[SPEAKER_01]: What is up everyone, welcome back to another edition of the She-In-Show with me, Sean She-In here on Shardog.com and I'm absolutely delighted to be joined today by Tyson Bedro, who takes on Rafael Xavier, July 25th, PFL, Washington, D.C., and Tyson, I have to ask you first of all.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was just snooping on your Instagram there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw you run the assault by not too long ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: How was that?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's it just got off of it swear it's every time I feel like I'm on the soul bank It's like I'm doing the tour to France and some of the some of these are five camps So I'm so over it Better you got to hate to love it sort of so hate love thing
[SPEAKER_01]: You're I suppose you're coming towards the the India camp now or are maybe another another little bit how is it been I know you know I saw you you were with Navajo sirling who only fought a couple of weeks ago No Carlos all broke his kind of when you're maintaining a partner, but he's he's been out injured for a while What's happening dynamic been like for the last few weeks and and once I suppose
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so the last camp before that I fought in Ireland or everyone was in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We had like all the boys training this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all the smaller boys, but a lot of the bigger boys are out of the moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Brando's injured as well, so it's been good.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I wrote when he came over for a few weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to know a lot of hard training while he was here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that was really good and obviously we didn't have.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got him at the back end of his camp.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you're starting camp and someone like never hoes at the back end He's fit in sparring so I got a must win and But it's been a hard game.
[SPEAKER_01]: It always is it can't never easy How good is Navajo as someone kind of starting the journey that you've been taken for the last decade or whatever it is How good do you think you can be?
[SPEAKER_00]: he's really skilled men and the two years that I took off to go to boxing his grappling and has improved tremendously so it's been really good to see how much he's improved and you know I could just see some of the light going on some of these younger boys coming up especially like you know the brindos and the never hoes and there's a lot of young kids coming up in C.K.B.
[SPEAKER_00]: so a lot of talent in their six o'clock times
[SPEAKER_01]: it's it's amazing like I'm here and I love to see it's kind of happened here post Magregor with all the Irish fighters coming true when we've been Gary fighting in a few months for title as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's it been like in your part of the world where there's been even a bigger explosion I think and more champions in every other it must be unbelievable to be to be a you know a part of that in the veteran of that scene as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was really cool, like, you know, when I first got into the UFC, we still had like no UFC zones in the newspaper where they weren't allowed to talk about it and stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's been a really cool transition to see how much, not only Australia has embraced it, but how many young guns are coming up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what also one of the reasons that I was really attracted
[SPEAKER_00]: there's creating pathways for these younger generations to come up and there was no real pathway of how to get onto the international stage in Australia when I was starting out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So to see these, what PFL's doing with the now, I'm really excited to get behind it and see if some of these kids coming up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was talking to Rob Wilkins and last week before he's following, he said, he can't wait to the PFL come to Australia so he can get on one of those guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we
[SPEAKER_00]: Me too, because I'll tell you what, flying to Ireland's hut.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have flew over there and I was waterloading at the same time and everyone thought those same, wrong with me, because I was 27 hours of flying and traveling and just non-stop bathroom breaks.
[SPEAKER_01]: How bad is that for you?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was funny I was talking to Rob about this as well like I'm even here like Fighters from Ireland they have to fly like seven hours to America Wherever it might be and it's a lot worse for you guys flying over either To here in Ireland are over to America as well like that's another thing that People like yourself have to deal with over.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's say a fighter to America They might have to travel for you know an hour to get to the airport and another hour to get to the The area you know the the venue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, it must be really tough to plan around that the logistics of it even
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yeah, it's like because I'm a terrible plan on so I have to get my team to plan everything from me because like even I'm dieting when you're on the plane everything's like full of salt and so there's a lot of stuff you can't eat on the plane so you've got to try and take some food with you for the or you're just fasting so there's a lot of goes into it but like you've got there's a lot of smarter people than me to help me out with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it a case of like when you're going somewhere like Ireland or America that you have to go a week earlier to climb a dyes or just to be over the trappers has ever been a case where like you flew out in the desert like two days before and it's possibly affected you
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I learned that I learned to end it up being a Wednesday fight, and I think I flew out the Sunday, all the Saturday, so I was only three days, but I like what we're just talking before.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, when I'm doing spiteful for my hardest training session in New Zealand, it was 12, 12 p.m. in the day and ended up fighting at midnight anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it worked out perfectly, like I didn't even bother trying to acclimatize or...
[SPEAKER_00]: get, you know, get the right sleep and I've worked out, but sometimes it does look like I've been rock pretty bad with some of the time zone differences.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_00]: You never know, it's well like sometimes you just wake up in your sweet and then sometimes it's the worst one you've ever had.
[SPEAKER_01]: What way are you working at this time?
[SPEAKER_01]: You've gone a little bit early, are you going right on time?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to cover a few days earlier, but not too much, because then there's you have to take into account as well, then you've got to pay for extra corners to fly over extra...
[SPEAKER_00]: rooms, extra flights, extra nights, so it starts out in up real quick too, and like, I know some of those flight camps can cost like 10, 15.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then this is for like, I can't imagine some of those guys are bringing over a bigger amount of teams, but you know, it ends up wrapping up, especially my dad who just loves the buffet and just puts it all on my room anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_01]: How did he get out of my room and do you have many points against himself, did he call?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, he didn't come into my room, but I remember in Singapore, they had like one of the best seafood buffet that I've ever had.
[SPEAKER_00]: And my dad kept telling me about it and I just didn't click on it and he was going breakfast lunch and didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was like three hundred dollars a pop and just charging it to my room.
[SPEAKER_01]: See, that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to have another flight to play for the Volvo.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about the fight in a second, but how did you get in Ireland in terms of did you travel around?
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I'm obviously interested when someone comes Ireland to know what they thought.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really liked it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The people who are lovely, like everyone on the chat, like it was, I had a really good experience besides the time, there's flights and stuff, but other than that, our aim is freezing over there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what you're doing with the weather.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was so cold but yeah I had an amazing time over there was I don't know what I was expecting but it was really lovely so yeah I don't know if I'd go back to fight but it was a cool place to visit
[SPEAKER_01]: It was actually 32 degrees Celsius here last week, so I think it was like the second hottest day ever in Ireland So yeah, we've just been complaining about the fact that we got too hot and we got deal with a lot Wow, how do you reflect on that footage because obviously you were in dinner first flight in the PFL against the number two guy in the rankings And you know, it was a very very close flight As I said, how do you reflect on after your time on boxing come back to me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was one of my favorite fights and, you know, I've never started away from fighting the baddest dudes on the planet, so it wasn't like every way at least.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to come out, come in with two, two years off, and then fight one of the hardest, that was going to sound weird, but one of the top dudes in the PFL.
[SPEAKER_00]: I may say to have three, you know what I was supposed to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the top guys in the PFL was, I was happy with my performance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously it sucks losing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hate losing, but you know, I had a really, it was like sometimes just need to have those wars and it was like we punched on.
[SPEAKER_00]: He hit crazy hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a really respectful opponent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, there's something about going and having
[SPEAKER_00]: Like a honor amongst the between another fighter and just going and then knowing we're going to try and hurt each other as bad as we can and then afterwards Super respectful again, so He was a gentleman and yeah, it was a fun fight
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you think it could have been stopped in the turret?
[SPEAKER_00]: I went back and I watched it last week and it was a time there I was like, where have stopped the fight?
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh So big Joe McCarthy got me That's all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was uh, yeah Especially the half your pace going straight away just from that one point stop the fight please, Riff
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why we have a part of such a cruel and crazy game, but that's what makes it so entertaining.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember I spoke to a color a few years ago who obviously found the PFL as well and he had spent time boxing and I asked him about that time boxing and he said it massively benefited him when he came back into MMA.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you find this something or obviously it's under a second fight back but has it been a benefit for you in your mixed martial arts career?
[SPEAKER_00]: For sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah for sure it really changed my thinking when it came to fighting in general.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of the time I would just try and
[SPEAKER_00]: I finished the five as fast as I could, which is not a bad game plan, but sometimes I'll die out, and I think boxing, you really have to break down your opponent, and that's one of the things I picked up, and it's just the
[SPEAKER_00]: variation of punches in boxing.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're coming from so many different angles whereas with MMA because you're at such a distance is basically always going to come down the middle unless you're close to all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So because they have to bridge so far that other than that, what else?
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and I hate it running too much running and boxing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have to be, is it, do you have to be fitter for boxing now?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just because you train more and more different things from the May use.
[SPEAKER_01]: I suppose you get the cardio in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just a very different cardio, so the wrestling just creates a different thing where you have that tension and gripping and then you have to be able to have the fast switch fibers after that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whereas boxing is a lot more fast switch fibers, but the shorter rounds, I like to, I actually enjoyed the shorter rounds and having the more breaks like my first
[SPEAKER_00]: So I might have been 12, I don't know, I can't remember, but yeah, it's, I did enjoy this shorter rounds, but as well just get it that you'd take so many punches that had like inspiring three times a week and just going to sleep with a concussion every night.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was gonna ask you, would you like to go boxing again by maybe my dad answered me, but maybe the answer is no other.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had my first hard spot that I had was against trial but I came into boxing, my coach was like, all right, we're gonna go have a spine, I was against trial but I, he's walked my ass.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was just like, all right, my head was just bouncing from, but yeah, I had my fun with boxing and I think I'll be finishing here in MMA
[SPEAKER_01]: I like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll get on to your next one second.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just one more fight about the Hashimoto fight with what you had just said there, because the first year rounds were very technical in that fight, and it's a weird thing, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I hate when people say it, but it felt like you let your hands go more in the TARD, and then you had, you know, you had a really great TARD, it does not frustrate you, sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it something that your coaches maybe need to say to you that fight doesn't get pulled into a technical matchup, and sometimes they need to just go for it a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so he hit me with a left eye and I couldn't see out of my left eye in the first round and I think he hit so hard that it was making me a little bit gunshot when to pick my shots because even though I could see where his shot was coming, I knew that every one of those punches were trying to kill me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then in the second round he hit me on the right side of my eye and I saw that six of him and I was thought he's He thought he's cousins in from Turkmenistan.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, this can't be legal.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, then I thought I was doing all right and I sat down in the second round and you think walks in and goes All right, I'll tell you down to you around so you can have to go do something on this round.
[SPEAKER_00]: So
[SPEAKER_00]: I was actually really wrecked, but when I walked in, he goes, you can't hurt me, he can't hurt me, I was like, oh yeah, I was right here, let's see if I can do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that sort of thing pulled that he sort of started talking shit to me that made me put my foot down a bit more.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a fight good preparation for Rafael Xavier because there's someone from the outside looking in they don't look all that dissimilar You know two guys were fast good on the feed.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I think they were saying in his last fight that Xavier is a Brazilian military champion So a good stand-off fighter exactly what you want is it gonna be a similar start or not a similar start fight, but is it a similar start of opponent for you?
[SPEAKER_00]: I've just let my coaches sort of figure that out like they picked this opponent and I think they've seen some flaws in his offense and you know everyone is dangerous in like every way at like running in the top 15 in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: People are talking about how they're going from the USA but my last opponent was one of my hardest fights of so I think
[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't say that the level is right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, are you the son of a person who doesn't look at your opponents at all?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, have you watched much of Rafiels every or any work?
[SPEAKER_01]: What do I mean, let's less than a month out.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, not really, it's probably one of my downfalls, but I sort of like just figuring it out and they go on the light rocking up and going, that's why I love fighting.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like the human chest, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Human vision and chest, and I like going in then.
[SPEAKER_00]: But my coaches also plan and watch it extensively and they practice and so then I have the movements subconsciously of what I need to do for the fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I never go in feeling unprepared.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll rip up all my questions about everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I just been now going to warm up my shins.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, it's not good.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, good brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's ever made.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, well, thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, you're probably gonna ask him a better be I appreciate time water to just quick questions So I was I was on to ask you, you know, who knew you were coming true?
[SPEAKER_01]: It felt like you got you very bad look with injuries and you had time out and you had to come back
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, kind of where I was fighting in a few weeks time and he said, I had time out, but I'm actually more fresh now than the people that have been fighting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a hard one because I had like what maybe over four years off in the UFC and with injuries and I think that was just too long like just purely from even my mental stability.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I definitely felt like I came in like a different person if that makes sense like I came in the
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just, I think the too long off is just not good for Fondish.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tyson, I really appreciate that I'm a gun over my knives.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really appreciate, really, thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Talk to you and best look in your fight in a couple of weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take care, brother.