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four of the best NRL teams are coming to Vegas March 2nd to play a legion stadium for an amazing double header but before that I’m going to work out with four athletes one from each of the teams and I’m going to show them a few things about MMA and hopefully they’ll teach me a little something about rugby leag there’s a problem now but here to the go oh it’s been knocked on and maybe it’s Aon Woods he goes to ilas at the back will held it up beautifully what a ball from the trail to Campell Graham re lightning is through inside to Walters Billy the king this it for long J L he says give it to me here they go what’s happening gentl good good good good yeah we’re good man good see you guys again ready train all right yeah yeah you’re ready to train all right good too I’d imagine you guess when traveling not getting as much work in as you like this is my buddy Mike pile he fought in UFC for a bit he’s going to help me show you guys a few techniques but first we’re going to go over tour and I’ll show you how great UFC fighters have it and then you can um regret your choice to become uh you know rugby league guys and man I should have gone to the UFC they treat them so good over there so let’s go start the tour we’re here to promote the first NRL in Las Vegas that’s something that as a kid I’d never thought I would have done not even in a dream but mate we’re here the Americans are loving it and it’s been so exciting since we’ve got here we actually have this facility one in Shanghai we’re building one in Mexico C so many Australians get behind the UFC and it’s just really good that the UFC and N are working together it’s something that hopefully it’s a partnership for a long period of time we got the upper body component too which is more applicable to what we do so do the V2 Maxes on there you got two size octagons 30 foot 25 ft I was pretty excited when I first found out we’re going to come and check out the facilities that the UFC use it’s cool to get to know another Sport and how it works for them and no surprises the facilities Top Notch it’s really cool seeing how good everything works here how lucky they are to have a facility like this to train their best we’re getting sh around by Forest Griffin so I’m a little bit nervous to see what he’s got installed for us how he’s going to take us for our Paces so we’ll see what happens just follow me come on nice little down touch the wall back one two three beautiful you got done this all right all right Circle up so if I’m the center of the circle you guys are around me nice and easy nice and easy what do you guys call these star jumps star jumps water JS weird the star jump you can grab the tricep yep but that’s like I’ve decided to stay here ran us to little wrestle sessions Forest Griffin’s been in the in the game for so long so he’s got a wealth of knowledge and taught us a few you know techniques in that to use on the field if I can I’m going to close through and go right to here that sort of wrestling practice is something that we actually do a lot of as rugby league teams you know sometimes we get UFC wrestling coaches in to our squads to help us out we’ve had Rob Whitakers help us out before so a lot of those techniques um yeah transition over into our game so I’m going to step open ban oh yeah g go yeah we’re doing a kicking drill with the pad and I was going to maybe accidentally miss the pad and and kick his knee and try and put him out for a couple weeks I was only kicking like 20% and I felt like a little bit extra I’m hey yeah you better relax now give him a little hips give him a little hips yeah yeah yeah just be strong enough to protect yourself does that make sense all right great great job now I guess you’re going to show me pile how to throw one of these guys backwards only going on that way yeah and have the top hand at the bottom down there that yeah and then just that where where he’s kind of you always want to get out in front he showed us at the start of the session what UFC fighting is all about and we show a little bit of rugby Le they managed to teach me a couple techniques at the end of the session the passing which they changed my hand position I actually got worse and then it hit which is still very awkward and and almost got me destroyed for when we pass the ball to all the Americans since we’ve been over they catch the ball and tuck it under like n mate you can’t be doing that you got to hold it up and then just a little bit of a bump going to be so exciting to bring the game here and show the people of America what our product is about and hopefully they can embrace our Sport and can’t wait to rip in and perform as best as we can the Americans if you think about how exciting an American football game is when a team is down and they have to score that point and they’re latl they’re pitching the ball around every play in rugby league is kind of like that thank you guys for coming we are super excited to e you guys out here in March thank you for letting us show you our sport a little bit we’re excited to see you guys do your also on behalf of thanks for the opportunity to work with you guys appreciate it it’s a great you know relationship we just about to start so appreciate it guys thanks guys absolutely very much thanks for