Name: Brandon Moreno | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #381
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Brandon Moreno | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #381

Today's guest is the first Mexican-born fighter to win a UFC championship.
He's a warrior, and I'm inspired anytime I get to sit down with any of these
fighters.
I just feel inspired.
I feel inspired, as I'm sure a lot of you guys do.
Today's guest is out of the flyweight division.
He's the pride of Tijuana, Mexico, and I'm very grateful for his time.
He is beloved, and I'm going to get to know him a little bit better.
Mr. Brandon Moreno.
For me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind
Shine that light on me
I'll sit and tell you my stories
Shine on me
And I will find a song
I've been singing just for me
And now I've been moving way too far
Yeah, I think I would like to maybe be...
I would probably like to be Mexican, I think.
What?
Yeah.
Do it.
It's the best.
Man, do it.
Is it hard?
What?
To be Mexican.
Depends.
Oh, damn.
You know, because we can talk about it and I don't know about this, but my
fathers, my parents, they were very poor.
Yeah.
Poor.
But they started to work hard, man.
And I had a nice life.
So I don't have any necessities in my life.
My parents was another whole different history, man.
It was different, huh?
Yeah.
And so to me it was like, oh, I don't have any necessities, so everything was
easy.
Oh, for you it was easy, but for them it was different.
Yeah.
And that life is for the most part of the people that are in Mexico.
It's a third world country, man.
It's hard.
Yeah, it's tough, huh?
Yeah.
I wish, I think, dude, no joke, when I get up in the morning sometimes I
freaking clap for Mexican people because I think that they, if it weren't for
Mexican people, America would be, nobody would be doing any.
I feel like Mexican people keep this country going.
Man, I mean, I have one year living here, man, and I can see a lot of Mexican
people like working hard, man.
Hard working.
Like, man, these guys, all these guys are doing their job, right?
And it's everywhere, all across the country.
It's like that, man.
Mexican, I think if it weren't for Mexican people, I don't know where, I don't
know what America would be, you know?
Yeah.
You guys are like the real, like the rabitos, you know?
What is that?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know what is that, man.
It's like, you know, the animal with the ears at Easter.
Oh, rabbits.
Rabbits, yeah, it's all right, rabbits.
Okay.
Rabbits.
Yeah, you guys are the rabbits, man.
Anyway, thanks for being here, man.
Oh, we started already.
Okay.
We started.
We started, man.
But yeah, I think when I die, I would like to come back and be Mexican next
time.
Because it seems like there's also a lot of romance and it's more romantic.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, we were talking about this before, right?
Yeah.
I mean, I feel like the Latin culture is like more with more happiness and
everything.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Other cultures, they have their own fun.
Right.
In life.
But I don't know, the Latin culture has a lot of traditions, a lot of amazing
food.
There's this mix of cultures.
Yeah, I mean, I'm so happy and I'm so proud to be Mexican and be a Latino, so.
Yeah.
Dang, dude.
I wish next time I'm going to be 100% Latino.
Where did you say is your father?
My father's from Nicaragua.
Okay.
But he didn't really, he just, he talked Spanish with his friends, but he never
taught me, you
know, but I didn't know.
Really?
Yeah.
I don't understand why.
I mean, for example, I have my nephews, my, my, so sorry, my, my cousins.
Yeah.
They speak both language because in, in, in, in their house was like outside
the school,
you can speak English all the time, but in the house, you need to speak Spanish.
If not, I don't understand nothing.
Oh, really?
And I'm trying to do the same with my daughter, man, because again, we have one
year living
here in Vegas.
And my, my daughter, she's, she's eight, eight years.
Oh, nice.
Congrats.
She, she went to a school last year.
Obviously this, the, the pandemic was crazy and everything, but she started to
go to the
school and I can see the more confidence when she tried to speak English.
Really?
Yeah.
And I thought with, I talked with her before, like, Hey, in the moment when,
and I can see
you can speak good English, you need to stop the English here in the house.
Oh, yeah.
Never.
I don't want to hear any English word here because you need to keep.
Solamente espanol, eh?
Just Spanish in the house.
Man, it's more opportunities, you know, it's your language, it's your culture.
I mean, she, she, she born in, in, in Hemet, in, in California.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
But lives all.
H-E-M-E-T.
But seven years living, living in, in Tijuana.
Wow.
So it's, I mean, she's, she's Mexican.
Oh, she's Mexican, man.
Yeah, yeah, dude.
But we're glad to have her over here even for a year, man.
Do you, now that you've like really have become like, you've really become such
a star,
you know, in a lot of ways.
A lot of people, people love you.
I was at a, um, I was at a, I was talking with someone about you, about the
fights and
they'd just gone to your last fight, which was in, uh, it was in California,
right?
It was in Anaheim.
Yeah.
And they said when you came out, it was the loudest they'd ever, that they'd
heard since
Conor McGregor.
Man, that's awesome.
I mean.
That's crazy, dude.
You're like the Mexican corner.
Yeah.
Thank you, man.
So I feel like the people can connect, uh, uh, better with my history, man.
Yeah, why do people connect with you?
Oh, with your history?
You know?
Yeah.
I mean, with you, with my, my, with my, uh, the way I am with the people.
And I don't know, I always say the same, but for example, the history of Habib,
this
guy, undefeated and amazing, like a wrestling God and everything, right?
Uh, an amazing and perfect record.
Mm-hmm.
But I mean, my history is more like the, the history of the people.
Yeah.
When you fall and you come back and you come back.
Yeah.
And that's like the people can identify more that history on, uh, by himself
than other
ones.
Like, hey, I mean, it's the same.
I've lost.
I've won every time.
Yeah.
As opposed to I've lost and won and lost and won.
Yeah.
And, and obviously, I mean, I'm just trying to be happy and enjoy my job and,
you know,
be very kind with the people.
Um, and that's it, man.
It's, it's crazy how I can connect with the people because I don't need to, to,
to say
stupid things in the social media or the trash talk or something like that.
Yeah.
I love it, man, because I hate that.
Like, to me, it's very boring when the, when some guy tried to trash talk, to
do the trash
talk in social media on the, in a press conference, like, man, I saw that
before, man.
Like, nothing new.
It's not you.
And it doesn't, well, I guess it doesn't fit you.
Some guys, it fits.
Yeah.
Some guys can trash talk and it, it just fits their character.
But I don't know if it probably wouldn't fit your character, you don't think.
Yeah.
I mean, I said, and I say this, like, hey, man, if you watch me mad in some
place in a
press conference with some, with somebody, it's because I'm really mad with the
guy.
Right.
Like, it's real.
Right, right, right, right, right.
Yeah, you're not faking it.
Do you go, is it, is it, is it, because Tijuana's a third world country, or
Mexico's a
third world country, is it scary to go back to Tijuana?
Do you get scared since you're more popular now?
Is it, do you have any more fear?
Is that?
It's a, it's a good question, man.
And nothing against the Mexican people, just.
No, no.
No, no, no.
I mean, I'm very open with, when we talk about Tijuana, because I know the good
and the bad
things, man.
I mean, I love, I love Tijuana, I love the city, I love Mexico, the country, we
have
an amazing things, the culture, the tradition, the food, my goodness, the food,
man.
The ladies, bro.
The ladies, the people, whatever you want.
The aguacates.
What?
The aguacates.
Aguacates?
Avocado?
I love avocado.
Oh, brother, brother, brother.
The green gold.
I love them.
But at the same time, I understand the bad things, you know, the narcotraffic,
the violence.
It's a dangerous place, too.
I understand that.
But when I go to Mexico, I'm not really scared, man, because I live there all
my life.
Right.
Like, 27 years I've been there, like, getting an amazing time there, training,
meeting people
and everything.
Sometimes I think about maybe my family.
You never know.
Right.
That is more scary for me, to me, like, you know, because right now, right now
I'm living
in Vegas, but my parents live in Tijuana, my brothers live in Tijuana, you know,
my nephews.
And they have kidnapping, people take people there sometimes.
So, for example, when some channel asked me for an interview for my father,
like, I don't
like to get involved in all of this because—
Oh, put them in the situation.
Exactly.
It could be dangerous.
Yeah, maybe.
You never know, man.
So, I prefer to put everything out of the conversation and just be—if you
want an interview and get
an interview from me, I can do it, man.
Even with that, I mean, they had a few interviews.
Yeah, yeah.
Do they—do you—did you ever get approached by, like, any drug people or
anything after
you've become, like, a real success?
Does the cartel, like, come for you to, like, get you to be their guy or
anything?
Oh, man.
I mean, no.
Thanks God.
Yeah.
Because people like, I don't know, Julio Cesar Chavez.
Yeah.
He—
He—
He got approached by them.
He talk about histories, like, man, so the narco traffic, it came with me, you
know,
because they love boxing, too.
Oh.
And they start to come with me and, hey, congrats champs and—
That's dangerous.
And actually, that's why Julio Cesar Chavez started to involve with the drugs
and everything
and started to have problems with that.
But you don't see that for you?
Not right now, and I'm so happy.
Not yet, maybe.
I'm glad, you know?
Yeah.
And at the same time, I'm—I mean, I think I'm very smart in that area.
I don't smoke nothing.
I don't eat nothing bad.
Like, you know, I don't drink alcohol or smoke cigars and everything in my life,
so—
Really?
I feel, like, very—I'm very smart in that area.
I had a really nice people around me in all my life who teach me a really good
things
about all of the success and, you know?
A lot of good role models.
A lot of good role models, definitely.
So, yeah, I mean, I feel like I can—I can do it.
You can handle it.
I can handle it.
It's not going to happen to you, probably, that—that situation.
I mean, you never know.
I never—I don't like to say—
You could be a kingpin.
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah.
Imagine that.
Get a tuxedo.
Yeah.
No, I don't think so.
You could, man.
You could.
You could be, like, kind of like a James Bond, but of drugs, you know?
Don't say that, man.
No.
I don't—I like to wear nice to dress or wear.
How do you say?
Let me think.
I would say put on.
You put on something nice, dress nice.
I mean, I like it, but when I—even when I dress, I wear, like, suits or
something.
I—I like to wear something, like, very, like, very relaxed, like, very normal,
just to look elegant, and that's it.
Do you—did you guys do something for Valentine's?
Did y'all go out?
Do you celebrate Valentine's Day?
Sometimes.
You know, I—I have almost 11 years with my wife.
Wow.
Yeah, she was with me since when I had, like, nothing, man.
That's cool.
Where did you meet her?
In Tijuana.
Yeah.
So she—she born in—in Texas, in Laredo.
So she's a—she was born American person?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
But she lives all her life in—in Nuevo Laredo, in Tamaulipas.
It's the border with Laredo, Texas.
Oh, really?
So she's—she's Mexican.
Yeah.
But she—she went to Tijuana with her sister.
So I meet—I meet her there.
Mm-hmm.
She went to the gym, actually.
Oh, really?
You met her at the gym?
Yeah.
Did you go talk to her, or she come talk to you?
Uh, both, both.
I think so.
I don't remember.
Okay.
No, but both.
And then when she started to talk with me, I started to—I'm just trying to
get fun with
everybody, so I started to make jokes with her, and then we started to talk
more and more.
And you took her out?
Yeah.
On a date then?
You asked her out?