The Sevan Podcast - #279 - Dalton Rosta

Episode Date: January 27, 2022

Bellator MMA 273 Pre-Fight Interview. Dalton is an undefeated fighter in Bellator MMA. He is fighting in Bellator 273 on January 29th, 2022 against Duane Johnson. You can watch the prelims on the Bellator MMA YouTube page. Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/therealsevanpodcast/ Watch this episode https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC59b5GwfJN9HY7uhhCW-ACw/videos?view=2&live_view=503 Support the show Partners: https://cahormones.com/ - CODE "SEVAN" FOR FREE CONSULTATION https://www.paperstcoffee.com/ - THE COFFEE I DRINK! https://asrx.com/collections/the-real... - OUR TSHIRTS ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Gotta be quick and effective. Where are you? Are you in a restaurant? Are you getting ready to off someone? Looks like you're gonna order a pizza and off someone. Nah, I'm in my hotel room. I make sure I do a little bit. Oh, that's your bed behind you? Yeah, these are the beds. I'm sitting on a couch that was over in the corner i moved the couch here in front of the tv so i could play a game but you can't hook up to the wi-fi here like on your playstation it's restricted you can only use laptops or computers and phones stupid yeah that's not conducive to fighters because you guys in general are are into video games right like that's what you do to like to calm the nerves and like all right this is what

we're gonna do we're locked in our hotel room yeah for like most fighters yeah holy shit you know i just thought of that um you know how netflix like exploded because they this last two years they've been asking um human beings to stay indoors yeah and i and then porn supposedly porn exploded too uh-huh everything that everybody already does just amplified yeah i never even thought about video games yeah hey dude i had friends in college um and this is a long time ago but i think the game back then was like it was some it was like one of the, I guess they call them first person shooter games. And I had friends just go missing. Like dudes are like, I went to college with partied with hung out with, and then all of a sudden they were just gone. And I'd be like, yo, where's August?

And they're like, dude, he's been playing video games for six months. I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah. I, uh, I actually got kind of got started back into get video games during COVID. Maybe a year prior to that, I started playing Fortnite. A couple of my friends got me into it. I didn't even have a system. I bought a system because of Fortnite. And then Modern Warfare came out. And shortly after that, you know, COVID hit.

So I was playing Modern Warfare a lot. That's kind of what got me back into video games as much as I did. I liked what you said in that interview. God, I need to remember this guy's name because this guy is killing it. He's an Asian dude. He's just interviewing everyone. All-Star – Allstate or All-Stars, his podcast. Anyway, you told him on the podcast that you do it – you started playing video games or you play video games just to hang with the homies.

It's like a social thing. Yeah, pretty much, especially because now I live in Florida and all my friends live. I mean, I have friends in Florida, but all my friends from my childhood live back home. So, you know, I get on. We hop in a party. You know, it makes the game more fun. If I'm just sitting there playing the game by myself, it's not as fun. You know what I mean?

If I'm just sitting there playing a game by myself, it's not as fun. You know what I mean? Guys, everyone knows who follows me on the podcast that I'm a huge UFC fan. I can't claim to be a fight fan. Just like I couldn't claim to be a football fan when I was a Raider fan. I just, you know, as a kid, I just only watched the Raiders. If anyone else was playing, like I wouldn't even watch the Super Bowl if the Raiders didn't go. And you can't really be a fight fan.

It's hard to be a fight fan because if you're just a UFC fan, that takes three hours a week minimum already. And I think TV is stupid. But every once in a while, you got to do something that you don't want to do. And this guy you are staring at right now, right here, this is Dalton Rosta. And if you didn't hear our first podcast, you need to go back and listen to it. He is a 12-0 as a fighter, seven amateur fights undefeated, five fights undefeated. He is young. He is hungry.

He is committed. He's all the things that you would want to either be or to know. He's just a dedicated guy. or to know he's a he's a um just a dedicated guy and and he's what's got me to to spend more time in front of the tv and start watching bellator and put bellator into my google alerts and to subscribe to bellator's youtube channel and figure out how to how to watch bellator it's so it's like this is the guy he's man you're the man thank you man i appreciate all that and it's fun getting on the train now i mean for you it's not early right i mean you're like dude i've been fucking doing like 12 fights in but for me it's like okay i'm early no one can say i'm a bandwagon jumper at

least yeah yeah no definitely whenever i mean especially whenever it comes to the pros you know i've been fighting for four or five years but uh like competing but you know a lot of people still don't know about me so definitely still early uh the fight is on january 29th and um typical to the uh ufc the i don't know why it's like this with the ufc it's always it's not it's not super easy to find. And when I was just doing the research, it looks like your fight is going to be on YouTube. And then from there, if you want to keep watching the fights, you switch to Showtime. Yes, so the prelims are on YouTube Live.

They'll have a live stream going. You just Google Bellator. It's 273. But it'll show up at the top. You click on it. It's live. If you click on it right at 530, it'll say the broadcast is about to start soon. And then after that ends, after the last prelim fight, you switch over to Showtime.

Either you have it as a channel or you get down with the app. I don't know how much it is a month. I think it's free for the first couple months. But, yeah, you can watch the fights on there as well. I'm going to show you their channel channel i know this isn't fucking any like you're like dude i'm the athlete i'm not the tech guy but look at look how fucked up it is over there and and i don't mean this as a dig i just mean it like as constructive criticism for people if you're if you're the uh if you're the bellator team it's kind of hard for me i'm by way, I'm at a cabin in Utah, not Utah, in Tahoe.

Okay. So I only have one screen. So this is gonna be a little wonky. So this is the Bellator site, right? And I go on videos and there's no, the live isn't up here. And then I go to the home because like, I want to set a reminder, right? Yeah. So I go here and there's this reminder for a 10 55 live stream uh beta versus

moldavsky but what i need is is 5 a.m that might be you fight at 4 p.m yeah no that's that's the weigh-ins that's going to be the weigh-ins because it shows 128 which is the day before we fight 10 55 a.m we weigh in at 11 so oh. Oh, right. Yeah. So you even read. Yeah. That's going to be, I just look at pictures. Okay. So like Bella tour,

hook us up, buddy, make another, uh, do it like the seven on podcast, have another window for the last like week. People have been able to see the Dalton Ross is going to come on. They could set the reminder.

They could even open a window, make it easy for us guys, make it easy. And, and, and I wish I could say, um, uh, UFC is better, but they're not, they send me emails promoting the fight and there won't be a, uh, a time or a date on it. And I'm like, dude, like what?

Um, I mean, it could definitely, definitely be improved. You know, there's, you know, I could sit here and criticize them all day long about it i i think um you know i think they could do a better job promoting but who knows what's going on on their end so yeah and when i used to work at crossfit i ran the media team there and even though we there were gyms in 162 countries, 15,000 gyms, people thought that it was some corporate juggernaut like Coca-Cola. And it's not. It was like fucking mom and – we were like a mom and pop hardware store just putting shit together in the back. You know what I mean?

I would have figured it would have been bigger. What did you say? I would have figured it would have been bigger. No. No, no, no. It's so – yeah yeah it's funny i wonder how big bellator is i mean they're owned by viacom and viacom is you know a giant so i had no idea i thought just one dude owned it like like uh like those dudes used to own the ufc the

fratata brothers no uh no viacom owns the promotion. They own Paramount Network, which Bellator used to be on. They own CBS Sports, which Bellator used to be on. They own Showtime, which Bellator is now on. They own Bellator. They own a lot of stuff. So there's a lot of money and everything that goes into the promotion. Who's the big guy at Bellator? Who's the guy guy?

The president is scott coker but uh you know i think whenever it comes to setting up the fights and running things from what i've heard it's mike cogan one of the uh matchmakers but you know um they they have a team they'll have rich chow mike cogan those are two of the matchmakers I've dealt with. And then Scott Coker, he's the president. He's kind of the face you see whenever people interview or do podcasts with Bellator or talk about the fights coming up. He's kind of the Dana White of Bellator. But yeah, so I would say Scott Coker.

So your guy pulled out. Listen, man, I knew it was going to happen. I told my manager, I told my, I told a lot of my teammates, because this is the third time you're supposed to fight first time we were scheduled for September, 2020, you know, he was like, I don't know what happened. He's like, I'm not going to be ready by then. Whatever. Can we move it back to October? So they like October 15th or October 29th?

I accepted October 15th. And they were like, his side said October 29th. So I was like, all right, whatever. Cool. So we did October 29th. Then three, four weeks beforehand, I get a call saying that he pulled out and in comes Ty Werner, another Southpaw striker. So kind of the same situation I'm in now

where I was fighting an Orthodox wrestler and it was the exact same person I was supposed to fight twice already that this happened with. And he pulled out and then they got me a Southpaw striker instead. It's... I wasn't surprised. Do they tell you...

By the way, that dude doesn't have any kids, huh? Who? My last opponent or the guy I'm fighting now? No, your last opponent. What's his name, Romero? I have no idea. I don't know. Because the dude who pulls out that much ain't getting nobody pregnant.

Okay. So what do they tell you is the reason? So this time they say he was sick. But the next day I seen him on a live podcast. Not a podcast like we're doing virtually right now. He was in the studio with the person the next day. It could have been prerecorded, but it said it was live. So it's like, dude said he's sick, meaning probably COVID, you know,

and that's his reason for pulling out. And then boom, the next day or two days later, he's in a studio. It's like, all right, well, how sick are you? You know, too sick to fight, but you can go on a podcast with no mask in the same room, two feet from the person next to you. You know, and it's live. Have you ever pulled out of a fight? No.

So I fought with broken ribs. I fought with a torn meniscus. I actually fought with both of those at the same time. It was my first title fight as an amateur against Trent Sidarko. And then I went by knockout in the first round. I kind of needed to because I really couldn't run. I couldn't do much conditioning. I couldn't grapple, so I was kind of, no.

I was getting the bad end of the stick there. But I ended up getting the first-round finish, and then I've hurt my knee before fights. MCL, before Tag Boarder, I tore my LCL. I ended up getting stem cell on that now it's about two weeks before the fight you know a week after he stepped in two weeks after he stepped in whatever i went home to pittsburgh got the stem cell shot on my knee wore a knee brace for the next two weeks still wasn't 100 come fight time but boom still fought anyways you know what i mean

and uh you know i've had staff infections before fights you know that I've had staph infections before fights, you know, that, like, I couldn't train, I couldn't grapple or anything because if I had one on the back of my leg where, you know, a person grabbed my leg, one, it made the infection worse because it kept irritating, and two, it hurt like hell. If anybody's ever had, like, a cellulitis infection, because it was like the, I don't know the name of it, dermis or epidermis, I don't know, the deep skin layer that it affects and it's like under your skin.

So it's not like a infection that you can like, you, you, they would have to dig it out, you know, surgically if the antibiotics didn't take care of it. And it was very painful. I've had that going into a fight. You know, I had food poisoning before the week of my pro debut. That's fucked up yeah the week of my pro debut about the day before i flew out i went and got i went to a restaurant with one of my friends obviously i'm getting close to fight so i just got a turkey burger and some veggies um

i just and just puking and shitting just like yes just kind of just trying to be 24 hours got the turkey burger no bun no cheese nothing and then veggies boom next day wake up in the morning well that night when i went to practice i was feeling gassy you know my stomach was hurting next day woke up literally couldn't leave my bed all day long because every time i leave my bed i had to shit you know or had to throw up you know and i was to the bathroom back to my bed, I had to shit, you know, or had to throw up, you know, and I was to the bathroom, back to my bed, to my bathroom, back to my bed. You ever have those really bad stomach aches where like you can't- I've had food poisoning.

It's a mess. Yeah. And I had that, that was the week of my fight and I left the following day, five days before. Isn't it weird? Food poisoning. That's the one where like your stomach starts to get bloated and more bloated and you're, it's like almost someone like, like tied one of your intestines in a knot and it's like,

Hey, you're not coming out this way. Yeah. And you're just getting like more and more full. And then it's like, I wasn't eating. I didn't eat for two days. So it made it easy. Oh yeah.

Made it easy to make weight. I didn't eat. Cause anytime I would eat, man, right. It was bad. It was bad. I had not tried to disturb any viewers.

No, no. Fuck them. And I still had the effects of it uh on fight day so luckily during my fight it was a first round finish and uh he didn't hit me with a body shot or anything else that probably would have been yeah it would have been um is uh i have two questions i want to ask you about ninganu's uh name mcl but is there anything that like um will your parents talk will you talk to your parents about anything? No. maybe there's like if some things I wouldn't talk about, like if you, if someone was like going to defend Jeffrey Epstein for like getting at kids, I probably wouldn't talk to you.

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Yeah. I mean, I could have talked to my dad about anything. He passed away in 2016. So going on six years now. And I haven't talked to my mom in a very, very long time. You know, I don't talk to her. I don't have a relationship with her. Your dad passed away in a motorcycle accident? Yes. So I haven't talked to either. I don't have a relationship with her. Your dad passed away in a motorcycle accident?

Yes. So I haven't talked to either of my parents, obviously, in almost a decade, probably. Are you going to have kids? I hope so. One day, everything in order first. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. There's no rush. I didn't have them until I was 43, and I'm so glad I waited.

Some people are like, I want to be young so I can play Frisbee all day on the beach with my kids. I had them old, and I'm so happy. I just sit there in a lawn chair and just watch them do shit. I'm happy as a clam. And then I get up and play for like 15 minutes and make them cry and then go back to my lawn chair um last night at dinner my dad told me uh we were talking and my dad doesn't my my dad doesn't want it my dad wears a like a mask everywhere we go right and he's like boosted and vaxxed and all that shit yeah and and i always want to talk to him about it like hey what's your what's your thinking on the subject and he doesn't want to talk to him about it. Like, Hey, what's your, what's your thinking on the subject? And he doesn't want to talk about it. So last night he just springs on me that, uh, like, Hey,

basically he accuses me since I'm not vaccinated, that I'm the reason why shit's bad and shit spreading. And the second I say back to him, I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? I'm like vaccinated people are spread it just as much as unvaccinated people. And the real problem is old motherfuckers and fat people, because that shit just stays in you longer and manifest more and you cough more and you sneeze more and you're spreading that shit so like you want to get mad at the unvaccinated people just get mad at old people and fat people if that's your thinking like don't get mad at me i'm helping

you shit i don't need added sugar i exercise i don't need to refine carbohydrates i walk the walk i'm but as soon as i came back with the rebuttal he's like i'm not talking about this no more vaccine talk at the dinner table and i was just thinking myself okay never do that to your kids yeah because it hurt yeah and like you said everybody maybe i'm being a bitch look at you you don't even got a dad you're probably like hey shut the fuck up at least you have a dad no it's all good it's all good i trust me even when my dad was around we butted heads on a lot of stuff but um yeah man like whenever you're talking about all the stuff with uh like the coronavirus it's with covid it's everybody wants a magic pill

whenever it comes everything you know weight loss building muscle you know they want to become rich without having to put in the work same thing with with COVID. They want the magic pill to take care of everything. They thought the vaccine, they think the vaccine is the answer, and everybody else should get vaccinated to take care of them. So they're saying everybody else is being selfish, but they're making a conscious decision for their own health because they take care of their own body because they eat healthy, they exercise, they sleep, they're hydrated, they get sun.

Everything that you need to do to stay healthy, to keep your immune system on top of its game. And all the people that don't, all the people that eat pizza all the time and fast food and don't exercise and are couch potatoes and just don't do anything with their life, they're the ones that are complaining and saying that we're the ones putting them at risk. No, we're believing in our immune system, which I mean, I've had COVID twice already and it did not really, it didn't have any effect on me at all. It was more mild than a cold for me. And they'll sit there. And I also don't listen to anyone else as, as like the God, like if they're like, now just stay inside and rest. I'm thinking to myself,

that doesn't make sense. What I need to do is go outside, be in the sun and do some walking. Like I trust my own judgment of what I need to do to be healthy. I can't just be sitting there and letting my lungs just get more and more compressed. Yeah. You got to get out. Right. I mean, did you still train through COVID a little bit? As soon as I tested negative.

Yeah. Oh, you didn't do any, you just stayed inside the whole time. Oh, no. I thought you just meant training like at the gym, but. No, but I mean just like a little bit of a salt bike or running or. I went outside and ran. Yeah. I was shadow boxing outside, right outside my house, jumping rope. You know, I had some weights and stuff in my house and I was, yeah, I was doing everything.

Guys, what Dalton also said, I just wanted to like bring it to like to this conversation we're having here about working hard. weights and stuff in my house and i was yeah i was doing everything so guys what what he dalton also said i just wanted to like bring it to like to this conversation we're having here about working hard um uh uh dalton and i don't want to be sitting here doing this podcast we like we don't want to meet at least for me i mean i'm speaking for him um we don't want to like get on the phone with strangers and like have to force this conversation but we do it because it's part of our work it's what we do. We know in the end, this is like what Dalton and I are doing right now is we're planting trees in

our yard now. So in three years they'll have fruit. That's what we're doing. That's what, that's why we, that's why we got on the podcast. That's why he responded to me on Instagram. That's why we take these risks. That's why we allocate 30 minutes in the morning to talk. It's all just pushing in, keep pushing into the uncomfortable worlds worlds no one wants to get on the phone with some strange dude and fucking zoom with them no no no normal person yeah i mean i don't think you're strange at all bro don't ruin my story i get what you're saying that i'm pretty sure everybody else gets what you're putting down you know what i mean and uh you know the people that are understanding the people that are getting

are the ones that are doing it already uh the ones that aren't understanding it or just now realizing what you're saying either they can make the conscious decision to do so or you know just continue doing what they're doing and probably not be successful at whatever they want to do. This guy, Kevin Carnette, is commenting on the skin thing. He says one is called the hypodermis or subcutaneous. I'm guessing just from the words. It's just beneath the top layer of skin. Okay.

And then there's the dermis and the epidermis. It's one of those two. I don't think it's the hypodermis. So we saw Nganou fights Cyril gone this weekend and um they said uh Ningon who supposedly had a some sort of he had MCL tear right or it was that's what I was hearing you know it's all speculation you don't know unless it comes straight out from his mouth and what are the implications he did say it i think i think i'm pretty sure i heard him say it i think he went on to say like everything was torn you know what i mean like my mcl my lcl my vagina like he was just like his whole fucking shit was fucked up i remember

now he said he tore his mcl and then he said his acl was injured as well he didn't say he was torn he said it was injured but yeah i remember that now it was in the post-fight interview what are the implications when a fighter when we hear that and is that and is that why he wasn't the favorite also like the betting favorite no just um cyril gone you know had a lot of hype behind him and he's obviously a very good fighter you know very good striker very good movement um and nobody thought and goneou was going to wrestle. You know what I mean? They thought Nganou would win early if he landed a big punch. If it went beyond that, then Cyril Ghosn would win.

You know, that's what the odds pretty much in my interpretation were saying. But we've seen Nganou wrestle and win the fight. You know what I mean? Which he usually doesn't do. He couldn't land a punch. He was whiffing punches. He was getting tired. So he had to do what he had to do to win and he got the win. So that's all that matters. It was fun watching him wrestle, huh? He had a couple of good big slams in there, you know,

the crowd started going crazy. They weren't expecting that out of him. You know, you can make wrestling exciting for the fans. You got to do it right you also were saying that um in that interview that you did with that gentleman i have to remember his name i steal so much shit from him i got to give him credit um that that the difference between that there are guys in bellator who are just as good if not better than the ufc that that it's not the b league in the a league that basically just that one of them has there's talk to me about that how do you and then you said that you knew that because you trained with both but isn't training different than fighting like

actually being in there training so much different to the fight i should you know uh clear that up right away there's a lot of times where somebody was really well in sparring or really really well in practice and they're not the same in the fight, whether it be a switch, whether, uh, the other person isn't going as hard or they're not trying to hurt their, uh, training partner. And the one is, and it's just not equal, um, you know, percentages of like how hard they're going. Uh, I mean, there's a lot, some, maybe some person is over-trained, maybe the other person fresh, maybe someone's having a bad day. There's a lot of Maybe some person is overtrained. Maybe the other person is fresh. Maybe someone's having a bad day. There's a lot of things that go into it.

But when you train with somebody on a consistent basis and you see them fight and you see them in the gym and they're doing the same things and you train with them on a consistent basis and they do the same thing over and over and over again and develop habits, then you start to see. You know what I mean? And like I said, it's not the A-League and the B-League. It's all about perspective. And the UFC does a really good job at painting that picture that the UFC is the A-League and Bellator is the B-League and PFL is the B-League and all these others. But I'm telling you, there's people in the PFL

and there's people in Bellator that beat the shit out of guys in the UFC not not just at ATT you know but at other gyms as well that I've been to and uh you know I was at Sanford a couple years ago it when it was a Hard Knocks 365 just to visit you know test out gym I ended up choosing ATT whenever I got the chance to go there I loved everything about the gym but uh there's several other gyms I've been to, and just time and time again, you see that picture that's being painted. It's completely false, completely false. Sometimes you see guys – it goes both ways, you know what I mean?

But it's common that Bellator guys and PFL guys are beating the shit out of UFC guys. It's very common you see it in the gym. That, that lady, uh, Kyla Harrison, Kayla, Kayla,

Kayla, sorry, Kayla Harrison. Like, I mean, you would have to be insane to bet against her. Yeah. See,

I think she would match Nunez. I mean, she's fucking gnarly. Yeah. Kayla's very good. Very, very good fighter. Um, mean she's fucking gnarly yeah Kayla's very good very very good fighter um obviously she's undefeated she's literally had multiple fights where nobody landed a strike against her uh she's still young in her career too and I mean as for the her and the Amanda Nunez fight ever happening I mean I don't know I don't know who in that fight I've never seen them train

together and I mean like we just discussed, training and fighting are two completely different things. You've got a lot of people that have a good training session against somebody, and then they'll walk out of the gym and say, yeah, I could definitely beat him. I was beating the shit out of him or her at practice the other day. But as we just discussed, it doesn't always go like that. But they're both very good. Amanda Nunes, I don't know what happened

in that last fight but if she gets the rematch i should say when you know she's gonna be penya bat but uh do you do you know both of them do you know nunez and uh kayla yeah i'm friends i'm friends with kayla you know i've been over to her house a few times for christmas parties uh cookout stuff like that uh and i just know is she cool as shit i had her on the podcast and like i wanted to like i wanted to like move in with her like i was like holy this chick is so cool she's outspoken you know she said she speaks with all her mind for sure and um you know sometimes people want to hear it. Sometimes people don't, you know. But, yeah, she's a very confident individual as well. Yeah, that's what it is.

It exudes this – she exudes crazy confidence. Uh-huh. Does the whole gym do that? Are you guys just always uplifting each other? Like if someone didn't have confidence in there, would it just suck? Would they be like a black hole? Not – I don't think so but uh i mean i don't really know anybody in the gym that's not confident in theirself not confident their teammates and their coaches and everything and uh you know usually the people that aren't

working hard and the ones that aren't confident in themselves because they're not working hard and you know the problems in the gym usually weed themselves out. I don't want to drop any names, but eventually some of those names, some of those stories will come out and I don't want to be the one to put that bad news out there, but it's very rare, but it does happen and they usually weed themselves out.

Dylan, thanks, man. This is a guy who follows the podcast. He's an amateur fighter. Hopefully Dana learned his lesson from waiting too long to sign Ben. I'm not sure what you mean, Dylan, meaning. Yeah, Ben got his ass whooped. Yeah, yeah. Poor Ben.

He was getting whooped by freaking Robbie Lawler, too. And, you know, call that finish what you want if it was a bad uh finish or a bad stoppage by the ref or what but I think it was and Robbie Lawler that was one side to fight up until that point two questions I know you have to go in 90 seconds two questions um how how many if you do you ever think how many fights away you are from being the champion are you like if I win the next four fights my fifth fight will be defending the title? And then the second question is, in those 12 fights, have you ever gone in and thought you were going to lose? To the second question, absolutely not.

I'll answer that one first. I never thought I was going to lose. You know what I mean? I think that anybody can lose on any given day. Right. think that anybody can lose on any given day right i mean including myself but i believe with my training with my preparation with everything i do outside of the gym you know diet rest recovery hydration every everything that i do uh okay then let me add this to it have you ever been in there in the fights i guess most of your fights don't none of your fights this has really happened but

have you ever been in there like i saw a fight in the ufc in the in the early prelims this week where the chick got fucking knocked out and then came back and won she was a jiu-jitsu chick who fought against this other chick they were 115 the girl she fought was like from el salvador had big old fake titties i can't remember their names i just remember the chick's fake boobs are you the chick with the fake boobs got knocked the other girl out and the girl who got knocked out came back and won and i'm like holy shit so have you ever been in there and thought you were like oh this is so bad i've been then you come back and then ever came adversity is that what you're asking yeah yeah yeah yeah you should be asking the questions i'll just listen uh in a fight probably not you know there's been there's been, there's been times where I've been in,

you know, competitive fights up until the point where I got the finish, you know, but never really any point where I've had to go through adversity at all. I mean, the one point of adversity I got taken down once as an amateur by a striker, I wasn't expecting it. It was kind of element of surprise, you surprise. I wasn't expecting to shoot. It happened in the Gustafson and John Jones fight. John Jones never taken down his UFC career. Gustafson's a striker, not a wrestler.

And then he ended up taking John Jones down. John Jones wasn't expecting it. Same thing happened to me in one of my amateur fights. And I would say that's the most adversity I ever had to go through. I ended up getting right back up, you know, and then I took him down or knocked him out. I don't remember which one came first. But, you know, I say as for adversity in my fight, that's probably the most I've ever went through, you know. And I'm sure sooner or later, sooner than later, I'll, you know'll go through more adversity than that in one of my fights.

But like I said, with everything that I do from my training to my recovery, I'm well prepared. And with my coaches, my training partners, everything I do, I can't be more confident in myself. I put myself in the best possible position to succeed and get the win. Ladies and gentlemen, January 29th, that's on Saturday at 4 p.m., go to YouTube. You want to watch this fight. We talked about vaccines. We talked about titties, and we talked about knocking people out. And now if you want to see this guy with his shirt off wrestling another dude

and become 6-0, you got it. I've given you the background. You have no excuse not to spend 20 minutes. Just go over there to YouTube on Bellator and watch this fight on Saturday and support our boy. You're the man, Dalton. Thanks. And the only reason why I'm rushing off is he's got to go to,

and he warned me, he's got to go to a Zoom call with the fighters at Bellator to get briefed on. Yeah, it's fight week protocol. Ever since COVID started, we've been doing it but i didn't have the time until this morning so um yeah but tune in saturday night uh they start at 7 30 p.m eastern time uh i don't know what that is pacific time you 4 30 4 30 4 30 pacific time and uh they'll be on youtube live prelims i don't know my fight order yet, but if you follow me on Instagram at Dalton Rasta, I'll be sure to post it. You demand. Thanks dude. And we'll,

we'll be, we'll keep riding the Dalton train until you just won't, won't get them. You're too big to get on this podcast. That'll never happen. You demand.