Join Brian Rose as he sits down with the legendary 💪 Bas Rutten — a true warrior who rose from the rough streets 🏙️ to dominate the world of MMA and become a UFC Hall of Famer 🏆. From wild stories of street fights to mastering discipline in the cage 🥋, Bas shares his raw, inspiring journey of transformation 🙌. This is more than just a fight story — it’s a tale of heart ❤️, hustle 🏃♂️, and triumph against all odds 💥.
00:00I just had some flashbacks of you and Pancras where you hit the guy with the liver shot when he was breathing a certain way, right? Breathing out, but you used to time it with your shots, right?
00:10Yeah, that was my second fight because I was so sick. I was throwing out. My manager was carrying my luggage and they let me travel eight hours on the day of the fight.
00:20It was, they tried everything in the power to make me loose and he got me in an armbar and then I go, I'm just going to tap. But then they started shouting for him, chanting.
00:29And then my ego took over. So I got out of the armbar and 30 seconds later, I knocked him out with the knee to the lip.
00:35And, and that's, that was the moment for me that I said, okay, I will never think that again, like giving up because 30 seconds later, I knocked him out.
00:41And what I was doing, I was standing in a clinch and I saw him breathe like, and on the third one that he was inhaling, I drilled the knee in there.
00:49And if you look at the fight, it's like I shot him. I mean, he went down hard and the knee is just like, boom, it's not a really super hard knee, but oh yeah, he went down.
