00:00
I've always looked through my, my parents just watching them
00:03
work day in and out.
00:05
You know, the, I think one of the hardest job is working out
00:08
in the fields and I felt like just from watching them work so
00:13
hard that I've taken it into the stuff that I do as far as when
00:17
And now when I, you know, when I fight Kane, thank you so much
00:26
for being so gracious to invite us into your home tonight.
00:29
I really, really appreciate it.
00:32
I was at your, uh your last fight in Mexico City and the one thing
00:36
that stands out in my mind as I look back at that fight, uh was
00:41
actually something that happened afterwards.
00:44
Um I remember the post fight, uh Octagon interview with Joe
00:49
Rogan and, uh I'll never forget the first thing that came out
00:53
Uh was in Spanish and you literally asked the crowd, you asked
01:00
them for their forgiveness.
01:02
You, you asked them to forgive you.
01:04
You had dreamed of defending your title in, in Mexico.
01:09
Um There was an obvious sense that you had let them down.
01:13
You promised that it would serve as motivation.
01:17
Um And you promised that you would win your next fight.
01:22
So my question to you is why, why did you feel that you had to
01:27
ask their forgiveness?
01:28
And the second part to that question is how much of that motivation
01:34
are you taking into UFC?
01:39
I ask for forgiveness because um playing I wanted to win, I
01:45
felt like being there in Mexico City.
01:48
That, that was my home, coming home.
01:51
That's one of the places that, that I wanted to fight and that's
01:54
probably like my, my, my top place that, that, that I wanted
01:57
So obviously, yeah, I wanna go in there, have a big welcome
02:00
and obviously go out there and win.
02:02
But hey, and this isn't a movie, you know, it's not always written
02:05
So and losing just, you know, the, the Mexican fans have been
02:11
just, they're, they're diehards, they're loyal.
02:13
They don't, if you go out and lose, they don't stab you behind
02:17
No, no, they, they stay behind you.
02:19
You know, I see all that.
02:20
You, you can see it now in this day and age as far as social media
02:23
what people say constantly.
02:24
And that's the, that's the feedback that I get from them.
02:27
And that's the thing that um definitely motivates me always
02:32
you know, that I have those type of fans that will always be
02:36
behind me and that will, you know, never turn their backs on
02:38
So I want to give them the best show and obviously in, in that
02:42
is to go out there and win.
02:43
And, um, just a relationship that I've had over the years of
02:48
uh, first going down there to Mexico City, um, doing a bunch
02:53
of media when the UFC wasn't really popular over there.
02:56
When, um, sportscasters, you know, news anchors would ask
03:01
when I would do interviews, they'd ask.
03:03
Um, so the sport, what is it, is?
03:05
Is it, it, uh, street fighting?
03:07
There's no rules, it was that it was so, you know, cavemen like
03:12
to them that I had, I was a guy that brought it down there, talk
03:16
to them about what the rules entail what, um, you know, that
03:20
this is a legitimate sport that it will get popular.
03:24
And in the beginning they would call me, um, they would say
03:31
Mexican American, you know, uh or Mexican parents from the
03:35
They would refer to me as that, you know, which I was fine with
03:38
you know, that's, that, that, that's who I am.
03:41
Definitely over time winning and constantly going down there
03:47
Um You know, meeting the people doing the same kind of interviews
03:51
I've gotten the, uh the praise of Mexican.
03:56
They call, not Mexican American, not from, from Mexican parents
04:01
No, they call me Mexican.
04:02
So I felt like they've embraced me, you know, and I knew it was
04:09
and all of it is because of winning, you have to go out there
04:13
and win, you have to go out there and produce, you know, to get
04:16
the fame and to get the, you know, the money and everything
04:19
That's, that's, that's what you have to do.
04:21
That's what we're here for is go out there and win and more.
04:24
So for me being down in Mexico City was obviously to win in front
04:28
of them and I can do that.
04:31
But, you know, um I'm the type of guy to redeem myself going
04:36
in the next one even harder and you know, turn things around
04:39
So, absolutely, absolutely.
04:42
There's a long legacy of extremely, extremely tough Mexican
04:52
Uh Mexican fighters are known obviously for their grit.
04:56
Um and that's, that's who you are in the ring.
05:01
Do you feel that was also part of winning over the Mexican fan
05:05
base to finally say, OK, he's not just Mexican American, he's
05:09
one of us, he's Mexican.
05:10
Yeah, definitely having that, that style of, yeah, being
05:14
a Mexican fighter, a guy that fights with a lot of heart is always
05:19
Um A lot of punches, being thrown, a lot of action, always,
05:25
um never born, you know, I never like watching those fights
05:29
I've always loved when I was a kid watching, you know, the Mexican
05:32
boxers fight and showing that they had that style, you know
05:36
and I felt like when I wrestled in my, my, my young days when
05:40
I was in college and everything else that I did have that style
05:42
in wrestling and I knew it would translate over to fighting
05:46
So, yeah, I think having that style for sure.
05:50
You know, I think a lot of Mexicans do where they're not, not
05:53
It's, it's uh it's good technique, but again, you know, pressure
05:59
a lot of pressure while going forward, you know, type of thing
06:06
You, you mentioned earlier about your, your fan base and how
06:11
how loyal they are and they have been extremely, extremely
06:14
I mean, I, I, I'd venture to guess you're, you're, you're one
06:19
of the most admired and, and universally sort of loved, uh
06:24
fighters, uh, in the game today.
06:27
You see that we're at a point where the fans are really, really
06:33
sort of turned on by fighters who are showboats who got a big
06:38
mouth who are, you know, extravagant.
06:41
They are all over social media yet yet yet.
06:43
You're the polar opposite of that.
06:46
You're, you're the humble guy.
06:48
You're the soft spoken guy.
06:49
You're the guy who's, you know, tremendously gracious in
06:52
Um How do you feel about where that aspect of the fight game
06:58
I don't feel like it's going one way or the other.
07:00
I feel like that's just who people are, you know, for me.
07:04
Yeah, I'm the type of guy who, who doesn't, um, doesn't talk
07:08
I go out there and just do it, you know, um, in the fight and talking
07:12
with my, my, my coach, even in the beginning, he says, hey,
07:16
you know, we gotta get you to talk trash more to, to sell, you
07:18
know, to sell the fight and everything else.
07:20
I'm like, well, that's just not me, you know, I just don't do
07:23
And over time it was, he started telling me I get it.
07:28
You don't talk trash.
07:29
So what you got to do is win people's hearts by fighting, fighting
07:34
the way you do, you know, talking trash isn't your thing.
07:38
You have to be a different way.
07:39
A hard, it's a harder way.
07:40
Yeah, but you can do it and you can, um, you know, get to praise
07:46
the people that way.
07:47
So it's always been a guy, yeah, who's, you know, this very
07:52
soft spoken, um, you know, nothing needs to be said unless
07:56
unless I, I really feel strongly about it about something
08:00
So, um, yeah, I've had to prove it in other ways and, um, I think
08:06
I think, you know, for guys that can go out and talk the trash
08:09
and everything else, you know.
08:10
Good, good for them.
08:11
That's, that, that's who they are.
08:12
That's just not how I am.
08:14
But at the end of the day, the fans really, really admire the
08:18
guy that brings sort of the lunch pail to work and leaves it
08:22
No, I think everything else.
08:24
Yeah, I think, um, yeah, you know, people now expect, you know
08:29
they know, I don't talk trash.
08:31
They know that they know that it won't be bad words between
08:34
my, me and my opponent.
08:35
But they know that in the fight it's gonna be a hell of a fight
08:39
It's gonna be a fight with a lot of action.
08:41
They know that even though beforehand it's not a, it's not
08:45
a big show going on.
08:47
So going back to my earlier earlier comment, you do have a,
08:51
a very extensive fan base and you have quite a few people, particularly
08:55
young fight fans that really look up to you.
08:57
Do you sort of feel a sense of responsibility in the way you
09:01
sort of carry yourself and comport yourself based on that
09:04
I don't, you know, I don't, I, um I just, I, I have always said
09:09
I'm gonna be myself, you know, and this is who I am.
09:12
You know, I'm a guy that is a family man and very humbled.
09:17
I've always been, you know, humble in this way, I believe hard
09:21
work, you know, with hard work, you can achieve anything and
09:24
that's what I've always, you know, looked by.
09:27
So I've never, I'm, I'm glad if, if somebody, you know, you
09:33
know, kids out there can look up to me and as, as a good role,
09:36
you know, role model, but I don't try to be a different person
09:39
towards them, you know, I just, I, you know, I show them who
09:42
who I am and that's it.
09:44
And who is it that you look up to?
09:47
I've always looked to my, my, my parents.
09:50
You know, um, growing up where I grew up and then just watching
09:55
them work day in and out, you know, the, I think one of the hardest
09:59
job is working out in the fields in, uh, Arizona, which is 100
10:03
and 100 and 10 in the summer time, all day outside.
10:07
Uh, my dad, uh, you know, pitch, pitch lettuce, a box of lettuce
10:12
put them in the, uh, in semi trucks and he do this every day
10:17
and never complained, went out there and that was just his
10:23
his, his place to go out there and work with and provide, you
10:25
know, so he's never really sat me down and said this is what
10:30
you need to do as far as being a man.
10:31
You know, you need to go out there and work hard and he's never
10:35
really, he's never sat me down and said that, um, I've just
10:38
always seen it and, you know, as you get older, you, you, uh
10:42
you appreciate it more.
10:44
So I have and I felt like just from watching them work so hard
10:50
that I've definitely gotten that from them just by watching
10:55
And I've taken it into the stuff that I do as far as when I wrestled
10:59
and now when I, you know, when I fight.
11:01
So and that example, setting that example is so much stronger
11:06
than, than just telling you how a man should behave or how a
11:10
man should carry himself.
11:13
Um for me, I don't know if he didn't tell me because he, if he
11:20
saw, if he saw it maybe in me, you know, like, ok, he, you know
11:23
he, he knows what, what needs to be done or whatever else.
11:27
Um But then again, you know, if you feel like your son needs
11:31
to be told, then that's something different, you know, maybe
11:34
he saw something different in me that um that there was no need
11:40
But um if it's genetics or whatever it is, they definitely
11:46
So I'm definitely taking on to, to what I do now.
11:50
Do you use that as motivation at all?
11:53
Does there ever come a time when you know, these workouts,
11:56
this, this, this, this line of work that you're in is a very
11:59
difficult line of work?
12:00
But do you ever sit back and say, well, OK, but you know what
12:02
I come home and I live here and I'm raising my daughter in this
12:05
beautiful community, you know.
12:07
Do you ever use that to put your life in perspective?
12:12
I don't, I don't um I know that, that, that they always have
12:16
worked hard, you know, and I definitely do uh appreciate them
12:21
But I feel like I don't need any, any kind of type of motivation
12:25
I feel like I'm, I'm motivated enough myself to go out there
12:29
and, you know, do the hard work that needs to be done to achieve
12:35
So even on the hardest days when, if it's Groundhog Day is what
12:39
we do every day is the same thing.
12:41
Go in, kill your body pretty much, you know, and come back to
12:46
rest for a little while and go back out there.
12:50
You know, that's what we do day in and out and that's what I have
12:55
And that's what, you know, I have to do is the best of my ability
12:57
I have to go out there train the hardest I can improve the most
13:01
I can to go out there and win the fight.
13:04
So, you know, you've accomplished so much already at such
13:10
You're, you know, your two time world champ, you're the first
13:15
Mexican American heavyweight champion in any combat sport
13:20
Um, arguably the most sort of loved and admired UFC fighter
13:26
by the majority of fans.
13:29
What motivates you to keep going.
13:31
I mean, at what point do you say I've accomplished enough already
13:35
You're obviously not there.
13:36
What keeps you fueled?
13:40
I don't know what I'm gonna say.
13:43
You know, maybe if it's, when I'm, you know, a little older
13:47
and I feel like my body just isn't really, um, if it's not there
13:51
anymore, if, if I've sort of lost a step, you know, that's definitely
13:54
a time I think to step back and kinda, you know, look at where
13:59
where, what I should do next or, you know, what I should do
14:02
as far as, as far as fighting.
14:03
Um, because I, I don't want to be one of those guys that earn
14:06
it just for the paycheck and that, you know, have lost a step
14:09
and just aren't at that top level anymore.
14:11
And then I go to smaller shows and, you know, nothing against
14:15
And that's what they wanna do.
14:16
They know they, they, they love the sport.
14:18
I just want to do at the highest level and that's it, you know
14:22
And, um, I just feel like, yeah, I feel like I'm the best fighter
14:27
out there and, you know, I have, I have to go out there and prove
14:33
that, you know, I'm gonna keep proving it.
14:35
So I can only imagine you must make a lot of sacrifices during
14:40
during training camp while you're, while you're in it.
14:43
What's the sort of guilty pleasure that you miss the most,
14:49
um, you know, eating junk food?
14:52
You know, um, yeah, training camp starts, you know, where
14:58
You're seeing clean food.
15:00
Um, but is there one thing in particular is like, you know,
15:04
Is that the thing that does it for you.
15:05
I mean, what is it that you wish you?
15:06
I'm, I'm more of a savior guys.
15:08
Uh, like Mexican food, like tacos and stuff like that.
15:12
Um, Dan, the nutritionist team, he made, uh, these chicken
15:19
I was like, man, tacos, you know, it's like, oh, I can, I can
15:23
So, um, yeah, tortillas were, uh, um, brand tortillas and
15:29
they're, uh, you know, the ingredients that go into that are
15:34
very raw, you know, a nice clean chicken and a lot of veggies
15:39
on top, you know, with, uh, avocado.
15:42
So it was, yeah, very good, you know, something where, you
15:46
know, I still get the same, you get the fix and you still stay
15:50
within, it's still good for you.
15:52
So I would say, yeah, just, you know, the, well, I mean, other
15:56
stuff too, like drinking and I like to smoke cigars now and
16:00
So, see, that would kill my training camp.
16:04
You know, if I had to give up cigars, of course, I couldn't,
16:06
I couldn't go two days without giving up a cigar.
16:08
I was a cigar that I would, I probably smoke one every, like
16:14
three months, four months, you know, just, um, yeah.
16:19
Yeah, I don't do it that often and then, you know, drinking
16:22
you know, a little wine here and now and then.
16:24
So I don't, I don't go too crazy but, uh, hard stuff.
16:29
No, I'm not there yet.
16:32
No, maybe something to look forward to in retirement, maybe
16:37
A daily scotch and a cigar.
16:39
I'll show you, I'll show you sounds good.
16:43
You know, I was talking to, um, to your wife Michelle and she
16:46
says that when, when, you know, obviously the closer you get
16:49
to the fight, the more you kind of lock down and there were days
16:52
where she literally gets a couple of words out of you and that's
16:55
You know, when you're, when you're there and you've been through
16:59
it multiple times, what's the conversation going on in your
17:04
Um I would say the worst part of it is, is the, uh the week of the
17:09
Um I'm just replaying the game plan, you know, it's like you're
17:13
you're visualizing different scenarios going in your head
17:16
you know, um whether it's you winning, you losing, you know
17:20
or if, if, if he's getting better, what are you gonna do?
17:23
You know, you're just playing all scenarios in your head,
17:25
you guys a fight on the ground, you guys, you know, um you're
17:29
in the worst position out there, you're in the best position
17:32
You're seeing different ways of, of you winning the fight
17:36
whether it be some, some sort of pu some kicks and knee, um
17:40
some flashy move, um a submission, you know, or just playing
17:48
that hard fought fight that goes the whole length of a fight
17:53
you know, but at the end your, your hand raised.
17:56
So, um, yeah, you just kinda started thinking of the fight
18:02
Yeah, once the cage closes, what am I doing?
18:09
You know, what am I, what am I gonna think?
18:11
What am I gonna start to do first?
18:12
What's my first move?
18:13
What's my first step?
18:14
Just all that stuff, you know, and what distance am I gonna
18:19
take before I throw or before he throws?
18:24
So you just, yeah, just thinking all that odd stuff, just like
18:29
you said earlier, by the time the fight comes around, it's
18:31
like you've done it a million times, you know, not only have
18:34
you done it in the gym, but you've also visualized every imaginable
18:40
scenario, so to speak.
18:42
Yeah, you've done the game plan that you're supposed to do
18:45
out there in the fight with each training camp um with each
18:49
sparring session, you know, um you know, what works and what
18:52
doesn't and the stuff that you, that you really need to improve
18:58
on before you go out, you know, you go out there and fight and
19:00
then also, yeah, the, the uh the mental stuff, you know.
19:04
Um So yeah, when you go out there, you've been there 100 times
19:07
you know, 1000 times.
19:08
But again, it's a thing of that's when it counts is that one
19:14
moment, you know, you've done a lot in training, you've done
19:18
But this one night and this one match is when it all counts.
19:22
So that's the most important because that's when you're supposed
19:25
to perform, that's when you're, that's when you're supposed
19:27
to, you're supposed to be at, um, at your best is there.
19:30
Um, and I find watching other people fight, you know, um, that
19:39
some guys can really put that in, you know, into that one night
19:43
they can show their true self in that one night and some guys
19:46
can't, that's what makes the guys who are the average fighters
19:50
or the, the, the champions.
19:52
You know, the guys that can go out there on that one night when
19:54
it really counts when all the pressure is on you.
19:57
But you have to go out there and perform and you go out there
19:59
and win and it is just one night.
20:01
It's not like it's not like the NFL, the NFL, you can go six and
20:05
four and still make the playoffs.
20:06
It's, it's, it's everything geared towards and you need to
20:11
You need to be your best that night.
20:13
You need to, yeah, it's an amazing amount of amazing, amazing
20:16
amount of pressure, whole training camp and you pretty much
20:19
tearing your body down the last week is when you kind of taper
20:22
back, let your body sort of recover.
20:24
You kinda, you almost do less enough where you're, your, your
20:28
body is hungry, you know, you're, you're a, you, you wanna
20:31
do something, you know, you wanna go out there and perform
20:35
and then to get to that one night where, yeah, you're at your
20:39
Um Yeah, it's, it's one night, it's, it's five rounds if it's
20:44
a championship fight, three rounds, if it's not, and it could
20:47
end to any one of those rounds you mentioned earlier.
20:50
Part of the visualization process is also imagining sort
20:54
of the worst case scenario when stuff goes wrong when stuff
20:59
does go wrong and you're in that darkest of places in the ring
21:06
where do you turn to restraint?
21:09
Where do you find that motivation to continue fighting?
21:15
It depends what scenario that you're in.
21:18
Definitely, you know, because in any worst case situation
21:22
say a guy is, you know, mounted you and you know, he's just
21:25
running down punches, you know, there's certain stuff that
21:28
that we've practiced on and that we know what to do in any situation
21:33
Um It all depends on what that scenario is definitely as far
21:38
But I, I mean, it, I think of it as it's, it's life and death,
21:46
I mean, I wanna go out there and I'm gonna put everything I can
21:49
into this one fight to beat him because I'm not gonna let this
21:52
guy go in and take something that I've worked so hard for that
21:58
I'm not gonna have him take away from my family, you know, that's
22:02
So I'm gonna do everything I can to go out there and beat him
22:06
That, that gives you the motivation again?
22:10
It, uh, it, it doesn't, it's a thing of, for myself, you know
22:16
I believe I'm the best out there and, you know, I believe that
22:23
So I need to go out there and take it, you know, but I've, I've
22:26
gone in those long fights before where I needed an extra push
22:31
You know, what, what am I thinking about?
22:33
I thought of was my family.
22:34
Yeah, I'm like, I gotta do this for my family.
22:36
You know, they go into the, the fourth or fifth round and I thought
22:40
about that going in and obviously having to push, push myself
22:44
Um And that's the point I was referring to when, when, when
22:49
your body is ready to shut down when there's no more gas in the
22:52
tank and you gotta keep pushing.
22:55
Um So the visual there is your family.
22:59
It's been there once before.
23:01
Yeah, that, that's what I've, I've thought of um uh won my fight
23:07
going out in the third round.
23:08
I feel like I was in a faint, I stood up from a stool and I felt
23:14
like, I mean, you, you know, I told myself you're gonna faint
23:18
but you're gonna keep going.
23:19
So you can't, you can't go anymore, you know, and somehow I
23:23
made it through the whole fight.
23:26
I feel I had nothing left.
23:27
I felt like, you know, my body was gonna break down and it just
23:30
it just shows how strong the, the mind can be.
23:33
You know, um, your mind can keep making you, do you do things
23:39
differently or, or, or it can keep your, your body performing
23:44
um, at its highest when it feels like it has nothing.
23:47
You know, you again being mentally tough, being a guy that
23:53
doesn't give up, you know, having that, that's when people
23:56
talk about heart, you know, and just to keep going.
23:59
So it's so much more than just a test of skill.
24:02
It's also a test of, of grit and will, you know, it's not necessarily
24:07
just the most skilled fighter who's gonna come out on top.
24:09
It's, it's, it's whoever's willing to sort of dig deeper snow
24:13
Yeah, you have to have, it's, it's having everything combined
24:16
you know, you have to be definitely, you know, athletic,
24:20
you know, you have to be powerful and, you know, in all situations
24:25
have speed, have power, um, be a smart fighter, you know, it's
24:30
not just going out there and just throwing blows and, you know
24:32
exchanging 50 50 you know, that doesn't work, you know, so
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being smart, um, having all the physical stuff and the mental
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stuff also, when stuff gets hard, you know, it's the first
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thing to break down is your mind and stuff gets hard, you know
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some people, ok, it's, they have the, have the most, you know
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athletic ability in the world, you know, and when stuff gets
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hard, people might just cower down to that, you know, where
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if they had that mentality that's super strong and they could
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So, looking back for a moment at your first major purse in UFC
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your first big payday in UFC.
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What was the one stupid thing?
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You spent some money on stupid thing?
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I can't really say I bought some really stupid, um, you know
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because, uh, Michelle and I are, we're very close, you know
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so I'm not, I gotta go, I'll spend money and come back and,
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No, no, we, uh, both of us we talk about, you know, what we're
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gonna spend on and, you know, we, we try to be the type of people
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that, that, that save, you know, and not spend stuff just because
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we, you know, we, we want it, you know, that stuff that, that
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And, um, just being on the same page, you know, not just go spend
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without anybody, you know, knowing and just try to stick by
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But, uh, yeah, I, I can't really think of anything that you
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didn't go out and get that diamond encrusted watch or that
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that, that you thought was gonna appreciate.
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Um, as far as cars, I mean, my first big payday um, I, I bought
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a truck because I, I was using, uh, my parents' car ever since
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I, I came down to San Jose.
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So a couple of fights into the UFC, my wife just said, hey, go
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reach up a car, like do it, you know, she was tired of riding
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Um, we had a, um, um, a Ford Crown Victoria and, you know, so
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everybody thought you were a cop driving down the street.
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Yeah, the, the window is a little bit tinted.
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So here here in California it's, uh, illegal.
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But, um, yeah, people thought I was like, yeah, people thought
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I was a cop driving around to get out of your way.
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So had that for a while and, yeah, Michelle was like, hey, go
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get yourself a truck or a car, whatever you, whatever you want
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So, and cars are a bit of a thing for you.
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No, you have a passion for cars.
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Talk to me about it.
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Yeah, just like, uh, like cars.
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I, I can appreciate any type of car, you know, whether it's
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a European, you know, I love, I think my, my heart is more so
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on the, on the, in the American, the American side of, uh, of
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But, um, whether it's a car, you know, to be flashy, whether
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it's a, you know, a low rider, whether it's a car, you know,
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to race, whether it's a pro touring car where you can put on
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a track, but also you can daily drive it.
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Um, yeah, of course, I can appreciate all of it.
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If you could have any car as a gift tomorrow, you wouldn't have
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Wouldn't cost you a dime wouldn't be a guilty pleasure.
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So I have to go first because I, I already have my dream car.
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Um So I was uh I was a kid.
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Um I was watching the show, I think it was like my class of car
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or something like that.
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I think it's still running now.
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Um So the guy, he had a uh 70 or 71 Torino, both the same body size
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I saw that car when they, uh when he was show, when, when he was
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showing to the host and automatically just fell in love with
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it like I've always like car, but then that's the first time
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I fell in love with that body style, just the lines of it.
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Um that it was a mid size car kind of like, uh you know, it was
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kind of like velle um version, you know, of uh of uh a Ford, you
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know, it's a mid-sized car, love the body lines, love, love
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everything about it.
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So a couple of years ago I finally went out and bought it, you
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know, bought one for me.
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I found online and bought it.
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Um, it was pretty much all original played around with that
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for a little while and now I'm building up to be a car which is
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a car that I can race on the track.
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But, uh, also I can, um, daily drive it.
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So I would say I already have my dream car.
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But again, go back to the question of somebody give me a gift
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Um, another car that I, that cars that I really fell in love
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with have been Porsches.
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I can appreciate any European carbon portions.
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I love that they're meant to be driven and driven.
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I love just the car.
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Beat the hell out of it and it just ask for more and it's reliable
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So that's what, that's what drawed me to uh to Porsches.
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And um, I would get a singer 9 11.
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So this company singer, um, out in L A, they, their goal was
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to build the ultimate 9 11 building, put the best parts together
30:10
So flight out the fenders a little bit, not too crazy, just
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enough where they've massage, you know, the fenders and the
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quarter pans where they're a little wider, you can feel a little
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wide, wider tire, you know, on all four corners and having
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all the luxuries of, you know, the ac stereo, um, really high
30:31
But yeah, the ultimate you know, 9 11.
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So, you're a Porsche guy as well as an American muscle car guy
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More so for the European stuff, just like what they stand for
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And, yeah, American cars, because a lot of American cars too
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are, you know, not flashy per se, but more performance driven
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And, uh, the Torino is a car that's bigger, so it's not ideal
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for, it's not ideal as far as it's not gonna be the fastest car
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It's big head of a car, but it's gonna perform, you know, but
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I'm not going for, I mean, it's not a, a car that you look at,
31:13
it's gonna be a show car as far as big wheels or nothing like
31:17
No, we found, I found I'm looking up research, found that eighteens
31:21
is, is the best as far as not being overly big wide wheels, you
31:29
know, so they can grip the road really nice and having adjustable
31:32
suspension all around.
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Um, you know, half a roll cage, not the full but half where you
31:39
can get in and out still and, you know, you still still use the
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Um, and, uh, a six shift car where it's just fun to drive.
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Sounds like auto racing may be a good follow up career for me
31:54
I've done, I've done some racing a little, maybe a little heavy
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for the average car, but definitely, definitely.
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Now I've done some races and I like it.
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But this, I think, um you know, with auto and do a little track
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days, I mean, I could, I think with, you know, with this car
32:08
I can, I could, I could do it if I wanted to.
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So it's a, it's a good option to have picture yourself years
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And your daughter Quarl turns to you and says, you know what
32:18
that, I think I wanna follow your footsteps and get into the
32:23
If that happens, what do you say, always believed in just having
32:29
that support for, for your family, for your kids, you know
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whatever they wanna do, I'll definitely support them, you
32:37
Um I don't think she has it in her.
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She's so girly that I honestly think, I mean, I'll bet anybody
32:46
a million bucks that she will not end up doing that.
32:50
Uh, when she gets older, she's too much of a girly girl.
32:53
But if she would or she was or did she, she did want to then?
32:58
Yeah, I mean, I think having, you know, your parents, uh you
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know, blessing and support is, is, is very important.
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So I would, I would support her.
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That's very generous.
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That's a tough, that's a tough one.
33:12
As I was writing that question down, I'm thinking, man, I don't
33:16
Years down the line when you, when you, when you retire and
33:20
you're out of the fight game, how is it, you like to be remembered
33:25
as far as people, you know, when they hear my name or, you know
33:28
when they think of me as a fighter, I just want them.
33:33
I've always just wanted them just to be the type of the type
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of people that, hey, every time Kane Velasquez fought, he
33:41
put it all out there, he fought a lot of heart.
33:45
It was always exciting.
33:46
Um, Just that he had the Mexican style fighting.
33:51
As you look at UFC 1 96.
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Would you consider that your, your biggest fight ever?
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This next fight UFC 1 96?
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Um, definitely is my, my, my biggest fight ever.
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Um Every next fight is your biggest fight ever.
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Um You know, and having something to prove, you know, getting
34:13
I love getting revenge.
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That's just love it.
34:16
So, in that proving something.
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And your, your next fight always is that it's always the, the
34:29
biggest thing, you know, and it has to be because you can't
34:33
go out there and, um, you know, um, not give your point of credit
34:38
you know, you can't go out there and say, oh, well, you know
34:41
this guy's not that tough or no, you can get beat at any moment
34:45
So you have to be ready.
34:46
You have to pretend like this guy, he's the best guy at everything
34:50
and that's what you have to have.
34:52
That's the top mentality that you have to have out there fighting
34:56
like this time during training camp, you kind of locked down
34:59
You get very serious about stuff.
35:01
When was the last, when was the last really good laugh you had
35:07
last really good laugh?
35:09
Um, I don't know, I can't really think it, you know, it's, I
35:14
I mean, I laugh today, you know, telling a story, you know
35:18
um about me and, uh my, my best friend, we were um he was here
35:24
had him over and then we were playing How to Go Seek with Cora
35:28
Michelle, you know, won't play how to Go Seek.
35:30
So we played all around the house.
35:31
So I take him to the entertainment system up there and I'm like
35:37
hey, get on top of that, I'll, I'll help you up, lay you down
35:41
and I'm pretty sure you can't see you if you lay down there.
35:45
But once he goes out there and lays down, it's like, it's like
35:50
So you see his whole body and as I'm hearing Michelle count
35:54
and getting ready, you know, to, to come out, I turn to him,
35:58
I run out here, turn to him and say I can see you see abort, abort
36:03
and I run and obviously he can't get himself down.
36:07
He's yelling like cake and he just like he just lays down and
36:12
tries to, to just, you know, be quiet and, and hold himself
36:17
And Michelle finds him like that, you could put a spotlight
36:23
It, yeah, pretty much.
36:24
It's like his whole body is lifted up.
36:26
You can see his whole body there, you know, and I just, I just
36:30
was like, sounds like a good idea.
36:32
It sounded good in the beginning.
36:34
But then once I saw him, I just said, hey, I'm being selfish
36:37
I gotta go, you know, you're caught, dude.
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Sorry, I'm, I'm out of here.
36:41
So uh yeah, I mean that was about today.
36:45
So, you know, there's always things every day that you know
36:48
you laugh about even though you're, yeah, you're thinking
36:50
about the fight but being around good people, being around
36:53
friends, family that um definitely keeps your mind, you know
36:59
So you're not so serious all the time, you know, you're, you're
37:01
relaxed, you know, because in a lot of those tense uh situations
37:05
other than fights, you, you can't be tense, you need to be nice
37:09
to relax, you know, with, with relaxation, you don't telegraph
37:14
anything, you don't telegraph your punches, your, you know
37:17
your, your kicks, you don't telegraph um what emotion you're
37:21
feeling at that moment, you know, being nice and relaxed,
37:25
you're disguising everything right?
37:29
Easier said than done.
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But uh we've done it many times.
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Very cool, Kane, this was a hell of a lot of fun, man.
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Thanks again for having us into your home and nothing but the
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best of luck at UFC 1 96.
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Thank you very much.
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