Fightville (2011)

1. - Fighting is as old as humankind has ever been.

2. There's something about beating another man into submission

3. that the world is attracted to.

4. What is it?

5. Man is the only species on Earth

6. outside of its natural environment,

7. and what society has caused us to do is take out

8. a couple of different things out of the equation.

9. The first is the rules of man.

10. The rules of man suggest that man is a warrior.

11. By nature, he's a warrior,

12. so when you say "fight,"

13. everyone is gonna turn and look, everyone.

14. Fighting is truth.

15. Very few men will actually walk the aisles

16. and get into that combat arena,

17. and very few men will do it 20 to 30 times.

18. Most of these guys that fight, they'll never fight again.

19. They think they can do it. They want to do it.

20. They want everybody to know that they're cage fighters,

21. but when that door closes and you hear that lock click

22. and now it's time to go

23. and that guy looks at you across the cage

24. and you can't give him the same look

25. that he gave you...

26. now you know you're in trouble.

27. Every fight has a story that's yet to be played out.

28. As a matchmaker, I have to imagine that story.

29. I have to write the script of that story.

30. What would happen if you were in your tribe,

31. I was in my tribe, and we came across each other?

32. What would happen?

33. Besides bashing each other in the head with a rock-

34. let's throw that out of there- this is what combat is.

35. It's not two men standing up and just punching each other

36. in the head and the stomach.

37. Combat encompasses everything.

38. Do what you can to win a fight.

39. We're bringing back the pure essence of combat.

40. I can take any man, and I'll make him a star.

41. - My dream is to be the best fighter

42. at 155 pounds in the world.

43. Fighting is what I do.

44. My father was a fighter.

45. My grandfather was a fighter.

46. It's just in my blood.

47. - What we're doing on this local level is,

48. we're taking these young guys.

49. We're developing them

50. so that they can gradually progress

51. to the big leagues, so we are, in essence,

52. a minor league mixed martial arts.

53. We are feeder to UFC,

54. Strikeforce, DREAM.

55. But they won't get to the big time

56. if we don't have these shows.

57. We have to have these shows.

58. The fans have to support us in order to get our local guys

59. to the next level, those with talent.

60. - When I first started fighting, the sport of fighting,

61. I didn't even expect to- I had not one thought of money

62. or fame or anything like that in my mind.

63. I just wanted to fight. That's it simple and plain.

64. I called a place, and I asked them.

65. I said, "So if I come over here and train,

66. will I be able to fight really against other opponents?"

67. "Yeah, you will."

68. I was there the next day.

69. - Defend, defend.

70. - I'm stuck.

71. - I know. Come the other way.

72. Come this way. Come to me.

73. Defend.

74. Don't get knocked out right here.

75. There you go.

76. Feet on the wall, push away.

77. Flip, flip, flip!

78. - It's not your skill. It's not yours.

79. Got to dance with this music playing.

80. This is Tim.

81. - What we're doing today with MMA

82. and with mixed martial arts is what martial arts

83. was always supposed to be,

84. and the revitalization of martial arts in America

85. is starting to happen.

86. The reality of martial arts through MMA has been boiled down

87. to what's true and what's just crazy.

88. What's crazy movie stuff?

89. There's no 7-year-old black belts over here.

90. That's not real.

91. We don't have 5-year-olds doing flying jump kicks

92. through the walls.

93. That's just not the reality of it.

94. These guys who've done these traditional martial arts

95. in these traditional martial arts schools,

96. they can't win a fight in an MMA match.

97. How can that be possible if you've spent 20 years

98. in a martial arts academy?

99. You've been doing katas and breaking fake boards

100. and wearing funny belts.

101. You haven't been training to be a fighter.

102. You've been training to go be in Barnum & Bailey's circus.

103. That's not martial arts. That's crazy talk.

104. That's ridiculous.

105. When martial arts was developed for samurais

106. and for the warriors of the warrior castes in Asia,

107. you know, people fell off,

108. and those people did not get to become samurais.

109. They did not get to become warriors.

110. Those people got to become farmers.

111. To make it for everyone, like I've said before,

112. is to make it not what it really is.

113. - Don't leave any blood splattered on that sink

114. or on the thing.

115. Go wash yourself off and then wash the area off too.

116. Okay, that's, like, a health violation, okay?

117. - Guys-that's a good point.

118. Health inspector came, and there was some blood.

119. He was pissed, you know.

120. He didn't say much, but if you bleed or something like that,

121. make sure you clean your stuff up.

122. Don't leave blood all over the place.

123. It just-it makes us look ridiculous.

124. We're supposed to be a martial arts school.

125. Help me help you.

126. - You know, I grew up watching men who work hard,

127. who party hard, and on a Friday or Saturday night,

128. they weren't scared to fight hard.

129. What we're trying to do at USA-MMA is to bring back

130. the feel and the excitement of a live event,

131. and we do them in rodeo arenas and civic centers

132. across south Louisiana,

133. and it's just me, my wife, and the kids.

134. - There's definitely a misperception about the sport.

135. They laugh at the sport.

136. They can't wait to say, "Oh, really?

137. Well, that's human cock fighting."

138. Like, I've heard that so many times,

139. and it's aggravating, because, what, John McCain said that

140. 10, 15 years ago, human cock fighting,

141. and actually, it probably was back then.

142. You know, you could be in any weight class.

143. You could- there was no rules at all,

144. but the way that the sport's developed since then,

145. you know, it's very- one of the safest sports around.

146. Rodeos-people die, you know, all the time in rodeos.

147. They die in NASCAR all the time,

148. but because this is a new sport and people don't know what it is

149. and they see so much blood, they don't understand.

150. Blood is superficial.

151. These guys have 4-ounce gloves on.

152. They don't have 16-ounce gloves on,

153. so there's no brain damage.

154. They're getting punched with a 4-ounce glove.

155. If a guy in the ring is hurt, the referee will stop the fight.

156. That won't happen in boxing.

157. If he's hurt, he has to be on the ground.

158. He can be even hurt-

159. as long as he can stand himself up,

160. he can continue to fight,

161. and that doesn't happen in MMA either.

162. I knew when I started dating him that he was a former boxer

163. and that he wrestled also pro, which I thought was insane.

164. Let's go, Gil.

165. Let's go, Gil.

166. Let's go, Gil.

167. - It's in his blood.

168. I mean, my son's five, and, you know,

169. he's gonna fight one day.

170. You know, as safe as it is, you still don't want to see

171. your son even fall off of his bike, you know?

172. And he's gonna fight one day.

173. I will not be able to stop him.

174. It's in his blood.

175. My husband, when we argue, he goes to the gym and spars

176. and comes back much better, much better.

177. There's a lot of skill involved.

178. It's not just some, you know, bar fight.

179. The guys call us all the time, "I want to fight.

180. I want to fight. I want to fight."

181. Well, if you're not training,

182. you know, we can't put you in there.

183. It's not safe.

184. - Yeah, this is a rodeo arena,

185. but you're still not gonna fight on my show.

186. A lot of these kids that call me up wanting to fight

187. think they first have the ability.

188. Then they think that it's just- it's easy.

189. Let's go and do it.

190. So I, as a 38-, 39-year-old man, the first thing I do is,

191. I go to the gym, and I spar 'em.

192. Five guys walk in off the street.

193. I'm looking for one thing.

194. All of them want to be world champion,

195. but the most important thing is dedication.

196. Don't commit to running.

197. Commit to your-the exchange.

198. You're committing to not getting hurt.

199. - I'm actually quite afraid of being hit

200. when I'm in the gym.

201. It sucks.

202. You know, you feel it, but when I'm fighting,

203. I just want to hit 'em, and then it just happens,

204. and I hit them, and they fall unconscious,

205. and I feel good.

206. The energy in the cage makes the whole thing feel spiritual,

207. I mean, like another world.

208. It's almost like the universe is this big machine

209. and I am, you know- I am operating it.

210. I don't believe in God.

211. I don't believe in destiny.

212. I don't believe in predetermination or whatever,

213. anything like that, but I will say I am dazzled

214. by the way I look at my life, the way it's turned out,

215. and the way it's just, like, interconnected with fighting

216. the way I feel it is.

217. It's the only thing I really think I'm good at, if anything.

218. You know, if you could say I'm good at anything,

219. it'd be that.

220. - Guy's got a lot of talent, not a bad-looking kid,

221. but I see potential in him outside of fighting.

222. I think that if he really put himself to anything,

223. he can do anything he wanted to do.

224. - I kind of want it to be my only option,

225. 'cause I love it that much.

226. Maybe that's a little foolhardy, but I don't care.

227. - Many mistakes that the young fighters are making,

228. I guess the most important one is that they're forgetting

229. that there's life after fighting.

230. Pursuing an MMA dream, you know, I can't fault anybody for that,

231. because I pursued my own dream, but I did work at the same time.

232. I went to college at the same time.

233. You know, I understood the sheer dynamics of it.

234. Most fighters, 99% of fighters, end up broke and destitute.

235. That's just the truth of it.

236. They might make a little bit of money here and there,

237. but most fighters-most people who climb into the ring

238. or the cage don't make a penny.

239. You try to help them the best you can,

240. but they're not my children, so what can I do?

241. Give them advice; that's about it.

242. Keep going with USA-MMA and be the best company

243. nobody's ever heard of.

244. All right, welcome to this week's edition

245. of The Combat Sports Report.

246. My name is Gil "The Thrill" Guillory.

247. What we have tonight is Natural Disaster 3, August 1st.

248. Tonight, Sugarena.

249. It's gonna happen tonight, guys.

250. We have 14 bouts, a little too many fights.

251. Our main event tonight is Joe Torrez

252. versus Dustin Poirier.

253. Please come out, support these guys.

254. Support your local fighter.

255. We have Mike Jackson against Albert Stainback.

256. He's from Gladiator Lafayette.

257. - I think a stare-down

258. is something very important for a fight,

259. and yes, I do practice in the mirror.

260. I'll sit in the mirror in the bathroom and just be like...

261. If you're staring them down and you see that certain look,

262. I believe that, you know, you're already in their head,

263. and that helps, you know, but then you get those people-

264. and this is when you know it's gonna be a fight-

265. when they just look right back at you, dude,

266. and it's a-

267. I like those even better, actually.

268. I like it when they grind, you know, right back,

269. when they are not scared, when they do not back down.

270. Love it.

271. - People feel the same way when they get in the cage,

272. but other people on the outside

273. don't really notice it, you know,

274. unless they do it, how peaceful it really is inside there.

275. It's crazy. It's so pure.

276. - When Dustin's in there, he looks like a serial killer,

277. you know, and I feel, like, the same about myself.

278. Are we done yet?

279. - Judges in the back court for the meeting at 7:00.

280. - I want to go over a few things with you first.

281. Again, I met most of you earlier.

282. My name's Alvin Topham.

283. I'm the commissioner for athletics

284. in the state of Louisiana.

285. The reason we're here, primarily,

286. so that rules are followed

287. and safety, safety, safety is followed.

288. There's a lot of amateur fights on this card tonight.

289. We'll stop a fight before it gets in trouble.

290. I'm just telling you right up, fellas.

291. I don't want anybody getting hurt.

292. We all know that when we come in here that anybody,

293. anybody can get severely injured in this sport.

294. It's happened before,

295. and I'm sure it's gonna happen again.

296. You take that chance when you go in that ring.

297. - We're not about selling fights.

298. We're selling entertainment, and in that regard,

299. that is our bread and circus.

300. - I want people to remember me.

301. I happen to think that we came from monkeys,

302. so my little tribute to us

303. getting in touch with our inner monkey is,

304. I'll get out there, and I'll beat my chest twice.

305. You'll always see me do that before a fight.

306. To me, it's like that primal fight-or-flight thing.

307. In a sense, I do feel like a monkey when I'm fighting.

308. It doesn't matter what his story is.

309. It doesn't matter what my story is.

310. It's a matter of who's best fit to survive.

311. - Fight!

312. - There is no feeling sorry for your opponent,

313. because, you know, it's do or die.

314. It's either you lose or he loses,

315. and I don't care what your story is, man.

316. I got to look out for me and mine.

317. With victory comes this elation,

318. and that feels, you know, beautiful,

319. like something that I have that no one can take from me.

320. You can earn. You can have a house.

321. You can have money.

322. You can have that,

323. but you will lose all of that eventually,

324. and even if you don't, what does it really mean?

325. - Before a fight,

326. I actually pray that nobody gets hurt, you know?

327. I don't want to hurt him, or I don't want to get hurt,

328. but I'm not scared to lose

329. or scared to get hurt in a fight.

330. I expect to get hit.

331. You know, I'm not gonna go in there and not get hit.

332. It's a fight.

333. It's like going to work in an office

334. and not touching paper or something, you know?

335. You're gonna get hit. It's part of the job.

336. - Dustin Poirier!

337. - Dustin is similar to me.

338. He's a finisher.

339. Finishers are people who don't fight to win rounds

340. or fight to win points without finishing the opponent

341. no matter what the case.

342. Finish them. Finish them. Finish them.

343. Finish the opponent. Be fierce and be dominant.

344. - Dustin Poirier!

345. - A lot of times, you have guys that work really, really hard

346. and make all the sacrifices,

347. and then you have guys that are really great talents.

348. Guys that do both become, you know,

349. some of the greatest fighters the world has ever seen.

350. You know, it's exciting seeing a kid like Dustin

351. who may be one of those guys.

352. You know, as a coach and as a trainer

353. and as a fighter,

354. you may run into one or two of those in your life.

355. The biggest challenge now when it comes to a kid like Dustin

356. is, you know, finding somebody

357. he's not gonna kill in a couple minutes.

358. - Will he make it to the UFC? Will he be world champion?

359. Eh, potential,

360. but potential has a time frame.

361. Potential has a time limit on it.

362. 20-year-old kid can have potential,

363. but if you're still-

364. if you're 38 and somebody says you still have potential,

365. oh, it's time to move on, you know?

366. So I'll give Tim's gym probably the nod

367. as far as overall talent, 'cause the kids there can fight.

368. They can fight.

369. But that doesn't mean anything on the national scale.

370. - I have given my boys freedom to express themselves

371. and to feel what they feel and to do what they do.

372. He loved to fight, not necessarily with someone

373. that he wasn't getting along with.

374. He just wanted to have a fight with somebody.

375. One day, man, he must've been just, like, 10 years old,

376. and he'd gotten in trouble at school.

377. He had a note.

378. He came- he got off the school bus,

379. and he ran in the house.

380. He said, "Here's a note. I did something at school.

381. "Give me a whipping if you're gonna give me a whipping,

382. 'cause I think somebody's ready to fight me down the road."

383. They'd get these boxing matches going on in the neighborhood,

384. and Dustin did that, and he-

385. you know, he was the best out of all the little kids,

386. the little guys that boxed, and there was this one guy

387. that came to meet him at his grandma's and said,

388. "Well, you haven't boxed me yet."

389. And Dustin, like, knocked out his teeth and broke his jaw,

390. and he was, like, five years older than Dustin,

391. and we had to go to court for that.

392. Yep.

393. He had respect for the law,

394. but he didn't mind running in with-

395. having a run-in with the law.

396. That's when he started skipping school

397. and ended up in juvenile courts and boot camp

398. and juvenile jail and all of that stuff.

399. - I definitely think fighting has opened the path

400. to redemption for me.

401. I mean, I've tried.

402. I've been in boot camp and juvenile detentions

403. and programs and all this stuff that's supposed to help you,

404. and, I mean, that didn't help, you know,

405. but when I found something that I wanted

406. and that I really was gonna chase

407. no matter what roadblock was in front of me,

408. I would break it down and go get it.

409. This is a picture of me right when I started training.

410. I was probably about 200 pounds in that picture.

411. Big transformation.

412. Look way different, man.

413. People, like, that haven't seen me

414. since I looked like that,

415. they're like- don't even notice me sometimes.

416. - He's finally found what he's been looking for

417. all of this time.

418. I know that he has been waiting his whole life

419. to climb up something and put his hands in the air

420. because he did it the best.

421. - As a kid in America,

422. we don't learn about honor and integrity

423. and dignity and compassion.

424. These lessons weren't taught to me.

425. I learned math.

426. You know, I learned science, how to diagram a predicate,

427. but I didn't know what honor was.

428. Martial arts is to develop the person.

429. Your body, your mind, and your spirit,

430. everything is encompassed in that.

431. But an individual's expression of that art is just that.

432. It's individualistic.

433. How I express my jujitsu is different

434. from how Aaron expresses his or Heath expresses his,

435. and sometimes some of that is gonna have to do

436. with your background a little bit,

437. you know, how athletic you are or how athletic you're not.

438. Stop using muscles.

439. Don't have any muscles really to use.

440. Now, don't use any pressure or any muscles.

441. I don't want you to do anything.

442. I just want you to grab his knee.

443. Now unlock your hips.

444. There you go. Good.

445. Now, this elbow needs to come all the way down to the floor.

446. When you get tired, does strength work?

447. - You don't have any left. - Does technique work?

448. Only way that can happen is if you technically beat the person.

449. Just like chess. Same thing.

450. You know, all painters, you know,

451. they use, you know, the same paints

452. and the same canvases and the same type of brushes,

453. but the paintings themselves are all just so different

454. and so beautiful and so glorious to watch.

455. When we fight, that's where we make our masterpieces.

456. - Friday, the 13th, at the Lake Charles Civic Center,

457. we're doing Border War Number 2.

458. We're bringing in a lot of the Lafayette Gladiator guys.

459. We're also having Dustin Poirier in our main event,

460. and he's fighting a guy by the name of Ronnie Lis.

461. He's a Brazilian jujitsu black belt,

462. and he's gonna be a serious threat to Dustin.

463. And we've got Paul Soileau taking on Albert Stainback

464. in his pro debut.

465. - Right now, I'm just busing tables and training,

466. and I'd like to train more.

467. I'd like to fight more.

468. I want to step up my career path, again,

469. not only as a fighter,

470. but to feel like I'm doing something,

471. like I'm becoming an adult, I guess, fighting for my job.

472. This first pro fight, it's actually gonna pay my rent.

473. We are actually so behind on rent,

474. it's not even funny,

475. and I really hope I win this fight.

476. We used to not be behind on rent.

477. My girlfriend, she used to be a stripper,

478. and then, like, you know, we'd eat sushi every day,

479. and we'd freaking, you know, go out of town and have fun,

480. and, you know, I kind of feel like half of it's my fault...

481. - I have all kinds of guys coming here

482. under the impression they're gonna be fighters,

483. and I think most guys do not realize

484. that this is a 40-hour-a-week job.

485. This is a grind.

486. You know, what makes great fighters

487. and what makes great champions

488. is the endurance to deal with the grind.

489. You know, it's five, six days a week

490. of grinding two or three hard practices per day out.

491. - Training with Tim has just-

492. it's helped my confidence a lot, actually,

493. because he's the only guy I know

494. who'll talk to me like I talk to myself in my head.

495. And I know he's really just trying to push

496. and see the best me I can be.

497. - At the end of the day, MMA is an individual sport,

498. but it is also a team sport.

499. I can't train myself alone.

500. The bags do not hit back.

501. Fuck.

502. Tim will definitely let you know,

503. if you're not showing up, how he feels about it.

504. - Come on, move, move, move, move, move.

505. Step out of there.

506. - Huh?

507. - The expectations of our gym are not:

508. you have to win every fight.

509. You don't have to win every fight,

510. but you do have to train for every fight.

511. You ever say something like that again,

512. you're out of the gym forever.

513. Do you understand?

514. If you think I'm fucking here to waste my fucking time on you,

515. you have lost your mind.

516. You don't do shit for me when I spar with you.

517. If you ever say that to me again,

518. you're out of the gym forever.

519. You hear me? - Yes, sir.

520. - You need to have some respect.

521. You need to understand

522. that while you have been doing whatever it was

523. you needed to be doing in your time,

524. we've been here working,

525. so don't be mad at me or frustrated with me

526. because you're getting destroyed.

527. You've found other things to do with your time

528. than come to practice.

529. You know, Corey's fight in Baton Rouge,

530. he took a horrendous beating.

531. You know, he got beat on bad, you know?

532. - Making his way into the red corner, Corey Judice!

533. - When we go out there and the music's over

534. and you get in there and the door closes,

535. I'm not going in there with you.

536. I can't save you.

537. You have to save yourself,

538. because the chances of you getting hurt in a fight

539. before the fight ends are 100% in your career.

540. It is not acceptable to try to survive.

541. You must be fighting to win.

542. You must be fighting to finish,

543. 'cause once you give up,

544. the next five or six punches

545. are gonna put you in the hospital.

546. You can never give up.

547. You must fight until you can't physically fight anymore

548. or until you win.

549. - In the red corner, Corey Judice!

550. - I'm glad he won the fight, and you know, of course,

551. but I'm more proud that he made it through there,

552. you know, and he got beat up a little bit,

553. and he got a black eye and stuff, but, you know,

554. he was in some dangerous positions a couple times,

555. and because of the fact

556. that we live in dangerous positions at the gym,

557. you know, he was able to defend himself,

558. and he was able to get out,

559. and he was able to not sustain the type of damage

560. that could've rendered him, you know, hurt really bad,

561. you know, and it's my responsibility

562. to know they're ready to deal with what happens,

563. so I just take it seriously,

564. but, I mean, I ain't sparred with the guy in two weeks.

565. He's got a fight this week.

566. You know, sometimes I'm too rough maybe,

567. and sometimes I go, you know, maybe over the line,

568. but you know what?

569. They don't get hurt,

570. and they beat the crap out of people.

571. - My dad used to beat my mom senseless,

572. and I always put that in my head

573. whenever I think about certain things, you know,

574. when I go to my angry place, I guess.

575. He had my mom by the throat, and he had picked her up,

576. and blood was running down his arms out of her mouth

577. 'cause he was, like, digging into her mouth

578. with his thumbs and shit like that,

579. and then...

580. and then, you know,

581. my dad shot himself when I was nine,

582. and then my mom went off on a big alcoholic binge,

583. so there was a lot of stuff that happened

584. I guess you could say that made me kind of want to fight.

585. I honestly attribute me wanting to fight,

586. if I had to give some kind of Freudian guess at it,

587. is to- I wanted to be a defender.

588. I believe life is all about balance,

589. and violence is part of that balance.

590. - When somebody asks me, "What do you do for a living?"

591. I don't say I'm a professional fighter.

592. I say I work in Carencro. I drive a delivery truck.

593. You know, I can't lie to somebody and say,

594. "I'm a professional fighter."

595. I might make money doing it, but is that my profession?

596. Is that what I do to provide for me and my wife?

597. I'm trying to make it that.

598. - Back then, if you wrote left,

599. they tried to make you write with the right.

600. - Oh, I used to write left? - Yeah.

601. - Really? - Yeah.

602. - No way. - I'm telling you.

603. He's accomplished so much.

604. He went from this alcoholic kid to, you know,

605. a professional fighter.

606. He owns his own home.

607. He works just minimally, just a few hours,

608. just to keep his benefits.

609. He's my hero, and he's gonna do it.

610. I know that he is.

611. He's gonna be amazing. He's gonna be a household name.

612. - If you can't sell tickets, I can't use you.

613. - There's no doubt, baby, no doubt.

614. - Because I can't make money.

615. If I got to pay a fighter $1,500, $1,000 to show up,

616. another $1,000 to win,

617. but he can't sell $4,000 worth of tickets-

618. - When you pay somebody that time-

619. most of the time, if they're really good,

620. they won't show.

621. - You know, they're just not gonna bring a crowd.

622. - I know.

623. - The biting my own ass part of it is

624. that I have to hype that fighter up so much

625. that their friends and family start to make them believe it.

626. They start believing it.

627. They come to me demanding more money

628. because they honestly believe they're worth it

629. because everyone else tells them that they're the second coming,

630. and little do they know, you're not the second coming.

631. You're exactly what I made you to be.

632. I promoted you this way.

633. I've made you this way.

634. I can take Gary Coleman

635. and turn-and take Gary Coleman and promote him properly,

636. and everybody will come to see Gary Coleman fight.

637. So you're no more special than he his.

638. Hey, you know what? I would make a killing.

639. - 'Cause he's- it's his phenomenon.

640. - I'm the main event?

641. - No, you're semi, semi main event.

642. - Oh, that's cool.

643. Opening up for Dustin, always love it.

644. - Need to provide... - Semipro.

645. - Hep-B and C results and HIV results...

646. no more...

647. than six months old.

648. - I was actually gonna ask you about that.

649. I got some results, but the 13th,

650. they will be officially three days overdue.

651. Do you want me to go ahead and-

652. - You have to. Yeah, they're over six months.

653. - They are gonna-okay.

654. I got you, homey.

655. You put "Beck" on there, didn't you?

656. - Stainback. - There we go.

657. - And we'll make a copy if there's a machine in here.

658. I don't think there is.

659. "Weigh 155 pounds."

660. Got you, no problem.

661. - I'm ready to do it.

662. I'm ready to fight. I'll fight tonight if I could.

663. If the fight was tonight, I'd be ready to go.

664. Of course, after I drink a little bit

665. and not be so dizzy.

666. Mentally ready to fight.

667. Physically, hurting.

668. But this is part of it.

669. The fight already started for me.

670. This is the fight right now.

671. It's part of the fight.

672. Tomorrow by 1:00, 12:00, I'll be done.

673. I'll be at 155.

674. Just got to keep sweating.

675. - Let's see.

676. It says, "The woman on the telephone wanted to know

677. "exactly what this Louisiana

678. "versus Florida thing was all about.

679. "Telling her it was mixed martial arts

680. "didn't seem to answer the question.

681. "'It's cage fighting, ' Guillory said.

682. "It wasn't, to say the least, what she wanted to hear.

683. "She said, 'That's disgusting.

684. "'Going to do everything in my power

685. to make sure this never comes back here."'

686. - Hmm.

687. - I don't know if that's good or bad

688. that it starts off with that.

689. - It's good. All press is good.

690. All right, Dustin Poirier,

691. main event, 155 pounds, Gladiator Academy.

692. 154.0. Who?

693. - Greg.

694. - Who's Greg?

695. Yeah, they go to the civic center.

696. Ron, are you ready, brother?

697. Okay.

698. 153.

699. Main event, guys. We got a fight.

700. - Yeah.

701. - Semi main event, 155 pounds.

702. - I heard that "semi."

703. We're like the opening band.

704. - Yeah. Who's that?

705. - Answer it.

706. 154.2.

707. Okay, yeah, tell him thanks.

708. 152.8.

709. Good job, boys.

710. - That's not monkey.

711. Oh, my fucking God.

712. I'm a victory in one minute.

713. Be careful, my opponent.

714. - Dustin is gonna be in for a tough fight.

715. They wanted tough opponents.

716. I got them tough opponents, so we're gonna see

717. exactly what happens with them tomorrow.

718. - For my first pro fight, I'll be making, you know,

719. $500 to show and $500 to win.

720. This is real now.

721. This isn't some amateur fight, you know.

722. From-every move I make from now on

723. will determine if I can eat.

724. I know I'll have, you know, moments of worry,

725. but when you step into that cage,

726. you prove it to yourself,

727. and I've proven it to myself 17 times

728. that I've got what it takes to do this,

729. and I'm gonna do it.

730. - This is a mixed crowd.

731. We're gonna have kids. We're gonna have ladies.

732. We're gonna have lots of people here.

733. It's not gonna be in a bar room situation,

734. so keep your language down.

735. I don't want to hear any four-letter words, okay?

736. In the event you have to go to the hospital,

737. let the doctor determine

738. if you're gonna go to the hospital or not, okay?

739. You discuss it with the doctor.

740. If you feel bad, if you got a major injury,

741. you feel like you got something seriously wrong with you,

742. let the doctor discuss that with the EMTs

743. and the ambulance people and coordinate.

744. Don't just jump in an ambulance and say,

745. "Take me to the hospital."

746. - There's an arrogance in Brazil at a lot of levels in the-

747. when it comes to jujitsu.

748. I've been there a few times to train, and, you know,

749. sometimes those guys, since, you know, jujitsu kind of-

750. really kind of started it all on a lot of levels,

751. they believe when they come over here,

752. we're just not necessarily ready for them,

753. and, you know, they're just gonna really show us

754. what a real fighter is about,

755. and, you know, that may have been the case

756. many years ago,

757. but it's not the case anymore, you know?

758. Dustin's a young kid in south Louisiana,

759. but he's got two black belts at his disposal

760. that he trains with regularly, and coming to America

761. and fighting a guy who's never seen jujitsu

762. is just not a real- not a real scenario anymore,

763. and the fact that the guy thinks that

764. indicates to me

765. that maybe he's not necessarily been around fighting

766. for that long around here.

767. And I think Dustin's opponent

768. may need to learn that the hard way tonight.

769. - I just want to crack him right on his chin.

770. - Jesus Christ, what have we got ourselves into?

771. They're not gonna have music, go.

772. - What's on my mind,

773. what's on my mind is, I'm here to win.

774. You're in the way of my destiny.

775. Get out of my way.

776. I'm the better fighter.

777. I'm here to win.

778. - Use them hands, Albert.

779. When Albert was a kid,

780. I'm sure he never saw the lines in his color book.

781. His fighting is not neat.

782. It's not pretty,

783. but he definitely colors the whole page

784. just like that kid.

785. You know, he fights hard.

786. He never quits.

787. He fights to finish you, no matter what.

788. He fights to finish.

789. - When the fears of losing

790. or the fears of not being able to pursue my career

791. or getting hurt start going through my head,

792. there's a voice in my head that says,

793. you know, "What are you doing?

794. "You know, you could get hurt for life.

795. You could fail, you know."

796. When that fear and that doubt comes up,

797. when that voice comes out-

798. it's almost like a person-

799. I beat the fuck out of it.

800. You know, I kick it down the stairs.

801. You know, I chain it to the basement,

802. kick it a few more times for good measure,

803. then I head back upstairs, and I lock that door,

804. because I will not have that fear stop me

805. from doing what I want to do.

806. - Whoa!

807. No.

808. - Stopping the action at 3:51 in the first round.

809. In the blue corner,

810. representing Gladiator's Academy,

811. Albert Stainback.

812. - That's bullshit!

813. That's bullshit!

814. - Yeah, I'd love a rematch.

815. I mean, I spent 41/2 minutes on top of the guy

816. pounding him out, trying to choke him.

817. Next time, I'd make sure I'd do that for 15 minutes,

818. not just 41/2.

819. You know, but what you gonna do?

820. You'll complain about it.

821. You go back into the gym and start training.

822. - All right, ladies and gentlemen,

823. this is your 10th and final bout.

824. It is the main event!

825. - It's kind of crazy.

826. I'm really nervous before,

827. 'cause I've played the fight over in my head.

828. Like, this guy I'm about to fight, man,

829. I've fought him a million times already

830. in my head just in this last month, you know?

831. I've beat him a million times already in my head.

832. When it's time to walk out there to the cage,

833. it's just time to actually do it.

834. I kind of feel full of joy, man.

835. Like, when I'm walking to the cage, I'm happy.

836. - Dustin Poirier!

837. Three five-minute rounds, 155-pound weight division.

838. - Show him how bad he don't want to fight.

839. Ain't got no standup.

840. - Get him, Dustin.

841. - Beautiful.

842. - Hey, Ronnie, what happened to 15 seconds?

843. - Get back up.

844. - Be more respectful next time.

845. - Hey- - No, no move me.

846. - You don't pop.

847. You don't pop, like, pop, pop, pop, pop.

848. - Keep pop, pop? He moved.

849. - Pop, pop, pop. - You were on the wrong side.

850. - Fighters to the center of the ring.

851. We go to the official score card.

852. Your winner after 54 seconds of the first round

853. by way of tap out, in the red corner,

854. Dustin Poirier!

855. - One minute is right.

856. - Yeah. Dude, his jujitsu was good.

857. - Oh, yeah, it was.

858. I was ice skating through them, through them heel hooks.

859. He had it for a second, a heel hook,

860. but when I turned it over, I went into a knee bar.

861. - So how long did that take, Dustin?

862. - 50-something seconds.

863. But he said he was gonna beat me in a minute.

864. You just got to watch out what you say sometimes.

865. You got to eat your words, you know.

866. - At his own game, baby.

867. Oh, my God.

868. Hey!

869. - History is written by the victor ultimately,

870. because the loser's dead.

871. He wants a rematch, so he wants me at my best,

872. so I'll give him me at my best.

873. I've noticed that when I'm not training

874. and I'm not on the path to being a great fighter

875. like I want to be, like I tell everybody I want to be,

876. like I tell myself I want to be,

877. it seems like that's when the bad shit in my life happens.

878. That seems like when everything starts going to shit,

879. and when I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing

880. to be a great fighter, nothing can go wrong in my life.

881. - Hey, guys, how y'all doing?

882. Hey, we're doing a show at the Cajundome,

883. fighting on March 6th.

884. I don't know if y'all are into it, but if y'all are,

885. please come by and come check it out, okay?

886. - All right. - All right, y'all.

887. Remember how the circus would come to town

888. when you were a kid?

889. They'd unload the animals at the train station

890. and parade them through town?

891. They used the elephants as billboards.

892. They'd have the clowns and the midgets walking behind,

893. creating excitement.

894. Well, I do the same thing, only my car is my elephant,

895. and postcards are my midgets.

896. - Throw me some!

897. - Throw me something!

898. Come on.

899. Throw me something.

900. - I'm fighting Derrick Krantz.

901. He's pretty young, a year or two older than me.

902. Think he might be 22 years old.

903. He's got a lot of fights.

904. That doesn't intimidate me, you know.

905. I know what my hands can do too.

906. I'm gonna meet him in the middle of the cage,

907. and we're gonna fight.

908. When you have two guys like that meet up in a cage

909. in front of an audience, man, you have no choice

910. but to have a great fight, and, you know,

911. two guys who go at each other like that,

912. neither of them is gonna back down,

913. and that's for sure.

914. You're gonna see fireworks, you know?

915. It's gonna be a great fight to watch.

916. - As of late, you know, I've been showing up to the gym

917. maybe three times a week

918. and hitting two or three classes or one, you know,

919. so it's not been very well.

920. Like I said, a lot of people go to the gym and they train

921. to get rid of stress,

922. and I don't know, I'm just different.

923. You know, when something's on my mind,

924. it's hard for me to train,

925. so that's been my problem lately.

926. Just, you know, a lot of personal problems,

927. relationship-wise, you know.

928. Things aren't working out, and like I said,

929. that's weight on me

930. that I've been carrying into the gym.

931. I think the big problem was that I felt out of control

932. with my last-you know, the situation with Chelsea,

933. with my ex-girlfriend and everything.

934. I felt very out of control, and it just-it bothered me.

935. It threw me off, but now I'm in one of those situations

936. where everything's up to me.

937. You know, if I don't have a place to live, that's on me.

938. If I don't win fights or I don't, you know,

939. I don't perform well, that's all on me.

940. You know, I don't have anything in my way

941. that anyone else doesn't.

942. You know what I'm saying?

943. So let's see what happens.

944. - When you devote yourself to something like I do fighting,

945. it just-it changes.

946. It drowns out all the other stuff going on.

947. It kind of just helps me focus on one thing.

948. It's just like almost natural now to do the right things.

949. I'm really in touch with my body.

950. I think my body knows when it's time to prepare for a fight

951. and get it sharp and get it crisp

952. and get it ready to go to battle.

953. When it's time to fight, my weapons are ready.

954. - Albert not missing practice is also crazy.

955. He maybe came one time in three weeks,

956. and so he called me today

957. and said he's not ready to fight,

958. which he's not, but I told him he doesn't have the ability

959. to pull out right now because it's up to Gil.

960. You already gave your word. It's two weeks out.

961. You have another professional training to fight you.

962. This isn't amateur fighting, you know?

963. There's another guy who's got money on the line

964. and bills on the line.

965. You can't just pull out on that guy

966. because you had too much drama.

967. Okay, so he told you he still doesn't know

968. if he wants to fight or not?

969. - He doesn't know if he wants to or doesn't.

970. - Just don't even talk to him no more.

971. - He talked to me, yeah.

972. - If you can find him-

973. if you can find Soileau an opponent,

974. then that guy needs to fight Paul.

975. - Okay, that's done then.

976. - If you can't find Paul Soileau an opponent,

977. I'll make Albert fight, 'cause it's-

978. I'm not gonna let Paul Soileau lose the fight.

979. - Right.

980. - You know, that has to be, you know, rewarded or penalized

981. on some level from a team perspective, you know?

982. - We all need to be on the same page.

983. Okay, Tim says that you're not fighting.

984. You say you don't know if you're fighting.

985. I'm saying you're better off not fighting.

986. - Mm-hmm.

987. - I'm also saying that if you're gonna fight,

988. I understand, however, I don't recommend it

989. unless you absolutely need the money, okay?

990. Tim asked me not to talk to you about it, just, you know,

991. but I just want you and I look at each other

992. and be on the same page now.

993. I really don't think your mind's into it,

994. and I don't know if you feel like you're letting me down,

995. because you're really not, so I need to hear you say it,

996. "I'm not fighting."

997. - That's really hard.

998. - You got to say it,

999. 'cause I don't want there to be any-

1000. just tell me you're not fighting,

1001. and then we get over it.

1002. See what I'm saying? - Mm-hmm.

1003. Well, give me-give me- give me a day.

1004. Can I have a day, or can I have this evening,

1005. the rest of this evening?

1006. - Yeah. - Okay.

1007. - You can have the rest of the evening,

1008. and it's no sweat off of nobody's back.

1009. Start fresh.

1010. - We're gonna do little gloves today and Wednesday, okay,

1011. just so we kind of take some of the heat off you guys

1012. not beating each other up so bad, you know?

1013. Just grab one, Chewie.

1014. Just grab one of his legs.

1015. Suck it up.

1016. A little lighter, Paco.

1017. You got to fight in two weeks. Lighter, slow down.

1018. Whoa, Paco. Paco, slow down!

1019. Go.

1020. Shit, control yourself.

1021. The fuck you think this is?

1022. Great job. Good work.

1023. Re-pair.

1024. Hey, stick around.

1025. - Albert, go with Dean.

1026. - Let's go, re-pair. You got 30 seconds.

1027. Bring it down!

1028. Bring it down.

1029. - You're gonna have to pay for it one way or another.

1030. You might as well do it now.

1031. - Take it like a man. Come on.

1032. - Keep your hands up, Albert.

1033. Come back to your face.

1034. - I'm thankful, you know, for the ass-beating I just received.

1035. You know, these guys are just trying

1036. to keep it real with me.

1037. There just trying to show, like,

1038. "Hey, you need to be in this gym."

1039. You know, after two rounds, I'm sitting here dying, when,

1040. you know, like Tim said, two months ago,

1041. I was killing almost everybody, you know...

1042. so this isn't the last opportunity I'll have,

1043. and I really need to be thankful for that.

1044. It just-

1045. It sucks knowing that I let something like this go by.

1046. You know, it might be small.

1047. It might be big, but it was there, and...

1048. I'm not one to like it when I screw up.

1049. - In fighting, most of the time, you're your own worst enemy.

1050. You know, and unfortunately, Albert beat himself.

1051. You know, fighting is a microcosm for life.

1052. The credit belongs to the person that's out there

1053. and the person that's putting themselves on the line

1054. to do something, to be something,

1055. to push their level

1056. and push who they are as a person

1057. to greater and greater heights.

1058. For Dustin Poirier to lose,

1059. it's gonna take someone to beat him,

1060. but Dustin is not gonna beat himself.

1061. - As you jab, there's a measuring stick.

1062. - I reach with this with a cross out.

1063. - Well, yeah, but your jab's the measuring stick.

1064. That's to put you in position.

1065. That's where I'm letting you be right now.

1066. You can let go.

1067. Everyone can walk, but then to be a runway model,

1068. you have to learn how to walk.

1069. He knows how to fight, but he just possesses

1070. an unbelievable amount of heart and determination,

1071. and if you can give a fighter heart and determination,

1072. then the sky's obviously the limit,

1073. 'cause this ultimately- the MMA and the boxing

1074. is gonna end one day,

1075. and if they didn't learn anything

1076. while they were boxing, then this was all done in vain.

1077. - Whoo!

1078. He makes you hit those angles, you know?

1079. - And you're looking at that hook before you throw it.

1080. I saw you doing it.

1081. You were doing this. Bam. Bam.

1082. Then you looked at the hook before you threw it.

1083. - 'Cause I'm trying to keep my hook like-

1084. even not with my head.

1085. I'm trying not to arm it like I used to.

1086. I used to throw hooks from here.

1087. - That's good. That's your hook.

1088. - I'm thinking about it a little bit too much.

1089. - You look good. You look good.

1090. See, a good thing to happen would be-

1091. for the promotion would be if you lost,

1092. 'cause if you lost, then I could sell a rematch.

1093. If you win, I can't sell a rematch.

1094. You know, so you want to make some real money,

1095. get ready to lose-

1096. - Shit!

1097. - Everybody got their dreams.

1098. No rematches, buddy.

1099. The family element is essential to us,

1100. because USA-MMA is my family-

1101. me, my wife, and my children-

1102. and we all promote this event,

1103. but when we're all together out there

1104. trying to enjoy a good day together

1105. and we're promoting the event at the same time

1106. and people see me and my wife, my son,

1107. my daughter who's 3 years old passing out flyers,

1108. it's not a gimmick, but it helps.

1109. It helps people see that, man, this is all right.

1110. You know, it could be okay.

1111. Let's go. Let's give it a shot.

1112. - That's a big face.

1113. - You saw the face over there?

1114. Say, "Throw me something, mister."

1115. - Throw me something, mister.

1116. - That's the good stuff, the coins, look.

1117. Y'all got coins?

1118. Look, grab your coin.

1119. Come on, y'all.

1120. How long before we have to-

1121. - Oh, you got a couple minutes.

1122. - I got to wake my wife up, take the kids to school.

1123. - We'll talk the aspect. - Hey.

1124. - Hey.

1125. - Okay, just making sure. I'm about to go on camera.

1126. - Tell us how good we look.

1127. - Bob says to tell him if he looks good.

1128. Bye.

1129. - All right, bye.

1130. - All right, that was your look at fitness first.

1131. 23 minutes after 6:00,

1132. Wednesday morning on Passe Partout.

1133. Gil Guillory with USA-MMA.

1134. We are taking it up a notch

1135. this coming Saturday at the Cajundome.

1136. Who are we gonna see in action?

1137. - Well, we're gonna see in the main event

1138. Derrick Krantz from Texas

1139. versus Dustin Poirier out of St. Martinville.

1140. That's for our USA-MMA championship.

1141. Paul Soileau from Lake Charles will be in.

1142. He'll be fighting also.

1143. We have a ton of Gladiator guys that'll be fighting on the show,

1144. Cajun Karate guys fighting on the show.

1145. We have people from Oklahoma, Dallas.

1146. - All right, also, I'm gonna be the ring announcer,

1147. so mark that down.

1148. You're gonna want that, and, of course,

1149. the all-important: there's gonna be ring girls.

1150. - We're gonna have ring girls,

1151. but we have a special announcement today.

1152. Our special guest ring girl will be miss Julie Darce.

1153. - You don't want to do that.

1154. - I'm still nervous.

1155. I mean, you know, a show that costs you $55,000,

1156. if I lose $55,000, I got to go to work, you know?

1157. I mean, I'm not rich, you know.

1158. Well, I mean I'll work, but I'll work for myself.

1159. - $55,000?

1160. - That's what it costs to put on the show, you know?

1161. - People have come to realize now

1162. that there's so much- you get what you pay for.

1163. - It's tough to make a living fighting.

1164. It's really tough.

1165. Your entire career is controlled with your hands.

1166. You build your own destiny brick by brick

1167. with your own hands, fight by fight.

1168. I don't see martial arts as a career path.

1169. I see it as a lifestyle.

1170. I enjoy the fear.

1171. I enjoy the nervousness.

1172. I enjoy that. That's why I do this.

1173. The point of the entire thing is to build yourself

1174. into a better person,

1175. not to make yourself a richer person.

1176. - I mean, I feel a lot of pressure this fight

1177. because I just signed that contract

1178. with Denaro Sports Marketing.

1179. What is he gonna think if I lose this fight?

1180. That is putting pressure on me.

1181. Thinking about that, that's like,

1182. if I lose this fight, is the manager gonna say,

1183. "Well, I think he's ready to fight even tougher guys now"?

1184. When it comes down to it, all I can do is fight.

1185. - Left hand is up front.

1186. Left hand to the front.

1187. - It's not hard to harm another person,

1188. to knock another person out.

1189. I mean, it's a simple task that has to be done in the cage,

1190. and just as simply as I can do it to you,

1191. you can do it to me.

1192. - This guy is coming to-

1193. basically in Dustin's living room at his home

1194. and trying to defeat him.

1195. This is Dustin's house.

1196. This is Lafayette, Louisiana.

1197. It's his home where he was born and raised.

1198. This guy can't come to Lafayette and win this fight.

1199. It's impossible.

1200. - Anything can happen in fighting.

1201. All it takes is one mistake, one punch.

1202. Me knowing that makes me a little bit more prepared

1203. for a good fight, I think.

1204. I want this fight more than anything,

1205. and I think about it 24 hours a day.

1206. Derrick's fighting the best Dustin Poirier

1207. anybody has ever fought.

1208. 161 on the money, so...

1209. 6 more pounds.

1210. 14 pounds already.

1211. Today's Thursday. Four days, 14 pounds.

1212. You know, I'm eating three times a day now

1213. while I'm cutting weight.

1214. Only a 6-to 8-ounce piece of fish,

1215. but still, you know, with a little bit of sides,

1216. but still, that's way better, you know,

1217. to keep my body from breaking itself down.

1218. Oh, man.

1219. Raw organic coconut butter.

1220. It is so horrible.

1221. I'm supposed to be taking this

1222. because I'm not eating any carbohydrates really

1223. besides the quinoa, but that's not too many.

1224. And your body needs energy

1225. so it doesn't break down the muscles.

1226. When I cut weight, I like to watch the Food Network.

1227. Oh, man.

1228. Want to go swimming in a pool of icing like that.

1229. How much time you got?

1230. Oh, I love ice cream, like, the cookies...

1231. Like, ice cream sandwiches.

1232. What? They make a peanut butter one.

1233. It's at Walmart.

1234. It's between two chocolate things.

1235. The ice cream is peanut butter flavored.

1236. I eat a whole box of them after a fight.

1237. - Hello, this is Gil.

1238. We have a ton of tickets, man.

1239. Grab about 50 of your friends and come on down.

1240. If we don't sell tickets, this house is on the line.

1241. For us to be profitable, we have to do everything.

1242. We have to do the lighting, ticket taking, ticket selling.

1243. We have to do everything, or we lose everything.

1244. - Whatever I'm wearing to fight,

1245. I have to put it inside a Target bag.

1246. It has to be a Target bag.

1247. I have to buy juicy, fruity bubble gum

1248. and chew it the whole day before I fight.

1249. I'll be fighting Derrick Krantz.

1250. My breath will be smelling like bubble gum.

1251. Mango flavor Walgreens Pedialyte every time.

1252. Not Pedialyte brand. Walgreens brand.

1253. It tastes like victory.

1254. For the weigh-ins, I always have to buy new boxers.

1255. Lately, I've been on a roll with weighing in with gray ones on,

1256. so I think I'll probably wear these,

1257. 'cause these are kind of cool.

1258. They have a black top, and they're gray...

1259. so it's pretty cool.

1260. I think I'll weigh in with these on, most likely,

1261. unless something changes in my mind

1262. and I have to wear these.

1263. We'll see.

1264. Otherwise, I'm normal.

1265. - It's a hard week for all of us.

1266. A year ago yesterday, my mom died,

1267. and I know that's been heavy on him, very heavy,

1268. because she and I raised him

1269. by the skin of our teeth.

1270. When he points up to heaven after he wins,

1271. he's pointing up to his grandma.

1272. She's got the best seat in the house.

1273. - Come a long way since the rodeo arenas,

1274. but we may go back to the rodeo arenas.

1275. The profit margin is so high on the rodeo arenas

1276. that that's what justifies going there in the first place,

1277. so if we get 5,000 people tomorrow night,

1278. we'll be back.

1279. It just depends, man.

1280. I'm scared, scared to death.

1281. It's a big step, you know?

1282. - 155 is the weight class.

1283. Derrick Krantz will be up first.

1284. 155.4.

1285. Dustin Poirier.

1286. 155.4.

1287. - Whoo, whoo.

1288. - Square off, fellas.

1289. There you go.

1290. - It's freaking me out.

1291. One, two, three, four.

1292. One, two, three, four.

1293. One, two, one, two, one, two.

1294. That's-we may have to make some minor adjustments.

1295. - When was the last time you were knocked out?

1296. When was the last time you fought?

1297. - This is my first fight. - This is your first fight?

1298. You never fought anywhere in Texas at all?

1299. - That's my man, Derrick "D-Rock" Krantz

1300. here for the USA-MMA 155-pound title.

1301. Mr. Krantz, what is your projection

1302. for the main event this evening?

1303. - I'll take a first round knockout any day.

1304. - And become the USA-MMA 155-pound champion

1305. and hopefully move on to bigger and better things here

1306. in the near future.

1307. Derrick "D-Rock" Krantz

1308. and Gil "The Thrill" Guillory checking out.

1309. - We welcome everyone here to Lafayette, Louisiana.

1310. It's the USA-MMA championship on the line.

1311. Derrick Krantz will be going up

1312. against Dustin Poirier.

1313. Poirier.

1314. We welcome you here to Cajun country.

1315. Laissez les bon temps rouler.

1316. - Get your right leg up. Get your right leg up.

1317. Bobby, lock down. Lock down.

1318. - Good work.

1319. Thank you, Bob.

1320. - Thank you. Thank you very much.

1321. I can't breathe, but it's all good.

1322. - Hey, Bob. - Yeah.

1323. - Hey, Bob. - What?

1324. - What's wrong? You okay?

1325. - Just a broken nose.

1326. - Bob's got a broken nose and swelling.

1327. He got into a war with a 260-pound guy,

1328. and, I mean, says his head hurt,

1329. and they were trying to take him away

1330. in an ambulance for a broken nose.

1331. I'm like, "Dude, you're not going away in an ambulance.

1332. Have your mama drive you to the hospital."

1333. You know, it's, like, crazy.

1334. He'll be fine.

1335. It's just- they're scared, you know?

1336. They don't understand. They're scared.

1337. He's never been beat like that.

1338. He's a fighter, though.

1339. He's fucking tough as nails, and he did what he could.

1340. Baby girl!

1341. Love of my life.

1342. Come with Daddy.

1343. Want to come with Daddy?

1344. I love you.

1345. Want to come work with me?

1346. Let's go work.

1347. - Dustin Poirier will hit Derrick Krantz so hard,

1348. the alarm at the nearby bank will go off.

1349. - That too tight?

1350. - It's perfect.

1351. - It's about to go down.

1352. About to go down.

1353. - Many fans and family and friends

1354. do not understand the reality of fighting.

1355. They immediately pawn off Dustin's opponent

1356. as if he's some person on a prison release program

1357. just coming here to get beat up

1358. and get some cigarettes or something.

1359. This is another dangerous, trained professional fighter

1360. who has finished a lot of individuals,

1361. and he's coming here to destroy Dustin.

1362. - Just go out there and have fun.

1363. Do what we do.

1364. - Let's work, baby. Hands up, chin down.

1365. - Use a cross face. Use a cross face.

1366. - Get back up.

1367. Keep working that. Keep working that.

1368. Lock it up. Lock it up.

1369. - Grab your shit.

1370. Keep the triangle.

1371. Lock your right foot down.

1372. Lock your foot down.

1373. Lock the triangle and pull his head.

1374. - Grab the wrist, one arm.

1375. - Do your shit, Justin.

1376. - Close your guard. Close your guard.

1377. Tighten it up.

1378. - One minute! One minute!

1379. - Keep working, brother, keep working.

1380. Control the wrist. Control the wrist.

1381. - Off the bottom, Dustin. Push the hip.

1382. - Can't stop now, brother. Don't make me slap you.

1383. You get out there and fight.

1384. Put your chin down, and you go to work on this boy.

1385. This boy does not want to be in the ring with you.

1386. Do you hear what I'm telling you?

1387. - He's taking you down for a reason.

1388. You put it in your mind

1389. you're gonna knock this motherfucker out.

1390. You put your chin down.

1391. You put your hands up, and you start throwing... shots!

1392. Make him punish this dude.

1393. - Hands up, chin down, bear down.

1394. Bite that mouthpiece. Get to work.

1395. Don't let him kick you down.

1396. Fire a shot. Box.

1397. Don't let him take you down.

1398. - It just sometimes feels like my heart

1399. is gonna come out of my chest, you know.

1400. Work it now! Work it. Work it.

1401. I'm proud of you, bro. I'm proud of you, bro.

1402. You beat that dude.

1403. You deserved it.

1404. I know I don't say it, but, man, I love these guys.

1405. - How about a round of applause for both fighters?

1406. Wow!

1407. Fighters to the center of the ring.

1408. Dustin Poirier!

1409. - People who say that this is a crazy dream

1410. or, like, a fantasy dream that I'm chasing

1411. and that I won't be able to do it,

1412. you know, what's their dream?

1413. What are they gonna do with their life?

1414. - I wish that when I was his age,

1415. I had the ability to separate those things

1416. and get those bad things out of my life.

1417. I didn't care, man.

1418. I did-I partied and tried to burn the candle at both ends.

1419. He's not doing that.

1420. When I look at Dustin, I look at-

1421. and of course, dangerous word again-

1422. potential,

1423. potential to actually be something in this sport.

1424. 21 with his mind on the game.

1425. - Fortune favors the bold.

1426. You know, Virgil said that, so a kid that's 21 years old

1427. with 15 fights and 1 loss

1428. would for sure need to step out a little bit

1429. and go fight in a major organization.

1430. Three combo.

1431. - Good.

1432. - One, one combo.

1433. - This is for me and my wife, my family.

1434. - Somebody's dream is gonna get crushed tonight,

1435. and we're fairly certain

1436. it's gonna be Derek Gauthier's dream.

1437. We're not here to crush Derek or hurt Derek,

1438. but we are here to put a yield sign in his dreams.

1439. Just like we always say, you could walk to the ring

1440. with a hundred chicks and have any nickname you want,

1441. but once the door closes,

1442. there ain't nobody to come and save you.

1443. Nobody saves you.

1444. You got stitches?

1445. Stitches?

1446. Do you get stitches?

1447. - No. - No? Let me see.

1448. - Ow.

1449. - It's important for a fighter mentally and spiritually

1450. to be able to walk into an enemy territory

1451. or walk into a place

1452. where the cards are stacked against you

1453. and the crowd is cheering for the other opponent

1454. and you were brought in to be beaten.

1455. You were brought in to be championed against.

1456. I've done this walk a couple times,

1457. and it changed me as a fighter.

1458. - This is your destiny.

1459. Fuck this motherfucker's world up.

1460. Let's go, Dustin. Let's give him the business.

1461. Watch the takedown.

1462. Hands up, chin down. Flurries.

1463. - Fight.

1464. - Watch the kicks.

1465. Punch out. Let's go.

1466. Watch the hard shot coming out.

1467. Keep your jab hand high, buddy.

1468. Good work, good work.

1469. Perfect, perfect.

1470. Come back with that drill.

1471. Show him the power.

1472. Watch the-keep your hands up.

1473. Hands up when you're throwing.

1474. Touch him on the chin.

1475. Throw them, brother, throw.

1476. What's up, my baby?

1477. What's up, my baby? What's up, my baby?

1478. What's up, my baby?

1479. I love it.

1480. - The winner by knockout, Dustin Poirier!

1481. - Beautiful.

1482. - Our main goal is not to win titles

1483. and win championships and be the greatest.

1484. We build better men.

1485. - Four, three, two, one.

1486. - Albert Jordan? - Here.

1487. - Alan Myers? - Here.

1488. Here. - Here?

1489. Say it where I can hear you.

1490. Albert Stainback? - I shot him.

1491. - Fighters to the center of the ring.

1492. All right, let's hear some noise for our fighters.

1493. Let's make some noise.

1494. In the red corner, Dustin Poirier,

1495. Albert Stainback,

1496. Crazy Tim Credeur,

1497. Gil "The Thrill" Guillory,

1498. Bad Chad Broussard,

1499. Corey Judice.

1500. And in the blue corner, Paul Soileau,

1501. Mike "The Truth" Jackson,

1502. Joe Torrez,

1503. Ronnie Lis,

1504. Derrick "D-Rock" Krantz,

1505. and Derek "The Sex Machine" Gauthier.

1506. On vas laissez les bon temps rouler.

1507. - And I am your ring announcer, Bob Moore.