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joined by a former DN, Sean Merriman. A terrifying, D.M. Yeah, it's terrifying. Honestly, I know people

are probably like, what? This isn't like a former Chicago bear or something, but honestly, great conversation.

I loved it.

Yeah.

It was a really fun conversation.

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The show is UFC. I'm not paying that contract. If you get that offer, I'm not matching that one.

But we got Jake Babby on his card as well, Drake Flores on his card, Devin Simmons on his card as well.

So a lot of these guys will probably, you know, at some point in time, get a chance to go to that next level. But we got the best up and comers of the sport, man. So we'll be in Long Beach Saturday, get your tickets to Lights OutExcept.com. By the way, make sure y'all download Lights Out Sports TV. It'll be live on my streaming platform. Lights Out Sports TV available in all smart TVs, iOS, and Android.

So lights out extreme fighting. What made you want to start a fight league?

You know, so I started training in the mid-2000s with Jay Glaze during the Randy Gator.

Like, I just got in there. I didn't think that, you know, I grew up boxing in Prince George County, Maryland, my uncles and family, but I didn't think I was going to fall in love with the sport like that until I started training with Randy. And I think Tyrone Woodley was in the gym when he was first coming on. Tito Ortiz, Chuck LaDale. So I was around these guys in the mid-2000s. And so when I launched Lights Out Extreme Fighting, it was like my second home. I've always wondered what it's like in Glazer's Gym. Is it just a who's who? You just see everyone you know. Everyone's in Glazer's Gym or what? Yeah, it's great, man, but expensive as hell. He's got the right clientele for you guys can afford it. That's for sure. That's for sure. But you know, the funny part is, man, I talk to a lot of these, especially former athletes, because you hear about, you know, you hear about guys struggling and trying to figure out the next part. I'm like, man, go pick up some form of combat sports. Go box, go, you know, hit mitts, jujitsu, Muay Thai. I pick it up, man, because we all, that's the biggest thing the guys struggle with when they get done. It's like, there's nothing else to compete it. Idol hand syndrome, right? Yeah, and contact, you know, either getting punched in the face or punching somebody else in the face. Man, so you just, you like, you got, you missed just getting smashed in all the time. I mean, you were doing the smashing, to be fair, but you just you like you got you missed just getting smashed in all the time i mean you

were doing the smashing to be fair but you just missed all the contact huh yeah you know it's just

it's really the competition man because that is what made all of us and then you're sitting around

you know even now i'll be in some of these board meetings and somebody talking crazy across me i said

dude 10 years ago i would have probably super-crossed across this damn table. And it'll be legal, right? But no, it's, you know, I think that all guys should find that second act and doing something. Because sitting around is just, it kills you. Yeah, there's been like a handful of guys who have former NFL guys like Herschel Walker tried it. Greg Hardy tried it. Did you ever think about getting in like in a professional like or have you done that? Yeah, I mean, you know, I was I was actually about to take a fight with Bellator some years ago. They just couldn't come up with the money. And the problem was is that I was ahead of my time for the money I was asking for.

Now it's a drop in the bucket, right?

Because now Jake Paul and all these guys are doing his crossover.

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