UFC Light Heavyweight Khalil Rountree | WFAN Daily with Pete Hoffman

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🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Light Heavyweight Khalil Rountree sits down with Hoff to talk about his rise to the top of the division.

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0:00.0	Oh, no.
0:21.3	They see the lump. It's dented. Where'd you get that from? By the way, we're being joined right now by Khalil Roundtree who showed me. So what happened to your head, dude? Oh, man. I hit it on a pull-up bar and cut me open, 25 stitches, lots of blood. Wow. I'm healing from it now. It's not the worst thing you've ever been part of, though So I'm healing from it now.
0:21.6	Yeah.
0:24.0	It's not the worst thing you've ever been part of, though.
0:25.5	I've seen you in fights, bro.
0:27.6	You've got through some crazy wars before.
0:28.2	Yeah.
0:31.2	Just want to welcome Khalil Roundtree. I'm all fair I was telling you this, but one of my favorite fighters to see the path you
0:36.9	took to get to where you are right now.
0:39.2	One of the best light heavy weights in the world in the UFC.
0:43.3	Been excited about your career.
0:45.3	I was a favorite of yours just rooting for you to get onto the ultimate fighter,
0:50.8	just to get to win that championship, to win that part of your career, but then to see you flourish in the UFC's been amazing. So I just want to say, I mean, congratulations on everything, bro. Thanks, P. I appreciate that, man. It's, it's nice to hear, especially the guys that have been around for a long time because it's been, it's been a long been a long road yeah and take us through the journey
1:12.7	obviously right now we'll get to the fight stuff a little bit but like tell people that people
1:17.0	did that didn't know about your your path to the ufc and the ultimate fighter like you're a ripped up
1:24.5	yoked dude but before that you that was not who you were before you got to the ultimate
1:30.5	fire. Tell people about your life. Yeah, I was a 305 pound 19 year old kid, it felt like, you know,
1:40.1	super unhealthy lifestyle, bad choices. All of the like just like depression and insecurities
1:48.0	kind of led me to finding out about m mma my brother showed it to me encouraged me to join and
1:54.5	sign up give it a shot uh i ended up loving it and uh my coaches encouraged me to take an amateur fight.
2:05.1	I took an amateur fight about three, four years later, I was fighting professionally.
2:11.8	And then with only three or four professional fights, the ultimate fighter came around.
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