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Guaranteed Human. Always remember a well-spoken individual. Oh, you're in a powerful. So well-spoken. Yeah. You have a good show on YouTube. There's a little slouch, bro. I do. I keep myself busy, yeah. You've done a great job transitioning from fight. Well, thank you very much. Yeah, I mean, as a former fighter or like all athletes, I mean, you guys did very well, but fighters in particularly, it's a hard road. You know what I mean? And then not a lot of fighters make money. You know, there's only the tip of the iceberg. And I'm not talking about in the UFC. I mean, to get to the UFC, I mean, that in itself is very hard, you know, but to really

be able to retire comfortably, you know, only the, only a select few get to do that, you know,

in, in, in any professional sports. I mean, if you look at soccer, right, how many people play

soccer, you know, and how many people get to actually really make a living? So, yeah,

retiring as a, as a fighter still

being involved with the sport commentating the UFC I'm it couldn't have worked out any better and

I'm a very happy man do you feel like you retired comfortably oh yeah no for sure at the time yeah yeah

no I had a great career you know I mean I was able to win the belt defend it have some championship

fights um you know I I uh I was reping the UK for a long time as well. So I had a great career. I had a long run. Yeah, yeah, very comfortably. I mean, you can always be more comfortable. No question. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? The goalpost over and over again. Dana always looked after me and I always did very well. Were you doing any of the media stuff while you were fighting or was that a transition you made right when you got done? No, so I was doing it whilst I was fighting as well. Is this sound okay for you guys? Close enough. Yeah, so you probably know or maybe you don't. So I don't see him a right eye. we've heard the yeah yeah so so when i started having the eye issues because obviously you want to be a champion and all the rest of it when i started having the eye issues and i was told i was never going to be able to fight again and i did carry on fighting and i was lying and cheating on tests and all the rest of it doing whatever i could right but I was like this isn't going to last forever I've got to figure out I can I know my door

is closing the options are going to go away soon so I started doing as much of that stuff as I could

working on Fox Sports at the time and then started a podcast and then just whatever else I could do

whilst I still had a platform and whilst people still gave it down you know what I'm saying because when you retire you're old news if it wasn't if it wasn't for the eye do you think you would have had the idea to kind of okay I need to find out some different avenues because as us as athletes like for me there was never a plan B you kind of just think I'm going to play football and then I'll die on the field those are the greatest honor to go out that way. No, for me, there was never a plan B. you kind of just think, I'm going to play football and then I'll die on the field.

It'll be the greatest honor to go out that way. No, for sure. And that's always the goal. That's what you want to do. You've got to be single-minded. To be successful and to be great at anything, you've got to be like that. But of course, you'd be a fool not to realize there's a life after fighting. You know, I mean, I think it was 2009.

I started doing a little bit of acting and stuff like that.

I never thought i'd end up doing that but i just got offered an acting roll out the blue so i was like yeah fucking why not let's give it a shot next thing i'm in austin texas spent my per day um for the entire shoot on the first night with my buddy we had a great night out turned the

poncette hung over to the mics thinking what am i doing here but then ended up loving the

entire process and and done that stuff ever since as well so yeah i mean i always kind of had

pardon the pun one eye on doing other stuff nice tell us about the legacy we are a little birdie

totalist that uh you had a DJ career. DJ Mikey B. Oh my God. Geez, Louise. DJ Mikey B. It's nothing to write home about. So yeah, I mean, listen, I was obsessed with martial arts as a kid. And then one day I was walking home from work when I was 16 and my buddy had a set of decks. I went into his house

and, you know, they were smoking weed and stuff. I was never a weed smoker. But I saw the

decks and the turntables and I just thought that was the coolest thing ever at 16. So I stopped

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