Eddie Bravo (Part 1)

The episode opens on a current event. Eddie Bravo arrives wearing a Korean Zombie shirt, and the host explains why it matters. Chan Sung Jung, nicknamed the Korean Zombie, had just pulled off what the host calls "the first twister ever in the UFC" against Leonard Garcia on a Saturday night card. The host presents Bravo as the move's inventor, and Bravo immediately pushes back.

No, I didn't invent it.

Bravo separates the finishing hold from the ways of getting to it. He says the finish is "an old wrestling move" and that people were already cranking it, though he isn't sure they did it exactly the way he does. What he claims is the setups. The host argues that Bravo is being modest: in the host's view, Bravo built setups "from a lot of different places" and turned the move into "a very high percentage finish," and "none of that stuff existed" before. Bravo agrees with that framing.

Bravo traces the move to ninth-grade wrestling at Santa Ana High School in 1985. A teammate named Jesse Barrios and a friend of Barrios's showed it to him. Bravo can't remember the friend's name, and says he couldn't remember it when writing his book either, so he asks listeners from that team to fill in the gap. The two of them told him the move would suit him because he would "just get smashed" in a straight contest of strength.