The champ, candid with MMA broadcaster Ariel Helwani…
The peerless MMA journalist and broadcaster Ariel Helwani, born of excellent Jewish stock and a thorn in the side of the UFC’s famously prickly Dana White, has just completed a superb interview with the eleven-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater.
From the opening gambit where Kelly explains why MMA is his favourite sport to watch, to his blood feud with UFC star Paulo Costa to his likely retirement in 2022 and the TV series that’ll be made around it (also admits might be sorta hard given his no-vax stance), to pivoting the Ultimate Surfer away from tour wannabes and focusing on kids, fourteen to seventeen, to the wild ability of his godson Jackie Doz and a slight back-pedalling on pals dying from COVID vaccines (now it’s just “horrible reactions”), Slater, and Helwani are in terrific form.
Essential.
