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The Chewjitsu Podcast

Episode 253 - Chatri Sityodtong, Founder of ONE FC

The Chewjitsu Podcast

Eugene Tsozik

Wrestling, Wellness, Brazilianjiujitsu, Sports, Interviews, Mma, Bjj, Health, Chewjitsu, Injuryprevention

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the podcast, Chewy and Eugene are joined by Chatri Sityodtong.

Chatri is the founder, chairman, and CEO of ONE Fighting Championship, a Renzo Gracie brown belt, Kru in Muay Thai, and owner of Evolve MMA.

Chatri discusses his start in Jiu-Jitsu in New York Under Renzo Gracie, how he manages training martial arts and running a large company, why martial arts deepens his faith in humanity, why Jiu-Jitsu is such a personal experience, why ONE FC's focus is on the stories of their athletes and not trash talk, what Chatri looks for in a fighter, how the ONE FC ruleset make Jiu-Jitsu more exciting, Mikey Musumeci’s viral videos, what “greatness” means, and what Chatri is most proud of.

Chatri also discusses the first ever ONE FC event to be held in the US with headliner Demetrious Johnson vs. Adriano Moraes III on Friday, May 7th, 2023 on Amazon Prime Video.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What up, guys. So today we have a very cool guess. It's been a we've been struggling to get this one to happen.

0:05.8

If you, if you're a busy person or if you're a business owner of any sort, then you probably

0:11.5

understand at least a fraction of the struggle with this person's going through. But we have

0:14.7

Shatri from the founder of one FC and he's going to be in the podcast with us today. Super excited about it,

0:21.6

but we try to set this up a couple times and we had to reschedule just because, again,

0:25.0

guys got an incredibly busy schedule, as I imagine you would with a billion dollar company or

0:29.1

whatever. Um, you know, I mean, I have a small business and even my time has become pressing and

0:34.8

I have to have things blocked in. You don't, You don't get to just say, you know what?

0:38.8

I'm just going to go do something on a whim.

0:40.2

It's like, well, we got to, we got to make sure everything's all organized.

0:42.7

Schedule and reschedule and communicate.

0:45.7

And it was awesome.

0:46.4

It was, I'm really happy that he's able to take the time to share some of his knowledge,

0:51.8

which is really cool. Yeah, you know, I originally sort of

0:54.8

interacted with him on Instagram, um, through different posts and stuff like that. And then I

1:00.4

started following his stuff. And, uh, you know, he's kind of, um, obviously he rep, he's in a

1:06.8

position that very similar to Dana White in the sense that he's the, he's the front man.

1:10.7

Yes. For this big fighting organization, right White in the sense that he's the he's the front man for this big fighting organization right but the way that he approaches is a little is a little

1:16.5

different and it's a little bit more my taste not not that I have anything against day

1:20.8

white I don't yeah I have don't care um but I like people that when you hear them speak

1:26.5

you become kind of inspired around them.

1:28.1

Sure.

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