Joseph El Addouti | Valor Combat Series

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Joseph El Addouti just stepped into the cage for his first MMA fight… and walked out with a TKO victory! 😤🔥 From joining the Valor Fight Camp with limited experience to finishing his opponent via KO, Joseph’s journey is a story of overcoming doubt, building confidence, and…

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Right on. Um, all right, everyone. Uh, we're back. Combat. Uh, excuse me. Valor combat series. Um, I have Mr. Joseph Aladuti. Alad. Perfect. Right on. Never mind. It's that movie. Um, uh, that Sasha Baron Sasha Baron Cone movie. The, um, [ __ ] what's his name? Uh yeah, the dictator. What was his name? Yeah, Aladine. That's right. Yeah. Right. Aladine. Um u here. Look, man. Uh congratulations. Um how how does it feel? Uh to Yeah. Like how how does now feel for you? Unbelievable. Like I've never felt it. Is this your first This is your first fight. This my first fight. First. Yeah. First of actual. Did it meet all your expectations? Um, to be honest, I was expecting less. Yeah. Myself, so really outdone myself. Okay. I think I don't know. It's Everything's different. Like, see, as soon as you step in that cage, it's just completely different world. Absolutely. Like, it's nothing like As soon as they shut that uh that cage, what's that like for you? What was that? It was felt good. It was bit scary, but not in like a not in a bad way. More like daunting. Bit daunting. It's the word I'd use. But did um so explain to me that your your program that you were in like uh it was like a 6 weeks basically. I' I'd had MMA experience but like Okay. There was no full proper, you know, into it. Yeah. And then it was like there there was a Valor fight camp. It was a the opportunity to join in as like a novice and have your first fight with Andy, giving us everything, telling us how to train, you know, taking us for sessions, one-on- ones, a whole lot. So, just 6 weeks of flat out training every day. Three months. Well, no, six weeks. Six weeks, sorry. There's a 12week I think in uh 12week program. What? Yeah, something like that. Sorry, maybe got that in the head too hard enough. Right on. Um, so, so you said you had a bit of combat experience beforehand. What What is it? What is it that you did? Oh, as in like just training with Andy. That's I didn't see the valor thing and then go like, "Okay, I want to do this with no experience." Gotcha. I had like a little bit, but like nowhere near where I would be if I didn't do that valor. Okay. Um, you know what? You know, was there anything about all of this that surprised you today or? Uh, a TKO win. Yeah, I was at most I was expecting a decision, but then again, my lungs are aching, you know, so who knows if I'd have made it to the third round, so it's a good thing I did what I did. But was it surprising for you to get that? Well, I like I at the first round, I noticed I hurt him. Yeah. But to be honest, I don't know what it was from, whether it was my sweep or it was a kick cuz he was kind of like limping on one of his legs. Gotcha. So, I didn't I tried maybe going for it and then I don't You know, I think I landed like a I've been laying the head kick the leg kicks in. Sorry. And then just went for a switch up to a head kick and I landed and then it was kind of just like I think it was kind of over from there like Okay. But you know he's a good fighter like he had me he had me at the start. He really held me up against that cage. I was like, "Ah, flip." Like, "It's not good, bro." What uh like what are what about combat sports is it that you can apply to your everyday life? Or what have you you what have you applied? Confidence. Definitely. Good fight, man. Brilliant fight. See, I think I just knew it. Not bad. I go over and say sorry and [ __ ] but like Yeah. So, no. It's only human to feel like that. So, yeah. Everyday life definitely your confidence like if you train not in like a egotistical I can kill everybody in here type of way cuz I mean you're never going to be like that. But in more of like a just a self-confidence, you know, your own self-image, how you how you hold yourself. Yeah, I think you definitely there's nothing negative about anime. Right on. It can it can't negatively impact it. It can really lift it up. Um, are we going to see fight again? Most likely. Yeah. I'm definitely going to have to train the cardio a bit more. Okay. My next fight because I did decent. I was like good cardio, but like I I think I went into this knowing that I was I didn't do anywhere near as much as I should have. Gotcha. But it worked. Yeah. Know cardio is tough. It's it's not a it's something you can't you can't fake it. You know what I mean? U you either have it or you don't. And even if you have it, your opponent either has it better or you know he doesn't. And uh it's pretty big massive part to play. And yeah, after that first 30 seconds I'm just breathing like a marathon or something. Yeah. No, it um I think with time your I'm sure your cardio is great, but like with with time you learn to kind of control things a bit better, but um yeah. So like what uh like so in in the lead in the week leading up to this like what was the like how did you kind of prepare yourself mentally for you know today tonight to get to where you're at right now? Well, uh, I'd say I was down like every single day, but maybe not as intense training. I'd, you know, lowered the volume a bit. Yeah. Lowered the intensity. Focus. I focused a lot on my stretches. Okay. That was a pretty big part, you know, for your You just got to be flexible. So, did a lot of lot of stretching. I'm really I'm really bad at public speaking. You're doing great. You're doing great. Don't worry about it. Um, yeah. I I'll I'll cut this short right here. That's all I'm I'm having enough to talk challenge. Um Okay. So, like a lot of like what I like to do is talk about like the the mental health aspect. Yeah. Uh like combat sports and like what it can do, you know, the huge benefit that it can have can like what mental health benefits have you seen, you know, like well from yourself just in in training, not necessarily from competing, but just you like just the discipline in general. It gives you something to put yourself towards. I think and that's a huge part like say a lot of guys they don't they don't really there's nothing like really that they are like passionate about a lot of people don't have passion like stuff that they're really really aiming to achieve. Yeah. And I think with MMA like you know you're never you're never going to you're never going to be the best. So you've always something to improve. It takes so long to really master MMA. Yeah. I'm like a novice and it's very hard to even get to that point you know so if it's gives you something to like distract yourself with you know keep yourself pushing at something you know and the camaraderie that comes with it as well that's you can't beat it it's it's different to every other sports yeah and that's that's a big thing too that I uh talk to people about is like it's a it's an individual sport but it's practice as a team you know you can only you compete compete as an individual, but it is Yeah. Sorry. It's a team sport, but you compete as an individual. But even when you do win or lose, your team feels that way. Feels that loss. Absolutely. Like I I saw somebody I I was friends with in my team. He didn't go his way tonight. Yeah. And he came in. But you know, I felt it as well. is like ah, you know, just that real life. Yeah. I know this guy's been working really hard, but you know, that's where that's it goes goes. It's just life in general. You know, you win some, you lose some, and then um that, you know, that that's where the uh the discipline with the the mental health comes in where, you know, you can you can take these losses and then show up the next day and, you know, keep going. That's uh I think that that's something that I think a lot of people these days in general struggle with is showing up after a loss would be. Yeah, I know. I wouldn't like I wouldn't like to lose today cuz if I did I'd beat myself up about it loads if I did. So I can't imagine, you know. Yeah, I know. I'm not saying and I will I probably will see a loss in the future unless I do become some like crazy undefeated monster in which I die. So don't doubt yourself. You got to be realistic. So, uh, yeah, and know just coming off of losses, it would be very hard, but then again, it teaches you. I mean, you you lose a fight and you're able to come back for that, you're at a better mental state than you were even before you lost your fight. I think you're stronger mentally. Absolutely. 100%. Um, look, man, um, I'm going to let you go. I appreciate your, uh, your time here. I want to I need to get back up there and check out some more of these fights. Yeah, that's 100%. Um and um like I said, I look forward to seeing you fighting again. Let's go. [Music]