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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with our guest Bas Rutten! An athlete, entrepreneur, author, inventor, natural entertainer and world reknowned badass butt kicker! He learned to fight through adversity mentally and realized he had a gift for fighting physically as well as he retaliated against the bullying he experienced growing up with asthma and eczema.
He was on track to be a culinary chef studying French cuisine and luckily for us changed the recipe and found fighting. He was a 3x King of Pancrase champion as well as UFC Veteran who won the heavyweight title and has since been inducted into the Pancreas Hall of fame, Mixed martial arts hall of fame and the UFC hall of fame.
His sense of humor and natural ability to entertain landed him some roles In the acting world, hosting Inside MMA for 9 years, as well as shows like Kevin Can Wait and the hit movie Here Comes The Boom! He is the inventor of the body action system and The 02 Trainer which has proven published medical benefits including increased lung and exercise capacity and now spends time as the chairman and commentator for the fast growing Karate Combat! He was behind the realism you see fighting in Grand Theft Auto, he's been featured on The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast and he can even knit you a sweater! He has a new movie coming out soon called The Smashing Machine starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Emily Blunt based on the life of Mark Kerr. You will want to Hear his amazing story of going from "The Leper," to "El Guapo!"
Topics for this episode include:
✅ How To Create Better Habits That Actually Stick
✅ First Time Meeting The Rock and Emily Blunt Filming The Smashing Machine
✅ The Importance Of Being Positive When Things Go Wrong
✅ Bas Rutten Shares A Supernatural Experience
✅ Karate Combat And Why You Should Be Excited About It
✅ Improve your cardio and lung capacity with the 02 Trainer + More
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick LaManya, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business, |
0:23.6 | along with Hollywood stars, UFC fighters, and your favorite rock bands. |
0:27.6 | People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, take chances, live boldly, |
0:32.6 | and no matter what they do, they always bring their A-game. |
0:53.1 | All right, my guest today on the A-game podcast is El Woppo, Boss Routen. |
0:55.5 | And this podcast is the A-game podcast, really estate investing for entrepreneurs. And the whole point of this podcast is E Guapo boss Routen and this podcast is the A game podcast real estate investing for entrepreneurs and the whole point of this podcast is every |
0:58.5 | single day we show average people that they are capable of doing extraordinary |
1:02.3 | things and with over 350 plus episodes of people that have reached the top of the |
1:07.0 | mountain whether it is aeronautics business real, real estate, fighting, acting, comedy, |
1:12.7 | or just being a better parent person or human, you have a blueprint with all these past |
1:17.6 | episodes of people I can show you all the things not to do and learn from their mistakes |
1:21.5 | or the shortcuts that they took so you can get there faster. |
1:24.2 | But if that is not enough, we have a true Renaissance man on today, Mr. Bass Routenell |
1:28.7 | Guapo, who has reached the heights of success in health and fighting. |
1:33.7 | He was a culinary chef. |
1:35.3 | He's an actor. |
1:36.1 | He's been on TVs. |
1:36.9 | He's been in movies. |
1:37.7 | He's been an inventor. |
1:38.6 | He's a man of God. |
1:39.6 | He's a man of health. He's a man of the people, probably one of the top three most lovable faces and |
1:45.8 | personalities out there right up there with Henzor Gracie himself. And he has been on some |
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