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Joe sits down with Jiří Procházka, a professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Light Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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JRE MMA Show #165 with Jiří Procházka Podcast Episode Summary
In this episode of the Joe Rogan podcast, the discussion centers around personal growth, discipline, and the philosophy of living in the present moment. The guest, who appears to be a fighter or someone involved in martial arts, shares insights into the mental and physical preparation required for success in combat sports. A significant theme is the importance of mental discipline and the power of meditation in achieving clarity and focus. The guest emphasizes the need to eliminate distractions and maintain a controlled, present mindset, especially when preparing for a fight.
The conversation touches on the concept of ego and the balance between confidence and humility. The guest reflects on the journey of self-improvement, highlighting the importance of overcoming personal challenges and mistakes. They discuss the significance of being true to oneself and not getting caught up in external validation or superficial achievements.
Actionable insights include the practice of meditation and self-reflection to enhance mental strength and clarity. The guest advises focusing on what truly matters and letting go of unnecessary thoughts and actions. They stress the importance of being present and authentic, both in personal life and professional endeavors.
Overall, the episode conveys a message of self-awareness, discipline, and the pursuit of personal excellence. It encourages listeners to explore their minds, maintain balance, and live authentically in the present moment.
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JRE MMA Show #165 with Jiří Procházka Podcast Episode Transcript (Unedited)
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Ai my day, Joe Rogan podcast ai night, all day. Great to have you in, man. Yeah. Great to
How you feeling? You must be feeling fantastic.
Many things, were successful. So even if I, like, was a little bit, had a flu, Meh things
You had a flu before that fight?
Yeah. For 1 1 speak, like, 5 5 days ai day 5 days before 5 week, I was in ai, like, how to say that? Heat, like, body’s Fever? Fever. Fever. Yeah. Fever. So yeah. That’s crazy.
That was that was, yeah, that was something what I but every time maybe I’m a little bit glad for that because, every time trying to push my preparation too much Mhmm. That I’m every time, like, hurt myself or or I’m overtrained. Right. So so that’s why I’m maybe maybe just a little bit glad for that.
That. That’s interesting. Right? Like, it’s it’s so hard because you wanna prepare so hard. You you’re so disciplined, so driven, but you can do yourself a disservice. You can go too arya, and then you don’t recover enough, and then you go into the fight a little compromised.
Yeah. We’ve seen that many times with fighters who just get so enthusiastic about their training.
Yeah. Because I feel ai self confidence and still there is something what you can do better, yeah, every day. And that’s my idea of of the training ai life idea to to to go better every day. 1% better. 1% better. Even if you don’t if you can’t train, you can sit in a meh. Every solace is how you train, how the how this body is working.
Sometimes is the most biggest, ai, the biggest thing what you can do is just
Ai like, you show me the floating.
Yes. Yeah. You need one of those, man. If all the people that I know, you need you need one. Sensory deprivation tank. You should get one of those.
Because I know you’re into meh. I know you spend a lot of time in dark rooms. That’s that’s meh times a 100.
Do you monitor your heart rate every day to see what your recovery is at, or you just go by feel?
Feeling. Feeling. Feeling. Feeling. I did that in, high altitude training in, all in November in, Mexico Meh City, where it’s, 2,300 200 meters.
7,700 feet above sea level, I believe.
Yes. And, there Ai there I monitor monitor everything, like, take up blood exams before in and after the this camp, 4 weeks camp there. And, man, amazing amazing how
Well, your endurance was incredible in that fight because that was such a high
And still. Paced fight. And still, I I felt ai, after that flu, I felt a little bit down.
But Well, that’s pretty amazing then. You must have been in insane shape before the flu. Yeah. It’s that fine line, that balance.
so you went to Mexico City. Did you did you know a gym up there, or did you bring your camp up there?
I was there in, UFC Performance Institute there. There’s a there’s a new one. Nice. Man, you you have everything here in Yeah. In the Performance Institute, like, regeneration, training, coaches, coaches with the pads. Mhmm. And, sai, I was there for especially for, to work on on the things what I what I took from the last fight with Pereira to to work on on the hands up a little bit and just a little bit.
A little bit. But we were talking about it in the broadcast. Your hands down sometimes has a benefit. There’s a there’s a real advantage to it because no one sees where those punches are coming from.
So for the people that don’t know what I’m talking about
Not just punches. Yes. Movement. Movement. Head movement. Head movement was excellent. Everything. Your head movement was excellent. And the feeling feeling, with the hands up is another one with the that, with the hands with the hands down. Mhmm. Yeah. Because this is your natural posture. Right.
Yeah. So you spend a more more most of the time in in this. And, it’s it’s it’s about just, just a feeling the space, feeling the I I can’t explain to to another person like this one because, when Ai when Ram in in the flow, like, you wanna be in the flow, in the fight, some between the flow and, uncomfortable
Some somewhere in the center. So when I achieved these attitudes, that’s why I don’t need to keep my hands up because this, for me, means and for everybody, that means defending.
don’t need to defend myself when I see when I see everything, when I feel everything. And, but, like, I understand in this preparation where I tried where I did, all the camp hands up ai this gives you the calm Mhmm. In a in a close distance. In a close distance, it’s not so ai, it’s not so smart to to keep Hands down. Hands down. Yeah.
So But Ai crazy I’m crazy enough to to go through, to be in the moment, to stress my body so much in this situation, to see every movement, every start of the movement of my opponent that I can react before he start. And the next level is to try to to to, to read, read, the thinking of the opponent, what he wants to do
Before he do that. Sai so there is a many levels of of that. So but ai I can’t explain that. Sometimes, ai, in the saloni fight with Pereira, I was a little bit, punched, in the in the in the end of the 1st round. So I stepped to the 2nd round, and Ai and I said to ai, I was too courageous to and keep the hands down. So so that’s why it happened.
should have been more defensive maybe to recover.
One thing you said after that fight, you said you have to evolve. And one thing that I saw in this last fight with Jamal Hill was evolution. I really saw it. You really see it ai the counters, the the head movement, and the counters were brilliant. There’s one that, I put on my Instagram stories.
It was so incredible. He threw a punch, you slid slightly out of the way, landed a straight left, and then the right hook that dropped him, but it was so dynamic. It was so fast and precise. I was ai, that’s a different Yuri Prochaska. Like, the the your earlier fights were always excellent.
You always had amazing power and very unusual movement, very difficult to predict, but the sharpness of your counters was on another level in this fight.
That’s what I worked on. Yeah. To be not just, connect to the opponent and react what’s happened right now, but little bit, be a little bit beef before what what will happen. Yes.
Well, you’re you’re definitely getting better, which is so fascinating. You know? Sai you you had a very brilliant approach. You waited until you’d reached a certain level before you entered the UFC. You could have been in the UFC years earlier.
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But and I have to say thank you to my, to my coaches for that because we worked, on my style. We are consultate consulting, like, communicate about about that style, what to make a better, how to how to do that. That’s why I’m keeping, like, my 2 coaches. What I begin with began with, like, all the time with with me ai I think that’s that’s the only thing you can go, to be a master with in something, to stay with, with some people, with some,
Yeah. Tight circle in some and go deeper. You can go really deep.
Yeah. Yeah. So It’s also I value loyalty. Loyalty is very important.
It means a lot, you know, and when people worked really hard to get you to a certain level. What I like is there’s some coaches that they recognize that maybe there’s other skill sets they can bring in, so they work with other people as well, you know, but always stay with the people that as long as the relationship is good, always stay with the people that brought you to the game.
Yeah. Sure. Sure. Because in the end, you can you can change whoever, but you you you have to start again with with the same people and go and, again, you will go to the same level, to the same problems with the with these people because not it’s it’s because it’s not about them.
It’s always about you to recognize what’s in you.
How much tape do you watch? Do you watch a lot of film? Do you watch videos of fights?
Yeah. Yeah? I was 5 days sick before the ai, so so I I just watched the Arya 300. Yeah. Ong Bak, I watch. Ong Bak ai meh, he That’s wild shit. Man, no no wild shah, but ai I was really in inspired. I I I was really hungry for to to see something because long time, I didn’t see, some good no good movie.
Doesn’t matter if it’s, like, good or new, but these old classics of the ai Jean Claude Van Damme with the kickboxer and all these things.
That’s what that’s what, made a spark in inside me to a true love for martial arts because they in the in that movies, they live that, really live that. And and they have no other chance to to solve their problems just just by martial arts and something. So that’s that’s why I’m
So you got inspired by movies? Yeah. Do you watch a lot of films of fight footage, like your fights, your opponent’s fights?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I don’t need to I don’t need many times to to study that. I just need to, like, see once once I I just see the attitude, like, attitude of the start of the fight, how he’s fighting the his, how to say, his spirit, his mindset, how he’s thinking, how he’s, the start of moving of his body Mhmm.
How he’s reacting for not just for opponent, for the many situation, for slipping and and movement, but, everything, like a per personal ai studying the the that ai. His energy. His energy, his ai, how is how is reacting, how he’s react in a in a in a some situation ai these ai and all these things ai some some breaks in the fight every every time because it shows you how he have under control himself all the time all the time.
Mhmm. And this is something was Alex Pereira. I don’t know what what is his story behind, but he have to he handled that. He handled that, and that’s why he is how he is. Now he’s starting to be more relaxed, and I wish him to to stay sharp.
Well, I think he’s more relaxed outside the fight, but in the ai, he’s always very calm. Yeah. Very calm and very focused.
Yes. Did you watch your first fight with him before you watched the saloni before you have fought him the saloni time?
Yes. Sure. Sure. Yeah. I I studied him a lot, but the second fight, I Ai Ai little push it too much.
No. No. No. I mean, my like Training? After the fight, I was like, I sana ask for after I’m ready for him. Right now, I’m ready too, but I’m open for for whoever will, UFC will give me, like, ai, like, like, a next opponent to prove that I am but I sana a true challenge. Like, I sana a true challenge of from the, I think, top 5 guys. Yeah.
Right. The the interesting thing about the light heavyweight division is, there’s there’s only about ai really exciting contenders, 4 or 5 really it’s there’s not a deep pool of fighters that would be, you know, very interesting to see you fight.
That’s right. Because there is a like I said today, there’s a few guys who really have the taste, have the drive Mhmm. To to go to the job. I wanna go to the job. I wanna take it. I have the Ai feel the energy of the crown, and I can take it. Mhmm. So and, that’s why that’s why I’m I’m I’m doing that.
That’s why I’m still talking about that to be there because I really feel that that I can beat it up. And one thing what I needed is that I had to be stable. Stable to not just get to the top and back and out, but to go to the top and know how how it is to be there. Know to, to to keep the all these weights on the top. Mhmm. What it what it what there is. Yeah.
Yeah. Defending the title is more difficult even than than getting the ai. And then it’s improving while you’re champion. You know, they say that Daniel Cormier always says that every champion improves, like, significantly once they become champion because you have the confidence of being champion.
And it’s just how long can you maintain the kind of energy that’s required to constantly get better? Because it’s not just about maintaining. Right? It’s about constantly improving. It’s a constant an analysis of all your movements and and what you’re doing ai, what you mistakes that were made, what the thought process was before the mistake, and how to eliminate that.
Yeah. Yeah. This is something what what is like I said, the style of Japanese, they they call that kaizen. Yes. Kaizen, like daily improvements, small improvements, daily recognizing what’s bad, what’s good. Mhmm. And, sometimes it’s Sai feel I feel like it’s like ai a sick like, to be upset too much obsessed in that meh, you need a little break.
That’s that’s why I think the the life gave me this, little break before this.
A little flu. Yeah. Was that why you came in so light?
Yeah. Me. Yeah. Was that why? That that was that that was why. Yeah.
Because I was watching a video with Luke Thomas was going over your performance. Everybody was very impressed and he was as well. But one of the things that he was talking about was that you only weighed £208
When you walked into the cage.
I thought I will do the my best when I would go to the sauna night before the waiting and speak there. And again, I I change I switched myself in the sauna, and I was there, like, for 30 minutes.
I’m ai, another just like, 15 minutes, 15, 15, like, many rounds. Right. Right.
30 minutes there. And Do you do sauna cold
or just sauna relax? Relax.
Relax. Okay. No. No. No. Sauna cold. Okay. So Sai And then you
Yes. Sure. And cold normally, like, the cold cold punch. Mhmm. I’m I’m doing that daily because I have the at home, the cold punch. Yes. And I’m using that. Yeah.
Yeah. And but the funny is the saloni day after that, and I didn’t drink anything, after the sauna. And next day morning, I went I went to the to the control weight, and then I have, I don’t know how how to say in the Libris, ai kilograms. I I’m fighting in I’m fighting in 93 Right. And half. And I was 2 and a half kilogram under the my my weight. That sounds like £200. So yeah.
So I was the only one guy who who was in a row to the weights wading, and I and I tried to hide myself before other guys, and and I should drink 1 liter 1 liter of the of the water, 2nd liter of the
Wow. Wow. Like, just because you didn’t wanna weigh in ai.
Because yeah. I would because I spent too much time in the sauna, man. Wow.
That’s crazy. Because you only weighed 208.
Yeah. I felt really really ai
You look great. You look very lean and fast, man. Fast. You look fat like, significantly you’ve always been very fast, but you looked even faster.
It’s just all about this. Ram. Man, well, if you have the reason why and, the and you can not just you want it, ai, your ego just want it, but you feel it ai it’s your destiny, these moments, and you it’s yours. So then then it will happen. So
do you feel ai maybe even the the ai with Pereira are a blessing and that it showed you what you need to work on?
Every time it’s this is the only way how to how I want to see that. Yeah. Yeah. Especially especially the the guy like him who’s really top ai, and his style, his mindset, what he showed till now was something what I needed to work on still. Mhmm.
on the I’m on the way. Yeah.
Well, his style is extraordinary. It’s very unusual as is yours, but the thing that’s shocking the most about him is that he only needs to hit you once. He’s is it much different, the power that you feel from him than anybody else?
There is a different from other guys. Yeah. There is a different, but only one thing I can say, like, I know the recipe.
You know the recipe? Yeah. What’s the recipe?
What’s the recipe? How to because you have to you have to know how to give the punch and how to ex like, to how to accept the punches. How to move with How to move with it and, how to overcome the bad moments and all these things. But it’s better, much better to defend the the punch with the hand or defend the the the punch with the movement. Yeah. And it yeah.
Did you ever watch, any of his glory kickboxing fights?
This is a good one to watch, the Artem Vahitov fight.
Yeah. Because Vahitov is very technical.
I I think he won yeah. I want He
won a very close decision. It was very close. Yeah. It was one of those fights where you could call it either way, but but he won. But he’s very technical, very interesting to watch him deal with the style of Pereira because Pereira is such a unusual way of moving. Ai, even the way he, like, holds his hands up and he he looks different. So do you.
You look diff like, there’s only a few fighters that if you saw their silhouette, I can go, oh, that’s Yuri Prochaska. Ai could see it right away. I can I know how you move, you know? And Alex is that way as well. It’s, like, very unique way of moving.
But his, the the way Vahitav handled it is a a good blueprint for a lot of people to avoid the power and, you know, keep the volume on him. Mhmm. What was your original style? What did what was the first martial art that you learned?
Muay Thai. Muay Thai. Yeah. I started in, in my high school. I started with karate because there was it was in a in a daily daily schedule.
Shotokan. Shotokan sana, judo. There was 2. And I felt like I need I need something more contact Mhmm. More and more aggressive. So not aggressive, but more ram more potent more potent. Yeah. So I started with Muay Thai. Yeah. The most potent.
Yeah. Muay Thai is fascinating to me that this one island figured out how to fight better than anybody on the feet.
Yep. That’s right. And a lot
of it, they did it through gambling.
a lot of it. Because they’re so into gambling that they had so many fights, and then people just fought a lot. And then they’re like, what works best? And then they figured it out.
Yeah. And right now, after watching Ong Bak Yeah. I’m I’m just still realizing what is the what is the best style, what is the best movements, best deadly techniques, what to do. And right now, after I watched it long back, I I see the Moai Boran. Right? Like, ai, in my next chapter to what I sana to see real real, like, in, in Thailand to see really how to use that and how to how to because I’m the man who’s, like, taking the piece here, taking the piece here, and Mhmm.
Combining it all together.
Ai yeah. Altogether. Yep.
So, do have you trained in Thailand?
Thailand. In Thailand? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just a little bit for for, like, 3 weeks there before, before the title fight with Teixeira. Then I was there with, for a camp. Yeah. Phuket. Yeah.
Yeah. One of the greatest knockouts that you had was that Dominic Reyes spinning elbow, which is beautiful Muay Thai.
Flow. That’s Oh. Yeah. That’s Beautiful flow.
It’s ai you just timed that out. That was a real coming out party for you, that ai, because that was when people ai like, my god. Like this guy.
Yeah. Always find a way. Yeah.
Yeah. When you, first started fighting in MMA, was this something first of all, how old were you when you had your first fight?
Oh, when I was first fight in my 18, ai.
And were you looking at it as a career?
Yeah. Right from the beginning. Were you looking at it to do that was what you sana to do professionally?
Right away. Yeah. It’s from my 20 20 around ai 20. Yeah.
You knew you wanted to be a championship fighter?
Yes. Yes. Because that was something what what I I was ins too inspired by by because, I was a young guy who’s tried to to challenge everything around himself, everything, every man, every situations, everywhere. I’ll I will I’m better than this. Ai better than this. Ah. But it and it meh not the school. Just just not in the school.
But but I like the fighting. I I I fall in love in, with the fighting, with the looking for, finding my biggest strength, and, that’s that’s the ai I’m I’m I’m going every time to the nature, to sleeping in the mountains, to, that’s why I’m living in the cottage, to be in the contact with the nature, to feel the present moment and rare natural power of the of the water, fire, of all these things, of the sun.
Yeah. Yeah. I Ai was gonna ask you about that. Like, when did you start this training in nature? Because, when you look at your setup that you have at your place and everything’s outside, you know, you put pads over trees and you you punch and kick trees.
Yeah. Sometimes it’s sometimes it looks looks looks weird, but but, you know wow. I don’t like to to I don’t like right now, I I ai I I need to I want I right now, I wanna overcome the the people, the demands, the the the sparring partners in the in the training. But, like, in my personal way, I was inspired by once, I was inspired by, Masutatsu Ram,
was the founder of, Kyokushinkai karate. Mhmm. And I saw his movie and how he spent more than 1 year, one and a half year in the mountains, and he trained just in the mountains under the waterfall in the winter, in the winter. And he made from himself a really, really something ai unshakable mind, self confidence, so deep because he he found a way how to overcome, how to rule his body, how to he’s, describing that in his book, like, the mind without the thinking, like, without the thoughts, pure mind, pure focus, pure consciousness right here, right now.
And I took that, like, my own way. And and I think it was year 214, 215, and I took everything in myself. I I took tent tent. Yeah. And I and I went to the to the mountains to the mountains, and I slept there for just for, like, 1 week, 2 weeks. One healthy. Yeah.
And I I was inspired too much, so I did the same thing. I ran there, and I punched to the to the rock. And yeah. And, yeah. And I just and I just want to fight with the environment, like, with the with the nature around me.
And in the end, you can realize there is no fighting. There is nothing. This is the pure life because this is the pure life because the pure the life has the one reason to overcome everything around and, Survive. Survive, survive, survive. And this is the this is the nature of what is in us.
Sai this is and as deeper you can go in this uncomfortable, environment and all these things, that deep, you sana, understand the life and, like, be a philosopher about that. Like, understand understand more deeply, and I don’t know what to say. Yeah.
No. You’re saying it right. Yeah. I I understand what you’re saying.
So that’s why. So I was inspired by the Masutatsu Oyama, and then that’s why I decide after the saloni fight with Alex, I need to go to Japan, to Japan, to the places to make a black belt from Kyokushinkai karate, and really feel, all these things ai a realist realist. Not just think about that, how it can be, how how is this style can be, but to live that. That’s it.
Because I like like to take an inspiration and take it and go there. Fight that fight that guy. Live that experience. Yeah. This is it. This is yeah.
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Well, you’re obviously very physically talented, but I think one of the things that does separate you from other fighters is this mindset that you’ve cultivated and that you embrace. And I think I think It’s
There’s also there’s something fascinating about the fact that you do do it outside. I think that scares people. Ai think something about the fact that you like to be fighting in nature and punching trees, like
Because because I’m coming, like, from from, from a from one village where was there a lot of, like, good guys. But everybody, we we were, we are still, like, really crazy. When we are celebrating, it’s all the time about right now, we are trying to slow down to to show others, like, we are unadults.
Like, we we know we are demands. But still, it’s about, like, the showing the the strength. Yeah. How what to what to destroy, how to how to punch other guy, how to how to show the the strength Yeah. Above others. Mhmm. Yeah.
So and when when there was when there started, on the okay. I can say it. When when on these parties arya the level of, ai, it was really dangerous, A fire and firearms and and and the and the cars and and the fire ai it was not safe. Then I said, guys, okay. We are a man. Let’s Be mature. Let’s yeah. Please.
Yeah. Take it down a notch. Because Somebody could die.
Yeah. Yeah. And that’s something what you what you have to realize. And these these essence of of arya looking for a strength, this something, this true madness, like ai, when when I see these, this picture of Oh, that picture. Of that. And and and remembered me that when I saw that when I came here. The JRE logo. Yeah. The logo. Yeah.
And when I saw that, it it remembered me, like, meh. Go through going through all the ai. Choose the choose the hardest way and go through overcome whatever and show you are the you are the boss. Yeah. And and this is this is it.
This is why Ai I came from that place where we are ai to to show each other this one, and Ai trying to give it that energy. Carry that energy and put it in the in the calm way Yeah. To to to show it in the in the cage. And, that’s why the samurai ideas, the Bushido codex helping me in that to to show it. That’s all.
I understand. And and then you feel that in training in nature and then experiencing the wild and getting it out there, it becomes even more pure because you recognize that all around you is survival.
That’s that’s right. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. You you you are on the wave now. Yeah.
We’re on the same wave. Yeah. So when what year did you start doing this training in the wild?
Yeah. Ai, I was I started was inspired by by Masutatsu Ram, and then I realized it’s not about opponents, man. It’s about just your body, just about rule rule your body, how much you can you can rule your body, rule your mind, rule your emotions, logical state of of thinking, yeah, to, find the way how to not overcome, how to rule your breath because this is this this is it.
This is the way. And, because this is the most primal thing of the body. Yeah. 1st, when the child is born, like, first his breath, everything is, like, you can you can, settle by by the breath in in the body, not just by thoughts. And over the thinking and thoughts is like, a great, serve, but a bad boss. Meh.
Really. So So it serves you well, but it’s you can’t let it control you. Yes. Yeah.
So there’s a many levels what you have to, what you have to rule in your in your body, what you have to understand, and put it in put it in one way in the in the present moment. So
yeah. So you had your first fights when you’re around 18, ai? Yep. And then, how long when did you decide that you were ready for the UFC, and how did you make that decision? Because I I do know that you were offered fights before. Yep. But you said Ai want more development time.
That was in sai some somewhere in the center of between me in my 6th, 7th fight in Bryden. So around a year to to 17 to 18. Yeah. Some some something like that. And, yeah, I realized that, man, there is a there is a way in the ai yet. Yeah. So I need I need to no. I need to. I wanna take a title here. I wanna prove that I’m the, how do you sai, like, the the king of Japan, like Yeah.
To to rule rule these guys real really, and, then I can go to the to the league of the best. Because if you wanna go to the league of the best, better to be prepared for. Yeah. And,
yeah. Ai think that happens too often.
That’s why I can can fight for a title in in 3 fights. So
I think, boxing has it right in in that boxing. They look at ai, managers look at fighters as an investment. So if you’re a manager and you have, like, Floyd Mayweather, you don’t give Floyd Mayweather the the best fight you can get him right away with the toughest guy.
You wanna see how he performs with a guy who’s an inside puncher or a body body puncher who’s a brawler. You wanna see how he handles a slick guy like, Emmanuel Augustus with unorthodox movement. You wanna how’s he handled Diego Corrales, saloni, tall reach? And you you build them with fighters that you think you you gotta know when they’re ready.
And then there’s a an objective assessment. Okay. He’s ready. Meh. Then you start moving him into top 10 contenders, then you move him to a title shot. It’s good to see. Throws you right to the wolves.
Yeah. Yeah. It’s good to to have this objective. Meh. And if you if I like to to be ai a watcher of the of my progress of the of the situation. Think about that. How to plan it. How to how to see that not, not personally. Just to see yourself as another person and put it in a in myself in a way where, where it will be the best for these for these, targets. Mhmm.
And then go in and do that.
Yeah. Yeah. And when you, you had a very quick rise in the UFC to a title fight. So you fought was Volkan Ostermier your first fight?
So you beat Volkan Osmir, then Dominic Reyes was the 2nd fight? Yes. And then, bam, title shot. Yeah. Crazy. So that’s the reason to be so prepared.
Because if you’re successful, things go very quickly.
That’s right. That’s right.
You have to be ready. When you look at your first fight with Volkan Osterholm and then you look at your fight with Jamal Hill, do you see significant improvement?
When you look at your first fight in the UFC when you fought Volkan Osterholm and now you look at yourself now in the the most spectacular performance against Jamal Hill. Do you see the improvement?
Right now, I can say yes. Yeah. Yeah. Because there was a with the Volka as the mirror, there was just a pure raw tyler, real raw the Aggression. Aggression aggression, but not so, Refined. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. You can see that in the fight, man. There was there was just a pure, Chaos. Pure chaos, man.
That was too too too much. Sometimes it’s the self confident. Like, when you are too much self confident, it’s a bad thing. Yeah. Like, because ego will took you to another another line, and it will, it will destroy you. Yeah. Yeah. It will burn you.
So you have to keep that burn, that fire under control and to give the these these attacks, these aggressive aggressiveness, in just a small, to keep it under control, Justin.
Yeah. I like what you just sai. That ego will take you to another line.
Man, it’s it’s good to be to have it. Yeah. We can’t live without in this world with, cooperations, with collaborations, like talking, relationships. Yeah. You can’t live without, but, also, you have to cultivate that in, like so there is a 22 worlds, like
Like without in ai. So you have to go in.
Yeah. They have they have to be working together. The mind and the ego have to be working together, and then the no mind, the meh.
Yeah. And the ego will take you out of the flow. Yeah. The ego will, like, oh, I’m gonna go fuck him up, and then boom, you get hit.
Yeah. I like what you said though about it. It takes you out of the ai, because it takes you into a different line. It takes you in a different line of fighting. And then sometimes in that line, you’ll realize you’re out of place. You ai you’re leaving openings that shouldn’t be there and you’re trying to force.
Yeah. Good force. Yeah. Force and power. Yeah. Yeah. And good when you you said, like, when you realize that, it’s bad when you don’t realize. Yeah. And sometimes it’s good when you have the people around you to to, man
Bring you back. Yeah. Ai why I’m sometimes really glad for my team, my people around me Yeah. To keep me back.
That’s what’s amazing about having a coach who knows you, having trainers who know you. They know every they’re ai, they know where you’re at. Like, calm down. Calm down. Everything’s great, but you you’re hitting the gas too much. Ai, so be a little more technical, move around more. Yep.
Not too much. Not too much. Right.
That’s right. Because sometimes it’s the these wildness do it. The aggression do
To take over. Like, it’s too necessary. But
Well, that’s what I asked you after the fight. I said, there’s something about you where you thrive. You get better when it’s chaotic. Yep. There’s some ai it seems like you relish in the chaos of these wild exchanges.
Because it’s very because sometimes fighters like to piece people up where they’re not getting hit. Like Jamal Hill is really good at that. Like the Glover Teixeira fight, he did a fantastic job of utilizing his game and his accuracy and reach, and he just put it on Glover.
But they don’t want to be in these wild exchanges. You seem to want to be in these wild exchanges because you thrive there.
Yeah. That’s right. That’s right. And sometimes it’s I don’t know where where is the what it these to keeping, yourself and the control is going ram. Sometimes it’s going from the fear to be not hit. Sometimes it’s going from to be careful for the takedowns and but I wanna be, like, fearless in that, like, to stay behind, stay before the opponent and have no no fear.
No. You can go as close you wanna as close you want and try to hit meh, and you will not hit me because I’m here, and I and I feel you. I’m I got you. Sai I can’t explain it, and I don’t wanna explain it. I wanna show that in a fight.
Right. Sai I know what you’re saying. When you, one of the things that we were talking about Daniel and I were talking about when we were doing the commentary was your head movement was so good. It was it was different than before. It was, like, at another level. Like, what what specifically had you do had you done to prepare that made your head movement so much better?
I have, like, long time I’m work working on that, like, since my before I stepped in the US. No. Since my title finding, I really I really, exactly know what’s what’s when I started to work on especially on that because I realized that this is my game. This is really what’s me. And, it was around the title fight with, with king in the ai. So that was a ai title fight in the rising.
And it’s about the the feeling the opponent. The feel the opponent, but not be, but to not be, how to say? To not let the this feeling to to to to push you in some way. You know? I understand to to feel the speak, but still be calm, be unshakable.
And, you can feel the the then you can feel the the space around you, the everything. And whatever will move right now, you will react for that and and, naturally, because you will feel the the these all these things like yours ai yourself, like everything is you. Mhmm. And then then you can step to the level Ai everywhere because there is no difference between me, this this thing, this thing, the opponent, but still but still.
And that’s sometimes why I need to be, why I need to be a little bit hit to feel the aggression back to the ai. That was that was before the before the UFC. And I knee I was needed to to get hit because I need to because I felt him felt the felt the movement, felt the right right movement.
Everything was ai, but I I also needed to be more aggressive to once it’s to go through the opponent. Yes. Because I was too, how to say, too nice too nice for them to just just just show them I can slip and I can move everything. You can you don’t you can’t hit me, but it this is not the fight. The fight is to answer to to catch him in the in the right moment.
So sai, yes, to be here and now, to be, like I said, to be everything, but still to not be pushed by this feeling, ai, to be to be so nice, not too much aggressive, but something in the middle of still control that it’s all about control. Balance. Yeah.
I like what you said, like, that there’s no difference between you and your opponent. Like, you’re not even you’re just in this flow of movement in life. Yeah. And this thing you’re you’re choosing to do, there’s no difference between you and them. You’re not you don’t even exist. Yeah. You’re just a part of it all.
Yes. And the bad is bad for fighting is when you really realized, we are doing this. We are doing, we are fighting each other. And right now, I’m going to to hurt other person, and you don’t you don’t see really the difference between you and him. So you know you are doing to to yourself. But this is the game what we chose. Right. And we are here to to have a fun.
So not just have a fun, to to live this experience.
To live this experience and an extreme experience that will teach you about yourself like no other experience.
There’s if you wanna learn about yourself, go fight.
You’ll you’ll really find out. You can bullshit yourself all you sana, but until you ai.
And when you go through a loss, like the losses to Pereira, what is your process like of, like, evaluating what went wrong and how to how to change things?
Yeah. Like, how do you what do you what’s your process? Like, what do you do when you when you lose a fight and then you come back? Like, what is your thought process? What do you sai? I have to learn. I have to figure out what went wrong. Let me
You know, after that last last, the saloni ai, first time I can first time in my life, I, realized that, man, that wasn’t really, like I will not say what what was that, how how hard it was because I don’t like it. But it was something what I didn’t, experience meh. Not not, like, till till now.
So that time, I really, realized how powerful the meditation and this true self talking with, true how the true meditation look like because I have no other chance than to start, stop doing a bullshit, stop doing just a pure inspirational training in the bryden. Stop doing all the all these things, and and start doing just things what’s what really matter, what can what have the a real effect, how you can feel, how you wanna be.
And, yeah, the power of true self talking, power of true overcoming the mistakes in the lot in, in the life and be the boss of your mind because sometimes it’s sometimes it’s, yeah. It was it was the next level. Yeah.
Very difficult to recover from a loss like that.
But you Yeah. Because especially when you lost, ai, that was that was that was bad. Yeah. That was for me, ai, how to say it? Like, like a man who likes the honor and and all these, all these quotes, like, from Bushido moral moral quote. Like, that was something what was for meh, really bad. He gotcha. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. You you say it like you say you can say it like that, but
I really work on every every move, every thought, every, catching the every every move in the in the ai, and now it this happened, that was not me. That was that was really it was me, but, man, you show yourself your worst your your worst to the world, man. But so that’s why
But then you came after that and showed your best. So this is the thing about overcoming a a loss like that is that I’m sure it was awful. But because of it, the pain that you felt from it caused you to rise to another level.
That’s his what is life above. Yeah. Yeah. Ai still yeah. This is You
need the challenge. Do you need the Tong Po? You know? Yeah. No.
No. That that that’s Yeah. That’s right. And and, how I see this world, and this is what what I wanted to speak with you. What is what is here right now? The the true challenges in true challenges in this world, in this age, like, in, in a human’s life, in sai, like, like, what is there?
Because how I see that, like, there is, not too much think what we not not too much. There is a lot, but still, we can go ai now. We have to go to another level because there is a too much of the of the of the comfort life Mhmm. Of the of the people because ai that, you can have the food. Like that, you can have a drink, a massage. Yeah. Every everything.
So there is there is no no price like I see in the young people, what they wants to pay to achieve some really achieve something because yeah.
They just want things hap handed to them.
Yeah. This is an entitlement error because things are very easy. And when things are easy, it’s very difficult to develop character. Mhmm. That’s why for young people, I always tell them you should choose to do something hard. Choose to do something hard for your human development, for you as a human being. Because if you just live your life in comfort, you will have a terrible life.
Yeah. I think and only one reason only one thing ai I realized, like, may maybe the one one one thing, the step up will be like take us 2 step back and understand the true life.
I think so. I think we’ll realize that the people that live this way are living disastrous lives, and people will learn from that mistake because this level of comfort that most people have is very new historically. It’s very new in human history. There’s never really been a time where the poor people were fat.
That’s right. Yeah. Yeah.
The poorest amongst us have no worries about about starving to death. Yeah. They’re in Meh, they they’re fat. It’s more common than not. I think some crazy number of people in this country are obese. What was the number? It was ai 60%. Sai it 60% of people are obese? Something crazy like
which is just nuts. And it’s too easy. It’s too easy to exist. And I don’t mean it’s too easy, like, you don’t have to work. And I’m sure everybody has to work and your work sucks
hard and you gotta get up every day. But physically, you have to do something to test your will and your discipline. And if you don’t, you’re gonna have a shitty life.
That’s right. That’s right. That’s right.
And you won’t be able to control yourself in situations where that require you to stay calm.
I think right now it’s up to, like, it was in every culture up to the the old older older people to teach the younger, like, to real life, to tell them, like, to simply tyler them the stories, listen to stories. Yes. Live the true life, man, because we are forgot forgetting for all these things because we have the phones and
fake life and it’s bad for you. It’s bad for your development. It’ll hinder your potential. Like, whatever you wanna do in life, if you wanna be an artist, if you wanna be a musician, whatever you wanna you wanna be an author, it will hinder your development if you live the comfort
life. And okay. So Yeah. This is it. Yeah. And how you how you see the like, in a 10 years, in the 5th 50 years, in 100 years, what’s the next step for the? Not good. I’m I’m right now, I’m I’m trying to to lead you in in some way, but, no, this is your podcast. Ai No. You tell me. How are you ai?
I’m curious about that because I’m I’m, trying to this is my this is my a true motivation, the human evolution, the evolution of myself Mhmm. How to fight better, how to overcome the opponent better, how to shah him that I am everywhere, and you have no chance around me. Please keep hold your head down and tell the other I’m I’m the winner. You know you know, this is I like, yeah. My my ego Right.
Wants this, but the way to this, there is. But still, in some humble way humble way to to show it, like, peacefully. Show it shah it, like,
Show violence peacefully.
Yeah. Ai it was nice seeing you and Jamal Hill out after the fight having a drink together. That was nice to see.
Ai I I bought him the, like, my original drink, what I’m drinking, the vodka vodka, soda ai. And, I told him, like, we fight together. We drink together. Let’s go let’s go for that. Yeah. Because, man, we are everybody, we are we are 1. We are 1. In in the end, there is no enemy even if you even with with your the baddest enemy of the world. Man, it was a good life.
It was a good fight. Let’s drink together. Let’s celebrate together. That’s all.
Was it cool? Was it cool hanging out with him?
That was that was cool. That’s something shah what what I like to to do with my opponents, whoever won a lot. You you win, you lose, whatever. Yeah.
Mhmm. That’s great. Yeah. It was just it’s always nice to see. That’s one thing that people really do love about a great fight is afterwards when the guys hug.
Yeah. But still still, I don’t like to to speak about opponent in some way, in some bad way before the fight. Right. And after fight, change it. Like Right. It’s not exist. It Right. And right now, we are the friends, and everything good, man. Please. Yeah. Let’s be honest. You talk a shit about meh.
Talk a shit about me. Oh, okay. So you are the motherfucker, but doesn’t matter. Let’s drink together. You are who you are. I am who I am.
Let’s drink, but stay stay honest.
Man. Yeah. Yeah. Because that’s that’s why I I like to keep same word, same attitude before the ai, in the preparation and after the fight, in the fight, after the ai, all the tyler, like the same. That’s me. Yeah. And I wanna show me, not me before and me after.
Right. There’s a lot of guys just for the sake of promotion. They talk a lot of shit and they’re just trying to stir things up and make the fight more exciting by insulting people, insulting their families. Yeah. And it gets it gets very ugly. And I think the audience turns on them over that.
And one of the things that shown with, your success and your popularity and guys like Alex is that you don’t even have to speak English. Like, it doesn’t matter if you kick I mean, if it doesn’t matter, you could talk all the shit you want, get everything hyped up. What really matters is how you perform inside the octagon. When you perform inside the octagon like Alex has, like you have, it doesn’t there’s no need for shit talking.
It’s you you people love you and they love you just by the style of your fighting and you’re expressing That’s right. Your soul inside that cage, ai, who you are as a man inside that cage. You don’t have to talk shit about someone’s wife or all that crap.
Yeah. That’s that’s why many people around me, like, my manager team, ai to be more more focused for, a promo and all these things. And, man, the fight will do the promo. This is the main thing of everything. Yeah. Not selling this thing, this thing, this this, giving the the main thing is the
ai performance. The performance. That’s what ai drives me crazy about, when championship level fighters have to do a lot of promotion before the fight. I’m like, man, leave that guy alone. What’s really important is how he’s gonna perform. If you wanna promote it, have a bunch of people like me or, you know, Daniel Cormier or Chael Sonnen. Have people talk about the fight.
Hype the fight up. You don’t have to bother this guy at 7 o’clock in the morning and talk to him for an hour about some fucking nonsense.
Yeah. That’s what I like on UFC. They are focused for performance.
Every ai. And no talking. Before, no one fight, other fight. No special promo before the, like
Afterwards, do interviews, like right now. Afterwards, relax. But when leading up to the fight, the most important thing is that you’re 100% prepared, and anything that distracts from that should be eliminated.
That’s right. That’s right. That’s right. And yeah. And many many many, fighters are yeah. Yeah. Like, focus for yeah.
Silvis, there there are things about shit talking that I do like. And what I do like is that first of all, it gets a lot of people excited about it, which makes me happy because I want more people to watch the speak. But, also, there’s a psychological aspect, especially Sana McGregor.
He’s so good at talking shit that he gets people so angry that, like, when he fought Jose Aldo for instance, ai, no one had ever treated Jose Aldo anyway other than with respect. He was one of the greatest champions. He’s a elite fighter. He defended his title multiple times. He destroyed his division. Yes.
But you could tell that all that shit talking from Connor had an effect on him emotionally. Mhmm. And I think his ego made him go out of line. So he ran right at Connor and tried to hit him and Connor stepped back and cracked him. He was so energetic.
So now imagine if instead, if Jose Aldo fought that fight and dragged it into the 4th 5th round
And started using the leg kicks that he used on Uriah Faber Yep. And started, like, picking apart from meh careful in the beginning, but stay inside the game plan. Stay inside fight the best of your ability. Don’t get emotional. They’ll ai could have been a very different fight.
But that’s the weapon, the weapon of shit talking.
Yep. And especially if you know how to use that. Oh, yeah.
He uses it better than anybody. He gets people so mad.
That’s that’s right. That’s that’s right. But still, it’s a big weight.
It’s a big weight. What you need to, what you need to handle, what you know how Yeah. How to handle that.
Yeah. Well, it’s also that big weight weighs on you as well. It doesn’t just weigh on your opponent. When you talk a lot of shit, it puts extra weight on you, and it gets and that can get you out of line. Yeah. That the the additional pressure, you might hear the audience boo Yeah. When they introduce you, ai, oh, shit. What have I done? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. Not everybody had the this this this, big self confident to to Mhmm. To keep that.
Yeah. It’s, it’s an interesting aspect, but I don’t like. If Ai had to choose one way or the other, I would say just fight. There’s no need to talk shit. We should behave like martial artists.
You know, my my, attitude about that is a true self confident man, a true a true man who overcome and understand his body, his mind, his, the opponent’s mind and body, and and his mind don’t need to he that guy don’t need to to
Talk shit to doesn’t matter to to add to to to to shah that to others
To to the crowd or to to to fear the opponent. Mhmm. Because why? I know that, and all I don’t need to to to make a this show to anybody because I know it’s I know what what what will happen. I have this self confidence. Sai
The thing about talking shit though, it does make you more money because it does it does cause more people to pay attention. Like, a good example of someone who doesn’t need to talk shit but talks a lot of shit and becomes successful is Gordon Ryan. You know Bryden Ai? Yeah.
Jujitsu champion? That’s his belt up there. That’s his Abu Dhabi belt. Yep. Gordon talks a lot of shah. Yep. And he’s the greatest of all time. Yep.
And he still talks a lot of shit.
But that’s also why he’s so popular. Yeah. It’s because, like, people talk shit back to him and there’s lot of back and forth on social media.
The most important thing is to be, to be him, to be not ai to play it.
Right. To play it. To Right. Right. Right.
That’s right. When you are like that
Okay. Be a bad guy Mhmm. Or or whatever, but just show yourself. That’s it.
Right. Who are you for real?
right. Express who you are in there. That’s right. You might not even like who you are
after it. That’s right. Yep.
Yeah. So a lot of guys vatsal aggression especially after a loss, it leads them to a place where they’re ai, I don’t even like how I behave. I don’t even like meh, especially with the bad feelings of a loss. So when you have all this aggression and shit talking and then a loss, sai bad loss, and you have this feeling of, like, I was an asshole Yeah.
And I lost. Yep. And the crowd cheered when I lost.
Like, fuck. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. But That’s the game they
That’s the that’s the game, and this is something what what is for me, I can’t forget, like, for myself because I wanna show really true ai, so I can’t talk shah. And
Yeah. You gotta be yourself.
That’s Yeah. You can’t especially now, if you try to become an asshole now, everybody would be confused. Ai, what what’s what’s going on? If you took a heel turn
I am asshole. But but so so big one, so I need to keep myself, like, so straight. Mhmm. So I can’t I can’t do that because because that will be just, like I said, ego line. I will show you just this one line. No. Sai need to show you the center. Right.
Yeah. Right. You need to be pure. You need to be you with no bullshit and that’s how you perform at your best. So after a fight like this, there was a lot of and then this is I brought back to the Luke Thomas video. He was saying, like, you could be the middleweight champion. Like, if you made 2 o you fought at 208, like, that’s a lot lighter probably than Drakus du Plisis.
Drakus is huge. Yep. I look at him, I was like, how does Drakus make 185? He’s so big.
Have you thought about that? I know there was some talk about that at
Yes. I thought I thought about that, but, the main thing for me is ai now, I see the way in ai heavyweight because I’m this one of the strongest guy in the in the in this division, and I still feel like there is a way in, in light heavyweight. And I said to myself, like, okay. You can go to the middleweight, but first, show the consistency in light heavyweight.
Take a belt, then you can with the belt from light heavyweight, you can fight for the belt from for middleweight in middleweight.
To be a double champion. Yeah. So yeah. Well, you know, it’s interesting because weight cutting is, in my opinion, the worst aspect of the sport. Josh Barnett was just talking about this. He was on the aerial Halwani shah, and he was talking about the dangers of weight cutting in reference to Arman Sarukian’s, having to pull out of that fight.
Arman is big. Man. He’s big. When I stand next to him, I cannot believe he makes 155. He’s very muscular, very dense, and very lean, and so for him to make 155, it must be an absolutely brutal weight cut.
I gotta think he weighs 180 easy, maybe more, You know, he’s big. And I think off when he’s out of camp, I bet he weighs closer to 200. I mean, he’s fucking thick, man.
Why they So for a guy like that? Ai they do that? Why they don’t ai in a in in a in a a ai weight class? In a higher weight class.
Well, the thing is, at that weight class, Islam Makhachev is so fucking good.
And he’s so big. He’s another one. You stand next to him, you’re ai, how the fuck does this guy make one 70? And he was actually talking about his first fight with Alexander Volkanovski. And one of the problems that he faced was that the fight was very early Australia time so that it could be on pay per view in America. Yeah.
So he was getting ready at 5 AM. So he did not have the time to recover from the weight cut from the previous day.
So instead of having a full 24 plus hours so if you’re weighing in at 10 o’clock in the morning now is it what time do you weigh in? What time did you weigh in in in Los Angeles?
So 8 in the morning, and then you have a full 36 hours plus before you ai.
Which is plenty of time to recover and rehydrate.
But he did not get that with the Volkanovski fight, and you saw it in his performance. He didn’t look as good.
And because he’s fucking big, man. Yeah. Yeah. So he’s I think weight cutting should be eliminated. I sai this to Arya Emmanuel when they first bought the UFC. I said, listen, sana. You know what should do? Get rid of weight cutting. Just stop it. We it’s not look.
If you can randomly test people for drugs, you can randomly test their weight. Yeah. Show up with a scale. Hey, buddy. Step on the scale. Yeah. You’re ai pounds.
How the fuck are you making 1.45? Yeah. You know, like, do something like
come up with more weight classes. There should be a weight class every £10. This idea of these giant gaps like 185 to 205, that’s a 20 pound gap. That’s huge. That doesn’t exist in boxing.
You should have every £10, 85, 95, 205, and then unlimited. Yeah. Instead of 265, let them weigh whatever the fuck they weigh. Yeah. These got giant guys out there that can’t fight in the UFC because they can’t make 265 Yeah. Which is kind of crazy.
Right? Like Bigfoot Bigfoot Silva when he was at his prime, when he was when he was saucy, he was ai £300. Ai was fucking huge.
Sai I like the way they’re open weights, man.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Open weight, not 265. Ai Francis Ngann weigh whatever the fuck he weighs when he doesn’t cut weight. Probably weighs like 290. Instead of having weight cuts, just take the champions, find out what the champion weighs. Like, don’t get rid of the championship belts. Find out what does Islam Makhachev weigh.
Islam Makhachev is a UFC champion, best pound for pound fighter on Earth. Find out what he weighs. What do you weigh if you were healthy, if weight cutting didn’t exist? Would it be 185? Okay. ai? Whatever that is. That’s how you fight now. Yep.
And we’re not gonna weigh you in the day before and let you rehydrate. That’s crazy talk. Fight people your size.
And and, also, the fights would be better
Because too many guys get depleted horribly by these weight. Like, Max Holloway said he would never make 150 145 again after he fought Ilha Teporia.
So I can’t do it anymore because he had gone up to ai, he got thicker, and then he went back to 45. He’s just drained. He just wasn’t himself. He didn’t look good. Yep. So I think that would be and I know this is not an easy thing to do, but I do think it’s just like getting steroids out of fighting.
When they brought in USADA
When USADA came in, you saw people’s physiques melt. Mhmm. You saw people that were doing steroids on a regular basis and gaming the system and testing negative on the day of the ai. Yeah. But all throughout their ram, they were using, you saw their bodies change.
They had started looking ai doughy and flabby because they didn’t have any testosterone anymore. They fucked up their endocrine systems.
Instead of allowing that, they brought in USADA, and USADA started randomly testing, and a lot of people fell off. Great champions fell off. Yeah. Guys like Vitor Belfort fell off.
Great great fighters who when they were using were unbelievably good, but then as soon as they had to be vatsal. Okay. So we realized that we’re gonna have to sacrifice some fighters for that. This is the same approach that should be made with weight cutting. Weight cutting should not exist.
It’s terrible for you. It’s unnecessary. It’s not necessary. It’s just sanctioned cheating that we’ve done forever. If you’re telling me that Alex Pereira, when he fought Israel Adesanya Yeah.
He weighed 185 ai day and 226 the next day. That’s crazy.
That’s crazy. It’s crazy. Oh, that’s
maybe that’s a big difference. Because Alex is willing to fight heavyweight. He’s willing to fight at what he weighs. Yeah. It should weight cutting is something that exists. It’s it’s sanctioned. They allow it to happen. Yeah. They know what’s going on and it’s cheating.
They’re not really a £170. That guy’s 195. He’s depleted and dried out, and then he’s gonna swell back up again, and he’s gonna look huge the next day. Yeah. Yeah. Ai trickus.
So Yeah. They should evolve that because for the safety of the ai, for the safety of the fighters, it’s not good to dehydrate your brain 24 hours before a cage fight.
It’s dumb. Yep. But nobody’s gonna listen to me. Nobody listens to me, Yuri. Nobody. Maybe after DC. I don’t think they should even have cages. I think it should be an open floor. Ai think it should be an open floor like a basketball court.
Yeah. Because I think It looks the best. Yeah.
The cage allows you to get up when you wouldn’t ordinarily be able to get up. You could walk, wall walk it. The cage allows someone to press you up against an an an unnatural object. There’s a cage there.
you could press the guy up against the cage. Whereas if you were standing in the center, you could do Muay Thai sweeps. You could do you could rotate around each other. There’d be more action.
I also think if someone takes you down at the beginning of the first round, at the end of the round, you’re on your back, you start that saloni round in the same position.
Yeah. You see that, like, yeah. I I have the similar similar rate of the of the fighting. First, I thought, like, where why there is a rules? Why there is a, the
Eye eye pokes is not allowed. Sai, well, I’m glad for after these last ai. It’s not allowed.
It shouldn’t be allowed, but it’s very effective.
Man. Yeah. But Yeah. Shah all your weapon of your body how you can defeat this man. That’s all.
Yes. 1 against 1. That’s all. And the little the minimal amount of rules possible. You know what other thing that I think they should do? And I’m gonna talk to Dana about this this week. Cover the fingers. There’s no reason to have these fingers exposed. It doesn’t help anything.
It doesn’t help grappling. You never grapple like this. Right? You never you never use the finger.
You do this Yes. Or you do this Yes. Or you you do different things with your hands, but your
fingers still the rose close. Still the feeling. Still the feeling.
I understand. But the problem is the pokes because everybody does this because you’re used to sparring with gloves on.
So I love the poke eye pokes. Yeah. Man, everybody you will you know what will what will happen? Every everybody will be more prepared for
For, no for iPOCs for every possible attack for an eye because eyes is is the weapon too for my It’s vulnerable. Yeah. Ai I can I can speak about that because I’m using that like, I see? Mhmm. So I know what you’re saying. Maybe maybe it’s weird. Yeah, man.
The problem is you don’t want people to go blind. Like, Michael Bisping can’t see out of his
Yep. You know, and that that I just I feel like Yep. For the sake of the athlete’s future
Everybody will took every fucking sorry. Every every
Every fight every fight so seriously. So preparation will be Yeah. So and every, people in the crowd will watch that with the, man, in this fight, there can happen something what after that fight, we we will not can nobody can change.
So we will like the fighters, we will speak better, perform better, train better, be prepared to die. Right. And not ai, just in our ai, just to die to show the best performance, ai, like, I mean that, like, philosophically, like, you have to stop thinking and be in the moment and all the all these things.
Right. But, like, but that’s what that’s, we are ai now speaking, like, about ancient ai. Mhmm. Like, about the ai fight for a life.
Real fight. Yeah. Real fight. Yeah. No rules at all. Do you think maybe get rid of cups too and allow kicks to the balls? That’s real. It’s a real target. It’s a vulnerability of the human body. Yeah. To ignore vulnerabilities of the human body.
It sounds weird in especially in this age of the full of laws and all these things. Yeah. But that’s that’s how I how I see that. We are living in the age where the laws is work laws and, the system Yeah. Is working. So we put the we have to put some some system on the fighting too.
Eddie Bravo actually came up with an idea. It was he was joking around, but he wanted to call it ultimate sack fighting where, you were allowed to kick a guy in the balls and that your balls would be exposed. So it’s ai when the balls are in play, the game changes. And then the idea was that, like, your balls are so vulnerable Yeah.
But meh you cover them with, like, a tie cup, you know?
if they didn’t, if the balls were hanging out, ai, your, you know, your chin is hanging out, that it would change everything.
He was just joking around. It was very funny that the guy who would win would just have, like, iron balls. Yeah. But nobody has iron balls. I mean, the human body has the the eye pokes and ball shah.
You didn’t see vulnerabilities. You didn’t saw the the the the monks? Yeah. How they how they kicking ai?
I don’t understand that. I think they’re just hitting each other in the taint. I think their balls are tucked up. I think otherwise, it doesn’t make any sense that you could just slam your foot. Because also the way they’re doing it, the monks, they’re kicking up. They’re kicking up.
So I ai they’re just slamming their shit into the instep into the taint. Yes. It’s not really the balls. Man. Like, if you front kick that monk in the balls, just front sai. Front, it would fall down dead.
I thought you had iron balls. Nobody has iron balls. Nobody has iron eyeballs either. You know? That’s right. The problem with eyeballs is yeah. These ai. Yeah. See how he’s doing that? Yeah. He’s
His balls Ai can even see the way his sack has pulled up. See that little thing that he’s got on there?
Yeah. He probably has little balls too, unfortunately. It’s stupid. Either way, that’s stupid. That doesn’t it doesn’t if that was the only way, like, if you could train that way, you know, ai, a lot of the Thais, they kick, banana trees and kick sandbags. You know, we have a sandbag out there. It’s so brutal to kick. But if you do that enough, you’ll develop those micro fractures on your shins Yep. Yep.
And it’ll make your shins much tougher. You can’t make your
Yep. You can’t make your balls tougher.
Yeah. There I think there’s no no, no a reason
just punched himself with the dick.
This is so ridiculous. This is so ridiculous. These guys used to take oh, no.
Oh, no. Don’t do it. Oh, god.
He’s getting slammed in the nuts by
a log. These guys just hit each other in the balls. But, again, I think if you step to one of those guys and front snap kicked him right in the balls and then they’d fall down. This is stupid.
You know what I what I realized when I saw the, like, a lot of masters of of a lot of masters of of these kung fu doing these weird stuff and and all these things. So there’s a way to like, about obsession of the of the martial arya, of the doing something in in your life to the deepest level. Mhmm.
But still, this is a fighting Yeah. About the this is about the win. So I don’t know if this will can can will help you to really defeat the No. If you no. No. Especially, this is just defense? Yeah. Okay.
So you are the preferred prepared to defense your your boss and meh. Yeah. So, man, really, like, think about it, like, in real. Don’t don’t be don’t don’t give it too much on these on these side of an art of the like, just doing, it’s good to to know one thing. 12.
Right. 12. Really, really deeply sai you can time that timing that in every situation to know how to what how to do this movement in every situation. But these movements,
They’re not an effective use of your time.
Yeah. Yeah. It’s not gonna help you be a better fighter. It’s there’s a lot of ancient movements that are probably good for the development of your consciousness and they’re probably good overall for your ability to be a better martial artist because they teach you certain movements which are almost like a form, like kata.
A lot of people talk about forms and they say it’s a waste of ai, but I I think it’s a moving meditation. I used to think it was a waste of time when I was a young man.
When I got my black belt, I just learned the katas and then afterwards Ai forgotten them.
I as soon as Sai I just learned them so that I could pass the next test. And then once I knew all the forms and the katas, I didn’t care anymore. I just wanted to fight. So, like, the
But but all these moves They’re important. Are written in in your in your body, in your maybe maybe you don’t realize that yet, but in, hardest situation in, maybe there will one move will
Wow, will will jump up and bomb. Because you’ve trained
your system you’ve trained your system about those things.
Like the Neo and The Matrix, man. Yeah. I know the Kung Fu. I know Kung Fu. Yeah. Yeah.
They think they’re gonna be able to do that now. This is a they I was just reading an article about that, and they were comparing it to Neo and the Matrix. They think they’re going to be able to download skills into people’s brains.
Man, it’s, Which sucks. This is no. But this sucks because
it’s a Ai sana them to learn the way you learned.
I think no, man. There’s a the ego, the force. Mhmm. The force. We will do that by I will take it, and this there it is. Meh Dimitri. Yeah. That’s Dimitri. Hey, Dimitri. Hey. And instead of, like, to take a take a a ai a real snake and whatever, I I I I cannot ai on the on the snake.
so I know what you’re saying. Like, train those movements. So when the punch comes, you block, you counter.
You will take some information, and by the force, you will give it in in yourself. Mhmm. And to, I don’t know which which form you you meant. Like like The way they’re ai the meh like the matrix we speak.
Let’s, let’s Google that because they were Jamie will find the article.
Maybe, like, Elon Musk have that, Duralink. Ai don’t know. Or or something like that.
I don’t think it was that invasive. I think it was, it was some other technology that they think they’re gonna be able to utilize. Scientists use matrix style learning to write skills into human brains, sana, non invasively. So they don’t have to inject anything Okay.
Okay. A wire in your brain. Techniques use real time brain imagery and neurofeedback. It bypasses learning processes that require effort, study, or practice. With our method, not only can we nudge complex patterns around in the brain towards known ones, but also for the first ai, write directly a new pattern into the brain and measure what effect that has on a person’s behavior, said doctor Coraline Bryden, lead author of the study and assistant professor of bryden and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.
Okay. And this is this is the one one side. The second side, how I’m how I’m looking at how I’m taking that is about right now, I have no antenna. Right. But but it’s not about about just about the hair. It’s about to be open, to meh connect with the with the consciousness.
And there, I don’t know how it working, but it’s working to be just connected for all the information on what’s whatever happened and will happen is there in this moment ai here, right now, and it’s just about the state if you are if you can be really connect for that.
Because I don’t know where. Many moves, I didn’t,
I didn’t trained. They just came ai. And they just came out. Yeah. And in the fighting in the fight, and I don’t know I don’t know where, and I didn’t train spinning elbow. Never. Really? No. Never, man. Really?
I didn’t train that. Never. That’s crazy. And just follow
You saw it. I’m just It was just there.
I just following the flow, following following the moment because there’s a one elbow. Okay. You have to and it’s going really slow. You have a second Here it is. Yeah. You have the saloni elbow.
Use that. Boom. Boom. And between between one and second one, there was a long conversation of, you can do that. Try to do that. Okay. I don’t believe that. No. Do that, please. And This was such a phenomenal exchange.
People love that antenna too. They love that crazy hair. Are you gonna bring that back? I like you like this.
Streamlined. Ai The thing I’m worried about that antenna, like, that could get caught in something. Ai what? It could get caught. Like, if if you’re in a sufficient situation and Yeah. You know how people grab shorts? I don’t think anyone should wear shorts either. I think you should wear tights.
Maybe I can grab it, like, in some choke. You could.
Yeah. You could. You you know what? You could, and it would be legal.
Dominique Reyes caught me in a in a guillotine in guillotine. And I was there, and and I said, my fuck. My I have the hair, big fucking hair. I can’t can’t give the the the heads up. So Yeah.
That was the problem. Yeah. That’s what I’m saying.
Yeah. Ai think shaved is better for you, but it looks cool.
And that’s what I’m saying. Like, it’s not about right right now, I feel, like, no. It’s not about the hair. It’s not about the, anything. It’s just about to to love to sai, to to be there. Be here and now. That’s all. That’s
Yeah. That’s all what No bullshit. Just be in the moment. Especially right now, you have all this momentum on your side because of that spectacular victory. So you must be very energized right now. You must be really feeling like you’re on the right path.
Yeah. But still, this is a a this state sana this feeling have the two sides. Yeah. So that’s why I because I know how how it is to be a champion. How is this all these feeling? And still, how is, what is the to not be the champion, to to really, lost ai, like a like ai like a shah.
Fell fell fell on the ground like a shit after and, so I realized that, it’s about to be just here right now, to be just here and now in this moment and show through yourself. Right. Not playing. Not you don’t do stupid shah. Don’t do, don’t have the war air, be angry, be no. Just be. That’s it. Show your show your true self.
That’s that’s all. That and that’s what I like on on the states, on the on America. Like, they everywhere, like, they are they are okay with that to show yourself true yourself. And we, in Europe, we have some special special thinking about Meh. There ai, there is something something better than something better than, everywhere. Ai you you and you here just, pushing more to everyone to just live through yourself.
But but Freedom. This this is free Freedom. Fuck, man.
Freedom allows you to be your best self.
Yeah. And this is something what, man, what is for me so inspirational. Yeah. But still, it’s a a gift, a big gift, but a big, how to sai, big weight. Yes. Big responsibility. Responsibility. Yeah.
Big responsibility because if you don’t know how to work with the gun, it can be dangerous. Right.
Yeah. So Right. Right. Right. Yeah. With great power comes great responsibility. Yeah. Where, you you sit right now at the top of the heap, like, after Ai, especially after that performance, it’s very likely that either you arya lot of people are forgetting about Jan Buhovich.
I always like to give him his props because Jan Buhovich is still one of the best fighters in the world. Yep. And I would like to see him get another shot because he’s also 41 or 42, I think
And, you know, he doesn’t have much time left in his prime. Yep. And Sana has maintained, like, even at 40 years old, still
It doesn’t show any signs of deterioration.
That’s ai, man. When I thought about upon my next opponents, there was just, like, these guys. Ai, Pereira. The Pereira is most, but let’s sai how how the negotiations will be. The Pereira, Ankara, and maybe the Bakovich. So these 3 guys Sai see still there, I see the, challenge Yes.
The challenge because I Ai wanna go somewhere where I will feel I can because every time when when there is a challenge, there is a new you, and there is a new something new, what you need to overcome, what you need to, rule, what you need to which means observe. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. They’re the elite level of the game. Yeah. You know? Jan Bajovic, he’s one of the, I think, the only gods to go the distance with Pereira other than Bruno Silva. Right?
Meh. Because he have the hands up.
Also, that guy’s made out of iron. I mean, I’ll never forget the fight with Nikolaev when he was just going shin to shin with Nikolaev, and Nikolaev could barely walk. Jan Bakhovic is made out of rocks, man. That dude is
Man, I thought, like, he won that ai, but
Very close fight, but you could definitely see giving it to Jan Bakhovic. There’s a lot of those fights. Here’s another thing that I think should happen in the UFC. I think we need more than 3 judges. I don’t even think that the judges some judges are very good. I think the judging in California was very good.
I think, overall, I think we need at least 5 judges. I think 3 is too little. I think we need because there’s too many times where 2 judges get it wrong Uh-huh. And the crowd is ai, what the fuck? Ai think if you had 5 judges, then you have 2 judges that would counterbalance that other and there’d be 32 in the right direction and you’d get a good result.
I think you’re more likely to get a good result, an accurate result of what the fans and the experts see about the result of a fight than you would if there was only 3 judges.
Yes. Fighting to win. Well, that that’s the I mean, what Gordon likes to do Gordon Ryan likes to do is no, no time limit fights. He does no time limit fights with, no points. Like, let’s sai. We’re going to submission. This is what this game is about. It’s a bit meh strengthening you.
That’s right. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Imagine that if they start doing the UFC like the old UFC. Like UFC 1, no rules.
Maybe for somebody, it will be a little bit, ai, they will not like it because we’ll be maybe ai it will be long. Maybe but Maybe.
Yeah. Yeah. That’s it. That’s ai? Yeah. That’s fighting.
People watch baseball. Yep. No no offense against baseball, but that shit’s boring as fuck compared to fighting.
You you know what’s my theory about that? So there is a sports, a lot of sports. But the first one, first speak, first, fuck.
For the version of of version of sport was, like, one man wants to overcome the saloni man. Yes. And it came from DNA. From the from Sana, from ai, from fight for this piece of Ram your cavemen. For food. From eat for food. Fighting ram predators. Yeah. This is it.
This this that’s why it came from. And in the in the in the time, there was, like, let’s let’s do some other another competition. Another competition Right. To not be So violent. So violent. But then to be honest, the realest one competition is the one man against the second man.
That’s why that sport This is translates through all languages. It’s the only sport that translate like, cricket cricket is huge in other parts of the world. Nobody watches cricket in America. Ai other parts of the world, billions of people watch cricket. Nobody gives a fuck about cricket here.
Put cricket on TV, you’ll no one’s gonna watch.
And we in a time, we gave the some rules, the kimonos Mhmm. The all these things. No. Let’s
Well, that was the beauty of the first UFC. The first UFC was just wild. No weight classes. No no no real rules other than ai. You there’s a there’s a there’s a Joe, Jo Sana was fighting Keith Hackney. Yeah. And Keith Hackney was, caught in a guillotine and he’s just punching Jo Sana in the balls. It’s a famous scene.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember that? I I Sai sort of yeah. Yeah.
It was ai I remember watching that going, oh, this is awful. This is awful. There’s another one in Brazil. Big daddy Goodrich was fighting this guy named the the pager. Look at this. Just pure nut shots. Just one after the other ai to the balls. This is horrible to watch.
Show me the monk training.
But here’s the thing. If he’s wearing a cup, especially if he’s wearing a tie cup, a steel cup Yep. Which I also think should be illegal. No. I don’t think you should have steel cups because steel cups act as a leverage point as well. Okay. You know, not only that you could break your foot on it. It’s an unnatural object.
And then if you get someone in an arya bar with a steel cup Yep. You could break it.
It’s like it’s That’s right.
Extra leverage points. It’s like it’s like bending a stick over
Yeah. And you Kenny Florian used to always fight with a Thai steel cup. He’s ai, I don’t know why anybody would fight with anything else because it hurts them when they kick me.
Yeah. And it really is ai a good leverage point. Maybe so. It’s also good for the mount. If somebody mounts you, there was a guy that I used to train with, Amir Renovardi, and he used to get on top of you and mount you and drive his cup. He just drive his dick in his solar plexus, and you sana tap. It was horrible, but it was smart.
I mean, if if it’s legal, it’s a it’s a smart thing.
Yeah. Find a way between the laws. Yeah.
Imagine if nobody had cups. If cups were illegal, there’d be so much more nut shah,
you know. Maybe somebody will find a way how to jump with the these cup to do a face.
I like those guys. Ai don’t think so. I don’t think that’s real. No. No. I don’t think that would work. But other than that, the, you know, the rules, they’re pretty good. They’re getting a little bit better. I’d like knees on the ground as well. Knees to Ai don’t think a a opponent should be allowed to be in a turtle when your head is vulnerable. Yep. You have to move.
You have to avoid those knees. And that’s a
Ai, before my last fight right now, the the ref referee sorry. I didn’t with the with the big mustache. Oh, Mike Beltran. Mike Beltran. Yes. Sorry. Mike Beltran. Because he he’s a good ai. And he tried to to tell me, like, how to when because I didn’t know that.
The change of the rules. Yes. Like, when the hands down Right. When it’s not, when it’s not the elbow, when the hands down, and you’re staying and the legs and hands down, you can knee the opponent to the hands. Yes. Tyler. Sai, man, that’s That’s better. That’s better. Meh better. Yeah.
Much better. Because guys were gaming the system. They put a hand down sai they couldn’t get kneed in the face. Yep. That’s crazy.
That doesn’t make any sense. You should not be doing that. Yeah. That that’s a good rule that they changed. Another rule is the 12 to 6 elbow. That should be legal too. And now that’s legal again. Yep. And that’s the only reason for Jon Jones ever having a loss. You know, so there’s there’s good movement on the rules. Ai allowed, knees to the head to a grounded opponent and kicking. Yeah.
Did you get accustomed to that and have to, like, get that out of your system when you came to the UFC? Yeah. Is there any moments where you, like, thought about throwing sai soccer game?
No. No. I I didn’t thought about that, but, when you are still when you are in the control in the in the fighting, what’s the, I think, the the the biggest, biggest thing in of the fighter in in the fighting to to to stay in Mhmm. In the control sai you know what to do, what can’t to do, but some there’s a moments when you don’t don’t control yourself too much. So Right.
So it’s it’s dangerous. But in ai, I used that. I Ai did that, like, I think, I twice.
Yeah. Yeah. It’s very effective. It should be allowed. Yeah. I think it should be allowed. Yeah. I think the only problem with soccer kicks is the cage. So the cage if your head is right there and you get stomped, you can’t move. Yep. Yep. So this it’s the unnatural barrier of the cage that’s the problem.
That’s why I think basketball court. Yeah. Matted down basketball court. Just 2 men in the center of it. Have a warning track where you go outside the warning track too many ai, you lose points Yeah.
Because you’re trying to avoid the fight. Plenty of movement. Yeah. Plenty of time to room. And if someone gets you down
Well, I was just trying to
To imagine that, and it’s It’s better. It’s good. It’s much better.
Yeah. It’s better. Because you wouldn’t be able to just stall the fight out by holding someone against the cage. Yes. Because sometimes when fighters are exhausted, they’ll just clinch against the cage, try to catch their breath. That wouldn’t be allowed. You couldn’t do it.
There would be no opportunity to do that.
That’s right. That’s right.
Also, if you got taken down, you’d have to get up with skill. You can’t just use the cage to get up. It’s very hard, especially if you got a great wrestler like Islam on top of you.
Very hard to get up any other way than wall walking.
Yeah. Just right now, I’m I’m
I think about about the what’s the name of the movie? Hunger Games. Yeah. Just to put somebody and somebody somewhere Yeah. And they will find each others in the vatsal environment ai. Mhmm. And and they will fight together, and everybody will watch that. So Yeah. So give them weapons.
Well, have you seen those? They they do have, like, people with armor on fighting sword fights now.
Just a matter of time before they take that armor off.
Yep. Yep. That’s right. That’s right.
In some crazy country. Yeah. Some wilder country that just Yep. $1,000,000 purse, you fight with swords. Sai jeez. Yep. Then you’re back to the Roman days, the Colosseum.
Yeah. But still, how I see that when we are going higher in, understanding everything, we have to go, maybe I’m wrong, deeper in, in the in the these raw raw things. Yeah. He wants to see more raw because to be not to so
to goes and you understand me?
Yes. I do. Because the consequences are higher. You have to go more pure.
Did you ever read, any Miyamoto Musashi?
Yeah. Of course. I don’t even have to ask. But the book of ai rings, he talks about that because Miyamoto Musashi was such a great sword ai Yeah. That he he believed the only way to fight at your best is you have to be a balanced person, very balanced. You have to be an artist.
You have to be able to do calligraphy and write poetry. You can’t just be aggression. Yes. You have to be completely balanced. And he believed in that so strongly and taught that so strongly in the book of ai rings that if you if you think about how he applied it to sword fighting, it makes sense.
Everything what you’re saying makes sense because you have to be completely pure when it’s just 2 men and and swords. Yep. You can’t have any bullshit. You can’t let the ego get you on the wrong line because you’re not just gonna get punched in the face. You’re gonna lose your head.
That’s right. Yeah. That’s right. There is no Yeah. No time. And that’s why that’s why I don’t like it. There’s no time for a talking. There’s no time for a bad word in your, talk. No time for a bad move in the fighting. So your mind had to stay controlled, stay present, and use do do nothing, what’s not what’s not useful Mhmm. For this moment. Yeah?
Right now, we are natural here, but when the our life will, these podcasts, these talking, maybe when you will not talk, your everything bryden every everything honestly, it will cost you a life. So we will meh we both we will pay attention of every our word. Because in in that ages of Miyamoto Musashi, there was, even even the word can cost somebody’s life. Yes.
So that’s why they were so precise in everything, in every that’s the Japan. Every movement, every even the even the teapot Mhmm. Even the tea, ritual is the is the is arya. So so so that’s why there was and still they are so precise in the thinking, in, expressing in expressing your true self, not just talking, whatever, meh. Hey.
How are you? Hey. What’s up? I don’t this is something ai I don’t like to to to America. Like, everybody asks you, hey. How are you?
And and don’t care about your and and they don’t care about your your answer. Sai and and I want to stay in. Hey. I’m great. How are you today?
No way. You don’t care, and it’s going somewhere. Right. So so why why why why ask me why are you doing this? So Right.
So It’s a figure speak, unfortunately. But still
It’s a it’s a kind figure speech. Yeah.
it’s not real. Yes. But it’s not real. They don’t really care what you’re doing. Ai. They don’t care how
Yeah. Let’s let’s let’s be real. But sometimes don’t don’t push it too much to Right. To the Ai important. Every ai voice is important. Right. Right. Right. Every movement. So the true power is coming is coming with a lightness, to be lightness. And lightness is not to taken so much seriously and taken too too much ai.
So taking like like, don’t care about what I’m saying. So some still Balance. Balance.
This is balance. Yeah. It’s constant balance and staying pure. Staying your and do do you is that what you’re feeling when you stare your opponents down? Because, like, these one of the the fights with Pereira and the fight with Jamal Hill, you you just lock on your opponent and you stare.
And is that what you’re doing in that moment, just trying to be completely bryden, Just to empty yourself of all bullshit?
That’s the yeah. This is the moment where before the ai. Yeah. It’s all about that because there is no opponent. There is just a moment this moment. I’m everywhere. You’re everywhere. That’s all. I like it. I’m everywhere. Meh. But this is not something what I’m telling you that because I wanna be cool.
No. No. No. I don’t think you are.
Yeah. That’s all. So now that you had this big victory, what happens next? Do you wait for the UFC to call you? Do you wait for Ai and Pereira to fight to see what happens next?
This is what I what I am ai now not expecting what what I sana to to see the ai. If if the fight will happen because they are translating that so much this the this their fight. So so let’s sai. Let’s see who’s the best. And my attitude and right now, I know that how I what’s to do to not to get better, to do a real serious preparation to get prepared for both of them, doesn’t matter who, And be ready for for negotiation about about the next fight.
I won a title, but I will let the life to give me who’s before me right now. Who’s the who’s the challenge right now before me?
So it’s just about whatever the challenge is, accept it, and then try to find your best self for that’s neck this next performance as well. That’s right. It’s an exciting time for you, man. How old are you right now? 32. It’s a perfect prime. That’s in your prime. It’s exciting time. Are you enjoying this life?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Enjoying, but, man, a long time nobody asked me for, like, for these questions, so I didn’t thought about that long time. But, yes, since I decide Ai wanna go this way of the of the warrior of a true man to to to feel the true power and take it to our to my life and live with that, not just to feel that and go away, but to to keep it in a daily life.
Yes. Yes. I’m I’m enjoying that. And Ai don’t know who who said that. Like, watch watch yourself ai and, ai, in, arya, ai, in ai and then David, you arya.
Right. You make a masterpiece.
Master make a pass masterpiece from your ai, and that’s what I like to do in my meditations to take a step up, watch yourself, watch what, watch where you’re going, what who you spend time with, where is your daily daily what’s your daily routines? How it make it better? And then go into the deepest level of the present moment and live that and stay with these, your best ideas, what you what you are connected with. Yes.
So yes. You ask me. Yes. I live that. But I didn’t in the time right now, I can Ai I can say it right now?
I didn’t expect it will cost you everything. Like, it will cost you your old personality, and you will reborn like a new personality. Yeah. But still, I know somebody, my spirit, whoever choose that. Yeah. Because, I know this is the way.
One of the things that I have to talk to you about was in the Alex Pereira fight, you thought that they were using some magic ai.
Black magic. Yeah. What do you why why did you think that?
You know okay. I will take it from another from another start.
When I’m doing something, I’m doing that, like, I’m I’m extreme in every in everything what I’m doing. So I wanna go to the to the bottom to the bottom of the to the start where it the the source The source. Of that where where it’s going. And the source of the spiritual world of that question, what is the spiritual world?
Where is the where the source is, if there is some weapons, how the how they use that egg in the cage. And I went in that so deep, so I get lost. Really? So I had to I had I had another no no other chance just to totally close these close these, doors. Just believe that I am who I ram.
Who to believe just for ideas which I started with, like the martial arts and all these things, and just be in the gym and train. Don’t do another this bullshit because with the Pereira, I really get lost, and I started to believe, to another people, to not just myself. And this is something this is the this is the way to the hell to when you start, stop believing yourself, your true yourself.
And when you start believing some spiritual guys who’s trying to protect you or, giving you something and, trying to lead you, and they know what’s the best for you. And that was my biggest school in this life, I think, to so, yeah, that was my, like, last preparation to just believe in ai.
Go to the gym and train. Do a good camp. Do a camp what, what’s was the what was the first your biggest inspiration. So in Japan, I made a camp in Japan, Then I ai in high altitude training in Mexico. Then I went back to my city, Bruno, for my guys, for my team, and we made a sana, good camp, hard camp.
And, the last fight, I’m happy that
happy. What is it about getting down to the source that made you think he was using black magic?
Yeah. It’s every ai, a big, no big difference No experience. I said that that world. Big power when you are Responsibility. Respond big it’s big responsibility. Not just big responsibility. We are we are I I wanna speak right now. So I do want I don’t wanna speak about that fully because still it is it is something what I am humble for, and I can say this is it.
This is it. Yeah. To because everyone everyone have has the their own way, and nobody is, like even me prepared for to saying, some something what what can be for somebody ai take it seriously, You know? You don’t maybe meh. Again, I I get lost in in that. So the thing is, I just started to believe.
I will not speak about where is the magic, what how to use the magic. But you believed that there was magic working against you? Man, I and that was the that was the biggest power to my for my opponent because I was focused for him, not for me. Mhmm. You
know? And that’s where the black magic lies. And then because it gets you outside of your own head. Is that but is that black magic, or is that just his presence as a champion? Because that’s the the aura of a fighter Yeah. Is a weapon. He have. He has. Israel Adesanya, when he’s in his prime, had that. Mike Tyson in his prime had that. There’s Anderson Silva had that.
There’s an aura that champions have when they’re in their prime that makes you think about them instead of yourself, and it probably seems like black magic.
Yeah. But still, this is the just for me is a pure self confidence. And to be pure self confident,
you You can’t think about your opponent.
And that was the that was something what I made. That was something what I really went to another level. Yeah.
Yeah. So when you look at yourself now in this amazing performance against Jamal Hill, do you are you imagining yourself even better? Are you constantly imagining yourself even more precise, even more accurate, even more effective?
Yeah. Yeah. Sure. But right now, I’m more in reality about that. Not not just in, not just in imagination. I wanna see that in video. Right. I wanna be real. I wanna see the my the results of my work. The all these things real. Not just, think, ai, still think about Ai can be better.
I can do this, but I no. I want to do I want to be a champion, and I’m going for it. And I wanna show that to everyone. That’s all. And I will show that, and then then we can speak about about the black magic again. No?
So right now, you don’t even wanna concentrate on the idea of that. Yep. And to protect yourself from that, you just don’t
think about it and be in your own It’s aligned. It’s all about that. Yeah. It’s all about that because in the like I said, the mind is a big, great to serve, but the baddest, baddest, the boss. Yeah. Yeah. Sai that’s why
It can run away from you.
Yep. Yeah. That’s why I had to go back to the Japan where, like, my old belief started to go really deep because there Ai started to be I don’t know how to say it. Like, not not just inspired, but to live live it. Really live it without without no without anything. So
In in managing your mind, I’m sure one of the most important things is to not have a lot of, like, negative influences, not have a lot of negative thoughts in it. Do you spend any time on social media when you’re in camp?
Yeah. Yeah. But but I’m doing just, some posts, and that’s all.
Yeah. Just post and post.
That’s it. That’s how to do it.
I’ll post and maybe some, answer to my just a few few of my friends, and that’s all. No no reading comments. No reading anything ai I’m here to, right now, I’m here to to show you my way of the martial arts ai do my my way to the to the strength where I still feel the way,
and this is it. What is the, the days that you spend in darkness and ai? What does that do for you?
To still, it’s about explore your mind. Keep your mind disciplined. Keep your thoughts on the ground. Observe the it’s all about the mind and and then about the training because I trained there too in that dark you mean that dark room and yeah. Yeah. So meditation, observing mind, follow follow your, find the best the best of your what you can what you can achieve in this life, what you can if you can, if you want, really.
And this is the question what everybody have to answer for to to, to ourselves, which life we wanna live, which thoughts is the, useful, which not, which I need to let go and which I sana to, keeps in my life. Mhmm. So
And so it’s just a deep exploration of your own ai.
Yes. Maybe the because there is a lot of lot of levels, like, imagination, see the some visualization, some some life dreams, all the all these things because after 3 days, the it’s there is a opening. The 3rd 3rd eye is opening, and you can see you can you can see truly who you arya, and maybe sometimes it somebody needs more days without food.
So it’s going to be, then it’s without food is going to be, like, more intensive. Yeah. Everything’s going much faster. So yeah. So when you started doing this, you you do no food? You just drink water when you’re in there? Yeah.
And if you to to to understand me, all these things I’m doing because I really decide, like, to use everything ai a weapon in a ai. To use my mind, use my visualization, use the everything. And that’s that’s why I went to do this trip of the spirituality sai deep because I fall.
I thought there will be some special weapons what I can use in the ai, and the biggest special weapon is to be yourself, the realest yourself. That’s all. There is the that’s the key. That’s the key. Yep.
Well, listen, brother. I’m a big fan. I love watching you fight. I really enjoyed talking to you. I wish you nothing but success, and I can’t wait to see you get after it again. And I’m I’m very happy for you and your improvement. The last fight was incredible, and, thank you for everything.
Thank you. Thank you, too.
Tell everybody, do you have a website? Do you have a website online? What is your website?
I I have a just a just a brand. Do you meh, like,
do you have a ai, or you just have social media?
Oh, social media. Yeah. Sure.
Social media. Just Ram, Yuri Prohaska.
Yuri Yuryka Prohaska. Yes. In Instagram, Twitter too. Twitter is, Yuri BJP.
There There it is. Yep. That’s it. What does BJP stand for?
Wow, man. This is wow. Who Ai where I’m came ram, the the stands, the that’s that young, Yuri not young Yuri. The the true Yuri, who’s, but UFC don’t like that. UFC because I’m I’m I’m I’m I’m trying to tell them, like, this is the best theory Prochaska. But in the real is, in Czech is a bombiach pitcher, and that meh, like, bombs as fuck. Sai because yeah. That’s it. That’s it.
So it’s bomb as fuck Yuri Prochaska.
That’s it. That’s right. Beautiful.
Yeah. Alright. Looking for a biggest strength. That’s all.
Thank you, brother. This sai awesome.
Thanks, man. We appreciate you.
Thank you very much. Alright. Bye, everybody ai.