True Patriot Love - September 25, 2026


Toronto’s Wildest Muay Thai Night？ Inside Iron 8 ft. Benson, Karina & Fighters

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Shara Micucci Mike Wixson
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Benson
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Muay Thai Karina
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00:00:00.000 if you're a fan of fights uh mma ufc boxing wrestling all of these are fantastic forms
00:00:12.540 of fight and they are highly entertaining but if you've missed muay thai you might have missed the
00:00:18.240 greatest fighting on earth and it's got a vast history coming up in toronto thanks to ish
00:00:23.220 productions we will have the iron eight grand prix an elimination fight tournament right here
00:00:30.060 in toronto to talk more about that with me today benson and karina from ish how are you thanks for
00:00:34.920 having us now you guys are just a promoter you're also running a gym simultaneously we're running a
00:00:40.800 gym we're running a fight team uh she runs the women's program the kids program she's also an
00:00:47.360 ontario certified teacher so she does it all for us as well and not not only that but you are
00:00:52.820 a lovely couple yes oh yeah i mean we're outing me now yeah yeah we are i'm so sorry nobody
00:01:01.200 you're so lucky so uh let's talk a little bit about this this is not a small thing uh putting
00:01:07.920 on a promotion like this it's a big deal not only that but it's an exciting matchup that you've put
00:01:13.060 together oh yeah uh how did this come about where did you start the process of putting this kind of
00:01:18.720 tournament together so um it started pretty much well from my experience when i used to fight
00:01:24.580 and i remember i used to fight in new york quite a bit and they had this one promotion the friday
00:01:30.260 night fights they did a lot of boxing shows and muay thai shows and they would do a annual
00:01:35.660 eight-man tournament and same same same idea top the best guys in the north america they have them
00:01:43.200 all matched up together and obviously they make all the canadian guys face each other first
00:01:47.240 cancel each other out so we can fight an american in the finals and uh yeah it was just i always
00:01:53.000 knew that there was like something i want to bring here in toronto especially you know muay thai is
00:01:57.720 such a ontario is such a hotbed for muay thai uh there's more muay thai gyms than 7-elevens it's
00:02:04.180 amazing i i do want to address that actually i think that it's uh because it is something that
00:02:09.320 you can begin at such a young age as a training uh process that there are and i noticed that
00:02:16.760 there are and even people in my age group that participate there's a club and they are all my
00:02:25.040 age and these guys are rolling every day they're they're doing and kicking every day they're putting
00:02:29.820 it in the work yeah those guys it's amazing it's a lifestyle at that point i think so and i think
00:02:34.320 that the benefits to it for your health and things like that especially in just the training and gym
00:02:38.440 scenario are so beneficial uh it gives keeps you the agility and absolutely you know this sense of
00:02:44.260 balance and confidence that you might not otherwise have yeah great for your mental as
00:02:48.260 well you know it's just it's just so bad so much benefits you can't even like you know you don't
00:02:53.500 have to compete in muay thai you know and just the overall mental physical benefits of it and
00:02:59.720 you know some people they just find a place for community and that's what really what works for
00:03:04.240 us in our gym as well i think the community is a big part of it when people really come together
00:03:07.980 they have the support people working towards just bettering themselves in general doesn't
00:03:11.460 I'd say, like, of people who train, maybe, what, 4% actually go on to compete?
00:03:16.260 Like, it's actually a very small percent.
00:03:17.860 And most people come there just for community health exercise.
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00:03:52.780 So let's talk about the promotion, Karina.
00:03:55.160 What's the, tell me about the event itself.
00:03:58.600 What's going to make it so exciting?
00:04:00.380 Yeah, so honestly, I think it all, so back to his point about how he used to compete in the eight-man.
00:04:05.180 I was in the audience at that point, and I remember seeing it from the audience perspective,
00:04:09.420 like seeing these eight men going back-to-back fighting, and I loved it, too.
00:04:13.520 So I think just what we're trying to recreate for this event is just that energy throughout the entire night.
00:04:19.080 Our promotion is known for being very high-energy live events.
00:04:22.660 Some people have compared it to, like, I feel like I went to a club,
00:04:25.000 or some other people have said, I just felt overstimulated.
00:04:27.860 Like, the last show we had, we had mariachi bands and a luchador coming in with a smoke gun.
00:04:32.780 It was insane.
00:04:33.980 What?
00:04:34.340 yeah and i think i have dreams like this it was exactly like that it was exactly like that
00:04:41.100 yeah i think we both like we like to party and we like a good time we like to bring people together
00:04:46.220 and so i think yeah it's all about so yes it's fight nights it's muay thai but also like the
00:04:49.680 overall experience and like you know the production the lights the sound the dj the people the ring
00:04:55.040 girls like it's all part of like an experience like you leave and you're like wow that was a
00:04:58.880 good night you know i think we're gonna have the opportunity to speak to the fighters as they come
00:05:02.640 of the ring which will be a big deal for me but what do you expect to uh what do you expect the
00:05:08.400 fighters to go through in a grueling night where it eliminates yeah eight you know seven people
00:05:14.160 what's that like for the fighters i mean i'll speak for experience it's just you gotta you
00:05:21.600 gotta first of all enter this tournament with the attitude that i'm gonna go through every single
00:05:26.220 one i don't care if it's you you or you and line them up and i'll knock them all down you know and
00:05:32.560 it's gonna be tough you know you're gonna have to win a couple and after you win there may be a
00:05:39.660 chance for them to say hey guess what you're fighting in about an hour from now half an hour
00:05:44.880 from now wow get your ish together they say that pressure is something else and i think it's cool
00:05:51.680 too the fact that one of the other interviews with um i think it was will ortiz and he was saying you
00:05:55.720 know normally you prep before a fight but you don't know who you're fighting right you're studying
00:06:00.940 all seven of these guys right yeah yeah this sounds to me like a pay-per-view uh like pay-per-view
00:06:07.980 bait to be honest with you yeah so uh tell me about some of the fighters that we're gonna see
00:06:12.560 that night uh you don't have to give me them all but you know give me a highlight spotlight some of
00:06:16.780 the people that are gonna be in the ring like karina just first mentioned will ortiz you know
00:06:20.060 he's the muay thai ontario champion muay thai canada i mean like that guy is uh uh he's i'm
00:06:26.240 pretty sure the only toronto uh fighter in this tournament so uh we've got our guys from the
00:06:32.860 derham area we've got two guys coming flying down from mexico states from the midwest and
00:06:40.140 hamilton but will ortiz you know he's gonna definitely be the local fan favorite for sure
00:06:45.920 and he's you know he conducts himself like an absolute champion and he comes from a very
00:06:49.620 reputable gym under uh crew mikey perez uh south side you know a very well reputable gym um known
00:06:56.220 all around the world now and you know then you're gonna have guys like um the wild card like uh
00:07:03.200 rion mcnab you know he's uh you know people ask him what gym he's out of and he's kind of like
00:07:08.660 a ronin a masterless samurai almost i want to market him as you know and he brings on a lot
00:07:13.880 of pressure he's an exciting guy to watch and then you got these guys from mexico two different parts
00:07:20.300 of mexico coming down and they're they're one guy actually already cleaned house in the canadian
00:07:24.960 muay thai open oh my god and he actually has fought some of the guys he's fought rion so
00:07:29.140 it's it's a lot there's a lot of stories are on there there's a leo leo wind from um the
00:07:35.260 kitchener area from the tri-city area and he's um a former teammate of rion so there's a lot of
00:07:41.120 drama going into this a lot of history and drama going into this tournament if there isn't before
00:07:46.000 there's going to be afterward because these guys are all going to be looking at each other all
00:07:49.120 night long wondering who's next who's next uh it sounds to me okay so how do they find out
00:07:53.680 who's fighting who like what's the process well that's oh yeah yeah i'll let you know i was gonna
00:07:58.100 say that's actually where rama gaming comes in which is awesome so it's all going to be lottery
00:08:01.760 based so rama gaming is a local uh is your sponsor locally sponsored locally okay fantastic yes yes
00:08:08.240 so very exciting to have them on board so um the eight men are going to come into the ring they're
00:08:12.240 all going to line up and then there's going to be a bingo drum with eight balls inside and they're
00:08:16.200 all going to be numbered one to eight oh nice and one at a time the guys are going to go they have
00:08:19.940 no idea what what they're going to do i mean who they're going to fight next they're going to pick
00:08:23.120 a ball it'll be number one verse number two number three verse number four five or six seven
00:08:27.860 verse eight so then they'll all line up and they won't even know who they're fighting so one might
00:08:32.840 get picked and then number four might get picked and then finally number two we just made a match
00:08:36.780 so we're gonna on the spot they'll find out while the audience also find out so it's gonna be like
00:08:41.660 it's a lot of drum rolls a lot of drum rolls every single time yeah fantastic and thanks
00:08:46.080 for that as well yes yes big shout out to uh that that sounds fantastic so uh okay now let's just
00:08:52.080 paint the picture anybody who hasn't been to a muay thai event what's the difference between
00:08:58.620 what you would see in mma and in the ufc in general and what you're going to find that night
00:09:03.940 i get the excitement's going to be there that's cool what are you going to see this different in
00:09:07.780 the fight styles definitely well in terms of uh the way a muay thai show is conducted you know
00:09:14.640 there is this thing a traditional uh ceremonial dance that the fighters do they they come inside
00:09:21.220 they seal the ring they go around the ropes and seal the rings to traditionally to ward off any
00:09:26.580 bad juju energy you know and um uh just like a like almost like a dance to say it's um
00:09:37.040 what's the word i want to look for like just giving things to their their coaches and perform
00:09:43.200 their like you know their gym's traditional dance ceremonial dance so to speak so there's that
00:09:49.120 aspect that's a very cool aspect right so there's the culture side of that and speaking of the
00:09:53.740 culture side of it you know um they're also gonna you know just we all we it's it's gonna be a
00:10:00.340 competitive night but at the end of the day you know we still put our hands together say thank
00:10:06.020 you so much it was an honor it's traditionally that's how it is for most muay thai fighters you
00:10:09.980 know and it's pretty frowned upon and you know you know other other fight other fight realms don't
00:10:16.160 have this yeah no very evidence uh show of respect through it all and i think that's too something
00:10:21.720 that we both said like we want to be really true to and still keep that culture alive like
00:10:25.980 you know to that at the end of the day it is muay thai it's a beautiful sport so like they're
00:10:29.920 coming in it's competitive like he said but at the end of the day there's still that love and
00:10:33.680 mutual respect for their opponents so i am looking forward to the event where can people find out
00:10:38.620 more if they're watching this and they want to come out that night yeah yeah um yeah tickets are
00:10:43.260 on uh eventbrite so uh follow us on instagram ish fight promotions um yeah tickets are live
00:10:48.700 there's a general admission vip sales get the vip you get ring drink service from the ring girl so
00:10:53.700 that's really exciting oh that's cool ring girls gonna be serving drinks and also if you can't
00:10:58.020 come in live you can still watch it and stream it live on millions.com yes i'm gonna come there
00:11:03.520 live i'm glad that it's streaming but i'll be there live awesome thank you both uh it is the
00:11:09.080 iron man grand prix going on in toronto yes uh and uh details we'll make sure are available
00:11:15.260 in the description link below thanks so much thank you so much appreciate you
00:11:19.640 all right so today i'm lucky enough to have two muay thai experts with me omar muhammad and adele
00:11:28.260 hamruni so you guys are about to compete in the iron eight so it's at the warehouse at downsview
00:11:34.680 we're so excited doors opening at five six o'clock the bell goes off so tell me guys so
00:11:41.240 um we just uh met benton a few weeks ago and i've been watching muay thai probably for about three
00:11:48.340 four years now so because i i love watching the fights and i'm my age i watch all the legend stuff
00:11:54.660 so the legends of muay thai how did you guys get in like omar how did you get into muay thai
00:12:00.240 so we always started from back home algeria um i had like a lot of friends they trained like
00:12:07.040 martial arts like judo boxing kickboxing it was my first start with kickboxing because i really
00:12:13.920 liked the sport it was a lot of striking quick movements a lot of it was just a sport that
00:12:21.040 really impressed me that i said let me jump on it so i jumped on a couple years i liked it then
00:12:26.000 started fighting well it all started from there yeah good how'd you get into it it was uh when
00:12:32.080 i was a kid i used to always get in um fights and stuff especially in school and then you know my
00:12:38.160 dad put me in judo at first that's where i started my dad used to take me and then i wanted to um
00:12:44.720 start strike because obviously i had grappling but i wanted to do striking and um yeah i found muay
00:12:52.080 thai and i i liked it and i'm here now and how do you guys meet benton uh that was actually a
00:12:58.640 interesting story so basically after i came to canada i had my little brother i wanted to put
00:13:03.840 him more striking sport shout out to him he's one of the old bro um so i brought him to the gym
00:13:11.520 uh because i seen the gym basically was next to the house i brought him then he met benson
00:13:16.640 told him like take care of my brother whatever then i stopped watching my brother he started
00:13:20.320 really progressing really fast and he jumped into his first fight which was at the age promotion
00:13:26.960 and he made an incredible debut and since then like i said let me just jump and see how it is
00:13:33.200 so i'll start training muay thai which is kind of similar to kickboxing but there's more of stuff
00:13:38.560 added to it like elbows knees clinching and yeah since then i started jumping to muay thai fights
00:13:45.920 him yeah good how'd you meet him benson yeah in his promotion um well he's my coach so i when i
00:13:56.320 started training at virtue you know i was there but then when i became a fighter he started um
00:14:03.200 respecting me more so he became you know close with me and stuff so yeah no good good big fight
00:14:10.880 coming up give me some insight how do you feel training wise training going good you're feeling
00:14:16.400 strong i feel good to be honest i'm i'm confident you know i thought i thought people with you know
00:14:24.120 better experience than this guy so it's not it's not gonna be he's not gonna he's not gonna be a
00:14:30.860 problem to me but still i'm not gonna take i'm not gonna take him lightly i'm still gonna be
00:14:35.420 training hard and um you know go in there and show my talent and yeah so more physical is important
00:14:43.460 mentally as well as physically right of course yes no mentally i try i used to before when i
00:14:50.140 started i used to get you know think about the fight how it's gonna go but now i usually i just
00:14:55.680 don't think about it at all i just train and just let it flow just let everything flow and um you
00:15:02.320 You know, when I get to the fight, I'll trust my training
00:15:05.060 and just start fighting and just flow.
00:15:08.640 That's literally what it is.
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00:15:25.380 All right, back to the show.
00:15:27.480 The last few seconds before you go in the ring, tell me how it feels.
00:15:31.300 because for those viewers out there who don't know what it's like you know when the crowd is
00:15:35.520 there you got a thousand people and the crowd's yelling and screaming and you're about to go up
00:15:39.760 what is the dopamine rush what's the how do you stay calm right like how do you how do you keep
00:15:44.860 that control so it all starts from like before if you train hard enough you'll obviously be
00:15:50.180 confident enough about your fight obviously never you'll have like a little bit of adrenaline rush
00:15:55.160 whatever you'll be stressed out it never changes before every fight but what splits between a scared
00:16:02.440 fighter and a confident fighter is training the more you sweat into the fight the less you bleed
00:16:07.600 in the fight wow that's good good advice so for the iron eight right how do you conserve your
00:16:15.280 energy so that's an interesting thing right like you got to conserve your energy to get
00:16:18.860 any advice to the fighters for yourself on how do you conserve your as you're going through
00:16:24.660 the elimination i'm not doing i'm doing a single fight oh just one yeah yeah all right for me
00:16:30.660 energy it's you know i just go in there and just fight until i'm done and then just get out that's
00:16:36.680 that's about it for me oh good how about you yeah i don't over complicate it like whenever it goes
00:16:41.700 to the fight it depends like what i have a plan for my coach and yeah i just get through it oh
00:16:48.820 good i just stick to the plan good good so career-wise so tell me about muay thai where
00:16:54.580 you want to go with it sort of i know you enjoy you guys are young what's the next step you as
00:16:59.620 you're fighting is it something you look to do yeah so my next step obviously we're committing
00:17:04.660 our whole life to this sport you know leaving our jobs our school a lot of stuff to just get these
00:17:11.780 a couple hours of training these extra times that can progress and takes you to the next level
00:17:18.740 um i see myself in the one championship in the future i really like the the promotion it's a
00:17:25.700 big promotion especially i like the small gloves and i have some good hands i feel like i can do
00:17:30.820 something and be knocking people out um i like i'm also like getting some training some ma training
00:17:39.780 I'm getting better in my grappling.
00:17:41.240 I wrestle more.
00:17:42.600 Maybe then I can get some MMA fights and see how it goes.
00:17:46.000 Right now, I don't have a specific plan.
00:17:47.820 If I'm going to keep fighting a Muay Thai, I'm going to keep fighting MMA.
00:17:51.520 So I'm just kind of doing both.
00:17:53.620 And whenever the opportunity comes, I'll take it.
00:17:56.940 Good for you.
00:17:57.920 Adele, how about you?
00:17:59.640 Personally, same thing.
00:18:00.980 Obviously, I want to make it to one championship.
00:18:04.620 You know, fighting at one championship is literally a dream, you know.
00:18:09.060 um especially like he says small gloves it's gonna be you know it's gonna be fun but yeah i
00:18:15.140 like i love muay thai you know mma a lot of people you know they say there's a lot of money in mma but
00:18:21.060 i i love muay thai to be honest i'll stick with muay thai for for now yeah no no you got to do
00:18:27.700 it turn john right i boxed as a kid right so uh i loved it at the time you know so going forward
00:18:36.660 right so we know you know you guys want to get to one or you want to do mma right for those people
00:18:42.660 coming so give me some to the people that are coming out on uh the third october 3rd you're
00:18:47.460 going to come through those doors what are they going to see like what are they going to feel
00:18:51.220 because you guys have been to fights if you haven't been to a fight before if you're new to the fight
00:18:56.180 game if you want to bring your kids to the fight what are you going to see and basically what are
00:19:00.660 they going to learn yeah so basically whenever it comes to the ish promotion like we've seen
00:19:05.780 i've seen one of them only which is was the debut of my brother promotion always you're
00:19:09.940 going to see a lot of crowd a lot of pressure a lot of people excited to see a good show so
00:19:15.220 obviously we walked in there have to put on a show you have to get used to the environment whatever
00:19:21.540 and just get through and put on a show for the people you know lights fun entertainment it's
00:19:27.620 going to be a full night you're going to see ring girls you're going to see a lot of energy so so
00:19:33.540 you know what this is what it's all about right so that's the fun stuff you know and benson and
00:19:38.980 his wife do a great job at putting that show on guys i wish you all the best i can't wait to come
00:19:44.180 i'll be there of course and i'm bringing my whole team so we're going to come watch and support um
00:19:50.420 we know you guys are going to do well so you know you look like you both are in great shape
00:19:55.380 so enjoy have fun enjoy the ride trust me you're only young so long um and uh i wish you guys well
00:20:02.500 i'll see you on the third and uh thanks for taking the time today appreciate it appreciate it thank
00:20:08.100 you third october see y'all soon all right so october 3rd is fast approaching the iron 8 is
00:20:14.340 almost here and at the warehouse on downs view so we're so excited we're nice we're so happy to be
00:20:21.140 part of it today i was lucky enough for asdar wish came and thank you brother for spending the time
00:20:26.500 thank you you're in the uh co-event uh co-main event co-main event so you have a 12 5-0 so you're
00:20:36.500 a seasoned fighter you've been doing this for a while before we get into the actual fight and who
00:20:40.980 you're fighting uh how did you get into this sport because um you know muay thai is uh you know it's
00:20:47.780 an interesting sport it's been around for thousands of years we love it but i just i'm always interested
00:20:52.980 how people start absolutely uh i've been uh i've been in the fighting scene since i was super super
00:20:58.020 young i started with karate okay um wasn't violent enough you know i had to throw some
00:21:02.980 eyeballs some knees some stuff like that my father was a fighter my uncle was a fighter
00:21:07.380 my grandfather um it's just in our blood okay i'm palestinian very proud of that so we're fighting
00:21:13.060 we're fighting people yeah so um i started training when i was 12 years old 13 years old
00:21:20.340 that is siam number one um we moved around a lot um as a young family um then i ended up going to
00:21:28.020 bodybuilding for a while it wasn't until uh covet hit that uh you know um i got covet and i was i
00:21:35.700 was a very big i was a very big bodybuilder so i lost a lot of weight okay and in that whole
00:21:39.540 covet time the only thing i was doing was watching muay thai fights i'm like i'm gonna get back into
00:21:43.540 it the minute gyms open i knew about my current home york muay thai since i was since i was at
00:21:49.060 i am since it was a um chained off gym kind of thing and um i joined as soon as gyms opened and
00:21:57.140 i've been competing ever since wow that's a great story yes so you like discipline yeah yeah you
00:22:03.300 love that that that something like you can feel it in your voice when you're talking like you like
00:22:07.380 that well bodybuilding is true discipline right and then muay thai is even more because you know
00:22:12.340 people start from uh you know over in thailand they start from a very young age and they work
00:22:16.660 their way up so you you were doing the same yeah so um we got a fight coming up so talk to us a
00:22:22.900 little bit about the fight you know your co-main event uh you're going to be fighting gentlemen
00:22:28.820 from the midwest how are you feeling like are you feeling your training going well yeah i've been in
00:22:34.580 fight camp for five years straight i don't take a single day off um i got this call um not too long
00:22:40.740 actually and uh my crews know it's already a yes from me so um i was all in especially when i heard
00:22:48.180 it's american even better for me you know i love the rivalry i love the i want all the smoke they
00:22:53.380 say you know it's an a-class fight it's gonna be no gear i'm gonna give uh the doctors a job to do
00:23:00.340 that night you know so it's gonna be it's gonna be pure violence for sure oh no gear yeah so what
00:23:05.460 does that what does that mean so no headgear no shin pads okay just just uh elbow pads that's it
00:23:13.620 when you started so you so you when you started at uh covid time right so you came out of covid
00:23:18.820 you start this you really get into this sport have you noticed i guess you noticed your advancement
00:23:24.180 as you're going through it right you notice kind of and what what's the thing you notice the most
00:23:28.500 like as you're as you're developing as a fighter i'm just the technique honestly i've always had
00:23:33.300 power um i was always a bigger guy but now that i've slimmed down i'm at my perfect like prime
00:23:40.860 weight i would say yeah my technique has just been there um i'm always studying i'm always
00:23:46.280 seeing what's what style is the best and stuff like that so i've just been putting my whole
00:23:51.520 arsenal together right what weight are you going in at uh it's going to be a catch weight of 170
00:23:56.360 170 that's a good weight yeah yeah and you feel that is that your yeah you know people have
00:24:01.480 strongest weight right do you feel that's one of your strongest weights yeah i mean uh my first
00:24:06.040 six six to eight fights were around 81 kilos so it was a bit heavier but even like just this year
00:24:12.560 i i moved up weight classes overnight just they got a fight because my opponent dropped okay um
00:24:17.540 so 75 kilo 81 kilo it doesn't matter to me i know what i bring to the table so it's fine oh wow good
00:24:24.400 good um training now so uh you know where's the sport if you look at yourself where do you want
00:24:32.080 to go with it so you know you've got into moita after covid yeah you know you're picking up some
00:24:37.120 fights you're 17 fights in right so are you looking at what's the next level for you just
00:24:43.280 keep going i mean i've been waiting to get the a-class since i started my first for my first
00:24:46.960 fight because you know now now when the now when the gear comes off you see yeah you have a little
00:24:52.320 little bit more time two minutes is just too too fast for me now we get three minutes a little bit
00:24:56.800 better down the road there's going to be five rounds title fights um i want to fight all over
00:25:01.760 the place fought in the u.s i want to go you know i see people go to mexico i'm going to thailand in
00:25:08.240 january i mean i just want to fight all over the globe i want to do it i've been wanting to do it
00:25:12.040 since i was a kid so i'm going to do it till my wheels fall off base kind of thing oh nice you're
00:25:16.120 going to thailand in january january yeah wow who are you fighting over there i'll find someone
00:25:20.640 okay oh wow that's so cool um and your family are they they're in your obviously in your corner
00:25:27.140 right absolutely and they come watch all your fights absolutely oh good good what did they fight
00:25:32.600 in um you mentioned your dad and your yeah i mean it was so long ago i mean but uh my dad used to
00:25:39.040 fight back home you know back in the middle east stuff like that my uncle was a canadian muay thai
00:25:43.660 champion over here oh wow in the 90s so he fought in calgary he fought over here um he has all his
00:25:50.300 type fights on uh vcr that's at that time right so we always we always pop them in we we see those
00:25:56.100 those old old classic fights yeah so they can and your style is moi mat yeah right and i know there's
00:26:04.220 uh different uh moi styles right so how does moi mat different than the other styles uh moi mat's
00:26:10.600 basically a heavy puncher um my my hands have always been my strong suit i mean but uh again
00:26:17.960 as i'm training i mean my legs my knees my elbows i mean i've had a couple stoppages in my elbows so
00:26:24.440 that's that's all falling into place too so i'm dangerous everywhere yeah uh but uh you know my
00:26:30.280 hands are my my go-to wow it sounds amazing uh you know so we the feeling i always ask the fighters
00:26:39.400 this because you know i boxed as a kid and uh the feeling the night of the fight right you're
00:26:45.080 going to be there thousand people cheering the music playing what's in your head because that's
00:26:51.080 what i think the the viewers i'd like to share with them because that was the coolest part for
00:26:55.720 me when i was a kid and i fight because it was that it's that butterflies it's that feeling it's
00:27:00.200 that anxiety kind of but you know trying to keep calm to remember everything you trained to do
00:27:06.680 talk about a little bit about because for the viewers because i i get tingles when i'm talking
00:27:11.240 to you buddy yeah i mean to be honest with you those tingles left at like the fifth sixth fight
00:27:15.720 i mean now i just know where i need to be um the fight night's the easy night the training where
00:27:21.880 i'm sweating every single ounce of liquid in me i'm bleeding where everything's going on you know
00:27:27.960 that's the hard part uh five six days a week that that's that's the fight you know what i mean
00:27:33.400 the fight night's the easy part that's where we have fun that's where your family your friends
00:27:36.680 everyone's coming your hand gets raised you go out you celebrate that's that's that's the fun part
00:27:41.960 that's the congratulatory part of it you know what i mean yeah so i mean anxiety i definitely wouldn't
00:27:48.680 say i have anxiety i'm excited to be there and i i could fight today if i could wow you you're
00:27:54.440 really loving it you love it you can you can feel it in your voice right the the discipline that's
00:27:58.600 good man the you won some awards right you won i was just reading your bio before mto fighter of
00:28:04.920 year yes can you tell what that is and how you got it that was uh i think 20 24 um seven and all run
00:28:15.400 in c class 81 kilos most part of the year that was provided to me by moita ontario wow that's
00:28:22.360 so cool um balance right so because you're training you're working uh how do you how do
00:28:29.960 do you pull it all together with with just life right is it is it your single occupation right
00:28:37.660 now or is it you know are you doing other things or is this just where you're going right no i mean
00:28:42.980 i do i do i have a job i do have a business um in the car industry i'm a finance manager so i work
00:28:49.740 with dealerships and stuff like that i also have a tire business as well i've been doing that since
00:28:54.940 i was about 15 years old tires and stuff like that so i've always been in the car industry
00:28:58.280 i've always had a job and a career um but fighting is you know it's right up there you know what i
00:29:04.400 mean so it's it's from office to the gym right away like and then then we go home you know so
00:29:09.000 it's that's that's that fills my week six days a week cars and fighting cars and fighting that's
00:29:13.960 everyone knows me they know cars and they know fighting you're gonna be doing a movie next
00:29:17.880 no i appreciate it i wish you all the best so good luck you know and uh i'll be there i'm bringing
00:29:26.680 a whole crew to the fight and i hope uh all of you will be there um october 3rd downs you uh
00:29:34.840 the warehouse and doors open at five six o'clock the bell rings come on out it's going to be a fun
00:29:41.880 night lots of music lots of fun lots of energy and great fighters so thank you and i appreciate
00:29:47.960 you taking the time.
00:29:49.240 Appreciate it.