July 7, 2025 • 26 mins
This week on Front Porch Chronicles, we sit down with lightweight knockout artist Richie “El Machete” Miranda 🪓 Before the bright lights and the walkouts, Richie was just a kid trying to survive in the shadows. In this episode, we talk about what life looked like before fighting — the mindset, the struggle, the fight outside the cage. Then we dive into his career:
💥 His rise through the ranks
🥊 What drives him when the gloves are on
🧠 And the mental toughness it takes to keep going when no one’s watching Finally, we ask the question everyone’s thinking: What’s next for El Machete? This one’s raw, real, and full of the kind of conversation that doesn’t make it to press conferences. 🎙️ Hosted by Clinton Foshee Tap in — it’s more than a fight story. It’s a life story.
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💥 His rise through the ranks
🥊 What drives him when the gloves are on
🧠 And the mental toughness it takes to keep going when no one’s watching Finally, we ask the question everyone’s thinking: What’s next for El Machete? This one’s raw, real, and full of the kind of conversation that doesn’t make it to press conferences. 🎙️ Hosted by Clinton Foshee Tap in — it’s more than a fight story. It’s a life story.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-front-porch-chronicles--5999017/support.
🎧 Front Porch Chronicles — real conversations on healing, growth, fatherhood, and fighting through it. ▶️ Full Episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thefrontporchchronicles
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's up everybody? Clinton Fouchet here and.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Ives and this is Front Porch Chronicles and this week
we have Richie El Machette, Miranda Owned.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Super excited to have you.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
On, uh, taking time out of your day to come on.
I know you just got back yesterday from Cubs fight.
How was it out there in Vegas?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
First of all, you know, thank you guys for having
me here. Appreciate the taking the time to get me
in here, definitely. But yeah, we got back yesterday. Cubs
fight was was not It didn't end how we wanted to,
you know, but it was great being out there with
them and enjoying his fight week and seeing all his
old camp preparation as well. So pretty uh, pretty blessed.
(00:52):
And appreciate him, uh taking me, taking me with him,
you know, being part of it.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, It's it's always different seeing it at that level.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, all of the extra.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Things and with the UFC and all the interviews and
all of that stuff. It's always crazy to me because
people don't have in their mind all of the stuff.
They think you just show up and you just fight,
or you just jump on the mic and you do whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
They don't they don't understand all of the.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
U was that your first time being in the corner.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So I wasn't actually at the fight, but I was there,
like we went to the PI. I gotta check that out,
you know, and when he was cunning wait and but yeah,
I mean I didn't get to be in the corner,
but still got to go through through everything, you know,
yeah him, So, yeah, I feel a lot and check
out the PI, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, it's definitely so.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And going back to the fight, I actually Albert asked
me about it. I thought Cub won the fight. Me personally,
I thought it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Uh, it was.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
A tight fight, but I thought he walked him down
and was the aggressor the whole fight.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Then every time he hit him.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
With his shot, he was grabbing because it was kind
of it was almost like one of those boxing matches
is when somebody gets pieces off.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
On you, you want to hug to try to regrow.
But I thought he wonderful.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, No, I definitely. I mean a lot of people,
even in the comments and the commentators, thought he won.
You know. I mean I think once he Philly felt
his power, that's when he wanted to wrestle, you know,
and he landed more. I mean, if you see like
COB's face and and Philly's face, Philly took more damage.
But and then he didn't really do much on the
on the clinch, you know, like he was just holding.
(02:35):
When the cub got taken down, he got up right away.
So yeah, man, it's one of those I've been on
one of those split decisions and it sucks, you know, yeah, exactly,
it's just a.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Thing you can do about it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And it's like you're at the at the mercy of
the judges and it's almost like that's one of the
things we talk about we talked about previously, is with
the judges, there's no like set like okay, because even
in the clinch, Yeah, you can't even consider what.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
He did as control. I mean, the ref had to
tell him.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
There was two different times the ref was like, hey,
you needed to do something, like he almost was about
to break them up and separate them two different times.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So, uh, you know, it was it was crazy, but
he's part of the fight game. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So I know you're from Santa Anna. Shout out Santa Ana.
Uh you know my kids, I told you my kids
are from Santa Ana. So Santa Anna gets a lot
of love. For me, we had Danny, Danny Silva own
uh and and so what was it like growing up
in Santa Ana for you?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
For me? For me, it was pretty I wasn't really
too much out there, and you know, my parents are
pretty uh good and keeping me keeping me close at home.
But yeah, I mean I lived in Santanta for pretty
much all my life other than when I went to college.
But you know, it's been good. You know, I live
in a pretty quiet part of the city, you know,
(04:10):
so they didn't really grow up too much around gangs
and stuff like that. But you know, I had a
good upbringing and you know, I feel like, I mean,
it's it's it's a good city. It gets a lot
of bad reps sometimes, but you know, we're trying to
bring it up, you know, and keep it going good.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I think people like you and Danny are going to
do that by showing like, hey, there's the good parts
about it too. I know you touched a little bit
before we went live about going to Nebraska. Yeah, what
brought you back to Santa Ana?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So pretty much once I finished my college degree, I
was just like I had coming back to train. So
I knew that once I was done with school, I
was gonna move back home. And you know, once once
I had a fight scheduled and didn't go my way,
it didn't got canceled. So then at the end of
twenty eighteen, that's when I decided to move back. Yeah,
(04:57):
and then just been here since.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I love the So I told you performed from Zacamento.
The Mexican food is not here, I'm half yeah, damn.
So just asking me about that. What's your favorite restaurant
in sant and we're going to shout it out.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Favorite restaurant. There's this savicha truck by my house. Yeah,
it's called Primos School.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
You guys are in the area. The totals.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Today it's it's fy Go.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So just taking it back a little bit. I know
you had wrestling in your background, but what actually started
you on your M M A journey?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
So pretty much? Uh So, I wrestled in University of Nebraska.
Carney wrestled there two years and I still had a
year left to school and I was hoping out a
little bit to the team and just running lifting weights,
but I still wanted to compete, you know, So that's
when I joined the local gym down there with my
first mm A coach called Carne Combat. Yeah, and shout
(06:01):
out to my coach, Richard Barajas, and uh yeah, you know,
started training. Four months later, I had my first amateur fight.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Oh yeah, so awesome. It's always it's always interesting fascinating,
see like what actually prompted it? Because yeah, you did
have this sort of grappling background, Yeah, but like what
actually tastes was there? Like a was there someone that
like inspired you to want to start training specifically an MMA?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
No, I think just I mean I watched boxing with
my dad growing up a lot, and I always wanted
to do that but didn't have time to get into
sports growing up. So once I got into wrestling, that's
when I you know, got the love for combat sports
and watching a little bit of early UFCS and then
in college I was I mean from high school then
I was always watching UFC and I was like, dude,
(06:43):
I think I can do this, you know. Yeah, so
uh yeah, once once I got done wrestling, yeah, I
pretty much just signed up and started training and I
was just like, you know, typical wrestler mindset, like, dude,
I can take these guys down beat them up, you know,
and then but you know, then I learned that, you know,
there's a lot more to it, and you got to
learn and growing each learning each art is just like
(07:05):
learning a new new sport again.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know, it's like going back to infancy and trying
to learn.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I know, for me, I grew up.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Not wrestling on the team, but I was poor white trash,
so we wrestled around the neighborhood and whatever. And then
growing up like I was always the guy that was
in the streets that they were like, hey, if we're
gonna fight.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
We need hit.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So I always was like, okay in the streets, I'm
undefeated and I'll never forget the first time I went
into an MMA gym and they were like okay, and
being honest, I was like, okay, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Gonna hear wrecked these foods.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And I came in and I set up and I'll
never forget the dude kick me.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And a tear.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Not like I was crying, but it was almost like
when you get your ear pierced or whatever, something little
thing that you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Can I'll never forget. I was like, did this dude?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Just in my mind, I was like I had to
almost look down because I was like, did this.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Dude pull out a hat and hit me in the
leg because you don't understand how bad leg kicks hurt.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
And so there's always levels to the game, and learning
each one of the arts is insane.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, I know. It's it's a trip, you know, it's
just like damn, Like you think you're doing it right,
but you're like, fuck, no, I look, I look, but
I look dumb, you know, like.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And then you trained with somebody that is elite in
that art, and then you're like.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay, this is what it is to.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Be in this exactly.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So when did you actually start with it? Hold? Were
you when you start?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
So I started training MMA around twenty.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Three and then it was about like the like when
did you start training about the same time?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No, I was. I was like thirty five, thirty six.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, And it was kind of similar like I probably
was having a midlife crisis before I was.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
A midlife crisis. And so I had a patient.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I worked for a medical equipment company, and I had
a patient dye in front of me, and it was
like one of those things like if you've ever seen
that movie The Bucket List, like I sat down and
I was like, you know what, I don't want to
die sitting here wondering what it would have been like
to do all these things.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And I went and signed up, and you know, kind
of similar.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
They were like, oh, you need to be training for
a while, and I was like four months into it
and I was like, I'm ready for a fight. They're like,
you've got to training before you can even I'm like, no,
put me in coach, let me do what I can do.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And I went in there. I went one and one
and then I was like, bro, I'm too old. And
then number two. It wasn't enough money for me at
that time.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And it wasn't like I could have a sustainable career
at thirty five thirty six years old. So the writing
was on the wall. Luckily I listened to it. It
was like, hey, you know what, I don't want to be,
you know, a gamp.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So that's cool though at least you got to experience
what it's like, you know, like not a lot of
people get to do that, none of alone step in
a cage and actually fight, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
People don't know that.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know, I'll never forget the first time and when
that octagon closes, because you have all these things.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
In your mind and it's kind of like you have.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
All of these things planned, like you're like, okay, yeah,
when I get in there, I'm going to do this
and I'm going to do that, and the game plan
is this. And then that the cage closes and the
guy looks in like are you ready, and it's like
everything goes to hell. Like my for me, I was like, okay,
I ain't trying to get knocked out in front of
(10:48):
my kids. My kids were that I ain't trying to
get knocked out in front of my friends.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Oh what was I supposed to do? Again? Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Crowd?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Okay, yeah, yeah, we're in a fight. And then I
run across the cage. All three, all three ran. It
was like we were at the club, Like no, there
was no Just like I said, I was running across
like somebody owed me rent money.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Time goes by fast too, you know, like in there
it goes it goes I mean now I feel like
fights slowed down for me, But my first couple of fights,
it goes fast. You know.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It's like over and you're like what did I just do?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And what just happened luckily, Like I said, I came
out one and one and and I didn't get bruised
or battered, so you know, I was.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Good with that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So uh so you said you took your first fight
four months in. When did you know though you were like, hey,
this is what I.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Want to do for a career.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
It was after that fight. I mean my parents too.
I remember I called them up probably like I want
to say, maybe like November or something, because the fight
was scheduled for February, and I was just like, yeah,
like I'm gonna I just I just agreed to a fight,
so I'm gonna fight. And they're like what And then
they were cool with it. But yeah, at first they
(12:02):
were like spectacle, like, you know, like I don't know
this and that. But then I guess once they saw
what I could do in that fight, they're like, all right,
he can do it. He has the future in this.
So yeah, I mean it was pretty much that first fight.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, just you know you wanted more of it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, yeah, I just craved that adrenaline and just like
I just like the whole process, you know, like training
for a fight, you know, the cutting weight, the putting
in work, and you know, learning new things.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
And yeah, I guess with wrestling you get used to
it because you started young when you had the weight
cuts stuff like that, rather than someone that did it
later on in their career.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah. Yeah, And I started wrestling at fourteen, so it
wasn't like I started super young. But you know, I
got to wrestle in college, so I matured there a
lot too. And then wrestling you and K was was
pretty dope because I wrestled with a lot of like
high level wrestlers and got to compete against high level schools.
So yeah, I just brought up my wrestling even even more.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, so with that, you're kind of heded on your
your parents. What was their reaction when you first said, hey,
this is gonna be my career.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, they were like, well, they're like, we sent we
sent you to school together a degree.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
They're like, what do you mean You're gonna fight? And
I'm like, yeah, you know, I started training and I
just agreed to a fight in February. So I was like,
I got like, you know, two months to train, and
they're like, all right, well we'll support you, you know.
And yeah, after that first fight, you know, just they
were with it. So, so does.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Your mom come to your fights? Does she watch?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah? Yeah, she They go to pretty much all local
fights and then depending on most of my fight's been
out of state with other faith. Yeah, but all the
local fights are there. And then they went to the
one in Texas. But yeah, they met her and my dad.
You know, my dad's a little bit more calm, but
she'll take some tequila's shot.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's always funny with the moms because every person we've
had on the pot, it's been either one the other.
Either the mom was like down or the mom is
just like, hey, you know what, I can't watch with this.
I don't want to do nothing with it.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, so we know that you have, like obviously life
is a fighter is crazy. You have to do everything
from training to wait cut into like just having a
social life. So how do you manage yourself and balancing
a professional career with having like an actual life too.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I mean I don't pretty much do too much, you know,
but just hang around my family, my girlfriend, and you know,
I have a motorcycle, so I try to ride that
go snowboard. Yeah, pretty pretty easy going. So I mean,
not not.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Too much and hanging with the boys a lot of
the time too. Yeah it's like you, Chris and all
of them are super close and yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, I know, so, I mean pretty much with them.
I mean this this was our first my first trip
with him, so it was pretty cool to team bond,
you know and hang around all the guys and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yes, speaking to that.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You know, you trained with Cub, Danny Silva, Chris Makata,
Dan the Determined, uh namhn, Gracie if you're out, like, yeah,
you guys have got such an elite group, not just
a fighters, might I add, but just a really good
(15:18):
human beings and people. How do you feel like they're
gonna elevate you to the next level?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Yeah, so definitely we have a good group, and I
feel like everybody has their their own specialty in a way.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And then but yeah, I just joined the group maybe
like two months ago, but I've been training with them
here a little bit before, and yeah, you know, I
feel like my my game has been elevating more, and
you know, I'm excited for this next upcoming fight, you know,
just to show show the new training techniques that they've
(15:54):
been showing me. And then yeah, just a different approach
of training too, and yeah, you know it's great to
have those guys good uh good training partners and just
learning a lot, picking their brains what to do well
not to do.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So yeah, how'd y'all meet?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
So pretty much through Danny, I've been I've been connected
to them to Danny, and I was before I was
going like every Fridays here and there to go train
with them. Yeah, and yeah, pretty much just joined the
team I want to say, like two months ago. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah, they're good group. I love Chris. He's so funny.
Dan yeah, and he's like more stoic, but Chris is
like this one of my one of my actual mutual friends.
He wrestled under coach or Chris mccatay o Mount and Sack.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
They called him against like coach energetic or something like that,
and he just has this like vibrancy around him too.
So we had him on what like two months ago yeah, yeah,
and stuff like that. So it's just cool, just the
fact that you guys all get a chill and.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Like, yeah, no, it's it's it's dope because it's like
everybody has a good, great mindset of just you know,
going in there do their work, and we're just elevating
each other to do better, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, and that's important because that's not something a lot
of teams, Yeah, especially like you have people that are
very ego ego driven, So you have people that will
kind of show you something a little bit, but they
don't want to fully invest.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
And that's one of the things.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That I respect about CUB and all of those guys
is it's iron sharpens iron, and they don't they don't
just say like.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Hey, yeah, you're part of the team, we want you
to do good like they wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You can tell the love and admiration that they pour
in to one another. It only can you know, elevate
your game and make it that much your career that
much better.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah. No, yeah, definitely, I mean could being most of
the leader, you know, a leader role coach part and
then just us you know, tying into what he's showing
us and and just picking each other's brain as well,
you know.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, it makes a big difference.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
So we know you're eating one fighting right now, and
then you're in the LFA. Yeah, and you just had
a great win, a dominant win actually, Yeah, back in
March against keeking Agne. It looks like what's next for you?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
So I'll be fighting August. They just switched the date,
but it'll be August twenty third here at a Commerce
casino for.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Yeah, right right before Danny's fight.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, day before.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I was supposed to be the week before the sixteenth,
but something happened and they ended up moving it to
the twenty third, So it'll be the day before Danny fight.
You said, would you say it was Commerce casino?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah, Commerce La Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
That's awesome. Yeah. So do you have anyone that you
have your your eyes set on right now?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
No? I don't have an opponent yet, but I should
be getting some names.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
So yeah, let us know. And we loved at least
like shout it out and stuff with that about more
of it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Definitely, it's not that far.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah, you guys should pull up if you guys.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh, I'm yeah the way, that's why we you said commerce.
I had another guy. So I do have a management
company too. I had a fighter the l I deal
with l f A.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
So they had told me about it and I didn't
even think about it, and then when you brought it up,
I was like heck, you know, it didn't fit for
my guy because they're international. But whenever you said it,
I'm like, dude, you were definitely gonna pull up.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah, yeah, pull up. It should be either a feature
fighter comaine.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
So oh nice, Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well you're teetering on.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I mean, I got one that gains you because I'm
I'm a realist, But you're teetering on getting the call
up to the UFC, Like you're you're you know, and
I'm brutally honest. So if you weren't, I'd be like,
you got a lot of time go around and no
pressure on the next fight.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But like you're teetering on uh.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Being there, you know, your skill level is already there,
and then blending in with cubbing them and taking that really,
you know, altering some things. Like I could already tell
whenever you were talking, I could already see that there
was some things bad scientists, things that were going on.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
And the biggest commonality to you after having everyone on
is is the culture. Man. Like I don't know how
it was before you started training with them, but like
the fact that you have with these good people guys
that want just to you succeed just makes a big difference.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, I know we like them. Yeah, I better cut
you off. But yeah, you know, like we're all pushing
each other. Like I said, it's just the motivation in
that room is we're all trying to get better and
push each other to you know, elevate each fight and
elevate every day you know, and training.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, so all right, well we were going to have
a little rapid fire.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Questions right quick. Let's go, uh say, the first thing
that pops into.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Your head and you are on the clock, who's your
favorite fighter growing up?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Who favorite fighter? Then there's so many, but uh, I
want to say, let's go with GSP. I like that.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I like, what's your favorite travel destination?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Travel? Just Mexico, Mexico part Uh, where my dad's from,
so yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
My kids, that's where my kids, my youngest kids and
mother is from.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Uh what is your biggest pet?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Pave?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I guess people have talked too much to annoying. I
don't know. Yeah yeah, yeah, we're always in my ear,
you know. But yeah, yeah, I'm not done, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
What's your favorite cheat meal?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Cheat meal? You know? Pizza? I mean I like Sacha,
but I don't. It's not too bad.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, yeah, pizza you are you a pineapple person?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
What's your hidden talent?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Are you snowboarding?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Yeah? And you you jumps and stuff with the Little Joe? Yeah, yeah,
of course. Yeah. What's your favorite song?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I like a lot of three six Mafia one that
I pretty much I walked out to it last time.
But it's called The Mask and the Glocks.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You can tell you that that's the Southern me came out.
I was like, that's that? That that Southern swag right there.
Who is your favorite actor or actress?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Black Jack, notchal Libra, I got.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
I love it. What's your favorite TV show or movie
of all time?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Movie for sure? Not TV show? I don't know. I couldn't.
I couldn't say. Yeah, if there was a zombie and apocalypse.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
What one fighter would you want on your teams?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I'll take John Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
That's a good one, can't.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You can't go wrong with John Jones, even with the shoulder.
But I think he's supposed to.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Be back pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
They haven't announced anything yet, right, but he's soon for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, I'm curious to see who he's gonna fight, They're
saying Poloton, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Know what crazy, I don't know what I would fill up.
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And see, this is where I'm conflicted, because I like
both of them, and you know, I've hung out with Poloton.
I've never hung out with John, but John's jiu jitsu
coach is a really good.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Friend of mine. So I.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Want to say, there's nobody that can beat John Jones.
But if there was ever somebody to beat John Jones,
pull a time, so that would be an epic that
would be an epic fight if it if it ever.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Popped off, so you know, we would say, uh, all right,
So if today this is a serious one, now you
need to think about it. It's okay. If today was
your last day, what would you want Richie Miranda to
be remembered for.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I guess, you know, just a good person. I mean
I feel like pretty easy going, easy to talk to,
and you know, just my my fighting style. I guess
I always always always bring it, you know, always going
in there looking for the kill. And yeah, you know
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well you could you could tell that you have this
very h.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, cool collected, naturally good energy like about you.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I always read people. Yeah, so like you could tell
like even when.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
But then again, like with the people you're hanging with,
it's one of those things birds of a feather flock together. Yeah,
so you're a lot like your personality is a lot
like Danny's where you're like you have this very quiet, calm,
cool collected but you just have this very natural good
energy about you and.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Then you probably let the game come to you a
little bit. Yeah, you've been You've been at the collegient
level already. You already have dealt with people at like
the top of their games. Right now, it's just like
just what's the next thing? What's that thing going after?
And now it's in combat sports, right Yeah, and so
it's just cool to watch and witness, even just from
our little interactions of like how like stoke you are
in this and like you just already to embrace the moment.
(25:53):
So we're rooting for you and excited for that August
point third fight whenever you actually get the opponent.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah, yeah, thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
When of they supposed that I should be getting some
names soon, So either a name or a couple of names,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
We'll see, alright, sweet well, we'll definitely be there.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Let us know when we Thank you so much for
coming on and we would definitely be there to cheer
you appreciate it and if you need anything from us,
we're always here.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Thank you, my brother.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah, thank you guys for having me and you know,
chopping time August twenty third, tune in.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
We will be there. Yeah, take it easy, brother,
What's up everybody? Clinton Fouchet here and.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Ives and this is Front Porch Chronicles and this week
we have Richie El Machette, Miranda Owned.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Super excited to have you.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
On, uh, taking time out of your day to come on.
I know you just got back yesterday from Cubs fight.
How was it out there in Vegas?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
First of all, you know, thank you guys for having
me here. Appreciate the taking the time to get me
in here, definitely. But yeah, we got back yesterday. Cubs
fight was was not It didn't end how we wanted to,
you know, but it was great being out there with
them and enjoying his fight week and seeing all his
old camp preparation as well. So pretty uh, pretty blessed.
(00:52):
And appreciate him, uh taking me, taking me with him,
you know, being part of it.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, It's it's always different seeing it at that level.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, all of the extra.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Things and with the UFC and all the interviews and
all of that stuff. It's always crazy to me because
people don't have in their mind all of the stuff.
They think you just show up and you just fight,
or you just jump on the mic and you do whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
They don't they don't understand all of the.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
U was that your first time being in the corner.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So I wasn't actually at the fight, but I was there,
like we went to the PI. I gotta check that out,
you know, and when he was cunning wait and but yeah,
I mean I didn't get to be in the corner,
but still got to go through through everything, you know,
yeah him, So, yeah, I feel a lot and check
out the PI, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, it's definitely so.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And going back to the fight, I actually Albert asked
me about it. I thought Cub won the fight. Me personally,
I thought it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Uh, it was.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
A tight fight, but I thought he walked him down
and was the aggressor the whole fight.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Then every time he hit him.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
With his shot, he was grabbing because it was kind
of it was almost like one of those boxing matches
is when somebody gets pieces off.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
On you, you want to hug to try to regrow.
But I thought he wonderful.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, No, I definitely. I mean a lot of people,
even in the comments and the commentators, thought he won.
You know. I mean I think once he Philly felt
his power, that's when he wanted to wrestle, you know,
and he landed more. I mean, if you see like
COB's face and and Philly's face, Philly took more damage.
But and then he didn't really do much on the
on the clinch, you know, like he was just holding.
(02:35):
When the cub got taken down, he got up right away.
So yeah, man, it's one of those I've been on
one of those split decisions and it sucks, you know, yeah, exactly,
it's just a.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Thing you can do about it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And it's like you're at the at the mercy of
the judges and it's almost like that's one of the
things we talk about we talked about previously, is with
the judges, there's no like set like okay, because even
in the clinch, Yeah, you can't even consider what.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
He did as control. I mean, the ref had to
tell him.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
There was two different times the ref was like, hey,
you needed to do something, like he almost was about
to break them up and separate them two different times.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So, uh, you know, it was it was crazy, but
he's part of the fight game. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So I know you're from Santa Anna. Shout out Santa Ana.
Uh you know my kids, I told you my kids
are from Santa Ana. So Santa Anna gets a lot
of love. For me, we had Danny, Danny Silva own
uh and and so what was it like growing up
in Santa Ana for you?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
For me? For me, it was pretty I wasn't really
too much out there, and you know, my parents are
pretty uh good and keeping me keeping me close at home.
But yeah, I mean I lived in Santanta for pretty
much all my life other than when I went to college.
But you know, it's been good. You know, I live
in a pretty quiet part of the city, you know,
(04:10):
so they didn't really grow up too much around gangs
and stuff like that. But you know, I had a
good upbringing and you know, I feel like, I mean,
it's it's it's a good city. It gets a lot
of bad reps sometimes, but you know, we're trying to
bring it up, you know, and keep it going good.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I think people like you and Danny are going to
do that by showing like, hey, there's the good parts
about it too. I know you touched a little bit
before we went live about going to Nebraska. Yeah, what
brought you back to Santa Ana?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So pretty much once I finished my college degree, I
was just like I had coming back to train. So
I knew that once I was done with school, I
was gonna move back home. And you know, once once
I had a fight scheduled and didn't go my way,
it didn't got canceled. So then at the end of
twenty eighteen, that's when I decided to move back. Yeah,
(04:57):
and then just been here since.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I love the So I told you performed from Zacamento.
The Mexican food is not here, I'm half yeah, damn.
So just asking me about that. What's your favorite restaurant
in sant and we're going to shout it out.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Favorite restaurant. There's this savicha truck by my house. Yeah,
it's called Primos School.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
You guys are in the area. The totals.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Today it's it's fy Go.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So just taking it back a little bit. I know
you had wrestling in your background, but what actually started
you on your M M A journey?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
So pretty much? Uh So, I wrestled in University of Nebraska.
Carney wrestled there two years and I still had a
year left to school and I was hoping out a
little bit to the team and just running lifting weights,
but I still wanted to compete, you know, So that's
when I joined the local gym down there with my
first mm A coach called Carne Combat. Yeah, and shout
(06:01):
out to my coach, Richard Barajas, and uh yeah, you know,
started training. Four months later, I had my first amateur fight.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Oh yeah, so awesome. It's always it's always interesting fascinating,
see like what actually prompted it? Because yeah, you did
have this sort of grappling background, Yeah, but like what
actually tastes was there? Like a was there someone that
like inspired you to want to start training specifically an MMA?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
No, I think just I mean I watched boxing with
my dad growing up a lot, and I always wanted
to do that but didn't have time to get into
sports growing up. So once I got into wrestling, that's
when I you know, got the love for combat sports
and watching a little bit of early UFCS and then
in college I was I mean from high school then
I was always watching UFC and I was like, dude,
(06:43):
I think I can do this, you know. Yeah, so
uh yeah, once once I got done wrestling, yeah, I
pretty much just signed up and started training and I
was just like, you know, typical wrestler mindset, like, dude,
I can take these guys down beat them up, you know,
and then but you know, then I learned that, you know,
there's a lot more to it, and you got to
learn and growing each learning each art is just like
(07:05):
learning a new new sport again.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know, it's like going back to infancy and trying
to learn.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I know, for me, I grew up.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Not wrestling on the team, but I was poor white trash,
so we wrestled around the neighborhood and whatever. And then
growing up like I was always the guy that was
in the streets that they were like, hey, if we're
gonna fight.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
We need hit.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So I always was like, okay in the streets, I'm
undefeated and I'll never forget the first time I went
into an MMA gym and they were like okay, and
being honest, I was like, okay, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Gonna hear wrecked these foods.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And I came in and I set up and I'll
never forget the dude kick me.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And a tear.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Not like I was crying, but it was almost like
when you get your ear pierced or whatever, something little
thing that you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Can I'll never forget. I was like, did this dude?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Just in my mind, I was like I had to
almost look down because I was like, did this.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Dude pull out a hat and hit me in the
leg because you don't understand how bad leg kicks hurt.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
And so there's always levels to the game, and learning
each one of the arts is insane.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, I know. It's it's a trip, you know, it's
just like damn, Like you think you're doing it right,
but you're like, fuck, no, I look, I look, but
I look dumb, you know, like.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And then you trained with somebody that is elite in
that art, and then you're like.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay, this is what it is to.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Be in this exactly.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So when did you actually start with it? Hold? Were
you when you start?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
So I started training MMA around twenty.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Three and then it was about like the like when
did you start training about the same time?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No, I was. I was like thirty five, thirty six.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, And it was kind of similar like I probably
was having a midlife crisis before I was.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
A midlife crisis. And so I had a patient.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I worked for a medical equipment company, and I had
a patient dye in front of me, and it was
like one of those things like if you've ever seen
that movie The Bucket List, like I sat down and
I was like, you know what, I don't want to
die sitting here wondering what it would have been like
to do all these things.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And I went and signed up, and you know, kind
of similar.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
They were like, oh, you need to be training for
a while, and I was like four months into it
and I was like, I'm ready for a fight. They're like,
you've got to training before you can even I'm like, no,
put me in coach, let me do what I can do.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And I went in there. I went one and one
and then I was like, bro, I'm too old. And
then number two. It wasn't enough money for me at
that time.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And it wasn't like I could have a sustainable career
at thirty five thirty six years old. So the writing
was on the wall. Luckily I listened to it. It
was like, hey, you know what, I don't want to be,
you know, a gamp.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So that's cool though at least you got to experience
what it's like, you know, like not a lot of
people get to do that, none of alone step in
a cage and actually fight, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
People don't know that.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know, I'll never forget the first time and when
that octagon closes, because you have all these things.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
In your mind and it's kind of like you have.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
All of these things planned, like you're like, okay, yeah,
when I get in there, I'm going to do this
and I'm going to do that, and the game plan
is this. And then that the cage closes and the
guy looks in like are you ready, and it's like
everything goes to hell. Like my for me, I was like, okay,
I ain't trying to get knocked out in front of
(10:48):
my kids. My kids were that I ain't trying to
get knocked out in front of my friends.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Oh what was I supposed to do? Again? Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Crowd?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Okay, yeah, yeah, we're in a fight. And then I
run across the cage. All three, all three ran. It
was like we were at the club, Like no, there
was no Just like I said, I was running across
like somebody owed me rent money.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Time goes by fast too, you know, like in there
it goes it goes I mean now I feel like
fights slowed down for me, But my first couple of fights,
it goes fast. You know.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It's like over and you're like what did I just do?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And what just happened luckily, Like I said, I came
out one and one and and I didn't get bruised
or battered, so you know, I was.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Good with that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So uh so you said you took your first fight
four months in. When did you know though you were like, hey,
this is what I.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Want to do for a career.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
It was after that fight. I mean my parents too.
I remember I called them up probably like I want
to say, maybe like November or something, because the fight
was scheduled for February, and I was just like, yeah,
like I'm gonna I just I just agreed to a fight,
so I'm gonna fight. And they're like what And then
they were cool with it. But yeah, at first they
(12:02):
were like spectacle, like, you know, like I don't know
this and that. But then I guess once they saw
what I could do in that fight, they're like, all right,
he can do it. He has the future in this.
So yeah, I mean it was pretty much that first fight.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, just you know you wanted more of it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, yeah, I just craved that adrenaline and just like
I just like the whole process, you know, like training
for a fight, you know, the cutting weight, the putting
in work, and you know, learning new things.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
And yeah, I guess with wrestling you get used to
it because you started young when you had the weight
cuts stuff like that, rather than someone that did it
later on in their career.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah. Yeah, And I started wrestling at fourteen, so it
wasn't like I started super young. But you know, I
got to wrestle in college, so I matured there a
lot too. And then wrestling you and K was was
pretty dope because I wrestled with a lot of like
high level wrestlers and got to compete against high level schools.
So yeah, I just brought up my wrestling even even more.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, so with that, you're kind of heded on your
your parents. What was their reaction when you first said, hey,
this is gonna be my career.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, they were like, well, they're like, we sent we
sent you to school together a degree.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
They're like, what do you mean You're gonna fight? And
I'm like, yeah, you know, I started training and I
just agreed to a fight in February. So I was like,
I got like, you know, two months to train, and
they're like, all right, well we'll support you, you know.
And yeah, after that first fight, you know, just they
were with it. So, so does.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Your mom come to your fights? Does she watch?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah? Yeah, she They go to pretty much all local
fights and then depending on most of my fight's been
out of state with other faith. Yeah, but all the
local fights are there. And then they went to the
one in Texas. But yeah, they met her and my dad.
You know, my dad's a little bit more calm, but
she'll take some tequila's shot.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's always funny with the moms because every person we've
had on the pot, it's been either one the other.
Either the mom was like down or the mom is
just like, hey, you know what, I can't watch with this.
I don't want to do nothing with it.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, so we know that you have, like obviously life
is a fighter is crazy. You have to do everything
from training to wait cut into like just having a
social life. So how do you manage yourself and balancing
a professional career with having like an actual life too.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I mean I don't pretty much do too much, you know,
but just hang around my family, my girlfriend, and you know,
I have a motorcycle, so I try to ride that
go snowboard. Yeah, pretty pretty easy going. So I mean,
not not.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Too much and hanging with the boys a lot of
the time too. Yeah it's like you, Chris and all
of them are super close and yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, I know, so, I mean pretty much with them.
I mean this this was our first my first trip
with him, so it was pretty cool to team bond,
you know and hang around all the guys and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yes, speaking to that.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You know, you trained with Cub, Danny Silva, Chris Makata,
Dan the Determined, uh namhn, Gracie if you're out, like, yeah,
you guys have got such an elite group, not just
a fighters, might I add, but just a really good
(15:18):
human beings and people. How do you feel like they're
gonna elevate you to the next level?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Yeah, so definitely we have a good group, and I
feel like everybody has their their own specialty in a way.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And then but yeah, I just joined the group maybe
like two months ago, but I've been training with them
here a little bit before, and yeah, you know, I
feel like my my game has been elevating more, and
you know, I'm excited for this next upcoming fight, you know,
just to show show the new training techniques that they've
(15:54):
been showing me. And then yeah, just a different approach
of training too, and yeah, you know it's great to
have those guys good uh good training partners and just
learning a lot, picking their brains what to do well
not to do.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So yeah, how'd y'all meet?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
So pretty much through Danny, I've been I've been connected
to them to Danny, and I was before I was
going like every Fridays here and there to go train
with them. Yeah, and yeah, pretty much just joined the
team I want to say, like two months ago. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah, they're good group. I love Chris. He's so funny.
Dan yeah, and he's like more stoic, but Chris is
like this one of my one of my actual mutual friends.
He wrestled under coach or Chris mccatay o Mount and Sack.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
They called him against like coach energetic or something like that,
and he just has this like vibrancy around him too.
So we had him on what like two months ago yeah, yeah,
and stuff like that. So it's just cool, just the
fact that you guys all get a chill and.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Like, yeah, no, it's it's it's dope because it's like
everybody has a good, great mindset of just you know,
going in there do their work, and we're just elevating
each other to do better, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, and that's important because that's not something a lot
of teams, Yeah, especially like you have people that are
very ego ego driven, So you have people that will
kind of show you something a little bit, but they
don't want to fully invest.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
And that's one of the things.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That I respect about CUB and all of those guys
is it's iron sharpens iron, and they don't they don't
just say like.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Hey, yeah, you're part of the team, we want you
to do good like they wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You can tell the love and admiration that they pour
in to one another. It only can you know, elevate
your game and make it that much your career that
much better.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah. No, yeah, definitely, I mean could being most of
the leader, you know, a leader role coach part and
then just us you know, tying into what he's showing
us and and just picking each other's brain as well,
you know.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, it makes a big difference.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
So we know you're eating one fighting right now, and
then you're in the LFA. Yeah, and you just had
a great win, a dominant win actually, Yeah, back in
March against keeking Agne. It looks like what's next for you?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
So I'll be fighting August. They just switched the date,
but it'll be August twenty third here at a Commerce
casino for.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Yeah, right right before Danny's fight.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, day before.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I was supposed to be the week before the sixteenth,
but something happened and they ended up moving it to
the twenty third, So it'll be the day before Danny fight.
You said, would you say it was Commerce casino?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah, Commerce La Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
That's awesome. Yeah. So do you have anyone that you
have your your eyes set on right now?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
No? I don't have an opponent yet, but I should
be getting some names.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
So yeah, let us know. And we loved at least
like shout it out and stuff with that about more
of it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Definitely, it's not that far.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah, you guys should pull up if you guys.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh, I'm yeah the way, that's why we you said commerce.
I had another guy. So I do have a management
company too. I had a fighter the l I deal
with l f A.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
So they had told me about it and I didn't
even think about it, and then when you brought it up,
I was like heck, you know, it didn't fit for
my guy because they're international. But whenever you said it,
I'm like, dude, you were definitely gonna pull up.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah, yeah, pull up. It should be either a feature
fighter comaine.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
So oh nice, Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well you're teetering on.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I mean, I got one that gains you because I'm
I'm a realist, But you're teetering on getting the call
up to the UFC, Like you're you're you know, and
I'm brutally honest. So if you weren't, I'd be like,
you got a lot of time go around and no
pressure on the next fight.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But like you're teetering on uh.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Being there, you know, your skill level is already there,
and then blending in with cubbing them and taking that really,
you know, altering some things. Like I could already tell
whenever you were talking, I could already see that there
was some things bad scientists, things that were going on.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
And the biggest commonality to you after having everyone on
is is the culture. Man. Like I don't know how
it was before you started training with them, but like
the fact that you have with these good people guys
that want just to you succeed just makes a big difference.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, I know we like them. Yeah, I better cut
you off. But yeah, you know, like we're all pushing
each other. Like I said, it's just the motivation in
that room is we're all trying to get better and
push each other to you know, elevate each fight and
elevate every day you know, and training.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, so all right, well we were going to have
a little rapid fire.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Questions right quick. Let's go, uh say, the first thing
that pops into.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Your head and you are on the clock, who's your
favorite fighter growing up?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Who favorite fighter? Then there's so many, but uh, I
want to say, let's go with GSP. I like that.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I like, what's your favorite travel destination?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Travel? Just Mexico, Mexico part Uh, where my dad's from,
so yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
My kids, that's where my kids, my youngest kids and
mother is from.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Uh what is your biggest pet?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Pave?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I guess people have talked too much to annoying. I
don't know. Yeah yeah, yeah, we're always in my ear,
you know. But yeah, yeah, I'm not done, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
What's your favorite cheat meal?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Cheat meal? You know? Pizza? I mean I like Sacha,
but I don't. It's not too bad.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, yeah, pizza you are you a pineapple person?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
What's your hidden talent?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Are you snowboarding?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Yeah? And you you jumps and stuff with the Little Joe? Yeah, yeah,
of course. Yeah. What's your favorite song?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I like a lot of three six Mafia one that
I pretty much I walked out to it last time.
But it's called The Mask and the Glocks.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You can tell you that that's the Southern me came out.
I was like, that's that? That that Southern swag right there.
Who is your favorite actor or actress?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Black Jack, notchal Libra, I got.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
I love it. What's your favorite TV show or movie
of all time?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Movie for sure? Not TV show? I don't know. I couldn't.
I couldn't say. Yeah, if there was a zombie and apocalypse.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
What one fighter would you want on your teams?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I'll take John Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
That's a good one, can't.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You can't go wrong with John Jones, even with the shoulder.
But I think he's supposed to.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Be back pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
They haven't announced anything yet, right, but he's soon for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, I'm curious to see who he's gonna fight, They're
saying Poloton, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Know what crazy, I don't know what I would fill up.
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And see, this is where I'm conflicted, because I like
both of them, and you know, I've hung out with Poloton.
I've never hung out with John, but John's jiu jitsu
coach is a really good.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Friend of mine. So I.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Want to say, there's nobody that can beat John Jones.
But if there was ever somebody to beat John Jones,
pull a time, so that would be an epic that
would be an epic fight if it if it ever.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Popped off, so you know, we would say, uh, all right,
So if today this is a serious one, now you
need to think about it. It's okay. If today was
your last day, what would you want Richie Miranda to
be remembered for.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I guess, you know, just a good person. I mean
I feel like pretty easy going, easy to talk to,
and you know, just my my fighting style. I guess
I always always always bring it, you know, always going
in there looking for the kill. And yeah, you know
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well you could you could tell that you have this
very h.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, cool collected, naturally good energy like about you.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I always read people. Yeah, so like you could tell
like even when.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
But then again, like with the people you're hanging with,
it's one of those things birds of a feather flock together. Yeah,
so you're a lot like your personality is a lot
like Danny's where you're like you have this very quiet, calm,
cool collected but you just have this very natural good
energy about you and.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Then you probably let the game come to you a
little bit. Yeah, you've been You've been at the collegient
level already. You already have dealt with people at like
the top of their games. Right now, it's just like
just what's the next thing? What's that thing going after?
And now it's in combat sports, right Yeah, and so
it's just cool to watch and witness, even just from
our little interactions of like how like stoke you are
in this and like you just already to embrace the moment.
(25:53):
So we're rooting for you and excited for that August
point third fight whenever you actually get the opponent.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah, yeah, thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
When of they supposed that I should be getting some
names soon, So either a name or a couple of names,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
We'll see, alright, sweet well, we'll definitely be there.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Let us know when we Thank you so much for
coming on and we would definitely be there to cheer
you appreciate it and if you need anything from us,
we're always here.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Thank you, my brother.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah, thank you guys for having me and you know,
chopping time August twenty third, tune in.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
We will be there. Yeah, take it easy, brother,
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