SNEAKO - SNEAKO Interviews UFC Fighter Chris Curtis

00:00:00.000 cool what they say they're just saying w right now it looks significantly better than when we

00:00:09.000 started if you had the chance to like kind of time lapse and see when we started versus like

00:00:14.200 there someone that can edit that i would like to see that yeah someone can do that it'd be really

00:00:17.460 cool to see it because like just your progression i think a big one too is you're starting to keep

00:00:21.980 your eyes on what you're hitting one of the biggest things people fuck up on is they don't

00:00:25.420 keep their eyes on like what they're punching and you kind of start like missing the target

00:00:28.760 that's why you're like you're pulling too close but when you focus on keeping your eyes on what

00:00:32.360 you're hitting you're landing like great hooks but at the moment you're not watching the target your

00:00:36.480 hook sucks but when you have eyes on target your hook so i'm thinking more about the body language

00:00:40.720 rather than the target i'm thinking more about swinging it rather than the fact that you're

00:00:43.440 sniping it's just a sympathetic sympathetic memory your eyes your body will follow where your eyes

00:00:48.900 are if you lock your eyes on it's like catching a ball you see something moving fast you've caught

00:00:53.180 some shit you never thought you're gonna catch yeah your body will go where your eyes go that's

00:00:56.460 just the way we're fucking wired as humans so if i'm looking at something my body's going to try

00:01:00.800 to correct to it like feel a fastball you can't really see a fastball too much but when you like

00:01:04.440 your eyes track something your body's there before you can like before your brain is like okay what

00:01:08.760 are we fucking doing like no same way if i see something here i'm going to punch it and it moves

00:01:13.060 here as long as i'm watching it a lot of times my body's gonna track where it goes i'm thinking

00:01:17.460 about it it's that same way with punching like just a lot of boxing coaches that say you need to

00:01:21.540 look at like the guy's chest you got to look at his chin you know yeah when so yes when i'm when

00:01:26.540 i'm looking at you and when we're ahead of each other later what's up when we're fighting and

00:01:33.320 nothing's happening i should be watching the center mass of you because i need to be able to see the

00:01:37.360 best picture of you like if i'm watching i usually go from like here chest i can see where your shoulders

00:01:42.480 are where your hips are turning whatever if i'm punching i don't need to watch your chest i need to

00:01:47.780 see what the fuck i'm punching target yeah so yeah if nothing's happening we're in this space

00:01:51.540 moving i need to be able to watch you if i'm punching you my thoughts should be like i need

00:01:55.760 to make sure this lands so i'm just throwing punches and he's moving it's like you see guys

00:02:00.120 he's whipping punches because you're not it's like punching with your eyes closed you see guys who like

00:02:03.720 a lot of times close their eyes they put in the fights and shit well you're just swinging you don't

00:02:07.280 know what the fuck you're punching yet i need to be able to make adjustments on the fly

00:02:10.200 so if we're just out here touching whatever moving moving i need to be watching you the moment i start

00:02:15.040 fucking fighting you i need to be making sure i'm watching what i punch because you'll you'll see

00:02:19.400 you felt it if you're not watching you'll fucking miss like you'll go my legs i'm missing a lot

00:02:23.380 when i'm not doing that my target needs to get a lot better with that your brain's smarter like

00:02:28.300 your fucking reflexes are smarter than you think they are like we got that reflex that instinct is

00:02:32.200 like pretty fucking good we just got to not let our brain override it sometimes yeah i mean how do

00:02:37.560 you how did you get over that stiffness in the beginning were you ever stiff were you always like

00:02:41.340 were you like going up dancing or something everybody sucks everybody fucking sucks i've never i've seen

00:02:44.880 like two good people ever i've known two good fighters that were naturally good natural like

00:02:50.460 victor o'donnell was a guy i came up with back in the days of fighting anymore that dude was probably

00:02:55.620 one of the best people i've ever seen fight just good he's just good at fighting like you teach me

00:02:59.140 for something once he knew it he was bad i mean his first fight ever it was crazy my coach told me

00:03:04.420 about it he joined my first year right before i did he fucking had fight only hit a heavy bag in his

00:03:09.160 garage went to his amateur show beat the shit out there their champion who was like supposed to be hot

00:03:14.060 shit back home victor no training went there just beat the fuck out of him no training it wasn't it

00:03:19.120 wasn't like a it wasn't like a bar fight no victor just had watched videos train himself on a bag in

00:03:23.800 his garage for two weeks beat the fuck out of their champion victor was just good he like he was just

00:03:28.340 better than you like he learned shit really fast he's one of those guys who didn't actually get

00:03:32.420 into fighting but there's very few people i know like that and i've met thousands of people who fight

00:03:36.860 everybody starts out bad it's like anything else the more you do it the better you get the better you get

00:03:42.720 but more so especially with fighting with the stiffness and the like whatever like this

00:03:47.340 movement the only way i found really fixes that is sparring because hitting mitts you're gonna be

00:03:54.100 rugged you're gonna be whatever yeah once you start sparring and more so you start getting beat up a

00:03:58.080 little bit you start kind of noticing how everybody else moves the guys beating you up aren't the guys

00:04:02.180 doing this they're the guys like moving moving moving so after enough of that you start slowly like

00:04:07.940 you know adapting you do you it's osmosis you do incorporate a lot of those small movements so

00:04:13.040 like you know you're sparring a good guy he's just really good fucking you up you're like okay what is

00:04:17.140 he doing he's doing this and this that like keep fucking me up so maybe i should try that and you

00:04:21.600 start doing that the more and more you do that you start taking shit that works throwing out stuff

00:04:25.940 that doesn't you kind of build your own style but the guys who like get comfortable sparring more and

00:04:31.140 more and more you see them loosen up how often do you spar i think sean strickland talk about how he spars

00:04:36.420 like 12 rounds every day like sparring everyone talks about how hard he spars i i spar more than

00:04:42.720 is healthy yeah so don't don't follow me like i'm somebody like i've cut back recently but i was doing

00:04:48.460 two sparring sessions a day monday and thursday so i do five rounds in the morning five rounds in the

00:04:53.420 afternoon monday thursday napping between yeah i take a nap and go back spar i used to box wednesday

00:04:58.720 we box 12 rounds wednesday at the boxing gym we would come saturday do 12 rounds of boxing

00:05:04.320 i i used to i spar away more than necessary that's probably unhealthy why is that unhealthy

00:05:09.020 you're gonna get injured fucking brain is like dude i'm pretty sure i'm losing like brain cells

00:05:12.960 and a large yeah that's why people go mma instead of boxing right because boxing your brain damage is

00:05:16.680 you get more brain more brain damage in boxing yeah but honestly like getting hit in the head

00:05:21.300 or anything that much that sucks even mma like the wrestling and whatnot like the fucking impacts

00:05:25.600 aren't good for you but i i came up from a time to win when i first started fighting we didn't have

00:05:30.920 shit bro my first three years of fighting at a vision mma is where i started at bro we didn't

00:05:36.700 even have like 16 we didn't have a six ounce gloves we had like straight regulation and then four ounce

00:05:42.580 gloves we didn't have shin pads we're in there doing a full contact sparring with no shin pads no

00:05:47.880 shit i got my first day of sparring i got knocked out by justin mcalfresh he was a wbc guy fought 205

00:05:55.060 kicked me in the head no shin pads fucking knocked me out partially detached my retina i went home

00:06:01.040 is it still fun no it's fine i uh i went home and uh my son's mom found me like passed out in the

00:06:07.940 living room with the door open still and i was like fucking unconscious fucking hour i got home i

00:06:12.340 remember going home and then like the next like the next day i'm in the house pissed because i'm like

00:06:17.580 who left the door open there's flies everywhere there's like fucking shit bug flies everywhere i'm in

00:06:21.680 the bathroom like fighting flies and she's looking at me like we should go to the hospital i'm like

00:06:25.700 why she's like there's no there's no flies i'm like oh shit like i'm just seeing like fucking black

00:06:30.440 shit like spun like buzzing around my vision yeah i'm like fuck man i'm thinking there's like bugs in

00:06:34.560 my house and shit she's like there's no flies in here so i'm like oh shit that's for a bad time

00:06:38.280 so it was a wild west back then man so i just came up in a place to where we fought every day yeah

00:06:44.120 it had its benefits it made me really fucking tough like i can go smart yeah you have a level of not

00:06:49.140 caring like you're willing to fight anybody it seems like you'll take a fight short notice

00:06:52.500 i've sparring a thousand rounds a year for the last 10 years of my life 10 15 years of my life

00:06:58.740 against some of the best guys in the world like i'm not afraid of fighting like no it's fine like

00:07:03.560 so many guys in the sport don't like fighting i fucking love fighting yeah you got guys who like

00:07:08.120 to compete and guys like to fight you just like well guys who compete you like to win like to fight

00:07:13.460 i like to fucking fight bro i just love fighting but i think the more you like get comfortable

00:07:18.400 sparring and getting hit the more you loosen up and realize i'm not gonna die i think the big part

00:07:24.040 is you got to get comfortable sparring but like that takes time and i would never say do it the

00:07:31.280 way i came up if i was gonna like train you i'd be like hey let's pick your sparring partners like

00:07:36.440 hand pick your guys i know they aren't gonna kill you because there's the bad way to do it too is you

00:07:41.240 got guys you see a lot of guys get broken in practice man who like guys come up with guys way

00:07:46.040 better than them like way better than them and they get beat so fucking much that like they

00:07:51.020 develop fear so now you got guys who could have been good but they're so they've been beaten so

00:07:55.700 much in practice by guys they can never have a chance of beating right now that they go fight

00:08:00.720 scared and they become like frail they're just like fuck man i don't want to get hurt so you don't

00:08:05.320 want to be that guy so the way you get around that it's like a you know it's like you need people

00:08:11.940 good partners and as you get better we get harder and harder spars but you can't come out the gate

00:08:16.440 sparring fucking world champions like that's how they beat fear into you we're like you know you

00:08:20.060 get fucked up so much you're like i don't want to feel like that and what if that guy can do it what

00:08:23.920 if that guy can do it and now you're fucking broke like you spent you know you never got out the gym

00:08:28.180 before you learned fear like nah that's not what you want you don't think it's worthwhile to spar with

00:08:31.520 like people who are really good but they actively turn it down that's fine but under self

00:08:38.160 one of the worst mistakes you can make especially like getting ready for a fight

00:08:42.020 is even fighting somebody really good who turns it down you're never going to beat them

00:08:48.060 even if you don't get fucked up you're never going to win so would you want to go into a fight with

00:08:55.360 your confidence having been you've never won a round it'll break you bro like i've been in fights

00:09:01.420 where i had camp i just got fucked up every single day and you go into a fight and you're like bro i suck

00:09:06.760 like i've lost every round of training like that's not the confidence you want going into a fight

00:09:11.580 like what was the worst camp you had was it recent or was it the cabin one oh no the worst camp i ever

00:09:16.600 had was fucking uh i fought balal muhammad 13 years ago that was a long time ago i looked that up yeah

00:09:23.840 bro so i had just left my gym i didn't have a gym at the time and like my last two weeks for that camp

00:09:30.960 i joined a new gym but so there was like five weeks of me training by myself and then like i

00:09:37.420 trained by myself that was at a boxing gym like pure boxing gym so i was okay i don't have mma training

00:09:42.800 so i just got to box more and more and more so all i did was like boxing conditioning and it was just

00:09:47.540 to the point to where like i ended up getting rhabdo i didn't know i had rhabdo but i ended up

00:09:51.960 like rhabdo so rhabdo is a fun it's a fun well it's a condition to where staff no we've worked

00:09:59.500 out to the point to where your muscles begin to liquefy when your muscles when your muscles liquefy

00:10:04.200 it leaks protein back into your system so fun story that good no you're the human body the human

00:10:10.880 kidneys have more not designed to filter protein so when you get protein in your kidneys what happens

00:10:16.680 in kidneys your bladder it just sits because it doesn't have a way of breaking that protein

00:10:21.380 protein down so what happens is your kidneys start to fail your kidney failure from working

00:10:26.620 out too hard so you sparred so hard your kidney failed just training so much i was like i was

00:10:32.520 starting to fail so what happened i remember that fight the weight cut was miserable and i remember

00:10:37.120 like warming up for that fight i hit mids for like three minutes and i sat down i was like i don't

00:10:42.520 want to be here man i even told my corner like i don't want to be here i've never been in a fight

00:10:46.200 so i was like i don't want to be here right now during the fight or this was like warming up for

00:10:49.920 the fight i hit mids for like three minutes and i was like i'm done they're like what's going on i

00:10:53.620 was like i don't want to fucking fight right now i don't i don't know what's going on i just felt

00:10:57.840 like i wanted to go home i was like i don't feel right i want to go home so i ended up fighting 15

00:11:01.620 fucking minutes and i remember like the next morning i went and took a piss and it was like black

00:11:09.380 so like even even my last fight i took a piss after the fight it was like cloudy and like brown

00:11:14.700 but that's happening you get hitting the kidneys like it bruised you'll piss out a little bit of

00:11:18.000 blood it's normal no i pissed after the law fight i pissed black i didn't take any damage to fight

00:11:23.020 but i pissed like black did you think you were melting i was like what's happening so i called

00:11:27.300 my father my father's a doctor i called my i called my mother she's a nurse she said call your father

00:11:30.880 i called my father he's like go to the hospital and have them run your pro tell them what happened

00:11:35.900 have them check your uh your uh urine for proteins go there have them check my urine for protein

00:11:42.100 doctor comes back he's like we're going to the icu i'm like why he's like you're dying he's like he's

00:11:47.500 like your kidneys are like dangly close to failing like this isn't like there's a problem you don't

00:11:52.020 drink or anything no i don't drink anything this was just like mike i had like so much protein built

00:11:57.500 up in my kidneys from the rhabdo that like my kidneys were like on the path to shutting down he's

00:12:02.020 like you could have died he's like the fact you fought stupid you could have died

00:12:05.760 like so that was probably the worst camp i ever had i literally almost killed myself

00:12:09.700 that was 13 years ago yeah 13 years ago yeah when are you gonna how old are you 35 36 36 like when

00:12:14.660 are you gonna retire is that the question i should ask who the fucking everybody asks anyway i don't

00:12:20.060 know man as a fighter the scariest shit ever is thinking about when i retire yeah because for me

00:12:26.140 like i started really pursuing this hard like 1920 so here we are 16 almost 17 years later you dropped

00:12:32.340 out um out of law school at 19 i was i was trying to get into law school i was talking about my

00:12:37.000 pre-rex and stuff i said i was gonna be lawyers that's what i'm gonna do and i was like you know

00:12:39.880 what i can either keep doing this and should go on that path of being a lawyer i can just leave and

00:12:44.400 like go fight and i'm doing my pre-rex and shit i'm just like this is i don't want to do this

00:12:48.460 forever i love fighting why did you have uh that desire to fight what was the background you come up

00:12:54.040 to like i have no idea where does that come from oh god i just told this story my father the other

00:12:59.140 day i came to plain point the moment i realized i wanted to be a fighter i was uh i was like what

00:13:06.700 like 70 i think seven years old eight years old my cousin anthony came into town yeah he's staying

00:13:11.140 with us for the i think like christmas or whatever and this is back in the day so he had a sega saturn

00:13:16.580 and he had a sega saturn yeah you're old yeah he had a virtual fighter on sega saturn i've always

00:13:23.500 liked martial arts and shit but i saw i was playing virtual fighter and the match was kage versus uh

00:13:28.320 wolf and i'm watching these like fucking like do all these fucking crazy moves and i was like

00:13:33.440 that's it because he's like he's playing the game he's going to all these stages doing they're like

00:13:38.460 different fighting styles doing shit and i'm like that's what i want to do like that's it so like

00:13:43.140 seven years old playing virtual fighter i was like that's it i'd played street fighter before

00:13:46.920 that i was i always loved it like yeah it was cool but for some reason fucking virtual fighter i was

00:13:51.060 like that's what i'm gonna do why do you think you had like guys like mike tyson it's like they

00:13:55.100 came from like a really rough you know they had to fight their way out of circumstances they make

00:13:59.060 document you know why was it why do you think it was a video game what do you think was ingrained

00:14:01.920 in you that made you want to become a fighter because i grew up in the fucking like 90s guys

00:14:05.800 so this is remind you this is when video games first started getting like good

00:14:09.480 well you got like fucking like virtual fighter street fighter tekken so we had video games and

00:14:14.160 anime influenced my life in the worst way when i was like in like sixth grade i guess like god it

00:14:18.820 was like fourth grade maybe dragon ball z came to the u.s so that was in third grade yeah because

00:14:23.940 dragon ball z used to come on at 6 30 a.m on star 64 so i came across that shit on accident one day

00:14:29.740 and like motherfuckers out here like doing kung fu throwing fireballs i'm playing virtual fighter i'm like

00:14:34.860 why wouldn't i want to do this but mind you i'm a child not realizing like i'll never reach this

00:14:40.040 level of like anime bullshit but young me was like yes that's what we'll do so as i got older i started

00:14:46.480 doing like karate and boxing and shit i just fell in love with it i just love fighting man i've always

00:14:50.760 liked fighting you were like my mom's fear actualized my mom didn't want me to play video

00:14:56.160 games because she thought i was going to become violent you actually are living proof that video

00:14:59.740 games make you violent yeah it should happen like yeah man it's fucked up uh i've never done anything

00:15:03.420 terrible but like yeah video games and cartoons made me a violent human being i've always wanted

00:15:07.720 like man i can go fight people i can go beat people up we'll fight each other like sean's a

00:15:13.000 guy who wants to beat the shit out of somebody and watch them break yeah i want to have that death

00:15:17.440 match like in my head all these years i'm still waiting for my cartoon death match like like guys

00:15:22.300 on top of the final boss yeah they're on top of a fucking mountain it's raining i'm fighting

00:15:25.500 my kung fu teacher we got to kill him to like succeed like i'm waiting for that battle still in my head

00:15:30.600 so i don't want to fight like maybe this will be the guy that kills me you know that's that's

00:15:34.620 like a cool thing to me i'm like bro what if we have a battle and like one of us like i die

00:15:38.520 i wouldn't be mad i bet it'd be a cool way to go so my views on fighting even at 36 are entirely

00:15:44.900 unrealistic still right i make sound effects when i fight still sometimes but i laugh at myself

00:15:49.140 i make like people what are you doing i'm like bro it's it's it's i can't fix it i've always done it so

00:15:58.300 like my views on fighting are entirely unrealistic i never thought that a guy like that from the

00:16:02.720 camp will come up in video games would actually become a very successful usc fighter bro i'm the

00:16:06.760 most combat ready nerd you'll ever meet it's fucking hilarious so i don't know why but like

00:16:10.200 yeah like i can't sing and i can't dance it's either this or work nine to five so the two options

00:16:15.200 yeah right how much were you training when you were in law school oh dude how active were you

00:16:19.140 before you became pro i was training oh god bro so i was like i was in my pre-rex for like for

00:16:26.300 that and like here's the thing i had a newborn kid and i would get up go to school come home get the

00:16:35.160 kid and then on days i didn't have school we would draw god so if i didn't have school it'd be like

00:16:41.320 9 a.m we get up hit the bus i didn't have a car so i put this newborn in his car seat on the bus for

00:16:47.200 hour and a half bus ride to the other side of the fucking town be there from 10 o'clock to 8 p.m.

00:16:53.600 at night put him back on the bus go home so i mean i was i was at the gym from 10 a.m. to 8 because

00:16:59.140 like i had a kid had to pack my shit for the day and like that's just what we did so i mean seven

00:17:04.420 seven days a week i'm at the gym five of those days i've got a fucking newborn in a car seat sitting

00:17:09.660 there uh it's just a man like i spent all of my fucking kids early life in the gym he grew up like

00:17:16.000 on the mat every day just watching he's 16 now right he's 16 yeah is he good he's no interest in

00:17:21.560 fighting he's no no interest in fighting he's like all interest in video games he's a gamer he

00:17:26.460 wants to be an engineer i'm like dude do that and people are like oh your kid needs to be a badass

00:17:30.940 like he needs to be tough i'm like okay here's the thing guys tough man can kill maybe 10 guys

00:17:35.580 engineers intelligent people can kill millions so like we'll go that way like who's a real tough guy

00:17:40.760 hey bro oppenheimer killed thousands of people very true i understand like yeah so i i enjoy these

00:17:46.940 kids want to fight that's fine like i would never want my i would never if my kids wanted to fight

00:17:51.960 that's what they really wanted i would support it but i would never want that for them especially

00:17:57.020 because i did it i would never want my kids to fight because i did some fucking miserable life

00:18:00.640 like starting out so why do you do it for so long you've had you've had so like how many pro

00:18:06.180 fights you are 40 42 combination of i've invested all of my time eggs and skill points into fighting

00:18:13.580 yeah and for me i love i love it i i love fighting i love the active fighting getting to the fight is

00:18:19.900 the hard part and then for me not just like i train i train all the time it's fine one of the worst

00:18:26.460 things though is the emotional roller coaster that fighting brings when you win it's great

00:18:34.320 when you lose no fucking worst job in the world especially like when you get on tv and people see

00:18:40.260 you lose and then everyone has an opinion of why you lost you can go being the best guy in the world

00:18:44.160 you lose one fucking i don't mean is it me and izzy aren't the greatest of friends i don't i don't

00:18:48.500 like izzy i don't think he likes me but i'll never disrespect izzy for his ability like dude's a

00:18:54.000 fucking he's done more than most of the people ever do anything in their lives and like when

00:18:58.120 izzy lost to sean i'm happy for sean but my respect i never once said a bad thing about izzy in that

00:19:03.700 loss like bro he's one of the best dudes ever the best guy who's ever done i don't fucking like the

00:19:08.320 guy but i think he's one that i'll never disrespect his skills ever fucking ever you got people going

00:19:13.660 i see i saw people go like oh izzy's the best guy in the world he's gonna kill sean he loses the

00:19:18.860 fight izzy's a fucking bum yeah i'm like bro they forget about his entire career and

00:19:23.880 how long he's been at the top i'm not even a huge fan of the man and i'm like bro like how do you

00:19:28.200 guys disrespect the dude yeah obviously there's some similarities black nerd yeah but maybe that's

00:19:34.160 why i don't know like you look across i don't know it's a spider-man yeah but maybe it is i don't

00:19:39.340 know but like i fucking i hate it like it kills me i'm like bro this dude's done more than most

00:19:44.200 people will ever do in their entire life yeah the switch up is insane the switch up is real so like

00:19:48.240 that shit's hard too man like you gotta learn to deal with that so i would i would never wish that on

00:19:52.880 anybody but at the same time like for the people that truly love fighting like what else are you

00:19:57.680 gonna do like what like for the people who are like bro i wake up fucking my dick gets hard thinking

00:20:03.120 about fighting people what else you're gonna do if you can't fight that's why retirement's scary

00:20:07.080 you're like bro where do i go from here what the fuck am i gonna do after this so that's the scary

00:20:11.320 part is you're like man it's such a high it's it's an addiction man it's such a fucking high is

00:20:16.640 there any feeling that compares to getting in the octagon with someone else i tell people i would

00:20:20.840 rather fight than fuck like i'm i'm a big i'd rather fight than fuck bro and like it's there's

00:20:26.760 nothing quite like it and like that that's it's a drug man it's it's all all of us who like stay in

00:20:33.900 it you're for one reason or another maybe it's the win maybe it's the fight maybe say your notoriety

00:20:39.300 it's a fucking drug what do you do when it's gone that's that's why you see people who stick

00:20:43.000 around way too long because like it's you're tony ferguson you're saying yeah fuck tony oh but you

00:20:50.920 chase that high man you do and like that's the scary part is like when it's time you're like every

00:20:57.260 all of us are like i got more i've still got more i can do more even now at 36 i'm like yeah you gotta

00:21:02.000 get some time yeah i still got good tread in the tires i've had a lot of fights but thank god i got

00:21:08.020 good genes i'm durable as fuck uh but yeah man even now you have to think like you know that

00:21:13.280 that clocks i'm at the i'm at the tail end of my career that's a scary thought man it's a really

00:21:17.340 fucking scary thought what sort of mental endurance do you think you have that other people don't have

00:21:20.540 to have such a long career and to get over that the possibility of a loss i tell people the biggest

00:21:27.480 the best base for mental endurance mma if you keep going keep going keep going

00:21:32.820 is you got to have your heart broken by a big titty goth girl in high school

00:21:36.460 because that's one of that's one of the keys to my longevity yeah is i have a furnace of white hot

00:21:42.980 rage from like 16 year old me to like 18 year old me there's like a furnace of white hot rage that

00:21:49.380 never got over and it lives deep inside from a big titty goth girl and she didn't i ended up we

00:21:54.920 ended up dating like god i bet we met we met when we were like 12 we did we did it off and on from

00:21:59.860 like 12 to 32 off and on i have like so much pent-up rage i've been holding on since i was 12 years old

00:22:07.380 it's still air i'll die angry it's fine like it's fine but that white hot rage is like it's been a

00:22:13.600 source of motivation so if you if you need your kids to like succeed go find pay a big titty goth

00:22:19.220 girl to break their hearts and they will fucking lose their shit so that's been my longevity what

00:22:23.100 did she do to you oh dude she did me so dirty and then i was oh fuck yeah then i was like stupid

00:22:28.980 it's like later in life we got back together i took her i took her back then i cheated on her

00:22:32.900 then we had the cheating olympics yeah you got your revenge though oh no it's such a toxic

00:22:39.020 relationship like oh my god it started when you were 12 yeah it's bad we met when we were 12

00:22:44.260 and then we dated from like 13 to like 32 33 oh it's terrible terrible decision making

00:22:52.220 he's like cheating olympics for like 10 years it's pretty pretty stupid but uh but it kept you in the

00:22:58.420 game this long oh yeah fuck yeah but there's that and there's that and uh well that's that's a big

00:23:03.700 one but honestly man i just i don't like losing i hate losing and when i do lose i'm one of those

00:23:12.680 guys i go back in and i'll spend the next month in the gym and figure out why i lost yeah are you the

00:23:18.060 type of guy to read all the reddit comments and watch the youtube videos and the mma nerds so

00:23:21.920 my biggest improvement of myself is i stopped reading the comments yeah you hate social media

00:23:27.300 i i i avoid my social media i don't read the comments and i don't like i don't even like go

00:23:32.540 on youtube videos check comments anymore i got the fuck off reddit like i don't check reddit

00:23:37.000 like your instagram got hacked or something because no no i don't for the most part i keep my instagram

00:23:41.180 off uh deactivated after a fight i had uh sponsor obligations and wanted to send my thank yous and

00:23:46.340 whatnot so i think i got like three more days before i could turn it back off then i'll go back into the

00:23:50.620 ether and like in my own business but i'm somebody that cares too much i always tell people like why

00:23:55.940 do you care so much i always tell people like what what is your job me yeah what is your job i have

00:24:04.540 several jobs i run a couple businesses but what what what's your passion my passion i think is making

00:24:10.100 movies it's something when you have a passion you want to be great at your passion right yeah of

00:24:16.160 course so i think i think i'm like a painter if i'm a painter and i love painting i want to do

00:24:21.160 beautiful artwork but not only for myself i want people to like i want to share it with people

00:24:25.700 right you want to share your passion with people right yeah but you want people to like that right

00:24:29.480 you want you like i don't need i don't need to have my fucking like i don't need to be jerked off

00:24:33.580 but i want to make something that other people can appreciate right right and when you do that when

00:24:38.800 you put your all into something you get a little bit crazy you start to lose your mind

00:24:42.240 and the biggest like jab to you is when you put your all on to something you give it your all

00:24:48.620 it's not appreciated i don't need you to i don't need you to fucking blow smoke on my ass yeah but

00:24:52.940 like understand that i want to do so i'm trying to make something beautiful that's how nazi germany

00:24:56.060 started i just i just look at my paintings you're a better painter than me huh motherfucker like oh yeah

00:25:01.700 and then that rage i mean that was his he really really well hitler did have like fucking painting

00:25:07.280 you imagine there's like one guy in germany who'd be like hey man it looks great

00:25:10.560 like we could like the case we'd be different if one guy was like hey man you're doing a good

00:25:14.200 good job keep it up he'd be like fuck all right like yeah every maybe this would not have happened

00:25:18.020 right now yeah right but then how do you know if your arts appreciate how do you know the job is

00:25:22.280 done if you don't look at social media what is it the crowd response after when do you get your

00:25:27.560 satisfaction i'm beginning so here's one i'm somebody who's biggest like one of my coaches here

00:25:32.060 manly always says the biggest chris the biggest chris curtis hater is chris curtis

00:25:35.820 i'm i'm my own biggest hater and like i have i'll never know when it'll be enough

00:25:40.720 so for me i think just for like my own like mental longevity in the same my career

00:25:45.700 i'm having to just i'm doing it now i'm making paintings and if somebody buys them cool if not

00:25:52.300 cool i take them to the shop i drop them off i'd never go back and like for me i'm just trying to

00:25:57.420 do things that i'm happy with as long as i like my painting i'm fine like this fight i watched it

00:26:03.640 i don't care what the fucking commentary so i went back i watched it i was so fucking proud of

00:26:06.700 myself there's things i did in the fight that i did well i fixed things i was doing badly i'm like

00:26:11.920 i'm happy i'm really happy with what i did like i made improvements and that's i gotta let that be

00:26:17.800 enough i'm learning i'm learning to let that be enough because i'm not great at that shit because

00:26:21.240 like they made fun of me like the fight's over 30 minutes later i'm in the back watching my fight

00:26:26.300 like criticizing myself and they're like you just fought like you just fought a fucking fight in the

00:26:30.540 ufc that's something most of the world will never do and you're back here you look like somebody

00:26:34.640 shot your dog like criticizing yourself i'm like fuck bro you're right so it's a work in progress

00:26:39.360 man are you ever satisfied with what you do are you always trying to find for a second yeah for a

00:26:44.120 second and then it's on to the next one it's it's what happens when you love something but when you

00:26:48.200 love something more than you love yourself it's so hard because like you'll give yourself that

00:26:52.780 moment if i fucking did it and then walking out the cage i'm the happiest guy in the world

00:26:57.220 30 minutes later in the back i'm picking myself apart it's a high and a low as soon as you feel

00:27:01.240 that euphoria then it dips all the way back down to misery and for me i have a bad habit of like

00:27:06.200 not letting myself appreciate things because i'm like well the moment i appreciate it the moment i

00:27:10.900 like stop perhaps i'm gonna give us a pat on the back i'm like shit goes wrong i could be getting

00:27:14.420 better you get complacent yeah complacency is the enemy i'm learning to like balance that with like

00:27:19.600 hey man like give some fucking pat on the back give yourself a good job like let yourself celebrate

00:27:23.560 your moment so it's a work in progress but i mean like you you love something like you fucking like

00:27:28.000 you fucking love making videos movies you're always looking for the next thing how do i make it better

00:27:32.100 how do i change this how do i change this how do i have better content how do i do this it's it's a

00:27:36.700 never-ending battle for people who love for that who i love bigger than themselves what do you mean

00:27:42.300 you're kind of crazy when you put yourself when you put your all into something you become crazy you're

00:27:46.400 like what do you mean you mean like you're vincent man go like you're gonna bro van go hey man i put my heart

00:27:50.520 my soul in my work and in the process i've lost my mind like it's dude i lose sleep like shout out

00:27:59.140 shout out to my lady man because she got they actually my lady and my exes they put up with

00:28:03.480 shit too but i'm a guy i'll lose sleep i'm irritable i don't want to talk like you know i it's 4 a.m

00:28:10.620 like i go take a run because i can't stop thinking about it i'm beating myself up but i don't you know

00:28:15.160 like i don't want to hang out i don't want to spend time with my family because like i'm so

00:28:19.360 immersed immersed and then like what i have to do the fighting is hard for you but i always say it's

00:28:26.340 so much worse for people around you fighters have hard lives people who love fighters have even harder

00:28:31.440 lives like their lives definitely worse because they've got to deal with it and like the more

00:28:36.660 you're invested into it the more you become somebody different and like even now at 36 i have so much

00:28:43.060 guilt over like the amount of time i didn't spend with my kid growing up he's 16 happy kid happy life

00:28:50.640 but there's so much guilt i can like remember times and he wanted to do stuff i can't but i gotta go

00:28:54.720 practice i can't gotta go to a fight and like i've got so much guilt about that but at the time

00:28:59.680 it's so all-consuming it seems just as important and like when you love when you have like that much

00:29:07.040 passion about something it does start to like eclipse everything else and it's not till later

00:29:12.860 you're like fuck bro did i make the right choice i love what i do man i love what i do i got so much

00:29:17.580 guilt over the way i treated like my family and people around me because i was obsessed and like

00:29:22.820 to be great at something you have to have an obsession you have to be obsessed everybody who

00:29:26.040 loves something wants to be great at it so all of us have like some form of it's worse in some than

00:29:31.200 others but all of us have an obsession and like obsession is very rarely without casualties and like

00:29:38.100 fuck man the people around you the casualties and that but you don't regret anything

00:29:42.100 i regret it all i regret i regret it all but i don't think that's a bad thing because there's

00:29:50.280 always a way to do it differently i regret the time that i lost i regret the choices i didn't make

00:29:55.660 i'm choosing i didn't take but at the same time i don't know even with that regret i don't know what

00:30:01.180 else i would do like this is giving me like a life i can be proud of i can take care of my family

00:30:08.160 my kids taking care of i can take care of my parent and my mom like i've got a life and i would never

00:30:13.440 have had doing anything else doing the thing i love so there's a ton of regrets but you can regret

00:30:19.320 something and still love nothing's gonna be perfect you can love something like it pick pick the chick

00:30:23.560 of your dreams but you can love her to death she's still not perfect but you can still love her

00:30:26.840 anyway fighting's the same way man fighting's a very demanding uh bipolar mistress but man you still

00:30:34.920 love her how does khabib not get tired if you're saying that attacking is way more tiring than

00:30:40.480 uh defending why why was khabib able to do that for five rounds mentally very strong so dan strauss

00:30:47.180 was a good bell to the featherweight champion i trained came up with training with him one of the

00:30:51.600 best wrestlers ever in ohio who never like won a state title apparently but i watched dan strauss

00:30:55.980 smoke a pack of barboa reds before a five rounds title fight back home yeah went out there fought

00:31:01.340 five rounds a whole pack whole pack yeah it's probably like five or six barboa reds goes out

00:31:06.360 there fights a five-round fight gasses the other guy out five rounds is pure wrestling we always ask

00:31:12.160 like dan how the fuck are you smoking and like training yeah he said bro he said cardio is a state

00:31:16.480 of mind i was like that's not true but like i get what he's saying it's like yeah cardio matters

00:31:21.980 but at the end of the day kind of like sean you never really see sean do cardio but he doesn't

00:31:28.380 allow himself to quit like mentally he won't let himself quit and mentally it's more important for

00:31:33.460 him to like die than to let you beat him so i think a big part of that in the khabib is like

00:31:37.960 i know i'm tired but i care more about winning than i care about me like being tired yeah that's a big

00:31:44.960 part of it like there's sometimes when fights to shit in his last fight fucking third round i was

00:31:48.640 starting to get tired like fuck man he's just like not stopping and using a lot of gas and then uh

00:31:53.120 eric's like you got two minutes left and i was like i care more about dying like more about winning

00:31:57.320 than i do about dying in these last two minutes so you fucking push yourself okay i know i'm tired

00:32:02.280 but winning means more than like me being tired i don't care if my fucking heart stops right now

00:32:08.620 like winning to me means more so you fucking bite down you keep going you've got how i tell people

00:32:14.220 you've got you've got way more than you think you do but your body as a general rule of thumb

00:32:19.660 will make you quit your mind will quit before your body does so when i'm tired when i'm training and

00:32:24.480 like i can't feel like i can move anymore and i'm getting dizzy that's a mental fatigue that's not a

00:32:28.200 body fatigue it can be both it can be both the trick is the longer you go and the more the farther

00:32:33.760 you push into that zone let's call that the red zone the farther you push into the red zone

00:32:38.180 the bigger the red zone gets or the smaller red zone gets and the more you can be in there

00:32:42.400 so sometimes like sometimes if you're fucking going 110 and you're like dizzy and shit that

00:32:47.880 may be your max but the more time you get to that point and the more time you spend in that point

00:32:52.800 that max gets farther and farther away okay i can do this more and more and more so yeah you can

00:32:57.940 redline yourself i've been fucking i fought so hard i threw up in the back before but i still finished

00:33:03.180 it pretty much becomes how much can you suffer now in order to win because you'll suffer now you'll

00:33:10.520 suffer later but mentally you can make yourself you can probably nine percent of the time you can

00:33:16.600 make yourself do more so when you're giving the speech after the fight how much of that is adrenaline

00:33:20.680 because like i'm trained to the point where like i can't even talk like for 20 minutes afterwards i

00:33:24.620 just have to like have you heard some of the after fight speeches because you're like your brains

00:33:29.860 you've been hitting the head probably and you're fucking pumped up on like a shit ton of adrenaline

00:33:34.240 to where it's great everyone who leaves the fight you'll fight 15 minutes 25 minutes you'll leave the

00:33:38.980 fight yeah i'm fine yeah i'm great i see the doctor i'm great i'm great i'm great 15 minutes

00:33:43.180 later you're like oh my god everything hurts you don't fucking die that adrenaline is fucking it's

00:33:47.640 a shit ton of adrenaline but the dump is real so it's like everybody sounds retarded in their post

00:33:51.320 fight speech you're just like high on life you're fucking like three times adrenaline you need

00:33:55.060 i think you sound retarded when it's over how much of the fight are you in the red zone

00:33:59.820 like last fight for example just in the last like two minutes of the third round

00:34:06.520 to where i was like okay like i'm starting like he was he started pressuring more and more

00:34:11.740 and i was already doing a pretty high output than i'm used to i normally do

00:34:15.140 and then like for me he was clenching a lot so when you got somebody clenching you

00:34:19.460 it starts to like drain on you really fast he looks a lot bigger than you i'm not gonna lie

00:34:23.180 i'm a welterweight in real life but like but he's a big dude so you got a big guy like grabbing

00:34:29.100 you and clenching you and pushing forward it's gonna make you like okay like i have to turn the gear up

00:34:32.760 so eric's telling me the entire time like don't let him get don't let him get ahead of you like

00:34:38.360 stay ahead of him stay ahead so i'm trying to throw more and more and more which they get him

00:34:42.100 throw more so at some point we're both just going and going and going to where like the last two

00:34:46.520 minutes there was a point to where i was like fuck fuck fuck fuck like you know i'm trying to like

00:34:50.400 monitor how much energy i have left and eric's like you got two minutes like don't let him get

00:34:54.060 ahead i'm like fuck all right i was like you know what at that point i decided like at two minutes i'm

00:34:58.200 like if i die i die so what like if my heart gives out it was a good run good story to tell

00:35:04.080 my kids got insurance money it's fine so you have to make that decision like

00:35:07.440 i care more about winning than i do my health and at that point like you know you know like you're

00:35:12.660 fucking hurting you're dizzy fucking hearts exploding you're like what matters more beating

00:35:17.960 you or like feeling better and that's the choice you have to make for yourself some i mean there's

00:35:23.140 times where you're like fuck it i i you know i'm gonna save myself i don't i don't want to feel

00:35:26.460 like this people do it all the time but you get good to decide like what means more to you like

00:35:31.060 because you'll pushing through don't get me wrong nine out of ten times you'll pay for that shit

00:35:34.580 later like when you go in the back you're gonna feel it you get that point every single fight of

00:35:38.380 like life or death in your head nah you i want to but you don't okay there are some fights so like

00:35:44.160 you say yeah like i mean like people are like oh you're cruising through fights i'm like well it

00:35:48.020 just depends on the fight man i've always said i've always had coaches say i have my biggest

00:35:51.460 problems i fight to the level of my competition if you're good i'm gonna try to match you if you're

00:35:55.380 shitty i'm gonna fuck with you like whatever uh it just depends on the guy man like i never

00:36:00.960 redlined at phil hall i didn't redline with brendan allen uh i didn't redline with buckley

00:36:06.300 but it's just the pace i fight at but there are some like i think that fight actually i think the

00:36:11.460 first fight in the mc i had no no i read that with rodolfo viera he shot like 26 takedowns

00:36:17.040 24 takedowns and i stopped them all but i was like okay like starting to test cardio now

00:36:22.160 the third round of that fight i remember sprawling on one i sprawled he shot twice in a row i sprawled

00:36:26.660 on both i'm getting i'm standing up and i'm like i got up really slow and i was like oh fuck that's

00:36:31.820 bad like yeah so that was the first ufc fight i was like okay like now we're in that bad territory

00:36:36.980 like you guys start thinking like how much do i have left and how do i like save it because fuck

00:36:42.020 i remember getting up that takedown and i got up slow well i stood up it was like one knee the

00:36:47.080 other knee like hands on knees like push yourself back up i was like oh that sucks did you hear a corner in

00:36:51.460 that moment what did they say oh you're just like get up get up i'm just like fuck and then uh

00:36:56.060 i think i redlined the last round of uh gasoline to where i was we're just throwing so many

00:37:04.480 that was brutal i was there for that fight that was brutal we're just throwing so many punches so

00:37:08.000 i was just like i was trying to kill him just trying to kill me nothing was working i think like that

00:37:12.620 was that was another one i was like okay like i'm starting to hurt to where i felt like i started

00:37:16.520 feeling sick at the end of that fight end of that round because we were throwing so much i'm like bro like

00:37:20.560 just keep throwing yeah both of you just have a ridiculous chin it's just would you rematch

00:37:24.600 gasoline fuck yeah i would fucking do it in a heartbeat i'm still trying to get that like yeah

00:37:28.140 so i'm hoping he goes with the 85 not maybe just follow him to 70 but i'm fucking not like he i won

00:37:32.460 that fight and he'll never argue otherwise with me but like i'll get it back it's fine if you're a

00:37:36.440 welterweight or hard why are you fighting in middleweight also congrats for getting the top 15

00:37:39.420 oh thanks yeah i'm fucking what 13 now something like that no i uh i got signed at 85

00:37:45.560 because when i fought phil hall's i was 50 fighting at 170 like three weeks after that fight

00:37:50.740 and i got they signed me on short notice 24 hours notice to fight so i take that fight at 85

00:37:55.640 and i was like okay like whatever when there's a draw i'll go up to i'll go up to 70 it's whatever

00:37:59.840 knocked phil hall's out so then i was like okay i'm gonna go to 70 two weeks later they're like

00:38:04.020 he fight brendan allen i'm like sure fought brendan allen knocked him out two weeks later yeah so

00:38:08.880 that was what i fought and then four weeks later i had my second fight because they were like two

00:38:12.700 weeks after after the brendan uh the phil hall's fight they keep fighting two weeks so yeah sure

00:38:15.860 did that knocked him out i'm like okay well now they're like you're doing great can you stay 85

00:38:21.020 i'm like i guess i'm doing okay so then i started fighting there i beat uh hood off over here yep

00:38:26.360 and they're like you're like you're pretty quickly getting ranked i'm like well fuck it i guess i'm

00:38:28.840 85 right now so yeah i was a career welterweight and now i'm like all right guess i'm 85 right now

00:38:33.520 which is nice man not cutting not cutting a shit ton of weights nice i can make 85 like pretty easy my

00:38:38.400 life isn't miserable i'm not a dick to my girl it's it's pretty nice okay yeah how bad was the

00:38:42.640 weight cut for your last fight the way the way last time was it was easy i was dieting for

00:38:47.480 months i was dieting for like two months so i think i walked in a fight week at 195 it's only

00:38:56.680 10 take 10 11 pounds it's easy yeah i ended up cutting like nine probably eight pounds well of

00:39:03.180 water and that was easy so like one gallon of water is easy like took me like an hour and a half

00:39:07.100 maybe two hours easy then what would you recommend for like tall lanky string bean guys like me

00:39:11.800 should i fight at 155 160 like if you're not being paid don't cut weight like what do you weigh

00:39:16.500 i'm like 165 55 really 55 season yeah you're not being you're not being paid like well they're 65

00:39:24.840 you start training oh let's do the math here 65 so we'll say you start training

00:39:31.080 you'll probably like consistently and hard you'll probably hit 60

00:39:34.740 you're pretty you're pretty like thin though uh i think 55 amy would be fine maybe 45 i think 45 is

00:39:45.040 possible if you actually feel like doing the work and you lose nine 45 i would say 45 but the flip

00:39:50.080 side as an amy you're not being paid right so i'm a big fan of not cutting i tell guys if you're not

00:39:55.740 getting paid don't cut weight like you only get so many weight cuts it's really that miserable it's

00:39:59.780 depending on like especially for smaller guys because if you got we got less weight to lose

00:40:03.160 that's that's the thing like i can lose a decent amount of weight because i'm a pretty stocky guy

00:40:07.720 but you're not a very big human being so like the weight that's coming off of you is going to be

00:40:11.620 pretty painful but it's going to hurt so you see like smaller guys have harder weight cuts for less

00:40:16.620 weight they've got less mass to lose remember your muscle is going to play a big part in how much

00:40:21.640 water you have more muscle more water more water to lose if you're not a stockier dude like a lanky dude

00:40:27.580 like you're pulling water from some shit you don't want to pull water from

00:40:30.960 like what your kidney organs your everything i guess so like losing 10 pounds is harder for a guy

00:40:36.920 it's not worth it a tall skinny guy as opposed to like you know a bulky guy what type of what type

00:40:41.660 of strength training do you do uh but one thing is like i noticed in your last fight like your neck

00:40:46.700 is like bigger than people's bro i have i have the strongest neck in ufc uh so the ufc this thing

00:40:52.360 they record your neck strength yeah i have the strongest neck recorded like seriously i have

00:40:56.280 are you doing the mike tyson workouts where you're like getting in the middle of the ring and like

00:40:59.420 spinning in circles i just got a big ass head man i got i got a big ass head so i was like you know

00:41:03.200 i've always had a big head so i think my neck just grew to be like support my massive head

00:41:07.200 then you add boxing and wrestling on top of it especially if like boxing and like wrestling

00:41:11.200 wrestling muay thai really half of your training is a guy pulling on your fucking neck like wrestling

00:41:16.120 you're fucking always fighting hand fighting muay thai clink you got people pulling on your neck so

00:41:20.080 just having a big head and fucking uh years of doing the same thing like yeah just strong neck

00:41:25.300 but i realize that your head doesn't look as big because proportionally your neck's bigger so for

00:41:29.220 big head people you get a big neck it's great yeah but my head is massive and like oh man like my

00:41:33.220 fucking and my kid's got a massive head now i'm like fuck like bro his mom's had a big head too so

00:41:37.240 we laugh at him like that kid's gonna have a fun even the kid three months old like like from like

00:41:41.660 probably four three weeks he can hold his neck up it's like yeah like strong fucking neck like he's got

00:41:46.020 to his fucking head is giant so uh yeah it's just what it's it's one of those natural

00:41:49.920 things like i've got a big neck like wide back you're tall got long arms just some some shit

00:41:55.400 you're gifted to like you don't have to work out you're just gifted with uh everybody's different

00:41:59.340 but like strength training man i strength twice a week strength uh i'm not a huge fan of weight

00:42:04.420 lifting i get bored yeah i don't like weight lifting i'd rather fight so but like i at 85 i have to lift

00:42:10.300 so i was doing like three days a week i'll get back to that right now you're doing like heavy weight or

00:42:13.780 high reps with low weight oh it just depends on what you're doing it changes like for like outside of

00:42:17.680 camp i think we do like more weight uh heavier weight just to build strength and camp we do less

00:42:22.480 weight but like more like faster reps just for like explosive and whatnot like the pi does it a lot

00:42:28.000 it mostly gets like there's such a science to it they've got like my program figured out for like

00:42:34.220 from now until the next six months of like where i should be what we should do but that's just like

00:42:39.340 less meathead lifting and more like you're a fighter these are the things you should be doing these

00:42:45.180 the most of the exercises you need this is how you should be doing them so before the pi i didn't

00:42:49.780 lift at all i was like i'm not lifting weights i'm just gonna fight they've got me lifting and whatnot

00:42:54.020 i got pretty strong from this that's nice but if they didn't make me do it i wouldn't do it i hate

00:42:58.840 lifting weights it's my least favorite thing in the world do you notice it translate into your

00:43:01.720 fighting that much oh yeah i i'm so much stronger than i was like i remember when i first started here

00:43:06.760 versus like now even my wrestling i'm so much stronger than i was to where like

00:43:11.280 they're tired you know i have my good friend albert he laughs like fucking uh russian

00:43:14.840 he used to bully me on the ground he's so good wrestling and the last time we were wrestling

00:43:19.100 i just like squatted and i picked him up he's on my back just picked him up and squatted he's just

00:43:22.700 like what he's like hey brother what is this brother like yeah just squatted him up he's laughing

00:43:26.580 like what the hell is that i'm like yeah man so definitely a big big big difference like

00:43:31.000 those russian guys don't fuck around either brother so strong all of them are so strong like i don't

00:43:34.860 know what they were given or what they do but like all i say when i retire from fighting

00:43:39.540 i want this i want steroids i want the ones the russian olympic team has like i want that shit

00:43:44.300 i want to give me a box of like having a hammer and sickle on it open that shit like smoke comes

00:43:48.640 out there's like green vials of liquid that's the shit i want because like i'm gonna feel

00:43:53.280 terrible when i retire i already feel terrible i'm gonna feel bad i want the shit the russians

00:43:56.760 have but whatever they have give me all of it you think that all the dog saying guys are on

00:44:00.660 steroids uh i don't know man it's weird it's like your side is i don't know how your side of

00:44:04.440 works somewhere else uh i hear that conspiracy all the time that they have the best doctors the

00:44:09.440 russian steroids russia's not known for like good sportsmanship with like drugs right so like

00:44:14.880 uh i don't i wouldn't be surprised they're they're not fucking known for being uh playing fair yeah

00:44:21.660 oh i'll say fair i don't know if we're playing fair like yeah but fuck bro yeah you know you can

00:44:28.060 only get busted so many times at the olympics before like you know what maybe your whole program

00:44:31.140 is pretty shitty like yeah i think i've been like banned more than anyone else like yeah so

00:44:35.440 have you been tempted in your career it's been a long time you've never taken oh i wish i had

00:44:40.460 fuck bro so like you wish you cheated oh fuck yeah fuck hell yeah like dude so i remember in my

00:44:46.240 early gym like i remember sucking so bad and getting beat up all the time for years getting

00:44:52.120 fucked up for years for years i started doing better and at the time they realized it was when

00:44:57.380 you saw that first like the drug testing first time they're happening now i'm like why am i getting

00:45:01.060 good all of a sudden they're like chris everyone's not on steroids everyone's clean now i'm like what

00:45:05.640 they get the only guy who wasn't on steroids i'm like god damn it no one told me i thought we i

00:45:11.300 thought we were off like no i was the only guy not on steroids you motherfuckers i'm getting beat up

00:45:15.460 every day like i suck i'm never gonna be good at this i think a side i came around all of a sudden

00:45:19.520 i'm really fucking good i'm like you goddamn sons of bitches so uh it's funny man i'm grateful i never

00:45:25.380 i never had i was never opposed to steroids i was just too poor to afford them at the time oh okay

00:45:31.640 so now that i can i can't take them but it kind of helped me out because i realized once a lot of

00:45:35.900 guys i knew who were on roids got off the confidence left yeah and i never had that confidence boost man

00:45:41.720 i just sucked and had to like work my way through it i get fucked up every day and keep showing up

00:45:45.860 and i never i never had to go through losing that confidence so like when your side i came oh i

00:45:50.640 get tested i'm like well i don't have to quit anything like i i look exactly the same now as

00:45:55.380 i did that actually i look bigger now than i was then so it's just nice because i never had the

00:46:00.260 confidence to like lose so hey it helped me out i wouldn't you know looking back on it my life would

00:46:05.900 have been easier at the same time in the long run just wouldn't have fucked me over so hard did you

00:46:09.920 have you noticed any like brain damage problems or anything like that you said you talk about how

00:46:14.140 getting beat up in the gym quite a bit like you didn't you seem coherent now how you worry about like

00:46:18.280 losing brain cells i'm pretty lucky man i think uh it's funny i'm always like oh man like cte but

00:46:24.360 then talking to my mom the day my father like you've never had a good memory in your entire life

00:46:27.780 and like i'm like i get i'm like really like a scatterbrain my father was telling a story yesterday

00:46:32.040 he's like used to like tell you to do something you'd walk 10 feet and then you'd be off in the air

00:46:35.920 as a child so he's like you've always been like this so i mean i'm lucky like at the end of the day

00:46:41.240 you gotta remember some people go through the entire they're a boxer look at marvin haggler

00:46:46.040 due to being wars 24 7 left with all his wits intact like some people are lucky uh i think i'm

00:46:52.280 just lucky man so far i've been really lucky uh my memory sucks but apparently it's always been bad

00:46:56.800 i still remember that big titty golf girl pretty vividly uh big titty golf girls will scar you and

00:47:02.100 they they leave lasting impressions you never forget a good big titty golf girl you never

00:47:05.620 r&p all right pull one out for him fuck yeah but i'm lucky man some people get it i know people

00:47:12.740 who fought less than i did who had it way worse and you know who showed some interesting signs

00:47:18.000 i know an olympian olympic boxer who's fucking like taking so much damage like fuck bro like

00:47:23.560 look at him like damn bro this dude was an olympian and now he's just fucked up so i'm grateful

00:47:29.220 man i'm really lucky i guess i came from fucking really good durable stock and uh i just kept my

00:47:34.940 wits so far that's nice it's like a knock on wood but uh hopefully i leave with all of them attacked

00:47:38.840 i want to see like 70 year old me because like i'm wondering will i be like punch drunk crazy or

00:47:44.580 just regular crazy so i'm very excited for that right i'm gonna be old man curtis i'm big on a

00:47:48.980 fucking yard like kids like baseballs will in my yard and shit when i shoot it like i keep going

00:47:53.760 on my curtis's yard i'm gonna be a crazy old man if i'm like not actually crazy i blame it on

00:47:58.260 fighting but it's gonna be a fun time i can see you in a rocking chair on the porch fucking miserable

00:48:02.120 i will have a yard full of frisbees and shit and footballs yelling shit at the neighbors kids will

00:48:06.060 sneak over to get them i'll shoot the frisbee like i'm gonna be a dick i can't wait i'm excited about it

SNEAKO - January 30, 2024

SNEAKO Interviews UFC Fighter Chris Curtis

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