August 14, 2024 • 27 mins
One of the most decorated champions in UFC history, Israel Adesanya, makes his debut on the Daniel Cormier YouTube channel in the latest edition of the DC Check-In! Izzy gets into his beef with Dricus Du Plessis, and why he doesn't "hate" Dricus, but still wants to put him out Saturday night. Plus, Adesanya talks to DC about the original confrontation between him and Du Plessis, and what that means heading into this fight. Izzy also gets into his struggles in the Sean Strickland fight and what went wrong for him his last time in a UFC octagon. And don't miss Cormier and Adesanya get into golfing, grounding and much more! #Volume #Herd
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (01:39):
Thanks for checking in with Men? The last albumand is back.
How does it feel?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Man?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You know eleven months? It's never eleven months for you?
How do it feel? It will be back now? Feels refreshing.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
But for me a lot of people were saying that,
you know, it feels like it's been three years, but
it's because I was exactly what he hasn't fun in
two months? Yeah, what's what's wrong? So? You know, the
game kind of missed me, and uh, look y, I
kind of missed the game a little bit.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Wasn't it nice though?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
When you said you said I'm done till twenty twenty seven, and.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The whole world went crazy, right? I mean we're on
ESPN talking about it. Everybody's talking about it like you
really walking away to twenty twenty seven. I have that
type of influence and the game must feel good too.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Though, I guess so. But for me just made me
realize how silly people are, how Internet's full of stupid
people by everything. I'm like, that was a joke. I said,
it's an oscar. I think as it like sarcastically. Yeah,
And I saw headlines about it, and I was thinking, like, yo,
this is they don't read the tone. Yeah, I just
let it ride. I was like, whatever, Well that's the problem, right.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So a lot of times we'll see an article and
I didn't see the interview.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So I'm like, these headlines, click headlines, click bait.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They start talking about the things that you say without
necessarily having the context, context of what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I finally got you to do this. I've been
texting you, I text you, I hit you up on
the day.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Man, I'm like, ask you every single time, because so
many people have said they wanted to see us sit down,
they wanted me to talk to Israel, to Sognia, so many.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
My son loves you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You have a you have a connection with young fans
like not many in the sport does. When you came
to MMA, was that a point Was that something you
wanted to do. Did you want to make that connection
with the younger fan base?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Not really no for me? Or was more about just
expressing myself as I do, and I guess me being
I have a young spirit, you know, and people can
kind of relate to me in different aspects of my life.
So yeah, it's nice to see that the younger generations
fuk with me.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
They do, they really do, and they appreciate the uh,
the way that you are the Naruto.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That's one of the things I guess anime for me, Like, look,
that's one part of myself. That's because I did this
interview with New York Times a phone on one, my
first one in a long time, and this was last week,
and this guy from me Times bless him. He's a
nice guy, but he only asked anime questions and I.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
But that's not like the old that's not all of
you exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's like people trying and put you in a box
and just think, right, that's him, he's the anime guy.
I'm like, yeah, that's something that I do enjoy in
my off time or you know, like fight week, I've
been watching Windbreaker it's a new one, which I enjoy
playing Deaf Champ five for New York that old game. Yeah,
shout out to Steve Luca as well. We brought my
PS two. That's the old last game, so I just
(04:30):
beat iced Tea. That was my first boss, so my best,
most favorite game on PS two. So I've been jamming
that and people trying to put you in a box
just for a reason. But you have to realize not
all of us can be fit in the box. Not
all of us are just boughts. Some of us are
players in this game. That's why.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
That's but that's that's the difference in you, right, You're
so different.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
There are so many layers to who Israel Adisanya is
and I think when people recognize that, that's when you
became the superstar that you became, because then they can
accept you for I'm not I'm not what you expect.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I'm not going to walk here to.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
The octagon, hug my coaches and go in and fight.
That's what everybody else did.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I'm a dance. I couldn't believe you know.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I said something once when you fought rober.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Wood, confronted sixty one thousand people, and I said, Israel
a sign is one of those guys that makes people
come together because they got to know what he's going
to do.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And you danced out.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
There and everybody was like wow. And then you knocked
him out. It was like I was like, damn, this
is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah. That was again special moments and for me because
in Melbourne, same all, it was a different arena. I
think when I fought silver main event because Roug got
sick and then I tried to do something and then
I was like no. But then this time I was like, no,
this is my shirt, Dinna, I'm doing this. And as
I was heading to the octagon and I did that,
(05:49):
I could feel the energy of the place was like
that's cocky. You know. Theyn't want they want to see.
The don't want to see, like you said, they I
bring people out because they want to see is he
going to do it? Or is he going to fail?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You know, there's a picture in the apex. I think
it's the coolest picture I ever broke. No, it's one
of the apex where you're walking out of the crowd
in your wall.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, and it's a crowd. Is that not the most.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Amazing photo one of them?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That is a great photo, bro because I think it
really does speak to what the UFC is. You're the star,
You're the man in the arena and all these people
want a piece of that star. But that didn't come
without you not only having the personality but also the
fighting style that drew people in. You know, you started
this thing in a very quick rate, right, Your assent
(06:34):
was very fast.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You went to the championship in no time. Sixteen fights
in five years is what you fought. What have you
done in this last eleven months to try to reset?
Because it does get heavy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I found myself defending you online because when you lost
to Sean Strickland, I said he seemed tired. It seemed
like the way that the world was on you and
you seem tired. What have you done in those last
eleven months to try to reset yourself?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Your mind?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And you're why did you go back and try to
become a champion again?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I let myself really feel everything. That's the thing with me.
I don't like to be one of these fucking heapy
checks and I'm an EmPATH. I was like, no, but
I know I'm a very emotional person. I feel everything.
So I let myself feel everything and used it. So
I hit rock bottom and again Dan told me, Dan
Hooker said rock Bottom is as good as a foundation as
(07:22):
any So I built myself back up. My mind, my body,
my spirit was never broken. My spirits always be strong.
But my mind and my body needed like to take
a break because before I stopped fighting for a while,
I think it was five fights in eighteen months. It
was too much.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Bro It was like it was the pay per views
are like ten to twelve, two fifteen.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It was like it was too much back to back
and I should have maybe in hindsight, but again, everything
happens the way it's supposed to happen. Yeah, I was meant.
It was Shawn's knight, it was Shawn's week. It was
his time. It's a beautiful story for him and for me.
It was my time to pull away, and I did,
and I went away reset. I went down to down
south of the border in America, you know, had some
(08:04):
stem cells. Uh, stepped away from the game. I followed
a lot of fucking MMA news. I just didn't want
to be like bombarded with anything to do with fighting,
just so I can reset completely. And then when I
came back slowly gradually, and then now our gym has
a whole new like program that we actually used to
like we have rest or Rest Week now well, yeah, yeah,
(08:28):
like not rest the whole time, but like the loaders
take it away very like. That's what I'm saying, and
I'll be making this not a joke, but like I
actually have breakfast now, which is something that I never
really did, you know, because I'd wake up and then
just roll out of bed. I'll the job, get to
the gym, and then I'll have breakfast after because and
I guess you can call that intermitted fasting, but I
was doing that out of just habit for years. So
(08:50):
now I actually have Uncle Muzz making me meals and
then ready boom eat, get to the gym, feel fueled up.
After that, I have a you know, snack or whatever
that kind of stuff because.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You're filing the nutrition. Yeah, Like I'm thirty five.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I understand the body doesn't work the way it used
to or metabolized things the way it used to when
I was twenty seven. So I have to adapt, you know,
and I'm sure you have to do. You had Ian
Corna helping you out all the time because ho only
you have forty forty five forty five, you was fighting
at forty one forty two.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, that was at thirty nine, forty years old. My
last fight was at forty one years old.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Shit, So that's what I'm saying. You understand how the
time will always win, but you can still delay it
if you do the right things, the little things, and
eventually those little things because they never mattered to me
back in the day. I was just like, you're like supermans,
just wake up and go do it. Yeah, I just
knew I beat these guys, but you had At a
certain point I realized, like it Israel, you have to
take account of what you are doing with your body
(09:44):
and how you're going to help yourself. Even sleep. I'm
vamp life. I used to love to be up when
everyone else as sleep because I feel like I tap
into different feelings and different energies. But then now I
actually get good sleep, you know, get my r ring on.
Lets me know my you know how I slipped that
kind of stuff living like an athlete.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, unbelievable that you did what you did and you're
saying that you didn't necessarily f out of those things.
So rivalries, right, rivalries and sport is what sport is
built on.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But there is a time where.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Rivalry can be almost become uncomfortable, right and Jones and
I had that where we talked about our families and
we got really nasty with each other some other kabd
and Connor was very nasty you and Drakes Duplessy and
that interaction between you two and the octagon got a
(10:38):
bit uncomfortable, where you guys are going back and forth
for you, not for you.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And he said the same thing. It didn't I told
Jones the night.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Before we linked up, because we talked about a lot of stuff,
and I was like, I watched this, What's what happens
to me? And he's like, you're serious, I'm might watch
this because I knew what I wanted to say, and
I knew the reaction I wanted to get from that interaction,
and I got what I wanted. He was uncomfortable. He
didn't know really how to handle it, yacuse you.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Know, people outside watching it going, I don't know why
there's a race is such as such a sis, like.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, nobody white man then on TV, like people just
get really uncomfortable. But I was like, well, even over
time now, I'm like, I've never met an African who
had to say I'm a real African.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, he feels like he he felt he feels like
in that interaction you were emotional, and that's a victory
for him.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
He can win that one. I don't really care. I'm
not trying to win those interactions. But for me it
was I got what I wanted from the interaction. And again,
like I said, if you are from the continent of Africa,
you shouldn't have to say I'm a real African. Francis
and gun Kamara, Russmann, any black person from the continents
that I had to say I'm a real African. And
(11:48):
Razak actually before his last.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
He came back and said it again.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Everybody is not really like double down on something that
was really important, which is about people who had to
leave to make a better life for themselves even before fighting.
Like Francis, They're gonna say he's not a real He's
not a real African because he had to leave, you know, Cameroon.
And Francis his story is a crazy story of all.
He just sent back to the desert six times to
die and it makes it out of life. I gonna
(12:14):
tell me he's not He's not a champion. Are you
gonna tell me he's not a real African? And he
doesn't understand the privilege he has to be able to
train and live in South Africa. Yeah, and again just
for me, it's it's not the whole thing of the story,
but it's part of it, the reason why we're here.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, and that's what tap makes people tap it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Who who?
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Speaker 1 (14:06):
Slash MMA.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I gotta be honest with you, and I told this
to Dracus too. I said, my family, my family are.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
My family. They hate him.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
They hate him based on the things that you said
because we're black, right, So that became a part of
the story. But ultimately, while I don't know if you
have real hard feelings towards Dracus.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
He says he doesn't have any towards you. But at
the end of the day, it draws people in, right,
because that extra something to the fight is.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
What's making people. I got to see these two dudes
that hate each other fight. What are your feelings about
Drake's duplus.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't feel any way about him. I don't hate
him as a person. I met him years ago in
Thailand and his brother. They were lovely. They were really
I think they were fans by then, probably, But yeah,
I'm not a guy who harbor's hate like that for someone.
But what he said was blasphemous, and I'll make him
take accountability for that. Even yesterday I saw his coach.
(15:11):
He winked at me and walked out to him, shook
his hand, shook his team's hand, saw his brother and
his wife. You know, it's this is this is the
game we play. You know we're gonna go in there
and settle the score. But before that, me and him personally,
we have our own I think it's just too He's
the champion right now, so I have a big spirence well,
(15:32):
big energy. I am is so this is always going
to be like a top of my back and then
with that comes this a clash. It's like two you know,
two alphas, just like looking at each other through the fence. Okay,
let's go then, yeah, that's what this is about. Do
you love that though? Do you like? Isn't that the best?
Isn't that the best?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Like the dad, that energy between two guys that feel
like I want to show that I'm the man, right, like.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
When you made it, when you first started, you pissed
on the cage.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, that was the craziest thing ever, right because it
was almost.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Like you're a market in your yard.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And ultimately for it to become a reality show, yes, yes,
but it's that energy, right, and that energy is what
athletes love and that's where we live at and we
love being in those moments. But to come back and
become the champion again, you'd be the three time undisputed
middleweight champion of world. John Jones has done that, Randy
(16:24):
Coltour has done that. Look, it's insane when you start
talking about accomplishments, right, and becoming a double champion, which
Henry me Connor mandadd is more common than someone winning
a belt three times. You're up against a massive it's
a massive thing to do because nobody's done it. What
(16:46):
have you done to prepare yourself to not only go
win a belt again, but to make history because it
doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I didn't really prepare to win the belt or make history.
I'm just preparing to kill this guy. That's what I've done.
And you've seen me whenever my whenever people doubt me,
or whenever I feel like people forget because again this
is gonna happen. I'll take this guy's head off and
they'll be like, damn, fuck, he's really Damn I forgot
He's really there, Dude, man, I forgot because it's all
my struggling find people forget straight away. They just forget
(17:14):
the classics I've given them. But then when I go
in there this weekend, I do what I do, then
they're gonna be like, how did I fucking how did
I not see this? It's in hindsight. They're like, I
thought Drinkers was gonna just take him down to maul
him like it would have cut like he did Darran
till it's like, nah, it's a different beast. You're messing
with this time again, this is this is something that
(17:35):
has a little friction to it, has a little friction
to it, like Paul Acosta. Yeah, exactly put it. Look
even the fact that the people were telling me like, oh,
he's scared, he's this is my look. Alex beat me
on the biggest stage in the world, Madison Square Garden,
you know, and then he beat me for the third
time in a different code mma because he chased me
unto me down, and I was just like, hey, Dana,
(17:57):
let's do that shit again. Let's right away. Like for me,
I know what I can do. I know when I
can beat someone, and I know when I have that,
I know it has a little spice to it, and
I have that. I'm spicy this weekend with this one
with dracers.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Did you ever expect him to become the champion?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Because I gotta be honest, man, I was openly hard
on him because he does things so awkwardly at times
that I never thought he would reach this level.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But now I'm like, he must.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Be really really good at what he does, at what
he does because of being He's beat everybody, and what
do you mean he's good to being ship because he
has everything not everything.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
A lot of things he does I won't even say textbook,
they don't make sense. But again, this is arts, martial arts,
and for him, he's the artist of his style and
he makes it work. So it wasn't until he beat
Darren till that I was like, okay, then I have
to really pay attention to this guy. Then I started
to pay attention. And when he thought Rob I was
front the center and I was like, okay, I was
(18:54):
kind of coaching him in my head. And then when
he dropped him, I think I was the only one
in the arena who stood up on one of the
only few. So I respect his style at being awkward
and being I guess disillusion in the way he bridges
the gap, the way he sneaks his foot, all these
little details I've taken, I've taken into account.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But does that style open opportunities for you because you're
so tremendous at countering Like it seems as though if
the style he thought Sean strickland with was he beat
him with pressure and he overwhelmed him with activity. Right
while neither one of them was landing all that much,
Sean was landing more strikes, but Dracus was throwing more,
(19:37):
and he was the one that was on the gas.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
He was always forward.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That style would seem to lend itself to you landing
something very bad on him, because everybody thinks that Kelvin
Gaston was able to pressure heat. But then when they
all try it, they get knocked out or they get
themselves hurt because they're like, Kevin got big and that
last round you beat him.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Bat and he had to pull you bad awkward steps.
But I'm drikas uh. Look, he's gonna shoot. I'm gonna
stuff it. He's gonna feel me, he's gonna pressure. It's
gonna be throwing on wall strikes, haymakers. But I'm dialed in.
I'm really locked in for this song. So I'll find
the shot. I'll find the shot at some point within
the first two rounds, maybe three. But I believe he's
(20:21):
a tough guy. That's the thing. He can take a
lot of punishment. Yeah, but the thing is that only
last for so long. I'm a tough guy too. I
know I've got a chin on me. Yeah, I know
I've got a chin on me, but I don't use
it to fight. I don't like, let me take two
to give him five. That's not my style of fighting.
I hit and don't get hit. That's the name of
the game I like to play. But when he's shooting
for a takedown, or when he's blitzing, or he's trying
(20:43):
to chase me down, he's gonna find out.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I got a couple more before I let you go one.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
In that Gaslom fight, he became a doll like that
last round you said he kind of dogged up, like
I'm getting this done against Pereira.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
When he was kicking you in the leg, he seen
heavy stuff. You got him with the right hand, dogged up.
You're thirty five years old, You've made a ton of money,
you've been the champ, You've done everything. How do you
pull yourself to that place again? How do you dog up?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You wore a dog collar in Miami right for the
Parira fight.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That was gently unleashed. Yeah for this one for a
dog up again like that?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
If it goes to that place, how do you Israel
Outissanya do that?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
When you got everything, I don't have everything. And again, look,
I've done this, done that, bought the T shirt. It's
not about all that. And when I said that initially,
I was like, fuck the belt, I'm coming for his head.
People don't understand that because they've never done what we've done. Yeah,
so for me, it's not about the belts. It's about Dricis.
(21:49):
He is a champ right now. He's the greatest in
South Africa. Cool. Let me test that. That's what that's about.
And now again with everyone forgetting who I am. Not everyone,
but you know, I won't even say it's everyone from me.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
That motivates you. I can tell that that bothers you
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
A little bit. It does, it does, but it's not
the main fuel. This is my main fuel. The people
around me. They're the ones that give me the energy.
They're the ones I focus on. But you know what
I mean, during a fight, I like to sip a
little bit of venom just to just to you know,
get a little taste. But yeah, how I do it.
I've done it before and I'll do it again. And
I know how. It's not about the age, it's just
the experience. I trust myself. I trust myself to when
(22:27):
I'm in there and he's across from me and I
have to activate myself, I can. I watched The Purified
again last night, was on YouTube and I was just
like scrolling past and I washed it. There's certain sequences.
I was just like I was making the move back. Yeah,
I was really pushing them back. And for me, I'm
so happy with what he's doing right now. I'm like, bro,
you believe how good this dude today? Time? It's crazy? Bro. Bro.
(22:51):
Every time I found him, I knew I could get
him until he got me, and then now here we are.
I hope he retires killing these Yeah. When I told
him good luck, I certainly wanted. I was like, oh,
are you good luck?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
You know he's huge?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
How did he make eighty five? A man?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
All of you guys, you look like a big eighty
five palmer. Now you have it almost You're not as
small as you're not as skinny as.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You were back and then still I'm still skinny. I'm
like wiry, but I'm yeah, I just feel like I've
put on some some good muscle, like useful muscle, not
really useless. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So outside of the octagon, outside of the fighting, the
YouTube channels doing tremendous businesses, is doing great, Like, how's
life for Izzy outside? Because that's that is what people
want to know, right, We don't get to see that much.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
We get to see you.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
On the couch reacting to stuff, which is always fucking amazing,
But we don't get to see Izzy outside of Like,
how's life for ISRAELISNYA outside of the octagon.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It's true, It's true. I like to keep to myself.
I'm not going to be a social butterfly. But I
like to be on my couch. That's part of my
couch is my favorite spot on the planet. No matter
where I'm at. There'll be some point later on maybe Monday, Tuesday,
I'll be like, you know what, I just want to
be on my couch right now. That's my spot.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
And also, you know, dude, they told me you're playing
golf now, yeah, I mean I'm playing this week.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I brought my clothes, you did, I bought my clothes. Like,
there's a driving range out here. I've been two once,
but look, I like the pace of the green. It's different. Yes,
I'm the guy that takes my shoes off because I
like to feel there. You play golf with no shoes on? Yeah,
on the green. I've never seen that.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Well for everything, so I can earth, so I can
like connect to the Hey, you know you ever hear
the grounding grounded? Very what I'm doing, bro?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I got I got some of my couple of guys
that I'm in business with. Yeah, they sent me grounding sheets.
They were owning bed sheets, they swear by. Then I
laughed at them, you have them.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I use it for three weeks and I waited to
see what I wanted to see. Is it a placebo?
That shit works? Bro?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
They one of the guys says that he hasn't.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It goes.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The thing goes out to his yard because he wants
to be connected to the earth, to the earth all
the time.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Even when I was doing that welcome to ceremony yesterday,
took my shoes off and I connected to the earth
in front of the original people of the land, just
so I can feel more, you know, more directly connected
to them because this is their land.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
That's because I was making fun of these dudes.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The groundish. Now it works. It sounds like some it doesn't. Yeah,
it works like we're electrical beans. We're eighty percent water. Yeah,
so we're very conductive. And then we have all these things.
Because sometimes you'll be in camper, you think, when's the
last time I touched the tree. When's the last time
I touched the ground? You don't realize it's been Oh,
she has been four weeks, six weeks since I've touched
(25:35):
the ground. So because you go to the gym house,
gym house, car, you know, so you have to. It's
always good. I employ everybody. Please just go touch some grass.
Take your shoes off, and you want some grass. They
said forty five.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Minutes a day.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
We're supposed to be connected to the earth exactly for
us to be good. I'm gonna start taking my shoes
off on the grill. I'm gonna kick Tim's ass. I'm
that guy. You're mad your what does him and his
brother told me about the club that their dad's a
member of. I'm taking them. I'm taking them dudes out
there and I'm smashing these dudes. It's not good, but
(26:13):
it's affective my back. It's not good that it's effective.
You know how to work around it. I know how
to work around I got about a half swing that
works for me. All right, Champ, thank you so much
for checking with me. I appreciate you guys. Guys Israel
sognya though, don't it's okay, It's all right. Israel Sonya
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Speaker 3 (01:39):
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How does it feel?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Man?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You know eleven months? It's never eleven months for you?
How do it feel? It will be back now? Feels refreshing.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
But for me a lot of people were saying that,
you know, it feels like it's been three years, but
it's because I was exactly what he hasn't fun in
two months? Yeah, what's what's wrong? So? You know, the
game kind of missed me, and uh, look y, I
kind of missed the game a little bit.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Wasn't it nice though?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
When you said you said I'm done till twenty twenty seven, and.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The whole world went crazy, right? I mean we're on
ESPN talking about it. Everybody's talking about it like you
really walking away to twenty twenty seven. I have that
type of influence and the game must feel good too.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Though, I guess so. But for me just made me
realize how silly people are, how Internet's full of stupid
people by everything. I'm like, that was a joke. I said,
it's an oscar. I think as it like sarcastically. Yeah,
And I saw headlines about it, and I was thinking, like, yo,
this is they don't read the tone. Yeah, I just
let it ride. I was like, whatever, Well that's the problem, right.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So a lot of times we'll see an article and
I didn't see the interview.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So I'm like, these headlines, click headlines, click bait.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They start talking about the things that you say without
necessarily having the context, context of what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I finally got you to do this. I've been
texting you, I text you, I hit you up on
the day.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Man, I'm like, ask you every single time, because so
many people have said they wanted to see us sit down,
they wanted me to talk to Israel, to Sognia, so many.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
My son loves you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You have a you have a connection with young fans
like not many in the sport does. When you came
to MMA, was that a point Was that something you
wanted to do. Did you want to make that connection
with the younger fan base?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Not really no for me? Or was more about just
expressing myself as I do, and I guess me being
I have a young spirit, you know, and people can
kind of relate to me in different aspects of my life.
So yeah, it's nice to see that the younger generations
fuk with me.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
They do, they really do, and they appreciate the uh,
the way that you are the Naruto.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That's one of the things I guess anime for me, Like, look,
that's one part of myself. That's because I did this
interview with New York Times a phone on one, my
first one in a long time, and this was last week,
and this guy from me Times bless him. He's a
nice guy, but he only asked anime questions and I.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
But that's not like the old that's not all of
you exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's like people trying and put you in a box
and just think, right, that's him, he's the anime guy.
I'm like, yeah, that's something that I do enjoy in
my off time or you know, like fight week, I've
been watching Windbreaker it's a new one, which I enjoy
playing Deaf Champ five for New York that old game. Yeah,
shout out to Steve Luca as well. We brought my
PS two. That's the old last game, so I just
(04:30):
beat iced Tea. That was my first boss, so my best,
most favorite game on PS two. So I've been jamming
that and people trying to put you in a box
just for a reason. But you have to realize not
all of us can be fit in the box. Not
all of us are just boughts. Some of us are
players in this game. That's why.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
That's but that's that's the difference in you, right, You're
so different.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
There are so many layers to who Israel Adisanya is
and I think when people recognize that, that's when you
became the superstar that you became, because then they can
accept you for I'm not I'm not what you expect.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I'm not going to walk here to.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
The octagon, hug my coaches and go in and fight.
That's what everybody else did.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I'm a dance. I couldn't believe you know.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I said something once when you fought rober.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Wood, confronted sixty one thousand people, and I said, Israel
a sign is one of those guys that makes people
come together because they got to know what he's going
to do.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And you danced out.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
There and everybody was like wow. And then you knocked
him out. It was like I was like, damn, this
is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah. That was again special moments and for me because
in Melbourne, same all, it was a different arena. I
think when I fought silver main event because Roug got
sick and then I tried to do something and then
I was like no. But then this time I was like, no,
this is my shirt, Dinna, I'm doing this. And as
I was heading to the octagon and I did that,
(05:49):
I could feel the energy of the place was like
that's cocky. You know. Theyn't want they want to see.
The don't want to see, like you said, they I
bring people out because they want to see is he
going to do it? Or is he going to fail?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You know, there's a picture in the apex. I think
it's the coolest picture I ever broke. No, it's one
of the apex where you're walking out of the crowd
in your wall.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, and it's a crowd. Is that not the most.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Amazing photo one of them?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That is a great photo, bro because I think it
really does speak to what the UFC is. You're the star,
You're the man in the arena and all these people
want a piece of that star. But that didn't come
without you not only having the personality but also the
fighting style that drew people in. You know, you started
this thing in a very quick rate, right, Your assent
(06:34):
was very fast.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You went to the championship in no time. Sixteen fights
in five years is what you fought. What have you
done in this last eleven months to try to reset?
Because it does get heavy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I found myself defending you online because when you lost
to Sean Strickland, I said he seemed tired. It seemed
like the way that the world was on you and
you seem tired. What have you done in those last
eleven months to try to reset yourself?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Your mind?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And you're why did you go back and try to
become a champion again?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I let myself really feel everything. That's the thing with me.
I don't like to be one of these fucking heapy
checks and I'm an EmPATH. I was like, no, but
I know I'm a very emotional person. I feel everything.
So I let myself feel everything and used it. So
I hit rock bottom and again Dan told me, Dan
Hooker said rock Bottom is as good as a foundation as
(07:22):
any So I built myself back up. My mind, my body,
my spirit was never broken. My spirits always be strong.
But my mind and my body needed like to take
a break because before I stopped fighting for a while,
I think it was five fights in eighteen months. It
was too much.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Bro It was like it was the pay per views
are like ten to twelve, two fifteen.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It was like it was too much back to back
and I should have maybe in hindsight, but again, everything
happens the way it's supposed to happen. Yeah, I was meant.
It was Shawn's knight, it was Shawn's week. It was
his time. It's a beautiful story for him and for me.
It was my time to pull away, and I did,
and I went away reset. I went down to down
south of the border in America, you know, had some
(08:04):
stem cells. Uh, stepped away from the game. I followed
a lot of fucking MMA news. I just didn't want
to be like bombarded with anything to do with fighting,
just so I can reset completely. And then when I
came back slowly gradually, and then now our gym has
a whole new like program that we actually used to
like we have rest or Rest Week now well, yeah, yeah,
(08:28):
like not rest the whole time, but like the loaders
take it away very like. That's what I'm saying, and
I'll be making this not a joke, but like I
actually have breakfast now, which is something that I never
really did, you know, because I'd wake up and then
just roll out of bed. I'll the job, get to
the gym, and then I'll have breakfast after because and
I guess you can call that intermitted fasting, but I
was doing that out of just habit for years. So
(08:50):
now I actually have Uncle Muzz making me meals and
then ready boom eat, get to the gym, feel fueled up.
After that, I have a you know, snack or whatever
that kind of stuff because.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You're filing the nutrition. Yeah, Like I'm thirty five.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I understand the body doesn't work the way it used
to or metabolized things the way it used to when
I was twenty seven. So I have to adapt, you know,
and I'm sure you have to do. You had Ian
Corna helping you out all the time because ho only
you have forty forty five forty five, you was fighting
at forty one forty two.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, that was at thirty nine, forty years old. My
last fight was at forty one years old.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Shit, So that's what I'm saying. You understand how the
time will always win, but you can still delay it
if you do the right things, the little things, and
eventually those little things because they never mattered to me
back in the day. I was just like, you're like supermans,
just wake up and go do it. Yeah, I just
knew I beat these guys, but you had At a
certain point I realized, like it Israel, you have to
take account of what you are doing with your body
(09:44):
and how you're going to help yourself. Even sleep. I'm
vamp life. I used to love to be up when
everyone else as sleep because I feel like I tap
into different feelings and different energies. But then now I
actually get good sleep, you know, get my r ring on.
Lets me know my you know how I slipped that
kind of stuff living like an athlete.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, unbelievable that you did what you did and you're
saying that you didn't necessarily f out of those things.
So rivalries, right, rivalries and sport is what sport is
built on.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But there is a time where.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Rivalry can be almost become uncomfortable, right and Jones and
I had that where we talked about our families and
we got really nasty with each other some other kabd
and Connor was very nasty you and Drakes Duplessy and
that interaction between you two and the octagon got a
(10:38):
bit uncomfortable, where you guys are going back and forth
for you, not for you.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And he said the same thing. It didn't I told
Jones the night.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Before we linked up, because we talked about a lot of stuff,
and I was like, I watched this, What's what happens
to me? And he's like, you're serious, I'm might watch
this because I knew what I wanted to say, and
I knew the reaction I wanted to get from that interaction,
and I got what I wanted. He was uncomfortable. He
didn't know really how to handle it, yacuse you.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Know, people outside watching it going, I don't know why
there's a race is such as such a sis, like.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, nobody white man then on TV, like people just
get really uncomfortable. But I was like, well, even over
time now, I'm like, I've never met an African who
had to say I'm a real African.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, he feels like he he felt he feels like
in that interaction you were emotional, and that's a victory
for him.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
He can win that one. I don't really care. I'm
not trying to win those interactions. But for me it
was I got what I wanted from the interaction. And again,
like I said, if you are from the continent of Africa,
you shouldn't have to say I'm a real African. Francis
and gun Kamara, Russmann, any black person from the continents
that I had to say I'm a real African. And
(11:48):
Razak actually before his last.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
He came back and said it again.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Everybody is not really like double down on something that
was really important, which is about people who had to
leave to make a better life for themselves even before fighting.
Like Francis, They're gonna say he's not a real He's
not a real African because he had to leave, you know, Cameroon.
And Francis his story is a crazy story of all.
He just sent back to the desert six times to
die and it makes it out of life. I gonna
(12:14):
tell me he's not He's not a champion. Are you
gonna tell me he's not a real African? And he
doesn't understand the privilege he has to be able to
train and live in South Africa. Yeah, and again just
for me, it's it's not the whole thing of the story,
but it's part of it, the reason why we're here.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, and that's what tap makes people tap it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Who who?
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Slash MMA.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I gotta be honest with you, and I told this
to Dracus too. I said, my family, my family are.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
My family. They hate him.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
They hate him based on the things that you said
because we're black, right, So that became a part of
the story. But ultimately, while I don't know if you
have real hard feelings towards Dracus.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
He says he doesn't have any towards you. But at
the end of the day, it draws people in, right,
because that extra something to the fight is.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
What's making people. I got to see these two dudes
that hate each other fight. What are your feelings about
Drake's duplus.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't feel any way about him. I don't hate
him as a person. I met him years ago in
Thailand and his brother. They were lovely. They were really
I think they were fans by then, probably, But yeah,
I'm not a guy who harbor's hate like that for someone.
But what he said was blasphemous, and I'll make him
take accountability for that. Even yesterday I saw his coach.
(15:11):
He winked at me and walked out to him, shook
his hand, shook his team's hand, saw his brother and
his wife. You know, it's this is this is the
game we play. You know we're gonna go in there
and settle the score. But before that, me and him personally,
we have our own I think it's just too He's
the champion right now, so I have a big spirence well,
(15:32):
big energy. I am is so this is always going
to be like a top of my back and then
with that comes this a clash. It's like two you know,
two alphas, just like looking at each other through the fence. Okay,
let's go then, yeah, that's what this is about. Do
you love that though? Do you like? Isn't that the best?
Isn't that the best?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Like the dad, that energy between two guys that feel
like I want to show that I'm the man, right, like.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
When you made it, when you first started, you pissed
on the cage.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, that was the craziest thing ever, right because it
was almost.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Like you're a market in your yard.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And ultimately for it to become a reality show, yes, yes,
but it's that energy, right, and that energy is what
athletes love and that's where we live at and we
love being in those moments. But to come back and
become the champion again, you'd be the three time undisputed
middleweight champion of world. John Jones has done that, Randy
(16:24):
Coltour has done that. Look, it's insane when you start
talking about accomplishments, right, and becoming a double champion, which
Henry me Connor mandadd is more common than someone winning
a belt three times. You're up against a massive it's
a massive thing to do because nobody's done it. What
(16:46):
have you done to prepare yourself to not only go
win a belt again, but to make history because it
doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I didn't really prepare to win the belt or make history.
I'm just preparing to kill this guy. That's what I've done.
And you've seen me whenever my whenever people doubt me,
or whenever I feel like people forget because again this
is gonna happen. I'll take this guy's head off and
they'll be like, damn, fuck, he's really Damn I forgot
He's really there, Dude, man, I forgot because it's all
my struggling find people forget straight away. They just forget
(17:14):
the classics I've given them. But then when I go
in there this weekend, I do what I do, then
they're gonna be like, how did I fucking how did
I not see this? It's in hindsight. They're like, I
thought Drinkers was gonna just take him down to maul
him like it would have cut like he did Darran
till it's like, nah, it's a different beast. You're messing
with this time again, this is this is something that
(17:35):
has a little friction to it, has a little friction
to it, like Paul Acosta. Yeah, exactly put it. Look
even the fact that the people were telling me like, oh,
he's scared, he's this is my look. Alex beat me
on the biggest stage in the world, Madison Square Garden,
you know, and then he beat me for the third
time in a different code mma because he chased me
unto me down, and I was just like, hey, Dana,
(17:57):
let's do that shit again. Let's right away. Like for me,
I know what I can do. I know when I
can beat someone, and I know when I have that,
I know it has a little spice to it, and
I have that. I'm spicy this weekend with this one
with dracers.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Did you ever expect him to become the champion?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Because I gotta be honest, man, I was openly hard
on him because he does things so awkwardly at times
that I never thought he would reach this level.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But now I'm like, he must.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Be really really good at what he does, at what
he does because of being He's beat everybody, and what
do you mean he's good to being ship because he
has everything not everything.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
A lot of things he does I won't even say textbook,
they don't make sense. But again, this is arts, martial arts,
and for him, he's the artist of his style and
he makes it work. So it wasn't until he beat
Darren till that I was like, okay, then I have
to really pay attention to this guy. Then I started
to pay attention. And when he thought Rob I was
front the center and I was like, okay, I was
(18:54):
kind of coaching him in my head. And then when
he dropped him, I think I was the only one
in the arena who stood up on one of the
only few. So I respect his style at being awkward
and being I guess disillusion in the way he bridges
the gap, the way he sneaks his foot, all these
little details I've taken, I've taken into account.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But does that style open opportunities for you because you're
so tremendous at countering Like it seems as though if
the style he thought Sean strickland with was he beat
him with pressure and he overwhelmed him with activity. Right
while neither one of them was landing all that much,
Sean was landing more strikes, but Dracus was throwing more,
(19:37):
and he was the one that was on the gas.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
He was always forward.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That style would seem to lend itself to you landing
something very bad on him, because everybody thinks that Kelvin
Gaston was able to pressure heat. But then when they
all try it, they get knocked out or they get
themselves hurt because they're like, Kevin got big and that
last round you beat him.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Bat and he had to pull you bad awkward steps.
But I'm drikas uh. Look, he's gonna shoot. I'm gonna
stuff it. He's gonna feel me, he's gonna pressure. It's
gonna be throwing on wall strikes, haymakers. But I'm dialed in.
I'm really locked in for this song. So I'll find
the shot. I'll find the shot at some point within
the first two rounds, maybe three. But I believe he's
(20:21):
a tough guy. That's the thing. He can take a
lot of punishment. Yeah, but the thing is that only
last for so long. I'm a tough guy too. I
know I've got a chin on me. Yeah, I know
I've got a chin on me, but I don't use
it to fight. I don't like, let me take two
to give him five. That's not my style of fighting.
I hit and don't get hit. That's the name of
the game I like to play. But when he's shooting
for a takedown, or when he's blitzing, or he's trying
(20:43):
to chase me down, he's gonna find out.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I got a couple more before I let you go one.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
In that Gaslom fight, he became a doll like that
last round you said he kind of dogged up, like
I'm getting this done against Pereira.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
When he was kicking you in the leg, he seen
heavy stuff. You got him with the right hand, dogged up.
You're thirty five years old, You've made a ton of money,
you've been the champ, You've done everything. How do you
pull yourself to that place again? How do you dog up?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You wore a dog collar in Miami right for the
Parira fight.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That was gently unleashed. Yeah for this one for a
dog up again like that?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
If it goes to that place, how do you Israel
Outissanya do that?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
When you got everything, I don't have everything. And again, look,
I've done this, done that, bought the T shirt. It's
not about all that. And when I said that initially,
I was like, fuck the belt, I'm coming for his head.
People don't understand that because they've never done what we've done. Yeah,
so for me, it's not about the belts. It's about Dricis.
(21:49):
He is a champ right now. He's the greatest in
South Africa. Cool. Let me test that. That's what that's about.
And now again with everyone forgetting who I am. Not everyone,
but you know, I won't even say it's everyone from me.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
That motivates you. I can tell that that bothers you
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
A little bit. It does, it does, but it's not
the main fuel. This is my main fuel. The people
around me. They're the ones that give me the energy.
They're the ones I focus on. But you know what
I mean, during a fight, I like to sip a
little bit of venom just to just to you know,
get a little taste. But yeah, how I do it.
I've done it before and I'll do it again. And
I know how. It's not about the age, it's just
the experience. I trust myself. I trust myself to when
(22:27):
I'm in there and he's across from me and I
have to activate myself, I can. I watched The Purified
again last night, was on YouTube and I was just
like scrolling past and I washed it. There's certain sequences.
I was just like I was making the move back. Yeah,
I was really pushing them back. And for me, I'm
so happy with what he's doing right now. I'm like, bro,
you believe how good this dude today? Time? It's crazy? Bro. Bro.
(22:51):
Every time I found him, I knew I could get
him until he got me, and then now here we are.
I hope he retires killing these Yeah. When I told
him good luck, I certainly wanted. I was like, oh,
are you good luck?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
You know he's huge?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
How did he make eighty five? A man?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
All of you guys, you look like a big eighty
five palmer. Now you have it almost You're not as
small as you're not as skinny as.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You were back and then still I'm still skinny. I'm
like wiry, but I'm yeah, I just feel like I've
put on some some good muscle, like useful muscle, not
really useless. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So outside of the octagon, outside of the fighting, the
YouTube channels doing tremendous businesses, is doing great, Like, how's
life for Izzy outside? Because that's that is what people
want to know, right, We don't get to see that much.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
We get to see you.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
On the couch reacting to stuff, which is always fucking amazing,
But we don't get to see Izzy outside of Like,
how's life for ISRAELISNYA outside of the octagon.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It's true, It's true. I like to keep to myself.
I'm not going to be a social butterfly. But I
like to be on my couch. That's part of my
couch is my favorite spot on the planet. No matter
where I'm at. There'll be some point later on maybe Monday, Tuesday,
I'll be like, you know what, I just want to
be on my couch right now. That's my spot.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
And also, you know, dude, they told me you're playing
golf now, yeah, I mean I'm playing this week.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I brought my clothes, you did, I bought my clothes. Like,
there's a driving range out here. I've been two once,
but look, I like the pace of the green. It's different. Yes,
I'm the guy that takes my shoes off because I
like to feel there. You play golf with no shoes on? Yeah,
on the green. I've never seen that.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Well for everything, so I can earth, so I can
like connect to the Hey, you know you ever hear
the grounding grounded? Very what I'm doing, bro?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I got I got some of my couple of guys
that I'm in business with. Yeah, they sent me grounding sheets.
They were owning bed sheets, they swear by. Then I
laughed at them, you have them.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I use it for three weeks and I waited to
see what I wanted to see. Is it a placebo?
That shit works? Bro?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
They one of the guys says that he hasn't.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It goes.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The thing goes out to his yard because he wants
to be connected to the earth, to the earth all
the time.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Even when I was doing that welcome to ceremony yesterday,
took my shoes off and I connected to the earth
in front of the original people of the land, just
so I can feel more, you know, more directly connected
to them because this is their land.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
That's because I was making fun of these dudes.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The groundish. Now it works. It sounds like some it doesn't. Yeah,
it works like we're electrical beans. We're eighty percent water. Yeah,
so we're very conductive. And then we have all these things.
Because sometimes you'll be in camper, you think, when's the
last time I touched the tree. When's the last time
I touched the ground? You don't realize it's been Oh,
she has been four weeks, six weeks since I've touched
(25:35):
the ground. So because you go to the gym house,
gym house, car, you know, so you have to. It's
always good. I employ everybody. Please just go touch some grass.
Take your shoes off, and you want some grass. They
said forty five.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Minutes a day.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
We're supposed to be connected to the earth exactly for
us to be good. I'm gonna start taking my shoes
off on the grill. I'm gonna kick Tim's ass. I'm
that guy. You're mad your what does him and his
brother told me about the club that their dad's a
member of. I'm taking them. I'm taking them dudes out
there and I'm smashing these dudes. It's not good, but
(26:13):
it's affective my back. It's not good that it's effective.
You know how to work around it. I know how
to work around I got about a half swing that
works for me. All right, Champ, thank you so much
for checking with me. I appreciate you guys. Guys Israel
sognya though, don't it's okay, It's all right. Israel Sonya
(26:35):
takes on Drake's dupless See this weekend UFC three oh
five for the middle eight championship in the world, you
becoming three times undisputed champion.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
If you do, you would make history. I know it
don't matter all that much to you, but it does
to us.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Go tapping everything in stallman is doing. His YouTube channel
is phenomenal. Instagram X. You're part of that last generation
that does Facebook.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Right, Nah, I do go Facebook. I still I tap
him like just a generic post. I just send it
to Facebook. Yeah. I already tapping there too much, too
many conspiracies and bullshit.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, make sure you're tapping in everything this man is doing.
He is the man.
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