This YouTube video (posted by TJ LaFaver on Nov 8, 2023) pairs a light interview with UFC fighter Julian Marquez and a live training segment. The interview covers Marquez’s financial approach (investing fight earnings into assets), a notable head-kick knockout (he thought he was disqualified), the viral Miley Cyrus Valentine anecdote that increased his publicity, and bizarre DMs. The second half is a sponsored "Pulse" workout/shark-tank drill (sponsored by First Form Energy) where host Josh faces rotating fighters (Evan Elder, Jose, Marcel Fortuna), followed by post-workout discussion of supplements and sign-off.
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Bro, I'm terrified.
He said, I'm terrified.
All right. Welcome back in to the Pulse workout. Today we have none other than UFC fighter Julian Marquez.
All right, Julian, you've been in the UFC for a while, right?
Yeah.
So let's start there. What is your net worth after taxes?
My net worth after taxes for fighting isn't anything. Oh. But I use all that money to invest into different, like, properties, vehicles, and just other so like, streams of revenue. And I use that as my platform to help build and grow to where I don't have to always rely on fighting, which a lot of people in the MMA atmosphere, they think that you have to just only fight and only fight.
So you don't take your job of fighting seriously, then.
I take it seriously because it sounds.
Like you want to play fucking banana land somewhere. Grow up, Peter Pan.
You know, Banana land is good. You know, the thing is, is that if you have a bunch of bananas, you know what? You can feed a village. Right.
Okay. This is a viral video that I saw. I looked up.
I've never knocked anybody out with a head kick. That was my first time, and it was an impressive one.
Yeah, it sounded like a shotgun went off.
If you look at that fight, I walked away and I sat there and I got on my knees because I thought I was disqualified. Everything obviously worked out perfectly. But the whole reason why I was sitting there being calm is because I thought I had a legal kick, and I was embarrassed.
What were the thoughts going through your head when you just see a lifeless body on the floor, that you just kicked him in the face and took it away? You're like, did I fucking kill this guy?
If you watched him fall and you saw him laying there, you felt bad. Emotionally, you felt terrible, because imagine his family. It was tough.
So what's it like to get your shit rocked?
I don't recommend it.
It's like. So you've had a lot of successes in your career, then? And you've had a lot of failures in your career, obviously, but none bigger than the time that you fumbled the Absolute Bag with Miley Cyrus.
It's my time to shine so, Miley Cyrus, will you be my Valentine's?
Did I fumble, bro? What happened, though? You fumbled.
How do you fumble it?
Because, bro, you shot your shot. She received the shot, gave you an opportunity, and then you tried to go back over the top. What happened? Cte just kick in or there?
No, no, no, no, no.
I think it did.
No, you guys look at it like, I fumbled the bag. Fumbled the bag, but I look at it as I succeeded. And why is that? You know who's talked about for four weeks straight and who's still talked about to this day?
Miley Cyrus.
Every Valentine's, you know how much my popularity went up? My Instagram followers, the endorsements, everything went up. I didn't fail. I got noticed. And every Valentine's Day, ESPN always puts Julian Marquez fumbles the bag. And every day, that is my highly, like, highest day of engagement. Because everyone's on there talking trash to me. And, like, the DMs are just going crazy. And I'm like, oh, man, this is so amazing. This is the best feeling in the world.
We're going to get into our sponsored segment today. It's sponsored by First Form Energy. What's your favorite flavor?
My favorite flavor? The orange one. Don't care.
Okay, Julian, what is the weirdest shit in your DMs? You get weird DMs.
I get absolutely weird. Let's.
Let's take a deep dive into your DMs here.
It is disgusting. I don't know if you know my body style, but you ever seen American Wedding? Wow, you are a bear.
You know the terminology of a bear?
Yes. Big, hairy, burly guy.
Exactly.
So would you consider yourself a bear?
Everyone, though, they call me an otter.
Otter. I was going to say you're definitely an otter.
I rarely get messages from girls. Sometimes I, like, get, like, naked photos of girls and it's like, don't want to see that.
Really?
Hey, yeah, no, no, trust me. It's. It's not what you think it is. You know, like the old prison saying, the sex that you want, you don't get. The sex that you get, you don't want. But it's the photos I don't want at all. Next question.
Okay, well, that was pretty much all the questions that I had.
Hey, you know what? That's good. I'm glad you're done asking me questions. I see you. You're wanting to dive into our lives.
Yeah, I always like to get in the arena, man. I like to be the man in the arena, was my guess.
Okay, so I got friends to help me out to prepare you for your first fight. Just get mentally shy.
All right. Yeah. Okay, let's do that. That sounds great.
Hey, guys. This fight is brought to you by our sponsor, First Form Energy Drinks. Get yours today. Look nervous.
Oh, you don't. You don't. That don't make sense to you why I'm nervous? Could you imagine?
Could you imagine what it feels like, when you actually go fight for your.
First time, bro, I'm fucking terrified. I don't know if that's.
He said, I'm terrified. You remember the old Spider man? Like, Spider Man 1 where bonesaw is like, you're going nowhere. I got you for three minutes. That's pretty much what he's got. He's got five minutes through a shark tank, dude. You got your own mouthpiece, dude.
Yeah, I grind my teeth at night, and they give me these to prevent that from happening, so should work. Good.
This is your chance to shine. Okay, so I brought some people in. We got UFC lightweight Evan Elder over here coming in, and you've had him on the podcast before, so you must be familiar with him. Then we have Jose. He is an amateur fighter out here in Missouri, which is amazing. He has a fight this weekend, so he's prepped and ready to rock. And then we have Marcel Fortuna, a black belt, a savage, the best of the best, and an old UFC fighter as well. So they all been into this, and you're going to have fun with a shark tape. We have five minutes. Each minute you get a new person, and we're going to find out today how much heart you got.
If this is my last post workout, it's been fun show. I appreciate you guys for subscribing, tuning in to all that goodness that we've been on the post workout.
3, 2.
Come on, josh. Get in there.
Hit me. The eyeball.
Get in there.
Ah.
Hit him. Punch, josh. Huh?
Yeah. Go for a takedown.
Seconds.
30 seconds. 30 seconds.
Get out, josh.
Get out.
Round two.
Keep going, keep going. Come on, Josh. Get out of it. Let's go.
Is that a Zen?
Did he have a Zen in?
Who is it?
I don't like this.
What the. Is that.
Popping? Marcel, give him a couple pops. Make him respect you.
Shoot up.
There you go.
Go. Behind you. Come on, come on. Put your. Put your hands up. It's a shark tank.
Dump his ass. Evan. Jump his ass.
Start punching.
Thirty seconds. Seconds. Josh.
Push at him.
Grab a hold of him.
Cle them up. Squeeze them.
Round four.
Time. Time here, Jose, crafting.
Show us what you're going to do this weekend in your fight, Jose.
Oh.
Hey.
Don't you quit.
Come on, get up.
This is. That way we find out who you are.
You, Julian.
You're doing great. You, Julian. You're not quitting. I second.
Hey, cameraman, get in on this.
Jesus christ.
That's jason bourne. Round five.
Get back up, get back up.
Come on. Finish him.
Fatality.
Come on.
Put your hands up. That was a tough game. Stand up.
Come on, stand up. Stand up. There we go. Put your hands up. Put your hands up. Put your hands up. You just completed it. There we go. How you feeling?
I don't know what happened. The black die.
Hey, it's all good. You went through a whole entire session. How you feel, though? How was it? Wasn't as bad as you thought.
Oh, hey, you win. I was like, what the. I thought you were having. I don't what just happened? Oh, my leg hurts so bad.
Marcel is an him. Well, that sucked.
Was it that bad, though?
Yes, it was. Extremely. I mean, look, I got my ass beat.
Put your hand up. Because you did it.
Let's go.
You came into our atmosphere. You came into our world and you did. Exactly. Look, you look good though, man. I was proud of you.
All right, Julian, that was a lot of fun. Thanks for putting the shark tank. If I could not go back there for a little bit, that'd be great. Ah, two weeks. Two weeks. Let me get some training. But this is called the post workout.
Post workout.
God knows I fucking need one. What's your favorite post workout?
My post workout, I like to take our vanilla formula one as well as our ignition with me. I like to mix it up a different so I don't take a full scoop, but I dry scoop my protein.
Psycho move. Don't do that. That's psycho behavior.
And then with my ignition bud.
Yeah, just give me like a little under a half or a half.
That's good. Hi, Julian. You did all this has been the post workout. You gotta tell them what to do next because I'm tired.
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He's got a lot subscribe.
You know what? Like, tag them. Tag them in there.
Post notifications on. All right. This has been the post workout with UFC fighter Julian the Cuban. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Marquez. Thanks for stopping by. We'll catch you next time. Peace.
