The moment the podcast was released, it did numbers, but it wasn't immediate.
At first, it made the usual rounds. Hardcore fans watched it in full, shared their favorite clips, talked about his mindset, his training, his quiet confidence.
But the part that went viral…
Wasn't about the fights.
It was the moment Damon opened up about his childhood. More specifically, what his father had done to him and his mother.
That shifted everything.
People didn't just watch it. They reacted to it.
Clips of that segment spread like fire. It wasn't dramatic or tear-filled, just calm honesty. And maybe that's why it hit so hard. The fact that someone so composed, so feared inside a cage, had lived through something so brutal, it gave weight to everything he had become.
Fans started talking.
Not just about how Damon grew up poor, or homeless. That was already known in pieces.
