As the calendar flips to 2K24, Antoine Rumble Curtis joins me to shred the old "new year, new me" mantra and we're locking in on solid goals that don't compromise our true selves. We're both serving up a platter of candid discussions and laughs, starting with Antoine's hush-hush community project all the way to prepping my latest student, Sean, for his fighting debut. Amidst the buzz, we tip our hats to the legendary Kobe Bryant and get real about the bittersweet process of parting with our prized sneaker hoards—yeah, even those cherished Kobes and Foamposites.
The conversation takes a turn down memory lane as we reminisce about the WWF Attitude Era's audacious stunts and how it morphed into today's WWE. I get personal about how critics' barbs only add fuel to my fire, pushing me to train harder and smarter, with or without a fight lined up. We wrap this segment with a celebration of resilience, acknowledging how recent victories have muzzled the naysayers, and I share just a hint of the thrills that await in my combat sports journey.
We're not about airing dirty laundry in public feuds; family and privacy are sacred, and that's a line we don't cross. Antoine and I also unpack the hairy business of fight contracts, navigating through my dance with BKFC, Mayweather Promotions, and the tease of crossing into other promotions. We close by reaffirming that true fighters let their fists do the talking, and trust me, there's no shortage of action when we step into the ring. So, strap in for this heart-pounding episode—where we take you behind the scenes of combat sports negotiations and share the relentless pursuit of greatness.
As the calendar flips to 2K24, Antoine Rumble Curtis joins me to shred the old "new year, new me" mantra and we're locking in on solid goals that don't compromise our true selves. We're both serving up a platter of candid discussions and laughs, starting with Antoine's hush-hush community project all the way to prepping my latest student, Sean, for his fighting debut. Amidst the buzz, we tip our hats to the legendary Kobe Bryant and get real about the bittersweet process of parting with our prized sneaker hoards—yeah, even those cherished Kobes and Foamposites.
The conversation takes a turn down memory lane as we reminisce about the WWF Attitude Era's audacious stunts and how it morphed into today's WWE. I get personal about how critics' barbs only add fuel to my fire, pushing me to train harder and smarter, with or without a fight lined up. We wrap this segment with a celebration of resilience, acknowledging how recent victories have muzzled the naysayers, and I share just a hint of the thrills that await in my combat sports journey.
We're not about airing dirty laundry in public feuds; family and privacy are sacred, and that's a line we don't cross. Antoine and I also unpack the hairy business of fight contracts, navigating through my dance with BKFC, Mayweather Promotions, and the tease of crossing into other promotions. We close by reaffirming that true fighters let their fists do the talking, and trust me, there's no shortage of action when we step into the ring. So, strap in for this heart-pounding episode—where we take you behind the scenes of combat sports negotiations and share the relentless pursuit of greatness.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are live. Welcome back to the Mr Everings podcast. Today I have a special guest. Mr Antoine Rumble Curtis is in the house once again, and it's been a while.
Speaker 2:You fucking me here against my goddamn will.
Speaker 1:It's damn time Motherfucking told me we was training.
Speaker 2:We did train.
Speaker 1:Man.
Speaker 2:I got receipts.
Speaker 1:my boy, I thought you were blanking at 70.
Speaker 2:I got receipts.
Speaker 1:You feel me. We've entered the new year of 2K24. I'm going to go ahead and say it. We're not about that.
Speaker 2:New year, new me, bullshit why are you about to announce an RB album Talk? It does sound like. It sounds like the.
Speaker 1:Cold Storm Where's?
Speaker 2:they called it the Quiet Storm. Keep sweating with the new album. That's harsh, that ain't right, my boy.
Speaker 1:But yeah, man, this is the first one of 2K24. So we ain't going to be on that new year, new me type shit, but we are going to be on that. Well, I'm on that same me, different goals type shit. You feel me? How about you, mr Curtis?
Speaker 2:Uh, I don't know yet. I don't know yet. I got some stuff coming up. I don't know if I can talk about it. I got a couple things within the community.
Speaker 1:Why not talk about it? Share it? Well, I can't Just share it, cause I don't know the details, yet oh, is one of those things that the thing in DC, with the the thing in DC you said something about oh, no, no, no, not.
Speaker 2:BlurCon. This is like that to help the community and everything else.
Speaker 1:No invite.
Speaker 2:Well, it's, that's fine you want to bring it up, cause you're already.
Speaker 1:Nah, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2:But no, it's me and a few other people, and I'll tell you a little bit off my body.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, just serve.
Speaker 2:But it's for a good call. So I feel as though I'm going to be around more. Less, outlet More, not too much within the fighting, but just in a different aspect of it.
Speaker 1:I can dig it.
Speaker 2:You know, once it's official, once everything gets worked out, then I'm pretty sure everybody will see posts and everything else about it. Of course we're going to try to get awareness about it, but I can't say too much just yet. But just no good things are coming for the city and I guess I might have fight news. I don't know, depends on what we got going on. I don't know, I can't, we're not going to talk about it on here.
Speaker 1:We'll figure it out.
Speaker 2:We're not going to talk about that.
Speaker 1:just yet, yeah, just yet because we can't talk about it. We're not going to have fight news on the same, let's just say Don't say it, because then you're going to spoil it.
Speaker 1:The fight news will be great for the both of us. And shout out to my new student, sean. He's been with me for about a month, so we grind in and it's going to be his debut too. Whenever happens, happens when it goes down, so shout out to Sean. Give everybody a quick hello, sean, from the distance we are live at the gym. I mean, can't nobody hear a salute, my boy, he got it.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, yeah, see, he's no, he's right.
Speaker 1:I feel it, though, but you know, I think several people in this area got some fight announcements coming out this year to start off the 2K24 season of fighting, and, as many know, 2K24 is the Mamba year and also what I have deemed yes, sir, Also what I've deemed as savage season. You feel what I'm saying, but 2K24 is definitely Mamba year. So you know, RP RIH to Kobe Bryant, so you know, I know that's one of your favorite basketball players of all time. Absolutely. You know, we've had some adventures and some Kobies.
Speaker 2:Nah, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:We're fucking cheaters hey them cheaters were fired.
Speaker 2:You still got them jams? Yeah, I got the Systemate year-to-snake ones. Oh oh yeah, them shits is in the box. I was going to sell them to see how much I can get for them. I was like, nah, I better hold on to these.
Speaker 1:Imagine how much those cheaters would be right now if you still had those.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, I don't know. You know why I sold my sneaker collection? Because I felt like the old guy trying to be cool and I just felt weird and like I forgot I had a pair of like Astro-Wade phones and some kids said something Like I guess it was a compliment, but I didn't know what the fuck it meant and I was like, all right, man, this shit ain't for me. So now it's just fans, and fans only.
Speaker 2:Well, the phone positive joints. Yeah, I used to have a shitload of phone positive, I know you had some phone positive.
Speaker 1:I know you had a collection of those.
Speaker 2:I had the Crimson joints and the Astro-Wade joints. Goddamn Well, I had a bunch of them, but then I had a bunch of Kobies, like I said.
Speaker 1:But I just felt weird.
Speaker 2:Like I had a little bra.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, phone positive were hard, literally. Those shields were rough on your feet though they were fired, but they was like, I feel, like you had some Adidas Sheltoes on and just couldn't get too active in them. You feel what I'm saying. They were definitely for show when you wore them, because you definitely couldn't ball in them jams. Now, back in the day, back in the day you could. But the new era of phone positive, those jeans feel like a hard rock turtle shell.
Speaker 2:You feel me? How many times I had to say, hey, hold on, hold on, let me take my feet hurt, let me take my shoes off. I take my shoe off in the middle of walking. Don't nobody do this. I feel like a chick doing that shit.
Speaker 1:Hold on girl, Let me take my shoe off. Look, it's gonna be all banged up and shit you walking around like a girl after the club drunk. Her feet hurt. She gotta take her heels off Because she's too drunk. She's afraid she's gonna break her ankle.
Speaker 2:That's why people be looking at me weird. But when I be asking so many questions, I'm like all right, how long we finna be there? Or is it a lot of walking, because I don't need to know what fucking shoes they need to wear?
Speaker 1:If I wear these fucking phone, positive, it's gonna be a big shit If it's in your current mood, state of mood right now you got some slides on. You got them slide on slippers with some.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm vanned out.
Speaker 1:I see that.
Speaker 2:Vans in. Uh, I don't. Literally all I wear is vans.
Speaker 1:Hey, you don't wear hay dudes, do you? I want a pair.
Speaker 2:Why? Because?
Speaker 1:they're dope.
Speaker 2:I said to stand there about people that wear crocs.
Speaker 1:Hey man, no hay on the crocs. I got the Pokemon crocs on the day.
Speaker 2:I wanted a pair of crocs and then when I went to the crocs store and I put some on my feet, I go in a way and fuck, I can walk out here. It wouldn't look cool for me.
Speaker 1:What color were they?
Speaker 2:They were the Black Panther joints.
Speaker 1:Ooh, those would have been fire.
Speaker 2:I just can do it.
Speaker 1:Man crocs are comfortable. I used to hate on crocs until I got my first pair and put them on. I only bought. I got them to try them out. Crocs have been out for years and I was like man crocs are ugly as hell. Nah, I would never wear no crocs. And then I was like man, let me try them. Sorry about that.
Speaker 2:You gotta try something new sometime. So I'm future Mugen's gassed up and he's farting, so you smell something it ain't me, it's him. I promise it's me. He's looking at something right now. He's killing me right now. Yeah, he's as long as he's happy. No, no, no, as long as he's happy.
Speaker 1:But yeah, man, I decided to try crocs and I swear to God I haven't taken these crocs off since I got them.
Speaker 2:No, no they haven't.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've taken them off, but I got crocs on, unless I'm out of the vent or something and I wear tennis shoes, but other than that I go into the grocery store, go into work or come in here to the gym. I got my crocs on because crocs are comfortable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I used to rock Slides all the time flops.
Speaker 2:Who are? We know that has fights coming up, I know, and a shout out to Dallas, dallas has a boxing match coming up, is it?
Speaker 1:the house, men's pal and pigeon forge and pigeon forge. Tennessee, bruce and Bramsky's fighting Same night. He's the co-main event, I think, that night.
Speaker 2:And I'm Hannah, and then shout out to Michaela they blow. I see they both are fighting each other.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, yeah, I should slide to that bus. That's a drive.
Speaker 2:But it's not too far. It's not too far, I think. What am I doing?
Speaker 1:It's like three, three, four hours, ain't it pigeon?
Speaker 2:forge. You know what? When is that?
Speaker 1:the next weekend or this weekend is one of the two. Okay, it's either this weekend or next weekend, but if it's next weekend, I got Shit. I might just still side to it, because the bare knuckle fights are Friday. I'm coming back, coming back that night, oh, speaking of you you must be out of town, ain't?
Speaker 2:you next weekend? I think so, yeah. So if we're around that way you know, say, look up there, watch him. I'm shout out to shout out to Kane Jr.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he just fall.
Speaker 2:He had the first shout out to him awesome job, man. Man, that's some amazing job, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing job. Bro, like we'll find a shot of without news, you had it, yeah, so you know, he started the city off with the first part of the year got the got the quick 30, some second dub.
Speaker 1:Yeah so shout out to Kane Jr and his pops.
Speaker 2:You know I had it the whole family.
Speaker 1:Look, I'm gonna tag you in this. Oh, g King, because I heard you in the background. After his fight. He was the last person in the room. Y'all ain't ready, and that's what he meant at 175. Some of y'all boys might be in trouble.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, you know he started off the year correct. Now is, I think, besides Bruce and Dallas, they're up next from this area and then after that Zion is fighting Kane announced that yet, but he's fighting and then after that I think it's the week after he fights me. Possibly you, sean, and some others from this area and from the West Virginia area are gonna be fighting To. So you know we Businesses, a busy city. Yes, sir so city.
Speaker 1:So hopefully after that you know well, if everybody getting their first fight to the year out, the way you know, more big things will happen, you know more opportunities will happen for not only us but the area. Because I'm gonna drop a dime, I'm gonna drop some, some breaking news. Maybe a super, super big event is coming to the area, but Not that one Now.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about one after that but I'm not going to discuss that one because, well, after everybody hears this, they will know, but they're not gonna know what kind of event it is. So, but it's gonna be WV event. I'll WW, yeah, let's.
Speaker 2:Grand appearance the rock.
Speaker 1:Fuck rock lastner. No, no, no, no, stone cold.
Speaker 2:You can't use.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, yeah. That's why I'm a boy, that's why I Put that man on front street like that, your balls, naming you after a dildo that he's been on bro, I can't go. No, okay, first of all, that's fucked up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, yeah that, ladies and gentlemen, that was today's that was fucked up moment the whole time I was reading them text message I was like I mean, this is the motherfuckered that okayed a lot of weird shit.
Speaker 1:Remember that attitude there, oh hey, hey, the attitude there was the best area.
Speaker 2:I'm period the corpse and we was, as kids, watching this shit in the living room.
Speaker 1:That's when it was still classified as the WWF.
Speaker 2:That shit was wild bro.
Speaker 1:The WWF attitude era, but after that, that's when they changed to WWE, because Didn't.
Speaker 2:And then somebody had a fake baby that they punted out in the crowd I think Mark Henry and somebody had a like. It was wild.
Speaker 1:It was a weird shit. That was mad wild, oh no.
Speaker 2:Kane had a baby with Lita and then the dude came. Some dude came over there and punched the baby. Yeah, that was a weird time. Just throw him power bombing chicks at the table, bro it was weird.
Speaker 1:Look, man, look, I ain't gonna lie, I thought that shit was funny as hell because I seen somebody doing a reenactment of that on TikTok Saturday and I was like wow, because it was like a dude had a baby, but it was a fake baby, yeah, and the lady was. He was walking in a grocery store and the lady just took the baby out of his arms and fucking punted the baby across the store. I ain't gonna lie, it was fucked up, but I kind of laughed a little bit because I knew it was a fake baby. But the way she punted it.
Speaker 2:it was like I said well, I imagine you shopping and shit like that, and my whole gets a pun of baby. I'm gonna ask you a question. Yes, sir, what's happening? It's a personal question, so answer this how you want to answer it. I know, because I'm your own boy and so I see this shit and I be wanting to respond, but I'm like you know what what's?
Speaker 1:happening. How did you know? I'm?
Speaker 2:your own boy want me to chill. But why, motherfuckers, like talking shit when you ain't even like I noticed that shit? Like sometimes like you be like as your own boy, sometimes like, all right, man, you know you kind of shine a spotlight, but here lately you've been telling me motherfuckers have just been shooting at you. I ain't gonna say his name because I'm gonna get them off again. You know we ain't got say names because I'm gonna get them off any cloud.
Speaker 1:Thanks.
Speaker 2:But I've been watching them like if they feel so passionately about this motherfucker the moment they want to fight you. Well, if they feel, you know, once again we ain't got say no names, because I ain't trying to get nobody, no recognition, they can get that. They can get that on their own.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to give you a three part answer. First part, after my last, let's see three. Three to three to four. I'm going to keep it at three. My last three performances at BKFC. You know, through the great bond, some people on the inside and a few people on the outside had in their minds that I was done after these last three, three, three, three performances. And you know I had some conversations with some people. No, I'm not done. I mean I've been here with the company. Well, I made my first appearance with the company at BKFC to with Bruce when he fought. So that was my introductory to into the company.
Speaker 2:But I wasn't fighting. Maybe turn it to Gail King, he's just his niggas brother. No, but no real rap. That's that's part. That's.
Speaker 1:That's that's part one of part one of that. The answer Now, part two, is after these last three performances. Before these performances, a lot of people were talking their shit and calling me out, and which? Is weird tagging me and blah blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:It wasn't even calling out, if it was just talking shit. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:Of course they were talking shit. You know they were talking shit because I'm still getting opportunities and they're shitting on the shelf.
Speaker 1:You feel I'm saying and it is what it is at that point, long as you're tuning in and still watching me do my thing, it's not like I'm going out there and not giving it my all. Like I said when I first went professional, every fight that I get into I'm going to train my ass off for it and if I get beat it's because that person was better than me that day. Give or take a couple of those fights or some bullshit and some bullshit calls, but we're going to leave it at that. But also I'm going to fire a couple of shots. While I'm right here with this part two of this answer, I told myself that I wasn't going to end up like certain fighters that were so-called kings of this area and older fighters that All right now, you just need to.
Speaker 1:Hey, look you told me to keep it real, so I'm keeping it real. I told myself that I was going to end up like them, only training when I got a fight. No, sir, that's not me. I'm going to train every day. But let's step it up a notch when I go to fight camp and hold on. Part three of this answer is the final part of this answer.
Speaker 1:So, like I said, after these last three performances, a lot of people start getting quiet, but soon 2K24 hit, months after my last fight, a lot of people start chirping again. So these same people, some of these people have burnt bridges that they can't unburn. Some of these people will never get the opportunity to come to the biggest bare-knuckle promotion in the world, bkfc. Some will never get that opportunity because either they came to try out and looked like trash or they are a trash-ass fighter. I know you're going to listen to this.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to say your name, but you know you're a trash-ass fighter and you have zero wins. Several of you have zero wins across combat sports in general, not just bare-knuckle, but MMA, boxing and so-called having Muay Thai fights in Thailand which were not true. You're kidding me. But on the other hand, some of these people have been tagging me and stuff and I've said what I've said to some of these people but they've also inboxed me. I got receipts trying to man, I'm just doing this for clout, I'm trying to be relevant again, just that in the third Time to go win a fight. I'll show you the receipts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, time to go win a fight. Let's go fight, let's go fight. I'm like bro, I'm not.
Speaker 1:That sounds stupid. You're on a clout tour. I don't need to be on nobody's clout tour. I got my own clout, I got my own following. I got my own fans. I got all that. Me fighting you, you or you, what's it going to do for me? Get a couple views? No, I've had millions and millions of views since forever. Now you feel what I'm saying Because, as people say, I'm famous. But you know, and some people say I get too much attention when it comes to fighting. But they also say, hey, every time somebody talks about fighting around the area, they always say your name. Why did they always say your name? Sorry, I went and did my thing on the bigger stages, so of course people are going to say my name when it comes to fighting. You feel what I'm saying. So if I'm getting too much attention, that means that I put in the work, I put in the time and I'm grinding. You feel what I'm saying? I may post. The only shit that I post is fight shit. You feel what I'm saying? And sponsorship and car shit.
Speaker 1:You feel what I'm saying. So to those people, one I won't all smoke, but I know those smoke with those fights aren't going to happen. So when I get contracts and see names, I sign the dotted lines. I think about it for a couple of days and then I sign the dotted lines and get my. Of course I'm already trained, but that's when fight can't get serious. You feel what I'm saying. So that was my three part answer.
Speaker 2:But, like I said, 2k24 is Sabbath season.
Speaker 1:Come on, man, you know when I talk, I live it all out you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:That's right. But anyway, my biggest thing, is what I hate to see is I hate to see, even whether it's a loss or whatever else, because, as a fighter, because most of the casual fans, they don't know what the fuck, they don't know the sacrifices that fighters put in that time with mom injuries, blah, blah. All that shit, right, what?
Speaker 1:the fuck is.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, yes, sir, okay.
Speaker 2:But they don't know about that shit man. So they see all that stuff and it's kind of crazy, but I don't know man. I just always find it cheap and just weird to kick a person After a loss. It's like get on there and just start dawggin' another fight Coming from a fighter. Like a casual fan. I don't give a fuck about them. A casual fan, they can see whatever the fuck they want, because they don't understand it. But a fighter talking about another fighter is just wow, especially after a loss or whatever, because they don't, even after a win, even after a win, even though you won, you're looking like trash.
Speaker 1:Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even after a win. This is like dawg. I just you want to meet. You should know what the fuck this takes yeah like, if I can do this shit, that's one thing I'll never do is like if somebody like whether winning or losing or losing or whatever somebody always acts like I'm gonna never celebrate after a win. I'm like because I know what it feels like to lose that fucking shit sucks. It does If I have a motherfucker standing over top of you, fucking flexing over you. You hooping and hollering. That shit sucks.
Speaker 1:Oh, I ain't never had that happen.
Speaker 2:No, I've had it happen. I mean you're looking at the motherfucker, you can't do shit because they earned that moment and you gotta sit there. You gotta sit with that shit and then you gotta be like, all right, I can't let this shit happen again.
Speaker 2:And then you take that shit with you and you're in the gym and that shit sticks with you Every fucking time you punch a bag, every time you spar. You have that moment in your brain. But so then that's why I really don't celebrate, like saying like I'm, like I know what it feels like to be. On the other hand, you know what I mean, so I'm not gonna go over the top because this man's family's here you know what I'm saying they having to watch that shit. I'm not gonna do that. You know what I mean. That's just me, but I don't know. Just fighters, kicking other fighters when they're down is just always been Shit, even if a fighter is up, man, some people are still talking trash, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just the old me. You know how I was, how I used to be zero fucks given Like I'm gonna tear you up in comments instead of being intellectual and smart. I know she's smart, I gotta learn that. Look at you and chilling and that's that GPT on that shit.
Speaker 2:I see y'all. It's that little motherfucker there, Chappy Bro. I'm not worth that shit, because when Buddy called me, when Buddy tagged you and some shit and I go bro what the fuck, and at one point I thought y'all was all right, bro me too like. And it was weird.
Speaker 1:Look, keeping a buck. Not many people know this, but this said guy was once, you know, talking trash and he said some personal stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've seen that. That's why I'm getting that shit bro.
Speaker 1:You know, he said some personal stuff which, when it comes to family or anything outside of family or people close to me, that's when the protector and the savage me and the hood, the hood status of me comes out.
Speaker 2:You see that.
Speaker 1:Like. So I knew that when he was talking all that shit, that a place that I knew he was going to be at, that I was going to be not necessarily participating at, but helping at an event I knew he was going to be there. So the second I get to this sad event I see him. He didn't see me but you know I walked up on him and he just completely his whole soul and everything in him left his body. And you know, you know me, if somebody talking junk when I see him I'm going to walk up to him. I might go on starter.
Speaker 1:I'm very confrontational but to an extent I'm a keep it, keep a G for a second, unless it was that bad. Then off, rip, I'm going to your ass, pause. But you know I seen him, I pulled up on him. You know his soul left his body and before I could you know finish what I was saying, I was like so what's all that shit he was talking. And before I could you know finish that he was like man, look man, I'm just an internet guy. Blah, blah, blah. You know I apologize, man, we cool. You know I really fuck with you and I'm like bro, all that, that extraness, especially when it's being personal. That's, that's one thing I do not play. Do not get personal. You can talk about fight Right, shit, take a seat, you can talk about.
Speaker 1:you can talk about fight shit or training or fight world shit all day, but if you try to dip into my personal life or for family or anything outside of a gym or fighting wise, when you dip into that and my protector, protector headness, I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2:Comes out. You know it was game time. I kind of see what you were going I got you. Don't fuck with family.
Speaker 1:I'm like Vin Diesel Family is everything like 10 copies 10 fucking man. Boy, stop being a hater, I hate them fucking.
Speaker 2:I don't hate those movies, exactly.
Speaker 1:See, I'm glad you finally said it. See, casey Conker, when you listen to this, we got receipts now, but anyway, I never said I hated the Fast and Furious movies. I made about that another day.
Speaker 2:I never made fun of them, I never talked to them in front of y'all. I got, I got.
Speaker 1:I got receipts. But anyways, like I said, I pulled up on him and he was trying to be cool about it. And then at the event that same night you know he was trying to be a nut nut hugger, I should say, because you know it was before I got a big opportunity and a lot of people were talking to me at the event and asking for pictures and autographs and blah, blah, blah, and he was on his what he's doing now, his little clout chase tour, trying to be like hey man, can I get a picture with you? To like no bro, like fuck out my face. But, like I said, you know you've known several people that I've pulled up on and you know we nothing prospered or transferred or whatever may have happened.
Speaker 1:But now, since I'm at where I'm at, like I said, I've calmed down. You've seen the conversations on on to intrapinette. You feel I'm gonna go out there and get a word out there, intrapinette.
Speaker 2:What the fuck are you been around? Who's that?
Speaker 1:Oh no, I guess that's down, down, down some shit. Give me the mic Internet for the win. All right now.
Speaker 2:But you got me for five minutes.
Speaker 1:That's cool but, like I said, you know I've grown to be a little bit smarter and bigger with my words and my conversations with these clowns online, you know, because I do have an image now and I try to protect that image with not only what me and Casey have been telling you for years. Man, whatever I'm more of a.
Speaker 2:I've only been telling you that, for a big dog, you ain't got to respond to everybody, hey look exactly my favorite thing and with it being 2K 24, it is that it's. Yeah, I mean certain shit you should respond on, because you know what I mean. But you don't have to respond to everything. Sometimes the response is no response at all. You can tell them fuck off and never respond.
Speaker 1:Facts and you know sometimes it takes you gotta be my thing. I have a really bad temper which is starting to get back bad, and there's so much I want to say. But you know I'm going to wait.
Speaker 2:You feel I'm saying you know, I'm saying my rants in the group chat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know man, look, actions speak louder than words. You feel I'm saying so. You know I'm all about action. Fuck all those words. And you know, like I said, when I have these conversations with these clowns whether they DM me trying to cop, please, or and then run the statuses talking shit I have an intellectual conversation with them and tell them bro, you're contradicting yourself, because look at all the bridges you have burned and also look what you're doing, Like nobody does this. You were relevant some years back. Now, you're not irrelevant.
Speaker 2:So don't you answer if you and said buddy fighting Hell, no there is no chance.
Speaker 1:Is it different? Is it like a weight thing or just it's definitely not a weight thing. I can get to any weight you feel I'm saying what's his weight, my weight. Don't want to fuck with your fight because he's burnt a lot of bridges and it's not going to happen.
Speaker 2:Is he still?
Speaker 1:within the company. No, no, sir. He hasn't been with the company since he lost his.
Speaker 2:His fight with the company.
Speaker 1:But you know if it's for another promotion like Browne, neville, mma or something.
Speaker 2:Was you fighting like any other promotion?
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, I would, but there's only, there's only three. Three promotions I'm allowed to fight. Well, actually, technically two promotions I'm allowed to fight for, that's one being BKFC and two may weather promotions. So anything outside of that, you know it's got to be.
Speaker 2:So he can't go on their feet, no one one, anything outside of those two organizations, one.
Speaker 1:It has to be super, super worth it because, like I said, my last deal that I've signed my papers with Baron Nuckles for a multi-fight contract, so I'm still with them. So shout out to the haters, yes, I'm still here. But anything outside of those two promotions, like I said, it has to be worth it for not only me but for them also, so I could. This is how some contracts work when you. It has to be not only worth it for me but worth it for them to in not the long hold, but for the moment, because a company outside of those promotions would have to drop some game, buy out my contract for one fight.
Speaker 1:You feel I'm saying like, like when I fought Ocho Sinko shout to my God, my big dog Ocho Sinko. But you know, when I fought him, maybe whether promotions had to buy out my contract. We got three minutes left. But you know, like I said, maybe whether promotions had to buy out my contract for Baron Nuckles. So that's a hidden gem. If you're signed to a big promotion fellas and ladies that fight in the fight world, that listen to this if you are completely signed to a promotion and a promotion wants to sign you that's a bigger promotion or similar they have to buy out your contract.
Speaker 1:So don't play yourself, don't let them play you. You know you got to do it on your terms. You feel I'm saying so. There's some game and some knowledge there, if you know. You know if you don't listen, but yeah, so if it can, if it happens outside of that promotion, like game brand promotions, bare knuckle MMA I'll do it. And you already know, I tell anybody it's been so hard for me to get an MMA fight because for the simple fact of I've had several promoters tell me oh, I can get you a fight. I got a name, but once the opponent knows that it's me, oh, he don't want to fight now because you fight bare knuckle. What's that got to do with MMA?
Speaker 2:I keep getting the main thing offers and I keep turning them down. I just I have no desire to do it.
Speaker 1:But bare knuckle, mma, that, that, that is dangerous.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not.
Speaker 1:It's not dangerous for me, but that's dangerous for anybody that I fight, that I fight in that. So if with that clown that happens and one the money's got to be right to if it had my thing with this person and I'm going to end, it ended with that. I don't want to sign a contract and show up in this motherfucker goes in my a and then I'm out of a fight camp, I'm out of money that I spent for a fight camp and I'm out of time. You can't. Time is something you can't get back. You feel I'm saying so with that I'm going in talking about that clown, the other clown and the other clown. So you know y'all keeping my name in your mouth is cool and all, but hey, if you ain't put this kind of work in this kind of time, no matter the outcome of any fight I've ever had across combat sports. I got some great dubs, but I also got some weird ass losses too.
Speaker 2:So, look, it's part of this part of the game. You can't win them all. Yeah, you win, you lose. You know, as long as you come out both sides, you should come out a better fighter. Yeah, when you shouldn't just be stuck on the wind. You should be like, okay, I won, I won't play. How can I get better? I know that's you know, because some people they'll win and then they'll stay stuck on the wind. I'm like, all right. How can I win better? You know?
Speaker 1:I mean some people get lost.
Speaker 2:Some people you know they take the loss and they they dwell on that shit, and some people they never fuck you up and we get you down.
Speaker 1:But I got one, one last question I actually do. Have you ever had fighters remorse? What do you mean like after you fight somebody? It's like damn Win or lose or draw like damn. I feel bad for even not necessarily fighting the person. But oh, yeah, like having fighters were more like damn, like that was a wild ass fight Like like I feel bad, like cuz some of the shit that I done to this guy. Yeah, jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you just, and then they it's even worse, man, when like you're cool with them and then they Gotta talk to the family afterwards and you just like yeah. Like you know, it's it that that, yeah, that part does get weird or what fucks me up. A lot of times I try to like stay away from you know, since basically if it's somebody I know or so I try to stay off of, I have the misfortune of keep fighting people I know and I can't.
Speaker 1:I can't say that because every person I fight I don't know.
Speaker 2:But I wish I didn't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean like my thing with fighters remorse. I actually had that for the first time in 2023. Like I, I found something out about myself that if I Get it's the mindset that I decided to keep, that I used to have.
Speaker 2:I take some funny real quick.
Speaker 2:It's giving a funny story All right, I'll lay it on me so my first fight ever and not my first fight ever, mom one fight in Knoxville, run Till the guy's name. I'm not gonna say the guy's name, but I took him lightly. Like buddy sent me the picture of the guys were like a white beater and like the trailer park in Ohio and I was like, oh, that's a quick though. I got him. And so the whole time that's when I did the street fights in three weeks, which is really really fucking stupid I cut like a ridiculous amount, cut like 30 pounds in like two weeks, which is really fucking dumb. That's wild. And the whole time coach is telling me. Coach told me he's like, look, you can do it, but it's gonna fucking suck. And he's like you will probably get knocked out super easy. And I'm like man, fuck that, I'm gonna do this shit, I do this shit and I made them a sale almost.
Speaker 2:I never go on my any of my opponents pages. I never do that. I just never fucking do it. I go on buddy's page. I see him, I just I See him post somebody within his family have passed away. I'm not shoot, I'm not too sure it was, but whatever it was, that's your fighters remorse. Oh no, I wouldn't know I was with more stuff in the fucking fight. It's the motherfucking knock me out. He took a Mario punch. I was imagine beating somebody's a like. Here's the thing. I took buddy so lightly that I was just throwing shit, just to be throwing shit. It was like the first, like 10, 15 seconds.
Speaker 1:And I was a real mind-free. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was trying to fight like one of my homeboys and that's not the way I fight. You know, one of my homeboys, he's a fucking unit but he's built like a unit. So I'm trying to mirror him and I'm just not built like that. And buddy, somebody I remember somebody in the comments I somebody before the fight, they say hit him with Superman punch. I'm here, I'm with the, hit him with the, hit him with the jump punch. And I go, the fuck is a jump punch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what the fuck is a jump?
Speaker 2:Did a jump punch and so, buddy hit me. Boom. I Go face first to the cage. I am hit the cage. I'm up, I'm looking around, I see the ref. I'm like I'm looking at the relic Fuck you do it. I Refers like I try to like keep you down the ground. I'm like no, I'm good, I'm good. Refers like no, it's over. I'm like Nah, bro.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it was like a flash knockout, yeah, and.
Speaker 2:I'm looking at the ref like nah, bro, no way, and it reference like I'm sorry, I was like bro, I did not as like I lost to him. That's a way I say I say I lost to him and the ref was like I know I know.
Speaker 1:And the funny thing is about that.
Speaker 2:When you lose to somebody, you meet the loose.
Speaker 1:It's not even that, but the crazy. I'm not gonna need to say it's funny, but the crazy thing about that. Like after that fight, that promotion actually offered me that guy.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to fight him since and I was ready to fight him. And then all sudden I get, you know, I get a message Like three days after I got the contract, because I didn't send it back yet, because I was waiting for him to sign it. Mm-hmm, oh, he doesn't want to fight you now because you train with Antoine Curtis and you fight bare knuckle.
Speaker 2:I was trying.
Speaker 1:I was like wow, I'm gonna fight that motherfucker bro.
Speaker 2:So after the fight, you know I'm say I go to the bathroom Give my thought. You know, the funny thing is, before I walk out to that fight, was that over the same proof Is that out in the crowd I daft him out. I mean I daft him up. He go go get him big dog. I say I was like say less man 15 seconds later, here I go.
Speaker 2:He tap in the back. It's all right, big though he came in tomorrow I was like I go in the bathroom, give my shit together, come back out. I'm talking with John and them pop and uh, john's like so me as me, john and Ralph. There was those my corners when I got knocked out. I Watched like the video raffle, like he just, like one of his Pokemon, had died. He looked crazy. He looked like he was shot. Everybody was shot. Did you just say it looked like look?
Speaker 1:like look like look like a Pokemon trainer, like fucking Pikachu just got smashed, or some see that ain't right, because I got peek a, peek a two crocs on right there, bro, that's balance.
Speaker 2:So I'm talking, I'm talking with John and I say no, I wanna, I wanna, I'm gonna find buddy and congratulate him. This is here's my remorse. Right here I was. I'm gonna find buddy and congratulate him, but I'm gonna tell him this run a shit back.
Speaker 1:So like that's in the moment.
Speaker 2:You know, if anybody knows, john is Dalton you were out of the shit. So John was like I'll go wait by his motherfucking car.
Speaker 2:I say bet, so the whole time pocket the hotel Ralph's, like guys, let's just go home, y'all sound crazy. I look at wrap like fuck that it's. So I'm walk cuz. In my brain it's. It seemed normal. I was gonna walk up like congratulate buddy. And then I was gonna hey, man, let's run it back. It seemed normal my brain, but in reality shit would have seemed super confrontational. Way out of like you was right, way out of pocket rappers, 100% right. So we getting the car, we leaving, so they got. And once I like calm down, I like really thought of us, like that I should have looked stupid so that the next day a message buddy.
Speaker 1:That shit would be mad wild my boy yes he bought him out of, not me out again. No for a you using his spot. He might have shot you listen.
Speaker 2:Tennessee Is that good. He's a neutral ground.
Speaker 1:He ain't from Tennessee, he was from Ohio. Oh well, yeah, y'all been good then. Technically it wouldn't have been neutral because, since we got people in Tennessee, it wouldn't have been neutral because he probably came with three family members.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they all were nine. A lot man like my buddy showed up wearing a white beater. I was like oh, I got this in a bag, brother.
Speaker 1:He don't let the white beater fool. I Learned out. I learned out he Did a look, did he have black or a force? One zone that word.
Speaker 2:Hemo grass in them jams. He didn't he.
Speaker 1:Ready to fight already? Rob your ass or spit on your dog.
Speaker 2:I know we was at the table and I see them walking. I was like, no, this motherfucker didn't just come in with some shoes. I said, no, this motherfucker didn't come in, just that just got done.
Speaker 2:Fucking moan the grass. And so I messes buddy and I was like, hey, man, I was a good fight. And then I was like, man, we should run it back. And so here you go and he goes. Oh well, I usually fight at 170. I was a whoa, coincidentally, I usually fight at 170, but I mean, like anything, nothing. I haven't heard anything else from the guy.
Speaker 1:So hope he's alright, you know. So, at the end of the day it is what it is All right but we got two seconds, so we're gonna end it like this what are your goals, your bigger goals, when it comes to fighting in 2k24?
Speaker 2:You mean like I'm looking, I'm looking to retire and I want to. I want to. I want to help more people Reach their goals is my goal. I want to see people go Way beyond when I've been, you know. I mean I want to see people. I want to see people who didn't think they they can make it. I want to see them make it and go farther than what they thought they did. So, like my fight jump, you know, saying like whatever happens in the upcoming future, it may be my last me honestly, you are getting old.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, I'm getting 40, so like 40 year old shouldn't be getting hit in the face Can on a continuous basis you know I mean what's not conducive to our, our health, you know you know I was there. You're not gonna do it, you're right.
Speaker 1:I really ain't though.
Speaker 2:You got. You got a couple more years.
Speaker 1:You just say say that again a couple more years, but you're 36 out here. You know spring chicken breaded, so they just breaded. I'm getting breaded right now, so that means I'm on. I'm right here at my prime.
Speaker 2:They can put your ass in a little on, a little warmer, that's where my ass is at with the rotisserie chickens, and then I'm gonna throw my.
Speaker 1:So you, right now, you on the for sale side of Walmart with the beside the rotisserie chicken. I thought it's been sitting there for a couple hours of the day. No, I ain't I.
Speaker 2:I have found out as a older fighter, you do have to like Protect yourself when promoters hit you up because, like a lot of times that you can kind of read the room like our dog you trying to feed me to a 22, 22 year old killer man fuck all that motherfucker, just just a murderer. And I'm like dog, I'm like damn, there 40, this motherfucker's like 22. I'm like I'm looking at this month, I'm like Okay, how many fights he's got.
Speaker 1:It's got like man, look, none of that, shit matters oh like what doesn't matter but it does when you get older. I hate to cut you off, but but with that some of those promoters, they look at your social media to see if you, if it don't look like you, don't post a lot of shit.
Speaker 2:I think I'm special.
Speaker 1:No, no, they don't want to fuck with you, because they're looking to see if you're actually training and if it don't look like you train a lot, even though you do try a lot, they see that you don't post much, so they're gonna hit you up.
Speaker 2:They're trying to catch you slack. You know a lot of people.
Speaker 1:Here's some game. A lot of people fall into that trap of Getting caught slacking you film, saying I ain't gonna lie, I got caught slack in once and I promise myself I'll never do it again. On taking a or short notice Professional fight, especially the week of a fight. Yeah, I've done that. I got caught slack in once even though I was actively training. I just happen to be Fat as fuck. Yeah, I've been there, yeah, and I was like that. I actively train, so this ain't gonna be shit. And Little did I know I got. I got played.
Speaker 1:Yeah you feel I'm saying but Lesson lesson learn, but remember this. People's out there dealing with the fight game.
Speaker 2:These promoters will you work?
Speaker 1:to yeah, definitely know you're worth, but some of the janky promoters will hit you up because they don't think you train and and they'll see when you've been active last, like when in the fight game. So they don't. They think you ain't shit. So they're gonna try to come after you with the new hotness in their hometown.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but sometimes hey sometimes you can catch these promoters slack. And two though so listen to this part of the game sometimes you can catch them slacking and if you hit, they hit you up with the. Hey, I want to offer you like 1500.
Speaker 1:You can be like fuck no, you hit me up last minute, give me three grand, three to five grand, and if you can't, if you can't give me that, don't offer me this fight. Move on, buddy. You foam say so. That's a little bit of game. Some people know the game. Yeah, that's one aspect you got to understand about this game, because when they hit you up last minute you're not on their terms. They're on your turn because one they're looking to get their personal fight to. They're practically desperate. The janky ones anyways, they're practically desperate at that point. So they got to be on your terms. You feel I'm saying so. If they can't handle it, you can say, fuck, you have a nice day. You feel I'm saying. But on the ending note, we got to wrap this up because you know some my boy.
Speaker 1:Antoine got to go pick up mom's from church. It was. We're gonna have a part to this. Set me up.
Speaker 2:Well, at least I know.
Speaker 1:We're gonna have a part two of this. Yeah, this weekend this weekend or next week, but this is part one of this episode. It's a season two episode one, part one. But you know, welcome back to the mr Red rims podcast, antoine rumble Curtis, and we got Mugen, his dog mugen, beside us. Well, we'll talk about the name you can on the next episode, because I got some some trash talk the half with that. He just don't know it yet, but I was okay.
Speaker 2:This is the first episode of the mr Red rims podcast of 2k 24.
Speaker 1:Thank you, guys for tuning in. Thank you for the people that showed me support friends, family, fans, teammates, all that. But, ladies and gentlemen, peace love chicken grease. Haven't said that in a while. Thank you for tuning in. Peace, peace. I.