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the jurogan experience well there was a moment um where you were going to come back you're the og oh well i mean gosh there was no you're the og thank you in terms of women's mma who the [ __ ] is more og than you you're the original star well like not mma but like lucia ryker yeah for sure yeah and muay thai yeah and in boxing yeah and then there's christy martin and yeah you know a lot of other folks and then there was like the debbie purcells and aaron um and wolff yeah there's been a lot of like women combat sports athletes but in terms of mma you're you're the og well i i appreciate that coming from you that means a lot i always was it like back then um because like you were the og when it was weird to be fighting and it was weird to be fighting as a woman yeah it was just um you would go into the gym and it was just uh well we started at master totties so there was a couple girls there that really like to fight but they like to more look good and the attention that that fighting came from oh yeah um it wasn't all about like the fight there's a lot of that now right now it's like like that but um it was like that then too um i don't know a lot of like the what's her name aaron god is debbie purcell and aaron something in toe hill toe hill yes so they were actually the people i would say that started way before yeah aaron was she's been around a long time and cyborg was doing it as well um so tara larosa tara larosa um old school yeah i can't i know no the early days we're old yeah we're old but the early days were interesting because like you know there was a lot of uh people disparaging women fighting yeah you know including dana white yeah um including most the guys i trained with which i love them but you know even mark beecher he's like no get out of here i'm not going to train any women okay fine i'll train you gina it'll be cool but um and now that's all he does you know um
you know even uh let's say the diaz boys like i remember fighting on the same cars and carter's nick diaz and he was sitting next to me and of course i was just nervous because i absolutely adored him um still do i think he's amazing i just haven't seen him in like a decade but he was like you know we're sitting there before our fight having our post you know weigh-in dinner and he was like you know i got to tell you i don't really like women fighting you can obviously say it like that he's like you know i don't like what you do i don't like women fighting and i was like i was like that's okay you know maybe you're just a little old-fashioned and i was like do you think my dad likes this do you think anybody in my family likes me fighting and he was like no old-fashioned okay so i'm just old-fashioned and i'm like yeah you just might be a little old-fashioned and then he was like pulling out my chair and opening my door he took it to the next level yeah he was like so sweet i was like he just needed to be told it's okay you don't have to like it you know it's old-fashioned so yeah some people get disturbed watching women get bloodied up that's a big one for some folks yeah was it a thing for you it feels different obviously i'm a big fan of women fighting but when i watch a big cut on a woman it feels different like if i said like yuri prohaska and that fight with glover to share had this giant cut over his eyebrow and it's a massive cut but it didn't bother me but if that was you if that was it was a woman it was you know valentina shivchenko or something like that i'd be like jesus that's a big cut and honestly in my perspective that's sweet you know wow that's nice that's nice you don't like to see women get cut out yeah i think that's a really nice um i don't know why women or anybody is trying to get rid of that well i get it but i mean that look if you're going to land elbows it is a part of the sport you're going to get cut up it's like people are going to get cut yeah just part of the game it's
but you know if you if you want to say that like here's a good example like the the last ufc uh where it was uh zhongweli versus yanion jaycek and then uh valentino chevchenko um versus uh jesus christ why am i not remembering her name is it the chinese girl that no no no valentinko had a really tough fight talia santos which was an amazing fight split decision which could have gone either way um and a lot of people are like oh this card sucks i'm like because of those two fights like you think the card sucks because two like super ultra competitive women fights that were insane and one of them was a spinning back fist knockout do you have a problem with that yeah right like i i don't care i don't understand where people get off on the internet i'm judging any like when i'm in a building or at a fight when people are booing it like it boils my blood yeah it's like you get in there and do that you know until you've done that then you can you know talk about it it's just like do you boo like that at baseball because baseball at its most exciting is not as exciting as two people clinching yeah maybe the fight fans just need to like get a couple more i don't know hot dogs or beers and just sit back and enjoy a little bit well it's it's casuals unfortunately you know it's a lot of people that don't they don't appreciate what's going on or how hard it is look i can understand some fights where people get bored and they boo especially in comparison to some other fights you know i'm i'm never going to be the one booing no i'm wouldn't boo either but you know there's some times where it's just like oh jesus christ