Business Happy Hour 2025-04-06 - Combat Quest #40 from Vilgilant MMA

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Business Happy Hour radio show with your host, Frankdebankkodo,
the owner of Lincoln Lending Group right here in Tampa
Bay for twenty three years, joined by his incredible co host,
Senia Akishana, realtor with Mahara Associates.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Tampa's top real estate company.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Together they have helped finance and close nearly one billion
dollars of real estate every year.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
If you're looking for local mortgage or real estate advice.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
Here's Frank de Bank and Senia.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hey, Tampa Bay, Welcome back to the Business Happy Hour.
You're number one show for all things business and entrepreneurial.
I am your host, Frankdebank Koto, the owner of Lincoln
Lending Group in eight one to three mortgage dot com.
That's right, guys, over a decade here on nine to
seventy WFLA. We're also some on some other channels, So
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(01:10):
as well. It's one oh five point nine FM, or
you can catch us on our other AM channel that
is twelve fifty w h n Z. We can definitely
help you guys out learning about business entrepreneurship. Today we're
going to be learning about MMA. We have Combat Quest forty.
That's right, that is a huge milestone. If you make

(01:30):
it to forty years old, you're a freaking og. And
if you and if you're on Combat Quest forty, you've
probably bashed them skulls in for about ten years or
so to get to that level. And we are going
to talk about I know Senya's over here like, ah,
what are you talking about? Bashion in skulls, But anyway,
we are gonna have a great show. We like to
talk real estate. We're gonna do some stats today with
Senia from Mahara and associates. I have a clue for you.

(01:54):
The market is heating up. So if you want to
talk real estate, stay tuned to this first segment because
this first segment is going to all about real estate
and what is going on in the market. I was
just out somewhere sent just where the heck was I Oh,
I was at the Owls meeting with all the Northdale
Owls and all the people over sixty five. And this
family comes up and ask them if they owned a home,

(02:15):
and she goes, well, I just sold my home. I go, well, really,
you're buying another house? She goes, no, I'm actually moving
into like a retirement resort community where they do everything
for me and we have games and all these cool
things like that. Sounds awesome. I go, how did the
house cell go? She said she was on the market.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
For one day?

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh yeah, one day. So we're going to tell some
people here in a minute, what does it mean to
be in the highest and best offer situation? What does
it mean when we're hearing that houses are selling in
one day? What does that mean to you as a
buyer and a seller? I bet Sennia has some answers
for you for that. And I can also tell you
that if you look in at the real estate market

(02:52):
and wondering if things are heating up, the answer is yes.
Because we had our two biggest weeks in real estate
history and mortgage history, these last two weeks compared to
the last two and a half years, so very interesting information.
If you guys have learned. We're gonna have a great guest.
We have my buddy, Brandon Edie, the uh, the founder, CEO, inventor,

(03:15):
whatever you want to call it of Vigilant MMA and
Combat Quest. Welcome to the studio, Brandon.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
I'll go with just match maker.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Just match maker. I'll get yourself into your mic. You
are not into the mic. We gotta get Brandon in there,
and we'll call him matchmaker. We can do that. And
we got to get you on video. Did you get
the invite for your Instagram live over there? I sent
it to your Vigilant Mma. I just want to make
sure you've got that. And while you're pulling that up,
I'll go ahead and get us out here on the
Facebook machine so everybody can watch us both from Facebook

(03:46):
and Instagram. And and I'm going to defer over to my
partner in just a second to find out about the
real estate stats, because I've been waiting patiently, okay for
these numbers to come out, and last week we did.
You did some condo and some different things. We did
do that.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
And remember my stats, these are for February, so we
do lag behind probably about you know, good three four
weeks okay, before I get the numbers. So I do
think that March is going to be more exciting to
kind of go along with your very exciting two weeks.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yes, I can't, I can't wait.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
But I mean February numbers were not bad. We're a
little bit down. So overall, our closed sales volume for
February year over year is down four point nine percent.
The median sale price only one point two percent, So
I think just overall. You know, when you hear the
headlines of oh, you know, prices are sinking and that's

(04:39):
not the case.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
No, so do you said? Home price is sale price.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Median sale price and this is for our Hillsborough, Penela's,
Pasco and Hernando counties.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Okay, and I guess yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Let me tell you the median sale price for February
and Hillsboro. It's four nineteen ninety and we've been, you know,
at that four to twenty number for a while. Panelas
is four hundred and forty five thousand, and Pasco three
sixty nine nine ninety. Let's just say three seventy.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Man, the three set. That's actually cheaper than I thought
they were. So you can go to Pasco and get
something for.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
Well, Pasco's traditionally been I mean they've definitely increased a lot,
but I mean, yes, if you want more house for
the money, you go to Pasco.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, well that you know, honestly, Pasco is not that
far away, Like it's really not. It's not like, what
what do you consider Pasco? Spring Hill?

Speaker 5 (05:31):
I mean that Hernando, that's spring Hill is yeah, Hernando.
I mean Pasco. We've got Wesley Chapel. That's right Orlando Lakes.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, I mean Wesley Chappels like right around the corner.
Let mep Like, can you part?

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Richie?

Speaker 4 (05:43):
So do you want to go.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Redo your invite real quick? Because your invite worked and
I accepted you, but it didn't pop you on the
screen for some reason. Uh, here we go. Don't move, Brandon,
don't do a thing. I'm hitting except and that should
put you on there.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Song.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Guys, we do this live on the Instagram as well
as on the Facebook. And oh I think he's on there.
He is, there's my man from Vigilant MMA.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
He is on.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
To make sure your volume is down on your phone
all the way just.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
To wort of volume.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Then hit the microphone.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yep, yeah, kill your microphone. That's the most important thing.
And I think we got to go on boom, there's
my buddy. This guy has I have known this guy?
Let me think how far back.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Now, nineteen ninety three? Oh my started jesuit.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Can't tell anybody, don't tell anybody. Well, you just told
like forty thousand people. Yeah, so night and now I've
got a sun going there.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
That's how I say we are kicking butt. Undefeated. Yes,
Davy hockey team, Yes, I saw that.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
And their spring team is also undefeated. So these guys
are you know. I kind of told the coach the
other day. I was like, maybe you gotta throw a game.
You gotta do something here because these kids have not
tasted a loss all the way through a year and
a half. Now, it's like I try to tell the other.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
I was like, that's not how it goes right, right.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's not real life. So anyway, welcome to the show.
You're welcome to banter. And Sindy always does all the
stats from Aharran Associates, and I'm always excited to hear
because I saw some of y'all's faces when you're when
I was saying the market is good, They're like, what
are you guys talking about? Because the damn Google machine
keeps telling everybody you've got to watch all these videos
send of people being like, the Florida market's depressed. Things
are terrible, We're gonna have a foreclosure crisis. What do

(07:15):
you think, sen I don't think that's gonna be happening. No, No,
I don't think so. And from what I saw from
and by the way, how I judge it is, I
judge it by application volume, how many apps come in,
and of those applications, how many actually sincrat contracts and
go to underwriting. The last two weeks, okay, not counting
this week, we have been at above normal production. Right,

(07:39):
there's a number that I look for, and let's say
that the average number is seven. We've had that on
my scale. We're gonna call it. We're at ten over
the last two weeks. So if that holds even above
seven for the next couple of weeks, I'm gonna say
we're on a trend right here, and things are going
the right way. And when you when you walk into
meeting a random seller and they tell you that their

(08:02):
household in a day. Right, that's not normal, is it?
It must be quite a house.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
I mean it used to be normal. Yeah, in pandemic market.
But no, I mean that's great. That does still happen.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, are you getting any highest and best situations where
we have multiple still.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
Come across multiple offers. Listen, if your house is just beautiful,
stands out amongst the rest, that is still possible, right.
But I mean the great news for buyers is inventory
is still increasing. That's the big trend that has been
happening that has not slowed, and that is great news
for buyers. It gives it more options, Okay, gives it
more options, and you know for sellers, they have to

(08:37):
price accordingly because they have more competition. So I think
it's just, you know, we're shifting towards that balance.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Market, right, which is a healthy market.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
I think it's a healthy market. We need a healthy,
balanced market, and that's the direction we're headed. And I
mean things are heating up.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
They are.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, we're almost to April here well today officially as
here Sunday, So yes, April is the start of our
really hot month April, May June, and I think it's
going to be a great spring selling season. Yeah, and
we're seeing lots of inventory coming and we've got lots
of listings that are going to be coming up, and
I think that's great.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Now, did you hear the good news? We got picked
up by cn N, MSNBC and Fox News Channel. We're
going to be live every Friday night. They're giving us
a TV show. Did you hear about this?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (09:26):
I totally I got him very good. Okay, Okay, They're like,
oh damn, this is going to be a really in
your dreams Frand I know, I know one day they'll
pay me for this wonderful job. You know, maybe you
guys can write your congressman, tell them, tell them that
Frank needs to get paid anyway. So these stats, so
it's a it's a stronger market. What else did you
did you pull anything else down that we need to
know about?

Speaker 5 (09:45):
I mean, these are you know, they're not as exciting
as they think the stats you've got for these boys here.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, well, well these boys have some serious dat These
are like the stats on bashing heads in we're just
talking right now about stats on just you know those
mortgage rates bashing the mortgage rate?

Speaker 4 (09:59):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Actually, I will bring something up because one of the
most popular posts that I've put out in the last
couple of weeks was one where I literally put on
the screen I said, Google is lying about rates, right,
So let's play that game real quick. We got a
minute something left. I want Brandon, I want you to
guess what do you think the thirty year fixed mortgage
rate is right now? If I was to type it

(10:20):
into Google, which I'm gonna get my computer to work eventually. Here,
what do you think? It might be?

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Probably around six and a half?

Speaker 3 (10:27):
All right? Anybody else in the peanut gallery, you want
to guess what they think about eight?

Speaker 4 (10:32):
All right?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
We got a guess of an eight was the other
who said, somebody.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
This isn't the price is right though, it's not like
the lowest bet dollars that doesn't win.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
So let's see here, Oh, I like some of these guestses.
As of today is what it says the average thirty
year fixed mortgage rate is around six point eight three percent.
That is what all of your consumers are hearing right now.
You want to know what the truth is, Guys, They're
at six percent. They're at five point eight seven five percent.
We just locked an FHA loan at five point six
two five and a VA at five point seventy five.

(11:06):
So why is Google saying this? Guys? It's corporate greed.
I repeat it over and over. Get off the fence,
get into the market now, call Sinia, go to Maharan Associates,
let her find you the house. We'll find you the mortgage.
And you're not gonna pay six point eight three percent.
You're going to be in the high fives if you
have good credentials. So get the hell off the fence
before your neighbor does and he goes and takes that

(11:28):
dream home from you because he knows the rates are lower.
So no, you don't have to lock in at six
point eight. You can lock in at five point eight.
But you need to go to contact Frankdbank dot com
or you're gonna reach Senia Bye Tampa real Estate dot pro.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
That's it, And that example you gave us, that's a
big difference, guys, that's huge. So you know six point
eight or five point nine.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's it. Matth O Taywae. When we get back from
the break point, it's a full point from when we
get back from the break. We're gonna find out what
does that mean on the average sales price of four
hundred thousand dollars. Stay tuned to the Business Happy Hour
with Frank the Bank and Sennia from Mahara Associates will
be in just a minute.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Let's get it ready to.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
All the best mortgage or real estate advice from Tampa
Bay's top experts. It's the Business Happy Hour with Prank
de Benkoto and Senia man.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
I hope you guys liked that new intro. That was
our producer, James Boy. He got everybody in the studio
off guard on that one.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
That was good.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
And we are gonna rumble today. We are gonna rumble
the Combat Quest number forty. But as promised for all
you guys who listen through the commercial break. By the way,
all you Instagrammers, you guys get to see the behind
the scenes of the radio show. You get to hear
us talk a little banter behind the scenes while we're
waiting on our break. But let's let's do that sin
so at. Let's say they borrowed four hundred thousand, all right,

(12:46):
keep the numbers even. Let's keep them even. And let's
say they got the rate that Google tells you you're
gonna get today of six point eight that would give
you a principal and interest payment of twenty six oh
seven twenty six oh seven. That's four hundred thousand and
six point eight percent. Say they come to Frank the Bank,
Senia and Lincoln Lending Group and they get five point
eight percent. That drops it from what did I say?

(13:07):
It was twenty six oh seven to twenty three forty
seven two sixty Yeah, good math, jesuit education there you
know what two hundred two hundred and what is it?
Sixty freaking dollars a month?

Speaker 4 (13:23):
I mean, not for nothing, three thousand a year.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah. A buddy of mine just bought this, this used
little suv. He's only paying two hundred ninety dollars a
month on his car payment. That's a car. That's a
car for your kids. So you gotta you gotta talk
to the right lender. You gotta go to contact frankdbank
dot com, or if you're interested in a reverse mortgage,
go to reverse guru dot com. Either way it'll bring
in a Lincoln Lending Group. We'll get you guys taken
care of and if you need a great realtor, you're

(13:47):
gonna talk to Senya Akishina from Mahara and Associate. It's
one of the biggest best real estate companies in town.
And you're gonna reach her by going to well it
call me, Oh, call you.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
I like the phone too, eight one three, seven five
reel Love it.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
That's so easy. Seven five to five reel for the
real business Happy Hour, which is what you're listening to
right now. And again, don't forget we are a podcast
on iHeartRadio. Seven five to five reel is how we
get Senia. Contact Frank the bank is how you get me.
And you listen to our show every week on twelve
fifty w h and Z one of five point nine
ninety nine seventy WFLA and you can check us out

(14:21):
on iHeartRadio on the podcast. So, without further ado, my
good buddy, I've known this guy for way too many decades.
I have seen this guy break next, I've seen him
get his neck broken. I've seen him break his neck
to get a business build. And now I am proud
to say this man has created not one, not two,
not ten, not twenty, but forty forty main Events, forty

(14:46):
Combat Quest. He is modestly calls himself the matchmaker. But
my buddy Brandon here from Combat Quest forty and Vigilant MMA,
welcome to this show.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Thank you, my friend. Man. That was a rousing introduction.
You did even better and last time I know I
made an I like that. That's on. I was. I
was telling Sending on the elevator. I said, you know,
me and Frank, one of the things we learned at
Jesuit is that we can think on the fly and
we can throw together a masterpiece on short notice. And
I was looking at those questions you were asking me
coming up the elevator, and I was like, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
There is there it is. You answered them perfectly for
me too, sir.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
We get it done.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
So tell us a little bit about Visual MMA and
Combat Quest. I know it's your baby. You got it started.
We're now in our fortieth event. But tell the listeners
what it is and then we're going to tell them
how they can get there and they're gona talk to
some fighters.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yes, sir, yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
So.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
Combat Quest's a it's a byproduct of vigil In MMA.
Visual and MMA is kind of like the parent company,
and we run all the different events through there. We
have combat Quest. Also on this show April nineteenth, we
have another combat Quest Influencer fight card. So we're building
this side show with local rate, local artists, local musicians,

(15:53):
local bartenders, local barbers, influencer side. Yeah. So at this
next show, the first six fights are all different influencers.
In fact, the featured about is two rappers and they're
both making songs about each other and it's gonna be
a whole it's a whole circus. So we're trying to
build that side event so that eventually we can bring

(16:14):
in someone like the one of those guys the Island Boys,
yeah you know, or or somebody like that that's from Florida,
Speachy Boys to come in exactly.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
So that's the kind of the byproduct.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
We also do jiu jitsu events. We have seek jiu
Jitsu events, and we have our seventh one of those
that's going to be on the next show in clear
Water that's on June fourteenth. Ok So we like to
mix it up, we like to switch it up. But
on this upcoming event, you got the Influencer fight card
that's going to start at five o'clock, all right, doors
will open at four thirty, and you have six different

(16:49):
influencer fights at this point. They're all boxing, except for one.
One's gonna be amateur bare knuckle. Now we can't, we can't.
We have to call it modified boxing because the hands
are covered. But they're covered with four ounce professional MMA gloves,
no wraps, no gauze under their nothing, just bare fist

(17:10):
with a four ounce in gloves.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
So there's like hardly any patty.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Correct, there's nothing. There's just it's basically a little bit
of vinyl over your bare knuckles. Oh now, I don't
like doing those matches because I know that they're gonna
cost me a lot of money. I'm gonna have to
pay for stitches. I'm gonna pay for hospital visits. That's
usually how those fights go. Oh lord, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we only sprinkle one in here and there, but
that's and that's in our the co main event of
that influencer fight card. We have a marine fighting a

(17:36):
influencer flying himself in from New York.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Oh man, that's so. So are these fights the bloodier ones.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Then that one definitely would be one of the bloodier fighters.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
I mean, it's got to be the bloodiest, all right,
when you have less paddy and less protection.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
And the most dangerous, you know. And I don't like
doing that to these guys as amateurs. Really, I want
to protect them as much as I can. So we
do a very few.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Of those, but I guess they kind of sign up
for it.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
I mean, he's a marine. That's what he wants if
he does want to go pro with the bare knuckle,
and so this is kind of some practice for him
for that pro bare knuckle jump because there's no getting
ready for that. You know, someone that knows how to
punch and has a bear fist. Yeah, it doesn't take
much to go to sleep. Now.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
I'm not big. I'm not big on getting punched by
humans or arm laws either.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
One arm wall one Frank zero by the way, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, they definitely got me on that one. Okay. Wow,
let's tell everybody where it's at. So this is gonna
be on April nineteenth. It is in clear Water. It's
actually right up the street here from the studio, the
occ Roadhouse. I have yet to go. I've got to
check it out myself. It's owned by Orange County choppers
right where they got that the motorcycle.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Got absolutely absolutely. They have a whole huge outdoor pavilion
out back. We dress it up, we bring in a
whole bunch of smoke and lights, and we're gonna upgrade
it from the last event. The last event was great.
Now we're gonna do even more. We're gonna have track
lighting on the walkouts. We're gonna have some moving lights.
We're just gonna keep accelerating this whole production so that
every time people are getting more than the money's worth.
I want. I love when people leave our events. I've

(19:02):
been doing this for forty shows. One of the things
I learned in the very beginning was if you really
want to know how your show went, about five minutes
to go, when the main event's still going, have somebody
go stand by the front door. And I've been doing
this for years and they just listen to people as
people are leaving, and I get a great icon idea
of man, that last fight sucked, why did they have
that fight there? Or man, bro this was great, we

(19:24):
can't wait to come back. And I mean we run
at about ninety percent of people leaving our really happy
with the product.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
That yeah, I think what you put on is an
amazing show. I think what really sets you apart is
there's so many different fighting styles and different techniques. You're
not you know, I got to see a slap fighting
one one dime, and I thought that was gonna be
like funny. Oh no, that ain't funny.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
But what that is?

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yes, yeah, it's called combat jiu jitsu. So this is
where you take Brazilian jiu jitsu and then once you're
on the ground, they will open palms, strike each other
in the face, and they will actually even backhand. I've
seen a guy smack smack smack like a pimp.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
So on that note, pim slappin right here on the
Business Happy Hour. We're gonna be back in just a minute.
We're gonna have our first fighter on, so get ready,
stay tuned. We'll be back in just a minute on
the Business Happy Hour with Senya and Frank.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Welcome to the Business Happy Hour radio show with your host,
Frank de Bankkodo, the owner of Lincoln Lending Group right
here in Tampa Bay for twenty three years, joined by
his incredible co host, Senya Akishana, realtor with Mahara and.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Associates, Tampa's top real estate company.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Together, they have helped finance and clothes nearly one billion
dollars of real estate every year.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
If you're looking for local mortgage or real estate advice.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
The Business Happy Hour team has been right here on
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Speaker 2 (20:56):
Here's Frank the Bank and Senia.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
All right and yeah, it's like, do you remember Max Headroome?
Are you old enough for Max headerom?

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Man?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
You remember Max Hedroom? Like my Max Headroome or MELI crap?

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah, but she's got to have the most beautiful name
I've ever heard in my life. Every time they say it,
I'm just like, wow, Sennia.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
It does It's almost like your parents knew what they
were doing when they did that. Maybe she's like, n
what does sennya mean? By the way, I.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
Think something like have the heavens.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
I can see Brandon, good call, good call, So I
don't want to delay and of course, Sennia. We were
supposed to go to the Last Combat Quest. Something happened.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
I was gonna. I got sick, and I was so excited.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
We had, like you know, dinner planned and I was
so excited to go. So I was telling Brandon, I'm like,
we are coming. So we're going to make it work
this time.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
She tells me.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Walking out the door, She's like, don't ask me to
go tell Brandon. I'm very sorry. She's a teller. I
can't even watch it on TV. I can't even watch
Yellowstone in the family room with her, right. But we
are going to plan it and we are going to go.
I'm looking at my calendar right now. April nineteenth, guys,
that's when this is. I actually think I can go
April nineteenth at his occ roadhouse. I want you guys

(22:06):
to go to Vigilant MMA dot co dot com. It's
dot com, Vigilant MMA dot co. That's where you're going
to buy your tickets. By the way, get the VT.
Can they buy vip tickets?

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Still absolutely table? Just a few love. I think there's
like three vip tables.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Loft, guys. It is so worth it that vip table.
I remember the very first one you sent me to
and I sat up there and I mean, this is
not for nothing, but you might get splattered a little bit,
you know, maybe a little blood, maybe a little.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
Sweat, especially with that modified boxing match.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Oh man, I can't wait. So we're gonna try to
make it ourselves, Senny and I and hopefully we can
do a little shout out while we're there. But I
don't want to waste any time. I want to get
these fighters on, because these guys traveled from a long
way to get on the radio show, Brandon, if you
want to introduce our first fighter and talk about his
technique in a little.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
Bit about him, all right, So first we got mister
Ryan Pavot. Ryan Pavot is a local firefighter here fighting
out of UFC Gym and Clearwater. He's got a two
and two record. He's coming in off of a big victory.
He defeated an undefeated fighter that was really confident coming in.
He got him with a second round submission, right yep,
I remember all.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
This choked him submission, No, no, no, much.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
More intricate than that. But I'm gonna let him take
the take the mic and tell you guys about that experience.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, tell us about it, Ryan, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (23:15):
Hello, Hello, Oh yeah, you're great. All right, Yeah, second round.
I took him down and got him to an arm bar.
That's pretty much it. I know he says more intricate,
but it's like, no, you're you're too modest.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
That's what it is. So so you're an arm bar.
What's an arm bar?

Speaker 7 (23:32):
It's a submission where you straighten out someone's arm essentially
the camera, and you hyper extend the ligaments and bone
in your elbow and if you do that, uh hard enough,
hard enough, then they could break the arm.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Oh and does that normally happen or they normally give
up before they snapped.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
They can't heat that before that could happen.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
And I wasn't.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
I'm not trying to like seriously hurt anybody.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Not yet, not get to that pro level. Yeah, yeah,
I gotta be getting paid to do.

Speaker 7 (24:02):
Like Brandon said earlier, like we're I'm sure as he's
trying to protect the fighters and yeah, right, we all
got day jobs at the end of the day, so.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
I assume, well, by the way, your day job. My
my brother is a retired fighter fighter from Tampa and
my nephew is a current firefighter for Tampa, So I
commend you for having that. Your day job is probably
about as hard as your night job.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
That can be guy.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
It's fun, yeah, especially nowadays you guys are not chasing
kittens and trees anymore.

Speaker 7 (24:27):
It happens occasionally.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, it's fun though. This arm bar thing, I assume
you know most guys give up before it gets really bad.
I mean, I guess you kind of know when your
arms about to separate from from your body.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
Yeah, it hurts a lot worse before that happens. So yeah,
but your body telling you, hey, give up please?

Speaker 4 (24:47):
And what's your rank? Runs everybody? Your rank with stripes, I.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Mean three stripe, purple belt, so okay.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
I mean he's about to be brown, okay, And once
he hits brown, the only thing after that it's black.
He's about two thirds and through his marshall or journey
to a black belt.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
So how long you've been training for that?

Speaker 7 (25:03):
Probably like eight years?

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Is on off?

Speaker 7 (25:07):
All right, I do it at all, So it's a lot. Yeah,
I do kickboxing, jiu jitsu, wrestling, all of it. So yeah,
all in compass, probably around nine years.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
So what what else are you excited about this fight?
Are you? Are you ready for this fight? Do you
got you gonna try to break that guy's arm? We're
gonna break his face?

Speaker 4 (25:25):
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 7 (25:26):
Whatever he gives me. If we want to stand and
bang and can do that. If you want to go
to the ground, I could do that. I'm I'm just
happy to compete.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Really, it was.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
It was actually funny. Uh when Brennan approached me with
this fight, Uh, I beat this dude's opponent, and then
I remember him in the corner after that fight. He
was like me next, mex, me next. So I'm glad
that we can actually get it done.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
So oh oh, so he was calling it out. He's like,
so you just beat that guy's ass, now I want
you to beat mine. Okay. At least they're honest with
each other.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
That team, they're very fearless, you know when they come
to bang me next Wing Chun science man. Those guys
come to fight. So that's that's I like putting fights
like that together. We should be too respectful martial artists.
Both these guys are relentless, and that's one of the
reasons I brought him in you know, Ryan wins this fight,
he's going to break into the vigil in top five.
And I was just speaking with him off camera about

(26:17):
who that potential opponent might be for the June event,
and I've already got that guy lined up ready to go.
So if he wins this fight, he cracks into the
top five and puts himself into a title eliminator situation.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Oh man, I love it. Well, welcome to the show,
Thank you for coming on. We wish you the best
of the luck. And I would say, go after the
left arm, you know which every one he gives you,
whichever one he gives you, and then and then just
watch the corner for the guy who's going to say
me next. Yeah, and then we'll get that guy on
next right, Brandon.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Well, I mean, if he wins this one, then he
I think he's pretty much cleaned out the one twenty
five division there. But you know, then we'll move on
to the next. Man.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Speaking of moving on to the next so we got
another fighter in here. I believe it's a no wo sue?
Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Dan?

Speaker 4 (27:01):
The woe suit D no woe sue?

Speaker 3 (27:03):
What does the D stand for? Should we tell anybody
or now?

Speaker 8 (27:06):
Family secret.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Oh yeah, well you have to beat him to find
that out. And I heard that might be difficult. I
heard it it might be difficult to beat you in
the courtroom and in the ring. Is that is that real?

Speaker 6 (27:17):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Oh, they give you a second. Get your ears on.
It's difficult to beat you in the courthouse or the ring,
is what I hear?

Speaker 8 (27:22):
Something like that depends on the case, I guess.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yes. So your day job is not cats out of
trees and running into burning buildings. Instead, you're putting up
with the social justice system. Is that what I hear?

Speaker 8 (27:34):
Yeah. I've been doing a civil litigation as a pressing
at Turning Down in Florida since twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen.
But I got my start in civil litigation back when
I finished undergrad in two thousand and nine, so I've
been doing this.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
For a while.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Oh wow, man, what got you into fighting?

Speaker 8 (27:50):
You know, it was just a random thing. I just
wanted to find a new way to stay in shape
and meet people.

Speaker 6 (27:56):
Right.

Speaker 8 (27:57):
I never knew anything about fighting. I played football, you know,
ran track my whole life, so so let me try
something different. And I had no intention of ever fighting
at all. And I just joined Tamoy T. I just
learned the basics and one thing led to another. You know,
you move up their ranks a little bit. Before you
know it, they're saying, hey, you have a fight next Thursday,
next Friday. You'd be ready. That's that's that's how it
started back in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
So so you you've only been fighting, like you got
into weed Tie like what five years ago something?

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (28:21):
I started to join TMT Tamoy Tie in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, oh my god. And then and then how did
you how did you guys connector why don't you let
you talk about his fight and and the techniques? And
I just ran right into it.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Sorry, it's all good, it's all good. So, yeah, he
trains out of Tampamoay Tie. We we've had a lot
of students come out of that gym. They usually give
us some some really good, high level competitors. Previously, Joey
defoball one of his teammates who's also on the show,
uh A in a title fight as well. Joey has
fought for US I think three or four times. He's
had some five round bangers, and then he also suffered

(28:55):
a you know, a rough defeat in a title fight.
But he's tough, he's resilient. So when when they told
us about d wanted to get him an opportunity. He's
won two out of his last three fights. All right,
He's got a very tough opponent and Alex far Fan,
who's got twelve fights experience. Uh, he's six and six,
but three of his fights were five round split decision losses,

(29:17):
meaning that all three of those fights could have very
easily just with a one point in one round could
have gone his way. So he could just easily be
nine and three as he is six and six. You know,
he's a tough opponent. So I really want to see
who's the best one fifty nine in Tampa. And so
I've got the two best one hundred and fifty nine pounders.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
You're telling me you only weigh one hundred and fifty
nine right now. I was like, I need to get
on this diet. Oh Jesus, So you're probably what you're
probably weighing on like one sixties one seventy right now,
and you're gonna cut down something like that.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
Yeah, I've been there in the low one seventies and
cut down to one to fifty nine, Yeah, right before Waynes.
Always we always make weight, as anyone will tell you,
we always got to make weight. Yeah, I have learned.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Actually you taught me about this running in garbage bags
back in the Jesuit Man. Yeah, duck tape and garb
bags to your body. I hear this, Crystal, does that? Actually?
Does he really do that?

Speaker 6 (30:04):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Like Ray, Ray, you just got called out. If I
see you in a garbage bag running through my neighborhood,
I'm calling the police. Anyway, Sanya, you got any questions
for these fighters? I know you're always intriguing.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
This is cool.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
I mean, I think it's super cool that he's an
attorney by day and just decided to, you know, do
these fights. That's something you hear every day. But I
don't talk to fighters every day either.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
No, No, in real estate, we are the fighters, that's right.
Not nearly as hard as you guys, but.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
And I mean, of all things, D does full contact
muay Thai, which is probably the most brutal, right alongside
with bare knuckle so meaning that they use fists, they
use elbows, they use knees, and they use the feet.
Now now they got a glove up or no they do,
they use twelve ounce gloves and then on the amateur
level we pad their elbows. Okay, again, this is just

(30:54):
something that I'm not just vigilant. All organizations now are
required to, but even before this, we pretty much put
everybody and the obopaz it just because we didn't want
any extra damage that was unnecessary.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah. I mean, like, I think it's like Pablo said,
you got day jobs, Like you still got to go
back and support your family. We're not We're not trying
to put you in the hospital.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
Right.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Well, I do have a question.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
I guess if you do have to go to court,
you know, after a fight, you know, what's your what
do you say?

Speaker 8 (31:18):
Oh, you know, well, I guess it depends how the
fight went.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Right.

Speaker 8 (31:24):
There was one time I think, oh my third fight,
third or fourth fight was in South Carolina and I
had a little bit of a shiner I got, I
took an overhand in the in the second round, and
I had to go to work the next day. And
that happened to be the day we were shooting the
pictures for our ID band. So I was just like,
can we do another day? They're like why, I'm like no, no,
never mind, don't worry about it. So to this day,

(31:44):
that picture of my ID badge, you can see the
black eye a little bit, but that's on me. I
had a better I should have better defense.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
There is a short list of reasons that men should
be allowed to wear makeup, and one of them is that.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
And I learned from that.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
From that stupid fight I got with the arm wall
and I was like, there's certain places I had to be.
I was like, damn it, I actually have to wear makeup.
This is gonna look bad anybody. We're gonna go on
a break here with a Business Happy Hour. When we
get back, we're gonna meet one more fighter and we're
gonna talk a little bit more about the event and
some more. I'm on real Estate with Brandon Edie of
Village of Vigilant MMA dot Co. Go get your tickets now,
we'll see you in a minute.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Let's get back to the Business Happy Hour radio show
with your host Frank Thebank Coodo, owner of Lincoln Lending Group,
and his co host Senya Akishana.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Realtor with Mahara and Associates.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Welcome back to the Business Happy Hour, your number one
show for all things business and entrepreneurial. Yes, I'm Frank
the Bank. Yes I do mortgages. Yes we love reverse mortgages.
Yes we love regular mortgages. Yes we tell you that
you have lower interest rates. They're not six point eight percent, guys,
they are five point eight percent. If you don't believe me,
try me out. Go on contact frankdbank dot com. Fill

(32:50):
out a quick little questionnaire and we will call you
and get you a personalized rate quote. And if you
need information about a reverse mortgage, my man Ryan Gorman
talks about it every single morning and we will get
you that reverse mortgage. And no, you will not lose
your home in a reverse mortgage easy either. It is
a common misconception. And yes, I'm adding Vigilant MMA's Fight

(33:11):
Combat Quest number forty to my calendar right now with
Senia copy. We're going to be at the occ Roadhouse
on April nineteenth. Guys, that's only a couple weeks away
where the doors open at four point thirty. I'm not
gonna get there till after dinner, so I am going
to meet some of the influencers. Plus the truth of
the matter is, I think I'm an influencer, and there's

(33:31):
no way I'm going in there and letting them beat
my ass. So anyway, No, I'm not gonna fight.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
I just about got to get you in there. He's right,
I gotta get that record up, bro.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
All right, all right, I'll try and listen if we
can do if attorneys and firefighters can get in there
and do this stuff, and maybe what.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
If I find another loan officer your side.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Oh, there actually might be one. I'll tell you to
come up.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Okay, now we're talking. Now, we're talking. All right, you
know who you are.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Brandon's gonna call you. I am not training for anything.
This is going to be a lot of fun. That
would be pretty having a real amateur in there.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
I'll just start slapping and because that's all I know
how to do. He's like, no, this is not a
slap fight anyway. So well, we do have one more fighter.
But before we bring him on, I want to say
goodbye to Nuosu. To d I wish you a lot
of luck in your fight. Hopefully you've got a little
bit of that that cream you can put on just
in case. But let's hope that fight goes the right
way for you and you don't have to do that.

(34:28):
Maybe go for the arm bar.

Speaker 8 (34:30):
You know that's no arm bars and muay Thai so
I got it.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Yeah, no, No, muay Thai is strictly striking. It's fists, elbows,
knees and kicks.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
All right, none of that then, no arm bars. Just
just beat them with no shiners except for the other guy.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
That's right. And if you win, take the belt into
court with you.

Speaker 8 (34:47):
Oh absolutely absolutely, that belt's coming me everywhere if I
bring it home.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
That's what I like to hear.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Putting it on him, that's a whole other story. So
let's bring in our last fighter.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Here.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
We have Dante Frega, Dante Phantom for a grantam frigo.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
I love it. The guy is so quiet sitting at
the Vagdante. You've been waiting this whole time to get
on here, Brandon, you give him the introduction.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
I know, Dante. Oh, good lord man. So this kid,
this young man right here, we have been blessed at
Vigilant to be a part of his martial arts journey.
His parents trusted me with him when he was first
getting started from his very first youth kickboxing match, and
we've been careful to bring him along properly. He's only
ever suffered one defeat. It was a split decision. I
had Dante winning the fight. We don't influence the judges

(35:32):
at Vigilant MMA, hmm, or he would have won that fight.
So and beyond that, he's turned he's eight he turned eighteen.
He went over to MMA and he's just dominated. His
first fight was very close. He had a tough opponent
that took him all three rounds and that was the
greatest thing for him because since then, every opponent that
he's had, as he promised me, he has finished. He

(35:55):
told me there would be no more decisions, no more arguments,
no more social media call callbacks, you know, for a rematch.
He was going to make sure and be decisive. And
he's done that.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
And right now he is five and zero. He's ranked
number three in the state of Florida her topology. He's
ranked number ten in the entire southeast United States. That's
out of six hundred and four fighters. You have a
guy here who's in that in the top ten out
of six hundred and four.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Man. Congratulations, that's amazing, Yeah, thank you, You're only eighteen.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
Yes, wow, that's impressive.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
That is, you've got a long career ahead. Now, Actually,
we're gonna have to get with these other guys. We
have to should we find him a regular career or should.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Like, Actually, Dante has a full time day job.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
What do you do, Dante, I'm a general contractor. I
work with my dad here and we do a lot
of land clearing and built homes.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Man, do you have anybody who's not a professional coming
in here?

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Man?

Speaker 4 (36:52):
We vet our fighters, our competitors. Seriously.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Yeah, you know, I think this is probably one of
the most exciting parts about the show is I don't
think that a lot of guys listening, they you know, listen,
guys don't don't beat me in the parking lot for this,
But a lot of them probably like, oh, there's a
bunch of dumb fighters, right, No, these are not some
dumb fighters. There's some hard working professionals in here who
actually go and support the family during the day and
then do this.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
You gotta have time to do this.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
I mean, you guys are working gotta be two jobs
doing this.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
I mean training is a full time job.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, how many hours a week you think you put
into training?

Speaker 6 (37:23):
I put in more time into training than I put
in anything. If I'm not working, I'm probably in the gym.
When I'm at the house, we go in probably four
or five hours in the morning and then another four
or five hours at night, where we're in there every morning,
every night, weekends. I think I get Sunday sometimes off.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
You gotta have a give yourself at least one day
you do get. We've got coach in here, fifty to
fifty five hours.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
Away, Pops. Pops, a spiritual coach.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yes, but you got fifty to fifty five hours on top. Hey,
by the way, Lincoln Lending Group employees, you guys, hear this.
This guy's doing fifty five hours of physical side of
work outside of work. All right. I know said I'm
busting butts over here, aren't I? But man, how about
your opponent tell us about this fight that's coming up.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
So on the last event, you know, we had Dante
in here, we had his opponent, Greg Greek Jesus Clurus. Yeah,
great fight, great opponent, very respectful and if I could
just say real quick, that was one of the best
fights we've probably ever had. It was back and forth
the entire time. Even in the third round, no one
knew who was going to win. It was such a
close fight, and then with one minute to go, Greg

(38:37):
left his neck out there for a half a second
too long and Dante submitted him. Now Dante was a
white belt, that's an intro belt. Now he had stripes
on it, but he was an intro belt and Greg
was a high level purple. So for him winning that
by submission, he got automatically promoted to being a blue belt,
which is a huge accomplishment.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Damn, I didn't know you could do that.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Most people quit jiu jitsu before they ever get that
blue belt. That's like, I mean, the biggest quit rate
is from white to blue or from blue to purple.
Maybe from blue to purple might be a little bit
higher quit rate.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, okay, so you get to fly a little faster.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Well, because they think, they think because there, you know,
belt's got some color now they've mastered jiu jitsu, when
in fact they have many many years ago. But that
fight was just absolutely incredible. So we brought in a
guy from from a Saint or from Kansas City who
came in as a backup, and because he didn't get
to compete, we're putting him on the next show. All right,
he's undefeated four and O Dante's undefeated five and oh,

(39:31):
somebody's oh has got to go.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Oh Dante, it's not going to be yours, right, I
know who won't who It won't be, that's for sure.

Speaker 8 (39:40):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (39:41):
They're giving me five rounds to take him out now, so.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Actually, no, man, Florida still makes it three round title fights.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yeah, well, listen, there's always the parking lot. We can
go two more rounds if we need to. I don't
even need three.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
We'll be fun.

Speaker 6 (39:55):
We'll be fun.

Speaker 7 (39:56):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Listen, the show has gone really really fast, Dante. I
really appreciate you. How when you back on the show,
we do wish you the best of luck. I think
you're going to kill it out there, and hopefully I
get to see it in person with Senia this time.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yes, thank you guys so much for coming. I'm excited.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
We have to make it.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Yes we are, and guys, go to Vigilant MMA dot co.
It is April nineteenth. You can still buy tickets and
get that VIP table. I promise you it's worth it
and you get to see Frank Debacon, Senia Brandon. Thank
you for coming on.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
You know it man, kick some butts, Stay vigilant, kill
it