Adin Live - November 11, 2025Adin Ross Interviews Islam Makhachev!
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1 hour and 9 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we have a special guest on the show, Ali. We talk about his training, his diet, and how he lost weight. We also talk about coffee, tea, and a date.
Transcript
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I like, no, like, one years ago, I started to drink black coffee.
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Because, like, you know, now it's become professional.
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Man, special for you, we get the Wi-Fi in Russia, man.
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Special for you, we make it, brother, in Russia.
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What's the diet been like since, like, the, since your camp?
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First, I did the first camp for, like, for weights, you know?
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I spent three weeks there just for the lifting, for the gain weight, you know?
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This is the, this is, this camp for this fight, hardest in my life.
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Because, you know, like, many, you know, I changed the, my sparring partner, they always
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Monday, usually, like, you know, no power, like, bad mood.
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What's the, um, what's the maximum weight you've weighed so far?
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Chat, what is that in, uh, chat, what is that in, um, LBS pounds?
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I've gotten better since the last time you taught me some moves, so.
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Like, I know last time, like, you know, you put me in some, some locks and some stuff,
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I'll go a little easy because I know you have a fight coming up.
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But, like, like, when it comes to wrestling other streamers, like, I'm really good.
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I, uh, I wanted to get you a gift, bro, but it's not gonna be ready in time.
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Are you gonna forget, put, like, in the plane or somewhere?
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Hunter just said, tell Islam I said he needs to stop letting Ali go slide shopping for him.
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You think this is from me like three years ago.
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Again, I'm just curious, cause I'm only in America.
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Are there like good clothes to shop in Dagestan?
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Like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, but other like big cities, they have...
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Like down over there, it's just like the cold is even...
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But here also, I think like very similar weather like in New York.
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So wait, do you just drink tea and coffee for energy?
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It gives you just like weird, jittery feelings?
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Sometimes they give me energy, but after that, I go like...
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Coffee gives me like anxiety and stuff too sometimes, but...
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I do like a couple shots a day, but I used to drink a lot of Red Bulls and all those,
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but you don't ever drink Red Bulls or anything like that?
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What streaming platforms do you guys have in Russia?
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But across all my other platforms, probably like 10 million plus.
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But you had mentioned that this is going to be your hardest camp, bro.
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In the, like, if we, in some, like, outside, like, in the training camp, in the mountain,
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We have just a little bit stretching, maybe sometimes, like, running.
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So, after that, we go eat breakfast, and 11 in the morning, we're training camp.
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I'm going to train, like, we're going to go to the gym, like, 9, 10.
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Where's your favorite place to, like, fight whenever you have a fight?
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Man, now it's easy to come to Dagestan from Dubai.
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But before, I fly always from Moscow to Los Angeles, like, 12 hours.
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Guys, again, you guys can ask him whatever you want.
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Who are you most excited to fight in welterweight?
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And they don't know probably now, but do you want to stay welterweight, or do you want
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If you ask me right now, I want to stay welterweight, but we have to see after the fight,
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Because, you know, I feel, like, so much better, because I know what Monday happened.
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I eat, like, less, like, no energy, but today's the fight week, Monday, I feel the same, like,
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How do you feel about, by the way, it's coming up, the UFC at the White House?
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First time ever, it's going to be in, like, history.
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And maybe one of the day, they're going to make in Russia.
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But, you know, for the legacy, now we're fighting in Madison Square Garden.
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Madison Square Garden, our first time in White House.
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I fight in November, I have, like, much time for recovery and for beginning new camp.
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Carlos Prades versus Leon Edwards, a good fight.
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Honestly, for me, it's the best card of the year, you know?
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And a lot of interesting fights, which one I want to sit and watch.
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When you fight and you're the last fight of the night, I wouldn't say an anxiety feeling,
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but do you kind of have, like, a nerve feeling, in a way, where, like, you're kind of letting
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all these other fights kind of pass by, you're watching them, and then it's like, you're
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One of the days, when we fought in Vegas, I have the main event, and we have, like, two
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rooms, my room, and, like, in front of my room, Habib's room, you know?
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And, like, five days, you all day stay in hotel, you not go somewhere, you know?
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Maybe you can go and eat breakfast somewhere in the morning, but usually all day.
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But that time, in corona time, you know, you have to stay in the hotel all the time.
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And I went to his room, he told me, hey, go sleep, you have to rest.
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That's why we just, when I fight, like, before, when I, like, first fight, it's much, much
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better, I think, because you go to the arena, no one there, like, almost empty, fight is
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But now it's, you have to stay all day, waiting, and when your teammates fighting in the same
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Like, like, last time, I remember, like, Umar's fighting, you know?
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But right after Umar's fight, my fight, and I have to warm up, like, do something, like,
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And I put my teammates, another guy, I put him, like, under TV, and I'm watching the fight
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and work with him, you know, to warm up very hard, and I was just, like, crazy nervous that
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The fight also, like, very competitive, you know, very hard fight.
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And after that fight, I told Umar and Habib, please don't put anyone with me in the same
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card, you know, because it makes you, like, stress.
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What are your thoughts, by the way, on the, on the Aspinall gone fight?
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What did you think about the outcome of that fight?
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I, in my opinion, it's, have to be, like, more easy for Aspinall, but I think Cyril doing,
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like, very well in defense wrestling, and very interesting, like, second, third round,
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And very much, it's gonna be soon, I think, and interesting.
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I mean, and even, you know, obviously, like, I saw John even speak about it, too.
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The iPope looked bad for me, but I don't know, because I'm not, obviously, a fighter,
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but what do you, what do you think about the iPope?
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I have one times in my life, like, iPope, you know?
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And right away from the, we did, like, warm-up in the morning, you know, just do, like,
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shadow boxing, like, something like this with the partners, and he gave me crazy iPope,
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Straight away from there, I go to the hospital, and they make some surgery for my eye.
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Not, like, shadow, I don't know how it's called.
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Not sparring, you just touch the shoulder, you know?
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Not face, without gloves, you just touch the shoulder, and then you give me an eye book.
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And I cannot open the second eye also, because when I open one eye, it's, they're moving together,
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And that makes, like, small, small, from the laser, the surgery.
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I know, I know right now, and again, it's something that, like, you don't know,
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because, obviously, you have to fight JDM first, but, you know, you're a welterweight.
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Like, is there any way you would do light heavyweight, or, you know...
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And I can do, but I'm not gonna be big like that, you know?
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For the other division, I have to be, like, 100 kg.
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You said you just recently started taking creatine.
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I always, the UFC, give us, like, some supplements.
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But from the creatine, I start to feel something, you know?
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How you recover, how you feel, like, after training, before training.
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It's very good for your brain, for your muscle, for everything.
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I don't know if you've been seeing any type of, like, film from his previous fights lately.
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But what stands out for you, for Jack the most?
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And everybody knows he's a good boxer, you know?
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You see his last fight, how he defend the wrestling, how he feel in the ground.
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Bilal didn't even take him down, I don't think, right?
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Yeah, he take him down, like, twice or three times.
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That's why I told you it's gonna be maybe hardest fight in my life.
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Because I know anything can happen, and I have to be ready.
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What's the hardest part about being a champion and staying a champion that people don't, like, see in the camera or, like, know?
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If you're a champion, the hardest part, you have to focus, you know?
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Don't miss the focus, because some of them, like, lose the motivation, you know?
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When you become champion, what else you can do?
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Like, or you have to, like, like, what myself, I change the division, and I have, like, new motivation to be double champion, you know?
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And just not many people make it this, and I know if I do this, it's gonna be in the history.
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Man, I can't imagine the pressure you probably feel to be a champion.
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And then under this, I'm just wearing a black t-shirt, because, like, I know, yeah, I don't know, New York, because I'm in Miami, so it's always so hot, so I'm not used to the cold weather.
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I mean, in the wintertime, it's 60, well, I don't know what that is in Celsius, but.
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They canceled his flight, and, like, 10 people with him.
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And they take the private jet, and just leave it.
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Someone in my chat had asked about DC's diet plan.
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Oh, yeah, best diet plan for the game, right, you know?
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Someone had asked, do you think, who do you think that could beat, or give Tapuri a good
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match for, in his old, in your, in your old division?
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It's the toughest fight for Tapuri, I think, right now.
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What he can do, like, do some ambition, take him down, but I don't know.
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If you ask me, like, hardest fight for Tapuri in lightweight division, I think Armand.
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I, I remember I was, I remember you guys were supposed to fight, and then he got injured.
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Oh, yeah, that's the fight that Umar was on, and...
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How do you remember to just keep drinking water?
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Just, what you have to do all day, just drinking water.
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And it's become your weight cut, it's going to be easier.
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One of the day when I fought, supposed to fight in my, in Tampa.
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That was, I think Kobe, Kobe Covington fought on that card.
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Uh, I know, and my fight was canceled that time also.
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And our nutritionist guy, I remember we fought in, Miss Habib, in the same card.
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11 liters a day, you know, we're drinking 11 liters.
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And everything in your eye, like, like this, you know, like water, moving like this, you know.
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But when I asked the, uh, nutrition guys now what we have from UFC, they say it's just like a big mistake.
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I think people have passed away from drinking a lot of water, too.
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I remember, um, I saw something back in the day about, so you could pass away if you drink a lot of water.
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Water is just, for people who want to cut weight, it's the best things, you know.
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Someone had asked, um, if you could change one thing in the UFC, what would it be?
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Do you like the way the current UFC gloves are or not?
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You know, I've been in a lot of any organization, but no, like, no one, like, professional like UFC, you know.
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Ah, but I like the UFC gloves, but the, the new one, the gold one, it's not good, man.
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If you, if you had to rank your personal, uh, top five, pound for pound, currently in the UFC, who would it be?
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Just currently your personal favorite top five, pound for pound.
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Volk is the crazy warrior you know yeah he gonna fight all day non-stop you
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know yeah Volk's insane he's one of the greatest what about sorry you said top
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five current about top five all time all the time all the time man it's very
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hard like for me it's the best fighter like of course Anderson Silva George
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I saw I was telling Ali about it I saw like the vlog you posted or like your
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team posted about you driving and you mentioned me and it was about the you said
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like this new generation everyone's on their phones and you didn't I didn't even
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know there was an internet in Russia but it's cool you said you got me right with
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the internet when I get out there and it's like big news you men don't know
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like Russia I think every country well there's probably a couple that aren't I
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don't have it oh if you don't have you can make hotspot true that's true there's
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always a hotspot you could do oh they want Russia brother cheapest internet in
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Russia it's very fast and very cheap what it's fast too man I gotta go check it
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out I would only go to Russia with you though I wouldn't go with I don't know
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anyone else you want to go by myself I tell you Moscow number one safety but I
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want to come to Dagestan yes we go Dagestan we go Moscow when you tell me if you
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actually tell me I'll show up winter time not that good so cold sometimes but am I
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gonna be able to get in like properly we have to go mountains yeah mountains I go to
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mountains but that's why winter it's not good then why is my chat saying GG's bro
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it's that listen I won't bail if he personally invites me I'm not gonna bail
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if you really want me to come I will actually come I promise you
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do you want this guy Mike Houston was with him the sneak real person yeah yeah we're gonna go
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what happened I think I've heard him before what happened with him he want to also come
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oh okay so I'll go with him he want to wrestle with beer I don't think I can wrestle a bear
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we'll give you something small okay see my whole chat chat you don't they're saying I'm self-inviting
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never mind if you want me to come you can invite me
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April April May Tuesday April May yeah nice time okay how long should I come for two three years
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I'd probably transform into like a whole different person but just buy tickets one way and any times
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you can go back true I'll just take a one more maybe you're not gonna go back that's why don't
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buy it oh man we're gonna go mountains by horse stay there and in the tent but mountains don't have
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internet these are the bad things well we could figure out how to make it work with the backpack
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it connects the cellular like data and towers there's towers out there right what cellular
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towers out in Russia yeah yeah of course yeah um man please some days ask your chat chat GBT brother
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what the Russia you don't know nothing about Russia I know nothing man I got to get out of the country
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more so what I'll do is I'll go to Dubai for a little bit and I'll come meet up with you
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you're saying I don't think there'll be problems I go to Dubai and then go to Russia yeah I could
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just go right yeah just this is the way yeah like also we go back to Abu Dhabi and Dubai to
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Mahachikala our capital city we have like three flights every day will you pick me up from the
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airport of course cool I come by horse okay um where will I sleep at is there like a nice hotel
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five star let's go all right I'm actually gonna come or we can stay in my farm I would love to stay
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in your farm yeah I'd be great I don't you know I'd be great you'd be great what about um what's like
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your top I was always wondering I always ask people with different uh backgrounds and just all sorts of
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stuff like what are your top three like dishes out there like what's your top three go-to dishes I know
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eat very clean but food food we have uh like okay uh people gonna make mistake we have hinkal in our
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traditional food but it's not like Georgian have hinkali it's not same Georgian traditional food it's
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the hinkali but we have uh in Dagestan 33 different language I told you 33 languages in Dagestan yeah and
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all like almost everybody every language have his own hinkal that's traditional food you know wow
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it's very very very diverse then yeah 33 language like I have different language Habib has different
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language how many languages do you know I know English I know Russian and I know my language it's luck
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what do you think is the hardest language to learn that you've learned maybe Arabic language I try to
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I try to learn but I just can read but I don't understand like I just understand not much um this
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is one of my favorite fights uh this weekend what do you think about Sean Brady Michael Morales it's
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gonna be a good fight yeah you know I like Sean Bradley I like his style he's very tough if we meet
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one days I know it's gonna be hard fight you know yeah we have like almost similar uh style good wrestling
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yeah good pressure but if if he in good shape he gonna he gonna win what did you think about the
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ang alex part two uh of course i'm surprised what did you think ang was gonna win yeah yeah sure
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but uh after the fight everybody told me he uh not not training like last three months he have rib
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injured when you don't have like sparring three times a week it's hard to have to go to the cage and
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fight you know that's why i think it's happened but i don't know you know i think then it deserves to
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fight one more time data part three yeah because uncle live says i just don't want to like
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uh pull out because i want to save the main event and he has to be healthy and come back you know
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has there ever been a camp where you've been injured or hurting something and then like you
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obviously hide it and you kind of just go through with it uh not like a big big injure sometimes but
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always fighter has like some small injuries but rib injury is very difficult you know it's you cannot
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move if something like touch your rib it's crazy pain you know that's why i think everybody have
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like some small injuries but if you're not healthy 100 it's it's not good idea yeah yeah i mean i
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remember the umar murab i mean he broke his hand in the first round right yeah yeah but in in like when
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fight is beginning if sometimes something broke and you know you you're not feel much you know it
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just happened right now it's like next 10 15 minutes you're not gonna feel much you know but but when
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you want to catch your arm it's not gonna work but not it's like crazy pain you try to like lock your
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hand but it's not gonna be hard you know are there any uh ufc fighters that are up and coming that you
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like or you see um that you kind of have an eye on uh like i see our teammates who the people talk
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about john park very excited he's fighting the day he's fighting the contender series right yeah yeah
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this guy's crazy man it's where's john he's uh i know around here somewhere so why do they call him
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that i don't know he's a like you know excited fighter yeah his style it's crazy man he he was
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like two times my title champion and he training with us last last five six years he improved his
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wrestling and he can have good potential how important would you say um sleep is during you
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know camp and you know because i know sometimes it can be really hard especially with adrenaline and
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all these things coming up for you know such a big deal sleeping yeah for the professional
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at least most important how many hours you get a day eight hours you get eight hours
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i don't like to like have nap but i sleep like from 11 to 8 we wake up to the morning pray and go
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again sleep i sleep like try to sleep minimum eight eight hours eight hours eight hours it's most
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most important things for recovery and i use before the things would show me how many hours you sleep
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the um the apple or no there's like a way you can track your sleep you know what it's called
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is it the apple watch oh yeah yeah that's it and i finish with these things because you know some days
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it show you you're ready for training some days it show you like 10 percent you're just ready you know
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but you sleep well but it show you're not ready for training and you go to the gym and you have to
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training yeah you're not gonna say your coaches hey my whoop showed me today that's 10 10 they
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not believe you you know you got the russian moves is that correct same group
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what do you prefer i know this this is not by the this is not a stupid question because everyone's
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different i've asked other athletes this but do you prefer to sleep on a soft or a hard mattress
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for recovery hard yes soft matters always i have pain back pain some things you know soft beds are
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bad for your back right and like for recovery it's good to do hard beds for hard for everybody good
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because like our ancestors yeah they all sleep in the floor you know wait what of course
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yeah on the floor doors too of course everybody you're right yeah everybody yeah you're right
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the best yeah i do you're right best things you know um that was funny okay but they say you like fishing
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you do we got a fish what do you do ice fishing and uh and i show your fish
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let's see in in new jersey but all fish by the way hold on a second was that a bad question about
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the sleep thing or no because they're my chat they just troll me though like they're just they're mad
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about that look this fish dang dang look at this camera hey that is a crazy fish 43 kg oh my god
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yes but brother new jersey all fish i don't know that is true what happened i don't know you really
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like fish is it what is it for you like look every every weekend almost i go to the fishing
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i go spearfishing wow you get on this side i catch like a lot oh my gosh that's a ton of fish
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fish it's russian i don't know it's car carp english name do you um do you eat the fish of course
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always eat give my neighbors like but i catch one days shark you got a shark in san francisco
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did you eat it no the guys who in the body say it's not not good for it
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no i don't know not at all oh man that's he's saying when you can uh
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this guy not from us at all you can do some soup he told me from the shark but i say for the
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soup i don't need that's crazy that is so crazy are you going hunting too yeah what do you hunt for
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like bear and deer deer i'm not sure you don't shoot no i just like to go like hiking yeah
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people but i'm not sure i feel like if you ever see i mean you could probably tackle one and put it
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we're gonna go hunting we are yeah yeah okay it's gonna be nice nice trip for you how long you want
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to be there for like a week well yeah yeah i'll come for a week we'll have dinner hang out you play
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video games uh no okay i'm not good on this no it's all good i was just curious you play card games
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card cards like what what like uno um what else um spades no we have the russian some we play
00:42:16.360
there's there's there's cool little board games card games um what else do you do besides i don't
00:42:20.520
i don't like sit and spend time we have to do some activity you know yeah go somewhere you play
00:42:25.720
basketball basketball oh we oh i'll beat you in basketball i'll be listen there's no way there's
00:42:30.520
no way you're better than me at basketball i'm sorry maybe fighting yes but not basketball
00:42:33.320
look look look i saw you at the knicks game last night
00:42:45.400
my chat's laughing you guys really think he would beat me in 0-1-1 come on bro
00:42:50.360
i'll eat come on bro i get it man i get it you got a rep
00:42:53.560
show you no look no he's not beating me basketball ping pong basketball look look it's myself okay
00:42:59.480
that's you right there yeah wait you look through the lay on lamps hold on look this is basketball in
00:43:06.600
the mets you can wrestling you can do no way you can wrestle it's called a reg ball
00:43:11.320
do you do trick shots and stuff when you're laying the ball up that's kind of cool we're good in
00:43:31.560
basketball yeah but you don't shoot the ball like you shoot like threes you shoot the ball he can't do it
00:43:36.280
look he's even saying you can't do it bro yesterday i'm waiting for that moment you know but dagestani
00:43:42.200
basketball he'll dominate i mean dagestani basketball you could tackle him so hold on a second how does
00:43:45.800
that work you can literally if i have the ball you could just hold me and tackle me i will try to show
00:43:50.840
maybe i find you know tap bro that is nuts i mean ah look look okay let me see
00:43:57.480
wait what you could just slam him like that yeah and after that sometimes oh some scuffle okay
00:44:13.160
okay well if we play like that you're gonna beat me obviously but
00:44:16.520
if we're playing american basketball i think i got it call your own fouls play in daghestan american
00:44:22.360
basketball i mean daghestan we played daghestan basketball you know what you're right i mean i'm
00:44:27.720
going out there for you i gotta play your rules i'm not worried about it man look i'm 180 you'll be
00:44:33.800
yeah i'm good what other sports do you play though um besides like basketball oh you play soccer you
00:44:40.440
good in soccer no horrible i could play football i'm trying to get into baseball football it's not
00:44:46.120
same not soccer sorry american football like tom brady you know yeah so um but that type of stuff's
00:44:55.000
cool you know hockey's a very physical sport too hockey hockey yeah it's not for me i'm very good at
00:44:59.640
ping pong do you play ping pong very good i'm very good very very good at ping pong tennis is cool
00:45:06.840
ah what about the paddle paddle uh what is it called um pickleball pickleball that's it pickleball
00:45:14.920
i like dates dates are good bro you put me on super good under time better than chocolate i agree
00:45:23.960
well chocolate's pretty good and read read about the dates what read about the dates they're good for
00:45:29.800
you yeah well um good for everything my uh my favorite fruit honestly i love bananas strawberries and
00:45:36.360
mangoes oh you got a banana for me thank you bro do you want some of my banana no no no okay
00:45:54.040
i have my food no this is good though man i love bananas i haven't ate anything all day i've been
00:45:59.800
fasting russia have banana also russia have banana also banana also doesn't know do they got do they
00:46:09.160
got pizza out there pizza yeah yeah italian pizza in daghestan italian pizza in daghestan
00:46:19.080
what man please don't talk about restaurant only we went to the we went to the new york first day
00:46:28.120
like landed to new york yeah at least say i'm gonna take your best restaurant in new york man and we
00:46:34.120
go egyptian mcdonald's you know it wasn't good no man it's i don't know
00:46:45.160
no it's good wait but what's your top three favorite egyptian foods
00:46:50.760
brother he is 20 years in new york she don't know about
00:46:53.240
but ali cook very well oh he's a good cook i remember you told me that last year you cook for
00:47:03.080
him and stuff you help him out with all that stuff hey ali what happened this campion not cook for me
00:47:08.840
eat everything brother what you want me to cook you can eat everything before i feel bad for you
00:47:12.840
no i don't i can cook you want what you can mac and cheese eggs eggs eggs eggs is protein
00:47:23.000
i eat today for usually the nutritionist give me two eggs today i eat four i finish three and say no
00:47:29.320
enough wow that's crazy well they always wonder this egypt has the craziest pyramids how did they get
00:47:37.320
there i don't know i don't know how they built the pyramids isn't that crazy to think about it what
00:47:42.760
what do you think how do you think those pyramids came how like how is that possible you think june
00:47:51.240
yeah i never been to you oh you haven't been i want to go you are you gonna go yeah i don't know
00:47:57.480
i'm waiting for ali you never invite me yeah nah you know in russia i was looking into it there's like
00:48:03.720
what's the deepest lake in russia called michael they said there's aliens under there aliens
00:48:11.800
no it's it's a lake it's the deepest place in the world yeah it's the deepest lake in the world
00:48:16.360
no deepest lake in the world but i'm an internet kid i was on tick tock
00:48:23.080
my child would know what it is why are you laughing bro
00:48:25.720
okay i want to have let me ask you a question your iphone baikal is the most beautiful lake you
00:48:37.880
know what is the water you can drink it goes oh yeah no i heard i heard the water out there super
00:48:43.240
fresh um iphones i got ask hunter about dougistan how he like oh yeah hunter went right yeah let me call
00:48:51.640
hunter real quick see what hunter's up to you know when you go to dougistan there's one place you have
00:48:56.600
to go where called what is that islam king of hushet him and muslim what oh really just say hushet
00:49:04.280
where is john pork from where's john pork is from hushet no no no no hasbullah from hushet also oh i want
00:49:11.960
to meet azbullah i'm gonna beat his i said why because i want to i don't know hunter i'm in new
00:49:19.480
york you're here yeah i just got here of course he's in here hey brother how are you brother please
00:49:25.560
explain to me about dougistan you don't believe me oh you're in the gym he's in the gym right now
00:49:31.240
i see it yeah well i was just saying i'm gonna go to dougistan like april may he's he was telling me
00:49:35.640
but hunter you should just come with me it's incredible yeah it's crazy it's a it's a world
00:49:42.120
you've never seen before wow no matter what you've done and where you've been there's nothing like
00:49:46.440
it we need a ufc in dougistan the whole stream i wish the whole the whole entire uh stream was
00:49:52.120
asking about john pork oh really the whole the whole stream oh you're already here i didn't know
00:49:57.560
you're here uh i literally got in like maybe an hour ago okay okay well after the stream i'm gonna
00:50:03.240
call you bro cool hey give him about his shoes let me see him oh yeah you could show needles too
00:50:09.960
hunter you want to give me new no i want i want you to have ali stop shopping for you you know you're
00:50:16.680
a proud dougistan man you're wearing you're wearing uh you're wearing pips pips shoes but look brother
00:50:37.960
all right hunter all right boys i'll see you later all right bye man hunter's saying that it's beautiful
00:50:43.640
out there i gotta go whoops look this guy and just landed in the gym yeah i love to see it i love
00:50:50.600
to see it um man it's been at us but what about you when you're training last time when you're
00:50:55.240
training i haven't worked on like a week i was sick though like two weeks ago i'm better now i would
00:50:59.800
never do that to you by the way do you get sick often by the way i always wonder that you're ufc
00:51:03.480
fighters you guys have to probably the craziest immune systems right not but sometimes you said like
00:51:09.800
like regular people everybody's sick you know but you've got to have a great immune system though
00:51:14.520
no no when you're training in the camp end of the game immune system go down and why also if you cut
00:51:21.800
weight your immune system zero that makes sense because you're not getting the nutrients and you're
00:51:25.320
not getting what you need your body needs not salt nothing and your immune system go down bro i know
00:51:30.360
if we spar early later i'll really go easy on you because i don't want to mess you up but i really
00:51:34.360
have a black eye but um but yeah man i'm sorry to hear that i'm gonna recording this and we will
00:51:41.560
talk in dougistan you think this never mind you know oh my god i'm sorry obviously that's why i told
00:51:47.960
you buy tickets one way so bro yeah i'm not wait wait how old were you when you when you first wrestled
00:51:55.000
the cub seven years old seven when i start to yeah it's my link in the 50 gram region
00:52:05.080
but i don't wrestle with the cat with the beers oh you never wrestled a man before oh
00:52:11.960
you can that was happy oh it was a beep i thought you i assumed i knew habib did but i thought you want
00:52:17.240
to wrestle with beer i can bring it my phone can we tape its mouth just so i can't get bit
00:52:21.960
i don't know what's gonna be i just i just can't bring you know but you can i can it's a little
00:52:28.680
bit scary bro this guy i forget always his name he can wrestle with beer with this guy mark houston
00:52:37.000
thousand yeah yeah yeah no it's crazy mike holston mike huston yes okay just mike mike islam i'm 25 years
00:52:45.720
old i'm not really happy 25 huh uh no i'm not married i'm 25 years old um i've never fought
00:52:53.080
before i remember in the fight street fights i've never i played a couple sports back in high school
00:52:57.320
do you think if i came to dougistan for two to three years that i'd be able to go into the ufc
00:53:02.440
25 so i'll be 28 by the time i get out i'm gonna be honest yeah you're not gonna have a chance no you
00:53:08.360
don't have the motivations to be you're good in the stream brother you have money you have everything
00:53:15.320
you're not you're not gonna train so hard to be you're right but i'm saying let's say a very hungry
00:53:20.120
person that's 25 years old with no experience 25 that's very hungry in the world 25 it's hard like
00:53:26.440
20 21 well you think what you're saying 20 you gotta be at least so they grapple with omar if you can beat
00:53:31.480
omar maybe no 25 it's so hard man yeah like some of some of them 25 it's become ufc champion you know
00:53:40.840
because that's true 25 it's so hard yeah i say like best time to start mma 17. well but wasn't panto
00:53:54.040
pantoja was 24 when he started fighting right pantoja i don't know i think no he wasn't i mean 24 but
00:54:00.760
here like big jitsu big like jujitsu or something true i know alex pereira he got in the ufc at like
00:54:06.280
37 but he was already doing kickboxing and stuff for years yeah yeah yeah yeah same things he did in
00:54:12.120
ufc no shamba he did he did no shamba he did kickboxing man alex he's good yeah he's good yeah he is
00:54:19.800
he is i'm very excited for that uh that zang fight but i believe he and kalaj have more more skills you
00:54:26.120
know oh you think ang's more skilled yeah the first time they fought alex had a fever
00:54:30.200
and he was i think he had an infection no brother everybody's hurt like nobody goes 100
00:54:36.600
percent okay but ilia's got to be 100 you gotta even be 100 sometimes just lose or win you know
00:54:42.520
after like one year nobody cares what happened if you're injured or you're sick or something's
00:54:46.680
happening you know it's it's your it's your opinion you fight or not fight you know that's
00:54:51.160
also so i know you don't duck anything i know you're down to fight anybody so why didn't ilia and you
00:54:55.400
happen ever or you think it'll ever happen like eventually or if it does whatever it can happen
00:55:00.040
like it's maybe like biggest fight i think it'll be the biggest fight biggest fight everybody know
00:55:05.160
and i will i also want and i think next year is the best time damn that would be crazy yeah
00:55:15.240
especially guys you had like the garden where would you want you'd want to do in new york
00:55:18.120
in new york in new york not not in the winter time where miami better come to miami and do it
00:55:25.400
we go on a yacht we go fishing a lot of fun i also like to fight in vegas because um you see
00:55:31.880
have like you see pi you yeah i've been there yeah i've been there we were there last time
00:55:37.080
yeah best place for the training the white house would be kind of cool but i would you want to if you
00:55:42.840
were would you if you could would you fight at the white house like do that would you fight in that
00:55:47.720
card or no you would want to just yeah yeah of course man it's like it's best place you know
00:55:54.680
like first time ever and i told it's gonna be in the big fight for the legacy fight in
00:56:01.880
white house what did you guys think about the sphere you know um the sphere card it's look like small
00:56:09.000
no no 20 000 people i was there it was cool it was marab and uh sean yeah yeah i i saw the tv
00:56:17.000
it's looks different you know yeah but i know i don't know how they better but in the white house
00:56:23.800
there's gonna be in the outside the door outside or they're gonna cover if rain coming they're gonna
00:56:29.400
have cover oh they are yes um hamzat ddp what'd you think about that he had him in that crucifix i'm
00:56:36.840
surprised you're surprised about the outcome how is how easy he beat the champion i'm surprised also
00:56:43.400
obviously and hamzat it's really good you know good skills and wrestling who have wrestling in
00:56:51.640
this game that people dominate always what do you think about people trying to criticize you know
00:56:57.400
wrestlers saying that like they're ruining the ufc and stuff like that in my opinion i feel like if
00:57:01.320
you understand it it's very like it was very very entertaining to watch hamzat you know absolutely you
00:57:08.280
you know maul uh ddp in my opinion but man listen like if you have like background wrestlings and
00:57:15.560
you did the wrestlings like when he was kids and you like fighter and your opponent want to defense
00:57:24.120
your wrestling like for example ddp he i think he training last like three four months just defense
00:57:31.960
his wrestling it's crazy and you know how many times he defense it's hard it's so hard it's hard to
00:57:39.800
learn the wrestlings when you become 25 26 you know yeah it makes sense i mean i mean if you look
00:57:46.680
at ank alex he had a lot of those takedown defenses yeah he had 11 or 13. his ground game he's not not
00:57:53.720
the wrestlers yeah he's a greco-roman yeah it's a little bit different yeah yeah um and uncle i feel
00:58:02.520
very comfortable in the striking his striking is very very good you know yeah yeah how many people
00:58:07.720
you knock out a lot a lot of people a lot of people some of them when he start when they start to
00:58:16.840
like knock out people they they say no i'm not gonna wrestle anymore because they believe his punch you
00:58:22.280
know why i have to wrestle and sometimes it's mistake but but people love when you knock out someone
00:58:32.200
yeah that's a it's a good feeling well to watch yeah i've never been knocked out or knocked anyone out
00:58:37.400
but yeah you know no i've never i've never uh done that i'll go easy on you in the spar i'm joking
00:58:44.920
obviously when we go spy tonight let's go all he said nope it's fine dagestan dagestan okay yeah i'll
00:58:58.760
come to your home court it's all good wow okay i remember this um do you guys have a couple more
00:59:05.960
questions i don't want to hold a man from getting into his own and go training you got to train
00:59:08.840
oh you've got a couple questions for all day media from like but you know life is changing when i
00:59:16.760
change the weight division yeah i enjoy the fight camp i enjoy the fight week you know it's things
00:59:24.440
what really i love is it harder or what are your thoughts on like you said you have to find someone
00:59:31.320
new to spar because of the you know you're changing the division so more strong guy more like big guy but
00:59:39.720
but the the guys who i spar all my life they also like why in our gym most most fighter were like 155
00:59:51.240
hadid myself like osman we have five more guys you guys don't know but because in 155 we have
01:00:02.680
most competitive in our in our gym you know that's why i have good success
01:00:08.680
because we always spar together and make make each other better every day i love that i love that um
01:00:17.960
yeah guys you guys got a couple more i know the man's got to go true how long are you gonna train
01:00:22.520
for by the way we're gonna finish around 12 wow so you go for hours yeah wow i actually have a good
01:00:30.600
quest this is a personal question from me to you how do you stay hungry i know you're the champ i know
01:00:34.360
that's probably super like motivating but how do you stay hungry in terms of like
01:00:37.560
uh now it's hard it's very hard it's very hard stay hungry you know and you have to
01:00:48.200
always put some target you know now it's like easy right second belt like big fight it's another goal
01:00:58.680
for you yeah another goal you know but when you was champion and you have to defend your belt
01:01:05.080
it's very hard you know i know you're super humble and i know you don't like to spend or anything like
01:01:10.280
that but um what's been like your most favorable purchase you've ever done in your life or the most
01:01:15.080
memorable purchase that you've ever done um maybe you bought someone a house or maybe you bought a gift
01:01:25.720
for somebody significant to you uh when i buy my father's car you know i buy for him like lexus 600
01:01:39.400
like last one last one last one and uh i know why my my father was like before he drive like russian car
01:01:48.680
you know when i buy this car he was like very happy and when i give someone and the people happy it's
01:01:56.440
make me happy also and i what i what else i buy yeah when i give someone car you know car like for the
01:02:09.080
people most most uh what the people need you know they like good car yeah i love that man you know
01:02:17.800
you you buy like my older brother he's like he have car company also he sell oh nice buy he sell
01:02:25.080
he's he good with car he like like the cars but i'm not like big fan of the car he told me always hey
01:02:32.600
buy this car buy this car i always have chinese car you know i drive in chinese car you drive a chinese
01:02:37.720
car you never switch out yes don't have chinese car they're the best they're the best car why do you
01:02:42.920
say that man i swear you you you're gonna surprise crazy wow it's not expensive and very comfortable
01:02:54.200
and i start to drive chinese car and my brother go like crazy with me why you drive you champion you
01:03:00.360
don't have to drive this car change the car i say why not it's very comfortable car you know i still have
01:03:05.640
chinese car but i buy other ones what so what's your favorite car my favorite car for our our roads
01:03:14.520
it's it's some like jeep i buy the us bronco you like the bronco that's good it's a nice united
01:03:23.960
states car yeah i buy for the hunting for the fishing oh yeah it's probably good in the mountains too
01:03:29.160
yeah yeah that's good that's good um well look guys listen man i'm gonna give him some time to
01:03:36.600
you know do his thing get dressed um you're okay with me just like watching you practice a little bit
01:03:42.440
yeah yeah of course cool cool um guys next time see you in daghestan
01:03:50.120
for two three years and forget but i feel like two years and forget for the
01:03:56.440
adam you're gonna lose him there all right that means i got time to train and get you you know what
01:04:01.560
i gotta hire and come to daghestan in good shape i will okay i will um oh i have actually another
01:04:09.560
question because i've been sanding lately is the so the sauna back home is way hotter right because
01:04:14.200
i saw okay it is way hotter yes where you used to go korean sauna it's not hot but russian sauna it's
01:04:24.120
very very hot you like it i like a hot sauna um but i thought the american ones were hot bro you're
01:04:30.120
telling me they're not that like hot that is in russia american style it's not hot stuff
01:04:35.800
russian so it's really hot damn and we're gonna go jump to the snow or ice bus we're gonna jump in the
01:04:44.280
ice you see that my video just today they show me sauna ice like like right away hot cold you do that
01:04:53.640
yeah yeah yeah i show them can i put your body into like shock nothing nothing happened to the body
01:04:59.160
okay let's try to try to find one second one second which one
01:05:53.640
yo you are insane you're insane we're gonna have a good time we will we're gonna have a great time
01:06:05.160
okay so you're saying dubai then daghestan and then moscow yeah will you go to moscow with me
01:06:11.960
we'll see i think that's a no is the safety moscow safer than uh daghestan
01:06:16.920
safety than like any place in the world you know really safer than america man i saw in like london
01:06:23.960
somebody likes oh london's not safe something yeah london's not safe
01:06:28.280
in moscow's can't i i'm not gonna like not possible
01:06:33.720
the last question i'll ask you do you have a fight prediction do you
01:06:37.640
prediction i don't know man you know guys i always looking for the finish
01:06:48.040
well we can't wait to see it man use ufc 322 about to go see you get to work and they're gonna lock
01:06:55.400
in get in your bag man i just want to say thank you man and your gift is coming though okay your
01:07:00.360
gift is coming man thank you guys see you in daghestan man that's crazy man i guess i'm actually
01:07:07.560
gonna go to daghestan that's crazy man yeah if hunter could do it i could do it let's go hunter
01:07:16.840
i'm gonna just i gotta just take hunter with me or something i have to all right
01:07:27.880
before you go ahead just get a question for embedded yeah yeah yeah of course
01:07:33.000
dave thank you brother thank you so much thank you guys all right
01:07:36.840
my man appreciate it um you can sit if you want the same word just sit down all right i got you
01:07:41.960
yep yep um just you know for the embedded fans just explain what you were doing here today with uh
01:07:48.200
islam um interviewing the champ the greatest um humble super nice can't wait to see him dominate
01:07:55.720
ufc 322 i'm a fan first um and you know hopefully we we become besties in daghestan
01:08:02.520
yeah talk about how do you think the interview went with him oh it went really well the interview
01:08:06.920
went super super good um he said i'll see you in daghestan so you know what that means uh i gotta i
01:08:11.960
gotta follow up and go to daghestan do fun stuff fish um you know go into the mountains um and just
01:08:17.480
have a have a blast with him and then last question a lot of people islam's a funny dude but i feel
01:08:23.320
like his sense of humor doesn't come across to a lot of people because he's sort of dry humor what
01:08:28.200
what do you think about his personality and his sense of humor oh man he's got a personality he's
01:08:32.200
a good guy at heart you know he's good to his people um i hear a lot of many many good things
01:08:36.520
about him but me personally i think he he's he's got a great sense of humor uh the dryness it's it's
01:08:41.800
funny you know once you understand it it's good the guy's got he's this guy's full personality
01:08:47.160
awesome thank you yep cool all right uh ali i got that thing for you i texted you about too
01:08:54.840
it's ready to go what thing you got the thingy the that's it the just go over there