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Chatri Sityodtong

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  1. “When someone gets cremated, I've gotten to funerals, of course, when I lived in America where you bury people other than my grandmaster watching someone get cremated. And the next day, you actually come back and pick up the ashes and the bones. They ask me, what do you want to do with the bones and the ashes? And I thought, you know, I'm going to go to the beach where my father brought me. I took a boat out and then we sprinkled his ashes everywhere. But that's also kind of crazy because that's what you realize. Everything we have in life. At the end of the day, my father, like this great man, you know, when I was a kid, just ashes in the ocean. And that's what all of us are going to end up. And I remember going back that night on the plane and thinking to myself all the things that my father did wrong in life and all the anger had him. I started to write down the things that I was grateful for. He gave me my name, which crazy enough ended up being symbolic of what my life's work would end up.”

    2025-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “To bring the family out of poverty, you know, I could have easily, if I wasn't so angry, if I wasn't so stuck to my pride, you know, maybe I would have had that quote unquote fairy tale ending. One thing I learned about life, man, Tim, is like, you never know what is good luck or bad luck until many years later when you discover what the lessons were of that experience, right? So anyways, added eulogy, you know, we cream his body. I guess maybe a typical Asian household or Thai household. My father was larger than life. And that's how I remembered him as a kid. He was the one who introduced me to Muay Thai. He took me to Limpini Stadium. He took me to Jiji Tong.”

    2025-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “It took my anger away, or maybe my anger dissolved over time. It was bittersweet because I thought that I had this kind of like, I want to go find my father and we can talk it out. And then we're going to be closer than ever. And there's going to be a real relationship. So in that regard, it didn't happen that way. And another crazy thing is, you know, at his funeral in Thailand, in Buddhan funeral, you cremate the body. was obviously giving the eulogy to all family members. And again, I didn't have a lot of emotional attachment to my father because I hadn't seen him in so many years and very, very distant. I had memories of him, but we weren't close by any means. I ended up not being able to keep it together. I was bawling. So there's a lot of weird things. And I'm like, in some weird way, I finally understood my father. So life came full circle. But in a weird way, you know, I wish I had looked for him earlier when I had managed.”

    2025-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “I try to be empathetic about it. And I thought we had time to rekindle the relationship, but unfortunately shortly after, a couple years later, he ended up crazy story. He ended up getting a stroke about a year after that. And it's the worst kind of thing. I didn't even know this kind of thing existed, but he became completely paralyzed. Except his brain was 100% working and his eyes were working, so he could hear you, he could see you, but I mean, it's like, I guess you're locked in your body. And that was very rough for me to see. And about a year and a half after that, he passed away.”

    2025-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “I really want to know why after my father went bankrupt, why would he just throw his family away and just abandon, you know, basically disappear? I remember, I don't know if I've ever said this story before, but I remember that night when I saw him and we went to go out eat dinner. And it was weird because he's so old and so frail. And I asked dad, you know, this first time I really asked him, you know, why would you just disappear? He was a man of very few words. And in his own way explained that as a Thai man growing up, he felt so ashamed of himself that he could not no longer provide food for his family. And it's just the way society works. Maybe it's Asian society, maybe it's Thai society. But in many ways, it was just easier for him to just, I guess, disappear rather than face every day looking at his kids and his wife”

    2025-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I think real estate goes through cycles, and my father was caught on the wrong end of cycle with a lot of debt. He just overinvested. And I never actually spoke to him about it. That's what I kind of surmised, put the pieces together to this day because one minute my father was doing well and the next minute, you know, the bank repossessed the car, the house, and he had literally nothing. And then when he abandoned the family, it was a really rough time. And I had a lot of anger with, and I didn't see my father for, I don't know how many decades. I eventually reached out to him maybe around 10 years ago. I went to go find him. I found him in Patia, which is where I spent a lot of my childhood in Thailand. And it was dirt, dirt poor. And of course, how you remember your father when you're younger versus, you know, he was frail and old and wasn't what I had imagined my reunion to be. I reached out to him because, you know, I carried so much anger with me for so long.”

    2025-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “I grew up in a well to do family in Thailand, so I was a bit an anomaly in that sense, you know, Muay Thai, as you probably know, Tim, is a very poor person sport in Thailand. Yet when I was about nine years old, my father took me to Lumpini Stadium, which is a mecca of Muay Thai. And I just got bit by the bug. And of course, Muay Thai is on TV seven days a week in Thailand. And I got the bug early and I started training. And then one day asked my father, can you take to Sit Yotong camp? Which was the number one gym at the time in the country. And that's where I began my training under Criyotong and, you know, six hour days. And it's incredible training. But later in life, in the early 90s, my father started his business, started to falter, and then eventually went bankrupt and he abandoned the family.”

    2025-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Exactly. So the two biggest gyms, I guess, in history, in longevity in Thailand have been fair tax and Sit Ya Tong. And so, yeah, exactly Bunkert Fair Tex, Jongson, and Fairtex. You know, everyone adopts the last name or rather takes a gym name as your last name, as you well know now. I didn't realize you also did a lot of Muay Thai. Amazing.”

    2025-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Birth name is Chatritis' repistle on my passport. It's what my parents gave me. But I use my martial arts name, which my grandmaster, Crioton Senan gave me. So in Thailand, when you train and compete for a given gym, the master of that gym will eventually bestow upon you your last name. And it's usually the fight name is the last name is the name of the gym. It's just a historical custom in Thailand. My first name is Chautri, which is my birth name, and my last name. The martial arts world is Sit Ya Tong, which my Feel so much closer to my grandmaster and use the name that he bestowed upon me. And it's just one of these things that kind of funny, but evolved. But if you go ask any old school fighter from Thailand, all over the world, they're still using their fight name. That's just part of the culture of Thailand.”

    2025-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT