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Victory lap w/ Alice Ardelean after 1st UFC Win and 50K bonus!
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Jun 16, 2025
Alice Aredelean aka "Tiktok girl" joined us this week fresh off her #UFCVegas107 win! She shared with us how she overcame the rough start, accidentally becoming an influencer by making a funny face and her hopes for the near future. She seems to be thriving in her new found gym home in Orlando, Fusion MMA, join in the convo and help congratulate her on her big FOTN win! Powered by Duelbits. Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join
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hello hi hi hi hey good to see you to the show thanks for the invite on your big win congratulations
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how are you feeling i feel great you know like after two losses and a win it's it's really unreal
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and uh yeah but i'm like a bit sick you know how it is after you eat everything and
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what have you been eating everything that i put my hands on literally gone
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how are you guys can't complain it's i mean i can't i was just complaining actually
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it's a little gloomy in california we're just you know we're used to the nice weather so it's
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just it's terrible right now oh i'm in uk you know it was raining all day today cold
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yeah it's like normal for you right yeah i mean i loved orlando though no rain no everything it's
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sunny and stuff yeah yeah so how long have you been out there you're at fusion mma um for i think
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i went there in march okay and for my last fight before the last one i was only there for three
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weeks before my fight but this time i just uh even before i had the you know i find that find out that
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i have a fight and i'm just gonna go there train and enjoy myself but then meanwhile the fight came
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and i'm like oh how convenient so three months uh what did you choose that gym yeah that's what i
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was gonna say is that like a new family new gym family of yours um so i think last year
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or maybe two years ago after I won my EFC belt in South Africa
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Phil Rowe, he fights in the UFC. So he was messaging me, oh, congratulations, stuff like that
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So I started to talk to him. And he was showing me where he trains
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He was telling me about the gym. And, yeah, we just made friends online
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And then I added the coach over there. Then I've seen that Hannah was training there as well
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I know Hannah because she fought one of my Romanian friends, Belbica, in the UFC
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So I kind of knew who's training there. And I think I went for the first time for two weeks to try it out
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And I was like super impressed because that training is just another level
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And I guess everywhere in U.S. compared to like Birmingham, Birmingham, England, or Romania, it's just another level
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I can't even, I mean, three months. Look at just three months and compared to my last part
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it's massive difference. You looked great. You looked amazing. Thank you. Proxy was definitely on point
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You were beating Dos Santos to the punch, you know, and all those exchanges
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So congratulations. And it earned you an impressive bonus. How did that feel
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Oh, my God. I was in a casino actually putting, pressing on stuff
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When I've seen the news. And I've seen the news. Obviously, I started to jump on everything
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And my machine was still going because I had some free spins
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So I won about $70 as well on that machine. And in the meanwhile, it was just crazy
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But yeah, that bonus was, I would have never taught. Like, you know, it's just great
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I don't even have words. I don't even have words. But for me, the most important thing was the actual win
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I don't even, you know how it is. You don't care about anything. Just the win
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Just your hand raised. For sure. It's nice to be rewarded for your efforts, though, and recognized
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That fight really set the tone for the whole Apex card. So I feel like it was very well-deserved
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Do you have any idea how you're going to be spending some of that 50K
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Do you have any kind of things that you like to do after a fight
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Oh, my God. The 50K, I think, transformed into 35 after the tax, obviously
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and then transports to pounds because I'm in England and the dollar is very small compared to
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pounds and it's it it's gonna be so like it's gonna be really small when you say 50 grand wow
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it's just great but then when it comes into your hand actually after all of that but it's still a
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lot of money um i'm planning to move in u.s uh i don't know how and i just it's a thought um i'm
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gonna look into it see like my social security number apply for it and whatever papers i need
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visa all of that so i might you know have to spend a bit in regards to that like get a place
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get a car yeah that's my plan you just gotta put a ring on it get married yeah find you a little
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a little amateur fighter that thinks you're cute no she's in a relationship right you guys just
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had your year anniversary yeah oh thank you yeah we are he was in my corner so then he helped me out
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to throw through the camp and yeah you know i was a bit mean
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that's what they there for huh yeah that's what they love you during fight camp then it's not it
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no it was uh yeah it was a hard fight camp but um ups and downs you know how it is yeah
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but it was great I felt great this fight camp I was happy that he came
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there also in Orlando to help me out because he's from England as well so I kind of I didn't feel lonely
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last time when I was by myself and I felt a bit lonely and I was
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overthinking while I was like alone in the room like oh shit
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the fight the fight the fight yeah so yeah it's nice to have that romantic
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distraction there it's always easier when like your significant other or your best friend from home or anyone who has a connection with you outside of
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fighting is is there to like kind of handhold and give you fun stuff to do outside of training your
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ass off but i'm really happy for you and i gotta say when they first announced that you were getting
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signed to the ufc i was like who is this girl like another influencer signing like what is this world
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coming to but then even your first fight uh you fought shauna bannon yeah and that fight
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i was so impressed with your skills i like she beating her butt right now so i was impressed with myself as well after that cut You know what I died Like I not even going to lie
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I died. Dang. Only died. But I made it. But at what cost
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Like, oh. Because I felt it. I felt it in the fight
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Like, I was, like, super burnt out. I don't know. And it was weird
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But, yeah. But you know what? I started MMA. Nobody in my family is in anything
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I just started it because I was a tomboy. And I started it late
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At like 18 years old, 19, something like that. And when I started TikTok, it was already late
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I started TikTok about three years ago and it just popped. And everybody's calling me influencer
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But I'm like... we affectionately refer to you as i'm good like it's fine but it was mma before like and a lot of
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people don't even know you know on tiktok a lot of people don't even know i'm a fighter and when i
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post fight fight fighting stuff they were like oh my god i've been following you for a while i never
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knew you you fight or anything like that it was yeah it's so funny how that happens yeah yeah it's
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Like TikTok, I still don't understand it, but I think that happens a lot
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Like you'll post something, it goes viral, people start following you, and then they're like, wait, why is this person famous again
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They see what you're actually doing, they're like, oh, didn't know that. I know, I know
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It's a lot of like, you know, normal people that don't even know about MMA
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I got so many messages saying, oh, I started kickboxing because of you
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oh I brought my kids to the and it really I really enjoy reading this type of message like I mean
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if I can bring some joy and some you know motivation into somebody's life well good
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so even in the UFC I hope a lot of people you know new people as a new people in the sports
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came to you know to the UFC to to watch or not just me but like you know new new stuff
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in their lives um with with the tiktok thing did you ever get like any type of like
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money from doing that or having so many followers or is is your financial mostly in ufc right now
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like are you there tiktok pays right now if your videos are over one minute and they pay well um
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But my content is very short. I don't know if you need to see in just a bit of a reaction, 15 seconds video
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Yeah, exactly. And I think I posted like a funny video of like one minute and something a while ago
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And I, like a month ago. And all of a sudden I'm seeing 500 bucks
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Wow. And I'm checking like, where's this? Because obviously my videos are short
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Like I don't do one minute videos. And I remember I did post something about, I don't know, a woman saying that I don't know what
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And from just that one single video, all the money came from one single video
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And it was just like, I don't know, two or three million views, which this mean nothing on TikTok, honestly
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You can get 100 million views on TikTok. It's just, yeah, it is like that
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It's so engaged. Like, you get the engagement. and I was impressed I was like but no my main my main money is from you know shaking my
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booty what you got girl you got it I make I make money on all platforms I just monetize everything
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and you can make a lot of money on Facebook Facebook I would recommend to everyone if you
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guys have funny videos post them on Facebook Facebook pays for real Facebook pays for like
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stories anything it's crazy I would have never thought also until I actually
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got into it you should post your funny videos you two are so funny
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I've been following you for a while and you're so funny and obviously
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fighters as well I'm not even going to say but the funny stuff you post
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thank you you should be like one of those what do you call it? Like social media coaches
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So you can like tell people how to monetize their thing. Cause I don't think, I feel like there's a lot of fighters
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probably 95% of fighters don't know how to do that. It's such a shame because all majority of the fighters, you know
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they have personalities, big social medias. And even if it's not like massive, like, I don't know, a million followers
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you still make money off the views. you so it's a shame not to get into it it's just not complicated you just have to look
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what just post really just be consistent with post post post that's it even if you repost your
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old stuff i've been reposting some stuff because it's always going to new people you know you never
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know who who like what they're going to yeah it's funny what was your inspiration for your
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TikTok style or like how did you develop that? Oh my it was it was one video um I was doing some
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weird video I was crushing watermelons with my thighs sometimes and I tried one time with a
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pineapple and it popped and I was like some people said that oh what a waste of food but I was eating
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anything i love watermelon so i was eating it from there after all and i think i smashed one
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pineapple and while i was eating it i say oh i i always eat what i smash and i i did that
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but it was just out of nowhere and then yeah i don't know i always keep doing it because that
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that video went viral and there's like a meme with Shrek and you know they all side eye so that's how
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it really started and I would just keep doing it and to be honest me personally I just don't think
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that content is funny I don't find it funny I would never laugh about it some some content is
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funny but like I don't know some green screen that I do or some like in the gym ones but the reaction
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ones i personally don't find them funny but if people do okay i'll do it i'll do them i don't
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know they all expecting after like a you know um a really naughty video are they expecting to see
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my face yeah i knew i knew i knew you're gonna show up before the the video even started okay
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That's so funny. Yeah, you got to give the people what they want sometimes, right
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And the same thing happens with the stuff that I post too
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I'm like, oh, this is amazing. Everyone going to freak out and then crickets But it was funny that that video I commented on where you like oh I made it to the UFC blah blah And it plays like the song that was hopeless
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Dude, I was like, oh, that's funny. I should do one, too. And that got like three million views or something like that
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See, there you go. See, those type of videos are actually funny
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They are funny. And they are funny and like, oh, they have a bit of a like, you know
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making not making fun of yourself but like you know you're being chill like not you don't really
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downgrading yourself but it's funny it's it's it's a life story it it happened it's relatable
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yeah yeah everyone's had those moments like yeah we're about to do it and then it's like nope
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yeah i just love that trend yeah it's really good it's a good one that's great well uh do you have
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anyone that you are looking to fight next are you just basking in the glory of getting your fight
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like you know when i told beef with or anything like that i i can i don't have beef with no one
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even if somebody would have beef with me i'm just very i don't like confrontations like that i'm just
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a chill person and also i've been watching a bit but i'm a casual i don't watch i don't watch
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fights i'm i told you before whatever because i was thinking you're going to ask me about fighters
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I don't know shit about it. I don't watch anything. Because in my family, nobody's
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an athlete. Here in UK, the car starts at , I don't know, 11
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12 a.m. It's nice to see it live. You can see it the next day, but it's just not
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the same. I've watched a few fights. I don't know. I don't know. I think I have..
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There are some like 150 girls out there that you know maybe
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I don't know my mom even said my mom's watching fights before me
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my mom's watching more than me because she's you know she's very
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stressed for me so she's watching I don't know she mentioned Bruna Brazil
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like yeah she's 115 yeah maybe Pooja but Pooja's same management as me
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but I don't think that really matters I don't know I don't think it matters for you
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I mean even Melissa or Shauna that's not going to happen and there's no point really just moving forward
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what can you say? if they give me anyone what can I just say
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I'm going to say yes to whoever because that's what we do
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you want to find? yeah of course let's go is there any place that you would like to fight
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you got to fight in London before right? in Manchester my bad
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you know what I really love Apex I'm not going to lie
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I love Apex and I love the preparation there because I think
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I love a place that's like comfortable and I already fought there two times
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I know the hotels I know the stuff around And I love Vegas as well
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It's a bit dry, but, yeah, I would actually love to fight there again
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And I brought my dad as well. I brought my dad and my brother-in-law was in my corner as well
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I just wanted to be. So it was great. Yeah, Apex. But whatever they gave me, really
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But Apex, I just love Apex. Nice. You don't have any desire to fight with a huge amount of fans watching
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and cheering you on and feel that energy. Some people say that they need it, and some people actually really don't like the Apex
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I don't mind it. I like being able to focus a little bit more
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but there is something to feeling the energy being on a big pay-per-view card
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Yeah. I mean, the very first fight was in Manchester, and it was pretty huge
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I don't think it's as huge as US, because in US, what I noticed
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like MMA and UFC is very big like everybody's just watching everywhere there's bars you just
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watch UFC everywhere you go you just see UFC here it's just it's not like that it's hard to find
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yeah watching at home or and even so the crowd it wasn't I mean it was big but it wasn't
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I don't think it was wow massive but yeah it was I was overwhelmed I can't even remember
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a lot just you know Bruce Buffer that was a I'm a fan and the fact that
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Bruce Buffer was here at the last event it was a surprise
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apparently I cried I was like yeah I was really inside me I'm like
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and the first time when I fought I wanted to fist bump
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fist bump fist bump yeah fist bump him so bad because i just love him oh my god bruce buffer but i was so shy and i thought
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that's not allowed or something like that this time i was like everybody says that's the bruce
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curse oh whoever whoever fist bumps him loses oh well i fist bumped him you broke it you broke it
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yeah yeah i've noticed that it's gone the other way recently like i think the m&m curse is still
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alive and maybe the Drake curse, but the Bruce Buffer curse, I've seen a lot of people
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win after it. So maybe it's like a lucky rub now. The tides have turned
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I don't watch MMA. I don't watch anything. You can tell I'm from England
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I'm from Romania, actually, but then there's just not too much going on here
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What brought you to England from Romania? Sorry? What brought you to England from Romania
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Training mainly, but my family moved here also from Romania. Poor country and the pound was high
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So everybody came here to work. And my mom, dad, my sister and her husband
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So they're still here. They have 10 years here. and um i was living in germany as well for a while and then came here okay and uh yeah
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what's your favorite place to live i love romania it's very uh you know criminality is very low in romania i i'm just stressed and i
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don't like like i don't like this type of stuff what just before my last fight two weeks before
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my last fight when I was in Orlando my dad was home
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and they broke into my house with machetes and they broke all the windows downstairs and
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it was middle of the night when I got a phone call from my dad
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oh my god they broke into my house with knives and yeah they stole my car
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just two weeks before my fight I'm like okay wow oh my god this sucks
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so I don't it just I going to sleep thinking oh somebody going to break in or somebody going to steal my car or again because it happens It happens and it happens often It happens every day literally
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It's just bad. So Romania is very safe and I love it
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Orlando was nice as well. I know over there you can have a gun
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and if somebody breaks into your house, you can just buy. But here it's illegal to have a gun or anything
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So, yeah, I don't know. I would like to move to Orlando though to try it out you know my I want to put everything into my
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this is my last chance really I gotta make everything out of it I want to dedicate my
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everything right now because it's now or never so as far as like as if I have like a chance to fight
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again I just want to be prepared and you know have in the mind that I gave everything and if
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it doesn't work if it doesn't work like what more can i do just move on but i know at least i tried
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yeah so if you weren't fighting in the ufc anymore you don't see yourself continue competing
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i don't know if i would have that motivation um because through all these years you know
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a fighter's dream is to be in the ufc or in like a big organization mine was the same and i've been
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through a lot I guess I started in Romania and Romania is just so I don't know if I would have
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that motivation to to to even train I I don't like training I hate don't even ask I train two
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times a day I'm very serious when it comes to fight or like but I don't like to train I'm a
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chubby person when i don't you know fight i eat i just lazy but that thing keeps me alive and i
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really wouldn't know what to do with my life obviously there there is life after ufc and
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after fighting but thinking about it now i don't i don't know what i would do with my life because
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it's it's very in order when i have a fight i know i go there i do a diet i lose weight
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I like to miss food as well you know but if I wouldn't
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then it would be a bit I would just you know it's hard
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I totally get what you're saying yeah I get that I can definitely see you in other promotions
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though like there's like 1FC and then there's like I'm not sure
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if like Risen's still doing stuff but no they still put on shows every now
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I can see you being big in Japan for some reason oh for sure
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I mean I was you know a thought also before this fight
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I had a thought like if I lose then that's it they're going to kick me out because it's 0 and 3 and
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that means you know I wasn't ready for this level and it is what it is I got to accept
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it and I would maybe like to try wrestling WWE or something but I don't know anything about that but I just it's okay I was like um I might
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you know I might get into that I don't know just put it out into the universe you know I feel like
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I very strongly feel like there are no wasted efforts so even if you don't have success with
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the goal that you were targeting for something else will come along you know yeah yeah I agree I agree
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well I um when the the video that I did when I was like oh I got cut and and um you know
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pretty much thought my life was over I was 30 so you're still really young in the game uh whether
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people are going to tell you that or not take it from us you're young in the game you showed a huge
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amount of improvement you already impressed us with your debut but after the debut you continue
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to get better got a really dominant win over someone and i'm excited to see what you do next
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like even after your first fight i hit up mick and i was like yo that was a good signee i had
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doubts but he's crappy and he's like yeah i told you i'm like yeah okay whatever but but yeah there's
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obviously something there that even if you don't see it like they're making money off of you it's
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a mutual like arrangement and they're happy to have you there so i say i'm happy to be there
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yeah put everything and that's the thing with me i love i i love to fight i don't it's a problem
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though it's a problem when you don't when you don't or when you're not being bothered about
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being hit in the face because it's it's wrong you know you need to defend you need to
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but i don't care like you're getting i get it's so weird the feeling is so weird like
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she was punching me and I felt few punches were hard hard
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but I wasn't being bothered and it's wrong it's wrong I should be bothered because
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obviously the judges the scoring and all of that but I don't
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care I just like that like okay punch me I'll punch you back and it's really
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nothing personal I'm just she was nice I was cool with her
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before the fight after I'm very you know I don't care even in
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between the fight I was like whatever I don't know it's just
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it's just the fight after all i don't mind getting punched in the face and i like to fight
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you know somebody to fight me fight me back fight fight fight i don't know but i need to i need to
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obviously defend because then what if somebody it's stronger even stronger punches the out
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of me and then then what i was just i love being punched but i need to defend more there's something
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to build on after so you had this realization in this fight and it's just something to help you
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learn and grow from and you know next camp you can work on a little bit of defense oh yeah just a tiny
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bit of head movement that's yeah you can still like get punched in the face but just let it skiff
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yeah right here i kind of blocked every single punch with my face really you gotta block it with the side of your
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head just not the front i'll be working i'll be working yeah but it's better to have that reaction
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than the pez dispenser you know the boom oh yeah you were able to hit your girl with a lot
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and that's the thing that the judges really see is like if you get hit square in the face and you
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don't react then they're kind of like oh that must not have hurt yeah like ow exactly
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but yeah there's like if like the fact that you're able to stay in it and like kind of
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kind of like dog out that fight it that's that's why you guys got the bonus you know like even if
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it's not good for our health to get hit like the UFC loves that like they love a slug fest they
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I love when people are in each other's face, drawing bombs. Like, dude, you're positioned to make money in the UFC
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if you continue with that style and just maybe just a tiny bit more
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So you're not getting yelled at by your coaches. I know. I'm going to work on it
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It's exciting. I have the same problem. I'm just like, yeah, do it again. I dare you
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You know? You know what? Also, I'm having so much car tissue, and I get cut every single fight in training
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I wear headguards. Even for, like, jab sparring, I wear headguards because I get cut
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Like, I cut my eye. I cut my everything. Every single cell is just cut
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And I didn't get cut this fight. Nice. I was ready. Yo, listen, listen, listen to the story
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So I wanted to fight in a rash guard. Because last fight I got cut and my blood was going into my face
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And I had a bra and I didn't have anything to at least wipe it
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And it's blood on the skin. It's just, you know, it's thick
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And I got, I asked for a rash guard because I'm like, my plan was like, I'm getting cut
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Definitely I'm getting cut. I'm going to just do that and keep moving
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You know, I made plans. like your girl was planning already getting cut rash guard more fabric they gave me a white rash
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guard because i was a blue corner oh my god ben said don't put it back like tell tell them you're
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fighting in a bra because you know if the referee sees a bit of a blood on your shirt then and the
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fight if the fight is close and they don't have the things to point they will point that too like
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no white brush cards no it's a good that's something that you really
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have to be aware of like aesthetics mean a lot trust you just I'll fight
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in a bra if I get cut I'll just but that was my plan that's why I asked for a brush card
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that's so funny you could just flip your bra up next time just imagine
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oh my god that'll get you a time out at least Oh, I swear
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You get a ton of new followers too. Definitely. Oh, man. You're lucky that you came in after they redid the uniforms
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because there were a lot of nip slips, like, on the comic, like, in the Reebok days, like, before Venom
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There was a dude, like, yeah. Sneepy, sneaky. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God
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It's bad. Oh, man. And now you only have to worry about a cheek slip but like the nips Who doesn love a cheek slip I got the bicrest ones I got the bicrest ones Why don you cut yours shorter i expected a little bit shorter they were very long they were i know i know i tailored i don have you know when i when
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i have big ties my mom's just like that built like that so when i'm out of camp i'm like 145
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big big but i'm only big middle of my body like up here i'm just normal and then my belly
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and then my tie, my ass is just like massive but then when I lose
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weight, I don't have ass no ass, no nothing no nothing so yeah I just get the
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biker shorts and it's been a bit too sleep bad hey Jess is the same way
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she got a big white girl booty and she gets so self conscious when I lose
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a little bit of its majesty it looks like a deflated balloon
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it looks it looks good to me it looks good to me but like just get so sad you're not used to it
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yeah yeah you're not used to it i'm i'm only wearing i usually wear uh psd shorts you know
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the box the the men's boxers to train with the colored ones but when i when i lose weight i'm
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just getting uh basket i train in basketball shorts everybody at the fusion they are laughing
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about me they're saying that I don't know it looked like you're going to to play basketball
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or something like you look like Adam Sandler why are you training with so big ass shorts
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or and and big ass shorts and then shingles I look like like I just landed from I don't know
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in the gym for the first time in my life yeah that's why because I just you know
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i love it i love it and i love that they roast you too do you do you really enjoy like the the
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team energy over at fusion oh yeah it is it is great i do feel good over there um because the
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guy the guy was asking me at the last interview for the ufc oh you should come to vegas i don't
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want to take you away from your team but like vegas you know pi i'm like pi is having a note
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It is heaven or no, but I do prefer a family gym where the coach is there all the time
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taking care of you and all the fighters I find it more different I love PI I might go there to train for a week but then you know that it But you have everything there heaven like I said everything
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Every fighter's dream is to, you know, be there. But I just like family team
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Yeah, I personally hate PI. Like, it's cool to have all the stuff that's in there
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but the people are so territory I feel like I'm at like a
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dog park or something you know you mean the athletes when somebody new
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comes there see I don't even go there I don't even yeah I've just like
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I'll go during a fight week and like you know hit pads in the cage or
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something or do whatever and just when you walk in the locker
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room you're probably walking past someone like in your weight class or someone who's fighting your friend
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and then you walk out and then there's a whole team of people
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that talk shit about you. It always feels like people are looking at you out the side of the eye
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So if you don't feel like performing, then it's really impersonal. So I agree with you
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It's also a different vibe when it's fight week. Yeah, you're already testy
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and then on top of that, everyone else who's there is testy
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if they're in fight week. But I find like the Vegas people who live there
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and only train in the PI, they seem very territorial of it
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So I don't like being up in there. I feel like I'm a guest and I'm intrigued
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An invited guest. Yeah, exactly. Get out of my hot tub. Yeah, yeah, yeah
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I get you. Okay. Get out of my cage. Family gym is just..
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I feel more comfortable. I think the comfort. Yeah. That's awesome. Well, I
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didn't realize that you were out there. Charles Johnson invited me to training, but I didn't realize
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he was out there, too. So I was like, damn, next time I'm in Orlando
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I'll definitely come out. I would love to. Where are you located
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We're in San Diego. San Diego. Yeah, it's in California. It's SoCal
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so it's warm, but it's not too hot. Is that to LA or something
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Yeah yeah it like how many hours Like two and a half hours from la yeah because i was planning i would maybe love to come to you guys because i was planning to go to my nutrition coach and he
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having a jiu-jitsu gym band i don't i think you've seen him around he's been in my corner so but he's
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been helping a lot of guys with the weight cuts ben zwang uh benzy and uh costa's working also
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with him, like with weight cuts. And I wanted to go to his
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gym for like a week to see grappling and stuff like that
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I'll let you know. Yeah, come here too. You should come to Orlando as well
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I'm going to go in a month and I'll try to move there, see what I need, like social numbers
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social security and all of that. I would love to meet you guys more
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You can work at Fusion and get a work visa. I don't know
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if they still do that but that's like a way to get around like not getting married so there's a
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there's a few different ways you could get there and not have to go back home right away yeah i do
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i think i asked one of my managers to help me out with that petition because the first round is in
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miami two hours so uh yeah could be and they said they're gonna help me so we'll see yeah good luck
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with that thank you keep us posted on when you're coming back thank you i will yeah well thank you
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so much for your time yeah of course hi thank you so much for inviting me i feel very um privileged
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like thank you i think we're the privileged ones we are yes well congrats again and we hope good
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luck good luck to you you're in five cam thank you yeah yeah i mean i i'm you on a smash
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smash that's the plan smash time yeah yeah i'm really excited about that one um i still haven't
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gotten my contract yet so still waiting for that one but i'm i'm super excited yeah you're a dog yeah woof
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dog pound over here alright well we'll let you go but thanks again for your time
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thank you so much I'll see you around bye I'm on your back
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I will do
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