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Bas Rutten

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“Wanted to become that person, and now it got me in such a thing. Listen, I wake up, people write, Oh my God, you look great. They're always probably using steroids. They always have these people talking like this. You can test me every day. I'll take any bet. You can literally test me for six months straight if you want a blood test also. Another P test, a blood test, every single day can come and test me. And if I look the same after SAS month, let's put some money down because I'm going to make a good amount of money because I don't. But if you live like I do, then you might look like me as well. I become a five-30. I do a prayer hair there. I'm in the gym at 6 o'clock. First thing I do, OTO trainer. 30 repetition. Post it every single day for the last four and a half years. I post every single day. Once I have a habit, I might have missed 60 times over four and a half years, you know, because I just, once I create a habit, that always helped me also in fighting. I just stay with the habit. And it became more and more and more relaxed. And it was so weird because the more I learned about it, the more time I took to learn a certain pressure.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And once I did that, I saw my whole family started changing. I didn't even ask them. Now they started coming around because they saw the husband, my wife, and the father change. I started just becoming a much better person. Think about what you say. Look about truth. Look all these kind of things. So then somebody...”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then he says, Oh, and by the way, my Christian friends, they were the worst, they stole the most. So that was an attack at me, right? So I go, yeah, there were Christians, but they were not practicing Christians then. And he goes, no, no, they go to, they go to the church every week. I go, oh, okay, let's use that analogy then. So what you're saying is that if you walk around in my gym once a week, you're a professional fighter. Is that what you're saying? And he looks at me and go, or do you think maybe you're going to have to take some classes and learn about that? And then maybe live like a fighter, no drinking, no this, no that, no that, no chasing women, no, you know, you have to be a fighter. Maybe you think that, you see, and that is how I apply the fighting. I just want to be a good guy. That's what I want to do. Clean up my life. And I never did bad things, like really bad things. I did people who got it. They deserved it at the moment. But still now, it's much easier for me to just walk away. And I don't need to test my skills anymore. And it completely changed my life. It made me a much better person.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Happened maybe four months ago, and he wanted to push my buttons because there was something going on in the fight where I gave my thoughts and he gave his thoughts and he thought he was right. I said, well, I've been only doing it for 30 years and I've seen this many times. So I think I'm right. But hey, whatever. And I think he couldn't get that. So he needed to get back at me for something. And then suddenly he said to me, they were talking about the fact that nowadays you have some states where people park the car outside the supermarket. They load it up for under $1,000. And then they take off. And then by law, you can't do anything because it's not above $1,000. And I said, those people are bad people. They shouldn't be doing that. He said the wrong example. And he said, oh, we used to do that in California, but he has $500. We would steal till $500. And his father stands right here, the father of the year award, right? I mean, he's telling you that he just would steal under $500. This is crazy.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The rosary, they say, I'm a very divided Catholic. At the first hour of the day, it's all prayers. That's what I start with. It's also a rosary. I do a lot of reading about it. It's really got me back into the person I really want to be. You know, not that I was ever a bad person. When you say the word religion nowadays, people can freak out. But see it like this. I got in this confrontation with this 23-year-old in the dog park and he knew that I was Christian, that I love to this.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Bosch wouldn't go on YouTube, they have both the episodes. I think it's hilarious. That's kind of humor that I really like. All right”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The carjacking, the fighting on the street that you see, we did that as well. But then the best thing came, they wanted me to have my own TV show in the game. So this two 10 minute episodes of in-demand's room with Boss and Jeremy. It's a very funny show. I had to send people out of the room because they start messing it up every time because they started laughing so hard. I got a script and I start breaking up the script. I would admit sentence I would act like that was a period. And then I restarted. So it sounds complete psychotic what I'm saying. It's like, what is this guy talking? It's completely crazy. Once you start shouting at the audience, the fake audience is there. Who wants the knife fight with me in the audience? As a commentator, as the host of the show, you see, oh, I love that stuff. That was the best work. That's one of the best works I ever did, I think. For the people GTA4.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They called me and they said, if I wanted to do the motion cap, actually, every fight you see, and we made history in that game. So for that you know that because all the video games are doing it right now, and I came up with that because we were doing the motion cap with all these little balls on you, you know, and then you have to hit and then they track the balls. But I said, listen, if you point somebody and if I hit the air, you see me hitting the air. You know, we need to hit something solid. He goes, why? I said, it's going to look much better. I said, I'll show you. So I gave him a crossroad across. I showed a few techniques. I said, oh, watch this. And I called my body Amir, was holding the focus mitzvah for me, the type heads. And I hid that. And I remember they were up there looking at the footage and everybody went, yeah, they started screaming because now you see literally connecting and you see the power coming back. It made it much more realistic. So all the...”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Emotions, check them. You know, you cannot get an you need controlled angle like Bruce Lee said because anger, like I said, makes you load up the punch. That's why you want to get your opponent angry in a fight, in a professional fight. Because if they're really angry, they start loading up. They start telegraphing. It's very hard to control your emotions. But you control your emotions, you're going to win the fight.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some classes with people who break it down like this just a few techniques. It's not that difficult to knock somebody out. But make sure that you don't have too many techniques just to”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, what I say in seminars, the longer a strike travels, the more power it has. The more time it has to pick up speed and power. And I always use an example with the bow and arrow. And I grab a person in the room and I grab bow and arrow, act like I have a bow and arrow, and I put my hand against his chest. If I let this arrow go, it's going to go this deep. But if I step back three steps, it's going to go straight through him. Now I gave it space. And now it had time to develop speed. You see, so that's also like if people hit me on close distance, I bring my head closer to their punches. Here it hurts, but if I bring my head to the hand, he cannot load up anymore. You see, I'm cutting off the distance. These little things are not going to do anything. But if I move away, then he's got reach in order to hit me hard. So distance is everything. And especially when you're backing up as somebody comes at you, if he comes with aggressive power and you make the defense, but his face is here, you see, now a punch is not good. You have to change it to an elbow. So that's why it's always good to have.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You have to do is literally move backwards because then the point already scores a miss you. And there's your counter. It's a very simple counter either across or if it's an elbow. It depends how close he is. But if you learn distance, and that's the first thing we focus on, on your stance and on distance, because distance is everything, because if a person stands here, this point is not very powerful. It's better to go an uppercut, a hook, or an elbow in this distance if this is further away.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You need to know, and then it's basic stuff, like I said. If it's without a weapon, if they're standing with the left leg front, they're orthodox. That means the right hand is going to come. Nobody's going to throw a hook on the street. Everybody's angry. Everybody loads up their punch because they're angry. You see, so all these things are easy. People have no clue how easy it is for a professional fight. It's like me challenging professional basketball player to shoot some hoops. Who do you think is going to win? We do this every day, single day, two, three times a day. You're not going to win. It's not going to happen. Yeah, maybe from Debeck, hit us, but otherwise it's simply not going to work. And if you can bring that over to them and they realize that with on top saying, I don't want to fight, you know, always say you don't want to fight because that makes them feel good. You know, that it's not a threat. Most of the times they stop. And otherwise, it's the cross counter, a cross comes. They always hit in an angle. So that means they always come from the side. So the only thing...”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wants to prove himself in front of everybody who is watching. No, just de escalate by saying, dude, I don't want to fight. It's so stupid to fight. I could have hit you here already. And nine out of ten times again, they realize that you're the guy with the skill and they're the guys with no skill. Now, sometimes when it's absolutely not avoidable anymore, yeah, well, then you're going to have to go fast. And especially if there's a weapon involved. Thankfully, I didn't have those situations many times because that's a very bad situation. A knife, for instance, is a really bad, almost worse than a gun. Like a gun in front of me, I'd rather have that like when you stand in my arm's reach. I'd rather have that than when you have a knife. A knife is much more dangerous, can cut from every side, especially if it's double-bladed. Very dangerous gun. Once you control the gun in the barrel and you just go with it and you make sure that you don't put yourself in the line of fire, you know, then everything is okay. Oh, and by the way, gun defenses also make sure that a loved one doesn't stand on the side because if he pulls the trigger, that person is going to go. So you have situational awareness that's all stuff.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yourself, you might die. I mean, people do things for no freaking reason, you know. Simply watch out. But that would be the greatest thing. If somebody pulls a knife, you know, that's the street fighting DVD that I made a long time ago, the crazy one, grab a boss tool, get something that you can separate him from. He needs something in between. It's very hard if I just hold the bar stool in between for him to come closer. You know, it's also very important. Then you know that if the fight goes outside, yeah, now it's my domain because now I got space. And once there's space, If you start hitting me, I won't even let you hit me. And most of the time that is enough. People got to go, if I cannot even hit them because then I'll talk to them. I said, good. I could have hit you already. I could have hit you already. I could have hit you again. I could have, all right, I hit one time in front of his face. You want me to really do this now? Let's stop, dude. I don't want to fight. You know, if you say it, I don't want to fight. Act like you're a little bit afraid. No, you're not, but you're to the audience because most of the time it's egos as well. If I say, well, I'm going to kick your ass. Now it's an ego thing.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is the first thing I always tell people if they put their hands in the pocket or whatever, always expect something. You know, it's better to be a little bit on your toes there, maybe get a handkerchief out. It doesn't matter, but always look what they have in their hands. And as soon as they don't have anything in their hands, just take them outside, break the situation down, and they're going to find out it's stupidity what they're doing. And then the fight's going to be off. There's not going to be a fight. Now, if there is a fight, and it depends where it is. If it's in a bar, like I put my back against the wall. If there's a corner, I'm with my back in the corner because nobody can attack me from the sides now. I got my view perfect view. It's going to be very hard to sneak up behind me. You see, so if you have a wall, great. If you don't have over the corner, corner even better, go into the corner. But it depends again on the situation. What's nice? Get present and you need to get out. Maybe you don't want to be in the corner. You want to go to the exit day. You want to get the heck out of there. Don't fight if they have a knife. Don't let your ego control you.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, he was looking at my wife. I go, he was looking at your wife. Yeah. Did he talk to her? No, did he touch her? No. Did he say deregulatory things, etc. Did he make faces to her? No, no, no, no. Did he do something against you to make you mad? No, you didn't do that. I go, that's a compliment, dude. I mean, that means your wife is a good-looking wife. He didn't overstep. He didn't do anything. He didn't touch her. And he started looking and go like, yeah, yeah. I go, come, you come here. And then I would call the other guy. I said, did you say something bad? He says, no, no, no. I was just looking at his wife and he got really angry, you know. And then they start seeing, yeah, this is stupid because it's alcohol. Alcohol that's involved, you make stupid mistakes. And once they say, okay, shake hands. You guys want to drink? And I will give him a beer. And the fight was off. So simply breaking it down, but in a nice and calm way, this is very important because the screen was, it will never work. You get them on the toes. No fighting stance, no nothing. Hands down. And once you talk to a person, always make sure you look at their hands.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First of all, it's taking the two people who it starts with, take them to the side. Don't put it in a gym, walk outside with them, do something that they feel more comfortable and not with everybody there. Like, for instance, when I would, they really wanted me as a bouncer. Why? Because I could fight. Nah, no, that was not the real reason. The reason was that came in handy. I'm really good with people. From the 10 situations, nine times we don't fight because I talk about it. It's always. And the only thing what I would always use break down the situation why they get into a fight. And you're going to find out it's always stupid.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's kind of my fault, then, you know, especially if you thought it the wrong way. So make sure that you do your homework, the Krokmacau worldwide. That's an organization. They're very methodical. They're constantly updating the curriculum and making it better for things that happened in the field. For instance, there was a gun defense. And it's a certain way to wrap it out of the head. Well, it happened one day. It happened in such a way that the finger broke and it wrapped around the trigger guard and they couldn't disarm him. Boom, immediately when that story comes in, then they adjust it and they make sure that that can never happen again. Was one time in maybe a hundred thousand times. But hey, still, you see, but they constantly adapting. And that's what they do. So Krav Maga K-R-A-V-M-A-G-A.com. And if you do slash boss B-A-S, it will send you to a link. And there you can watch it. We have some videos there. And you can see how we present it to the people because it's important to give you a little bit.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just for people who are And focus on those are the highest percentage possible they're going to bring. Chances they're going to use that is the same on the street. If he's right-handed, he's going to throw straight bunch. No defense for that. And we break everything down. And if you do it very slowly and methodical and grind it in over and over again, and then we have tricks to get you off balance, to get you very dizzy. And then still you have to act. Slowly, but surely you learn a fighting skills. And once you have that fighting skill, that is the best to go to a gym and to simply keep doing it. You can't learn something once or twice a week and then believe that you can do it. Really don't think that's not the movies. You know, I'm always afraid. That's why I stopped actually teaching self-defense in classes because people come in and they get a false sense of security. Like for instance, if I just teach a knife defense and they're walking on the street and suddenly his friend gets into trouble with somebody and somebody pulls a knife and he's going to go, hey, stand back. I got it. I just had this in class, you see? And then he might die.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But surely, once the stance is there, we start building on that stance, and then we give you a few weapons. We're not going to give you spinning back kicks. You're never going to pull over it. I never pull off a spinning back kick in a fight. It's the dumbest thing to do because if you miss it, you're in a bad position. Just stuff that really works. Focus on a few things. Knive attacks. Well, there's this knife attack. This is 80%, that stab. There's a budget.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's why the course that we have the seven skills to save your life, the first is situational awareness. We have like 45 minutes only on that. Why don't you walk out of the house in the morning and you just stand there instead of walking to your car on your phone? Why don't you look around? Just make it a habit. Look around. Oh, do you see anything out of the ordinaries? Is somebody in the car? You know, little things. And we give them all the hints why you have to focus on. You go into a bar, you go into a restaurant, know where the fire escapes are, right away. We make it a game with the kids. Where's the fire escape? Oh, the toilets, daddy. Oh, it is also one in the kitchen I saw. You see, you start doing that and the kids start picking it up. It is for fun. But it is the most important thing because they say all this, when you hear about terrorists, all that says 85% is preventative measures. You know, 85% of all the attacks, they already stopped them before it happened. That's how important it is to have situational awareness. And then we go over into the stance. And then slowly.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If at that moment when I dropped him, they would have blindfolded me. They would have called in four other guys all with typeboxing shorts. Not even the same time boxing shorts. And they put it next to each other. They take the blindfold over. They say, who are you fighting? I don't think I could point them out. Because you're not fighting a person, you're fighting a silhouette. It's really weird. You don't hit the jaw. You don't hit the nose. You hit the head. Whatever you see, you hit, you know, it's uncontrolled. You don't have it down yet. You need to, you know, it's like anything in life. The more you do it, the better get you get at it. So for a person, if you really want to be good in self-defense, schedule a kickboxing match, even if it's amateur. And it doesn't matter if you win or lose. People are so focused on the winning. Of course, it's fun to win, but just for you to feel that pressure, you know, to go there and you don't want to do it. There are going to be moments in the dressing room that you're going to go, I'm doing it. I want to go. I want to go. And then still do it. You're overcoming your fears. That is something I think is very important.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's always better to know a little bit than not. If both of you don't know anything, but you had like five classes, you have more chance. It's simply that's how it is, you know, because she did it still five times. You have more chance. Is it still not, of course, it's not enough, but you have a better chance.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Self defense, guys. By the way, we just shot a shot just, we shot at the beginning of COVID when everything went down the drain seven skills to save your life with a friend of mine, Amir Perez. Google his name on YouTube, Amir Perez. He will take a gun away from somebody in like 200th of a sec faster the brain can react. You'll see things that you simply it's not possible and he's doing it. What you need is to make sure that you can do it under pressure as well. Now, there's a lot of things that you can try to mimic it with, a lot of stress and screaming like they do in the military, but still for a military guy as well, if you never shot in a live person and the people are shooting back at you with real bullets, it's a whole different animal. You don't know what you're going to do. But as long as you did it a lot and put you in worse situations, get you really tired of screaming and punishing and slapping you in the face and then suddenly you still have to get your bearings together to fight, that will be really good. Doing a self-defense class twice a week and thinking you're going to win on a fight. Well, first of all,”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know you have to really break it down. You just don't want to start with the basics, it's food work, it's planting your feet, explaining where the power comes from, all that kind of stuff. That's why you really want to break it down. Because I cannot teach you to throw combinations in one or two classes. I can teach you to throw really hard-freaking cross, you know, because I will tell you where the power comes from, pushing off on the back foot, rotating upper body, all the little steps take here and there. The problem with self-defense is what I said at the beginning in my Thai boxing. I was more the dojo fighter. I was not developed yet into a professional fighter. So I didn't have that control in the dojo. I didn't have that in my fights. Now, luckily for me, I was just very powerful. I just slaughtered people and I won everything by first round, knockout one in the second round, the rest, eight in the first round. So I was just strong. But again, like I said, if I would face a good guy, that would be a problem for me. So for people, if you want to do, you take a good.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You understand that miracle crop cup has a picture of you on the back and you're the biggest guy right now. He's going to annihilate you. Yeah, but the people want to see me on TV. They don't care about you. You're going to lose this fight and you're not going to be on TV. You need to focus on the fight. Wait with all this stuff. But apparently he thought that was important and he kept doing it. And then, yeah, this happened against Miracle Crokop. He wasn't just prepared. He was a gifted athlete, Bob Sapp. It's just that he didn't take the time anymore to prepare. That was his problem.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Upset us. He asked me one time if I would fight him, what I would use. And I said, I'll kick your knees. I'm not going to kick your thighs because they're carrying weight a lot all day long. And I go for the body. I said, because your stomach is not that good. And I think with a body shot, that will work with you. And then he fought Ernesto Hoost and who dropped him twice with a body shot. But then he got lucky. He swang so hard that Ernesto Hust on his defense and the scraping of the own glove gave a cut to Ernesto Hust and he lost the fight. But then after the fight, he had to face Mirko Croakup. And he came to me if I wanted to train him. So I went 11 days or 12 days before the fight because I was the commentator, I went to Japan to train with him. I trained him one and a half day. One and a half times. And the rest he was doing interviews. And I go,”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think this is Mark Coleman. These people are freaking out. They thought I was drinking the beef from Marcoman. It was hilarious until, of course, they found out I was messing with them. Those kind of things, that's right up my alley, man. Messing with people.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But the name on it. And I'm right away, I have a great idea, of course. So I close the door. I go, okay, let's just wait outside you guys. Let me ask them first if it's okay we come in. I mean, it's a little intrusive, you know, if you just walk in right now. Let me talk to the doctors to safe hafin is okay. So I close the door. I get one of these cups. I put green tea in it. I put a little lid on it and I put it in between all these other p tests from the finals. So now walking in with the cameras and we're walking around and we're looking, oh, there's the doctor. Okay, that's what they tested. Oh, are you looking at him? Here's the P-test from the fighters. That's great, right? Wouldn't it be weird if you imagine by tasting, you could know which fighter it is. And they look at me like, am I crazy? I said, no, serious, I'm serious. Can you imagine you taste the pea and you could say that's that certain guy? And it goes, you're crazy. I said, no, I've got to try it. So I grabbed mine, of course, the p and I go and everybody's freaking out.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Miracle and he high fives tomorrow. He says, We're just messing with you. And they actually became really good friends. And it's online. We posted this. It's hilarious. Mirko Crokop Punks, Mauro Ronello. Larry is when she watched that video. And then I have another fun story, which I thought was hilarious. I wanted to bring the people at home on the boss tour, B-A-S instead of bus tour, the bus tour. And there was going throughout all the backstages at the fights. We go to the fighters. That's the dressing room. Oh, here are the doctors. Let's see what they test on, all that kind of stuff, right? So I'm walking, I want to walk into the doctor's office and I'm opening the door and the first thing I see is all the P-tests from the files in little paper cups with a little wooden thing on it.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He says, Oyo, you were there for the last fight. Morris says, no, it wasn't me. He said, no, that I was you. He said, I didn't like the way you were talking about me. And he goes, no. No, no, no. It was you. And he looked at his friends. And everybody goes, no, it was you. And Moro is looking at me like, boss, help me out there. And I'm just standing still. I'm not saying anything, right? So he's getting. And he gets more and more nervous. And Mirko Merkel really pushes it on. He's super serious. And suddenly Marlow he gets up and he walks out and everybody's talking to him and said, no, you got to go back, man. He said, I don't want to do it. She doesn't want to be. He hates me. I don't want to do this anymore. So he goes back again. And Mirko, and then suddenly Miracle gets up and he walks and Maro runs away, right? And so this is over. He's freaking out. And then suddenly I say, Marco, it's okay. It's okay. And he stands out. He's waiting as Miracle comes walking and he has this stern look in his face and he walks straight up to Marco. And Marco goes. And then at the very end, he started laughing.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm going to interview Ron Waterman and I'm going to act, oh no, because we always, I would interview one fighter and then the opponent would be interviewed by my commentating partner. So Ron Waterman walks in and I immediately start interviewing him. And Mauro didn't see it yet. And as soon as Mortiman leaves, I say, okay, man, great. And I go. And he goes, what? I go, dude, I'm sorry. He goes, what do you mean? I go, I interviewed Ron. And he goes, what do you mean? Okay, you're going to have to do Miraco. He says, no, no, I don't want a miracle. I don't want to interview Miracle. And I'm afraid of him. I go, you have to. I can interview both fighters. It's going to look weird for the people at home. So it was the perfect setup. So the miracle comes to the show. And because you didn't want to do interviews before, it was everything was on his time. And it was so powerful, whatever he said they had to do, because otherwise he was looking to do it. And he goes in there. Mauro, and I'm with Mauro. And Mirko started talking about, yeah.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Trump Croatia, he's a special forces. Do you see him guy repelling down from choppers and shooting people? I mean, this guy is as legit as they come. He came from K1, which is the biggest kickboxing organization on the planet knocking people out with headcakes. They would say his left high kick, if you knock 25 people out like that, I don't even exaggerate. Kick to the body. They would say left kick body, hospital, left kick head, mark. That's what they would say. I mean, and it would always like, they knew it would come, but somehow this guy was just a freaking machine. And because of his special forces, he was very stoic. His answers, if you interview him was yes, no, boom, boom. He didn't want to be there, you know. But with me, he opened up. So he was always sitting with me. And then he was facing one waterman, one waterman is a pastor. He's a giant guy. So what I did, I went to Mirko Crokov before and I said, Mirko, I want to pull a Traco Maronello because he's really afraid of you.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of the things that I really always enjoy is like Mauro Ronello, my commentating partner. First of all, Stephen Quatros, the fire professor, and then it became Mauro Ronello. He was very afraid of Miracle Croker. Everybody was afraid of Miracle Croker. And Mirko said he would only want to be interviewed by me. So Mirko is facing Ron Waterman.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know the money, it's a whole different animal, and now they were too late, America. Yeah, they could never pick it up. So they sold the company. Actually, the UFC bought pride fighting championships. And now they had all these great fighters, Vandalist, Silva, Miracle Croakup coming to the UFC and it made the UFC even bigger. So yeah, they did a really good job.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And now suddenly they realize they want to go to America. And they couldn't get through the Atlantic Commission. It didn't work. And every time I say, let me talk to the Catholic Commission. I have a good way to talk to people. They know me anyway. You know, just let me talk, but they know, no. And then at the end, they go, okay, can you talk to them? Then I walked in, I did my whole talk, and they said, oh, we're splitting hairier. Okay, yeah, it's legal. You can come to America. And I looked at them. I said, you could have done this two years ago. And then you had the chance at least to catch up to the UFC, but by now the UFC was this juggernaut that nobody could touch anymore. So people started slowly watching for pride. Yeah, then Pride got involved. You know, they found out that it was maybe kind of a laundering thing for the Yakuza, which is the mafia. That's why we were talking about the half a pinkies, you know, and then, of course, Tokyo TV pulled out because you can't have that. That's bad public image. And now suddenly they're just getting the gate.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dana White challenged the best fighters for Pride to a fight against Chapladell, who was the champion at the time. And I remember Chuck him over with Dana, and that was the Saitama super arena. And when the opening started, I'm sitting in my commentating table. I'm looking back and I see Dana, he's literally with his mouth open. And he sees that I'm looking at him. I go. And he goes, he's never seen a thing like that before. That was crazy. And then with Chuck, he fought, requitting Raphael Jackson. Quinton won that fight. So now suddenly that was a big gamble they took, the UFC. Now they put pride even more on the map. But in the meanwhile, I always told Pride Fighting Championship, we got to go to America. We got to go to America. No, no, we're doing good here. I said, no, no, no. It's nothing compared what you go to America. America is where the big money is. That's where you want to be. And they always declined, declined, and declined. Then suddenly the ultimate fighter came out and that bumped the UFC up to the number one spot.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly, exactly. Bright was just an organization that was way ahead of the UFC. They were the biggest martial arts, mixed martial arts organization on the planet. We're talking about a small show, 45,000 people. That's considered a small show. And it was the Saitaba Super Arena. And the Saitaba Super Arena was an arena that you could also expand, which hold 49,000 people. I mean, we did one time in an open space 91.5,000 people we had. It was the most bizarre thing. You know, you see a guy like Bob Sapp coming up who's 350 pounds, 10% body fat, giant guy fighting a 180 pound guy. You know, they made this crazy matchup, but the people loved it. They ate it up. And it was always back and the mirror crowded Million Nanko, the Nogera brothers. I mean, Vandele Silva, Quinton Rampage, all these guys. I remember when...”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I broke a boat in F. So, yeah, that was bad because he went to the hospital, got an infection in it. I mean, I think he was five months in the hospital. And it was a tough day when I went to visit him. That was really not fun, that poor guy. And after that, yeah, unfortunately, he never came back as he was before because he was a wild man. He was also taking risks, taking shots. He was an exciting fighter, always going for the knockout. But yeah, unfortunately, I think that kind of stopped it from.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I fought him and the day before I fought him we saw this giant screen on the building. We saw a preview from the fight the next day. So imagine this. We're walking on the street and it goes hybrid wrestling, bankrupt. And we were looking and they go, boom, and the first thing we see is me knocking somebody out, my first fight. And we go, oh my God, this is the preview for tomorrow, you know, for the show we have. And I see somebody sitting in half guard and he goes for an inverted help, which at that time I didn't know. This is actually how I got my fifth degree Kyukushima because John Blooming standing behind me and he's the highest Gaiji in the foreigner for Maso Yama. Masoyama had a Kyuk Shinkarati. He's like 12 degree and John Blooming is 11th degree. So he's really up the ladder. And I look at John and I go like, wow, that's a cool move. I should remember that. And the next day I'm finding I'm in a position. And I go, give it a shot, you know. So I never did it before. I had no clue the amount of pressure I put on.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yuki Kondo was good, Shibuya, he was a tough fighter. I had a draw against him one time. It was my only draw and then the second time I told everybody I was going to finish him with the boss with the neck rank. I just came up with a move and that's how I beat him. So that was kind of cool. He was a tough guy. Funaki was good. Suzuki was a little physically not as super strong, but he made that up with technique. He was really fast on the ground. I mean, he would jump all over the place. Those were, I think, yeah, the toughest guy. Takahashi. Takahashi was the I will call me, he was a party guy like me after the fight became good friends. Yeah, I did. That was so bad. What happened was...”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fudanki Suzuki were pretty okay, especially Furaki. He was always a better English speaker. He also did some movies in Hollywood. I actually was in a movie with him we did. And with, oh man, Pat Moricita, you know, from the karate cat. Scientist in the movie, yeah, he was already focusing on that. He knew that, you know, in order to reach the people outside the country, you're going to have to learn to speak the language. So he was really good with his English. Suzuki a little less.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he goes, you got to stay calm. I said, Don't worry, I'll stay calm. But you watch him. I connect. I'm going to go to town. And that became my best fight in Pancroft action. That's for Funaki. They say that as well because he was so tough. I mean, I have black and blue palms. I have bruises on my knees from kneeing him and hitting him in the face. And every time he went down, the public started chanting. He will get up again. He wipes his blood off. And then he started fighting. And I go, shut up. It's because every time he got back up. And then the last one was that I had him by his hair. He had long hair. I just grabbed his hair and I drilled a knee in the face as hard as I could. And thankfully he stayed down that time. That was the end of the fight. But I always wondered why would he have done that? I had to be for the audience because he was a very respectful guy.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“His leg because then he can never step over. No, he would give me one way how to stop it and can well, he used a different way. But still, it doesn't really matter because he was always a very friendly guy. Suzuki too is a very nice guy, always had a great time with him. That's why I was so out of character. Like for Ducky was my first loss. He beat me by way of a toe holt. And for the people. And I remember before the fight, he comes up to me and this was so out of character. And I think he did it for the audience. And he would be on this, distance, and he does this to me, which sits his throat. I'm going to kill him now, you know what I mean?”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then I had two fights in one month. So I told my wife, hey, why don't you come with me? I stay in Japan because I finally have some training partners because I didn't have any training partners over in Holland. So I trained there and the only thing I asked for him was to how can I stop a Nibar? Because I know Ken is really good with that. How do I stop a Nibar? And he taught me one way. Now, if I tell a person how to stop a Nibar, it's very simple. I say, hold the leg so he can step it over. That's it. Whatever happens, he cannot make a knee bar. It's very simple. I won't go into the detail because a lot of people don't understand it, but it's a very basic thing. But he didn't say that. So in the fight, when I fight Ken, he sits in the position for a leg lock, and I'm already having my defense ready to stop the leg. And now he threw his leg over my head, which was something that Funaki didn't tell me. And I thought that was weird because then I found out that these guys go six years back and they always pro wrestled to each other. And that was always in the back of my head. Did he say that to him? Because why wouldn't he say, hey, just hold...”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Funaki has always been a good friend of mine. He helped me a lot. There's a whole conspiracy thing going on also with me, though, because I was the first guy to beat Suzuki.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I believe it was because he did pro wrestling in Japan as well on the Ken Shamok and they wanted to steer away from that. And that's his middle name for it, I believe, Ken Wayne Shemok, and that's why they went with Wayne Shemrock.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“An eighth count, but because of that, now you restart back on your feet and you have another fight. Like my last fight, the guy that I knocked out put in a coma, the first guy, I fought him the second time and I broke my points on the very first punch. I submitted them five times. Now I have five submissions or you have way more ring time in there. So all these guys from Japan who went to the UFC, they all became UFC champions. It was the wildest thing. I mean, Antenna, Ken Shamrock, Frank Shamrock, Mari Smith, Guy Metzger. I mean, all these guys myself included. We all became UFC champs and we were from that little small organization bankrupt. And I believe that's because of the rules.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and it would be perfect. So then when I came there, I go, this is easy. I can already do it. They also had eight counts. And then they had this really weird thing, which some people, because of that, people thought it was pro-wrestling, that like rope escapes. So that means if I was, for instance, get you in the choke, but if he could touch the rope, I had to let him go. Now people go, yeah, that's not real fighting, but listen to this because that's why I believe, truly believe, like that small organization Pancros, I think we had a GFC champions. I mean, all these guys became good. And I believe that is the reason because when you look at my record, I have 11 knockouts and 14 submissions. But if you read about my submissions, I actually have 51 submissions because I would submit a guy and then he would touch the rope and let him go. Now, for him, it's the same as getting an eight count. So if the fight goes the distance and he grabbed the rope one time, he's going to lose. You know, or if he went down one time, he's going to lose as well. So it's kind of the same as.”
2022-09-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #621: UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT