Rampage and I go back in time and talk about his early days in the UFC and how he went from being a light heavyweight fighter to being the heaviest man to ever being in a UFC fight. We also talk about what it's like being a black man in America.
00:00:00.000Rampage. What's up, what's up? What's up, baby? Are you live, too? Huh? Are you live? Yes. Let's go, baby. Let's go, baby. Wait, what are you doing right now? I'm putting lotion on. Bro, why is it so slippery, bro? Come on, bro. Come on. You know, I'm black, man. I can't be walking around with fucking leather legs. Ew, what is that? That's what happened to black folk when you take a shower. Why does it get like that? Hey, this way God made us, man. Oh, yeah, of course, bro. You guys are God's people. No, but bro, what the fuck? It smells good, though.
00:00:29.740I'm on the line. It smells good. All right, bro. All right, wait. So what are we doing today, bro? What you trying to learn, man? Some MA, bro. Okay, you trying to learn how to slam or what? Hell, yeah. All right, I got you. Who's going to use it to dump me? My cameraman? Me and you. But I got to show you on somebody. I know. You could do. Oh, sweater's pulling up in like 10 minutes. How big is he? You know sweater? Oh, he's laughing. How much you weigh, Chad? You want me to be real? Like four.
00:00:59.740Four hundred pounds? No, I ain't slamming it, motherfucker. Yeah, dude, come on. Bro, I'm like basically retired. I ain't been slamming no shit. Bro, you're still a professional. Four hundred pounds? You could do it, bro. Come on. Nah. Wait, who's the heaviest guy you've ever fought in the UFC? You know, when I was in the UFC, I was 205. The whole time? Yeah. So you were light heavyweight. Light heavyweight. You never fought heavyweight? Yeah, I did, but after I left in the UFC. Oh, shit.
00:01:29.740What's the DTA? Like 20? 15? Yeah. Bad, bad, bad, bad. What type of slam do you want? What type of slam do you want? You could slam tall. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He about the right side. I got a broken kneecap. That ain't gonna hurt you. I broke his knee. Yeah. I was skateboarding. That boy went flying and hit his kneecap. I know. It was funny as fuck. Yeah, I bet it was. Yeah, look at him. Aw, yeah. Come on, bro. He's not gonna hurt you. Nah.
00:01:59.740At UFC. You don't know who I am. I didn't know you knew who I was. Oh, I'm tapped in. I didn't know you watched. The first of myself was the Conor. Well, I'm not gonna say it. What? Bro, I'm not gonna say it, bro, but like. What? I know. You're like, I'm Conor something. What? I can't say it, bro. Man. Hey, I got CT. I got a bad memory. You gotta. Bro. But, I mean, bro, I'll be real. Like, you were fighting a little bit before my time. You're right. But I'm still tapped in, bro. Like, I know who you fought and shit. All right. Yeah, bro.
00:02:29.740I thought you was a casual, a new fan. Nah, never that. Like, who'd you fight? Like, you fought John Jones. Yeah. You fought. Don't bring another one of my notes, nigga. Okay. Let me think here real quick. Fuck. Chuck Liddell? Yeah. Okay. You did fight Liddell. You did fight Liddell, yeah. Another one of my wins, Machida. Machida. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So what do you, yeah. Wait, so what do you do?
00:02:59.740What do you do nowadays? I do podcasts and shit. For real? And movies. You do movies? Yeah. You act? Yeah. We should reenact the scene. Let's do it. Wait, you actually act for real? I'm an actor. Oh, shit. Wait, how old are you? I'm 46. Oh, you own. Yeah. You are own. It's okay, though, bro. Yeah, yeah. Look, let me see your abs. I don't got no abs. Nigga, I've been retired. You're fat? I'm fat. Let me see. Wait, why is your belly, can I touch your belly button? No, hell no. You stay away from my belly button. Wait, what?
00:03:29.740Bro, man, he told me. And my camera, yeah, my cameraman laughing at me, man. I'm sorry, bro. Wait, I was laughing because you, I forgot what you were doing. I think you were with your son, and you guys were doing something on stream, and they were being weird. But what were you guys doing, like garage sale or moving furniture? I'll probably move, I'm moving to a new house. Bro, your son fights, though. Yeah, he fights. We should get him to fight maybe on a little baron, baron risk. He down, he game. For real? Yeah. How old is he? 25. Oh, he's my age. Yeah, you 25? 24.
00:03:59.740Yeah, he's just turned 25. Gotcha. I think I was watching a little podcast. You were talking, and you said something about your type and girls, Japanese girls? No, no, no. That's one of my, I like Asian. That's one of my favorites. What's your top three? My top three? Yeah. That lotion's really good, by the way. It's good lotion. Yeah, it is. I like that shit. What's your top three girls? Asian, then Persian. I like Persian. Middle Eastern.
00:04:29.140Mediterranean? I eat that. You eat it? Yeah, Mediterranean. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, like, okay. No, no, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay, yeah, my bad, my bad. No, you good, you good. Yeah, I only heard Mediterranean, like, cool. What about, like, your black queens? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. No? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Certain, okay, certain, I'm gonna keep it 100. Light skin? Dark skin? No, no, it's not about the skin. It's about the attitude. They gotta, they gotta, they gotta be a certain way. Got it. They can't be, uh. Do they try to give you attitude? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't play that shit. Wait, so, Eric.
00:04:59.140What if they try to get in your face and shit? I don't know, I don't play that shit. So, what's gonna happen? No, no, no, I don't. You used to be like, get the fuck away from me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. God, miss me with that shit. Yeah, I don't play it. I, I, I would ghost a chicken in a minute, cause, you know, they don't have no accountability to some of them. So, I just ghost. Bro, a lot of girls don't take accountability. At all. Why? I don't know, man. I, I, you know what, I think it's because, um, the hotter they are, the more they've been lied to.
00:05:29.140Mmm. You know, or, or if they fuck up, make a mistake. No, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. It's okay. But it's not okay. It's not okay. Mmm. Okay, okay. So, this, this, this, they don't, they don't, they don't, they're not used to it, so. Yeah. No, child, I am getting skinnier. Thank you for noticing. Are you losing weight? Trying, bro. I, you know, I've been dealing with obesity for a long time. Yeah. Um, on and off. Yeah. How, what, well, how much you weigh right now? 180. Where are you coming down from? 182.
00:05:59.140Hard, bro. Bro, I can spit off two pounds in an hour. How? Shoot gum and spit, spit. I'm a wrestler. Wait, really? I'm a wrestler. I feel like I can put you on hold. No. No? No. Even though, I haven't fought in five years, you still can't fuck with me. For real? Guess what? What? I've been fighting longer than you've been alive. Well, how long have you been fighting for? What year? Almost 25 years, 2001. I was born in 2000. So beat ya. No, but hey, but I saw the wrestler at 17. I grew up fighting on the street, like Kimbo. Oh.
00:06:29.140There wasn't no internet around back then. Damn. I've been to over a thousand street fighters. What the fuck? I'm from Memphis. We like to fight. Memphis, Tennessee? Yeah. I'm doing brand risk out in Tennessee. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, what's it called? Nashville. Oh, yeah. When? Uh, June 22nd. Oh, that's too, that's too soon for my son to fight. He won't fight? I don't know. He might get, I can actually, when we call him right now. Yeah, call him. Let's get him a fight, bro. Chad, who should he fight? Who should he fight? How, how much he weigh?
00:06:59.140Uh, he'll probably weigh like, uh, 170. We should have him fight. Sneeko. Sneeko, you should fight his. Sneeko, I trained Sneeko before. You have? Yeah. Or Anderson, Anderson Silva's kid. No, no, they trained. Oh, they're cool. I trained. Hey, hey, Aiden said you want to fight June 22nd in Nashville. June 22nd? Yeah. Yeah. What's up, bro? Oh, what's up, bro? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. I'm with your dad, man. We're gonna have a,
00:07:29.140a great workout, but, you know. Yeah, what you gonna do? You gonna bitch out, or you gonna step up? I know the story of Noah, but.
00:07:35.280You already know, you already know I'm gonna do it. No way. You actually fight? He fight. He ain't scared to fight, but it's just like,
00:07:42.900there ain't enough time to get cardio, but he gonna have to put in work. Wait, hold on a second. Well,
00:07:47.280let me ask you, hold on, hold on. How much do you weigh right now?
00:07:52.000Man, nah, you should, you should know about, give me a ballpark, motherfucker.
00:07:54.840I'll fight 85. Okay, 180. Shit, we can fight. You wanna fight my son? You don't wanna.
00:08:01.740Kidding, obviously, bro. Hey, my son is big. He got knockout foul. Oh, shit. Okay. He's strong as fuck, too.
00:08:06.240185. My son cockstrong, but he don't get no pussy. No way you don't get any girls. He don't get no pussy.
00:08:11.060Come on, bro. Yes. Wait, where do you, you live, you guys live together? No, he live right down
00:08:19.680street from me. Okay, cool. Wait, you're in, cause you're in Orange County, right? I'm in Orange County,
00:08:23.300man. Why do you like Orange County over LA? So this is where I moved to learn how to be a
00:08:27.640fighter. It's big in Orange County? It was big back in, back in 2000. Gotcha. Yeah,
00:08:32.000everyone's out there. Yeah, yeah. Everyone's out there. Okay. I used to train with Tito.
00:08:35.520That's why, I used to train down there with him. That's why. With Tito. Ortiz. Oh, Tito? Oh,
00:08:40.860shit. I didn't know that. What's it called? We'll get you a fight. We'll get you a fight. I will get
00:08:45.180you. Okay, is it boxing or MMA? Boxing. It'll be in Tennessee. It'll be a venue. Okay,
00:08:50.920all right. Are you going to come too? Yeah, I'll come. Am I so far, I'll come? Um,
00:08:55.180what? All right, well, I'm going to fucking train your ass. I'm going to train your ass.
00:09:00.260Okay. I'm training you, and you better fucking listen to me. If you don't listen to me,
00:09:04.480I'm going to beat your ass in my motherfucking self, because you don't be listening to me.
00:09:07.700Why are you laughing, nigga? You think I'm a stand-up comedian right now? True. All right.
00:09:14.260What? Hey, you going to listen to me or what? True. All right. All right. Make sure you get a fight.
00:09:22.380I don't want to waste my time. We'll actually do it. A hundred percent. We'll make sure the
00:09:24.880contract's locked before you guys even start shooting. We'll get you locked in today. All right.
00:09:27.580Today. We got... Oh, of course, bro. Of course. Um, let's build, bro. Let's keep building.
00:09:34.980You know, who knows? Maybe one day you and I will get it on, you know? Obviously, never,
00:09:39.180not. I'll never get in the ring, but yeah. All right, bro. We'll connect. All right.
00:09:42.600All right. I get your ass up out the house and start running like you got to fight.
00:09:46.320Go run three miles right now. Send me a video. I ain't playing with you.
00:09:50.000Fuck that, bro. All right. Bye. I love you. Fuck you.
00:09:55.260What kind of relationship is that? It's like your... It's like my... I had him when I was your age.
00:10:00.58021. I had him when I was 21. Oh, so he's like your boy.
00:10:03.700Yeah. I raised him since he was six years old. He's my clone. I cloned him in Germany.
00:10:07.980What? Germany? I can talk about it now. You cloned him? Yeah.
00:10:12.080How'd you clone him? I can't talk about it that far.
00:10:14.420But tell me what happened. You actually cloned the kid? Yeah.