Mixed martial arts

young.

But on the other end of the spectrum also, the Singapore MMA fighter Tiffany Teo, she won Singapore's gold medal.

Wow.

First gold medal of the games in MMA.

The first time MMA is in the Asian Games.

Yeah.

I also watched the match and I think there was some controversy in the semifinals against India and all.

So shout out to her because I think I have watched her, I think we have watched her fight before in one FC.

But that doesn't happen.

An example of that might be the classic MMA underdog story where the guy gets angry because the bully beat him up or stole his girl and he goes and kind of learns on his own but goes into a MMA gym finally to find out that he doesn't know grappling or he doesn't know Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

He has the gumption and the motivation to go and do the thing but he needs to discipline it he needs to be able to wrangle it within the existing format so there's this sort of um wild brilliance that people come in with but it still needs to be honed in that way yet it seems that it's something that is self-generated at the moment is already perfect it blooms and blossoms into something that was better than it ever could have been

right right no that's exactly

Probably the

worst MMA cards of all time coming up.

So there's some good fights on the horizon, but not in the near future.

So that's why we had to get some UFC talk in now because it'll probably be – Probably be a few weeks, maybe a month before we bring up the UFC back on the podcast.

We don't know nothing else.

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I am Gilbert.

That is David.

Which I get, 'cause you're gonna bump it in at some point.

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But everybody, I think this loss brought the world, brought the MMA community together.

Is the war over?

So it doesn't take much to know where he's from, mashallah.

This brother is an MMA fighter in the UFC.

He got his start, or at least big start, uh opportunity when he was on the contender series um he has won multiple championships across many different formats as you can see i'm i got the photo probably floating somewhere above my head here Mashallah, this brother is all about the fight game, but he's very humble.

He does a lot with the humanitarian work that's happening around the world.

My last name is actually Abdul Kareem Mubarak.

But I always represented Silwad from day one in my career, and I just got known as a Silwadi.

I'm very proud of my Palestinian roots since I was a kid and I got into MMA because I just loved MMA and I love fighting and then immediately I began to connect the two where I'm going to represent Palestine and I'm going to use MMA as my platform to bring awareness to my people.

And that's why I'm literally a walking Palestinian flag.

He grew up undocumented, surrounded by poverty, violence, drugs, and incarceration before eventually receiving his green card and finding a different path through fighting and arts.

Diego built a professional MMA record of 7-1, competing for organizations, let me know if this is right, including Bellator, correct? Yes.

And defeating former UFC champion Jens Pulver.

After a detached retina threatened his eyesight and ended his MMA career, he entered the newly revived world of professional bare-knuckle boxing.

but Diego is more than a fighter.

He's a painter, tattoo artist, writer, father, and drag performer known as Lola Pistola.

Yeah, we're going to talk about that.

These experiences helped shape his views on God, identity, artistic expression, and becoming a better human being.

Which is not UFC.

You've got others who came from MMA to WWE.

Some did alright.

Ronda.

You can talk about Ronda Rousey and WWE for days.

Shayna Baszler came from MMA world.

Matt Riddle came from the MMA world.

He's a crackpot and all.

Rakers almost plays out of the ring and he gets hit with a right hook.

MMA started to creep in.

Matt Serra's doing MMA.

I don't even think it was legal or it was popular.

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