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what’s up everybody performance of the night uh Muniz tro Vern and Phillips they all got $10,000 you know the gate I already told you I’m sorry you had to be squished next to Kevin Hy all night tonight uh but thanks for coming everybody talk to me it was worth it thank you get squished in there can you just give me your overall thoughts of the event it was a big night it was a big night for us we pulled a huge number uh Rumble was just telling us that we’re over two million already views to put this into perspective when you think about um ESPN we’re on ESPN for a fight night we do anywhere between 750,000 to a million viewers right and sometimes if we knock it out of the park it’s a million two a million five we’re over two million views tonight live and that doesn’t include the power of that was in the room tonight as far as social media goes it’s just it’s massive you had quite we literally had the most powerful people on the internet in the room tonight and you had quite a few celebrities as well sitting next to you can you kind of talk to me about what it’s like to have your friends and and all of the people around you yeah no it was awesome um you know people that you uh you know have Brady whom I have a great relationship with believe it or not I wear Travis Scotts uh you know it’s I have like 300 pairs of them and this is the first night that we ever met and uh thank God he’s really cool and funny and everything else I don’t want to have to go home and burn 300 pairs of Travis Scots when you be people who you and they’re worth your admiration it’s always cool so yeah Travis Scott I get the whole Travis Scott thing not just his shoes are cool he’s one of the funniest and and coolest guys I’ve ever met and you have a new Champion tonight can you talk about the main event a little bit Yeah so as far as the live event goes I mean I’ve been talking to you guys about this since day one my team you know absolutely kills it when it comes to the to the production of the show The in-house uh live event was good my entire staff everybody that did what they did tonight put put on an incredible event the things that we can’t control of the fights and um you know we’re still at a place where like the Sheena fight um Cataline is uh is very green so it was a foul but you can see that she definitely has a future in the sport can you give us an update on sheena’s Health at all yeah sheena’s okay yeah you know uh she usually does that to other people and tonight it happened to her um but I mean she’s such a huge Superstar for us and and obviously incredibly everything she does is incredibly viral uh Sean Strickland tweeted that there may have been something between him and Machine Gun Kelly can you talk to me about what happened there you can’t being Sean strickling around any other human beings it’s like you know what I mean has nothing to do with Machine Gun Kelly it’s about humans um there was a recent video of Jon Jones getting looked like body slammed and thrown around is he healthy I don’t know nothing about this he he’s I guess in New Zealand or Australia or somewhere and he’s getting thrown around by the rugby guys they were throwing him around yeah he got thrown on to Matt and all kinds of stuff so I’m I’m assuming you haven’t talked to him about his health I’m assuming he looks to be okay okay that sounds good I’m happy to hear that I I know nothing about this so he’s not going to be the headliner for UFC 300 who knows who’s going to be the UFC 300 headliner we’ve been working on on it it’s been a uh it’s been interesting I can tell you that because obviously we want to deliver you know I keep saying this figuro versus Cody garbrandt is literally the first fight of the night so when you look at the card where it sits today every single fight could be a main event on a fight night or a pay-per-view um we’re just waiting for that last we got two more fights that we got to put together we’re working on it and last one for me John an came out recently and had some criticism of MMA fans and then came out a couple days later and apologized and I think now people think that he was told to apologize I know your stance on free speech so I’m just wondering if you could clear that up you know for a fact nobody here told him to apologize uh but at the same time when when you’re uh when you’re in a position like anch me you anybody else if you’re a public figure you got to be able to take the heat you got to be able to take the criticism you got to be able to uh you know we all take our lumps on any given day I love that I I I I eat that stuff for breakfast so it that that’s fun for me and I get it some other people have a hard time dealing with it I I love NAD drama you know drama had a little meltdown yesterday too I think that everybody has their their good days and their bad days um um yeah I don’t know but nobody here will ever tell anybody to apologize or to no we don’t do that here thank you y Dana just wonder like where does the sport go right so you know I I asked one of the fighters this all the other sports the athletes get better over time they run faster they get stronger whatever and this it’s more of a I guess technique based sport right so what is the evolution of this Sport and how big can it get when the athletes get even better well it’s a great question from somebody like you because you were at the actual first one that we ever tested so if you look at the difference between you know uh when we tested it to where we are today literally everything is better and it has already started to evolve uh these guys are training at the pi there’s lot there’s stats involved now we’re starting to figure out strength neck strength uh torque like all all all different stats on on these guys when they uh train and as more and more money comes into the sport it it will evolve just like MMA I mean in the early days of MMA there were like three camps to go train with and you know it wasn’t mixed martial arts it it wasn’t what it is today um and that will happen here too will you have some of the fighters train to Pi and things like that and and then use the technology that the pi has to help it’s already happening yeah we’re already doing that now camps are actually starting to pop up and you know uh some of these guys that are coming and coaching are really good and uh yeah there there’s so much stuff to announce with power slap that’s going on right now and you guys will guys will hear a lot of in the next couple weeks did Brady like it it didn’t seem like he stayed too long yeah well the problem is tonight they have uh these guys had uh cadell had a party tonight so everybody had to come in and and and and hang for power slap for a while then go to the the Goodell party but you know all these guys that are in the NFL are all they got a lot of stuff going on this weekend so the fact that he even came by you know couldn’t ask for a better friend and and uh a better human than Tom Brady I love him and last question you know do you I know you’ve compared it to to the beginning of the UFC and you’ve made that comparison a lot but do you see this becoming a big arena thing because it seems you have to be an intimate environment to really get the benefit of this as a fan right you have to be close and on top of it if you’re sitting up in the bleach with to T-Mobile it seems like it would be tough could you make this an arena EV uh show and take it on the road so when we started the UFC our first venue was the Trump Taj Mahal we sold 2 200 tickets and gave 2500 tickets away so we could have been in here for the first UFC event but I’m just saying like does a sport is is a sport conducive to a big arena show like can you do it given the intimacy you require for people to be able to see what’s happening yeah did you ever um ever see darts you ever see a dart event not really in England it’s any of you ever see darts EDD Eddie Hearn there you go my man um yeah it’s fascinating I mean the the the the people that they get to go in and watch watch Dart events and what’s funny is I kind of modeled this thing off of darts it’s it’s it’s fun it’s energetic there’s a lot of drinking and a lot of uh you know people you notice when you’re at these events everybody has their phone up everybody has their phone up everybody’s filming um but yeah yes I do think that there will be a day where we could do Arenas Dana it’s uh I think it was after power slab 4 when you first met mentioned you were going to make sure that power slap and UFC had a presence on Super Bowl week you you were emphatic about that and excited and we saw what happened tonight but leading up to it I know you did radio row and I’m sure I’m sure that you’ve seen a lot of your friends what’s the excitement been all week leading up to it about power SL we going get UFC Fight Night tomorrow but in terms of you know leading up feeling a part of Super Bowl week as big as this is yeah I mean coming into this week this was one of the hottest I don’t know if you want to call it Super Bowl party your Super Bowl events of the week I mean how many 300 plus we turned away that that that couldn’t get tickets and and you know 300 plus plus the first time we ever sold tickets and we didn’t sell tickets we sold VIP packages you know and we did a $300,000 gate in VIP packages and um I mean this thing was about as successful as you could possibly ever hope it is the the the previous power slaps as we’ve been leading up to we become used to a lot of the familiar names right over the course of the TP daddies the Wolverines the Hawaiians right tonight that it’s the TV guys and and you know the um the Buffalo Soldier I mean some of the guys but they’re still the up and cominging names they’re not the familiar names we’ve seen at the first five and yet they put on a show that had to make you feel good for as important this show was that it you know a lot of the household names if you will for through the first five they kind of took tonight off yeah you know when you think about when we when we bought the UFC um you know there were there were guys already like um Tito and uh Chuck Lidell and and some of these other guys that people already knew and there was always already a hardcore following of the sport you know this thing we started a lot of these Americans there there’s guys like you guys know who dumpling is and I mean that’s how I got into it I was watching him slap uh on Instagram and some of those guys that are that are well known but these guys are all brand new guys that are and the sports being introduced to um you know the world right now when you think about it this is our seventh event to to be as far as we are and as successful as we are and to have the what we have going on in just seven events I mean I’ve been saying this for a long time but if if you’re if you can’t wrap your head around this thing now I don’t know what to tell you but this is going to be massive Dana Dana um very fun event it was kind of sloppy a lot of dqs is it agree does it kind of take the air out of the uh event when when that happens well it’s definitely not so what we did tonight is my team did a great job of controlling everything that we can control and it’s no different than the UFC when they get in there we have no control they have to go in and they have to deliver they have to train they have to be right so I don’t know I keep comparing the UFC but I don’t know if you remember it was UFC uh was 33 uh when we came to Vegas for the first time the worst show in UFC history okay it was our big coming out party we just got on uh we were back on pay-per-view we were um in Vegas at the manderlay bay and we went too long over the window and the main event shut off halfway through you couldn’t up an event more than we up UFC 33 so if I had to compare tonight to that this is all just part of the evolution and we already talked I mean Frank Hunter and I were in the back talking about sloppy and things and and and it’s not just us it’s the commission too we all have to get better you know and the fighters have to get better and things have to change but you know uh even the last fight was sloppy and lots of fouls but it ended the way you would expect it to end are you happy with how you know the commission’s taking and and the referees are taking their time to like look at the replays they’re taking a chance like before FS are called and everything are you happy with that the commission has been incredible I mean the th this commission right now is one of the greatest commissions we’ve ever worked with and these guys have been phenomenal I think they already have a meeting set up next week to start uh going over stuff again and and making sure we we all get better you got the fertitas out of their castles uh how did they enjoy the show it was good good to have the boys out again and and uh you know it’s a big night when you get Frank out you know what I mean it’s a big night so yeah all the stars were out tonight I wanted to ask you um obviously there’s a UFC event tomorrow but was there ever when you were laying out the schedule to try and do a UFC pay-per-view on Super Bowl weekend or was it just it just wasn’t going to happen what’s the question um when you were laying out the schedule for 2024 was there ever a thought to put a UFC pay-per-view before for the Super Bowl on on Sunday no um and then you met with bkfc and Sak saki Bara um anything cool I’ve been taking some meetings uh no you know Saki gabar and I have an incredible relationship uh and an incredible history the whole battle between UFC and pride back in the old days and uh we’re talking about some stuff uh and then the bar knuckle guys came out to um meet and ask some questions I never met him before nice guy liked him is there a chance H Gucci comes back to the UFC we’ll see uh and then two last ones for me Joe Piper is obviously headlining uh I’m so excited for that fight yeah just kind of to talk about it yeah I I mean he is the epitome of every Sports uh movie you’ve ever seen uh overcoming uh you know adversity and broke struggling but keeping his eye on the prize struggling to get to to get to you know he’s had this dream of where he wanted to be gets back in wins gets the contract in spectacular fashion and goes on a five fight win streak or what however many fights he’s on now and all by finish and uh now he’s taking on a badass dude that will break him into the top 10 if he wins you couldn’t have a better story than this it’s like um it’s like it’s like it’s like a real life Rocky movie obviously we got to see how the fight plays out but he goes out there and does what he does he is in the top 10 with the middleweight division kind of all over the place right now like is there a chance pord gets a top top top to top Contender fight soon well I mean if I believe that if he wins on Saturday he he breaks into the top 10 so once you get there anything is possible and then finally for me Niners or chiefs on Sunday who you pick in I don’t give a because the Patriots aren’t in it um but I I just think it’s hard to bet against momes Kelsey and Reed but I do think that the 49ers are a better team I just think that uh I just think that Kansas City knows how to win but at the end of the day whoever wins wins I I could care less go ahead brother um yeah yeah 300 sorry 300,000 ticket sales over two million or sorry 2 million views on Rumble um the livest the largest live audience to date can you talk about the momentum that has happened over the last 13 months and where you see this going in the months to come listen you know again comparing it to UFC every time you put on an event you grow you grow you grow you grow um and and that’s what what we’re going to do I I don’t really think about that what we think about is is um you know H how do we make each event how do we be better than we were last time is what I think about and it’s funny because I I was talking to Frank this is all new for Frank Frank was Frank Frank’s a lawyer okay Frank does lawyer for a living and uh before he came here and now he’s got to sweat these events and and and when you get into this business it’s crazy and it’s I think it’s kind of what I love about this right now is I haven’t felt like this in a long time we’ll go out and let’s be honest Toronto sucked that that show sucked um and every time we put on one of those events it it bumps Ms me out and I you know try to figure out what could we do different next time we do but I don’t sweat the events like I do I feel that that that I don’t know what it is the I don’t want to call it butterflies or what you want to call it but I feel it now when we do these power slap events because we’re building something and and it’s growing and and when you put on an event like tonight like the people that showed up you have one chance to make a first impression so everything from the the music to the lighting to the to the uh Pace to the um the food and the drinks and the service and getting in the front door and all these things are things that you’re worrying about and and making sure that you try to make sure it goes smooth and it’s it’s it’s what makes doing what we do fun yet it’s brutal at the same time yeah I mean you had incredible celebrities here tonight you’ve talked in the past about having celebrities participate in uh slap fighting matches have you had any further conversations recently not really no I mean you’re going to get like former NFL guys and you know former athletes and um that’s going to happen and again as as the money continues to get better and better it it will just eventually happen you talked earlier this week about Hawaii Texas New Jersey Florida uh California is there anywhere that you can uh that you see yourself going first between those Hawaii any particular we got a lot of Hawaiians and we haven’t been to Hawaii with the UFC um and I love Hawaii and I’m sure you guys do too wouldn’t suck to fly out to Hawaii and watch some some slapping so yeah I think we all like the idea of Hawaii so we’re kind of kind of got our sight set on Hawaii right now two places that we really are excited about is Hawaii and Houston okay awesome um the performances tonight which ones stood out to you and which ones were your favorite I mean you you’d have to go go with the co I was so excited for the co-main event you know leading up to this fight um the co-main event and um tro awesome one last one um at the MMA Awards last year Mark Smith talked about the potential of using uh neck guards Andor handguards has there been any further conversation about that with the commission about what about using either neck guards or hand guards no no okay thank you cool right here um so between Tom Travis Scott and MGK they have about a hundred million followers on on social media how when did you first recognize the power of social media as kind of a a a marketing arm for for UFC and now power because many Commissioners don’t actually have a favorable um relationship with social media but you’ve embraced it well what’s funny is most most of you don’t know but those are the three people that you know that were in the room the rest of the kids that were in the room are the most powerful people on the internet the most powerful people on the internet were in this room tonight that most of you don’t even know Ken speed and Aiden Ross are the three biggest streamers in the world and uh they were in there tonight streaming and and and the rest of the room was literally the most powerful people in on the internet so I I I saw this very early and that’s basically what this built business was built off of this business was built off the internet last question so it’s first super Super Bowl being held in Las Vegas you’ve been in this town a long time to see Sports grow and the landscape really be Diversified what does it mean for not not just your business but for Los Vegas in general and the sports and business landscape to have this event and uh what do you think about it coming back no I’m I’m I’m super proud as a Las vegan you know I mean if any of you follow me on Instagram like I love this city so much like almost every night that I drive home I film this the scenic from you know the top of the freeway to my house and I’m just like I love this city so much we moved here from Boston in 1977 and when we moved here the UNLV Runner Rebels were like the biggest thing on the planet like everybody in this city loved the rebels and just that alone I think showed what a big Sports Town that’s had the the capability being so I talked to Roger Goodell today so I was with Roger gell this afternoon and I said you know that this is where the Super Bowl should be every year right this shouldn’t even go anywhere else this should the Super Bowl the World Series the NBA finals and whatever else should be here like every single year there isn’t another city that can compete with this city this is the greatest city on Earth all the big sporting uh you know um leagues are coming here now they’re going to have a pingpong League here pretty soon I mean everybody is coming here baseball basketball soccer I mean they can’t get here fast enough why because this is the greatest city on earth we have the best hotels in the world we have the best restaurants the best entertainment the best shopping and uh you know I I was talking about this the other day if you’re from Boston and you’re going to do an away game for the Patriots you’re going to Vegas not going to Cleveland you’re coming to Vegas you know what I mean sorry Cleveland I keep on Cleveland but that’s okay keep it up you’re just you’re just the one that pops in my head but um this is the greatest city on earth just a quick followup what was his response to you recruiting you see roll back every day uh I don’t know how he took it but uh he didn’t he didn’t he definitely didn’t disagree he definitely didn’t disagree it’s the greatest city on earth and it’s the greatest sports town on the planet and I and I’m I’m from Boston so what’s that tell you Dana yeah uh Sheena she’s one of the biggest face of the powers lab and she said before that she’s planning to fight MMA this year probably the first semester is she going to be able to do both like poers slap and MMA or maybe she said she wanted to do an MMA fight yes I don’t know anything about that okay after tonight she wanted might want to take some time off she’s training at MMA Masters yeah Florida MMA Masters cool do you think it would be possible for her to do both I don’t know you think she should turn right around start training for an MMA fight right now or maybe wait a little bit okay uh Anthony Smith we saw him today uh tonight is there any other Fighters UFC fighters that want you to do that because I know like some of Brazilian Fighters they would love to do the catching well Anthony Smith was very vocal about how much he loved this and he wanted to be a part of it so you know we love Anthony Smith so we did it um yeah obviously if any so me and the fertitas own throw one too for those of you that don’t know we own ridiculous bu on MTV we own uh SLS skate League nitr cross and Travis uh Nitro Circus and cowboy wanted a race he wanted to be one of the racers in there so Cowboys in that I got a bull in the PBR and for whatever crazy reason no cowboys can ride them but cowboy Cerrone wants to ride them so that’s happening in Dallas Texas in may we got a lot of fun going on obviously these Fighters when they when they um retire if they want to do other things we got a lot of we got a lot of stuff to do you said Cowboy is it’s it’s funny because during during part of his career you were kind of concerned about the things he was doing besides well he doesn’t have a career anymore so yeah yeah I mean if you want to if you want to ride Twisted steel who is like 33 and three against Cowboys who ride bulls for a living he’s a grown man what am I going to do fair enough um so you had Travis Travis Scott uh Tom Brady uh Charles Barkley who did like most of the the the Mets who liked it more yeah well I haven’t talked to Barkley yet but you know uh Travis Scott was going crazy during the during the event Travis Scott was going crazy Travis Scott any of you that like Travis Scott shoes and all that one of the coolest guys you’ll ever me it was hilarious and a great guy and yeah had had a blast with him tonight awesome uh just to make it clear you said before to Amy that you’re going to announce two more fights for UFC 300 yes sir so main event and Comm an event or another com main event and another one perfect is there any date when you’re going to announce or something well listen if we if we I’d announc it now if we had it we’re we’ve gone through a lot of crazy trying to trying to put this fight together so it’s been uh it’s been interesting no date ASAP is the date less one for me uh congrats on Kayla Harrison contract uh would you mind you give me a thoughts about how was the negotiation and she’s fighting 135 right like I a lot of fans were surprised about that because she was Fighting 155 and then 145 yeah we like to surprise fans that’s what we like to do so um I’m glad they were surprised and yeah obviously she’s one the best in the world and and you can’t find out can’t know how good you really are unless you fight in the UFC so she’s going to get the opportunity to prove whether she is or not all right cool hey Dana John from fight dudes here um congratulations on getting par slot officially sanctioned in the state of California is there a city in California you’d like to go to first we were talking about that that’s a great question we were talking about possibly you know obviously Southern Cal go down to maybe San Diego or I I don’t know yet we we’ve kind kind of kicked it around but the first two that we’re really focused on right now are Hawaii and Houston is where we want to go and as a Seattle native I have to ask when is a UFC coming to Seattle good question I mean we we’ve got a lot of places that we haven’t been to since covid Seattle’s definitely one of them I mean it’s a great market for us it’s always been really good to us when we first went there and did our first event I mean we went back like three times in a row I think right after that that’s how good Seattle was so we’ll eventually get back to Seattle very cool and one last question um do you always hit on 16 do what do you always hit on 16 check you out uh yes always unless the cards are goofy I usually play by the book unless the cards are weird and I got a gut that I shouldn’t but yeah I always hit on 16 what about 17 would you go there do I hit on 17 yeah that’s hilarious you ask me that so I was in a I I I need some tips this is awesome so I was in a blackjack tournament a few few years ago the trophy is in my office right yeah like my Blackjack trophies are like some of my most prized possessions when I die I want them to like lay me in there with with the trophy so I’m in a blackjack tournament and you have to pay you had to pay $250,000 to end of that Blackjack tournament but because I was a celebrity I didn’t have to pay so I made it to the last table and I’m playing against all these guys so so so we’re going so they set up the last table five people go to the last table and this guy so there’s a lot of waiting while you you know so this guy comes up to me and says hey I’m a big fan da d d I’m like oh cool thank you blah blah blah blah blah and he says to me you know how this works right I’m like no I don’t understand how how what works he goes when you make it to the last table we all split the pot and I’m like yeah that yeah I’m not splitting the pot I came here to win this thing this dude these four people wanted to murder me I’m not kidding you the the the tension in the room was so crazy it was unbelievable so we start playing at the last now they’re all playing to beat me okay and I can’t remember what I did I can’t remember what the move was but one of the guys starts yelling he can’t do that he he he put too many chips up whatever I didn’t put enough whatever I’m like relax all right so I so I took the thing back but I ended up hitting a 17 right because the guy over there had more chips than me I said it I hit the 17 I got the four on the 17 let’s go right so I win and I can’t remember what thear was this a few years ago but because that guy shot his mouth off and you know who you are if you’re out there watching this you remember this I won the I won the tournament and literally nobody said anything to my big fan just got up and walked out and uh I had this lunatic friend of mine that was there from Boston he starts streaming he’s the greatest black blackjack player in the history and these people wanted to kill him anyway story’s too long but anyway yes all right cool I hit a 17 one time and I won the the Blackjack tournament it was a it was a $250,000 winner take all Blackjack tournament I I’ll hit on tonight don’t do it luckiest thing that ever happened to me all right thank you all right good night you guys thank you hey D Dan wait real quick M CL and knockout radio hey um so real quick you talk about making a first impression um you have all the star power you’ve got everything already in place but the storyline tonight you have Cole Young who whose child is going through a horrific scene and you you’re right you’re right and you’ve got fighters who were in each other’s weddings two days before 3 days before a competition it feels nostalgic like like the UFC in the beginning was more of a family put her differences aside you’re telling the story you’re making the personal connection and I being my first time here was mesmerized by what I saw it it I don’t know why everybody’s not standing up right now the excitement of what you have right here is greater than anything I’ve ever seen in my life thank you sir and um it’s it’s massive it’s so talk talk about how it got to hear from so thank you and and that’s what we’re going for we we we believe too that we that we have this lightning in a bottle and and you know I believe that we’re the best at putting on Live Events and creating the buzz and the energy and all that all the bells and whistles that we can um control until the fighters get in there but tell them the story like he’s asking about the the coold yeah yeah so Cole Cole’s kid has a I don’t know the name of the disease but he’s got she’s got some disease and um he needs to give a piece of his liver to his kids to save his kid and uh he pushed off that transplant for this fight to make the money to help help all that so he’s going to go have that surgery probably this week or next week it’s it’s unbelievable I mean the storyline exactly and and you know there there’s a lot of people that on this thing and and say whatever these kids are making a year ago before I decided to get into this the kids were doing the for free you know what I mean or for for a hundred bucks and stuff like that these kids are making life-changing money now um I I was talking about with Pat mcae the other day Wolverine and how it’s changed his life and a lot of these other guys now that are starting to quit their jobs and start to train full-time and take this thing serious and and you know no matter what combat sport you’re involved in come from a rough life you come from come from hardship guys that who get involved in Combat Sports and uh this is this is something that will change a lot of people’s lives not just in the United States but around the world as we continue to to to grow this thing so speaking of change in lives I know Gary briia uh your 10x doctor of Health um we were talking to Ryan Phillips earlier he talked about this is a mental game and discipline training and and being able to control your sympathetic response I know uh Dr Brey is really big into the forward exercise science world as I am so um is any of that starting to be incorporated I know you guys are trying to figure out what strategies work best Barefoot or not um you know wind up and torque and all that but the neurological side I think for this sport is going to be critical in the future yeah Gary is more of a of a of a human biologist and and uh you know I I’ve talked at length about what this guy’s done for me and how he’s changed my life and many many people around me that I that I love and care about and um yeah he’s he’s brilliant I I don’t know if I would get him involved in the in the sports science side of this thing but anybody that that uh you know has Health ISS issues or has to be on um any type of medication that traditional doctors would give you Gary Brea can get you off it and last one uh I was in Miami when you give Randy the OG status of the UFC he was there from the beginning he supported you all those years I feel honored to be at this critical moment of slap power slap will be in the future what DFC is now if not bigger um I’m a true fan and so thank you for allowing me and knockout radio and Randy obviously to be a part of this thank you brother yeah and you’re not wrong wait wait till we’re talking in three years watch what we do in the next three years and I was saying this in 2002 too so Grand Slam yeah it’s very rare that I say we’re going to do something we don’t do it wait till you see this fear wait till you see this fear Dana um from Puerto Rico we we love you in Puerto Rico thank you brother and thank you for all you’ve done for the sport uh authenticity that’s you you authentic thank you for the kids for the uh youth what’s like your biggest advice for the kiddos growing up me seeing you growing up and like looking up to you that’s a tough one uh uh listen you you know what I’m all about I I believe that um you know I think that this the the the world has become very soft and uh you know a lot of people um and complain a lot of about a lot of stuff one of the one of the great things about being in this business is what I was just talking about earlier is that the people who are in this sport whether slap or boxing or or MMA come from hard Places come from you know tough upbringings or tough backgrounds and and uh life is tough world is tough nobody’s going to be nice to you nobody is going to you know you have to get out there and you have to figure out who you are and you have to grind and work hard every day and uh can’t let any if I listen to anybody ever I would have never stuck with the UFC everybody said the it’s hard to wrap your brain around the fact that the UFC at one time was so bad that we had to we couldn’t go to venues and it wasn’t allowed on pay-per-view let alone getting on free TV and all this stuff I don’t listen to any of that before and it’s the same thing with power slap listen to any of this negative I don’t care what people think and I don’t care what people say I figure out what I want to do why am I doing the sphere sphere is going to cost me a bunch of money and it’s G because I want to do it because I think it can be done and I don’t think anybody else can do it and I know that I can that’s why um and I like to do these things I like to challenge myself and I like to build stuff that people say can’t be built so I don’t know if that inspires anybody or if people you know give a one way or the other but that’s who I am and that’s what I like to do thanks for coming tonight I appreciate it