All right. Joining us now is a gentleman who made some news. Well, actually during new

years and then made some news today, the 11th of January, 2023, he just resigned with a

big exclusive contract with Bill Tore MMA. There he is himself the mercenary, AJ McKee.

Hi, AJ. How are you? Another day in paradise. I cannot complain. How are you doing?

Quite well. A lot to get to. I want to start with today's news. Then we'll get to your

most recent fight and then the calendar ahead. But first things first, we'll put out a

press release saying they had come to an agreement with you, multi-fight, multi-year

exclusive contract. Sounds like it all came together pretty quickly. Walk me through

how fast all this got done. Pretty quick. I was given the option to kind of go and

scope out some other places and see what I'm worth. They gave me the opportunity to go

and see. And yeah, I was just like, go down a couple on the table here. And they were like,

you know what? Screw that. Let's make it happen. What are we going to do? And my father,

my team and I, we sat down and we figured out what was reasonable, what was right.

Okay. So you, you didn't negotiate with some other entities. Is that what it sounds like?

Yes. A little bit. We were in the talks a little bit. Yeah. Feeling the amount to see where

what the ballpark might be of like what you'd get paid or what all. I guess I'm trying to figure

out what all were you looking for? Just a certain dollar value? I would say kind of dollar value.

It's kind of like a hand in hand type thing, you know what I mean? Because everybody knows if

you want the cloud, you want to be this most famous fighter, like what you got to do, where you

got to go. But it's like, I don't give a shit about cloud. Cloud don't pay bills, you know what I mean?

So for me being homegrown in Bellator and my whole career have been held here. For me,

I was excited to stay, you know. I really didn't want to go anywhere. There's a lot of things like

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