1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Anthony "Lionheart" Smith - Training Camp Expenses: August 20th, 11:45am

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

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You're listening to One-on-One with DP, brought to by Canopy Street Market on 93-7 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. A special Wednesday, again, we've got the folks from American Volleyball Coaches Association coming in and breaking down this incredible volleyball weekend and Haymarket and what's going on there. And then the lovely ladies from link to literacy and they will break down work. birdstock and some other special projects they have going on. But getting books into the hands of young people is vital and important. The value of literacy and having young people not only read, but be read to by their parents. The value, they've done the study and the exponential value of that is important. And we'll have that discussion.

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the expenses of a training camp. Oh, yeah. Right? Right. And this is when I hope you're on the stream. So you could have just seen Anthony Smith's facial expression just changed. Yeah. Just talking about the financing and how this works.

So let's say. When you're young, they're cheap. He's ain't got no money. Right. And people know you don't have any money. Right. And then when they find out that you have money, then of course,

goes out. No, you know what's a crazy phenomenon. When you're young and you're grinding, you got no money. Nobody gives you any breaks. Then when you got money, then everyone wants to give it to you for free. It's crazy. Listen, we're sitting in there. I was just saying, in the back, you know, there's goodies from Canopy Street Market. Oh, listen, I'm, I'm going to get them. Going to send you down to meet with Tony Goans and capital cigar, right? It's the next thing. And in the space. But let's say, so it is now August. say for the sake of discussion, they call you and say, one more fight January 1st. What has to take place for you?

One, you know when you need to go to camp. You know when you need to start your weight cut and you know when you need to hire people and then how it's paid for. How does that work? So immediately I would have to, well, I would do my camp, we'll just, because we're talking about me, so it would be in Denver. Yep. So I would have to go back.

So I used to have an apartment in Denver near the stadium, kind of. So I would have to find a place right now. I'd have to go and get an Airbnb or an apartment or whatever for, you know, the eight weeks before, nine weeks before. The way that I've always done it, I've always driven out the first time so that I don't have to rent a car the whole time. So at some point I would have to drive out there. We would have to look at what kind of training partners or training partners I would

need, what the style is. and then we'd have to seek those guys out and we'd have to cut our own deals with those guys figure out dates and their travel and all of that stuff. Then there's the medical part of it so you'd have to get your medicals done, which is its own, you know,

its own thing, whatever that costs. And then I personally fly back every weekend. So I've never missed a weekend in training camp. So I'd leave Friday after sparring and then fly back Monday morning. So I would need 10 round-trip flights. and then just all the things that come with living in two different places at the same time. The expenses, I mean, for 10 weeks, I always have a car in an airport parking garage.

And that sounds really silly and not that big of a deal until you need it. But if you really think about it now, again, because we're on such tight schedules, I don't park in VIP parking because I want to be fancy. I park because I'm on a tight window both ways. So I have to be as close as possible. there's the amount of times that I've sprinted onto that plane because I got hung up at practice longer than I thought I was going to and barely made it is way more times than I had plenty of time to get on the flight. I'll tell you that. So a hundred percent of the time during a training

camp, I have a vehicle in a city somewhere and sometimes three in a parking garage at an airport paying, you know, $30 a day. There was one time I switched training camp a little bit. So I was in I was in Denver. And this is just like an example of a stupid story. But I was in Denver, flew home, switched it up and decided instead of going back to Denver, I was going to go to North Carolina. So then I ended up in North Carolina for two weeks or three weeks or whatever it was. Then flew home for the weekend.

Then went back to North Carolina. I flew home again. Then went back to Denver. This whole time I've had a car in the Denver. So I've had, I'm in North Carolina. I have one in Omaha that I left when I flew out. I have one in Denver that was still there. And then I also have a rental that I'm driving in North Carolina.

So by the time I got to my car back in Denver, it was, it was like $2,000 just to get it out of the parking. What? It's just stupid stuff like that just adds up through an entire training camp. And then who pays for it? I do. Yeah. Before I fight.

Before you fight for before I fight. I mean, my nutritionist alone is $6,000 to get me on weight Tuesday to Saturday. That's all they do is feed me. It's $7,000. Six grand. you go up to university and find some people. And then they feed me, depending on where I am.

Like they had a partner that was in Denver. So then I'm also paying for every meal while I'm in Denver. I'm not saying that that I'm not trying to make anyone feel bad for me. That's part of the cost that it takes, but it's not cheap. Yeah. Every training camp. I don't know.

It depends on how long it is where it. Plus travel too because then I have to, like the UFC pays for me and two training partners or two coaches. but I usually have to bring two training partners and three coaches. So I have to, whatever additional I have to pay for. I need you to go back in time. Just to Singapore, I paid $30,000 in travel just for my team. Yeah, I just,

I just, I miss my opportunity because I need for him to get one of those fight kits in my size. When he put it in the order. I mean, who knows, man? Maybe we'll get one more and you can be in the corner. Yeah, you don't need one more. I don't need that. We'll go fight at the White House. I don't need that for you.

You go to the way as I'm going home. I'm going to cover it. Yeah, I'll just work it. There we go. We're all in that. We're going to break. But, Anthony, the question to set this all up is, how's your volleyball serve? I serve.

It's pretty nasty. Okay. Nasty serve. I got a nasty serve. Good to know. The 2025 AVCA, a first serve event this weekend, actually from the 22nd to the 25th down. Hey, Mark, we'll talk about that. We're bringing Jamie Gordon, CEO of AVCA.

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