm also a world class martial artist again
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um the uh the um the art of daily Survivor magazine is one of the top
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martial arts magazines in the country and they reached out to me because they remembered me and they were like that's
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the and they did an article about me and you can find it on Amazon you can find it on
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you know and and they they wrote about what happened how I Disappeared why I disappeared and they just and and now
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that I'm back I'm still I still got it and so yeah the bare knuckle um David
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Felman those guys legalized bare knuckle and gave me a chance to to to continue
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on the path of a true martial artist true discipline if you watch my fights
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they don't look like any other fights I'm not out there whing I'm not out there just throwing and praying I'm out
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there doing my Cs and it's working it's working well and and I have
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a I have a edge on everybody because of it you know because I was breaking boards as a kid because I was doing
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knuckle push-ups already when I was in junior high school because you know those things that people forgot about
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Karate Kid wax on wax off the the Power Rangers you know that was before that
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was before MMA you know we were we were we were karate kids before we were Ninja Turtles before MMA and and everybody
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forgot about the martial arts aspect of it and I get to bring it back to life nice yeah they need to call you for that
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remake of The Last Dragon if they ever do that man that would be that' be
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awesome yeah this you can play every character
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that's my favorite yeah I remember watching uh your fight with uh Mike
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Richmond and the commentators go oh he just threw kind of a sloppy punch as he
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was coming in was right after you got knocked down and I was just like come on you know that know that was it was
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straight over the shoulder like right the that was that was the
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cleanest so clean and and the crazy part about it is I've
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been Landing that against lefties I've fought seven of the nine guys that I've
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knocked out in a row were lefties soon as they wind up to throw that left hook
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soon as they wind up to throw that right hook they get smacked with a straight
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and I've been landed I landed on Hector he his hardhead but just didn't go down Mike rman ran straight into it and it
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was literally a nightmare it was it I'm glad he woke up like I said I'm glad he
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woke up it was like a train wreck it was scary for a second that that was a hard knockout I I think I was watching that
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one with Angela and that was that was a hard one everybody in America jumped up
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when they saw that like oh my God it was bad yeah and I was there for him when I looked down at him I thought he was
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dead tell the truth I think a lot of people did I mean I'm laughing but it wasn't funny
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at the time it really wasn't like like he made me he made me he made me kill
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him he was trying to kill me like he was trying to take me out and I like I I
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don't usually have to use that much that much of my power that much of my Force you know martial arts is all about
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control and when I hit him I said ah
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damn yeah so I don't think we'll see that rematch I don't think people recover from that know I mean it's too
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close has he fought since then have I fought since then yeah Chris he fought he fought yeah he actually fought Dave M
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and um he um he got back he got it bad and uh when I did the pre-fight um kind
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of um assessment of what our fight would be I literally said either Dave either
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Mike Richmond will make me knock him straight out or he's just toughed enough
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to make me torture him until there's nothing left and he got both me I
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knocked him out and then dve Mandell tortured him so like I said I don't I don't think we'll see him
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anymore yeah that's a ref run yeah that's a ref yeah and he was doing
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really well before you too and I I have this belief that once you get knocked out once it's really hard to come back
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from that immediately especially against another Power puncher so he kind of did his work for him like that might have
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been uh a decision win for him if it if you hadn't fought him first yeah it it
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was it was critical I think he took that fight just because I said he was done I said well you're never coming back and
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then he just came back to spite me but he probably should have just took my advice and just and just walked it off
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because that was even worse you know that was even worse for morale and I've seen some pictures of him he's blowed up
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pretty big and he's he's kind of happy in his job right now and I wish him the best he's a good guy um I just uh I just
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don't think I don't think there's much left left in there maybe he's going up the
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heavyweight [Laughter]
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too oh it's funny yeah but guys are amazing I'm
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getting ready to start class my people are coming in they looking like hey what's up so uh yeah I'm in Jacksonville
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Florida we do um I teach uh bear knuckle boxing tactics and self-defense um we do
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this uh four days a week uh six hours a day and it's uh it's amazing it's called
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Juggernaut Life Fitness and if you guys want to look me up look me up if you go to www. Jugger hunt.com you can drop me
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some likes check out my my veterans page and um and uh reach out to and I always text back so all right we'll do good
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thank you so much for your time thank you having me thanks for the interview we'll be looking out for your
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next one we'll we'll try we'll try by that look at that look like a look like
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a foot don't it look like a foot I'm trying to get there get it looks like it
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hurts that's what it looks look like get hurt oh man hey I've heard that before
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Jess I've heard that
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goodbye what a sign off oh my goodness oh my goodness he's the best he's
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amazing I did not know that about his past and I'm really happy that he gave
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us the time to talk about it because that's I mean this this country there are so many men who are accused of doing
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something they didn't do they end up caught up in the system for a long long time and luckily uh his um his career
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wasn't tarnished by it he was able to like take it take something bad and turn it around and turn it into greatness I I
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really love what he's doing with his with his fighting with his just way of carrying himself and promoting and
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everything that was that was a really awesome interview no he um when I got to meet
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him in Salt Lake City I was just like man we have to talk to this guy he's just he's so inspiring and for somebody
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to have the story that he does and it didn't his past didn't Define him it
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didn't break him down it it built him up to the man he is today um I just think it's uh he's a great role model I think
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he's um just somebody to really admire and hold high and I think um what he's doing is really incredible it is if I'm
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ever in where is it Jacksonville if I'm ever out there I might have to do a bare knuckle class that might be fun you
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should that could be that could be maybe a little two straws Adventure we we go
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train it we don't fight it but we'll just go train it just just pretend just
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put on the cute clothes you know like my fa has lasted a lot of battles with
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gloves on without I don't want to push M
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yeah I've been pretty lucky up to this point but I gotta say need to push it we
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don't need to push it but our Girl Beck she heals like freaking Wolverine like I
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don't know how she gets into these bare knuckle fights win or lose she'll come
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out two weeks later looking like a model she has this model look to her
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looks like she's walking around with a filter or something yeah it must be the azy son something about that just keeps
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you glowing something yeah but it's a brutal sport but I I have nothing but uh
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admiration and respect for for everyone who participates I just I think it's one of the toughest Sports it's um
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absolutely brutal but um when I see when I see Fighters like Lorenzo like Beck in
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there and they are you know they're Savages but they are technical Savages I
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I just think it's really impressive um you know seeing how um how he builds up
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the fights I expect him to be just you know a crazy brawler in there but he
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he's smart he uses um all of his technical prowess like it's it's a
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really a pleasure to watch him fight yeah it's kind of like the Conor McGregor thing you forget because of all
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the outside Antics that this guy actually knows how to fight his ass off
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and it's almost a good tactic you're playing those war games with the with the Mind those mind games and people
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walk right into that trap like uh like for Richmond we were talking about earlier so that was really awesome
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interview love talking to him can't wait to see who he's fighting next I
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know I thought we were gonna get some news I know but we gotta
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wait maybe on the next one yeah all right guys this has been
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another episode of two straws uh we'll keep them coming with our our bi-weekly
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check-in and our uh bi-weekly interviews so see y' I know right
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so so far yet so near uh we'll see you next time let us know who you want us to
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interview next and hopefully we'll have their contact information by see you next time
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