On episode 13 of Beating The Odds we have Chef Robert Irvine and UFC BantamWeight Champion, Dominick Cruz. Chef Irvine is an English world class chef, entrepreneur, and host. His style of cooking along with his personality and creativity has revolutionized the food channel starting with his show, Dinner: Impossible, airing over 100 episodes to date. Over a million viewers tune in weekly to watch Robert chef it up’!
Dominick Cruz is a two-time UFC bantamweight champion. His fighting style is characterized by unorthodox movements with a powerful wrestling base and he originally won his first UFC title in 2010. After a string of injuries forced him to lose the title, he came back in 2016 to regain it. Since then, Cruz has been training post-3 year layoff and after his recent loss to Henry Cejudo, he hopes to come back stronger for his next fight.
In this episode, Irvine, Cruz and Jim spoke about their experience on a USO tour together. Collectively they’ve served on 100’s of tours and each of them are adamant about supporting our US military service members. Dominick spoke about the future of sports during COVID but more importantly, how the UFC has taken the lead on safe sporting events with their newly debuted, “Fighter Island.”
Please enjoy episode 13 of Beating The Odds with Jim Karol, Chef Irvine and Dominick Cruz.
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