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The volume. I. Follow me to the end. I am my kingdom. You know what that is?
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I don't. And I don't know why you're singing,
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because you know what season it is?
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No. I. Wrestling WrestleMania season.
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Who does? The NCAA tournament stops. It's WrestleMania season. Three weeks until I get to go to Vegas for WrestleMania again. That's the American nightmare. Cody R. Cody Rhodes. You don't know who that is?
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Yeah, that's Dusty Rhodes. Dusty Rhodes had a great promo called Hard Times.
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Yes.
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You don't have a hard time.
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You don't have a hard time. The son of a plumber. The son of a plumber. Yes. That was the best. Hey, his son is actually really good. He's the world champion right now.
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He was a real, real wrestler also. I think maybe a state champ in high school.
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Oh, you want to know who else is a great wrestler?
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Well, I think there's a handful. I was trying. I was research.
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Wait, real quick. Real quick, guys. Today's episode is brought to you by Total Wireless, the official wireless provider of UFC. They're in your corner with unlimited 5G data. That will not slow you down. Now, that is a total power move. But you know what else is a total power move? You know who's an amazing wrestler? Huh?
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Who?
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Donald Trump. Colby Covington said. Seriously? No, seriously. Colby Covington said he's an amazing wrestler.
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Oh, my goodness gracious.
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You don't believe.
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I think I. So I do believe he actually wrestled for a year or two in high school. Do I believe he's a good wrestler?
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So why would Cody say he's no good? Why would Colby say he's a good wrestler?
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Can you believe half the things that come out of Colby's mouth?
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So let me ask you this about Colby Covington, now that we're talking about Kobe, because I actually like Kobe. I don't mind him at all. I know that he's. He was just kind of caught on backstage in the sauna or something, talking about building a Persona that made people pay attention. Right? He was saying that it was on you. You and I know Colby from wrestling, too. I don't know if you know him as well as I did. We recruited him when I was at Oklahoma State.
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You did?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, he was A junior college kid, maybe.
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He was a junior college kid. Yeah. So you recruited him. Colby. Colby was really on the President, like, he was really, like, on that topic. And it almost felt like he had to be on the White House, but now he's not. Like, do you think maybe. Do you think maybe he went too far because now he was so, like, vocal? It almost felt like because he was so supportive, he was going to get an opportunity to fight on the White House. And then he didn't been like, do you feel bad for him?
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Oh, I don't know if I feel bad for him, but it definitely seems like he's going off on the ufc, like a jilted ex girlfriend or something. You know, I actually asked you about the comment where he said he was accusing the FC of. No one gets paid for the. Their character usage in the video game.
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That's not true, though.
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But that's not. That's what I said. I said it wasn't true. And I confirmed it with you that it wasn't true. But he said.
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Wait, Kobe said that the UFC doesn't pay you for using the character in the game?
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Yeah, Louise, find the tweet or something. Put it up there. Yes, that was what he said.
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No, no, you do get. You. You do get paid for using your character, but it's based on the amount of times you're getting used. So.
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Yeah, I got a one million dollar check.
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Oh, you're so crazy.
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No, I didn't. No, I didn't. It wasn't. I didn't get rich off or nothing, but, like, it was nice to get a check like that in the mail, you know, especially once I was. I want to say I got it every year until maybe. I definitely didn't get it this year. I think maybe 20, 25. I still got one. So, like, in retirement, like, I don't know. It's nice.
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So Kobe said college football players getting cuts from NCAA football, but UFC fighters don't get no cut of their royalties. It's crazy. Ufc, once you sign a contract, they have all your name and likeness. They can use it for anything. Wow. It's theft, right? So here's, here's. Okay, we'll pull the curtain back a little bit. First off, on the video game, it's about how many times you get used, right? So, like, yeah, guys like Justin Gai, Ilot de Poria Pereira, those guys are getting monster checks. When I was fighting my video games, checks were bigger than they are today. But let me run this down for you. So the UFC Will give you every year, right? You'll get an envelope that says royalties, right?
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Yeah.
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You get a paper, and it's literally every single thing that you sell. It's unbelievable. It's. It's like if you sell a T shirt, it sends you how much you get off that T shirt, and it's everything. So if you sold a boatload of product, you get like, 50, 100 pages of things that you sell from the UFC, and on that paper, you get your video game number on that paper. So while you might. So before, like, okay, I still got paper checks. I just very recently stopped getting paper checks.
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I would tell, like, an electronic deposit
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or something now, bro, maybe like a year ago, I was still getting, like, physical checks to where I would have to take it to the bank. I wanted to see my money, whether it was a commentary check, whether it was. I wanted to see my money. So I got paper checks. But I would get that thing, the statement in it was a paper check. Yeah, I would get my statement with all of the counting of the T shirts I sold, ordered the hats and the video game and everything. Everything I did was on that paper. And then I would get a check at the end of the year for the amount that I sold. And some years they were big checks, some years they weren't as big, and obviously, as you retire, those checks get smaller. But, yeah, you do get money for that. But you're right. It feels like Kobe is reacting angrily. And honestly, I don't know that I blame him, because it felt like he was going to get an opportunity to go. The one thing Colby Covington has been. He's a person that has not really spoken out against the organization or anything that they've done. And he. For as. For as vocal as he is in so many other ways, he's always kind of told the line in terms of being the guy that was always the biggest. Yes. He was always the biggest advocate to the company. Now he seems not. And you're right, most times when that happens is you breaking up with someone and you just can say nothing but negative about them.
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I mean, like, I kind of. I don't know if I don't blame the ufc, but this is a guy who's not been an active fighter. He fought. I've just pulled up his record. He fought 1 time in 20, 20, 1 time in 21, 1 time in 22, 1 time in 23, 1 time in 24. 0 times in 25.
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No, he fought last year. He fought Joaquin Buckley. Was that in 24?
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December 24. And then he fought Leon Edwards December of 23. So, like, this is a guy who. Who's fought less than one time per year for the last. Well, that was 2020. That's the last six years.
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Was he overvaluing? Was he overvaluing himself? Because those Kamaru Usman fights were big fights. Was he overvaluing himself? Like, his idea of who he was to the product was bigger than it actually was.
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Yeah. So the USMAN Fights were 19 and 21. He fought him in 2018 and in 2021. Wow. So it is quite a while ago. And when you don't stay active, when it's less than one fight per year in the division, I mean, people were complaining because he's somehow still ranked in the division. But, yeah, it is one of those things where I feel like you got to keep fighting to be relevant, and he hasn't really kept fighting. And maybe it is one of those things where. And, man, I don't know if you want to get into the whole discussion how much UFC fighters get paid. I kind of made a video about it, and I, I, I see, I can see both sides of the equation, but I think this one is where maybe Colby is getting, you know, in his contract. It's a big number, and the UFC doesn't think he's worth that, and then that's why they're having the hold up.
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Now, let me ask you this, okay? On the pay stuff, obviously so many people have such strong opinions about the pay, but I do believe, I do believe that the guys, because there are certain guys that add value to what they're doing. I saw something the other day where Brendan Schaub said the fighters should just say, we ain't fighting. There's no fight. Because then if there's no fighters, there is no ufc. Right? Let. How many guys, though, like, how many athletes on that roster do you believe. And I'm just asking you a serious question. If they go, well, we're just out. Like, we're just out. We're not happening. How many actually make a dent in terms of what the UFC is doing, in your opinion?
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But I don't think that's the question. So, number one, that is the question,
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though, because it would have to be 100. It would have to be 100%. It would have to be 100% of people to say, I'm not doing it. Because if you still got one Ilia, if you still got one. If you still got one Ilia, and you still got one Islam, and it's going to be more than just one, right? It'll be a few of them going, well, I'm not risking my family for the whole. If you have just a few of those, it doesn't really affect it. Right?
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So correct. So I think two things on that question I think I want to reframe it slay is how many can actually do it, right? How many aren't living paycheck to paycheck and get a job tomorrow? Because how many could sit up for a year? That's what the answer is. A really small number. A really small number could actually a year. And number two is how many of those guys are non replaceable? Because if you had. I just had talked to my buddy UFC yesterday. We were sitting on the couch talking about this same issue and he was talking about an amateur fighter he was coaching and how much this guy trained hard and did a good job and I think he was like six, no amateur or something. I said, how much would that kid die for a 12 and 12 page paycheck.
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Exactly.
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So there's almost infinity of those in, in America. So it's like the bottom, I don't know, we'll say 80ish percent of the UFC roster is totally replaceable in like a snap of the face.
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80%. You think there are 20 of fighters in the UFC that are irreplaceable? There's less than that. There's less than that. I believe that. I believe that. When you talk about who's irreplaceable, like who do you have to have, dude, let me tell you how you know that. I think you have to have Ilya to Poirier. I think you have to have Islam Makhachev. I think you have to have Alex Pereira. I think you have to have certain guys. But here's the deal. Like Alex Pereira is not going. I'm not giving up what I just got signing an eight fight deal to make sure that the guy on the bottom is okay. It's like it's a flawed argument because the top guys are making big money. Hell. And that leads me to this conversation, right? Jon Jones is not on the White House card because he said they wouldn't budge anything over $15 million. Yeah, $15 million, Ben.
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Now that's a lot of money.
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I never made that. Exactly right. So it's like it's all relative to what people are making. Because for Jon Jones to say, yeah, 15 just ain't enough. Most guys would go two is enough. You know what I'm saying? Like two.
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Yeah, no I mean, so I agree. And so, you know, one of the. The two arguments I have against the pay thing, and I. I obviously, I wish the fighters would get paid more. Number one is that there's almost an infinite amount of young male fighters in the world who would step up and be so happy to fight for 12 and 12 in UFC. But the number two one is. And who knows, maybe Netflix can solve this. I'm obviously skeptical, as I've seen other organizations come and go, but you have to have someone to bid against the ufc. And so, like in, say, in football, Daniel, if you were playing for the Bengals, and the Bengals said, no, we ain't going to pay you more. We don't think you're worth more than 3 million. If you actually thought you were worth more than 3 million, you can say, hey, trade me or make me a free agent. And then maybe the 49ers say, yeah, Daniel, we really need a. What position linebacker. We need. Really need an inside linebacker. We'll pay you 4 million. Right, so you have parties bidding against each other because they want to be the best in mixed martial arts. At this point, we don't have that, unfortunately.
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So when you and I went into that meeting way back in the day, right, I was leaving Strikeforce. The UFC had just purchased it, right? And I was on the end of my contract. I had one fight left. If I fought it, I would have been a complete free agent, and I would be available to go and do whatever I wanted. Granted, I made the right decision because look at my life today. But I wasn't going to leave, right? But there was. There was. There was an option when I started because Strikeforce was there. So I went to Strike Force. But the reality is, though, it's like nobody's ever going to be able to give you what you make there. Like, I don't know what Rhonda and them are making this time. Rhonda and Gina and Francis, they're going to make good money. They're going to make really, really good money. But nobody's going to make $100 million like Jake Paul just did to fight Anthony Joshua. It's not going to happen. At least I don't think so.
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No, I think it's unlikely.
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So it's 15 million. You think they would fight for 15 million?
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Probably, yeah. Yeah. No, 100% they would, but no. Like, in that organization back in those days, and maybe even up to semi recently, the PFL or Bellator, if they were acquiring a UFC fighter, they would absolutely be overpaying because if, Daniel, if you said, I'm getting paid half a million in the ufc, how much is it going to take for you to go somewhere else? It's not 550.
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No, it's 750. A million 750.
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800, something like that. So now. And so now these other organizations are forced to overpay, and then because they're overpaying, that really, really hurts them. And then that's why we've seen a lot of them go bankrupt. Or you think old school. You think of affliction. Right? That was. They lasted for three shows. And so you think other things have happened and come and gone. And so in order for the fighters to get paid more, what you need is a real competitor to the ufc. And who knows, maybe Netflix can do and stick around, but I'm skeptical.
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Let me ask you a question. You have how many academies?
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Now we got. We're up to. We started eight, nine, two weeks ago.
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And you have how many coaches in those academies?
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We have one main manager, and then as they grow there, there gets to be, you know, more and more.
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How do you guys pay those managers?
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Based on their sales?
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Based on their sales?
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Well, they. I'm sorry. They have a starting salary.
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Stop, stop, stop, stop. So they have a starting salary, and then if they sell more, they get more?
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Yes, correct.
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Does that sound pretty familiar? I mean, you're running a business. Does that sound pretty familiar? So I started with the ufc, and as I sold more, I got more. Yeah, I mean, it just. But why is it such a big thing, right? Why is it such a big thing that when the person. They're running the business, as they see. As you run your business, as I run my business, as we all run our businesses, why is it such a big thing? Because the NFL doesn't have a competitor. The NFL does have a union. Right. So the players get what they get. But why are we running our businesses
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against each other, Daniel?
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But even the. The teams don't been the teams, not the NFL, Ben. The. The boxing promoters that Dana are fighting with right now say that the UFC has created a business that if they would have thought to do that back in the 70s and 60s, they would have. That's why you had so many like.
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Agreed.
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Right. So they. You and I run our businesses almost the exact same way. So Jon Jones saying no to $15 million. The only reason Jon Jones got offered $15 million is because Jon Jones has sold a boatload of pay per view over the course of his career. And Jon Jones has deserved that. If not more. Right. He said no because he feels he deserves more. More. But he got offered $15 million. I don't know that I've ever heard anybody on record go and say they've ever been offered $15 million in the UFC.
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Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, I totally agree with you on this one. And I think because of the way it is, if you're getting into fighting, you have to understand that these are the dynamics of the pay structure right now. And because of the supply and demand, it's probably not going to change at any point soon. And we can be hopeful that there's another competitor, the oc and if there is, then maybe it changed a little bit. But, you know, hey, getting to the top of game, 50 million per fight, that's not really a bad living either.
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But I also do want fighters to make more money. Make no mistake about it. If they can make as much, I want them to make as much money as possible. I want them to be getting paid. If they are getting paid, like NBA guys, NFL guys, that would be great to see fighters do that. I'm just stating that as I run my business, it's going to be based on what you bring to the table. So for the fighters out there, become irreplaceable, become Ilya or Islam or Alex Pereira, become one of those guys that when they look at you and go, hey, man, I know when I throw that dude's name up on the marquee, people are going to show up, they're going to watch, and they're going to buy. And I think ultimately, that really is the only way to guarantee that you're going to make enough money to change your life and your family's life. Dude, they still haven't replaced Conor McGregor. Conor McGregor became so valuable that even after breaking his leg, laying on the ground, cussing and screaming at Dustin Poirier's wife. Seriously, dude, laying on the ground cussing and screaming at Dustin Poirier's wife. Screech, like, being saying craziest things to Khabib's father, Kevin.
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Yeah, was that I want to be the company man for a second.
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Think about this dog offered, like, literally issues outside the octagon, went, got a spiritual journey, all those things. The moment they announced he was going to fight Michael Chandler, it was a $20 million gate. That's irreplaceable.
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The other thing that fighters maybe discount, which they shouldn't discount, and I don't know how to put a monetary thing on this, but the UFC does make stars. How Many other, you know, how many stars has PFL made? Or how many stars is Bellator made? And the answer is not that many. And so I think about this in. In raf, too, because now I'm running RAF is if we have a huge following and a huge platform and we build these wrestlers up, that is providing value to them a thousand percent. And so, like, how do you put a monetary gain behind that value that the fighters are getting and the wrestler getting? And I'll tell you. And, you know, there's things. I think data does great, and I think there's things that are not great about him. So I try to always be fair. But, Daniel, I was the same. You've known me for a really long time. I've been the same person forever. I never changed. I had, you know, I was. For not being UFC, I was pretty popular. I think I had 70 to 80,000 Twitter followers or something, right? And the moment I signed with ufc, my numbers went, like, through the roof. I mean, within a couple months, I had three to four hundred thousand. Right? This is, you know, it took me a decade to get to 70 or 80,000 or whatever I was. And it took me six months to go from 70,000 to 400,000 or something like that, you know, to be able to put a monetary value behind that, because then I got know, hey, I'm getting paid a couple thousand a month for. From this company for sponsorship, and I'm getting paid this for this, you know. So, like, there's a huge amount of value that the UFC brings as far as promoting athletes and building value also.
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Absolutely, absolutely. Which kind of. Which is like. Which. Which is kind of crazy because, like, Ronda Rousey, like, her career was kind of built in the ufc, and she is. She's very angry right now. Why is she so angry? I don't. And I. I like Rhonda. I've known Rhonda forever. Like, why. Why she's so mad?
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I. Honestly, Daniel, to me, I don't know her. I don't know if I. Maybe I had an interaction with her at some point. I don't. I don't recall, but that's how she's always came off as, like, she's kind of.
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Yeah, she's not.
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She's kind of mean, entitled, arrogant, looking at. Always looking at the negative side of things versus having gratitude and taking appreciation for the positive things in your life. So she's always came off that way to me, and it's always been off putting. And then, you know, someone who wouldn't face the music, when the music came her way, you know, when she was on top saying, oh, I'll beat. I'll beat men in a fight. Like, okay, yeah, right. And then you get your ass kicked by Holly and freaking Amanda and then you go hide and don't talk to anyone for six months. Like, I don't know. That was. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan. I think the personality type is really negative and. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. I, I don't want, I don't want to say too many negative things, but.
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Yes, you're not, you're not a big time fan around it. I mean, she's actually a really nice girl. Like, you just don't know her. I was on the Olympic team with her and I kind of know her like behind the public.
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Wait, no. 4. 08.
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She was on the 04 team.
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Oh, she was. Oh,
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eight team.
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I don't remember her there. I don't remember no.
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04. She was on 04. No. Oh, wait. Oh, wait.
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Yeah, I don't, I don't remember seeing her at all on the Olympic team.
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She was on the Olympic team. She was like a big time star. Like, people like really knew she was because she was so young and she was so good in her sport. They announced their full card this weekend before the fights. What do you, what do you make of it? I mean, you got, you got Junior dos Santos.
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It's a fun card for sure.
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M. Makaya is fighting. Lorenz Larkin is fighting.
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I, I think they did a good job of going to get who was available. Micaiah versus Adriano Morais. I think that's a good fight. Rice, the one one championship flyweight champion,
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that's the guy that beat Demetrius, right? The one time.
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One time. And then I think Demetrius beat him twice, though. So, I mean, that's a good card. I think getting Francis Ngannou is a big name. I think people are excited about Nate Diaz versus Mike Perry, Jason Jackson. Lorenz Larkin's a pretty good one.
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Yeah.
E
Why didn't the guy that's fighting Junior Dos Santos, the, the Cuban guy, why didn't he make it new? See, because he did get new correct.
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He, dude, he fought like he was. Remember, he was like, he was like very, very young in his career. He fought a couple times, beat people in like no time, and then all of a sudden he was, he was gone. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what happened. Like, he just, he wasn't very Good. Honestly, if I'm being completely honest, he wasn't very good.
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He was good everything else.
B
Remember, he was, like, knocking people out, like, all on the regional scene in, like, real quick. Yeah, yeah. And so then when he got there, he struggled. He struggled by. Somebody beat him. I think he might only lost once, though, in the ufc.
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And then he lost twice. Well, he won one, and then he lost twice in a row. He lost to Waldo Costa, who.
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He's pretty good, who's actually become really, really good.
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And then he lost to a guy I don't know named Austin Lane.
B
Oh, God. Austin Lane. He got beat by him. Who's the guy that used to play in the NFL? Austin Lane's the guy from Jackson. He goes. He comes out to. He's from Jacksonville, and it's. It's in Duval County. So every time he fights John and it goes Duval, like, it's really cool.
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Wisconsin. I never heard of this. Free.
B
He played for the Jaguars. He played for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I thought he was from Jacksonville.
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No, he's from Walpax County, Wisconsin, baby.
B
Oh, my God. They got black people there. You know, that's the one thing. Huh?
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You know, one thing I was surprised about Daniel.
B
There's not that many black people. Wisconsin. Stop. Don't lie.
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Hold on. I'm gonna tell you. Okay, so in Wisconsin, if you go to the Wisconsin wrestling state tournament and there's a black dude, he's almost certainly from a metro area. Milwaukee.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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There's almost no black people in any type of rural place. And when I went serious, like, there's a couple. But when I went to Missouri. So, okay, so like, Division one, that's the big school division. Wisconsin, you'll see the black dudes there, but you won't see them at Division 2 or 3, where the smaller communities are. I went to Missouri, and they. They were spread out among all the divisions where they're, like, in rural areas and urban areas. I thought, oh, my God. I didn't know that existed because I grew up in Wisconsin, where it's very segregated. How crazy is that?
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You're like, oh, God, black people. You heard us.
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No, I live. I went down to the city and to the YMCA back there. Wasn't a lot of wrestling opportunities. I would go, oh, my God. Because they had some open mats. Yeah, literally, it is. It's segregated where there are not a lot of black people in non metro areas.
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You know what I told my daughter yesterday? This is the funniest thing ever. I said, you know, you have Like, a bit of a superpower. She goes, what? I go, you're black. She goes, what does that mean? I said, you'll start doing random things that you don't know how to do. I go, I do it all the time. I said, I beat Stipe Miochis playing hockey, and I don't even know how to skate. She goes, wait, dad, what do do? I just kind of, like, age into it at, like, 16 or something? I go, no, it just happened. You just have, like, this thing inside of you. What do you mean?
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You beat Steve Miochik in hockey, bro,
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I won a. Dude, I do stuff, bro. We were playing hockey.
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I can't skate. You can't skate? I can't.
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I can't. I listen. I can't. But my black took over. I swear to God, Ben, I'm telling you.
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So racist.
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No, I'm not racist, man. I'm just trying to tell you, like, be like. I'm telling you. The athleticism that is embedded in me took over, bro. I hit four every bend. Every time I hit the puck, I would fall down. It was going in between Stipe's legs, and it was like it was going in. So then. Then. Then I had to go play goalkeeper, right?
E
Okay.
B
Because I had to stop him. So once I got to go play goalkeeper, they had all this stuff on me. I couldn't even stand up. I had to hold on to the net, right?
E
Yeah.
B
But, bro, he makes, like, the first three. We're going to 10 now. I made four. He makes the first three.
E
Yeah.
B
All of a sudden, I, like. I was like, I need to compete. And I was like, okay, I'm trying to, like, call on that thing that's inside of me, bro. I stopped seven in a row to beat him. I stopped seven in a row to beat him.
E
I swear to God, Daniel, that's not a black. To get to use it. No, it's you.
B
No, no, because guess what? No, I'm telling you, bro. I'm telling you. Like, I just. I just sometimes do stuff. I'm telling you. Louise put the clip on, like, of me and Stipe.
E
Not a black thing.
B
No, it isn't, bro. I'm telling you. Because I don't. There's no reason I should be able to do that so you don't think, like, okay, okay, whatever. That's why whenever people. That's why whenever, like, guys would be doing commentary, like, he. Mike Goldberg would say something like, he's such an athlete. And then all the fans would be like, oh, he means he's black because he would say.
E
He's like, I. I don't want. Oh, man. I don't want to burst your bubble or make your head a little bigger here, Dan, but you know you're a good athlete, right? Like, you're an Olympian.
B
I can beat Louise.
E
That's why you do things not just because you're black. Like, what? Like, why Is that your first guess, Daniel?
B
No, because I'm telling you, I just was thinking about it. I was laying down. I was like, man, man, there's been some times in my life where I should not have been able to do these things, but there's, like, something in me that just, like, comes out. My daughter, literally, my daughter goes, wait. So do I just kind of age into it, dad, at, like, 16? I was like, no, it just happens. I go, there's a reason when you do a backflip. You, like, fly through the air as high as anyone. It's, like, so funny. She's like, oh, my God, Dad. It's kind of crazy. Like, if you and I played basketball, I would kill you.
E
Yeah.
B
If you and I started, I can't play basketball.
E
I'm not good. You played basketball. If you basketball. But you've played it a bunch.
B
But if you and I started basketball at the same time, I would still be better than you.
E
As time went on, I could barely walk. I was almost dead to beat you in disc golf. Like, where was your black on that one, bro?
B
It was the first time I ever did it. If I played. If I played this golf five times, I would be able to beat you five times. No, you wouldn't. I went to my house on that five times.
E
No, my house right now. Right now, in my current state, which is not my physical prime.
B
Yeah.
E
I will kill you in disc golf
B
five times if you gave me five times. So. So you know why the argument started? You know why I started thinking about this? Because I was wondering to myself, I'm like, why in the world is it taking me so long to get better at golf? Because now I've been playing for five years, and I'm like, how do I suck so bad still when I've got, like, a five year plan, right? Like, bro, like, oh, my God, Five years been, like, five years has been the key to my life. Like, so five years, right? This is seriously.
E
Seriously.
B
I started playing football in eighth grade, okay? By the time I graduated, five years, I was one of the best players in the state of Louisiana. First team, all state, everything. But in two years, I started Getting better. Wrestling. Seventh grade, I think I started. Right. Not very good. By 10th grade, I'm third in the world. Mixed martial arts. 2009, at the end of the year, I started fighting. Five years, 2014, not only am I the Strike Force champ, I'm the number one contender in the UFC for the light heavyweight championship. Five years. It's always been five years. But in golf, it's like, I still suck. I don't understand why I'm trying to call on that black.
E
Wow. You're. You're something special to this.
B
But why? Why. How long does it take you to master something? Five years is what I think it should take to master something.
E
Yeah, it takes a while. But I don't understand why you said five times you could play disc golf. Beat me.
B
I could beat you in five. I can beat you in five. I. I really believe that I could come. Maybe I can't beat you, but I bet I will compete with you. And I'll look like a completely different player after five times.
E
You'll be like, wow, five years or five times?
B
Five times we did what we did in your front yard that one day when I came to see you.
E
Yeah. Yeah.
B
And I was kind of throwing it, first off. First off, I was sandbagging. At the end of the day, I gotta tell you something. I gotta tell you something. I gotta tell you something, man, because
E
it wasn't like you got really close to me. You made me feel good. Like you didn't get close.
B
Ben, listen, you were kind of messed up at the time, so I knew
E
I. I was using a walker.
B
I know, I know I can't come and smash this dude at his game, right? Like, Ben, you were up. You were up at the time. So I was trying to, like. I was like, I'm not gonna him up this dude here. She's like, come on, man. Like, Ben, what kind of friend am I if I go to your house after all you had just went through, and I go and just destroy you in disc golf? Like, come on, dude.
E
Come on, Ben, why you gotta.
B
You're making excuses.
E
You lost to a person on a walker. I was on a walker. I couldn't even stand up.
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All right, before I let you go, congratulations on Mitchell Mestonbrink. Unbelievable Tournament last week. Raf is coming up. I don't know what you guys are going to do for security. It's going to be a nightmare. We're actually.
E
I don't. They didn't get your tick yet. We were hiring you to referee the main event. So nothing. No shenanigans happened.
B
I'm not going there. Hey, what are you gonna do?
E
You in the middle like. This is you. Didn't you referee a WWE match?
B
I did. I did. I did.
E
You did?
B
I got a secret, though. I got a secret. I got a secret for you.
E
What?
B
It was kind of staged, like. What do you mean? I was so mad. I was so mad.
E
Oh, my God.
B
I was so mad. I was so mad. It was kind of staged.
E
Okay.
B
Did you know? Stop. No. Did you know? Did you know? Did you know?
E
Did I know what?
B
That it was staged.
E
Which part?
B
I mean, the whole thing is staged.
E
What?
B
What? What? What? Not no comment.
E
There's no comment.
B
I still. I love it. I still love it now, but, like, now there's like a show on. On W. It's called WWN Real. Where you see everything. It's like, it's staged.
E
So. I have my own YouTube channel. A asking Wrestling Academy. I. I'm making these wrestling videos. Not as well produced, you know, I don't got a Louise for me. I just flip on my camera, go. You know what video I made yesterday? Daniel, you're gonna love this. You can go watch it. I made a video about how the Oklahoma State Cowboys are going to challenge the Penn State Nitty Lions for national title next year.
B
Two. Probably about two years. Probably about two years.
E
Go listen to my argument. I talk.
B
All right, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go listen to. But, hey. Yeah. I know you love him. He's. We gonna. He gonna take you to funky town. He gonna take you to. He.
E
You've been so ridiculous this morning. I don't know what's wrong, but I have to leave. I can't take you anymore.
B
Where are you going?
E
It's somewhere. But you're talking about how the black helps you, not that you're an elite athlete. Talking about scripted stuff. I mean. Oh, my goodness.
B
Jack Force. Jack Force and Sergio Vega.
E
He's pretty amazing.
B
Landon Robideaux, pretty good, too. Cody Merrill, four freshman finalists. That was a good weekend. Hey, did you see Cale say that? At least they follow the rules. What was he talking about?
E
Well, that. I. I got some guesses. I don't want to make any accusations.
B
You care to go on record?
E
I Mean, listen, here's what I'll say. I'll say, to me, it's pretty obvious, Daniel. If someone's not a threat to you, you don't comment on them. So Cale Sanderson is not making a comment about Cleveland State wrestling or camp.
B
Maybe he's talking about Iowa. They're in the Big Ten. Huh.
E
Did they threaten them at all this year?
B
I can't say we threatened them all that much. We lost about 40 something points.
E
No, but you see a trajectory. Kale's smart. He ain't looking at one year. He's looking at trajectories. Right. What are the trajectory? Oh, these guys had four in the finals and they're all freshmen. They have three, three more years of all four of those guys. Plus a guy like D. Lockett who's really good. Didn't even, didn't even place.
B
Yeah, right.
E
Like, that's probably not going to happen. I mean, maybe it happens again, but probably, probably not going to happen.
B
No, no. Ain't gonna happen again. Swerski's back next week. Sw back.
E
The rainy coming in, like, you know, the. So, yeah, he's looking at trajectories and
B
so I think Drayshawn compete next year. He can.
E
Well, you know what, Daniel? I don't know if you looked at. So this NCAA tournament was all about the younger generation. There's a lot of young people, but there was one weight class where the upper, upper class was dominated, and that was heavy. Heavyweight, first through fourth were all seniors. And I think there's two.
B
No, AJ Ferrari has a year left. No, correct.
E
He does have year left. But there's, I believe there's only two underclassmen in there. Maybe Ferrari and Keter. I think because Connor Doucett was a senior also, you know, most of the heavyweight class goes away. So, yes, I absolutely think he could compete next year. I think they'll probably start him is my guess. Yeah, so I, I think Kale's comment can only be taken against one person, and that's Oklahoma State. That's my only assumption. I don't pay. I don't know what the rules are. I don't know why the NCAA still has rules at this point because it doesn't seem like anything that follows the rules. So when he's referring to the rules, I don't know what he's talking about because I don't know the rules.
B
Hey, people, at this point, I, I, it feels like everybody's paying some bills, paying somebody. Last thing before I let you go. Hey, give it up for my boy Tom Brands though. They talk about they gonna fire Tom Brands. 7 All Americans.
E
People are trying to roast me. Daniel, what you want? I made a video. You can go look at my video. Prior to, I said, I said they were gonna have six all Americans and they were to take fifth place. They had seven. They took fourth place. I missed, but I wasn't all that far off. Wait, hold on. I got one comment. I think Iowa fans were even more negative on their own team than I was. And that's why they were excited when they did pretty well.
B
They did good. And hey, the 25 pounder loss to somebody from Ryder and then Nazir Bailey didn't place. They could have had nine all Americans.
E
Well, I thought it was going to be. I thought, I thought the six were going to include Peterson and Sir Bailey.
B
Yeah.
E
And then I was surprised by Rider,
B
writer Block and Keter.
E
Well, no. And then Gabe, Gabe, Arnold's the biggest. Arnold, he had a terrible big tens and then he really. He actually started getting takedowns in matches which that if you watch his season, that's not really the case. So he did a. He did a really good job as well.
B
I never thought they would do that well after what I saw at Oklahoma State that was so bad for Iowa
E
is they're losing a lot of firepower. So they lose Peterson, Ayala, Kennedy and Caliendo, which are kind of like the most consistent.
B
By the way. Caliendo is my favorite Hawkeye. I love Mikey Caliento. He just finds a way to win, bro. He just finds a way to get himself to the finals over and over again. All right, Ben, it's been a long one, man. I gotta let you go, dude. I can't do this no more with you. You've been crazy. Guys, for Ben Asker, I'm Daniel Cormier. Until next time. Peace.
E
See ya.
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Podcast: The Herd with Colin Cowherd presents The Daniel Cormier Show
Hosts: Daniel Cormier & Ben Askren
Date: March 27, 2026
This episode of The Daniel Cormier Show pairs Daniel Cormier (DC) with Ben Askren for a lively, unfiltered discussion centered around current hot topics in combat sports, particularly MMA. The hosts dive into the latest White House fight card reveal, analyze the controversies surrounding fighters like Colby Covington and Ronda Rousey, and share personal stories—ranging from pay structure in the UFC to wrestling anecdotes. The tone is candid, humorous, and occasionally self-deprecating, with plenty of friendly banter and industry insight.
Tone: Nostalgic; playful ribbing about wrestling history.
This episode provides a behind-the-scenes look at life as a professional fighter, both in and out of the UFC. Cormier and Askren blend industry insights with humor and honesty, tackling tough questions about pay, stardom, and legacy—all with the camaraderie and authenticity fans expect.
For listeners seeking unfiltered MMA talk, this episode delivers story, substance, and genuine laughs.
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