pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. today on larry king now the expendables three randy couture tells you lose told college educated guy that's you know these are these this is this family these guys are family is dysfunctional uncorking is they are these are the guys he lives in greece for and will die for you and chuck liddell with the coaches the first season of the ultimate fighter right to change the way the public looked to them and absolutely everybody thought we were crazy that we were criminals because we got a cage and fox and obviously most the guys and in the mixed martial arts that i know a college educated guy i think just competing we need to do that at sports life and this is that outlet that you know that he had the impact on the school would be i mean every look at yourself that way at least i don't i don't see still what i love

to do plus god gave me armor i think they're hard in the debate they did protect my head does it affect your hearing like deafness and selective. and all next on larry king now. put them to larry king now our special guest is will there be there to an actor a businessman and one of em of a zone original superstars a six time world champion and you have seen hall of famer august tenth you can see him and frank shamrock hosting spike t.v.'s jim rescue where he also serves by the way as executive producer add these were prizing his role as toll road alongside sylvester stallone jason statham and almost schwarzenegger in the expendables story opening august fifteenth how do you. play in the success of this now franchise i

think. obviously the ensemble cast has become something that you're seeing a lot more and sly was i think from the first guys to do it with expendables one an amazing group of guys and kind of that we got he imagined all these guys were in the same movie it was kind of that moment it was lies thing i think he's very creative absolutely absolutely do you like acting i enjoy it. i get the opportunity twelve years ago to be on set for the first time grimm to the grave they were looking for fighters to create an authentic fight scene in a movie and i had one line in the movie but it's the first time kind of scene behind the curtain how it's done the process and immediately became intrigued with it had been going to movies since i was a little kid my mom used to take me to lynn twin theater for the double feature on saturdays and would you go up a little would washington in the north seattle and. just always love movies

but never really understood the process and i think what you kind of see behind the curtain and how they're made it jay changes he changes how you see them as you always have that sense beyond fighting of other things business acting i think is a fighter you're pretty egocentric you're you're focused on what you're doing everything revolves around your performance and preparing and going out there from the twenty thousand plus people and put it on the line so i never really it took me awhile to kind of realize that i had a brand that there were a lot of other opportunities and to recognize that i had a short window of opportunity to fight make the kind of money that i was making when sly was on the letterman show promoting the film he said you were the toughest guy in the cast did that surprise you or do you figure you would be since of your career why i think you know outside of dog food he's done some some contacts sparring i was sort of the only combative sports athlete involved in the cast at

that time so if you want to get down to the nuts and bolts of of we're going to fight i probably had a pretty good shot what about working with sly. and intensity and especially in the first film because he was wearing so many hats i mean he wrote he was directing he was in front of the camera doing all the rewrites i think we had three units going at some times during that that production so amazingly intense i don't know how he survived it. and now in the third one with a much more relaxed lie thinking let patrick he's the new director really kind of take take it over and do what he needed to do and had a lot of confidence in patrick and so i got to spend more kind of casual time the slide for the third one i don't want you know it is that funny voice and he is so much brighter people think that means so creative he's a terrific writer live rockey unbelievable absolute the one liners that he comes up with on set are just funny they're hilarious you know is it right there we usually

read the e-mails easy to. tell me about that you didn't read for your part i had reason to talk to sly and was being considered for hail caesar they were having trouble filling the role it was a reason that i think written for wesley and wesley was having these issues at that time and so we talked about changing it kind of working it around to fit me more and then they ended up getting terry crews who i thought was perfect. and kind of a road toll road without them. i didn't really know how although i just you know noticed that the name changed and then this character that we had discussed kind of what hail caesar would become became tollroad and i was i was excited told me who is the toll road college educated guy that you know these are these this is this family these guys are family is dysfunctional and quirky is they are these are the guys he lives in greece for and will die for. and he's got that name because if

you're going to get past him you're going to pay a price. how does the expendables three different from the of the two tell me what's this who we after. august see there's kind of this dichotomy of the young versus the old you know the tech savvy kind of new younger generation that will program your your v.c.r. or whatever it is you need them to do and play with the smartphone versus kind of the old school way of doing things and i'm kind of more in that old school the original expendables were kind of that old school mindset and using the little nose is mel gibson. and obviously a blast to work with and be part of a film that he's involved in to. fight in the film rights to the new snow white light did the directed tell you how to fight you have to do sequence for i mean you're not hitting him right which is one of the things i had to learn early on that a lot of different when you're really trying to punch somebody versus you know where the line of the camera is and all those things to make it look good without

actually hurting anybody never hurt anyone unfortunately that happens stunt guys are amazing but they definitely take the bumps they take the knocks and you know i thought that i get carried away but but find that fine line between you know really making contact with somebody or picking somebody up and really slamming them. and just making it look good is always a challenge my wife sure shot a movie in bulgaria and she loves sofia a great place what's it like to shoot far from home to be that far away and i think being in a hotel that long is the challenge fortunately the hotel they put us up in was great had an amazing gym spent a ton of time in the gym and it's an interesting locale for travel i mean days off i had i went to greece i went to the mountains the bands go in great part of the world you consider one of the original superstars of m.m.a. did you know that you had the impact on the sport you had. and you never really

look at yourself that way at least i don't i was just doing what i love to do at a passion for wrestling started it at the age of ten and wrestled all to school and college and and mixed martial arts kind of became an extension of rest and when did that catch on it started in this country in one thousand nine hundred three it is going on in brazil in japan for quite some time and they kind of the the gracies in particular kind of put together a package that not only were going to promote that age old question who would win in the box or the karate guy. kind of thing that bruce lee started a long time ago they came up with a format that would answer a lot of those questions and because it is the answer well it became apparent that there was no one style that was better than the other you had to kind of amalgamate and learn a whole bunch of different styles and techniques and tactics to become a well rounded complete fighter and that's what mixed martial arts is did you want to be a fighter boxer as

a kid i love the box and that was with it and i was the one thing my mom said no you're not going to box now she lashes like i should've just let you box then you would have got it out of your system but. i loved boxing i thought it was a great sport have been in the natural you know i fought vito belfort in one of my first big fights and the the only kind of mag that magazine that was covering this time was full contact fighter and joe gold said oh man you adapted to be tore style he's been beating everybody and and you kind of beat him it is a game you're a natural can i call you that i'm like well i've been called a lot worse things i suppose that's fine and and handle just stuck what was the worship of hurt. i fractured in i thought an elbow and fractured this bone which which will blow yeah and elbow strike. it was for a heavyweight title and rico rodriguez copy will fight in a fight with

a with an elbow and you call it you call it to medic yes yes what do you mean it's an action reaction sport you don't have time to think you really have to rely on your training and what you prepared for and each and every guy you faced poses a certain amount of problems physical problems and so in a kinetic sense you're playing chess is the other mind games and there is a psychological aspect to it to i think any athletic endeavor but certainly in an individual combative sport psychology is a huge thing and you and chuck liddell with the coaches the first season of the ultimate fighter and did that change the way the public looked at them and absolutely i think. it gave you know the reality genre was a perfect vehicle to break down people's misconceptions about who we are what we did everybody thought we were crazy that we were criminals because we got a cage and fought and obviously most the guys in mixed martial arts that i know are college educated guys that just been competing in individual combat of sport the whole life and this is their outlet and so i think getting

a view behind the scenes to see how we train the type of people that we are the character that we possess the discipline the tactics the technique all those things that all came to light to that the ultimate fighter that proud of the sports worry about temptations when they were about a man and i think i mean you certainly guys getting knocked out. so there's there is some trauma to the brain but i don't think it's a huge issue i don't think we're going to see a bunch of punch drunk mixed martial artist walking around the career spans pretty short and i probably pushed farther than anybody and at fourteen years thirty five with the grappling in the and the wrestling nature of the sport you just don't see a lot of head always. the toughest fight with thirty and the first time i fought pedro his zero in atlantic city at trump college mall and five around battled back and forth a lot of people thought i lost the fight but i want to unanimous decision and i was

confident i've won three of the five rounds but it took off in vegas to absolutely i think when the fertitta spotted in two thousand. and eight they had this savvy to kind of get it approved within about a state athletic commission which is the biggest at the commission in the country and and that in some ways changed the sport as well now you were tired in two thousand and eleven and age forty seven officially retired you had to come back though you were tired in canberra tired at forty three for about thirteen months well you know but came back as i felt like i had more to do you want to get the right one heavyweight title again. is there a big difference fighting at forty seven than at thirty three. thankfully i think i was smarter and had forty seven i'd refined my training to do reflexes that could have been just as sharp as you know i think they were i was certainly a better fighter at forty five forty six forty seven than i was at thirty three and

thirty four what do you think are some of the current champions where they did john jones i just saw a couple amazing athlete and kind of this new prototype to a five at his height and the range and reach that he has he's got the rest and ability he's put together the striking ability you know you done against him i have would have been interesting came last as another guy that that again has become this in the heavyweight division where the ten to ten c. was to be these really really big guys and he sees two fifty's and he's not that big but he's got all he's got a great gas tank and chris weidman weidman is kind of the new kid on the block and i think now continuing to prove that he deserves to be there now you could costar in the expendables three with ron the rose and over on the wrong is what was wrong to do with her brother on the queen of m.m.a. right now you know i'll go to she she's very very good implements or judo background as well as anybody i've seen and it's very intense and i think very

strong a lot of girls are going to have trouble dealing with the strength that she possesses and she like doing a movie i think she like that she showed a prepared she was ready to go she was fun to work with. yeah she was great where does m.m.a. go from thing. the group continues to solidify itself as the combative sport for this generation i think it's it's expanding globally there's fights and promotions all around the world now and a lot of countries in order to really really kind of a foundation for grassroots mixed martial arts is growing on amateur fighters the business side of randy couture after this. technology innovation all these developments from around russia we go into the future covered.

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repeats the same old joke of course. your ex-girlfriend still tense tear jerking poetry keep. your it. we post only what. i don't see your facebook you st. but with randy couture one of the many stars of expendables three the third version of the expendables opens aug fifteenth you become quite a business when we get this right you have a chain of gyms extreme could tour m.m.a. a clothing line a supplement company a foundation honoring vets in a company focused on training professional athletes using m.m.a. to mates but to get into business. i think two things i think the light bulb went off for me walking down the studio walk at m.g.m. the very first time i fought there and walk and now they really have to show pretty

early in wa path to store it was a juicy couture store and they had i see my last name on the side and it's like holy cow that's a good day to get my name as it were you know the kind of the light bulb went off and i think the ideas for the clothing line all that stuff grew out of that. some of it was niche we needed training centers i think as mixed martial artist we're going to the boxing gym going to the wrestling match at the college going to the fitness center to get our strength conditioning there was no training so that encompassed all of that for m.m.a. and i think lion's den team quest extreme to tour a lot of those gyms grew out of that need for a place under one roof that had all that and you named your extreme couture what is due to a french it is french and then that led to you have a clothing line in the supplemental company what's advice up in the line i think. most of the supplements that i had seen throughout my athletic career were geared towards physique competitions in bodybuilding and didn't really help me perform

didn't help me recover from the workouts i was doing i was more interested in staving off aging and recovering from the intense workouts that i was putting my body through and so i designed a line that was more athletic based and that's what the x. cap program is because someone is a great athlete doesn't mean they can be a great coach in fact sometimes it's hard to be a great coach as they know too much absolute how good are you you trained i enjoyed coaching goes a coach before i was a fighter certainly a coach at oregon state university and i was forced to do demonstrations in the army representing wrestling i was forced. to do summer camps to make ends meet in college and that put me in that coaching position where i had to explain to another athlete how i did what i did and i had to break it down by the numbers to do that and i think that was kind of the training ground for me in becoming a coach but now on t.v. i left to go to spike right that's curt's the deal with spike what's come in there

the it was a two year deal with spike to do scripted in unscripted television obviously the first installment of unscripted stuff we did was with fight master kind of a show along the lines of the ultimate fighter we now have a show coming out called jim rescue like there bar rescue property which is their number one show and by you must do what happens on shamrock and i go and failing jim space of glee and trying to help them turn around well it's funny in so many things i do keep up with yourself and i sometimes can't find my butt with both hands if you decide not to emanate through my and my oldest is competing trains with me to extreme to tour las vegas and ryan's fighting has been fighting for five or six years now is vegas home makes his home now and how big is the family of three children. and i like biggest. surprisingly a little warm in the summer though and this time of year you have the president dana white who was

a guest on the show wasn't too pleased when you left us see what i believe i mean spike offered me a fantastic deal to to do more television and be involved and i wasn't really getting those offers from from the u. of c. it was doing some commentating for fox but it was of fairly small deal and you have any personal feelings regarding the end you know out with my son was trying to compete in the year of c and i i don't feel like he got a fair shake from dana and i think that was directed at me and that's that's the only issue that i really have and he. he is what he is he does the best that he can i think in the he's running the monster so many things go on with you any other help coming projects. that's it right now focused on expendables three and their medical bills for i think so why not i don't see how there could be back to bulgaria absolutely you write poetry i've been writing since i was in college what

kind. of you have pros. recently started doing a little more haiku stuff but like what i'll just whatever occurs to me see a lot of things i get to travel a town and see and we're just in cannes for the film festival and went to a sixteenth century you know village there that was amazing. and some of the things you see inspired to put some words to it being published yet never been published ever submitted for publishing i have a couple of books but nothing nothing to do with with the poetry books about wrestling about writing biting wrestling and autobiography. i've interviewed many poets and maybe tell me the difference in poetry and novels of the other kind of writing is there's no such thing as a wasted word. true i think there's two every word means something and trying to figure out how they fit together and yeah one change one word here or there can create a whole different meaning you're

a renaissance man we have some social media questions joanna sixteen zero five m. is there going to be an expendables for but do you think there will be i think there will be there is already talk about it even though we haven't seen what three is going to do yet it's a great cast of guys and i think everyone gets to have everyone gets along well. terek and why when you're preparing for a fight scene do you focus on m.m.a. techniques from the u.f.c. days. i definitely try to infuse that into some of the things you do obviously you work with the stunt coordinator to come up with the scenes and how they fit and how the choreography fits together with the stunt guys you're using but you know they know my background and they want to see that stuff too that everybody says it's popular so at g.m. jenison if you could only choose one would you want a lightsaber orahovica board i would probably have to go with a lightsaber mark or nineteen eighty eight do you really use your cauliflower ears as weapons in the cage to unclench. god gave me armor these are you're born with

a kid now it's came from wrestling. the take their hard in they did protect my head does it affect your hearing my deafness is selective larry. you've used that. car on facebook so who would win a real fight you or generally i you know i had my first movie experience with jet and jet be the first one to tell you that he's not a fighter he's a martial artist and an acrobat he's an amazing amazing martial artist but i don't think he's a fighter i don't think he has the fighters mentality and he's considerably smaller than me you know in that we would not be in the same weight class as a kid when you would watch boxing newness ali or others will you see is there anyone you would want to fight. ali would have been good in m.m.a. would make i think he would avoid i think he would have speed very interesting yeah absolutely great athlete only play

a little game of if you only knew ok who's the first girl you have a kissed sherry dormer where was this this was in lynnwood washington my neighbor oh it was in the third grade wow would it happen if it happened in in my yard whatever happened to her. good question i have no idea they moved away and lost contact craziest stuff you've done yourself. and i think probably the the fight scenes in the tunnel in the first expendables we did a lot of crazy stuff in the tunnel fight scenes favorite music to work out to ac d.c. favorite action star from your youth. man. i was a big fan of sylvester stallone in rambo i was real then filmed in hope washington and i grew up in washington current fighting i'd like to fight. current fighter i'd

like to fight oh my gosh. steven seagal doesn't count as a. steven seagal favorite action sequence from a film of yours. i love the. the the fight sequence in the third installment of the bourne identity when he takes the book off the bookshelf and they all get all that amazing fight scene one of their act as a pressure with their fighting skill. been very impressed with obviously a lot of the stuff that jason statement does and off wonder. i've gotten a chance to spar with him and got to know him when he watched the. karate biggest prankster on the expendables that biggest prankster i think is probably sly himself

with the not the one liners and the things that he comes up with on set quiet is the actor from the movie quietest actor. well it wasn't antonio banderas in a scene on set really. he was the funniest funniest antonio was incredibly funny was the most intimidating. mel gibson maybe maybe mel biggest klutz because klotz. is there a klutz and see it quite to really die your closest to from the film i think terry crews favorite film hero of all time film hero. be rambo yes yeah war in john rambo favorite villain or. villain. i can't think of

a villain oh i would think of see who is my favorite villain the incredible killer who eight people oh hannibal lector annabelle that's a great villain. superman or batman. batman superpower you'd like to have i said batman but flying would be pretty cool. flying would be the super yeah if you travel back in time what era would you like to live in. i think the old west figure that given the good tour make sure you see him as toll road and be expendables three in theaters all this fifteenth and also on spike t.v. is jim rescue aug tenth and the mummy can find me on twitter at kings things about c. in exile.