5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Jacob “Stitch” Duran is a professional cutman in boxing and MMA.
"Stitch" discusses growing up in a small farming town, his early years as a boxing trainer and also running a kickboxing gym, his transition to becoming a cutman and eventually working with elite level martial artists and boxers, starring in movies, how he got his nickname, getting confused for actor Edward James Olmos, how to build a bond with a fighter, thoughts on current gloves and equipment and how it can improve fighter safety, working the Tyson Fury during the rematch with Deontae Wilder, his split from working for the UFC and Dana White, the most memorable fight he has worked, staying humble amid success, and advice for up and comers.
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0:00.0 | What's up guys? I hope you're doing well out there. And today on the podcast we have |
0:04.2 | Jacob Duran. Now, you have absolutely no idea who Jacob Duran probably is, but he's |
0:10.5 | stitched, right? On the podcast, we even talked about that, the fact that we go by first, like, |
0:14.9 | one name monikers. It's like the name. This completely, this is not even like a thing, I just thought about it. |
0:21.6 | They're one of the early UFCs, you know, they used to have the guy fight chemo. |
0:25.6 | Yes. |
0:26.6 | And one of the, like, it was like, they had so many slip ups back then during the, uh, during |
0:30.6 | the old days and, uh, you know, the chemo comes out and they're like, it's the man with one name, |
0:36.6 | Kimo Leopoldo. |
0:38.8 | You're like, he just gave him too, right? |
0:41.7 | But no, like, you know, Stitch, like he goes by Stitch and I go by Chewy. |
0:44.5 | But, you know, he is the cut man, right? |
0:47.1 | Like, when you think of Cutman, he's like one of the dudes, if not the dude that |
0:51.6 | pops up into your mind. I mean, for me, like if I think Cutman, that's who I think of, Stitch, right? |
0:55.7 | I mean, the dude had tape, like he had stitch tape. |
0:58.1 | It was like his own brand of tape that you're wrapping people's hands with. |
1:00.7 | And super fascinating, dude, I really enjoyed this podcast. |
1:04.0 | Such a cool human being to talk to, such a cool story. And he's got a lot of stories, you know, because he's been there with the highest level of MMA fighters. |
1:13.0 | He's been with the highest level boxers. |
1:15.4 | He's been able to be in the back room with them before they go out to battle and see the emotions and stuff. |
1:20.7 | So he's got a lot of cool stories this year. |
1:22.0 | So I hope you guys enjoy that. |
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