Mohammed Hijab – MH Podcast – Artur Beterbiev & Roy Jones Jr
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The speakers discuss their boxing and daily routine, including their training schedule, eating habits, and breathing. They give advice on breathing and learning in Christian language, as well as their belief in praise and thanks for everything. They also give advice on breathing and learning in Christian language and give tips on handling it. They give advice on learning in Christian language and give advice on handling it. They also give recaps of their training and give advice on how to handle it. They give advice on their daily routine, including their training schedule, daily routine, eating habits, and breathing. They also give advice on their upcoming MMA debut and events.
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How's your training going?
It's going alright.
Harder, there you go.
On the 14th of December, there's going to
be some fireworks that's going to take place
in Coventry.
I'm going to make my professional MMA debut.
So make sure that you book the pay
-per-view tickets, because to watch this on
pay-per-view, 20%, one-fifth of the
earnings will go to charity.
It will go to the Lebanese crisis, we
know what's going on there.
And so we can, inshallah, raise money and
be entertained at the same time.
I'm the kind of guy, thank you for
the speech earlier too, I knew all that
was for me.
I felt you picking on me a little
bit.
I just
want,
in a very, very brief manner, to tell
you guys the Islamic worldview in three minutes,
five minutes.
I think it's only incumbent upon us, for
us to explain the Islamic worldview, because the
thing is, there is a question that people
may ask, and it's one of the most,
if not the most fundamental question that a
human being can ask, which is, what is
the purpose of life?
This is the most fundamental question a human
being can ask, in the course of his
or her life.
What is the purpose of life?
Now, many different people can give subjective answers
to this question.
Someone who's very much invested in money, or
for example, other people who are obsessed fully
with sports, could answer in the sense that
they say, well, the purpose of life is
for me to be the best version of
this or that.
That's a subjective answer.
That's not the question though.
The question is, is there a purpose of
life?
An objective purpose of life, by which and
through which all human beings have been commissioned
to follow?
Now, there's only one or two ways you
can look at this.
Either there is a purpose of life which
is objective, or there isn't.
And if there isn't, then whatever we're doing
here is temporary, and when we go in
the grave, it will just be a rearrangement
of atoms, and we are just carbon, and
we are just atoms, and when we disintegrate
into the earth, we will become with the
earth, and that's it.
There's nothing to it.
This is the conclusion of that worldview.
The other way of thinking about it is,
no, there is a purpose of life, but
if there's a purpose of life, where did
it come from?
Well, it couldn't have come from nothing.
The universe itself couldn't have come from nothing,
and the universe itself couldn't have created itself,
because the universe creating itself is like a
mother giving birth to herself.
It would have to exist and not exist
at the same time.
So the best answer to the question of
why we are here is that there is
a universe that was created by a creator
that was uncreated, and that that creator has
knowledge, has power.
The creator has knowledge and it has power,
and it has given purpose to the human
being, and the purpose is to submit to
that creator.
Submit to one God, because the creator is
God.
Someone will argue, isn't that what Jews and
Christians say?
What's the difference between Islam and Christianity?
For example, the answer is that the biggest
difference between Islam and Christianity is that Muslims
do not believe that the person of Jesus
Christ was God.
This is the biggest difference.
Or that he was a person of the
Trinity, or that he was the son of
God.
What Muslims affirm about Jesus Christ was that
he was the Messiah, was that he was
a prophet sent by God, as the book
of Acts says in the Bible, a man
sent from God with wonders and miracles and
signs, which God did through him.
And so the biggest difference between Islam and
Christianity is that Islam believes that Jesus Christ
cannot have been a God, that it's not
conceivable, it's not possible, and it's not intelligible
for any human being with a date of
birth to be labelled as God.
And that instead, that anyone with those qualities
must be human and limited.
Muslims like Christians and Jews believe in Abraham,
believe in Moses, believe in all of those
New Testament prophets.
And the question the Quran asks, or the
statement it makes is that Abraham wasn't a
Jew or a Christian.
And in fact, he couldn't have followed Muhammad
because Muhammad didn't exist at the time.
But he himself was a submitter to one
God.
He wasn't telling, Abraham wasn't telling people to
believe in the Trinity.
Moses wasn't telling people to believe in the
Trinity.
Not even in the Bible does it say
that, by the way.
Go and find the verse in the Bible
where it says Moses said believe in Jesus
as God, or Moses said that the Trinity
exists.
You will not find such a verse.
And so Islam is a continuation of what
Jesus came with.
And we think that what Jesus came with,
and we have evidence to show, is that
to believe in one God and worship in
one God.
But that message was tainted like the Shaykh
mentioned.
And it was changed.
And there's decisive evidence to show, historical evidence,
that Christianity is a changed religion.
There's no question about it.
And so Islam came to renew the original
message of Jesus Christ.
This is what Islam came to do.
So if being a Christian is to follow
Jesus, then every Muslim in a sense should
follow Jesus and should be a Christian in
that sense.
But what we're saying is, follow Christ by
believing in one God.
This is the main purpose of life.
And I just wanted to put that forward
to let people know what the Islamic worldview
is.
Because we believe that there's the Old Testament,
there's the New Testament, and then there's the
Final Testament, which is the Quran.
And that this Quran, which is the Final
Testament, has no errors or inconsistencies inside of
it.
And that if you follow this, you will
be at peace, you will have no depression,
and you will be at your purpose in
this life.
You will have an objective, anchored, solidified, proper
purpose of life.
Otherwise, believe me, nothing you can do will
ever fill the void of that purpose.
This is the Islamic worldview.
Now we're going to start talking about martial
arts and boxing.
But I just thought it would be appropriate
and proper for us to start like that.
But first of all, it's a privilege, an
honor for me to have this conversation with
you.
I mean, I've been watching your fights for
a very, very long time.
And a legend that people speak about, a
person who's obviously moved weight classes, fought James
Toney, done incredible things in the sport.
This is a question, I mean, what got
you into boxing in the first place?
First of all, I want to say As
-salamu alaykum to everybody out there.
I'm the kind of guy, thank you for
the speech earlier, too.
I knew all that was for me.
So I felt you picking on me a
little bit.
I took it.
I took it.
I'm cool with that, you know.
But thank you.
I appreciate your speech.
Usually you dodge the punches.
Yeah, I usually dodge.
I was trying to dodge what you were
saying.
You got the defensive style.
I couldn't get away from those.
They were pretty good.
So anyway, what got me into boxing, I
was probably different than most people because I
started boxing after watching Muhammad Ali fight, I
think in about 1974.
My father was a boxer, but I didn't
know it at that time.
I didn't find out until I got about
13 years old that my father was a
boxer.
But that explained to me later why he
was so infatuated with watching Muhammad Ali.
When I saw my father watching Muhammad Ali,
I think it might have been the Joe
Frazier fight.
And I was watching Muhammad Ali fight, but
I was seeing the mental part more so
than anything because since I was about three
years old, I probably was the worst agitator
in my family.
You understand what I mean?
So I always got in trouble for aggravating
people.
When I saw him aggravating Joe Frazier and
beating him, I was like, wait a minute.
I can do that because I can get
on anybody's nerves and I'm never going to
get mad.
So you said the mental thing.
Can you tell us a little bit more
about what you mean by that?
The mental thing was in boxing, for me,
I watched Muhammad Ali make you think a
certain way, make you want to kill him.
Yes.
And the more you try to kill him,
the more happier he is.
So he can see everything you're doing now
because he's pissed you off to a point
that you're showing all your weapons because you
want to kill him.
So it's a psychological game.
That's exactly what it is.
And you thought you were a manipulator, so
you might go get into the ring and
try your manipulation tactics in the ring.
I knew I was pretty good at *
people off too.
So if I can do that, I know
I'm not going to get mad.
I can do the same thing he's doing.
So he became my aspiration and my idol
right away.
How did you develop that style?
Because you had a very kind of like
well-known defensive style moving and these kind
of things.
Did that come naturally to you?
Did someone teach you that?
Or how did you develop it?
I was taught a lot.
But as we all say, what God got
for you, he's going to prepare you for.
So I grew up on a farm, squirrel
hunting, rabbit hunting, deer hunting, raising dogs, raising
chickens, raising pigs, had a few cows, a
few horses.
All those things are what I call nature.
If God created nature, the same God that
created us, then there's a lot of lessons
to be learned in nature.
Forget what people say.
Nobody can go out there and light their
sky up right now.
When that sun comes tomorrow, when that sky
gets light tomorrow, no man can go out
there and turn that light out.
Only God can do that.
Well, only God could have created these animals
the way he created them.
So I learned to love the roosters because
they fought.
And they fought to the death.
I was fascinated by that.
You understand me?
So being so fascinated, I started wanting to
know what made one rooster more superior than
the next one.
That's a very interesting question.
You feel me?
Very interesting, yeah.
So I figured out the one that does
the most fighting.
You actually learned from the animals then?
I had to.
Wow.
I had to.
So by learning that, it taught me or
gave me really a good foundation as to
what I wanted to be and how I
wanted to carry myself in the ring.
So a lot of people think I do
things just to show off.
No, I don't.
Everything I do has a manipulation plan to
it.
So when you go in there, do you
think, okay, because a lot of it is
not just feinting, but it's showboating.
Do you think I'm going to showboat in
the third round to do this?
Do you calculate that or is it instinct?
No, I don't calculate it.
It's something about it that when God puts
it on my heart, I trust God so
much that I try it.
And there's never been another person do the
things that I did because I don't think
they had that trust in it to try
it like that.
I had such a great foundation that I
felt like I could try anything.
So in a fight when I was fighting
Glenn Kelly, I had hit him with so
many counterpunches that he wouldn't punch.
I got against the ropes and I got
an inclination.
So I said, put your hands behind your
back, he'll punch then.
I put my head behind his back, left,
right, left, he punched.
Pow, get him out of there.
Okay, let me ask you a question.
Now, these are controversial questions.
I think you can handle them.
Let's start with who you think the greatest
of all time fighters are.
Ain't no who I think.
The greatest fighter of all times, the greatest
athlete of all time, always in my book
is going to be Muhammad Ali.
That's what I think, that's what I know.
When I hear, sorry to say, but when
I hear Floyd Mayweather speak about it, he's
usually carrying some kind of a grudge, I
think.
He's usually not happy about saying that.
You know, he never puts Muhammad Ali in
his top five.
What do you think the reason for that
is?
You seem psychologically screwed on.
I don't want to be a hater.
So some people live for different reasons.
Like you said, some people live for and
respect different things in life.
Some people are more materialistic or like that
than others.
Ali had a heart of gold.
You understand me?
I love Ali because of the heart he
had.
He fought for the weak.
He stood up for those that were disabled
or those that couldn't, wasn't as beneficial as
others.
He fought for all good for all people.
And he tried to keep everybody unified at
the same time.
When he died, you saw people from every
religion, every race come to his funeral.
Why?
How many other people have we seen that
happen?
Not many.
You understand me?
So even the day he left here, he
still was leaving legacy.
In a sense, he transcended the sport completely,
didn't he?
He's a cultural icon now, isn't he?
They took his best years away from him.
And he's still the greatest of all time.
With that tea.
I mean, what's a really interesting read, I'm
not sure if you've ever read it, but
it's a really good book.
If you get the time, you should read
it.
It's the autobiography of Malcolm X.
If you get the chance.
And in particular, the last couple of chapters,
he talks about the pilgrimage.
And one really interesting thing that he says,
is that when he goes to the pilgrimage,
Malcolm X goes to the pilgrimage, and they
knew that he was Muhammad Ali's friend, everybody
would greet him and they would love him.
So even at that time, it wasn't just
like the African American community in America, or
even the Westerners.
The entire Muslim world was behind this man,
Muhammad Ali.
And it was interesting how he described that,
because it's a really interesting read anyway, Malcolm
X.
It shows the placement of Muhammad Ali in
terms of world histories.
It's a massive placement.
So you put Muhammad Ali there.
Who else would you put there in the
top five?
In the top five?
Yeah.
You know what?
I didn't want to say that.
I don't know if that's fair or not.
But I appreciate it.
So he's there number two.
He's there number two.
So yeah, we'll go with that.
Give me another one.
You know, man, I thought the world of
Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard, yeah,
they were two of a kind.
So I put them two together.
Okay.
I got to say Roberto Duran.
And people don't understand why I say Roberto
Duran.
But this is how you got to look
at it.
They got the thing called the Four Kings,
right?
Marvin Haggard started out as a middleweight.
Sugar Ray and Tamer Hermans started out as
welterweights.
Duran started out as a lightweight.
And he won the Four Kings.
What'd that tell you?
Huh?
Got to be a bad dude.
Last but not least is my favorite Mexican,
Salvador Sanchez.
Really?
Yeah.
And the reason I say Salvador Sanchez, a
lot of these young guys up here may
not know this, but we talked about how
Canelo was too young to fight Floyd at
21 years old, right?
Salvador Sanchez defended his title.
Nine times at 21 years old.
The WBC world title.
He died at 22.
You mentioned Floyd.
Where would you put him in the rankings?
Mayweather.
Where would you put him?
Who?
All right.
Let me ask you a question.
If you don't respect Muhammad Ali, how can
I respect you?
It's a good point.
It's a good point.
By the way, we don't like Floyd for
other reasons now as well.
He's been shaking hands with the devil.
I ain't saying liking me, cool.
I mean, everybody's entitled to do their own
thing.
And what he did was brilliant.
He was smart about what he did.
But to tell me that you don't think
Muhammad Ali is the greatest of all time,
you may well be spitting in my face.
He doesn't even put him in the top
five.
You may as well spit in my face.
Give me your top best three boxing fights
of all time.
Three boxing fights?
Yeah.
You mentioned Hagler and Hearns.
I was thinking that's usually put up there.
That's definitely one of them.
But two more fights that I loved.
One was Ron Lyle versus George Foreman.
Okay.
I think it was about six or seven
knockdowns.
Really?
George epically winning the fight, but that was
a * of a fight.
The other one I would put up there
is, we call it some old school, Larry
Holmes, Ken Norton.
Okay.
If you ever get a chance, go watch
that.
Watch that one.
That's what made me start liking Larry Holmes,
because I didn't like him because of what
he did to Ali.
But when he beat Ken Norton, I got
a little bit more respect for him.
Okay.
Let me ask you, is this working?
Yeah.
Another controversial question.
Recently, Jake Paul fought Mike Tyson.
Gimmick fight.
Now, a lot of people have been saying
this is a staged fight.
It's fixed.
If you look at the comments on a
lot of the social media platforms, that's what
they're saying.
I think the majority of comments is that
this thing is fixed.
Now, you fought Tyson, I don't know, was
it four years ago, five years ago or
something like that?
Four years.
What is your opinion on this?
Do you think it was fixed?
Or do you think that maybe he told
him, look, we're just going to do a
little sparring thing.
Don't go too hard.
Or what do you think happened in this
situation?
First things first, for Mike Tyson to be
58 years old and to do anything and
walk away with $20 million is out of
this world.
Right?
The reason he was able to do that
is because of the hype and the social
media around Jake Paul.
So, Jake Paul actually gave him a gift,
a blessing that he wouldn't have got from
anybody else at that age.
So, I can't say nothing bad about Mike.
Because at 58, who else is going to
make that kind of money?
But what do you think happened?
It looked like it might have been a
little bit of an understanding.
I don't know.
No, but you reckon it was a fully
fledged understanding?
He was after me a whole lot harder
than he was after Jake Paul.
And he didn't make quite that much money.
So, he was at my neck.
You understand me?
I mean, he even took the gloves and
ran the laces up my face one time.
Pissed me off.
Well, you're lucky that he didn't bite those
gloves and bite your ear as well.
That's probably when the guy told me he
bites the gloves all the time.
I said, I just did an eight round
with him four years ago.
I don't remember him biting a glove at
all.
Because if he'd have bit a glove, I'd
start holding my ears.
So, do you reckon he was biting that
glove because he was so frustrated that he
couldn't do what he wanted to do?
That seemed kind of like what it was.
Like he was biting that glove out of
pure frustration.
Maybe a daydream still.
To me, Mike's like a pit bull, right?
You've got a pit bull, he can play
with other pit bulls because a fight's going
to break out.
But a pit bull don't know how to
play well.
When he starts playing, because there's a fight,
a real fight's going to break out.
They just don't know how to do it.
But you say it was an understanding.
Do you reckon it was a fully fledged,
like WWE style understanding?
Like, you know, you take the full ear,
you know what I mean?
I can't really say.
Because I don't know.
And if I knew that, I wouldn't tell
you.
I don't know that.
So, I really don't know what it really
was.
However it goes, tell Jake Paul don't call
me because he's going to knock me out.
For real.
Because if you don't knock me out, I'm
knocking you out.
So, don't call Roy, because Roy ain't playing.
He ain't playing no games.
At all.
Alright, well.
I mean, it was a pleasure talking to
you.
And I think everybody here, I mean, already
your energy is exuberating.
Everyone here can feel your energy.
And we would love to welcome you to
the Islamic family.
That's something that we'll talk about.
I appreciate it.
There's something we'll talk about.
But, thank you so much for talking to
me about this and sharing these very important
experiences.
And for me, it's also an honour and
a pleasure to be on stage with all
these other world champions.
Pleasure's all ours, honestly.
Thank you all for coming up and doing
what you're all doing.
Thank you.
Keep the head up, stay strong, stay smart.
Do what he just said.
Try to be the best that you can
be.
Thank you.
And now, last but not least.
But we'll get the mic on him first.
As-salamu alaykum, brother.
How are you?
Wa alaykum as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah.
I'm not bad.
Everything good.
How are you liking the United Kingdom?
Good.
I finally agree.
Is this the first time you've come here?
Here, yeah.
Luton?
Luton, yeah.
But you've come to the UK many times.
Yes, in London.
I had a fight there.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
You know, I try to tell you long
stories about my career, my boxing career and
for the wife.
But I have some problems.
My English is a little...
No, we understand your English now.
We understand fully.
And I have, if you ask me three
questions, that's it, OK?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We'll try and make it as quickly as
possible.
But your English is very good, very fantastic.
We understand, especially because now there's many people
coming from these Caucasus regions like Habib and
Hamzat.
So we understand the accent fully now.
It's like...
It's a good one.
I was going to ask...
Too busy with boxing and don't have time
to learn English, no?
No, but you're definitely good at English.
I was going to ask you, obviously you're
Chechen, by nationality or from origin.
Have you done any wrestling before?
Anything like that?
Yeah, I started wrestling, boxing.
At the same time?
At the same time, but I stayed in
boxing.
So you can wrestle as well?
No.
No?
Because almost all the Dagestanis and the Chechens
I've met have some wrestling experience.
That's something they do.
We don't do testing, we don't.
No, no, no, not today.
That's...
Your amateur record doesn't appear on some of
the things.
Like your amateur fights.
Did you do like...
Before you became professional, you were amateur.
How many fights do you have?
Almost 300.
Really?
Oh my God.
It's too long, you know.
I'm 30 years in boxing.
Amateur fighters, correct me if I'm wrong, maximum
20, 30 is a good number for...
Because they are good boxers, and they do
both.
But 300...
Maybe, what does that mean?
Like twice a week, something, what do you
do?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
But one of the fights you had was
with Oleksandr Usyk.
You had...
I think you fought him, what, two times
or three?
Three.
Three times.
On 81 kilo.
Yeah.
Category and 91 kilo, two times.
Let me ask you a question.
In the future, would you ever think of
fighting Oleksandr Usyk and going up to the
heavyweight division?
No, heavyweight, no.
But cruiserweight, I can make cruiserweight.
But not heavyweight.
Heavyweight is too much, you know.
I'll be too busy eating, you know.
Eating all the time.
And I need to train...
We can help you with this training camp,
brother.
We have all the food here in Luton.
But I think your style was very tricky
for him.
If people watch that fight, people will see.
It's very tricky for him.
Maybe even if you did it, it would
be a great test for him.
If you did fight Usyk, let's be honest,
like cruiserweight.
Let's say he goes down and you go
up a little bit.
How do you think that fight will go?
We can ask Roy.
I don't know.
Because, you know, I'm not that boxer like
Roy Jones, like these guys.
Because I'm not a fan of boxing.
I don't know what I do in boxing,
but I just do training.
You don't watch it?
No.
Really?
No, I don't watch boxing.
I like to use boxing as my job,
you know.
But when you want to improve your boxing,
do you not watch particular boxers?
No, when I have a fight, we watch
some videos.
Who do you watch?
When I have a fight?
When I have a fight, we watch him.
The other person?
Not a person, another fighter.
The opponent?
The opponent.
Would you ever look at another fighter?
You said in many interviews before, like Muhammad
Ali, for example.
So you've watched him fight.
I'm not there.
I'm not a fan of boxing.
Really?
Very interesting.
No, I know Muhammad Ali.
I've watched a couple of his fights.
But I don't remember where they fight, who
they fight.
Really?
We ask them, they know that.
You're not into the trivia, all this stuff.
But you're just into the fighting itself.
Yeah, it's like my job.
You do your job now.
Excuse me, sir.
He is from Russia.
From Russia?
But you represented Russia and Canada before, isn't
it?
But now only Russia.
No, now I represent both.
Both?
Russia and Canada.
But most of your life you spent in
Russia?
Or in Canada?
Past, yes.
In the future, I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll see what happens.
Okay, there's been some discussion, but I saw
it on social media with you and Jake
Paul.
I mean, this is...
What do you want to achieve from this?
You know, Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali are
my favorite boxers.
Even though I'm not a fan of boxing.
And, like, Jake Paul beating...
I think it's not real.
I don't know.
And it's my first reaction.
Do you think it's staged?
I don't know.
I mean, it's my first reaction.
I want to pay him back.
Show him something for boxing.
To try, maybe.
You want to fight him?
And I just...
I just offer him, like, if you want
real boxing, we can do it.
Show him.
Do you think he would accept your challenge?
Let's be honest, let's be honest.
I think this man, he's taking steroids, okay?
I think he is taking steroids.
So, if you want to fight him, you
have to put...
You can't take steroids.
You have to put this in the contract.
But I did.
Yeah, and maybe also he has to have,
like, a baseball bat as well.
To make it fair.
I will bring that.
No, but honestly, like, if you did fight
him and it was a real fight, I
think the fight will be finished in two
rounds maximum.
And that's giving him a lot of credit.
One round, really.
We don't know what...
We know what happened with Mike Tyson and
Jeff Polk, but I tell you, like, Roy
Jones beating, like, maybe two rounds maximum.
Yes.
One round, actually.
Maybe one round finish him.
Do you think he's a good boxer, though?
Do you think he's got potential?
Or do you think he's a...
He's good, yeah.
He's okay.
Yeah.
So long as he...
He's got potential for you.
So now you've become the Unified Light Heavyweight
Champion, which is congratulations.
Undisputed.
Undisputed.
Everybody, please.
It was a phenomenal achievement.
Obviously, it was a close fight.
It was something that people spoke about.
And everybody...
I saw Eddie Hearn came out and he
had his comments straight away and stuff like
that.
But you know Eddie Hearn.
I mean, he knows him better as well.
But, you know, they want to do this
match.
You're going to...
They want to do the match.
Has it just been announced?
Is the announcement?
Yeah, I don't know.
See, look, he's a bigger fan than you
are because he knows before you even.
It's been announced just now, has it?
Oh, it's been announced just now that Bibble
BF2 is going to the rematch.
After this fight, InshaAllah, when you beat him
again even more decisively so there's nobody saying
anything.
Is there...
Who else do you want to take on?
You know, I'm 40 already.
Yes, maybe.
I don't know.
But Roy Jones was...
How old were you, 42, is it, when
you came back to boxing?
Yeah, so, I mean, it has been there
with George Foreman.
But I have rest before, you know.
He take rest and I'll take him back
to box.
You want to take a rest?
I need to rest, like, you know, there's
no time for rest now.
We have to do it.
But if you could fight somebody, who would
be your dream opponent?
Clearly.
Apart from Jake Paul.
In the beginning of our conversation, I told
you I'm not a fan of boxing and
I'm not dreaming about boxing.
Yes.
What about Tyson Fury?
Let's imagine that there was big money on
the table, something huge thing happened and you
say, listen, Tyson Fury, I mean, Usyk beat
him.
You've got a style, I'm not going to
say similar to Usyk, but definitely tricky for
someone like Tyson Fury.
What do you think would happen in a
fight between you and Fury?
Let's imagine.
We can imagine.
You know, it's like, if I do, like,
these things, like, imagine, like, I want to
fight with him or with him.
I don't have time to do my job,
or my training.
It's a pleasure and an honor to interview
all of you.
One last question I'm going to ask you
before we end.
Give me a rundown of your daily routine.
Daily routine?
Yeah, what you do in the morning, like
how you eat, how you go to training,
how many times you go to training.
Just tell us what you do on a
daily basis.
Two times per day.
I do training, morning, 7 to 9.
And 3 to 5.
Okay, so like four hours a day.
Four hours a day.
But it's minimum, and after training, I always
stay there like an hour.
It's more or less.
And do you do, like, running?
Or do you not do any running?
There is, like, I have a condition coach.
Yes.
I have, per week, I have running and,
like, different things.
Like circuits and stuff like that, jumping up
and down, going up, these kind of things.
And he says two times a day, every
day.
Rest.
And what do you do for recovery?
You go into, like, the ice bath?
You like this stuff, like the ice bath
or anything like that?
Massage or?
I try ice bath, but I like more
sauna.
Sauna, yeah?
Yeah, because ice bath is very uncomfortable.
No, it's like, but it's good too, but
I more prefer sauna.
Yeah, and how do you eat?
What kind of food do you have, like,
every day?
Khalil.
Khalil.
Khalil, you know?
Yeah, like, I don't know, you know, for
example, I can eat if I have camp.
I have, like, for example, I have main
training is at 3 o'clock and for
lunch I eat one month to two months
spaghetti with some meat.
The same food every single day?
Same food.
You get not bored, something like that?
It's OK, yeah?
You have some sauce with it, nothing?
Yeah, but spaghetti is, like, good for, you
know, for energy.
Cardio and stuff.
Do you take any?
Yeah.
Do you take any supplements?
Of course.
Which one do you take?
Not the same one like Jake Paul, because
that's a different thing.
I don't know who take this.
I take, you know, it's a good question,
because I take supplements or vitamins, like, you
know, when I'm a kid, because I'm, like,
I don't know, I'm really, my mum is
nurse and she always, she always give me
some vitamins.
And do you know what you're taking, like
vitamin C, vitamin D, all that stuff?
Yes, and since that time I'm always, like,
following these things and I think it's good,
like.
It's good, yeah?
It's good for kids and when you're growing
up, like, you know, if you have these
things.
The red one, it makes your cardio better.
Ah, yeah, yeah.
There's some evidence, liver as well?
Liver, I eat liver always.
Liver, yeah?
I hope my wife, she's listening, she will
get this liver as well.
She will get it.
Any other thing, you eat special things?
Okay, one last question.
When you are fighting, how do you breathe?
Breathe?
When you punch, do you breathe out?
I'm not breathing.
Do you breathe with your nose?
Yeah, my coach, you know, it's a long
time ago, he tell me, like, when you
do, when you boxing, when you do punch,
you need to breathe out.
I'm breathing out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And this help, I find this help for
the, yeah, no?
Okay, yes.
But I don't know that 25 years ago.
I don't know that.
He was asking me before, because sometimes we
see you doing, like, we the Muslims, we
know, but I think it's better if we
tell everyone.
Sometimes you do, like, you say something under
your breath, okay?
In the press conference, in this.
Tell us, what's the secret words you are?
It's secret words.
And I want to say something like, here
is, everyone say, Alhamdulillah.
We always say that, Alhamdulillah.
And then I have, if I can, I
do telling you this story.
I don't know you can approve, or it's
true or not true.
And I heard about, like, if Muslim people,
like, you know, he get some good news,
or someone kill him, all the world, you
know.
If he says, Alhamdulillah, it's better to him,
than the whole, he get it, you know?
SubhanAllah.
It means, Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
So, Alhamdulillah, for those who don't know, it
just means, praise and thanks belongs to Allah.
So, you are thanking Allah for everything you
have.
And by the way, do you know how
they would translate this into Christian language?
It's Hallelujah.
It's the same, but it's Hallelujah, they say
once in a while.
But this is something we as Muslims, we
would say all the time, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,
Alhamdulillah.
Like, praise and thanks be to Allah.
Does it help you?
Does it help you get into a good
state of mind before?
I mean, I don't say Alhamdulillah before fight,
I say after fight.
Which one do you say?
Before fight, I say, SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah, La hawla
wa la quwwata illa billah, Hasanallah wa ni'ma
wakil.
SubhanAllah wa ni'ma wakil.
InshaAllah.
And I think that's a beautiful way to
end it.
Thank you everyone.
The secret is out.
And now I know what to say in
certain fights that I'm going to be having
on the 14th of December.
We'll see.
Thank you very much for that.
I appreciate it.
And thank you to everybody for that.
I mean, it was a pleasure speaking to
all of you.
I've gotten tips from myself as well.
And with that, we will conclude.
I hope you guys have had a fantastic
evening.
We're going to give it back to you.
Good, good.
He's definitely ready for the fight.
He's got a bunch of good fighters here.
He's swimming with the guys, you know.
If you can keep your head above water,
you know, in the sparring rounds, rolling, grappling,
striking, then, you know, he's going to be
fine.
I'm Stuart Austin, head MMA coach at Farzone.
I'm still a professional fighter and obviously head
coach at the gym for the MMA program.
How's your training going?
It's going alright.
I've lost weight, as you can see.
On the 14th of December, there's going to
be some fireworks that's going to take place
in Coventry.
I'm going to make my professional MMA debut.
And I'm going to take on a very
stiff and competent opponent, a boxer.
I've been training here with some of the
best heavyweights in the country.
Actually, some of the coaches here, like Stuart
Austin, who's the only person that ever beaten
Tom Aspinall, who's a UFC heavyweight champion.
I think someone else might have had like
a DQ in or something.
He's got a fantastic record and now he's
a coach.
We've got Mario Pinto, who's also a UFC
heavyweight that I've traded with.
And also, he's like a coach.
He's also undefeated.
Of course, we've got Shah Kamani as well,
who's a up-and-comer Bengali person, heavyweight,
4-0.
And he's got a fight coming up as
well in December.
So, we've got the team.
I'm very privileged to be with people like
this and with this much experience.
I'm hoping it's going to be a fantastic
day on the 14th, actually.
So, make sure that you watch this on
pay-per-view.
20%, one-fifth of the earnings will go
to charity.
We'll go to the Lebanese prices.
We know what's going on there.
And so, we can, inshallah, raise money and
be entertained at the same time.