Savant Young on MMA, Fight Academy, and Proving Ground 7

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. you know, since we kind of separated ourselves from the masses. That almost reminded me of like, it was like MMA and wrestling together, right? The IFL. I mean, because you had that whole team environment. Yeah, I mean, a little bit, you know, like a dual meet. Like if you did a dual meet in, I thought you were talking WWE. No, no, no. Hit me with a chair. No, but it was. Let me tell you something, brother. It was that. It was, you know, and it was cool, man, because, you know, a lot of people don't realize that no fighter makes it to the ring by itself. Right. You know, you got a team of people behind you that get you ready. You got your family, your wife and kids at home taking care of you. So, you know, that was a good look that we did have that team aspect for sure. A lot of big name guys on there, too. Like, wasn't Trigg on there on one of those teams somewhere? Yeah, he was in there. I mean. So, you know, we had Henzo, Gracie. We had Vladimir Matyshenko on our team as a fighter. You know what I mean? So. I remember, you know, I don't know if, I guess, Quentin never judged him. I used to see him. We used to go out back in the day to Saboba Casino before it was like, you know, before he could only have fights on Indian reservations. Right. I used to see, we used to see. Oh, the King of the Cage? No, no. Was it? Yeah, yeah. King of the Cage. That's right. Yeah. So, we used to see Quentin Jackson in the background there before he was. Before he was B.A. Baracus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He still. I mean, I used to sit there and listen to him talk. I'm like, man, this dude is crazy. No, and the funny thing about Quentin, man, you know, that's, it's no act. You know what I mean? No, I know. That's how he is, right? He's like, he's from the South, right? Yeah, yeah. He's from, where is he? From Memphis, actually. Yeah. Yeah, so. Before the South was cool. That's what he is. Yeah. He's the real deal, man. I love that dude a lot, man. He's a good kid. Yeah. I'm happy for all his success. Where's he at now? Do you know? You keep in touch with him? I talk to him every now and then. We bag on each other through text. We got like a, you know, three-year bag fest going on. You know what I mean? Are you going to take that to Twitter? I know you just got a Twitter account. Yeah, I did just get my Twitter, man. I heard, somebody told me I needed a Twitter. I said, okay, I guess I'll, you know, create a Twitter. I heard, you know, GSP get paid $5,000 for Twitter. You know what I mean? I'm like, man. Really? I'm in the wrong business, you know? You know, a lot of the, you know what happens? A lot of those guys, if you get enough pull through, you get people that want to advertise with you, right? Yeah. Yeah. So then you'd be like, I just took a shower with my Dove body cleanser soap, right? And Dove pays you some cash. You're like, come on, dude. Yeah, I mean, as crazy as that is, you know what I mean? You know, if it works, it works. You know, I heard Charlie Sheen, you know, he Twitters for a crazy amount of money, you know? And he's just crazy as hell anyway. Yeah, he's crazy. I'm sure people want to hear what he got to say, you know what I mean? I bet you and Quinn were back and forth after he had that little incident off-roading. Oh, man. Yeah, that one. It was a couple other little things I don't want to talk about. You know, that we had to get on him about. But, you know, nonetheless, that's my boy. So we can do that to each other. Yeah. You guys shared some, you fought in Japan too, right? Yeah. Yeah. How's that when you go from here out there? How's that plane ride and transitioning to a time difference and getting ready to fight? You leave a week early to do that or? It's pretty cool. I mean, going out there is cool. It's nice to be the only black dude on the plane. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's kind of nice. You know? It is nice? Yeah. You know, I know if they're going to blame something on somebody, it's me. You know what I'm saying? No, but you know what, man? The Japanese people, seriously, they. Thought you were like little Bob Sapp? Yeah, basically. Basically. And you know, that's funny, man. They used to. I know Bob and they used to tell, it was a little joke. Quentin used to say they was going to have Bob Sapp carry me out on his shoulders. Like his kid and shit. Well, he was big, man. My buddy who was stationed out in Japan brought me this clock. It's a big Bob Sapp clock, you know? Oh. Bob Sapp got all kinds of shit. Yeah. And it was like, it was like yell stuff in Japanese and stuff. I was like, man, they like, they put a lot of promotional money behind that dude out there. Bob Sapp is huge. Yeah. Trust me. He's like a cartoon character. Man, you don't even know, man. Even that fight with him in Noguera. You know that fight back in Japan? Yeah. Yeah. Really? It's huge out there, man. The Japanese people, they embrace us as true athletes. You know, it's not a, you know, it is a stage show or whatnot. But they respect what we do. You know, they really do. I've seen when I fought there. I'll never forget, man. It was, I'm in the arena, you know, sold out arena. The whole front row was these old Japanese lady. Had to be in their 90s, man. I swear to God. You know what I'm saying? They were just sitting there cheering and looking at me like, you know, you better kick some ass or we're going to boo you out of here. You know what I mean? But it was cool to see, you know, such wide spectrum of kids. To old folk. Yeah. Watching MMA. I think people make them go there. Oh, well, yeah. They make you do a lot out there. I ain't going to say too much about that. Yeah, well, you know, that's why that old lady is there and sit out there washing her cloths against some rocks or something. Yeah. Is it true, though, that, you know, the Japanese fans, you know, back then, like during the matches, they had a lot of respect and they're really quiet during your matches. You didn't hear a whole bunch. Yeah, no, that's, I mean, even right now today, you know, every fight, they don't. They don't cheer until you do something worth cheering for. That's the thing about the Japanese people. If you're just in there laying on them, they're like, and it's kind of good because it forces you into action. You know, it makes you want to fight because when you know if you're doing something and they're cheering, you're kicking his ass. So, you know, that's a good notification for you. A lot of people in those gyms, too, or those arenas that they pack full of people, right? Oh, man. You know, we think a big show here is, you know, the Honda Center. They're 15,000. But, you know, in Japan, you walk into an arena, it's 80,000, 90,000 people, you know, like you at the Rose Bowl with a ring in the middle of it. You know what I mean? So it's crazy. Yeah, definitely a big difference between the Japanese fans and, you know, the U.S. fans. And even, you know, just watching the fights and stuff now, you hear people, they start to boo. And, you know, these people, it's funny how they turn, you know, how they turn on the crowd, you know, like on the fighters. Oh, yeah. I call them the Hey Brothers. I mean, those are the guys, man. You know, they love you one minute, and then if you ain't doing what they want, they booing you and trying to tell you how to fight your fight. Yeah. You know, and I don't really like that, but. Yeah, most don't understand position or they don't understand, you know, that you're trying to advance or a good position. And they think, oh, they're just laying on the ground. Or adrenaline dump, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of variables that people don't realize that once you get in there, right? Yeah. I think they just forget that. They just want to keep. In my mind, it's just a show for them. You know, they forget this is how I feed my kids. They forget that I really ain't trying to get hurt until I can continue to do it. Of course, I want to put on a show. Of course, I want to knock everybody out I get into the ring with. But, you know, if it don't happen, don't give me no shit for it. You know what I mean? I agree. You know, like everyone always says, like, GSP's a boring fighter because, you know, he doesn't go for the kill. But you don't want to get your face smashed up every fight either, right? I mean, you can only have, like, so much longevity if you do that. Yeah. But for GSP, I mean, I got to take that one back, man. He got to start fighting, man. I'm cool. GSP stopped fighting ever since Matt Serra knocked him out. You know, you're right, though. And that exposed his chin, though. Yeah. His chin is suspect. Yeah. So he developed the best jab in MMA. And he's using it. Yeah. You know, so. Well, he's also training with Freddie Roach, isn't he? So, I mean. Yeah. World-class boxer trainer. That's true. You know, I think Freddie's a mentor. That's his thing. Whatever Freddie say, just work. For whatever reason, you know, he ain't even got to put the mitts on with you. Yeah. That's true. But I think GSP also, they were talking about his knee injury and the surgery he did. And from what was my understanding was that the way he had that knee repaired wasn't really the best way to do it. Or at least it's the way that it's going to take him a really long recovery time. Man. He don't want to scrap with Diaz. He don't want to scrap Diaz. Diaz, man. I love that dude. He's like. That's my boy, man. He want to fight, right? Yeah. He's everything of what fighters should be in a sense. Being ready to go. Well, you know, the cool thing a lot of people don't like about Diaz, but I mean, he wants to fight, but the guy knows what he's doing. I mean, he's not just out there like swinging punches. Like, what's the name of that dude that fought that Tran guy? God. Remember that dude on the Ultimate Fighter? He's from Westminster. He fought some like gangster dude that was just swinging punches like Hailmakers and they were just tired of sin. Doesn't sound familiar, but you know, everyone has seen, you know, Nick. Diaz fight. You know, he's throwing all those 50% punches and getting people angry and he puts up, he runs a pace that, you know, nobody can keep up with. You know, it seems like he just, that guy's, you know, super athlete and he's always out there. I mean, he does triathlons. Yeah. And he's got that weird, like, it's almost like a slapping punch, but it looked like it hurt, right? I mean, it works. You know, he puts it together and if he wants to stand up, he can stand up. If you want to grapple, he can grapple. So. He's a great guy. It's just so accurate. Those punches are just, you know, he throws them 50%, but I mean, you get hit, you know, way more often and, you know, little by little, he'll just. It's either you get hit hard with three hard ones or a hundred halfway hard ones. You know what I mean? So. Yeah. It does take a toll. Yeah, definitely. It forces people to, you know, make mistakes and put them in positions where they're not comfortable and, and yeah, he's always there to capitalize. And he talks a lot during the fight too. That's what I love the most. You know what I mean? He talks a gang. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a smart strategy, you know, on his part and his brother, his brother's like, you know, looks like he's just going to be, you know, just as great as him too. Oh yeah, man. Those dudes are, they, they good, man. You know who they remind me of? The little, the little man on the Raider helmet. You know what I mean? Every time I see that, I think of Nick, Nick and Nate Diaz. You know what I mean? Well, you gotta be tough growing up with a brother like, you know, like Nick Diaz. Oh yeah. Yeah. My brother had it bad. You know, my younger brother, I used to kick his ass all the time. So I can, I can imagine, you know. You come from a big family. You got a big family. Yeah. I got a big family. I mean, at least the ones I know about, you know, I got a couple of brothers, got a sister and, uh, you know, all varying ages, you know, me and my younger brother have been real close and, uh, he, you know, he grew up directly with me. We were kind of all scattered out or whatever. So, uh, but yeah, he, he, he caught it tough for me, man, all the time. He's seven years younger. So. Does he fight at all? Uh, he fought a couple of times on the amateur circuit, but he never, uh, he haven't made that transition yet. He's, he's been saying he want to, and you know, no better person to know than me if he really want to fight. So. Do you come from a fighting family or is it just you? Uh, no, it was just me pretty much. I mean, we come from a fighting family, but not really, uh, legalized fighting. Right, right. Defending the family honor. Yeah. We were just scrappers. We were scrappers, man. You know, my mom was a scrapper. That's where I got it from. That's where I got it from. Right on. Right on. And what's your focus nowadays? Are you still, uh, still booking fights for yourself or? Yeah, I, um, I just fought in December, December 2nd. I'm getting ready to fight again on, uh, March 9th up at Tachi Palace. And then, uh, I should be fighting again in May up in, uh, Canada for the MFC. So, you know, I figure I'm gonna give it my last good run. I've been talking to the UFC. You know, I win another fight or so. I'll probably be signing with them. I'm gonna be signing with them by maybe summer, uh, you know, June, July or something like that. So, uh, I'm gonna just give it that run so that way, you know, I can be validated and actually be in the UFC instead of everybody coming up to me saying, oh, you do the UFC fighting. I'm like, no, I do MMA. Yeah. You know, you mean UFC? I'm like, so I gotta, I might as well fight in the UFC so I can be legit, you know, as much as I done fought, you know. And, uh, were you planning to, to, um, go after the 155, uh, pound division or the 145? Yeah. I'll probably do 45, but, um, you know, there was a slight chance about a few weeks ago that I could have took a fight at 55 for the UFC. And, um, I accepted it, but they, you know, another guy was on it before me. Um, and I would have fought at, should I fight at 185? You know what I mean? I'm just a fighter. I don't care what the weight class is. You know, I'm gonna get in there and, you know, you beat me, you beat me. I ain't gonna die in there. So I'm just ready to go. Right. When the big show calls, you don't say no. No, you don't say no to that, man. Not at all. Not at all. Are you more of a stand-up fighter or are you a ground fighter or? Uh, yeah, I'm more of a striker, you know. Striker? Yeah, I'm more of a striker. I, um, I had to learn the ground because, you know, in this game, if you don't learn the ground, you're not gonna do good. You know, it's kind of like basketball. You gotta be able to shoot on both sides. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, that's, that's my deal now. And, uh. What's your record? Uh, right now I'm, uh, 13 and 8. Oh, okay. Yeah, 13 and 8. And, uh, I done fought. Man. A lot of the top people. You know, I was in the top 10 at 145 for a second. So, you know, it's, uh, it's been good so far, man. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got some big dudes. Do you find it hard now to balance, uh, still training for a fight? And, I know, because you're, you got your own gym now, right? Yeah. How long has that been around for now? Uh, going on my third year, uh, Fight Academy of Pasadena, right in the old town. We, uh, you know, it's a real good, uh, family vibe. So, you know, they know when I'm getting ready for a fight, they kind of let me do my thing. You know, the parents understand. And it's kind of like, um, you know, the, the leaders getting ready to go represent the gym. So, they want to make sure that I'm prepared in the best way possible. And we just, they all kind of rally behind me. And, um, that's, that's really the only reason why I'm still fighting right now. Is that because I got so many people in the gym that, that count on me to represent with them. You know, so, I, I, I got to do it until I'm physically in, you know, unable to do it. Well, you're always going to be a fighter though, right? I mean, you're always going to want to get out there and do it, even if it's in there just training people at the gym. Yeah, I'll do it in the gym forever. You know, I'm going to train and box and spar, do everything. But in terms, as far as competitive and dealing with the, the weight cutting, you know, I like to eat, man, drink beers. You know what I mean? So, you know, I'll, you know, I like to enjoy myself. And, uh, it take a lot from the family. You know what I mean? My wife's had to put up with a whole lot. She's watched me my whole career. You know, I, I, we've been together. Since high school. So she's seen me, uh, you know, want to fight, become a fighter and do it, you know? So at least you're fighting for money now. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's a, that's a plus. Cause, uh, if I didn't make nothing out of it, it was a waste of time, you know? But, but do you, I mean, is it just, it just seems like a lot of work, right? You run an academy, you got, you got to deal with the weight cut and stuff. So when you're done with all that, are you just going to run the gym full time? You're going to open another gym? Yeah, that's, uh, that's our plan. You know, we, we, we're looking to, uh, multiply what we're doing. You know, Fight Academy's going good. We got a good model. Uh, we got a good energy. You know, we, we validated as a gym that produce fighters. So, um, at some point I want to be able to just be a coach and be a manager and be able to, you know, let some of these kids not make some of the same mistakes I made career wise. Cause they need somebody there telling them, look, man, you know, as soon as you get paid, don't go buy a car. You know what I mean? Like you need somebody there that's going to be behind you. Yeah. So you don't mess it off. I mean, that stuff's important. A lot of people don't talk about that, but that's what, you know, you make five grand, you go buy a $10,000 car. Now you owe five grand. Right. Right. You know, just cause you're hurt. Yeah. Yeah. No medical, no nothing. And how long, how long has your gym been open? Uh, almost, it'd be three years in, uh, August. So give us a little background on it. Cause obviously there's probably some people listening don't know it by your gym. So what do you guys, um, you guys do MMA? What do you guys do? What do you guys teach over there? Uh, Fight Academy, you know, we, uh, I like to say we kick ass in a systematic manner. No, I'm just saying. We, uh, no, we, we do a little bit of everything, man. We, we box, we, uh, we do wrestling, we do jujitsu, we put it all together. And then, uh, we kind of develop in our own style of MMA. You know, we're really trying to give MMA a generalized, you know, structure. What you should know to do MMA. A lot of people say, just go do Muay Thai and box and wrestling. And BJJ and you're an MMA fighter, but MMA has become a sport in his own. And there's techniques that you only apply to, to MMA. You know what I mean? So, uh, who's, uh, who's, who's coaching your gym over there? You got, uh, I'm there. Uh, my coach, Antonio McKee, he's there. Uh, I got, uh, Martin Gant, Adrian Vasquez, some, some real good guys. Joseph Del Real. He teaches Muay Thai. And, uh, the good thing about our gym and, um, the people that teach there is no, nobody's bigger than nobody. You know what I mean? You can walk into my gym and not even know I own it. You know what I mean? We just kind of do our thing on the floor. You don't wear a big shirt that says owner on the back. Nah, man. You know what I mean? We don't, we don't do that, man. Hey, we got some callers, man. Yeah, we got a caller on the line. Want to take some calls? Oh yeah, let's do it. Let's see if we got, got him here. I'm already on the line. Oh, who is this? Is this, uh, this Steve? He's from Frightening. What up? What up, dude? Why you be getting people sick over there? What are you cooking, man? Hey, man. I'm, hey, I don't cook. Let's make, keep it clear. All right. I don't cook, but Jack in the Box sure doesn't have some people up. Oh, man. Come on, man. What you doing? I thought you was training, man. You know, what's going on, guys? He has soy tacos, dude. Come on. Come on. What up? What's up, Steve? Fight me in the building. What's good? Yeah, man. You know what's good? Proving ground seven. Can't wait. Oh, man. It's going down, man. February 18th. Fight Academy Pasadena. Proving grounds. Fight me gonna be there. It's, uh, it's always a good show, man. It's the seventh one. Uh, Steve, you been there since the second one? Since the second one. That's right. Man, that was, the second one was crazy. Yeah. Every event's been packed and sold out. I, I advise everybody listening, if you guys don't have tickets yet, I suggest you get them. Uh, what's the website? FightAcademyMMA.com? That's it. FightAcademyMMA.com. Uh, look me up on. Facebook. Show up at the gym. No matter how you get there, you know what I mean? It's on Twitter now, too, man. Yeah, I got Twitter now, too, so. Yeah. Follow me, I guess. You know what I mean? How can we get, uh, how can we get, uh, Madtime Radio to, to, to broadcast from the event? Is that possible? Oh, man. If they want to come set up shop, you know what I mean? I, I, I'll set a table up for you. Plug in. You're giving us your word right now? All right. Why don't we put them at the Fight Me booth? That's easy. All right. That's easy. Only if Richard can wear the stuff the Fight Me girls wear. Oh. Yeah. Oh. Man, I've been, I've been out of training for a little bit. We got one your size, bro. Oh, no, man. I've been out of training a little bit, so I don't think I'd look too good in that. Hey, man. I'll put your name on the back of some booty shorts, bro. Don't trap me. Whoa, whoa. That's funny. That sounds like a good idea, man. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure we can get a mic down there. It'll be a good time. Yeah, if y'all down to do that, I'm, I'm all for it. All right. Yeah, most definitely. VIP in the parking lot, right? Yeah. Hey, listen, we got to get your seats, man. We sold these. All right. Hey, Savant, congratulations on Antonio, on helping Antonio with that fight, man. That was sick. That was a vicious, vicious fight. Hey, man. I'll say this, man. That was the best first round Antonio ever fought in his life at 42 years old. This was the best. You know, those sidekicks and that suplex, oh, I thought that he, like, literally kicked that guy's soul right out of his chest. Man, you should have heard him wince on that suplex. We thought it was over. Oh, my God. We thought it was over, man. Hey, you guys are talking about this fight that was on Friday, right? Yeah, that was. That was the MFC. Yeah. Yep. The MFC out in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was, shit, three degrees. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know, it was. Hey, Savant, how did Diego's arm end up? Was it cool after the arm bar? Oh, yeah. Diego was good, man. He was more excited to be fighting than anything, man. He was the happiest. He was the happiest cat I know that took a loss ever, that I've ever seen, you know. He fought a great fight until he got caught. He was dominating that whole fight. Completely dominating. And, you know, the kid was a lot bigger than him. Yep. And, you know, he's a scrapper, man. So, this was his first fight outside the local market. So, you know, he'd be back in May. They're inviting him back. You know, I think we both going back out there to fight in May. May 8th or 9th, maybe. Oh, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah. We're going to keep it going real official, man. Yeah. All right, fellas. Well, listen, I'm not going to keep you too long, but it's cool to hear you on the radio. No doubt. It comes through. It's cool. Shout out to the Madtime Radio guys. I'll let you guys go. Hey, yo, Steve, before you go, man, why don't you get out there, plug the website where they can find your stuff at. Oh, you can check out Fight Me Clothing at www.fightmeclothing.com. I suggest for sales and discounts and, you know, other cool things like that to find out which events we'll be at next. Check Facebook. Facebook is best is facebook.com backslash official fight me. The official fight me. So, facebook.com backslash official fight me is where you can find us at. And then, prove yourself. Proving Ground 7 is coming up. So, make sure you guys catch us there. Yeah. Don't tell. Make sure you let them know where they can follow your Fight Me Girls at. Right? You got a Twitter. Yeah, you got that. You can follow the Fight Me Girls on Facebook and Twitter at Fight Me Girls with a Z. Fight Me Girls with a Z on Facebook and Twitter. They probably got a million followers and shit. Let's see how fast Jeremy can get on that page. Hey, Jeremy's already on the page. Jeremy's already following them. Yeah. Hey, by the way, we're going to work something out. We're going to bring them in the studio, too, because they were asking about the radio show soon. All right. Oh, for sure. For sure. Jeremy wants to know in advance. He wants to bring two cameras. I heard that. Hey, shout out to Sharub, man. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm telling you. Yeah, get Will. Get Will. She's not feeling so hot right now, but as soon as she's back up and running, right, we'll be in the studio. All right. Tell her not to eat your cooking, man. I heard that. All right, fellas. Take it easy. Hey, man. Thanks for the love. Thanks, man. All right. Later. All right. Good old Steve, man. Yeah, he's a cool cat, man. That dude is always good energy every time I'm around him, so he's cool. How'd you get hooked up with that cat? Like, how'd you meet him? Man, I don't even know, man, but I felt like I've known him forever, you know what I'm saying? You know, just through the grapevine. He know people I know, and I keep seeing, like, man, I run into you everywhere, so. He comes across like that, like a cool, like when we had him in studio. I mean, that's, I mean, when you had him in studio, it comes out like you've known the dude forever. Yeah, yeah, which is cool. Yeah. Which is real cool. Yeah, well, because, I mean, really, you know, I'm a big fan of Steve. Our community is, it's pretty small. I mean, you know, everyone kind of knows everybody, especially with these local fights and everything, and, you know, it's good. Yeah, it is good. It's good. And you need, what you guys are doing is cool, getting it out there and letting everybody, you know, have a media to express their views and stuff, you know what I mean? Well, we try to, I mean, we try to find all the local guys, but it's cool just to, like, find out who people are. I mean, you're not just a fighter. I mean, you're an actual person, you got a family, and you got this love for the sport, so you built this gym. It's not just like, you know. You just had, you know, a million dollars in your bank account and said, hey, I'm just going to open this gym, right? Oh, yeah. No corporate money behind Fight Academy Pasadena, man. This is all hard-earned bread and, you know, blood, sweat, and tears, so. I mean, but you have a, you've got a passion for it to, you know, obviously open a gym and try to get some kids off the street. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, you need that. You know, I grew up in the, you know, the rec center world. Yeah. You know, if it wasn't nowhere for me to go, I'd probably be dead or in jail. So, I'm trying to give back to the community. I'm trying to give back to the community the best way I can. And, you know, although everybody think you can have a, you know, 7,000 square foot place in the middle of Old Town for whatever reason they think is free, you know what I mean? Yeah. But, you know, I try to do what I can. You know what I mean? We're the most competitive as far as price and what we offer. And, you know, I always got the hook up for everybody. You know what I mean? That's a big spot, man. 7,000 square feet? Yeah, man. The gym is 7,000 square foot. What was that place before? Airplane hangar? That's what it looks like. It looks like it. That's what it looks like. Right? No, it was actually a big printing company or whatever. So, we went in there and, you know, kind of gutted it out and turned it into a gym. And, you know, we the best gym, man, in the area. I know that much. You got them real high ceilings probably. I mean, I see the pictures, man. It looks super nice. No, it's huge, man. Yeah. It's a real nice spot. You know, everybody likes it. We done shot plenty of commercials. And Hershel Walker did a commercial there. Oh, cool. And Tap Out did a commercial there. So, it's... It's been good. It's been real good. You got a cage and a ring and everything? Yeah, full cage. Got a boxing ring. Oh, cool. Got, you know, almost 3,000 square foot of just mat space. Oh, really? Yeah. But how many students do you have so far? Right now, 200. Yeah, 200 or more, you know. We got our goal, you know, once we get to 300 members, we won't even accept anymore. We're going to just close the doors and say, hey, you know, we want our gym to be exclusive. It's a true academy. We just not trying to have the revolving door of all these new people that come in since we such a family-oriented gym. We want to get you in there and you part of our team. And you don't stop being a part of our team when you leave the gym. You know, a lot of gym owners forget about their members when they leave. You know, me, I'm in contact with them. You know, they go to... Most of them have events. If it's anything I can make it to, I kind of come hang out, do what I can, you know what I mean? Just to know them on a personal level, too. Since they support what we do in our Fight Academy. And what percentage, I'm sorry, what percentage would you say of people in your gym really want to get out there and start to fight MMA as opposed to some that just want to get in shape? I think that's the special dynamic of our gym is that we got a good mixture of everything. You know, we got guys that are doctors and cops and I shouldn't say cops. Damn. No, I'm just saying. We got a little bit of everything. You know, so, but we got maybe... It almost be half. I think half of the people come in there and want to fight and half of the people want to train. And I think it's the perfect balance because when you get a whole room full of people that want to fight, you know, they're prima donnas, man. What about kids? You guys got a good kids program there? Oh, I got some little beasts, man. Oh, really? My little kids are shit. Oh, nice. Okay, cool. Yeah, they're solid. They're solid. They're really solid. They, I got about, I mean, out of 200 students, man, we got about 30 kids, which is rare. You know, most of the time you got a whole room full of kids running around and 10 adults. But we got a solid group of kids and one of which, well, a few of which in particular, they've been there since we started, you know, three years ago, which is cool. You know, it's one of our little kids. My kid, son and daughter train there. My partner's son and daughter train there. And then our first little OG member, man, this little kid named Nathan, he was walked in at four years old and been with us since, you know, till now, man. He's grown. So you got some little guys in there, huh? Yeah, we started them at four. Oh, really? Oh, wow. Yeah, started them at four. And tell us about the documentary that just came out. We were talking about it off air. It was on Current TV. We actually talked about it on the last show. Yeah, we were really impressed with it. Yeah, it was a good documentary, man. How'd they approach you with that? Well, my partner, my partner, John, he told me he got a call from a guy talking about a reality show. And, you know, I'm always like, all right, you know, reality show. Here we go again. You know what I mean? What they want us to do or whatever. And especially since it was going to be on MMA, I was real sensitive with how they were going to portray our show. I mean, I'm sure you guys all seen Caged. You know what I mean? Right, right. You know, I was already. Kind of like, as long as you don't show us in a bad light, then we're willing to go forward with it. So the producer was real cool. He was really trying to get a real in-depth look at how the amateur fighters, the people that aren't getting paid, how do they go about doing it? You know, willing to take the same injuries and going through the same hard training and all that stuff. So they came and shot us for maybe, you know, a couple months, you know. Maybe two and a half months. Better part of three months. And so happened we had a fight coming up, you know, luckily. And they had no story. So they just wanted to come film what we did. And I just started feeding them ideas for the story. I said, you know what, man? I think this girl, Crystal, is a special girl. You know, she came into my gym and said she wanted to fight. And when she said she was going to be back a week later, she was there a week later ready to go. And the other kid, Mark. That was in the show. You know, just a good looking kid. You know what I mean? Just, you know, typical kid. Looked like an athlete, you know. Don't look like a fighter, though. You know what I mean? At all. But he's a really good athlete. And they put it together. And I didn't know what it was going to be. But when I saw the end outcome, I was real impressed with how they put it together. How they created multiple stories within a general story, you know. And, you know, they're still airing it. I mean, it aired back in December. And every weekend they've been playing it. So it's been good. We must have caught it on one of the replays. It's actually really good. I mean, I totally agree with what you're saying. It's actually produced very well. And it flows good. But what fight was that? That fight was at your gym, right? The fight was actually Proving Ground 6. Oh, look at that. Okay, cool. Yeah, that was our last show. Again, it was another sellout show. We keep real quaint shows, maybe 500 people in the gym. But you can imagine 500 people inside. It's a 7,000-square-foot place, you know. What are tickets? How much were tickets for something like that? We do $40 for tickets. Oh, that's cheap. Yeah, yeah, we do that. And, I mean, we don't do any first come, first serve. You want to sit in the front, you sit in the front. Oh, nice. Just get there early, you know. Did you find it difficult to actually set up an event like that because of liabilities and things like that with the city? And was there a lot of red tape in the beginning trying to get that going on? Yeah, the only red tape is money, you know what I mean? Yeah, of course, right? Money make anything happen. No, well, you know, they call it. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a permit, but it's really give me some cash. Give me some cash. And we went through all that, man. I mean, these shows, you know, they cost a lot to put on, you know, but we're willing to do it. You know, I don't care if we just break even on the show because at the end of the day it allows us as a gym to display what we do in a competition. You know, a lot of people got gyms, but they don't fight. So if you're not fighting, you ain't a real MMA gym to me, you know. So we put our name on the line every time we do the shows and, you know, at the realistic possibility of us hurting ourselves, you know what I mean? You know, we got some dudes coming there and beat us up. I'm sure ain't nobody coming to join the gym, but it is what it is. You know, another good thing about that show was it showed you guys setting up for the fight, which it's a lot of work. People don't realize, man. Yeah. I mean, they did it. They played it pretty quick, but I was like, that's a lot of chairs. That's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes just show up at an event and think it'll run smooth, right? Right. Right. Like I said earlier, man, everybody just show up for the show. Yeah. And, you know, all the homies come there and be the homie. Yeah. But when I got to clean up beer bottles and, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Put them chairs away, right? Yeah. Mop your pissy shit off the floor in the bathroom. You know what I mean? They all gone, you know? You said about 500 people? About 500. You got to get one of those guys in the bathroom that gives you, like, mints and towels and stuff, man. I know. We'll be bougie. Up the prices, up the 60 bucks. Have that dude in there. Can't even use the bathroom in peace, man. What about business-wise? I mean, did your business skyrocket after that show, or you got people coming from you from all over the place now? You know what? To be honest, I think it's a combination of things that helped the gym. It was the show. It was me fighting. That was televised as well. We have fighters that fight that get out there. So I think what happens is the more people that are talking about us, or Googling Fight Academy, or see all the posts I put up on Facebook, we're active, you know, and we validate it. We're doing something everywhere. We got a couple kids that competed at the Gracie Nationals today. One of our little ones, our little six-year-olds, took first place today, little Ralphie. So no matter how you look at it, we're just in the mix. And I think doing that, people know that we validate it. We're not a fake gym. We're not a, I don't want to say no names, but, you know, we ain't a fake gym. Do you take a lot of people out to grappling tournaments and stuff too? We're starting to get into it now. You know, me, myself, I'm all, I'm MMA, you know, through and through. I don't really like the grappling tournaments. But I think the visibility is good, and it is a part of what we do. So I want people to know that we can go in there and, you know, we can whip up in there too. Yeah, and it's hard. I mean, you're not going to put a kid in an MMA fight. I mean, you know what I mean? Well, yeah. We are, actually. You know what I mean? That's crazy, man. Yeah, we're getting ready to, our kids fight, man. You know, they fight on leg gears. They fight for Lego sets? Yeah. No, they fight for push-ups, actually. You know what I mean? That's a motivation. Yeah, they fight for push-ups. The winner gets his brand new power wheel. Man, they're going out there. No, but honestly, man, we're going to do that. I'm getting ready to do some kids, some kids MMA. And what it's going to be, more or less, is we're going to take away the ground and pounding. So what we're going to do is have pretty much like some modified rules. It'll be kickboxing with takedowns, because I think that part of the game is going to be real prevalent for them growing up as fighters. You know, you've got to have good kickboxing, good takedowns, or takedown defense. And elbows or no elbows? No elbows. Come on, dude. But they'll do knees. I'll let them do knees to the body. You know, all of my kids, they fight full rules. They do knees to the body. I let them kick and hit to the head. I just don't let them knee to the face. I just don't let them knee to the face. I just don't let them knee to the face. Of course, you know, all the parents take the kids out. Right. But they go hard, you know. And I've even lost a couple kids, you know. A couple parents, you know, took little Johnny out because, you know, all the little kids was a little too tough. And, you know, I tell parents when they walk in the door, I don't say tennis academy on the door. You know what I mean? Say fight academy on the door. And that's what we do. You should have them do, like, homework in between rounds just to make sure you're getting the educational aspect in there. Yeah. You know, it's funny. It's funny you're saying all this, man, because we do actually push them to do it. I got a little room for them, a little playroom that before class, if they got homework, they need to do it. And, you know, we push that because a lot of the parents don't let them train unless their grades are right, you know. Well, you know, it's different. I mean, you're a parent yourself, so obviously you're not going to just let some kid get beat up either, right? No, I'm not going to let him get beat up, but I am going to let him find out who he is as a fighter. You know what I mean? He's going to get pushed deep, even my own son. You know, my own son. He cry every sparring session. Something always happens. But he sucks it up, and he's one of the toughest kids in there. He's really technical, and, you know, sometimes, you know, he got it bad because, you know, of course, this is my gym, and I'm the one there kind of running everything, and he's expected to do good. But, you know, I'm letting him find himself as a fighter, and he's learning it on his own. And as far as he want to take it, I'm going to ride with him. All right. It looks like we also have a caller on the line. Christian. Are you there, Christian? Hey, what's going on? First-time listener, Big Pan of Savant. What's up, man? How you doing? I'm good. I'm good, man. You know, they used to call me House. They used to call him House. You know this cat? House. Yeah. What's going on, man? Yeah, what's up, House? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been listening to this radio for a minute. Good. As you should. What you doing, man? This is another proven ground supporter right here, man. All right. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for listening to the show, too, by the way, man. Oh, yeah. No problem, man. I mean, just wanted to show my respect for Savant. I know he's a hard worker. Works hard. You know, he's a great family man. He's been knowing this from the beginning, man. You know what I mean? He knows Savant for what it is, for real. Yeah. It ain't no games. This ain't no, well, I just woke up saying I want to be a fighter. Went and bought a tap out shirt. Now I'm a fighter all of a sudden, Lee. You know what I mean? So I was here. Well. Well into the game way back, you know, and I'm actually grateful to be from the time I'm from because, you know, there's a lot of little paperweight fighters out there now, you know, so, you know, it's all official on my end. Yeah, it's true, man. And I can vouch for that. All right. I mean, very excited about proven ground seven coming up. Did you buy your tickets already? Yeah, I bought four. All right. All right. Hey. If you want to sit in the front, you got to get there early, man. Don't be late. He there. He always there, baby. Yeah, man. Big guy can't live without the tacos before the fight. Hey, so what you think about having a guy in the bathroom hand out paper towels? Oh, yeah. About that. I don't know if I can do that, man. They'd really be talking about me. No, man. I'm just kidding with that, dude. Savant bougie. You know. He's from the west side. The chair's got pillows and stuff on it. Yeah, man. So I just wanted to drop by, you know, say hello to everybody, you know, just tell everybody how Savant works and how much of a hard worker he is, man. No, I appreciate that, man. You know what I mean? All love, house. You've been supporting us from day one. You know what I'm saying? So that's much love on that, bro. All right, man. You guys have a wonderful night. Good night. All right. Thanks for listening, man. All right. Yeah, that's cool, man. Your buddy house. Yeah, he's OG. Is it big dude? Yeah, that's why we call him house. I was just curious, you know? Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh, he said something else interesting, too. He said tacos before the fight. Yeah. Right. Oh. Oh, you guys have somebody out there selling tacos or what? Yeah, man. You got to have some tacos, man. Come on. You got the hot dogs with bacon out there, too? No, we don't do that. No. I don't do the hot dogs with bacon. I'm sorry. They smell good. You haven't drank enough. That's why. I guess so. That's like eating Tommy's. You had Tommy's, right? Yeah. Yeah, I had experience. Tell me when you, did you eat Tommy's sober? No, I didn't. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, I did use Tommy's to soak up the liquor. I won't lie. Yeah. Yeah, I think those bacon wrap hot dogs are not good outside of downtown L.A. Yeah, well, I don't know. Probably not. They're probably not good for you at all. No, you know what? They're only good after two in the morning. You eat them any other time, you got some issues, you know what I mean? Yeah. We have a, we actually, we got a full bar at Proving Grounds. Okay. We do the full bar, and I usually have a reggae band come out and play. You know, I got to contact our band. I usually play the Hashishans. It's a real cool band, you know what I mean? And, but we like the live music element, you know, along with the DJ, and it's just kind of get everybody warmed up for the, for the fights, you know, that live music is always good, live reggae music, you know, and it's always a good turnout. Yeah. So, studios here are sponsoring some, it's called Boogie by the River Festival. It's got all live music. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, March 10th, something like that. Is that right, Jeremy? Where's that going to be at? That's going to be here in downtown L.A., I believe. It's a place called Space. Space Camp, I think, or Catnip, or... Downtown? I think it's like Chinatown area. Okay. Yeah. That's the day after our fight, so hopefully I ain't beat up. I can come check it out. Yeah, it's like all day, all night, man. That's nice. Yeah, it's called, if you go on skidrowstudios.com, you can, there's probably a link on there. It's called Boogie by the River. I'll do that for sure, because by that time, I'm going to need a little reggae in my life. Yeah. I mean, they got all, I was looking at the list, and they got all kinds of dudes. They got some rapper named Folkzilla, the rapper. Yeah, lots of bands. It's at 1726 North Spring Street, so yeah, that's like Lincoln Heights, Chinatown area, I guess. So yeah, go check that out. Nice. Cool. All right. Did you like the reggae? I didn't know you liked the reggae. Yeah, I'm a Rasta at heart, you know what I mean? I was just trying to see if I had a reggae intro. Oh, dude, I got one right here for you. He's having fun with his iPad here. The DJ on the go? Yeah. We can't DJ, man. I'm sure they do with the crates. They beat you up now, man. I can do some vinyl, man. I used to have Technique 1200s. Oh, you did? Yeah. What happened, man? Oh, come on, dude. What happened? I don't want to carry, I couldn't afford to stock those milk crates with records and stuff. You got turntables on your iPhone, you know what I mean? Well, yeah, I got turntables on this thing, too. So, you're old school, too, man, right? You used to like hip-hop and stuff, you said? You're a big freestyler? Yeah, you know, I used to do my little bit, man. I used to, I don't know if you know who Merce is. I used to run around with that cat, you know. Merce from Living Legends. We used to be real cool. Why does that name sound so familiar? He's been around. He does one of the true little gems from the hood, you know what I mean? That ain't really Hollywood. He's kind of kept it, grinded his way up through the underground. And, you know, now he's respected as an artist. I mean, they don't play him all day like Drake and whoever else they be playing on the radio nowadays, but. All right, it's your time right here, dude. I put your Drake on for you. Oh, man, you're killing me, man. Go ahead, dude. Go. Radio silence. All right. You don't like Drake, huh? Nah, I can't do it. You a Common fan? Common's cool, man. Yeah. Common's legit. I'm a big Roots fan. The Roots. Yeah, Roots are good, yeah. Gang star, you know what I mean? OG stuff. Yeah, yeah. And so for this Proving Ground 7, how many fights do you have scheduled on the card for that one? Man, I got a lot scheduled, but like I said, you know, fighters say they want to fight and, you know, that morning. They, something happened to their dog or, you know, they lost the keys to the car. So I don't know how many people are going to show up, but we try to have, you know, anywhere from eight to 10. That is a crazy aspect of like, you know, proving this is your seventh one. So obviously you've been through, you know, you've been through the turnpike on these, but like I know sometimes you have guests and they can't make it last minute and you're scrambling around trying to get stuff going. It's pretty stressful when you got fighters doing that because you got, it's not just themselves. It's not just themselves. You got somebody else. And now you're throwing off the whole line. Yeah. You know, one kid sold 50 tickets and now he don't got an opponent. So that's when my altered ego comes in. You know, my, my altered ego is Dana Black. When I, when I turn into promoter mode, I'm Dana Black. So, you know, I make it happen. I've been doing it for seven shows. It's, it's always been a good show. You know, I've had our last show. I'm not even going to lie, man. Our last show, we didn't sell no tickets. It was till day of, you know what I mean? Yeah. And it was still 500 people there that just came to the show just to watch it. So I think we got a good, we got a good product and quality fights and a quality atmosphere that everybody, you know, is into. So, and it's laid back, man. That's the thing. It's not all. No, but you, I mean, you come across, you're a cool dude, right? You don't like walk with a big head or nothing. So I think people respect that in you because at least you've been in the cage and you know what it's like. And so I think. Right, right. That helps. You know, like I said, I'm not a big fan of the cage. I'm not a big fan of the cage. Like I said, I'm not one of those guys that just got a little money. Yeah. And decided I can just get into something because I got some money. You know what I mean? So I'm tried and tested and I done been through it and I've put all my hard earned, you know, money and time up and got a good partner that ride with me till the end. Yeah. Does he fight as well? Did he fight as well or is he just a good friend? Nah, he don't fight, but you know, he's a practitioner. You know what I mean? He's been training for a few years. So, you know, he's, he's, he's legit. Yeah. Yeah. He's one of those guys that even though he, you know, he, he's not a fighter. He enjoyed every aspect of the fight. Yeah. Cause I was going to ask you, I mean, like a little off topic, but how do you, like, how do you deal with losses? I mean, cause you've had wins and losses, right? Yeah. Wins, losses. I mean, I got eight losses. I got, you know, as a professional, I got 13 wins. As an amateur, I think I'm somewhere around a neighborhood of 20 and eight, you know, total. But my first fights, first few fights. I mean, I didn't really have a long amateur career or whatever. So, you know what it is, is you got to look at it like, you know what you signed up for, you know, it's win or lose. Right. It's like having a bad day in the office. You still got to take your ass to work Monday. You know what I mean? You can't really. Back to business. Back to business, you know? So it do hurt and it hurt to lose in front of the family. You know, I done lost in front of my kids and, you know, in front of a big crowd and, you know, and it's tough. But at the same time, I think you get a lot more respect by how you come back and fight again, as opposed to how you lost your last fight. Yeah. And sometimes, you know, you do that in front of family and friends and stuff. It's a good lesson for kids because it's a good way to, you know, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you keep on moving forward, right? You don't just, you don't let it knock you down. Yeah, they got to just, you know, just let you know you're human. You know what I mean? Sometimes your kids have the ability to look at you like you're superhuman. And, you know, and I need them to know that some days it's going to be good. Some days it's not. You're going to win some games, lose some games. I think a lot of people forget, too. You know, in MMA, you know, looking at the records, there are just so many ways to lose. You know, it's not like, it's not like boxing where you see like, you know, really, really high records and things like that. They forget it. In MMA, you know, there's just so many different ways, you know, the fight can go. And on top of that, you know, a lot of boxers, you know, a lot of boxers, you know, a lot of boxers, you know, a lot of boxers, you know, a lot of boxers, they pad their records up, you know, boxers will fight the same dude nine times. You know what I mean? So it's like, you know, where is it at for real? You know, where are you really at? So one thing with me is I started out fighting tough guys right out the gate. You know, like my second or third fight, I fought against Chris Lytle, who had maybe 40 fights at the time. You know what I mean? So, you know, that just goes to show that, you know, you got to just have some grit as a person before you decide to fight. You got to decide to get in there and want to be a pro fighter. You got Kendall Grove, too. How do you even set up for that? I mean, someone who's a lot taller. What is he, six? Well, Kendall Grove is 6'6", man. Yeah, 6'6". You know what, man? You just got to, like I said, that's one of the reasons why I became a fighter, man. I had a complex because I was not six feet. You know what I mean? So I had to prove to all the big dudes that, you know, we can get out there and put it down, too. Right, right. And you actually did beat him, right? Did you? Oh, yeah. I put Kendall Grove to sleep. Oh, really? Nice. It looks like we also have a caller on the line. Do we got Nathan on the line? Yeah, I'm here. Hey, Nathan, thanks for calling in. You're on with Savant Young. Nathan, what's up? Hey, Savant, this is Nathan from Ascent, the Ascent Days. Oh, wow. What's up, man? Not much, man. Just seeing you do your thing and just to let everybody know, man, this guy's really the man, like putting it in, like, big time. I've seen this guy. I've seen this guy hours and hours putting in the work out at his place. I wasn't there, but I've seen him, you know, coming in on a regular job and putting it in. You know, and I'm just happy to see you doing it like this now, man. He's seen, man, you know, he's seen me clock in. You know, I worked graveyard for eight years in addition to trying to fight professionally, in addition to raising both my kids, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I did it all, you know what I mean? And so, Nathan, we used to work together, man, in post-production, actually, in Burbank. And, you know, I knew he was a fan. We used to always be in passing saying, what's up, man? And he's definitely been a supporter of not only me, I mean, the sport in general, man. And so, it's definitely been cool, and it's good to hear from the people that really know who I am. And I got a lot of people that talk. a lot of ish, but the ones that know me, they know me. You know what I mean? And you guys are hearing it now. So, you know, for all the naysayers, I hope they're listening to this today so they can, you know. Yeah, definitely, man. You know, I try to spread on what I can spread. I listen to other shows and everything else, and I try to, like, get people to know you and what you're doing. And, you know, anything I can do in my little way because I'm always busy myself, so I might not get to go check out Proving Around. It's like I've been wanting to forever. Oh, man. So I'm going to tell you right now, if you come, man, if you come, you're good. I'm going to put you in the little VIP section, man. When is this next one? I didn't get to see that date. It's February 18th. 18th. Okay. Yeah, man. Just show up to the gym. Ask for me at the door, man. You're good. Since you haven't been, man, you've been missing out. It's number seven, so, you know, you got to get in there, bro. Lucky number seven, dude. You got to get in there, man. Luckily number seven. All right. So what's this ascent? Is that, like, where you guys work at? Or what is it? Ascent. Because you said he knows you back from the Ascent. Yeah. Ascent Media is one of the biggest post-production companies, you know. They do it all. You know what I mean? And they, of course, you know, they laid us off. They were recently bought by Deluxe. I'm sorry to cut in. Oh, that's all right. They were bought by Deluxe. But Deluxe Labs is even bigger, so, you know. It's the big juggernaut. Like I said, that corporate money. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, thank you. Pretty much any show you've seen out there, it's come from one of the from that place. Any show. Or a movie. Or a movie. Yeah, exactly. All right, Don. Well, thank you very much for the call, Nathan. Yeah, hey, thanks for calling and listening, man. And I'm going to be listening to you guys more, man. I'm checking in. And it's cool. I download your app and everything, and I'll spread the word for you guys, man. It's cool. Appreciate that. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. And if you go to Proving Ground 7, I'll give you a shout-out on the radio. Yeah, they're going to be live in the studio, man. They're going to be there live at Proving Grounds. Awesome. Awesome. That's great. Yeah, so make sure you're there. Look for us hanging out with Find Me Clothing. All right. Very cool. You guys have a good one. All right, Nathan. Take care, bro. All right, man. You got a whole blowing up the phone lines, man. Oh, that's cool, man. You know, maybe I'll see if I have my Twitter cracking. I have it blown up in here. I tried Twitter. I can't get it, man. I don't even know how you do it, bro. I'm just, they just said I should have it. So, you know, I guess I need to lock it in. You know what I mean? I've just finished punching a bag, you know? Yeah. Just Twitter everything, dude. Yeah, I guess that's good and bad, right? Yeah. Well, you get so consumed by it, I think, you know? Yeah. What did we do back in the day? We didn't do none of that, right? No, we didn't do none of that. No. We sent, we used our pagers back then. Yeah, we used pagers. Wow, pagers. I remember getting the busy signal on phones, you know what I mean? You don't get that no more. There was no area codes on the business card, right? It's all one area code. No call waiting, you know what I mean? Call waiting? Get off the phone. There was no caller ID. You pick up the phone, you even know who it is. You don't know who it is. I used to put that, I used to write it and put it in my peachy folder. You know about that, dude, with the guy with the basketball in there? Come on, man. That's it. Old school. That's real old school. I used to take the paper bags and turn them into book covers. That's funny. Well, it looks like we're just about coming to a close here. We want to put out, where can all of our listeners find you and where, besides your Twitter? Basically, I got, you know, I got savantyoung.com. Of course, you know, I don't really update a lot on that. Since I'm the one man gang. But, you know, Fight Academy, MMA, that's our gym website. I'm now on Twitter, at Savant Young. And then on top of that, I got, you know, I got my Facebook. I got all the basic forms of communication. I may even have a MySpace, man. I don't know. Oh, come on, dude. We're going to have to censor that, dude. But, yeah, man, basically through, you know, the Facebook is the number one. That's it. That's the new method of communication now. Yeah. And then Proving Grounds 7. Any information? Can they get that off your... Yeah, off the website. All the Proving Grounds 7 info. We got a Fight Academy fan page, actually, on Facebook. And we update that all the time with, you know, info about the gym, sparring footage, clips, quotes of the day. A little bit of everything on there. I try to keep that as active. As active as possible. And the show, again, is on February 18th. Hopefully, it'll be a good show if all the fighters show up. I know my guys are going to be ready to go. What time does that start at? Doors will be opening at 5.30. First fight will be around 7. Okay. Let everybody get good and drunk. You know what I mean? And, you know, from there... Open bar? What is it over there? I'm just kidding, man. I'm just kidding. Oh, man. I'm like, no, I can't say that. But, no, full bar. Definitely full bar. You got some food, too? So... Yeah, I got my man from El Chavo Tacos coming out. All right. You know what I mean? Best tacos in Pasadena. Now, what about parking situation? What's the parking situation like up there? We're going to have a... We got some parking in the area behind the gym. We got a little lot next door. Okay. So, get there early, man. Get a good parking spot. Get some good seats. Anybody familiar with Pasadena know the parking situation. You know what I mean? Don't park in the red. Anyone local that's listening, you know, make sure to get your tickets early. You know, tell everybody. Where can they buy those at? www.pacadena.com. www.fightacademymma.com. We got a tab on the website that'll allow you to go on and buy tickets through PayPal. You don't even need to have a PayPal account or whatever. We just use PayPal to do the transaction. What about at your door? Can you buy them at your door? Tickets at the door. Oh, wow. Yeah. Back door, front door. Side door. Try to get them on the street. Definitely try to get them early. Just get in there. You know what I mean? Well, I mean, 500 people last time sold out, man. Yeah. You better get your tickets. And you know what? Every seat in there is a good seat, though. Every seat in there is good. Yeah, because the way it's laid out, you know, obviously we're talking about that show that was on Current TV about your place, but like every seat's a good seat. Yeah, everybody's nice and tight, and you know, we try to keep it where you can see wherever you're sitting at. As long as House is not sitting in front of you. Yeah, House might take a little room up, you know what I mean? But, you know, like I said, he VIP, so I'm going to sit him in his own area. All right. By the Fight Me girls. Rich in his Fight Me shorts. Oh, no. No, no. I have to cut weight. I don't want to cut weight. You got to cut weight first. Yeah, all right. Sounds good, man. Hey, anything else? I think that's it for us. You got anything else you want to plug? You want to shout out to the wife and the kids? Yeah, shout out to my wife, Rahima, Amara, Sadiq, my kids. You know, I love y'all. Big up to all my Fight Academy Pasadena crew. There's so many of them. I wish I could say each one of y'all's name, man, but y'all know what time it is. Big up to my boy, Antonio McKee. All my fam out there at the Body Shop Fitness. They, you know, we just came back from Canada victorious. You know, that's been all good. Big up to y'all, man. Matt Times, Skid Row. The boys all from 626 that support MMA, man. Chingasos, MMA, Fight Me. You know, all them dudes that support me and know what I am for who I am. And don't listen to none of the naysayers. Big up to all them, man, because we keeping it going in the 626 area. I support all what we do in Pasadena. Yeah, good job, man. All right, everybody. Hold on, man. I got a couple of little things before we go. I guess Saturday coming up is Hector's birthday. That's our resident boxing guy. He's not here today, but... Oh, all right. So, you know, happy birthday, Hector. Stop drinking so much. Happy birthday, homie. Yeah. And then, obviously, March 10th starts at 3 o'clock. We got that Boogie by the River Festival that Skid Row is sponsoring. Nice. So, check that on the website. And then, obviously... If you guys want to go get some hardcore training in, go down to Pasadena. Yeah, and I'm fighting, by the way. Yeah, that's right, right? March 9th at Tachi Palace. How is that place, man? Tachi Palace is a real cool place, man. Yeah? Yeah, yeah. Everyone talks about having good stuff over there. Yeah, I'm from Millennia. Yeah. Yeah, I was supposed to fight somebody from up there, but it didn't work out, I guess. They're scared of you, man. They're scared. I don't know, man. You know, everybody, you know, to each his own. You know what I mean? I'll fight anybody, anytime, anywhere. So, all I can do is say what I'll do. Well, go find your guy outside on Skid Row, man. Yeah, if he got some money, I'm ready. He'll have some change, but he'll want your money. Yeah, man. Well, thanks for coming through, man. Appreciate your time. Thank y'all, man. Big up, man. Mad time. Skid Row. We're going to see you. Proving Ground 7, right? Proving Ground 7. Yeah, we'll be there. Y'all going to be live. We're going to get to the door, and you're not going to be like, who? Nah, nah. I don't do that. I keep it real, baby. Keep it real. All right, everyone. Until next week, and we'll see you next time. Crail out. This is Buddha Videos, and when we're not filming rolled up, we're listening to Mad Time Radio on skidrowstudios.com. We'll see you next week. Bye.