Brian Ortega's life threatening weight cut, escaping the ER, and battling legends in the UFC octagon

There's been over, what, a decade that I've been in the UFC, and I've just sacrificed everything.

You do have this aura to you still that I think so many UFC fans gravitate towards.

It went from no cutting, to slight cutting, to crazy big cuts.

That's near death.

And they're like, "Yo, take these IVs out.

Aljo still will fight you as long as you're not over 155."

So you could have stayed in, fully recovered, hydrated, had the IVs.

Like, I could have stayed there, yeah.

You had to make a decision in the hospital.

You have to be replaying this over and over again.

How did Volk not tap with that arm triangle?

You get in, you have the, the head and arm.

Perfect choke.

Now it's gone.

Yeah, he made all this money and all the rest of it, but the mind's the most powerful tool.

Doesn't matter who you are, bro.

Respect is, is, is something that I give to everyone.

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What's going on, guys? We are back with another episode of the Jackson Podcast, and today we have a certified legend, a complete gangster in the UFC.

Everybody knows his name.

The one and only Brian "T-City" Ortega.

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Yeah, let's go.

[clapping]

Come on.

T-City.

Come on.

T-City.

The quietest in the building.

That's it.

You already know what it is, man.

I'm about to walk out, bro.

Come on.

Let him know what time.

Let him know.

Girls.

We've been talking about it.

We've been talking about it.

Some of the best style on your feet-

Yo, I need you guys-

... on the ground

...

I'm about to walk out, dog.

You see that shit? [laughs]

Yeah.