November 20, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
We welcome to Bruisers, the podcast about beer, coffee, booze
and bruisers. I'm your host, Roddy John and today we
talked to Chris Taco Padilla.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We talked about his thoughts on.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Fighting, training and so much more.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This is such a fun conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You just saw Padia two weekends ago. Absolutely get that bonus,
and he is on to bigger and better things and
he has so many great things. He has undefeated in
the UFC right now. But you don't want to hear
from my mouth. You want to hear from him. So,
without further ado, here is Chris Taco Padilla.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I would like to welcome to show Chris Taco Padilla.
How are you doing it?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
He sir, see, I'm doing good man. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I had a little busy day, but now I'm kicking
back now.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Just home with the pets.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
How many pets you got?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I have four, two cats, two dogs and they get along. Okay, Yes,
the only one that's a little weird is not a
little weird. But he uh, I would say, dominates the house.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It's changed all yeah, change that.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
He's cool with everybody, but he also has his authority
over everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, funny cat.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, I got two dogs and they're not fans of cats,
so yeah, I definitely do not try to mix them
in the house if I don't have to.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, I'm out at that.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's funny how when you bring in a new everyone's
kind of they're kind of mean to the new pet,
like who are you? And then it's just they eventually
just have to absorb them.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, they're like, you know what, Okay, we all live here,
that's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah, Well I want to start because I saw recently
h this is I'm not throwing any shaded Ariel Howani,
but he kind of gave you some shit for smoking
weed as much as you do, especially during practice and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So in uh, in favor of that, I'm going to
smoke some weed real over fast. But I'm gonna ask
because I think smoking weed before you work out or
do anything like that, actually, I think it enhances everything
because not only can you feel it so much better,
but I think it also helps with the lungs and everything.
So I want to hear your side of it while
(02:48):
I do this real fast.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yes, sir, so me man, I think smoking right right
before I exercise train any of the sort.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Uh Uh. I think it goes back to just being
getting your flow, you know. I think flow flow is.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
One of those things that uh uh, it's not some
signs can uh necessarily explain, you know, uh, different things,
different moments, different thoughts can put people into the flow.
Like it's not like, uh, every the flow is different
for everyone.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
That's where that's where I think I find myself. I
think I get to I get to relax, I get
to uh what they say, pall your chickens in a line.
I think that's that's kind of what my brain does
because like normally I'm I have a lot of thoughts,
a lot of opinions about everything, you know what I mean.
(03:48):
But once I can kind of put the chickens in
a in a line, I can go, oh, okay, these
other chickens, I don't need these other nine. This one
this is what I need to keep my mind uh
focused on. And then as my mind can focus, uh,
I kind of treat it like.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
A little tree.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So if my mind can focus on one thing, this
one thing, this one thought can turn into ten connecting.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Thoughts, you know, right.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And that's kind of how I see training, Like when
I'm when I'm uh. When I smoke and I'm go
into training, my my brain goes, okay, we're kickboxing. Okay,
what were we thinking about kickboxing last night? Oh? We
watched that video. Okay, this is why I liked from
that video. Okay, let's try it out and let's see
how it does in mm A, you know. And that's
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how I get on my adventure.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I always say it's that extra little bit of focus
that that a lot of people don't think about because
there's so much going on around you. And then some
people it could just be music and they just put
their headphones in and they can really get the focus
in that way. But I think, yeah, a little bit
of wed before any gym workout or any training I
think is very good.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yep. And that's how I do it. With my runs.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It's tough, because you know, like anything, everything has his
little drawbacks.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But I drink my water, I smoke my weat, and
I go on my run and I get back and
I'm in.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Dis an man, got a nice beating sweat.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
My brain got to work out, body got to work out,
and I feel good.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
There you go, yep.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, let's go all the way back in time. What
is your earliest memory of martial arts?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
My earliest memme of martial arts, let me think, I
would say, and that was just how funny Steven Stevenagall bro.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Was like my grandma's.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Like, my grandma loves steven Saga, like all his movies
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They used to come on T and T yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, man, I remember watching him do his martial arts thing.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's why I when uh uh.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
There was once upon a time steven Sagall like they
said he helped Anderson Silva.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Gave him the front kick.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah yeah, man, I'm and you know, people gave Stephen
a lot of shit and like for me, I was
still like I was like a kid.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So when I was like, wait, why.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Do people hate Stevens A Gall, Like Stevens A Gall's
a movie legend, And then you find out the rest
of it, and you're like wait a minute, oh man,
And that's what it feels like.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You know, you're not a kid anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Like all your childhood heroes become childhood has been people.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Bully on them and you're like, oh my god, this
is what stevens Gall was doing. The whole time, the
whole time. That's kind of the joke on that.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean that I remember that front cake and he
had never thrown that kick before and then after one
training with steven sagal boom highlight real all day long.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah yeah, that uh yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, the Stevens gaull Man.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
You're right, that's one of those things where it's like,
did did Anderson absorb the uh the toad kick to
the face from Stephens gaul And if he really did,
that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And he did it, that's still crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's something we'll never know.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Hey, if that all we.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Could just take Aderson's word for it, you know what
I'm saying, that's it.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
If and said yes, who are we to be like, no, exactly,
He's a legend. I'm not gonna say no.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Hey, long lives, long lives, Stevens.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Gall Man, ponytail and all.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, the funny too.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, so you're undefeated in the UFC right now, and
you've been undefeated since December of twenty twenty two. What
do you try to do after every fight to really
kind of get better because obviously you you learn so
much from a defeat where obviously nobody wants to be defeated,
but you learn so much from it when you keep
racking up wins like this, how do you kind of
(08:06):
go from fight to fight and try to be better?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Uh? For me, man, I would say, it's uh uh,
I like to I like to look at the.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Nuances of fighting.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I realized that, like if I say, hey, like, let's
say it for this.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Fight, I can easily brush over it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Oh, my striking is great, you know, because I just
beat a guy who is known for his striking, I
can skip over and be like, yeah, you know, my
striking is good. I beat a striker, so you know
my striking must be pretty great. But for me, like
I look at it and I go, okay. There are
(08:45):
schools of thought. I like to call them, you know,
as they are called. Everyone has a school of thought.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So like if.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I'm not sure if you're super familiar with boxing, but
if you are.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know Bevall right, right right?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Bev All has the Eastern European style of boxing. That's
their school of thought. Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Compared to you know, more of America.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Where we have kind of more of a variety of
style versus like Mexico, who has more of their pressure style.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
So for me, I like to advance.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
My my skills with different schools of thought.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Like I may not.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I may have a good understanding of the Mexican style
pressure fighting, but do I have a good understanding of
the Russian style fighting? Do you have a good do
you have a good sense for the American the mix
of the American styles?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Right?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And when I think of it that way, I could
I could make my striking, uh, the subtleties of my
fighting better because I can go on back and be
pressure Mexican style, the next mak I can go agile
points scoring uh Russian or East in European boxing style.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So I take that and I look at MMA.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
As a whole like that, How do I improve my
bottom jiu jitsu versus my top jiu jitsu versus my
bottom wrestling game, in my top wrestling game, my throws
versus my.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Shooting, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
So because I look at like I look at I
like to look at martial arts in that detailed lens,
I can always get better even.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
If I'm not like.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I'm not looking at an opponent so to speak, you know, right, I.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Love that because we're also in a time now where
you can. You can go down all those different rabbit
holes and different ways of thought when it comes to
how they are strategize their fighting, and like you said,
the Russian versus the Mexican versus the American blend, and
then obviously what we're seeing out of Australia and then
Asia as well is doing fantastic things.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It has for years.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So you can really go down those rabbit holes of like, oh, okay,
I want to get really into this one today or
this week, and then the next one I can go down.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But which one?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Have you really been kind of going down that rabbit
hole and being like, okay, not that I'm going to
focus mainly on this one, but I really enjoy what
they're doing here.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Well, since since I've mostly been getting ready for this fight,
I've been focused on.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
So again. Then, so this is how I look at
martial arts.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I looked at it from my wrestling. I wanted to
get good at like more of a Greco Roman Randy
Couture style of wrestling, putting the guy in the clinch,
tying them up, bullying, And I've recognized that that style
of Greco Roman goes very well with like Mexican style boxing,
(11:50):
Roberto Durant style dirty boxing striking.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So I leaned a lot on Latin American.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Style of boxing mixed with a Japanese kickboxing Dutch kickboxing style.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
H yeah, see that, And that's what I mean.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Like it's it's so many subtleties because of it's m
and man, I could do everything, but like if when
you realize it's just two arms, two legs, a body ahead, right,
that's the game. And that's why I feel like a
lot of people miss that, Like they they think these these.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Concepts are so foreign because they're different sports.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
But if you just go two arms, two legs, one body,
the only the only difference is the amount of weapons
they can use and the school of thought. And when
you get pat when you get into that philosophy, it's
the sky's the limit, it really is.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And that that kind of was my idea for this fight.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Was UH Greco Roman mixed with Latin American style boxing,
UH undertoning, uh Japanese Dutch box in with Amy Caw
style moy Thai and like that those blends was the
style I used to be.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
To be bon feeme.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right, So after a fight you've won, you've celebrated. What
does decompression kind of look like? Because, like you just said,
you've been studying so long and then now that the
fight has happened, you've won those blending of mixed martial
arts one where do you kind of just brain dump
(13:34):
it or do you just kind of like maybe slowly
work it out of your system while you're still training
for the next fight.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Nope, it all goes into my file cabinet. Man.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Hey, hey, hey, never, there's no bad data, you know
what I'm saying, Like, what, Yeah, I'll watch a thousand fights, man,
and those thousand of one may be the answer, but
those other nine hundred and ninety nine those are for
future your.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Opponents, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
And that and that's the thing I can literally and
because mma is such a weird sport, I can literally
fight another bone feme in the next in my next fight.
Like all four of my fights have been just strikers
of different styles. One one Latin American style kickboxing Muay
Thai uh. The next one was a Chinese UH boxing
(14:24):
with some kickboxing behind it. The next one was uh
uh uh British boxing with kickboxing UH as its main focus.
And this time around it was Brazilian Brazilian boxing with a.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Hint of valet tudo.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Okay, yeah, so that's uh that that's.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Like the funny thing about it, man, You just you
just gain the little call it the little robin in
my head. Picked there. They're flying files around all day
every day.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Man. So right now those files, my brain is just
relaxing right now. Uh, I've only been watching fighting as
a as a fan, not necessarily as a uh as
Oh I'm downloading, but I also understand that my subconscious
is still downloading even when my main focus isn't to download.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Right right right? How do you like to consume fights?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Like when it's like, let's say, because you fought Saturday,
how does how does it work for you?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Do you like, like this Saturday coming up? How are
you gonna enjoy that?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I'm actually probably gonna watch it with my media. Man.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Uh we're talking about doing like a little breakdown, you know,
just a little reaction to it. Uh. But usually, man,
when I consumer fights, I like to be alone.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I don't. I don't, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I don't like to spend time on people just because uh,
there's just so random sometimes man, Sometimes it's it's like
a thousand questions. Sometimes it's just it's like they're they're
a fat boy about it, and me I'm not.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I'm not. I take the sports serious. So it's like,
I don't get wrong. I can have a good time,
but there has.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
To be a place where it's like, Okay, ten minute,
good time, the fight's going on, shut up in between breaks, lave,
talk shit, do whatever we gotta do.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But the fights all go completely quiet.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Pretend there is no one else in the house with you, please,
because I need to watch detail, especially for MM A
lot a lot is happening, and especially especially because fans
don't like grappling fights.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
At me personally, I'm a fan of grappling fights.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
So it's like when you start hearing people talk like
let them up.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Like, bro, if you don't get shut up, you.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Have no idea how much effort is actually being put
in right now?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah, and that and that right there sometimes is like
oh yeah, you know, if you're not trying to understand
the sport properly, you're on nonsense.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I do think that we're starting to get more fans,
especially the ones that go to them.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You've seen it less booing.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I realized recently when you do get a lot of
people on the ground, where as opposed before, once it
went to the ground, like a lot of people just
start booing. So I think we're it's a slow progression,
but I do think we're getting somewhat of a more
fan base.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's learning more.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yeah, and you know that MMA the beauty is MM
is still a really young sport.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, so it's like the fans are still.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Learning how to absorb it, you know what I mean,
So and that and that's normal. That's that's when I
like to watch fights with IT fans because then when
they're asking me things, it's like, Okay, this is something
I could talk about, like you want to understand why
this works, how this works as all day you know. So, yeah,
(18:00):
I'm happy and I think I think in the next
ten years, fighting is going to be a whole new level.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Of Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be crazy, Like I imagine
how it's going.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
To get just as technical as boxing, but still super
violent because as fighting goes on, people are going to
start demanding more weapons, more.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Tools, different rule changing is going.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
To be allowed because if the fight gets safer, or
if the fighters get more technical, at in an inverse,
they have to make it more. They have to give
more weapons, because then more weapons need more finishes.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Right, right, right.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Like I think right now, like how they just change
a down opponent roll Like okay, Now, if you're before
it was, if your hand is on the.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Mat, you can't get kneed.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You can't get kneed while on the ground, you can't
get kicked in the face. Now your elbow and your
elbows and knees have to be on the map.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And the twelve to six which you just use this
past Saturday.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Also, yeah, yep, yep, they just passed that. So I'm waiting.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I'm hopefully in my time I get soccer kicks.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You think soccer kicks should be he should be okay, yes, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's a way to end the fight.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And well you're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, you know, uh.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
That that's that's the most important thing because once the
fight ends, uh the I know it's gonna sound funny.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Once the fight ends, your opponent is as safe as
he can be.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
The fight's over, You're right, exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
You know, So if he needs to get out of
this ring, there's one way to get him out of here,
you know. So that's how I see. It should give
us as many ways to end the fights. When the
fight's done, it's over.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Like you think about boxing match, see how many how
long it takes to uh uh to finish somebody?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh yeah, almost ever. I see a lot of finishes.
It's insane right right right now.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Imagine if they let boxers elbow each other, right, And
wouldn't that be a more beautiful sport?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Right yeah, because those clinchers have been way more.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yep, let fighters fighting, they clinch harder, let them, let
them really work. Because if you look at boxing in
the old days, bro, they used to beat this ship.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Out of each other like that. That's my route.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Like when I study boxing, a lot of my boxing study.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Goes to the old days because that's when combat, that's
when fighters.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Have to be better trained.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Are They were better trains.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
They focused on boxing and less on strength and conditioning
and ship like that. Uh, they're better trained for fighting.
Clinching was allowed to let boxers work. Their defense was
way better.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Man, it was. It was like it was a.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Beautiful time for box And you know, now, don't get
me wrong, these guys have become more technical, but they've
also lost a.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Lot of of of h.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
A technique of techniques that used to be just spot
on man.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
So yeah, where do you fall on the ipokes?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Uh, I'm not gonna lie. Then there's nothing can be
done about it.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, well, do you think the gloves because I've heard
so many people say the gloves can be I mean
Trevor Whitman's gloves. But apparently he wanted too much money,
which makes no sense considering how much UFC got paid
to be on one network. But hey, I'm not putting
that out there. Uh, but apparently his were perfect for
(21:47):
where the ipokes that happened. But I do see because
there are so many people that do just put it
out there that it's people are gonna run into it.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Yeah, man, there'll always be time, Bro, There'll always just
like nutshots. Bro got hit and then that's or four
times done in the fight, you know what I'm saying.
And it's just one of those things that it just
comes with the territory. It's unfortunate. I hate it because
I've been I poked several times before, uh ship before
(22:15):
this fight.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
When on my last far I got I poked like
three times, right, And it's just one of those things
where it's just.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It's it's a work hazard, but it's we literally are
a fight with fingerless gloves, you know what I'm saying,
a lot of techniques revolve hands this type of motion,
you know, like in muy time when they train you
to kick, like one thing, they tell you to turn
your body and kick, pointing your hand towards your opponent,
(22:43):
cutting your opponent's hand.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So yeah, man, it's what it is, what it is.
It sucks. I hopefully don't have to face anything like
Tom Aspinall.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Had to, but if I do, you know, I'll deal
with it when I get there.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Exactly now, when they check you before you go in
the cage, is that what they're checking when they're checking
the fingers to make sure you don't have the long fingernails.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, no fingernails, Bro, That sow fox someone's.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Eye up, bro, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Ah man, it's his coach named winkle John. Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
They threw the guy. The guy threw a head kick
and he he wasn't looking and his toe now cut
his eye and blinded him.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, no, thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So you fought three times last year, you fought twice
this year. You seem to be fine to fight again
this year. Is that on the cards or are you
looking for early next year?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Earlier next year January, February, March. Man, I want to
get on any of those, uh priority, I would say,
I want to fight La Mexico. I would love to
do Vegas again because I love fighting in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The White House one obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
The White House one seems pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
MSG that one, that one be pretty crazy. But I
know they'll do MSG at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, they always do it November.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Yeah, so yeah, I would say, I would say definitely
from the beginning of the year.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
They'll probably save the White House from the middle of
the year.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, that's I think June whatever Trump's birthday.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Is, Yeah, something around those times.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
So yeah, I would tell I'm looking I'm looking early
next year, man, any of those.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Cards ships, I'll fly back to London again. I don't
like their taxes, but I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And I've heard a lot of yeah musicians left that
left there because of that as well.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, their taxes is brutal, so especially man if I
was there for like a month, Okay, but goddamn I
was there for a week, brother, Like what you what
you taxing me on.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Ship?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
When you look at fight, do you look at the
where it's at, like you kind of have like a
mental place of like I want to fight here.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I want to fight here, want.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
To I mean I do, But for me, man, fight
this king, Bro.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I'll fight you in an alley if they're paying me correctly, right,
I don't care what ali we're talking about, bro, third
world country, I'll.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Fight you there. Anywhere.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I'll fight you anywhere. But I do have my dream fights,
Like I would love to fight like Japan.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Money get Mexico obviously, I would love to fight. Uh
uh shift, I can say the East Coast I would
like to fight.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I did enjoin New Jersey Okay, yeah, those guys have
been pretty hot too.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Jersey was cool because my teammate thought over that would
look that looks fun?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Uh uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Miami sounds tight, yeah, bro, to be honest, that's what
I mean. Like I like to file over the United
States because we have the most cultures in the world, bro, Like,
our cultures are are so many different types of people,
like you wouldn't It's like sometimes you meet people from different.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Parts of the United States.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
You're like, damn, we're all one country and you guys
seem completely different. Yeah, you know so, uh, anywhere in
the United States would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Bro, I love that.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
What does recovery look like for you?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Shoot? So I can't shout out to CEO Health.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Uh Uh, they're jumping on one of my They're jumping
on my sponsor team.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Man.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
There Uh the ice bath uh uh, red light therapy
with the sarda Uh what was the other thing, the
hyperbarrack chamber. Yeah, Bro, that ship was cool, man. I
jumped in there, did all that the day. Uh, yesterday
(26:45):
I was at shout to u f C J hunting
beach man. Uh, I got to do the I believe
it's called voltech something like that.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah yeah, sure right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Squeezing my legs.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I was there last night and I hit the the.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I was just that thing called uh ship that room
that gets cold.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Oh uh Jesus, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You're talking about.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Kyle. There you go. I did some cryal yesterday. So
that just trying to wrast Bro. That's a that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I trying to get a lot of sleep because you know, Bro,
I put my body through a lot, just all the
early days, just the fucking fight, all the training.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Sometimes the trading beats you up.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
More than the actual fight, so that you know, But
that's about it. That's usually what recovery looks like. Eating
whatever the hell I want.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What is your go to after a fight?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Bro, Tacos?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
There you go?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Ship.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I wanted to be honest, I'm gonna tell you this,
after the fight, I'll jog a little swollen right here.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
So like so.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
If it sounds like I'm talking funny a little bit,
it's because my job. My jaw is still it's really
sore and still has some swelling on it.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
So I haven't even got to eat like I wanted to,
Like I've been to be honest, bro, I've been eating
a lot, but I've been eating a lot in discomfort.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Right right right, You're not truly enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, it's all it's like I got to piece everything
up and then like there's moments I'll bite and it'll
hurt and I'll go, fuck now, I gotta wait a
second that the saliva do its job.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
So it's like you're eating when you bite your tongue
you're like, oh never right by wait here a second.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
It's almost like that sensation, bro, So yeah, it's uh,
it's been good though, like I said, uh, compared to
how he's feeling.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
There you go, I'm gold. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, thank you for being in here right afterwards and
your your jaw still hurting it so appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Hey man, thank you guys for supporting bro. That's all.
So I do it for me. I do it for
h ship all, all all the people, all the supporters, broll, my.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Friends, my family, everybody, bro, because I know, I know,
I know what it feels like to be on the
other side. I remember being a fight nerve from the
outside like man, talk to UFC F be crazy, bro.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
And then like so that's.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Why people ask you for interviews, and of course, bro,
like this is uhh. I do it for I do
it for the fans, for the love of the sport.
And if you tell me you love the sport as
much as I do, shit, then we already got something.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
In commons right exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
So when you actually, like mentally you talked about it
earlier that yet we got robots uh flying around putting
files over on one side or the other. How do
you kind of calm everything whenever you're trying to, like
before the fight, and then obviously they adrenaline coming after
the fight. How do you kind of mentally work yourself?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I would say, bad?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Uh, I like to, I'm like a nature type of guy.
Like I like to When I say the nature type
of guy, I mean, I like, it's just I feel
like life is like a story.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Man.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
It's like it's like you have your opening, then you
have your you know, your rising action, your climax falling action,
and then you have your ending, you know what I mean,
And like that's how that's how, that's how life is
the natural world, and sometimes the unnatural world has a
hard time of understanding that. Like things aren't supposed to
(30:39):
last forever, like and then if it does, it's not
really a real thing, you know. So like that's kind
of how I look at uh. Like even when I
before I went into the fight.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I I went up.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
I went up to the top floor of the of
the parking structure by myself.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I smoke two joints, I did some shadow boxing.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I walked around. I looked at one side had a
bunch of mountains, you know, nature the desert side of Vegas.
The other side had the city side of Vegas, and
I just looked at it and I was like, man,
and you I can hear my mind playing tricks on me,
like try to create perfect scenarios in a fight. That, uh,
(31:24):
that's unnatural.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
There is no perfect scenario in combat. It's just combat.
You know. You have to flow with combat, just like nature.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Nature doesn't determine if rocks are gonna perfectly fall under line.
The rocks just fall, you know, things just die. So
if I could take that, if I can embody that philosophy,
my fight will go perfect, you know, because that's how
it was.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Designed to be. And that's kind of how I approach
it pre and post.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
The The fight lived and it died now, so like
that's that's how it is.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Something else is gonna grow from that, and I just
flow with the next thing that grows from all of this.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Fucka, that's perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I love that, especially you've been on top of that
parking garage and like you said, that blending of nature
on one side and the whole city on the other,
it's like it's perfect.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, bro, it's I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I got I got to just I got to disconnect,
you know, for that.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
That one moment, and I laughed.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I laughed as I laughed, because like, sometimes it's just
we're looking for answers that are already there, you know,
We're trying to find something, and then you realize, like, oh,
there's nothing to fight.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
It's been there.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
You just you were trying to you were trying to
make an answer, you know, And that's that's how I
thought there was no I knew what he was capable of,
but I didn't know what he would do.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I let my.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Mind just flow in the moments of it. So all
those moments of really good defense, really good offense, all
that was me just allowing uh, the fight to open
up and unfold, you know naturally.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I love it well.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I have a segment show called The Five Counts, just
five random questions. Yes, sir number one, what would your
last meal be?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
My last Bilby goat lab horse, buffalo, a giant meat platter.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
With with uh, with onions, garlic, peppers, really spicy peppers,
and tortillas.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
All in one mix. It's like the heat is yeah, yeah,
I see. But for me, I like to eat minds
off the bone.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, I'm a caveman, brother, I like I want to.
I want the cave experience. I don't.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I don't want the clean meal. I don't want everything
dice stuff for me. I want to eat it all myself.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, I love that. Number two.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
If you owned a brewery, winery, liquor company, coffee shop,
or dispensary, which one would you own?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
And what would the name be?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
I would mix my coffee shop with my with my
weed shop, and I would call it, uh high ass tacos.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh yeah, bro. And then and there you can. You
can come in.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
It'd be like a like a library where you could train, read,
get coffee, and also smoke all in one.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
We gotta make this happen, hey, Bro, somewhere in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Vegas is a Vegas. Hey, Vegas is a place of many,
many creative ideas. That's why I'll give Vegas there are they?
They they don't, Uh, from what I've seen, they don't.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
They're not hindering capitalism. They're letting capitalism really work.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You know you're right. Number three. Who's your first concert?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
My first concert? Yes, sir, My first concert I think
was the Latin legends.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Really.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
To be honest, man, I'm not I'm not a I'm
not a person that likes public like I don't go
to theme parks like I don't like Disneyland, I don't
like Knots. I don't like six Flags because I don't
like to stand and be around all those people all day.
Imagine walking fifteen minutes to get to a ride and
(35:38):
then you got to wait another hour to get on
the ride that last five minutes, and you're like, Bro,
I got on here and it only.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It's five minutes. What I do all this for? Man?
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Hell though, So my girlfriend is a big music fan,
so she she was it was more of a surprise
to her. So we win it and it was cool. Bro,
I'm gonna tell you this. I'm half Mexican. And when
I say, I saw every form of tolo known to
man there, Bro, I saw every form of tola.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
I mean everyone.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
The ones that wore flattels, the ones that were pro clubs,
the ones that were sweaters, the ones that were plaid,
the ones that were dickies, the ones that were chucks,
the ones that were Nike cortez Is, the ones got
pop locked, the ones that break dance, the ones that
were chads, the ones that were fucking.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
The mafia caps. Bro.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
I was like, Bro, you guys literally come from every
form of life.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
It's insane, Bro.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
And every one of them was out there getting fucking
damn bro.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
And the Latin legends Bro, they could jam out.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, I love that. Uh Number four, Who are what
inspires you?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Ah? Man?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I would say, Man, if I can, if I can
take any inspiration, I'm inspired by the warriors, the generals
of old that like those guys. Uh, I feel like
when we look at about we probably look at for
more of a like, Man, you guys were cruel, but uh,
(37:19):
I think if you look at if you look at
the give you one second, one second play my phone,
if you look at if you look at the time
period that they had to be great in uh and
it just makes sense, you know, Like for us being
great now in this and in our civilization is like sports.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Fight and things like that.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
But in their civilization, greatness was what can you conquer?
What can you take over? Can you outstrategize these other people?
Can you subdue these other uh city states, these other countries?
So that that for me, I would like to leave
a legacy that like, again, I've so far for all
international fighters. So like for me, that's a that's a
(38:06):
chip in my own that's a chip to me, like
I'm I'm i am. I've conquered them by international fighters. Yeah, bro,
Like that is like traveling the world and just proving
that I am not only.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
The best fighter in the United States, but in the world.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
You know, right, I love it.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
And number five, what would you tell your seventeen year
old self?
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Man, seventeen year old me, look forward to the future. Man,
don't be so cynical. Yeah, bro, hey, don't be so
cynical about growing up.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Like life is what you make it.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
And that's something that I didn't really understand when I
was like sixteen and stuff.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I was like super.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Uh, I was super like I would like to call
it like tom a Cozie mindset.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
It like I was just like always ready for the end?
Was the end? Look like what is the what is it?
You know? That type of mind state.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
So I think now now that I've gotten older and
grown like, it's like things don't have to be that way. Man,
You don't got to be stuck in that type of mindset.
So I would definitely have told myself those things.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I love it and if people want to follow you
online watch your fights, obviously comes to you live.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
How can they do all the things?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Check me out on Instagram Chris Ward Taco one two three,
My Twitter's Chris Ward Taco. Uh shit, I'm on Snapchat now,
so bud me on Snapchat Taco Padilla thirteen.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
That's my Snapchat now guys, So yep, check me out there. Obviously.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
I like to say thanks to all my sponsors guys,
all the people who support me.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
One thing I think people don't.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Talk about is how much a fighter can use one
hundred dollars and if it's a one off, one hundred
bucks goes a long way for your local fighters.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Thank you so much for Chris re forming on the show.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I love this interview so much. It was no offense
to Ariel Hawane, but I heard what he had said
about smoking weed during training and I had to start
it the way I did. Uh, So shout out to
Ariel Hawane more than welcome to come on the show.
We met one time at WrestleMania and he may not
remember it, but I do. So please come back on
the show or please come to the show. So many thoughts,
but thank you again to Chris Raban on the show.
(40:43):
I can't wait to see what Chris pa did as
coming for him in the UFC. It's going to be
bigger and better things in the future, so definitely look
got for him. Now, why are you're doing that? Make
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So until next time, make sure to enjoy life, drink
local and cheers
We welcome to Bruisers, the podcast about beer, coffee, booze
and bruisers. I'm your host, Roddy John and today we
talked to Chris Taco Padilla.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We talked about his thoughts on.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Fighting, training and so much more.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This is such a fun conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You just saw Padia two weekends ago. Absolutely get that bonus,
and he is on to bigger and better things and
he has so many great things. He has undefeated in
the UFC right now. But you don't want to hear
from my mouth. You want to hear from him. So,
without further ado, here is Chris Taco Padilla.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I would like to welcome to show Chris Taco Padilla.
How are you doing it?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
He sir, see, I'm doing good man. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I had a little busy day, but now I'm kicking
back now.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Just home with the pets.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
How many pets you got?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I have four, two cats, two dogs and they get along. Okay, Yes,
the only one that's a little weird is not a
little weird. But he uh, I would say, dominates the house.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It's changed all yeah, change that.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
He's cool with everybody, but he also has his authority
over everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, funny cat.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, I got two dogs and they're not fans of cats,
so yeah, I definitely do not try to mix them
in the house if I don't have to.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, I'm out at that.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's funny how when you bring in a new everyone's
kind of they're kind of mean to the new pet,
like who are you? And then it's just they eventually
just have to absorb them.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, they're like, you know what, Okay, we all live here,
that's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah, Well I want to start because I saw recently
h this is I'm not throwing any shaded Ariel Howani,
but he kind of gave you some shit for smoking
weed as much as you do, especially during practice and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So in uh, in favor of that, I'm going to
smoke some weed real over fast. But I'm gonna ask
because I think smoking weed before you work out or
do anything like that, actually, I think it enhances everything
because not only can you feel it so much better,
but I think it also helps with the lungs and everything.
So I want to hear your side of it while
(02:48):
I do this real fast.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yes, sir, so me man, I think smoking right right
before I exercise train any of the sort.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Uh Uh. I think it goes back to just being
getting your flow, you know. I think flow flow is.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
One of those things that uh uh, it's not some
signs can uh necessarily explain, you know, uh, different things,
different moments, different thoughts can put people into the flow.
Like it's not like, uh, every the flow is different
for everyone.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
That's where that's where I think I find myself. I
think I get to I get to relax, I get
to uh what they say, pall your chickens in a line.
I think that's that's kind of what my brain does
because like normally I'm I have a lot of thoughts,
a lot of opinions about everything, you know what I mean.
(03:48):
But once I can kind of put the chickens in
a in a line, I can go, oh, okay, these
other chickens, I don't need these other nine. This one
this is what I need to keep my mind uh
focused on. And then as my mind can focus, uh,
I kind of treat it like.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
A little tree.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So if my mind can focus on one thing, this
one thing, this one thought can turn into ten connecting.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Thoughts, you know, right.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And that's kind of how I see training, Like when
I'm when I'm uh. When I smoke and I'm go
into training, my my brain goes, okay, we're kickboxing. Okay,
what were we thinking about kickboxing last night? Oh? We
watched that video. Okay, this is why I liked from
that video. Okay, let's try it out and let's see
how it does in mm A, you know. And that's
(04:37):
how I get on my adventure.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I always say it's that extra little bit of focus
that that a lot of people don't think about because
there's so much going on around you. And then some
people it could just be music and they just put
their headphones in and they can really get the focus
in that way. But I think, yeah, a little bit
of wed before any gym workout or any training I
think is very good.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yep. And that's how I do it. With my runs.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It's tough, because you know, like anything, everything has his
little drawbacks.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But I drink my water, I smoke my weat, and
I go on my run and I get back and
I'm in.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Dis an man, got a nice beating sweat.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
My brain got to work out, body got to work out,
and I feel good.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
There you go, yep.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, let's go all the way back in time. What
is your earliest memory of martial arts?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
My earliest memme of martial arts, let me think, I
would say, and that was just how funny Steven Stevenagall bro.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Was like my grandma's.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Like, my grandma loves steven Saga, like all his movies
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They used to come on T and T yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, man, I remember watching him do his martial arts thing.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's why I when uh uh.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
There was once upon a time steven Sagall like they
said he helped Anderson Silva.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Gave him the front kick.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah yeah, man, I'm and you know, people gave Stephen
a lot of shit and like for me, I was
still like I was like a kid.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So when I was like, wait, why.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Do people hate Stevens A Gall, Like Stevens A Gall's
a movie legend, And then you find out the rest
of it, and you're like wait a minute, oh man,
And that's what it feels like.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You know, you're not a kid anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Like all your childhood heroes become childhood has been people.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Bully on them and you're like, oh my god, this
is what stevens Gall was doing. The whole time, the
whole time. That's kind of the joke on that.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean that I remember that front cake and he
had never thrown that kick before and then after one
training with steven sagal boom highlight real all day long.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah yeah, that uh yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, the Stevens gaull Man.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
You're right, that's one of those things where it's like,
did did Anderson absorb the uh the toad kick to
the face from Stephens gaul And if he really did,
that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And he did it, that's still crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's something we'll never know.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Hey, if that all we.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Could just take Aderson's word for it, you know what
I'm saying, that's it.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
If and said yes, who are we to be like, no, exactly,
He's a legend. I'm not gonna say no.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Hey, long lives, long lives, Stevens.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Gall Man, ponytail and all.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, the funny too.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, so you're undefeated in the UFC right now, and
you've been undefeated since December of twenty twenty two. What
do you try to do after every fight to really
kind of get better because obviously you you learn so
much from a defeat where obviously nobody wants to be defeated,
but you learn so much from it when you keep
racking up wins like this, how do you kind of
(08:06):
go from fight to fight and try to be better?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Uh? For me, man, I would say, it's uh uh,
I like to I like to look at the.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Nuances of fighting.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I realized that, like if I say, hey, like, let's
say it for this.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Fight, I can easily brush over it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Oh, my striking is great, you know, because I just
beat a guy who is known for his striking, I
can skip over and be like, yeah, you know, my
striking is good. I beat a striker, so you know
my striking must be pretty great. But for me, like
I look at it and I go, okay. There are
(08:45):
schools of thought. I like to call them, you know,
as they are called. Everyone has a school of thought.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So like if.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I'm not sure if you're super familiar with boxing, but
if you are.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know Bevall right, right right?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Bev All has the Eastern European style of boxing. That's
their school of thought. Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Compared to you know, more of America.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Where we have kind of more of a variety of
style versus like Mexico, who has more of their pressure style.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
So for me, I like to advance.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
My my skills with different schools of thought.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Like I may not.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I may have a good understanding of the Mexican style
pressure fighting, but do I have a good understanding of
the Russian style fighting? Do you have a good do
you have a good sense for the American the mix
of the American styles?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Right?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And when I think of it that way, I could
I could make my striking, uh, the subtleties of my
fighting better because I can go on back and be
pressure Mexican style, the next mak I can go agile
points scoring uh Russian or East in European boxing style.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So I take that and I look at MMA.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
As a whole like that, How do I improve my
bottom jiu jitsu versus my top jiu jitsu versus my
bottom wrestling game, in my top wrestling game, my throws
versus my.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Shooting, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
So because I look at like I look at I
like to look at martial arts in that detailed lens,
I can always get better even.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
If I'm not like.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I'm not looking at an opponent so to speak, you know, right, I.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Love that because we're also in a time now where
you can. You can go down all those different rabbit
holes and different ways of thought when it comes to
how they are strategize their fighting, and like you said,
the Russian versus the Mexican versus the American blend, and
then obviously what we're seeing out of Australia and then
Asia as well is doing fantastic things.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It has for years.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So you can really go down those rabbit holes of like, oh, okay,
I want to get really into this one today or
this week, and then the next one I can go down.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But which one?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Have you really been kind of going down that rabbit
hole and being like, okay, not that I'm going to
focus mainly on this one, but I really enjoy what
they're doing here.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Well, since since I've mostly been getting ready for this fight,
I've been focused on.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
So again. Then, so this is how I look at
martial arts.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I looked at it from my wrestling. I wanted to
get good at like more of a Greco Roman Randy
Couture style of wrestling, putting the guy in the clinch,
tying them up, bullying, And I've recognized that that style
of Greco Roman goes very well with like Mexican style boxing,
(11:50):
Roberto Durant style dirty boxing striking.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So I leaned a lot on Latin American.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Style of boxing mixed with a Japanese kickboxing Dutch kickboxing style.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
H yeah, see that, And that's what I mean.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Like it's it's so many subtleties because of it's m
and man, I could do everything, but like if when
you realize it's just two arms, two legs, a body ahead, right,
that's the game. And that's why I feel like a
lot of people miss that, Like they they think these these.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Concepts are so foreign because they're different sports.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
But if you just go two arms, two legs, one body,
the only the only difference is the amount of weapons
they can use and the school of thought. And when
you get pat when you get into that philosophy, it's
the sky's the limit, it really is.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And that that kind of was my idea for this fight.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Was UH Greco Roman mixed with Latin American style boxing,
UH undertoning, uh Japanese Dutch box in with Amy Caw
style moy Thai and like that those blends was the
style I used to be.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
To be bon feeme.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right, So after a fight you've won, you've celebrated. What
does decompression kind of look like? Because, like you just said,
you've been studying so long and then now that the
fight has happened, you've won those blending of mixed martial
arts one where do you kind of just brain dump
(13:34):
it or do you just kind of like maybe slowly
work it out of your system while you're still training
for the next fight.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Nope, it all goes into my file cabinet. Man.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Hey, hey, hey, never, there's no bad data, you know
what I'm saying, Like, what, Yeah, I'll watch a thousand fights, man,
and those thousand of one may be the answer, but
those other nine hundred and ninety nine those are for
future your.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Opponents, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
And that and that's the thing I can literally and
because mma is such a weird sport, I can literally
fight another bone feme in the next in my next fight.
Like all four of my fights have been just strikers
of different styles. One one Latin American style kickboxing Muay
Thai uh. The next one was a Chinese UH boxing
(14:24):
with some kickboxing behind it. The next one was uh
uh uh British boxing with kickboxing UH as its main focus.
And this time around it was Brazilian Brazilian boxing with a.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Hint of valet tudo.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Okay, yeah, so that's uh that that's.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Like the funny thing about it, man, You just you
just gain the little call it the little robin in
my head. Picked there. They're flying files around all day
every day.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Man. So right now those files, my brain is just
relaxing right now. Uh, I've only been watching fighting as
a as a fan, not necessarily as a uh as
Oh I'm downloading, but I also understand that my subconscious
is still downloading even when my main focus isn't to download.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Right right right? How do you like to consume fights?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Like when it's like, let's say, because you fought Saturday,
how does how does it work for you?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Do you like, like this Saturday coming up? How are
you gonna enjoy that?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I'm actually probably gonna watch it with my media. Man.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Uh we're talking about doing like a little breakdown, you know,
just a little reaction to it. Uh. But usually, man,
when I consumer fights, I like to be alone.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I don't. I don't, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I don't like to spend time on people just because uh,
there's just so random sometimes man, Sometimes it's it's like
a thousand questions. Sometimes it's just it's like they're they're
a fat boy about it, and me I'm not.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I'm not. I take the sports serious. So it's like,
I don't get wrong. I can have a good time,
but there has.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
To be a place where it's like, Okay, ten minute,
good time, the fight's going on, shut up in between breaks, lave,
talk shit, do whatever we gotta do.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But the fights all go completely quiet.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Pretend there is no one else in the house with you, please,
because I need to watch detail, especially for MM A
lot a lot is happening, and especially especially because fans
don't like grappling fights.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
At me personally, I'm a fan of grappling fights.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
So it's like when you start hearing people talk like
let them up.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Like, bro, if you don't get shut up, you.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Have no idea how much effort is actually being put
in right now?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah, and that and that right there sometimes is like
oh yeah, you know, if you're not trying to understand
the sport properly, you're on nonsense.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I do think that we're starting to get more fans,
especially the ones that go to them.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You've seen it less booing.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I realized recently when you do get a lot of
people on the ground, where as opposed before, once it
went to the ground, like a lot of people just
start booing. So I think we're it's a slow progression,
but I do think we're getting somewhat of a more
fan base.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's learning more.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yeah, and you know that MMA the beauty is MM
is still a really young sport.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, so it's like the fans are still.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Learning how to absorb it, you know what I mean,
So and that and that's normal. That's that's when I
like to watch fights with IT fans because then when
they're asking me things, it's like, Okay, this is something
I could talk about, like you want to understand why
this works, how this works as all day you know. So, yeah,
(18:00):
I'm happy and I think I think in the next
ten years, fighting is going to be a whole new level.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Of Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be crazy, Like I imagine
how it's going.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
To get just as technical as boxing, but still super
violent because as fighting goes on, people are going to
start demanding more weapons, more.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Tools, different rule changing is going.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
To be allowed because if the fight gets safer, or
if the fighters get more technical, at in an inverse,
they have to make it more. They have to give
more weapons, because then more weapons need more finishes.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Right, right, right.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Like I think right now, like how they just change
a down opponent roll Like okay, Now, if you're before
it was, if your hand is on the.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Mat, you can't get kneed.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You can't get kneed while on the ground, you can't
get kicked in the face. Now your elbow and your
elbows and knees have to be on the map.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And the twelve to six which you just use this
past Saturday.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Also, yeah, yep, yep, they just passed that. So I'm waiting.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I'm hopefully in my time I get soccer kicks.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You think soccer kicks should be he should be okay, yes, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's a way to end the fight.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And well you're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, you know, uh.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
That that's that's the most important thing because once the
fight ends, uh the I know it's gonna sound funny.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Once the fight ends, your opponent is as safe as
he can be.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
The fight's over, You're right, exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
You know, So if he needs to get out of
this ring, there's one way to get him out of here,
you know. So that's how I see. It should give
us as many ways to end the fights. When the
fight's done, it's over.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Like you think about boxing match, see how many how
long it takes to uh uh to finish somebody?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh yeah, almost ever. I see a lot of finishes.
It's insane right right right now.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Imagine if they let boxers elbow each other, right, And
wouldn't that be a more beautiful sport?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Right yeah, because those clinchers have been way more.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yep, let fighters fighting, they clinch harder, let them, let
them really work. Because if you look at boxing in
the old days, bro, they used to beat this ship.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Out of each other like that. That's my route.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Like when I study boxing, a lot of my boxing study.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Goes to the old days because that's when combat, that's
when fighters.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Have to be better trained.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Are They were better trains.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
They focused on boxing and less on strength and conditioning
and ship like that. Uh, they're better trained for fighting.
Clinching was allowed to let boxers work. Their defense was
way better.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Man, it was. It was like it was a.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Beautiful time for box And you know, now, don't get
me wrong, these guys have become more technical, but they've
also lost a.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Lot of of of h.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
A technique of techniques that used to be just spot
on man.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
So yeah, where do you fall on the ipokes?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Uh, I'm not gonna lie. Then there's nothing can be
done about it.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, well, do you think the gloves because I've heard
so many people say the gloves can be I mean
Trevor Whitman's gloves. But apparently he wanted too much money,
which makes no sense considering how much UFC got paid
to be on one network. But hey, I'm not putting
that out there. Uh, but apparently his were perfect for
(21:47):
where the ipokes that happened. But I do see because
there are so many people that do just put it
out there that it's people are gonna run into it.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Yeah, man, there'll always be time, Bro, There'll always just
like nutshots. Bro got hit and then that's or four
times done in the fight, you know what I'm saying.
And it's just one of those things that it just
comes with the territory. It's unfortunate. I hate it because
I've been I poked several times before, uh ship before
(22:15):
this fight.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
When on my last far I got I poked like
three times, right, And it's just one of those things
where it's just.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It's it's a work hazard, but it's we literally are
a fight with fingerless gloves, you know what I'm saying,
a lot of techniques revolve hands this type of motion,
you know, like in muy time when they train you
to kick, like one thing, they tell you to turn
your body and kick, pointing your hand towards your opponent,
(22:43):
cutting your opponent's hand.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So yeah, man, it's what it is, what it is.
It sucks. I hopefully don't have to face anything like
Tom Aspinall.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Had to, but if I do, you know, I'll deal
with it when I get there.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Exactly now, when they check you before you go in
the cage, is that what they're checking when they're checking
the fingers to make sure you don't have the long fingernails.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, no fingernails, Bro, That sow fox someone's.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Eye up, bro, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Ah man, it's his coach named winkle John. Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
They threw the guy. The guy threw a head kick
and he he wasn't looking and his toe now cut
his eye and blinded him.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, no, thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So you fought three times last year, you fought twice
this year. You seem to be fine to fight again
this year. Is that on the cards or are you
looking for early next year?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Earlier next year January, February, March. Man, I want to
get on any of those, uh priority, I would say,
I want to fight La Mexico. I would love to
do Vegas again because I love fighting in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The White House one obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
The White House one seems pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
MSG that one, that one be pretty crazy. But I
know they'll do MSG at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, they always do it November.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Yeah, so yeah, I would say, I would say definitely
from the beginning of the year.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
They'll probably save the White House from the middle of
the year.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, that's I think June whatever Trump's birthday.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Is, Yeah, something around those times.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
So yeah, I would tell I'm looking I'm looking early
next year, man, any of those.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Cards ships, I'll fly back to London again. I don't
like their taxes, but I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And I've heard a lot of yeah musicians left that
left there because of that as well.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, their taxes is brutal, so especially man if I
was there for like a month, Okay, but goddamn I
was there for a week, brother, Like what you what
you taxing me on.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Ship?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
When you look at fight, do you look at the
where it's at, like you kind of have like a
mental place of like I want to fight here.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I want to fight here, want.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
To I mean I do, But for me, man, fight
this king, Bro.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I'll fight you in an alley if they're paying me correctly, right,
I don't care what ali we're talking about, bro, third
world country, I'll.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Fight you there. Anywhere.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I'll fight you anywhere. But I do have my dream fights,
Like I would love to fight like Japan.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Money get Mexico obviously, I would love to fight. Uh
uh shift, I can say the East Coast I would
like to fight.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I did enjoin New Jersey Okay, yeah, those guys have
been pretty hot too.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Jersey was cool because my teammate thought over that would
look that looks fun?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Uh uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Miami sounds tight, yeah, bro, to be honest, that's what
I mean. Like I like to file over the United
States because we have the most cultures in the world, bro, Like,
our cultures are are so many different types of people,
like you wouldn't It's like sometimes you meet people from different.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Parts of the United States.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
You're like, damn, we're all one country and you guys
seem completely different. Yeah, you know so, uh, anywhere in
the United States would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Bro, I love that.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
What does recovery look like for you?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Shoot? So I can't shout out to CEO Health.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Uh Uh, they're jumping on one of my They're jumping
on my sponsor team.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Man.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
There Uh the ice bath uh uh, red light therapy
with the sarda Uh what was the other thing, the
hyperbarrack chamber. Yeah, Bro, that ship was cool, man. I
jumped in there, did all that the day. Uh, yesterday
(26:45):
I was at shout to u f C J hunting
beach man. Uh, I got to do the I believe
it's called voltech something like that.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah yeah, sure right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Squeezing my legs.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I was there last night and I hit the the.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I was just that thing called uh ship that room
that gets cold.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Oh uh Jesus, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You're talking about.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Kyle. There you go. I did some cryal yesterday. So
that just trying to wrast Bro. That's a that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I trying to get a lot of sleep because you know, Bro,
I put my body through a lot, just all the
early days, just the fucking fight, all the training.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Sometimes the trading beats you up.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
More than the actual fight, so that you know, But
that's about it. That's usually what recovery looks like. Eating
whatever the hell I want.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What is your go to after a fight?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Bro, Tacos?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
There you go?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Ship.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I wanted to be honest, I'm gonna tell you this,
after the fight, I'll jog a little swollen right here.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
So like so.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
If it sounds like I'm talking funny a little bit,
it's because my job. My jaw is still it's really
sore and still has some swelling on it.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
So I haven't even got to eat like I wanted to,
Like I've been to be honest, bro, I've been eating
a lot, but I've been eating a lot in discomfort.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Right right right, You're not truly enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, it's all it's like I got to piece everything
up and then like there's moments I'll bite and it'll
hurt and I'll go, fuck now, I gotta wait a
second that the saliva do its job.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
So it's like you're eating when you bite your tongue
you're like, oh never right by wait here a second.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
It's almost like that sensation, bro, So yeah, it's uh,
it's been good though, like I said, uh, compared to
how he's feeling.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
There you go, I'm gold. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, thank you for being in here right afterwards and
your your jaw still hurting it so appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Hey man, thank you guys for supporting bro. That's all.
So I do it for me. I do it for
h ship all, all all the people, all the supporters, broll, my.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Friends, my family, everybody, bro, because I know, I know,
I know what it feels like to be on the
other side. I remember being a fight nerve from the
outside like man, talk to UFC F be crazy, bro.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
And then like so that's.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Why people ask you for interviews, and of course, bro,
like this is uhh. I do it for I do
it for the fans, for the love of the sport.
And if you tell me you love the sport as
much as I do, shit, then we already got something.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
In commons right exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
So when you actually, like mentally you talked about it
earlier that yet we got robots uh flying around putting
files over on one side or the other. How do
you kind of calm everything whenever you're trying to, like
before the fight, and then obviously they adrenaline coming after
the fight. How do you kind of mentally work yourself?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I would say, bad?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Uh, I like to, I'm like a nature type of guy.
Like I like to When I say the nature type
of guy, I mean, I like, it's just I feel
like life is like a story.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Man.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
It's like it's like you have your opening, then you
have your you know, your rising action, your climax falling action,
and then you have your ending, you know what I mean,
And like that's how that's how, that's how life is
the natural world, and sometimes the unnatural world has a
hard time of understanding that. Like things aren't supposed to
(30:39):
last forever, like and then if it does, it's not
really a real thing, you know. So like that's kind
of how I look at uh. Like even when I
before I went into the fight.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I I went up.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
I went up to the top floor of the of
the parking structure by myself.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I smoke two joints, I did some shadow boxing.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I walked around. I looked at one side had a
bunch of mountains, you know, nature the desert side of Vegas.
The other side had the city side of Vegas, and
I just looked at it and I was like, man,
and you I can hear my mind playing tricks on me,
like try to create perfect scenarios in a fight. That, uh,
(31:24):
that's unnatural.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
There is no perfect scenario in combat. It's just combat.
You know. You have to flow with combat, just like nature.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Nature doesn't determine if rocks are gonna perfectly fall under line.
The rocks just fall, you know, things just die. So
if I could take that, if I can embody that philosophy,
my fight will go perfect, you know, because that's how
it was.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Designed to be. And that's kind of how I approach
it pre and post.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
The The fight lived and it died now, so like
that's that's how it is.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Something else is gonna grow from that, and I just
flow with the next thing that grows from all of this.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Fucka, that's perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I love that, especially you've been on top of that
parking garage and like you said, that blending of nature
on one side and the whole city on the other,
it's like it's perfect.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, bro, it's I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I got I got to just I got to disconnect,
you know, for that.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
That one moment, and I laughed.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I laughed as I laughed, because like, sometimes it's just
we're looking for answers that are already there, you know,
We're trying to find something, and then you realize, like, oh,
there's nothing to fight.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
It's been there.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
You just you were trying to you were trying to
make an answer, you know, And that's that's how I
thought there was no I knew what he was capable of,
but I didn't know what he would do.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I let my.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Mind just flow in the moments of it. So all
those moments of really good defense, really good offense, all
that was me just allowing uh, the fight to open
up and unfold, you know naturally.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I love it well.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I have a segment show called The Five Counts, just
five random questions. Yes, sir number one, what would your
last meal be?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
My last Bilby goat lab horse, buffalo, a giant meat platter.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
With with uh, with onions, garlic, peppers, really spicy peppers,
and tortillas.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
All in one mix. It's like the heat is yeah, yeah,
I see. But for me, I like to eat minds
off the bone.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, I'm a caveman, brother, I like I want to.
I want the cave experience. I don't.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I don't want the clean meal. I don't want everything
dice stuff for me. I want to eat it all myself.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, I love that. Number two.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
If you owned a brewery, winery, liquor company, coffee shop,
or dispensary, which one would you own?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
And what would the name be?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
I would mix my coffee shop with my with my
weed shop, and I would call it, uh high ass tacos.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh yeah, bro. And then and there you can. You
can come in.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
It'd be like a like a library where you could train, read,
get coffee, and also smoke all in one.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
We gotta make this happen, hey, Bro, somewhere in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Vegas is a Vegas. Hey, Vegas is a place of many,
many creative ideas. That's why I'll give Vegas there are they?
They they don't, Uh, from what I've seen, they don't.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
They're not hindering capitalism. They're letting capitalism really work.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You know you're right. Number three. Who's your first concert?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
My first concert? Yes, sir, My first concert I think
was the Latin legends.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Really.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
To be honest, man, I'm not I'm not a I'm
not a person that likes public like I don't go
to theme parks like I don't like Disneyland, I don't
like Knots. I don't like six Flags because I don't
like to stand and be around all those people all day.
Imagine walking fifteen minutes to get to a ride and
(35:38):
then you got to wait another hour to get on
the ride that last five minutes, and you're like, Bro,
I got on here and it only.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It's five minutes. What I do all this for? Man?
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Hell though, So my girlfriend is a big music fan,
so she she was it was more of a surprise
to her. So we win it and it was cool. Bro,
I'm gonna tell you this. I'm half Mexican. And when
I say, I saw every form of tolo known to
man there, Bro, I saw every form of tola.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
I mean everyone.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
The ones that wore flattels, the ones that were pro clubs,
the ones that were sweaters, the ones that were plaid,
the ones that were dickies, the ones that were chucks,
the ones that were Nike cortez Is, the ones got
pop locked, the ones that break dance, the ones that
were chads, the ones that were fucking.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
The mafia caps. Bro.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
I was like, Bro, you guys literally come from every
form of life.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
It's insane, Bro.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
And every one of them was out there getting fucking
damn bro.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
And the Latin legends Bro, they could jam out.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, I love that. Uh Number four, Who are what
inspires you?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Ah? Man?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I would say, Man, if I can, if I can
take any inspiration, I'm inspired by the warriors, the generals
of old that like those guys. Uh, I feel like
when we look at about we probably look at for
more of a like, Man, you guys were cruel, but uh,
(37:19):
I think if you look at if you look at
the give you one second, one second play my phone,
if you look at if you look at the time
period that they had to be great in uh and
it just makes sense, you know, Like for us being
great now in this and in our civilization is like sports.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Fight and things like that.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
But in their civilization, greatness was what can you conquer?
What can you take over? Can you outstrategize these other people?
Can you subdue these other uh city states, these other countries?
So that that for me, I would like to leave
a legacy that like, again, I've so far for all
international fighters. So like for me, that's a that's a
(38:06):
chip in my own that's a chip to me, like
I'm I'm i am. I've conquered them by international fighters. Yeah, bro,
Like that is like traveling the world and just proving
that I am not only.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
The best fighter in the United States, but in the world.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
You know, right, I love it.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
And number five, what would you tell your seventeen year
old self?
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Man, seventeen year old me, look forward to the future. Man,
don't be so cynical. Yeah, bro, hey, don't be so
cynical about growing up.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Like life is what you make it.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
And that's something that I didn't really understand when I
was like sixteen and stuff.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I was like super.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Uh, I was super like I would like to call
it like tom a Cozie mindset.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
It like I was just like always ready for the end?
Was the end? Look like what is the what is it?
You know? That type of mind state.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
So I think now now that I've gotten older and
grown like, it's like things don't have to be that way. Man,
You don't got to be stuck in that type of mindset.
So I would definitely have told myself those things.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I love it and if people want to follow you
online watch your fights, obviously comes to you live.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
How can they do all the things?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Check me out on Instagram Chris Ward Taco one two three,
My Twitter's Chris Ward Taco. Uh shit, I'm on Snapchat now,
so bud me on Snapchat Taco Padilla thirteen.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
That's my Snapchat now guys, So yep, check me out there. Obviously.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
I like to say thanks to all my sponsors guys,
all the people who support me.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
One thing I think people don't.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Talk about is how much a fighter can use one
hundred dollars and if it's a one off, one hundred
bucks goes a long way for your local fighters.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Thank you so much for Chris re forming on the show.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I love this interview so much. It was no offense
to Ariel Hawane, but I heard what he had said
about smoking weed during training and I had to start
it the way I did. Uh, So shout out to
Ariel Hawane more than welcome to come on the show.
We met one time at WrestleMania and he may not
remember it, but I do. So please come back on
the show or please come to the show. So many thoughts,
but thank you again to Chris Raban on the show.
(40:43):
I can't wait to see what Chris pa did as
coming for him in the UFC. It's going to be
bigger and better things in the future, so definitely look
got for him. Now, why are you're doing that? Make
sure to follow us on social media. It is bruisers
Pod that has be R E wsc ras b O
D on the Instagram, the threads and the Twitter.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
If you want to send us an email, it is
bruisespot at gmail dot com. If you want to follow
me directly, it is Rody John. That is our O
D I E j O N. Roady John is the
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Speaker 7 (41:09):
Twitter and untapped in case you want to find out
what I'm drinking, maybe we gonna have beer together. If
you want to follow me on the threads or the Instagram,
it is.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
A fisher Rody John.
Speaker 7 (41:16):
So until next time, make sure to enjoy life, drink
local and cheers
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