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Dirty Boxing Welterweight and Former UFC Fighter, Landon "The Lone Wolf" Quiñones, joins the show LIVE in the studio. The Lone Wolf talks about his Dirty Boxing debut, UFC journey, South Florida support and broken jaw recovery.
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00:00very excited joining us in studio we got one of south florida's own you guys know we love the
00:06fight game here landon quinones the lone wolf joining us here in studio it's good to finally
00:12do this man how are you great man great it's uh it's it's good to see you're starting to heal up
00:17uh you had a hell of a fight hell of a performance uh against mike breeden the last time you were a
00:21dirty boxing three called your fight hell of a show you put on uh but man uh the the the trials
00:27of being a fighter you had to deal with a broken jaw afterwards yeah unfortunately i feel like my
00:32defense was pretty good the whole fight yeah you know mike's tough as hell and he wasn't gonna he
00:36wasn't gonna take an out without leaving me with something to remember him by so yeah it happens
00:40but it was the first 10 seconds of the third round i feel like i was up big and he had to do something
00:44wild and i blocked the first punch second one slipped through and you know what the doctor said
00:49because i still have my wisdom teeth it's like creates a wedge between your jaw bone and your
00:53tooth so it actually makes it more susceptible to being broken if you get hit in that spot not saying
00:57that he wouldn't have broken it if i didn't have that spot that he hit but it definitely made me a
01:02little bit more susceptible to it so it's unfortunate you and leroy have been bonding over broken jaw stories
01:07oh yeah because leroy broke his jaw in michigan hey yeah man it's uh the thing is you realize how much
01:17you enjoy food right because you can't you can't if everything's liquid and no matter what you do
01:26you can't get enough the same amount of calories or type of calories as a nice piece of meat
01:33dude um fried chicken has like been my thing like i always go through phases of my life of what junk
01:38food i like and right now it's been fried chicken and like dave's hot chicken if y'all listen to this
01:43make sure you shout shout holler at your boy for a sponsorship but i love fried chicken just the crunch
01:48you know i mean texture is something that you just don't really appreciate till it's taken away from you
01:52right just like if you're injured right you can't do your sport for a long time you don't really like
01:55love and appreciate it the same until it's taken away from you so i can't wait two more weeks wired
02:00and we're good but at least i can speak clearly oh you're gonna be it's not listen look poor kid
02:06he doesn't you think you're just gonna be able to open up and and just bite and eat whatever you want
02:12oh man you know it's gonna be worse opening up your mouth and having that piece of chicken and going
02:17you can't eat it you're too weak ah he's already seen the finish line lee roy chop it up for me
02:25chop it up he's just trying to take away my hopes and aspirations no i'm so excited you just ruin it
02:30look all i'm saying is is that you still got a long road be careful don't go at it you know just let
02:38the process take care of itself yeah yeah i can't get hit for another month anyway he said no contact
02:42you know but so you have you been working out dude to be honest no he told me no running no
02:47oh because you don't want to okay no vibration jarring i've been teaching and kind of pushing
02:52the limits like because i coach that's how i make a living as well so right showing kicks on the pads
02:56or like holding pads here and there but i don't hold pads for kicks um i can't really drill even when
03:01i hit the bag he said no kicks like now i'm starting to like slowly progress into like skill training
03:06like 60 but like still like because of the vibration the movement right stay away from it is this
03:11the the most frustrating injury of your career yeah for sure like acl was bad but like at least
03:15like i could eat and i could do other things i could coach and stuff like that and like i feel
03:19like i got my mind off it but here it's like i can't i feel like i'm such a fat boy at heart so
03:23i feel like not being able to eat has been killing me bro well your performance is great man like
03:27listen call on your fight uh it was it was all actually i know that the uh the crowd was really
03:31excited to see you're south florida guys so like how much did you enjoy the experience of dirty
03:35boxing and that performance that you put on i love it man so one thing that i was really
03:39emphasizing in the build-up to this fight i haven't fought i fought at home twice in the last
03:42like seven years you know i fought in australia i fought vegas i fought dominican republic but i
03:47don't really get the chance to like come home and like do it in front of my people and to be honest
03:50fighting at home is actually harder because when you fight at home it's like you have all these home
03:53obligations you have all these people over here that are expecting you to win and like it's a lot of
03:57pressure you know but you know i loved it man i feel like i'm that pressure doesn't really exist
04:01to me anymore because i'm really only worried about myself and how i feel in my own skin so i can care less who
04:05the fan who's there and stuff but one thing about me is regardless of how i feel on the inside about
04:09it i feed off energy so the crazier the environment the more hyped up it is the more energy i receive
04:15from the fans like the more fun i have and the better i'll perform i've always been like that i'd
04:19wrap if you told me fight like during coven fans or no fans like fans all day and as many as you could
04:24fit in the place so right i loved it i thought it was a great time i felt like it was a great way to
04:28represent my people you know like i don't like to say oh i'm miami i'm i'm from broward like i'm a
04:33south florida guy like how many guys you see come from all over the world that come and train in
04:36south florida i'm homegrown born and raised here so to be able to go do that and represent that
04:42crowd of people of the homegrown people meant a lot to me like think about you see terrence crawford
04:46omaha omaha omaha like i represent sunrise fort lauderdale you know broward county the miami crew
04:52like everyone around you other local guys so i know he mentioned good to be that guy he mentioned
04:56jimmy butler in the uh in the fighter meetings we were talking about oh yeah landon's like i got my joy
05:01back like jimmy butler i'm like sensitive issue for me yeah oh no hey team petty this dude is petty
05:07till death i'm not i am too you are i'm not team petty it's just like you know we just it was it
05:13was still fresh in my mind here's the problem the reason why you feel so hurt is because when
05:19everybody else was rats off a ship on jimmy because his antics you were still you know behind jimmy so
05:26when at the end at the end when jimmy let you down it hurt a little bit more we had already prepared
05:32ourselves for the letdown you had not gone there yet yeah well it was also because everybody was
05:37blaming me too oh yeah it's your fault no it's not it is don't say that that's not true it's your
05:41fault it's not my fault pat riley was going to say what he said just no matter what i asked him so
05:45please don't say that for sure that's who asked him the question that got him say it's not important
05:48let's ask a question okay but so like what was the feedback that you got from just doing this new
05:54sport i am curious about it because people do seem to be buzzing about dirty box i'm not saying
05:58that just because i'm on the broadcast but like it it feels like it's shack in the building it was
06:02it felt like a big vibe so what was uh i know you've been on ufc been on ultimate fighter and all that but
06:07like did you did you get a lot of feedback just from your performance i mean i love it man i think
06:11you know malky and these guys said like you know there's a lot of exciting fights that have been in
06:15dirty boxing so far but i feel as far as like a technical master class and display of boxing skill
06:20i will say that i feel like i had the best one out of all the shows that they've done so far you
06:25know yeah um you got a lot of mma fighters that don't really have great defense or great boxing
06:29you know i mean i'm not a boxer a pure boxer myself i'm in the mma realm but i am a pure and i
06:35wouldn't say purist but i'm a striker like my base is striking you know i have good grappling and stuff
06:39like that but striking has always been my bread and butter even in my fights as a professional in mma
06:43i have 100 percent takedown defense you know all my fights have taken place in the feet
06:47so um i feel like i was really a display of like how good dirty boxing can get and um um you know
06:54there's been more exciting fights like i said like you like the brazilian before me no that fight was
06:59wow yeah that was a while your fight was your fight was really good that fight was insane for me you
07:03saw like a technical master class you saw defense you saw movement you saw combinations flow and these
07:08guys it was like dropping each other back and forth it was definitely i i couldn't you could argue is
07:12just as exciting if not more exciting you know i don't want to like downgrade my performance but
07:16that was a great fight they deserve the bonus they deserve the the hype that they got you know but
07:20i feel like it's just it's a great platform also malky and john jones all those guys been
07:24the ufc around the ufc their whole careers so being able to see the way they organize things and kind of
07:29stealing from that the way they do it you know dirty boxing is a very organized show the medium
07:34production is great um the way they promote the fights is great the interviews and outside people
07:38they let in to help push the um the media and whatnot is great i loved it man i thought it was great i felt
07:44like i got really good feedback you know i feel like i see a good future in dirty boxing i could
07:48do really well there i feel like i could be their first champion as well um but you know right now
07:52we're just taking it day by day step by step i gotta heal my jaw first absolutely next steps are but um
07:57i think it's a lot of clout man i think they're doing a lot of great things and uh the what the
08:01press is getting it could be just as big as bare knuckle just as big as the ufc or just as big as some
08:06of these boxing promotions as well but it's brand new we just got to see how it plays out moving forward
08:10so like is the is the goal for you is it you know dirty bodies people like do you want to get back
08:16into the ufc like is that also something that's still on the check because we do hear that from
08:20a lot of fighters too like and i mean i see a lot of you guys i'm like man these guys have a lot of
08:24juice like that there's definitely that talent there and i know you train with the hotbed down
08:28here as well with a bunch of guys so like what what is ultimately that road for you man i'd love to
08:34continue with dirty boxing i think the rule sets fits my style well if it gets just as big as i feel
08:39like it could get i'd stay there you know i mean money talks uh but i would like to get back to the
08:43ufc and i feel like with the press that dirty boxing is getting even if i didn't fight mma i feel like
08:48fighting in dirty boxing i could get back to the ufc i still train at mma i still train my wrestling i
08:52still train my grappling i still work my kicks um obviously for this fight predominantly i train for
08:57boxing you know and i will continue to do it because it's a new skill set i have a new coach that i've
09:00been working with the last few months so i'm kind of going back to basics you know before this fight i was
09:05on a little bit of a slump lost on the ultimate fighter lost my first ufc fight i lost my second
09:10ufc fight my second ufc fight i don't feel like i really lost i feel like i got robbed in the decision
09:14but at the end of the day if you look at the record you see a red a red square and you see an
09:18l so uh i was in a little bit of slump and i asked him like what do you do when you're on this slump
09:23because you see a lot of these fighters they lose a couple in a row their confidence is in the dirt
09:27they they have so many identity issues so they really don't like know how to find that flow and get
09:31back they just continue to lose they're like they'll lose two three win one and lose another
09:35two and then win one and lose another three and they're winning just enough to keep themselves in
09:39the game but they're not really progressing and i asked my coach i'm like this new coach jamal jamal
09:43hargrove my boxing coach i was like what do i do like if what does a guy do if he loses flow how does
09:47he get it back like you know do you think they can ever get it back because sometimes like i don't
09:51see it you know and he's like well you could but you know what you got to do you got to go back to
09:55basics and just take your time and go back to the to the little things you know and i did that this
09:59fight and i feel like i saw great results you know absolutely it was it was impressive the uh
10:04what was the experience on the ultimate fighter like i was it was the great i always call it the
10:09greatest worst experience of my life terrible bro it's so it's the thing is like i was also like a
10:14little immature compared to what i am now i know it wasn't that long ago you were on the mcgregor
10:19chandler season the prospect team yeah for sure okay yeah but it was uh the thing is like it's a lot
10:24of tension you're in a house with 16 dudes and like yeah on the show it's a team it's two teams right
10:29and you do build like relationships with the people you're training with every day and stuff
10:33like that but it's not really a team bro like these guys that are on my team like i still have
10:37that little unsafe vibe like i might fight this guy this guy wins i might fight this guy i'm over
10:42here playing cards with this guy i could be fighting him next thursday you know i mean like
10:45right it was really weird and uncomfortable and i feel like i couldn't and then with no tv no
10:49music no books like i feel like god yeah dude you get super stir crazy and like it's like a
10:53prison with good food and not for real you get good food and you're doing this training and
11:00yeah man and even the training like the training is more for show like you're not training hard or
11:04really getting better you're just trying to stay fresh and keep working out so when you fight like
11:07you're ready to go fight you know the training is all done before you know but um i feel like for me
11:12like being so stir crazy when it got to the moment to go fight i was so drained from all the tension
11:17that i was feeling 24 hours that like it folded me like i just feel like i was too immature to be in
11:21that spot you know right i actually have a story before i got on the show um they sent you to they
11:27send you to vegas for final selections and they'll put you in um in a hotel and like you're not even
11:31allowed to have your room key like you have a phone you schedule your gym time for an hour downstairs
11:35i don't know if it was because of covid or the production team strategy to make you stir crazy so
11:40when you get in the house with people you start talking and stuff you know but um they i was in the
11:45hotel and i was on the phone with um with a friend of mine and i was like like i was well let me call you
11:49back um i'm i have the producer coming here they're ready to take our phones they're going to take all
11:53our stuff so we can go to the house they come to my door i forgot his name was cole tall buddy he works
11:59for pilgrim uh pilgrim media group okay he runs the show and he's like hey landon like you know i just
12:04want to let you know like this is after like two weeks of being in vegas like bored bored as hell
12:09waiting for my shot i was told i was going to be on the show he said listen um you know you're not
12:13we've come to decisions we have some people that like have first dibs and like the um the powers of
12:18and say that you're not going to be on the show we're going to get somebody else on the show
12:20and i was like no way bro like i've wait this is finally my shot i don't know if you know my story
12:25back in 2020 i was on the contender series you blew out your knee right no i got covid oh you got
12:29i got covid oh i got covid and it was week nine and they couldn't rebook me it was back like peak
12:34covid like they were just opening events right and then they rescheduled me for a fight on titan fc and
12:39um january i think it was january or um or february and they told me okay this is going to be like
12:45his contender fight back then they would sign dudes not on the contender they would sign dudes
12:48from local shows oh yeah and they would do it before i'm not short notice they would give you
12:52a chance right and he's like okay if he wins this fight this is going to be his contender fight
12:56because we couldn't rebook him right they gave me some nine and three guy number one guy hawaii
12:59and a week before that fight then i tore my acl so i lost one shot then lost another shot then this
13:05then by the time i got back to fighting it was two years off so if you're inactive and fighting
13:10you're not relevant you know i mean so then um i ended up having that same manager try to get on
13:15contender again i waited it out he couldn't get me i took because i won a fight coming back i won
13:20the titan title coming back big regional show back then kind of like lfa cffc yeah won the title and
13:25then it was waiting to get on the contender season it was just coming up my manager was telling me oh
13:29stay ready stay ready season starts couldn't get me on the beginning of the season had some
13:33whack-ass excuse oh international fighters get first dibs because borders just open right
13:37okay no some whack-ass excuse like i haven't lost i'm on like a four fight that sounds like
13:43corporate like some whack-ass excuse all finishes you know i mean i was already booked on contender
13:47like why can't you get me back on you know and i'm over here waiting i could have been fighting and
13:51getting getting busy by now you know and then um i finally i win that fight then after that the
13:57manager got all the way to the end of the season gave me excuse after excuse after excuse every single
14:01week didn't get on the contender so i defended my title sign of the new new manager and they
14:06called me for the ultimate fighter for being a regional champ the whole thing was prospects versus
14:10veterans right so they wanted all the prospects that was supposed to be the best guys outside of
14:14the ufc fighting the guys that were the veterans so eventually i got on and but back to my story
14:19here right so this guy told me i wasn't gonna be on the show he leaves um i say a little prayer i
14:25say god whatever your plan is like please put me on like you know i i feel or whatever it is whether
14:30it's good whether i'm i get on the show whether i'm not in the show your plan is good i said a prayer
14:3415 minutes late minutes later boom boom boom knocks on the door comes back you know i went
14:38to bat for you with joey my other co-producer and you're gonna be on the show he ended up doing it
14:43so it was like a weird like i said a prayer 15 minutes later this dude knocks on my door
14:46but you know what i feel that was i feel like that was god's way of telling me all right kid you think
14:50you're ready i'm gonna put you in the show you're not i'm gonna show you not ready you know what i'm
14:54saying and um he put me on the show and then the rest of history i went out there embarrassed
14:58myself got tapped in 50 seconds the pressure kind of broke me but um as soon as the nda ended for
15:04the show the ufc signed me and put me up but in this fight game it's all about timing and
15:09circumstances you know i wasn't in the best shape they fired me out on two weeks notice to australia
15:13on a 14 hour time change i fight a guy with 14 ufc fights and i'm making my debut uh i feel like i put
15:20up a hell of a fight didn't work out and then i got the next fight i feel like i didn't have to win
15:24that fight i lost that fight the ufc shelves me for a year a year and a half and then abruptly just
15:31releases me when i was really staying ready i was putting my hand up for short notice fights
15:35and then now we're here in dirty boxing i feel like all that those headaches i had with the
15:39business of fighting from losing this opportunity and getting injured and then winning and then not
15:45getting the opportunity after feeling i earned it and then after that losing a decision and then
15:50getting shelved and going through all this stuff that i went to dude it's exhausting yeah it's a lot
15:56of adversity it sounds like you went through a lifetime of uh uh in this business already yeah
16:02it's like and like to be honest like boohoo cry about it you know i mean like i'm not the first
16:06one this has happened to but like when you do that that's why i told you like i lost my joy like i
16:10stopped wanting to go train i stopped wanting to do this bro like i'm like what i got to the highest
16:15level in the sport you know it's supposed to be the nba nfl the sport and it's like i'm still broke
16:20i haven't changed none of my family's life like nothing's going my way like why the hell am i doing
16:25this shit anymore you know we're doing this anymore this stuff anymore excuse my name i'm sorry why am
16:28i doing this anymore so it's like i um um yeah man so i took a lot of time to re-evaluate myself take
16:35my time off and um you know i feel like that's why i said i got my joy back you know because i feel like
16:40when you do this the only thing that's going to keep you doing this is not the business or the money
16:44it's going to be for the love of the game right yeah for sure yeah you got a love of the game so it's
16:47like when you um when you go to class right or like whatever you guys train before you guys ever
16:51run a gym or a school or anything like that sure okay but if you go to school or whatever you go
16:55you get your gym membership right you're happy to go after work you had a long day yep you want to go
16:59to class because you're there because you enjoy it it's fun like i'm doing it because i want to be
17:03there you know and i feel like i started to approach fighting like that now and you saw that in the
17:07performance you look forward to it now i look forward to doing it for fun to do it to be the best me i
17:12can be i don't care about what the media says about me i don't care what the fans think about me i
17:17don't i just you know at the end of the day whether i win or lose i'm gonna go home to my daughter
17:21i'm gonna go home to my family i'm gonna go home and my coaches are still gonna love me
17:26and i'm gonna have my personal relationships with them my bills are gonna be paid everything is
17:29gonna be good at the end of the day win lose or draw nothing changes so that allows me to go and
17:34be free when i'm fighting now because of all the things that i've been through you know i've kind of
17:38found that that mental place that like i feel like i'm coming into my own you know and i'm super excited
17:43for that moving forward talking to uh landon quinones south Florida zone the lone wolf just won his
17:48dirty boxing debut a couple months back and uh healing up what so ideally you say that was it
17:54a couple more a few more about a month off before you can get hit again right yeah one more uh you
17:58got a baby on the way so like ideally you're thinking probably like next like early 2026 you'll
18:04be back in if if all things break your way i mean probably as soon as possible now i was actually um
18:09in pursuit of a career in law enforcement but unfortunately some things fell through so now it's
18:14like i thought i wasn't gonna be fighting for another six months to a year but i guess when
18:17that fell through or things happen i think that's god's way of telling me like you're not done kid
18:21but you got a lot of work to do you got a lot of you got a lot of people to inspire you know and um
18:25you got a lot of skulls to crack so you know let's go we're looking forward to seeing it man hey we
18:29appreciate you stopping by this was uh this was a blast and uh i think you uh got a lot of fans in
18:35south florida who are going to be excited to see what the rest of the journey is landing
18:37absolutely man appreciate you guys for real absolutely
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