Paige VanZant from UFC to Bare Knuckle FC, meeting with WWE at the Performance Center, how she stays so positive

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Paige VanZant talks to Chris Van Vliet from her home in Coconut Creek, Florida ahead of her Bareknuckle FC debut against Britain Hart at KnuckleMania. She talks about her first memories of fighting and why she was drawn to it, being trained by Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock, getting signed to UFC at 19 years old, why she felt that Bareknuckle FC was the best choice for her to go after UFC, how different the training is for Bareknuckle compared to MMA, what her husband Austin Vanderford's thoughts were when she told him she wanted to sign with BKFC, the conversations she's had with WWE and her visit to the Performance Center, appearing on Chopped and Dancing With The Stars and much more! Support the show by supporting our sponsors! Get your energy back, sleep better, and block out the unhealthy effects of blue light with BLUblox. Get free shipping worldwide and 15% off by going to https://blublox.com/CVV or enter code CVV15 at checkout. If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.2	Welcome to the show.
0:46.6	If you're new here, I'm Chris Van Fleet, a four-time Emmy Award-winning TV host, and I'm fascinated
0:52.4	with how people are wired to achieve greatness.
0:56.0	On each episode of Insight, we have in-depth conversations and reverse-engineer the habits
1:01.0	and techniques of the world's top athletes, actors, entrepreneurs, fighters, you name it.
1:07.4	If they are the best at what they do, I want to get their insight so we can apply it
1:12.5	to our own lives. And I'm pretty excited about this one today because we have a bona fide bad
1:19.7	ass on the show. You probably know Paige Van Zant from her time in UFC. And she got signed to
1:25.9	UFC when she was just 19 years old, had her first fight there when she was 20. And now she's about to make her debut for Bare Knuckle FC. And you want to talk about fate. Listen to this. This is how her career started. Her dad was an MMA fan, and she decided to enroll at a gym in Reno, Nevada where she was living.
1:46.0	Oh, that gym, that MMA gym happened to be owned by UFC Hall of Famer Ken Jamrock.
1:52.9	Crazy.
1:54.3	We talk about her UFC career, what her training looks like now, why she decided to choose
1:59.5	bare knuckle over all of the other options.
2:02.3	One of those options was WWE.
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