My Mom's Basement - QUARANTINE MINI-POD: BILLY QUARANTILLO

Episode Date: June 5, 2020

Robbie picked against Billy Quarantillo last Saturday at UFC Vegas, having no idea that he's been a Stoolie since 2011, so here, he extends an olive branch and an apology to the UFC Featherweight to ensure he doesn't receive an ass whoopin in the future. It's a great time!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey, My Mom's Basement listeners. You can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. I'm new to the picks game. It's the quarantine thing. People want picks in the fights, so I just circle the fighters, I think, that are going to win the fights. I put it out there.

I watch the fights. Great night of fights. The best fight of the night. Definitely Spike Carlyle versus Billy Quarantillo. And then at the end of the night of fights the best fight of the night definitely spike carlisle versus billy quarantillo and then at the end of the night of fights i wake up to a tweet from billy q himself he's like bro i've been a stoolie since 2011 you picked against me what the fuck so this is my formal apology to the winner of saturday night's fight billy quarantine thank you so listen if i knew that i definitely wouldn't have picked against you the reason i

picked against you if you're interested to the psyche right yes like for a while your opponent i would never fight this guy in a million fucking years this guy opened the fight with a crazy running kick he was doing illegal elbows in his last fight yeah i don't think he knows what he's gonna do next so i don't know how you knew what he was gonna do next but let's talk about it let's talk about the fight how do do you feel? Yeah. Well, first of all, yeah, I accept your apology. I really appreciate it. And that was, you know, going into this fight, you know, I know he has all these crazy antics and he sold you, he sold you, was it snake potion?

And he got the fight all hyped up. And then of course, I'm like, man, you know, I've been following Barstool since, you know, 2011, 2010, 2011. And the first time I'm on it, I'm facing off with a guy in a fucking bird mask. And I'm like, oh, my God. I'm like, first time I'm on, you know. But I do appreciate you talking about the fight and hyping it up. And I'm glad we got to deliver a wild-ass fight.

Dude, it really was wild, and it was awesome. From the jump, he he started it like I said almost like the Masvidal style he just ran across the cage from you um like did you expect something wild to start or does he do that and you're like what do you what goes through your mind as a fighter when someone just sprints at you yeah well and uh yeah it was in the smaller cage too so like that 25 foot cage it's it's way closer you know know, you say go. You know what's crazy about that? I have a great coach and a great, great group of teammates. We knew he was going to run right at me, but I did not expect the front kick. I was actually planning – I had two different outs, okay?

So I was either going to kind of slip off towards my right and kind of just, you know, kind of like bullet matador it. Or my second option was I was basically just going to tackle him, like double-legged him because I thought he was going to come with like wild punches comes out and like ding, ding, ding. Next thing you know, I'm like, all right, which one's it going to be? I knew he was going to come right at me. And he comes in and kicks me right in the face. I'm like, God damn. I'm like, this is how we're going to start the fight up.

And then like you mentioned the last fight, he actually knocked out my, one of my teammates, a guy who cross trains with us, Alon Cruz. So when I watched that fight, I see this guy elbowing him in the back of the head and doing all this crazy stuff and i look at him after i'm like oh man i'm like you know fuck this dude like i want to you know i i was pissed about the fight yeah i got matched up i got matched up with someone else but i figured i'm like dude i'm definitely gonna fight that guy eventually so you better be ready to deal with that so i'm glad it worked out yeah and it was crazy all the way through so he continued his wild style it seemed like i mean i can't speak to this you were in the cage with him seemed like he gassed a little bit and you really

capitalized on that because you did not gas throughout the fight and the most viral moment of the entire fight is in the second round he's on top of you i think you got him in in full guard or something he just stepped up and he just goes for a walk. There's five seconds left. He started walking away from you like he was Mickey Mouse, like whistling down the block. And you just planned a fucking great shot. You stood up, hit him in the face.

The round wasn't over. Talk about what went through your mind during that. Yeah. So, you know, when you watch the clip, you're like, what is this guy thinking, you know, like punching this guy from behind. But there was a lot more that went into that, you know, the round is still going on. And so also, you know, I mentioned this on my, uh, my Instagram posts with some fighters, you know, people are like, Oh, I wouldn't, I wouldn't have done that with,

with some fighters I have so much respect for. Um, you know, if they're clean fighters, they shake my hand. They don't really talk a lot of shit. I have so much respect for a lot of guys. Maybe if it was a guy like that, that like, Oh, he didn't hear the bell. He got up. I'd be like, okay, cool. You know, the round's over with Spike Carlisle. He's, he sees me once at the UFC PI. Hey man, so good to meet you. And then two seconds later, people send me videos from Bisbing, Michael Bisbing's Instagram, where he's like, ha ha ha. It's going to be a massacre. Like this was, this was like a gift fight for me and like saying all this stuff. So that's how, you know, going into this fight, then I know he knocked out Alon with those

elbows in the back of the head. The minute the fight starts, he starts doing the same shit to me. So I'm like, at that point, I'm like, dude, I'm going to do everything I can until you're in a war at that point. Yeah. Yeah. And it's the feeling of like, you almost in a war at that point yeah yeah and it's the feeling of like you almost knocked me out with that i gotta win this round and then the last thing

is it was an empty arena there was probably eight people there was like eight people spread out so he definitely heard it he's had like 20 something 30 fights you hear the 10 second marker and he's just like oh well i did what i can and i got up and i'm like and it's like a split second and the ref the whole time he's like you gotta engage you gotta engage and he knew it like i'm thinking in my head i'm like yeah you can see he starts to turn like the slow-mo that they kept playing he starts to turn just as you're landing that punch coming around on him so you could tell that like he realized halfway through like oh fuck either he heard you get up and start to swing at him or he heard the ref say

that um what was fighting in an empty arena like was that wild for you like fighting on the amateurs did it feel like that or no it was i would i would say it was more uh like what i'm used to with so i was on the ultimate fighter uh with actually your boy mcgregor and uh uriah faber i was on team faber 24 um yeah yeah exactly exactly so it was uh oh no season 22 22 i'm sorry yeah yeah yeah oh no worries they they bang those seasons out um and uh so yeah i i um you know i lost there and uh it's uh you know it is what it's been such a good journey back and i'm just so happy to uh to be 2-0 in the uf the UFC now and talking to you guys and talking to all these big shots. Could you hear the commentators while you were fighting? Not this one.

So, actually, the last fight in Washington, D.C., with a full crowd, Daniel Cormier was right there. And I actually heard him talking while I'm trying to submit this guy. I had him in a head-arm choke. And he's like, oh, he's going to try to finish it from here. But really, I was trying to like submit this guy yeah I had him in like a head-arm choke and he's like he's like oh he's gonna he's gonna try to finish it from here but really I was trying to like kick my leg free and I looked at him I'm like dude this is surreal Daniel Cormier is talking to me right here in front of this huge crowd and I was talking back I was like no man I'm gonna pass and I ended up I did pass but I didn't finish him right then I ended up finishing later but this time they were actually back a little further with plexiglass

and I could hear both of our coaches the whole time, which was really interesting because their coaches were like, kind of talking shit. He's like, Oh, this is all he's got from here. He's a one trick pony. They're yelling stuff like that and nothing motivates me more than that. I was going to say, that's got to fire you up. You're a Buffalo guy, right? Fucking Bill's mafia. You tell it, you can't do it. You're all in there. Yeah. So that's crazy crazy you couldn't hear

the commentators in the empty UFC apex but you could hear Daniel Cormier the cheat code as he calls himself uh in the full arena and speaking of full arenas I thought you had a really cool call out after the fight you were like listen I don't really care who I get but I would like to be the first fight in a full arena back whenever this nonsense is over you're still going for that I assume right exactly yeah exactly I you know so i grew up me and my brother austin we grew up watching like you know wrestling like sean michaels and like oh fuck stone cold and the undertaker so like like i've always loved fighting but i love like the the entertainment you know what i mean in that full crowd like i grew up watching George St. Pierre running through that crowd and with the headband yeah yeah exactly and then so and I've already fought twice on the

ultimate fighter with no crowd once on the contender series now and once during this pandemic so I want to I want you know I dreamed of these like big ass arenas and now they're like oh no but it's back back where the contender series was so So you're like, I was happy. I did it. I think I did my part. I fought during the pandemic and you know, I didn't, I didn't lift one weight during this training camp. So it was definitely different. And the next one, I want it to be, you know, a big crowd. Shit. Wow. Yeah. Well, we're definitely going to support you through that. How did you get into fighting then? Was it through wrestling? Because for me, I'm a diehard wrestling fan my entire life. And when Lesnar made his debut in the UFC, that was like, okay, this is my introduction entire life. And when Lesnar made his debut in the UFC,

that was like, okay, this is my introduction to this. And I just stuck around from there. So how did you get into fighting? I assume it was before that. Yeah, so it's interesting. I never, I didn't wrestle or do anything like that in high school, but I grew up watching, you know, watching wrestling.

Me and my brother would like suplex each other and stuff. He's a year older than me. And we just love, like, we're so entertained by it, like the walkout and that. Then it got to a point where you know the the practicality of all the moves because that then we're like this is fighting this is this is how people fight each other yeah if it was a rope and then you start like realize when you get a little older like wait i've i've you know i've seen a couple fights in high school and stuff like that or you know like in middle school and you're like this isn't exactly fighting, you know,

but so what the UFC did, you know, Dana White, they brought that entertainment side of wrestling and then it's, it's really fighting. Like this is, these are the best guys in the world. Then, um, so in, in, at the end of, right after high school, we would go out, we would go out in Buffalo and in Buffalo, the bars close at 4am. So we would always go out and just get wild you know like when I was like 20 20 19 20 21 and we would just go out and get crazy and I got in a couple pretty bad fights one of one of the fights I talked about the other day I got uh we got in a fight and somebody headbutted me like I tried to kind of

break up a fight and and I didn't realize these guys were already fighting and he headbutted me and like broke my face like crushed my face so we get into this huge fight and the next day I woke up my eye was like swollen shut and I'm like dude this can this can never happen to you again and I know I still want to keep partying so I'm like you better learn how to fight oh shit what an interesting story you. How old were you at that point? Yes. I was 20 years old. No, I think I was 19. I was 19 about to turn 20. So you must have picked it up so quickly that people would consider that late to jump into the combat sports game, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I got in a couple like, you know, like I said, I got in a couple of fights in high school and a couple like, you know, kind of street fights. I played hockey where we would fight. But yeah, I didn't learn anything until right around that time I got headbutted and one of my buddies uh was it he basically came back from the military in Buffalo and he taught me

jiu-jitsu moves he taught me like a triangle choke and an armbar which I still use this day and from that point on I was like oh man like if I know how to defend myself on the ground like that like who's gonna beat you you know what I? Like the worst thing that can happen to you in a fight is someone either like, you know, catches you with a punch, but then they get on top of you and, and, and, you know, try to try to finish you. And I'm like, man, that jujitsu has always been like my safety net. And it's still the, to this day, it's helping me out. Yeah. That goes back to like the original concept of the UFC, like the hoist thing where he's like, if I get you on the ground, I can beat you.

It doesn't matter what else you do. Your buddy that taught you the triangle and the armbar, is he just every time you win a fight with that, he's like, I fucking taught you everything you know. He's got to be. So he still lives up in Buffalo. And he messaged me every time. And every interview I talk about, I talk about Ken Blasek. I always mention that. On The Ultimate Fighter, I think I said something like, yeah, some guy guy taught me this and he's like, Oh, I'm just some guy. But he basically

taught me that, that foundation. Uh, and then I went to a bigger gym and I ended up moving to Tampa and now I train with, with savages and, uh, you know, this is my life. And this is what I kind of dreamed it would be. I can basically just do whatever I want, train whenever I want, talk to, talk to cool people all day and make my own schedule. Dude, I freaking love it. I appreciate you giving us the time. I appreciate you accepting the apology. And I promise you from here on out, you're a barstool fighter, man. We're riding with you. It doesn't matter who you're fighting. Unless you fight my boy, Connor, if you get to that point, then we'll talk, we'll renegotiate the contract. But listen, until then, we're riding with you,

Billy Q. Yeah, dude, I appreciate that so much if we get to that point we can definitely negotiate we could work something out i appreciate uh barstool fans you know i've been following you guys for a long time one thing i wanted to say so i started following barstool in uh 2011 and the guy who introduced me to it was uh matt the steamroller's brother uh he goes by cheesy cheesy mcfreshington and uh i guess a couple fights and matt for vola by the way is a big stoolie and cheesy is too and i guess oh wow i should get matt for full on the podcast too i'm a big fan of his he would love he would he would love it and his brother so after that pena fight if you remember matt for all and pena had a war

uh violent bob ross and i guess you sent something to cheesy where he was like tell robbie the rough and rowdy still on because i guess he was like you know he had a bunch of drinks he was tweeting wild stuff and i think you told him to mix some waters in like mix some water in his drinks i'm sure i did listen when people yeah me at rough and rowdy all bets are off yes and yeah and i'm a big fan of that rough and rowdy i need to i was i was trying to get in on it but i know i think i have a little too much experience for it but i love watching it it's so it's so entertaining man so keep doing what you guys are doing and uh and matt for all his fight in june 20th too so he's up next and after that i'm i'm hoping for a big fight in a big arena

maybe in new york i can come down to barstool and we can yeah you know get get some drinks or uh dude absolutely anytime you're in new y. Yeah. Come through the office. You come through, hit me up and tell you what, Matt Favola, June 20th. He's another one we're supporting. So, Hey, rough and rowdy. If we ever go up to Buffalo, which we've wanted to do forever, maybe we can get you on like a third, Mike, like a Trevor Whitman for a fight or something. Oh, dude, I would love to break it down for you. You know,

you know, I've put put some people through some Some tables Oh absolutely yeah maybe hey you're a wrestling fan too You could be a part of like you could get one of your buddies That isn't a fighter you could be part of his walkout You could do a big entrance or something That would be big man I'm down with it just let me know when And appreciate the support man

It's been a great chat with you Yeah Billy Quarantillo everybody