UFC Orlando main event opponents Stephen Thompson and Kevin Holland met face-to-face ahead of their matchup to reflect on …
I saw your butt my butt is shut dude
that was terrible timing I was I was
terrible now
I don’t think so I think I think Kevin
dude don’t Stone me shaking your head
Kevin’s a problem okay he’s gonna be
ready for five fives and to be honest
with you like even if I have a three
round fight I always do Championship
rounds so just just to be extra ready
but I my man’s a professional I think
he’s going to be ready to rock and roll
I’m ready for like the the you know
obviously I know he is the hardest fight
ever that’s what I prepare for I mean
some guys like
you know I’m gonna go out there and
knock this dude out I don’t I don’t look
for it if it happens it happens if it
doesn’t it doesn’t I’m just ready for a
war man you know an exciting one at that
because my last two weren’t that
exciting don’t worry my last one no
pressure I think my experience is uh a
lot more up there than people realize
you know but that being said that Smith
has a lot of like kickboxing ballots and
stuff like that as well so uh I think he
still has the experience hands down you
got what how many anime fights do you
have uh I know I have eight losses I
don’t know how many wins I have I don’t
actually keep up with I think you yeah I
think yeah a lot of them I think you
have more wins than I do so yeah you got
a lot more MMA fights dude I had no idea
a lot more people a lot more yeah well I
think it was my the last person I took
down I think it was uh
I think it was uh my third fight
um I forgot the guy’s name but
afterwards someone in the UFC was like
you know when the boy you did a good job
but remember it wasn’t your wrestling
that got you here I’m like all right I’m
picking up what you’re putting down I
got you yeah I uh I could probably
wrestle a little bit I just don’t like
it dude I can’t tell you how many I I I
I grew up in karate it was one of those
mandatory things when you got a dad that
trains martial arts you know did Karate
you just don’t like but huge Kung Fu fan
and I know it’s probably not the same
but I was a huge you know Jackie Chan uh
Jet Li
um
um Mark decaska’s in the movie in some
of the movies but uh huge Kung Fu
who’s Mark the casket okay well he’s
played in some Kung Fu films but the one
he’s he’s uh notorious for was um Only
the Strong have you heard Only the
Strong no to just in the 90s crazy how
old I am now what okay
um Iron Chef okay he’s the American
version bald guy okay John Wick three
yeah yeah yeah the main bad guy in John
week three he had the ninja guys yeah
the one with the bald head that’s Mark
the caskets oh okay yeah not a whole lot
of people have heard of him but he’s
been on some some low budget films but I
can watch them now yeah I would I sorry
I would definitely say kung fu is better
than karate but I would definitely say
that karate is more popular than kung fu
uh foreign
he fights for another organization but
he’s like a Kung Fu guy but he just kind
of made it up so I don’t even know it
was like a religious thing that you did
yeah Kung Fu sansu I thought really
really good at Sun Tzu before I ever
started doing MMA how long when did you
start training uh I got kicked out of
high school my freshman year and the
school that I went to was a martial arts
instructor and literally all day every
day all we did was martial arts I was in
school supposed to be learning uh
regular stuff and uh new Kung Fu I got
all my credits to graduate high school
even though I didn’t graduate I got all
my credits to graduate high school in
California which is a lot of credits
by basically for English science I would
do uh basically rewrite the form that he
wanted me to write write it out and then
science would be the angles history
would be studying the martial arts and
then math of course I just always filmed
that that’s like a freaking movie man
why it was great so you graduated
literally learning kung fu yeah I had no
idea daddy told this story no not really
that’s crazy how do you keep that to
yourself that’s like a movie man yeah
it’s because my poor Uncle my I call him
baby Uncle he used to always take all
the abuse I just go home and try to
practice all the moves on them and be
like bro this is what you’re learning
this for yeah it is pretty cool man
have you seen the jawline he’s got a
razor jawline I mean dude 100 yeah I
don’t even know how that got like that
you know it’s uh I think it’s genetic
but it might not be well you were
weighing at what 185 when you fought at
185 what were you walking around at 92
965 either what the heck no probably
actually 170 pounder just dude don’t
like cutting weight
yeah how are you feeling I mean I don’t
cut a lot at 70. uh I can naturally get
down to 182 185 or just the diet you
know water loading kind of throws it off
a little bit that’s kind of but uh yeah
by the time I start cutting weight I
usually have a smoothie tonight of the
uh wake up pretty nice
I wish yeah could probably make 55 if I
really wanted to stop no yes think about
Henry saluto he’s heavier than both of
us Henry cejudo we have right now
laughs
yeah he’d survive in prison I mean
you might drop this over a couple of
times
I pray that it’ll ever go to jail I
spent a weekend one time and it was the
worst yeah dude what’d you do just
skinny dipping man and they had they had
cameras and we had no idea and what you
know those girls involved and we ended
up having to go they put cameras up
because somebody vandalized the pool
like the week before
so they were trying to get us here holy
moly yeah man that was so I was like I’m
never going back I’m never going
well I mean nobody likes to give away
there I mean I I like that I know he
likes to strike I like to strike and a
lot our last two fights obviously were
Grapplers and by the way if I high five
I want to high five yeah like I’m not
shooting underneath they’re trying to
take you down just throwing that out
there because I was wrong for that yeah
don’t worry nothing changes who I am
still the same man so I’m still high
five yeah there we go dude the only
thing is let’s have some fun man let’s
go out there and have some fun I know
you always down for some fun let’s put a
show on for the fans and we’re gonna do
it baby let’s go yeah looking forward to
having a good time with you thanks man
yes sir
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