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Scary! Fighting him! Now I'm rich and he's still fat, so fuck you! What's up guys? Welcome to today's video! It's gonna be an interesting one today. I'm gonna be linking up with the one, the only, Andrew Tate. Ah, I don't know where to begin with this guy. He's a character, I'll put it that way.
I'm not gonna tell you his life story. I feel as though you should all go watch some of the podcasts which he's done on YouTube, Fresh and Fit, your mom's house, there's a few other ones. He's an interesting guy. You either hate him or you love him. He's a bit like Marmite. Anyway, he's in Dubai, just got himself a brand new Bugatti. We're gonna go check it out. He's gonna take me for a spin, and then we're gonna head to the gym, hit the weights, and maybe we'll do a little bit of kickboxing as well. Let's go.
Mike Thurston!
up this was 450 000 or something something you know something it's got a little it's got a little bugatti engine in it well let me tell you why it was it's totally not worth it let me tell you why i bought it they said it takes 10 months for one man to make by hand and because this has a w16 it's got two v8 engines put together they made a little w16 engine inside you see yeah yeah and when you press it it's all mechanical it's all made by hand and it's got a little bugatti engine and there's one man in the world that makes them takes in nine months they've made everyone and
So I was like, you gotta do it! Take my card! Fine! So I bought it, yeah. What's the direction be like so far? Yeah, everyone likes it. I mean obviously it's a standout car, there's only 60 in the world. And this is the only one in the world in this color. So everyone knows it's mine. I've had free hotel upgrades. Every hotel I park at they come over and say, oh who'd you like the suite if you leave the car out front? I'm like, alright. So that's cool. All in all, yeah, it's been pretty good.
- Not too much, 'cause in Dubai you kinda have to behave a little bit, you know? - Yeah, you have to take it out to the desert. How fast is that supposed to go? - Top speed? I don't know, I think that's 270 miles an hour or something. - Yeah.
Right, I'm gonna go for a quick spin. First time in a Bugatti. I'm gonna enjoy the Bugatti experience. I think I'm in good hands. You're in good hands. You're in good hands. You're in good hands. You're in good hands. It's like turbo. It's like turbo. It's four turbos. You know what I kind of like as well about this car? I guarantee every song I play, it's the first time it's ever been played in a day. It's gonna be the first Bugatti where someone's smoking.
Cigar and the KFC drive-through two girls in the passenger seat. It's gonna be the first one
So the question which I'm sure a lot of people asking is how the hell do we even go about getting a bugatti in the first place? It's difficult because uh, there's a lot of people in the world with money There's only 60 in the world of these as a new build allocation. So it's actually really really difficult I first walked into the Bugatti store in Germany in Munich at a Bugatti store and I walked in there
I said to him, look, I'm interested in buying, possibly buying a car. And they were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, goodbye. Because they have probably so many people walking in and out lying about how they want to buy Bugatti. I said, look, give me the email address to somebody. I emailed him my car portfolio, my Instagram, my Wikipedia page, explained who I was. And he kind of half replied saying, look, all allocations are full. When we launch a car within three minutes, we just hit up our old customer list and they're all sold out and they're all full. And it was a sales pitch. I had to try very, very hard to get this car.
put it in a room and hide it forever why don't you give it to me so I can drive it around and be an idiot in it and at least it's going to be on the streets yeah at least you know it's going to be good for the brand and he kind of was semi-entertained by that and then I had to go to a meeting and explain you know why I want the car and it's the definition of success and I'm from nothing I'll come from a council estate in Luton I've done all this myself and I think it'll be really good for people inspire people that I chose Bugatti as opposed to another brand I just full-on pitched the guy yeah and they said all right well you can have an allocation give us two and a half million
And then you can pay off the other two and a half million when she's ready. Yeah, if there's one thing I know you're good at is marketing. And already you've marketed this car very well. Well, life is sales, right? Yeah. And it doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter if you're trying to pick up a girl. It doesn't matter if you're trying to convince Bugatti to give you a car. It doesn't matter what it is. If you're good at selling and selling yourself, you're going to do well. So I think a lot of people forget that. Like, selling is an art. It's a skill. And a lot of people don't know that.
I almost got my foot down that time. It's ridiculously fast. And you were saying as well, one of the bonuses of actually having a Bugatti is it gets you access to the network within Bugatti, the Bugatti owners.
We're insured. Everything is all handled for us. And we go there and I'll be with all the other Bugatti owners. So that's going to be some interesting dinnertime conversations. I've already done one Bugatti dinner so far. And it's kind of very interesting when I talk to people who are completely and utterly outside of, I call it the matrix, right? Outside of the system. But it's funny. Like they were sitting around and this was about six months ago and I didn't have my car yet. I just put the order in and we're sitting around talking and they were laughing about things like COVID-19, COVID restrictions, flight restrictions.
to them it's all a joke i was like well why didn't they just take a jet like like dumb ass like it's kind of crazy and it's it's weird for me because i'm from completely nothing and these a lot of these people are born into money right so i was going to say these people they're self-made or they've been born into it's very hard to get to a baguette money by yourself that's not possible but i i think baguette did say to me i'm one of the only ones who's ever done it you know
of contempt I guess for I mean people at that level of life do have a degree of contempt for the person who's still inside the matrix is still inside the system because they because the laws don't apply to them the rules don't apply to them I think most people don't understand is that we live in a in a system of society in which 99% of punishments for crimes are financial it's either a fine or if you can afford a good enough lawyer you don't go to jail so basically what it's saying
right? Oh, I got a fine. A boo-hoo. I got a fine. You're a millionaire, right? You don't care. So there's a degree of confusion amongst the people at the top. Like, well, why did the people at the bottom just try harder to get rich so they can ignore all these rules? Like, why do they have to comply with these rules? So it's kind of interesting to be in those scenarios because I've come from the other end of it. And it is certainly very interesting. And obviously, there's a lot of networking opportunities and opportunities to make money. I know I'll make all the money back this car costs me. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. So that's pretty cool.
Friends, you need friends in high places, you need friends in low places, you actually need both. And I have enough friends in low places, I'm from Lugan, so. I need some more friends in high places. You spend a lot of your time in Romania. I live in Ranguana, yeah. What do you think of Dubai? You're in and out quite a lot. Especially recently. Yeah, Dubai is the city of the future, right? I mean, I can't see another city which is on such an upward trajectory. I think all the other major famous cities are either on a decline or they're trying their very best to just maintain.
built long ago now they're just trying to stop the crime like they can't build it's literally so bad it's crazy i remember i left at a good time i felt like end of 2019 since i left it's feel like it's gone even more downhill yeah when i'm in london i don't i don't wear the nice watch i'm on my head's on a swivel yeah bro like you know like because no matter how you know tough guy shit but you don't want to fucking deal with four dudes with blades like why would you you know so yeah london's kind of maintaining america new york la etc is on a massive decline dubai is the only large major
international city which is on the incline and I think it's better to exist in a society which is on its way up as opposed to on its way down so Dubai is a city of the future. I love Eastern Europe, I love Romania but I can't advertise Romania for the normal person. A normal person can move to Dubai and have a good life. In Romania my life is fantastic because I'm me and because of who I know but if you're a normal dude and you just move there it's not going to be you're going to be like what is this you know but it's only for me because the police chief's like oh that's
Yeah device awesome. I love to buy I completely understand why you moved here the world's actually quite small people think the world's big If you didn't move to Dubai where's there to move where else? Maybe I would have gone to Miami My enemies all right, but my enemies just to buy with crime. Yeah, that's all it is. Yeah, I would have gone that for a lifestyle, but it's I never really fell in love with America. I don't know. Yeah, no to Miami and Dubai feel very very similar to me. It's just Miami
is just Dubai with crime. The greatest thing about Dubai is the peace of mind that's afforded to you with the safety element, you know? So, I respect that enough.
Well, that's a sick car, isn't it? Absolutely outrageous. The turning circle isn't great though. We try to do a U-turn and we have to like, do a half turn, pull back, reverse, and then go all the way around.
yeah all right now we're gonna head off to the gym
I've come so woefully under prepared yeah but this is fighting stuff I'm thinking you're always like Baywatch he always has the thirst shorts looking good on the machine bro I ain't got trainers this is just full of oil and moisturiser exactly I ain't got trainers I only got Thai boxing shorts I'm gonna look like a weirdo it's fine it's fine I have no confidence issue I can deal with it we're gonna do a little bit of weight
and then you're gonna show me a couple of fighting tricks. He's gonna beat me up. Iron Mike. Iron Mike Thurston. I better look like you by the end of this.
Bro, I don't lift weights. There's no, there's not a wall to rock climb on here you know. I don't lift weights. These are, these are Patego Veneta loafers. These are my shoes, my outside shoes. These are my sparring shorts and I thought, oh yeah, we're lifting weights. I need like gym shoes. I need thirst stuff. Bro, I don't have these. I like this shorts though. Thank you. I don't lift weights.
So I hope by the end of this session, my first ever proper weight session, I look like my personal. - Look at him, a Norway chest pump. - One's enough. We'll see. - It's interesting, like, when I walk in the gym, I feel like I'm at home. Like, this is my natural habitat. I imagine you have the same feeling as soon as you walk into a ring. - Fight ring, yeah. - Yeah. - A gym like this is unusual for me, because even when I was professionally fighting, I never had a strength routine. I never lifted weights. I didn't have a strength conditioning coach. To this day, I don't know how strong I am.
I've never tried a one-night bench. I've never done none of this stuff. I used to... I used to... You're a kickboxer. Kickboxer. Four-time champion. Four-time world champion. And I used to do push-ups, shadowboxing with maybe four or five kilos, running with four or five kilos, weighted vests sometimes, and I used to do lots and lots of burpees in the weighted vest, but I never had any static weights ever. There's lots of punching people in the head. That was it. And kicking people in the head. Lots of sparring. Lots of that kind of thing. So it's interesting. I'm actually curious.
I'd love to find out you know how strong I am overall we'll see because my diet's trash as well. You like to drink quite a bit, smoke cigars. Drink, smoke. I only eat once a day. Sometimes I put up pictures on Instagram. I look like I'm in amazing shape. I guess I am in amazing shape. You are, you're in good shape. People say to me wow what's your diet? What's your meal prep? I'm like bro meal prep, KFC. My diet's not great but I think because I trained so hard when I was young when I was 20s you build a base and then as long as you're not an idiot you can't lose it. You don't mess it up so.
So now is my chance. - Oh really? - Yeah, 'cause I was fighting. So now I drink a bit, but I'm kinda getting bored of that. Moving to a new spiritual plane, Mike. - When was the last time you did a bench press? - Fuck no, a long time ago. - This is a 20 kilo bar, right? - Yes. - 20 kilos. - Oh! - It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be shaky. How many do I have to do? Eight. - I think you do it. - We'll see. Right. But there's technique to this, isn't there? - Yeah. So there's two different techniques
The strength focused approach and if you want to try and maintain all the tension on the chest. Okay. So I think for us today we'll try some strength stuff. Cool. I did it.
How many did you do? 20. 7. I have to try and do the same as you Mike. I have to try. I did like 8. 8.
I probably do maybe 1,000, about 1,000 push-ups a day I try and get through. But that's like when I'm on the computer or I'm watching TV. I program my mind. Like if an advert comes on or if I've sent an email, I make myself do 20 or 30 push-ups. That'll be why you maintain your frame. I do about 1,000 a day. I don't take time out of my life to go to the gym. I just kind of try and swap it in.
You're always doing something, you're keeping busy. Which I think is impressive considering you've made, the amount of money you've made, you've been successful, you still have the drive to hustle and grind. Like I wake up some days and I'm like, I'm still chill today. - Yeah, yeah. - Go to the beach by the pool. I never see you by the pool. Like you're always-- - I can't. I'm always working. - You're always working. - I'm jealous of, I wish I could do what you just described. - Exactly, switch up. - Because if I could wake up and, if I wake up and I try and do that, the anxiety I will have for not doing all the things I could have done, will destroy the experience.
sitting there thinking I could have I should have Jesse I want more than I need more of that we should swap bro we should swap because I'm at a point now where I'm working for it's pointless money's fruitless I don't need it but I can't not do it I have to that's why I'm always jetting around the world I am there there I've got to do this got to do that and I'm just I can't turn it off do you think it's something you can teach yourself or it's just in your head I'm trying to try and teach myself to be more hungry because I feel like I am always striving for more but I feel like you know my potential is here and I'm like here I know you mean
I don't know why I am exactly the way I am because I'm a very happy person but I'm not content. Does that make sense? I'm very happy. I'm not miserable. I'm not depressed in any way. I'm super happy but also I'm not content. Like I picked up that baguette three days ago. I'm trying to get allocation for another one. I want another color.
It's just like that. Maybe it's the fighting thing. I think I've kind of replaced fighting with like work when I retired from fighting. And to be a fighter you've got to have that crazy drive to just do it.
insane things and maybe I've swapped them out. I don't know what it is, but I can't sit by the pool. I'm jealous of you. I'm genuinely jealous of Mike. I'm saying it now. I'm really jealous. I'm jealous of... Mike has something I don't have and I'm jealous. I can't do it.
How many do you do? Eight? 100 kilo, eight times. 800 kilo. Some of my cars weigh that. What's the lightest? A car? That's a lie. My McLaren's about 1100 kilo.
I can't choose. I can't ask you to do that. It's like asking you to choose between all your women.
Look at him smiling. I'm not a favourite at the moment. Yeah, yeah. I can't choose. They're good at different things.
Three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Easy. He's been preparing for this video. He's been going to the gym every day for the past week.
- Push up. - When I was growing up, I always thought the most important thing to get a woman's attraction was my physique. And I realized it's a whole lot more than that. The dating industry and scene these days is pretty fucking mad, especially compared to what it was 10, 20 years ago. What's your advice to men to get women's attention and to get them to like it?
bit funny, you go to the bar, find a chick, talk some shit, buy her a pint, whatever, and you'll be fine, right? But now it's all status. It's all status. The girls want to be like, I was with Mike Thurston. That's what they want. It's all Instagram and status. So as a man, you have to be doing something to try and improve your status. Yeah, physique is one thing. Money is another thing. Who you know is another thing. There's lots of different ways to do it, right? But if you're a man with truly no status in society, now it's hard. It's really hard. So you have to understand that as a man, you've got to gear
they've ever had before in their life. Bro, you've seen a chicks inbox on Instagram? It's crazy. And then you're just messaging her. You know what's the worst thing is? Guys DM chicks and they don't even, it's like hi.
All the world. Hi. They don't see them like that. Like what? They've never talked to you? You've got to at least try. So yeah, we're in a state of society now, so it's hard. One of the easiest ways to get status is who you know, right? A lot of it's networking. If you know the right people, you can get some status at least on them to some degree. But as a man nowadays, you need to be rich,
Charming, good friends, be able to fly around the world, you gotta compete. It's hard. It's really really difficult. It would suck to be Joe Average today. That's why I can't afford to be lazy. That's the counter side. The counter side is, although you need to be a high level man, every single man on earth with enough work can become one. That's the counter side, right? So there is hope at the end of the tunnel, but you gotta get up and do it.
Six.
How old are you Mike? 31. I'm old, that's why. You can do these things. How old are you? 35. Old man. When I was 31 I ran three marathons in a row just like bam bam bam. Drunk. What do you think is the optimum age for like strength? I don't know because I see some people compete like when they're in their mid 30s. Yeah. It depends a lot on genetics, their lifestyle. I think it's definitely harder for me to try and keep up with the
which I had a couple of years ago, but I still believe, like, to have, like, a fully matured physique in terms of muscle mass, you're probably looking, like, early to mid-30s. I think after that, it kind of tapers off a little bit. You know what else is similar to? My father was one of the best chess players in the world, and chess grandmasters are at their peak in their early 30s.
And after they as they get older they're they lose their skill at chess their cognitive ability declines Yeah, you can't you can't be a chess world master at 50 You don't use your brain simply can't do it the same your body and also they burn like a thousand calories an hour or something When they're playing chess because their brains like going crazy. Yeah, it's not. Yeah, it's not so yeah There's a limit in chess as well. Right. How many?
- Yeah.
- Nice. - Yeah.
- That starts to get heavy for me. - Four? - Yeah. - So I do this, I've done myself proud. And I've proved that if you do a thousand pushups a day like a weirdo while at your computer, building an empire to make millions and millions
that you don't even need, then you can stay in fantastic shape. That's what I'm trying to prove here. If you've got a pull-up bar, though, as well. Pull-up bar. I have a pull-up bar, yeah. I don't do that many pull-ups. I mainly just do loads of push-ups. If I ever do weights, I'll put on like a 30-kilo vest and do burpees, which sounds easy. It's fucking done. Well, normal burpees is not easy. Bro, burpees are hard. They're hard. When my coach used to make me do burpees, I hated it. It was the worst thing ever. A 30-kilo vest, and you'd say like 200 burpees, and it'd take you like an hour to finish them.
After like 25, you're just a mess. You're just in a full blue. Sweating, it's ridiculous.
One, two, three, four.
Yeah. Easy. We're weightlifting now. Fucking looks like Mike. Looks like Mike. We're going to have to start-- Imagine if you hadn't been a kickboxer. Could have been a Mr. Olympia. Maybe. Maybe. I would have got paid a lot more.
Kickboxing is a waste of time for money
It's the same it's the same in fighting like you everyone knows Conor McGregor and all those guys But there are so many people who could whoop his ass in Dagestan or someplace you never heard of and And they're broke right fighting's kind of like modeling the tops of models are super rich and there's a whole bunch of models They're just broke. Yeah, same with musicians. How many talented musicians you'd ever hear of or?
- Even like, Jake Paul's like very easy to hate. - Yep. - But when he's like knocking people out, people are like... - I called him out. I called him out, I did a call out video, it's on my YouTube, and I wanted to fight him. But truthfully, truthfully I respected him. If I were to fight Jake Paul, I would take it completely seriously like a real fight, and I'd whoop his ass, I'd beat him. Jake. But, 'cause what he's done is he's done a very clever marketing spin. I'm just a YouTuber. No you're not, you're a young man with unlimited money who's dedicated his life to learning how to fight.
He's a little bit of a guy who can fight. He's sparking people. Everyone thinks he's just some YouTuber. No he isn't. Even Puerto Rico training with the best boxing trainers in the world every single day. The guy can box. I'll whoop his ass. But he's very clever with who he chooses. He chooses people smaller than him, old, about have a pedigree like from X UFC but not boxers and he's clever. He's made a lot of money. I can't hate on the guy. What do you think Tommy Fiore pulled out?
But I guess it's easy to not give a fuck when he's seven foot tall. He's got a lot of pressure. Even his dad was saying like, "If you don't win," then he's like disowning him. Yeah, the pressure got to him 100%. And that's the thing about fighting. Fighting's a mental game, man. It's so much more scary than people think it is, actually. Be sitting at the back waiting for your turn to go into cage. The guy before you gets wheeled out. He's fucked. You see him come into the changing room. They're trying to resuscitate him. "Alright, your turn." "Alright." "You got Game Face." "Game Face, you gotta fight."
Still would like to experience I've had like little, I've had some street fights and scraps, but never in a ring. And that's one thing because I like new experiences. Because when I do something new and something challenging, I learn about myself a lot more. And you kind of discover who you really are as a person. Fighting is the number one thing that will teach you more about yourself than anything else.
traveling to learn about myself. What do you learn? You learn how to book a hotel and bang some South American four. That's what you learn. Congratulations. You're still a dickhead. But with fighting, you actually learn real things. You get to learn what you're really made of. Because every guy has this idea. Every man has this idea in their mind. If I get angry, you know, if someone hits me, I get angry. All right, cool. You'll learn if that's true or not. Because you'll see, mostly it's not like that, right? You learn about the fact that I had 87 professional fights. I was scared before every single one. You know, like,
A lot of people think that you're a coward if you're afraid. I disagree. You're a coward if you're afraid and then you don't do it. If you're afraid and do it anyway, then you're not a coward. I was scared for all of them. I was scared for my ass fight. And I'm a pro, right? So you learn how to deal with fear. You learn how to see what you're really made of. You learn how to deal with loss. You don't get to win every fight. And losing a fight is the worst thing that's possible for your ego. It hurts. It hurts forever. And also... People speak you a bit differently as well.
I'm coming to the fight. I was like, I don't like you that much anyway, but you smoke the guy. It's fine. You lose. You know, you got prepared to lose your chick, everything. So there's something about it. And it's the purest form of competition. And this kind of changes how you view the world now because I don't find any other sport interesting. If someone said to me, come play basketball, I'd be like, but even if I win, I just put a ball in the net. I didn't fuck anyone up. No one's bleeding. Like I didn't beat them. Whereas fighting is the purest is how you actually
I actually beat him at something. You know what I mean? It's me by myself. I beat him by myself. Just me. No luck, no win, no football team. It makes all the sports obsolete. It's kind of strange. But also I don't know why I started and why I did it because everyone says why did you start fighting because it's a dangerous thing to do and there's no money and it's stupid. It's a shit career. Man, I can tell you so many stories. It's a shit career because you can fight and you can have 10, 11, 12 good fights and you're fighting for a thousand pounds.
grand at the end and then you finally get a big chance and you lose or you or you get injured or you break a leg or you have a cold or whatever and you lose and then your career's over yeah it's the worst financial decision but it's one to punch people so let's do it but if you ever want to fight i can give you a fight i can get you a fight in terms of my business partner i own some casinos in romania and my business partner owns rxf which is the biggest which is the ufc of romania
So if you were to want to fight, you could message me. We get an opponent in contact with everything. Any rules you want, we'll get it done. If you want to fight, just message me and I'll say, "Here's your date, Mike. See you there." And that's how it goes. You sign and you turn up. That's how it goes. Eddie and, you know, Eddie Hall and Thor, they're fighting here in like a week or two. Isn't that the world's scariest man fighting? Two of the world's strongest men.
And then as soon as they didn't like each other, they wanted like, no, we need to really compete in the purest form of competition. We're going to fight. It's like it's all this time. Anyway, two, right? See how much rest I got. You see that? You see that one? You see that one?
Yes.
Thank you, bro. Thank you. Two reps on 130, now you know. It's good to do.
Safety reasons. Sudang has some thirst shorts.
I'm trying to push this product, so I didn't fucking wear them.
This will probably be hard. - Yeah. - This will be like, so if you do a wide grip, that's probably the hardest variation. - Okay. - The easiest one, I would say, is underhand, because you engage in a lot of bicep as well.
*Sigh*
Hey guys!
Six! Well done, I'm not gonna give up yet.
Nice! That was hard though. I feel like, oh my, after that one! That was hard. Yours are really controlled, I know it's just like nice and it looks really smooth. That's like, that's my thing. My thing is like form and control.
like he's doing this mine's all like ah here's this story like that is the art to actually maximizing muscle hypertrophy to control everything and to try and just put all the tension created from the weight and just put it on one muscle yeah yeah because yeah because that's why people move around is it they're engaging on the muscles because they need it
i'm trying to make it as hard as possible so i practice going down the hard path every time
- Good work.
- I'll give it up.
- I don't know if that one counted. Did I get up there? - Yeah, you got up. - Pleasantly surprised.
- I'm pleasantly surprised. It's good to know. Squat, I don't think I'll be able to squat that much, but the reason is-- - I'm not gonna squat today. - I squatted like 10 or 11 years ago. I tried to do some squatting. I had a big fight coming up. I fucked my lower back.
so bad. I don't know if I did it wrong or what. My lower back was a mess. And it was a mess to the point now, it's 10 years later still, even just doing them, I got a tinge on my lower back. I don't know how I fucked it. The squat and the deadlift is the exercise most people will mess upon. They try and lift too heavy with incorrect form and that's when they just, they load up the spine too much. My back was wrecked. Even just now, I got a twinge. I don't think it's muscle, I don't think it's bone or spine. It feels like a muscle thing, but I also don't have a clue what I'm talking about.
But yeah, I really messed my back up with squats. So now if I squat, I squat just body weight. But I was a pro kickboxer and I didn't kick through a baseball bat. Have you seen that video? Have you not seen that? I've got a video on my Instagram. I snapped a baseball bat on my shin. You kick with the shin here. The bum. It's not on Insta. I'm missing out on some pussy. So I need to get it. Get it on Insta pronto. He puts it in between two 20 kilo plates. You see and he holds it. I was super scared. I was super scared. You see me? I'm like, how do I kick it? He's like, Tate, beer is the enemy. If you half kick it, you're going to break it.
You have you have to go through the wood you can't let the wood impact you have to really just go for it Like it isn't there so it's kind of mental and he's going to apply. Yeah, he's forcing it down
So does that mean I have weak legs if I can't squat I don't know that's my excuse maybe I have weak legs But I can kick through a bat so
For Mike's next video... I had to break my leg.
Are most of your viewers and fans and stuff, the men on YouTube? 90%. I'm trying to bring in more of a female audience, but I think in general... That's why I'm here, right? Because they love me and my views.
Yeah, in general more men tend to watch YouTube. How many? 15. Never done a dip in my life. Up and down. Down like that. Let's do my upcoming poor form, ladies and gentlemen.
Four, three, two, one. Good. I do feel that on my shoulder though. I could easily hurt my shoulder if I'm not careful. Does that make sense? A lot of people, they injure themselves because they're too deep and they just fuck up like they rotate. If you did the push-ups, you got a pull-up bar and a dip station, you would build a decent physique with that. You'd be hitting your chest, your back, your biceps, and from this, this is a bit of lower chest.
- I'll buy one of these. Sorry mom, no Christmas present this year. The money's been allocated. - Dip station and Bugatti. - Yeah, dip station and Bugatti. That's all I got in my life. A homeless man by the side of the road who's dip stationed next to his Bugatti.
course they take me down to the thing the guy who was checking us in real fat arrogant police officer bullshit I was telling him I should have been arrested and I was innocent and everything he goes well we don't often make mistakes he's gonna come checking me and taking my fingerprints all this crap and I saw that he had the cameras for the cells in the back so when I went to my police cell they gave me some book worst book I ever read I've already done a video of that on YouTube fucking awful so I'd read three pages 50 pushups three pages 50 pushups
So I did it for like an hour and then when they took me back out, the fat guy goes, "Oh Iron Man!" to make fun of me. Yeah. So I'm like, "Alright, cool." So anyway, I think you know what I'm doing. So I thought, now I know he's watching and he's jealous because he's fat as fuck and I'm not. So now I have to do the push-ups. So after like three hours of this, I'm at the point where my arms are like jelly. But I'm getting up, look at the camera like, "I'm fucking pussy." Just pushing out these awful push-ups. I was in, I was there for 23 hours. I slept for like six, seven hours.
So the rest of the time it was three pages 50 push-ups staring at the camera for fat fuck and I guarantee today He's still a fat fuck officer fat fuck of Stevenage police station. You ain't got a baguette have you? No, did I even go to jail? No, you failed with your investigation. You should put me away. You should have. I was guilty bro. You're dumb as fuck I did a bunch of push-ups now. I'm rich and he's still fat. So fuck you
I got the hang of it. Yeah, but you know why do you know why boxers skip all the time stay bouncy? Yeah, someone's trying to hit you the best way to knock your hit is to move people have this idea that you can block and I want everyone to understand that Walking punches is a bad idea. You don't want to block your move You got a skip and you got a skip with that like you have to not try you have to just like exist
Let's see how long Mike can skip like that using all that energy. What is that like?
You're not like bouncing, it's gotta be like rhythm. Like you're just like... I feel like I'm gonna chop my toes up. It happens. You gotta kinda just like... I think braff is just as well. It's just like it's not deliberate if that makes sense. I'm pretty impressed. That's fine. So now you know Mike can move out of the way of all my punches and he's gonna win. Like you're doing like together. It's very... You're jumping and that's what you're using energy. It's gotta just be like you're bouncing. Like you're almost like bouncing between the feet.
When you do it with two feet, it looks so different. Yeah, exactly. Like a fight. You're bouncing on the balls of your feet.
Right, I'm by the sleeping rope. Footwork. Footwork's the most important thing in fighting. Even boxing. Even though you punch with your hands. A good fighter, it's all from the legs. Punching powers from the legs, your ability to defend yourself from the legs, it's all legs. It's all about how you move. If you have good legs, good footwork, if you move well, like Floyd doesn't get it.
power is all leg related. Getting your technique right is going to improve your punching power far more than like training, physical strength. Does that make sense? I'm going to teach you how to box in 10 minutes. You've got two weapons. You're right-handed. You've got a sniper rifle and you've got a machine gun. Machine gun you can miss sometimes. Sniper rifle you've got a hit. The difference between a machine gun and a sniper rifle is the reload time. Machine gun you can miss because you can just quickly reload it. Sniper rifle you've got a fucking bolt action on this box. Exactly the same thing. Every single weapon has a reload time.
go in there and start swinging it's because if I miss there's a huge reload time and I'm gonna get hurt. Right? So your quickest weapon that has the lowest the lowest reload time is jab. It's gonna be your left hand. So boxing stances left foot forward right foot back. The heels of your feet shouldn't touch the ground. Your front heel can sometimes but in general perfect technique your heels don't touch the ground. It's all in the balls of your feet. So it's like calf activation. When I was training he put ink on our heels. And it'd be
saw ink on the mat, we all got fucked. Your heel can't touch the mat for hours because when your heels are off the mat, you're the most springy, you're the most bouncy, you can move quick, right? Your right hand is going to go up and it's going to guard your chin. Your left hand is going to be out a little bit, a little bit more forward. And the very basic premise of boxing is find him with your jab. As soon as you find him, throw a power shot. That's boxing. Very simple version. Look, now there's a thousand different little technical changes we can make to make that better,
And the idea is if you can't hit him with your fastest weapon, you're probably not going to hit him with your slower weapon. Right? So it's jabs, catch him, and when you catch him with a jab, a right hand. So that's what we're going to work on first.
You got a gum shield in already? I'm ready. Try and catch me with a jab. Jab me. Good. As soon as that touches, as soon as that touches, as it goes back, the right hand comes out. Boom. Twist at the end.
Why to twist? To increase your punching power. There's a difference between an amateur and a professional. A bullet is so deadly, not because of the amount of pressure it has, but because it's such a small surface. If you reduce the surface area, you increase the pressure. So what most people do when they throw a punch, they don't think about how their hand lands. So stay still. If I land with the flat of my hand, or if I land with one knuckle, you feel the difference. It's the same amount of force. But it's concentrated, you see? So if you whack, whoosh, and it's one knuckle, it snaps the bone. And that's where you twist, because it aligns your knuckle.
knuckle better. If you keep it straight, it's gonna be flat in your hand. That's a massive difference. It's massive. People don't know. People don't realize it. That's how people get cut. That's how they fracture orbitals because they catch one good bang with the knuckle and it just snaps. The bone breaks. It's too much force concentrate in a small area. So if I'm punching, let's say a thousand, hundred miles an hour, let's say, I'm gonna do more damage if that lands in the smallest area possible, like a bullet. So that's why you twist. You want to get your knuckle in and even with the glove on, you can feel it. I can feel with my glove on. If I land knuckle, I can feel his
face snap through the glove. You want to really twist the knuckle into his bones so Mike's about to fuck me up. I have no idea. You want to land with this knuckle in the middle if possible. These two can break. This one won't break. So you jab, if you miss, bring it back. Don't go and leave it out here because you're going to be open for a right hand. See? See the right hand can come over the top? Bang. So jab, if you miss, back. If you touch, as soon as it comes back, right hand fold.
My son beat me today. I do earn a gum shield one off on him
Catch me it's like a chicken with Rocky. You've seen Rocky. We have to chase the chicken. It's the same game Boom there was the right hand so you missed you didn't talk you landed. Yeah, it was the right hand You touch it always follow. You got train your brain. This touches something that ball
'Cause if you touch me with this, you know where I am. You know I'm there. You know that from now. This is gonna be longer than your jab. This is gonna be all the way long, like this. And you're gonna pivot, twist on your foot. Boom, all the way through. If your jab misses, you don't wanna throw that, 'cause you're gonna be open for countless. If you land the jab, whack.
Good. Good.
Good.
All right, now we go on the hooks. There's two kinds of hooks. You can hook like this, which is all about the knuckle.
like we talked about, so there's less physical power, 'cause the way your arm works, doesn't have as much force, but your knuckle lands better. Or you can hook like this, which is more physical force, but it's harder to get the knuckle in. So that's more personal preference. You're probably gonna like to hook like this, it's more natural. Grab, cross, left hook, boom. See how they all load each other? This loads this, this loads this. Make sure you keep your right hand up when you hook, because the number one counter for a left hook,
is the left hook. If you hook me, hook me hard.
Power train. Ho ho ho! So it's like as soon as I feel it, we throw. So keep your hand up.
Nice. Right hand up.
Oh, you're going. Good, good. Again. Good. Right hand up.
Nice. Right. Now we're going to work on your defense. Yes, it's shit. If my number one weapon is a jab, you have to learn to negate the jab.
parrying. So people who don't fight have this idea that you just keep your gloves up to protect yourself. But the problem is, is that that doesn't work. Because if you cover up with your gloves, cover up,
like cover your face, right? If I punch, not even, if I punch 20%, right?
If I'm actually going, it's like, your face will be a mess. So the idea that you just cover up doesn't work, because if I'm landing knuckle, I'll break all the bones in your hand. Your glove will go into
You can't just stat and stay there. You can against someone who can't fight. Against someone who's big who can punch, you're going to get fucked up just the same. You have to move. You have to move with it. Even if you block, you have to roll with the punch. You take the power away from it. So with the jab, you don't just want to let it hit you. You want to parry it. And we parry it with our rear hand. So, things up, fighting stance. Jab me, slowly. At my face. Whenever I say anything, yeah, punch for real. Good. Okay, again. Jab again. Good.
Okay again, I don't block with my front hand because look how it leaves me open for your right over the top. I block with my back hand. My power hand I block. So jab, I tap it. No power, no force, tap. A tap is enough to take it off course. The reason I don't do a big correction, jab, because if I do a big correction you can probably get a hook round faster than I get my hand back. So I just want to tap it out of the way. So jab me in the face.
Jab me in the face, jab me in the face. Good, again. Good, again. Again. Jab me. That's it. Just tap it. That's how I start. And we're taught in boxing school, as soon as I block that jab, the jab bang. Right? With this. So jab me. Boom. Again. Boom. Again. Or I'll hook. Again. Body. Whatever. So it's bang bang. Bang bang. Bang bang. That's how we're taught. Right? So you're going to block the jab by this hand. Put your gum shill in. No gum shill.
Perfect. Well Mike look good with one toothless. We're about to find out. You're gonna have to punch at 5%
I don't miss
So when I jab you so fighting stance relax
Less is more tiniest too much arms moving all the way down here
Good. You got it in front of your face. Keep it here. Because if you put it in front of your face, like if it's here, well if it's here, I fake a jab and I hook.
As you get better people start doing fakes and doubles and all this bullshit. Good.
Good. Good. Good. Now as soon as you block, jab me back. You can hit me in the face. I'll come with him.
I'm gonna get punched for 15 years. It doesn't bother me anymore. I'm used to it. My nose has been popped. It's fine. Good. Good. Good. Now, we're gonna add another little thing to it. The reason I want to come at you is, Chad, if I do this, you can't attack your arms in the way. You can't throw a hard punch with this. Your own arms in the way. You understand? But
I can counter here. I can counter here. I can counter here.
So I want to be as close. I want to use my inertia and my weight to come forward to increase the power of my punch. You understand?
When you walk the jab you come back so we are we're fighting for real be here when you drop me down in the face For real driving face real hard fast good job. Okay, and so That's why that's when I come at you so you block and come forward make sense so now when you bought the jab Beat me up and you can either throw a jab back or you can throw a left hook as well left hook to my goal and then we'll do body punches and then you're not a box and then you're professional Okay, he's a good coach though like I'm literally right I'm learning quick though
doing it it makes more sense a lot of boxers just say do this do this but not to him why this should be done that way so slowly I jab come forward and jab perfect good good good everyone knows hitting in the head every punch you can throw the head you can throw the body same you can throw right hooks to the body but they're a lot less effective than left hooks so if I do with a little
The hook is like the knockout, it's the turn off button. It's probably my favorite punch. Every fighter who fights long enough knows. It's much worse to get hit here than get hit in place. If you need one of these, don't move, if you need one of them properly, it's like money in the bank. You hit in the first round and you feel it in round five. It just fucking hurts forever. It's like a stitch. Is the opponent tense when they're getting hit or is there sometimes you'll get them when they're not even tense?
So left body hook is the number one primary body punch. I've been rocked in the face before. So I know what that feels like but I'm not being properly... I'm not saying I want it. But I can't imagine what that feels like. Again, don't. I have plans for the rest of this afternoon. So that's the left body hook. Then the jab, just like you do the face, you can do the body and you aim right here just below, just on the sternum. If I jab your body, I jab to the sternum. So if you're a fighting and I was a pro, I jab your head.
You have your head, you're gonna come in here, right? And you got the body hook which is the same. So that's basically it. Those are the three modern voice important body punches. You can do body crosses but they're risky because they need you very open. My face is very open to your knees. I wouldn't recommend it first. So that's it. So you can hit the head, you can hit the body. Now we're gonna spar. He knows how to box now. Now we're gonna spar. One last little sparring session and we're done. All the sparring are, I'm not allowed to hurt you, I'm a professional. You're allowed to hurt me. If you knock me clean out now on your knees.
camera from everyone I deserve it this is my life's work so do not concern yourself with being polite don't worry about hitting me too hard and me getting mad I've done this my whole fucking life I'm not gonna get mad if you hit me I don't give a fuck so I want you to try your best because you're not trying you're definitely not understand yeah beat me up okay be interesting beat me up imagine this for real and you hate me and it's on beat me up perfectly two minute time
steady, right go. Hit me, hit me.
Good, good.
Head forward. Good.
Beat me in the face. I deserve it. No one likes me on YouTube. Beat me out. Almost. Good.
Good good good good good good hands up hands up good good good good good good face up face watch that face good come on hands up come on
A minute left. Good. Good, good, good. Last 30 seconds. Good, good, good. Hands up, hands up, hands up. Good.
Come on. Good, that's it. 20 seconds, that's it. Good. Good. Good.
Good.
Almost. Hands up, hands up. - Ah, ah. - Oh. - And die. - Oh, good luck bro. - Fucking hell man.
Shit, shit, you got it, easy. Scary. Fighting him fucking hell. It's more tiring than it looks as well. Yeah. Fucking hell. I think the body shot and the bop right in the nose, I was like. You did good, man. You did good. You did good. I feel like every man needs to experience combat. Yeah, it's an amazing thing. And also like, although fight gyms are scary and intimidating from the outside, nearly all the time, they're the most down to earth people you can meet, man. No one's going to beat you.
It's kind of like your gym if you walk in the guys really big is he a cunt? Or is he usually cool when you say oh, can you help me with something with it? They're probably like oh, yeah I'll help you with this or I'll spot for you whatever you go to a fight gym. It's you're not gonna get the fuck kicked at you They're gonna teach you little by little and yeah, you'll learn through pain, but that's how life works You learn through pain with everything don't you yeah, you learn through pain with fucking heartbreak and fucking financial ruin on fighting and everything else
But it was good to go a few rounds with Iron Mike.
I'm going to watch it back. Next time you got a gum shield, we'll go for real. Nice one, bro. You did good. When you hit me, I was automatically just like... Yeah, yeah. And this is the reason fighting so hard. The reason fighting so hard is because it's the only thing in the world where you have to reprogram your body's natural inclination. So if you take someone and teach them how to run, even though they don't know the technique to be the best sprinter, they already know basically how to run.
You already basically know how to swim. You know how to like basically do it. But the human instinct on how to fight is actually completely wrong. You put your head up to look big, you swing low to get more power. Like everything you do, you have to reprogram your base instinct. And it's hard because you go back to the base instincts of getting hit and turning around because you got skull. So you think your skull will save you, but it won't. It's all these base things you have to reprogram and that's why it's so difficult. You're reprogramming your base level instinct.
that every man thinks he should fight and we've evolved to fight doesn't work in professional fighting. You have to reprogram, you have to get rid of all that and reprogram with something else. So for me, if I get caught on the nose, my inclination is, the first thing I will think is, if he hit me in the nose, he must be in front of me. So the second I get top tap, I throw back. So I don't think to turn around or anything. I'm like, the second I get touched, I'm attacking. Because I know that he has to be within attacking range. And that's why when you watch pros fight, there's so many combos, so many punches flying at once. Because they'll get hit and go, okay,
It's like an instinct you learn. It's interesting and it is scientific. Like if you look at someone like Floyd, he's had an amazing career for so long because he doesn't get hit. The art is not being a tough guy. The art is not getting hit. You don't need to be a tough guy. You need to not get hit, not get touched. That's how you have a long, long career. I've had 87 fights and my nose is fine. It looks good. It looks alright. No surgery. No surgery, nothing. My face ain't that bad for 87 fights. And I have kicks and knees and everything. So you can be done.
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