Jorge Masvidal: I Wouldn't Live Anywhere but America | Stories of Us

if you're in a man's body you need to compete against men you can't crush a little girl's dream of becoming an Olympian because you suck at the men's sport and now you find the loophole that allows you to do that my name is j game bre masal and this is my story I definitely believe that women should only compete against biological women it's just not right you know how does the guy that's never couldn't even get a medal he wasn't even talked about goes to the women's section and breaks all the records why because it's not it's not the same you just can't compare it's apples and oranges if you in a man's body you need to compete against men and biological women need to only compete against biological women it's not fair for us to take their shine away I am a former UFC fighter currently still hold the record for the fastest knockout in the world original BMF Champion proud Patriot God-fearing man above everything and a proud father my dad is from Cuba and my mother's from Peru they met in Miami Florida and I was born in Miami and practically rais in Miami my dad went to jail he got incarcerated when I was uh just 4 years old my mom had a a full-time job and then she had a a part-time job she was an instructor at bad Total Fitness and she teached like the cardio classes she was always in good shape and then she'd get home after a full-time job she'd make these bead necklaces you know to to send them off to wherever to make a couple dollars extra me and my mother moved around the lot and then I ended up living in Peru for like 4 years very spontaneous overnight I remember when I was living in Peru there was I don't know how to say it in English Sendero luminoso was a terrorist group in Peru they would put bombs in public places so a lot of the times we didn't have power for like 3 weeks cuz they bombed the near power plant or something there was no water cuz they blew up like a water treatment facility so it was like interesting times to live over there so when I I was coming to America I was very much like this is the the land of opportunity if there's one thing I know is that America is a place to be at you know I was born with some uh special qualities I had insane ADHD and just I could never sit this long with anybody or anything but on Saturdays I used to play these comu marathons last like 5 hours they would just show comt movies my dad says this was the only thing in the world that will get me to sit still so my dad noticed that inclination towards combat since young if you ask him by the age of like 4 years old I had been kicked out of like six or s daycares I'd spent all day Saturday watching the comfor movies come Monday I was reenacting those moves on the on the kids you know and that led to a lot of trouble on my birthday November 12th the UFC has their first show I didn't discover till I was like 11 12 years old I didn't care about nothing else like I was the biggest nerd you ever seen I knew every Champion when they won a belt lost a belt and I loved that I was like man this is what I meant to do fight you know by the time I was 12 13 years old I already knew I'm going to do this for the the rest of my life and this is how I'm going to make my way out I started competing around 12 13 years old by the time I was 18 I was a professional there was many times where where I didn't have like a let's say a house or a home because in in fighting there's no money you're fighting for $2 $300 a fight sometimes promoters would write you checks that would bounce so I'm getting evicted it always worked out though cuz every time I got kicked out at least I still had a car that means that was my uh house on Wheels you know every night that I would lay down in that car and look up when my windows down cuz the AC was broken in Miami so this is like a hot box I'm just losing wait all day long so just knowing that no matter how much this sucks I'm going to get out of here and it's going to get way better I I didn't become famous but I was kind of like a a YouTube sensation for some time Kimble slic for his fights his backyard fights was getting like 20 million views I'm not even exaggerating it was insane everybody knew this guy it just what happened we were at the same gym so he invited me I was young up and coming gu he's like hey you want to come fight in our backyard and I was like for a fact let's do it so I I went I fought in his backyard they didn't release a video for like a year and then I remember seeing it was like 5,000 views 50,000 views 2 three weeks passed by and it was like over a million views and I was like holy smokes this is 20 something years ago on YouTube so I I knew um it was an awesome thing and hopefully it would open up doors for me in in my sport of fighting so it actually did the opposite promoters didn't want to get me they didn't want to book me for their Pro fights because they thought I was like a a thug or or they thought that I was just a street fighter so it took some time to break that stereotype down and and getting these like bigger promoters to book me for their fights and fight shows I fought all over the world before I went to UFC I went to Japan I went to Russia I fought in Costa Rica I fight in other parts of South America and I ended up in this show called strike force it was a relatively Big Show and the UFC was doing their thing and at some point they purchased him and they merged us together so now by default I became part of the UFC roster and and I started my UFC career there I lasted 10 years I broke the world record in 5 seconds for the fastest knockout ever you know fighting for me was very spiritual very emotional very physical very mental every fight to me means so much my dad escaped Cuba when he was 15 years old him and his best friend and his best friend's uncle they found fire tractors and they turned them into rafts and they took off 7 days later they landed in the Bahamas and from the Bahamas they got extradited to Miami Florida my aunt escaped in between Guantanamo Bay and in Cuba there's a strip of land and that strip of land has mines and my aunt cross it and lost her left breast and her brother had a lot of shrapnel they both survived and lived these are direct family members of mine so I'm I'm hearing these atrocities but as I start to get a little bit older and a little bit older this question comes to me more and more often why why did you leave what was so bad over there my aunt's like if I stay there I got to listen to these people tell me every day what to do what to eat and on top of that there's no food I chose Freedom so I didn't care if I died I didn't care if a mind went off obviously I didn't want one to go off but I was going for my freedom a lot of teachers are indoctrinated already if they're teaching socialism and communism I I just want them to show me where did it work out you know because it hasn't throughout history some people are so brainwashed it's it's nuts you know but they get them in college and they indoctrinate their brains and it's always the same Playbook divide and conquer get the Spanish guy to hate the white guy and then separate everybody and the government goes in and starts doing all this craziness you know I'm American like person I love and and my parents literally sacrifice on both ends to get to this country so first and foremost I am American I'm I'm Latin and I feel very proud to be Latin but I respect this country I think it's a patriot the first thing you have to do is have your freedom of speech and us you know our our founding fathers when they escaped The Tyranny from England come up with this insane literature and documentation that sets us free and lets us be the greatest thriving economy and it it's a system that maybe it's not perfect cuz I don't think nothing's perfect but it's as close as we have to freedom to actual Freedom you know I've been all over the world I wouldn't live anywhere else thank you for watching this video and if you 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