Episode Transcript: #1950 - Derek Wolfe

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so, first of all, that's a fucking hell of a ring, sir. look at that. that's the real deal.

i always want to see what one of those like... holy shit. fuck, look at the size of his finger.

my thumb slides up like nothing. that's hilarious. if you don't think vikings were real...

size 18. that's hilarious. that is so fucking big, dude. what's your thumb?

i don't know. your thumb's like a fucking broomstick. that's ridiculous.

fucking giant thumb. how big were you in high school?

my senior year i was like 6'5", 280 pounds. i wrestled heavyweight.

wow. did you ever think about doing mma? yeah. did you?

i started boxing with henry hoof down in south florida with the black zillions.

i love those guys. back in 2011, 2012 when i first got into the league.

i was training for the combine and i was like, man, i'm really into this mma stuff.

i just started doing it. sparring with... just like wrestling with overeem a little bit.

i wrestled with him, keep him against the cage, drop to a single, bring him down.

he was like, you wrestle? i was like, yeah, i wrestle, man. i know what i'm doing.

then when i moved to colorado, full-time training because i used to go to south florida to train.

i stopped that once i got married. i had to step in that. i moved to trevor whitman's gym.

that's a great fucking gym too. yeah. trevor was like, hey, you should really think about maybe fighting.

because it's like you're 290 pounds and you're moving like this. imagine a 265.