Crime in Sports - Don't Care About No Drugs - Daniel Straus

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

This week, we look at an MMA fighter, who had it rough & practically raised himself. He was a champion wrestler in high school, but didn't start his MMA career, until after a stint in prison. He also had a stint at Steak & Shake, making getting punched in the face sound like a good option. His career was decent, but he could never get out from under his legal problems. From robbery, to drug charges, to terrible driving, and a horrific alleged attack on his ex-girlfriend, he's a bit of a mess!!   Fight your way out of Steak & Shake, be thrown from a moving motorcycle & almost killed, and make sure to blame anybody but yourself for your problems with Danny Straus!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/crimeinsports [e-mail]

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Mow your lawn. Clean the shit out of your yard. What do you want from us? So that said, let's get into this, everybody. Let's do it. We are going to talk about an MMA fighter this week. Yeah. Daniel Lamont Mason Strauss.

Mason Strauss is a hyphen. He just goes by Danny Strauss, though. Mason is a last name. Yeah. Daniel Lamont, Mason Strauss. Heifen. So he just goes by Danny Strauss. We will talk about him here.

Born July 27, 1984. He's from Cincinnati, Ohio. Not a big guy. Fights as a feather weight, 145 pounds. Sure. So, you know, pretty 5-8, 145, pretty small guy. But, yeah, decent fighter, I suppose. We'll find out about it here.

Family life, we know he had a hard time. Oh. I don't know how this works, but it's, there's an article in the first line as Daniel Strauss knows what it is to struggle. He knows. He knows. apparently he says he grew up on his own without he had no father and he said his mother wasn't around much either yes she's got to put food on she's working so i don't even know if it's that or if she just wasn't

around for days in a time i'm not sure so whatever the case is i don't know if a grandparent helped out or what but he did not have much structure it sounds like here he grew up in fields Ertle, Ohio. E-R-T-E-R-T-E-L, Fields-Urtle. I don't know who name that town, but, whoa, you got to fix that shit, guys. That is, that sounds bad.

Sounds gross. That doesn't even sound like a place. It sounds like a company that, like, puts out, like, petroleum waste afterwards. You know what I mean? Some sort of... Lawsuit Company. Some sort of chemical separation, you know,

outfit. The vaginal mesh company. Yeah, maybe that's what it is. Do they have Fields Ertle? We make vaginal mesh. Who was it on 30 Rock? Take that prolapse or whatever the fuck Jenna's line was. Jenna was, Jenna Moroni on 30 Rock was doing ads for vaginal mesh.

Is that what it's for? And at the end it was like, take that prolapse. Yeah, it's to keep your pussy inside you. So it doesn't explode out of your crotch. You don't want to, you don't want to need a shovel to take your pussy home. That's bad. Take that prolapse. I can remember what it was, is something prolapse.

It was like, take that prolapse. That's a terrific. It's so funny. So Danny here, Danny says, by the time I was a junior in high school, I was living on my own, living with other people. I was in and out of school doing whatever I wanted to do. So he set up for success, everybody, right away. Living with friends, I'm couch surfing. You don't know if he's going to end up a crime in sports athlete or, you know, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

It could go either way for Danny at this point. Sure. He was very successful in high school as a high school wrestler at Sycamore High School as a freshman in the 112-pound weight class. Little guy. Little guy. He was an alternate for the state tournament. And in the sophomore season, he went two and two in the state tournament. So he went to the state tournament there.

Not bad. In his junior season, he finished third in the state in Division 1, which is 135 pounds. And in his senior year, he was ruled academic. Indemically ineligible. Gotta go to school usually, yeah, and missed the second half of the season, including the state tournament. Oops. But he was given a wild card birth into the NHSCA Senior Nationals, high school senior national championship that stands for, I suppose. That's what that is anyway.

And he won the tournament. Oh. If only he was smarter. Yeah, if only he like went to class, he would have been in it anyway. To his homework and shit. Yeah. So they said that they gain national title in wrestling. There's a big article.

I'll congratulate him. They said he didn't wrestle at the state meet. He was suspended by Sycamore officials before the district tournament for undisclosed disciplinary reasons. Is what the newspaper says. So later on it just goes to academically ineligible. But at the time, he was up to some shit. Which makes sense because he is a fuck up of the highest order. Really?

Oh, dude, this guy, he's the type of guy that I'm surprised. they just haven't assigned him a minder yet. Just like the police force. Like we'd save a lot of time if we just place somebody with this guy all the time to just arrest him because answering all the calls. Yeah, it's just too much for us. We can't really do it. So I guess he was considered by the Ohio wrestling media, whatever the fuck that is. I don't know.

Imagine you're a kid and you want to be a journalist. You're like, I want to be a big sports reporter. I want to be choose your guy. of the day, you know what I mean, whoever the fuck it is. And then you end up in the, quote, Ohio wrestling media. That's where you are. You write about children who wrestle. Well, obviously.

You write about children who wrestle each other. That's what you write about. They called him one of the best Ohio wrestlers of the decade. Oh. And one of the greatest Ohio school wrestlers to never win a state title because he was banned from it. Oh. He also played soccer and ran track and field. as well in high school.

Multi-sport athlete. Before he was booted out there. So he had a Sycamore High School record for best season record in 2003 when he was 42 and one in wrestling. Dang. Jesus Christ, not bad. He was an NHSCA or NHSCA senior high school national championship and the senior All-American in 2003.

But he learned to fend for himself. That's the big part here. he ended up moving down to Florida Hell yeah Yeah that's where he needs to be From Sincere to Florida Since he to Florida Well I mean that's kind of a lateral move

Yeah in terms of culture Smells like sulfur smells like men's sweat Same thing But winters are better I suppose yeah Well no Similar climate otherwise I would say they're worse

Because there's people from Florida there Yeah yeah So no matter what the temperature If I got to deal with fucking these assholes. I don't really think it's worth it, is it. I don't know. It makes it although Cincinnati is a fucking shithole, so. Yeah, and then they

don't. It really is. It really is. That Rosa's La Roses. Lorosa's. Oh. That's what drove him to Florida. He couldn't help. He's like, I got to get a fuck out of here. New York transplant with a decent pizza restaurant.

God, let's hope so. Anybody's seen an Italian guy around here? Maybe an Albanian. make it anybody? I mean, De Rosa sounds Italian. Oh,

I'm sure it is. So does a domino. It's a Luigi domino over there. I'm making you a nice pizza. And then they fucked it off. It fucked it all up. Oh, man. Now,

okay, so he ends up with down in Florida, working in maintenance. Yeah? So he goes from this promising athlete to probably like an apartment complex maintenance guy or some shit like that basically. Until he ends up being arrested. And then he loses that job here.

He says, this is him, quote, I got arrested on robbery charges and ended up going to prison for three years. Whoa. That's a lot of robbery for one fucking... How old is he? Jesus, this is 2004. 20. There's no way that's the first time then, right?

They don't give you... Unless it's an egregious act of robbery. That's what I mean. A 20-year-old with no significant criminal record, three years for robbery. You must have done some shit. That's B&E and the robbery, right? It has to be. No, robbery is usually face-to-face, isn't it?

Burglary is the other one, isn't it? Yeah, robbery is... Robbery is on a person. It's on... Yeah, that would be a... Yeah, I guess so. And then burglary is like going in and stealing. something. Yeah, robbery is, you're going to rob somebody. But it doesn't have to be like by force,

either robbery. You could just like take something from some, you know, sitting on a coffee table in front of someone that's technically robbery. So he said that he was locked up from 2004 to 2007 and he said you learn a lot when you're locked up. Trust me. He did all three years. Apparently, yeah. I don't know. He went to prison for three years. I don't know what his sentence was. A sentence might have been seven, yeah, eight years. Who knows? Now, there's another. He did all three years. Now, there's another arrest here and I don't know I don't understand if this happened while he was in prison or what because he's arrested for theft in October of 2005 well that would be in the three years that's what I'm saying so I don't know if that's in prison or I don't know but he's charged with

theft again so that's not good um so let's do it in their own words what he he gets out of prison he's a young man in his early 20s that has no idea what to do with his life. So let's find out his thought process here on this. Here we go. In their own words, quote, so when I came home, it was like, what are you going to do with your life? It wasn't like I had a college education. It wasn't like I had a GED. I didn't have plenty of opportunities waiting for me. He had three years in the pen and didn't get a GED. Come on, man. Look, asshole. You can do that on a weekend. I got a GED. It was real fucking easy. I went to some high school where they had a Saturday thing and he sat down and I took the test

and they sent me a thing and that was it. It was like $80 or something. Done. He had three years in the joint and couldn't figure it out. No, nothing but time. Nothing but time. So he didn't know what he wanted to do for a living. He just didn't know. Then he had a chance meeting,

several chance meetings with a quote, long lost friend. Danny was working at Steak and Shake. Yep. Which if you don't know what that is, it's a fast food joint. It's exactly what it sounds like. Exactly what it sounds like. They've spread out.

They used to just be in the Midwest, and they've really spread out a lot lately. Is that right? Is that where they started? They start. That's where I always heard of it. And then they spread out from there. Now they're in Arizona. They're all over the place. Yeah. Doesn't look appetizing.

I'll be honest with you. It's not great. They serve them on planes now, too. I saw that. It's not good. That's a bad burger. That's not what you want to put on a plane. No, no, no.

I got upgraded, motherfucker. You're giving me a fast food hamburger? Are you kidding me? Fuck you. What's the next fucking racing gains on a plane? Don't tempt them. They'll do it. I don't want that at all.

So he's hating his job at stake and shake, obviously. Yeah. And no future. This is just a dead end job. And he runs into an old buddy from wrestling. All right. An old wrestling guy. And the guy told Danny that he, I have an MMA fight scheduled.

So, like, you know, wrestling, can go to a next level here. Oh, and this is 08 or 09 or something? This is like, yeah, 06, 07. And he said, you should try it too. He goes, because you were a great wrestler. He said, you'd be good at it. Why don't you give it a shot?

It's better than steak and shake. No one will ask you for fries with it, so that's good. So a week later, Danny ran into this guy again. I guess this guy's fight hadn't happened. It fell through, but he said you should give MMA a try. But Danny wasn't real interested. No. Then he met the guy again.

A week later, he ran into it. I don't know where are these people living that they just keep running into each other like this. It feels like this guy just is hired by somebody to get him to fight. Yeah, either of their roommates. And it's like, I ran into him in the kitchen, ran into him in the hallway outside the bathroom. I was wandering through to my bedroom and a towel. There he was. He said that again, the guy was like, dude, try MMA.

So Danny said, I didn't want to do this. But you know how it is when someone is so insistent that you do something and you don't want to do. it, you just say, yeah, yeah, yeah, to kind of end the conversation. But after listening and thinking about it, I thought, well, let me go see what this is all about. He's got nothing else going on. That's, yeah. This is the perfect guy for it. He's got a wrestling background and absolutely nothing else going on in his life. Nothing. Yeah. Nothing. So. And a friend that evidently is real good at pressuring people to do things they don't want to do. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Let's get an eye on that guy. No shit. And this is back in Ohio, by the way. This is. Okay.

He went back to back home after he got locked up and got out. And that's where he met his friend. That's why he didn't just run into him in Florida randomly. That would be really weird. Well, I don't know. Running your high school buddy in Florida every five minutes. What's going on? I figure everybody that starts fighting, it's because they're walking down the street in Florida.

And somebody tells them they should fight. Yeah, yeah. Florida seems like the place. Somebody wearing white Oakley's tells them they should fight. I feel like, bro. Dude, you should totally fight right now. Hold on. Before you do that, though, you should take some of this meth.

Here, give a day. You can have that. Yeah, there you go. There you go. This is my wife. She's a blonde lady with bruises all over her legs like every other woman in Florida. It's excellent. Take it.

Let's fight. Let's fight. You want to fight? No, okay. That's normally, that's how they get into it. They just challenge you to fight. I'll fight for fun. Yeah, what the hell?

So, he ends up, this guy invites Danny to come train with him at Team Vision. That was the team. He was on, not the skating gear. No? No, I don't think so. Not Vision Streetwear, yeah. And Danny ends up getting into it. And on August 30th, 2008, he has an amateur fight.

Okay. It's against Mike Allison, and it's in the intimidation cage fighting. That's the league there. Danny wins this fight in two minutes and ten seconds with a TKO with punches, which is not even what he's... That's not even a specialty. He's a wrestler. So if he can punch, too, he's on.

for a good career. October 25th, 2008, he has another amateur fight against Jeremy Pony Boy Pender. Old pony boy. Stay gold, pony boy. Here he is. Now, this guy has a 19 and 15

career pro record later on he'll accomplish. But this is a round three win for Danny with a TKO from punches again. Oh. He's going to punch you in a submission. This was at ICF in intimidation.

cage fighting, vendetta. Yeah. I hate the fucking names. December 21st, 2008, he is arrested, obviously, and this is for driving with a suspended license. So, not robbery, nothing violent here.

Also, failing to signal at a red light, all that kind of shit. You know, that's why it got stopped. You have no license. Oh, shit. So he finally gets his first pro fight, February 7, 2009. Jay the Hurricane Ellis, who coming into this fight, he's got a 9 and 26 record.

Okay. And it gets worse. Nice. His career record is 16 and 112. Dear Lord. Dude, that should not be allowed. He just loves to get punished. He shouldn't be allowed.

He loves to be drooling in the morning and not knowing why. He loves it. He can't get enough of that shit. Just getting the shit beaten out of him constantly. And this fight, this is at. XFO New Blood is the promotion or the event or whatever. Second round, Danny ends up losing to this fucking guy. Oh, no.

From a submission from a rear naked choke. And so now he's 0-and-1. And somehow the guy who was 16 and 1-12 for his career beats him. That's not a good intro. You'd think after that, whoever was telling you to get into it would go, maybe reconsider. You know what? I thought you'd be good at this.

I was wrong. My bad. Super wrong, yeah. Super wrong. February 27, 2009, 20 days later, he fights again. David Silva, who's won an O coming into this fight. He'll be one in one for his career. Wow.

He'll fight again because he loses this fight. This is at Extreme Fighting Organization 28. This goes all three rounds, and it's a unanimous decision for Danny. Right. March 7, 2009, 10 days later, he is fighting. Right back in it. Wow. Scott Bickerstaff, he fights. Five and four coming into this fight, eight and seven for his career.

This is at the MMA Big Show, Retribution. This is sometime in the first round. Don't know the exact time, but Danny's going to lose by TKO from punches again. So now he's one and two. This isn't good. Not great. He fights a week later on March 14th. He needs money, I think, is what it is.

He's making $150. It's better than steak and shake. This is his job now. That's it. He fights Tim the Machine Cook, who's 1-0 coming in, two-and-one for his career. This is at ICF turf war. Yeah. It's turf war,

everybody. This fight against old Tim Cook. He says I don't... Fuck your Apple update, bitch. Your update, fuck my shit up. And now I have to listen to you, too, every time I open iTunes. God damn it.

Oh my God, I'd love to It's the worst album they ever made I'd love to get in a cage with that asshole So this is a TKO with punches In the second round Danny wins this one so he's two and two All right, yeah All right, next up March 28th

Two weeks later in 2009 Lester Caslow, three and two coming in 15 and 11 for his career This is extreme challenge Mayhem at the Marina Yeah Mayhem at the Marina Here it is

This is a goes all three rounds and it is a split decision, so not even unanimous, and Danny wins it. Hey! Three and two for old Danny boy here. Doesn't roll off the tongue like malice at the palace, but... No, mayhem at the marina? No, it's not exactly rumble in the jungle, is it? No.

It doesn't quite have the same ring to it. April 11, 2009, Mike Basquez. Bascus, 2 and O coming into this, 4 and 5 for his career. This is an ICF breakout. Unanimous decision again. And Danny wins it. Hey. He is the decision winner here.

He's always doing that. Next up, April 17th, 2009, six days later after that, he fights Pat Curran, whose nickname is Patty Mike, P-A-D-D-D-Y. I'm Irish. There's a new Patty. There's always a Patty. Yeah. Guarantee you, he comes to the ring in one of those hats. You know what I mean?

One of those Irish guy bouncer hats. There's bagpipes as he walks, but yeah. Well, if he's Irish, there shouldn't be bagpipes. It's Scottish. No, I think they do. I think they do, I think they do, yeah, they do a lot of bagpipes, right? The fuck are they confusing us? I don't know.

You're not allowed to do that. If you have bagpipes behind you, you better be wearing a kilt, too. That's all I have to say. Otherwise, I'm not interested in this shit. The cops in Boston always do bagpipes, right, when the one dies? That's just not in Boston everywhere. That's a... Oh.

Is that everywhere? Because it's the saddest, most depressing instrument that's ever existed. I like how someone was sitting just in a Scottish moor one day. It's foggy. It's like 46 degrees. Yeah. It's mist in the air. It's just shitty.

And they're like, how can we make this more depressing? I have an instrument. How about this? Brea, brie, bra, bra, bra, peep, oh, that's much worse. Yeah, thank you. I'm going to squeeze this thing with my arm. Do wait and see. Yeah, no.

Yeah, I know. It looks like an octopus thing. It looks like an octopus fucked an old ashtray, but still, let's do it. Yeah. So June 26, 2009, Mitch Lyons, he's fighting. Mitch is 1 and 0 coming in, 1 and 2 for his career. So Mitch didn't have the career he thought he was going to. Indiana Extreme Fighting 1, Wild Card.

Yeah. That's the event. This is a, goes into the third round where Danny wins by with a TKO with punches. He hasn't had a submission yet. Not yet. It's crazy. He just punches the shit out of people. That's what he does.

October 3rd, 2009. Tim Truxel, he fights. Seven and three coming into the fight. This is extreme caged combat, crime and punishment, cops versus cons. What? So I assume this is ex-cops versus ex-felons, I suppose. So that Danny fits into this one, perfect. That is the craziest promotion I've ever heard of.

Dude. I love it. An event made for me. Well, it's even great. because we know that the con won this fight, which is great. That's awesome. So take that. Take that failed cop slash failed MMA fighter.

Tim Troxel, I guess. I don't know if he was a cop or not, but Tim Troxel is the guy who loses here to Danny with TKO with elbows and punches in the first round. So six and three for Danny now. We have October 10, 2009, Patrick Firm, and this is his debut fight and his only fight. Yeah. And he loses to Danny, TKO to submission to punches. He just gave up.

He's hit me too much. I can't do it anymore. This kid punches like crazy. Yeah, this is back at XFO again, that deal. Yeah, it's all he does is punch. It's so weird for a wrestler. December 5th, 2009, Smoking Joe Highland. Come on, man.

5 and 0 coming into the fight, 9, 3, and 1 in his career. This is at NAAFS Night of Champions 2009. Sure. And this fight goes all three rounds, and it's a unanimous decision win for Danny. Yeah. Eight and three for Danny. Next up, he fights Gideon Ray the next month, January 23rd, 2010. Gideon Ray is 17 and 11 coming into this fight.

XFO 33 they're fighting at here. Again, unanimous decision. Who do you think won this? It's Danny, nine and three for Danny. February 20th, February 20. of 2010, Frank the tank carabello. Sure. Yeah, why not?

What's the easiest rhyme I can come up with? They're good, perfect. I don't like stank. Yeah, Frank got stank, carabello? No, that doesn't work. Frank walked the plank carabello? No, that's no good. Can't have that.

Frank have a wank carabello? No. Frank and stank are the same thing, right? Shit, damn it. Yeah, damn it. This is all bad. Yeah. What about Frank top rank?

No, that doesn't work. It's too wordy. So, Frank Carabello, N-A-A-A-F-S, Caged Fury 9. Which sounds like they fuck each other, doesn't it? I just, I don't know. I get it. You've got to try to make it sound cool and intimidating because you guys are badasses. By 2010, they've all been used, though.

It's over. Yeah, it's all recycling at this point. I mean, they're recycling nicknames. What's the difference, I guess? Yeah. I mean, caged Fury? It's two assholes. fighting in a cage. What nickname do you need? Do you like to watch people?

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He's 17 and 6 coming into this fight, 22 and 10 for his career. This is at International Combat Events 45. This goes all three rounds, and it is a decision unanimous for Danny. Again, he is not won one fight with his wrestling background, not one. Not one submission at all. Nothing. It's all punching or take it the distance. They're taking the distance.

June 24th, 2010, Chad Hinton, 8 and 1 in his career coming in. This is at BFC Bellator fighting championships. BFC. BFC, black fucking cock there. That's a big one. Big. Big. Big black fucking cock.

So, Chad Hinton. Big, big, man. Big, man, mad pizza. He said, Jesus. Is he got a goat in there? Is there a goat? Are we eating goat? No, no, big pizza.

Man, man, big pizza. Are we eating goats? Sorry to have a great outdoors sidebar for you there. But it works. I just saw her face poke around the corner and go, big, Jen. Big, fucking cock. Big, fucking cock. Big, big man cock.

Big goat, man cock. Are we getting fucked by goats in there? Are we getting, you getting, you're getting, double team by goats tonight? What are we doing? Oh, man. That's awesome. Penis jokes will never stop making me laugh. Ever, I don't know, because we're large children. Yeah, I'm going to die from a penis joke one day.

No, yeah. Things that men never cease to find funny. Penis jokes and farting. It's just, it's built into our DNA. It's just funny. We can't help it. So, Chad Hinton, unanimous decision, win again. for Danny, 12 and 3 now.

Sure. Then we have August 14th, 2010. Maybe the greatest nickname in the history of fighting, which is saying so. We've heard a lot of crazy nicknames. But this guy, I feel like, got a list, and he made a list of like 600 nicknames, and then went through him

and really had to like, hmm. Got an audience vote to bring it down. More than that, it's like he ran out of like common ones and then he was like I gotta get real intricate here about this and he came up with Joe the triangular strangular

strangular Pearson the triangular strangler that's not bad okay that's a that is not the first nickname you came up with though that's like on your list that's number like two hundred and twelve and you're like yes

triangular strangular well 36 16 and one coming into this fight though so he's pro. This fight goes into the second round where Danny wins with a TKO submission to punches again. Yeah. And this is at XFO 36, Outdoor War 6. Sure. Outdoor war. So 13 and 3 now for Danny. He's on a hell of a street care. He's got a tear, yeah. Then there's an article from the Dayton Daily News, September 6th, 2010, that says Cincinnati Strauss headed to the Shark Tank. Oh. He's going to box sharks.

Hey, sharks. That's the next event. Water Works, 24. Shark cage fights. So they say that the Cincinnati-based lightweight Daniel Strauss, one of the area's top prospects, will take his eight-fight win streak into this weekend's Shark Fight's 13 event. Strauss replaced, injured Marcus Hicks,

and now meets WEC veteran Karen Darabelle. Benyon, Karen? He's going to fight a Karen? He's going to fight a man named Karen. I hope a man named Karen. That's crazy. That's progressive. But if you're a fighter, you go by Karen.

That's your name? I think you do, because I mean Sue, right? It's probably a tough side of a bit. Yeah. You wouldn't go with that for a fighter. A country song is fine. Not for a fighter. Johnny Cash can sing about it, but he's not getting a cage.

then I guess that's what you go by, right? Not in fighting. You can go by anything you want. You can be the triangular strangler for Christ's sake, and you chose Karen over the triangular strangler? My mom gave it to me. You could be the... You can call yourself the ass raper.

You can call yourself anything. Karen? That's pretty good. That's pretty good. No nickname. Just Karen. So Karen, the fucking, the complainer, Darabey.

And so Karen, the... Take your fucking pick. This visit's free. So Shark Fightes is one of the country's top regional promotions, and it'll make its pay-per-view debut with this card. That didn't work out. I've never heard of that fucking company. Strauss v. Darabedian, though, is part of a preliminary card

that streams for free on Sherdog.com. If Victoria, Strauss is likely to get a call from one of the sports major organizations, such as UFC or WEC, among the team vision fighters' 2010 accomplishments are a January upset of U.S. UFC vet, Gideon Ray, and a decision victory over highly touted Chad Hinton. So here we go.

September 11, 2010, Karen, I don't need a nickname Darabadian. 9 and 3 coming in. Not bad. 14 and 6 for his career. This is at SF 13, Jardine versus Prangley. Okay. This goes to the whole distance, all three rounds. Yeah, that's right.

Because it was their pay-per-view debut. They had to get somebody with a name in there. he wins this by unanimous decision again. 14 and 3 for the man. It's like, yeah, his record shows maybe like UFC should pick him up, but his fights sound boring as fuck. Yeah, yeah. They don't want guys going the distance all the time.

No, distance is stupid. Nobody wants to see that. Unless it's a war of just like constant punches, because these people are bloodthirsty. And a big, like, rivalry, too. Yeah. Like, they want to see these guys fight for a long time. Fuck, if these people never met each other. Yeah.

As long as both of their faces are exploded afterwards, these people love it. But I mean, like a preliminary fight, they just want to see them beat the living shit out of each other. They don't know what these people are. But if it's like two guys who have had a thing and it might be like their third fight in a series, they don't want to see that over in the first round generally. They want to see them fight for a while, I would assume maybe. I don't even know if these people give a shit about that. Where is it?

They love watching a long distance fight if there's just blood fucking everywhere. Okay. I'm just saying you can't have a bunch of first round knockouts because that would be. be a very short card. Oh, the night's old. So you have to have somebody that is going to go the distance. A lot of beer sales where you just go 20 minutes and we'll start a new fight. They just a long wait in between.

I can't imagine that that would be a very popular live event to, no one would to go back to that. These dickheads will do anything. I was there for two hours. I saw 12 minutes of actual show. Yeah. I don't know if you pay for that. They don't watch anything. They fucking shove down their throat, it seems like.

Probably. These people are nice. there. They are. Especially like low level, like, regional MMA fans. That's... Yeah. That shit that went on in the parking lot of the comedy show. Oh, I remember. Yeah, that's... Those people are crazy, James. Yeah. Who, anyone coming to watch that, who doesn't know any of those guys is out of their minds.

In 2012, still wearing long jean shorts. Yeah. With fucking hammer hooks on them. Yeah. So, there's another article. Cincinnati Strauss signs Bellator contract. So that fight got him a major, maybe major, more major than he's done here.

So, yeah, they're very excited. He's very excited. He said, I've never been a guy who wants to be a world champion or the biggest star in the game. I just want to fight some of the top guys in the sport, and Bellator provides that. I want to just not work at Steak and Shake is essentially what I'm trying to do here. That's a good answer. There's no shame in that.

I'd say that every day. Yeah. Well, I used to work at Steak and Shake. Yeah. I sold cheeseburgers. This, that sucked. I'd rather get, this is similar, except I'd rather get punched in the face. I fight about as much, but. It's the same. Yeah. You got to fight for it at Steak and Shake for sure. Yeah. Those customers are not taking it. March 19, 2011, Nazarino El Tigre Meligrari, 14 and O coming into this fight.

So Danny's got a challenge here. Yeah. 26 or 29, 6 and 1 for his career. Bellator fighting championships, 37. This fight goes all three rounds. Right. And Danny wins the unanimous decision. Of course he did.

So he can hand to this guy his first loss, and this fight won the Fight of the Night honors. So must have been a good one. April 16th, 2011 versus Kenny Foster, 9 and 2 coming in. Bellator fighting championships 41. This fight goes into the third round. where unbelievably, Danny wins by submission finally. Wow. Unbelievable.

He wins with a guillotine choke and goes to 16 and 3. He's doing great. May 21st, 2011, Patricio Pitbull Ferrer, Ferre, F-R-E-I-R-E. Yeah. Ferrear. Freer. Friere. Friere.

I don't know. It's Patricio. Yeah. Probably not friar, right? Yeah, I'm thinking maybe it has a fancy pronunciation. Maybe it's Frera. Frera. Yeah, maybe.

16 and 1. Coming into the fight, 37 and 8 for his career. So long career, Belator fighting championships, 45. Unanimous decision again. This time, Danny loses, though. Oh, no. He's 16 and 4. And the article from the Dayton Daily News says Strauss falls short in Bellator

tourney. They said, in the co-headliner of this past Saturday's Bellator 45 event that was it was aired on MTV2 oh boy okay you know what I was kind of sad about MTV shutting down maybe it was time in what year is what I'm saying if in 2000 fucking 11 MTV2

was playing regional fucking MMA fighting I think it was over I think it was over at that point yeah so they said despite the loss which snapped his 12 fight wind streak, Strauss could earn entry into the field for an eight-man featherweight tournament held this summer. So October 15th, 2011, Jason Dynamite Dent. Okay. 21 and 11, 22 and 13 for his career,

NAAFS caged Fury 15, unanimous decision, all five rounds this time. Yeah. This is a win for Danny, bringing him to 17 and 4. Okay. March 9th, 2012. he fights Jeremy Spoon. Yeah. I'll give you one guess what his nickname is. The dish ran away. Spooner. Oh, yeah.

Real creative. Hey, Spooner. That's a total frat name. That's the Spooner right there, buddy. Tell you what. He loves that nickname. His friend's been calling that since he was seven. It's not even because his last name is Spoon, man.

It's one time he jizzed into a spoon, and then he flicked it back. You're having a food fight and just splashed it all over his chick's fucking head, man. It was fucking hilarious. Spooner! What we call it? Spooner! Spoon dog!

What's up? What's your Jizz Spoon? Where's it at? Spooner. 12 and O Spooner is. Yeah. Coming into this fight. So we'd kick both our asses.

That's what that says. Yeah. While we make fun of him for his Jizz Spoon. 21 and 5 career. This is Bellator Fighting Championships 60. Unanimous decision again. Oh. Damn, he goes the distance a lot.

And he wins it. Danny does. 18 and 4. Next up, he fights Mike Corey. This is C-O-R-E-Y, Corey, like someone's name. April 13th, 2012, 2012, 2-1 coming into this fight. Bellator Fighting Championship 65. Unanimous decision, again. All right. Danny wins it.

19 and 4. I feel like they keep him around because he fills time on the car. Certainly does, yeah. He's a time eater. That's exactly what I feel like it is. He's like an old wrestling cards. They'd have... Chomp up three rounds, no problem.

Yeah, old like wrestling house shows they'd have. All right, we're going to have a, you know, 35, 40 minutes. Even WWF, we're going to have a 45-minute tag match in the middle of it to eat up some time. That's what they do. So I feel like that's his job. May 11, 2012, Marlon the Gladiator, Sandro. Oh. 22 and 3, 29, 7, and 2 for his career.

Belator fighting championships 68. How long you think the fight goes? Three rounds. Three rounds. Whole fight, decision. Unanimous decision win for Danny again here. So now he's 20 and 4. Not bad.

It's pretty good. He's doing well. I mean, he came from shit, and he was working at stake and shake, and he's established himself as a decent goddamn fighter. By now he's probably making not big money, but no. He doesn't need a job probably at the moment. Yeah, and he's won like fucking 16 of his last 17 fights. He's doing great.

So they say Strauss, this is an article from the press of Atlantic City, Strauss wins Bellator Season 6 featherweight title in Atlantic City. That was the Marlon Sandow fight. This was at Caesars in Atlantic City, and I guess he's the featherweight. Now he can compete for the featherweight championship. So he won the tournament to have the right to whatever. Sometime in this year, not sure the exact date, but in 2012, he gets arrested for possession of weed less than 20 grams, who gives a shit. This is when he's in Florida.

Oh. Yeah, down in Gainesville there. Have they still not legalized weed down there? Of course not, Jimmy. No. All the assault weapons you want, but weed's dangerous. Don't you see? Don't you see, Jimmy?

That whole state, it's all supposedly supposed to be geared towards having fun. All that beach, no weed. No, yeah, no. All that beach, no weed. Florida is 90% hillbilly. All that beach. There's like four cities and then a shitload of fucking hillbillies. Literally eating alligator for dinner.

That's like, that's-suffles are supposed to love wheat. They don't, though, because every goddamn hillbilly state in the country, the weed's illegal and very illegal. Fuck, trust me. I know because when we get our tour schedules, I look for weed legal states. I'm like, why are we going to these states where weed isn't legal? Get into the 21st century and then we'll fucking come there. Otherwise, why are we going there?

Yeah, sorry, asshole. I don't want to go there. So then we get stuck. But we don't go to Florida because I'm not doing that. So October 26th, 2012, Alvin Kidd Robinson. 12 and 6 coming in, 15 and 9 for his career. BFC Bellator fighting championship 78.

This fight goes in. of the second round where we end up with a actual submission for Danny. Oh. A submission with a rear naked choke. So he actually, the second submission win, he's 21 and 4 now, which is not bad. February 26, 2013, it's announced that he has a broken hand. On what? What did you break it on?

I don't know if that's training or, you know, I'm not sure. Putscheon sides of beef in the steak and shake freezer. I don't know what happened there. March 2nd, 2013. Here we go. And now it's funny because he gets arrested. Oh. But now it's not just some guy.

Now it's Bellator's Daniel Strauss arrested as the headline. That is the problem with being associated with something like that. Now the label's right on it here. So he's arrested in Fort Lauderdale here. According to the Broward County Sheriff's Office, Strauss faces charges of driving with a suspended license, being in possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana, more than three grams of synthetic cannabis, who cares?

Possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of the drug MDMA. Oh boy, what's he got that for? That's a problem. He's going to party. So the weed, who cares? But synthetic cannabis, who cares even more? So. Fucking spice, gross.

Who cares? Yeah, that's just, if you already have more than, you already have over a half ounce of weed. What do you need that shit for? He's selling? I don't know, maybe. How much of it does he have? More than 20 grams, but that's it.

That's it to be selling. But yeah, well, it's just possession. It's Florida. If they could have charged him with selling it, they would have probably, believe me. So that's all they care about down there is finding drugs. I can't watch on patrol anymore because of that. Oh, God, yeah, it's so annoying. They'll get some guy walking down the street all sweaty with no shirt on, one guy,

and there'll be 12 cop cars. and 15 fucking cops searching for a goddamn $20 bag of meth on the ground. I'm like, where is it? Where is it? You're paying for this. Do your fucking jobs. Get in your cars and go find crime and stop it. What the fuck are you doing?

Or fucking pick up a broom, grab a fucking paintbrush and fucking spruce stuff up. Whatever you got to do. But that is not what I'm paying for. Stop doing that. And nobody has a goddamn license. Yeah, it doesn't matter. No one has a license. Why does nobody have a license?

No one has a fucking license because they get one ticket and they can't afford it. And the fines and fees and they're over the next thing. You know, you're getting arrested for no license. No registration because you don't have a license to register. Yeah, they're not going to insure a car to a guy with no license. That's not going to happen. He's being, it's so weird. He's being held.

They say it won't. They don't know for sure whether he will be in court to be formally charged or not. He was scheduled to face Pat Curran, who's the champion on April 4th, but the broken hand suffered in a training session, forced him to pull out of the bout. He now Curran will fight some other guy instead. Strauss, who says he's the product of a troubled household, is no stranger to the criminal justice system. He's a former inmate at Noble Correction Institution in Caldwell, Idaho. He's an alum. That's nice.

March 14, 2013. He's arrested for possession of MDMA again. He loves that. Is it for him? He's into it. I don't know. Oh, that's the same. That's the one.

Okay, I'm sorry. That's the same one. No, that's a different one because it's March 14th. That was March 2nd. He got arrested twice and two weeks for MDMA. It looks like from here. Also operating without a valid license because it's Florida. Right.

You know, just chalk that up to that. No licensing here. Who cares? July 26th, 2013, he's arrested again. Oh, boy. Unwillingly or unknowingly driving while license suspended. Unknowingly. Didn't even know.

That's the actual charge. Unknowingly driving or unknowingly driving with this? While license suspended or revoked. It should be illegal if you didn't know you were driving. Well, he was arrested a month ago for not having a license. Did he think it magically came back already or what? I don't know how that works, but he's arrested again. Now, October 23rd, 2013, here's a fluff piece on him.

Oh, my God. We're going to rehabilitate this guy's image here. How do you even, how do you do that? So it says, this is basically, he's good now, he's a great guy and everything. The headline is Daniel Strauss trying to cope with stereotypes and succeed in MMA career after arrest. What are the stereotypes? We'll find out. Strauss searched for years for a stable family life for a job.

that would allow him to care for his loved ones. After being imprisoned for three years on robbery charges, Strauss was released from jail in 2007 and vowed to take the right path. Yeah. He's only been arrested four times since then. He's doing great. When is he going to do it?

Yeah, he's still thinking about it. Everything he's searched for is now right at his fingertips. The Bellatorre-Heathaway or featherweight contender is on the verge of a championship that could bring long-term stability and the ability to give his young, family the things he didn't have growing up because he has a kid now too.

They said, yet Strauss is unhappy. He's not pleased with the perception created of him after an incident earlier this year and what it's done to his reputation. Oh, the optics are bad. Stop getting arrested. Yeah. That's a good way to stop doing that shit. I'm not happy with the

optics. Yeah, I'm not happy that people notice the things I do. That's what he just said. What I did looks bad. I'm mad about that. I'm upset about it. Very upset. So, yeah, he's very upset. He said, with his professional salvation so close, Strauss is still stung by the wounds inflicted in his personal life.

Talk to him for 10 minutes and you'll understand. He's not a thug. He's not a bad guy. Yeah? No. We don't know that. We don't know what happened with the robbery thing. And we don't, since then, it's been drugs.

I don't care about drugs. Do all the fucking drugs you want. None of my business. I don't care. As long as that MDMA is for personal use. Yeah, don't. If it's not, don't sell. to a 12-year-old.

Otherwise, I don't fucking care. Oh, I'm not talking about selling. Whatever you want to mean? Just don't drop that in drinks in the club. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, yeah, that's right. Usually not ecstasy they use for that, though. Is it not MDMA?

Is it rape drug? No, no, MDMA will make you want to dance and feel people, but it's not going to knock you out by any stretch. Oh, GHB is. Yeah, these accidents. Just do drugs, guys. Just do weed. It's easier.

I don't like the acronym. No, no. No, no, yeah, MMA, or MMA. MDA. MDMA. Ecstasy is usually pretty speedy. So you're not going to be, you're not going to want to, yeah, you'd be trying to wait for them to go to sleep. It'd be two days later.

You're like, damn it, I want to fucking feel this chick up and she won't pass out. Well, that's what they found in my friend that got drugged in Pittsburgh was MDMA. Oh, I'm sure that could be mixed in with stuff. But, yeah, it'll fuck you up, but it's not the pass-out drug. No, no, no, no, no, she was not passed out. No. That makes no sense. That person just wasted ecstasy because that doesn't make any sense.

You just got somebody high that you should have been high. Yeah, high without their knowledge, which is still terrible. You shouldn't do that to people. But they say he's a 29-year-old man trying his best, trying his best he can to provide a better quality life for his family than he had growing up. But now, just a few days before he challenges Pat Curran on November 2nd in Washington, Long Beach, California for the Bellator featherweight title. I want to say heavyweight every time. It just goes, heavyweight title goes together.

Featherweight just doesn't roll off the tongue. Strauss feels as if he has to explain himself. I think he should explain himself. I'd like to know a couple of things. Explain yourself to the crime and sports audience. That's what you should. Explain yourself, Danny. It's sad to listen to him have to say that just because he has dreadlocks,

just because he has tattoos, and just because he's black is not reason enough to assume he's a bad person. who said that Jimmy going into this you haven't seen a picture of him right I don't know what he looks like didn't know what he looks like did you think he was kind of a shithead complete dick

there you go on paper you don't have to know anything about him wow we said it without saying who he would he look like what he did anything and he still thought he was a dickhead so I don't know how only that would make him a dickhead

but he has to explain it to go over why he missed a year of his career in his prime when everything was seemingly going perfectly. He'd suffered a broken hand that forced him to pull out of a title fight against Curran at Bellator 95 earlier this year. His fight was with Curran next month will be his first and more than a year since his last win over Alvin Robinson. Danny says, I've always wanted to say this and I've never had an opportunity to say it before,

but don't let my appearance fool you. I'm highly intelligent, highly intelligent. I just look stupid? Look at, look at, man. You're in like 2000. 11. This isn't 1945 where some guy with a tattoo they're like, are you in the Navy? No, then you must

be a criminal. It's not like that anymore. There's plenty of highly intelligent people with dreadlocks and tattoos and nobody cares. This is ridiculous. What you're being talk shit on is that you get arrested constantly. That's the problem. We're really focusing on here. That you're not

smart enough to not get arrested when you have huge career opportunities. You still have to fuck off. That's the problem. Strauss sighs. This is difficult ground to cover, and he knows no matter what he might say, there's going to be a lot of people who don't believe him. But he's won five fights in a row, has a championship fight scheduled,

and has been victorious in 17 of his last 18. He's thankful to have found MMA and eager to reach new heights. He's been on the brink of failure before and doesn't want to go back. I've been at the stake and shake. I've had that shirt on. I know that uniform. So hurt as it mostly. might, he forces himself to explain.

He did nothing wrong, he said, and was essentially profiled because of his appearance. It put everything he's worked for in grave jeopardy. I think we probably have to have it in their own words for this. I would believe. Well, he says, I did nothing wrong, even though I've been arrested 12 fucking times in the last five years. Okay, here we go.

In their own words, quote, I have tattoos and I do have dreads, but I'm not some thugs selling drugs on the street, and I'm not kidnapping kids for ransom or any goofy-ass shit that people might think. I ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people and that's what hurt me. People have a perception of me like, oh, he thinks he's a thug, he's trying to sell drugs or he's trying to do this and trying to do that. But in all reality, all I'm trying to do is train and fight for a world title.

I don't care about no drugs. I don't give a shit about what this guy's doing over here. My trouble has passed me. I'm almost 30 years old and I want to do good, but it sucks I had to be there. What? What did any of that mean? You had MDMA on you, didn't? You do like drugs. Yeah, I don't give a shit about drugs. What did he say here? I don't care about no drugs. All right. Well.

You care about no drugs. You do. Because you keep getting busted with them. You got to have them. Listen, no one's trying to say you're a terrible person because he had drugs. That's the thing. No one cares about that at all. Later on, you'll think he's a terrible person for much different reasons. But it has nothing to do with dreadlocks, tattoos, or drugs. I'm not a drug dealer. I'd just like to do them. Yeah. V. There, Strauss refers to, was in his car in Fort Lauderdale on March 2nd, 2013. He was arrested and charged with driving with a suspended license, possession of over 20 grams of cannabis, three grams of synthetic cannabis, and possession of ecstasy.

Strauss has a checkered past and has been in and out of trouble frequently until he found M.MA. Really? Oh, that's his Jesus. Wow. Okay. gotten arrested a whole bunch since he's been fighting MMA. So, wow, imagine if he wasn't fighting MMA. Thank God he is.

Christ, he was on his own in high school and got into trouble plenty of times as a young man. But he seemingly turned it all around in the last five years. He's been arrested like five fucking times. What are you talking about? Once he found MMA, he not only stayed out of trouble. No, he didn't. He avoided even being around people he suspected might be trouble. He had one slip, though, and it cost him.

Oh, that one time. Yeah, that's what mainly whenever anybody gets busted, that's the only time they've ever done that thing. The only time. It's the only time. It's the psychic cops. That's why. All the cops are psychic. He's doing it.

They know. They're like, oh, I got to hold on a minute, crystal ball. You know that Danny Strauss guy? I feel like he has MMDMA on him. I think he does. I'm not sure. Once he found MMA stayed out of trouble. Wow.

He even avoided being around people he suspect it might be trouble. One slip. He believes it was a lot of. his race and his appearance that ultimately proved to be his undoing and almost stole everything that matters from him. He said, I don't like to call race, and that's something I don't really want to do. But let's be clear and let's be honest here, a black guy with dreads driving around is going to get pulled over a lot more often than a white guy doing the same thing.

Very true. That is true. You're absolutely right. The pullover is probably bad. And even the search might have been for what you look like. But if you didn't have ecstasy on you, you wouldn't have got to. Rested for ecstasy. That's the problem. Yeah. Don't have that. But not that I'm saying people should be pulled over for what they fucking look like because that's ridiculous and stupid as fuck.

And not cool. As a teenager, I always hated that. You know, they'd play over because you're a teenager. Same shit. So, except obviously a little bit worse. Maybe a little more stank on it here. They seem to have a reason every time, which was wild, that I didn't agree with every time. But they did stop us regardless. Really? Yeah, cops around here. They knew us. We didn't even need a reason. and they just see us and go, hey, what's up, guys? Get out of the fucking car, searching everybody. Totally illegal. They did it constantly to us. Constantly.

Absolutely. Fucking searched the fuck out of us. So they say he was driving with two people he did not know. Oh. Listen to this. Listen to this. Oftentimes I ride with strangers in my car. Yeah, because I'm almost 30 and I'm mature now.

Right. Good boys do. He was driving with two people he did not know with nothing else to do other than cruise around late at night. talk. Bullshit. Bullshit. It's strange. Bullshit. Let's go chat. I'm in the car with two strangers just

driving around and talking late at night. And I happen to have a bunch of shit on me. No, that's not how it works, dude. Oh, my God. One of the passengers he barely knew, a friend of a friend. So he hangs out with him late at night. The other passenger he never met in his life. What? A friend of a friend? Would you see him walking on the street?

You guys need a ride? Let's talk. They picked him up. Yeah, let's chat. I just want to drive around and talk. I have nothing else going on. He's got a child. Like, go home and hang out with your kid or something. He said, I didn't know the first guy, but since he was a friend of a friend, I figured he was a friend of mine. I know that now that was a mistake.

But at the time, that's what I thought. We were cruising around and he asked me to pick up guy too. Guy too, I do not know. I didn't know him from anything. And it was my first time meeting him. I hadn't even heard of his name. and I didn't know anything about him, but he's a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend.

You know how it goes. So we party. They say the drive, though, it turned into something much more than a ride around town to chat and have fun. The second passenger, Strauss said, had drugs. Oh.

And dropped them in the back of Strauss's car when the police pulled him over. Yeah. The police found the drugs, and because it was Strauss's car, he was left to take the blame. Yep. Yeah, that's a...

Never mind. I don't even get to do it. He spent seven. Several nights in jail until Bond was posted. This is one of the fucking, I'm sorry, but like, we've heard a lot of athletes give excuses about why they got in trouble. This is one of the dumber ones I've ever heard. You don't. I'm so innocent.

You don't pick up strangers and then, uh, yeah. It's just weird. And late at night? Not only innocent, completely naive. Yeah, right. Let's just go have talk guys. Yeah. This is a guy who's been to prison, but he's so naive and not street smart.

He's so dumb. He just wanders around with strangers in the car. Yeah, hoping they don't plant drugs on him. Yeah. Or rob him for his fucking car. Oh, yeah, it could be anything. He spent several nights in jail until Bond was posted. He planned to go to court to fight the charges, but that's when he says the stories of the arresting officers began to change.

He said that when he said he wanted to go to trial, the officer then said that Strauss admitted the drugs were his. He said a lot of people don't get them. this. But until you step into my shoes, you can never know. The story went for me driving the car to me telling the police officer that these were my drugs, which never happened. These are the facts that they're trying to tell a judge. There's no way I'm going to get off on that. So I was like, so it was like I agreed to plead out and I got probation. I didn't want to plead, but I didn't want to be out of a job for the rest of my life because someone else was a fool. He's such a victim of

circumstances. That's what it is. He said he pleaded guilty to something he swears he didn't do to give himself the opportunity that's consumed him for the last five years. He pleaded guilty to something he swears he didn't do to give himself the opportunity that has consumed him. That's what I like about that, the consumed him part. Ever since he took up MMA knowing exactly zero about the sport, he's dreamed of making it to the top. It was to be his escape from trouble from a no-hope life and one that would secure his and his child's future. He said, I'd been through so much in my life. And when I started this, I didn't have a choice, but to be successful.

It's not like I wanted to be a fighter to be a big deal or get on TV. It was because I had no choice. I had nothing else. I had to do this. I had to learn it. When I started, I didn't know what jujitsu was. Are you fucking kidding me? Jiu Jiujitsu?

I had no idea. But for me, it was to be successful. I had to learn it. I had to learn everything. Okay. He learned well enough to become one of the elite men in his division. Less than five years from the time he first walked into a gym to see what this MMA stuff was all about. He's one step closer to his goal, even if he isn't happy about what he had to do to get there.

He says, quote, it sucks because I have this on my record. But it just makes me have to fight even harder. I don't have the opportunity to go get a desk job. My whole life is my fighting career and I have to get it done. I have no choice but to succeed. and I'm giving my entire life up to reaching that goal to become successful in this sport. That's great.

I love how he acts like the only thing that's ever happened to him was that one time he got pulled over and some bad guy that he doesn't know planted it in his car. What about the prison time he did for robbery? Don't worry about that. No? What about the fact that you can't seem to hold a license? Don't worry about it.

Damn it. Okay. I don't know what I've been thinking here this all time. Damn, November 2nd, 2013. This is for the featherweight title. Patty, old Patty Mike Kern again is back here. 19 and 4 coming in.

This goes all five rounds. And Danny wins by unanimous decision. Here we go. Here we go. 22 and 4 now. March 14th, 2014. Don't fight a Patty Mike anywhere near St. Patrick's Day. That's bad.

Although maybe he thought maybe he'd be pregame and so he'd have a pushover. Advantage, yeah. They fight Patty Mike again. this is a rematch here at Bellator 112. This fight goes to the, I think they're five-minute rounds, right? Three? There might be three minutes. Well, they're definitely over three because this went four minutes and 46 seconds.

Then this was round five, four minutes and 46 seconds into it. So 14 seconds left in the fight. He loses to a rear-naked choke submission. Oh, no, couldn't hang on 14 seconds. That is fucking horrible. So he loses there. 22 and 5 is his record. Bleacher Report ranked this the number 10 fight of the year in 2014. So big deal there.

Of any fight anywhere. He publicly expressed his displeasure in having to face Curran again so soon after beating him. Going so far as to say he believes Bellator wants Curran as the champion. Yes, everyone's against you, Danny. I hate when they do this. Anybody, don't say it like that. The way you said it's a... You just had a...

When he says they, explain the they. I don't like that at all. Anytime there's a big conspiracy between the very top people, the amount of people that takes to trickle down to it is crazy. But also, you got to win your fight, man. Yes.

This is the least rigable. If all... All's fair and equal. Well, it's the most riggedable because you need one guy to fucking throw it. It's easy. If all's fair and equal in the ring, there's nothing you can do about that.

It's hard. Yeah, I mean, you can have penalties and stuff. If one guy knocks another guy out or chokes him until he's unconscious, there's really nothing more you can do about that. That's what happened. That's what it is. It is what it is, man. Yeah.

That's more set up in the judging or like if it goes the distance or in the actual booking of the fights. Right. You're a guy to just be like, look, this is what you do. Yeah, you mean athletes when you say they, just to... For sure. You said, I hate it when they do this. You don't mean black guys with dreads who, yeah.

Black drug addict, drug pushing. They do it all the time. Okay, just wanted to clarify that you meant athletes there. Yeah, the worst guys, Jay. Put your fucking ats down right now. However, he also stated it is his job to fight and he welcomed the bout. So which one is it? At the weight, you got choked out.

this wasn't a decision if they want him to be champion. He had to fight you the same distance of time after you beat him. So it's all equal here, right? It's not like he got a year off and you just got to fight him. It makes no sense. So he just beat you. And it looks like in the one before that, it was a unanimous decision. So it seems like you guys are pretty evenly matched.

Yeah. Then he happened to win this fight. And if you fight a third time, you'll probably might win that one. Who knows? It's a rubber match there. at the weigh-ins for Bellator 1-12 Strauss had to cut his hair to make weight He had to cut dreads off

How much does he have? Oh, his dreads are long Like middle of his back They're fucking long He's like an NFL cornerback He's... How much weight does he have in those things? A lot, apparently.

He lost the bout via rear naked show. All right, October 3rd, 2014 Justin the Silverback, Wilcox Okay. who is very white, by the way. Really? You know here, yeah. Also.

I don't know what's going on here. 14 and 6 coming into this fight. This fight, I think Danny might be pissed off. Maybe it's the silverback nickname, but TKO with punches in 50 seconds this takes to beat this guy. So this is his last fight, too, ever. The guy retires after this. Never mind. January 16, 2015, the pit bull's back.

Patricio the pit bulls for. Errorary. 22 and 2 coming into this fight, Bellator 132. This fight, round four, late in the round, Danny loses by submission to a rear naked choke. He seems susceptible to the rear naked show here. Let's see. June 19, 2015, Henry O.K. Corrales, which is the best nickname of all time.

That's great. It's very funny. Okay, Corrales is hilarious. He's 12 and 0 coming in. I am rooting for him now. 21 and 8 for his career. This is Bellator 138 unfinished business.

This goes into the second round where Danny wins the fight by submission with a guillotine choke. So he actually wins a fight with a submission hold for once here. And poor OK Corrales. Damn it. Wow.

You're more focused on winning than being funny. Maybe. Yeah. He's like, I'm pretty good, right? People who are that tough aren't funny. And if you are funny, you should choose your career differently. I don't think fighting is made for you. October 22nd, 2015, this is, he gets, I don't know if this is a ticket or they take him in,

but unlawful license sticker attached to a tag. I think he had like someone else's tag on there. Sticker, whatever, an unlawful one. So I don't know if he was faking it or what, but they take him in there. I don't know if he picked somebody else up. they switch the stickers on him or what here, but it seems like he's never done anything wrong. November 6, 2015, back to Patricio the Pitbull. This fight goes all five rounds at Bellator 145 Vengeance.

And Danny wins it by unanimous decision here. He's 25 and 6 now. This fight wins MMA Junkies November 2015 fight of the month. MMA Junkies? MMA Junkie is a website. If you look up a lot of like criminal MMA guys, you'll come across that website quite a bit. April 21st, 2017,

Patricio the Pitbulls back again. I'm so sick of this fucking guy already. Bellator 178, Strauss v. Pitbull 4. The fourth one. That is the title of the show, man. Good Lord. You're bumping it. This fight, second round, 37 seconds in,

a submission, guillotine choke. Danny loses again. So is that two and two? these fights? I think they're two and two. That's OK Corrales. He lost that one. He lost that one. I think he's two and two

against Matricio here, but that's quite the rivalry they have going on here. Not bad. Old O'K. Corrales there. All right. October 6th, 2017, after that fight, he fights, Emmanuel El Madador Sanchez.

He will kill you. 15 and 3. coming in 24 and 11 for his career. Bellator 184. This fight, third round, here, Danny loses by submission with a triangle choke.

Oh. So, yeah, and it's not the triangular strangular either that doesn't to him. It's El Matador. But it's a strangle from a triangle. It's a strangle from a triangle. This brings him to 25 and 8 now. All right.

And he has lost, like three out of his last. three out of his last five fights or something he's lost. Something along that. He's not doing. I think it's three out of his last five. Then it gets worse for him. December 17, 2017, early morning hours, of course, obviously.

Early morning, we don't mean like six o'clock. He's on his way to the gym. I think this means three o'clock and he's coming home from the bar. He's not coming up while he's in the Starbucks drive-thru. No, no. He's involved in a motorcycle. accident. Oh, shit.

You know, why not be more dangerous with your life? Anything else you can do to fucking possibly hurt yourself? This is a Suzuki GSXR 1000. Ooh, a jixer. Dang. Yeah. So it's a, he's got a pretty beefy bike there. That's a fast bike.

Yeah. 1,000? Yeah, it's a fast bike. It's a big bike, man. That's big. This is on State Road 7 in Dade County, Florida. He weighs 145 pounds, too. A hundred 45 pounds on a bike that will do 200 miles.

100 miles an hour. That is silly. Wow. You're too little for that bike, aren't you? That too little? I can't believe he can get his, I can't believe that he can stand up on it. It's going to say, he's got to, he puts the kickstand down when he stops, quick. Or just lanes it over.

There's a guy that does that. It's like an Instagram guy. He literally can't ride the bike and he does it anyway and just stops. When he stops at red lights, he just gets off the bike and then jumps back on. It's so stupid. That is a, why not get a bike that you can. fit on. Because then people don't watch. Oh, because he's not

an idiot. Because then nobody gives a shit. I forgot stupidity is just as viable and economic thing as fucking being good at something. More actually. So this deal, he's unconscious for an unknown amount of time. Yeah.

And was unable to move his extremities upon regaining consciousness. Oh my God, is he? Well, we'll talk. No, no. He's he'll have plenty of use of arms later as you'll find out from another crime. His passenger is able to get help and he's transported to the hospital. So he did this with somebody on the bike with him.

What the fuck? They said no alcohol was involved. And it was unknown what caused the accident. Passenger somehow was unharmed. I don't know how the passenger is completely unharmed and he is unconscious for days and can't move his extremities. Yeah. Paralyzed for a while. Seems a lot.

But either way, he gets a ticket for careless driving. So he's probably going too fast. fast there. So the article here from December 22nd says he's recovering in the hospital. It's happened Sunday morning and they said

they don't have a lot of details at this point because the crash report hadn't been released but a Jeremy Botter of Bleacher Report was the first to report the news. Strauss's manager, wow, Matt Aptaker of Janice Sports which is Anus with a J

told Bleacher It's what it is. That's spelled. Told Bleacher report, it's just too early to tell about the extent of his injuries. And Aptaker said Strauss does not remember the sequence of events that led up to the accident, which is very common in an accident. Strauss is awake, able to speak, and has full movement of his limbs. Strauss released a statement through Bellator and said,

on early Sunday morning, I was involved in a motorcycle accident. I'm currently recovering and will hopefully be returning to the Bellator cage sometime soon. I appreciate all the well wishes and ask people to respect my family's privacy during this difficult time. Yeah. And Bellator president went to Twitter to wish him well recovery. So he's in the hospital room here. And I mean, imagine, you know, this is literally all he's got, remember? Right.

This is all he's got. Shake and shake or this. These are the choices. For this. And for this, your body better work. Yeah. And when you fucking, you know, throw it off a fast-moving motorcycle, it tends to be down a little bit here. Yeah.

He's got to be a little bit at least, downtrodden at least, at the very minimum. He's got to just be a little bit, you know, crestfallen, let's say. So here he is. He's sitting there. He doesn't know what to do with himself. He's looking around the room and hospital rooms are drab. They make you feel bad. leak in there, yeah.

They make you feel even worse. So fucking cold. It's cold. It's all tile. It's your lonely in there. And he wants to warm it up a little bit. And there's only one guy who can help him with that, everybody. And here he comes.

It's Dexter Manley. Interior Decorator from New York City. And he says, How is it you've come to arrive here? My goodness. Look at you. You're all like tubes and things, little wires and stuff coming out. Can you breathe?

You're breathing? Okay. I came here to tell you one thing. You, sir, are white. trash. I'm sorry. You can say all you want, dreadlocks, and people don't like me, because you're white trash. This is what white trash does. It moves to Florida, gets arrested for ecstasy, and crashes motorcycles. You are white trash. I mean, if you look it up, if I didn't see, if I didn't see the picture of you, I'd say, oh, he must be white trash to the max. That's just

so much white trash. But you, sir, you should try to pull it together because I know a man who would love your style. Just love you. You're a little small, but, yeah. You're very vascular, and he likes that sort of thing. So I feel like you were a wrestler, so I don't know. If you get it together a little bit and, you know, just pull it out a little bit. Don't do ecstasy anymore, by the way. That's bad for you. You're going to fly off motorcycles and such.

So I have to go now, though. This room is terrible. Poof. And in a poof of boas and feathers, Daniel Strauss is very confused, and Dexter Manley is gone. And he doesn't understand what just fuck just happened to him here. He tried to take a swing at him, but he just disappeared. So January 2nd, 2018, he posts an update on his condition following the serious motorcycle accident here. He said that he's been hospitalized as a result.

And he posted here, let's see, there it is. Here's a picture of him in the hospital. Oh, fuck you. Very defiant about the hospital. Given the finger while wearing a walk. His grandmother's. It's wearing his grandmother's outfit. and using a walker.

Those are actual PJs from home. Those are not hospital scrubs. There's little flowers on those pants and his grandmother's pink night shirt. It's very weird. He said two days after the doc tells you you might not walk again. He's standing up. That's why he says, fuck. Hashtag fuck you, buddy.

Yeah. That's the funniest hashtag ever. Like, Fuck you, buddy. Fuck you, buddy. Hashtag the show just started. Hashtag blessed, of course. Yeah, yeah.

No, if you were blessed, you wouldn't be standing there in your grandmother's night shirt in a fucking hospital hallway being told you're not going to walk again. Fuck you, buddy. If you're, if God did this,

then God flung you off the motorcycle, too. Shut up. Shut up. The other thing is like, just because you have the will to walk, doesn't mean you just can. It means, so what, your body chose to be able to allow.

I'm sure. Christopher Reeve would have loved to stand up from that fucking wheelchair. Who would have loved it? He just didn't want it enough, Jimmy. That's all it was. He said that oxygen thing out of his fucking throat. You know what he was? Lazy.

Didn't want to breathe. Didn't want to walk. Lazy. Not fucking super. No, not super at all. And this happens with athletes all the time. They have terrible injuries. Fuck you, buddy. And they recover better than normal.

people. Doctors give you a, they give you like, here's what's going to happen of a normal human being. A professional athlete's not a normal human being, so their bodies react differently and they do well. All Chris had to say was fuck you, buddy. Fuck you, buddy. Done.

Superman 6. Yep. Let's do it. Yeah, just giving the finger on the poster. Fuck you, buddy. With a walker in front of him. March 28, 2019, here is some more on the accident here. He says he got blindsided.

Says he got blindsided and woke up under a guardrail. Wow. Unable to move. Doctors found contusions on his spinal cord that put pressure on his C4, C5, and C6 vertebrae. Wow. Shut down his whole nervous system, too, he said. He said the person who hit him was never identified. No shit.

How was his passenger uninjured? Yeah, and how did they not know? How could they not identify anything if they're not injured? Wow. Walking again was never a question for Strauss, despite one doctor's assessment that he might not be able to do so. Fuck you, buddy. And training wasn't something he was prepared to give up. Within a month and a half of the accident, Bellator cameras filmed him doing boxing steps and hitting lights in the gym. The Viacom-owned production promotion covered the bill for physical therapy five days a week. Well, yeah, if they're going to film it and use it for fucking promotion, then yeah. Actually, fighting and competing was a different story. A follow-up. up from a specialist in Florida didn't offer much encouragement about his future. So his expectations were low when he visited Las Vegas-based neurosurgeon William Smith. I'm not, you can't go by Will Smith.

That's not a serious name to be by. I'm William Smith. Can't even be Willie. Oh, God, no, no. That sounds even less mature. Dr. Smith has helped several high-profile athletes, including UFC Hall of Famer and Bellator star Tito Ortiz, who credits him with saving his career after a severe neck injury. Strauss said it was his last doctor's appointment.

If he got bad news, he'd call it a wrap on his career. He said, I thought I'd be walking in there. Another routine. No, no, no, doesn't look good. But he gave me clearance. Doctor in Vegas. The news wasn't happy with his family, though. Fighting meant that he's going back out there and doing it, again,

which a lot of his family members don't want him to. he said the mother of his child quote fucking bald when he told her what yeah he said she was not happy or she was not she was happy but she knows what it is yeah she didn't want you go out and fighting again so here he is march 29 2019 he's fighting again here we go Shane the war rhino crutchin yeah the war rhino is there a war rhino I guess the I'm sure at some point somebody tried to militarize yeah you know I I know that like elephants, yeah. Elephants were offered to our military by other countries at one point.

I think that was in the Civil War they offered elephants. They offered them, really? Somebody offered the North elephants. Wow. Which is fucking hilarious. I mean, that's what they used to do back in. King of Siam or some shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

War elephants. We're like, we're good. I don't know. We're good. Prussia used to be Germany. They used to do it, right? Germany used to be Prussia, I should say. Yeah, yeah.

They used to be Germany. Other way around. Who flipped that shit? Didn't, I don't know. They used to do that all the time. They used to charge fucking elephants into battle zones. That's crazy. It's insane.

It's fucking wild. I guess they can hide behind them. They're big. That was the idea. No, you teach them to use guns. They're really good with them, actually. So this fight goes in its first round, this guy's 12 and 4 coming in, the war rhino. Bellator 219.

He wins this fight, Danny does. Really? With a submission. Peter Warreiner with a rear naked choke and the first round. They said there's moments that he doubted himself, but he said not this day. He said through all of it, he said the urge to push on has been greater than anything. There's plenty of moments where I wasn't sure what the future was going to hold of how my body was going to hold up. But we're here.

Yeah, here we are. 26 and 8. There it is. September 7th, 2. 2019 Derek Campos, he's fighting. 19 and 9 coming in. Bellator 226, Bader versus Congo. This fight goes all three rounds.

It's a unanimous decision. Goes against Danny. Yeah. He's not used to this on the decisions. Yeah, he loses, making himself 26 and 9 now against old Derek Campos. That's not great. January 3rd, 2021, unknowingly operating vehicle while licensed, suspended, canceled, or revoked. he never know that he has a shit.

I don't know when this thing's not good. I don't understand that shit at all, no. So, I mean, obviously it's all, he's not doing anything wrong. Yeah. Clearly he's perfect and he's unknowingly doing it. You got to feel terrible for him, Jimmy. Don't you feel bad for him? Yeah.

Feel awful for him, I really do. But not nearly as bad as I feel for Daniel Strauss, who is the in-house counsel in Washington, D.C. In-house for somebody. He went to Columbia Law School. Wow, he's a government contracts expert. How boring. And Daniel Strauss, managing director of ETF research and strategy at National Bank Financial.

So, definitely not our guy, for sure. No. July 29, 2000 here. This is another issue with. on a bike. This is, here we go. Motorcycle? No, sort of. We'll talk about it. A man who fell from his bicycle and died in the Oakland Hills was identified yesterday by the Alameda Coroner's Department as 62-year-old Daniel Strauss. This is another mistaken identity. So, Daniel, he's alive, our guy, yeah. No, this is it. Apparently this guy suffered multiple

injuries. A neighbor called police to just report that the guy's mail was piling up. Oh, shit. And a coroner's. employee used a key that was found on Strauss's body to enter his home. Holy shit. Apparently, a retired laboratory technician, he was, suffered multiple blunt injuries while riding his bicycle. Despite a police sketch that was distributed by the media and a check of the man's fingerprints through various databases, the man's name remained a mystery until

neighbors called them. Okay, here we go. Danny. Yeah? Yeah, let's see if, you know, they're just picking me out of a crowd, man. Sure. You know, February 8th, 2021, he is going to be

charged with some bad, bad shit. Aggravated battery to an extreme degree here. Okay, he's arrested and charged with a single felony count of aggravated battery. That's the first count when they arrest him and then they can add more later.

With a deadly weapon after allegedly beating and stabbing his on-again off-again girlfriend. Oh. or whatever. Yeah, the one involved. What's his stabbing her with?

Man, he's booked into the Broward County Sheriff's Department. We'll get into everything here. Bond said it $100,000. And he was ordered not to have contact with her or have any weapons or ammunition. They said the $100,000 dollar bond. His attorney said $100,000 bond tantamount to no bond. No bond. Okay.

Well, that's what you get when you stab somebody. What are you talking about? It's there. If you're a better fighter, I bet. Bellator would put it up. Yeah. So at his hearing, the overseeing judge declined to lower his bond, pressed on why. She said, if he's a professional athlete, he can get a bond for $10,000.

So they'll let him, someone will take the bond. He can get it for $10,000. He should be able to raise $10,000. Sorry. Yeah. And I mean, the bond is there to make sure you don't run away. So. Yeah.

Said he's a pro fighter. He can get it. Someone will take his bond. Yeah. He's not going to. disappear. People know what he looks like. He's got social media and all that kind of shit. The lawyer asked if the judge

would consider lowering the bond to $50,000 and she said that he could apply to the division judge and they said that the hearing with the allegation might be someone he was in a past relationship with. He said in the hearing that that's what it was. So anyway,

in a statement, Bellator told a magazine Bellator is aware of the situation and has been in contact with his team. the organization has no additional comment at this time. Now, the warrant for his arrest was drafted on January 28th after an alleged incident that took place on January 21st, according to the warrant here. Hollywood, Florida, by the way. According to the affidavit, he showed up unannounced on the alleged victims at her workplace.

Hell yeah. And this was after they had been arguing via texts. So they've been furiously texting back and forth. And he said, fuck this, I'm going down there. Yeah. Not good. They were texting over what they quote, quote, infidelity issues in their relationship. Nice.

Very nice. Who are you fucking? Nice. Either you're fucking somebody. He's saying he's not or he's pissed because he thinks she's fucking somebody. Something happened. They went to her car in the parking lot. And at one point she got into the vehicle to separate herself only to have Strauss follow her.

Yeah, right. He came all the way there. What did you think he was going to do? Right. Oh, never mind and leave. You know what he's there for. You can see it through the window. It's not like you disappeared for Christ's sake.

So after exiting, Strauss followed her again, and the argument allegedly turned violent when he shoved her and she shoved him back. What she going to fight this guy? Yes. Per the affidavit, the alleged victim then got back into the car to drive away, and that's when Strauss struck her on the right side of the face.

Oh, boy. And then struck her multiple times causing her to fall to the ground. TKO punches, we'd call that. TK.K.O. punches again. She fought back. I like her. She's spunky. And Strauss eventually left in his vehicle.

Oh. Okay. Now, the affidavit notes here that as she drove back to her house, she told police Strauss called her and he was at her apartment. Fearful that he would destroy her belongings. she drove to his apartment to get a spare key that he had. Oh. Okay, this is crazy.

When she arrived, he had apparently decided instead to go back to his apartment. So he called her and said, I'm at your apartment. She said, oh, shit, called the cops, said he's at my apartment. So she went to his apartment because he's at her apartment. And then she showed up and he had changed his mind and went home. So now he's there. And the two had a confrontation over. the key.

Perfect. So this is, he's already beaten this woman in a parking lot, allegedly, of her job. That's already gone down. And now he's, it's part two. Jesus. Round two, everybody. So Strauss became angry after she allegedly said that all this alleged, all this is a legend, that she didn't want to talk to him and she just wanted to be done with the situation,

quote unquote. Yeah. At that point, he began pushing her out of his apartment. You could ask her to leave first, but. Yeah, be nice. Yeah. You know, what the hell? So as she was being pushed out of the doorway, she said, you're big and bad.

What are you going to do? Stab me? Uh-huh. Strauss then produced an unknown sharp object and stabbed her in the abdomen. Wow. So quickly that she couldn't even identify what happened. Like in prison, like someone was walking by him, pop-a-pop, and walked away. That's where he had to have learned.

that move, but you're a big and bad. What are you going to do, stab me? And he went, absolutely. For sure, he's, yes. And shanked her in the fucking abdomen. I'm going to, yes. They're fighting over a key, and this is all, there's nothing they're fighting over.

Wow. He followed her briefly as she fled, fearing for her life before he went back into his apartment. She drove to a neighbor's house and was taken to a local hospital. Now, a neighbor said that the stabbing was the result of an argument

between Strauss and his on-again, off-again girlfriend. She was treated at Memorial Regional Hospital for a knife wound. Wow, this is... He's a great guy, Jimmy. He's just misunderstood. He stabbed a woman. He thought that she had too much pressure inside him. He was trying to relieve it.

That's all it was. What do you talk? Great guy. Great guy. The arrest affidavit states that the alleged victim had a large contusion to her right eye and a puncture wound to her lower. right abdomen. Dude, that is crazy.

She initially declined to speak to detectives responding to the incident, but later said she would cooperate and press charges, fearing he would harm her if she didn't report him to the police. Basically, if you don't arrest him, he's going to come back for me here. So, and it was funny because after this, when he came back from his motorcycle accident, he was like a, he was a warm and fuzzy story. Yeah, right, right. He was this guy, and he, some guy hit him, not like he was.

drunk and crashed. Some guy hit him and they never found him and he with his fingernails crawled his way across the broken glass and molten lava to rise to his feet and say fuck you buddy I'm walking. Fuck you, buddy. Fuck you, buddy.

And then get in the ring and fight again and he was this warm, fuzzy story and now he's not fuzzy at all. Now it's all fucked up here. Wow. So July 10th, 2021 Belator parts ways with 18 fighters, including Daniel Strauss. He's run of them. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Because, fuck. I mean, you had to. He's a pretty bad guy. And he's stabbing women now. Allegedly. Yeah. Well, yeah, as the courts would determine later.

Well, they said that we're not, this is hard to find, but September of 2021, it looks like the charges against him were dismissed by the state's attorney's office. Oh, what? Now, a lot of that might be she's not cooperating because she didn't want to cooperate at first. And then she said, okay, I'll cooperate because I'm afraid of him. But if he came around and charmed her, she might have said, okay, never mind. He's fine. He's good now type of thing. So the prosecutors filed a no information saying that they would not formally pursue the charges here.

They said maybe insufficient evidence or victim becoming uncooperative. Either way, we don't know. But October 23rd, 2021, he's back in the ring again, or the cage, whatever you want, Octagon. He fights Keith Richardson. This is an X-MMA-3, Vice City. Yeah. Yeah, of course. It's 2021.

Too late. A game that came out in 2002. Yeah. So, yeah, this is Keith the Rockstar Richardson. Well, that makes sense because Rockstar games made Vice City. Right. So does that have anything to do with this? I'm not sure.

I don't know. What's his name? Keith Richards. Keith the rock star Richardson. Richardson. Richard. Keith Richards. Keith Richards.

Ah, maybe that's where he's getting it from. I meant did they name it Vice City because. I know what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. And you're going, that's a good fight. Catch that. That's good. 19 and 11 and he is coming in.

This fight here goes into the second round where he is going to lose Danny via TKO by punches. Yeah. And he gets the shit punched out of him. January 20th, 2023, he signs with bare knuckle boxing. Yeah. That's when you know you're done. And that's all you got. Yeah.

Yeah, they sign him to a multi-fight deal. They announced this in a press release, and they said, we're thrilled to announce the signing of Daniel Strauss to be KFC. Okay. Which he can't have KFC in your title. Big KFC. He just BKFZ is so bad. Yeah.

He said Daniel's had a wealth of success in Bellator, and we believe his skill set will translate very well in bare-knuckle. Our featherweight division is very deep and rapidly growing, and we have a number of great matchups for Daniel. I'm all about excitement in my fights, and that's what BKFC has brought to the combat sports world this last four years. Dave and his team have built the fastest growing combat sports promotion in the world and delivered the most brain damage

and the shortest of the amount of time possible. And I'm grateful for this opportunity. I can't wait for my first bare-knuckle fight, Danny says. So they're saying he's going to test his hands and see what's up. Well, he's a good puncher and an aggravated assaulter. Got charged with it anyway, allegedly.

Bare-knuckle fighting, April 21st, 2003, the bare-knuckle fighting championships 38 in Delray Beach. is the sometimes sometimes the event and the venue the event and location are just perfectly matched

and that's the time the universe came together he makes his debut against Dat Nguyen in the main event and this goes Jesus Christ the unanimous decision

in the sixth round the first five rounds were ruled to draw so they fought another round what you can Oh, okay, I see. At the end of it. Over time, essentially.

The judges said, we're not satisfied. Can you punch each other more? Do it again. We'd like to see five more minutes of punching if we're going to make this decision, actually. So this is a decision, and he loses this fight by decision. He's 0 and 1 in bare knuckle land here. Then May 11, 2024, this is BKFC-61, Connecticut. Riviera versus Strauss.

Here it comes. He's fighting Jimmy Riviera. Right. And this is a unanimous decision. Five-rounder, he loses it. Uh-oh. So there we go. He's 0-and-2 as a bare-knuckle fighter.

Uh-huh. Here. So far, we have no idea what the hell he made because he's got no money, right? An internet site says career disclosed earnings are $125,000. First career. Over 20 years. But they're saying, you know, there might be bonuses and stuff like that. Now, can't get enough of Danny Strauss here.

Daniel Strauss, Bellator champion MMA autograph signed 8 by 10 of him kicking a man in the face. Yeah. It's literally just this guy who's hands up and this guy's foot in his face. Yeah. Then there is Daniel Strauss versus Patricio Pitbull Frere, Bellator 132, 11 by 17 poster, signed by, looks like everybody on the card. There's, uh, things. Oh, by the way, the first, the first picture, autograph picture, $24.99 for the one.

That's a good deal. Yeah. This is $147.99. Holy. Because I guess it's signed by a bunch of guys you've never heard of before. So you've got to be. So that's worth a lot. Daniel Strauss signed Bellator 45 cage worn used t-shirt.

Oh, you can get a t-shirt of these guys? It says PSA, DNA, COA, walkout, auto. So they're saying certificate of authenticity on his DNA being on this. Oh, you can clone him. Yep. And the shirt says, Ultimate Wrestler, Tokyo Nutrition and some other shit. Bellator 45, Season 4, Strauss versus Pitbull, and he signed it. Or just follow him.

You can follow him on Instagram. He's still out, huh? He's in there. He's out. He's got 27,000 followers on Instagram, and it looks like he's still posting and still active. His Instagram feed is just a bunch of his fights. Great. And some, it looks like two women fighting in one of those. I don't know what's going on there. So either way, there you go, everybody. There is Danny Strauss. And, yeah, just a kind of a light.

He's dropped charges on the stabbing. Drop charges. We don't know why, but I'm going to go out on a lot. a limb and guess that because she wasn't real thrilled to press charges to begin with. I bet she just said, never mind. Fuck it. Yeah. Just keep him away from me? I don't know.

I'm not sure. Or they got back together, which also happens a lot. People who are in relationships like this tend to not go, he did a bad thing. I'm leaving forever. They tend to end up going back to them because there's a reason why they hooked up with them in the first place. Yeah. But is he done fighting, you think, or do you think he'll come back around?

It's been several years now. It's been five years. He hasn't fought in almost two years. Oh, you mean, well, bare knuckle for two years. But, I mean, his last fight in the actual ring was 2021. It's been five years. I got to say he's probably got to be done with MMA at this point. He might just be dealing with the brain damage he's got.

And not to mention, what is he 40 now? I mean, I don't think that's going to help him. Yeah, he's 42 years old, 41 years old to be 42 this year, which again, you're pretty much done fighting anybody. Yeah. that age. Forties, yeah. Yeah.

You're done. Professionally, that's enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's enough here. So there you go, everybody. There's Danny Strauss. If you like the show, please get on whatever app you're on and give us five stars. It helps drive the show up the whatever the fuck and people will see it.

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