Adin Live - January 12, 2025


Islam Makhachev Answers Questions From Adin Ross


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In this episode, Aiden and I talk about preparing for his upcoming fight against Matt Mitrione at UFC 246. We also talk about the recent fires in Los Angeles and how we are praying for everyone affected by them.

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00:00:00.000 What's up, boss?
00:00:05.080 Yeah, yeah, I know you got a clean shot, so I'm willing to take one.
00:00:10.520 Oh, here you go, sir. Here you go. That's for you.
00:00:16.060 She hates the cameras.
00:00:24.440 Come on, Nicole. You're magic in the room. 0.99
00:00:30.000 I have to finish.
00:00:32.420 That's your water right there?
00:00:33.260 Yeah.
00:00:33.780 How much water do you have to drink?
00:00:35.340 Today is six liters.
00:00:37.020 What?
00:00:37.820 You want this next year?
00:00:38.900 No, no, it's okay. I'm almost done.
00:00:40.700 Six liters.
00:00:42.060 So what, you do that every time you're preparing for a fight?
00:00:44.680 Yeah, this is the program for the cutweight.
00:00:46.880 Yeah.
00:00:47.100 They have nutrition team.
00:00:48.940 They give you everyday water, what you have to eat, what you have to drink.
00:00:54.900 They have schedule.
00:00:56.240 Wow. You have to be on point, like 100%.
00:00:58.900 Yeah, if you want to easy cutweight, you have to listen to people.
00:01:02.120 Wow, that's crazy.
00:01:03.580 Wait, okay, so let me ask you this.
00:01:05.500 When you're getting ready to fight, when you know you're about to fight,
00:01:08.780 so how much time do you have to basically put aside to train for these fights per day?
00:01:17.640 Minimum two months, eight weeks for the fight.
00:01:22.080 Yeah.
00:01:22.220 You have to begin minimum from the eight weeks.
00:01:26.980 So eight weeks.
00:01:27.840 Yeah.
00:01:28.420 Some of them, I like to prepare myself, start to prepare like three months.
00:01:33.860 Yeah.
00:01:34.080 Four weeks.
00:01:35.180 Yeah.
00:01:35.360 Because I'm beginning from the mountain.
00:01:37.220 I did camp there for the lifting, for the running, not spying, not MMA stuff.
00:01:45.180 We did lifting and running, something like that.
00:01:48.420 How are you feeling for this fight, bro?
00:01:49.600 You feeling good?
00:01:50.080 Good, good.
00:01:50.400 Very excited, but there are some news in Los Angeles.
00:01:54.060 Hope everybody's well.
00:01:55.860 Prayers for Los Angeles.
00:01:57.280 Yeah, we will go to Los Angeles.
00:02:01.040 We will plan to go tomorrow, but we changed the plan now.
00:02:04.120 Because of the fire.
00:02:04.760 Yeah.
00:02:05.260 After tomorrow.
00:02:05.960 Yeah.
00:02:06.460 We're planning to leave Vegas.
00:02:08.400 It's horrible.
00:02:09.080 It's horrible.
00:02:10.440 Yeah, I hate turning on the news and seeing that, man.
00:02:13.840 It's horrible.
00:02:14.600 Hopefully, everyone is safe.
00:02:16.360 Everyone stays safe.
00:02:17.160 And, you know, prayers for anyone that's being affected by the fires.
00:02:20.280 It's horrible.
00:02:22.300 That's, yeah, it's something else.
00:02:23.820 But, so you're planning out to go into Los Angeles soon.
00:02:26.380 Yeah.
00:02:26.800 You know, the fight's in a week.
00:02:28.140 It's crazy to think about.
00:02:29.380 So, the last week of when you have a big fight, how do you prepare?
00:02:33.020 Mentally and physically.
00:02:33.920 You know, nothing's special.
00:02:36.140 Nothing's hard.
00:02:37.400 All this hard work is finished right now.
00:02:39.960 We did, like, a lot of rounds in the cage.
00:02:43.380 We did, like, good camps.
00:02:46.420 And just now, prepare yourself.
00:02:48.240 You have to recover, you know, from the hard work.
00:02:50.500 Yeah.
00:02:50.720 You have to recover now and just cut weight, you know.
00:02:53.700 That's it.
00:02:54.520 Nothing special.
00:02:55.340 You know, just follow some small rules from the nutritionist team and be safe, you know.
00:03:03.480 Because now you will become, like, cut weights.
00:03:07.200 Injured can happen easy.
00:03:08.780 That's why you have to be careful and training just light.
00:03:12.800 Nice.
00:03:13.400 Nice.
00:03:14.460 I don't know if you know what I do, but everything's live.
00:03:16.580 So, everyone right now is watching live.
00:03:18.040 We have a lot of viewers watching you.
00:03:19.240 A lot of people love you, man.
00:03:20.300 And I wanted to just get to know you personally from a personal note.
00:03:23.880 I'm Aiden.
00:03:24.420 Again, nice to meet you.
00:03:25.500 Nice to meet you, man.
00:03:26.120 It's a pleasure to meet you.
00:03:28.180 Seriously, bro.
00:03:28.700 Like, you're one of the goats in this.
00:03:30.980 And you're a legend.
00:03:32.160 I'm sure you get that a lot.
00:03:33.800 I don't mean to just, you know, but chat.
00:03:35.540 He's here.
00:03:36.640 And that's awesome.
00:03:37.400 You know, you pull up solo.
00:03:38.700 You're very humble.
00:03:40.040 And, you know, people tell me you're a very religious person.
00:03:43.080 And I want to know, like, tell me about yourself and, you know, your relationship with God.
00:03:49.400 And I want to know everything about how you are religious.
00:03:52.780 This is number one thing for me.
00:03:54.540 Yeah.
00:03:55.200 Really my religion because I try to follow all rules in my religion.
00:04:02.080 Just pray and did, like, you know.
00:04:04.920 Like, what Muslim men have to do, I just try to follow, you know.
00:04:14.440 And nothing special.
00:04:16.400 I just want to be a good example for the kids and people who are watching me.
00:04:21.320 I never smoke, never go to some bad place, you know.
00:04:25.320 Always, always focus on my MMA career.
00:04:29.180 And I just want when, like, people, like, small kids look at, like, UFC champion.
00:04:35.160 Yeah.
00:04:35.620 And I want to be good at wrestling.
00:04:37.980 Yeah.
00:04:38.960 Man, yeah.
00:04:39.580 I mean, I got a lot of respect for people that are full-on religious.
00:04:43.340 And you focus on being a good role model to kids and stuff.
00:04:45.920 So that's awesome.
00:04:46.940 That's really awesome.
00:04:48.800 Do you know, by the way, my friend was supposed to come today.
00:04:50.460 Do you know who Sneeko is?
00:04:52.000 Sneeko. 0.54
00:04:52.520 He said he met you one time.
00:04:54.700 He's, like, one of my good friends.
00:04:56.300 He's Muslim.
00:04:57.080 He talks highly of you.
00:04:57.980 But, no, he couldn't be here today.
00:05:00.520 But he's just a big fan of you.
00:05:02.180 He likes you a lot.
00:05:03.580 What's up, man?
00:05:04.220 Where are you?
00:05:05.540 I'm to Vegas.
00:05:07.860 Next time.
00:05:08.500 Next time for sure.
00:05:09.580 So when you're training for your fight, where are you from?
00:05:13.660 Sorry.
00:05:14.000 Russia.
00:05:14.460 Russia.
00:05:15.000 So when you're training in Russia, what's the training like?
00:05:19.160 Talk me through that.
00:05:20.620 You know where we did the first camp for this fight?
00:05:23.640 We went to the Olympic Center in Russia.
00:05:25.960 You know, in Russia, I have, like, Lara professional athletes, like, high level.
00:05:30.680 We have UFC champions.
00:05:32.940 We have Olympic champions.
00:05:34.380 And we have Lara, Lara.
00:05:36.420 Very good Olympic center for training.
00:05:38.540 And I prepare myself one of the best area for a professional athletes in the Kislovodsk.
00:05:47.340 Maybe some people can go Google and check.
00:05:50.480 They have one of the big Olympic center.
00:05:52.600 And it's this Olympic center in the 1,200 meters from the sea level.
00:06:00.100 It makes you breathing very hard.
00:06:02.800 But when you come from the mountain to a regular sea level, it's your breathing, like, very well.
00:06:10.440 And your condition become up, you know.
00:06:13.320 We're beginning there.
00:06:14.400 And we have gym in Dagestan.
00:06:17.080 And in my city, I did a second camp there.
00:06:23.360 And before one month, like, a little, before 40 days, we came to Vegas.
00:06:27.780 Wow.
00:06:28.060 And we're training last camp here in UFC, PI.
00:06:32.720 The team from the PI give us everything what we need.
00:06:37.020 And we have food here, like, mats, training center, like, everything, you know.
00:06:42.920 That's good.
00:06:43.400 Just follow the rules, training hard.
00:06:47.280 That's it.
00:06:47.880 Yeah.
00:06:48.440 Nothing special.
00:06:49.420 That's good.
00:06:50.300 Yeah.
00:06:50.540 I mean, look, you sound like it's very traditional for you.
00:06:53.340 You have exactly what you have planned.
00:06:55.420 You stick by the plan.
00:06:56.200 I love that.
00:06:56.600 You have to follow the plan, you know.
00:06:58.900 MMA, it's not soccer. 1.00
00:07:00.360 If you're not prepared yourself 100%, somebody kick your ass, you know. 1.00
00:07:04.340 Damn. 1.00
00:07:04.520 That's right. 0.99
00:07:05.280 Yeah, I'm already knowing.
00:07:06.760 Prepare yourself.
00:07:08.040 Yeah, I've seen some crazy stuff, man.
00:07:10.060 And, you know, I know where you're from.
00:07:12.160 I know about you, obviously, for the new people that are watching.
00:07:13.940 It's, like, it's just great to see how you guys train out in Russia.
00:07:17.080 Like, it's, I heard, is it true, like, you guys will wrestle bears when they're young?
00:07:21.020 Is that true?
00:07:21.560 Not my style.
00:07:22.440 Maybe Habib's style, but not my style. 0.79
00:07:23.920 It's very dangerous.
00:07:24.740 Training with, also, with some animals, you know.
00:07:30.140 Yeah.
00:07:30.700 Because the guys who I training with, my sparring partners, they're all high-level fighters.
00:07:36.380 We push each other very hard every day.
00:07:40.480 That's awesome.
00:07:40.920 That's why we have one of the best teams in the world in MMA.
00:07:44.460 Wow. 0.98
00:07:45.100 Because they're all killers.
00:07:46.320 All want to be champion, and all of them follow the discipline and training very hard.
00:07:53.360 I love that.
00:07:55.040 I love that.
00:07:56.040 I love that.
00:07:56.480 I want to know a few personal questions, if you don't mind.
00:07:58.640 If you never, you know, or if you're a brother, or if you kind of were never, ever going to do UFC, do you know what you might have done in this life?
00:08:07.200 Like, do you know what you would have done?
00:08:08.480 Or do you have anything else that you think that you would have done besides UFC if not UFC?
00:08:14.960 Yeah.
00:08:16.560 My opinion, I can be, like, good in any job because it's all about focus.
00:08:24.460 How much you spend time on your goal, you know.
00:08:28.460 If I did something other, just be patient, do, like, 100%, you know.
00:08:34.480 Yeah.
00:08:34.800 The most important things, if you choose some job or something, you have to go 100%.
00:08:42.100 Gotcha.
00:08:42.440 If you're going to be 50% here, 30% here, you're going to miss a lot of things.
00:08:47.800 But when you focus and working on that every day, it's, you know, one day success is going to come.
00:08:56.300 I love that.
00:08:56.820 What inspires you, like, to be you?
00:08:59.160 What inspires you as a person and as a fighter as well?
00:09:03.980 You know, I think I don't have something special because where I'm coming from,
00:09:11.340 they're all, they're, like, Dagestan, everybody know Dagestan.
00:09:17.200 Like, they're all about sports, you know.
00:09:20.800 In Dagestan, everybody training.
00:09:23.840 Science, like, from school, everybody started training, do something.
00:09:28.280 Judo, wrestling, or, like, MMA.
00:09:31.660 Now it's MMA, crazy popular in our republic.
00:09:35.300 You know, everybody want to be, like, Habib, like, UFC champions.
00:09:38.700 And for myself, it's also, I just have to, when I was young, I had dreamed to be some, like, professional athlete.
00:09:48.260 And I trained all my life.
00:09:49.560 So you knew it when you were young?
00:09:51.480 Yeah.
00:09:51.940 When I, beginning, went to the school from, like, eight years old, I started to do some combat sports, you know.
00:09:59.800 I went to Taekwondo.
00:10:01.260 I have many, many, I changed many sports.
00:10:04.280 I go combat, sambo, and I choose the sport where I can do everything.
00:10:11.220 MMA.
00:10:11.720 I can punch, I can wrestle, I can do grappling.
00:10:14.180 Gotcha.
00:10:14.880 What advice do you have to give to somebody watching right now that wants to make it in your type of world, in the fighting world?
00:10:20.640 Just let's just say there's a kid watching right now that looks up to you.
00:10:23.120 What do you have to say directly to them?
00:10:24.320 Because it's live, so.
00:10:25.600 Yeah, I don't, I don't want to say everybody have to training to be, like, MMA fighters.
00:10:30.660 Just everybody have to be patient, you know.
00:10:33.280 And if you choice something, you have to do this, like, every day, better than everybody, more than everybody.
00:10:41.540 And you're going to be champion or, like, some other high-level doctor or some engineer, you know.
00:10:49.420 But you have to work on that every day.
00:10:53.000 Love it.
00:10:53.580 You got to love it.
00:10:54.280 You got to want to love it.
00:10:55.020 You got to grind.
00:10:55.600 He's right.
00:10:56.020 That's perfect.
00:10:56.960 I mean, that's how you become someone like Islam. 0.99
00:10:59.700 I mean, man, it takes a long time.
00:11:01.260 Your career has been amazing, man.
00:11:03.700 It's been fun to watch.
00:11:05.040 I want to know, what do you think is kind of, like, the next step in your career after this fight?
00:11:13.600 I hear rumors and stuff, but I want to know directly from you.
00:11:16.760 You know, we have many options after that fight.
00:11:21.220 But I don't want to look behind my opponent because I have a tough opponent, number one real contender on my division.
00:11:28.420 And after that fight, I will sit with my manager, Ali, with Dana White, and we will talk.
00:11:35.180 Figure it out.
00:11:35.980 And I want to be champion many, many years more.
00:11:39.080 Awesome.
00:11:39.600 Awesome.
00:11:40.060 Yeah, what do you want to be remembered, like, at the end of your career?
00:11:43.180 Remember, not just, like, UFC champion.
00:11:45.980 That person, I told you, the kids watch, and he say, Islam never do this. 0.99
00:11:52.580 Islam never do bad things.
00:11:54.020 Never go to a bad place, never smoke, never drink, and, you know, be healthy, and just give the kids good advice.
00:12:05.000 You know, you're very big on just sticking to the, it's like you don't get distracted, and I love that.
00:12:11.320 I respect your mindset a lot because it's so easy to get distracted when you're in a position like you are.
00:12:15.660 You're a champion.
00:12:16.460 There's people around you that go partying and stuff, but you just want to stay locked in, and you want to be the best.
00:12:20.240 And I'm asking you for advice for myself and probably some people in here.
00:12:24.200 How do you stay so locked in, and, like, how do you not get distracted?
00:12:27.380 I told you, if I change, if I do, like, many things, you know, the bad things, it's going to be hard for me.
00:12:35.060 And, okay, for example, if I go, like, nighttime somewhere, in the morning, I will miss the training.
00:12:41.800 Gotcha.
00:12:42.100 You know, I don't want somebody, like, crush my face.
00:12:46.460 I have to be ready because, you know, this is, like, dangerous sport, like, professional sport.
00:12:52.320 Now, like, not like before.
00:12:54.900 You've seen some, like, crazy level right now.
00:12:58.060 Like, everybody can do everything.
00:13:01.020 Yeah.
00:13:01.340 Not just wrestle, come to fight.
00:13:03.500 Not just, like, karate guy, come to UFC fight.
00:13:06.560 Everybody can do everything, you know.
00:13:08.280 You know, they're all professional athletes, that's why I want to be in this position many, many years more.
00:13:15.860 That's why I don't want to give any small chance to my opponents, and everybody will get to my belt now.
00:13:23.420 And for them, I'm at a target, you know.
00:13:26.100 That's why I have to be ready.
00:13:28.200 I love that.
00:13:28.680 Do you have any fighters that you've kind of always looked up to or been inspired by, like, in, you know, years ago?
00:13:36.380 I have, like, many, like, my top fighters, like, Frankie Edgar, George Sampio, Dmitrius Johnson, you know.
00:13:44.020 And I look at all his, all the fighters' fights, you know, and this is, like, one of the best fighters in this sport, like, George Sampio, Dmitrius Johnson, you know.
00:13:57.480 It's, like, I met Dmitrius Johnson a couple weeks ago.
00:14:01.640 We did some, like, podcasts.
00:14:03.240 Nice.
00:14:03.560 I had fun with him, you know.
00:14:05.240 Very good person also.
00:14:06.420 Yeah, yeah.
00:14:07.880 If you could fight anyone in the history of the UFC, is there a fight that you would...
00:14:13.420 In the history?
00:14:14.360 Yeah, like, of all time, like, any greats from years and years ago, or, like, any...
00:14:19.420 Honestly, not, like, many years ago.
00:14:22.860 I, my brother, Habib, supposed to fight with Tony Ferguson, like, five times.
00:14:28.280 They both have injuries.
00:14:30.840 The fight is canceled five times.
00:14:32.820 And my dream to fight this guy at that moment, because I always with Habib, when Habib have injured,
00:14:39.280 I ask my manager, hey, can I step to fight with Tony?
00:14:42.200 And, you know, Tony, in that moment, it's, like, very good athlete, very good fighter.
00:14:47.460 He has, like, almost, yeah, more than ten fight win streak in UFC.
00:14:51.720 And this is the one of the fight which I won't fight, like, three, four years ago, but not right now.
00:14:58.720 Gotcha, gotcha.
00:14:59.200 Because he has eight fight lose streak.
00:15:01.620 I wish him the best, but a couple years ago, he's one of the high-level fighters from our division.
00:15:09.580 Gotcha, I gotcha.
00:15:10.620 Okay, okay, well, I mean, I don't know, but I'm sure this is probably one of your first times doing anything live.
00:15:15.400 Am I right?
00:15:16.060 Yeah, I think so.
00:15:17.240 So I want to ask the chat, I want to have the chat ask you some questions.
00:15:20.220 Where were you live, Inge?
00:15:21.480 So, look, this is us.
00:15:22.900 We're live on Kik.
00:15:23.760 That's me and you.
00:15:25.320 So, the frame's looking good.
00:15:27.560 How many of you have?
00:15:28.700 We got 45,000.
00:15:30.640 That's a good amount.
00:15:31.700 I don't know how many.
00:15:32.320 You get a lot, though, watching you all at once.
00:15:34.560 I don't know.
00:15:35.340 I don't got what you got, but everyone's saying hello.
00:15:37.720 Everyone say hi.
00:15:38.460 Hi. 0.96
00:15:39.460 They're saying you're the goat. 0.99
00:15:41.300 W Islam. 0.99
00:15:42.140 Hey, Islam. 1.00
00:15:44.000 If you guys got questions from him directly, I'm going to ask them to him right now.
00:15:49.380 Because a lot of people love you, man.
00:15:50.860 There's a lot of people that really love you.
00:15:52.820 Let's see here.
00:15:53.900 Okay.
00:15:54.100 I really appreciate it because I know a lot of MMA fans like around the world support me.
00:15:59.200 I really appreciate it.
00:16:00.240 Yeah, yeah.
00:16:00.980 Ask him about his relationship with DC.
00:16:06.600 DC. 1.00
00:16:07.200 DC now is a bullshit guy. 1.00
00:16:11.080 He don't join to the camp. 1.00
00:16:13.740 He did working too much.
00:16:16.600 Go his daughter's gymnastic.
00:16:19.060 His son's wrestling school.
00:16:20.560 You know, but never joined to the camp, you know.
00:16:24.820 But I will see him next week.
00:16:26.540 Okay.
00:16:27.060 Okay.
00:16:27.400 Yeah.
00:16:27.560 I will talk to him.
00:16:28.640 Yeah.
00:16:29.220 Yeah.
00:16:30.120 All right.
00:16:30.660 You know why he don't like to come to join me?
00:16:33.520 Because we all eat clean, you know.
00:16:36.260 We don't eat like fast food.
00:16:37.880 But this is, I always want to eat some like McDonald's and stuff like that.
00:16:42.980 Wow.
00:16:43.660 Not letting go to this place.
00:16:45.200 Wait, so you won't ever have a donut like or ice cream or anything.
00:16:47.960 Of course.
00:16:48.680 Of course.
00:16:49.180 I eat everything.
00:16:50.420 But not in the camp, you know.
00:16:51.720 Yeah, of course.
00:16:52.400 Of course.
00:16:52.860 But I don't like this, eat fast food or like a lot of candies, a lot of like chocolate
00:17:00.160 because it makes you weak, you know.
00:17:03.600 Yeah, it does.
00:17:04.620 Over time, it does.
00:17:05.380 Especially.
00:17:05.720 Too much sugar, it's very bad for you.
00:17:07.680 Definitely.
00:17:08.360 No, it is.
00:17:09.100 It's very, very bad.
00:17:09.620 If you want to be many years in the top level, you have to follow some diet.
00:17:15.260 Not like crazy hard diet, but if you see like one of the best athletes, Cristiano Ronaldo,
00:17:22.360 he always on diet, he always in the shape.
00:17:24.600 It's true.
00:17:25.000 And he's almost 40 years old, but he's still in the top.
00:17:29.840 He plays very well still.
00:17:31.400 Do you, who do you like better, Ronaldo or Messi?
00:17:34.220 I think Ronaldo.
00:17:35.960 Some, I don't know, like 50, but like person, I like more Ronaldo.
00:17:40.280 Ronaldo.
00:17:40.980 But they play both very well, like the high level, one of the best in all the time.
00:17:48.040 And I just, like person, I like Ronaldo.
00:17:51.460 That's cool.
00:17:51.940 Yeah, Ronaldo's the GOAT, one of the GOATs for sure.
00:17:55.220 Before, I like Messi when he played with Barcelona.
00:17:59.920 Habib had his team, he chose Real Madrid.
00:18:03.620 I always chose Barcelona.
00:18:05.780 But now everything has changed.
00:18:07.460 He lived in Miami, but Cristiano now in Saudi.
00:18:12.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:18:14.320 Yeah.
00:18:14.900 One day I want to come out to Russia, man.
00:18:16.660 I don't know.
00:18:17.120 Yeah, let's go.
00:18:17.900 I want to come to your gym.
00:18:19.360 Pakistan, training.
00:18:21.220 Maybe you can do some fights also.
00:18:23.180 Man, I don't know about that one.
00:18:24.280 We have very good relationships with UFC team.
00:18:28.340 Yeah.
00:18:28.700 They can give you a contract.
00:18:29.820 Cool.
00:18:31.100 I'd love to.
00:18:31.880 I'd love to come train at your gym.
00:18:33.740 I saw a video.
00:18:34.660 I don't know if this is real.
00:18:36.000 I saw a video.
00:18:36.760 It was like the floor of the gym after you guys are done.
00:18:38.900 It's drenched in sweat.
00:18:40.480 So you guys are out there hours and hours and hours training.
00:18:42.980 Is that true?
00:18:43.480 Have you seen like some crazy stuff like that?
00:18:45.660 Like we all see a bunch of sweat.
00:18:47.000 Of course, of course.
00:18:48.120 Like it's all water, you know?
00:18:50.140 That's crazy.
00:18:50.920 Yeah.
00:18:51.120 You can swim there sometimes.
00:18:54.160 That's crazy.
00:18:56.680 Someone wants to know about your childhood.
00:18:58.260 Like how did you grow up?
00:18:59.440 Did, you know, is there anything?
00:19:01.340 I grew up in Dagestan like everybody, nothing special.
00:19:06.240 My father is working hard.
00:19:10.040 My mother when I was young, working hard for give my brother and me everything what I needed.
00:19:15.840 But I focus when I was kids to sports, you know?
00:19:19.300 I go to a lot of camps everywhere all my life.
00:19:23.520 I travel a lot to camp, other country, you know?
00:19:26.660 But my father and mother working so hard to give me what I need, you know?
00:19:32.420 It's amazing.
00:19:32.860 And also my older brother.
00:19:34.860 I have just one brother.
00:19:36.000 He's older than me.
00:19:37.220 He also working when he was in university, always working to give me some money to pay for my training,
00:19:45.460 pay for my camp, you know?
00:19:47.120 Because I'm not like from rich family.
00:19:51.160 That's why like for you, if you want to go some other country, you have to pay like three,
00:19:56.900 four thousand dollars for the camp, you know?
00:19:58.860 They always support me and give me everything what I need.
00:20:03.680 And now it's time I have to give back, you know?
00:20:08.740 I have to spend more time with family.
00:20:11.480 I have to give everything what I have, what they need to them, you know?
00:20:17.900 I am like, I think, family person, you know?
00:20:21.600 I like to stay with family, stay with my brothers, with my friends.
00:20:27.200 And I don't like to travel too much, but I still have to travel.
00:20:33.220 Yeah, for sure.
00:20:34.560 So when you're not training and stuff, what do you do?
00:20:37.880 So you're with family?
00:20:39.640 Never.
00:20:40.220 I train every day. 1.00
00:20:42.180 Damn. 1.00
00:20:42.520 You never stop. 1.00
00:20:44.200 You have fight or no fight.
00:20:46.440 Once a day, I train 100% like it.
00:20:48.980 Now, if we travel, we have special bag for the training where we have gloves.
00:20:55.880 We can do like, if we don't find some gym, we go running, we do lifting, something.
00:21:01.420 Our team training every day, everywhere.
00:21:03.800 But when I have time, not in the camp, not prepare myself for the fight,
00:21:11.540 but I love to go mountain, you know?
00:21:15.920 I have farm there.
00:21:17.620 I have village, you know?
00:21:19.380 Bring my friends, my brothers, and we spend time together.
00:21:23.660 I love that.
00:21:24.280 Family time, quality time, all that stuff really matters.
00:21:26.940 It's great.
00:21:28.220 Let me see.
00:21:28.620 What other questions do you guys got for him, man?
00:21:30.580 I know he's a busy guy.
00:21:32.140 He's got some, let's see here.
00:21:34.600 You guys got any questions for him right now?
00:21:38.240 Let's see.
00:21:38.940 Let's see.
00:21:39.320 Let's see.
00:21:40.760 Okay.
00:21:42.820 Someone wants to know, would you move to welterweight for the double champ status
00:21:47.500 eventually at some point?
00:21:48.660 This is my dream, you know?
00:21:50.560 This is my dream.
00:21:51.620 But we have Bilal there.
00:21:55.700 He's going to defense his belt soon.
00:21:58.280 But with Bilal, we have same manager, Ali.
00:22:01.200 We will sit and talk, you know?
00:22:02.620 This is my dream to be double champ, you know?
00:22:05.580 I don't want to leave this sport before I take second belt.
00:22:10.360 Gotcha.
00:22:10.820 Gotcha.
00:22:11.360 He's going for that second belt.
00:22:13.020 Can't wait to see that.
00:22:13.860 That's going to be crazy.
00:22:15.400 Do you have, like, a mental preparance or, like, ritual you do to prepare yourself for
00:22:21.780 these big fights?
00:22:22.420 It's, like, I know, like, mental, they say, it's, like, you got to make sure your mental
00:22:25.900 is always right.
00:22:26.520 No, people ask always how you prepare your mental to the fight, you know?
00:22:31.040 When you prepare yourself very hard, you're training very hard, you're ready, you know?
00:22:39.100 You don't have some, like, big point in your mind, you know?
00:22:42.500 You did everything is right.
00:22:44.100 You're training hard.
00:22:45.500 You, like, push yourself very hard.
00:22:48.180 And that guy, what he going to give you?
00:22:51.700 You always spar with one of the best athletes in this game, you know?
00:22:57.820 I have, like, crazy team, I have, I told you, like, I have killers there.
00:23:02.220 Yeah.
00:23:02.560 Training, like, all life, you know?
00:23:04.780 Who give you more than that guy?
00:23:06.860 Hard time, you know?
00:23:07.660 That's right.
00:23:08.680 I am ready for anything in this cage.
00:23:11.260 I step to the cage and I know if my opponent is going to wrestle, I will be ready.
00:23:16.140 If he's going to strike, I will be ready, you know?
00:23:18.600 And this is, like, mentally making me ready.
00:23:22.600 I love that.
00:23:23.460 I love that.
00:23:24.220 I love that.
00:23:27.820 Guys, you guys have anything else?
00:23:28.920 Because I want to ask him something, like, a personal question as well.
00:23:34.100 Wait, what did you say?
00:23:34.820 I'm sorry.
00:23:37.020 Oh, is there anybody young you see in UFC right now that you have your eye on?
00:23:41.000 Is there any new fighters that you're a fan of?
00:23:44.740 New fighters?
00:23:45.600 Of course.
00:23:47.120 Always new generation is coming, you know?
00:23:49.300 And on my division, I have one guy.
00:23:54.060 He's a Belator champion.
00:23:57.360 He's Usman Nurmagomedov, undefeated, undisputed Belator champion.
00:24:01.800 And I really believe he's going to step to UFC very soon.
00:24:06.160 And this guy's very dangerous.
00:24:08.940 He grew up with us, you know, with me, with Khabib.
00:24:13.160 We're always training together, and this guy's very dangerous.
00:24:17.540 That's why he's a champion, one of the best organizations.
00:24:20.680 And soon, he will come to UFC, and it's going to be a new generation, you know?
00:24:26.900 He's 26 years old right now.
00:24:29.340 Yeah.
00:24:30.200 When you look at the best fighters in the world right now in UFC, a lot of them come from Russia.
00:24:34.460 It's like, yeah, we have, like, a lot of people still have a lot of tough guys in Russia who is not in the UFC because, you know, they fight in some other organization.
00:24:45.320 But why is MMA very popular in Russia right now?
00:24:49.520 Because we have good examples, you know?
00:24:51.760 And we all, in Dagestan and Russia, we're all training from science, like, young, you know?
00:24:58.880 Yeah.
00:24:59.060 You know, I asked Bilal, when you start to do MMA, he said, like, 21 or 22, I just start.
00:25:04.640 Wow.
00:25:05.200 But we start when we're 8, 10 years old.
00:25:07.820 Yeah.
00:25:08.620 Oh, you said 8 years old?
00:25:10.040 Yeah.
00:25:10.460 Wow.
00:25:11.000 You know, I have, in my amateur career, I don't know, almost 500 fights, you know, in my amateur career because I did, like, wrestling.
00:25:24.320 I did taekwondo, I did kombat sambo, I did judo, wrestling, a lot of things.
00:25:30.560 And that's why I have big experience in amateur also.
00:25:34.460 I love that.
00:25:35.300 I love that.
00:25:36.300 So I wanted to ask, what does he think has changed with Arman compared to the first fight?
00:25:43.360 Arman, of course, he's grown up, become old a little bit, and become, like, you know, he have more skills now, more, you know.
00:25:56.120 Because when we fought, like, in St. Petersburg, in Russia, it was the first fight in the USA.
00:26:03.520 But now he has experience, you know.
00:26:06.260 For this sport, experience is number one thing.
00:26:10.080 Because you cannot buy or you cannot train the experience.
00:26:13.540 Of course.
00:26:16.040 Step by step, years, years, and you bring some experience.
00:26:21.120 And he has more experience, but if we watch his fight, his style, he has the same style always.
00:26:27.860 And he can wrestle, he can do strike, but I know my skills.
00:26:32.540 I can do the same, but better.
00:26:34.700 Gotcha.
00:26:35.460 Gotcha.
00:26:36.400 Yeah.
00:26:36.920 I mean, like, one day, because, look, for someone that has never been physical at all my life, like, I just started getting into, like, the gym and stuff.
00:26:42.120 Like, one day, I do want to, you know, pick up and do some type of, like, boxing or mixed martial arts.
00:26:47.560 Just for the fun of it, just for the exercise.
00:26:49.500 And I love seeing, obviously, you on TV and stuff, so.
00:26:52.300 You have to.
00:26:52.880 Sometimes you have to train.
00:26:54.580 Maybe in the street, something can happen.
00:26:56.980 You have to protect yourself.
00:26:58.340 Never know.
00:26:58.800 Protect your friends.
00:26:59.600 Protect your family.
00:27:00.600 You know, you never know.
00:27:01.380 Yeah.
00:27:01.700 Have to be ready.
00:27:02.760 Yeah.
00:27:02.920 It's not mean you have to fight, you know, in the street, but you have to be ready.
00:27:06.600 Yeah.
00:27:06.840 Things can happen.
00:27:07.800 Yeah.
00:27:08.380 Maybe, like I said, maybe one, I don't know.
00:27:10.440 I come out to Russia for a month.
00:27:12.380 Yeah, yeah.
00:27:12.880 Would you set me up with the dogs?
00:27:14.800 A lot of YouTube channel people, like bloggers, they did fights.
00:27:18.880 You can fight someday.
00:27:20.220 Maybe, man.
00:27:20.960 And it's good for your health also.
00:27:22.920 That's true.
00:27:23.500 It is.
00:27:24.020 It's very good for your health.
00:27:25.080 You get trained for a fight.
00:27:26.540 You get conditioned for a fight.
00:27:27.340 It's very good.
00:27:28.940 But, yeah.
00:27:29.520 I mean, that's.
00:27:30.700 I need some motivation, you know.
00:27:32.440 Yeah.
00:27:32.760 Big check, some opponent, and stay healthy, you know.
00:27:36.740 Yeah.
00:27:36.980 What aspect of the MMA is the hardest to master?
00:27:41.280 Hardest to expect, maybe cut weight.
00:27:44.560 You know, today I eat in the morning two eggs with some vegetables.
00:27:50.280 Lunch, we have chicken with salad and dinner.
00:27:54.840 I'll even prepare some fish for rice.
00:27:57.180 Nice.
00:27:57.720 Wait, what do you wear right now?
00:27:59.300 I have about 170.
00:28:02.900 I have to cut 155. 0.98
00:28:05.520 Holy crap. 0.99
00:28:06.380 That's crazy. 0.98
00:28:07.720 Not much.
00:28:08.760 You could do it.
00:28:09.600 Yeah, you got it.
00:28:10.940 I know.
00:28:11.280 I told you.
00:28:11.780 You see behind him.
00:28:13.160 Based nutrition teams.
00:28:14.800 Yeah.
00:28:15.120 You have to listen, follow.
00:28:17.040 That's great.
00:28:18.180 I wanted to ask you.
00:28:19.740 How much are, if I'm allowed to, is that cool if I ask?
00:28:22.060 Cool.
00:28:22.220 How much do you, because you're kind of, you're kind of like watching over, you know, everything
00:28:27.960 as he's training and he's on his, he's doing what he needs to do.
00:28:32.320 So, your job, how does your job work when it comes to helping him prepare for a fight?
00:28:38.380 Listen, I think we have a great team.
00:28:41.680 Of course, Khabib is the head coach, you know?
00:28:43.600 Yeah.
00:28:44.220 We just make sure I have the right Spartan partners, right training partners.
00:28:49.720 And for this camp, it's a little bit different because I'm a little bit of a cook.
00:28:53.040 Oh, yeah.
00:28:53.840 At night.
00:28:54.740 I like the food at night.
00:28:55.960 Just, you know, we're brothers.
00:28:57.240 It's not like a manager.
00:28:57.980 He's from Egypt.
00:28:58.880 He cooks very well.
00:29:00.180 Oh, you're from Egypt? 0.77
00:29:01.020 Yeah.
00:29:01.280 Nice.
00:29:01.640 It's not like a manager-and-father relationship.
00:29:03.740 These guys sleep in the house, know my kids.
00:29:05.960 It's family.
00:29:06.560 Know my family, yeah?
00:29:07.340 Yeah.
00:29:08.480 And I know him before even he points out, you see, but just, just make sure we have the
00:29:13.120 right Spartan partner, right dietation, right training partners.
00:29:17.780 That's about it.
00:29:18.560 Yeah.
00:29:19.260 Yeah.
00:29:20.040 They're all, they're all typing in the chat right now.
00:29:23.280 That's okay. 1.00
00:29:25.680 He's a bullshit guy. 1.00
00:29:28.580 Son of the dog's like Ali, but he's a good guy. 1.00
00:29:31.640 Ali helped us, like, last month in Las Vegas, we bothered him so much, you know.
00:29:41.160 Always in his house.
00:29:43.280 Always he helped us come to training, and, you know, he's not just manager.
00:29:50.540 He can training with us, did sparring.
00:29:54.180 Sometimes he cooked for us, you know, a lot of things he did for us.
00:29:58.060 Thank you, Ali.
00:29:59.340 That's great.
00:30:00.560 Getting all ready for this fight.
00:30:01.440 I wanted to go over a little predictions, if you're cool with that.
00:30:04.900 I wanted to know, first off, the fight that I think is, I don't, I want to hear what you
00:30:09.160 think first.
00:30:09.600 You know, Jiri versus Jamal Hill.
00:30:12.840 Everyone's saying that fight's going to be kind of close, kind of scary.
00:30:16.740 What do you think about that one?
00:30:17.520 How do you think that one's going to go?
00:30:18.360 I saw Jamal Hill.
00:30:19.360 I saw Jamal, every day in PIA, we're training some day together, you know.
00:30:26.640 He, like, did a lot of sparrings, he's training, you know.
00:30:30.520 Between the fight, I told him, hey, be in shape between also, because he, some of the, some of the time I saw him, he's, like, very big.
00:30:37.900 Now he's in the shape, you know, training so hard, and he's a former champion, and, you know, it's very good fight for the MMA fans.
00:30:47.600 It's going to be high-level fights.
00:30:48.880 But, I think Jamal is going to win.
00:30:52.940 Okay.
00:30:53.840 And then, what do you think about Merab?
00:30:56.420 Merab, Merab, and Omar, it's also.
00:30:59.600 Yeah.
00:31:00.160 Crazy, crazy fight, you know.
00:31:03.800 Both have skills, can wrestle, can punch him.
00:31:08.000 Merab is a champion.
00:31:10.560 Merab have, like, you know, his style.
00:31:12.720 His style to take down people and, like, hold him, punch him, but he don't have good striking.
00:31:17.740 But, he know his job, and he did this job very well.
00:31:23.080 But, Omar, it's a new generation, you know.
00:31:26.200 Very hungry.
00:31:27.960 He sleep, he wake up with one dream, you know.
00:31:32.080 He want to be UFC champion.
00:31:34.160 And, like, all his career, he training with us under Habib, under Abdulmanap.
00:31:42.340 And, you know, he's a very disciplined.
00:31:44.240 And, I really believe he has everything to be UFC champion.
00:31:49.120 Someone wanted to know, what is it like to adjust the fame in America versus, like, Russia?
00:31:55.000 So, like, when you get to America, the fame, how does it, how does it work?
00:32:00.220 Well, for me, it's no matter where I fight.
00:32:04.380 Like, if crowd support my opponent or support me, it's nothing.
00:32:09.360 Because, when you step to the cage, cage is closed.
00:32:12.720 You, your opponent, and that's referee, and that's it.
00:32:16.560 And, for me, it's no matter where I fight, U.S.
00:32:22.040 Or, I went to Australia, I fight with Volkanovski, where they're all crowd on his side.
00:32:29.600 I fight in U.S. with Dustin Paria, where all support him.
00:32:33.420 And, it mean nothing, you know.
00:32:36.340 But, one of the days, I want to defend my belt in Russia also.
00:32:42.740 Yeah, maybe UFC and Russia.
00:32:45.220 Come on, Dan, and make it happen.
00:32:46.760 That'd be cool.
00:32:47.280 Many years are not coming, you know.
00:32:49.240 Yeah, for sure.
00:32:50.780 For sure.
00:32:51.720 I want to ask you this question like this first.
00:32:54.440 I don't want to, if you don't want me to say that, I won't.
00:32:56.940 That one right there, the top.
00:33:00.240 You know, I said, you know.
00:33:03.820 Some bit, Islam. 0.93
00:33:05.320 You know, if people, you know, everybody, like, a lot of people ask me to fight Ilya.
00:33:10.100 What do you think?
00:33:10.960 You know, not make sense.
00:33:12.120 I fight with Ilya for what?
00:33:14.400 Not belt, nothing, you know.
00:33:16.400 Money, I have money.
00:33:17.440 I don't need money.
00:33:18.900 And, I already fight with some of the guys who come from the small division, you know.
00:33:26.700 And, but I'm not saying no.
00:33:30.620 If I clean my division, if people want, if they know why not?
00:33:37.820 Make it happen, yeah.
00:33:38.740 I can do this.
00:33:39.900 Yeah.
00:33:40.380 Easy.
00:33:42.640 For me, I never choice, like, opponent.
00:33:45.360 I want to fight.
00:33:46.240 I don't want to fight.
00:33:47.460 I just, all my life, I ask for, like, top, you know, for the top.
00:33:53.460 And now I ask for real contenders who deserve to fight for the title.
00:33:58.960 You know, I don't need some, like, money fight or something like that.
00:34:01.780 And I need defense, my belt, these people who deserve to fight for the title.
00:34:07.640 Gotcha, gotcha.
00:34:09.780 What did you think about Hazmat's win against Whitaker?
00:34:12.960 It's, like, you know, I expect Hazmat can beat him, but not like this, you know.
00:34:19.500 That was crazy.
00:34:20.240 He beat him, like, very easy.
00:34:21.920 And he's, like, one of the best in his division.
00:34:26.460 And I hope he will soon fight for the title.
00:34:30.400 Yeah, yeah.
00:34:31.500 That would, that'd be amazing.
00:34:33.100 What is your favorite UFC fight you've ever seen?
00:34:38.300 I like easy fight, you know, when I knock out people easy or choke people, like, easy in the first round.
00:34:45.460 But my last fight against Dustin Paré, this fight I watched, like, many times, you know.
00:34:53.760 Yeah.
00:34:54.700 And I like this fight, most of them, because I strike with him.
00:35:00.260 We have, like, very good five rounds, a lot of bloods, you know.
00:35:05.440 And I like that fight.
00:35:08.140 Yeah.
00:35:10.640 One second, let me ask.
00:35:11.880 I have a few more for you, and then I want to, wait.
00:35:14.780 What is your, yeah, what is your favorite submission, like, finish move that you like to do?
00:35:20.660 Finish?
00:35:22.760 In my pack, I have many more.
00:35:25.000 Yeah.
00:35:25.180 And I, you know, I have, like, a lot, a lot of different ambitions where I use in UFC.
00:35:32.000 But I have many more.
00:35:33.860 I will show you guys something special.
00:35:36.140 Very soon.
00:35:36.720 Well, I wanted to know this, because I think Oliveira is a good fighter, and I like him, and I really do like you a lot.
00:35:44.260 And I want to see, you know, there was, you and Oliveira were supposed to fight, and then it got canceled.
00:35:48.520 Yeah.
00:35:48.700 Would there ever be another fight for you and Oliveira to happen?
00:35:53.720 Why not?
00:35:54.260 I know Oliveira have big, a lot of fans, you know, and they want to see the rematch.
00:36:04.260 But I'm tired with the rematches.
00:36:06.780 Always give the people a second chance.
00:36:08.900 But if people want, let's go.
00:36:11.520 I met with him 10 days ago, maybe two weeks ago.
00:36:14.380 Oh, okay.
00:36:15.420 And he was, like, nice guy.
00:36:17.540 But nice guy, but I will beat him again. 0.75
00:36:24.000 Do you listen to any music?
00:36:25.720 Or is there anything that you listen to?
00:36:27.460 Or do you like any?
00:36:28.120 Honestly, 10, the last 10 years, I don't listen to zero music.
00:36:31.880 Wow, okay.
00:36:32.600 Do you watch any movies at all or shows?
00:36:34.700 Movies?
00:36:36.200 Yeah, what are the movies?
00:36:38.280 Habib's watching the...
00:36:39.920 Vikings.
00:36:40.860 No, no, no.
00:36:41.620 I show him.
00:36:42.060 All my flight from Dubai to U.S.
00:36:47.680 Uh-huh.
00:36:48.420 I show, I translate.
00:36:49.800 Vikings.
00:36:50.560 No, not Vikings.
00:36:54.660 Dexter?
00:36:55.380 It's a good show.
00:36:56.080 I'm kidding.
00:36:56.600 Imagine if it's Dexter.
00:36:57.560 I love Dexter.
00:36:58.180 It's the best show.
00:36:59.060 Dexter's top one.
00:37:00.900 Top one.
00:37:02.680 Oh, Peaky Blinders.
00:37:04.040 Yes, yes.
00:37:04.480 You know, it's crazy.
00:37:05.040 They were telling me to watch that, and I didn't watch it.
00:37:06.600 Should I watch it?
00:37:07.520 Yeah.
00:37:08.060 It's good?
00:37:08.620 Yeah, it's good.
00:37:09.240 It's good.
00:37:09.540 All right.
00:37:09.940 Well, if you say it's good, it's got to be good.
00:37:11.260 I'm still watching, but I have a couple more.
00:37:15.000 Okay.
00:37:15.740 But you like the show?
00:37:17.080 Yeah, yeah.
00:37:17.680 It's good.
00:37:18.400 Wait, so is that how you get to America?
00:37:20.060 You have to go from...
00:37:21.640 Russia to Dubai.
00:37:22.380 To Dubai.
00:37:22.980 Okay, and then Dubai.
00:37:23.540 Dubai, Los Angeles, 16-hour flight. 0.97
00:37:26.080 Damn, it's a full travel day. 0.96
00:37:27.840 And you can watch all movies, you know? 0.99
00:37:29.740 So there's somebody who's Muslim in my chat.
00:37:36.040 They say, how do you...
00:37:38.940 So do you still like pray five times a day?
00:37:42.240 During...
00:37:43.040 Okay, so no matter what...
00:37:44.260 No, if you're Muslim, like, you know... 1.00
00:37:47.260 I meet some of the Muslims, they ask me, how many times you pray a day?
00:37:51.040 We don't have, like, other rules.
00:37:53.020 We have one rule.
00:37:53.860 Five times a day we have to pray.
00:37:56.040 And, you know, who is the Muslim?
00:37:58.440 They know everybody.
00:37:59.840 How many times you have to pray?
00:38:02.060 Gotcha.
00:38:05.740 Look, man, I'm going to just ask you this.
00:38:07.280 How do you think that fight next week is going to work out with you and...
00:38:10.200 You know, always when I fight with someone,
00:38:13.200 I'm looking for some...
00:38:15.480 Some small option.
00:38:18.240 If some opponents give me, I will finish that fight.
00:38:23.020 And if Armand did some mistake, give me small chance, I will finish him, you know?
00:38:27.740 And I have to finish this fight because first fight, we go all distance.
00:38:32.060 And this fight, I think, is going to finish under three rounds, and I'm going to finish him. 0.99
00:38:37.880 Damn, okay. 0.99
00:38:38.580 Well, that's the prediction on that. 0.99
00:38:41.160 And then, so after you're done, let's say, you know, well, that is going to happen.
00:38:45.880 I'm manifesting that for you, bro.
00:38:47.020 I hope you get it.
00:38:48.420 How do you celebrate?
00:38:49.460 What do you do?
00:38:50.380 What's the next step as soon as you win?
00:38:52.560 What's the next step?
00:38:54.880 Nothing.
00:38:55.420 Go home.
00:38:56.680 Bring all family, all friends.
00:38:58.800 And I told them when they make the countdown movies, and I told them, after my victory,
00:39:09.260 we will come to a game, my farm.
00:39:11.500 I have, like, a lot of animals.
00:39:14.100 We did some barbecue.
00:39:16.020 Bring all my team, all my family, brothers together and celebrate there.
00:39:22.420 Right.
00:39:22.960 That's good.
00:39:23.400 I love it.
00:39:23.940 Because next day, we have flight.
00:39:25.900 Oh, you're going straight back to Russia?
00:39:28.360 Yeah, in the, like, we fight 18, 19, we have flight.
00:39:33.500 Gotcha, gotcha.
00:39:34.600 And I want to know, like, the fans of Russia, do they know you're coming back and they all
00:39:38.560 flood the airport?
00:39:39.600 Yeah.
00:39:40.580 A lot of people in Dagestan.
00:39:42.300 That's really cool.
00:39:42.860 They come to our airport.
00:39:43.740 That's awesome.
00:39:45.920 I want to know, because, look, I've been through something traumatic.
00:39:49.660 I've been stabbed, like, by a knife before.
00:39:51.660 So, it's, like, an adrenaline rush you get, like, when you get stabbed.
00:39:54.200 So, I want to know, like, like, this was, like, when I was, like, 12 in my sleep, I
00:39:57.900 got stabbed.
00:39:58.960 But, like, obviously, like, I'm way past that.
00:40:01.180 It was by a family member who was on some meth, like, my uncle.
00:40:05.480 But, like, obviously, I used that to, like, obviously, like, I went through something traumatic
00:40:08.520 super young.
00:40:09.060 So, I want to know, like, how do you ever went through something super traumatic and
00:40:12.020 use that kind of as, like, your fuel in a way, if that makes sense.
00:40:16.040 Have you used trauma for fuel?
00:40:18.240 Can I repeat the question?
00:40:19.520 I don't understand.
00:40:20.120 Yeah, yeah, I got you.
00:40:20.640 My English is not very well.
00:40:22.140 You're doing better, though.
00:40:23.220 I've seen your old interview.
00:40:24.260 I'll try.
00:40:24.840 So, trauma.
00:40:25.800 Do you use trauma or, like, do you use trauma as fuel, as, like, kind of, like, your fire?
00:40:33.120 Like, do you use that as kind of, like, motivation?
00:40:35.280 Uh-huh.
00:40:35.600 Like, do you use trauma, like, something you went through bad and then...
00:40:38.800 No, no, no, no, never, never.
00:40:40.700 Ah.
00:40:41.000 I am, like, professional athlete.
00:40:43.140 I am...
00:40:44.660 This is sport, you know?
00:40:46.120 Yeah.
00:40:46.360 This is not, like, sport.
00:40:47.640 We have doping control.
00:40:49.280 We have rules.
00:40:50.580 And I just always step to the cage, check who have better skills.
00:40:55.600 Yeah.
00:40:56.360 Nothing, like, special.
00:40:58.340 And I don't, like, use some, like, you know.
00:41:01.340 I don't give you much, like, emotion.
00:41:03.940 I always control my emotion and try to, try to be, you know, focused.
00:41:11.100 Yeah.
00:41:11.800 That's what you got to do.
00:41:12.720 You got to stay on point.
00:41:13.680 Yeah.
00:41:13.900 You are very professional.
00:41:15.420 So, I completely get that.
00:41:16.820 You have to always have your emotions just stabilized.
00:41:19.140 You got to focus on the main, the main picture there.
00:41:22.160 Okay.
00:41:22.700 So, I know, I know you look, man.
00:41:24.240 I know it's a very busy week.
00:41:25.100 I don't want to hold you for a lot longer.
00:41:26.620 I was just curious.
00:41:28.200 I've worked with other UFC fighters in the past.
00:41:30.320 And I just want to say, man, you're very, very humble.
00:41:33.500 And I respect you a lot.
00:41:34.420 Thank you.
00:41:34.640 And good luck on your fight.
00:41:36.100 But I was curious before you head on out.
00:41:39.180 There's a mat right there.
00:41:41.400 I don't know if you're comfortable with it.
00:41:42.880 Hold on.
00:41:43.640 I thought you wanted to choke him. 0.99
00:41:44.760 Yeah. 0.96
00:41:45.700 Well, you could, I do want you to choke me too. 0.99
00:41:48.420 No, he's not going to make his face. 0.68
00:41:49.640 No, I can show you.
00:41:50.780 Nothing crazy?
00:41:52.240 No.
00:41:52.760 Should we go in there?
00:41:53.720 Last, I will show you one choke.
00:41:55.940 Do you want to do it in there?
00:41:57.420 It's better?
00:41:58.160 More space?
00:41:58.740 Let's go.
00:41:59.080 Okay.
00:42:00.240 If you're the one, I can.
00:42:01.880 Yeah.
00:42:02.560 Yeah, for sure.
00:42:03.480 It's better than yours.
00:42:04.360 Let's go.
00:42:05.800 So how does the choke work?
00:42:08.900 Oh, wow.
00:42:11.720 That's a nice wall right here.
00:42:16.980 Where are you at?
00:42:19.200 This is great.
00:42:20.080 This is like all the UFCs.
00:42:21.700 All the ones.
00:42:22.660 This is great.
00:42:24.800 Oh, there's, I just saw Chuck.
00:42:26.120 I saw you guys going crazy.
00:42:27.700 I was going to ping pong. 0.85
00:42:29.080 You play ping pong, Islam? 1.00
00:42:30.640 Yeah.
00:42:31.100 Oh, we should play.
00:42:32.420 I live between.
00:42:33.720 That's great.
00:42:34.200 I play paddle.
00:42:34.860 You know paddle?
00:42:35.520 Paddle ball.
00:42:36.320 Yeah.
00:42:37.820 The middle is very popular.
00:42:39.640 That's awesome.
00:42:40.180 Do you play any, like, football?
00:42:42.000 Like, I mean, soccer?
00:42:42.940 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:43.300 Yeah?
00:42:43.660 Nice.
00:42:44.700 I'm a bit crazy about soccer.
00:42:46.400 You know, everybody likes science.
00:42:48.760 Gotcha.
00:42:50.060 Oh, wait.
00:42:50.600 Oh.
00:42:53.360 This UFC spot is so sick.
00:42:59.080 In this cage, I spend a lot of, a couple hours in this camp.
00:43:03.980 Oh, a day?
00:43:05.460 This one right here?
00:43:06.180 In this camp?
00:43:07.440 What do I say?
00:43:07.980 You want to get back to Africa? 0.98
00:43:09.660 Whatever, whatever Islam wants to do. 1.00
00:43:11.240 Doesn't matter.
00:43:12.060 Where do you want to sleep?
00:43:13.340 Where do I want to go to sleep?
00:43:14.600 Where do I want to go to sleep?
00:43:15.500 My bed would be great.
00:43:16.680 Not here, but.
00:43:17.340 Come for the book.
00:43:17.860 Can we go in here?
00:43:18.500 Let's go in here.
00:43:19.260 Let's go in here.
00:43:19.860 Make it official?
00:43:20.540 Yeah.
00:43:21.020 All right, that's cool.
00:43:21.540 He's a professional, man.
00:43:25.440 He, this is some real stuff right here.
00:43:29.420 Getting in the actual octagon here.
00:43:31.780 All right.
00:43:32.200 Look.
00:43:32.700 Talk me through it.
00:43:33.580 Talk me through it.
00:43:34.680 Darce?
00:43:35.660 What is Darce?
00:43:36.760 What does that mean?
00:43:38.020 Darce from the backside?
00:43:39.940 Wait, let me put this down.
00:43:42.900 What's funny?
00:43:44.280 Break it down.
00:43:44.900 Everybody try this.
00:43:45.980 Give him something.
00:43:47.280 Be frank.
00:43:47.840 Everybody try the trouble.
00:43:48.860 Oh, my God.
00:43:49.240 I'm nervous.
00:43:50.120 You got to teach him.
00:43:50.840 So when he goes to the street, he's going to get it.
00:43:52.440 Everybody try this.
00:43:53.280 Give him something different.
00:43:54.320 Easy.
00:43:55.440 Look.
00:43:56.000 Okay.
00:43:56.420 Talk to me.
00:43:56.780 Sit, sit in the back.
00:43:57.620 Go on.
00:43:57.900 On my knees?
00:43:59.340 Yeah.
00:43:59.580 No, go like some of them.
00:44:00.920 Like take their back, you know?
00:44:02.200 Like this.
00:44:03.000 Do what?
00:44:03.780 Like take their back, like fight position like this.
00:44:06.600 Always, you know?
00:44:07.400 You're like, we can go this side.
00:44:10.100 Can I control your leg?
00:44:11.300 Look.
00:44:12.000 And look, look, look, look.
00:44:13.020 Okay.
00:44:13.420 I go here.
00:44:14.380 And you can move this side, move this side, this side.
00:44:17.700 To you?
00:44:18.180 No, no, no.
00:44:18.560 Skip to the rear back.
00:44:20.000 Right, right, right.
00:44:21.420 And I go here.
00:44:22.540 Look.
00:44:23.320 Now I want to hug you.
00:44:26.980 That is crazy.
00:44:28.460 What's the pain?
00:44:29.460 The pain pretty hard.
00:44:30.860 Because I fell in my neck.
00:44:31.660 I just want to hug you.
00:44:33.060 You don't know how to tap?
00:44:38.440 Oh, my God.
00:44:39.960 Welcome to Tristan. 0.97
00:44:41.260 That is crazy.
00:44:42.300 Tristan, this is stretch your back.
00:44:44.200 Yeah.
00:44:44.840 Man, I just want to hug you.
00:44:46.100 Ah!
00:44:47.300 That's crazy. 0.98
00:44:49.320 Wait, Islam. 0.99
00:44:50.740 Can I try putting you in a hold?
00:44:52.620 See if you can get out of it?
00:44:53.920 How?
00:44:54.420 I want to put you in a hold.
00:44:55.660 I want to see if you can get out of it.
00:44:56.580 Okay.
00:44:57.340 Okay.
00:44:57.820 Here.
00:44:58.520 Get down because I can put you in a hold like this. 0.97
00:45:00.120 Uh-huh.
00:45:00.700 Okay.
00:45:03.580 All right.
00:45:04.240 Your legs.
00:45:05.080 Yep.
00:45:05.780 All right, ready?
00:45:06.400 Close your legs.
00:45:07.400 Close them like this?
00:45:08.020 Yes.
00:45:08.380 Okay, ready?
00:45:09.040 Yes.
00:45:09.280 What's happening?
00:45:15.240 Dude.
00:45:15.880 Come on.
00:45:17.640 Hi, are you on the line?
00:45:19.480 Ah!
00:45:20.880 Dude, how are your legs so strong?
00:45:25.440 Dude, that is crazy.
00:45:27.260 Bro.
00:45:28.400 That is wild. 1.00
00:45:29.560 Damn, Islam. 1.00
00:45:30.680 No, he got it. 1.00
00:45:31.400 He got it.
00:45:31.920 He got it.
00:45:32.420 You know what you do to him?
00:45:33.560 Huh?
00:45:34.000 It's an ankle up.
00:45:35.160 Leg locks.
00:45:36.380 This is pretty good.
00:45:37.420 Bro, my legs are like wiggly.
00:45:42.420 That's crazy, bro. 0.98
00:45:44.440 Islam, how much you lift weights, right? 1.00
00:45:47.100 Yes.
00:45:47.400 How much do you leg press?
00:45:49.220 This one?
00:45:50.140 No, no, with your legs.
00:45:51.900 Like push with your legs.
00:45:52.880 You do that or no?
00:45:53.520 No, not much.
00:45:55.280 Do you squat or do any lunges or no?
00:45:57.300 I did, but not like big weights because, you know,
00:46:00.860 I like to do big weights, but my coach said no, never.
00:46:04.100 Gotcha.
00:46:04.420 Because they're like big weights, not for like professional athletes.
00:46:08.280 Do you, so what?
00:46:09.000 You go like kind of medium weight?
00:46:09.960 More than times, you have to work with your weights, you know?
00:46:13.040 Like 90, 100 kilo maximum.
00:46:15.180 Gotcha.
00:46:15.980 Wait, 100 kg, right?
00:46:17.860 Yeah, 100 kg.
00:46:18.580 What is that?
00:46:19.000 My pounds, you know?
00:46:20.000 It's like 250.
00:46:20.800 250?
00:46:21.360 Okay.
00:46:21.920 You don't have to be like big, you know, or like too much muscles.
00:46:26.800 Your muscles have to work 25 minutes.
00:46:29.440 Gotcha, gotcha.
00:46:30.320 Like other program.
00:46:31.600 Gotcha.
00:46:31.880 Wait, do we have that, do we have that pad?
00:46:34.140 If you want to, I don't want to, I don't know,
00:46:35.640 because I know you're fighting.
00:46:36.820 I wanted to take a jab or something,
00:46:38.680 but obviously the pad on because I don't want to.
00:46:39.980 Yeah, well, finish.
00:46:42.160 That was crazy.
00:46:44.200 His legs, bro.
00:46:47.800 Bro.
00:46:52.740 You're saying if he puts me to sleep, 0.99
00:46:54.140 it's going to fuck my brain up or start messing with me? 0.99
00:46:55.660 It's not good to go to sleep. 0.96
00:46:56.540 No, it's not good.
00:46:57.520 No.
00:46:57.660 But this guy makes sleep a lot of people.
00:46:59.400 All right.
00:47:02.160 Why do you need this, brother?
00:47:03.360 You don't need this.
00:47:04.760 Huh? 0.99
00:47:06.020 Just take a punch. 0.62
00:47:07.100 I don't think we need this.
00:47:07.940 Bro, yes, I do.
00:47:08.780 Look at him, bro. 0.99
00:47:09.960 Crazy. 0.97
00:47:10.560 Bring some good luck. 0.87
00:47:11.260 He's the champion for a reason.
00:47:13.500 Not very big.
00:47:17.540 He's got the belt for a reason, man.
00:47:18.800 This guy's the real deal.
00:47:19.560 You want to play close? 0.80
00:47:20.820 It's a killer.
00:47:21.260 He's got me.
00:47:25.360 One.
00:47:25.900 Two.
00:47:34.360 Three.
00:47:36.180 You ready to fly?
00:47:37.920 Fly?
00:47:42.280 It's good.
00:47:43.120 Okay.
00:47:44.480 Gloves, gloves.
00:47:45.340 I need gloves.
00:47:45.720 Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:47:46.080 Let's get him some gloves.
00:47:50.680 Left hand.
00:47:53.200 Look at that.
00:47:53.780 He's winding his arm up.
00:47:55.460 He's saying, I don't need a body bag.
00:47:56.840 Come on.
00:47:57.800 He's got a crazy punch.
00:47:59.060 How many punch?
00:48:00.080 How many?
00:48:00.740 What percent?
00:48:02.240 No, how many punch?
00:48:03.360 How many?
00:48:03.980 Yes.
00:48:04.720 Three.
00:48:05.760 You have to hold me?
00:48:06.480 Yes, yes, because you don't want to go.
00:48:07.660 Let's go over here.
00:48:08.180 Let's go over here.
00:48:08.680 Because there's a crack right there.
00:48:09.860 I want to slip.
00:48:11.280 You said three?
00:48:12.780 Let's go one punch. 1.00
00:48:14.440 Okay.
00:48:14.700 What percent are you going to do?
00:48:17.140 How hard?
00:48:18.340 How many?
00:48:19.120 A hundred, no?
00:48:19.880 Huh?
00:48:20.580 A hundred percent?
00:48:21.340 It's kind of defensive.
00:48:22.420 It's special.
00:48:22.780 You don't have this, brother.
00:48:24.640 Nothing special.
00:48:25.060 Okay, it's nothing?
00:48:26.000 Yes, nothing.
00:48:28.320 Oh, my God.
00:48:30.380 Okay, we're good.
00:48:31.180 Yeah, we're good.
00:48:31.680 Nothing.
00:48:33.000 This is special thing.
00:48:34.300 Yeah, special, yeah.
00:48:36.220 I'm good.
00:48:37.280 It's just the air knocked out of me.
00:48:38.780 I can only imagine if I didn't have this on.
00:48:41.620 I would probably break my rib.
00:48:43.480 No, no, no.
00:48:44.180 He's got it.
00:48:45.080 You want to take it?
00:48:45.960 Do it to my manager.
00:48:47.100 No, no, no.
00:48:47.260 No, he talks a lot.
00:48:48.240 Let's do it.
00:48:48.700 No, no, no, no, no. 1.00
00:48:49.620 You like to talk a lot of shit. 1.00
00:48:51.040 Come do it. 1.00
00:48:51.940 No, no, Tav.
00:48:52.540 Come do it.
00:48:52.920 One punch.
00:48:53.520 One punch.
00:48:54.020 One punch.
00:48:54.660 No, no.
00:48:55.000 Dill, Dill got it.
00:48:55.880 No, no, no, no.
00:48:56.420 He's the barber.
00:48:56.880 No, no.
00:48:57.440 You're the manager.
00:48:58.480 You talk a lot.
00:48:59.280 No, no. 1.00
00:48:59.580 You talk a lot of crap. 1.00
00:49:00.660 Now, take it from me. 1.00
00:49:01.340 Okay, I'm his manager.
00:49:02.280 Bro.
00:49:02.540 Just do it, bro.
00:49:04.600 All right, go.
00:49:04.960 Give me a...
00:49:05.200 Come on.
00:49:14.300 No, no, no.
00:49:14.900 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:49:15.700 Winky face. 0.98
00:49:17.140 Go crazy. 0.99
00:49:17.920 That was crazy, man.
00:49:20.300 Oh, God. 1.00
00:49:20.880 That was nuts, Islam. 1.00
00:49:22.140 That was... 0.99
00:49:22.480 Do I feel something?
00:49:23.320 Do I feel something?
00:49:24.880 I couldn't breathe for like...
00:49:26.340 Brother, how many percent do I have to punch?
00:49:28.920 No, no, no.
00:49:29.520 Same thing.
00:49:30.100 No, no, no.
00:49:30.340 100%.
00:49:30.740 No, no, no.
00:49:31.640 Whatever you do with me.
00:49:32.620 What percentage you do with me?
00:49:33.500 100, right?
00:49:34.840 Yes.
00:49:35.280 Brother, let me hold you.
00:49:36.420 All right, Tav.
00:49:37.020 I'm not going to lie.
00:49:38.720 No, no, no, no. 1.00
00:49:39.920 Fuck. 1.00
00:49:41.860 Tav. 1.00
00:49:42.500 Tav, flex.
00:49:43.360 This is why he's going to battle punch you.
00:49:44.420 You got to engage your core.
00:49:46.460 Show that, Jordan.
00:49:50.000 No, no, no.
00:49:50.760 He did.
00:49:50.960 No, it's good.
00:49:51.660 It's good.
00:49:52.040 You kind of ate it.
00:49:53.020 No, he ate that.
00:49:54.400 He cheated.
00:49:55.080 He cheated.
00:49:55.600 He cheated.
00:49:56.500 You moved.
00:49:57.100 He didn't cheat.
00:49:57.700 He cheated.
00:49:58.300 I didn't, though, right?
00:49:59.340 I took it.
00:49:59.980 I took it.
00:50:00.660 I took it.
00:50:01.520 No, you backed up.
00:50:02.700 I'm out of here.
00:50:03.180 I moved.
00:50:03.860 That would have hurt so bad.
00:50:05.020 It was the ribs. 0.91
00:50:06.700 No, Islam, man. 0.98
00:50:07.620 Thanks, man.
00:50:08.100 Thank you so much.
00:50:09.220 Thank you, guys.
00:50:09.700 Is there anything you want to say to the people?
00:50:11.120 Guys, next Saturday, I will defense my belt in Los Angeles.
00:50:16.660 Please watch and buy Pepe Review.
00:50:19.640 Everyone go buy his Pepe Review.
00:50:21.200 Don't do it illegally.
00:50:22.260 Support him.
00:50:23.040 Yeah, yeah.
00:50:23.240 Because you get, you know, he makes money.
00:50:25.380 You got to feed his family and his friends.
00:50:27.260 Thank you.
00:50:27.780 I will, hopefully, man, one day we can connect.
00:50:29.780 I'll come to Russia. 0.95
00:50:30.440 I'll really do it.
00:50:31.140 Anytime.
00:50:31.940 Really?
00:50:32.480 Yeah.
00:50:32.880 I'm going to take you up on that, man.
00:50:33.980 Welcome.
00:50:34.200 Welcome.
00:50:34.560 Anytime.
00:50:35.220 Thank you, sir.
00:50:35.860 Thank you.
00:50:36.200 Thank you, guys.
00:50:37.620 Coach, manager, thank you so much again, man.
00:50:39.760 Appreciate you.
00:50:40.180 It was a pleasure to meet you, man.
00:50:41.160 Thank you.
00:50:43.160 Chat.
00:50:43.760 Thank you so much.
00:50:44.580 Thank you, everyone.
00:50:45.880 Again.
00:50:46.460 Oh, Islam, let me grab that mic from you. 1.00
00:50:49.160 You got the mic right there.
00:50:49.820 Yeah, I got you.
00:50:51.240 Good luck on your fight, man.
00:50:52.320 And I'll talk to you soon.
00:50:53.300 Thank you again.
00:50:54.120 Thank you, guys.
00:50:54.540 Nice to meet you.
00:50:55.440 Oh, wait, should we get a, want to get a picture?
00:50:56.900 Yeah.
00:50:57.360 Let's get a photo.
00:50:57.840 Yeah, yeah.
00:50:58.140 Come on.
00:50:58.260 I have to finish my old stuff.
00:51:00.540 Yeah, he's got a, that's crazy.
00:51:01.740 He's got to remember to drink all his water and stuff.
00:51:03.640 Here, just hold on to this mic real quick.
00:51:05.840 Thanks.
00:51:05.980 Yeah, I'm going to go first.
00:51:09.500 And then we can take on that camera, too.
00:51:13.640 Let's go right here.
00:51:14.720 There you go.
00:51:15.320 Just one.
00:51:16.500 One second.
00:51:17.160 There you go.
00:51:17.520 Cool.
00:51:19.580 Perfect.
00:51:19.820 Head of production, Randy.
00:51:20.780 He loves you.
00:51:21.420 You're his favorite fighter.
00:51:22.080 Can you grab a picture, too?
00:51:23.580 I got you, Randy.
00:51:24.180 I'll take out my phone.
00:51:24.900 I got you.
00:51:25.240 Can you have a phone?
00:51:26.780 Randy.
00:51:27.740 Nice to meet you, Randy.
00:51:29.240 Yes, sir.
00:51:31.100 Thank you, Islam.
00:51:31.740 Appreciate you, man.
00:51:32.620 Good luck. 1.00
00:51:33.420 Kill it. 1.00
00:51:34.120 Thank you, guys. 1.00
00:51:34.660 All right, Islam. 0.95
00:51:35.400 Thank you.
00:51:36.200 Thank you, sir.
00:51:36.680 Nice to meet you.
00:51:37.200 It's a pleasure.
00:51:37.840 Pleasure.
00:51:38.200 Thank you so much.
00:51:39.480 Oh, we will.
00:51:41.600 Todd, you got his number?
00:51:43.200 I want to actually pull it to Russia.
00:51:44.420 I might even joke it.
00:51:44.900 I'll do it.
00:51:45.240 I don't care.
00:51:46.080 Is there Wi-Fi out there in Russia?
00:51:47.420 Where are my phones?
00:51:48.840 Chat, is there Wi-Fi out there in Russia?
00:51:50.300 You'd like to stream?
00:51:51.340 It's the only way I would do it.
00:51:52.240 I'm not going to lie. 0.87
00:51:53.200 Yeah, I guess I'm ending fucking stream there. 0.96
00:51:54.420 The voice got famous going to Russia. 0.97
00:51:55.920 Oh, yeah.
00:51:56.220 Now it did go.
00:51:57.480 Wait.
00:51:58.020 There's good Wi-Fi out there?
00:51:59.700 Of course.
00:52:00.380 Hey, this guy asking if Russia has Wi-Fi.
00:52:03.860 They got Wi-Fi out there.
00:52:06.460 Everything.
00:52:07.020 What do you find in the U.S.?
00:52:08.400 All right.
00:52:08.980 So I'm going to come down there, bro.
00:52:10.340 Let's get some training in.
00:52:11.180 Come soon because you think Russia is like village. 0.93
00:52:13.760 No.
00:52:14.300 Russia is all technology. 0.95
00:52:16.380 I'm coming.
00:52:17.420 All right, man.
00:52:18.320 See you guys later.
00:52:19.560 Okay.
00:52:20.020 He's a great guy.
00:52:20.600 He's awesome.