00:00Because we got BKFC Ice Wars coming to the Amaranth Bank Arena, Leroy.
00:05And the president of BKFC Ice Wars, Ian Heinish, is joining us here on the program.
00:12Hello, Ian. How are you?
00:13I'm good. How's it going?
00:15Oh, it's good, man.
00:16We know we're getting ready for this problem of throttling tonight at the hands of the Buffalo Bills.
00:20So, you know, that's what we're trying to have our heads on.
00:26Nice. Nice.
00:27Well, we think.
00:29But you guys are coming down here, man.
00:30So this Ice Wars thing, we've seen videos of this.
00:33You guys are just doing brawls on ice.
00:35Like, that's it.
00:36The skates are there.
00:38The ice is there.
00:39But we're just taking the goals out.
00:42We're just kicking ass.
00:44Yeah.
00:44So right now, we've taken away the pucks.
00:47There's no sticks.
00:48It's just going to be pure fights.
00:49And that's kind of our slogan with Ice Wars.
00:52The interesting thing, though, we've been kind of doing this proof of concept.
00:56You know, this is a new sport, right?
00:58So we're evolving.
00:59We're changing.
01:00We're figuring out what works best.
01:02And the past two events, they were on synthetic ice, right?
01:06We were in a casino.
01:07We were not able to have real ice.
01:09And we used gloves because we were trying to protect the fighters' hands and stuff like that.
01:14But now, at the Merit Bank Arena on October 10th, it will be real ice.
01:19It will be no gloves.
01:21For the first time ever, we have our full partnership with BKFC.
01:25You know, we're in the home of the two-time Stanley Cup champion.
01:29So there's no other place that we would rather kick off this historic event.
01:34And it's exciting because we have a stacked card.
01:37We have UFC veteran Charles Boston Strong Rosa.
01:40And we have some really heavy hitter enforcers.
01:44We have our first women's fight.
01:46There's a lot going on in this card.
01:47And it's going to be action-packed and warm for the history books.
01:51So I want to ask you this.
01:52So how are they – so are they going to have different shoes or different type of shoes
01:59where they can get a little more traction?
02:01How is that going to work?
02:03Because, I mean, in order to actually be able to pack a punch,
02:07you're going to have to have some leverage.
02:09Yeah, I mean, they're on skates.
02:11Oh, yikes.
02:12Yeah, yeah.
02:13These guys are on skates.
02:14This is full hockey attire.
02:17Like I said, every time you go to a hockey game, you are enamored by the fights.
02:24Right when the fight breaks out, the whole crowd,
02:26even if a fight broke out in the parking lot.
02:28Dana White said this before.
02:29People are going to run out there to go watch that fight.
02:31So now we're just bringing you the action-packed part.
02:36We're going to have three one-minute rounds of action-packed brawling on the ice,
02:42bare knuckle.
02:43So the first time ever that we were able to get this done,
02:46full-sanctioned hockey fights, and we're excited to do this in Florida.
02:50I don't know if this – like are the Panthers – are you getting any of the Panthers out there?
02:53Because this feels like right up their alley.
02:55Like I feel like you could bring in half of their team
02:57and they would enjoy something like this because I don't think there's a team
02:58in the league that likes fighting more than the Panthers.
03:01Oh, yeah.
03:01They love it.
03:02They love it.
03:03We already have a couple guys on board.
03:04They're helping us sell tickets.
03:05And we're excited, man, because we're getting the whole hockey community behind us.
03:11You know, AmeriBank Arena is really excited.
03:14They've sent out emails to their whole client list of all the people that love hockey.
03:18And these guys love hockey fights.
03:20So, you know, we're kind of bringing all worlds together.
03:24You're going to see hockey fans.
03:25You're going to see BKFC fans.
03:26You're going to see UFC fans and boxing fans.
03:31It's kind of like a worlds collide.
03:34And this gives me UFC 1 vibes just because, you know, you're going to have different styles.
03:39You've got Charles Rosa, UFC vet.
03:42We've got a BKFC fighter on the card.
03:44And then we just have pure hockey enforcer veterans that are basically born on the ice,
03:51grew up on the ice.
03:53They're all menaces, yeah.
03:54I feel like you've got to just go get some of these Panthers.
03:58Like, they got, you know, and then once they're done with their hockey career,
04:01they're going, boom, we're going right to BKFC Ice Wars.
04:03That's immediately what I think they need to do.
04:06Yeah, I mean, the thing is right now, as far as, like, getting NHL enforcers,
04:12you know, these guys got paid a lot of money.
04:13Oh, of course.
04:14I'm saying after their careers are done.
04:16Yeah, yeah, after their careers and as Ice Wars continues to grow,
04:19I think it's going to be kind of a clout thing.
04:21It's going to be, you know, we want to get to the top of this sport
04:25because they are so experienced.
04:27You spent your whole life doing it.
04:29Might as well step in the ice box and prove that you are the baddest man on the ice.
04:34And I think we'll see a lot of that in the future.
04:37How big is, yeah, I was going to just ask you that.
04:39How big is the, do they have to fight?
04:42Do they get the whole rink?
04:43I mean, like, where does, like, does anybody get to skate out?
04:46Or are they confined into an area with a ref?
04:49Yeah, they're confined in an area.
04:51It's an 800-square-foot box.
04:54We call it the ice box.
04:55So it's plexiglass, so you're going to be able to see in it.
04:58So, yeah, they're not going to be skating all around.
05:00I mean, these guys are in close quarters.
05:03They're able to maneuver.
05:04They're able to go.
05:04But when you have, you know, this small of a fighting arena and, you know, you've got three one-minute rounds, you're going to see a lot of action.
05:17Ian, when is the event?
05:19Again, give us it one more time.
05:21Yeah, it's October 10th.
05:22There you go.
05:23October 10th.
05:24Amorant Bank Arena.
05:24Like, I'm – right now, I'm shook because I'm just trying to picture two dudes on skates fighting in a ring on the ice.
05:38And the whole thing is you better have good leverage because you – oh, my goodness.
05:43Well, our producer, Jennifer, she's already like, man, I want to go.
05:46This is up in my league.
05:47So she's – you've already got – she's in.
05:49She's ready to rock and get to the ice war.
05:51So check it on out October 10th.
05:53Ian, we appreciate the time, man.
05:55Thank you, guys.
05:55Appreciate it.
05:56There you go.
05:57Hey, man, that's crazy.
05:59Yeah, I know.
06:00That's insane.
06:01Like, because think about this.
06:05I'm thinking even if you take the baddest man in UFC, that we got guys that we've talked to guys.
06:12Vlad, it don't matter what the situation is.
06:15If you tell them I'm going to give you a little pocket change to go fight, they signing up.
06:20That's right.
06:21And now we putting them on skates?
06:23That's right.
06:24I don't know.
06:25Like, how many UFC guys you know can skate?
06:28I don't know.
06:30Right.
06:31I don't know.
06:31Well, we don't know if they can or can.
06:33No, I'm just saying.
06:34So, like, let's just say, theoretically, if our boy, like, Uli was going to go and fight, do I know that Uli can skate?
06:39I don't know.
06:40Right.
06:40But that's what I'm saying.
06:41I don't know.
06:42You adding, like, you adding, like, fighting and a lot of these things are about leverage.
06:47Oh, yeah.
06:48Right?
06:49Ice doesn't really give you any leverage.
06:51So, I see a whole bunch of guys taking that blade and jamming it into the corner of the side of the ring and bouncing off of it that way.
07:03Lifting yourself up.
07:04Right?
07:05And pushing yourself, getting a good push off.
07:07Lifting yourself up.
