SPECIAL GUEST - Israel Adesanya 🥷👊

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Style band ladies and gentlemen is real out of Sanya. Yeah, he's got the whole baggage

They said I have no knockout power

You too skinny, bro. It's not about money. This is about legacy

Because the day when we win if I win you win understand that

I

Hope every one of you can feel this level of happiness just one time in your life. This fight's important to me

You know, I've never had three losses in a row. I've never been in this situation. I love these moments

The belts I'm coming for heads and I stick with that. Oh

It's Israel. The last one made out of Sanya with us in the studio. I grabbed them back in

Fuck the mouth. He's coming for heads

Oh, you're coming with your own sound effects

Only I'll have one

Who's that in the bedroom as well

When I come

But it probably goes

Pretty much sure

We'll have that problem

I do though, bro. Can you

Say less

You're fighting you're fighting Joe five first Sunday 29th of March in Seattle. This is a big fight

You were just talking about there. I've never heard of the guy sounds like a bum should be in the same fight

He's

He's

I don't know the rankings might be for things

But I'm at a stage now

Even when I was champ people would have played that differently. You know fight once a year maybe twice

Hold on to that belt for as long as possible make more money get the notoriety parade with the belt every time

You put the belt on the line you risk everything and myself. I'll say I'm still one of the most active champions in UFC history

Yeah, and yeah, it's good to take a break from all that but now it's not really about belt and all that

I just want to fight and show off and make a lot of money on the way

So on and you deserve it too

So I saw something interesting with you which you might want to elaborate on but when you were on your journey to become

Champion and you were super active and you did a super quick right we were there and we loved every minute of

But you know style bender the name was in the action and you were able to be yourself and free and then when you're champion

You've sort of got to be more reactive

Tell me if I'm wrong to help people are coming to you because they're trying to fight their fight of their life to try and win it

Tiger's on my back and now I saw you make this really interesting point how you get to now go back to being a bit more free

And try and enjoy the fight. Is that how the campus been as well? Yep, definitely this has been I'd say

More than 16 weeks to be honest because I got injured last year so I have to take time

But I'm glad it happened that way because then shot to my brother Mitch from audiology

You know we created Afro so with the whole congrats on that too. Thank you. Oh, where to you part two?

Yeah, yeah part two this year. We've got some line ups

Like this, but yeah, so for me it was just good to just take a break and focus on other things outside of the

Doctor gone now it's time the clock back into work

I put it this and when I got to UFC

I was I was very entitled in the sense I don't mean that in a bad way because I just knew I knew before going to UFC

I was like that belt is I'm gonna get that man. That's mine. Yeah, you know

I had no reason to believe this but like Ali said I'm the greatest I said it before I knew I was I knew that belt was mine

So I was entitled to it. I got it did it twice defended it multiple times now

It's like cool it'll come again if I keep doing what I want to do, which is win

So I don't feel like I'm fighting to get the belt

I'm not fighting to protect the legacy. I'm just fighting to show off the skills

Something I saw yesterday from Jordan Burr is on the on the real. He was talking to some kids

He's a wrestler legendary wrestler. He's talking to some kids saying like you know when go to a arcade

You play all these games you get all these tickets you get the tickets he's tickets to get a gift at the end

Cool if you don't get the tickets you still enjoy playing the arcade games. Yeah, so now I'm at the point where I'm just

I'm enjoying playing the game. I'm just enjoying playing the game of fighting

Do you think stylistically it frees you up to have more fun though?

Yeah, you know like there were on the way to the top

I didn't care like the Wittaker fight when I've defended my belt the first time in Melbourne

That was not the game plan. I just got in there. I was feeling myself out that of entro the dance. Yeah, you know, I was just like I'm just gonna

Freestyle this so that was not the plan and I was playing the machine gun. No, that was just freestyle

In the bedroom nice. Yeah

More of a more of a pop gun

You're training his look crazy though

Yeah, two things I love watching your Instagram stories in Carlos

Like crazy jump over these hurdle things. I'm enough. Yeah, and then this morning. I saw

Balkan bear. What was that harness thing with the breaking the chain? That was a test for pull strength

So we're doing that exercise. I think hemi and the bear the only ones who have broken the chains from just

Just strength hemi. Oh, yeah, bro. They have freaks and yeah, those guys like the Balkan bear

He's about to fight in London. I like that guy anyway. We we had him in recently. Yeah, he's a good store

He's a good. So he's a big big teddy bear like Paulie just a big tall tallie

I told Paulie that I don't mind any trouble. Yeah

This is Paulie the sky in the corner

That's that's that we can't see former king and a ring super heavyweight champion

Let's go. Yeah, super heavyweight champion. So it's not it's just my big brother

And he helps me like right now just traffic. Hey, you like punch and he's your punch is like the teddy bear that he

Dreads your own punch

Everyone's picking on punch. You know what? I'm gonna get him. Yeah, it just helps me just calm because the traffic from you know over the

Bridge in the morning when I'm behind the wheel it can be a little bit just on the way to training

So I got to sleep a little bit more. Yeah, it's just my big brother. I love this dude. He helps me. Yeah in so many ways in life

So that's why I love it. So when you walk in the gym now tell me who gets you going through and the gym now when you

Right now this camp Navajo. Yeah, Navajo is on the same card as me in Seattle

And me and him have just been working this camp and pushing each other

This is the first time we've been training together with Bill and he pushes me like it's friendly competition

He does this. I try and go better. I do this. He tries to do it better

And we just push each other and the bear as well. He's on London. So we've been training together and just everyone

That's super exciting man for the gym to get another belt. That's gonna be historic

Yeah, this whole thing is bigger than me. It's for all of us to get another world title for us to do this from this side of the world

People don't understand how rare that is like there was a point where it was me and Volcanoeski running game

How many champs have defended their belts in the since 2025? I saw you put it up on Instagram the other day

Yeah, and it's the only one and

That's how people play the game. They don't play it like us. Yeah, you know, and I was willing to risk it

Because I'm not scared to lose it. It never defined me. Yeah, no matter what I'm still me when I walk out in the streets

People show mad love that is bigger than anything that the bell can bring

Man, I though wait like that must make you feel good because I was gonna ask this is gonna be my thing

You referenced Muhammad Ali earlier and just on Muhammad Ali there's obviously there's always that famous quote of how it's hard to get out of beds

When you have soup for John has sometimes I won't like like I'm human in this life

No, there's no book to be like here now your world champion superstar MMA fighter boom

Here's how you handle this there's been times that people have tried to tear me down

There's been times where I've made mistakes small mistakes and I could have made bigger ones

But I've just watched people make mistakes and I realized I don't want to make those mistakes

I'll make new ones, but I just make them once I'm trying to make them twice

I'm glad this whole shit didn't happen for me when I was like 23 24 because I would not be where I'm at right now

Yeah, definitely would have ended up in jail or dead by accident

That's just the lifestyle. Yeah, like if you don't know how to deal with these things like people invite you to certain places

And then before you know it boom you're in trouble. You know, I just want to like make everyone have a good time

But there's some people see that and then they just want to take advantage of it exactly. They don't they don't care about you

You know so on a on a positive note, right?

Posifies me and posi vibes. So one thing I loved man was you were in here talking about what without fear right?

You and I you should come in and you did me a favor that day

You did me a solid because we were talking to main ad James Keenan. Oh, yeah, I met him

I met him. Yeah, so he's the thing. So I was like oh bro

Can you have this message from main ad? I think it would be a really cool

And then the interview played it to him and he was a sort of reaction

He was like yes, and I was like well that ran that way

Well, I mean so what I did was right behind the scenes. I just sent to you this quickly

I messaged the record people and I say oh bro this video is gone. Well, why don't we try and introduce is he to main ad right here

I'd love to introduce them and be quite a cool thing for the station to be a part of and I like yeah

Good idea Bryce all of a sudden

I was just I wouldn't come back to me and it was seen seen seen

And then I saw it and then they go I'm not sure it's happening. I thought go oh good, you know tried anyway

Yeah, and then it was sudden I was just going on me phone and oh he's main ad and is he

And I look like a midget

But uh, but no he's quite sure so I think I wasn't there. Yeah

Will you have the concert? Yeah, bro. Oh

You know what that one was cool. This will never get old whenever like tool even Matt rife or Dave

Rappers come to the country and they want to tap in I take that as a privilege and never gets old

Whenever people come to the gym and they're I didn't expect to see you here people from Chicago people from Germany, France

They're just busy. Sorry. It's always a privilege because I feel like I'm the guy that they want to see

Yeah, you know, they come to the country and I always like that as a

As a Loki flex, but as well just to be like man

These guys want to hang out and to say what's up, but you know even before too new my he goes

Starbender you're up and I was like

I wear cremient my boy Ike he runs back in it. We're in a security as well and he and me were just like oh when the crescendo hit

We were just mushing in the little in the little spot. We had and people just kind of looking like that

Starbender look at him and I'm just there. I don't have long hair, but I'm like

Yeah, I like crazy, bro. He doesn't even like tall fans

I wanted to go in the mosh pit. I'll just bring potty with me next time

Yeah, if you guys formed a circle

Very cool though. Do you ever find yourself with people like that? Yeah, yeah, all the time. These may not this tall

It's been a while, but there's still certain people that I will meet

For example Joe Rogan when I first met him

Yeah, that was like I remember I met what I made it like a dumb joke like oh do you remember my friend that took a foot

He's like I take a lot of photos. I was like oh yeah, let's just take this one and for the next two I was like

And then I got over it, but not me and Joe tight with cool. So that's kind of faded away

But I still feel cool like all like just to be friends with Rogan

But there will be some people that I will meet and I do admire but you can't put everyone on a pedestal and just take them

More than just human. They're just human at the end of the day. Just the humility to understand that we're all the same

Just on our own different planes. Do you much to do with the McLaren formula one thing that you draw you draw

I still drive my you know put them are still around on the streets. I still need to go for a service

But you know it's funny like my red Joe's out

But I think it's my part there. It's it's 2025 march

Yeah, it's not it makes me sounds like a poorly problem

So I'm going to tickets for it. Yes, I'm like

You know the car they're like

Should be right. So what are the next few weeks look like in the lead-up to your fight?

It's a little train. Just train. Just train, chill. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do you do to calm the mind? Yes today?

I meditated. I just been relaxing. I've been playing ghost of your toy. Oh, yeah, I mean, you know, it takes 12 us

I just been chilling man. Like I enjoy the soft life because when I finish training after a hard day

I like to go home and just relax and it's different to it being a soft boy like me

As he wire a soft boy though

So my one funny enough me and chickens have a weird

You know why okay, you know when I was a kid you know why because when I was a kid right there was a baby chicken

I got it. This is back in Nigeria and I saw the mum with other chicks

And I was like I'm gonna go help the little chicken like little chick and a mum went all

And then spread the wings and I was like try to help you and I tried to help again

She'd keep her try to attack me from saving her chicken. I was like now

I'm cute and the way they move now since then also because I've been attacked

Also because we a lot of do home kill right in Nigeria one time one of the the maids was killing a chicken in the kitchen

And then the the chicken got loose and the head was hanging like this

And then I remember as a kid I was hiding behind the freezer and just yelling like

And then the chicken was just running around headless

So then so then from then I think that my impression on me the idea of chickens being little demons

I love a good KFC though. I like I like the wicking wings, you know

I mean I'll fry them up. Well there's I mean just off on the end to finish it with

What is it? What is an egg?

Like that, you know, like what is an expert? Is it like what is something that you're like oh no

I mean I'm happy where I'm I'm happily spoken for but an egg when it comes to just people in general to be honest

It's just like if you ever see someone not just girls, but people I hang out with for if I'm in a meeting and I see the way they treat the waiter

That's something that I literally I

Bro it hurts me badly man. I'm just a shocker for

false accusations

No, but like if someone like you know just the way they treat people who can't do anything for them if I see that I'm like

Yuck all people that, you know, they'll be telling me shit, especially when they're drunk and they'll tell me their whole life

And I'm like why are you telling me this? I shouldn't know this about you

I don't know your name and people will tell me their deepest darker secrets

And then there's people that you know that they'll be telling me stuff about other people so I'm like hmm

I ain't telling you shit because I know you're gonna tell me that

So yeah, for me, I have to be careful who I share things with yeah, who I allow in my immediate circle

And this thing you learn along the way so for me and now I'm enjoying this life. I have made

So much headway from what like the it's called the kid I was will look at me now and think I'm Superman

Like so for me. Yeah, that's that success. I love that you always give us time

Because you gotta give me a fair shake you guys aren't like these bureaucrats and all these other media heads

And then Zed who want to talk shit and never support your boy who was helping you zillin putting you zillin on a map

brought people to this country taking this country and and showed it to the world how beautiful it is

Even when burner boy landed here the first thing he said was like because you know

He's at the Clairport the private jet point and he's in the headline the afro so yeah

And he was just catching Roger

You know this the landscape is the most beautiful landscape I've ever seen in my life

And I really is like yeah the clouds are so this and I was like that's why they called the land of the long white cloud

And then the lady who headed the poverty was explaining to him the heritage of the land and stuff like that

And you know, it's cool to bring people to our shores and show them what we are about

The last star of India

There's a lot of sun up and man thank you guys March 29th

Shout to you guys to the rock FM the best radio station in New Zealand shot to you guys

Because you always give me a fair shake so love you guys

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