Shawne Merriman Talks About Lights Out's MMA Star Development

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00:00Uh, who have you been turned on by like that you like watching, uh, develop into a stud?

00:05Yeah, we had a few guys coming up. Um, you know, we got Tony Cortez of this card and a

00:11Few seasons best you like Ryan Lilly's fighting this call

00:14He's fought several fights in Bellator and you know age organization stuff like that

00:17But more importantly we started identifying these guys that are coming up, right?

00:22Because they don't have a way again now some of these guys only have managers and stuff yet, right?

00:26So you just you're directing their careers by building helping them helping them and they don't know what they're doing

00:32Yeah

00:32Then when you get to that level when you like I've been around talent my whole entire life

00:36I know and I know it a superstar when I when you see one, you know

00:39so some of these guys I haven't met like tomorrow at the weigh-ins when we get there right and I'm like

00:43Oh, he's gonna be good or she's gonna be good

00:46You fit, you know, and so you automatically started that's gonna be my next superstar

00:50You start building around them telling them how to market you social media

00:54But I had just had I got on the fight or two weeks ago because if social media was on private

00:58And I said, what are you fighting for?

01:00What are you fighting for? He said I want to take care of myself. I'm gonna get some UFC

01:04I said, how are you gonna build you? No one knows you

01:07How you gonna build yourself private? Like what are you hiding? What do you mean?

01:10If you can't sell tickets and nobody know who you are, you're worthless. You're worthless to

01:15Organize a not just to me right to anybody. What's it like setting up those big events?

01:20It's a real big thing like the NFL pulls this off. It's no different like I used to do the Bellator fights

01:26He used to work for Dana. I used to do I did MMA even with Donald Trump in Anaheim. I've done everything

01:34With it

01:34What's it like for you to set up those events and pull it off and the TV and the rights and everything at the location?

01:40The arena the seats the tickets the sponsors. Yes, we got the matchmakers the head of venues and tickets and

01:48You know, you got to operate head of operations

01:50So I got I got a great team to handle the nonsense and all the stress

01:54My emails never stop going off and what's going on, right?

01:57So I may say see something in production and I don't like a graphics package

02:01That's going up there. The graphics package is not the sponsors not in there

02:04I'll see it and I'll jump in there

02:06You know, what's great is that this is the second time

02:08You and I've done this at the Super Bowl and we never talked about football and the game on Sunday. That's what's up