WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:10.439 Here with Gil Melndez Nada, two of my best friends 2 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:13.679 were chilling in Hawaii. Uh, Hawaii, so where we both 3 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:15.320 been a lot. Me and Gil used to fight here. 4 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.120 You've been out with fights with us out here, so 5 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:19.920 I came. We get a little mini podcasts and what 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:20.879 up Gilbert. 7 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:22.000 What's up? Jake Shills. 8 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:24.719 I do remember coming out here and fighting one of 9 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:28.039 my first biggest fights against Stephen Bozo paullin out here. 10 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:28.839 Man. 11 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.399 The Hawaiians do it well, they do it. Uh, they 12 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:34.520 do it big out here man, and the Blaisdale Arena. 13 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:36.399 We used to fight out here and a lot of 14 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:39.600 nostalgic moments over here today, you know, and just being. 15 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:40.200 Out here in Hawaii. 16 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:41.840 Yeah, I remember we would come out here and we 17 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:43.719 feel like superstars and we go back to mainland. 18 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:45.640 No one knew us, like, well this sucks. 19 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:49.200 Yeah, superstars for like a weekend or something like that. 20 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:53.399 But but yeah, the Hawaiians loved fighting, and like I remember, 21 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:55.880 they had Rumble in the Rock out here, like bj 22 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:56.920 Pen created that. 23 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:01.079 And uh and his brothers and you know Rich Chow. 24 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:03.039 Like one of the guys we know out here. Remember 25 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:05.400 just fighting out here, and it was it. 26 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.799 Was did you I want to hear the story. Now 27 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:14.879 what happened is enough story. You don't beat his ass? 28 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:15.120 Cool? 29 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:17.239 Now did you ever come out here, Nate? Did you 30 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:18.760 ever come out here in that corner? 31 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:19.239 Corner? 32 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:19.959 Nick out here? 33 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:21.040 Who do you fight? 34 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:29.680 Nick? Fo Harris Torentomento. Yeah, yeah, you. 35 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:31.159 Bought kjnunes out here too, right? 36 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:34.560 Oh yeah, kJ news out here, that's what it is. 37 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:39.239 He Mike, Mike, great, Yeah, I got I would just 38 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:42.159 clip it on the shirt maybe make. 39 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:43.879 Well. 40 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:47.400 I think we just yeah, we we missed the kJ 41 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.319 neons uh brawl out here because we always had. We 42 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:51.879 were always tight. You guys had a big brawl with 43 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:53.159 kJ without being gil. 44 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:53.840 What happened with that? 45 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:54.640 Yeah, that's right. 46 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.680 Yeah, Nick fought Nick fought. 47 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:02.439 Nickus Corrie and the and we went to uh in 48 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.879 the cage afterwards. Oh no, what happened was kJ fought 49 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:08.520 and then they were yelling at Nike. 50 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:10.360 That's crazy how that was worked out. It was all 51 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:10.759 set up. 52 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:13.080 They were yelling at Nick like getting the cage, getting 53 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.599 the cage because they wanted the Nick for his kJ rematch. 54 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:17.840 They didn't know what they were doing, and they waned 55 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:19.360 it all because we're sitting there on the set of 56 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:21.680 the cage watching the fight, and they started yelling, hey, 57 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:24.120 getting the cage, getting next, get in the cage, like yeah, 58 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:26.280 go go callmar or whatever like how they did with 59 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:28.199 ma'am Miller and then and. 60 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:32.240 Then uh and then Nick was like, funk, let's get 61 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:33.400 in the cage, and and he watched in. 62 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:35.520 We all walk in, and then they're sitting there with 63 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:38.039 their winning and they were just sacking, like what these 64 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:38.960 guys doing in here? 65 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.439 And so I remember sitting there. I was the youngest 66 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:44.159 one in there, like I was like, fuck. 67 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.360 You guys, and they were mad and they were it 68 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.879 was just they set up for fucking ruggets. And then uh, yeah, 69 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:52.840 it all, it all popped up in there a little 70 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:54.560 bit that major happened. 71 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.039 I think it was only that at that time you 72 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:57.879 were fighting for them too. 73 00:02:57.919 --> 00:02:59.919 But I remember watching on TV and I remember seeing 74 00:02:59.919 --> 00:03:02.680 you guys in there just giving the finger kJ news. 75 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:05.759 Dad was in there's a bunch of yeah, Goldberg was 76 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:07.960 in there, and Dad's no fucking bomb. 77 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:10.719 It's what's funny is we all went Mayhem's ass. And 78 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:12.280 I just the other day I thought, you know what 79 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.800 Mayhem got set up? He probably got pushed in the 80 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:16.599 cage and we beat his ass. I'm like, I had 81 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:18.680 that realization, but whatever, I'm still glad we beat his ass. 82 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:23.840 They're making they were making ruckas for good pgs. 83 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.080 But they thought we thought we didn't. We didn't get 84 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.400 that part right. We didn't understand that. I didn't understand 85 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.120 that part at least I didn't know things were scripted 86 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:31.560 or something. 87 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:34.199 Yeah, we were just young g's like you know, they 88 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:36.360 get in there, get in there. 89 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:38.159 Of course, they didn't think we were gonna fight. They 90 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:39.599 thought we were gonna talk ship, but we didn't. We 91 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.520 didn't roll that way. So we beat his ass and 92 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:43.759 they weren't too happy with us afterwards. They lost their 93 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:44.879 CBS deal and. 94 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:50.479 Uh, we'll circle though now CBS Paramount UFC just signs 95 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:54.039 a you know, seven billion dollars deal with them and everything. 96 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:55.800 They involved in that whole ship due there in the 97 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:57.199 paramount paramount. 98 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:58.680 And am I right? Am I right? 99 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.280 I think affirm that if not exit out, but I think, yeah, 100 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.919 full circle. I think you know, you'll probably be watching 101 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.800 m M A back on CBS soon, you know. 102 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:11.080 I think that's great, man, Yeah, because we used to 103 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.319 fight like on CBS people don't realize how big that was. 104 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:15.159 Eve though it wasn't in the UFC. Fighting in those 105 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:18.279 CBS cards was getting so many views like the Strike Force, 106 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:19.120 it felt like. 107 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:20.439 The same UFC. 108 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:22.439 I got to share my micae with. 109 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:27.399 Yeah, it's kind of pass you think of that. Let's 110 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:29.040 light up the joint. 111 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:29.959 Yeah, I don't know. 112 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:31.839 Like this. 113 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:34.759 I laugh because I hang out with Scott Coker and 114 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:36.839 every so often he talks about how we like messed 115 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:38.240 messed up the CBS. 116 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.000 Still, you know, like hates me. Still. 117 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.160 I think it was that Strike Force with the CBS 118 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:47.639 brawl right there, apologetic. 119 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.399 It looks at me and he's like, look this there 120 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:50.560 we go. 121 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:55.560 Yeah, that's probably crazy. 122 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:56.560 That's time though. 123 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:00.319 See let me know how Ron did on Joint. 124 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:05.439 And then when they got there, Yeah, we we would 125 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.360 love for you to come in here and get your has. 126 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:12.000 That's the wrong time to roll. 127 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:17.879 Up on the wrong people. That bag man Miller settled down, buddy, 128 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:20.360 you hitling out, we bitch. 129 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:23.439 But he took a beating and never complained like a bitch. 130 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.600 I'll give him credit for that. He never cried about it. 131 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:27.199 He took He took a beating like a man. So 132 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:28.160 I'll give him some credit. 133 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:30.560 He's doing good for himself now, right, he's doing pretty good. 134 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:32.279 I think you're doing better. And Gilbert, you got your 135 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:33.040 own fight show. 136 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:34.720 Now, I do, I do? Yeah? 137 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:36.759 Yeah, doing something in the Bay area, just something in 138 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:37.759 the Barry you have been Uh. 139 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:40.959 Scott Coker has been a great mentor for that and 140 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:42.759 has a lot of infrastructure. 141 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:44.800 So we're doing the fight show over there, fight Night 142 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:46.959 right now in San Jose Man. You know, I feel like. 143 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.959 Barry needs it, you know, just Bary the Burier ecosystem. 144 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:53.720 It's been fun, it's been out there supporting. 145 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:55.560 I feel in our account in general, we need some 146 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:57.240 more fight show shows. 147 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.199 Right, maybe you can get me in Scott cool again. 148 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:01.839 I think Scott losy what are you talking about? 149 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:02.680 I'm happy? 150 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.079 Yeah, yeah, I think he loves it. 151 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:07.519 No, for sure, let's be honest, right, Dan Henderson was 152 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:11.639 a new guy. They signed a big star, and you know, 153 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:13.439 I think a lot of times we're in those positions. 154 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.199 We weren't there to win, Jake, we weren't. 155 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.079 There to win, but we but you do, and then 156 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:19.680 that's uh, you know, and then they say the person 157 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:20.639 wasn't that good, you know. 158 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.000 Oh yeah, they wanted me to lose, so I understand 159 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:26.240 why he wasn't happy. Then we beat up Ahem on TV. 160 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:27.160 It wasn't the moment. 161 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:29.959 But let's get back into history real quick where the 162 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:31.480 people were known as the scrap Pack. 163 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.439 We're three fourths of it a boy Nicks in Mexico 164 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:34.920 right now. 165 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:37.279 So how do we meet. 166 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.199 Gilbert shoot Man? 167 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:39.560 Well? 168 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:46.720 I met Jake Shields at SF State my second year 169 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:50.720 in college. Jake shild showed up over there, and I 170 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:52.879 think we got we were friends first because, like you know, 171 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:55.319 Jake was looking to hang out and we like, we 172 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:57.279 want to go hang out and party a little bit 173 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:59.839 and a lot that a lot, a lot of bit. 174 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:01.560 But back in the day we. 175 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.399 Had VHS's, you know, like cassette tapes and then uh 176 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.399 and Jake and I and everyone in the dorms was 177 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:12.160 watching like Sheer Dog, the Sheer Dog highlight videos. Did 178 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:16.199 you watch those nigga highlight videos like with Ego about Champion. 179 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:20.319 Everything everything you can you watch? I was find we 180 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:21.560 were hunting down for sure. 181 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:23.399 I didn't even watch Choke Tilter, but we used to 182 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:26.959 watch other Anyways, my sophomore year in college, Jake Shields 183 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:29.079 shows up and says he's. 184 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:30.920 Done m M A fights and I said, I thought 185 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:31.399 I was a liar. 186 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:33.279 I thought he was a liar. Bro I said, I 187 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:35.120 thought you were a liar. I've seen every UFC and 188 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:38.920 you aren't in any of them. And I challenged him 189 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:40.360 in the dorms, you put what you fucked me up, 190 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:42.720 You put me in some pretzels, and uh, I was like, 191 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:44.319 this guy got some real stuff. And then he showed 192 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.120 me some VHS tapes and uh, what was it? A 193 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:52.759 Glandator Challenge or U? I cannot at the moment. 194 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:56.199 Right, all right, we have people try to get something 195 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:01.040 joint or what our neighbors. I didn't above us trying 196 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:02.680 to smoke. I don't think that's happening. 197 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:05.720 Yeah, But then we had VHS and I saw you 198 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.439 fighting Gladator Challenge King of the Cage, and I was like, 199 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.000 I always wanted to try that ship. I always wanted 200 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:13.680 to try that. And uh, dude, I admired that, Jake. 201 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:15.600 I admired that about you. You whoop my butt. 202 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.920 And then you took me to see the gracies or 203 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:19.040 I mean, and. 204 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:20.759 That's and that's how Nate got sucked in. 205 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:25.040 I brought Gilbert and I think Nick's like, well, my 206 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:27.560 brother has to trade with Gilbert now because me and 207 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:30.720 Nick used to we were friends, but we were super competitive, 208 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:32.320 like the best dudes of the gym, or this guy 209 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.879 at David Drell. He was just a savage. But after 210 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:36.240 that it was like, you know, me and me and 211 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:38.919 Nick were battling it out. So once I brought gil 212 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:40.879 Nick started bringing Nate and I. 213 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:44.080 Walked in, dude, and like like, right, correct me if 214 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:46.639 I'm wrong, dude, Like Jake and Nick like just had 215 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:48.440 this look on their eye like they're mad. They they 216 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:50.679 were like they already knew they were gonna be world champions. 217 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:52.159 Like they were just like, you know, when you got 218 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.360 out of the car, you can tell why we're here. 219 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:56.240 Come on, let's go. Don't fucking embarrass me. 220 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:57.279 You know what I mean, dude. 221 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:00.639 I was just right, yeah, I love I love kicking 222 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:02.080 it with Nate because where it was like He's like 223 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.799 I was like, hey, yeah, dude, he's the tension, and 224 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.399 it was like comic Relieve you guys were so serious 225 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:10.240 and like I just admired you about. 226 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:12.799 Nick earlier always easing the tension, you know what I mean, 227 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:15.960 right neck all the time, and he spooked the whole 228 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:18.799 room when I'm a kid and I have to fucking 229 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:21.600 and I was the most uncomfortable becuse I already knew 230 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:23.559 it was coming. So I like, I have to line 231 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.480 up this room somewhere. I gotta start talking. I gotta 232 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.720 learn how to talk. And training help me with that too, 233 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:30.639 because you know what I'm saying. 234 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:32.919 Yeah, me and Nick were probably a little too serious, 235 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.279 but we were on a mission to like take over 236 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:38.759 the world. We were completely obsessed, so we were kind 237 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:40.399 of lunatics. I used to get fights in the gym 238 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:43.159 all the time, but fuck man, we were on a mission. 239 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:44.320 We had something to accomplish. 240 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:46.519 They were like, you, guys, how guys are coming to 241 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:48.399 have a thing going on just somewhere else. 242 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:52.240 It's like, hey, guys, I'm demonetized everywhere. 243 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.320 So if you want to support me in the podcast, 244 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:57.159 go to fight Back podcast dot com and you can 245 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.039 buy some cool merch. I they shut him right now. 246 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:03.080 Yeah, but like they told me one time too, Like, bro, 247 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:07.279 he's like all fucking high telling me that these motherfuckers 248 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.120 are we need to go train with him twice a 249 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.320 week otherwise we're gonna be fucked. They're the fucking Yin 250 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.679 and the Yang motherfucker's preaching me all fucking loaded. I'm 251 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:19.080 sitting there at fifteen like yeah, yeah, because you guys 252 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.039 wrestling and kick box and we boxed and. 253 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:25.240 Grappling, and was like he went fucking ini yang. Motherfucker 254 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.720 couldn't get no more najay than that. He's talking to 255 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.519 a little kid out like fuck, you're right. That was it. 256 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.480 That was and then they capitalized you know what I'm saying, yo, 257 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:35.679 And then if I didn't go now and then ever, 258 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:37.879 That's why I love that fact that people think I 259 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:41.679 can't wrestle. I'll go fucking wrassle people, uh when we're 260 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:43.759 strictly wrestling on my bride year. 261 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:44.440 The wrestling. 262 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:47.120 Yeah, you know, I think he's actually really unusual that 263 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:49.879 we were able to become competitors and such good friends 264 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:52.879 because we we drove each other for competition, like you know, 265 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:54.720 me and Nick and you and Gilbert. But it never 266 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:57.279 turns like we were always like brothers the same fine. 267 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.240 We had an agreement, like we ain't fighting each other. 268 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:00.840 He should have seen how I'm madd he was. They 269 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:04.799 win mahn Miller. We fucked him up and it was 270 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:07.200 funny and after they and out over it, right, and 271 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:07.919 Nick was like. 272 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:12.679 No, dude, he fucking dis Drake when he just beat 273 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.159 fucking Dan Henderson and he was having just a moment 274 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:18.919 and he's fucking like such a nice guy, and he 275 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:20.440 was just telling me how infinited he. 276 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:23.519 Was that man, like, damn, you hate him. 277 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.960 Just got my back, Nil passionate with he like, bro, 278 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.919 this my boy like that. It was fucking but that's 279 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:33.840 just all from the work and all that made it 280 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:35.440 more like that than it could be. 281 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.759 You know, he really had my back, and that's rare 282 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.639 someone that's willing to goever matter what. And like when 283 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.039 I thought Strike Force Nick was the one seventy pounds champ, 284 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.159 it wasn't even all these dumb asses. 285 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:46.600 Would be like, oh, we'll fight. It was just like 286 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:48.320 someone asked me. It's like, fuck you, I'm not gonna 287 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:49.559 fight Nick. I'll moved twenty eighty five. 288 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:51.639 Remember on the young day, he was telling me when 289 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:52.960 he went, did your pan with him? 290 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:56.080 Because he's older than Nick, And Nick was like, Nick 291 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:57.159 would just tell me everything. 292 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:59.080 Well, we'd send him one night and he said, bro, 293 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:00.200 this went on there. 294 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:01.480 Fuck the main guy up. 295 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.320 They made me go fight with him too. 296 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:07.080 Crazy cauld he find the same guard, and we watched 297 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:08.960 that table all the time, the shooto the table and 298 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:11.039 it was so tight, and he was that. 299 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:12.600 I didn't even know he were any to tell me 300 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:12.919 all that. 301 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.519 Man, that was crazy. We were young, they're been on 302 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:18.320 a plane. They invited me to fight the number two 303 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:19.399 ranked fighter in the world. 304 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:22.720 They told me how scared he was going across. 305 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.000 I said, no, I was gonna. I went with him 306 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:29.159 a couple of times, but I was. I regretted it. 307 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:32.000 I said down like I thought you wanted to be. 308 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:33.639 I was scared to go to Japan. 309 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:35.759 I don't even think I started yet, dude, I was, 310 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:36.200 I was you. 311 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:39.120 We were so scared, bro, neither one of either one 312 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:40.200 of us have been on a plane. 313 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:42.039 You weren't even fighting over there yet. 314 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:44.759 I didn't even know. I chose like I made the 315 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:46.759 wrong choice, You know, I made the wrong choice. 316 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.720 I could be in Japan. I could have been like 317 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:54.120 a real ninja, but I'm here. I need to get 318 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:55.559 over there. What the I'm doing? 319 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:58.159 Yeah it was, But I remember you did soccer? 320 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:00.679 Remember that two in the world. 321 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:04.799 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't go down back with 322 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:07.799 that same house song, right, I remember that too. I 323 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:10.559 watched that fight, Like, but I watched that fight like 324 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:11.360 hundreds of time. 325 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.200 You know, back in the day you have fucking four 326 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:16.320 mm a tape, so you just watch them over and over. 327 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.879 Bro watched that and Nick when he fought the dude dude. 328 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:20.720 Yeah, it was funny. 329 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.200 I forget that guy, name that guy and that song. Yeah, no, no, no, 330 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:24.440 no no. 331 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.759 Nick fought the same card though as Jake, and we 332 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:28.919 watched that tape all the time. 333 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:30.960 Nick fight Jake and then he ran over. 334 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.720 So people always ask me, like, what's your favorite fight? 335 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:35.639 I say that time people are like who, They've never 336 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:37.080 heard of him? But at the time, like I was 337 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.440 a superstar in Japan. That was like such a big 338 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:40.120 moment for me. 339 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:41.639 Oh yeah, that was huge. 340 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:42.159 I remember that. 341 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:44.000 Yeah, you were there to. 342 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:46.279 Lose, exactly. I went there to lose. Back there. 343 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:48.200 Probably you were there to know they flew you there 344 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:49.159 to lose, is what I meant. 345 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:50.679 You know, no one told you that you fought in 346 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:52.879 Japan a couple of times, right name. I know Gil 347 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:53.519 fought there a lot. 348 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:58.240 I thought there, I thought there, yeah, I thought that 349 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:02.240 maybe yeah, Nick be it was my second fight and 350 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:06.159 I fucking fought the guy Nick b and pancras and 351 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:06.840 I foughtow I. 352 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:09.799 Lost the decision, and we went and saw, Uh, we 353 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.279 hopped in a fucking train. We gotta fight. After the 354 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:15.879 fight too, we got brushing down rapunk. It was fucking insane. 355 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:19.000 I got busted in my busted eye and split everywhere 356 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:22.320 like I was only fucking And then the next day 357 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:26.799 we fucking got tickets to Pride was the next Yeah, 358 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:32.519 Pride was the next day and uh and uh the 359 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:35.720 Pancraves got us tickets and so we hopped on the 360 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:37.679 train and we took a train over the Pride and 361 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:45.120 we saw Merco Cocop fight fad Or Yeah, Thomas quite. 362 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:49.399 Yeah, yeah. And I was there with a big old 363 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:51.960 busted eye and I had a and we gotta fight. 364 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:54.639 After I had got sitters. I had gone to fight 365 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:57.440 and I got busted in my big as. I was 366 00:14:58.279 --> 00:14:59.399 blood squirted everywhere. 367 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.000 I was like that may were bunting over the Citi Show. 368 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:05.120 I was walking with the uh white town from the hotel, 369 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.519 dabbing my eye on that jobs were looking at me 370 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:11.039 like what the hell happened? I'm going to train people 371 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:14.720 like what this got? We had and we're Pride watching 372 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:16.360 is awesome? 373 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.720 How my Yeah, that's a I. I didn't know that, man, 374 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.279 I didn't know that. I remember watching that fucking couple 375 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.360 of out do have the whole card? 376 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:26.960 Was it? Though? 377 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.840 I can't remember the whole card, but I think I 378 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.039 will start over and was on their showgun. 379 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:35.080 Oh that she was god bro. We were on the floor, yeah, 380 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:36.279 said Tama. 381 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:40.799 Super fought here once. 382 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:41.080 I did. 383 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:43.399 I gotta fight on the car with or once and 384 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.840 everything like that too, and do you mark hunt on there? 385 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:50.879 And uh, I gotta fight a Seeta guys know if yeah, 386 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:53.879 I actually fight Prideido against so Ba. 387 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:58.080 We fighting Canada that yeah, no, I remember when that was. 388 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:01.679 That that was we had sixty second or ninety second rest. 389 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.840 I remember like Nate was coaching me. He like slapped 390 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:04.320 me in the face. 391 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:06.759 Fuck you, like I wake the fuck up. 392 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:07.279 I said that. 393 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:09.559 I needed it. 394 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:11.200 Though Chris Vera was there. I think you had a 395 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:11.840 fight coming. 396 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:13.320 Out and they did that to me, the budget of them. 397 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:14.360 Yeah, I know, I loved it. 398 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:15.799 It was good. 399 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:17.639 It was ten in around right there. And then I 400 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:19.960 thought a sheet over there, it's in Goku, so I 401 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:22.000