not going to the ground. I told him that I liked his attitude but I wanted him to do it "Just for sure", but he said no. I told him "Don't let me tell you "I told you so" when Shamrock rips your leg in half", he said "I don't know if that's good to say to me before a fight, mentally wise?? Mentally wise? WTF? I don't think it's a good idea to not do what I tell you to do. See what I mean? He didn't listen.Pretending to be a friend and getting paid GOOD for my work? Ha ha, OK, lets see here.
Lets say that he made $100,000, I couldn't train him two times a day so I told my buddy at my gym, Randy Khatami, who's a great boxing coach and also teaches some basic submissions, that I would take him in the morning, and he would take him at night. Now everybody tells me that I just have to pay my friend a certain amount of money, like a "per hour" deal because it would be better "money wise" for me. But since I believe that a TEAM works together, I just pay him half of what I make.
Lets do the math here, 10% of 100,000, is $10,000, that I split in half, so I make $5000 in 5 or 6 weeks. I also told him BEFORE I started training him, that he had to understand that when I had a commentary job, that I had to do that, since this was not a "money making machine for me" (try to live in CA from $5000 in 6 weeks and support a family, haha, I dare you). He and his manager Mike, who's a great guy, told me they understood that.
Since I believed in him, and considered him a friend, I said NO to a whole bunch of commentary jobs because I wanted to be there for him for the entire time. Meaning, I actually LOST money training Kimbo. Well, actually, with the last fight (because they re-negotiated), I think I evened it out, but never made money.
I did all this because I liked the guy, I like his friends and I think he has a great family that needs support. We would have a lot of fun when we were travelling. EVERYBODY told me to NOT train him, "He's a thug, it will backfire, he will f**k you in the end", and God knows what more they told me.
Nope, "he's a great guy, a family man and friend", that's what I told the whole freaking world! You think was lying about that? You know me, I always tell the truth, it's funny that he says this, because I considered HIM my friend.
After our split I even told his manager Mike that I could set him up with pro wrestling in Japan, he still had to provide for his family right?
And a bad teacher? Ah well, I don't need to answer this, but just so HE can read this.
-I started Genki Sudo's career, when Genki heard I was in the US he moved to LA to train with me, I trained him about 2.5 years, I put him in his first fights, he was just a wrestler coming in, look at him now.
-Carlos Newton came to train with me for three months, lived in the gym, I really made him better, ask him what he learned and how his career went after that, won...







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