People often ask me if kickboxing made me rich. And people think, oh, tank, did you

get your money from kickboxing? And the answer is no. Kickboxing is not boxing. Even as

a four-time world champion, the most money I ever got paid for a fight ever was $100,000,

which sounds like a lot of money, but in the grand scheme of things is not a lot of money.

You have to pay your manager 20%, probably another 10% out for various fees, and you're

only fighting twice a year. You got to pay your rent, blah, blah, blah. You're not rich

as an athlete. Most kickboxers are broke for stay broke. You can transition into the UFC

like, what's his name? Style Bender, whatever his name is, can't remember his name. He's

done it. A few people have done it, but in general, kickboxing will not make you rich.

Clearly from a purse for fighting perspective. However, I still a credit fighting with making

you rich for a variety of reasons. One, it made me extremely determined, and it made me

understand the value of hard work, which is the first thing. Two, it made me understand

that excuses don't count. Nobody gives a shit. You either win or you lose. And three

introduced me to a whole bunch of important people. Kickboxing as a whole, rich people,

bad guys, mafia guys, these kind of things are always involved in these industries because

they like the idea of sitting at the table and being involved with fighters and being friends

with fighters. And they have a lot of money, and there's a lot of their money involved

in their promotions and money laundering and these kind of things. So I did meet important

people from fighting. And these important people respected me because I was a fighter. And

it was between me and most other fighters is that I'm an idiot. Most fighters are stupid.

And the reason they're stupid is because if you have a low IQ, you're brave, and it's

a scary thing to do. So intelligence makes you sit there and think, is this really worth

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