E377 Marlon "Chito" Vera
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 26 minutes
Words per Minute
191.7654
Summary
In this episode, I sit down with the No. 8 ranked UFC bantamweight fighter Marlon Cheeto Vera. We talk about his upbringing in Ecuador, growing up in the streets of Los Angeles, and what it takes to be a professional MMA fighter.
Transcript
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And that's America's team right there. Female ball.
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And he is the number 8-ranked UFC bantamweight fighter.
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I feel like you're like one of the most exciting guys to be like.
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I almost feel like I need to go for a run or something
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Yeah, like you got in there and did enough to win.
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Like my job is to grab the paper and put it in here.
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Have you ever worked really hard for something,
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Because you just wanted to get your name out there.
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I think some people fight for different reasons.
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Do you know what it is inside of you that makes you?
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He will work in anywhere to provide for the family.
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I give you a couple bucks and you fight my brother.
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Did you ever fight any grown men or it was just children?
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Do you think you fight because you just like anarchy kind of?
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Even yesterday when I was watching the fights live,
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I'm an expectator to two fucking guys in a cage beating the shit of each other for money.
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You want to meet the cool people you thought you would never met.
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But the respect level was different against the guy you were fighting.
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I'm going to kill this guy as much as I just want to win this match.
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I'm not in there to shake hands and bow to each other.
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I'm going to make sure you're the one feeling bad afterwards.
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Because they have that same thing inside of them.
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The people changing passwords for different accounts.
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You don't like to fuck a new guy every two weeks?
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Everybody used to call me Steve-O when I was a kid.
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You could be like a criminal who goes on the run,
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That might be the funniest thing anybody's ever said on this podcast.
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Somebody definitely has seen somebody naked in the family,
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Do you think that there was anything else that Cody could have done to give himself a chance?
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I watched them fight the last couple of fights.
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You can crack that motherfucker with a baseball bat and he will fire back at you.
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Cody Simon get crack in the face and he's almost like he goes into panic mode.
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And Jimmy Rivera landed a big right hand and he was like,
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Like as soon as I crack you and you're going to fuck you,
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But if you crack somebody and the person is like,
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I've been there many times and I've been here and I'm like,
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I credit that to the way I eat in and out of camp.
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And even like me and Moreno share the same manager.
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the reason I feel I don't get a stop or anything like that,
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how somebody will just come and run through me.
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I just keep the same work ethic and it pay the price.
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It's almost like it feels like you're in the cage,
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I sort of got to wake up every morning thinking I'm going to have a tough fight coming up.
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I don't let none of this cloud or every fight you get to get more known by the world.
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but I think it's the only one that you can not fuck around.
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but I'm sure you can drink a little bit before the game.
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and he said they had a guy on his team used to smoke cigarettes before the game,
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Is there an animal that you ever see that reminds you of you?
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I would love to get in the top of the mango trees and just chill there.
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like on the top of a root for like hours and just chill there.
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I heard like a guy that used to work for me that they used to eat a snakes,
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Do you think that there was anything that Stamman could have done to get out,
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it was almost like he don't hit the single to take him down.
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And that's why probably it was so easy to sing the choke.
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this Nurmagomedov in specific have a really good spinning wheel kick.
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I saw he get the hair a little bit and he kind of like,
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I'm going to try to take your head off right away because it's energy.
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Like if somebody hit you that hard and you kind of like,
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what the energy is like in there because we just see the fight,
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Like you have to pretend sometimes do you have to almost like,
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do you have to like keep an energy right there?
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but once you decide that you're going to be your life,
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but you cannot just try to avoid the fight because your opponent will notice that.
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it's a hard fucking guy or it's a guy that is kind of like,
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You do control that because you can be winning in a fight and the other guy land one.
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And then the guy that is winning kind of wobble.
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You can see how that thing shifts like completely move.
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but how many people is actually training their minds to be ready?
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like somebody throw a low kick and I feel my knees like completely dead.
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And you can only do that if you're prepared to be there.
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I see some people don't really training for a family.
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Why get your ass kicked in front of the whole world just because you're a fucking lazy fuck?
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Who was the best fighter you ever trained with?
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Because you've trained with some interesting cats,
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if you are a person that you're not trying to be on top of your game,
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it's almost like I stopped hanging out with you.
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if you're not willing to be better and I leave the people around you,
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I just want to get better in everything in life.
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I don't want to be around that shit because it's like,
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even if I'm not like that and I let you be like that,
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like I just want to be around people that is happy and he's just doing
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Like even if you are a famous person and you're a piece of shit,
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When you look at like where you're at now with fighting and you look at,
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I definitely don't think he run away from the fight.
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So now I just got to wait for a top five guy or something that,
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Cause I don't even know if there's any Bantamweight fights on the docket
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Like he tried to like say perfect things and be perfect.
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But they offer us to fight three times already.
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just send me the contract with anybody higher than me
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what would the path for you to get to the belt be like?
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if I get a fight with somebody in the top five,
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I can do a fight for tower elimination with him,
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Does something start to pop in your head is sometimes I notice as I get
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this might be a peaceful thing to do later down the line.
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Like I have at least five years that I can make myself a lot of fights.
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But I think about it sometimes like what you want for afterwards.
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probably I'm going to start collecting businesses,
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So there's a bunch of cool coffee shops and we've been thinking for years,
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like maybe one day we just open up one and we just chill.
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or you never know that you win a fight and then somebody call you for a movie.
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just keep being you keep doing cool shit and things will come up your way.
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Like I feel some people is too worried about where,
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That's why it's really nice to be around you because just like,
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to meet someone who seems so comfortable in the space that they're in.
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there's a lot of people around like Joe Rogan is a perfect example.
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Like I've been listening to him since before I moved to the U S and that's like seven years ago.
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seven years ago he wasn't the fucking guy that is now,
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it's almost when your boxing coach told you back to basic work in the job,
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Like you can be desperate for what's coming or you can be like thinking like,
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We all want to do something in life unless you're a fucking lazy piece of shit.
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But if you're really putting your ending in something,
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get the lessons from the past and fucking enjoy today because most,
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Like I think that mentality definitely was what took me here.
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But even when I was a kid and I was having a problem or an issue or I wasn't getting something done.
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do you have a lot of great memories from being a kid?
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They hate to be sitting here to listen to a fucking person to telling me two plus two is four.
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But I was just not made to be sitting down and learning a fucking equation.
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Like teach me how to handle what's out there in the jungle.
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this notebooks are not gonna take me out of problems.
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on the finish line if you're not doing nothing in the start line.
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Did y'all have Halloween growing up over there?
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but we don't have like the whole city giving country.
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some places that some communities that does it,
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what's like a unique Ecuador holiday that they have that we don't have?
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Is there something kind of new years and Christmas for us?
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Christmas for us is we open the presents on the 24 nighttime when everybody's drunk.
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The 25th is just play with the touch already open.
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I was going after each fight to do either a commercial,
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they were like tagging me every day on Sunday with him.
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I'll sit and tell you my stories shine on me and I will find a song I will sing it just for you.
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And now I've been moving way too fast on the runaway train with a heavy load of my past.
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they weren't so thin that they're damn near gone.
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I guess now they just weren't built in the air.
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