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When Zlatan Ibrahimović returned to AC Milan to retire, the club gave him a tribute that made the biggest alpha in soccer openly weep. Patrick Bet-David says he's watched the video 50 times and connects it to seeing Kobe Bryant score 60 in his final game — moments where a crowd's love for an athlete becomes overwhelming.
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Patrick delivers a genuinely emotional closing segment about the power of sports to move people across all divides. He describes the AC Milan tribute video for Zlatan Ibrahimović's retirement — the Gladiator theme playing, the crowd in tears, Zlatan visibly shaking and crying — as something he's watched more than 50 times in 48 hours and can't stop returning to. He connects this to his own memory of watching Kobe Bryant score 60 points in his final NBA game in 2016, sitting in Plano, Texas, with his sister, watching a crowd weep as one of the greatest players of all time kissed the floor and walked away. He then recounts the day he learned of Kobe's death at Seasons 52 — 50 texts in two minutes, CNN and Fox confirming simultaneously — and says it 'could have been prevented.' Patrick argues that the World Cup is generating similar transcendent moments: he found himself genuinely rooting for Morocco despite his political criticisms of Islamism, because in sports, all of that falls away. He closes by urging the audience to enjoy the Fourth of July, announces Monday-Thursday podcast scheduling for the next three weeks, and repeats the merchandise promotion before signing off.
Kobe Bryant scored 60 points in his final NBA game against the Utah Jazz, prompting the entire arena to tears in a moment the hosts described as deeply emotional.
Thomas's wife deferred her CrossFit career — she's in the global top 1% of athletes — to put him through law school debt-free. He wants her to chase the dream now; she wants the emergency fund and house down payment first. On a $200K lawyer income with no debt, the opportunity cost is just a few months of slower saving.
Underground calisthenics battles are exactly like UFC meets a rap battle — 150 people crowded around a circle, fighters walking out with masks and chains, nicknames like 'Extra Money' vs 'Calisthenics the Prince,' and people throwing money and betting. The battle set: 100 burpees, 50 muscle-ups, 75 dips, 75 squats with a 65-pound dumbbell. This is the next big spectator sport.
Rico Verhoeven controlled the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion for approximately 10 rounds — and had his appeal upheld when officials admitted the fight was stopped after the bell. The result was never overturned. Rogan calls it either incompetence or corruption, and argues the money behind Usyk made an upset politically inconvenient.
Rogan lays out a blunt case: boxing's 3-judge system is structurally broken, and the judges know who the promoter wants to win. Glory's 5-judge format is the right model. Corruption doesn't have to be conscious — just knowing Usyk is the cash cow is enough to tilt the scales.
With the Usyk-Wilder fight stalling and Fury-Joshua coming too late, the real fight the world wants is the rematch. Rico is a free agent. Usyk vacated his belts. The story is unfinished and both Rogan and Rico know it. His Excellency Turki Alasheikh already called for it ringside — the question is money.
Rico texted Jason Statham during the Canelo-Crawford fight. Statham showed Rico's highlight videos to promoters. Two days later, Rico was on a call about fighting Anthony Joshua. When Joshua pulled out, Rico pitched Usyk himself — Undisputed vs. Undisputed. Usyk said yes in two weeks. The whole thing started with one text.
Every heavyweight who faced Usyk tried to move to the right — straight into his power hand. Rico and Peter Fury identified the obvious solution: move left, away from the left hand, and smother him with size. It sounds simple. Nobody had done it. That one adjustment was the foundation of 10 dominant rounds.
MMA fans boo when fights go to the ground. They love stand-up. Kickboxing is pure stand-up. Yet it barely exists in America while boxing and MMA are enormous. Rogan's diagnosis: no promotion machine. If the UFC got behind kickboxing the way they've built MMA, it would explode. The talent is there — the storytelling machine is not.
A nation of 17 million people gave the world Ramon Deckers, Peter Aerts, Badr Hari, Melvin Manhoef, Rob Kamen, Ernesto Hoost, and Rico Verhoeven. Rico's theory: the country is so small that every gym shares knowledge freely. In the US, you need a flight. In Holland, you drive 40 minutes and spar the national champion.
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