Rashad Evans on the Blackzilians and ATT Rivalry

Well you were a big part of the Black Zillions getting started. Yeah. And when you had that opportunity as a guy who was a former world champion to go there and sort of get become a part of a team from the ground up, what did you try to do that was different than you had seen in other camps that you had participated in? I wanted to make it just like a, you know, the biggest thing back then it was that there was, you always had to go to so many different places in order to just get that one thing. So I really wanted to just make it so that our guys didn't have a need to go anywhere else for anything else. And that was the whole idea behind the whole Black Zillions. You know, we brought in all kinds of people from every different aspect from, you know, training to nutrition, almost every aspect of it. And that's what we wanted to provide our athletes with just like the total game. So they really didn't have to do anything or worry about anything except for showing up the train. And it worked for a while. It worked for a while, but it's a hard thing to maintain because that's in a very, very expensive thing, you know. Yes. Well Glenn, the guy who put up the cash, I mean, I had heard some outlandish figures that he was in the hole for that place for by the time everything was up and running. Yeah, yeah. It was a pretty, it was a pretty, pretty hefty ticket, man. It was a pretty hefty ticket. And it was an expense that it did get out of hand. It did get out of hand. I'm sure. Yeah. And here's the thing about it. Like even his situation, you know, he got himself in a situation where he was doing so much for people. This became a thing that people expected out of him. And then when he wasn't able to do it anymore, then it was kind of like, you know, people were like, oh man, this guy isn't this and he wasn't that. But he just wanted to do so much and had an idea to want to do things on another level. 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I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. Want to put some of this shit on my hand, do some pictures about that. All right, let's keep Ensure your actual last podcast array up. No, no, I can't do that, or you can't. I can't. It's an excuse to just look on your Chrysostbook and follow your enlightened medical ulics, take it these days. I'm going to do it. You can do it with myself. I can do it all the time. I'mihat Lens. I can't do it. Got it. It's got the card rest that can't creep on you. I can't do it. I should just keep theaker of that. I should just keep the poker in the game. I don't know what you would want to do, but I start Canvas too. There's a lot of super camps out there now. It's interesting to see these places. You have TriStar in Montreal. You have Duke Rufus in Milwaukee. You have Jackson, Winkle John in Albuquerque. You got AKA. When you first started, there was not that many places. Nah, there really wasn't. To even get what we wanted out of it, there's three gyms that we can go to. We'll go to either Jackson's in Albuquerque. We'll go to TriStar in Montreal, or we'll go to Denver, and we'll work with Trevor Whitman in Denver. We had the three camps that we bumped around from. That's where we would go to get the most work. It worked for a while, for the most part, but just all that traveling, it just became hard to do. That has to wear on you when you're in the middle of a camp and you're staying in hotels. It does. When I was in camp, I really wouldn't travel too much. What we would do is that if Nate Marquart was in camp and he wanted to stay at home most of the time, so we'll stagger it where he'll have a tough guy in camp every single time. I'll be a couple weeks when George wasn't there or when Keith wasn't there. Then sometimes we'll all come together. For the most part, we'll just all rotate into these gyms depending on who was fighting and who needed the work. That's it. 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