Interview with FightMeClothing founder Steven

And now, ladies and gentlemen, for the handful in attendance and the millions listening on the web on skidroad.la, this is Madtime Radio. All right, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Madtime Radio. Yes, sir. We are your hosts. I'm Rich. I'm Krell. And we have a special guest for you tonight. Krell, tell them what we got in studio tonight. Man, we got Steve. We got Steven from FightMeClothing.com if you want to look him up. FightMeClothing.com. We got Steven in the house. Appreciate you guys having us in. Thanks for coming down, man. Right on. And we want to remind everybody that we are live and we want to hear your phone calls. We are at 1-800-893-9562. Or you can reach us on Facebook or you can reach us on Twitter or Stitcher if you got that app. And, you know, we'll do our best to answer your questions. And we're going to talk about all things MMA. Jiu-Jitsu related and everything else in between. Yes, sir. All right, man. Hey, oh, by the way, hypothetical, lyrical, miracle whip. Shout out to Mike Beltran. Mike Beltran was going off from FightMe. Thanks for repping us. He'll get a kick out of that. El Guero. El Guero from the ghetto. That's right. Back in the day, he don't got no more hair, that guy. It's all on his beard. It migrated south. That's right. He turned into a ginger. Yeah, man. Hey, thanks for coming down, though. At least for us, it's a good chance to get to know, see your shirts out there everywhere, see your website popping up. I know you do a lot of stuff. I think you had something called Havoc at the Hyatt. Yeah, recently we had Havoc at the Hyatt. Yeah, so maybe you can just give us a little background on FightMe clothing and how you guys got started and what you guys do. Absolutely. We came up with FightMe sometime like mid-2008. FightMe is originally, I mean, everybody thinks, well, FightMe, another MMA clothing line. Well, it's more than that. We didn't come up with FightMe just specifically for MMA, although it is tailored to combative sports. FightMe is representative of overcoming opposition. Anything from standing in a ring, fighting toe-to-toe, to fighting cancer, leukemia, autism, nephrotic syndrome. You name it, it's based on overcoming opposition. Right. Just like everything else, everything in this world is a fight. Absolutely. Absolutely. It means to believe in yourself. We're trying to reestablish one's confidence, if you will. Yeah. Confidence in yourself. How did you get started? I mean, I know you got a lot of stuff you fight. There's obviously a lot of things you can fight out there, but how did you get started making something that'll fight leukemia, cancer, and all the daily struggles that some people go through? I guess one day we just realized that everybody is quick to shift responsibility. When something gets too tough, you immediately want to pass it on to somebody else. So this is more so the brand that's going to allow those that believe in something and want to stand. And I think that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to get people to stand for it, to have some sort of representation. That's one of our logos. I mean, it's one of our mottos, is believing in something and willing to stand for it. Fight Me Clothing. And I know a lot of people out there, they have ideas and they're always on the fence. And a lot of times they never follow through on putting those dreams into motion. What would you say would be the biggest boost to just to get you out there and just say, you know what, I'm going to create this company. And what was the big push? To just say, we're going to go in the atmosphere. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's got to be within you. You've got to, I mean, everybody, when you want to go buy a Coke, you buy a Coke, you don't think about it. You want to go and have lunch somewhere, you go have lunch somewhere, you don't think about it. You've got to want to promote whatever it is you believe in. As much as you want to see it out there, you have to be willing to put in the work. Fight Me, we definitely put in the work. Right. When did you guys get started? I think it was in the early 2000s. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey If you don't like our gear and you're just looking for a paycheck, that's not necessarily us. Right. And I'm sure you could probably get a thousand of those inquiries, right? Absolutely. We, you know, we get them often. It's more so if you're looking to represent yourself via Fight Me. Okay. You know, so we always, we ask our fighters that wear Fight Me, you know, we want to know about them. We don't just say, oh, here, you're 5-0 here, wear our stuff. Right. No, we want to know about you. We want to know about, you know, where you're from, what you're about, what it is you believe in. Right. To make sure they're the right fit for your team. Absolutely. Absolutely. And so far, how many would you say are on your team? Are they all specific to MMA or are you into any other martial arts? Oh, yeah, not at all. I mean, we sponsor everybody from your high school football player to your high school wrestler, you know, your college wrestler, your MMA fighter, your boxer, you know, your judo player, your jiu-jitsu player. You name it and that's, we're sponsoring everybody. You know, we've done, I think last year we did three relays for life for the American Cancer Society. You know, we try to help out as much as we can there. Shout out to Tyler Ransom, by the way. Tyler Ransom, 10-year-old boy, jiu-jitsu player, son of a friend of mine named Marlon Ransom. You guys can check him out at HealingTyler.org or HealingTyler.com. Excuse me. HealingTyler.com. Tyler's got a disease, a rare disease called nephrotic syndrome where it affects his kidneys and, you know, sometimes he swells up when his nephrotic syndrome is acting up. But he's a jiu-jitsu player. Right. And the kid is... The epitome of what fighting is. You know, every day he's got to struggle with his health just to live a normal life or what we deem as normal, you know. Right. And I guess, too, like being involved in martial arts, you find a lot, you come into contact with a lot of extraordinary people like that. The people that are into martial arts and different things like that, you know, that's that common bond. Those are people that are really, you know, motivated and, you know, it's real nice to see those touching stories and things like that. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Sometimes you got a lot, I mean, the struggle outside the mat or the cage or whatever it is, it's sometimes a little different from, you know, training camp and all that other stuff. And sometimes people don't realize that that struggle in the real world is a lot different. Well, yeah. Let's call it your jiu-jitsu life or your combative life. As far as your MMA goes, when you're in the dojo or gym or studio, you're a different person than you are when you're in your normal life. Yeah. Well, you know, even too, I use this, you know, I use this analogy a lot, you know, where I say, you know, when you're, for me, a lot of times I feel that the safest place for me is on the mat. Absolutely. Because even though you're in a room full of people that are, you know, they're trying to hurt you and everything, you know, there's always a way out. There's always a way out. But, you know, in life, in reality, and when things get tough, you know, you can't tap in real life. No, you can't. And there, there's always a safe place for you, even though, you know. You're, you're, you're struggling not to get hurt yourself. Absolutely. And nine times out of ten, the guy that's tapping you out is the one that's helping you up and show you how to get out of the move that he just put you in. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. When life gets tough, you know. But then, you know, too, I guess that, that type of, like, you know, mentality will actually even help carry out over to your, you know, your personal life and stuff. You learn how to fight and you learn how to, you know, be strong and everything. For a lot of people, you know, martial arts is something that really builds, you know, a character and, you know, helps. People. Absolutely. We agree 100%. Yeah. So back in, back in 08 when you started, I know, I mean, I know you guys do a lot of stuff at, you know, we mentioned Havoc at the Hyatt. What else do you guys do that's event related that's like that? You know, you're pretty much your local shows. If you're looking at any MMA local shows, some of the people that are very instrumental in helping fight me, believing in fight me from the jump. Savant Young at Fight Academy in Pasadena. Hands down has been. He's one of our sponsor fighters right now. And he is, he's actually fighting Tachi Palace this Friday, December 2nd. And originally was scheduled to fight Rob Emerson, former UFC vet. And I think now he's fighting. Let's take a look. I don't exactly remember. Rob Emerson. He was on the Ultimate Fighter, wasn't he? I think he was. Yeah, I remember that guy. Yeah. Now he's fighting, I think, Robert Washington. Okay. A guy from back east somewhere. But nonetheless, Savant's been extremely instrumental in helping fight me with his proving grounds. If you guys have never caught one of his shows. His amateur events he puts on called Proving Grounds. We just covered Proving Grounds 6 a couple months ago. I mean, he just puts on a phenomenal show. You know, you got Vincent Dushetta from Ring of Fire, Old School Promotions with, what's his organization called? Vincent Dushetta's organization is called Quake in the Cage. And he's had that one at various places too. So there's a lot of local shows that you can find Fight Me at. Yeah. It's a lot of, probably a lot of planning and a lot of time that goes into putting those shows together that people don't realize. Oh, yeah. There's a ton of planning, you know, months in advance sometimes. Well, you know, just my example with you. I know I was trying to talk to you when you were planning that Havoc at the Hyatt show. And you were just probably super swamped that weekend because it was like a fight Friday through Sunday, it seemed like. It was, you know, Havoc at the weekend of Havoc at the Hyatt was just crazy. Dave Meltzer puts on Havoc at the Hyatt and puts on a great show. I think it's Dave Meltzer and Julius Mojica. They put on an amazing event, man. So a lot of those guys probably got to, you know, they got to sell tickets to those little shows, right? A lot of the fighters in there. You know, I don't know. Well, the fighters are responsible for selling tickets like the pros are when you get to the, you know, the higher pro level fights. But they are definitely responsible for promoting it, you know, for telling people about their fights. I'm not sure they got to sell a certain amount of tickets. You know, for some organizations, you have to sell X amount of tickets or whatnot. Yeah. I'm not real familiar with that. Okay. And so tickets to a typical, you know, say fight weekend for you when you're getting your fighters ready, you know, for a show and stuff. What is your part in it with the fighters? You know, just to make sure if we've got fighters fighting on a particular weekend, for instance, this upcoming weekend, we've got four fighters fighting Friday night. At Tachi Palace, Friday night, we got Savant Young, Jesse Bowen, and Bubba Jenkins is making his debut, his MMA debut. He's a NCAA Division I wrestling champion. So he's going to be exciting to watch. Yeah, Savant Young, Jesse Bowen, and Bubba Jenkins. Oh, okay. So basically what happens is, I mean, up. Leading up to the fight, to the event, you know, we make sure we go through our checklist, make sure we got all our booth materials together, make sure the Fight Me Girls are in order. You guys familiar with the Fight Me Girls? Yeah. Well, I've seen the pictures you got up, so. Yeah. The Fight Me Girls seem to, you know, seems to be a huge success. You know, I've got a great help in picking the Fight Me Girls and making sure they're dressed properly with my girlfriend, Cheru. So, you know, she makes sure they're on point. Yeah. But nonetheless, so it's getting the Fight Me Girls ready, making sure the booth. The booth materials are all put together. When we get there, setting the booth up. And, you know, we go from there. And when it's not Fight Weekend and, you know, you're back in designing and everything, who are the people that are most involved in, like, the design work and, you know, the day-to-day, you know, operations? You know, that would be me, my girlfriend, probably my son. You know, my mom's of great help. I always run my designs by my family. And I come up with the designs based on... There's got to be based on some sort of representation, again. It's tied to something. It's not just MMA tailored. For instance, the shirts you guys are wearing now, they're representative of, you know, we're representing the United States. Yeah. You know, if you notice, they got a shield on it, just like if you flip over the back of a penny, it's very similar, you know? Yeah. So it's... My family's real instrumental in helping me decide what looks good, what doesn't. Of course, the feedback at the events is great. Oh, yeah. That's definitely the best way to gauge, you know, how... How it's going and stuff. Absolutely. Yeah. Do you ever make a shirt, go through production, and then after you see it, somebody wear it, you're like, ah, man, I can't in that shirt. Yeah. The first one. Yeah. You're just like, what was I thinking, man? You know, what's funny is I said that a couple months after we made the very first Fight Me shirt, you know, back in 08. The very first one we made... With all English letters? No. It was, you know, it was a simple font, and all it said was Fight Me. There was no website. There was no... Nothing else. All it said was Fight Me, and I thought, well, this is going to get my point across. Yeah. You know, but... Like a God-mean. Like a milk shirt or something. Yeah, exactly. But, you know, we got... I got more questions regarding, hey, what's that shirt about? Yeah. You're really telling people to fight you? Like, are you retarded? That is pretty funny, though, right? You know? It really is. You know, and as we've progressed, we've been able to, I guess, help people understand that Fight Me just isn't what you think it is at first sound. You know? Yeah. We're more than that. And that's the idea here, is to take some... It's a play on words. Right. To take something that looks one way... Because looks are deceiving. And then show somebody that there's more to it. Right. I think, actually, you know, to even... That first shirt might have been a really big help, because, you know, it sparked that attention and stuff. Yeah. Definitely was an attention grabber. The attention grabber is my mom driving the Tahoe that has a big sticker on the back that says Fight Me, and I'm on the passenger seat, and watching people race through traffic with tap-out stickers on their car. Yeah. And they're racing to see who's driving the Fight Me truck, and then they see my mom, and they make this face like, what is that lady doing driving that truck? Yeah. That's the best. She can tell you some stories. It's hilarious. That is pretty funny. Kind of like a less is more, huh? That's exactly what it is. But, you know, it's actually a good... Like you said, it's a good play on words, because based on what you guys do, it could be, you know, it could be Fight Me mentally. Hey, it doesn't... We don't have to necessarily be a physical fight. It could be a mental fight. Maybe we don't realize that, right? Well, when we do the charitable stuff, when we do, like, the Relays for Life, or we do, you know, any benefit, the Healing Tyler Organization, that aspect of Fight Me is called Fight Me for Life. Okay. So, it is... It is representative of... It is representative of... Man, blowing up over there, man. Yeah, no kidding. No kidding. It is representative of overcoming opposition in a way, you know? I mean, it's good. It is a cool play on words, though. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, and the shirts, you know, the shirts are good. So, if somebody wants to pick up one of these shirts, where do they go? They can go actually a couple places. You can go to fightmeclothing.com. If you're on Facebook, like the other 750 million people in the world, you can buy them directly from Facebook. You go on Facebook, we make it real easy. Send us an email with your size, address. We take debit, credit, cash, obviously, if you're local. EBT? Absolutely. No. That would be against the law. But nonetheless, yeah, it's real easy to buy one. I mean, you know, we don't make you go through the whole process of calling an 800 number or going online and hoping it gets to you. It's really... You get a one-on-one service. You get to email us, and it's one of us responding to you. Yeah. So, I know you got the... I guess I can like your Facebook page. It's Fight Me Clothing, right? It's actually facebook.com backslash official fight me. Okay. Because there are some duplicates. There are some duplicators out there. Okay. There are some imposters that, you know, shall remain nameless. But nonetheless, it is official Fight Me. It's facebook.com backslash official fight me. And they'll know it's official by there's a... I mean, there's one of your logos on there, right? There is. One of our logos is on there. It is the Fight Me with the shield on it. And you'll know it's us based on, you know, the events we cover. Obviously, they'll see your guys' info on there. They'll see that we were here today. All right. Excellent. Yeah. You can follow us on Twitter as well at Fight Me Clothing. Okay. And what about MMA Warehouse? Is that... Is that your product too? No. The MMA Warehouse product is not our product. And let's make that very clear. The MMA Warehouse product is not our product. It will... You know, we're in the midst of making sure that all that stuff gets brought down. But like I said, there's a lot of imposters out there. That's a rough part of the business that people don't realize that, I mean, you start something to hopefully help you pay off bills and, you know, pay... Well, you start... You initially start something, I mean, not necessarily for the money because anybody on this side of the business understands that there's not a lot of money in this business. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. There's got to be that passion. It's passion. That's exactly what it is. It's passion. And the enjoyment we get or satisfaction from seeing people across the world. I mean, we've shipped to over 27 countries. We've got orders from over 27 countries. For us to ship there and know that people are putting their pictures on their Facebook with Fight Me shirts on is just amazing. It's... That's really what it's about. Yeah. That's kind of cool. Yeah. So, yeah. Is there anything new that you can tell us about that's in the works that's coming soon that we should be seeing? That's something we should be looking for? We do. We're actually revamping our website. So, those of you that go to the fightmeclothing.com website, don't be alarmed. It's being revamped. You'll have a fully functional website in the next two to three weeks. Mm-hmm. But other than that, you can find our sponsor fighter, Dennis Dimenis Hernandez, fighting in Tampa, Florida. Mm-hmm. He'll be fighting representing Fight Me. And he's fighting, I think it's for the XFC. Okay. So, make sure you check him out. Check out his Facebook page. Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah. Dennis Dimenis. Dennis Dimenis. That's him. Yeah. The guy's a beast. I think he's the co-main event. And now, do you do the traveling with most of the fighters or do you just usually stay local? You know, I normally stay local depending on what the fight is, depending on, you know, what kind of exposure or what we've committed to. Then I'll go and make the, you know, the travel arrangements. This Friday, we'll be at Tachi Palace up north, Northern California. Okay. That's going to be a good time. That's what everybody says about the Tachi Palace. Yeah, I know. Right? We've heard about it. Like, we had a guest in here talking about it. We heard about that some stuff goes down in the Tachi Palace that doesn't go down anywhere else. Listen, the Tachi Palace, I mean, all jokes aside, is they put on a great event. I think the guy's name is Jeremy Luchow. Shout out, Jeremy. He's on our Facebook. Okay. And he's the events coordinator from what I understand. And, you know, he assists in putting the fights together and whatnot. But they put on a great show. I wonder how that compares to Suboba. Well, we did Suboba for the last, like, eight months, nine months. Suboba puts on a good show, you know. Suboba puts on a great show. Yeah. They had a nice little venue out there. Yeah. It's the only place I've ever been to. It's got 20,000 people. It's got 27 fights in one night. It's a long day, man. You're telling me. We would get there to set up at, like, 9 a.m. and wouldn't get home till 1 a.m. the next day. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. It's a long, long night. It's a haul to get out there, too, all the way to Suboba. Buddy, you're telling me. That's a long trek. I think you're trying to take a walk through the casino and you come out smelling like a cigarette, dude. It's like, who put this fuck machine on in here? You know, as many events as we did at Suboba, I never once made it to the casino. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, really? Not once. I've never seen one Indian. That's the worst part, dude. I've been there. I haven't seen. To the tent? Man, if I was on that reservation, I'd be walking around with a full headdress. Right? I wonder, is it still a casino now or is it still a tent? Because last time I was there, it was a tent. Oh, you know, that's a good question. I know there's a structure there. I don't know if the structure's the casino. Like I said, I never really made it in. Yeah. But Suboba puts on a good show. I mean, as far as the outdoor show goes, it's great. Yeah. Yeah. I still can't get over the, you know, how the games are different here in California than they are in Vegas because you go to the roulette table and there's no roulette wheel. Yeah. That always trips me out, too. Yeah. There's a lot of weird stuff going on. I had a good time going out there to Suboba Casino back in the day. So it's a lot of good fights and you see a lot of guys up and coming. Oh, man. You got some legends that fought there. I mean, recently we were there and we saw Dan Severn was there. We've seen Razor Rob McCullough there. Dan Severn. He's still fighting, too, that dude. Oh, we saw him fight, unfortunately. Yeah. Well, he's a legend and I've got nothing but. I want to maintain that respect for Dan Severn and I want to maintain that level of respect because I grew up watching him fight. I mean, he's a pioneer of the sport. Yeah. It's hard, man. Listen, when you're a fighter, you know, you get that warrior spirit. It's just hard to put the gloves down, I guess. Yeah. But you just don't want to see the guy get hurt, you know? Yeah. But, you know, if you're a competitive athlete, like, I think your mindset, you always think you're that competitive athlete that you were, you know, 10 seconds ago. Yeah. Where, you know, your timing gets off. You know, I do jiu-jitsu now, you know, like, man, these young guys are like. Two seconds faster than you. Isn't that the worst feeling in the world? You know, you're just like, man, I suck, man. And the best part is when you go to, you put your gi on, you go to get set, you see the young guy and you're thinking, I got this. Yeah. And then you realize you don't got this. Yeah. Then you realize, oh, gee, I was off for two weeks. Yeah. You start making excuses to yourself, like, wait a second, I didn't take my protein shake this morning. The kid just. My teller. My teller. Yeah, exactly. Right on. Well, we're going to take a quick break and we're going to be back with some more Matt Time Radio. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We got Joel on the wheels of steel in there. Mixing it up. DJ Joel in the house. Everybody, we're back. Welcome back. Remember, we are live and we want to hear from you. 1-800-893-9562. We got Fight Me Clothing in the house. Yes, yes. The original. The official. The original. That's been duplicated. Oh, is there going to be a freestyle in here? Yeah, right. Never take them seriously. We're going to be serious, by the way. Yeah. Can I do a quick shout out real quick? Of course. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah. I got one more. This is a special one. One more. That's it. My son, my favorite person in the world to ever watch him put on his clothes in the morning and get dressed for school and he puts on his Fight Me shirt. Doesn't ask dad, just puts it on. Or if I buy him a cool sweater from Target or something, he's like, dad, can I wear my Fight Me shirt? So it's Ricky, daddy loves you, baby. You are my heart. And dad works for you. All right, Ricky, do your homework, little buddy. Yeah, do your homework. Oh, and don't forget, happy birthday, Bruce Lee, today. Oh, come on. Uh-oh. I had to do it. I had to do it. Bruce Lee. Come on, man. Bruce Lee, man. Dude, it's Bruce Lee. He's dead, dude. So what? He'd still be Chuck Norris. Yeah, he would definitely. He sure did be Chuck Norris. I don't think he ever competed in a tournament, though. Oh, he competed in life. Yeah, exactly. He competed for real. Yeah, he did. Yeah. His movies were real. All those guys got hurt. Yeah, sure. I never understood that about karate movies, though, man. It's like 15 guys on one. Kung fu. I know. Kung fu, not karate. No, no. It wasn't. Come on, dude. Jukido or. Jikundo. Jikundo. By the way, let me put you guys up on one movie you have to watch. It is. IP Man. Yeah. Yeah. IP Man. It's pronounced Yip Man. Watch one and two. They got three, too. Yeah, they have a three, but it's not as good as one and two. But the reason one with Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is, you know, training. Yeah, but. Because two, he gets kicked out. He'd be like, come back later, kid. Yeah, remember that? Yeah, yeah. Oh, really? Amazing movie. That's a good. Somebody told me to watch that. I watched IP. Okay, how do you pronounce it? Yip. Yip. It's pronounced like Y-I-P. Okay. Yip Man. Yip Man 1. That's a great flick, though. Amazing movie. Donnie Yen, who is the star of the movie, is amazing, hands down. It's just a good movie. I think I watch it with subtitles, right? Is it subtitles? Yeah, you can only. If you watch it in English and get the converted version or whatever, the translated version, it's just terrible. Oh, okay. And was this one recently released or was it like an old 70s cut? No, no, no. Definitely not 70s. It's like maybe two or three years old. I thought it was like 08. Might have been 08. Look at some archive footage and stuff put together. It's amazing. It's a really good movie, though. Just the premise and, you know, the martial arts. Yeah, the whole plot of the movie is amazing. Yeah, they touch on, I mean, even historically, they're going back to the Sino-Japanese War. You know? It's just amazing. It's an amazing movie. I think I've watched it. I mean, shoot, when I first started dating my girlfriend, she'd come over and we're supposed to be going to dinner. I'd be like, wait a second, wait a second. We just finished Yip Man. Two hours later, you know, dinner's a lost thought. Yeah, that came out in 08. Oh, did it? Yeah. There we go. Oh, okay. Yeah. Chinese martial artist, Wen Chun. Yeah, Wen Chun. Wen Chun. That's a good movie, though. Amazing movie. You know, you walk around like that nowadays, people think you're crazy, though. Yeah. Yeah, that is true. But they got a cool, you know, the concept's cool. And it's got, you know, a lot of that honor about martial arts where like, hey, you want to teach here, you got to fight, you know? Well, it instills a discipline, I think, that is long forgotten in some of these new, new gyms and schools. You know, it's everybody wants to be a, I love how they refer to it as UFC fighting. Yeah. Like, really? UFC fighting? No. It's MMA. You know, if you're a jujitsu player, you play jujitsu. But it's, you got to take it back to tradition. You know, take it back to the discipline. The honor, the respect for your sport, your craft, you know? Yeah, I agree with that, too. I know I see that in a lot of gyms, too, where, you know, the lack of discipline there for the instructor who's earned their black belt is really, I mean, sometimes it's lacking by some students, you know? Yeah, absolutely. But I really think that you got to respect whoever your teacher is, regardless if you like him or her or not. And, you know, show up and... Yeah, because, I mean, it takes a certain, you know, amount of, you know, passion, you know, to get out there and teach your students and stuff. Because, I mean, you know, it's not, you know, a very high-paying job. Absolutely. You know, it's something that, you know, you do to give back and for the love of your sport and everything. And, yeah, absolutely. All those guys that step on as instructors, you know, they put a lot of themselves into their teaching and into their students. And, you know, it takes a special kind of person to want, you know, to put themselves out there like that. Yeah. And I was talking to a guy on Saturday that does, you know, MMA fighting. We're just talking about how, like, everybody's a, I call it, you know, a couch referee. Right? Like, when they're watching somebody and they're, oh, he should have done this or he should have done that. And I was just like, anybody, whether you win or lose, that gets in a cage or a ring to fight regardless. And you put in the work, man. I mean, that's a lot of work. And, you know, some people just take it for granted. They just see it on TV and say, oh, he should have done this or... I mean, come on. Go try it first and then go back and sit on your couch and commentate. Yeah. And then see how you feel. Well, I mean, it's different. I always tell you, everybody wants to be a fighter until you get hit in the face with an elbow. Absolutely. Right? Yep. Absolutely. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Try to keep your guard closed when someone's, like, dropping, you know, elbows on you and stuff. Yeah. Check my first week, you know? Yeah. Exactly. When your body's all tired. Even, like, you know, sometimes you do tournaments, just jiu-jitsu tournaments, and you just get an adrenaline dump or you just forget. Oh, yeah. But, you know, it just takes a lot of courage just to get on the mat. A lot of people don't realize. Absolutely. So what's your take on, speaking of that, what's your take on guys that don't make weight when they fight, man? Well, guys that don't make weight when they fight is, one, a lack of preparation. A lack of preparation and a disrespect to your opponent. It is. I think so, too, right? I'm too, Coach. Again, this is just my opinion. Of course, you are, you have to remember, you're not just representing yourself. You're representing your school. You're representing all the people that bought tickets to come watch you fight. All, like, you know, all the other students there that look up to you that helped you get to where you're at. And for you not to make weight, it's just disrespectful. Yeah. You know? I mean, do you think, I understand the other fighters, you know, when they're like, hey, do you want to fight the guy? You're like, man, I just put in, you know. Six, eight weeks of training camp. You know, of course I want to fight. But do you think 20% is enough of a fine for a fighter who doesn't make weight? Absolutely. Or do you think it should be 50%? No, I think 20% is a good smack on the wrist. Yeah. I mean, for the first offense. Of course, you know, I'm no judge on what your compensation should be for getting in the ring. But I think 20% of your purse is a good smack on the wrist. You come back again, obviously, you know, it should go up. Yeah. Because I always look at that like, wow. You know, the other guy made weight, you don't make weight. You know, when in high school in college. When I used to wrestle, that was a big deal. It's a huge deal. And you make weight or you don't. Yeah. I mean, there should be nobody that wrestled in high school and at the collegiate level that goes pro and does not make weight. Like, that should be, you should definitely just be banned for six months. You're out. You know, take the bench. Yeah. You should be mindful of, you know, what it takes to make the cut. I mean, obviously, when you get older and stuff, you know, things do start to change. You know, just myself personally, you know, I do things differently to make weight, you know, for tournament that I did before. And certain things that used to work before don't work now. And it has to be, you know, the weight is all on, I'm sorry, the responsibility is all on me to be responsible and know what, you know, the winning game plan is to be there on weight. Absolutely. You know, with a lot of time and, you know, and so we can do it safely. And stuff. Because, you know, yeah. You know, the things that work for you, I'm sure the things that work for you in college are not going to work the same as they did now. For me? Yeah. Ah, that'll work, man. A couple garbage bags, a sweater. That's how I used to roll. Old school. That's how I used to roll. Old school, right? Like Vision Quest style. Yeah. Running all up in the night. Yeah. When was the last time you had to do that for a tournament? Oh, man. You know what? I went through, I mean, obviously, I used to cut a lot of weight in high school. I used to cut, in college, I used to cut like 20 pounds a week to make weight. Wow. But I was on scholarship, so I had to. Yeah. But, you know, you get it down to a science. I tell people your body's 70% water, a gallon of water is 8.3 pounds, two gallons of water is 16 pounds off the bat, right? Obviously, there's a lot of dehydration factors that go into that where like your joints aren't lubricated enough and your fluid around your brain is depleted and stuff like that. But you get used to it. Like you said, when you're young, you can knock that out. But I definitely, when I do, I would never do with the stuff I used to do back then, I would never do now. Well, it's just not healthy. There's so many different things now. I mean, technology is so huge. I mean, these nutritionists out there are having these guys cut. I mean, it's amazing to me, GSP, for lack of argument's sake. Yeah. He walks around 190, 195 pounds and cuts to 170. I mean, obviously, he takes his, you know, 60 to 90 day preparation. But the guy says, I have no problem walking around at 170. I have no problem making weight. That's a guy that makes weight without question. I heard he's one of the few guys that doesn't cut a lot of weight because that's his walking around weight. I know there's other guys that, I mean. Oh, Anderson Silva too. Or like Pitbull, right? What's his? Alves? Oh, Tiago Alves. Yeah, he's a big boy. But dude, do you see his last weigh in? Yeah. I mean, you know, he was on the Dolce Diet System, but I mean, he had none of his muscle mass. No. I mean, he looked like a regular dude, right? Yeah. Yeah, but there was a time that he didn't make it for UFC though too, didn't he? Oh, there's plenty of times he didn't make weight. I mean, he was notorious for that. Yeah. For not making weight, so. I think Anderson Silva too, he walks around pretty heavy also. Yeah, he's a big boy. Yeah, he walks around like 202 or something like that. Well, he's tall though. Yeah. Yeah, but he's a totally different animal too. Yeah, he is. That's for sure. Yeah, that's a guy that has definitely got it, you know, dialed in and stuff. So you got a lot, I mean, you got a lot of fighters that you deal with. I mean, I know you got a lot of guys coming up fighting pretty soon. So you ever, you ever corner any of those guys or you're just pretty much? You know, I've had the, I guess, I guess you'd say I've had the pleasure of cornering a few guys. As they asked me to, I never imposed it on them. You know, it's, I feel blessed if I'm able to, to help in any way, you know, besides just helping them rep fight me. But it's a, it's an amazing sport that we're a part of, you know, it really is. You watch the preparation and, and discipline that goes into, into working to maintain a weight for an upcoming fight. You know, for instance, Savant Young documents all his stuff via his Facebook page. If you look at his videos, he does these short, these like short doc, like documentary style, almost films where it's showing you what he goes through. You know, the guy's a beast. I don't know if you guys are familiar with him from the IFL. Days or the WEC days. But, um, I mean, you talk about an all around fighter. I mean, he's, he's Robert Washington's got his work cut out from coming this Friday. Yeah. That's a lot of work, man. You got to train in every discipline. Absolutely. You know, it's not. Absolutely. I mean, those times of being, uh, you know, like, uh, we were just talking about the UFC, how, when it first started, it was like a karate guy and a jujitsu guy. Oh, and the no holds barred days? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those were, those were the, you talk about a ultimate fighting. That was ultimate fighting. Oh yeah. Always pulling on chemo with hair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I still think if chemo, chemo to this day, you know, he's probably, he's going bald now, but chemo probably says like, man, if I should just shave my head, I would've won. Oh man. Chemo was. Chemo was a beast, man. Chemo was a beast, bro. There's, I mean, so much respect for that guy, you know, but you go back and watch the old footage. I mean, there's, there's a like documentary style MMA movies by, I forget the guy's name. I think his name is Bobby Razak. Check out Bobby Razak's B-O-B-B-Y-R-A-S-A-K on YouTube. He did a, like the rites of passage movie. I don't know if you guys know that movie. I don't know if you guys ever saw that. I've heard the title, but I haven't seen it. Check out the rites of passage documentary. Amazing. I mean, just amazing footage. Vanderlei back in the day. You get to see the Noguera brothers. I mean, you get to watch the evolution of MMA. Yeah. From beginning to end. It's amazing. Yeah. And then, you know, the sport, it's funny because now like we can walk down the street and everyone's got a shirt or everyone thinks they're fighting, everyone's training, but the evolution of the sport, I mean, it's, it's a small window where it's evolved from. So it's, I mean, it's still, I don't know. I think it's still growing and it'll grow. Oh, it's, it's still in its infancy, in my opinion. You know, we've got a long way to go. Definitely. You know, we've, we've got a long road ahead of us, but it's, it's amazing that the feedback MMA gets, you know, I'm still curious to see when they're going to open up New York City. Yeah. Well, I think they filed a lawsuit just recently. Yeah. They did against. Yeah. The Fortuna brothers. I saw that. Yeah. They filed a lawsuit out there saying that. Why? Against the commission or? It was some lawsuit saying that it was, uh, it was against the commission. It was against people's first amendment right to not have, uh, MMA there. Really? Yeah. Something like that. It'll be interesting to see what the outcome is. I think they got enough money to file that lawsuit. That's all that is, right? Just to stir the pot up there. That's going to do something. Because how can you have boxing there and not have MMA? That's weird though, right? Yeah. It's, uh, you know, it's people's perception of what MMA is these days, really. Well, I think it's probably years of corruption and people that are, you know, stuck on having boxing events and, uh, don't want to look any other way. Well, I think once you get the right dollar amount out of it. Yeah. Anything's possible. Yeah. I think so too. Maybe it just hasn't happened yet. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. And, you know, those guys from the UFC always, uh, I guess they were non-union guys. So that's probably got to strike a chord out there. Sure. You know. Absolutely. Do you guys visit a lot of local shows, by the way? Yeah. We, I mean, we'll make our ways around wherever, wherever's up and coming around the area. We're in the area. We'll go check it out. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Support our teammates and, you know, people that are fighting. I think, uh, I think what, like, the last one. Oh, that was. That was, like, uh, Respect in the Cage. Oh, yeah. Pomona. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. How did that one go? It's good. I mean, you know, it took a good venue. It's a good venue. Uh, our guy didn't fight, though. His, uh, his guy's blood pressure was too high, so he didn't have an opponent. Oh, that's happened to a buddy of mine a few times at that same, uh. Really? I've never heard of that. Dude, that was. That was the first time. It happened to, and let's give a quick shout out to, uh, MMA fighter, pro MMA fighter, Matt Ruiz. Um, good friend of Fight Me. We love you to death, Matt, if you're listening. Um, another guy to check out. He, uh, you know, his, I guess one day they said his heart rate was up too, too high. The next couple of times Adam scheduled a fight, his fighters sent a text message in. His opponent sent a text message into their promoter saying that, uh, you know, we can't fight today. Yeah. Wow. So, you know, again, another guy that went through all the preparation of getting ready to fight and wasn't able to, to, to battle. Yeah. Our buddy was, I mean, they were, they weighed in. I guess the guy had to cut weight to weigh in. Yeah. They were like. That'll do it for sure. They were number three on the docket or something, three or five. And right before his fight, the commissioner didn't clear the guy. Yeah. And our guy was ready to go. He was. That's rough, man. That's gotta be frustrating. That's rough, dude. You know, all that built up frustration, uh, just to be told you can't fight. Yeah. You know, but anytime you guys want to come check out our local show, wherever Fight Me's at, you guys are more than welcome to come. Oh, right on. Right on. Yeah. We'll go out there, show some support, man. Appreciate that. Yeah. Come out and hang out. You know, we'll put you guys on the map out there. Maybe we can bring the mics and do some on-site interviews with some guys. I bet you, I bet you we wouldn't have a problem setting that up with a few of the venues. Right on. I'm sure that would be easy. What do you think about that, Rich? I like that. I like that. Yeah. That might be kind of neat. Yeah. That'd be cool, right? Yeah. I think so. Get a good perspective on a fight. You know, I like sometimes the best perspective is from a fighter. Obviously, you want to get them when they win because sometimes when you lose, your brain's just scattered because you just spent eight weeks training and. Oh, yeah. You know, you make one mistake and the guy capitalized and you're like, man, I had that guy beat for three rounds and. Yeah. Yeah. He was so close. Yeah. That's a rough part, but that's, you know, it's part of the sport. Anytime you guys want to, you know, check out the local fights, like I said, give us a call. We always post our local fights on ChingasosMMA.com. Okay. You know, they're our good friends, huge Fight Me supporters. We support them as well. But anytime you want local, accurate, accurate local information, check them out. Check out their Facebook page. Type in ChingasosMMA. They come up. Shout out to ChingasosMMA. Yeah. Shout out Chingasos. Wrong. Patty, Patty, Eddie. Those are good people right there. I think they're in Oakland right now for the, for the, what's that? The Raider game. Oh, okay. Yeah. I hope so. That's what it should be. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to take another quick break and we'll be back again with some more Mountain Time Radio. So I had to memorize these rhymes until I got home. You understand? So, you know, once you memorize a sentence, it's like an exercise. Exercise. 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I gotta go train I didn't know what he meant by train You know And he's like You wouldn't understand Because we're all in suits Everybody's in a suit at work, you know And one day he's like Oh, I'm taking off to Montana to go fight Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah And he's like I'm gonna take off early And I'm like Okay Next thing you know I get a call from a mutual friend of ours Like, oh, you know I asked how his fight went He's like Because I didn't really think the guy was fighting I mean, the guy's all a 5'5", you know He looked like a little oompa loompa You know And apparently he was a college wrestler Went to like I don't remember what college it was But back east Was a great college wrestler Was brought out here by like Boss Rudin to train To be an MMA fighter And I guess never really wanted to make the transition Nonetheless I started watching footage of these fights Like of his fights from my friend's like phones, you know And I'm like Oh, this is crazy This guy's picking up a dude twice his size And slamming him on his head I'm like I wanna learn how to do that He's like Nah, it's not for you I'm like What do you mean it's not for me? I've been an athlete my whole life What do you mean? He's like Nah, it's not for you He's like You really wanna learn? I'm like Yeah He's like Alright, I'll take you down to train one day So first thing he did was show me how to pummel In his living room Me and another guy Show me how to pummel You know Show me what a single leg was A double leg was And immediately when I felt When I learned the double leg I was like I gotta do this I gotta do this at a gym So he took me to a local gym To a dojo actually Where did I go? I think it was He took me to D'Artagnan Jiu Jitsu Over in North Hollywood And just I was hooked Been doing it ever since You know But that's how I got into MMA and martial arts And then from Started with Jiu Jitsu Went over to Trained a little bit of Judo A lot of Muay Thai And just kind of got it in Oh, okay And who'd you do your Muay Thai with? Muay Thai with Was at the Muay Thai Academy in North Hollywood Oh, okay Okay, right up there in the valley Yeah, there's a lot of good schools out there Oh, there's a bunch But I don't know They're all over the place Judo's probably really big out there Because you gotta Oh, you mean like Because of Like Gokor and his guys out there? Yeah Yeah, I know that's like Being in a Glendale area Well, even Glendale Gokor has a gym in His original gym is in North Hollywood Him and Gene LaBelle Yeah You know, right in the heart of North Hollywood And wasn't he like in West LA For a little bit or something too? You know, I'm not real sure, man I was fortunate enough For a year or so To be able to train I guess be taught by You know, to be able to train You know, Carl Parisian Yeah Carl the Heat When he was Carl and Manny Yeah, shout out to Carl and Manny Yeah That guy got some sick judo throws Oh, just vicious It's the worst when When he's teaching you And you gotta be the You know, the stunt dummy Yeah Well, the worst part Is you look at him Throw him and so Effortless, you know Oh, it's I mean, it's magical, man The way he does it It's crazy Yeah, I tried judo for a bit But that's a little rough on the back It's a lot of rough on the back It's a rough part I actually That's one of the things You know, I love, you know All aspects of the You know, fighting and everything And, you know I've tried I've done Muay Thai You know, I've been trained in Jiu-Jitsu But, yeah Judo is one of those things That I'd rather watch I'd rather watch and It's an amazing sport, man To watch the Just the transitions in judo You know, the position changes And it's just amazing Yeah Yeah, definitely Definitely Yeah, we had a We had a judo coach At our gym for a bit And You know, we had a Yeah, I mean, he He was actually with Gene LaBelle For a little bit And, you know, they were He was an Olympic alternate And, you know, he taught us some stuff To help with our gi game But I still couldn't make that big jump In the judo It's definitely It's definitely different Because you're using all your body weight To throw somebody off, so Yep, you're using their momentum Against themselves You know, it's a It's a great sport, though I mean, it's a great art Yeah, well, hopefully You know Well, that's how jiu-jitsu started I mean, you know Right, right Wasn't it the other day? The One of the armies was going to see What was going to be the In Japan Who was going to be the force That taught the police department Wasn't it? Well I know for jiu-jitsu You know The judo guy from Japan Ended up in Brazil And he exchanges Well, as far as, like, being the sport in Japan I think it was The story was It was judo and jiu-jitsu And the two competed to see Who was going to be the sport of the Like, the army Like, who was going to be the official Like, you know, self-defense art Of their Of their Their military And judo was actually, like, you know What won out And stuff And that's why judo was so So much bigger in Japan Than jiu-jitsu was Sounds like Yip man, right? Yeah Right? It does sound like yip man, for sure Or IP man, like I say IP man, that's funny Well, I figured, you know You tried putting yip You're going to spell it wrong Absolutely I agree with you Yeah And so do you continue to train now? Or are you still I do train I do train Obviously, you know As a hobby or whatnot Right But As much training as I get to get in And get in and hang out with my friends Because obviously everybody All of our friends are in the MMA game So it's Yeah, I look forward to training It's exciting, man It's Talk about It's the number one stress reliever in my life Yeah Yeah I think it is for a lot of us It is It is Yeah, we got to get on the mat And let out that aggression and stuff Yeah, no I think I took a couple days off For the holidays And it felt like a month Yeah, it'll do that Yeah It'll do that for sure Yeah, I took a month off And it felt like six Yeah, these holidays don't help me either I got to get back to training hard on Monday Monday? Yeah, well Tomorrow Don't they have midnight class today? Oh I don't know if you're I don't know if you're going to be there I ain't going to be there I ain't going to be there Tweaker jujitsu? No, thank you Yeah Yeah, that's awkward Yeah Yeah, our school's like 7-11, man You're, you know Class is like late Is that right? Yeah I guess cool, like if you work If you get out of work late You got to say, like We're open seven days a week And we got classes that run like You know, almost to midnight Really? Yeah Yeah, that's crazy I've heard of, you know Classes start at like 9, 9.30 And they go till midnight But I never heard of them Starting at midnight No, it's the same Oh, is it? Yeah, like 10.30 or something like that Yeah, we call them the tweaker classes Yeah Yeah, that's crazy We're going to get beat up now, dude Oh, I know Yeah, you guys are going to go back And be like, oh, so we're tweakers now Yeah I'll be like, yeah I said it We're going to have to switch Our training to the morning now So we don't run into those people Yeah To the night crew Yeah But it makes sense It makes sense for a lot of us, you know For some of those guys You know, they have like full-time jobs And, you know, we got other things That we're, you know, balancing out and stuff That's it Huh Yeah Yeah, I think so I'm busy Yeah, I'm not going I may be doing some curls later Hey, didn't you want to give a shout-out to Larry Landless? Yeah, shout-out to Larry Landless and Herb Dean Yes, sir I just want you guys to know that I appreciate you I appreciate all your help with Fight Me And understanding and seeing our vision Thank you, man Yeah, no, we like to, you know Support, you know, people that are local And, you know, it's really good what you're doing, too With your other activities And besides, you know, the fight game and stuff I mean, a lot of companies are out there Just, you know, to make a quick buck and everything And it looks like you're really, you know Wanting to give back to, you know To, you know, the community and stuff And these other programs So that's a really good thing I appreciate that, thank you Yeah, especially, you know Especially with cancer and everything else There's a lot of stuff out there that's Well, it's more so the representation It's, like we said, you know Reinstilling the confidence in oneself To never give up on anything You know, because the moment you make that Or become hesitant about doing something You ultimately end up not doing it Yeah You know, so if you can lose that hesitation And retain some confidence Or just keep the confidence within yourself You know, you're looking at a positive outcome I mean, if you don't take a risk You don't know what's going to happen Right, right You know, and that's really what we're looking at I always tell people there's a You're always going to find a thousand reasons To not do something But there's always one reason to do it Absolutely Right, so Absolutely I mean, it might be the hardest decision to make But that's always the way to do it Yeah, let me get a quick shout out to Ron, the Yak Man Yakavetti Just want you to know we appreciate you as well Thanks for repping Fight Me James Xavier, you've been instrumental In helping our success on Facebook Thank you so much Right on, right on And so I think I might have asked you this before But what else do you Is there any other New project that you have coming out? I think you mentioned something about a tape Or something you were coming out with Or any new products We're actually working on I guess manufacturing, distributing Fight Me materials I mean, as far as like boxing gloves MMA gloves, shin guards You know, ankle straps and tape You know, it's in the works now You know, we're still working on the design factor So don't go to the website looking to buy it now But it's definitely in the works You know, and we'll have it available soon And so you guys have I know you guys Got men's shirts on there You got some women's shirts as well We have a full women's line You guys can find it on both our website You know, obviously I suggest you go to the Facebook page It's a lot easier to deal with You know, you do get some One-on-one attention versus You know, it doesn't matter how many emails we get in one day We make sure to email you back Right You know, your order's always shipped out on time You're gonna get a real person A live body that you're dealing with No, that's good You got any kid stuff too? We do We carry everything from kids I think down to a I guess what would be considered a 4T So 4T is, I guess, just over a toddler size All the way up to 4X From what I'm told, we're one of the only MMA companies Or, excuse me One of the only brands that carries up to 4X For a kid? Yeah, you know, some kids are big out there Man, that's a lot of milk Yeah, that's a lot of milk What's in that McDonald's hamburger, son? Why don't you throw your website one more time for a woman The website, under construction, keep in mind It's under construction It'll be ready in a couple weeks But the website is fightmeclothing.com Check us out on Facebook first Make sure to click like You know, send us a message Don't be afraid to communicate with us We'll communicate with you back You can reach us at www.facebook.com Backslash official fightme Again, it's facebook.com Backslash official fightme You got the Twitter? 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Yeah, back then I think the contract was over like 10 years He's still making money on me I think it is Mine is up next month Big ol' beeper With a D battery Oh, man No, I'm just kidding Hey, AAA, AAA Oh, man, the beeper That was a good time That was a good era Yeah That was a great era The 5.0 Everybody wanted the 5.0 Mustang Oh, those were the best The box bodies, right? Yep Yeah, I remember those But none of the ice style, you know? Wasn't done with the Panthers Or was it MC Breed? Oh, MC Breed He was rocking those in the video back in the day Yeah I think he died, man I think he died just recently Did he really? Yeah, dude Oh, I didn't know that Yeah Shout out to MC Breed Rest in peace No future in your front end Yeah Exactly Is there any other shows that you're going to be at coming up? Up and through the end of the year We don't have any shows booked up through the end of the year We're focusing on our sponsor Fight Team right now And then we got a bunch of new stuff coming up for the beginning of the year But look out for us in January We always list a Like I said, find them on Facebook Facebook.com backslash official Fight Me You'll find all of our pictures All of our events Of course, you get to see the Fight Me girls If you haven't seen them, check them out We haven't seen them They seem to be a big hit We have to bring them to the studio next time Next time Absolutely Check us out Look at the ladies Eyelashing Yeah, exactly They're like, oh, those girls are coming in Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah We're going to have to use this glass for separation We're going to have to put them in the green room But yeah, so make sure to support the fighters too If you guys are listening outside of LA or even within LA Support your local MMA Support your local boxing Support something that's doing good for the kids, for the youth Yeah, I mean, I know it's a lot of fun to watch it on TV, on pay-per-view But yeah, there's nothing like watching a local show live We've been over a big event And now it's sometimes, you know It's not the greatest to watch it Like a UFC event live But these local shows, I mean, they get really exciting Especially when you get all your friends together And everyone, you know, goes out there And, you know You know, the best part of going to a local show for us is Nine times out of ten Number one, we either know the fighter Or we know the fighter's families or close friends Right And to watch these guys put it all on the line Okay, I mean, whether amateur through camo, licensed camo Or going mid-level pro to even high-level pro I mean, the fact is they're going in there And they put all this work and preparation Into being a fighter A true fighter, a warrior Show these people some respect Support them, you know Without their ticket sales They don't make a lot of money, guys No matter what you see on TV Well, that's what people don't realize Everybody, you know, everybody thinks everyone's making $250,000 Like these big guys are making No, listen I mean, these guys are probably I got a friend of mine And, you know, he'll remain nameless Know that we respect you, we love you He got a check for $2 Whoa He got a check from an organization Uh Uh That's crazy In the Los Angeles County area For $2 And if that's not disrespect to a fighter Uh, to a pro fighter Then, uh, I don't know what is I mean, we had this discussion a few shows back We were talking about, like, just diet alone Is a lot of money Absolutely You know, so that's crazy, man $2 I hope he didn't cash that I hope he just framed it Oh, it's, uh, you know, I'm not sure what he did with it But nonetheless Frame it, put it on Facebook It was like spitting in his face Yeah, absolutely Put it on Facebook, blast him Yeah, blast him, right? Absolutely Blast double But nonetheless, yeah Keep in mind, guys You know, to those of you listening It's, uh Think about what buying supplements is Walk into a GNC one day Just walk in Walk into a Max Muscle And see what it costs To buy a month's worth of supplements And understand these fighters who Have to train Two to six hours a day For an upcoming fight Yeah, you just, you know, got Like I always just say Support your local fighters And then, uh, you know, these guys Like a cup of coffee here and there And you put those together And buy a ticket from the guy Absolutely You know what I mean? Just give them a chance To realize their dream I'm sure they'll appreciate it In the long run, you know Absolutely Some people make it Some people don't But, you know, you can't You can't fault somebody For trying, right? No, I agree, 100% Because, uh, I mean It takes a lot of work To get in there I don't care what anybody says Yep I mean, it takes Just mental preparation alone Just takes a lot of work To step in the cage Yep Yeah Well, it looks like It's about that time Do we got anything else? Uh, no Let's just, um Let's just let, uh Steven real quick You got any, uh Final shout-outs Before we end up, uh I mean, I know, uh You got a whole list Of a bunch of people You'd like to shout-out But if you want to get Their names out there Really quick Uh, you know, I mean Just real quick We'll just do a quick recap Um, fighting this Friday At Tachi Palace Savant Young We've got Jesse Bowen We've got Bubba Jenkins Making his, uh His pro MMA debut In Tampa, Florida Fighting for XFC We've got, uh Dennis Dimenis Hernandez Make sure Make sure to check out These fighters, guys Check out their Facebook pages Check out Check them out on Twitter Follow them if necessary They need support Yeah, they can find you On Facebook and Twitter as well We already shot those out there Absolutely And, uh You can always, uh Download this show on Stitcher Or, um We got a We got another app You know, Skid Row app Or you can just go directly On the website Skidrow.la Yep Alright, everybody We appreciate you guys Having us, man Thank you guys so much Thanks for stopping in Hope you enjoy the gear Yeah Oh, yeah, definitely Shout-out to Sharu, too, man Yeah, shout-out to Sharu Yes, sir Talk about my support system Alright She's got some stuff She's got a clitoral She'll get up with you In a bit, though Yeah, she does But thanks for coming through, man We really appreciate it, man Yeah, definitely We appreciate it as well I guess next year We got an event coming up Let us know You know, Rich and I Will head out there with the crew Yeah That sounds good It'll be a good time Yeah, I think it'd be cool We get some interviews With some of your fighters Or guys that, you know Wearing shirts and stuff That'd be kind of cool Absolutely You guys get to see A day in the life Of the Fight Me crew Yeah, that'd be kind of cool For sure For sure Alright, everybody Well, thanks for listening And we'll see you next time And until then Get out there And just train Yes, sir Crayl out Ow! 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