Episode 5: Kamaru "The Nigerian Nightmare" Usman

The ETCs with Kevin Durant

Boardroom Podcast Network & Cadence13

Sports, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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This week KD and Eddie talk to the undisputed UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman. Kamaru discusses his origins in wrestling – including losing to a girl for a month while he learned the sport -– and his transition to MMA. Kevin and Kamaru reveal their mindset when facing a loudmouth opponent in a true grudge match, and their motivation even after reaching the highest heights of their sports. Plus Kamaru discusses the #EndSARS movement in his native Nigeria, his future opponents and so much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody. This is the Exeteras podcast with Kevin Durant. As always, I'm your co-host, Eddie Gonzales.
0:15.2	Kay, how you doing, man? You're in the news this week again.
0:19.3	No, no, bro, I'm good, good, what's going on?
0:23.2	Nothing much, man.
0:24.8	Happy having you back on the East Coast.
0:26.8	You're getting back to work soon.
0:27.8	How you feeling about the season, man?
0:29.3	How you feeling about the way it came about, getting started here in about a month, right?
0:34.7	And you're gonna get almost a full season.
0:37.0	You gotta be anxious to get back on the court.
0:39.5	Yeah, man, looking forward to me, man.
0:40.9	It's been a long time.
0:42.4	Definitely been working
0:44.2	comparing it get to this point so we gonna see man you gonna see looking forward to
0:49.2	the see yeah man the rumor is you're ready everybody you look good, everybody that's been on the court with you,
0:55.2	everybody that's been in the gym.
0:57.2	Zed Thomas had a lot of nice things to say.
1:00.2	Everybody's saying you look like you're ready.
1:01.6	You feel like you ready, you're ready, you're ready feel like you ready? You're ready to be back out there
1:04.4	Process man. I gotta hit some checkpoints. You know I've been playing a game playing pickup and now is about this time for real game so we're going to see why I'm at.
1:13.4	And this is easily the longest you've went without actual game action right?
1:17.0	Yeah, long as I went.
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