I've done all the work I made sure I did all the work now you kind of just have to surrender
like you have the the vision of victory in your mind you have you know being successful
and everything but you have to surrender to the will of the Creator then you know the
god the Universe I know some people who don't like me personally in my city of Auckland and
unfortunately I'm everywhere and yeah sucks to be them but I don't pay attention to what anyone
else says um I just focus on what I want to do quote from Ali makes sense to me now like I'm the
greatest I said it before I knew I was and I was saying it way back then but didn't care if people
believe me or not I just said it because it made me feel great it's all about how you see yourself
I create scenarios I plan future things so everything that's happening there's always
been there's so many possibilities that can happen so many parallel universes or whatever so many
timelines so I I put myself in those scenarios and I recreate them and when they happen it's
like deja vu it's like they've already happened before because they have sometimes like back then
I'd isolate myself even more and I remember just like the lows get low man like solo and just it
takes yeah it takes a strong person to get through those so that this is why this game is not for the
faint-hearted man I've had friend you know a friend lose their life in this so when people
put everything on the line they put everything on the line and it's just it's a privilege though
just to be able to do this man I tell people you you know not everyone is mentally ill
just like no everyone's physically ill but if you don't look after your physical health you're going
to get sick the same thing as if you don't look after your mental health you're going to get sick
growing up in Nigeria was for me a blessing you know as an adult now I really I realized how good
I had it back home because the grass isn't always greener on the other side and people you know as a
young person or a small boy you kind of think if I go over there it'd be awesome it'd be cool but now
as an adult I'm like man I'm trying to go back home now I like to gamble but I like to gamble
at the highest level I like to gamble with like the biggest Stakes you know because I feel like
whenever I get that win over that and I it just it just feels that much better and I feel like
I don't know he's just a lot there's a feeling I don't know how to describe it but it's just
because you know people are watching Netflix like [ __ ] like but she doesn't like you like [ __ ]
hope this gets to draw oh this guy gets knocked the [ __ ] out you know I think she's the man
walking out dancing all that [ __ ] so you know people naturally just want to see you fail and
like this guy thinks he's that good like that was 57 127 people in attendance and I put that
pressure on myself like watch this and yeah for me there's something special about just overcoming
that that just gives me that that rush we all have negative self-talk but looking in the mirror and
talking to yourself you know speaking to yourself like you would to someone you're giving advice to
because when you look in the mirror you humanize yourself and I'll start to like you know just have
a conversation with myself even like G myself up if I want to bring myself up things like
that so that's a tool that I feel like is really underrated it looks crazy you know standing in
front of the mirror and talking to yourself but it's a really powerful tool if you know how to
use it right hey I put him in a dark place after that first fight and I understand because guess
what he was trying to do the same thing to me um a guy respect is um Tyson Fury because he's he spoke
about that you know just like and how dark he went he went to like the depths of Hell in his own head
and then he's risen above it and he says like he battles with every day I feel like look there's
your spectrum of physical health it's just super healthy super ill if you do not look
after yourself in your physical health you're going to get physically ill same way if you
don't look after your mental health you're going to get mentally ill so I feel like if you're it's
like someone's saying like you know uh I don't go to therapy [ __ ] all that [ __ ] it's like well
do you take vitamins do you go to the hospital it's not something to be you know shy like uh
whatever from it so I feel like you should look after your mental health the same way you look
after your physical health so once I learned how powerful that was I'm always on top of it I slip
up obviously because I'm human and I get ill but yeah I always make sure I'm I'm on point though
there's more there's more there's always more in everything man and everything in life whenever
people talk about like sky's the limit and it's just like a another one of those things that's
passed down like another quote that people just power and don't even like thinking about it I'm
like why is this guy the living it's not actually the limit like we know their space yeah so why
are we saying the sky's the limit it's not the limit like there's more I'm curious I'm just
always questioning things in life anything even my beliefs on my question like why do I believe that
you know what program me or what you know helped what got me to this this point sometimes I've seen
it as well even in my country like in when I went back to Nigeria I saw like a lot of ideologies old
ideologies that like tie people down and never let them progress and it's just like sheeple
because people want to belong I still want to belong everyone wants to belong to some kind of
tribe A lot of people can't though they're chained down by what they think I guess my desire to want
to defend myself came from was I hated feeling vulnerable in any situation and I had a feeling
like I I was helpless like like I couldn't do anything part of Wi-Fi definitely is to prove
to myself that I'm stronger and I'm smarter and I'm braver than I am because back then like when
I used to get bullied I'd be shaking my knees would be shaking now as I'm older I realize it's
just your body preparing for war it's adrenaline surging through my adolescent body and I didn't
know what to do with it those same feelings still arise like I got the butterflies and I get that
I don't shake that much anymore I don't really I know how to control it now and it's not like
controlling because I'm scared it's controlling my adrenaline controlling my floor because I know
a lot of Fighters even at the highest level in the UFC a few fighters who won't sleep the night
before fight or two days before a fight because they just in their own head I've done this for
so long man my body just knows conflict now so I'm like all right and when I'm backstage when
I start to get my hands wrapped and I can feel the the nurse come through I just breathe it away
control it like a flame you fan it properly because Jackie Chan for me was the guy everyone
Bruce Lee is a legend look at me wrong but Jackie Chan was my Bruce Lee because he made fighting
seem cool and fun and funny and he played with it he was playful those are the kind of Fighters I
like it's all energy at the end of the day so I I still I still love that feeling just imposing my
will on someone else even though they're trying to impose their will On Me by trying to take me
down I impose my will on them by letting them not take me down I'll sit there and watch myself like
I'm David Attenborough watching some chimpanzee on National Geographic and I watch my actions
sometimes and I'm just like why are you like that why did he do that like from a third person point
of view yeah but I think it's healthy as well detach yourself for me it's it's it's Paramount
that I'm I'm a person that just stays in the moment you can never ever have anything just
especially in the cage on mainstream the people even some people still get fooled by Hollywood you
know Rambo uh Terminator guys with big muscles and because I'm so me I'm just me I don't try and be
anything else a lot of people a lot of people can relate to me and even those who can't those who
don't like me they're still gonna watch because they want to see me fall so it's going to shoot
my my stock up all the way when life puts a lot of pressure on you it's forcing you to make a change
and if you don't you're gonna just stay stagnant and die you don't involve so when it happens it
happens suddenly but before that there's a lot of pressure a lot of pressure outside pressure
and then you have to you're forced to make a change and when it happens it's almost like
Euphoria like Bliss for me personally everyone's is different I'm sure but I feel like a vessel and
whatever has given me that the messages the feels I just roll with that I never try and question it
because after my first one I started trusting my instincts my gut instinct because they're there
for a reason we don't use them as much because we're in this technological world and whatnot
but we're still the human animal so you have to trust your instincts and just never never
fight it just go with it all the time I always knew so I I knew I wasn't going to be regular I
just knew like I was gonna be great at something I didn't know what it was but I knew I was going
to be great at something I just knew even when I was working my my last job I just I I'm grateful
for it because it showed me what I didn't want in life I just knew this isn't for me and you
can just tell when life puts pressure on you you feel like you're under so much stress and you just
want to like it's it's life trying to force you to make a move to just to move forward and it can
make you move back a lot of people fall back but for me I had to move forward from that pressure
so I did depends on you really it depends on what what you want to do like a lot of people
even in entertainment like music acting and sports they fall off because they
they stop staying true to who they are I'm very good at balancing these kind of things and I've
already taken one step in other steps as well now I can see how easy it was certain people to
fall into this trap this Hollywood trap you know so yeah it just depends on you and how you take
the messages you receive for me in life it's gonna it's gonna Propel me for not just a fighting but
in life um as you evolve mentally it's just going through the emotions of this whole charade with
fighting everything outside of fighting recently I had a metamorphosis again that helped me evolve
as a person this time I use music to create that to unlock it and even the last time I did music
and dance but um yeah and that's just me staying true to my car I created like a hypothical Time
Chamber in my car and I just sat there listened to my old phone tracks I haven't heard in so long
like on my old phone so I kind of hacked into this part of my mind and yeah it was beautiful
foreign