July 20, 2024 • 42 mins
Step onto the Front Porch Chronicles with us as we welcome UFC fighter Bobby Green. From his early days as a fighter to his current status as a contender in the UFC, Green shares his story of redemption and resilience. But this isn't a story of hardship alone - it's also one of perseverance and determination. Green talks about the pivotal moments that changed his career trajectory. In this exclusive interview, Green gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to be a professional fighter, from the mental preparation to the physical toll of competition. He also shares his thoughts on what it's like to fight in the UFC, from the highs of winning to the lows of losing. #frontporchchronicles #ufc #mma #bobbygreen #exclusiveinterview #redemptionstory #resilience #fightlife #sportspodcast #manchester #uk #ufc304
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's up everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Clinton Fumchet here and I'm a Javis And this is
Front Porch Chronicles, and guys, we have old g Bobby
King on today. Tune in. This is kind of where
I relate to you. And honestly, I relate to you.
(00:28):
And I'm a big fan of you. Not really for
the fighting stuff, because that's cool and stuff, but I
know a lot of fighters and stuff like that, But
I like, you had a really fucked up childhood, and
I had a lot of.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Stuff that went on, and you know, there.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Was a lot of chaos in my life, and so
I could have went left with that at any point.
And every statistic tells me I should be in prison, dead,
or you know, just a piece of shit person, right,
And and you know I run a successful real estate business,
you know what I mean? And so for me, you know, Albert,
(01:07):
when we when I said we were gonna have you own,
I said, man, he does all the research, he's the brains.
And I said, hey, do you know the whole story
behind why kind of And he said no, And I said, well,
I want you to watch this. So I popped up
a video of you kind of telling about your your
past and your upgir and afterwards his jaw was just
(01:28):
dropped because our stories are very similar to a lot
of a lot of stuff going on and every reason
to not be positive.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And so my.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Admiration from you again doesn't come from the knockouts, didn't
come from you know, you getting in there and fighting,
which is a hard job to do, but you know,
because you choose to be and do better and and
be a good father and be a good man, those
to me make you you know, up here, uh and
(01:59):
forever for me a fan you know of you.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So yeah, I really appreciate that, brother, you know. And
that's my whole attentions is to like show people that
we can come from the darkest places, you know, and
give them light and motivation that they don't succumb to
their feelings, you know, because all those things tell you
in the back of your head, I could be a
piece of shit. I could have jumped out and went
(02:22):
crazy on somebody, you know. But it's just like you
need some more people like yourself to and and me
too to like, hey, we have the same opportunities and
we didn't take that way. We went this way, you know,
And so putting that out there and motivating those people
to have something else to look forward to.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, it's it's huge, and not enough people speak on
it because it's me and and this is something where
you'll relate to me on especially when you go through
all of these things you have to you have this
built up anger and rage as a kid, and we're
not really.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Taught how to communicate.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, to articulate, to articulate those things, so it comes
out in aggressive manners. Uh So when people do things
to us, we feel like we're being attacked. So the
only way that we know it's like when we're attacked
is to attack back. It's you know what I'm saying.
It's it's it's what we're taking, you know what I mean.
(03:26):
And so that's why, like for me, one of the
reasons we started this podcast was because we wanted to
get to know fighters on a deeper level and kind
of so that people can understand that these people don't
just get into a cage. There's some people that go
through very tough upbringings, very tough times, very tough things,
(03:51):
and and and are being and doing better, you know
what I mean, And and and learning how to deal
with those emotions and those those feelings because it's important
to see people that are doing positive and I know,
I don't know about you, but for me, it actually
gives my life meaning for me to share my story
(04:16):
so that that way I can help that guy that's
getting ready to put a gun in his mouth, getting
ready to commit suicide or to give up, or to
go commit a crime and spend their life in prison,
because they don't know how to process those emotions.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Just letting them know that they're not alone. Everybody feels like, no,
you don't understand because you haven't been through it. You know,
you can't understand what I'm going through. And until they
actually get see someone else a season, bro, I've been there.
I know this feeling this this and this feels like this,
and I know you you're going through this, and yeah,
I get it. And so if you can't make them
feel and understand that they're not alone, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, it's it's it's that's a big thing.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And especially with a platform like you, because you know
you're you're you're an international I mean, you fix and
take it. You're an international superstar, you know what I mean.
And so but the thing again about you, you don't
act like that, you don't act like you're better than people.
You don't act like, hey, I'm this this guy who
(05:23):
thinks that. You know, of course, in the octagon you
have to have that dog where you think you're gonna
go in there and fight anybody. But you don't have
this or about you where you just walk around and
you're like, I'm better than everybody. And so you know
that's something. You know, a lot of people look at that. Again,
for me, I looked at it, and I've been wanting
(05:44):
to get you on forever. And because when you send
a message, it'll come back and say, oh, this person
doesn't have So finally when it got through, I was like, hell,
whatever I need to do to get him on because
I feel like your story touched me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And so therefore I say, you.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Know, it needs to be something kind of we need
to get out there for people to see. You know,
it doesn't matter race, it doesn't matter. You know, I'm
from Alabama, I'm from the backwoods of Alabama.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm from Montgomery, Alabama. You're from the Ie.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It doesn't matter where you are, you know what I mean,
all of us go through savage times, and you know
it's about choosing to do and be better.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So I was listening to Instagram and he was just hard.
Life is just hard.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Period.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Life is hard, And it's just about choosing your heart.
You know, you can choose this way where like maybe
you're gonna work in a warehouse and work here sixty five.
That's hard. But also building a business is hard too,
and so both lives are hard. Choose your heart. You know,
everything's gonna be hard. Everyone thinks it's gonna be some
easy life. That maybe because I'm somewhere, I'm where I'm at,
(06:52):
that I'm not dealing with a hard life. No, we
still got problems up here and down there, we had problems.
It's just we chose the heart.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And and weight cuts, because Lord knows them. Weight cuts
ain't no job. And so there's always every every every life,
walk of life has strung every job.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's what is that? What do they say?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Nobody has a job with everything that they truly love
about it.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Everything has a pick and.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Choose of of of you know, yeah, but it's it's
it's definitely uh not.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So so.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So diving into that a little bit, if you would
kind of would you share a little bit about like
your upbringing in kind of some of the things that
you've been through trials and tribulations to get to where
you are.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I was in Falter cares since I was like four
years old, and so my mom gave me away. She
was on drugs. My dad was in prisons. My grandmother
was the one who got us. But they didn't know
because my mom didn't put my dad on the birth certificate,
they didn't know that my grandmother was actually our family.
So she was able to collect the check and still
(08:08):
take care of us, you know, and so it was
like a it worked out for her, and it worked
out for us. And then she got about when I
got about fourteen years old, she died, you know. And
so I started wrestling, and this white family that knew
me on the team, they knew it was a good guy.
They were like, hey, maybe we should bring him in,
you know, maybe we could bring him in. And so
(08:29):
I lived with them for a minute, and then once
I graduated, I started kind of bounce around from home
to home. I was like seventeen years old. I graduated
when I was seventeen, so started coming from this home
to that home to this trying to figure things out
and I was always a natural born fighter. We had
always had black and Mexican riots, you know, and I
(08:51):
had a Mexican girlfriend. The family down the street used
to be this messic family I hung out with all
the time. So I started developing these things about the
Mexican culture. So I hung around with a lot of Mexicans.
So black people didn't like me, and then there were
some Mexican people that didn't like me, so I didn't
fit in either way. So I had fights all the time,
and it just kind of like made my whole stories
like I'm a fighter. And then they started knowing, Hey,
(09:13):
Barby Green's that guy. He's gonna fight you if you
if you miss with him, he's gonna fight you. So
I kind of developed that reputation. And then like everyone
that knows me now still stays to this day, is like, hey,
we knew you were gonna be that, you know, because
I was that guy already, Like if you mess with me,
I'm gonna fight in time. I put all together a
bit of Mexico back fighting and stuff, and and like
(09:34):
that's how I started out, was fighting in Mexico. I
would work six d six days a week in a
warehouse I thought he's gonna be a warehouse guy. And
then I would actually leave on my on my seventh day,
which is Saturday, I would go out to Mexico. We
go out there, we fight, and it was cool because
after your fall, you got to have a little kind
of party, you know, you go to the light comes
out in Mexico, Tijuana, you know, you see after you
(09:59):
have a dream. I'm back from Mexico. Made eight hundred bucks.
I take it, put it away. I had met a
woman and she got pregnant within a month of me
knowing her. She was at one of the jobs I
worked at. And so now I have this kid. I'm
scared about being a father. So I just started taking
(10:19):
my second job and just pushing it, pushing and pushing it.
By the time he was born, I had like six
gren saved up for him, just like just in case
there was some emergency or anything, we'd have something, you know. Yeah,
So that's kind of a bit of my story. I
don't want to go too longer, talk too much.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No, it's all good now.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And it's funny because like when you say that, So
I'm from Alabama, So I dated black women before it
was cool to date black women, Like I'm forty six
years old, so we're talking about you. So so it
was a similar story. So that's how I learned how
to fight, Like I hung out in the hood because
I dated black women, right, So of course when I
(11:00):
went to the hood, dudes from the hood were like,
who is this white boy over here?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Like, okay, we're gonna have to try you.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But then yeah, but then when I we'd go home,
they were like, oh you wigger. Like, I'm like, bro,
what like I can't just like it was like, you can't.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Fit in either. You can't fit in either crowd.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
No, so you're going back bro Like.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Because white people, I learned, you know, speaking a little
bit more proper, and so I'd be around these different
people and then I go back to the hood and
it'll be like one guy, I always be like that
guy like you don't he don't like me because the
way I talked, the way I look, you know, I'm
a different I'm standing out kind of like a sore thumb,
you know, and said they would pick on me. You know,
(11:43):
he'd be the most hoodiest and most craziest motherfucker, you know,
And I have to go over there and beat his ass.
Then after I get his I'll get kind of respect
from the streets like, Okay, don't fuck with him. You
know that guy's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Exactly exactly. I was the same the same thing people
in Yeah, And it goes back to you know, it
kind of is a gift and a curse because we
almost put ourselves in those situations where we don't all
the way feel comfortable because I know, for me, I
didn't know what comfortability was.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I grew up in chaos.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So it just after like the past couple of years
of me going to therapy and being like, Okay, I
was so comfortable in chaos. I would almost create chaos
within my life to kind of because I was.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So used to that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But then once you step out of it, you're like,
you know, you start having kids, and it escalates quickly.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It escalates quickly.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Went right over everyone's heads. You're saying something so deep
that only I because I've been there with you, I'm
really reading what you're saying. So I had this white
dad and he would say the same thing. He's like, Bro,
your life been so chaotic that when things get you,
it's like you almost create drama because you're so used
to chaos that it's like a normal life isn't normal
(13:07):
to you, Like it's too that's too like too normal,
Like it just doesn't feel right. You're used to chaos
that it's like you have to keep making the shit
happen so that you feel normal.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's like a it's almost like a self sabotage. It's
like you put yourself in bad positions because you don't
know any different. So that's you know, going into the octagon.
It's almost like when people like when I watch you fight,
it's like one of those things that when you come
from that type of environment and you come from that
(13:40):
type of chaos, it's almost like peace being in the octagon.
As odd as that sounds, I know for me, like
when I do jiu jitsu, I'll close my eyes sometimes
and I have to tell people up front. I'm like, hey,
I'm not, I'm not slow, or like, I'm not. It's
just the way it's so comfortable for me. It's so
(14:02):
comfortable to me in that position because I always had
to fight. My dad beat me when I was a
kid so much that it was almost like just sparting
with somebody to me is way less traumatizing than having
my dad beat me at like four or five years old,
you know what I mean. So it's like a comfortability.
(14:24):
So so let me ask you a question. I know
you said you started wrestling, you did some MMA down
in Mexico or you know, fighting. When did you actually
at what age did you actually start to like say, hey,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm good at this, this is something I want to do.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
When I was twenty one, like I said, I had
no choice once I got this girl pregnant, and so
I kind of just like, hay, i'mula take a second job.
And then it started taking off at eight hundred bucks.
And then sure they paid me a thousand bucks. Now
you know they paid me fifteen hundred bucks. Then they
ever give me two thousand, and I was like, heck,
maybe I can keep this thing going, you know. Yeah,
(15:03):
so it becomes it was my second job that turned
to my first job. Now.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, so let me ask you this, what was it
from your childhood do you think that made you or
what was it inside you that always makes you choose
to do the right thing?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I always say God protected my heart, you know when
I see it, like everybody else turned I don't know,
maybe it's just see I would say TV because I
like watched like the Power Rangers, the Ninja Turtles. You know,
I was like those guys, like I wanted to always
be like the superhero, you know, and so the good
guy on the good team.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I guess that's always been my My thing is being
true to your word, being honest and open and and
push the fighting on them seem good. You know, you
had to tea you can be on whatever team you choose.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You can be a bad oh, you could be.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
A good gut. I chopposed to be a good gut
because I guess I watched from touch TV's like I
guess it was social programming that you're supposed to be
a good gut.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, you know, I talked to Mike Tyson one time,
and this is what really shifted my head. And you'll
be able to relate to this. For many years, I
went through so much and I saw so much, you know,
I mean, just ratchetness that I almost for There was
a period of portion of my life I felt like,
(16:33):
why me, God, why do I keep having to go
through all of this death, all of this chaos, all
of this stuff, and it made me for a long time,
It really made me question my faith, like does God
hate me? Because in our minds we never really felt
(16:54):
loved or good enough, like we felt like we were
passed off and all of that stuff. And I had
a conversation with Mike Tyson out at his place in
Newport Coast and he said God gives those trials and
tribulations to the people that he knows not only can
(17:14):
handle it, but to be a light to the universe.
And bro it was like boom, it was like at
that point I knew my mission was to spread my
trials and tribulations, not because I think it's cool, not
because I want people to be like, oh, that's really cool,
(17:34):
because I could.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Really care about less about that.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What I want is again to save somebody's life, to
be a difference in somebody's life, to change somebody's life
and make them understand that no matter how bad life
gets at times, you can pull yourself up. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
For me, I would say it was like a I
would say, be like, I always kept hearing this with
these things, the God gives the strongest battles to the strongest,
you know, warriors. I kept hearing that I'm hearing that
in the back of my head from people saying, maybe
God's giving you that because you're stronger, you could take.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
But Nancy Hustle has some famous saying and it's like
he called hisself, he called his brand the marathon. You know,
the marathon. This is not just some sprint and you
get there to the top, you know, it's a marathon
of things it takes to get there. And along that marathon,
as you're running, you have all these different emotions, all
these different feelings, all these different voices that tell you
(18:37):
you're not gonna make it, you care and do it.
You gotta go through every emotion to be successful. And
I just have to understand that. Like when I finally
start getting the I'm like, bro, I went through everything
to get here, you know, everything possibly I could think
of I went through to get to this position.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, it's crazy, how like I think. So I'm twenty five,
I'm way younger than both of you guys, but it's
still like crazy how everything we need, everything, well, everything
we think is like so obtainable like right now, but
we don't realize like how long it really takes to
get to that high level, like you're right there, but
you also to be patient enough to accept, like, I
got to go through these trials and tribulations right now,
(19:13):
because if I don't, if I skip it, if I
do the easy thing, it's just not even gonna it's
not gonna feel as attainable. And so like you always
teach me all the time, like just be patient, it's
gonna come. God has shown you the way. But you
can't just skip the line. You have to go through
this test right now.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, and I gotta be tested. You gotta go through there.
We've got to be forged, you know, forge and and
and fire, you know, And that's how you make that toughness.
But somebody, everybody wants a quick, easy road, and just
I was almost overnight celebrity. The sometimes I thought it
was never gonna happen for me, you know. I was
almost like giving up at this thing. And I kept trying,
(19:50):
and I kept trying, and I failed a thousand times,
and finally it's like, hey, they're like they like you.
I'm like, what now, I've been in this game fifteen years,
Like now they want me to get back up and
do all this work again? All right, I got a
little bit more of my take. Let me see what
I can show you guys.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, and and and think about what you're setting up
for your kids and watching your kids. I know that's
for me is important. I've got five of them.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I got three. You know, we talked about kids.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I've got one the other this biracial black, one white,
and three Latinas.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So I got a whole I got a whole squad.
Child support s ain't no.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
John, one white, one Latina.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
See, look, you see what I keep saying with we
might be, we might be, we might be relating somewhere
down the bloodline. But but but I think back now
at all my trials and tribulations and how much love
and admiration that I'm able to pass to my kids.
(20:56):
And don't get me wrong, I teach them and my
kids are very aware of the things that I had
to go through. But it allows me also to teach
them different lessons and kill that generational toxicity that I
was passed down.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You know, you know what I'm saying deep deep levels.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So know that every time that you that you do
these things, bro, there's so many people and especially your
kids that are watching you that I can just tell
you how proud of you they are and what you're
doing to help change their lives and see them and
breaking all of these cycles. Man, that made you feel
(21:42):
that way and given all them all of that love
and admiration. Man, that that's a very moving and powerful thing. Man,
that you should be very proud of.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah. Yeah, my kids are My kids are my everything,
you know, and I'm trying to give them that debt
said the father figure that I wanted to have to
kind of like, all right, he went out there, he
busted his ass, and now I'll follow this.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I didn't get that myself, so now can I be that?
And at the same time, I never had a dad,
so I'm trying to learn myself on how to be
a dad.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
That's a trial and tribulation thing that I learned on
my own. Now, I was like, whoa, and I want
to teach them the wrong things, you know, But I
haven't never had anybody else say, well you this how,
this is what you teach them, this is what you do,
this is how it goes. I'm just learning on my own.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, and it makes it's it's hard, I know.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
For me.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
My dad was such a horrible dad that it may.
My guideline is the same way. I never had anybody
teach me those things exactly look, so at least I
had some sort of blueprints. I could be like, hey,
I know, and I catch I catch myself sometimes, like
(22:55):
I catch myself with when I'm talking to my kids.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I catch myself like how did I.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Feel whenever he would talk to me in certain men?
So I try to switch the game up when I'm
talking to him and say, hey, I know that you
see it like this, but let me give you my
input and kind of see how you know it could be.
Because also we're taught, you know, like you said, through TV,
(23:22):
through all of these things, that you're supposed to be
this guy. You're supposed to hammer these things in. And man,
these kids aren't built like that, and you have to
like you have to explain to them and kind of
you know, get them to learn all of that stuff.
So but let's get into you know, I wore the
red red today. I always rep the red, but I
(23:45):
wore this because I'm gonna have to make sure that
I get this to Dana. Why everybody else is getting
their shorts. We've seen the polloton shorts. We've seen the
Hawaiian shorts, We've seen the Camo shorts with brib When
are we gonna get your red shorts?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I feel like I'm a little deserving the shorts, you know.
I like to have my little Paisley shorts, you know.
And they can do them red, they could do them black,
they could do them white, whatever color they choose. You know,
I don't want them to think like because I feel
like they're a little afraid. Is that like maybe it's
like some gangster stuff, you know, Yeah, yeah, color, It
doesn't have to do anything like that, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
So we're excited about your fight coming up out in Manchester.
That's why we brought it up, is well, one, we
want to see you. We can't wait to uh to
watch you go out there. We know, we know there's
some chatter that was going on between you and Patty.
How did that come about? How did how did your
name get in his mouth? Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That's the crazy part about it, is like I seen
Patty when he was kind of coming up the ranks,
and if we just bumped into each other and I
put him on Live and I was like, like, there's
there's Patty right there. You know, what's up, Patty? What's
up Patty? He would look at me, he wouldn't say
anything to me, he wouldn't acknowledge me at all. But
now here it is, I say, that was three years ago.
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I've been working my ass off, and now it's like, well,
Bobby Green, well, Bobby Green. You know, I'm like, well,
he mentioned me. He didn't even want to give me
a light of a day two or three years ago,
but now he sees the value, you know, and so
we'll deal with that.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So so let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Does that make it a little bit more of a
beatdown that that you want to give him because he
was disrespectful and kind of shine you.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, yeah, he's definitely gonna get a beat down.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I'm like Jordan's and I take certain things. I hear
him say something and I put in the back of
my head and I'm like, I won't forget about that.
I'm gonna turn cycle on him, you know, like the
last time with Jim. Jim like says some little things
and I'm like, all right, that's enough for me to go.
I'm going to cycle on you, you know. And so
I'm gonna hit the same page with him where he's
a lot worse. I like Jim. Imagine what I'm gonna
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do to that guy. I don't like him.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You know what I'm going to do to him.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I actually liked Jim, and I feel like fel bad
for when I did to Jim. I don't even like
that guy. He's getting fucked up.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You received, dude.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
You gotta hold onto the streets. It's weird, Hope. It's
always strange. Like Derek Jeter talks about it too. He's like,
I remember what you're wearing when you said it, how
you said it? All the great ones for some reason,
they know they keep that in their bank and they
use it for later for motivation. It's so funny, like
how like you just.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Use that energy? Mm hm, I use that motivation. He
got to make him pay for those words. He gotta.
You gotta pay for those words.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Levels to the game. Levels to the game. So let
me ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I know, whenever you you guys first started talking about
taking this fight, you specifically said you wanted to fight
him in England.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
What was the reason in behind you wanted to fight
him in England?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I wanted to give him every advantage. I wanted to
give him every possibility that he could possibly find that
he could use and it would make him favorable for
him to take the fight, you know, like, all right,
it's in my hometown with my people. You know, I
have the chance to go up to take my number
because I got the number. He don't got the number.
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So I'm giving my number. I'm giving him the crowd base,
I'm giving him the hometown advantage. Everything's in his favor. Now,
let's see how the chips stack up in and who
wins this fight.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
We were talking about it earlier and Albert was like,
when we were bringing up this question, and I said,
it's because Bobby doesn't want him to have any excuses.
He doesn't want not one excuse. And this is setting
up to where everything is supposed to be. The only
thing that he didn't plan for is when you come
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from chaos, the crowd, none of that stuff is.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's gonna be mute to you.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's not gonna change anything. None of those people can
save him. No one can save him, you know, like
when those doors get closed. Yeah, you could cheer, you
could bull. You could do whatever you want to do,
but none of that is gonna come in this stage
and punch for you or make you get all the
way with his fucking punch. You know, none of that
can help you.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And don't wrong.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I like the motivation, like I feel like, yeah, crowd
gets behind you, you can get motivated, but it doesn't
help your skills.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
It does not help, or it does not help when
you catch those blows to the face.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It does not help that at all.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I can think too. He loves to talk to Patty
is a showman for sure, but man, I don't think
he's ready for it at all.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
For me, it's like, uh, I feel like those are
the spoiled kids. Those are kids that like, like I
used to be mad at Channel Melley, like, but SEANL.
Melley earned his right. Now he's earned his right. But
certain guys don't realize that they're building you up, and
they're giving you all the right fights and all the
right situations to build you up, and you just shut
the fuck up and you enjoy it. But once he
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had that, Jared Gordon, I feel like everybody got to
see the bad side of him. Like he's like he's
a spoiled kid, and he's gonna bitch and and I'm like, bro,
you don't realize you got the fans, you got all
these different people, you got the company behind you. Just
shut the fucker, be cool and love the love the environment.
I didn't get that. I had to go work my
ass off, shovel through to all this and dig dig, dig,
dig unto to get my opportunity. And so those guys
(29:24):
are spoiling and they don't understand these little dudes that
they're getting.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That's most of the guys that do the most talking
are the guys who haven't really like especially for me,
for Patty, he's exactly what you said.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
He's like a rich suburbanite kid.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
In my eyes, I look at him as like the
rich suburbanite kid that ate from the Silver Spoon, never
really struggle today in their life, and they're up there
chitter chattering and whatever. And I'm like, bro, stop like
you you can't And so yeah, I get it, You've
earned your Gary.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
He ain't carey right now, Ian Gary. He was running
his mouth, he was talking so much. That was the
only fight I wanted to watch with the MVP in
Gary fight like from Room. The heavyweight fight the last
main event was great, but I came to see those
guys who were fucking running their mouths and they're gonna
supposed to back it up, So I want to see this.
They're gonna talk all that and then they're gonna actually
(30:27):
back it up. Ian Gary went in there and made
a fucking fortfest.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Bro what MVP came in there and stood to his
word of punch it at. Albert didn't watch that fight.
He watched the Pollo time and he was like, well,
how did it go down? I was like, it was
like a lot of crotch sniffing. And then Ian Gary
gets up there in his bro He's bragging on himself
(30:52):
for grap out grappling a guy who is notoriously not
a nine grappler.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I was I was shut boil kid, he's over here
to make it seem like he did something great. Like man,
first of all, you light to your public. And that's
what I was trying to get to my young fighters
is don't lie to your public. If I tell them something,
I'm gonna back it up to the tea. And so
I never go out and say, oh I'm gonna go
fuck this guy and I'm gonna knock him out or
I'm gonna I never say anything I say. I'm not
(31:21):
God and I'm not here to play god. I just
know that I'm gonna look at my history, and in
my history, everybody gets hit a lot. Everybody gets this
and gets this. He's gonna have damage.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
This is the this is the facts.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I'm not trying to say anything that's like cocky or arrogant,
like oh I bit like no, I'm just gonna be
human and anything is possible. You can get caught in
any given second. Just be just be yourself. And some
of these guys are trying to do all the talking
in the macho macho and they're not really macho. Ian
Gary did not want to do the man den. He
was hugging and he was shooting, and he looked scared.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
He was scared.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Anybody was saying it was the fastest, he was the quickest.
He's gonna beat him everywhere. I'll beat him everywhere. And
then after the fight to nail the coffin. Nail on
the coffin is like all right, i'body he's like bro.
He could have said, uh not my best showing it
was not a good fight. No, He's like, I knew
this was gonna happen, and I took him, and this
just makes you look like stupid.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Bro, you look well, bro?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Did you hear him?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
He was on there, he was like, just keep it cool.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
He was on there.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
He was like, I've evolved so much and I'm working
with Damian Maya and Charles dubronxon I've evolved and got it.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, And I was like, bro, you evolved.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That's like going and grappling against white belts the first
day of class and sparring them and being like, oh,
I dominated them. Like, bro, he this guy wasn't even
He's not a grappler.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
He never MVP.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Never once in any of the press conference like Hey,
I'm gonna go in here and we're gonna make this
ib JJF grappling session.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
There was never any of that.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
He said, I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna
try to put hands on this guy. And he did that.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
I and Gary did not. He did not. He did
not show up to his word.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
That's important to me. A word. You can't lie to
your public, you know, like if I tell everybody, I'm
gonna go knock him out. I'm gon go knock him
out and I shoot in. It's like I played my audience.
I played the people that actually care or to watch
my fights. They're like, oh, bro, I came to see
what you said you were gonna do enough? Like I
played them, you know. And I never want to lie
to my public. Everything I say to you is damn truth,
(33:34):
at least of what I believe. And that's exactly what
I'm gonna do is and what I believe or what
I stand on what I say.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I say that all the time. I mean what I say,
and I say what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
And I guess that's maybe because so many people throughout
my life didn't keep their word for me.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It's something that's so important to me.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
If I say it, If I say I'm gonna knock
you out, I'm either gonna knock you out or I'm
gonna die trying to knock you out.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
That's just what what I'm about.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
That's like I've told people that, hey, I'll buy your car,
and I'm like, oh, why did that live up to
this ship?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Here?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Just take the car, and man, I said this ship exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's why I have to be careful what I say,
because if I say it, I'm gonna have to follow
through on it. So all right, so we're gonna light
the things. We're gonna We're gonna lighten things up right quick.
We have a what's called rapid fire. So we're gonna
ask you some questions. You say, the first thing that
pops into your head, you ready on the clock?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Whore's your faith?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Bro? I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
The first one?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
The person I'm.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I'm from Montgomery, Alabama. I'm rolling and cut. I don't
know no different. So who is your favorite fighter growing up?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
And now we're talking about like m m MA or
we're talking period period Muhammad Ali?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yes, I like it.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
What's your favorite travel destination?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Have you ever heard of us?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Book called Hong Kong?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
So you have.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Don't get us both in trouble. Don't get us both
in trouble. What's your what.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
What's your biggest pet? Peeve? Trunk? People lives lives.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
That drunk, people like I can't and then being around
like because I used to work in a club, Yeah,
and it's always some drunk comes up to me. It's
a noncious and just from working that stuff, it's like
it always bothers me, especially if I'm not drinking with you.
Then it's like, all right, you're just in this place
and like they're on their own and they're just rambling on.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
That's my pig drunk people liquor. No, all right?
Speaker 4 (36:24):
What is What's what's Bobby Green's favorite cheap meal?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Sushi? Yeah, sushi?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
What of the week? Me too? Me too? And my kids?
What's your what's your hidden talent? Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I fight good and good.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I tell people that's how I got five kids. I'm
from Alabama. I'm good at fighting and making babies.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Go exactly. I guess we come into.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Favorite bro.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I'm like, music is my ship.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I could go a thousand fucking like right, my my,
my Apple music and thing.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I like almost like four.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Thousand songs like I love music, bro, And I couldn't
tell you a favorite song because I have so many
fucking songs depending upon the time, depending upon the place.
Am I with a guy? Am I with a girl?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Let me tell you what's gonna be the walkout song?
This when you come out this next fight?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Have you picked it yet?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Bro? I'm still playing with this one. I'm still playing
with you, you know, because like kinn Of in my
head was like I was like, I'm gonna do a
show for fucking Manchester. I'm like, do something for Manchester,
you know. But then like my my people are like, man,
they're not.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Gonna like you.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
You should go over there. You should just throw out,
come out to this and just fuck.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
And so I'm like I don't know how to play
it yet.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
You know. My second amateur MMA fight, this is what
I did. I came and it was in Alabama, where
I'm from, and I knew the crowd was going to.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Be behind the other guy. He was a local cop,
all of this and all of that.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I came out to sweet Home, Alabama because you cannot
as a Southern person, you cannot go again sweet It
was a slow version too, not there sweet Home. Yes,
they couldn't go wrong with it. Who is Who's your
favorite actor?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
I like a lot of different people. I probably say Denzel.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Washington training day? Denzel, Yeah, yeah, thats all you.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
My face. Everybody says, oh Denzel, I'm like, which training day?
Because training day is my Denzel?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
That I like the best?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Did somebody on the other day, Like yeah, they were
like equalizer I was like, I like Equalizer, but I
like the Training that didn't sell.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
So what's your favorite TV show?
Speaker 4 (39:10):
What's your favorite TV show or movie.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
TV show? I'm gonna have to go like The Office.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Yeah, the one where Jim and uh what's his name
uh with doing like the snowball pranks and stuff like that.
And then Rain Wilsons. Yeah, character goes in this goes
in the snowman and just pelts him to death. Oh
it's so funny. All right.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Last one.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
If if there was a zombie invasion and you had
one UFC fighter that you could have on your team,
which one would it be.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I'll probably go and that's my dog, jump a bit out.
I got your back, you got mine. You take that side.
I picked this side, you.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Know, strong side. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
So I know you got training and stuff to do.
We're gonna break it off with this one is a question.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
We'd like. This one's kind of deep. So if you
need to take a second, take a second.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
If today was your last day, what is the thing
that you would want Bobby Green to be remembered for.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
I'll probably say my fortitude. You know, I never quit attitude,
you know, and that's what I'm trying to show to
people that trying to inspire and motivate. I never quit.
I never gave up. I got tested so many times.
I just never gave up. And that's the difference between
me and a lot of gods is just I never quit.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Yeah, for me, I would. It would definitely be your resilience. Again,
You've had so many things, so many.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Pains, so much.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Chaos and trauma, and and you choose to do the
right things, and you choose to be a good person. Uh,
and you choose to put out a good energy. And
for me, that's that's why you'll forever have a fan
in me because with with every reason to go left,
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you went right and and and that's a hard thing
to do.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
So you get mad respect for me for that. Now.
I appreciate you being.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
The man that you are and actually speaking on and
having the umped to talk about your trials and tribulations
because it, you know, it means a lot to the people.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yeah, brother, I'm open book. You know, I got nothing
to hide. I'm hoping somebody will catch something and grab
it and use it for themselves, you know, because I
didn't have nobody else to look to like that at
certain times, you know, so maybe I could be the
light for some of these poor broken kids. You know,
to know you're not the only one that you could
change your stars.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
You already have you you just don't know it, and
you're gonna change a lot more lives. Keep being you, bro,
authentically you, and know that there's a lot of people
out there that love and admire you, not just for
the fighter, but the man that you are.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
And we appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
I really appreciate you, guys man, Thank you so much
for having me on the show us an honor, especially
that you support me and that you've been in this
stuff with me. You know I won't let you down.
I'm gonna go in there and fight and do exactly
what I do. I'm gonna still be the same person
regardless of what happens to me. Nothing will change the
person who I am and which is seem good.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
We appreciate you, brother, take it see, thank you so much.
What's up everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Clinton Fumchet here and I'm a Javis And this is
Front Porch Chronicles, and guys, we have old g Bobby
King on today. Tune in. This is kind of where
I relate to you. And honestly, I relate to you.
(00:28):
And I'm a big fan of you. Not really for
the fighting stuff, because that's cool and stuff, but I
know a lot of fighters and stuff like that, But
I like, you had a really fucked up childhood, and
I had a lot of.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Stuff that went on, and you know, there.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Was a lot of chaos in my life, and so
I could have went left with that at any point.
And every statistic tells me I should be in prison, dead,
or you know, just a piece of shit person, right,
And and you know I run a successful real estate business,
you know what I mean? And so for me, you know, Albert,
(01:07):
when we when I said we were gonna have you own,
I said, man, he does all the research, he's the brains.
And I said, hey, do you know the whole story
behind why kind of And he said no, And I said, well,
I want you to watch this. So I popped up
a video of you kind of telling about your your
past and your upgir and afterwards his jaw was just
(01:28):
dropped because our stories are very similar to a lot
of a lot of stuff going on and every reason
to not be positive.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And so my.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Admiration from you again doesn't come from the knockouts, didn't
come from you know, you getting in there and fighting,
which is a hard job to do, but you know,
because you choose to be and do better and and
be a good father and be a good man, those
to me make you you know, up here, uh and
(01:59):
forever for me a fan you know of you.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So yeah, I really appreciate that, brother, you know. And
that's my whole attentions is to like show people that
we can come from the darkest places, you know, and
give them light and motivation that they don't succumb to
their feelings, you know, because all those things tell you
in the back of your head, I could be a
piece of shit. I could have jumped out and went
(02:22):
crazy on somebody, you know. But it's just like you
need some more people like yourself to and and me
too to like, hey, we have the same opportunities and
we didn't take that way. We went this way, you know,
And so putting that out there and motivating those people
to have something else to look forward to.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, it's it's huge, and not enough people speak on
it because it's me and and this is something where
you'll relate to me on especially when you go through
all of these things you have to you have this
built up anger and rage as a kid, and we're
not really.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Taught how to communicate.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, to articulate, to articulate those things, so it comes
out in aggressive manners. Uh So when people do things
to us, we feel like we're being attacked. So the
only way that we know it's like when we're attacked
is to attack back. It's you know what I'm saying.
It's it's it's what we're taking, you know what I mean.
(03:26):
And so that's why, like for me, one of the
reasons we started this podcast was because we wanted to
get to know fighters on a deeper level and kind
of so that people can understand that these people don't
just get into a cage. There's some people that go
through very tough upbringings, very tough times, very tough things,
(03:51):
and and and are being and doing better, you know
what I mean, And and and learning how to deal
with those emotions and those those feelings because it's important
to see people that are doing positive and I know,
I don't know about you, but for me, it actually
gives my life meaning for me to share my story
(04:16):
so that that way I can help that guy that's
getting ready to put a gun in his mouth, getting
ready to commit suicide or to give up, or to
go commit a crime and spend their life in prison,
because they don't know how to process those emotions.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Just letting them know that they're not alone. Everybody feels like, no,
you don't understand because you haven't been through it. You know,
you can't understand what I'm going through. And until they
actually get see someone else a season, bro, I've been there.
I know this feeling this this and this feels like this,
and I know you you're going through this, and yeah,
I get it. And so if you can't make them
feel and understand that they're not alone, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, it's it's it's that's a big thing.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And especially with a platform like you, because you know
you're you're you're an international I mean, you fix and
take it. You're an international superstar, you know what I mean.
And so but the thing again about you, you don't
act like that, you don't act like you're better than people.
You don't act like, hey, I'm this this guy who
(05:23):
thinks that. You know, of course, in the octagon you
have to have that dog where you think you're gonna
go in there and fight anybody. But you don't have
this or about you where you just walk around and
you're like, I'm better than everybody. And so you know
that's something. You know, a lot of people look at that. Again,
for me, I looked at it, and I've been wanting
(05:44):
to get you on forever. And because when you send
a message, it'll come back and say, oh, this person
doesn't have So finally when it got through, I was like, hell,
whatever I need to do to get him on because
I feel like your story touched me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And so therefore I say, you.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Know, it needs to be something kind of we need
to get out there for people to see. You know,
it doesn't matter race, it doesn't matter. You know, I'm
from Alabama, I'm from the backwoods of Alabama.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm from Montgomery, Alabama. You're from the Ie.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It doesn't matter where you are, you know what I mean,
all of us go through savage times, and you know
it's about choosing to do and be better.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So I was listening to Instagram and he was just hard.
Life is just hard.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Period.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Life is hard, And it's just about choosing your heart.
You know, you can choose this way where like maybe
you're gonna work in a warehouse and work here sixty five.
That's hard. But also building a business is hard too,
and so both lives are hard. Choose your heart. You know,
everything's gonna be hard. Everyone thinks it's gonna be some
easy life. That maybe because I'm somewhere, I'm where I'm at,
(06:52):
that I'm not dealing with a hard life. No, we
still got problems up here and down there, we had problems.
It's just we chose the heart.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And and weight cuts, because Lord knows them. Weight cuts
ain't no job. And so there's always every every every life,
walk of life has strung every job.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's what is that? What do they say?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Nobody has a job with everything that they truly love
about it.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Everything has a pick and.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Choose of of of you know, yeah, but it's it's
it's definitely uh not.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So so.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So diving into that a little bit, if you would
kind of would you share a little bit about like
your upbringing in kind of some of the things that
you've been through trials and tribulations to get to where
you are.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I was in Falter cares since I was like four
years old, and so my mom gave me away. She
was on drugs. My dad was in prisons. My grandmother
was the one who got us. But they didn't know
because my mom didn't put my dad on the birth certificate,
they didn't know that my grandmother was actually our family.
So she was able to collect the check and still
(08:08):
take care of us, you know, and so it was
like a it worked out for her, and it worked
out for us. And then she got about when I
got about fourteen years old, she died, you know. And
so I started wrestling, and this white family that knew
me on the team, they knew it was a good guy.
They were like, hey, maybe we should bring him in,
you know, maybe we could bring him in. And so
(08:29):
I lived with them for a minute, and then once
I graduated, I started kind of bounce around from home
to home. I was like seventeen years old. I graduated
when I was seventeen, so started coming from this home
to that home to this trying to figure things out
and I was always a natural born fighter. We had
always had black and Mexican riots, you know, and I
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had a Mexican girlfriend. The family down the street used
to be this messic family I hung out with all
the time. So I started developing these things about the
Mexican culture. So I hung around with a lot of Mexicans.
So black people didn't like me, and then there were
some Mexican people that didn't like me, so I didn't
fit in either way. So I had fights all the time,
and it just kind of like made my whole stories
like I'm a fighter. And then they started knowing, Hey,
(09:13):
Barby Green's that guy. He's gonna fight you if you
if you miss with him, he's gonna fight you. So
I kind of developed that reputation. And then like everyone
that knows me now still stays to this day, is like, hey,
we knew you were gonna be that, you know, because
I was that guy already, Like if you mess with me,
I'm gonna fight in time. I put all together a
bit of Mexico back fighting and stuff, and and like
(09:34):
that's how I started out, was fighting in Mexico. I
would work six d six days a week in a
warehouse I thought he's gonna be a warehouse guy. And
then I would actually leave on my on my seventh day,
which is Saturday, I would go out to Mexico. We
go out there, we fight, and it was cool because
after your fall, you got to have a little kind
of party, you know, you go to the light comes
out in Mexico, Tijuana, you know, you see after you
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have a dream. I'm back from Mexico. Made eight hundred bucks.
I take it, put it away. I had met a
woman and she got pregnant within a month of me
knowing her. She was at one of the jobs I
worked at. And so now I have this kid. I'm
scared about being a father. So I just started taking
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my second job and just pushing it, pushing and pushing it.
By the time he was born, I had like six
gren saved up for him, just like just in case
there was some emergency or anything, we'd have something, you know. Yeah,
So that's kind of a bit of my story. I
don't want to go too longer, talk too much.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No, it's all good now.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And it's funny because like when you say that, So
I'm from Alabama, So I dated black women before it
was cool to date black women, Like I'm forty six
years old, so we're talking about you. So so it
was a similar story. So that's how I learned how
to fight, Like I hung out in the hood because
I dated black women, right, So of course when I
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went to the hood, dudes from the hood were like,
who is this white boy over here?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Like, okay, we're gonna have to try you.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But then yeah, but then when I we'd go home,
they were like, oh you wigger. Like, I'm like, bro,
what like I can't just like it was like, you can't.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Fit in either. You can't fit in either crowd.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
No, so you're going back bro Like.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Because white people, I learned, you know, speaking a little
bit more proper, and so I'd be around these different
people and then I go back to the hood and
it'll be like one guy, I always be like that
guy like you don't he don't like me because the
way I talked, the way I look, you know, I'm
a different I'm standing out kind of like a sore thumb,
you know, and said they would pick on me. You know,
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he'd be the most hoodiest and most craziest motherfucker, you know,
And I have to go over there and beat his ass.
Then after I get his I'll get kind of respect
from the streets like, Okay, don't fuck with him. You
know that guy's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Exactly exactly. I was the same the same thing people
in Yeah, And it goes back to you know, it
kind of is a gift and a curse because we
almost put ourselves in those situations where we don't all
the way feel comfortable because I know, for me, I
didn't know what comfortability was.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I grew up in chaos.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So it just after like the past couple of years
of me going to therapy and being like, Okay, I
was so comfortable in chaos. I would almost create chaos
within my life to kind of because I was.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So used to that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But then once you step out of it, you're like,
you know, you start having kids, and it escalates quickly.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It escalates quickly.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Went right over everyone's heads. You're saying something so deep
that only I because I've been there with you, I'm
really reading what you're saying. So I had this white
dad and he would say the same thing. He's like, Bro,
your life been so chaotic that when things get you,
it's like you almost create drama because you're so used
to chaos that it's like a normal life isn't normal
(13:07):
to you, Like it's too that's too like too normal,
Like it just doesn't feel right. You're used to chaos
that it's like you have to keep making the shit
happen so that you feel normal.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's like a it's almost like a self sabotage. It's
like you put yourself in bad positions because you don't
know any different. So that's you know, going into the octagon.
It's almost like when people like when I watch you fight,
it's like one of those things that when you come
from that type of environment and you come from that
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type of chaos, it's almost like peace being in the octagon.
As odd as that sounds, I know for me, like
when I do jiu jitsu, I'll close my eyes sometimes
and I have to tell people up front. I'm like, hey,
I'm not, I'm not slow, or like, I'm not. It's
just the way it's so comfortable for me. It's so
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comfortable to me in that position because I always had
to fight. My dad beat me when I was a
kid so much that it was almost like just sparting
with somebody to me is way less traumatizing than having
my dad beat me at like four or five years old,
you know what I mean. So it's like a comfortability.
(14:24):
So so let me ask you a question. I know
you said you started wrestling, you did some MMA down
in Mexico or you know, fighting. When did you actually
at what age did you actually start to like say, hey,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm good at this, this is something I want to do.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
When I was twenty one, like I said, I had
no choice once I got this girl pregnant, and so
I kind of just like, hay, i'mula take a second job.
And then it started taking off at eight hundred bucks.
And then sure they paid me a thousand bucks. Now
you know they paid me fifteen hundred bucks. Then they
ever give me two thousand, and I was like, heck,
maybe I can keep this thing going, you know. Yeah,
(15:03):
so it becomes it was my second job that turned
to my first job. Now.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, so let me ask you this, what was it
from your childhood do you think that made you or
what was it inside you that always makes you choose
to do the right thing?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I always say God protected my heart, you know when
I see it, like everybody else turned I don't know,
maybe it's just see I would say TV because I
like watched like the Power Rangers, the Ninja Turtles. You know,
I was like those guys, like I wanted to always
be like the superhero, you know, and so the good
guy on the good team.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I guess that's always been my My thing is being
true to your word, being honest and open and and
push the fighting on them seem good. You know, you
had to tea you can be on whatever team you choose.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You can be a bad oh, you could be.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
A good gut. I chopposed to be a good gut
because I guess I watched from touch TV's like I
guess it was social programming that you're supposed to be
a good gut.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, you know, I talked to Mike Tyson one time,
and this is what really shifted my head. And you'll
be able to relate to this. For many years, I
went through so much and I saw so much, you know,
I mean, just ratchetness that I almost for There was
a period of portion of my life I felt like,
(16:33):
why me, God, why do I keep having to go
through all of this death, all of this chaos, all
of this stuff, and it made me for a long time,
It really made me question my faith, like does God
hate me? Because in our minds we never really felt
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loved or good enough, like we felt like we were
passed off and all of that stuff. And I had
a conversation with Mike Tyson out at his place in
Newport Coast and he said God gives those trials and
tribulations to the people that he knows not only can
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handle it, but to be a light to the universe.
And bro it was like boom, it was like at
that point I knew my mission was to spread my
trials and tribulations, not because I think it's cool, not
because I want people to be like, oh, that's really cool,
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because I could.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Really care about less about that.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What I want is again to save somebody's life, to
be a difference in somebody's life, to change somebody's life
and make them understand that no matter how bad life
gets at times, you can pull yourself up. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
For me, I would say it was like a I
would say, be like, I always kept hearing this with
these things, the God gives the strongest battles to the strongest,
you know, warriors. I kept hearing that I'm hearing that
in the back of my head from people saying, maybe
God's giving you that because you're stronger, you could take.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
But Nancy Hustle has some famous saying and it's like
he called hisself, he called his brand the marathon. You know,
the marathon. This is not just some sprint and you
get there to the top, you know, it's a marathon
of things it takes to get there. And along that marathon,
as you're running, you have all these different emotions, all
these different feelings, all these different voices that tell you
(18:37):
you're not gonna make it, you care and do it.
You gotta go through every emotion to be successful. And
I just have to understand that. Like when I finally
start getting the I'm like, bro, I went through everything
to get here, you know, everything possibly I could think
of I went through to get to this position.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, it's crazy, how like I think. So I'm twenty five,
I'm way younger than both of you guys, but it's
still like crazy how everything we need, everything, well, everything
we think is like so obtainable like right now, but
we don't realize like how long it really takes to
get to that high level, like you're right there, but
you also to be patient enough to accept, like, I
got to go through these trials and tribulations right now,
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because if I don't, if I skip it, if I
do the easy thing, it's just not even gonna it's
not gonna feel as attainable. And so like you always
teach me all the time, like just be patient, it's
gonna come. God has shown you the way. But you
can't just skip the line. You have to go through
this test right now.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, and I gotta be tested. You gotta go through there.
We've got to be forged, you know, forge and and
and fire, you know, And that's how you make that toughness.
But somebody, everybody wants a quick, easy road, and just
I was almost overnight celebrity. The sometimes I thought it
was never gonna happen for me, you know. I was
almost like giving up at this thing. And I kept trying,
(19:50):
and I kept trying, and I failed a thousand times,
and finally it's like, hey, they're like they like you.
I'm like, what now, I've been in this game fifteen years,
Like now they want me to get back up and
do all this work again? All right, I got a
little bit more of my take. Let me see what
I can show you guys.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, and and and think about what you're setting up
for your kids and watching your kids. I know that's
for me is important. I've got five of them.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I got three. You know, we talked about kids.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I've got one the other this biracial black, one white,
and three Latinas.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So I got a whole I got a whole squad.
Child support s ain't no.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
John, one white, one Latina.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
See, look, you see what I keep saying with we
might be, we might be, we might be relating somewhere
down the bloodline. But but but I think back now
at all my trials and tribulations and how much love
and admiration that I'm able to pass to my kids.
(20:56):
And don't get me wrong, I teach them and my
kids are very aware of the things that I had
to go through. But it allows me also to teach
them different lessons and kill that generational toxicity that I
was passed down.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You know, you know what I'm saying deep deep levels.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So know that every time that you that you do
these things, bro, there's so many people and especially your
kids that are watching you that I can just tell
you how proud of you they are and what you're
doing to help change their lives and see them and
breaking all of these cycles. Man, that made you feel
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that way and given all them all of that love
and admiration. Man, that that's a very moving and powerful thing. Man,
that you should be very proud of.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah. Yeah, my kids are My kids are my everything,
you know, and I'm trying to give them that debt
said the father figure that I wanted to have to
kind of like, all right, he went out there, he
busted his ass, and now I'll follow this.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I didn't get that myself, so now can I be that?
And at the same time, I never had a dad,
so I'm trying to learn myself on how to be
a dad.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
That's a trial and tribulation thing that I learned on
my own. Now, I was like, whoa, and I want
to teach them the wrong things, you know, But I
haven't never had anybody else say, well you this how,
this is what you teach them, this is what you do,
this is how it goes. I'm just learning on my own.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, and it makes it's it's hard, I know.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
For me.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
My dad was such a horrible dad that it may.
My guideline is the same way. I never had anybody
teach me those things exactly look, so at least I
had some sort of blueprints. I could be like, hey,
I know, and I catch I catch myself sometimes, like
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I catch myself with when I'm talking to my kids.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I catch myself like how did I.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Feel whenever he would talk to me in certain men?
So I try to switch the game up when I'm
talking to him and say, hey, I know that you
see it like this, but let me give you my
input and kind of see how you know it could be.
Because also we're taught, you know, like you said, through TV,
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through all of these things, that you're supposed to be
this guy. You're supposed to hammer these things in. And man,
these kids aren't built like that, and you have to
like you have to explain to them and kind of
you know, get them to learn all of that stuff.
So but let's get into you know, I wore the
red red today. I always rep the red, but I
(23:45):
wore this because I'm gonna have to make sure that
I get this to Dana. Why everybody else is getting
their shorts. We've seen the polloton shorts. We've seen the
Hawaiian shorts, We've seen the Camo shorts with brib When
are we gonna get your red shorts?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I feel like I'm a little deserving the shorts, you know.
I like to have my little Paisley shorts, you know.
And they can do them red, they could do them black,
they could do them white, whatever color they choose. You know,
I don't want them to think like because I feel
like they're a little afraid. Is that like maybe it's
like some gangster stuff, you know, Yeah, yeah, color, It
doesn't have to do anything like that, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
So we're excited about your fight coming up out in Manchester.
That's why we brought it up, is well, one, we
want to see you. We can't wait to uh to
watch you go out there. We know, we know there's
some chatter that was going on between you and Patty.
How did that come about? How did how did your
name get in his mouth? Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That's the crazy part about it, is like I seen
Patty when he was kind of coming up the ranks,
and if we just bumped into each other and I
put him on Live and I was like, like, there's
there's Patty right there. You know, what's up, Patty? What's
up Patty? He would look at me, he wouldn't say
anything to me, he wouldn't acknowledge me at all. But
now here it is, I say, that was three years ago.
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I've been working my ass off, and now it's like, well,
Bobby Green, well, Bobby Green. You know, I'm like, well,
he mentioned me. He didn't even want to give me
a light of a day two or three years ago,
but now he sees the value, you know, and so
we'll deal with that.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So so let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Does that make it a little bit more of a
beatdown that that you want to give him because he
was disrespectful and kind of shine you.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, yeah, he's definitely gonna get a beat down.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I'm like Jordan's and I take certain things. I hear
him say something and I put in the back of
my head and I'm like, I won't forget about that.
I'm gonna turn cycle on him, you know, like the
last time with Jim. Jim like says some little things
and I'm like, all right, that's enough for me to go.
I'm going to cycle on you, you know. And so
I'm gonna hit the same page with him where he's
a lot worse. I like Jim. Imagine what I'm gonna
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do to that guy. I don't like him.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You know what I'm going to do to him.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I actually liked Jim, and I feel like fel bad
for when I did to Jim. I don't even like
that guy. He's getting fucked up.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You received, dude.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
You gotta hold onto the streets. It's weird, Hope. It's
always strange. Like Derek Jeter talks about it too. He's like,
I remember what you're wearing when you said it, how
you said it? All the great ones for some reason,
they know they keep that in their bank and they
use it for later for motivation. It's so funny, like
how like you just.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Use that energy? Mm hm, I use that motivation. He
got to make him pay for those words. He gotta.
You gotta pay for those words.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Levels to the game. Levels to the game. So let
me ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I know, whenever you you guys first started talking about
taking this fight, you specifically said you wanted to fight
him in England.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
What was the reason in behind you wanted to fight
him in England?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I wanted to give him every advantage. I wanted to
give him every possibility that he could possibly find that
he could use and it would make him favorable for
him to take the fight, you know, like, all right,
it's in my hometown with my people. You know, I
have the chance to go up to take my number
because I got the number. He don't got the number.
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So I'm giving my number. I'm giving him the crowd base,
I'm giving him the hometown advantage. Everything's in his favor. Now,
let's see how the chips stack up in and who
wins this fight.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
We were talking about it earlier and Albert was like,
when we were bringing up this question, and I said,
it's because Bobby doesn't want him to have any excuses.
He doesn't want not one excuse. And this is setting
up to where everything is supposed to be. The only
thing that he didn't plan for is when you come
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from chaos, the crowd, none of that stuff is.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's gonna be mute to you.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's not gonna change anything. None of those people can
save him. No one can save him, you know, like
when those doors get closed. Yeah, you could cheer, you
could bull. You could do whatever you want to do,
but none of that is gonna come in this stage
and punch for you or make you get all the
way with his fucking punch. You know, none of that
can help you.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And don't wrong.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I like the motivation, like I feel like, yeah, crowd
gets behind you, you can get motivated, but it doesn't
help your skills.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
It does not help, or it does not help when
you catch those blows to the face.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It does not help that at all.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I can think too. He loves to talk to Patty
is a showman for sure, but man, I don't think
he's ready for it at all.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
For me, it's like, uh, I feel like those are
the spoiled kids. Those are kids that like, like I
used to be mad at Channel Melley, like, but SEANL.
Melley earned his right. Now he's earned his right. But
certain guys don't realize that they're building you up, and
they're giving you all the right fights and all the
right situations to build you up, and you just shut
the fuck up and you enjoy it. But once he
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had that, Jared Gordon, I feel like everybody got to
see the bad side of him. Like he's like he's
a spoiled kid, and he's gonna bitch and and I'm like, bro,
you don't realize you got the fans, you got all
these different people, you got the company behind you. Just
shut the fucker, be cool and love the love the environment.
I didn't get that. I had to go work my
ass off, shovel through to all this and dig dig, dig,
dig unto to get my opportunity. And so those guys
(29:24):
are spoiling and they don't understand these little dudes that
they're getting.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That's most of the guys that do the most talking
are the guys who haven't really like especially for me,
for Patty, he's exactly what you said.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
He's like a rich suburbanite kid.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
In my eyes, I look at him as like the
rich suburbanite kid that ate from the Silver Spoon, never
really struggle today in their life, and they're up there
chitter chattering and whatever. And I'm like, bro, stop like
you you can't And so yeah, I get it, You've
earned your Gary.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
He ain't carey right now, Ian Gary. He was running
his mouth, he was talking so much. That was the
only fight I wanted to watch with the MVP in
Gary fight like from Room. The heavyweight fight the last
main event was great, but I came to see those
guys who were fucking running their mouths and they're gonna
supposed to back it up, So I want to see this.
They're gonna talk all that and then they're gonna actually
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back it up. Ian Gary went in there and made
a fucking fortfest.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Bro what MVP came in there and stood to his
word of punch it at. Albert didn't watch that fight.
He watched the Pollo time and he was like, well,
how did it go down? I was like, it was
like a lot of crotch sniffing. And then Ian Gary
gets up there in his bro He's bragging on himself
(30:52):
for grap out grappling a guy who is notoriously not
a nine grappler.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I was I was shut boil kid, he's over here
to make it seem like he did something great. Like man,
first of all, you light to your public. And that's
what I was trying to get to my young fighters
is don't lie to your public. If I tell them something,
I'm gonna back it up to the tea. And so
I never go out and say, oh I'm gonna go
fuck this guy and I'm gonna knock him out or
I'm gonna I never say anything I say. I'm not
(31:21):
God and I'm not here to play god. I just
know that I'm gonna look at my history, and in
my history, everybody gets hit a lot. Everybody gets this
and gets this. He's gonna have damage.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
This is the this is the facts.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I'm not trying to say anything that's like cocky or arrogant,
like oh I bit like no, I'm just gonna be
human and anything is possible. You can get caught in
any given second. Just be just be yourself. And some
of these guys are trying to do all the talking
in the macho macho and they're not really macho. Ian
Gary did not want to do the man den. He
was hugging and he was shooting, and he looked scared.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
He was scared.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Anybody was saying it was the fastest, he was the quickest.
He's gonna beat him everywhere. I'll beat him everywhere. And
then after the fight to nail the coffin. Nail on
the coffin is like all right, i'body he's like bro.
He could have said, uh not my best showing it
was not a good fight. No, He's like, I knew
this was gonna happen, and I took him, and this
just makes you look like stupid.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Bro, you look well, bro?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Did you hear him?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
He was on there, he was like, just keep it cool.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
He was on there.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
He was like, I've evolved so much and I'm working
with Damian Maya and Charles dubronxon I've evolved and got it.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, And I was like, bro, you evolved.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That's like going and grappling against white belts the first
day of class and sparring them and being like, oh,
I dominated them. Like, bro, he this guy wasn't even
He's not a grappler.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
He never MVP.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Never once in any of the press conference like Hey,
I'm gonna go in here and we're gonna make this
ib JJF grappling session.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
There was never any of that.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
He said, I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna
try to put hands on this guy. And he did that.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
I and Gary did not. He did not. He did
not show up to his word.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
That's important to me. A word. You can't lie to
your public, you know, like if I tell everybody, I'm
gonna go knock him out. I'm gon go knock him
out and I shoot in. It's like I played my audience.
I played the people that actually care or to watch
my fights. They're like, oh, bro, I came to see
what you said you were gonna do enough? Like I
played them, you know. And I never want to lie
to my public. Everything I say to you is damn truth,
(33:34):
at least of what I believe. And that's exactly what
I'm gonna do is and what I believe or what
I stand on what I say.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I say that all the time. I mean what I say,
and I say what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
And I guess that's maybe because so many people throughout
my life didn't keep their word for me.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It's something that's so important to me.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
If I say it, If I say I'm gonna knock
you out, I'm either gonna knock you out or I'm
gonna die trying to knock you out.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
That's just what what I'm about.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
That's like I've told people that, hey, I'll buy your car,
and I'm like, oh, why did that live up to
this ship?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Here?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Just take the car, and man, I said this ship exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's why I have to be careful what I say,
because if I say it, I'm gonna have to follow
through on it. So all right, so we're gonna light
the things. We're gonna We're gonna lighten things up right quick.
We have a what's called rapid fire. So we're gonna
ask you some questions. You say, the first thing that
pops into your head, you ready on the clock?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Whore's your faith?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Bro? I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
The first one?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
The person I'm.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I'm from Montgomery, Alabama. I'm rolling and cut. I don't
know no different. So who is your favorite fighter growing up?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
And now we're talking about like m m MA or
we're talking period period Muhammad Ali?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yes, I like it.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
What's your favorite travel destination?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Have you ever heard of us?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Book called Hong Kong?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
So you have.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Don't get us both in trouble. Don't get us both
in trouble. What's your what.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
What's your biggest pet? Peeve? Trunk? People lives lives.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
That drunk, people like I can't and then being around
like because I used to work in a club, Yeah,
and it's always some drunk comes up to me. It's
a noncious and just from working that stuff, it's like
it always bothers me, especially if I'm not drinking with you.
Then it's like, all right, you're just in this place
and like they're on their own and they're just rambling on.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
That's my pig drunk people liquor. No, all right?
Speaker 4 (36:24):
What is What's what's Bobby Green's favorite cheap meal?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Sushi? Yeah, sushi?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
What of the week? Me too? Me too? And my kids?
What's your what's your hidden talent? Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I fight good and good.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I tell people that's how I got five kids. I'm
from Alabama. I'm good at fighting and making babies.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Go exactly. I guess we come into.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Favorite bro.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I'm like, music is my ship.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I could go a thousand fucking like right, my my,
my Apple music and thing.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I like almost like four.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Thousand songs like I love music, bro, And I couldn't
tell you a favorite song because I have so many
fucking songs depending upon the time, depending upon the place.
Am I with a guy? Am I with a girl?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Let me tell you what's gonna be the walkout song?
This when you come out this next fight?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Have you picked it yet?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Bro? I'm still playing with this one. I'm still playing
with you, you know, because like kinn Of in my
head was like I was like, I'm gonna do a
show for fucking Manchester. I'm like, do something for Manchester,
you know. But then like my my people are like, man,
they're not.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Gonna like you.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
You should go over there. You should just throw out,
come out to this and just fuck.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
And so I'm like I don't know how to play
it yet.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
You know. My second amateur MMA fight, this is what
I did. I came and it was in Alabama, where
I'm from, and I knew the crowd was going to.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Be behind the other guy. He was a local cop,
all of this and all of that.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I came out to sweet Home, Alabama because you cannot
as a Southern person, you cannot go again sweet It
was a slow version too, not there sweet Home. Yes,
they couldn't go wrong with it. Who is Who's your
favorite actor?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
I like a lot of different people. I probably say Denzel.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Washington training day? Denzel, Yeah, yeah, thats all you.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
My face. Everybody says, oh Denzel, I'm like, which training day?
Because training day is my Denzel?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
That I like the best?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Did somebody on the other day, Like yeah, they were
like equalizer I was like, I like Equalizer, but I
like the Training that didn't sell.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
So what's your favorite TV show?
Speaker 4 (39:10):
What's your favorite TV show or movie.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
TV show? I'm gonna have to go like The Office.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Yeah, the one where Jim and uh what's his name
uh with doing like the snowball pranks and stuff like that.
And then Rain Wilsons. Yeah, character goes in this goes
in the snowman and just pelts him to death. Oh
it's so funny. All right.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Last one.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
If if there was a zombie invasion and you had
one UFC fighter that you could have on your team,
which one would it be.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I'll probably go and that's my dog, jump a bit out.
I got your back, you got mine. You take that side.
I picked this side, you.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Know, strong side. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
So I know you got training and stuff to do.
We're gonna break it off with this one is a question.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
We'd like. This one's kind of deep. So if you
need to take a second, take a second.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
If today was your last day, what is the thing
that you would want Bobby Green to be remembered for.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
I'll probably say my fortitude. You know, I never quit attitude,
you know, and that's what I'm trying to show to
people that trying to inspire and motivate. I never quit.
I never gave up. I got tested so many times.
I just never gave up. And that's the difference between
me and a lot of gods is just I never quit.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Yeah, for me, I would. It would definitely be your resilience. Again,
You've had so many things, so many.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Pains, so much.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Chaos and trauma, and and you choose to do the
right things, and you choose to be a good person. Uh,
and you choose to put out a good energy. And
for me, that's that's why you'll forever have a fan
in me because with with every reason to go left,
(41:21):
you went right and and and that's a hard thing
to do.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
So you get mad respect for me for that. Now.
I appreciate you being.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
The man that you are and actually speaking on and
having the umped to talk about your trials and tribulations
because it, you know, it means a lot to the people.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yeah, brother, I'm open book. You know, I got nothing
to hide. I'm hoping somebody will catch something and grab
it and use it for themselves, you know, because I
didn't have nobody else to look to like that at
certain times, you know, so maybe I could be the
light for some of these poor broken kids. You know,
to know you're not the only one that you could
change your stars.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
You already have you you just don't know it, and
you're gonna change a lot more lives. Keep being you, bro,
authentically you, and know that there's a lot of people
out there that love and admire you, not just for
the fighter, but the man that you are.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
And we appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
I really appreciate you, guys man, Thank you so much
for having me on the show us an honor, especially
that you support me and that you've been in this
stuff with me. You know I won't let you down.
I'm gonna go in there and fight and do exactly
what I do. I'm gonna still be the same person
regardless of what happens to me. Nothing will change the
person who I am and which is seem good.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
We appreciate you, brother, take it see, thank you so much.
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