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🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | I want to qualify for the chamber so I can slap the shit out of John Cena. |
0:05.0 | Welcome to a brand new episode of Good Guy, Bad Guy. |
0:15.0 | I'm Daniel Cormier. That is Chale Sunning. |
0:18.0 | Jayal Sunning, hey, it's February. |
0:20.0 | So it's Black History Month. |
0:21.6 | All month, we will spotlight |
0:23.6 | some of the greatest black mixed martial artists |
0:26.1 | that have ever stepped foot in the Octagon. |
0:29.1 | And I believe that it's going to be a special month |
0:31.4 | because there's been so many tremendous fighters, |
0:33.7 | especially chill. |
0:35.1 | I will speak to this as a black man. |
0:40.2 | There wasn't many mixed martial arts fighters where I was from, right? |
0:45.8 | So a lot of times, King Velasquez, I think, said this to me. |
0:50.3 | I now realize how important King Velazquez was to me, not only in life, but in my whole entire fighting career. |
0:56.8 | Kane Velazquez explained to me that a lot of times as a kid, you will try to emulate or follow the person that looks like you a little bit. |
1:07.3 | So basketball players, right? |
1:09.6 | We all thought we could be Michael Jordan because that is |
1:12.1 | what we saw in our community. You didn't see as many fighters. Kate Velazquez, though, |
1:16.8 | watch Julio Cesar Chavez. So all he wanted to do was fight. For me, we didn't have many fighters. |
1:23.6 | We had boxers, right? But in terms of mixed martial arts, that was a, it was not really on the |
1:30.4 | radar. So for me to be a black fighter, to have the legacy that I have, to have the rivalry that I |
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