BIG INTERVIEW: One Champs boss reveals huge UK debut plans
Fight Disciples Podcast
Fight Disciples Network
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | According to a recent Forbes, list one FC is the second biggest mixed martial arts promotion on the planet. |
| 0:12.9 | So in a Fight Disciples exclusive, |
| 0:15.0 | I put up with CEO and Chairman Chattering Sift Yitung recently |
| 0:19.2 | and asked them what life is like |
| 0:21.0 | at the helm of Asia's biggest fight promotion. |
| 0:24.7 | Of course, we got to it. |
| 0:26.7 | I asked them, when is 1 FC coming to the UK? |
| 0:29.7 | But first and foremost, I asked why does a billion dollar hedge fund director on Wall Street |
| 0:35.7 | Quitters Post to head to Singapore and open a mixed martial arts gym? |
| 0:39.5 | I've been doing martial arts longer than I've actually been in business, right? |
| 0:45.0 | So I've been a lifelong martial arts started when I was about 13 years old and I still train every day, |
| 0:51.0 | five, six times a week, you whether it's a mooi tie or j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j jusu i've been doing about for fifteen years |
| 0:58.0 | it's just like my great passion like my possession i'd say is martial arts. So you know when I had to make a living |
| 1:06.8 | you know struggling in poverty and trying to figure out what I want to do I just |
| 1:11.0 | thought okay let's be practical let's make money and that's why I went to Wall Street but the |
| 1:15.7 | reality is you know my heart never left martial arts and I've been again like I said I was |
| 1:21.3 | doing it the whole time and I do it every day and even to this day so I guess I got kind of lucky you know I of |
| 1:28.2 | course I think I was you hit an epiphany not everyone has a lucky epiphany about hey man. I want to do something else in my life where I found my passion and I got to follow it. So I think I got lucky that I, you know, I, |
| 1:45.0 | it's always, it was always like an inner voice my whole life |
| 1:48.0 | that I love martial arts, I love martial arts, |
| 1:50.0 | but I never thought I could make a living or life out of it. |
| 1:52.0 | And, you know, I could make a living or life out of it. |
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