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And he said, "After 25, if you haven't found a girl, it's over for you."
"You're hoping he's not right."
"Of course, it's not right. And that's why I want to continue up until 50 years old. Like, I love this [ __ ]. I don't care. White house, black house, yellow house."
"How high is my body count?"
"Gar ones. When I say GMAR, all you say jo."
"And let's do it."
"All right."
"Wow."
"I couldn't get it, brother."
"I tried."
"How you feeling, brother?"
"I'm good. A little fat now, but..."
"We got, we got to find you a wife, bro."
"You can't, you can't find my wife, bro. Oh, I had to find."
"Yeah. Yeah."
"How's the search been?"
"Uh, yeah. It's hard."
"I'm, I'm looking for very special, you know. Special."
"What country would you say has like the most beautiful looking woman?"
"In America? So far so good."
"America."
"Yeah."
"Okay."
"Yeah."
"What's, what's your type?"
"There is two different things. Women, beautiful women. I love all, you know. I love all. But we talk about wife. I'm looking for heart, like, you know, mentally, her past, you know."
"Yeah."
"It's very important for me, you know, and her loyal, traditional woman."
"Oh, so her past matters?"
"Oh yeah, absolutely, bro."
"Like body count and all that?"
"Absolutely. Absolutely, bro."
"How high is too high of a body count for you? That's reasonable."
"Morab, how long do you think you'll have to date a girl to be able to marry her? Are you going to go straight into it after 6 months like some guys do or going to wait some years?"
"Oh, it's, it's sometimes you can tell, you know. You can tell, you know. You can tell by the way, you know, I, you know, here in US like, okay, I go date, dinner, nice dinner, or nice beautiful, we spend nice time together. Either we sleeping same night or next night is no problem. Know this, I love this, but it's not my wife, you know."
"You understand."
"That, that is true."
"So if you can sleep with a girl on the first night, that means that's not your wife?"
"Not first night, even no. She, she only has to sleep with you only for married, you know."
"Okay."
"Otherwise, it's just another laugh, you know, another, you know, we all guys here, we know this, you know, it's, oh, I love, I love all."
"But if she sleeps with me, that means that my wife. If she's not my wife, or you?"
"No. No."
"Would you want your wife to be working or would she be at home working?"
"Bro, no. I'm, I'm cool with everything. Whatever. Of course, she must have her um passion or working, whatever. Whatever. Yeah. Career, anything."
"Yeah."
"You know, she has to be happy. And um..."
"Would you want to do like your uh wedding in Georgia?"
"In US, in Georgia, and um, yeah, some exotic country too. Why not?"
"How are the, how are the weddings in Georgia? It's like at least 300, 400 people."
"I said..."
"It's at least. But me now, I have like, of course, a lot of friends and now, you know, and uh, I think my wedding list will be 600 people, you know. Uh, yeah, it's usually it's big. Old school, we used to have a weddings in in backyard. We used to have a, what's it called, the camps like when they have..."
"Like the tents."
"Yeah."
"Tents. Yeah."
"Something like this. And then weddings used to go 3, 4 days. Like no, 3 days. 3 days."
"Oh, wow."
"Like one day, next day, and 3 days was wedding was 3 days. But now it's, we are, we are doing in restaurant, one night, just celebration, like dancing."
"Yeah."
"How old are you right now?"
"I'm 35."
"You're 35? I don't know if you saw recently, Arman Sarukian, he went on an interview and he said, after 25, if you haven't found a girl, it's over for you. How do you feel about this?"
"No."
"You're hoping he's not right."
"No right. Of course not right. Not right. I mean, when we talk about back in the day, of course, like people, it was now we have career, we have other things to do. Even girls have career, you know. Yeah."
"So before it was nothing else to do."
"Yeah. Of course, you, you must get married early. If, especially if it's girl, you know. If I have a daughter or sister, I want her just married straight. You know, I don't want her date, date, and then, you know. I rather she get straight married, you know, early age and then she can have a career whenever she wants. But, you know, when she has a family, then it's easy. Like that's I wish. But of course, it's life and you never know. If I have a sister or, you know, when I will have a daughter, you know, who knows how life will goes. But that's what I wish for my daughter's sister or my girls. Yeah, you know, because the girls, we know, you know, like, you know, it's life is tough and guys, we know guys, how we are, you know."
"So I rather she just straight married than have a family, you know, that's but, but like things change now and um, like I said, now we have a career, like many things and usually we not ready early age and this way, like me, you know, like when I was young, I want to married, but I was not ready, like financially, family, and also, you know, I was not ready. Know, I don't have a career and I, I, I choose to focus on my career. Now I think I'm good. I'm like my career, I'm good. Like I have career, I think family not, I not going to affect much, you know, you know."
"Uh, and uh, and also I'm ready mentally for sacrifice for my family, not run around, or I will be also loyal and um, you know, I'm ready, you know, I'm ready also mentally, you know."
"Would you want a son or a daughter?"
"Daughters. I want many kids."
"Many kids. How many?"
"Priority will be minimum 10."
"The machine."
"This is the machine."
"With, with your kids, would you want to get them into wrestling or do you want them just kind of just choose whatever they want to get?"
"Whatever they want. But I would love to they choose a martial art, especially MMA, jiu-jitsu. I love, you know, I wish I start jiu-jitsu early age because I started judo early age because jiu-jitsu is the best, you know."
"From like jiu-jitsu. Even if you don't do anything else, long as you have jiu-jitsu, you're fine. You go walk, whatever you want, you can choke people, couple of people, and you know, jiu-jitsu. And then it's never late, you guys. If you guys, like I don't know who's training, who's not training. Jiu-jitsu never late. You can still learn. It's, it's better late than never. You know, all your life you can still get better and learn exercise and uh, it's a good, good training, you know, you not get, you're not going to get bored, boring, you know. So let's say we do jiu-jitsu one day, I make your tap out, next day you may make tap out, and then it's every day, it's like a challenge. You're getting better, I'm getting better, and then like, it's always competition, you know."
"So who would win in a street fight then? A person who has really good boxing but no grappling whatsoever or a guy who's really good with grappling and no striking at all?"
"It's, it's about the person, you know, like sometimes could be soccer player, but if he has a heart, if he willing to fight like crazy. Me, I will always choose grappler."
"Grappler."
"Like, like more, more like numbers, I think more grapplers will win the, but..."
"It's about person, you know, like how you know, maybe you're not a fighter, but depend how you want it. Depend how crazy you are. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know saying, it's about heart time and then everything situation."
"I'm curious, brother. You, I see you like jiu-jitsu a lot. I'm a big fan of jiu-jitsu myself."
"What do you think is happening? A lot of these jiu-jitsu world champions that are getting into into the like Hudie, Marcos Bushesa, like high level IBJF world champions are not having that much success. What do you think is missing in these jiu-jitsu guys? What do you think?"
"So like you say the names, uh, like those guys. Yeah. Are very good in jiu-jitsu, but so Hamzachima, maybe we know he's a good wrestler, but maybe he's not a world champion in wrestling, but you don't need to be world champion in jiu-jitsu to fight, you know what I'm saying? You just need a like, like just basic jiu-jitsu. You need just, but like the, maybe world champion in wrestling, not good in MMA, but just regular wrestler is good MMA. Make sense what I say? So..."
"You say the names, they are very famous in jiu-jitsu, but they not was not, they wasn't in successful in MMA. Maybe because they don't have like, maybe MMA skills, they don't have. But, but general jiu-jitsu is very important. And uh, if you have jiu-jitsu, bro, striking for me, striking is easy because it's, I don't have perfect striking. Like, lot, there is a lot of people. Khabib, he don't have a great striking, right? Like a lot of guys like this. If you have a good wrestling, good ground game, then you, you will make a."
"Yeah."
"Makes sense."
"In your uh win streak, your big streak that you went on, is there a fighter that you wish you fought during that streak?"
"No, I don't have like this. Uh, even like I never want to fight GSP or Miny Mouse in his prime. I don't have like this. So me, how I, how I am."
"Whoever is best in my division. That's why when I beat Cory Sanhagen, it was like I was top, top, right? And then I beat pretty much everybody. It was nobody, nobody left, right? And I said Fitarian deserved most. Why I choose him? Because he was most deserving. I, I know he was most dangerous also, you know. But I said he deserve it because me, whatever is in this time in my weight class and then whoever deserved and whoever is like, I, I would like to fight him, you know. I don't like to go back and choose somebody. Even Bruce Lee or, I know, I, you know, I know Bruce Lee, but doesn't matter. I, even you wake me up like 3:00 a.m. like my terrible, like my worst shape, I can beat Bruce Lee, you know. I think Bruce Lee was that time, he was popular, whatever he was, maybe like something fast, something, but he was not our, our level, you understand? Because..."
"Don't make sense. Like, but I still don't want to fight him because it's a..."
"I'm like realistic, you know, say at this moment, you know."
"Got it. So more real. So we haven't brought up your 2025. But you fought, you defended your title four times. Did you feel like that fourth title defense, you were starting to get like a little bit tired because it was like, yeah, four is a lot."
"Okay, that time when I look now, yes. Because I was like, so now, okay, let me explain this way."
"So I have a little bit off after my last fight, right?"
"Mhm."
"I was in Hawaii with Mark Zuckerberg and from there I go New York for a little bit, see my old teammates and my friends there. From there I go spend spend time with Ilia. From there I go my country Georgia and I was stressed. Oh, I need to go back training, you know. But now I came back because of the little rest and little bit time off. I feel like great. Like everybody telling me, wow, you're so strong now. You know what I'm saying? Like, I guess you need, you need a little bit break, little bit relax and a little bit, I guess. But I'm not making any excuse. That time I was feeling I need to be busy. Uh-huh."
"I need to be busy champion and I'm happy what I did. I never regret, you know."
"And uh, like I said, Peterian was the most deserving guy that time and I knew he was most dangerous, but I still choose him. Even I was, I beat him 2023 and I, I, I can avoid him. I said, 'Yeah, [ __ ] him.' You know, I said I don't want to fight him."
"You know. So, but and you know, but and also I, in the, in the fight, I make some wrong um game plans for fight. Yeah, I was maybe burned out. I have some injuries. I don't want to talk about this, you know, and stuff like this. I, I, I was in worse, worse shape when I put Umar like, because I was like, I was not healthy. I had some injuries like and no good training camp, but I still beat him. So, and you know, like, and then it's there is no, it was one, one best training camp when I fought Shaomali second time. That time I had no injuries."
"Oh, you look so good in that fight and it showed and it showed."
"Yeah."
"I'm curious now that you touched on him. He's obviously fighting this weekend and also your former former opponent Omar Romelo. Do you have a prediction on how both of their fights go?"
"I usually rooting guys who I fought. I either I lost against or I, I win against. But this is only one time again. I'm not, I'm not rooting for Umar Numagamed."
"I'm rooting for Figeredo. Yeah."
"You know, I, I, I want Figared to beat Umar. But my honest opinion, I think Umar will beat him."
"You know, so don't hit hard. He's a great fighter, young, and now he's working. He's wrestling. But I'm, I'm rooting for Shanali. I wish, I, I wish Omali can beat him, you know. That would be, that would be good. I want to take this back to the earlier conversation that we had. Um, who's your uh celebrity crush?"
"I don't, I don't have a celebrity crush like no one. Like not even singers, not even actors, not even fighters. Fighters, I don't, I don't know. I'm friends with them. Fighter, fighter girls. But I don't, I don't want to date fighter girl. I don't want to marry fighter girl. Even there is some sweet ones, like good girls, you know. Of course, I, you know, I love all the girls, but and then even crush, you know, like I love all the girls, like I said, like casual relationship."
"I can't have it with any beautiful woman, but I don't have like this uh, I don't have a celebrity crush. I'm sorry. Now everybody..."
"I'm curious though."
"Um, I mean, I mean, there is few that I would like to..."
"Okay, drop one. Drop one name. Drop one."
"No, no, no."
"Uh, one thing I wanted to ask, I don't know if you saw the whole thing with, you know, Alex Pereira and Tracy Cortez, you know, did you, did you think that was real? Do you think that's what people have to do to kind of like sell themselves even though Alex Pereira is a big name already, but do you think gimmicks like that are necessary? Did you think it was real?"
"No, I, I think it was real. I think they was really date, but they make uh public after the time."
"And then I guess sometimes when you make public, the eyes and attention and everything ends."
"Then the problems come."
"Yeah. And then unfortunately, yeah, doesn't worked out. And uh, yeah, I know it was only people hear the news and then week later everything happened, we see. But they, it was not like weak relationship with us before, but..."
"Would you ever date a UFC fighter?"
"Never say never."
"But like I said, I tell you, no. Like, no. I, I prepared not to, not."
"When you started off and your name was raising in the ranks and you were going crazy, um, Dana White wasn't really a big fan of you. A lot of fans weren't a big fan of you. But when you started to make more of like a social media presence, you showed people that there's more of a side for you, like your personal side, and more and more fans started to like gravitate towards you. What would you tell like up and cominging UFC fighters that are like trying to find a way to like garner a name? Do you think that you did a good job? Did you not want to do it originally and then it worked out? What would you say?"
"Good question. Time we live in in now, it's social media is very important, you know, because people like, as myself, I don't watch TV anymore, like, and I don't even watch movies. I watch social media, right? And uh, it's very important uh for us as a professional fighters to have a social media and then just show yourself, you know, your personality because that's how you get sponsors, you get, it's very important today."
"I mean..."
"Shout out to you behind the..."
"I know he's handling your social media. He's helping you a lot. So, shout out to him. You're doing an amazing job."
"Cuz it completely transformed the way the fans see you."
"And yeah, man. I'm, I'm glad you're getting the visibility you deserve, brother."
"Thank you."
"I have a question for you."
"Some of the guys here aren't very good at dating. Could you give them dating advice? Like how to pick up girls? Maybe cameras off and I, but okay, we can, we can talk a little bit like the dating for like serious relationship or just hook up?"
"Serious, serious, serious."
"I think we have to find the traditional woman, you know."
"Like mentally, she wants date only for married. Unfortunately, it's not very, it's very few people now today's world and they want a kids, they want a family, they want a husband, that they want to be wife."
"Yeah."
"You know, they want to be wife. Doesn't means that she has to be home and cook and clean and like this. We will taking care of her. You know, of course, like we may have a babysitters or our mom or father, like, you know, I can send my kid in Georgia to three years."
"You know, exactly right. You know, say I will take care, I will change the diapers, you know. Doesn't means that she, but she has to willing, wants to willing to have a be wife, you know."
"Commitment."
"Yeah. Like, you know, she has to be ready for cool, clean, the love, baby, raise babies, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, she, she, she has to want a baby, you know, like I said, she has to be date for only for marriage, you know, like that's why I, this kind of woman we want because, because if woman dates this guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, and then she has a crazy past, it's not good. I don't think it's good. That's how I, I, you know, that's how I see, bro. Even now, like, even I live in Vegas now and I don't want to talk about that."
"Yeah. What happens in Vegas stays."
"Yeah. What I see here, it's makes that's why I'm very strict now. I want to like very old school traditional woman. You know."
"I want to, before we go, I'd like to get a pickup line recommendation from you. You know what a pickup line is? I'm sure you know."
"No."
"Like one sentence to that you say to a girl to make her fall in love with you. Like right now, I'm just honest, you know, like before when I was young. Yeah. I used to, yeah. I used to say anything to get her attention."
"Now you just say I'm Rob deolish V."
"Uh, so yeah, before I, I was trying to get her phone number and like, and later on, then of course, now and then I was trying to get her Instagram or something. But uh, now, yeah, just like uh, I'm trying to, even even if I see beautiful woman, I will say my honest opinion or like compliment, but it doesn't means that I'm, I'm not going to try to get her phone number or like, you know, just honestly, it happens automatically if she, whatever. I'm just not trying to, I'm good like now, I, I have..."
"I'm not, I don't know."
"You're not trying to rush things."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"That being said, guys, just make sure you win a UFC belt and you're good to go."
"But anyways, bro, you're, you're the man and like, dude, there's a reason why you are fighter of the year. People respect what you did in 2025. And even though you lost in December, people still recognize that like what you did is not normal. It's that that [ __ ] doesn't happen just regularly. So, props to you, dude. And you're deservingly the fighter of the year for 2025. So, I appreciate you, dude."
"Yeah. Thank you. So that's uh, you know, uh, I appreciate you. I, I, you know, I'm like grateful for all UFC fans or the people around the world. They give me so much love and respect and yeah, like you said, even I lost, I still get a lot of love and respect and that's all matter. That's why I'm, I'm happy and uh, people see hard work and and that's why I want to continue fighting like I said, up until 50 years old like..."
"Oh my god."
"Because you know, I love this [ __ ] and I, I enjoy it and even again, like uh, let's be honest, yeah, I'm not going to be winner of this 15 years, but I want to do my best, you know, I want to do maximum, you know, so because the more fights inspire people and uh, the competition with myself and with other best pipers, that's I think that's all we all have to do, you know, grind and when you have always goal and next challenge and that, then you, you feel live, you know, you have, you have something that drives you, you know, wakes you up and just, you know, you know, because if everything is set up and you already chilling."
"Then you don't have motivation."
"Yeah. It's cool like when uh, we were talking to a UFC fighter and he is like talking about motivation and inspirations and he brought up guys like David Goggins and then he mentioned you with with that. So fighters are like looking up to you as like literally the machine. So you fighting up till 50 is like it makes sense for you to be honest. You're going to be known as the machine forever."
"Both ways."
"Rob, I have one last question before. What do you want the fans to expect from you from this year? And if you have a next fight ID?"
"Yeah. As you guys know, I'm not champion at this moment and uh, I can't call like dates or I can't call UFC and push the dates or something. When I was champion, yeah, I was, please give me fight as soon as possible. But now I'm waiting for Peteran. Uh, one thing is for sure, UFC tell me this. I'm, I'm a next for the title. I'm grateful for UFC. They saw my hard work and and then and it's gonna be trilogy, you know, like I beat, I beat Peter in 2023. He beat me 2025."
"He, he busted me up, you know, make me blood and um..."
"Now it's going to be interesting. I'm sure everybody would like to see this fight and then yeah. And everybody know that it's going to be, it's going to deliver, you know, it's going to be good fight."
"Yeah. So, let's see when Peter want to come back and I'm ready. Uh, I'm back in Vegas in my place training hard every day and uh, yeah, hopefully Peter will come soon and uh, or whenever I'm ready. White House. The White House versus..."
"Yeah, but they told me this. Our fight, it's not gonna be in White House. UFC told me."
"But listen guys, I don't care. White House, Black House, yellow house."
"Just UFC, Apex, whatever it is, I'm fine. Oh, UFC. UFC. No."
"Meta."
"Meta Apex. No, Meta. Meta Arena."
"Yeah, Meta Arena."
"Or my Bey. Long as it's UFC, I'm fine. You know, I, I know. I'm just, just I want to add this. My goal was to fight in UFC and then now I'm in UFC. I've been champion and long as I'm fighting in UFC and I'm, I'm fine with you know, I, I don't mind. I was lucky to fight in at the spear main event, but it was, it's still another fight. It's just..."
"Yeah."
"And I fought in Apex all the fights, all the wins. It's sweet. Same."
"Same. You know."
"That it's in white, white house fights will be another fight. Yes, it's special event, special house, special atmosphere, but it's going to be another fights. And uh..."
"We know sometimes the cards like you think, oh, they don't have a big names. Those fights delivered, you know, because knockouts, finishes, you know. So, that's the matter, you know. I don't care. I don't care location. I don't care dates. I just want to fight for UFC next fight fight against Peter Young channel. You know, like that's it."
"You're the man, bro. You're the man, dude. Appreciate you. Appreciate you for doing this."
"Thank you for this water. It's saving me because I'm. It's way too hot in here. I'm going to go jump in the cold pool now. Die. Let's go."