Ian McCall

Wow.

Until a mutual friend of mine and I got in touch with Ian McCall, the former UFC fighter and We got along great because he's Catholic himself.

That's how we got talking.

I said, oh, I've seen on Instagram that you've got Athlete's Journey Home, which is a retreat that he does out.

Someone can come and heal me.

And I was having no luck with the NHS there.

lovely people, but just, nothing about concussions, sports injuries, and, they just wanted to feed me painkillers, and I was like, I don't want painkillers, I want to get better, and there was something in, telling me, I was like, fuck it, let's just go back to the gym, like, I'm well enough to, do some light exercise, which I know helped the brain, and Ian had told me, even just start doing push-ups, because if I fall, I just fall flat on my chest, it's not like I'm on a treadmill, or lifting weights above my head, and, i asked god for a sign he sent me a literal sign and it was for the body boost clinic where i'm at bartosh and it said

auction therapy

There you go.

Him and then Ian McCall.

We started with that group.

There was like maybe 12 of us.

John Dodson's one of those guys that stuck out in DJ's career.

But also, at one point, you know, well, before we get to that, DJ had a lot of fight of the night and performance bonuses, starting with that Ian McCall draw.

He fought Ian McCall twice.

Ian McCall, another guy, Uncle Creepy, if you remember back in the day.

They had a fight that came to a draw, and he got fight of the night for that.

And then DJ beat him in the... uh rematch so uh but yeah he had uh fight of the night bonuses and performance of the night bonuses all the way up until um you know like every fight or every other fight leading up until we get to uh kyoji Oh, no, he just kept continued throughout his career.

Uh, you know, he, he ended his career, uh, uh, as a champion in one championship with a title defense in there.

So he was in a, uh, on a three fight win streak getting out of, uh, you know, going into retirement.

You're not getting CTE.

You wanna have a long career, not..." You know, I never forget, when I fought Ian McCall the second, the first time in, uh, Australia.

Yeah.

And I was...