1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - How much would it take for you to fight "Cyborg": April 25th, 10am

Episode Date: April 25, 2022

Not enough money in the worldDP tells the story of when he got chest slapped by Ric FlairAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery on 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Happy Monday, everybody. Thank you for joining, hanging out. 93-7 of the ticket. Let's see, here's where we are with this. 402, 464-5-685.

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spent the evening Saturday watching there were two fight events, mixed martial arts events that was going on. One was UFC and that one was pretty good because Jessica Andrage was the first

fighter period ever to do a standing guillotine choke submission. What? Standing. Like, yeah. What? Yeah It was amazing How do you

Yeah It was amazing I had never seen it before Like she choked a person out Standing up And then the woman Choked out And then passed out

And sat down And just You know Work work Work things out And a pretty good fight But then Cyborg was fighting

At the same time And it was really good fight Actually The first time Cyborg was taking Five rounds First time ever And it was a brawl

Like they beat each other up Like it wasn't you know, one side of this was a brawl. But then I was asked this Saturday, and I didn't have an answer. So I'm going to ask you guys, how much money would it take for you to fight cyborg in a full-on fight? What would it take? You got to make sure my family is taking care of the rest of their lives

because my life is over if I get in that fight. Right? Like I... There's not enough money. Like, I like my face. I like my body. I don't want any of this messed up. I don't want to have to go to the hospital for anything.

Are there any MMA female fighters that you would fight? There's nobody in MMA that I would fight. I don't care if it's a female or if it's a male that's like 90 pounds. I'm not fighting anybody who does mixed martial arts. I'm not, that's just not happening. They know moves that I've never heard. They'll somehow take my pinky and break my neck.

I don't know how it's going to work. They'll turn your pinky towards you. Yeah, I don't know how it's going to work. I'm not doing that. They will take their left foot and kick me on the back of my head on the right side and they'll be standing in front of me. I'm not doing it. Like I kept trying to, you know, pay attention to it, right?

Like, yeah, would I do it? No, you wouldn't. You wouldn't. I could not now. Even, look, even when you were younger, I feel like you were smarter than that. I wasn't. I wasn't. I told you, I'm the idiot that allowed Rick.

to slap him in the chest. See, but that's different. That's different. Like, that is painful. I thought it was different. That is painful and idiotic of you. Right. But that's not getting kicked in the head.

Well, I thought, I'm not sure that I can think of a thing that you should want done to you less than Rick Flair chopping you across the heart. An arm bar from Ronda Rousey? Close. because you have like the thing is as soon as she grabs your arm you have to tap because you like we don't have the muscle strength to keep our arm from snapping in one pull yeah like we're not pulling back from her pulling your arm down to keep it from breaking right away I would like your elbow is popping up like it's bending the other way if you don't tap as soon as she grabs your wrist Yeah, so Don says, can I get a Bobby Bonilla payout plus my medical bills cover it?

No, you would just get the Bobby Bonilla pay. And use that to pay your medical bills. I don't know. Lemon says he would let, well, let me make sure I read this right because he says he would let her punch him in the face without even trying to block it for 10 grand. So he would take a punch. Or ma'am. I don't know. I don't know if I'm a guy.

Could ever guy says, give me 10 million. I'll let her punch me once and I'll be knocked out. No way I'm lasting more than one punch anyway. Right. What if you have to last a round? Yeah, you have to last a round. At least one round. Hmm.

No, there's not enough because I'm not last. Like, I'm not lasting around because I can't just run the entire time. Yeah, like I don't know. Because also she'd catch me. The ring is only so big. Right. The octagon is not, you can't, you're not, like you can't just run for five minutes. She'll pier my escape route.

She'll just cut me off. Like I was trying to think if it was one of the smaller fighters, but the smaller fighters, like the smaller fighters is like, Thug Rose, Nama Yunus. Dangerous. Who, who, okay, no. Dead. So pull my arm off.

Like, no, I don't want to fight Doug Rose. No. So I don't really know that there's a thing. Because the thing is, I'd be like, oh, yeah, let me just get, like, into a grappling match. But the thing is, no. because they'll end up on top of me choking me out somehow with their toes. I don't know what's happening.

I just pinned you with an eye line. Yeah, I don't know what's happening. I'm not doing that. I watched them and then the following, so they had, you know, you have fight night, and then the following morning, they ended up in the same place, and they took pictures together. And the face of MMA fighters the morning after. Like it looks like post-surgery.

Yeah. Like, there's swelling cuts, bruises. Like, you think of the big cuts, but... The little ones. You need to think of all the ones where the glove and the elbows just grazed and pummeled. There's just vacillating all over their faces. They're not going to give you $10 million for wearing head gear. You're going to have to go in bare.

You can't wear headgear. This is M.M.A. Like you're never going to fight. There's no headgear. There's no head gear. You go, see? There's gloves that are very thin. Yeah, I've, I have a pair of the gloves.

They have some. They're not thick. It's not, you're taking the beating. It'll protect you from the bumps of the knuckles, but it's still. No, it's still leather against your forehead. And the, the real thing is the elbows. The elbows are, are where. It's a little different.

Because the tip of the elbow against... A chin. Against chin or forehead. That's why they open up... The tip of the elbow on the side of the eye. They open up pretty well. Yeah. My thing is, like, getting punched in the face, as long as I get knocked out right away, not that bad.

But if I get punched in the body... But you don't want to be knocked out. I'm not trying to go through that. You don't want to be knocked out. I don't want to experience the pain of getting punched and still. But you don't want, you don't want, you don't want, you don't want, you're nervous system to take such a shock that your body just goes, I'm out. I've been knocked up before. It's not, it's not that bad.

Have you? Yeah. Who knocked you out? That was one of my cousins. Wait a minute. We weren't fighting. We were just messing around. Of course you were.

You weren't fighting. They were fighting. They were loading you up. It was actually been knocked out twice. And it was like an act. We were doing just wrestling moves. Like, you know, you wrestle with your cousins. And we're just like flipping each other and all this stuff.

And he just turned around real quick. And it was like a spinning back fist. And he just caught me right on the side of my face. And I just dropped. And then I like, I like wake up. And I was like, I was like, oh, yeah, let's keep going. But he's like, dude, you've been like out for like two minutes. I would.

Like, it's been like I just hit the mat. What are you talking about? Like, what are you talking about? Who was the second one? You said there were two. It was one of my other cousins. Your cousin. What is wrong with you?

He choked me out. What's wrong with your family? He just, like, jumped on my back and just started squeezing. And I was trying to pull his arm off. And then the next thing I know, I'm waking up and I'm against the wall. And I'm like, what happened? So we did a thing when we were kids that, well, not everybody did it, but apparently my cousins did it. Shout out cousins.

Right. Right. Cousins. Evil. But sometimes I would spend part of the summer up in New Jersey. and up in East Orange with my cousins. And they ran a little rougher than we. Your Jersey cousins.

Then we did, right? Those are my Jersey cousins, right? Everybody has a cousin that might be from Jersey. Right, right. They went a little harder. These are the ones that introduced me to, like, Dr. Jay. They introduced me. Like, we went to Yankee Stadium when I was 10, went to, Shea Stadium when I was 10, 10, 11.

and you go but these are the first ones that when I was nine it was in the summer and so he was on a baseball team at the rec league and they were going to play and they didn't have enough players like one of the players didn't show up so my cousin goes all right Derek you got to play and I was tiny so he put me at second base and like the first ground ball that was thrown hit to me you know I smoothed it up threw it out and they said all right but I was hitting ninth and so then they just told me to scrunch up and get small so that they couldn't throw strikes.

Just shorten up your strikes off. Oh, yeah, just shrink the strikes out, right? And I walked three times, and then finally the guy just lobbed it up there. But I was already a baseball fan, and we were always playing in the neighborhood. And I was a really good bunter. So I bun it and beat it out. And they were like, well, why didn't you do that the first three times? I'm like, because he didn't throw me a pitch to do it.

with um but there's a thing that we did they were doing in the neighborhood was making each other pass out and the way they were doing is you would get against the wall and then the person would press against your stomach until you just passed out yep we did that in high school I didn't know what this was did they like you like cross your arms yeah and then like just push on your chair you like take a deep breath and then they just push and then you're just like bloop yeah you blob out and that's what it was and we did that and then And the only problem was, like, one of the kids, they did this, and one of the kids passed out, passed out, and hit his head.

Yeah. Like, he landed on the concrete and they said, okay, so this is probably why you shouldn't do this. We should not do this anymore. We should not. I don't know if anybody else, I didn't know anybody else did that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we did that in high school. People still do that.

Okay. Can we do a public service announcement and tell people not to do that? Stop making your friends pass out. Your friends have failed members. pass out. Yeah, I think we should. Like there was a couple of ways. There was that way, and then there was the Jay Strongbow sleeper hole. Chief Jay Strongbow.

You go through and you lock the dude up. Yep, you get it. You grab it. And then I didn't know until years later when Gordon Solie would tell us on Georgia championship wrestling, they put the elbow, they put the form directly across the carotid artery, which cuts off blood to the brain and you pass out. And you lose consciousness. And I was like, oh, is that?

that what we were doing? I thought I just couldn't breathe. And I had, the funny thing of my cousin, he would have been he thought it was the karate artery. Makes more sense. It really does. Because if you pass out, you can't do karate. It's a karate.

So as we learned along the way, you just go, wow, this is what this is. So yeah, I don't know that we should do this. So, yeah, I would rather just get punched in their face and get knocked out then take a body blow and be an immense pain. I thought that except... I'm not trying to pee blood for a week. I don't want to get punched in my side. Are you familiar with Rhino, the wrestler?

I feel like I am. Rhino. Rhino was the spear. He was the guy that would just run at you and just, of course. A little cut you in half with his shoulder and then pen you. Well, I was offered that one. Nope And wisely

The universe stepped in And stopped me from doing it But the flash lap I was bruised My chest was purple For like 10 days Like It hurt to shower

Like water Touching the water touching That makes sense Like he didn't even know He's like stop crying I barely touched you Like The water

Again the first one, because the first slap, this was a feature from a Carolina Blitz TV show when I was covering the Panthers. But Flair was my next-door neighbor, and Flair was a Panther fan, which I find interesting that everybody around the league uses Flair for football games and woo's. But back then, it was just Carolina. And he would host, I mean, he would buy like 100 kamikazis and just we would all be challenged to do our share.

And then he says, well, hey, you know, come. in and get in the ring with me. I'm like, sure. Like, sure. Yeah, you don't turn that down. Sure. So the first thing, a couple of things. We get there at the gym, and it's Ricky Steamboat and Rick Flair's gym, right?

So there's amazing pictures all over the wall and you spend 30 minutes just looking at pictures. But then the ring's there. And what is the thing that if you were in front of a wrestling ring, what's the first thing you would do if you got in a wrestling room. Climb the turnbuckle. Right? So, right? In order, climb the turnbuckle.

Then what? I jump, like, do a front flip or something. Right? Try flip, right? Flame yourself. You slam yourself. Well, of course. And then third, which is the thing that-

Bouncing around all the ropes. There it is, right? Yeah. I'm running and I'm just bouncing everywhere. Right? But here's what happens. A couple of things you don't know. Is when you bounce off those.

ropes at full speed you bruise it is like taking a whoopin really and you are it's like a

it's like razor straps against your back right and the first time you press off against it right and you go you're like

look at me go and you go ow I'm so ow that hurt like I'm awesome but that hurt and then you The second one, you go across and you hit it, right?

And you, oh, this is getting worse. Interesting. This is getting worse. But then immediately your focus turns to, holy crap, this is hard. Like, I'm tired. Yeah. Like, I'm already, like, I hit the ropes twice. and by the time I hit the third rope,

the pain from the rope is less than your lungs going, Hey, bro. Stop it. You should probably chill out right about now. So we do that. And then what you want to do is do the cross flop, right? Where you come across and you come off the rope and you just drop down. But then you have to get up and then run to a different rope,

which seems way easier than it actually is. And this is when I was in shape. I was working out with the Panthers. So I had it together. But I am dying. Dying. Dying. So then, and I'm in a full sweat just from like four,

touching the ropes four times. Yeah. I'm in a full, like, oh, this is the full sweat. Sounds perfect. So my camera woman, Sheila. I love Sheila so much. Shout out Sheila. Shout out Sheila.

Sheila was my camera woman. She did all the features that we did. all the vignettes and certainly. Like we went, we went, uh, pheasant hunting and she went with us and she had to talk me through actually like you pull the trigger deep. Shoot the pheas. Shoot the pheasant. Shoot the pheasant.

The pheasant hasn't done anything to me. But the pheasant's going to taste it. Yeah, I'm not going to eat it like it wasn't good. But she's there and she's just kind of maneuvering me through any of these shoots. So RICO. Flair and his son walk in. Mm-hmm. And the.

reality is, is like, you know, and Flair is always Flair. Okay. There's never a time when Rick Flair is not Rick Flair. Yeah. It's, hey, big fella. That sounds tired. You right? Like, oh, oh, oh, right?

And he says, so what do you? He goes, did you try the ropes out? He leans against it, you know? Of course I try the ropes out. Of course he goes, gassed, aren't you? Totally gasped. Kind of crazy person do you think? I wouldn't I try the ropes out of.

Totally gassed, right? Well, part of me was like, I, Do I tell him that I was playing around in his ring? Like, you know, because you don't want. He invited you over. I don't want to be disrespectful. No, he invited. He totally expected you to.

Right, like, what he knew. He knew that. Like, if you're a wrestling fan and a wrestler invites you over to their, and they have a ring, like, they know exactly what you're going to do. You're going to ring out, right? You're going to ring out. They know you're probably going to hurt yourself, and it's fine. Right.

So a couple of things I didn't expect. One, he says, we says, we'll do, he goes, if we're going to do the chest slap, we have to do. the full move, which is him, bouncing you off the rope, getting you, you know, a couple of blows to push you back into the corner. He'll throw you across the ring into the turnbuckle. You turn your back into the turn buckle,

drape your arms across it. As your arms are draped, draped across it, the ropes, your chest is exposed, and Flair walks over. Well, it was the first time I felt the turnbuckles against my spine. Those also seem very painful. Yeah, right? The padding on those is not a lot.

More than you would think, right? I'm like, it's just metal, and they're like, oh, we're going to put this padder. There's no padding. No, but except, but remember, I'm being thrown by flare. Yeah, and you're also running because you're being thrown by flare, so you're like, I got to do this right. Right.

And so you're running, and you don't recognize that the professionals pace that. Mm-hmm. Right? You're on full speed. Full speed, stupid. Woo-hoo! Wack! Broken spot.

Oh, like, it. the sound you make is oh and then your arms are trapped draped across it and so Sheila's up on the on the on the on the side of the ring to get the shot and as he everything hits slow motion like when I hit my back hits that everything the world is in slow motion and he walks over like I'm pretty sure he ran over but in that time he walked extremely he was like this was I'm watching the dinosaur come get me right sitting there you're like there's absolutely nothing I can ha ha and then he screamed the phrase now we go to school not what you want to hear

I don't want to go to school that that is not no that is not the thing you want to hear If I'm with a professional in their environment and I hear now we go to school, I don't want to go to school. Because he can't let me leave feeling like I can handle this. He needs to teach me a lesson. And he came over and I, I mean, I had on a T-shirt, I had a Caroline Panthe T-shirt. And I mean-I was going to ask you if you were a bare chest. No, I, oh, you, I was not going.

You would have died. Oh, there's no chance. And I mean to tell you the angle that he took was. It was masterful because he's coming at me full speed. And before I know it, he's turned his ankle, his angle. And his hand is back past his shoulder. So he is bringing this, as Richard Price said, he brought it from like Georgia, came through Mississippi, picked up speed in Tennessee.

Cocked that back. And then the quickness of how quickly that hand got from his opposite shoulder to my chest. And here's the thing. It shot. It's a sniper shot to your chest. But what you also don't recognize is the pros know how to move their chin out of the way. He caught your chin. And I don't know this.

So across the chest and then up across the chin. Now, I don't care about the chin because my chest hurts. I feel like my back is my chest. Like he slapped me so hard in the chest, my back hurt. You probably smacked your spine. Right. You just go, what is happening? And this is when it got really, it got really weird because I, I saw the film and the, the look on my face was empty.

it was empty when people say surreal and the tears the tears running down my eye just thinking about you died that like i literally just the tear the pain brings a tear the tears running rigo can vouch there's a tear running down he is crying just right dp is crying just talking about rickler smack and the thing is do it again flare no what does the flare ask the question like he sees me he sees my reaction but i don't go down and in my head I'm thinking of raging bull. I didn't go down Ray. I didn't go down. You couldn't take me down. And in my head, I'm saying that like just man up. You got this. Stay here and just like, yeah. See? I'm fine. Yeah. Except Flair asked the question. You good? Yep. And you can see Sheila go. I look over and you can just see Sheila go.

one sad tear. There's just one sad tear. No, man. What is, like, no, man, what is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? And you good? There's a, like, what I should have said was, no, I'm done.

Like, I'm done. And right now my body is going through it. My palms are the tears are flying down my face. D.P. So his body is just like, stop. Stop making us remember. Why are you taking me through this again? But the bad part was once I said yes, in my head, the conversation with myself was that was a horrible idea.

And then Flair grins. He grins at me. And you say he just like, got him. And he, you know when Barry Bonds hit a bomb? and the sound that it makes, and then his react, like his body reaction is, oh, I got all of that one. I got all of that one. I got all of that one. Yeah.

That's what Flair hit me with. He hit me with that one. And the sound sounded like, I don't know, if you just took two flat pieces of board and dropped them on each other. So the imitation starting gun? Yeah. like yeah no so the pain was different because it took the pain that i was already is crying right because it's not even it's just your right eye it's just like please stop bro it was like the pain from the first one was there it's like the hot wing thing where the pain is there and you're occupied

by it until the next pain comes that makes you forget about about the pain that you've never felt before. And I couldn't breathe. Like my heart was like, what is going on? What is happening out there? Like, my lungs are like, what is going on? Like, what is happening? And Sheila's still filming.

Shout out Sheila. Right? Never lose focus, Sheila. Right. She's on it. Well, she was sitting there and she's like, I need to have evidence in case he dies. Well, so my producer.

is there buddy see the CJ that you met and CJ is howling in laughter as as howling so would I yeah like like

if I was anybody like I would be I would be cracking up I wanted to curse at him but I did not have the air in my lungs to do so save your air for breathing right

and that point I start to slink down you're just falling like I'm just there and Flair is howling in laughter like he knew what he was doing oh he absolutely knew um and then the next morning i have to tell you i when i woke up i was thrilled that i was still alive but i hated it all because of the pain i

that was in that's why d p thanks god every day that he was right like right like i i'm just like it was and it just it was the next morning it was purple it was a wonderful blend of purple and blue and black. He just made some art on your chest. Yeah, like, because, well, here's the other part, though. It almost looked, it looked like two hands, but almost in the same space. So you could tell which hand, which chop did what damage. And you tell which chop grabbed your spine and which chop grabbed your heart.

He snatched my soul out of my chest. It was the greatest humbling. Because I was like, you know, back then I was about 230. pounds, you know. Big man on cable. Oh, I, you know, I, you know, like they used to joke to me in Mr. T because I would wear like the sleeveless and had the guns out, you know, flex the chest. Not anymore. I couldn't flex my chest.

Oh, it seems like a terrible idea. I couldn't I couldn't put my, let me tell you this, I could not put my hands together. Yeah. I could. Everybody, everybody put your hands together right now. Put your hands together and you feel. You can feel your chest flex a little bit.

Yeah. Now, just imagine every muscle fiber in your chest is broken. It's broken and on fire and we're there. So, yeah. So anyway, so whatever would take, how much money it would take for you to fight Cyborg or Ronda Rousey? Not enough. Not enough money. It's not, it's a great story.

But to tell you that, as again, my eyes tear up because I, I've never been in as much. I said, I don't want that. That's why I don't want to get punched in the body. I want to get knocked out. It was brutal. I'll be fine. It was brutal. So anyway, we went long.

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