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September 18, 2024 • 34 mins

Merab Dvalishvili beat Sean O'Malley to become CHAMPION at UFC 306 in the sphere, and just days removed from the biggest win of his career, he sits down in an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Daniel Cormier and Aljamain Sterling! DC goes to Merab's house to talk to him and Aljo about the fight between him and O'Malley, and what that victory means to Dvalishvili and his team. Plus, DC and Merab get into what went down between him and Sean's corner, and why he KISSED Sean O'Malley mid-fight. Plus, Aljamain, Merab, and DC get into what's next for both fighters, their relationship, and how they thought Sean took the loss! #Volume #Herd

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
All right, guys, I'm here at morab D Wallace Pheley's house,
joined by al.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Jamaine Sterling, former vandamweight champion.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now today we called him Nicki Minaj because since he
went up through what.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Forty five he got all that junk of the truck.
Even though big his legs are big, This dudes is huge.
Out one five.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm in Vegas, uh for some work figured out popping
on these guys and check in. First off, congratulations Champ
on a fantastic performance last weekend. Congratulations Al Joe on
helping your guy and really supporting him in a way
that most camp look. When I was at AKA King
Velaska and I were in a very similar situation in YouTube.

(00:54):
Weren't will in the fights? I ultimately went down the
one third two oh five?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Sorry, what makes your guys' relationship so special?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
You understands?

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah, so me, I came United State as an emigrant.
You know my goal was to fight MMA. You know,
of course the venture.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
I go you have see.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
But that time I don't know much about like UFC
to how to get uf cu mm, how everything will
go so and when I so. At first I had
some fights in South Carolina, and then the streets was beautiful.
People was nice, like everybody is so nice, and like

(01:37):
of course when you got here, like everybody treaty like
I was here one day, just fight way in the
same day and go be in the fight. The next morning,
I go back Georgia. But everything whatever time I spent here,
everything was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
And of course it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
But like my in the houses when I looked there,
so clean, like not quite, I'm like where I'm in
the hell I so I go back can Then now
I was in army. I finished army and I decide
to come. After I finished, I will be free. You know,
I'm an army and my country was mandatory one here
when I finished my army, I decided to come unit

(02:13):
tested because I had with the day give me for
the fight and I emigrate here.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
But I I have a.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Friend in New York. And then and then he said,
oh yeah, I know some Jim. He can talk. I
spoke to the coach.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
He he told me that he can get you. So
when I got there, I said, it's a boxing gym.
This guy only has a girl, the whore training kids
and girls and the girls trying to lose weight, you know,
my fitness like something like the coach he did four
before he was boxed, but he's crazy now he's like

(02:50):
he's just slow. And and then then the crazy guy.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
You know, I never seen somebody in sport like this crazy.
You know, he was really and.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
And then I was feeling bad for my friend because
he did recognize this and I cannot tell him, Bro,
you're crazy. This guy is stupid. He don't know what
what what he's talking about. And I was going there
every day hitting bags and.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Changing.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
I was changing beat at in Georgia. I was already fighter,
Like why I am char Why I come here? And
I was going crazy and this guy already anyway, So
I loved him six six months later because he made
me a fight amateur boxing four times and two times
key boxing and anyway, so long story short, and after

(03:39):
I left this and maybe about like almost one years ago,
I find the CEOD team and it was the time
when al Joe finished his college and the yeah, and
he started training et CEA. No, he was good fighter,
he was mixed by he he was the guy he
studied YouTube land by buying himself and you know, break

(04:00):
the fights down, study study, study, learn when teaching us
also like something, but I mean I don't speak English,
you know at that time, I have zero English. I
just want to fight, you know, mem I want to
like real fights. I'm tired of carrying waiting boxing and
keep boxing. You know, it's fucking port. And I saw him.
He was sparing with other guy like.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know what's.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Anthony?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
No, no.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Anyway Eddie Eddie Anthony anyway, So okay, anyway, so and
and okay. When I see him, he was already I
believe six and or seven and O pro fighter. And
because because I was hungry, I need a fighter. I
need to rubbery rest. I need the real people, you
know what I'm saying. Just know I was with the losers.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I was with crazy people, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I was with like you know, like I was missing home.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
I was missing some people, you know, like and then
I see real people, you know, real gym like fighter,
like a germ is dandling. And I feel love with
him o the way, you know, because I can't.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Look up to him. He's a fighter already, I can't.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
You can start to work towards you.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, and then yeah, I just look up whatever you know. Anyway,
so and then he was the alretic fighter. That's why
I need to I need to fight in my people,
you know. And he was the guy who was training,
set up his own training schedule and spying and the
time it was.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
A big hope for me.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
By the time you know, we did training sparing Aljoe
choked me and he never wanted sparing with me because
I wasn't enough.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
So and then me, of course he makes me amble
and I'm like, I realized, Yeah, I think I have
a time fights in Georgia and I beat everybody, but
now I'm here.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, Joe, when you're starting your career as he's started
his career, and we spoke about this before he came.
You said, the first session, you guys are going and
you and he's very green, but he never stops. He
develops this s foule that he carries today as a
world champion, and it's brought him to the heights that

(06:09):
he's reached. But how soon did you guys decide as
friends that we're not fighting because out of that gym?
Right you guys both living in Vegas now but trained
out of Sarah Longo. Ray Longo still corners you guys,
You guys are still so loyal to that team.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Both have now won these belts.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
How quickly did you guys realize that this friendship means
more than money or whatever comes from it.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
For me, I didn't even have to think about it.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
It was just one of those things that just happened
naturally where we were just training with.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Each other all the time, and then when we both
just kept.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
Winning and kept winning and kept winning, that we both
started to climb to the top.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
I think I entered the top five again after I
lost to Caraway and Rafael's Rafael Sunsou and then the
Marlon Muris fight. But then I called my way back
to top five, and then I was just entering back
into entering for the first time unto the top fifteen,
top ten, And.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
I just never even gave it a thought like, oh,
we might fight each other. I never thought about it.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Was there pressure from the organization, because I can tell
you from experience when I made my decision to go
two o five was because I was in a meeting
and they said year number two or three now, and
you're too good.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
You guys are both too good to stay away from
each other.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
You're ultimately gonna get to where you're gonna be have
to fight before the belt, So I said, well, I'll
just move weight classes. Was there never pressure to try
to make you guys fight, because I know there was
an outside pressure the media talking heads are like, what
you gotta fight?

Speaker 3 (07:41):
There's no way or not going to.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
That was not till later on.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
But I never, like I said, I never even thought
about it.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
It wasn't like a it didn't seem like a reality
until I was like when they first brought out, I
was like, oh, I just realized we're both pretty damn good.
I never I never thought of it, like yo, I
have to get ready for Morob because one day we
might fight each other.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
We never a thought like that. I always felt like.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
I would eventually go up, and he even when whenever
we did talk about it, he also even entertained it
was like maybe I could see if I can make
twenty five. I like that, But I even said that,
I was like, I don't. There's no reason to go
twenty five. You don't have to kill yourself. And I
was like, I'm big for the way. I know I'm
gonna eventually have to go up to one.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Forty five and here I am.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
I would have liked to have gotten that last one on.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
My way out, but uh, it is what it is.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
You know, sometimes change comes whenever things go sideways.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Alex Perra went to two o five because he knocked
him out right, you lose your bout, you go to
one forty five. You won your first fight against Calvalcator,
a guy who's been around forever, and it opens the
door for your boy Morob. Now we got to talk
about Sean O'Malley, right, because he's a massive presidence in
both of your careers. Now, that fight that you had

(08:52):
with him came very short time after he fought interested.
You know, you were very vocal. I remember talking to
Ryan Clark and you had said, after you beat over
yan or TJ. Delashaw, you need a time. I go,
he needs time. But I know how this works as
a champion. It needs somebody.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
They call you. Then the money becomes bigger and they're
like okay.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Then you beat Interests to Huro in New Jersey, come
back and fight Sean o madley in Boston only three
and a half months later. For a big guy, it's
very difficult. How long did it take you to get
over what happened, and then you fast forward to last
weekend and you're back seeing him in that position, wearing
that belt. What are you feeling has the fighter Morob's

(09:31):
about to start, And what I.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Was feeling before the fighters about to start.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Was oh, sweet, Carma is about to happen.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
You just knew.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
I just knew because I've trained with him, I fought him,
I've analyzed his tapes and I knew what I need
to do to beat him. And there's a mental component
of fighting. You have to be mentally there. You have
to want to be in there versus someone tugging at
you and say, hey, man.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Come do this because it'll be good if you can
help us out.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
This is a opportun don't even lifetime to take his
fans like.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
That's all cool and all, but at the end of
the day, we know as athletes you have to put
the work in.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
That's one thing. Showing up is.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
Not that hard, But the hardest part is to actually
be in that back room and be like, I'm ready,
I'm full of warn of fouc this dude up, I'm
dialed in to go, and.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
Yeah, it is what it is.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
But I was in my head.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
It was like, this is gonna be the sweetest thing
to watch, and uh it was very.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Fitting for the name of Sugar, you know. So yeah,
it's gonna be very.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Smoot's so funny.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
You just hadline one of the biggest cards in the
UFC history.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
When you walked out into the sphere for the first
time it saw all of it, did you look.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Around and go, holy shit, this is crazy.

Speaker 7 (10:43):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (10:43):
No you didn't notice it?

Speaker 4 (10:45):
No, I do, But okay, when so when then I
announced this fight at the Spear, I'm like wow, I was,
Oh my, I hope I do fucked there.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
You know, I want to fight there.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
And then then so I was pushing and making all
the skis and I know Molly also want to fight there,
and then he was making all this video and then
and then when Hunter called me about like two months
ago and he told me that yes, you're fighting for
the ball and just don't do anything stupid like don't
pull out this bike, I'm like, no, how did I promise?

(11:20):
And that it was for me that time was wow,
I'm excited. I'm actually main event at the Spear and
I was happy.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
But next day I was just focused for fight you know,
but what about when you walked out there on Saturday?

Speaker 3 (11:34):
It was just been crazy.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
I mean, you are a hundred foot tall inside there,
like there's a picture of you when they introduced you're
one hundred foot tall.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
I don't like.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
I was just my I heard my music. I had
fun and I looked at people right around here. I
don't really go.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
I even saw Sean kind of go if you watch
us walk out, he kind of was.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Like, I don't have this even have that feel.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
I go there and we was talking like normal, like
you know, I was, you know, because in Luck, I
was very normal, like I had. We go there very early,
and I have to wait and I don't want to
warm up too early, and I don't want to like
nels because it's okay, now it's not time.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Where's the where's the rops? Frin at the kid that
walked me in here, I don't know is Napoto Potto? Uh?

Speaker 4 (12:21):
And so and then so and then almost it's time
to warm up and almost get ready, and I was
I started talking with Tim. Okay, let's let's talk about
the reasons why I have to read this, you know,
make myself a little bit mad or a little bit
in the fact because I was very normal, and it's
told me it.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Was like scary a little bit like why am I
not mad?

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, well exactly exactly.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
And I'm making myself like, you know, a little motivated,
more motivated and uh and I was normal again, and
I was just was.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
The fight what you expected? Or was it harder? Was
it selee like? Was it what you thought it was
going to be?

Speaker 4 (12:56):
So I always accept worse and like war, and I
was ready for I mean everything. It's an MMA fight,
and I know Sean's training jiu jitsu, wrestling, shy king boxing,
you know, and he's a top guy, he's champion, and
I was ready for everything. But but I can, I

(13:19):
can make fight easy. And that's what I did. I
make fight easy.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
It wasn't surprising to you guys that he was the
he was the underdog, Like he opened as the favorite,
but then the world bet Sean O'Malley to be the favorite,
even though.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Morob had that ability to control the fight. Were you
surprised that he was the underdog.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I don't pay attention too much this.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
I know beginning I was pav I know, ye begaining beginning,
and I don't know, maybe because I opened my eye.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, you open your eye and then you cut yourself.
It was bad, man, it was really bad. Sat White said,
you're the craziest. That's so bad. I mean you are
you crazy?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Champion?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Now?

Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:02):
So Alga, when you're in there right, because you've been
very vocal about the idea that things weren't ideal going
into that fight, watching Sean struggle in the way that
he did. I was looking at you, and you're very animated.
You were while you were you were coaching and coaching hard.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
You said you felt like sweet Carmel was coming. But
when you're watching it happen, Like, what are you? You're
just smiling from here here. I'm watching you right now.
As you were smiling next to the Afternoon.

Speaker 6 (14:32):
I was like, I told you motherfuckers, That's all I
was thinking in my head.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
I was like, I told these guys, these guys are assholes.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
His fans particularly, are just pricks, man. Really, a lot
of his fans are just pricks.

Speaker 8 (14:45):
Really, Because he started gloating and started saying all this stuff,
I accepted the loss and grace, you know, I shot
for the stars in a not so ideal situation.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
If I won great, and I try to build the fight.
I try to give, you know, help us both make
some money and.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
Papers numbers they even do that great sore, But that's like.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
The idea of the right to fight a guy that's
a big time star. You can make a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
I know with money I made fighting John Jones opposed
to what I was making fighting other guys.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
John and I had the great rivalry. We had them
back and forth.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
Like you guys, you don't say no names.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Probably my worst one was probably when I fought Alexander
gustuson Rumble, and I always did really well.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
I did really well with Steve A. Miocic, but it.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Was massive difference four hundred thousand pay per views from
John Jones opposed to everyone else, three hundred thousand pay
per views between me and John and Stepe. So when
you get the fight and the number, how surprised were
you that it didn't because.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Pay per view is hard. It's a hard business.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
I think as the old models probably go away, you did, yeah,
I mean, that's why people.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Keep stealing the damn pay per views.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
So it's really hard to measure.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
Just because people will start talking about the numbers as
if that's an indicator of anything. If anything, it just
shows how many people are actually streaming the fights.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Yeah, you so.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Do you think that charl O'Malley after the fight with
Morob and he struggled mightily on his takedown the fence.
I was very surprised, But I think it's because Marob
knocked him off of his feet every time. You know,
a lot of people try to take him down against
the defense, but he's so long that he defends.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Was hitting him at his hips and kind of picking
him up and throwing him down. Do you think that
he can correct that?

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Because you and I spoke last week and you said,
it doesn't matter how long I box, I'm not gonna
catch him in the boxing.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Can he close the.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Gap on these guys in terms of the wrestling I'm
talking to you, Aljim, I.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
Think it's just a difference. It's just a timing thing.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
So whether or not he could catch up with that,
he might have good fundamental basic defense.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
But about but when a guy shoots in.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
When a guy shoots in and it gets a clean
shot off a really well timed entry, it's gonna be
hard for anyone to stop, no matter how good your
hips are and they get in when you're throwing a
punch and you're off balance, it's a lot easier.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
What what what did you do?

Speaker 4 (17:16):
I said, he's sending it to him shopping.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
He left.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I send it to him to bring the some pizza
and something.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Oh you want some pizza. You're gonna treat yourself a
little nice.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
So when when you have a guess, you have to
fit them.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
You know, really, I'm starting to ye. But I have
what I'm gonna eat. I have already. I'm gonna go
get dinner after I'm dealt with you. I put dinner
off to come to you. How a Jorg. They give
me some cordorated It smells really good.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Up?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Hey, why do you guys both live here? I drive fast?
I was like, I wonder where Rob lives. Looked at
the left wait room, Jim everything.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Then I say, I look for Algel.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I look Algiel Mercedes Bins Tesla range Rover.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Why why is that? Like the celebrity guy, You're what
what has this gotten?

Speaker 5 (18:08):
One nice car?

Speaker 2 (18:09):
This guy Mercedes Bins Tesla because cider truck?

Speaker 1 (18:14):
This crazy guy. But most important to be a gimmy
the garage.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
You got the horworking guys. Okay, so I wanted your
boy because you win the championship. I saw a video
of people in Georgia. Did you see that video? What
does that make you feel?

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Man?

Speaker 4 (18:35):
I'm grateful because of my country. My country give me
power always and the motivation to be who I am.
You know, I'm like Georgia and you are tough people.
But and uh and we had a humple of good people.
But at the same time, we can't be motherfuckerl Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Well you said that last week you were bothered because
you felt like Sean was looking down on you.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
So, uh, but Sean was Sean was.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
It seemed like he took this pretty humbly, the defeat
to his creat He's not making excuses. He just kind
of was sprawling the next day, sprawled.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
I just watched I was when I was running. I
was listening to his podcast and then he was different person.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
He was humble And I said, okay, yeah, he was
very humble, like he said he yeah. Now now he's humble,
but this team he is coach. Oh yeah, I have
a question for you right there.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
We never talked about.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
It, so so okay, I mean I'm in the fire fighting.
And then this team mentioning my name and telling me something.
You're like, bro, just living alone, Why are you coaching me?
Just tell you a gun?

Speaker 3 (19:45):
So he was actually coaching you, not coaching.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
He said like stay patient, shoot now something, Yeah, he said, but.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Nobody said he did that in your fight. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
And then they took the clip ESPN and they posted
it and they made it seem like that's why I
threw the punch.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
I'm like, bro, I did not hear that.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
But but he was coaching.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
It was that was so mad because I know he
was trying to do the same thing, although he was
calling all the time to like something like this, and
then broke, we mm fighters, we are respectful to other
team in the fighters. You know, we don't do this
dairy ship. You know you know this more than everybody.
And then we never will do this to like a

(20:29):
coach your opponent, you know, like not coaching disrespect to
make him like do some mistakes exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
And then and I was so mad because of me.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
Now he's trying to and then I'm like, just coach
you guys, stop like talk to me, you know. And
then I and then the the pavery stuff stuff, he said.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
But the hurd Dean on Saturday kept saying, work that house?
How was I mean, I was very surprising. That was
very going on there.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
All the fans everyone pointed out, there's means making fun
of him, saying, I'm about to stand you up because
he's throwing mees, he's throwing punch.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
I don't understand why he was saying work like, I
really don't understand what happened.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
I mean, I don't. I mean, he was good.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I did you know that Saturday night?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, okay, that's being honest, man.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
I was.

Speaker 7 (21:24):
I was.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
I was very shocked.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
I mean, I don't have anything against the this two
moments when I started yelling at me and then he
stopped me. He said, more stop, I will do this.
I wish he did before I be out with me
when he heard. But I'm sure he wasn't thinking about
my name. Everything's moving fast, yeah exactly, and he don't
know like he's my corner or he's Cornell, and you know,

(21:47):
I'm sure he's not thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
But this I understand.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
When I was yelling, he stopped and he said, you
you do your job and I will, And then he
did tell after after that to stop, after he did tell,
and after the team try again, and then he stopped
him at him and okay the second time.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Was what happened in funny moment you kiss it. I
was choking and then I heard the bell.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
I'm like, oh, ten seconds, it's not enough time to
finish him.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
And I look him and kids stopping.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
No, I don't think he's gonna tell, but I don't
think he's gonna go sleep with it. But let me
make him fun of him and then and then let
me show him who was deady here.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Then I kiss him and I waited for the same
time bell.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
You know, the two referee told.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Me that, you know the time, he said, And then
and the one referty touched you. I'm like, it's the time,
and I like.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
So you take the referee? So did he touch you?
That's why you let him go? I thought you just
let him go, he said. The referee touched him.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Just let him go, he said.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
He said, hey, hey stop there.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
And then then I don't remember he touching me, but
I remember, hey, I stop dead. And then I thought
it was time you because I was waiting. I know
they just under ten seconds and then when he said,
heyy stop there, and I'm.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like, oh, it's time. I guess time. It's I don't
hear time. And I'm like walking, I'm like, what the full.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
And then like I'm sorry, Petty, I'm sorry, Like.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
That was okay?

Speaker 3 (23:09):
To fifth round? The rock gets hurt. I started when
they did that in the first round.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Then I started, I said.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Her, you need to say something, and he was like
I forgot what he said.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
He like kind of like wave me up.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
I was like, oh, now you.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
Just opened the floodgates.

Speaker 8 (23:23):
So I start going, Oh, no, your laces on time,
y'all say.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
I'm like why.

Speaker 8 (23:30):
I was like, someone, you're slipping your laces the cage
showing you too close to the cage.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Why should it take? That was coming down? You hear this?
What is that you doing?

Speaker 4 (23:40):
I'm like like, I'm like, like.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
It was it was chaos. Fifth round, this guy gets hurt.
I mean, you guys must have been like, oh my.

Speaker 9 (23:52):
God, I wanted to ask you to the fifth round
because I know you said your stomach was hurting when
you ate that that bar, so I didn't know if that.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Was from the cake.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Usually we have a good man a we did, so
we go really hard. I'll just let me, let me walk.
Of course, he was the like punch guy, punch.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
You know.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
And I wo up good and I said I have
to have a talent. And I said I'm going to
do one more again and then.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Raby for fight. And but I had good.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
I looked good and he like, make me look good,
and so I said, okay, let's move up again.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
And when I started, I'm like, I don't want to
do this one again.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
And I want yeah, like yeah, you stop, you stopped early. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
It was like I'm like, okay, I'm good. I'm good.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
I'm good, but I mean, but I might maybe let
let me eat some sugar. Oh, let me drink something.
But when they have the prime, I'm like, I hope
I want to drink this because some sugar, you know,
but like this tasty. Maybe I don't want to, you know,
you know, when you go five round, I don't want
to like feel taste dry tasty. I'm like, okay, maybe
the job would give me some you know, do they
give you a bag something sweet, you know? And I

(25:02):
did the yogurt or something sweet, and it's something like.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
The apple sauce nake. It's like a little power.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Once it is my stomach like what the.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Running like what like?

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Of course it's about the top now go you know
it's like you.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Can't ship no, not like not like that, but like
I feel it the pain, you know, in my stomach. Okay, anyway,
I fight and then and then fifty ound it's everything.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
He got me. I'm like I feel this and like
paint like and I'm like, what what's going on?

Speaker 4 (25:35):
But now, because I want to be smart, I run
make sure I did that shirt. Maybe I wish he's
gonna come and then maybe he's a nacky.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, he must have been a little nervous.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
Yeah, so he he I don't know what I was
because I was like, I can't tell that really hurt him,
because sometimes in the chair will spark and you hit
him to the body and then he'll act like he's
hurt and.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
I do this problem. So then I thought, I was like,
I don't know if that really hurt him or not.
But MA is coming hard right now.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
I was like, it's either it's possible he's really here.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
I was like, I can't tell you.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
No, he did. He did got me by I wasn't
like it, but I was extra extra careful. He did
lend the good good.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
All right, well I'll do before I let you guys go.
I got you old Star of Lawyer first. Oh yeah,
I will.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Oh funk harbor sign what is delivered?

Speaker 6 (26:29):
Let me see and you can get that at phone
called room dot shot funk harbor room dot shot eight.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Somebody give me a cup little ice? Please? Anybody please? Two?

Speaker 5 (26:40):
Two?

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Please?

Speaker 5 (26:41):
Two?

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Three you fight?

Speaker 5 (26:44):
No, we're doing three.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
I'm taking one brother, okay, three please right now? Wow,
let's have I learned from No No hold on mould
Star of Lawyer.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
This guy you have to fight him first fight. You
beat Colvincator year off and running. Now you gotta have Lawyer,
big time fight in Salt Lake City. What's the expectation
and what's the expectation if you get the victory?

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Uh, it's a tough fight.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Man.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
A lot of people are writing him off as a
boring fighter, but I think he's actually really really good.
He's a smart fighter, never really puts himself in bad
positions and if he's if he does, he.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Always finds a way out. He's hard to submit.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
Great cardio kind of honestly, I feel like he's like
the one forty five morob, like he just constantly goes.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Maybe not as good as of a gas.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
Tank, but I think he's pretty damn good expectations. I
think if I can style on him, maybe get a finish,
I think the world here.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
I think that opens up the world for a time.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Show Holloway and uh Elliott the four year of fighting,
big time fight A who do you got now?

Speaker 1 (27:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
It's such a tough fight.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Ilia is so good, He's good.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
Max looked as good as ever in that last fight
against Daiji and showed he showed the dog in.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Him in that last ten seconds of that fight.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
At Nobody thought he was going to do that to Justin,
Like why would you even want to do it?

Speaker 5 (28:09):
You're winning and.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
He's still he was like this close to getting hit
by a right hand from.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
Justin and his ducks under.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
I think it was a right left right over the top,
right on the chin and man, like I said, both
these guys can scrap.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
I don't know who I'm picking in that.

Speaker 9 (28:25):
The one thing I will say is Max's footwork could
be a little bit problematic in the early goings of
the round, but if Max starts to slow down and
Ilio starts to touch him to the body and then
finds his chin, I can see.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Eliot winning that as well.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
You're the champion now, so everybody wants to fight. You're
out running. They don't want to fight before. But now
that he's got the belt. That's how it happens, right,
That what happened, right, that's how it happens.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Right.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
You have a guy like Morob, you have a guy
like tomorrow ousman when he was on his run.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
They have to win so many fights. Want to be
in the video.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
He get over there, man's brother right there, look at it.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
You don't want to be in the video. That's how
it happens, right.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Those guys like Morale, like Tomorrow, they have to work
harder to become the champion because nobody wants to fight him.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
But you're a.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Champion and you're the hunted and Umarna Mega Modock was
showing on the screen.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Bring it here, bro, bring it.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
But then someone chill Sonny told me. Chill Sonny told me,
you said, Davidson Figaraedo.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, because he's more wiley guy, I think, and the
more dangerous guy.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Hey listen, but you.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Know I fight best, not the best, and I fight
jose Al Peter. What's the guy's name? He said, who?
And you know the other guys that tough guys. You
I'm scartled. I choose up on it.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
No, okay, I'll give you small because you got to fight. Hey,
oh you don't drinking him? Okay, let me tell you this,
not like what about to start?

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, the last fourteen years, I don't dream.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
I did.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
I did dream only be a little bit by alcohol,
like Votega Risky.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Or any like this.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
You're for Jamaican rump.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
So anyway, only only alcohol, basically dream these alcohol.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Okay, congratulations shamp on a victory al joke. I mean
two champions from that, Jimmy long Sara Longo and Chris Widman.
The work that you guys have done is now doing
in Las Vegas. Truly tremendous. I cannot wait for Utah
we get a celebration drink from the champ. You guys
got it done. Congratulations to both these boys. Hey, your
relationship should be commended. You guys really have to put

(30:43):
your friendship above all and that means.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
A lot to a guy like me.

Speaker 10 (30:46):
So it's been awesome to watch. We got a similar story. Yeah,
so it's nice. I mean, look at his life's good.
We got houses and we take care of her. Right,
They're like living right up the street from each other. Dude,
Like you don't get enough of each other. Hey, morop,
you have a wife, no no wife, but now you
just stay by yourself. No wife, no woman.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Because only career, his only career. You got a boyfriend.
All right, guys that around the wallace.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
Uh, first of all, I respect, and I mean, let's
chair for us, like we are three champions, and.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Hey, kind show John Jones was at your party. How
was that. You gotta be very care with.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
This guy, this guy, And I was like, he's good,
he's good, he's respect, he's a he's good.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
But this guy is the party goal too.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
God bless us. And it's what an honor to me you,
I mean your show as a champion now and uh
me and Aljo we are continuing.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
I will see you when you talk Algie fight. Yes,
but your nose, it's now you can say it's clearly broken.
Your people right now.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
It's broken. No, it's just catch me, no touch. It's
very shown, brother, it's nothing broke it's nothing broke.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
It's like this. They need to reset it.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
No, no, it's shown.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
I can't breath.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
I show you punched me here you will broke his head?
How you touch his head? Big respect? You are you
to do a champion? So and then now me and
you you are retired, Me and all do we are
continuing this. This journey is still going. Al Joe, God
bless God, God blessed God, bless us.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Brother, good luck to your next bike. And we only
getting better, We're only getting shown. And then yeah, brother,
I love you.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
And then it's on the beginning, man, it's on the beginning.

Speaker 7 (32:59):
And then cheers for friendship and I love how many
times like it is literally the best, like we clickt
you like when you do toast a lot like I
love this.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
I love this.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
So I'm glad. I'm glad that I have a friend
like you, and I will be with you.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
Brother.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Cheers to a long successful reign at the top has
been another.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Found that. That's that's good. That's really good. Only dream
I dream front.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
No, I don't drink right guys, no more liquor because
I can't imagine hanging out with Rob the machine the
champ both of these guys, Al Jamaine Sterling awesome guys.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Hey, hey, until next.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Time, guys like subscribe, go tap in their everything he's
doing tapping and everything the new Champion's doing.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
And I will see you guys with al Jael in Utah. Shit,
I might be drunk already. Until next time. Tell youse
friends about my YouTube champelons. I'm tapping it with guys
like this from a Rob the Wallace really his house. Hell,
I'm gonna go see Algael's gym right now til next time.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
Peace,
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