 I'm ready. All right, Bubba. Dream is over there scrapping out. Hold on, I got a pan over. The kids love it. Dream is over there, getting work done. The kids love it, man. Scrapping with the other kids. You're talking about the kids, man. But first of all, it's Dream. Dream is three. Dream is three years old. Just turned three in April, son. And he loves being in the room. He knows the guy. He's been coming in here for about a year and a half now, so he's one of the guys. Mark Munoz is here, and I'm a dad. I've been a dad for 16 months, man. It's one of the best experiences I've ever been. So the kids are getting drunk around right now. OK. He's the rough house. OK, but what's the biggest thing? If you want your kids to wrestle, is bringing them around like this probably the number one thing? Take them to the tournaments. Because I take my side to a lot of the high school tournaments. Because I'm a assistant coach. So I take them to a lot of the high school tournaments. And then when the little guys are wrestling, I let them sit 10 out of 10 and watch. And he wants to run out so bad. He wants to wrestle so bad. He wants to do what he sees often is going on. So that's a trick to wanting to get them to wrestle. Because if I take them to any tournament, I don't care if it's a college, the trials, whatever, he wants to put on a single-headed wrestle. So that's a good trick to get them in the wrestling. You've been a lot of things. You've been a world champ. You've been a villain. You've been an NCAA champ. And you've embraced everything you've done in MMA. You've made the cross over. And I think most people were expecting Boba J. He's going to win the UFC title. He's going to win the ballad. Whatever promotion you're in, we were expecting you to do in the title. Vetsman adversity in MMA. How do you handle that adversity? Do you go back to wrestling a lot? Yeah, no. A lot of times it's just like rolling with the punches. I know they say that, and it's a cliche thing. But you've got to roll with the punches. As you get in the MMA, as a lot of the wrestlers have done very well, they've had opportunities and positions to be able to develop as an MMA fighter without having the pressure of being such a great wrestler into MMA. So with that being said, you've got to have an understanding that it's not going to come right away. You've got to develop. If you want to be not just a wrestler in MMA, if you want to be an actual MMA fighter who has a background in wrestling, you've got to develop other gifts and other things while you're slowly learning, but also still fighting. A lot of times a lot of the good guys get protected. Sometimes I didn't want to be protected. I wanted to take what was coming towards me, you know what I mean? So going out there fighting guys that maybe I can't beat this week, maybe I can't beat this year or this month, maybe I need to beat this guy in two months. But I want to see that. I want to test that. A lot of guys go amateurs. I never went amateurs. I went straight to the pros. I went straight to the big challenges. I want what's coming to me, and I want what I deserve. So I just kind of never really took a back seat. I never took the slow lane. I was always in the fast lane. That's just kind of my personality. I can say it has halted my career as far as being the UFC champion, a belt tour champion, things like that. But I like where I am. I love the process that I'm going through and the development that I'm in. So I can't really complain. And I know God marched my path. So I'm pretty content for where I'm at. All right, you coach high school here at Church Boys, Calvary Chapel, Thunder Club with Jake Harmon. This is about kids getting recruited to the C3 event, Cliff Fretwell. You didn't need to worry about that. You were a freak out of Virginia. Like an absolute freak. Top two, three recruits in the country. What do you say to a guy with a stuff below Bubba J who needs to get that attention? What do they got to do to get recruited, get a scholarship, and to be an actor? You got to be a place like this. You got to go to the camps. You got to go to all the tournaments. I mean, some people now wrestling has become soft in the sense of some people aren't going to certain tournaments because they feel like it will not validate the tournaments that they want. Some people are skipping tournaments because that's where the tough guys are, and they want to play side. You got to be at everything, man. You got to go and try to wrestle at all the big tournaments, wrestle all the big weight classes, wrestle all the big maims because people jump around weight classes. My generation, my time coming up, we didn't jump or move weight classes. If you were in the tough guy or the returning national champs weight class, that's the weight class you were in. When I was in the Big 10, wrestling in the national finals, it was me, Metcalf, Trella, Slater. I mean, you can name them Palmer. All-time great weight class, by the way. You're your runner-up. All-time, all-time. Burrows, I mean, you can name the list, but nobody was ducking. Nobody was hiding. No one was going to another weight class and trying to get to an easy weight class. It was something like 16 All-Americans in that weight, and we saw each other every other weekend. So it was like to be a national champ that year, which Metcalf was, it was like you had to go to the grind. Burrows was in that weight, too. Burrows was in that weight. Caldwell was in that weight. I mean, it's incredible. It's a who's who, man. Yeah, it was a big, big turn. And I don't think there was another weight class like it, but it was just, it goes to our mindset of who we were in high school and what these kids need to be doing to get to that level is going out there competing against everyone, getting to see everyone and try to wrestle as much as they can. To be at a tournament like this, I mean, to be at a clinic like this, it's awesome. Okay, being the villain like you were at Arizona State, pinning the magic man like you did. It was first off, unreal, like it was a movie. Like it's fake and made up, but it happened, right? I mean, you were the complete underdog. It's all that story. It's a crazy movie should be made about it. It's a pretty nutty thing. But looking at it, Baba, you talk about the wrestling community. You're in the fight community now. You're crossing with DJ, DJ Jiu-Jitsu, grappling, Muay Thai, all these other different communities is, and you have to train all of them. You bring all those people in from those communities. Is there any other community like the wrestling community? None. Like you said, I've been in a lot of the Muay Thai. Boxing has a community. They all have it. Boxing, yeah, there's no, I think a lot of these other sports, they have a team camaraderie, Muay Jitsu, like the team camaraderie, but it's not like the wrestling camaraderie. They don't have duels, like we have duels. They don't have to have training partners, like we trust in our training partners. We have that guy to cut weight with. Boxing is very, very individualistic. So Muay Thai is very, very old. They have a team when they need to go somewhere for them all the training at one particular time, but not so much to get each other better, not so much to focus on their different techniques. Wrestling, we have different styles. There's some guys that are meathead, drag them out, punch you in the face kind of guys, and then there's some guys that are really, really slick. So to see all that, to be able to wrestle and morph to these different types of styles means that you have to be in a team that kind of presents those type of opportunities. So I think our community is just small. It's a blue collar, tight knit, tough guy community. I mean, we pride ourselves on being the toughest guys on any campus. That's why wrestling, we have that look, that ear, that short stocking mean man syndrome kind of thing. And I think it's a testament to our community. We're tight knit, we care for each other. If one guy loses, we can still win as a team. So we're all trying to come together and get that camaraderie that helps people succeed. Sometimes it ain't just about the guy who's winning. Sometimes it's about the team that can help some of these guys that aren't the best wrestlers get to the next spot. You actually wrestled the who's number one, didn't you, the flow thing? Yeah, I wrestled all of it. So I think that's your last thing you've wrestled in, isn't it, like literally as a competitor? Yeah. So you do events with flow, you do events, you do, you know, wrestling's in the rear view here. Yeah, absolutely. Have they, has the wrestling community embraced you since villain hood of 2011, I believe it was, right? Absolutely, I get a lot of everywhere I go. I love, I think you're a dude, man, you need to talk to them. I think they liked me to be the villain because I like to celebrate, I like to have my personality out there. And I think the wrestling community wasn't really ready for like a showman at that time, you know what I mean? Still, every now and then when you get a showman, it's still like people want to see him lose because they want you to get your hand raised and walk off the mat, I was never that guy. I always bore my personality and my heart on my sleeve. So if I want a big match, you and everyone else was gonna know about it. We knew those ankle bands were getting shot. We knew those ankle bands were gonna be like a duck. But my friends and family, the people who really knew me, the people who talked to me every day, they knew I wasn't a bad guy. They know I just love to have fun, you know, in practice, I love to have fun. There's a difference between me playing around and me having fun. There's times where in practice I'll be having fun. I won't be playing around because it's not in the play with in wrestling, but I'll be having a good time. And that was what kind of got me villainized and me just being me, so. I loved it, by the way. I'm glad you did. I was always all about it. That's what moved me into the sport of it, man. Yeah, you can really embrace it and be a heel if you want to and talk trash. You can be a villain. They want that, they're for most of the fight. Wrestling didn't have that type of a mix to their community, which I think would be good if they just kind of accepted that a little bit more. Yeah, we want to be gracious and humble. Classic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cut your beard off and have long hair. Get rid of those cornrows. Yeah, that's right. All right, hey, you got anything else for me, man? Man, I appreciate you guys coming out and supporting what we got going here at Calvary Chapel and Compound. Man, tune into my fight, it's July 23. You don't even know who you're fighting yet. I know it's a victim. I know it's a victim. I don't know where I'm fighting yet. I do know who. He's got to send me the contract and I'll send him to his head, but other than that, July 23rd, that's what I'm doing, baby. Hey, Bubba, thanks for your time. Good luck, buddy.