What is fair is to test myself in MMA because I know if I put my mind to it and I trained every day and I had Nate helping me, even Alex Pereira, all of them, and I really locked in, he will not beat me. I will come with everything I have.

We don't want Ariel to copyright strikers. First of all, fair play, because he's right. It has been done a lot where the MMA guy goes to boxing and hasn't fared too well. Conor McGregor started it all off. Well, he's probably not the first, but he did himself proud. He did well. He went 10 rounds, I think it was, with Mayweather. And Garner went to Fury, did himself really proud. There's been MMA guys fight Jake Paul at the end of their bloody careers. The Jake Pauls dug them Out of the Ground, Out of the Grave, and breathed a little life into them. Tyrone Woodley was the victim of a couple of those. But I do respect Ryan Garcia for saying this, although I do think he's a little bit this guy did.

Yeah, I guess back to people that just get to go out in public without people that protect them from dumb shit. Who's letting him say that? Hopefully, he's just saying it and has no intention of that happening. I don't know. I'm a natural. You're a natural just good bachelor.

I just wrestled my security guard.

Find an MMA fighter. Yeah, find an MMA fighter that needs a security guard.

Yeah, but hold on a minute, Conor McGregor, for one. That's fair. Your security guard isn't going to beat you up. He needs one. Because- A lot of people- No, he does. There'll be security guards on the payroll. He's not going to beat you in anything. He's going to let you do that. And I think when he looks at Sean O'Malley in the way that Sean fights, he's not a wrestler. So I think he may be making the mistake that he thinks that this would be a boxing fight in a cage. Sean's a very, very good jiu-jitsu player.

He's a very good grappler. I I mean, this guy submitted Gomi. He's good. He was on my jiu-jitsu team, and we won the whole thing. He is good. He's very, very good at what he does. And he hung in there with Hector Lombard for a long time. Oh, my God. He did? He did. Yeah. I mean, he's not a very big guy, and Hector is. Hector was at his juiciest.

Do you know his name yet? Who? You know my name yet? Yeah. Come on, bro.

Hector That is juicy. Anyways, I am a big Ryan Garcia boxing fan. I'm a big fan of him, but I think he's getting a little bit deep water here.

It would be nice to see, though. I would like to see that.

I'd pay for it.

Do you think the UFC would pay? Because obviously, he's going to want stupid money to do that. I think that would generate a lot of interest. You would get a lot of boxing people going over. And he's right, we don't see this. We don't see boxers in their prime yet. The first one to do was James, Tony against Randy Gattoy back in the day. It didn't go well. Randy, of course, took him down, choked him out. That's what you're going to do because you want to make an example of them. If Mayweather came and fought McGregor right after that in the UFC, it would have been laughable. It would have been hysterical.

And I think that's what O'Malley and Ryan Garcia would look like. I think it would be hilarious.

Like Tyson Furie said that he's the baddest man on the planet, and he would beat Jon Jones in an octagon. Yeah.

No. It'd be laughable.

That's just so funny.

So it sounds like we're talking bad about these boxers. I don't know. It's something about seeing Jon Jones pick Tyson Furie up over his shoulder and just carry him around the octagon and just hold him like a baby on the ground. It'd just be funny.

Could you see a world where Jon Jon Jones, picks up Tyson Fury? Like Henry Zahuda picked up my rab, carries him across the octagon, slams him down, and then starts giving it a me-rab. You know what I mean? Looking at Mark Zuckerberg with the big cheesy guner in his face, and Tyson's there, No man alive. Should we doing this to me? You know what I mean? I had to get one in.

I think that's exactly what would happen.

Jon Fuh is losing his mind at the side of the octagon.

So John Jones is holding it back. Oh, God.

Oh, shit. It'll never happen.

What a fun video that would be.

Brian, you were talking off there before about boxing, and there was something that you didn't like. Oh, yeah.

Well, you think boxing would be better if they didn't care so much about a singular loss on their record? If the best people actually fought the best people, I feel like the sport would be much more watchable.

Yeah, I understand what you're trying to say, and you put it into perfect words earlier. Basically, in boxing, a lot of the time, you lose a fight, and that is catastrophic for the career. Just recently, we've seen it not be quite as impactful, but back in the day, certainly, they lost one fight, and that was it. It was over. Career is over. Career is over because they put so much stock into that. And yeah, I don't like that. And that is why we still haven't seen the likes of USIC Riders Republic versus FURY, for crying out loud. We are getting that soon, but look how complicated it has been to make that fight. And it's because the managers and the people involved and all the business and the politics around it and the multiple promotions and promoters and stuff makes it almost damn near impossible to make these fights happen.

Because everyone's got their hand in the pot. The best fights in the world, the most intriguing and exciting fights for fans and everyone else is fights where you don't know who's going to win. So everyone connected to these boxers feel the same way. I don't know. I don't know if he can beat him. So then they avoid it because they know that the result could be catastrophic, and everybody's pocket hurts after that.

And that's why, to a certain degree, why Saudi Arabia is putting on these amazing fights because they've got the vast amount of money where both sides are going to be happy They look at it and go, This is worth a risk anyway. You know what I mean? We'll take 30, 40. I think Fuh is getting $50 million guaranteed for fighting Alexander Usyk. That's crazy. Usyk is getting 30 or something like that.

It's so much money.

So much money. A lot of those boxing events, if they don't absolutely smash it out of the park, they lose money. Is it showtime? Showtime is no longer a thing because the purses just get so out of hand. It's just insane.

That amount of money is so just absolutely... And good for them. I'm glad they're getting it. Oh, 100 %. Sure makes me wish I was a high-level boxer, though.

Me and you both, buddy. Me and you both. Harrington, is there any questions that we need to get to before we get to... Sorry, any stories we need to get to before we get to questions?

Yeah, I was going to say there is a question, and It does relate to boxing versus martial arts versus every other sport. Espn put out a ranking where they ranked every sport based on how hard it is to do. So they included your endurance needed, your strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, how well you deal with nerves, durability, hand-eye coordination, et cetera. And then ranked every single one. As they said, boxing was the highest level. And then I think in last place was billiards or something of that nature. Maybe air hockey or bad news.

So they've got endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility. What's N-E-R?

Nerves.

Nerves. D-u-r, what's that? What's D-U-R, you think?

Durability.

Durability. N-e-r is nerves as in how hard it is to psych yourself up to go and do this thing.

What's ANA? A-n-a. How much anabolic steroids you need?

I will look that up. I had the full-law story.

Anyway, they've got boxing at one. Boxing is a tough sport. I Basket football, baseball, wrestling, martial arts. I think when they've got martial arts, they probably mean martial arts/mixed martial arts, which is crazy because you got to do wrestling, and you got to do boxing, and you got to do kickboxing, and you got to do jiu-jitsu. Out of those top 10 there or top 15, Anthony, is there any that shock you or surprise you?

Yeah, I mean, I can't believe that martial arts is below basketball. That's for sure. I would say a large part of basketball starts with- No, martial arts is above basketball.

No. Oh, no, it's not. Sorry, I was looking at baseball, softball. Yeah, yeah.

No, it's so like, A large part of basketball comes with just how you're born. Some of that is just gifts. If you're seven foot tall, you're going to be pretty good at basketball, probably.

Yeah. It's even more shocking, no offense to all you NFLers, all you footballers, or you pro football guys. They play. I watched the Super Bowl, bro. And I know we haven't had you on here since then. Congratulations.

World champions. You play? World champions of the National Football League.

You play for... Just go back to that graphic, please, Brian. You play for three seconds at a time.

Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Five second bursts at the moment.

Five second bursts. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, there's some strong boys, and there's some powerfulness, and fast, and all the rest. There's also a lot of people just like, Pushing each other in the middle.

I'm sorry. The first one is endurance, correct?

Endurance.

Look at endurance in martial arts. It claims that it's a lower number than endurance in football.

I Do you know if there's one... They've got rodeo at number 15, steel wrestling. If you had to pick one that's the most surprising to you, other than mixed martial arts not being the top, what would that be?

Alpine skiing.

That shocks you?

Yeah. Find one football player that could Alpine ski.

I don't think it necessarily works like that. But the one, if I was to say here, Looking at these, the toughest out of all of them, do you know what I think it would be?

Probably gymnastics.

Gymnastics. Yeah.

They are- One of the two that stood out was gymnastics and Alpine skiers. Gymnastics. That is some hard shit.

The strength, the power, the agility, the speed, the flexibility, everything combined. Gymnastics at the highest level, they are the best athletes walking planet Earth.

Simple as that. I If we're talking just athletes and athletic ability and difficulty in your craft, all those people you see at the Olympics are the tip of the spear when it comes to athletic ability and what human bodies are capable of.

I mean, degree of difficulty, this is what it's ranking here. I'd say number one for sure, for sure, gymnastics. And then I'd say mixed martial arts after that, probably. Degree of difficulty I mean, lacrosse. I couldn't play lacrosse. Water polo, I'm a shit swimmer. Soccer, I have two left feet. Soccer is a tough game. I said tough, I mean, skillfully.

It's a very skillful game. It's hard to be Skilled at soccer.

Yeah, but ice hockey, get fucked.

Yeah, fuck. Like football? Come on. I'm not saying that they're not great athletes, that they're not incredible at what they do. We're like, Putting him up against some of these other sports, I don't think you put it above it.

I'm wearing a Violent Gentleman shirt. It's an ice hockey brand that my friend owns. Got a lot of respect for ice hockey players.

I should have your friend send me one of those shirts. I like them.

I will do. You're going to wear it on the show, though. I will. You'll send you a box. The hoodies are beautiful. Are they? This is a Violent Gentleman, yeah? I'll send him this little clip, but you're out of your goddamn mind. I don't know who put that list together. They don't know what they're doing.