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The Joe Rogan Experience that right here right handle perfect too the timing of that yeah and the knee on the [ __ ] cheekbone yeah it was a good fight it was a beautiful fight and how satisfying was that for you to come back from the first fight that you guys had it was good um it was good but that guy's facing the right I think it's a Matchmaker Rick is hilarious um for me after the after the first fight I had with him I went through like I think 2019 I think it was 2019 2000 2020 was a huge like shift in my life you know that affected me differently and my mindset and so when I lost that first fight to him I was so wasn't mad about losing I was mad about I put so much pressure on myself about being perfect and it just drove me insane like everything I want to do is perfect I still had that in me but in what way what do you mean so I don't know like I felt like I remember being a hotel room and I rewatched the fight and then I felt like it was just at their cup so my my sister passed during uh I was getting ready for a fight right that's what kind of stem from so I was getting ready for a fight my sister she she died and then seeing her pass and then seeing basically the End Game of Life right like being here and seeing her just like she's there and then seeing her go through the trauma and then her being gone and then seeing the traumatic how it affected my mom and after you know I remember when everything happened I was in the hospital I was like you guys need help clean up all this Blood because I can I can I can help and she goes honey that's okay just just go home I was like all right Mom I love you let me know if you need me I'll go home started balling my wife's there I mean that was a huge uh movement in my life where I was like that's a [ __ ] in game like doesn't matter what you've done before that's you can either go peaceful you go you know traumatic right so that happened and that was and then it was pointing me I was like damn like I called Matt and I was like hey I'm not gonna be I was like hey I'm not gonna be in training today I
gotta go bury my sister right and I took a step back and I was like [ __ ] man I'm always training for a fight always waiting for a fight and my sister just died and I'm I can't go train because I gotta go bury here but there was like weird [ __ ] to my mind I was like I'm always getting ready for a fight always getting me for a fight and then I went and fought won the World Grand Prix fast forward get ready to fight Adriana if we go through covid-19 right all the gyms are shut down our gym kind of like we got uh relocated so there's only three of us training and then I fight Adriano and I was the game plan was there but I just felt like I wasn't if I came back from The Knockout he was like you know when you left I wasn't comfortable where you're at like when you left I was like you're just gonna have to fight through this you're gonna have to get through it and then sit in a hotel room and I was like why am I why am I putting distress on myself why for what and then that was like kind of like a snapping period Then when I fought Rob Tang I was like everybody's so worried about winning and losing why why because you're gonna die someday you're gonna die someday right so why the [ __ ] do you worry about winning lose are you having fun yeah okay perfect who cares you want to lose so I went there to fight him I was like all right you know I said I told man I was like I'm not gonna [ __ ] run like I'm gonna exchange like I don't care if he has a hard chain I'm gonna go out there and give him my best and then there's a ASAP Rocky said when has it ever been cool to knock somebody down it's never been uh cool whoever made it cool to belittle somebody or whatever is not cool right so that's always in the back of my head so when I thought rotting and then I I felt that success not success but I felt like I won the fight and I was like oh no you did good job I was like thanks man appreciate it you know go back home take care of the wife and kids and then went off by Adriana the second time I was like we do the training camp it was probably the toughest training camp but I started doing things different right like before I'm like I gotta be perfect I can't I can't have any beer I can't go
watch concert I gotta be strict and I was like I think the last sparring session after the Adrian fight I was like went to a concert had two beer years had a [ __ ] chicken sandwich and I'm like I need to enjoy my life because eventually I'm going to die right and I don't want to be at my deathbed I was like man I was so strict and all that stuff like I want to enjoy my life and so that right there from that traumatic thing in my life it's just shifted my my whole perspective like on my birthday August 13th I was my wife was like oh we didn't get you any alcohol we just got you know all water and I was like no give me a [ __ ] glass of champagne like I'm 30 I'm 36 years old like I I've been doing this for [ __ ] if I if I train eight weeks and I can have one [ __ ] beer and it's Gonna Change My outcome of winning this fight then I don't deserve to win the fight I guess so it is what it is so I feel like that and that whole mindset is just made me a better a better athlete better fighter because it's released some pressure from you from pressure of being perfect right and that's how it is like I remember one day I was like I just grappled that new wave right and I was grabbing a kid who was 18 years old and he was [ __ ] working me and someone who has an ego who'd be like I'm the best fighter in the world like that should never happen for me I'm like dude you're [ __ ] good good job I'm so excited to see I'm so excited to see what you've been able to achieve in the nine years you've been grappling under John Dunner hand like I'm so happy for you so proud of you you I want to follow you I want to follow your career right like just my whole mindset has just shipped and yeah I don't know what it is I mean I know what it is it's that but for me that's how I like to look at my fights now and yeah it's been making me Randy code torso that wants to me yeah he was talking about uh fighting and winning he's like so many people put so much pressure on winning he's like he goes you do your best he goes you're trying to win and if you lose the same people who love you they're still going to love you you're still going to have your friends you're gonna be okay yeah and that's that's that's like taking my game to the
Holland level like I truly believe that like but I believe that believe that like just that mindset is like I don't give a [ __ ] what happens like like they're like who are you gonna fight yes I'm like I don't care it doesn't change does it change my pay does it change my outlook on life it doesn't doesn't change me from my end game which is Financial Freedom right so it doesn't care I don't care who it is you know what it is I just want to make sure that I never lose focus of my end game and yeah that's helped me a lot