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From Bricklayer to Kickboxer: Anthony Pirozzoli's Journey Through the Fight Game
Anthony "The Violence" Pirozzoli doesn't live up to his nickname when he's laying bricks at his day job, but step into the ring with him, and you'll quickly understand how he earned it. Growing up wrestling in middle school before abandoning sports to "go work and make money," Anthony eventually found his calling later in life when his love of watching MMA transformed into an irresistible desire to step into the ring himself.
What makes Anthony's journey fascinating is his rapid evolution as a fighter. Starting with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA, he quickly realized where his true passion lay: "I didn't like the option of the takedown. I prefer no escape." This philosophy perfectly captures why he transitioned from mixed martial arts to focus exclusively on kickboxing and striking. While he respects the technical beauty of ground fighting, there's something pure about two combatants standing toe-to-toe that resonates deeply with his fighting spirit and Italian heritage.
Despite working full-time as a bricklayer, Anthony's commitment to his craft is unwavering. He heads straight from construction sites to the gym for conditioning, managing to balance a demanding professional life with the rigorous training required for championship fights. This dedication has paid off with impressive victories, including winning the Impacto 165 title on just three weeks' notice and claiming Cleveland Golden Gloves at the same weight class.
From fighting in everything from hotel banquet rooms to Thailand's dedicated "mini arenas" that host fights seven nights a week, Anthony provides a fascinating glimpse into the regional fighting scene. He also shares personal connections within the fight community, including discovering he's second cousins with a previous podcast
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, mike Bono. I have a great guest to us for us today. He is brought to us all the way by the Latin assassin, tony, from a couple weeks ago. He is another mixed martial artist. We're going to get into that, and this is Anthony. The Violence Prezzoli joins the show today. Anthony, mixed Martial Artist like that. Uh, I'm originally from rock creek, ohio. I live in austinburg now.
Speaker 2:Uh, grew up going to geneva high school.
Speaker 1:You know k through 12 went to a trade school, all that okay, um, so you know what did you do any other any sports growing up or has, like fighting, wrestling kind of kind of always, always been the thing for you.
Speaker 2:I wrestled a little bit in middle school for like two and a half three years and then hit high school and I decided that I'd much rather go work and make money. For the time being I didn't really see the point in sports.
Speaker 1:No, I got you. There's not. There's a lot of people like that. So, with that kind of attitude, like you know what kind of got you into mma uh, I originally got in.
Speaker 2:It was just something I always want to do. I was always a huge fan, just watching on the tv and stuff and I was like I gotta get in a fight one day. I gotta get in a fight in one day. And I don't know, got big in the lifting towards the end of high school, started pumping out weights all the time putting on weight, and then one day I was like why don't I? Just you know what's stopping me. So I looked up an MMA gym and started in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, worked my way into MMA and then fell in love with striking and kind of just followed a path of being a kickboxer.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you more of a striker versus a a grappler when it comes. Yeah, oh, yeah, absolutely yeah. Nickname the, the violence, I mean that kind of.
Speaker 2:I'm not much for the grappling stuff. Uh, I've only had one mma fight. All of my other fights have been strictly stand-up kickboxing, muay thai boxing, uh, I don't know. It's even though I was like I wasn't bad at grappling at least I thought I was, and I still know enough to be dangerous. But no, I never liked the option. I didn't like the option of the takedown. I didn't like the option of the leg. Hum, nothing against grappling, it's a beautiful sport. It's just I prefer no escape. I guess it goes with the nickname.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. I mean I watch the UFC every Saturday for their fight nights, everything like that. I know the technical portion of the grappling and the ground game that a lot of the fans don't like. You can hear them start to boo whenever they're on the ground. It seems like it's a stalemate. I mean there's a lot going on when that happens, but when it's a stand-up, just they're throwing it Like that's what I look for when I'm watching a fight and it's just so entertaining to me.
Speaker 1:And you know, coming from somebody who has, you know, black belt in taekwondo, I like the stand-up game. I was never really good at the ground. I mean they say I have the body for it because I'm 6'5", so I have these lanky arms and these lanky legs. But yeah, I just never liked it when I was learning Taekwondo. They try to teach us a little bit of the ground stuff. It wasn't for me either, so I get that for sure. I mean it's not for everybody, but yeah, when, when it's two bruisers in there and they're just throwing in the middle of the octagon, there's nothing better oh, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:So, um, like I said in the beginning, you know you came to us uh former guest tony. Um, how did you, uh? How do you know, tony, do you guys train at the same gym? Like what? What's the backstory with you and Tony?
Speaker 2:That's a doozy. Actually, I don't know if he mentioned we're technically cousins. I was training at another gym and I'm not going to name names. It's honestly not even worth my time. I fought out of there. I had one smoker fight out of there, one that's where my mma fight was, and a whole bunch of grappling tournaments. You know bjj stuff and I, the owner just, and I didn't see eye to eye on a lot of things. There's plenty I could say that's negative, but there's no point. Uh, so greener pastures, uh, a lot of times the grass is greener on the other side and I found that out firsthand.
Speaker 2:When I went to Upgrade Industries I got a taste of what the fight scene, training and everything should be like. And you know, me and Tony became buddies and training partners and he helped me a lot through my first few fights at Upgraded. I want to say four or five fights ago a couple years back my cousin hit me up and she was like hey, saw your fight, you did really well. Blah, blah, blah. I just want to say thanks, love you, cousin. I was like when is her last name Tortorice? And out of curiosity I was like hey, tony, is there any relation to this broad's husband and he goes oh yeah, that's my cousin and his wife. And I go no, I go, that's my cousin and her husband. So since then we're like oh shit, we're second cousins, you know. So you know, it was just one of those things where everything's meant to happen Like I was meant to be there.
Speaker 1:Turns out. I'm related to the big goofball. Yeah, tony's hysterical when we had him on. You know just his energy, even you know doing it via Zoom, and just watching his last fight at Mountaineer Casino a couple months ago, it was amazing to watch him and Brolin win the championship. When you guys are in the gym, do we settle any family rivalries? When we're in the octagon of training, do we get into any of that while we're there? Just settle it in the octagon.
Speaker 2:We haven't had too many beefs in there. We've had. We're both, believe it or not, even though we're only related by marriage. We're both pretty similar in the aspect, as we're hard-headed and stubborn and there has been times where shit talking has gotten the best of us and we'll sit in there, trade shots out of purely stupidity. But other than that no, not real any beefs usually at the end of the day we both realize that there's a touch of autism between the both of us and we kind of just let it be that got a touch of the tism huh, oh yeah, I should say it slapped the shit out of us.
Speaker 1:but hey, no worries. I mean I grew up with, you know, my cousins being close by me and we always settled it in the dumbest ways. You know what I mean. I think that's just kind of like a family thing to do, especially with his two males Stubborn as mules. You know, I grew up in a full bloodblooded italian family, you know we we're we're gonna talk for a second and then we're gonna get to fisticuffs and then hey, you see my last name, dog, I get it I gotta say the name.
Speaker 1:I see figure there's a little paisan in there somewhere more than a little bubba absolutely. Um, speaking of you know, with, uh, tony, you know, and being the being the wrestler, I mean, do you think people with the specifically with specifically a boxing background or wrestling background, or more equipped for MMA? I asked Tony the same question. I'm kind of interested to see your, your aspect of it.
Speaker 2:That's the funny thing about Tony and I is we we both favor two different ends of the spectrum when it comes to that. He is super grappling heavy. He's a wrestler he obviously had. He is a decorated wrestler from back in his day, the old bastard. But uh, he, I would have to say grappling for MMA, because that option is there is definitely the upper hand. Like, yeah, obviously every fight starts on the feet, but you saw what Tony did to that cat and a mountaineer is great. Like, when you have wrestling like that and grappling, you can make the best of strikers look like a chump and that's yeah, that's why I'm, that's why I'm a striker through and through. But I'll, yeah, I'll ride with the grappler most of the time, just cause, if I mean don't get me wrong yeah, there's a lot of guys who are good at anti-wrestling. I mean, I'm sure you're an Elliot to Poria fan. He loves the stand and bang and he loves to anti-wrestle. He doesn't have bad ground. Legate the takedown, then it's game over, buddy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I feel like most strikers have to have that defense when it comes to the takedown and they really need to master that first before they start to master it. Because, like you said, if you can stop the takedown it's just a straight fight. At that point in time we're going to stand and brawl and we're going to swing, and oh, I fucking point time we're going to stand in brawl and we're going to swing and oh, I fucking love it. I love it so much when that happens and you can see a guy just stopping takedown after takedown. But you know, watching the ufc for as long as I have, I mean, look what, uh, madrid megavov did to conor mcgregor, to division champion conor was just a banger, like he wanted to stand, he wanted to throw hands and Madigan Magadova wanted to wrestle and he made Conor look weak Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And that first round though, that first round, conor's takedown defense was phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I was shocked at that. I was like this might actually be a fight. He might actually have to stand and bang with him.
Speaker 2:We're going to see what he's got to stand, but I mean I didn't think we're going to see what, what he's got the the stand, but I mean, I didn't think it was going to last with the takedown defense, especially against him, that big russian was a menace. Oh yeah, dude's a dude's a freaking agent, for sure all them dagestanis are.
Speaker 2:Though yeah, absolutely like I said, not my style, not my favorite thing to watch, but, like, like you said, I I do know when it's when it is enjoyable to watch. I know the transitions that are happening, I know the submission attempts, I know the positions, but for someone who doesn't, I get it. I get it dude. It just looks like two goofballs going around, but that's probably the greasy Dago in me. All the boxers and stuff back in the day they just want to watch.
Speaker 1:You know swinging and banging I'm so glad you used the word day go. I'm not gonna lie to you here. I, I use that. My family uses that word a lot with each other, like wow, we're just a bunch of dagos.
Speaker 1:Like oh yeah, for sure I'm so glad you used that term. Uh, I haven't heard anyone else say but my family, so that's great, um, but you know, have you seen a lot of interesting places, venues that hold these MMA fights? Have you seen any personally that have taken place and do any really stand out to you?
Speaker 2:Believe it or not, kemba in Columbus, I fought there. That's a beautiful venue Like you're going to get a lot of, especially in the amateur regional scene. You're going to get a lot of, especially in the amateur regional scene. You're gonna get a lot of what you saw in Mountaineer. But like I fought in my MMA fight was in Ohio or Valley and how do you know? Uh, cherry valley in columbus, that was that's a. That was a nice venue.
Speaker 2:Kemba live was my favorite by far menu venue that I've gotten to uh fight at. Uh, I just got back from thailand and their, their venues are insane. Like they had fights all over the city going on muay thai fights every night and their men they were like mini arenas for it, just seven days a week, seven nights a week. So that's the thing is. Like I've seen. I've seen just about all you can see. Uh, maybe New York's got some pretty sick ones like they do. Buffalo Riverworks and stuff like that will hold fights. Nautica and Cleveland just got back to doing fight nights. Again, that's a cool venue, uh, but yeah, like I said, a lot of your regional amateur mma, amateur boxing, amateur kickboxing you're gonna see a lot of. You're gonna see a lot of, uh, hotel banquet rooms and bowling alleys. Well, not so much bowling alleys anymore, but for a little while there, that was kind of a, that was kind of a scene for it.
Speaker 1:I get it with these, you know, amateur venues and that you know, being an up and coming comedian, like I've done it in dive bars, I've done it in bowling alleys, I've performed stand up, you know, anywhere there's a stage and I'm like I performed at a festival where there was literally two people sitting in the stands watching and like 500 people walking around Just heckling the shit out of you. But you know. So sometimes I appreciate those venues, like you said, the bowling alleys, the banquet halls. You know it's a little bit more intimate of a setting and at least for comedy, I know that for me, you know it's you, you know you get to interact with the crowd a little bit more. Do you notice that with those types of venues at mma, like, does the crowd interact a little bit more? Do you? Do you feed off of them a little bit more than you would like these bigger arenas?
Speaker 2:it's funny you ask that because, see, I'm not one that takes into consideration who's there to watch or the size of the crowd. That part doesn't bother me much. I fought in Indiana last April or May for the Impacto 165 title and their venue was like. The venue wasn't the coolest or the greatest but the production was nice, like brand new big ring, the lights, the cameras, the pay-per-view, all that good stuff. And I mean it brings a little bit the, it's an atmosphere, it's it's like a like, a like a vibe to it. It definitely hypes you up a little more.
Speaker 2:If it is a cooler venue because the few boxing fights I've taken outside of kickboxing, just straight boxing just to do them, those are definitely on the lower end, like there was one I did in columbus just to knock the rust off a year ago and it was like a freaking barn, like a metal building up in a parking lot somewhere and it was just kind of like. It kind of took away from. It takes the hype away a little bit for sure. When it's a cooler venue, like kemba had like the double deck seating, like there was the ground floor, one level, then another level, that definitely made it cooler because it kind of just kind of gets in the zone a little bit yeah, I mean I could that, especially for the fight game.
Speaker 1:Like you know, I've always said that. You know, for me in my profession, like I said, being a comedian, you know those smaller rooms are the harder rooms to win over, because for me laughter is contagious. You know you get one person that laughs and then somebody else just kind of chimes. In those smaller rooms they're tougher to win over, for sure, and you kind of have that mindset going in like oh man, this is going to be tough and I think it takes you off your game. Like you said there with the with the different venues, it takes you off your game a little bit, um, and you really it really makes you focus a little bit more. But I can see that for fight game like, like, if it's a smaller venue, I mean I know most fighters aren't really too worried about the crowd or worried about their opponent, um, and who's across the octagon of the ring, uh, but you know, I've I've always wondered that about certain fighters, like I mean, after like a round or two, are you are?
Speaker 2:You're feeding off the crowd still, or is it more just now where it's down to strategy if we're out of the first round, usually the first. For me, the first round's a feeling out process. I don't usually go balls to the wall early. I'll usually kind of play touch butt with him first round, move around the ring, see what angles he likes to take. Usually I'll let him go nuts. If they want to tee off on me and cast their arms out, go ahead. But yeah, later in the fight, like that.
Speaker 2:Like I said, that title fight in indiana was a five round title fight. So I was definitely after the third round, I was definitely like, I guess coherent to everything else going around going on in the crowd. I could hear everything everybody was saying uh, you know, I was able to like look over and like visually see, because you walk into a fight fresh and you don't it's tunnel vision, you don't really, you're not focused on anything else. But after going for three rounds and knowing you have two more rounds ahead of you, uh, you definitely start to like, start to get more coherent and adjust to everything going on. So yeah, you can feed off the crowd a little bit, especially in five round fights.
Speaker 1:Later rounds, yeah, later rounds, indefinitely yeah, I, I can kind of, I can kind of see that for sure. Um so, oh, excuse me, with um you having you know, kickboxing and more of a stand-up game when you are training for, like MMA, what's a typical workout look like for you?
Speaker 2:Uh, to be honest with you, I'm probably I'm just a kickboxer anymore I will. Yeah, I did my one MMA fight and I was like don't like the ground game. So I've strictly been kickboxing ever since 2021.
Speaker 1:Okay, so with that, um, just being a kickboxer, is there anything else professionally that you do for a job? Or is the fight game kind of what you do for a living?
Speaker 2:No, no, not a chance. I am a bricklayer by trade but I come straight from work into the gym and do conditioning. I come straight from work into the gym and do conditioning Usually every day. Recently I've had some lingering injuries that have been keeping me from doing that, but I'm still in the gym two to three days a week, outside of lifting and doing cardio. But say, fight camp's on and I'm in the gym every single day, usually not Sundays, maybe a Wednesday rest day if I'm too beat up, conditioning for an hour and then I'll do movement drills and then I'll class will start, and if it's not technique, it's mitts or just depending on if usually I'm fighting a taller opponent, you.
Speaker 2:But I have a title for impact, oh, at 65. And that was a three week notice thing. And then the following week I won golden gloves in Cleveland at 165. And so if I'm not cutting a whole bunch of weight, usually my I, I, I thrive off good cardio. Usually I thrive off good cardio. I'm known for it. A lot of my fights are high pace. So usually if I'm not cutting weight, we're not super focused on my cardio.
Speaker 1:It's just more or less technique and sharpening certain things that I need to work on. Okay, I can see that for sure. Now you said you cut weight sometimes and sometimes you don't. Do you have a preferred weight that you would prefer to fight at? I mean, obviously, if you're not having to cut it, you're 165 that you say you walk around at. I mean obviously you might feel a little bit better than that. But I know some people like, yeah, I walk around at this weight but I cut to 155 and I just I feel like I do better there. Is that cross your mind any at all when you're selecting fights?
Speaker 2:I'm definitely not going to get any lower than 55. I do have to try harder to get to 55. 160 I can make pretty easy. I don't. My body is.
Speaker 2:I have not that hard of a time I say it because I'm a psycho but I don't have that hard of a time cutting weight in general, like I wasn't even trying to cut weight for that 65 fight. It was on three weeks' notice. The title challenger pulled out three weeks out and I was next in line. So they called me up on three weeks' notice and I was like I'm 170 right now. I was like I'll get to work and within three weeks I knocked out eight, nine pounds. I got on the scale at 161. Okay, so 55, yeah, it's a. That's where I'm start cutting water hard. 160 I can get down to fairly easy. Um, but yeah, I cut. I cut water pretty easy, I cut weight pretty easy. So it's never been a huge deal for me. There's sometimes if it's summertime and I'm eating and I'm partying and I'm just being stupid with my friends, and, yeah, sometimes I'll float up to 173, 175. But once I put the work in and I eat right, it comes off pretty quick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I've noticed that about a lot of fighters Like they can put weight on real easily but they can take it off just as. Oh, yeah, I think their bodies just get used to having to cut that water weight and get all that out of them and it becomes easier to cut weight. I don't know if that's true or not, if I'm just making that up, but you know I that's just kind of what I think happens is, you know, they just get so your body gets so used to being able to have to cut weight for certain events that it just starts to happen naturally.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, for sure. I definitely fluctuate a lot more now than I used to. I mean, even if I'm not in a fight camp, I still try to get a gallon of water in a day. Sometimes my body doesn't cooperate, and it will purposely hold water, depending's weird. It's almost like I've grown to like okay, my body's like oh, you're depriving yourself of carbs a little bit, oh, you're pumping in protein. You're doing this, that and the other time to shed some weight. So, yeah, it does come up, it does come easier over time, especially if you, if you've conditioned to water intake and you know killing water getting used to getting.
Speaker 1:Now I know I've asked a couple of the other fighters that I've had on this show here in the past four years. Now I see these guys in the UFC and I know they weigh in like a day or two beforehand to get to their weight but we'll just use your 165. But when I see them in the ring I was like I'll kiss your ass if he's 165 pounds right now. There's no way he's 165 pounds. Like do you have that to where? Yes, I made weight and now, okay, I could put a little bit more on to be into the ring, or do you try to stay at that 165 and be there?
Speaker 2:so for that fight I like I still obviously sweated out a little bit of water just to make sure I was under. I didn't expect to be 161 when I stepped on the scale, but yeah, that's 100, true. Uh, my first fight was at 55 and and it was my first hard cut like I've cut for I've cut for bjj tournaments, I've cut for the, I cut for the smoker fight before that, but that was my first real hard 155 cut and that was day of thank. That's the thing is from like title fights for kickboxing. For the most part around these parts it's usually day before weigh-ins, which is nice, so there's really no point in me going at 65. But uh, those day of weigh-ins, those are brutal. Because when I made 55 brutal Cause, when I made 55, I was skin and bones.
Speaker 2:I tell you I was skin and bones. And the minute I drank water I felt my body fill back up and I was like, all right, I got seven to eight hours to get back into, you know, to get back into go mode, and I probably I weighed in at one, 54 something. I probably stepped into the ring at one seven, one, maybe 169 I'm gonna say 169, if I remember correctly. I remember, uh, stepping on the scale later that night in the hotel room and I want to say I was like 169.
Speaker 1:That was before I started drinking and eating hardcore so, yeah, that's probably pretty typical for most fighters, especially the ones that have to cut weight to get down to their weight class. Oh, yeah. They're putting it back on before the fight.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there's a huge difference between weight like scale weight and then ring weight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty consistent with what most of them have said, and they all kind of get that little smirk that you kind of did when I asked the question, like yeah, we all know that we're not that way.
Speaker 2:Hey dude, look at Alex prayer. I mean you gotta think that cat was fighting at one, 85 at one point, and he walks around it two 30.
Speaker 1:So I would say there's no fucking way.
Speaker 1:He's one 80 when he steps into the ring, not a big boy there yeah, he's definitely a big boy oh, I'm a huge fan of him, though I was watching him back when he was in glory yeah, there's a couple that I've watched and, um, you know, kind of coming up the ranks, um, and that there's a couple out of cleveland, uh, that I've had on the show. Um, they're doing big things, they're starting to to make some headway in the amateur rankings and getting their professional fightings now and their professional careers and you know, I'm so happy for them because I had them on the show. They're like one of the first couple fighters we had on the show. It is, oh, my god, why can't I think of his name? I just thought of it and his name literally just left my head. But Blake is the last name, um, and he likes the last name.
Speaker 1:I believe Blake's the last name.
Speaker 2:Where's he out of now?
Speaker 1:He's still out of Cleveland, uh, but he um. Every now and again he goes to Hawaii and trains. He has family.
Speaker 2:You're talking about.
Speaker 1:Blake Perry, blake Perry, there it is, yep harry blake player there it is.
Speaker 2:Yep, absolutely. Oh, my god I could, I knew it and I could not think of his name. He's bouncing between hawaii and uh cali. Now, no, blake's a good dude, I know him. Uh, my buddy is married to his sister but blake comes up every now and then. I talked to his. I literally just talked to his mom yesterday. She's in the gym all the time.
Speaker 1:Oh, his mom was on the show. She's hysterical and you know she's in the gym. She's fighting to him like, wow, that's insane oh yeah, she's a.
Speaker 1:She's a bad woman, that's for sure oh yeah, I just again seeing her on zoom. I was like you know what, I wouldn't mess with you. You look like you could. You just look like you could fight. I'm just gonna say that, right, like you look like a fighter. And she was like, oh, I was like so do you and Blake ever like spar? Like, do you ever like get into the ring? Now we're having a mom son fight and now we're going to settle it in the ring. You know that stuff like that. You know it's funny. They're great. People Love talking to him on here. But you know I follow him. I believe he just had something on the UFC fight pass not too long ago. I think it was um. Him and a couple people out of his gym have made it.
Speaker 2:I believe his most recent fight was a loss.
Speaker 1:I want to say it was a loss.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was his first fight after he had his nose, yeah wrapped around his head yeah, we, we.
Speaker 1:It was. Oddly enough, it was like a week or two after that happened, when he was on the show. And we had him on the show, he was like, hey, I have a fight. I was like, no, do your thing and then we'll get you on the show. And then we had to push the recording back a couple days just so he can get his nose right and be able to talk. And I was like man Dude.
Speaker 2:I seen that goofy bastard's nose on SportsCenter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw able to talk and I was like man. I've seen that goofy bastard's nose on SportsCenter. Yeah, I saw that too. I was like man, that's I mean good for you for making SportsCenter, but not for the right reasons. I mean it's because your nose is literally attached to your ear now. It's just.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, he's from out this way. I believe he wrestled for Jefferson.
Speaker 1:He's a tough cat, absolutely For sure, patterson, he's a tough. He's a tough cat, absolutely for sure. Um, but, anthony, hey, we are running down here near the end of the episode. Here I do have one last segment. I do want to get in here, um, and for anybody who's listened to the show before you know what's coming, for anybody who hasn't.
Speaker 1:This is the fast 55. It is five random questions from the wonderful manager of the podcast, johnny Fitty Falcone. Uh, these are the most random questions. They're kind. Manager of the podcast, johnny Fitty Falcone. These are the most random questions. They're kind of rapid fire, anthony, but you can kind of elaborate if you need to. It's a fun way we like to end the show. So if you're ready for the fast five, we'll go ahead and get started. Let them rip, all right.
Speaker 1:First question baked or grilled chicken? Which is better Grilled? Yeah, I think he tossed you up on the first one there. Question number two If you are doing dinner and a movie for a date, should you do dinner before or after the movie? Dinner before? Definitely before. Question number three the best fish to eat is Shrimp, shrimp, shrimp. All right, yeah, I can see that I'm a big shrimp guy. Question number four best place you've ever visited, thailand, thailand.
Speaker 1:Okay, this last one. I knew he was going to ask this type of question. The last question here who wins in a fight, 100 chickens or 25 squirrels? 25 squirrels, they're just too quick. I think the speed takes that one for sure. I raced chickens before Squirrels are taking them every time. That was the fastest. I will say you took the rapid fire to that to heart and I appreciate that sometimes. This is just the way the mind of Johnny Fetty Falcone works and he comes up with these random questions on a daily basis and we like to put them into the show and it's a fun way for us to kind of wind down the episode here. But I do give every guest, anthony, this opportunity at the end of any, every show. If there's anything you want to get out, if you have any fights coming up or you want to promote the gym that you're working out with, I'm going to give you about a minute and the floor is yours, my man I don't have anything coming up on paper.
Speaker 2:Like I said, lingering injuries. Once I'm cleared, hopefully I'll be back in action june or july, maybe even august. Uh, outside of that, I mean upgraded industries. There's really no other way to go about it. It's probably the best gym around. So we offer everything mma boxing, kickboxing, brazilian jiu-jitsu, kids, adults, fighters, common folk, you know and we got one of the best lifting facilities in the building in the area. So I mean, you're really we got everything you want to offer there all right.
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm always down for helping people up. If there's a link or anything where people can uh look up that, I will definitely put that into the description of this episode so everyone can kind of check you guys out, see what you got going on there and maybe, you know, get a couple more fighters out there for you guys to bang around with in the gym. But that is going to do it for this week's episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. I want to thank my guest, anthony the Violence Brazzoli, for coming on. This was a lot of fun to get to talk all things fighting and with your fighting career and everything like that. Glad to have you on, as always, if you enjoyed the show, be a friend, tell a friend. If you didn't tell them anyways, they might like it just because you didn't. That's going to do it for me and I will see y'all next week.
