4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Bas Rutten is a Dutch MMA legend also known as a coach, actor, commentator and innovator. We discuss bullying, Bruce Lee, his MMA career, overcoming extreme injury, his O2 Trainer and much more.
Bas Rutten is a retired Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer. He was the UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three time King of Pancrase world champion, and finished his career with not a single loss in his last 22 fights.
Bas is now a well-recognized color commentator, accredited actor, television host, coach and entrepreneur. He is also a children’s fitness advocate on the Cartoon Network and a participant in the networks highly publicized “anti-bullying” campaign.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Behind the Shio podcast. |
0:01.5 | My name's James Gearing and this is episode 184 and I was absolutely honored to have on the show, |
0:08.5 | Bars Routen. |
0:09.9 | Now, Bas, as many of you know, is a legend in the world of MMA, but also is yet another extremely |
0:18.0 | humble, nice person that I see over and over again with these incredibly |
0:21.9 | successful guests that I have on the show. And in his life story, you're going to hear |
0:27.5 | so many incredible chapters from his childhood, how he got into martial arts, how he and his |
0:34.0 | friends dealt with the bullies that they had, his MMA career, his injuries. |
0:38.7 | But we also talk about the O2 trainer. |
0:41.1 | I wanted to revisit this in the intro for a moment. |
0:44.8 | Bass was extremely generous and sent both myself and my son, an O2 trainer. |
0:50.9 | And it's early days yet. |
0:52.0 | We just started using it. |
0:53.4 | And I will post some more updates on my |
0:55.3 | social media but I can absolutely see why this works as he mentions you know creating the |
1:02.1 | the correct posture and the correct muscles to breathe when you're doing the exercises |
1:08.5 | absolutely carries through and my son who has bronchospasms |
1:13.5 | I'm hoping that's going to just reinforce the improvement he's already made so for all you guys |
1:20.1 | listening this isn't a paid commercial but I just always testify when someone sends me something |
1:24.7 | great make sure you do check out his O2 trainer after you listen |
1:28.8 | to this interview. Highly worth it, very inexpensive and it's not something that's got to be |
1:34.7 | strapped to your face during exercise or you suddenly revert to in the middle of a crisis. This is |
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