Cyril Diabate Before the UFC Ep 165
Cyril Diabate fought in a time when MMA was NOT legal in his home country of France. Cril Diabate joins the podcast and tells incredible stories of dealing with various mafia's located in Japan, Holland and Russia. Cyril Diabate does NOT shy away from this subject and explains the difference between all of the various factions and how they operate.
The information that Cyril Diabate gives us in this episode is exactly what separates us from everyone else.
0:00 Podcast intro
0:19 Interview start
0:31 Transition from Muay Thai to MMA
5:18 "Ground and pound" banned in France
9:34 Training with Jerome Le
Banner
11:50 Cyrille Diabate vs Moti
Horenstein at Shidokan
18:08 Background of Damien and Matthias Riccio
22:39 Damien Riccio vs Robin
Gracie challenge
25:46 Cyrille Diabate vs Ryuta
Sakurai at GT 1999
31:27 Cyrille Diabate vs Rick
Roufus at ISKA
38:27 Issues with Jerome Le
Banner
41:31 Thoughts on Samy
Schiavo
42:20 Cyrille Diabate vs Rodney Glunder at Rings 44:16 Thoughts on Dutch mafia
47:04 Experience with "Dirty"
Bob Schrijber
51:47 Thoughts on Semmy
Schilt
55:27 Peter Aerts
57:13 Experience with Shoot
Boxing in Japan
1:00:23 Meeting Gegard
Mousasi in Japan
1:02:51 Russian mafia story
1:09:52 Yakuza story
1:28:35 Experience with Cage
Wars
1:30:04 Cyrille Diabate vs Josh
Dempsey at CW 1
1:33:39 Lack of MMA training partners
1:34:33 Thoughts on Mo Smith
1:35:54 Karl Amoussou
1:36:58 Francis Carmont
1:38:19 Gerard Gordeau
1:39:25 Interview wrap up
1:40:04 Closing thoughts
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