Crime in Sports - #197 - Hard To Defend - The Irritableness of Anthony "Rumble" Johnson
Episode Date: February 25, 2020This week, we check out a fighter, with fierce reputation, in the ring, and a less than stellar reputation, outside of it. He came from a less than ideal background to make it to the top leve...l of MMA, but little things, like pesky arrests kept getting in the way. From his history, let's just say that he seems to have a slight problem with women, and leave it at that. Bruised girlfriends, and flying yogas mats are his specialty. But will that lose him his job, or will it be pushed aside? Make up your own nickname, knock people out in less than a minute, and never stand for unauthorized yoga, in your area with Anthony "Rumble"Johnson!! Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!! Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsportscrimeinsports@gmail.comfacebook.com/Crimeinsportsinstagram.com/smalltownmurder See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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We have an MMA fighter tonight, mainly UFC, too.
Another UFC guy.
It is Anthony Johnson.
No.
Rumble.
Anthony Rumble Johnson.
No.
He is a light heavyweight guy.
Oh, that Anthony Rumble Johnson.
Knockout artist type of guy.
Yeah.
UFC people apparently really know this guy.
Yeah.
He started after you got out of it.
Really?
Because I know you used to be into UFC.
Yeah, like 04 to 07, somewhere in there. Yeah, this is right out. He started right at the end of that. Really? Because I know you used to be in the UFC. Yeah, like 04 to 07, somewhere in there.
Yeah, this is right out.
He started right at the end of that.
Okay.
So you just missed him.
Just missed him.
Just missed him.
Right after Rampage was getting arrested in Vegas, that's when I was like, enough with
this shit.
I can't do it.
I had, around that time, 2007, I lived in this house and there was an MMA fighter who
lived up the street from me.
Oh, boy.
And I knew that because on his truck, he had the whole entire back window was a big decal
of his truck of a million dollar bill with his picture on it.
He didn't know.
With his picture on it.
He didn't know that doesn't exist.
Oh, no.
A million dollar bill with his picture on it and then his nickname, which was Chocolate
Thunder.
Oh, Christ.
And I tried to find the guy at one point
a white guy so bad no no he was a very very thick black dude and uh i tried to find him but there's
like 75 ufc or mma fighters that go by chocolate thunder it's a very common very common nickname
it's like sugar and box yeah i couldn't find him at all it's just everybody's chocolate thunder
guy's like one in three i'm chocolate thunder you don't get a nickname if you're one in three sir i'm sorry you just don't that's great
so this is anthony kiwoa johnson uh okay rumble anthony rumble johnson he's a hawaiian guy no
absolutely not he is a k-e-w-o-a oh i don't know he's a black dude from georgia really he is not
a hawaiian guy by any stretch of the imagination.
Might be like some African name.
Black guy, rural.
Maybe.
Black guy, rural Georgia.
So there you go.
He's from Dublin, Georgia.
Ever hear of Dublin, Georgia?
Nope.
Sounds exceedingly wise.
Yeah.
It's just as well.
It started by Irish people.
That's why.
I don't think there's a lot of Irish people left, probably.
If they are, they're not admitting it.
No.
I ain't no Irish.
What are you talking about?
I'm turning like one.
No, I'm saying.
Ain't no goddamn Catholic.
So, yeah, it's a small town in central Georgia, like southeast of Atlanta over there.
Georgia, isn't that where Rome was at, too?
Yeah, that's northwest.
Do they have any cities there that are named after, you know, their own? No, it's all, there's Athens, Georgia, too? Yeah, that's northwest. Do they have any cities there that are named after their own?
No, there's Athens, Georgia, too.
Yeah, it's all these fucking European cities.
European cities, that's it.
That's all they name their shit after.
Where's France, Georgia?
That's it.
There's no, I don't know, Atlanta is, I'm sure, well, probably something off of something Greek.
I don't know.
I'm sure it is.
Like Atlantis.
Let's not say it like that.
I mean, it's on the ground, though.
It ain't under the sea. So, I mean, let's not say it like that i mean it's on the ground though it ain't under the sea
so i mean let's not be silly here shit so uh he was born um he was born in the 84 like we said
march 6th 84 in georgia here uh good background info from espn.com too there's the only place
that had really good background info on him. He has four older sisters, actually.
He's the first boy born.
So there's four girls born before him, then a boy, and then he has a younger sister after that.
So he's one of six and the only boy.
That's so much.
Which is a lot.
Yeah, that's a lot.
And to be the only boy with five girls or to be the only girl with five boys, either way, that's...
It'd be a dream as a boy because all your sisters got friends. You know what I mean? Yeah, but at the same time, they're also going to that might be a dream. Or to be the only girl with five boys. Either way, that's... It'd be a dream as a boy. Because all your sisters got friends.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, but at the same time, they're also going to treat you like a doll.
Probably.
Because you're the little...
If you were the older brother, it'd be different.
But there's four older sisters.
Oh, this kid's worn a bra.
They're going to put...
Oh, they have put him up and they've said, we're going to make you our own little Barbie.
Right.
And they have put makeup, which is fine.
But as a little boy, that might not be what you feel like doing at the time.
Maybe you do, but maybe you don't.
It's a bit of torture.
Either way, you don't have any goddamn choice if you have four older sisters.
That shit is happening.
You're putting it on.
That shit is happening.
Get in the sundress, Anthony.
Period.
Let's go.
Let's go, Rumble.
Up on the pedestal.
We've got to measure you for this sundress.
I'm going to trim this hem up.
Your eye shadow looks like shit, Anthony.
Let's go.
We've got to help you out with that.
Stop crying.
The mascara's running.
Oh, for Christ's sake.
He's such a baby.
You're such a bitch.
Yeah.
God, he's such a bitch.
Stop being a bitch, Anthony.
He doesn't remember living with any of these people.
Of course.
No, he's shutting that shit out.
Well, it only went up to age two.
Yeah.
So that's the problem.
He left. His grandparents adopted him went up to age two. Yeah. So that's the problem. He left.
His grandparents adopted him at age two.
Wow.
Yeah.
There's apparently, okay, there was a problem here with his mother.
His mother apparently had a bit of a drug problem and wasn't the most reliable of people going.
And yeah, there was an incident where details aren't completely clear.
But in the end, basically, she said she was washing clothes in a bathtub, which I don't know.
And the water was very, very hot.
Oh, shit.
And his mother has told him. We're not sure.
This is just what his mother has told him.
Who knows what the real thing is that he fell into the water.
Either way way he suffered
burns on his whole body as a infant how hot as a toddler that's what i mean how hot can you get
bath water you got to put boil you got to boil it on the pot and then put it in and even then
you'd have to keep boiling it and keep putting it in and that would cool off by the time you put
more boiling water in it would because it takes a while for water to boil right you know what i
mean at that 20 minutes it's probably cooled off, it would cool all spread out in a tub.
Yeah, that's how you would cool something off.
Like in a restaurant, when they want to cool out, they put it in a big pan, in a big wide pan, so it's shallow.
It cools off fast.
So that sounds like bullshit.
I don't know what it is, and he doesn't know.
This is what his mother told him, who I'm sure was trying to make herself look as less irresponsible as possible.
You don't say, like, well, I was freebasing.
Right.
And whoo boy,
I'll tell you,
the whole thing just exploded
all over the child.
Have you heard of Richard Pryor?
That's what I mean.
Basically, let me,
hold on, sit down, son.
There's a Richard Pryor bit
I want to show you.
See that?
Now replace all that shit
he was saying with you.
And that's what happened.
And the person doing drugs with me.
With me.
Hey.
Hey. There we go. Do you get it? I explained it. Nice the person doing drugs with me. With me. Hey. Hey.
There we go.
Do you get it?
I explained it.
Nice talk, son.
Good talk.
Gives him a hug.
Take care.
Off to your grandma's house.
Jesus Christ.
So apparently his grandparents took him in after that.
That's at that point.
They said he later says that if his grandparents didn't take him, his estate was taking him
away from his mom and going to put him in foster care.
Either way, he was leaving his mom.
So, yeah, he
apparently, between
all the kids that
there was, there ended up being ten children,
he's the only one adopted
by his grandparents. Really? So, I don't know if that's
because he was a boy. I don't know if they thought something
for some reason back then. I don't know.
It wasn't like it was 1945. Drew Straws or some shit? I don't know. because he was a boy. I don't know if they thought something for some reason back then. I don't know. It wasn't like it was 1945.
Drew straws or some shit.
I don't know.
Or he was the only one with head to toe burns all over his body.
And they were like, he seems to be in the most danger.
Let's get him out of there.
I don't know what it was.
Get the run to the litter.
Yeah, that's the thing.
He said he stayed in contact with his family for a little bit.
But by age six, though, he said he just kind of lost contact with his siblings and his family
poor bastard yeah he said quote there was a time when my siblings could have walked up to me and
we could have had a conversation and i wouldn't have recognized them as my blood so that's so
that's really weird that's weird that's super strange man um that's just fucked up it's fucked
up yeah it's it's sad it's horrible it's very sad and that's i mean jesus christ obviously if you have a drug problem of any kind people should probably try not to have
10 kids that'd be nice that would help a lot i would say because you know you're it's a lot of
responsibility right i have two and it's overwhelming it really is overwhelming so i don't
have a crack i don't have any drug problem at all like nothing that would hinder my ability to take
care of these kids and it is just exhausting so if you have 10 kids and a drug problem at all. Nothing that would hinder my ability to take care of these kids. It is just exhausting.
If you have 10 kids and a drug problem.
Oh, my God.
Oh, boy.
Jesus.
You really don't have 10 kids if you got a drug problem.
You have 11.
That's also how you make 10 kids disappear.
Yeah, that's the other thing.
You go into a room, you shut that door, and then no more kids.
Yeah, they get taken away.
All of a sudden, I'm single.
By the state and grandparents and everything else.
No, it's fucked up.
Watch Dope Sick Love, like we've talked about before.
Watch Dope Sick Love.
That is an exhausting...
I'm not saying his mom was like that, but I mean, any sort of drug addiction is a really
exhausting lifestyle.
It's just tiring.
Didn't that chick have kids, too?
Oh, shit, yeah.
They went up and saw the one.
He lived where I'm from.
Right.
He lived in fucking Wappingers Falls.
Yeah, they went to the village of Wappingers.
I'm like, oh, Jesus.
Oh, boy.
Jesus.
I knew exactly.
Of course she's from there.
I knew that's where her kid lives.
I'm like, I know exactly where that is.
I've been there.
Oh, I've hung out there.
That kid would know that kid probably because he's, I'm sure, a fuck up.
Would know that kid probably because he's, I'm sure, a fuck up.
So just judging by the fact that he had that, it was like a shitty Plymouth laser that he peeled out in as he took off.
And I'm like, yeah, there's Wappinger.
That's my boy.
There he is.
About to go careening to a telephone pole.
And keep going.
And then, well, he's going to lead the officers on a chase, obviously.
I don't know if it's on foot or in the car.
We don't know.
But you're not going to stop.
Yeah.
That's not what they do there.
How much damage a telephone pole does there.
Come on.
Fuck out of here.
So he had an interesting upbringing, obviously.
He said his grandfather became his best friend, which is.
I could see it.
Well, yeah.
It's his hero, for sure.
Yeah, kind of a rescued him, I guess.
He said, though, his grandfather was an old school dude,
and tough love was the order of the day.
He stayed in Georgia?
This is in Georgia also?
This is in Georgia, yeah.
He says that he can recall, quote, many whoopins in his youth.
Yeah.
He got lots of whoopins, yeah.
He was an old Southern man. Old Georgian old georgian whooped his ass yeah um he said one time he
forged his grandfather's signature on a bad report card oh don't you dare yeah that oh boy uh when
his teacher questioned it he told her that his grandfather was old and had sloppy had sloppy
handwriting yeah oh he's just old and writes like he's eight.
Writes like an eight-year-old
with his left hand. It's super weird.
You know how eight-year-olds, it's weird.
You write well and then you revert back to
funny block letters and shit when you're
Apparently she didn't buy that.
You apparently write like an eight-year-old
when you're older and she called his house to confirm
are you in fact old and terribly infirmed and not able to write in a legible hand?
How's your penmanship, sir?
He said, quote, she signed my death certificate right there.
So father and grandfather beat the living shit out of old Rumble here.
So that's, which I mean, most kids would get their ass kicked for that one, of any ilk.
Of course.
But then, especially in the South, you're getting your ass whooped.
So, yeah, that's the type of upbringing he had.
But he doesn't talk about his grandparents like it was some sort of, you know, I was abused or anything like that.
He just kind of takes it like, oh, I got some tough love there.
I probably deserved it.
Right.
They took a Southern hard line with them yeah and as i don't know i know a lot of uh especially boys i don't
know girls as much in this because i'm not a girl but some boys need an ass kicking yeah a lot of
them don't and they'll turn you turn them into a monster but some boys will go jesus thank god i
got my grandfather smacked me around a couple times i woke woke me up. It's 50-50. You never know.
Sometimes I feel that way.
It's like the father.
You could either run away and get away from there as soon as possible or stay and beat
the living shit out of anybody with an arm's reach.
Everybody in the house.
You can do that.
This is sort of the same thing.
You can do one or the other.
It's a weird thing.
Or you leave.
You might beat him and it'd be good.
You might beat him and it's going to be bad.
Or you abandon them with a single mother yeah and uh and she has to struggle and
she's around she's out working two three jobs and the kids are just left alone anyway and sometimes
that turns them into uh you know professional something something good and sometimes that
turns them into criminals you never know it depends on the kid that's the fucked up part
there is no uh there's no set thing here so uh
he ends up growing up pretty big uh as opposed to his grandfather probably don't want to start
trying to whoop him too much yeah when he's an adult he's about six two two hundred five pounds
and he is jacked yeah he's fucking jacked he when he fights uh every time he's one of these guys
that fights under his weight so he's always
trying to cut 30 pounds so he looks ripped all the time because he's you know heavier than that
and he cuts all his weight he's always got six pack and fucking ripped muscles wandering around
with one of those spit bottles always yeah probably losing weight yeah that's what they do
it's crazy a lot of weight and spit apparently i. I guess. Yeah. I might be, listen, I'm about 40 pounds overweight.
It might all be spit.
I don't know unless I try.
You know what?
When you're done with that soda, just keep that can with you.
Just fill it up.
Fill it up.
Fill it up, chief.
That's it.
No chewing, just spitting.
No chewing, just spitting.
No more water, no more food, just spit.
We'll see how it goes.
See how much weight I drop.
You'll lose weight.
Oh, I'm sure I will.
You'll die soon, but you'll lose weight.
glucose see how much weight you'll lose weight oh i'm sure i will you know you'll die soon but you'll lose weight so uh young anthony goes to college uh which most of our mma fighters it's
usually not their story that's rare they usually don't go to college but if they do it's usually
in this type of capacity community he goes to community college lassen community college
where he is national junior college uh 174 pound wrestling champion wow so
yeah he's a nasty wrestler yeah which is weird because later on he's he's more he's known for
his knockout punches and shit like he's a knockout guy he's not really known for his grappling but
he's a national junior college athletic association national champion in 2004 now he becomes before he
starts fighting he's gotta he's like's like, I can't just be Anthony
Johnson. Let me tell you something.
There's a lot of those. There is a shitload
of Anthony Johnson's. It's hard to stand out with that name.
There's so many Anthony Johnson's. When you're looking for
specific Anthony Johnson's, it's really
difficult because there's a shitload of them.
It really helps if they have a catchy nickname
that other Anthony Johnson's might not have.
So, yeah, he
picks Rumble as his nickname.
This is a self-given nickname.
Oh, he picked it.
He picked it.
He likes it.
So this is, yeah, this is one of those where we've talked a lot about, you know,
whether you give a nickname or self, this is a self-given nickname.
And you want to find out how?
I'd love to hear it.
You know what?
Let's let him tell it.
Okay.
What do you say?
Let's do it in their own words and find out exactly where the hell rumble came from.
In their own words, quote, I was sitting around bored one day and was thinking of a name that
would fit me.
They have cabbage, rampage, shogun, and ninja.
So why can't we have a rumble?
What?
There's a cabbage?
Apparently there's a cabbage.
Yeah, but a rumble is a specific thing.
Right.
That's why.
A shogun is a person.
Right.
A ninja is a person.
Right.
Like a cabbage.
I guess you could call someone a cabbage.
It's an individual item anyway.
It's almost an ear.
Yeah.
I mean, a rampage, one person can rampage, I suppose.
Yeah, let's rampage Jackson.
I mean, one person, he's talking about.
One person can rampage, so that's fine.
But a rumble.
You need two for that.
You need a rumble.
Yeah.
You need a lot of people getting together rumbling. At least two or more. I want chains and shit going with a rumble you need two for that you need a there's a rumble you need like a lot of people getting together rumbling at least two or more i want chains and shit going with a rumble if you're
gonna rumble you gotta slick your hair back you gotta get a chain yeah you're gonna triton
ah christ i'm with a leather jacket you know what rumbles are too expensive i don't have enough
money to participate in a rumble i have to get an old car friends for a rumble chains i gotta get
jackets i gotta find another gang with
the same amount of gang members otherwise it'll be unfair we have to agree to a place and a time
and weapons that we're going to be able to use and the whole thing it's very complicated too much
jesus i gotta buy that grease shit they put in their hair it's not gel no it's loose it's like
yeah i don't know what that is i don't know i gotta buy that dapper dan i'm a dapper dan man
oh man this is gonna be this is gonna suck dude this is gonna suck we're not rumbling so that's like you can't
be a rumble but he's a rumble apparently one man rumble don't let people don't nickname yourself
no okay let other people nickname you it's always bad you you're anthony johnson if you were any
good the second you got in a promotion they'd be like let's give this guy a nickname and someone
will come up with something better than this.
Go with The as the middle name.
Yeah, The Anthony, The Johnson.
Yeah.
Anthony Swinging Johnson.
Lengthy.
Take that one.
Swinging Lengthy Johnson.
Anthony The Girth Johnson.
The Girth Johnson.
Anthony Like a Firehose Johnson. Like a Veiny Firehose Johnson. Anthony like a fire hose Johnson.
Like a veiny fire hose Johnson.
You know, names like that.
Oh, God.
So August 18, 2006, he makes his pro fighting debut here.
This is Pangea Fights 2.
It's in Hollywood, California.
He lives out in California for a while.
He moves from Georgia, goes to Florida ends up training in Colorado
and California and in different spots
puts some money together obviously
yeah well he's trying, he fights Jonathan
Romero who is 1-0 coming in
so it's a new guy's fight
unfortunately for Jonathan Romero he'll be
1-1 for his career because this is his last
fight, TKO in round 1
at 1 minute 9 seconds and he
reconsiders his career options.
So maybe that training program at wherever the fuck isn't that bad.
Maybe I'll do that.
Maybe I'll be a stockbroker.
This isn't working out.
There's a job fair down at the servers market.
Real estate's interesting.
What makes a person want that house?
I want to find out.
Did you know every house sold, somebody that's selling it, somebody that's buying it, they
have to have agents.
Isn't that strange?
There's money involved.
You know what?
I think I'll do that.
No one punches you and knocks you out in a minute, nine seconds either.
Sweet.
This sounds awesome.
Around here, he starts training with Ken Shamrock, who if you're an MMA or a wrestling fan, you
know who Ken Shamrock is because he was in WWF at the time forever when it was still
WWF. Now he's like 90. Yeah. He he still looks okay it's not too bad but it's
isn't he still like fighting yeah i think so i think he's still he'll say hello to you on on
cameo he will somebody sent us one that's right from ken shamrock doesn't look too bad no he looks
great they lied to him shape yeah whoever did it had him i forget who did it i think it may have
been jason fuller i don't remember but they had him they lied to him and yeah whoever did it had him i forget who did it i think it may have been
jason fuller i don't remember but they had him they lied to him and had him say some shit like
congratulations on your new business yeah but you were like huh but that was funny what are you
talking about but then he said cheer up bitch so that was a funny part someone got ken jamrock to
say cheer up bitch which is that's pretty classic it's pretty awesome so you
know what ken shamrock you're all right in our book because you said cheer up bitch so thumbs
up mister good job i like you and he's a decent wrestler actually for a guy who wasn't like a
wrestling pro wrestler background he came in and was pretty fucking good at it one of the best and
original ufc fighters and that's the other thing too, too. He was kind of a pioneer of MMA
in terms of getting fame.
He was one of the first big famous UFC fighters.
He's basically the Hulk Hogan of UFC.
Kind of, I guess you could say.
He was the original dude that everybody rooted for.
Maybe.
More like...
I'm trying to think.
I can't think of anybody earlier than him
that everybody was on board with.
He was like the Bruno San Martino of pre-Hulk Hogan
and then someone else probably got more famous on the show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Later on.
Yeah.
Because now-
That would be the Hulk Hogan would blow up later on.
Got it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So yeah, probably Bruno, though.
He's like the Bruno.
Or he's the fucking, the guy that killed a bitch.
Snooka?
Yeah.
The Snooka?
I was going to say, I got to be more specific with wrestlers.
You know what I mean?
Everyone loves Snooka.
He was a beloved guy. Shamrock's kind of the same way. So Shamrock, to my knowledge- everyone loves Snuka he was a beloved guy
Shamrock's kind of
the same way
Shamrock
to my knowledge
I don't think he killed a bitch
has not killed
has killed
no one
bitch or not
I don't know
I don't know
he hasn't
he hasn't killed anyone
I know of
but he trained
so Anthony trained with Ken
Anthony says quote
training with Ken was okay
he was the first major trainer i had
being so new to the games i was pumped now that i'm not with that team anymore i feel i've learned
a lot more and met a lot of great people both well but overall it was okay and i don't regret
being there so they just had to pump up where he is now sounded like and want to be like no ken was
great these guys are all right but fuck ken's the's the shit. September 16, 2006, he's at the Rocky Mountain Nationals demolition, which it sounds like
there's a demolition derby that goes around a circle with a ring in the middle where guys
fight while cars are crashing around them.
That's what I see.
Or they're bringing down an old building and they're like, we can't get a crowd.
We need some...
Fuck it.
We got to get hype for this.
What's really popular?
Two guys beating the
shit out of each other we can put that next to the building in front of the building and then
you'll see a building falling back at them as they fight if we get a knockout at the same time the
building falls that's going to be awesome we'll make some money you never know maybe we'll build
build a rec center with the money there you go it'll be breaking too stuff out here it's breaking
too is what we're gonna do this. This is up in Denver. He fights
Rich Moskowitz, who's a
10-7 career fighter. This goes all
two rounds. Both rounds.
Unanimous decision here. 2-0
for Anthony. And then the same night
he's got to fight again. He fights Keith
Wilson, who's a 6-2
career fighter coming in. And he ends up a
6-3 fighter as Anthony
ends his career for him and
this is a this goes two rounds as well this is a majority decision for anthony making him three
and oh so uh he starts out pretty hot not too shabby june 12 2007 pretty i mean he's got three
fights under his belt fighting at the uh at the demolition derby right and then june 12 2007 he's
in ufc already quickly wow real quick he's in you
that's real fast zaina needed people apparently in 2007 they were looking for somebody i think
there was all i think there was a deluge of people retiring around then i don't know we're getting
close isn't that when the ultimate fighter started like around then they were like looking for trying
to it may have been a little bit before that 2006 i want to say was the beginning ultimate fighter
based on our previous episodes.
But everybody was starting to taper off of their careers.
Like Matt, fucking, I hated the guy Matt.
I don't know.
He's like a little hillbilly guy.
It doesn't matter.
I don't know any of these guys.
And George St. Pierre was starting to get to the end of his career.
All the draws were starting to leave.
Like Chuck Liddell, people like that. Need new people need to do some new blood in there and popular like faces that could
sell yeah well that's what yeah stars is what you need it's just two random dudes right each other
that's bj penn was about to see that at 7-eleven yeah you need you got some turnover yeah you need
people who are exciting all right so this is uh ufc fight night 10 stout versus fisher 2 this is UFC Fight Night 10, Stout vs. Fisher 2.
This is at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida.
Oh, boy.
And he fights Chad the Grinder Reiner.
Chad, I'm on Grinder Reiner here.
Jesus Christ.
Chad drug tests me because my nickname's The Grinder.
The Grinder, which is basically any drug you can use some sort of grinding for.
Ridiculous. 33 and 18 he comes in. That's his career. So he's not a pushover. which is basically any drug you can use some sort of grinding for.
33 and 18 he comes in.
That's his career.
So he's not a pushover.
He's not a schlub.
But Anthony treats him like he is.
He knocks this guy out with punches in 13 seconds.
Shit.
That was that for the grinder.
Wow.
Yeah.
His profile made him feel better that night.
Someone better.
I need to suck a dick after that hey
somebody kiss my boob please uh four and oh for rumble but that's a hell of a ufc debut hell yeah
that's the type of shit dana white likes to see because that's exciting people oh did you see that
shit the guy knocked him out in 13 seconds that is fascinating that in boxing like when like the
true boxing enthusiasts really loved watching fast knockouts but a lot of people were like i
wanted to go a long ways and then a knockout.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You want to see.
I'll get my money's worth.
Right.
I say a man almost got his head taken off with a punch.
That's your money's worth.
In seven seconds, you got your money's worth.
That's your money's worth.
This shit is, that's what they root for.
It's like they want the fastest fight ever.
That's what they want to see.
Otherwise, what do you want to see?
Guys fucking humping each other on the ground?
Is that what you want to see?
Making their ears awful.
Oh, good.
They're dry humping now.
This is terrific.
They all have more lumps in their ear now.
Grind your cock into his thigh.
I think he doesn't like that part.
Like, I get that what you're doing is technical and your forearm's fucking gross.
It's boring as fuck to watch.
I get that it's skilled and it takes talent and it's, you know, whatever.
I can't do it, but I don't want to fucking watch it either.
Sorry.
That's why I don't do it because I'm like, looks boring right i'd rather play basketball that's more exciting this
you know what i mean so i think that's why yeah they they do not want to see some fight that has
two guys grappling for four rounds that's not what they want to put on television i think it's just
the the the raw opportunity that at any moment one of these dudes might fucking that's always
exciting yeah that's always exciting at minimum a retina could come detached from a punch that's fucking nuts too that's what
i'm saying somebody can't see now because they got punched in the face all sorts of shit yeah
people that's what you want some excitement right that's why tyson was a huge star yeah people would
complain oh his knockouts are so fast and they would have to offer like unless the fight goes
three rounds we'll give you half your pay-per-view money back they actually had that with tyson because people stopped because people were
complaining yeah they were bitching about it crazy it's crazy you're you're you're signing
up to watch this guy tear someone apart we want him to take longer i don't get and what kind of
fucking sadistic bastard are you that you want to toy with him toy with it skin him first god damn
it toy with him get him real injured then go in for
the kill that's what i want to see don't get it over with i really like watching the discovery
channel when uh when i just like the chase when a leopard like kills a gazelle and it like just
tears the shit out of it for hours on end that's what i really like i realize what was just that
but not in the throat Just in the back,
just taking chunks of meat out.
Not actually taking its throat out or anything.
I want to watch him bleed out.
Yeah, that's what's fucked up. That's what I paid for.
That's what's fucked up.
Yeah, you want that.
You want to fast.
That's sick.
Yeah, that's what people want.
So September 22nd, 2007, UFC 76,
Knockout it's called.
Very creative.
They lost.
Wow.
Some marketing guy was like, Knockout.
Knockout.
Oh, shit.
How did we not think of that?
How did we not think about it in the first 75?
And this is the first one?
This is, yeah.
This is Knockout 1?
Knockout, yeah.
76 times it took them.
This is at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
He's fighting Rich No Love Clemente.
45-23
career, though.
That's a journeyman. Be careful of guys like that.
This fight goes into
the second round, and at 3-0-5
in the second round, old No Love
catches Anthony in a rear-naked
choke, and Anthony loses by
submission. So he goes to
4-1. But I mean, in UFC, that's one of the things people like about UFC, and that's exciting about and Anthony loses by submission. Oh, no. So he goes to four and one.
But, I mean, like in UFC, that's one of the things people like about UFC and that's exciting about UFC is anything can happen with that sort of thing.
Somebody, an underdog, can catch somebody quick and that's it.
It's over.
So that's very different than, I mean, obviously boxing,
you can get a knockout punch, but for the most part,
unless they're heavyweights, it's a little...
It's more any given Sunday
than the NFL. Yeah.
If it's 240-pound boxers, you're
probably not going to see a one-punch knockout.
If you do see a knockout, it's going to be
a combination that gets a guy
on the corner and really beats him until he falls
or the ref steps in. Or a guy thought he heard the bell and drops his
hands. Something like that, yeah. You don't
usually see the heavyweight one punch Mike Tyson.
Right.
You barely saw that left hook and that guy felt it though.
Knockout.
You know?
Shit like that.
It's at this point too, he's expanding his empire.
The Rumble Empire.
Oh?
He's expanding it into dogs.
What?
He's going to get into the dog business now.
Oh no.
Oh yeah.
It's March 2008.
Oh no. He does an interview and he says quote
i have an up-and-coming kennel for bully uh bully breed pit bulls you fucking asshole pulleys are
the short compact pits i recommend everyone should get we know all about him yeah well he's gonna
talk about michael vick here too yeah i've always had uh had love for the breed of pits and soon as
i got the had the chance of getting one i hopped on it
they are so loyal and the best friend anyone can have i don't believe in fighting any dog period
especially this breed like any dog it will only do what it's taught for example if you raise a
kid to be a killer he's going to be a killer it's dumb people like michael vick that give the breed
a bad a very bad name i take very good care of all my dogs and i treat them all the same
they uh all they look for is love and, and my girlfriend and I give that to them.
We spend as much time with them as possible, taking them to the dog park, keeping them social with other animals, and taking them to bully expos in SoCal.
I just got a new pup from Hectic Kennels in Southern California.
His name is King Yoda, and he's my show dog and play second in the first show.
The only dog to beat him was his brother and his name is homeboy.
Both have the best of blood in them.
Yeah.
And yeah, watch out for these two.
They're going to make some noise in the business in the near future.
So he's been reading show pit bulls.
Yeah.
That's what he's trying to do.
And also you if you raise a kid to be a killer, he'll be a killer.
What?
He's trying to just put kids in.
What the fuck is he talking?
Don't compare dogs to kids.
That's a little weird.
That's a bit much.
But I mean, you can raise a Dexter.
It's fair.
You can raise a kid to be a killer.
Well, who the fuck has tried that?
I don't think anyone specifically said, I'm going to breed this kid to kill for me.
That's my point.
That would be impressive.
How the fuck would he know?
Wow.
That's an idea.
Did he have that idea?
I think he just invented it.
I'm going to have kids someday.
I'm going to train them to kill for me.
I'm going to have a child kill swap.
No one will suspect that shit.
I'm going to get pit bulls and raise them to be lovers, and I'm going to have a kid
and train him to kill me.
Yeah, cute as fuck, too.
Kids are going to have cheeks.
Rosy as cheeks.
Cheeks.
Dimples and shit.
A little afro, make them cute as fuck. And I'm going to have cheeks. Rosy as cheeks. Cheeks. Dimples and shit. A little afro.
Make him cute as fuck.
And I'm going to have him kill pit bulls.
He'll stab a motherfucker.
I'm going to get him into dog fighting.
Get him into dog, not even fighting, just dog murdering.
Just ridiculous, completely.
Ridiculous.
So, April 2nd, 2008 is UFC Fight Night 13.
It is Florian versus Lauzon.
He fights Tom the Farm Boy Spear.
The Farm Boy.
I'm scared.
That's intimidating right there.
21-7 career record for this guy, though, so not bad.
I think I should have gone with Pickle.
Pickle.
Spear.
Tom the Pickle Spear.
Hell yeah.
It's better than the Farm Boy.
It is.
Yeah.
This fight does not go very long. He's back on the Pickle Spear. Hell yeah. It's better than the farm boy. It is. Yeah. This fight does not go very long.
He's back on the farm in no time.
51 seconds.
He loses by KO with punches.
Rumble beats the shit out of him here.
So five and one for Anthony.
July 19, 2008, UFC Fight Night 14, Silva versus Irvin.
He fights Kevin the Fire Burns.
Asshole. There you go go I said that and I just
put my hand down I'm like one two yep he'll get it in a second asshole thank you okay I wouldn't
say it they're not gonna say a word about that I'll let you uh all to yourselves he had so many
better pieces of shit yeah the fire the fire burns no shit, boy. 12-7 career record. This fight, Anthony gets poked in the eye early in the fight.
And he ends up being stopped in the third round to a TKO,
but it's after several more times he's been poked in the eye.
Oh, so it's like this guy's special move.
He's got the fire poker.
Yeah, he's got the eye poker.
He calls it the burning
stick and he just fucking jabs it into your eyeball that's what happens here he's a jerk
the fire and uh it's a loss here for but this is a fight where he's pissed off he later on after
this fight anthony will say this is bullshit this shouldn't have been a loss it should have been
either a no contest or if anything a dq right for me to the win because he's fucking poking me in the eye the whole time basically the only rule in that in ufc is no eye gouging and no biting
that's basically a ball punch i don't think you can ball punch or ball kick or ball kick is there
a difference at this point i think there's no no assaulting dicks and balls uh there's no eye
gouging and no biting but apart from from that, do whatever you want. Okay, that's interesting.
No cock assault.
That's for sure. No cock assault.
That's one.
Well, no, I think you can cock assault because Joe's son.
That's right.
He just lost by cock assault.
A man just spread his legs and pummeled his nutsack like eight times until the ref said,
Holy shit.
Called it.
There's no way he can take one
more he can't obviously he's not submitting because he can't speak he's being fucking
pummeled in the nutsack over and over and over again maybe cock assault is legal that probably
wasn't ufc though that's true maybe ufc has a and then maybe that was too early as an assault
cock weapon ban i'm not sure what it is.
I don't know.
It's disturbing here.
I don't remember.
But it's a loss for Rumble here.
So five and two for Anthony.
December 13th, 2008.
This is the Ultimate Fighter finale show, I guess.
He fights Kevin Burns again.
The eye poker.
This time he gets his revenge with a 28 third third round but third round 28
seconds in and he knocks uh knocks the fire out with a kick to the head knocks the fire out out
of him so anytime anyone gets knocked out from a kick to the head it's just like jesus christ
fucking crazy people just kicking each other in the head when they connect to what are we doing
it's fucking it's insane it's crazy that that shit's
legal like why are we allowing that but you can't poke somebody in the fucking eyeball i know why
you just kicked him in the head that seems like dirty
if you watch two guys get in a fight and one of them falls down the other one kicks him in the
head you go hey oh fuck that was kind of fucking shitty jesus christ that's a cheap move i thought we were doing this with yeah with uh we in the hell's angels
i thought there were disciplines in this that doesn't seem very disciplined at all kicking a
dude in the head seems tough and that's what it is and i p i get a lot of messages because we've
done a shitload of mma and boxing and I get messages where people are like, you know, why don't you like MMA?
And why don't you like MMA?
Look, it's not an intellectual decision to not.
When I watch it, I get the same feeling.
And I'm not saying it is the same because these are skilled people.
They train for years.
I completely understand that.
But I get the same feeling as I get if two guys are fighting in a 7-Eleven parking lot.
I'm uncomfortable with it.
Don't get 2 a.m.
Yeah, I'm uncomfortable because someone's going to fall and hit their head and fucking
their brains are going to leak on the fucking ground.
It's just one of those things.
It makes me uncomfortable.
When I see it, I get uncomfortable because it doesn't seem right.
It seems like, is someone going to stop these two guys?
Somebody's going to fucking die tonight.
This doesn't seem right.
And see, that lack of appeal to you is exactly what the appeal is that's the appeal oh we could
see this whereas i'm i don't like world star shit i don't like any of that no i don't want to see
people get fucking pummeled i don't know i don't want to watch people get sucker punched that's
the thing and a lot of times in the ufc it feels like a sucker punch and that's what it is because
they're not it's not it's because it's so loose and you're allowed to kick in the head or dive at ankles and do whatever you want
it's it's not two guys like standing facing each other like i'm here to punch you you're
gonna punch me and we know what each other are gonna do whoever gets it in first win you can
literally run and knee somebody in the face as they're on all fours trying to get up that's what
i mean that does not seem like a fucking discipline.
That's my point, and I know it is.
I get that, but my brain doesn't react to that when it sees it. I see that, and I go, fuck you, man.
Yeah, that's not cool.
You're a dick.
If he was our friend, there'd be 30 dudes who would want to knock the shit out of you.
We'd have a rumble.
We'd all pop the trunk on you.
That's what I'm saying, goddammit.
Yeah, whereas boxing but for
whatever reason you could say it's boring or it's fine i just for whatever even my brain for whatever
reason my brain doesn't react like that to boxing i don't know what it is it's more of like a i don't
know if it's a rock'em sock'em robot thing or what it is but you're just like we have these gloves on
a that are bigger i know that you'll get knocked out and hurt and if you listen to a boxer talk you'll
understand that it's not safe i'm not saying it's safer or better just saying my brain instinctually
reacts differently to it right it's more like a contest than the other thing is more like let's
see what happens if we put these two in a cage i don't know i just judge the uh the the event and
the um i even hate to say it because it's going to make people mad. But listen,
I judge the class of the
event by the fucking amount
of suits in the audience. Yes.
If it's a major event. Right. If it's class
and rather than... This is coming from people who
don't wear suits.
We just don't go to these events though.
I'm just saying there's a lot of leather bracelets in
a UFC audience and that's weird.
You're right. It's a lot of leather bracelets in a ufc audience that's weird that is you're right you're right it's a different it's a different thing
it's just and we're not saying it's i mean it's no better or worse we're not sticking our noses
up at it exactly i'm not saying like everyone has to be in a suit like it's a you know a mandalay
bay boxing fucking match or anything like that there's still classy fucking people at a ufc
fight there's plenty of them yeah but it's plenty of them. But not in the upper deck.
No.
It's a diverse crowd, let's say, in terms of thoughts and things like that.
It's a diverse crowd.
So that's the thing.
And you can't lump MMA fans in one thing.
You can't say they're all this because they're not all that.
There's people who are
very intellectual that are into it there's people who are it's just it's how it affects your brain
so what we're saying is we're not judging you if you like it at all brain doesn't respond to it
it's all good i just don't get it i don't understand i used to like it just because of
that aspect because i was so angry and i just wanted to watch people get hurt and i was like
i don't give a shit fucking kill him yeah and now i'm just not in that place anymore yeah because i've had two children yeah i'm like
yeah let's make the world a little nicer let's calm down let's not have everybody punching each
other here let's have a limit on the beers that we ingest jesus christ maybe it's time seventh
inning's a good time to cut it off i think right yeah let's cut off the sales in the seventh i
gotta drive home with these kids later i don't want your drunk ass on the road with me.
How about the last undercard?
We stop selling beer there?
How about there?
Perfect.
The main event can go quick.
Jesus Christ.
So February 7th, 2009, it's UFC Fight Night 17, Lauzon versus Stevens.
Again with Lauzon.
Lauzon again.
He fights Luigi, the Italian tank, Fioravanti.
He really is.
Oh!
This fucking guy, the Italian tank, Fioravanti.
Fioravanti.
Fioravanti!
It's a Luigi Fioravanti.
He could certainly delete the word Italian out of there. We get it. Luigi Fioravanti he could certainly delete the word italian out of there we get it
luigi fioravanti yeah you sound like a fucking pasta brand it's a bit redundant my favorite
mostacholi is the fioravanti's i never get any other brand the barilla sucks to check goes no
good the fioravanti it's a couple extra bucks i'm not gonna lie to you but the fucking taste
yeah you're gonna be happy you got it i'm just saying luigi fioravanti is It's a couple extra bucks. I'm not going to lie to you, but the fucking taste. You're going to be happy you got it.
I'm just saying.
Is that that German tank?
No, no. It's the Japanese tank.
Luigi, right? Luigi the Fioravanti.
The Thailand tank,
I believe I heard he is, right?
We get it, Luigi.
We knew. There was nobody that
thought you were from somewhere else.
It's Luigi Fioravanti, he's a come for you.
Hey.
This fucking asshole.
This fucking guy.
You green old boombox fucking jerk off.
Look at this fucking guy.
We knew what you were, Luigi.
Oh, for the love of Christ.
We've all played Mario Brothers, motherfucker.
Calm down.
Oh, my God.
There's not a single person on Earth that hears Luigi and goes, oh, clearly fucking Canadian.
Fioravanti?
Oh, it's Australian, fuck.
Luigi Fioravanti, this black guy's gonna beat me up.
Hey!
I'm gonna puke.
Oh, fuck.
Oh, gross.
Oh, my God.
Oh,i tastes gross
oh luigi you brought us too much fun today he comes out oh my god we're all choking
he comes he got blood on your robe already
no it's a sauce We're all choking. What do you got, blood on your robe already, Luigi?
No, it's a sauce.
I couldn't help it myself.
It's the mouse spaghetti.
My mother brought me the plate.
That's the rule.
She said you eat enough so you have the energy.
I get out of my robe.
I don't know.
Jimmy's going to die.
Oh, my God.
This fucking guy.
See, people often ask.
They'll be like, I don't like how in a boxing episode or an MMA episode, it's like you go
over, you just talk about every fight for a second.
It's like, who cares?
Don't talk about the fights.
This is why.
This is why it's great.
Because we've gotten so much out of just random challengers of
people three words james it's just too far four i guess the italian five yeah the italian tank
oh my god in his country he's thomas
i'm a thomas i going to tell you a story see sit down unbelievable
let me tell you about
how I grabbed this girl's ass
she was looking good
I came by in a vest
but I said
oh you're looking good
I grabbed her ass
and then I do a trip
around the block
and say you up on
she said okay
what was his record
26 and 15
unbelievable
Luigi's been fucking
beating people up
as they make fun of him.
That's why, because he's punching people that are just laughing.
Yeah.
Plus, his corner has a big plate of sausage and peppers after he wins.
He's like, we got sausage and peppers if you win.
And he's like, I'm going to go out there.
I'm going to beat this man up.
Yay for me.
Yay for me.
Well, Luigi gets his ass kicked here yeah with punches tko with punches
uh round one at 4 39 oh no oh no
oh no poor luigi he got stuck in a pipe at four minutes and 39 seconds of round one
he was eaten by a goomba so uh uh june 27 2009 he's he's coming out of that fight that was
february 2009 he's seven-2 now, Rumble.
The first one he got caught, the first loss, but the second
one's a controversial loss. So you could look
at this as 7-1 almost.
June 27, 2009.
He lives in California. He's living in
San Lorenzo, California.
About 10.49 a.m.
the police
are contacted.
He contacts the police on his own um he'll later
be arrested at 1 30 p.m but this is he's just three hours away three hours from now he'll be
arrested this is the prequel yeah he calls the cops uh apparently his girlfriend is uh and him
and he have been fighting um and apparently she said that he pushed her around and picked her
up by her armpits and slammed her to the ground okay uh which is that's terrifying yeah it's
that's fucking terrifying also if you're a big strong guy slamming people down like that then
he put her in a headlock oh god and dragged her up a flight of stairs and that's her client in a
headlock that's that's that's the police report okay okay and uh yeah she had uh also she was she had scrape above her on her eye and facial
swelling and uh yeah she she was clearly in some sort of something she was roughed up she was
roughed up uh she said that yeah he slammed her to the ground and all sorts of shit like that
um he will be charged with uh domestic violence battery death
threats and destroying a phone to prevent the report of a crime oh that's super apparently
broke her fucking phone too when she went to call the cops and then he called the cops to say i don't
know hi i'll be the one that calls yeah i'll call i'll tell on myself yeah so he contacted the police
they came did an investigation and arrested him at 1.30. And that was that.
They said he was cooperative and polite to the police, but he did damage the cell phone while she was trying to contact the police.
That was the main crux of this whole thing.
Now, his lawyer here said his lawyer is denying.
He'll always have a lawyer that comes out and makes a statement for him.
His lawyer was contacted by the media, and he issued this statement.
Quote, it has come to our attention that an email is being circulated with false and misleading information pertaining to Mr. Anthony Johnson.
On behalf of Mr. Anthony Johnson, we would like to address this issue.
Well, thank you.
Appreciate that.
Please address.
Please.
This is Ken Pavia, hair turning silver as he types this.
Jesus Christ.
With every keystroke.
Every keystroke, man.
Let's see here.
On June 27th, Mr. Johnson was arrested in Hayward, California, and charged with misdemeanor
stemming from an alleged altercation with his ex-girlfriend.
Mr. Johnson is completely and unequivocally innocent of all charges.
These charges are completely outside the realm of Mr. Johnson's character.
Oh, well, that's...
Case...
Hold on.
Case dismissed.
If you say you, a man in his employ, says it's outside of his character, I don't know
why we're even bothering.
You, a man that's in his employ, describing what the man fucking does for a living?
Yeah, totally outside his character. No way he would have done that? Never. He's never knocked anyone out with a kick to the man fucking does for a living. Yeah, totally outside his gut.
No way he would have done that?
Never.
He's never knocked anyone out
with a kick to the head.
It's never happened.
I'll bet he's never
body slammed anybody.
Never, never.
I mean, there's no stairs
in a UFC ring,
so we know he's never
cut someone in the headlock,
drug them up,
a flight of stairs,
and destroyed their cell phone.
Right.
So, out of his character,
completely.
Total bullshit.
The only thing outside
of his character
that we have seen documented
is the exploding of
a phone.
Oh, he's done that.
And dragging people upstairs.
But that was more he was upset with Verizon.
Good point.
They had recently raised their rates.
And he said, you know what?
This is ridiculous.
And he was locked into an 18-month contract.
He said, no.
Unlimited my ball.
Yeah.
He said, this is bullshit.
I want to switch to Sprint.
And they wouldn't let a $150 charge.
He said, no.
And I was $150 charged.
I'm not.
Of course, it's unlimited. But then you slow my fucking usage down.
I can't even use it anyway, so it's limited as fuck.
I'm trying to whack it, and you won't let me.
It's all pixelated.
I broke it.
I couldn't take it anymore.
Just kept pausing.
I'm like, here it is.
It's fucking gone.
God damn it.
Son of a bitch.
So the lawyer says he has no prior criminal record
and has never been in trouble with the law perfect angel furthermore any assertion that the ufc played a part in posting
his bail or covering up the incident is completely untrue unfortunately professional athletes are
frequently made the victim of such false accusation as this has been a stressful time for mr johnson
that's some balls right wow whoa that is holy shit that's pretty funny there whoa we asked
that judgment is withheld until all relevant facts have come to light now this incident he can say
that nobody tried to cover it up but we i look into athletes you know crimes a lot uh that was
really hard to find details about i mean it's all like after the fact.
She said that there's no like here's a police report quote, really.
Like there's no it's all hidden.
It's it's it's they fucking squashed it somewhere.
I mean, it's not easy to find.
The other shit's way easier to find.
So, I mean, somebody somebody was trying to make it so it's not easy to find.
Put it that way.
It was just a shitty afternoon for him is what they're trying to.
Yeah, they're trying to make it out.
Well, later on, this is his explanation of it.
This is him like four years later, he says this.
Quote, we were both just young.
Oh.
Oh, all right.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Neither one of us got physical with each other.
We were just doing whatever we could to get under each other's skin.
To this day, we still talk.
We both apologize.
Well, you also put a hematoma under her skin.
So how'd that happen?
Her face was swollen bro and
scraped and abrased and that's very rare for words to do that yeah so you ever heard sticks and
stones will break words will never hurt me words will swell my cheekbones i guess i've never heard
that words will abrase my face yeah words will abrase my upper eye. It's never happened. So, I mean, and UFC goes, yeah, no problem.
Wow.
No problem.
October 24th, we're talking, you know, a month later, he's fighting again in UFC.
UFC 104, like it never happened.
Just, they don't even comment on that shit.
Later on, by the way, he's in UFC when this happens, as we're seeing right here.
Later on, Dana White will say, I don't even ever heard of that incident.
Wow. He will literally say he's never heard of this incident so either he's a fucking liar right or he completely ignored domestic violence in 2009 like it wasn't even an issue
to the point where he wouldn't even have fucking heard of it yeah one of the two which one's worse
either that's what i mean either he didn't give a shit or actively didn't give a shit one of the
two so uh yeah I'm not sure.
That's why he is a scummy award winner this year.
Good for you, Dana.
Congratulations.
I'm bald.
Fuck.
Fucking God damn it.
October 24, 2009 is UFC 104.
Yoshiyuki Zenko Yoshida.
He's fighting.
He's very Japanese.
It's an 18-9 career record, though.
Good guy.
Good fighter. But he gets his ass whooped by 18-9 career record, though. Good guy. Good fighter.
But he gets his ass whooped by the rumble.
Rumble rumbles on him. TKO
with punches in round one
at 41 seconds. That's fast.
So that's fast. This is why they keep him around.
Because that's exciting on TV. People go,
Oh, did you see that one fight? He knocked that Japanese
guy out. Fucking Jesus Christ.
He knocked his eyes round. I'll tell
you what, he did he
punched him he said hi how you doing he couldn't even speak english beforehand afterwards he knew
every goddamn way he pledged allegiance to the flag when he was done getting knocked out that's
how hard rumble hit him i watched him knock out that guy that designed uh every nintendo game
i said not one word english when he was done he popped up from his unconscious state, put his hand over his heart, and did
the entire Pledge of Allegiance.
That was amazing.
Pretty wild.
It's good stuff.
So that's eight and two for Rumble.
November 21st, 2009, UFC 106.
He fights Josh Koscheck.
Koscheck, yeah.
He's a 17 and 11 career fighter but he had he lost the last
six fights of his career so he just kind of went in the shitter and kept doing it he could have
had a good record 17 and 5 yeah that's good hell yeah 11 is not good what it's when you retire yeah
it's not showing promise i was like what, what do you do then? You retire.
That's exactly what you did.
He loses here, though.
This guy gets Rumble.
He hooks up Rumble with a rear naked choke.
That seems to be his vulnerability in all his losses.
Rear naked choke in round two at 447.
You let him get a little tired.
That seems to be the thing.
You gas him up a little, and then you get in there and you choke him out.
Wrap your arms around him from behind.
Don't let him punch you or kick you in the head.
That's the way that works.
So he's eight and three now.
And now he's got to deal with court.
He takes all of 2010 off from fighting.
No fights in 2010.
He's busy with some court here.
August of 2010, he's going to plead no contest to the domestic battery.
So nobody touched each other, but he's going to plead to it uh misdemeanor charge of domestic violence and uh they dismissed
the other two charges as a part of the plea deal here why would you plead if you if you
plea why would you plea if you did nothing i know i mean i if you were just young because well that's
the thing i guess because a lot of people plea, like in drug cases, they
plea because they say, oh, you can do seven to ten years, or you can plea and you won't
do any time and you'll get probation.
So they just go, well, fuck it.
It'll be a lot cheaper, A, for a lawyer and easier, and I won't go to prison if I just
plea.
A lot of people do that.
But you don't see people with a lot of money doing that.
You ever notice that?
Yeah.
You don't see rich people going, I'll just plea.
No.
They go, fuck that.
I will fight that shit to the fucking end. They fight see rich people going i'll just plea no they go fuck that i will fight that shit they fight murder james they'll fight murder they'll get convicted and
then have the fucking president try to tell the judge to let them go that's what i mean they don't
fucking people who have money yeah don't give a shit they don't want to go to jail because they
have money and can go out and enjoy their lives right you know what i'm saying like they can eat
a nobu yeah they do whatever they want they're not gonna fucking do anything whereas here it's you know prison harvey yeah well oh my god i hope so he he was convicted
i saw he's convicted they took him to jail already we'll see what happens there yeah yeah we'll see
him and cosby give the same sweet let him away yeah i hope bill cosby rapes him
wouldn't that be beautiful great if he drugged and raped Harvey Weinstein? He did that, and then he fell asleep all smiley with his head going back and forth.
And then he died.
And he fell asleep, and then Harvey got in there and raped him, too.
Raped him back.
And then he had a fucking stroke and died in his sleep.
That would be perfect.
They're both dead.
I think one raped the other to death and then died in his sleep.
Is this a tragedy?
Is this a tragedy, or do we have a national holiday? Do. Is this a tragedy? Is this a tragedy,
or do we have a national holiday?
Do we call it a tragedy?
Is this the Cosbystein day now?
We just hose the cell out and move on.
Which do we do?
I'm not sure.
Hose it out.
That's great.
Oh, God.
Cosbystein sweet.
He's a Cosbystein sweet sweet there's fucking spooning in
there you're wonderful jesus harvey's the outside spoon definitely he's the big spoon he's giant
yeah he's a big fat fuck he can't although his stomach it might be better for cosby yeah you're
right cosby's pretty tall oh yeah yeah get that milky eye on your shoulder that's all that you want come on put it on weepy eye let's go let's go skin tag rub up on me so he'll rub your skin tags on my liver
please i'm into it let's do it yes yeah that's what i'm talking about bill yeah oh that's tasty
what is that what is that hot chocolate i'm sleepy. Make a bathroom hooch out of chocolate gelatin.
That would be wonderful.
If you melt down pudding pop, it's just like Yoo-Hoo.
You can ferment it and you got alcoholic Yoo-Hoo.
And then you can rape women.
Then you can rape other inmates.
Whoever you want.
Fucking jerks. So he pleads no contest.
Rumble does here.
And the judge says,
all right, fine.
Then you, sir, may
fuck off.
He is sentenced to
three years of
probation.
Oh, three.
It's no joke.
That's tough.
Three years of
probation and must
serve eight hours of
community service.
For what?
Go there on a Saturday.
I want to ruin your Saturday or Sunday.
It's just one day, though, at a local boys club.
So go teach boys.
I don't want them around there.
How to get a cauliflower.
Yeah.
As well as one day of county jail.
Okay.
You know, whatever.
He also must undergo 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling.
That's a year of counseling.
And he's been ordered
to reappear in front of the judge uh to determine any restitution for court costs and provide proof
that he's been going to domestic violence counseling did you say 52 weeks 52 weeks so
that's like a day a day each week once a week for a year yeah yeah he's got to do that wow yeah he's
it's serious that's an inconvenience that's a lot yeah with that and probation and i mean they're
they're that's as structured as a non-j yeah with that and probation and i mean they're they're
that's as structured as a non-jail sentence could be with you have to a check into a probation
officer and b be at a thing once a week right and we're gonna ruin two other days you're gonna have
to go to county jail for a day and go spend eight hours at a kid's rec center i mean if he beat this
woman up i'm not saying that's enough i'm just saying that as far as that goes the judge just
didn't say all all right, well,
you know, slap on the wrist.
He tried to teach him a lesson.
He's trying to say, okay, we're going to structure this.
He doesn't have a criminal record before.
So he's trying to say, okay, maybe if I scare the shit out of this guy and inconvenience
him a whole bunch, he'll think twice before he fucking body slams a woman.
So yeah, he's told he has to do that.
Later on, though, he's going to say he should have never pled.
He's going to. Oh, yeah. He says. though, he's going to say he should have never pled. He's going to.
Oh, yeah.
He says.
I should have fought it.
Should have fought it.
Yeah.
He said, quote, I didn't understand the law as much as I should have in 2009.
I pled no contest because that's what my lawyer told me to do.
I wanted it to be over with.
The courts kept pushing it back, pushing it back.
And I said, is there any way we can get this done today?
So, yeah, he was saying it's just a lawyer, you know, it's easier to do a plea deal.
Now, the lawyer, the reporter read these comments to the lawyer of his, Cardoza is his name.
And this guy said that this guy was like, no, he said, he said repeatedly, I want this to be over with.
So, you know, I can't make the court not delay shit.
What I can do is get you a plea deal if you want it to be over with.
He said that when a client pleads no contest, the state of California has a four page document that the defendant must sign and review and explaining what the plea entails and all that sort of thing.
Lawyer went on to explain, quote, We never make a client do anything they don't want to do.
This was his and his decision alone.
He was advised of everything.
He wanted it over with.
Anthony never accepted responsibility for this,
and that's why he entered a no-contest plea,
which the Court of California allows him to do.
The judge enters a guilty plea for the record.
He wanted this over with, and the DA made him a heck of an offer.
They lessened the charge. They lessened the possible punishment by a great amount.
It was a good deal and he seized upon it to avoid going to a jury trial and avoid the cost of a
jury trial. You never know what a jury will do. But the deal was a good deal. It was his choice
to take it, which sounds fine. He said the district attorney's office's deal was much less
than the original charges. The agreed upon plea bargain was a slap on the wrist. He walked out of court with probation, and it was over.
He got to move on with his career.
He never said that he was guilty of this.
So he's saying, I got him a sweetheart fucking deal.
How dare he complain later?
What was he facing, seven years?
He was facing a lot, yeah,
because he's facing battery domestic assault.
He's facing the cell phone shit.
I'll bet it's three to seven on that.
He's facing jail time, like serious jail time, and they made him a deal of nothing right and so yeah home but yeah he said he and
he said i didn't do it why should i have done it oh boy i don't know it's at this point too he's
he has trouble trying to make weight all the time yeah he's he's fighting as a welterweight
for a while here um which is at 170 oh boy and he's walking around at 235 pounds oh which is what is that
65 pounds yeah yeah that is 65 uh one of the guys said uh uh he uh says uh quote at the one of his
trainers says quote i saw him a few or one of the people he worked with i saw him a few months ago
he was about 235 pounds even if it was nine months ago to lose 65 pounds as a push
that's a lot it's a lot it's going to be tough on his body that's like a crazy actor who wants
to play somebody with fucking aids that's a fourth of your body weight that's insanity it's too much
he struggles to make weight anyway when he's fighting regularly so coming down from that
weight i don't know i'm a little concerned because i don't want a percentage of his purse i want that win bonus yeah makes sense so march 26 2011 ufc fight night 24 um he you know he's he's i guess he made the weight and
after spending night after night in a bathhouse trying to get aids yeah well yeah trying to
sweating it out yeah can we get aids and then sweat it out anybody here just anybody got aids somebody somebody with this needle
march 26 2011 ufc fight night 24 he's had quite a bit of a layoff here too uh he fights dan the
outlaw hardy who's a 25 and 10 career fighter and this fight goes all three rounds really and uh and
he ends up winning it uh here in a unanimous decision but all three rounds he's rusty and uh and uh he ends up winning it uh here in a unanimous decision but all three rounds
he's rusty and uh he's clearly not as strong as he should be from losing all this weight right and
you can see the effects of course losing weight on him when he loses all this weight it's not great
no and even when he moves up in weight he has a hard time making that he moves up to 205 and he
has a hard time making 205 it's just he's naturally a big guy why would you want
to try to slim down that i don't want so you can fight smaller people i suppose but why don't you
just fight at your weight class that's what i mean just trim yourself up at 235 and call it good any
advantage you can get because that's light heavyweight is 205 as opposed to heavyweight
so you can fight people who might be walking around at that weight knock people out exactly
that's that's what you're 2011, he appears in a film.
No.
He appears in a film called Warrior with Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte's in it.
Oh.
And Brian Callen.
No kidding.
Yeah, the comedian.
Yeah, he's great.
I always look for if there's ever a comic in these movies.
You never know.
Who's the comic relief in this to make it fun?
Who's the comic who got the acting job?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who's like like this is
fucking easy you guys just sit around all day waiting to go on this is fucking great this is
fantastic for like eight minutes i don't even have to write lines no pressure no no one has to laugh
this is great i still get free food i say words and eat craft services this is tremendous what an
easy job comics never want to lose acting jobs. They're like, this is so easy.
I don't have to go anywhere.
I'm not in like Toledo doing fucking morning radio at 530.
This is tremendous.
Theo Vaughn just gets to be the comedic actor in something with Chris Pratt coming up.
There you go.
A fucking sweetheart deal.
He's like the fucking little raccoon was in.
People like comedians.
They do.
And that's what ends up happening.
He just gets to be the comic relief and just have a great time.
If anyone wants to give us some sort of animated role...
Oh, my God.
I would love to be a voice for something.
I'll voice something cartoon and not swear.
Oh, I will love it.
Oh, I won't swear.
I'm in.
I'll do everything.
Let's go.
I don't give a shit.
I'll make your kid love the cartoons.
God damn it.
Jesus.
I'll be the new Steve.
Hey, Eddie Murphy made The Nutty Professor.
We can do this shit.
It's true.
You know what I mean mean let's do it so he was he said way worse than anything we've ever said
yes in public in movie theaters recorded on film not even
what is this so uh this movie is the description here. The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament.
A path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged older brother.
Holy shit.
It's all too tight in.
And yeah,
he plays none of the main characters.
He's just one of them.
Some other fighter that hangs out there,
but he looks like a fighter.
So why not? October 1st, 2011. He's back in the main characters. He's just some other fighter that hangs out there. But he looks like a fighter, so why not?
October 1st, 2011, he's back in the ring again.
He fights UFC Live 6.
It is Cruz versus Johnson.
He fights, Jesus Christ.
Now, this guy needs to tell us what he is.
Charlie the Spaniard Brenneman.
That's, yeah.
If Luigi's name was like you know tom parsons
italian tank is fine right we don't know you're italian the spaniard brenneman i go oh wow i had
no idea what's his first name charlie charlie charlie carlos the spaniard brenneman here
that's it uh 19 and 8 career record for our pal here uh now uh for the spaniard right yeah anthony
wins with a ko head kick at 249 my god again fucking kicking people in the head till they're
unconscious seems like kicking people to sleep for real james he's doing it he's just kicking
people till they're unconscious that will kill somebody oh god you could absolutely kill somebody
fucking kicking them in the head and cracking their skull into a goddamn you don't get you You're not kicking people until they're unconscious. That will kill somebody. Oh, God. You could absolutely kill somebody. God damn it.
Fucking kicking them in the head and cracking their skull into a goddamn fucking... You don't get kicked in the head and be like, that's coming too fast, and tap out.
No, no, no.
You can't do that.
You're just...
No, you go...
It's just over.
You go, I don't know my address.
You wake up.
You wake up and you go, can I tap out?
And they're like, oh, we called this fight an hour ago.
You're already in the locker room. They're already cleaning things.
It's all over with.
There's just beer in there now.
It's all over.
Like, literally, we're waiting for you because we want to leave the building and lock it
up and you're still here.
Take these aspirin and go home.
I don't know.
So 10-3 for Anthony.
January 14, 2012, UFC 142.
This is at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
That's a big deal.
This is one of those Brazilian UFC.
Those are huge events.
This is like in a soccer stadium.
Yeah, this is big stuff.
He fights Vitor the Phenom Belfort here.
He's a 26 and 14 career fighter.
This fight doesn't even get out of the first round.
4.49 in the first round.
Right at the end, old old phenom catches the rumble
and a rear naked choke oh boy and anthony loses another one here it's over my rear naked choke
uh 10 and 4 that brings him to now after this fight he ends up being cut from the ufc for weight
issues oh he's too fat you can punch any woman you want or slam on the ground but you better do it
with eating a nice healthy diet i guess
three different times in the next uh what is it in the next uh like six months he fails to make
weight when he's supposed to and they can't rely on him to make weight so they have to cut him
because if you can't schedule him if he's not going to make weight he can't fight then what
the fuck is the point of having him he's useless so uh he ends up being cut from ufc that will get
you cut from UFC.
Not being able to be utilized to make money?
No, that'll do it.
Yeah, well, he won't get thin enough for us.
I mean, he's punching women, but we'll deal with that later.
May 25, 2012, he's fighting for a different outfit here.
Titan Fighting Championship, the Titan FC ones we've talked about.
This is Titan FC 22 in memorial hall in kansas
city oh not kansas city missouri no kansas city kansas oh this is the actual one so he goes from
the hsbc arena in brazil and rio to the memorial hall in kansas may as well be an elks lodge fuck
that's brutal i mean that is just'd think he would just pummel someone
just on pure anger
or you'd just be so depressed
you couldn't lift your hands up
far enough to fight.
I don't know.
He fights David Branch
who's a 22 and 7 career fighter
and wins a unanimous decision,
Rumble does,
11 and 4.
August 24, 2012,
fighting in Titan,
fighting championship 24.
He fights Estevez Jones.
He's back.
He's fucking back.
Are you shitting me?
I swear to God.
Estevez the Quiet Riot Jones.
That's him.
That's his name.
There he is.
There he is.
Eight and seven career rep.
Motherfucker.
The fuck you fighting me for?
God damn it.
Shit.
I didn't remember that his nickname is the Quiet Riot.
The Quiet Riot.
This motherfucker coming to ring trying to fight me.
A black guy coming in to we're not going to take it.
We're not going to take it.
It's like, yeah, motherfucker, that's right.
Now we say that because if you're new to the show estevez jones is one of our characters
who was a we found him in an earlier episode and said it estevez jones he just sounds like a like
a blaxploitation film character from the 70s so that's who he is he's like yeah motherfucker where
your hose at and a mink fucking or leopard print jacket. Listen, motherfucker.
Fighting in bell bottoms.
Fighting in bell bottoms with fur on the bottom.
Fur bottom to bell bottoms.
Fur line.
Platform shoes.
Gotta take the fish platforms to fight.
Referee, get the fuck away from my sunglasses.
I ain't taking them off.
Shit.
No.
Now, Estevez, eight and seven career fighter. he his career ends after he loses six of seven oh my god so he started out well he was eight and one and it fell apart from there
this is one of the six of seven that he loses in the middle here this is a tko with punches
that ran 51 seconds of round two seven and one one, right? Yeah. Seven and one. Yeah, seven and one. Yeah, seven and one.
Got it.
And so he ends up being 12 and four.
Rumble does.
And Estevez recedes quietly into our cast of characters.
So there's that.
September 21st, 2012, XFL9.
Not the football league.
The Extreme Fight League, I think it is.
I think that's right.
Extreme Fight Night 9 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Tulsa, where all the dreams come true.
Damn it.
Jesus Christ.
He fights Jake Roeschult, who's a 12 and 5 career fighter.
This is his last fight.
It doesn't matter.
I would love to see the motel that they're put up in.
Man, it's not.
Well, they're probably at the Hard Rock there.
Maybe.
Is that a hotel and casino?
Yeah, it's a hotel and casino.
I don't know. the hard rock there maybe is that a casino hotel yeah it's a hotel casino i mean it's probably no
like we went to that one in kansas city and it was like in the middle of a just a field and it
was nice inside once you get in there you're like oh okay this isn't so bad if you want people to
throw money in the garbage you have to at least make it nice in there you know but this one i'll
bet they're like we'll put you guys up unless the rooms sell out yeah then they sell out we're
gonna have to put you down the road over at the motor lodge i was gonna say there is a very nice motor lodge um they're getting wi-fi soon
it's gonna be good it's there is literally a motor in the law so you know you might want to
wear earplugs it's loud the motor's loud so uh he knocks out jake rochelle with a kick to the head
at 422 in round two that's his his move, man. That's his move.
Kick you in the head.
Oh, boy.
Don't choke me.
I'm going to kick you in the head.
13 and 4 here for our guy for Rumble.
November 3rd, 2012, World Series of Fighting 1.
He fights, this is on the card, is Arlovsky versus Cole is the name of the card.
He fights DJ Da Protege Linderman.
Now, DJ Linderman, the hottest fucking bar mitzvah DJ in all of Long Island.
All of Long Island.
Did you get me, DJ Linderman?
Come on, mom.
I wanted DJ Linderman.
Is that really his last name?
His name is DJ Linderman.
That's his fucking name.
He calls himself DeProtege, which sounds like what a bar mitzvah dj would like call
himself to be like funny and cool like i'm the protege see there's a d in front whoa cool right
like turn his hat sideways and he he is now marshmallow marshmallow dj linderman
he beats up the dj here with a ko punch uh knocks him out out with a punch at 358 in the first round.
Did not like his musical selections.
14-4 for Rumble.
March 23, 2013.
World Series of Fighting 2.
This is Arlovsky versus Johnson.
And he will fight Andre the Pitbull Arlovsky, who we've talked about before.
Really?
Yeah.
It's a big fight here.
28-19 career fighter he is.
This goes all three rounds.
And Rumble wins a unanimous decision what
big fight for him yeah he beat arlovsky yeah so you know that you know dana white's drooling over
him at this point wanting to leave it he's like shit i don't care how fat you are get back here
so 15 and 4 for rumble january 18th 2014 is the world series of fighting eight he fights mike
mac kyle oh you call yourself mac if your name is mike it's very close to your name mike mac i'm jam 2014 is the World Series of Fighting 8. He fights Mike, Mac, Kyle.
Why don't you call yourself Mac if your name is Mike?
It's very close to your name.
Mike Mac?
I'm Jam Jam.
I'm Jim Jam Petrogallo.
Why would I call myself that?
Jim Jum Petrogallo.
Nice to meet you.
Who would fucking do that?
I'm Jimmy Jammy Petrogallo. It's so stupid.
So this guy's a 23 and 19 career fighter.
Rumble knocks him out with punches at 203 in the first round, bringing him to 16 and 4.
April 26, 2014, UFC 172, he fights Mr. Wonderful Phil Davis, which I prefer Paul Orndorff for my Mr. Wonderful thing.
You don't get to do that.
You do not.
You don't get to pick Hulk?
Yeah, you're a macho man. You can't be the macho man. God, no. You can't be it. You don't get to be hulk you don't yeah you're a macho man you can't be the
macho man god no no you can't get to be the ultimate warrior no you definitely are you doing
no i would say you can be you could be the giant if you're a giant you have to be like seven foot
three yeah that's it though you have to be a giant you better skip hacksaw no you can't be
hacksaw no no you gotta skip rowdy junkyard dog You can't be a junkyard dog. They're too famous. They're too popular.
Mr. Wonderful.
Fuck you.
Yeah, fuck you, Phil Davis. You can't even be...
Unless you have Orndorff in your corner, I don't want to hear from you.
You can't even be the million dollar man.
No.
You can't be the honky tonk man.
You can't be Coco Beware.
No.
I will not allow it.
There are too many things that have already been done that are way more famous than you.
You can't be the anvil.
No.
You can't be the hacksaw.
Any kind of warrior, really.
A road warrior, a modern day warrior, an ultimate warrior.
It's all taken.
Every fucking, can't even be a bushwhacker, goddammit.
No.
Nothing.
Why don't you pick the undertaker, dickhead?
Oh, good job.
Jesus.
Perfect.
How many people do you think have not seen wrestling?
Yeah, ever, or heard of it.
It's pretty, it's out there.
The wheelhouse of the UFC are people that grew up watching fucking wrestling.
Yeah, for the most part.
And we all know that there was a Mr. Wonderful, you fucking jerk.
Wrestling's like training wheels for MMA.
It's like, oh, and these guys actually are getting worse brained.
And these guys are actually trying to kill each other.
Yeah, okay. That's cool. It's like, oh, and these guys actually are getting worse brain damage. And these guys are actually trying to kill each other.
Yeah, okay.
That's cool.
These guys are doing it by accident.
Trying not to kill each other and hurting each other.
So that's the thing.
These guys are actually trying.
So this is a unanimous decision after three rounds.
So 17 and four.
Good.
I'm glad he beat his ass.
He beat Mr. Wonderful up.
Good.
He deserved it.
And he took his time doing it.
Yeah, he took him apart.
Took him apart.
He picked at his back like a
leopard chunks out of his back for three rounds you know that goes bled him out bleed him out
good he doesn't even he's not even alive anymore that's what happens that's ufc man or that's mma
july 26 2014 uh his second fight back in the ufc that his first one, the last one. This one's UFC on Fox 12,
so it's one of the televised, regular TV,
non-pay-per-view events.
Free.
He fights Antonio Minotauro Rodrigo Nogueira.
Okay.
I don't know what any of that means.
Minotauro, some kind of bull.
Sounds like it.
Mini bull?
A little bull?
Minotaur.
I'll bet he's a little bull.
Half man, half bull.
Oh, M-I-N-O, not M-I-N-I.
I think he's, no, he's not like a miniature bull.
I think he is like Minotaur.
Again, a wrestler.
Right.
He took the Minotaur.
Can't do that.
It was Mantar.
Do you remember that guy?
I do.
He had the big bull head on his head.
That's hilarious.
That was the opposite of what a Minotaur is.
Yeah, it was very, yeah.
He's got the body of a man with the head of a bull.
What are you doing?
Not a good gimmick.
God damn it, Vince!
But we're going to make him a giant bull head.
It'll be great.
Everyone will love it.
That's not going to help.
He's a 23-9 career fighter, the Minotaur.
He's still fighting, too.
This is a KO at 44 seconds for Rumble.
So, yeah, it didn't discourage him. This is a ko at 44 seconds for rumble so uh yeah it didn't
discourage him this is a good fighter that rumble knocked out pretty quick 18 and 4 for anthony
uh september 19th 2014 uh now anthony has uh a bunch of kids yeah he's got a few uh two the
mother of two of them here calls police this night and uh files a police report uh alleging that she is receiving
threats coming from johnson and his friends i believe her uh yeah already he she files in this
report that in 2012 he punched her and knocked out two of her teeth oh and uh yeah this is the
police report here uh the um from this day on, quote, I met with complainant in reference to a domestic dispute.
She said that she is frightened by the father of her children, Anthony Johnson.
She stated that two years ago, Johnson hit her in the face and knocked out two of her teeth.
Since that incident, she's had several other verbal altercations with Johnson.
She has only reported one of those incidents to the police.
Johnson. She has only reported one of those incidents to the police. Most recently, Johnson went to her house and took their dog on August 24, 2014. She also advised that she keeps receiving
calls and text messages from an unknown male subject threatening her. She stated that it's
not Johnson but thinks it's his friends. So the police officer advised her to go to the courthouse
and obtain a no contact order against Johnson.
And I provided her with a domestic violence brochure, which is very helpful.
That's very sweet of you.
I don't want to diminish any of this.
No.
I'm going to assume that she has unbelievably well cared for teeth because I have zero evidence of the contrary.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to knock somebody's fucking teeth out? You have to evidence of the contrary do you have any idea
how hard it is to knock somebody's fucking teeth you have to really hit them hard two of them two
teeth you have to you have to wail on you have to wail on they're in there pretty good they're in
bone if you've ever seen a tooth yeah like there's way more of it you know right that you can't see
it's an iceberg there's a lot of it's an iceberg it really is when the titanic hit the iceberg an iceberg. It really is. It's not a baby tooth.
The iceberg didn't tip over.
The fucking boat did.
The baby tooth.
You see that and you're like, wow, I thought there was roots to those and shit.
No, those are nature's little second chance.
The first ones are shitty.
They give you an opportunity to really fuck them up.
The other ones are way in there.
They're so deep.
They're so fucking deep.
To get one of those out and two of them with a punch, holy shit, you got to wail on somebody.
That's a fucking shot.
And to be a woman this
guy's a real dick he's he's betting on this being truth yeah i hope somebody pulls his out
with pliers with fucking well we'll put them in the in the in the cosby
cosby steen suite will be a good place for it to the cosby steen suite with you
so uh yeah she said and this is the other
part the physical assault happened at her place of employment she said what which was a supplement
store she worked in like a gnc or whatever uh she also claims that a security video of the incident
she has it um so yeah she said she was talked out of pressing charges by him at the time of
the incident saying that you know my career and all this type of shit.
She knocked my teeth out at one stop nutrition.
This is fucking jerk and unreal, man.
Well, yeah, I was advising someone about their amino acids.
The next thing I know, I'm picking my fucking incisors up off the floor, trying to show somebody some no explode and some protein bars.
Ridiculous.
So, yeah, then she said she filed.
She called the police report after called
the police filed a report after she's been receiving threats which she thinks are coming
from his friends she gets a temporary injunction for protection after this and uh his lawyer
on the other hand anthony's lawyer said quote anthony categorically denies all allegations
and looks forward to his court date in the civil matter where the truth and
lies will be established oh boy yeah he's he's uh he's called they're calling bullshit now
ufc at this point 2014 this is after they've already come out and said we're no domestic
violence we don't play that shit this is this is post that right so this isn't when they're still
pretending that what is that i don't know what that is uh there So this isn't when they're still pretending that, what is that? I don't know what that is.
There's a fight Saturday.
So they're going to take a hard line here, obviously.
Well, they say, quote, we are aware of the situation involving Anthony Johnson.
As a result, we're suspending him indefinitely.
We're using a third-party law firm to conduct a formal investigation.
And once we have more information, we'll determine whether further course of action is necessary.
Okay?
Third party.
So, yeah, they're going to get an outside investigator.
I mean, we got taxes paying for a DA. I was going to say, we have a jury.
We can get that.
A judge, jury.
We can use that.
Yeah, there's a whole system.
We planned it.
It's really well planned.
You know, just in case the government is out to get UFC,
we're going to use a third party.
We're going to use a third party because, yeah, we don't trust it.
They got to really have it in for
this guy uh so september 20th 2014 he has to apologize now this is this is part of the deal
hey anthony make nice is what they told him this is all pr he says quote i want to apologize to
everybody for my language yesterday now what he did is after he found out he got suspended he went
on like a fucking tirade with the media not Not even like a statement, just yelling and cursing and walking off.
So he said, it really sucks being accused of something I didn't do.
So please forgive my reaction to the whole situation.
My day will come that I can prove I'm innocent.
Thank you for the support.
Without the fans and my close friends and family, I wouldn't be able to function.
I love you all.
That's a statement. Let's be honest. How many fans does he have that's the thing well i mean
granted he's a knockout artist guy so he probably has a few in ufc they probably like it i think
when i look at these message boards yeah uh every time he's arrested it is just a
fuckload of meatheads going yeah right he's a fucking good guy this is bullshit anything a
chick says you do they're obviously going to do and then literally it'll break go to reddit and
look at this it'll break into guys talk telling stories about their domestic violence arrests and
how it was total bullshit holy i just told my girlfriend this and she was back literally it's
just stories of dudes fucking saying that they were falsely accused of domestic violence wow and
she hit me and i hit her and I went to jail and this is bullshit.
And then the judge took, but the cop knew what was up and he thought I was cool.
And so the charges were, it's fucking crazy.
I'm telling you, man.
I was just like, what is happening with these people?
I am terrified that one day I will meet a woman who punches me and I will have to fucking
just take the loss and be like, keep going, girl, because I'm not going to hit you.
I don't want that, obviously, but you've got to just, she's not going to kill you with her fist.
It's probably not going to happen.
Unless you're dating Layla Ali.
I think you're going to be okay.
If Sarah takes a swing at me, I think I'm going to let it go.
Take the blows and then call the police, man.
5'1", a buck 18.
I don't think it's gonna i think i
could probably withstand the they take the person to jail who is least scraped up yeah let's keep
that in mind yeah no shit so fuck man so he's suspended from ufc though and he told uh this
is what he says quote about being suspended he said quote it was like a stab to the heart oh
jesus stabbed to the heart i knew i didn't do anything but when things come out in the media
people believe it so fast i almost lost my cool but at the same time i had family friends and a
team they supported me i know i'm not that type of person so i got over it okay i mean you've got a
conviction for it man well i guess a plea you've got a plea for it that was the last one right
first one you've got a track record of that was the last one right first one you got
a track record of it it's hard not to believe it to say yeah it's not in my character well
not according to this court document the one where you signed and said yeah yeah i did that
shit yeah that one remember that and then he blamed your lawyer um now dana white said about
this he's he's having kind of a you know wishy-washy reaction he says quote the guys came
back and said you need to suspend him not cut him so you're in charge first of all it shouldn't
matter what the fucking guys think right doesn't matter it's not the guy's job to do it guys go to
roger goodell and they go don't suspend that guy you go you want one you want some too he'd be like
the fucking principal in the breakfast club handing out fucking saturday that's four i got you for two months say another word he'd be doing that give me a goddamn break yes yes no he says uh
the guys came back and said you need to suspend him not cut him because apparently if you look
into the situation this girl has a ton of felonies and she's got a real bad history of stuff and the
thing is when she says this happened i
don't even know if he was in the country oh jesus so rather than him just go we'll let the courts
work it out and see how it goes he's now coming out and smearing some girl's character i mean
he's trying to say that she's trying to smear my fighter's character but he's now coming out
in an ongoing legal situation and saying that this girl's got a lot of felonies and a lot of history of bad stuff
and zero tolerance Jimmy
for domestic violence zero and
my fuck you my fighter might have
an alibi so hold on so hold on
let's get you just fucking get rid everybody
and just say I'll sort it out how about
he has a lawyer he doesn't need you to be his
fucking lawyer you fucking bald
hypocrite asshole he might have an
alibi he might have not i don't
think he was in the country oh well that's fine then fucking asshole so it gets worse for dana
white by the way it just never stops with him september 25th i mean i'm sorry but the guy is
fucking he's unrepentantly an asshole he makes statements saying i this is my clear-cut position
and then two days later is just like, you know, I don't know.
That position cost me a lot of money.
I'm not aware of that.
I don't know.
It's like, you fucking full of shit.
And I don't care.
This is the thing, okay?
If Dana White came out and said, look, this is a sport where grown men are beating the shit out of each other, viciously kicking each other in the head until they're unconscious.
We have to get some bad people to do this because there's not enough good people.
There's not enough real nice people who are gentle souls who want to kick other people
in the head until they're unconscious.
So some of these people are going to be real shitty and I can't help that.
So if you don't like a guy, we're going to put him in the ring and maybe he'll get the
living shit beaten out of him and you can cheer for it.
That's fine.
If you want to say that and then let people decide with their own money what they want
to fucking do, great.
But when you say zero tolerance, we are clean and we don't take that shit.
Now, dare you?
And then completely fucking ignore things.
Go fuck yourself, you hypocritical bald cunt.
Fuck you.
Fuck him.
He's Skip Bayless, too, at this point.
And then he'll say in the sky, and then he'll take a hard line on somebody that smokes weed.
Yeah.
You son of a bitch.
That's what I mean.
He'll pick and choose what he fuck.
This fucking jerk gets to fight again.
And guess what?
It's all yours.
You're making it up as you go along.
It doesn't matter.
He's acting like there's fucking rules in this.
There isn't.
You're kicking people in the fucking head.
You're kicking people in the fucking head.
You may as well have zero rules.
Who gives a shit?
That's the thing. And unless you're giving giving the fighters drugs you can let them have drugs
and it won't matter because you're not you're not like football and baseball and have antitrust
things and you know exemptions at certain times and been looked into by congress and all that
shit you may as well give the fighters guns for fuck's sake who cares at this point i don't care yeah fuck it draw high noon this weekend's ufc is at high noon
ufc 68 dust high noon on a dusty street high noon in juarez juarez high noon jesus christ
live from the okay corral fucking ridiculous so yeah like i said if you want to say these are you know some of these
people are bad people i don't know does not really up to me we're fine with that i'm into it they're
fighters so you know they're some of them are bad at that point i don't give a shit he's right
and i don't care and that's where that's where we're all at. Just admit they're dicks, man.
And admit you don't care.
Admit you don't mind making money off of assholes.
And then we're all fine with it.
Then everybody can make their own decisions and we're all adults and we're fine.
Don't be full of shit.
So September 25th, 2014 now.
This is five days after the apology for the last thing.
He's got some more problems.
An ex-girlfriend of his comes forward saying that she had an incident in March that she called police about with him but declined to pursue charges against him.
She apparently called the police.
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
She called police on March 19th to get the police to get Anthony to leave her place of employment, which was a parks taekwondo, which is a taekwondo studio.
He likes to go to jobs to cause.
That's what he does.
Yeah.
He's like, it's fucking.
That's what crazy people do.
Crazy people go.
Where will this be the most inconvenient to do?
Where can they not leave?
Yeah.
Where can I embarrass them the most?
They'll do it there apparently she uh she didn't give a full account till the next day when a teacher from the taekwondo
school called police to talk document a text message he said he received from anthony johnson
so he's texting her co-workers co-workers making crazy threats enough to where this guy calls the
police to say look this guy's now threatening me so the police came back and they got a full report out of her after that she told them that he showed up
unannounced at park uh parks taekwondo on 15 separate occasions in a three-month period
that she's worked every two days every two days every four every six days once a week all the
time yeah oh boy all the time a little more than once a week too much uh yeah even though they
had a sexual relationship that ended in 2012 and this is 2014 she said that uh that he that rumble
knew she was working alone on march 19th she said he demanded to speak with her grabbed her shirt
from uh behind the neck lifted her up from a chair by her shirt and grabbed her right arm.
And she showed, you know, some bruising on her arm and scratch marks on her collarbone
and looked like she'd been manhandled a little bit there.
She said to police that she asked him to leave several times, but he would not leave until
the police arrived.
And yeah, when asked about these allegations and the text message to the co-worker, he
said, no, never.
And then they said, well, one, you know, why would somebody report this?
And he said, no idea.
And I don't believe she said that because we talk every day and are great friends.
So he says, not only did I not do it, I don't even I think the cops completely made up her story.
Yeah, not she made it up.
The cops invented it and put her name on it.
That's right, friends.
So based on this, I don't even believe she said that based on this he thinks literally they just are fabricating
police reports for his against him because she didn't say that so the cops showed up and they
said we'll fill in the rest don't worry about it we got it we got this i don't think so uh yeah
this is uh 9-1-1 what's your emergency don't worry we'll finish we'll finish
that we'll take care of it yeah so that is september 25th 2014 and so this is a couple
of incidents in this year november 11 2014 ufc reinstates him oh what the fuck why no i mean hey
he seems like a great guy what the hell here uh dana dana white's response to this when asked
about this because they said hey what about the thing that he just had this when asked about this, because they said, hey, what about the
thing that he just had?
And then what about this thing that happened like two weeks ago?
Dana White says, oh boy, he's a lock.
He's a lock for another scummy this year.
Holy shit.
One episode has earned it for him.
Quote, Anthony Johnson was actually the one who was being terrorized in this relationship.
He not only said he didn't do it
he again fucking blamed the woman for it that's his thing that he does listen i've done a whole
investigation on my own already it's already confirmed and again he's a victim might be true
yeah we don't know but yeah that's his go-to is actually yeah he's the victim that's his go so
i'm gonna reinstate him.
Really weird.
If he wasn't that great of a fighter, I might have a different opinion.
But he knocks people out fast and kicks them in the head.
Have you seen his kick?
It's pretty cool.
So I'm going to say he was the one being terrorized.
I'm going to go ahead and say he's the one being terrorized.
He scrambles eggs with a quick left.
It's amazing.
Pretty awesome.
Yeah.
He also tells us he's on tsn off
the record which is a canadian show uh he's on that and he also says that he did not know anything
about the 2010 conviction right the first day dana said never heard of it yeah don't know what
you're talking about claimed quote full ignorance of it uh despite the fact that johnson was fucking working
for them at that time and also that at that time there was a quote zero tolerance domestic violence
policy in the ufc that dana has claimed in this interview that they've had quote since day one
yeah except for then when people get arrested for it i don't even fucking notice it yeah it's
really weird if i don't hear of it i mean if you don't even fucking notice it. It's really weird. If I don't hear of it.
I mean, if you don't tell me about it personally.
I can only not tolerate what I know of.
That's the thing.
And when I'm actively trying not to know things,
it makes it really hard to know them.
It makes it convenient to have zero tolerance for it.
Wow.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, he says that they did not know.
They did know later on. He ends up saying that he did know about it not know uh they did know uh later on the uh he
ends up saying that he did know about it because he's oh yeah no no i meant i knew about it okay
and uh you have and the other guy lorenzo ferrer for for tita i think that's one of the other
guys in the management there uh he they said they did know about that charge he says uh white says
quote when she's saying
this happened he wasn't even in the country it's again that uh wait so you're saying the time of
recent allegations not this time they punched a woman another time both times oh that one neither
time he was in the country all right yeah yeah and then he says quote he was out of the country
they have proof so now he's just now he's he's a defense attorney he's gone from just i'm a
guy with a business and what happens happens to i'll actively defend these people will you just
take the bar exam dana yeah dude just do it start defending these guys you might as well you'll make
more money that way fucking ponytail and go to court i'm sorry this is ridiculous now it's getting
so fucking annoying with you you'll you know what just pay these men in ufc
lawyer script yeah that's what it is pay them pass the bar when they take the money get arrested
they can pay you back in like disney money it's the same thing in dana bucks dana bucks it's
perfect you might as fucking well jesus christ this is that dude that's just come on man such
an asshole now and the n NFL is the fucking worst.
It is.
Can you imagine them?
Can you imagine Roger Goodell going on a television show and fucking defending people for this?
No.
Even them.
Even them, they wouldn't do that shit.
Because he went on TV and was like, you know, I heard that Aaron Hernandez was in another
state at the time.
Yeah.
So, I mean, I don't know.
I heard he was in the club.
So, it couldn't happen.
We're going to let him play for the time being.
We'll let the legal process.
We'll figure it out later.
I hired a third-party attorney to investigate it.
So, never mind that.
Fuck the DA.
DA.
You know how district attorneys are.
They're no fun.
Very little fun.
No.
Dana then says, quote, he's not in a good position right now he was at the
biggest point of his career where he was just on the cusp of making huge money being involved in
huge fights i wouldn't want to be him right now he's not in a good position uh an indefinite
suspension doesn't mean he's definitely going uh going to fight here even if the latest allegations
go away we'll see what happens uh so yeah now the the Fertitta guy, he said that the process was in the that the promotions in the process of gathering more facts before they make a final decision on him.
They said, quote, he went through the legal process for the 2009 incident, and that's how it unfolded.
Obviously, there's been much more significant focus on these issues in light of what's been happening in the sports world.
significant focus on these issues in light of what's been happening in the sports world.
He says, we do have a zero tolerance policy, but I think we looked at that situation and the guy had gone through the court system and he was placed on suspension.
He has served whatever he has served and we are comfortable bringing him in at that time.
Obviously, now, in addition to these recent allegations being made, the fact that there
is a prior makes us a lot more concerned about it.
Can we call it two tolerance?
Yeah.
Not zero?
Because when you say zero tolerance and then say, yeah, there was that one incident, but
now we feel comfortable.
It's not zero tolerance.
That's not zero.
No, it's not zero.
You're an idiot.
And you don't have to have a zero tolerance policy.
That's the thing.
Right.
You don't have to.
But if you say you do, then do.
If you say, we let some shit go, then people know that and they can make the decision
whether they want to support you financially or not but you can't say zero tolerance everyone
can try to feel good about it and then be like yeah wink wink i'm bad at math and i even know
that's not zero it isn't yeah i know that's two anything over zero is not zero so when you're
tolerant of one offense not zero yeah you could say we're not very tolerant that's what
you should say we have a not very tolerant policy we don't like it when you beat people
we treat it case by case but it's case by case but look we try our best yeah it depends on how
quickly you can kick a man in the head to a knockout fuck you dana white he's got more to say
dana white says quote you've got to give people a
fair fucking shake that's what he said again i don't see roger goodell say that what we have to
do as a company and as human beings is we have to do what's morally right and then we have to do
what's right for the business too yeah so january 24 2015 johnson's fighting in ufc again we're a
little more tolerant yeah a little more tolerant a later, they decided what's right for the business.
And that is him fighting Alexander the Mauler Gustafson in a fight here.
He's an 18-6 fighter who's still fighting now.
Rumble wins by TKO with punches at 215 in the first round.
So Dana's patting himself on the back.
That's an exciting fight.
I did great.
19-4.
Sometimes tolerance is good.
Hey, what are you going to do? Now, he's supposed to fight Jon Jones did great. 19 and 4. Sometimes tolerance is good. Hey, what are you going to do?
Now, he's supposed to fight John Jones next.
John Bones Jones.
That's the big fight.
And he'll be in episode, obviously.
Of course.
But he's supposed to fight him.
But it's at this point where Jones is stripped of his title.
Right.
Which totally ruins the whole fight.
Yeah.
Following he's arrested in New Mexico with a hit and run accident.
Right.
Yeah.
He left a pregnant woman
with a broken arm and ran away my god it's a bad incident jones breaking bones good lord breaking
pregnant bones we'll talk about that when we do the episode but uh it's yeah it's it's uh it's
not great but anthony's pissed off because that was the big money fight and it's gone now oh some
woman's gonna pay oh i am gonna find a pregnant woman and
break her arm let me tell you i'll break that pregnant woman's other arm how dare she complain
about being hit and ran on she get in the way of my big money jesus he says anthony says quote i
was just in shock more than worried about what's going to happen to the fight i was like why would
you do something like that at a time like this i wasn't upset with jones i just wish he would make
smarter decisions well yeah i'm more upset at my ex-girlfriend so i'm gonna go to her job i'll be
right back yeah that's it so hold on a minute i gotta go to the taekwondo studio he also now he's
gonna have to fight daniel cormier this is a quick replacement here and uh they said what do you feel
about that and he says johnson says quote i'm a mixed martial artist we're supposed to be ready
for anything and everything so what's the point of coming out with a game plan when you have a fight?
All my fights, I've never had a game plan.
You just go in there and make things happen.
I'm still fighting for a title.
I'm still motivated.
Nothing's changed.
So yeah, he's going to do that.
Wow, he's true fighting like an open mic?
Like an open mic.
Wow.
Pretty much exactly.
No game plan.
I'm just going to go out there with some bullet points.
That's a dangerous man.
Yeah, I'm going to go out with bullet points and kick people in the head a couple of thoughts and
see if i can string them together maybe i can make some joke out of him he's gonna go
that's his plan just go out there rope a dope until i can kick him in the fucking face maybe
i'll kick him in the face or maybe i'll just knock him out quick he is a horrifyingly terrifying
yes dangerous human being he's gonna go on the list of people most likely to find and kill us, probably.
That'll be the scummy he's up for.
He is dangerous.
He says, quote, working my way up, I never thought I'd be in this situation so fast.
I thought it would take me two years to get where I am.
It made me appreciate my career more.
It made me not take life for granted.
It made me train harder.
It made me do everything 110%.
Okay.
He then says that if he beats Cormier, he says, it would just show all the hard work and dedication has paid off.
It would show I didn't give up on myself.
Win, lose, or draw, I'm going to be happy.
If I get beat up, that was just his night.
If I win, it was my night.
Regardless, I'm just happy I didn't give up.
Hard work and dedication.
You go in with no plan.
No plan. What the fucking hard work and dedication is that? with no plan no plan well the fucking hard work
and dedication he's got he's got abs though jimmy they're very impressive he does have abs hard work
of spitting into this bottle for the last three months i do a lot of crunches so got that going
on this guy's dangerous as fuck i would say uh may 23rd 2015 ufc 187 johnson versus cormier he
fights daniel cormier 22-2 career fighter.
He's a great fighter.
He's still fighting, too.
Really?
Yep, still now.
This fight goes all the way into the third round.
Yeah.
At 239 in the third round, though, Cormier catches Anthony with a rear naked choke.
Again, that's his weakness.
God damn it.
It's his fucking kryptonite.
Ladies, if you're going to date Anthony Johnson, I suggest you learn the rear naked joke.
He doesn't know what to do with that.
Bone up on that one.
Yeah, it's like when you get some big killer robot.
He's got one little button you press in a cartoon.
That's what this is.
You go on there.
Go behind him.
Do it.
He'll just fall to the ground and start tapping out.
He won't even know why.
Even if you're not hurting him.
It's just habit.
He doesn't know any better.
That is fascinating.
It's amazing.
It's every fight.
Except for the eye poke fight.
Every fight he's lost has been rear naked joke.
Every single time.
Except for the fire poker.
Except for the fire poker.
19 and 5.
Now, September 5th, 2015.
UFC 191.
Still in UFC.
He's fighting Jimmy.
J-I-M-I, by the way.
Hell yeah.
Another spelling.
Jimmy Posterboy Manua.
Manua?
Manua?
Manua?
Manua.
Manua.
It looks Hawaiian, but he's a black dude.
I don't know if he's a black guy from Hawaii.
Maybe.
17-6 career fighter.
He's still fighting, but he's on a four-fight losing streak at the moment, so not terrific.
This fight goes into the second round, where Anthony knocks him out with punches at 28
seconds into the second round. Anthony knocks him out with punches at 28 seconds into the second round.
20 and 5 for Anthony.
August 18, 2015.
Anthony has a little problem at the gym.
Yeah.
He apparently gets into it into a yelling and yoga mat throwing argument with a woman at the gym.
Of course it's a woman.
Of course it's a woman.
Does he ever fight men outside of the ring?
Never.
No.
Not once.
Not once in this whole thing.
Unbelievable. This whole episode. I'll give spoiler alert. He'll ever fight men outside of the ring? Never. No. Not once. Not once in this whole thing. Unbelievable.
This whole episode.
I'll give spoiler alert.
He'll never fight a man outside the ring.
He apparently got in an argument with this woman and then went on Facebook and put a
big post about how awful she was.
How much of a bitch she is.
Yeah.
He referred to her.
Well, let's just quote him.
What the hell?
He's an asshole.
Let's just let the asshole speak for himself.
He said, quote, to the ugly girl in the gym.
He starts with a burner.
Built like a bag of dry dog food.
This is for you.
He's calling her a square ass.
He's called her a bag of dry dog food.
And ugly.
Right to a first sentence.
This is for you.
If you get in my way or in any other athlete way again, I'll throw your yoga mat across
the gym again in all capital letters.
So he apparently threw her yoga mat across the gym.
Those things are light.
That takes a lot to lift those.
You got to throw it like a Frisbee.
He says, who in their right mind stretches where people are supposed to lift?
Don't ever run your mouth at me again. won't win that battle i will talking about talking about it was rude that i lifted next to you while you were stretching you need more than
stretching to help that beat up body jesus christ run to the front desk again crying talking about
you feel threatened and gonna to go to social media.
I really don't care. I've been through worse.
I beat bitches. Don't you know anything?
I punch women.
I talk to
judges about it. Don't give a fuck.
Dana White's got my back. He'll come out and tell
me why you're fucking wrong and it's really not right for
you to be stretching in my area and fuck your yoga
mat. So it'll be fine. Dana White will
tell you I was at Gold's Gym. I was out of the country at that point i was in venezuela
i've been through worse that's an athlete's gym not a yoga studio that fake crying does nothing
for anybody by the way just like the guy said you live in his neighborhood and you exaggerate and
overreact all the time so one more time don't run your just to summarize one more time don't run your mouth and don't do yoga stretching where
people lift weights or i'll snatch the mat from under you again and throw it again capital letters
and all again understand good girl he says wow he yanked it like a table out from under like a
magician keeping everything and then said
understand then said good girl like she's a fucking dog wow then the final the final the
the coup d'etat here it is everybody one more thing i don't add this there's a ps on this one
a little postscript stop wearing sports bras when your tummy looks like an old country red clay dirt road.
Oh, my God.
Old country red clay dirt road.
He's calling it like a stretch mark.
Wow.
That is just, what a fucking dick.
Dick face.
She had a baby.
She probably has had a baby.
That's not very cool.
If not, and she probably, you know.
And otherwise, if she was big and got small, good for her.
I was going to say, she's been at this gym losing weight, getting and shit and doing yoga and you're yelling at her throwing her fucking mat around
thanks a lot dick that's a georgia insult right there a raked red georgia dirt clay road an old
country red clay dirt road yeah that is some georgia shit so uh yeah that and a bag of dog food. Ugly bitch. Ugly bag of dog food.
Wow.
So, wow.
He's going to throw it again.
That day, he puts that up.
A lot of people attack him on social media going,
dude, what are you, a fucking lunatic?
Aren't you a guy who's been arrested for domestic assault?
You should probably not talk about
fucking ripping yoga mats out from under women.
What? I didn't punch her.
She's got all her teeth, right?
Jesus Christ.
And anyone who, and anyone who does this, he's attacking everybody.
Fuck you.
You're a punk.
He's just doesn't give a shit.
He's all in on this.
All in.
Okay.
The next day, he's, he's very wrong and apologetic.
Of course.
Dana White said, Jesus Christ, dude, I can come out and say, you say, you know, fucking incident to incident, but you're killing me, dude.
You're making it real hard to back you up.
Yeah, you're making it real hard for me to be a dick.
He says, this is on Facebook now, I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong, and yesterday I was absolutely wrong.
He says that, yeah, he called her blah, blah, blah.
I shouldn't have gotten that upset from the start, but I did.
I mean, I'm human.
He said, I said some pretty nasty things about a female from my gym while full of emotions.
Not a good idea.
A female.
A female, yes.
So I do want to apologize to her for being so rude as I was and not taking a break to relax after our argument.
Sorry to everyone else, too, for having to witness me getting upset about an argument in the gym.
I'm not going to sugarcoat it and make it seem like I'm an angel because I'm not,
but I will admit when I'm wrong.
Other than that, I hope everybody has an awesome day.
UFC has no comment on it, they said.
Dana White said, I'm good.
All right.
I think I'm going to stay out of this now.
I'm going to stay out of this here.
And by the way, is the post still up or did he delete
it that's all it's deleted and then uh like a couple weeks later he's back to being he says
quote the media made a big stink about the gym incident he says now he's not that apologetic
anymore they made it seem like it was more than it was and tried to push uh and tried to put the
dv stuff there domestic violence and i'm like, I threw a yoga mat and talked some trash. Who hasn't gotten
mad and thrown something? I'm human.
I'm allowed to get mad and have a temper tantrum.
Hell, I didn't kill anybody.
Yeah, but you're not allowed to grab
shit that people are on, yank it out from
under them, and fucking throw their property. That is
not okay in the real world. He thinks that
domestic violence is just when you punch people.
When you punch a woman or choke her or slam
her down or get her in a headlock and drag her up the stairs he doesn't realize that punching a wall
domestic violence doesn't really ripping a door off a hinge domestic violence throwing someone
who is not related to has nothing to do with you just whipping their yoga mat she also pays 38
a month that's the only connection you have to her. Domestic violence. Domestic violence.
Whoa. Fucking asshole.
Also, at this point, it comes out that there's an online petition that
appeared on an MMA subreddit here
which talked about Johnson owning
a dog kennel and participating in
cropping the dog's ears,
which he defends. He said,
dude, I cropped his ears. I'm not beating the dog.
I'm not starving the dog to death.
Nothing like that.
I definitely laugh at things like that
because everybody knows that.
Everybody that knows me,
even if you don't know me
and look at my Instagram,
look at all my Facebook stuff,
you can tell I love my dogs.
Yeah, I don't know dog medical shit enough.
It's just when they trim them.
But I don't know enough to say
whether it's harmful.
I don't know.
It seems mean.
Technically, it's not harmful.
It hurts the dog.
You're just trimming it for what?
For you to enjoy what it looks like?
Both my dogs are dogs that are traditionally cropped-eared dogs, and neither of them don't
do that because they are fucking cute.
Because there's no need.
They're fine.
What am I doing here?
They're adorable with floppy ears.
Benny has a cropped tail because that's how he was when we got him.
Same with my dog, Vaughn.n yeah i had no choice in that australian
shepherds they generally dock the tail when their pops that just comes that way benny's a connie
corso his tail is like a it's a fucking that thing would it would leave welts on your legs and put
holes in the drywall if he didn't it's 130 pound dog with a fucking and he's just twice as thick
too it's wow you see the base of it and you're like whoa the thing would be dangerous
and he's always wagging
and he's too happy
the Vons is the same way
and I love
I love tails on a dog
I love ears on a dog
yeah
they're cute as fuck
so I would never do that
to my dog
but I get why people do it
that's what I mean
I don't know
I don't know enough about it
to have an opinion on it
shit I've seen them
where people dock them
and do it terribly
and crop them and crop them terribly and they look oh the poor things it's so sad that is sad
it's horrible so i don't necessarily mean it need think it means like health issues for them
it can well like benny's done bad well like benny i know a lot of the uh his ears like the
connie corso's they have, they cut them because he gets
constant ear infections.
Yeah, they get infected a lot.
That's one of the reasons why they crop them.
So you look at it and you go, okay, I can understand why that would be a thing, because
it's literally three times a year we have to do some crazy antibiotic.
Yeah.
And it smells terrible.
Insane treatment.
And Sarah, every day, goes with this special shit and cotton swabs and cleans in his ears
to keep it.
I swear to God, every day she does this shit.
It's ridiculous.
But I get why they do it for Dobermans, too, because like guard dog Dobermans with their ears cropped like that.
They are fucking terrifying.
Well, yeah, for looks.
Yeah, that's what they're doing.
And that's generally what it is.
And pits, that's what it is.
It makes them look horrifying.
It makes them look scary.
Yeah.
Same thing with my dogs.
They don't look quite as cute.
I don't care.
Cute is fine with me.
Cute's fine.
I'm not looking to scare anybody.
He's fucking enormous.
He's intimidating enough.
He's fine.
He's good enough.
Good enough.
I got 250 pounds of dog up there between the two of them.
I think that's good enough.
I don't think their ears are going to make a difference.
So Anthony here, I mean, it's between the dogs and the yoga mats.
He's got just a pile of shit on him.
And he's fucking UFC and everything else. And he's just just a pile of shit on him and he's fucking ufc and everything
else and he's just trying to he needs to cleanse he needs to cleanse his fucking mind he needs to
start over again it's one of those things where he goes i'm starting over again he moves fucking
he's like i don't even want to be in the same house anymore yeah i'm done with this shit i'm
tired of it he moves he's sitting in his house and he's just, you know, he's unwinding.
No women in the house at all.
There's no chance of being arrested for anything, you know, because nobody to punch or choke
or drag or fucking toss their yoga mat.
He's sitting there, but he does say, you know what I do need here?
I need some new furniture.
I just placed the curtains.
I don't like it.
He moves in.
It's a little farty in the place, so he calls up the only man who can help him dexter manly interior designer
from new york city and he says how is it you've come to arrive here? Seriously, this is insane, sir.
Sir, you've been given... You know what?
You're white trash.
I'm sorry.
You're white trash.
You go into a taekwondo studio,
just throwing people around and texting people,
yoga mats are flying around you.
You're white trash.
It's like your wife, she's like,
I'm going to do yoga.
And you're like, that's nice.
And you're like, where's my dinner?
And then you rip it out. That's what i can see in your future so i'm
it's white trash it's the engines hanging from trees it's very white trash you really need to
get it together um i had to lock vince in the car because he was very excited about he was so
excited he was like oh i need him i you know how he talks i need him so he's you know his whole
thing i need him so much so manly take your shirt off and i'm like
yeah do that you know what i mean it's like put these you know overalls on like yeah this is kind
of sexy yeah so anyway you're white trash is what i'm saying i i'm just i'm not decorating anything
you should sit here with nothing but yoga mats to think about a poof and in a in a poof of glitter
and purple boas he's gone and anthony is very confused and swinging at the
air yeah he's not happy that that guy was in his house now january 30th 2016 is ufc on fox 18
johnson versus bader where he fights a guy named ryan yep darth bader ah he blew it. Could have gone with Master.
Ryan, Darth, Master, Vader.
Both.
I couldn't decide, man.
What a fucking jerk-off.
Vader is 27-5, and he's still fighting.
Anthony knocks him out with punches at 126.
Quickly.
In the first round.
First round.
Fucks him up good.
21-5 for for anthony here he
also says at this point uh people are getting busted in ufc for drugs all the time now you know
steroids and shit starting to get popular and uh he says that he takes no drugs he doesn't even
like supplements oh he says i don't even do that shit that time that i fought with my girlfriend
yes i don't i don't like that. I'm not allowed in that store anymore.
So I said, I'm like... I got 86 from GNC.
You know how that goes.
I'm not big on supplements.
He said, I eat right.
As far as vitamins and supplements, I take regular multivitamins.
I'm just too afraid to try anything because I don't want to get in trouble.
Just me and the Flintstones.
I don't want to give Dana a reason besides beating women to cut me here.
stone yeah i don't want to give dana a reason besides beating women to cut me here uh so yeah he he said uh he says that jones is quote the best in the world and he says that uh you know
he wants to fight him and all that sort of shit he says no matter how much you try to get around
it you get caught about drugs he said you're trying to be a couple steps ahead of them and
they're trying to get a couple steps ahead of you so that's good he's not doing roids anyway uh i think he might be later on as we'll find out august 20th 2016 this is
diaz versus mcgregor 2 uh versus glover to share it's spelled like mark mark to share the baseball
player uh he's a 30 and 7 fighter this fight lasts 13 seconds wow as uh anthony knocks him
the fuck out in 13 seconds. Wow. With a punch.
How you doing, sir?
Good night.
That's done.
Are you sleepy?
He's sleepy.
April 8th, 2017 is UFC 210, Cormier versus Johnson 2.
Here he fights Daniel Cormier again.
Right.
This time he loses by submission.
Rear naked choke.
Rear naked choke.
That's it.
Cormier knows.
Besides, if you're fighting this guy, you're like, how do I get behind him?
How do I do this?
Because that's the way I'm going to win.
Literally, six losses, 22 and 6.
One was an eye poke that we're going to not count.
The other five are rear naked choke.
So that's how he goes.
So now he's 2017.
He retires from UFC at this point.
So he's done with MMA.
Retired.
Done.
All done.
So 2018, he gets into bodybuilding like a lot.
Gross.
Like he gets up to 285 pounds.
What?
285.
Bro.
With just Flintstones?
Fuck no.
His fucking head is twice the size of his he looks like barry bonds in 2003 it's
fucking ridiculous he's walking around looking like he's gonna fall over with his head if his
body wasn't so amazingly swollen too built a bobble head it's what it is so he's into all
this bodybuilding uh in 2019 early he becomes the the head of fighter relations for Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship.
Oh, he's getting involved in that shit?
DKFC.
He's not fighting.
Why would they?
Wait, he's the head of what?
Fighter relations.
Yeah.
He's got a front office position.
Wow.
In this fucking place for some reason.
Unbelievable.
And he's not fighting.
It's not like they're going to use him for his name for a couple of fights.
He's just the face of the organization.
Yeah. He says, quote, I don't know. bare knuckle is a different kind of crazy to me i'm not that tough i'll admit it because they said are you going to fight in
there and he said fuck no i'm not that's trying to get an easy payday yeah this is just i'm trying
to show up get a couple pictures taken and get a check from that shit get free dental yeah that's
it yeah i need it because i'm getting punched in the face all the time. March 8th, 2019, he is hit with a restraining order.
Oh?
What happened, Andy?
For, quote, an immediate present danger of dating violence.
Very nice here.
Dating violence?
Dating violence.
When did we change the D to dating?
Well, this is a different thing.
This is accusations of online stalking, making threats, and posting intimate images of a
woman that he briefly dated.
Wow.
So he's fucking with her, posting pictures he's not supposed to post, and trying to bully
her and harass her.
Doxing her.
Yeah, shit like that.
She gets a restraining order against him that will be in effect until, well, about two weeks
ago, February 6, 2020.
Okay.
It was all in effect there.
And yeah, so I mean, he's, dude, he can't be let out of the house.
No.
It's like you can't be out of the house.
He can't be on the internet.
He's on the internet.
You can't go to the gym for Christ.
I'm just going home into the gym.
Well, that's going to get in trouble there.
I mean, fuck all these fucking women, random strangers in the goddamn gym.
It's a fucking mess.
People online.
I feel bad for all these people, Jimmy.
I really do.
But not nearly as bad as I feel for Anthony Johnson, managing partner and board member
at Cybersecurity Keynote Speaker at CISO.
I don't know where that is.
Washington, D.C., Baltimore area.
Wow.
Okay.
Anthony Johnson, joint manager at Chester Football Club and former soldier in the British Army.
Wow.
Look at you.
Not bad there.
Anthony Johnson, biotech executive driven to improve the system and deliver cures for patients.
Nothing like our guy.
Or a woman puncher.
Yeah.
Or never punched anyone.
It's not in his LinkedIn.
I don't know if you put that in your LinkedIn.
I'll punch a bitch. I don't think it goes in your linkedin probably yeah new york city he's
in new york city anthony johnson vp of business development at mock machines in birmingham alabama
oh and wow and he's from the south and he's from the south yeah he went to pensacola christian
college which means that he knows nothing no anything. Police officer Anthony Johnson of the Cincinnati Police Department.
I hope he arrests him one day for punching a woman in Cincinnati.
Hey!
Me too!
He says, our mission at the Cincinnati Police Department is to serve all our community members
in matters we can assist, but especially in the issues of quality of life so he's trying to make things better and our guy is certainly not anthony
johnson finally the last job you'd want to give him professor of obstetric of gynecology and
obstetrics and pediatric surgery i don't want him near anybody's vagina. No. So in Houston, Texas.
And pediatric surgery.
And pediatric surgery.
Women and children.
He's a professor of these departments at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Unless that's his new job and he's just like punching chicks in the pussy.
Like knocking them out and then punching.
I don't like the way your cervix is doing.
I'm going to punch it and see if it works.
Hold on.
I'm going to get your fallopian tubes in a headlock and drag them up the stairs and we'll see if this shit's any better.
Anesthesia, don't worry.
I'll put you to sleep.
I'll put you right to sleep, sweetheart.
I'll kick you right in the face.
Oh, my God.
May 6th, 2019.
Very recently here.
He's arrested. Oh, boy. For guest watching. Yeah. Very recently here. He's arrested.
Oh, boy.
For guess watching.
Yeah.
Domestic violence?
Hey!
Some domestic violence.
Or dating violence.
Dating violence.
Following a physical altercation here.
Apparently, he picked her up in what he called a football hold.
I don't know what a football hold is when you pick somebody.
I guess like by your shoulders. By your shoulders? Like you're blocking or or you wrap your whole arms around them maybe but i'm
thinking like a whole like a block like your whole like an offensive lineman or is it a horse collar
tackle oh maybe that's yeah after he was asked to leave the premises which you know what no no if
you're asked to leave someone's premises you leave you fucking leave that's not your house you've
learned that lesson already anthony this ain't his you leave. You fucking leave. That's not your house. You've learned that lesson already, Anthony.
This ain't his house.
No.
They don't live together.
Oh, shit.
It's not like, oh, we both live here.
No, this is my house.
You're at my house.
Please leave.
He said, I'm going to get you in a football hold, whatever the fuck that is.
Now, he says, he tells police that his intention wasn't to cause harm, but to diffuse the situation,
which when a woman's angry, she wants to be grabbed and held.
That usually makes her calm.
That usually does.
That'll diffuse everything.
By a man who has been doing bodybuilding
and is now almost 300 pounds.
And has been constantly accused of domestic violence.
That's how you feel very comfortable.
Maybe he picked her up,
balled her up,
and held her in the Heisman pose.
That would be a football hold.
He held her like a football.
Arm out, extended, leg up in the back.
To stop the police.
Don't worry, I got her.
Don't worry, I got her under control.
You guys don't have to.
I know, she's acting crazy.
You don't have to interfere, though.
I got her in a football hold.
It's her house.
It's her house.
So the victim here, the alleged victim,
she said that Anthony had come to the apartment
to discuss, quote, an issue they had over the weekend. victim here the alleged victim she said that anthony had come to their to the apartment to
discuss quote an issue they had over the weekend uh i guess he had some stuff there and she said
that they began to pack up his belongings when he quote came into the room and picked her up in a
football hold and carried her into another room i don't know what that is if it's that james were
you like if you like grab her by the tits and just pick her up and
carry her under the armpits like the girl he slammed in 2009 that's and then he's just like
up in the bottom of the tits like armpits yeah like you pick up a child but your hands go right
under the tits there yeah well kind of under your armpits it would go it's too much it's not much
you shouldn't do that don't move people who don't want to be no um yeah she said she was scared due
to his size and martial arts experience.
She then said that she asked for her phone, which he had taken from her, and then he gave
it back to her when she asked for it because he's been charged with that before.
Oh, I better break this.
And she went out on the balcony and called 911.
Sheriff's deputy came, interviewed Johnson, who was sitting on a couch in the living room
very calmly.
Picture him just sipping a cognac just very calm just
swirling it oh boy well let me let's let's talk about it boy do i have a tale for you oh the tale
the tale the deputy stated that he uh that he claimed that he and the victim were arguing about
an issue they had and they keep saying an issue he says then that he decided to leave and decided
to pack up his own belongings which were in one of the bedrooms, and he claimed that she followed him into the room
to continue the argument.
He said that he asked her to leave him alone
and stop talking to him.
Like women do.
And he then admitted...
Boy, do they love that shit.
He admitted to picking her up
and moving her to another room,
quote, to get her away from me.
You can't do that.
That's the thing.
We've all wanted to.
Everybody wants to just go, what do I do? Move this person here. Not in a violent way. I'll just move. to get her away from me no you can't do that that's the thing we've all wanted everybody
wants to go what do i just move this person here not in a violent way just i'll just move
like you over here but you can't because that's a person right and they're not just because they're
smaller than you and you could pick them up doesn't mean that you are allowed to or you like
women do you like dating women do you like sex with women because this is what you have to put
up with when you date when there's a there's an issue and you try to leave the room they're gonna follow you yeah
we leave shit a mess and we fucking we're gross in our way and they're gonna follow you and continue
arguments there's certain things that we all have that makes us not perfect right your beard hairs
will be on the sink along with gobs of toothpaste we'll be disgusting and then you'll be and then
you'll follow us in the rooms that's that's the trade-off it is that's the trade-off but in no in no way is anyone allowed
to pick anyone else up and place them somewhere different especially the larger doing that to the
smaller yeah that's the thing he said that he was not trying to hurt her but he wanted her
wanted to get her to stop arguing with him well good luck i don't think that's going to happen
if she wants to keep arguing so he said he went went to this apartment, and this is what happened here.
So the arrest report said the closing comments, the arresting deputy said, quote, I believe Johnson actually and intentionally touched the alleged victim against her will, which is a violation of the code domestic battery.
And he is arrested, transported to jail here, charged with domestic battery and released on his own recognizance with the understanding that he'll come back for court hearings.
So he is scheduled for court day the next day.
I'm sorry, he's due back on June 6th for arraignment, 2019.
It's at this point during the hearing of June 6th that he is labeled by the court as indigent.
And yeah, he's got no money for lawyers, so he needs a public defender.
And his current address was the same one used by several companies that were formerly owned
by this guy named Glenn Robinson, not Big Dog, different Glenn Robinson, who was his
former manager.
So apparently he's got, they're saying that he has no current address.
And I'm sure he's not homeless.
I'm sure he's staying somewhere.
But they're calling him indigent, which is not what you want to be labeled publicly.
No.
If you're a fighter like that.
Not when you were three years ago about to fight the best in the world.
Yeah, about to be the champion of USC.
UFC.
Was I saying?
USC.
USC?
Sorry.
You are not about to be Matt Leiner.
No, you're definitely not.
No, no, no.
You're not going to be Reggie Bush.
You are not going to be Pete Carroll. No're definitely not no no no you're not going to be reggie bush you are not going to be pete carroll no so uh also a condition that was released he's ordered
to stay away from the victim and not allowed to be in possession of weapons and may not consume
alcohol or drugs now he has an attorney uh here now this is this is uh amazing here. His attorney says, this is weird, he's saying,
I'm going to go get my gun, and her
interpretation was
that the message was aimed at her.
This is about later on.
This is the social media thing.
He says, and saying it was in reference
to the person bothering him and not her.
That's his position, and I also believe
he may have posted a picture of her performing
something intimate on him. That's the March. But it all had to do with social media postings there were
no findings in fact nobody testified and there was no ruling so that just kind of went on in
court and then she ended up suing him civilly and we get to that later on but uh that's still going
on and uh also at this point it shows that he's also has he also drives like shit too uh he has in the last
couple years five traffic infractions and two criminal traffic charges as well which is a lot
i drive like an asshole james how many criminal traffic charges that's what i mean you gotta
really be fucking off and five other infractions and in neighbor and that's in palm beach county
and then in broward county right next door he he also has two traffic infraction cases there as well.
So he's got problems.
He can't drive or be around women.
May 15, 2019, he enters a not guilty plea following the latest domestic violence deal here.
His attorney denied any domestic violence took place.
And he even said that his – I love it when they do this.
This is their defense.
His client's punches are so powerful
that it would have been obvious to police officers
if he had beat her up.
That's his thing.
He says, quote,
Anthony Johnson, if he hits you,
your grandkids are going to feel it.
He said that in court.
Who are you?
Don King?
That's what I mean.
You're promoting a fight what is going on his
grandkids are gonna step up for the next fight he's gonna fight the judge what the hell is
happening uh he says that it's ridiculous completely ridiculous accusations ridiculous
the attorney says he's trying to de-escalate her verbal argument. So he simply picks her up gently and puts her down.
Hers.
Hers.
It's hers, not his.
No, they're not even a shared argument.
It's only her argument.
You want it, it's all yours.
He simply did not want to argue anymore.
And he put her in another room.
All of his things were in a box.
Yeah.
So hers is the argument.
The argument wasn't in the box.
So it's clearly not his.
Not his.
It doesn't belong to him. Now, here's where it gets good. If that wasn't good enough box, so it's clearly not his. Not his. It doesn't belong to him.
Now, here's where it gets good.
If that wasn't good enough,
here's where it gets good.
He said he simply did not want to argue anymore
and put her in another room.
That happens every day in America
in domestic relationships.
Holy shit.
It might be a domestic dispute,
but it's not domestic violence.
That does not happen every day, all of it.
That does not happen.
I've never, ever picked a woman up I was with and put her in another room because she was
bothering me.
Other point.
Ever.
You put your hands on another person.
Of anybody.
Domestic or not.
That's certainly violence.
If you're back in the 7-Eleven.
There's no way he picked her up and said, listen, you're upset.
I need to put you in the timeout room.
He did not try to calm her. he whistled classical music to her bitch stand over here fuck away from
me that's probably what he said those are words he said if you're outside we'll go to the 7-eleven
thing if you're outside of 7-eleven another dude start you're arguing with a dude and that dude's
fucking arguing with me with you and you pick him up and put him somewhere. That's a fight.
Yeah, that's a fight.
You put your hands on them.
You put your hands on and put them someplace.
He didn't want to go voluntarily.
That's a fight.
So August 27th here, 2019, he this is for the it's a misdemeanor domestic battery charge.
He faces up to one year in jail for this, though.
His attorney here says they reach an agreement with prosecutors to enter a pre-trial diversion program seems like that could have been
years ago uh he will be required to complete an anger management course again and once he's done
that the case will be dismissed uh the lawyer called the deal a no-brainer for johnson and
says that uh you know he's going to do the whole thing. He has to go to, apparently, in the initial report,
it says he has to go to a hearing in September
to show that he's done everything.
He's supposed to do anger management for the next month.
September 25th, 2019, a warrant is issued for his arrest
when he misses the court date.
Of course.
But he puts in a motion to get rid of the warrant.
He says it shouldn't be a warrant.
This is his motion.
The defendant has been released on his own recognizance since May 6, 2019.
He's always complied with each and every condition, including permission to travel twice.
On August 23, 2019, the defendant entered into the pretrial diversion program, which
included he complete an anger management course.
The defendant filed his certificate of completion, showing that he had completed the anger management course. The defendant filed his certificate of completion showing that he had completed the anger management
course on September 23rd.
The defendant truly misunderstood that once he completed the program, his case would be
dismissed and he would no longer have to report.
September 25th, an affidavit of violation was honored, was filed for him.
The defendant respectfully prays that this honorable court will set aside the warrant
and allow the case to be dismissed according to
the agreements. He is begging
and praying. Whoops, I didn't
show up for jail. So
his lawyer said that he
truly misunderstood that once he
completed it. It is a true misunderstanding
here. Isn't that the
lawyer's job to explain that to him?
To probably tell him when you're supposed to be in court.
Hey dude, meet me back here this day. tell me what to do man yeah this is uh fucking ridiculous here
so he's free to do whatever he wants and then all that sort of shit the he must complete anger
management along with a substance abuse evaluation and then pay for prosecution costs uh he says on
instagram anthony does quote everyone i'm okay nothing is going on media as
usual don't know the facts and what's true nobody did a fact check and they're just started writing
to get to get hits one day someone in the media is gonna regret not putting the facts and yapping
just to yap because they because they read something then y'all media clowns are gonna
run with your tail between your legs watch is's he's threatening people who are reporting his stories this man's gonna kill us he's gonna kill us yeah
oh my god the other whoever he kills first the other one's gonna get a lot of publicity out of
it so enjoy enjoy your follower count it's all good fuck it so uh late 2019 yeah he says that
he wants to come back to ufc he's ready to come back he says he wants to come back to UFC. He's ready to come back.
He says he wants to fight heavyweight this time.
He's tired of all the weight cutting.
He says, right now, I feel good at being 240.
If I were to fight right now at heavyweight for 240, I'd feel just fine.
I feel like I still have my strength.
I'm definitely not going to be one of the bigger heavyweight guys.
There's some monsters at heavyweight, but my advantage would probably be speed over a majority of those guys everybody at heavyweight for the most part has power but i think i'm much
faster than those guys and i'll probably have a little more knockout power so he says he's
returned to sparring and he's talking about possible june or july 2020 ufc yeah uh thing
come back he said we have to go over things and just figure out some stuff but it's all looking
good so far nothing bad i don't want to put my foot and just figure out some stuff, but it's all looking good so far. Nothing bad.
I don't want to put my foot in my mouth and say too much, but everything's looking good right now.
I'm trying to shoot for April or May, but it may be June or July.
Whenever I come back, I'm going to make sure it's known.
I want to come back and showcase everything and fight and just hurt people.
I'm going to be following him, and I hope that Dana reinstates him at the maximum hypocrisy level.
Oh, it's coming.
Let him fight.
Absolutely.
I want to see this.
I can't wait.
You bet your ass.
He also was on the Food Truck Diaries show with Brendan Schaub.
Really?
Yeah, he was on that.
Brendan Schaub is what?
Yeah, he does fight shit.
Brendan.
He does fight shit, and he had him on food truck diaries, and they ate tacos, and talked
about bare-knuckle boxing, and talked about facing Jon Jones.
And did they both go punch chicks together?
They did it together.
Yeah, there was a headlock drag up the stair contest.
Who could make it faster?
So Anthony says, quote, we'll make it happen, the fight against Jones.
If I get low enough in weight, I'll get to 205 pounds.
That's a fight I wanted.
I think John
wanted that fight too before everything happened the situation which it's over with it's in the
past when we see each other there's no animosity we show each other love but that was that was a
fight and that's uh why I went up to 205 pounds man that's the guy I want and then you know when
I got my heart broken I have to fight Daniel Cormier and it's not as motivating.
The fight wasn't in me to fight DC, but I fought him, kind of fought him, but it wasn't the same drive.
So he's saying that he just lost his whole drive to fight Cormier.
Cormier got you both times, sir.
Yeah, you should have had drive the second time, I would say.
Now he said, quote, honestly, I'm focused on the comeback, but it's not on my mind like 24-7.
Like when I come back, I'll be ready.
So I don't really think about it.
I just train.
And when it's time, it's time.
Right now, I'm just having fun, enjoying myself.
I've been gone for two and a half years.
It's nothing to take serious right now.
I'm here to enjoy myself because before I took everything so serious, that shit is stressful.
So I'm like, shit, I'm going to have to have some fun.
Do what I got to do.
Whatever happens, happens.
So that's why I'm here.
He said nothing.
Nothing.
Not one.
He just said, I don't know.
What happens, happens.
In a whole paragraph.
Maybe one day.
He said it 45 different ways.
That's insane.
January 21st, 2020, he tweets UFC 248 at T-Mobile Arena, which is on March 7th.
He tweets that.
It already features a couple of title fights and things like that.
He's not scheduled to be on it or anything like that.
He's letting us know when it is.
Letting us know when it is.
Because then he has to go into the testing program and all that sort of shit.
Also, he's bored in the meantime.
the testing program and all that sort of shit.
Also,
he's bored in the meantime,
so literally,
last Friday night,
February 20th, 2020,
he fought a sumo match.
What?
He's in a fucking sumo.
Where?
It's insane to watch,
by the way.
How big is he?
235 pounds.
And it's Curtis Blades,
who's another MMA fighter,
was also in that.
Yeah,
they,
fucking, asses hanging out and everything here. I, was also in that. Yeah, they fucking did.
Where the fuck was it?
Asses hanging out and everything here.
I think it was in Japan.
Really?
It was the Celebrity Sumo Round Robin here.
Jesus Christ, man.
I guess they were taking on Ryuichi Yamamoto and Takeshi Amatani.
And one of the guys is 600 pounds.
Whoa. Which is crazy. And they're both former champions. And he's going to try to move that? and Takeshi Amatani and one of the guys is 600 pounds whoa
which is crazy
and they're both
former champions
and he's gonna try
to move that
yeah Blades
took on the
210 pound guy
who was
Amatani
but he's a former
world champion
so he's obviously
good at this
and this guy
dragged Blades
to the ground
and fucking
tossed his ass
out of the ring
eventually
because he's a
fucking sumo wrestler
that's what he does
he's a world champion
then Johnson faced the 600 poundamamoto but it was a woman yeah so he
knocked her out good um they said that he this is great this is the quote from the from the article
the usually intimidating rumble was picked up like a small child by yamamoto before being thrown out
of the circle wow he just picked him up and moved
him to another part of the ring that's all it was he wasn't fighting him or beating him up he's just
picking him up and moving him to another section of the ring that he didn't you know i didn't want
him next to me you son of a bitch fucking bastards oh man so yeah this is so perfect Oh, man. So, yeah. So perfect. Oh, the fucking, the irony is thick.
Oh, gee, it really is, man.
Jesus Christ.
It's so thick.
You just picked him up.
It's amazing.
So it's the equivalent, too.
And, yeah, here also, then Johnson and Blades have a sumo match where Blades ends up tripping him and takes him down.
And, like, in the third round or something, he ends up beating Johnson in a taking takes him down and like at the third round
or something he ends up beating johnson in a sumo match for whatever the fuck that's worth took
fourth fourth fourth in the evening he's the double elimination loser that's right so he can't
wait to get back into ufc yeah and uh if you can't wait for him you can't get enough of anthony rumble
johnson why don't you go get something that uh you can punch somebody with get an anthony rumble johnson autographed ufc fight glove with proof with anthony a picture
of anthony signing it for him here uh 69.99 that goes for yeah it's one of those that'll ship within
three to four days there's only like 40 of those right who the shit knows how many times has he
fought he's 25 and five i don't think it's one that he wore oh it's just a glove it's a glove it's a ufc glove that he signed is you know what a piece
of shit like baseball players sign baseballs they don't have anything to sign sign a glove i guess
piece of shit yeah so that is anthony johnson rumble rumble my friend my god what a fucking
disaster he's a monster yeah and it's a downhill snowball too so i i feel like there's going to be
more here i think so i feel like he's going to turn into the adrian broner Yeah, and it's a downhill snowball, too. So I feel like there's going to be more here.
I think so.
I feel like he's going to turn into the Adrian Broner of MMA.
It's nowhere near over.
That's where I'm getting out of him.
For sure.
He doesn't learn, clearly.
And Dana White's going to keep fucking making excuses for him.
So why should he learn?
Why fucking learn?
Why bother?
You haven't been to prison, and you keep your fucking job.
So who cares?
And you got a finite
amount of money it's ridiculous it eventually is going to go away oh yeah uh well he was indigent
in court right so that tells you broner's got the added advantage that he can still fight
yeah broner's still young too he's like 36 uh 36 and mma isn't a good combination no for uh
for old rumble but uh i believe that Broner's younger.
I was going to say, I wanted to say he's like 31, which for boxing is getting there.
But still, he's a good boxer.
You never know.
He can at least make a few bucks here and there, especially with his crazy-ass name.
And availability to show up.
He could still get appearance fees.
Yeah, absolutely. This guy, nobody fucking knows who he is.
No, that's the other.
Well, I mean, the UFC people do, but it's very it's not gonna be specific to them it's not real mainstream this
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Capri?
Capri.
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How's it spelled?
Maybe it is. K-H-e-p-r-e
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