Mikael Michelle: From Waitress to Power Slap Star: Her Inspiring Journey | DSH #1438

was a hockey player, so just on their own, great.

Wow.

Was that like playing hockey or just knocking on the city?

No, that was outside of hockey.

Holy crap.

Like, the person always deserved it.

I will say that, you know.

But he definitely raised me with the idea that violence is the answer because if you punch someone in the mouth, they usually stop doing whatever they were doing.

Old school.

Yeah.

All right, guys.

Got Mikey here today.

Power Slap Fighter Big Fight this Friday.

Thanks for hopping on.

Of course.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, I know you're in the middle of a fast right now, so I appreciate your time.

Of course.

You started today?

Yeah, I started today.

Anything to distract me from the hunger.

I've done a three-day fast.

It's no joke.

Yeah.

Usually I don't fast too much the day before.

I just am a little closer to the weight, but I don't want to take any chances this time.

What number fight is this for you?

For PowerSlap, it's going to be my third.

Okay.

Yeah, I know you fought Paige last time, right?

Yeah.

So the title.

Um, no, last time it was just a regular bout, and then this time was supposed to be the rematch with her for the title, but she got hurt.

So now it's just a regular bout, and I'm waiting for her.

New opponent.

I wonder, since it's your opponent's first fight, how you even prepare and study for that.

Yeah, so this time, instead of like, okay, I'm going to do the same thing every single time, I kind of am going into it with the idea that I'm going to regroup after the first one and try to change it up as I go and learn what she does in the moment and try to really see if I can adapt in the moment.

Can't wait to see it.

How'd you get into this?

Because this isn't like your normal profession.

Yeah,

I love MMA and I wanted to kind of get into commentating and I was looking where I could start and I thought I could start at PowerSlap.

and commentate and then I looked more into it and then I saw the girls do it and then I was like, oh, I can absolutely take one of those slaps.

So I was like, okay, I'll do one, see how it works.

And that's it just one and now i'm on my third one next in line for the first female title so crazy i ended up loving it what a mindset i had the opposite approach i saw it and i'm like i'm never doing that those guys man oh the guys are crazy especially my weight class because i'm 200

one slap and you're out yeah i don't even know how they do that Yeah, I remember like the first one I went to.

I think the first three fights were knockouts.

Yeah.

It's crazy too because when you're waiting for your turn to get on stage, stage, you're watching it.

So you're sitting there stretching and you're seeing 10 people get knocked out left and right.

And it's like, okay, Mikey, your turn.

I'm like, oh, man.

You've got to be mentally resilient to compete in this, right?

Oh, I think the mental toughness is way harder than the physical strength because I'm pretty confident in not getting knocked out, but to mentally know, especially for the weeks leading up to it, I'm about to get on stage in front of all these people.

And if I get knocked out, it's going viral.

And yeah, it's a crazy mindset for sure.

sure.

It's going super viral.

Yeah.

Those clips get hundreds of millions of views.

Oh, yeah.

Especially the knockout clips.

And there's not really been a legit female knockout yet.

So the first one is, it's not going to be me, I hope.

Wow, that's surprising.

So none of the female fights resulted in a KO yet?

No.

A couple girls have gotten knocked out or wobbled, but it was always a foul.

So even though they did get knocked out, it didn't count.

Those some of those fouls look painful.

Yeah.

You get hit on the bone.

I feel like that hurts more than chic, right?

Oh, yeah, for sure.

Does that happen to you?

A little bit in my first one, I got hit high, and that one did wobble me a little bit more.

But other than that, I haven't been wobbled too much.

That's good.

You get two of those or three of those before the match ends.

Yeah, if you get fouled twice, then it's over.

Twice.

Wow.

You got to be precise.

Yeah.

Damn.

Do you work on that?

Like

game, I guess.

Yeah, I think that's one of the main things I work on because you can't work on too much else.

So I just make sure I focus and hit the same spot every time because the fouls suck.

It's especially because there's only three slaps per match.

So one foul really does, you know, bad for you.

So how do you feel about the three slaps per match?

You think this should be more or less?

Or three is good?

I think three is good.

After the third one,

I'm done for sure.

For the title, it is five.

So I will say it sucks that Paige isn't

able to compete anymore.

But now instead of taking five from her, I'm taking three from a new person.

You could fight her after you win, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

I'm waiting for her.

Let's go.

Call her out.

Yes, Paige, get better so we can have our rematch.

Now, she picked the OF route too.

I'm sure you've been offered that, but instead you went with this.

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So I went with passes and I'm really happy.

They've kind of built a team around me.

And I'm excited.

I actually launched today.

Nice.

So what's the difference with passes?

What makes them unique?

I think really the team behind it i'm not only getting the platform but i'm getting um

people helping me build my profile some guidance and uh they really believe in me so nice excited shout out to lucy she's sort of mentoring you now right lucy

that's one of the main reasons too why i like passes is because it's founded by you know the youngest female billionaire and i just love the female part of it so she really understands and i like to be around people i really look up to so between lucy and then Livby Dunn is on there as well I feel like that's what I strive to be so that's just what I want to be surrounded with as opposed to be surrounded by people that I don't even necessarily you know want to be like so that makes sense TMZ article came out yesterday yes crazy how did that happen so TMZ wanted to do um just talk about the passes deal and you know power slap and um we had an interview yesterday it went very well kind of the same thing thing.

You know, I told him about meeting Lucy.

It was a big deal, especially she just became the first female or the youngest female billionaire.

So that's kind of fresh.

And then just talk to them about my journey with PowerSlap, what I want to show and kind of my goals.

Well done.

This new fame, is it getting to you yet?

Like, how does it feel?

It's...

It's super new still.

So I'm trying to just get take it all in and not be too excited about it, I'll say, but also not keep looking at the next thing where I'm not feeling how exciting right now is.

But yeah, I feel like it's gotten so big just in the last two months.

So the fact I'm just starting and everything is so big, I'm super excited to see like what the future few months to a year holds.

It's crazy.

I mean, we met at the AMAs.

Yeah.

That was my first one.

And just seeing all the stars there was like, wow, I can't believe I'm in this room right now.

To be like with all the stars and not only were we like with them, it's like we're a part of it too it's not just we're sitting with all the you know normal people regular people i guess um was crazy legends i look i mean i used to listen to a lot of those artists that were there so just to be there was was insane oh yeah and to see them up close it's funny because some of them look a little different than you think and some of them look exactly the same yeah that back flip from uh what's that Benson Boone yeah Benson Boone legendary.

Oh yeah.

People don't know how hard that is.

Yeah.

That was like 10 set of stairs.

Oh yeah.

And he wasn't even breathing hard after.

Crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was my favorite performance that night.

For sure.

Less than a year ago, though, you were unhealthy.

You were broke.

You were working a nine to five, right?

Yeah, a couple nine to five.

So I had two jobs, you know, mentally super unhealthy.

And I just knew that.

the nine to five life wasn't for me and the depressed life wasn't for me.

You know, I'm never one to sometimes you're sad and you kind of sit in it.

But me, I know that just because I'm sad sad in the moment like that's not the life that's meant for me so I went and I really worked on myself for about a year just mentally getting right and being super disciplined in the

um just working every day to be better and it all just I feel like at the exact same time, all the hard work that I did for a year showed up and through PowerSlap.

And it's not even so much PowerSlap itself, but kind of what I've been able to build from it.

Whereas if I didn't do all the mental work before, it would have been, you know, the little 15 minutes of PowerSlap fame or kind of, you know, once the page band zant was out of it, then it's like, you know, I'm kind of forgotten as well.

But I feel like I've done well to instead of

feeding or instead of just relying on her name that I have a name for myself now.

And I built it, you know, now I'm my own person and I get to see success in PowerSlap and outside of PowerSlap as well.

Well done.

Yeah, that's an inspiring story and relatable for people watching, I think, because you were just working a nine-to-five literally a year ago and now you're about to be the face of the female division of PowerSlap.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I was working as a full-time waitress not even two months ago.

Crazy.

So just in two months, went from

full-time waitress to now I get to live out my dream, basically.

Compete in front of hundreds of millions of eyeballs.

Oh, yeah.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

What restaurant were you waiting at?

A few.

So I was at Noxo's Taverna

and

Lotus Asiam at the Red Rock.

That's a good one.

Oh, they're so good.

I ordered that to my house.

Oh, my gosh.

I love it.

That's crazy.

That was a little bit prior.

And then my most recent one was Summer House at the Durango.

So kind of staying in the local.

Been there a few times.

Wow.

So you might have waited my table.

I probably have.

I had no idea.

Crazy.

Crazy.

Well done, though.

I liked the depression story too.

So I struggled with that.

Thank you.

And that was rough.

Yeah, it's hard.

It's hard to get out of.

And especially when you're in it, you think to yourself, sometimes, is there even better?

I literally thought I'd live the rest of my life in my bedroom at a certain point.

Yeah, and I feel like it just takes one little

good thing to happen.

And then when you're in such a bad place, every little thing that you can just build momentum from, you got to keep it going.

So even if it's like the most simple, like, oh, it's a nice day and I feel good today in this moment it's like okay you've got to build off that and just keep going absolutely do you have a good support system when you told everyone you were going to do this um yeah I did I'm I am blessed because my family and my friends are so supportive of everything I do I think my parents thought the power slap was a little crazy at first but when I explained to them it's more than just getting on stage uh taking three slaps and getting a check I was like this is the beginning of me building a career I don't know exactly how I'm gonna do it but I know this is gonna be the start and I've been able to prove it to them.

So they've been super, um, super supportive since then.

Yeah, you can use this in a lot of ways.

Like a lot of athletes play sports and then end up making more money afterwards.

Yeah.

Like Tom Brady is a great example, though.

Yeah.

I think it's all about how you carry yourself and you got to know that outside of the sport, there's so much money to be made.

And I didn't realize until I got into it and I started seeing people around me and how they're making money.

And it just comes from all directions and it's crazy.

So I'm trying to get in on that.

Sponsors, once you got that attention, you can monetize it, turn it into currency.

I'm sure passes will help with that too.

Oh, for sure.

I love that.

I got to hear about the Mexican jail story.

Oh my gosh.

So my dad lives, is retired in Cabo and he's on the HOA board.

This is all important, I promise.

He's on the HOA board at his condos and he's just had issues with these squatters in another condo.

And I've known the story for like a good few months.

My dad's been talking about it.

So So one day I'm coming, I'm like walking across, going to meet my dad to walk down to the beach.

And I see him,

a girl about my age, like parked wrong.

And I see him go up and say, hey, you can't park there.

And I'm thinking, all right, like, that's, of course, my dad's saying something.

And then she turns around, calls her boyfriend over, who's about my age, about 6'4.

He's huge.

immediately doesn't say anything to my dad, just punches him right in the face, breaks his nose.

My dad wasn't ready.

Then in the the span of like five i hope you guys are enjoying the show please don't forget to like and subscribe it helps the show a lot with the algorithm thank you

five seconds my dad's chasing this kid around this girl's screaming and i'm running up and i'm like all right i can't just let my dad get beat up so i gotta do something so then i start beating the girlfriend up because i'm like you know what you just got my dad beat up so um so now i'm hitting her and and then i hear the federale start coming and um you know kind of gets broken up and my dad's still like you know he's not the one to just take it so he's still trying to get some and then you know we kind of separate a little bit the guy starts saying some stuff I kind of walk by the guy punches me in the side of the head so then and then I went to go hit him I couldn't hit him again so then the girl's standing right there and she started so she got another shot and then by this time like the Mexican federales get there.

My dad and I don't speak English.

Spanish?

Yeah, my dad and I don't speak Spanish.

They speak Spanish.

So they're they're telling them that my dad beat the girl up and all these crazy things, and there was no translator around, so they just decided they were taking us to jail.

And then they took us like an hour outside of Cabo into the like little city and just put us in jail.

And basically said, there's no translator here right now, so you're gonna have to wait until tomorrow till they come.

And like no food, no water.

And my dad is all bloody and it was crazy.

And my dad looks over and he goes, I think that's the most proud of you I've ever been because you stuck up for me.

And I was like, okay.

And then luckily the next day, the translator came.

And then, you know, I don't even know what happened.

I just know we were on the next flight home.

But it's pretty crazy.

That's nuts.

Did the guy put hands on you?

Yeah, he did.

He hit me pretty hard.

You know what, though?

He didn't rock me.

So

that's insane.

It was crazy.

What a story.

Yeah.

Mexican jail must be way worse than America, I'd imagine.

Oh my gosh.

They do not care about you in there.

I'll tell you that.

Like no food.

Now speaking Spanish makes it even worse.

Oh, so scary.

And especially to like be in a whole nother country and nobody knew we're there really.

And so yeah, it was crazy.

Did your dad sell the property out there?

No, he still, he still is like

walks by and I'm so scared all the time.

I'm like, please don't cause any more issues.

But

yeah, my dad is definitely one of the reasons why I'm crazy enough to do something like PowerSlap because I've watched him in person probably knock out 15 different people for 15 different reasons and he was a hockey player so just all around crazy yeah was that like playing hockey or just knocking no that was outside of hockey holy crap like the person always deserved it I will say that you know but he definitely raised me with the idea that violence is the answer because if you punch someone in the mouth they usually stop doing whatever they were doing old school yeah yeah i feel like our parents generation like that was common yeah getting in physical fights yeah and now when you get one in school or whatever, you get suspended.

And it's like a huge deal.

Mm-hmm.

Back in the day, that's how they resolved issues.

Yeah.

I feel like, you know, to a point, I think my dad is right because the couple times I've been in

physical altercations and, you know, the other person usually stops whatever they were doing.

That was the problem.

Wow.

So you've been in some street fights too?

Yeah.

What was it over, a guy?

No.

So I've never fought somebody because of my problem.

It's usually like to protect somebody.

So

in high school, I actually was on World Star.

If you remember,

I remember those days.

World star was a day.

Yeah, I was on World Star.

This girl was just picking on basically every girl at the school and had an issue with my friend and just would not leave my friend alone.

And so I went.

I was just going to say something and it ended up being a fight and World Star.

And I apologized to the girl too and on wrote her a note about how sorry I was because I hit her like 17 times.

and geez yeah i didn't i didn't realize in the moment that that was happening but i felt bad afterwards and wrote her an apology letter and then she made fun of me on twitter and i was like all right your dad taught you all yeah did he teach you self-defense moves and stuff yeah he did i remember one time he had you know like the hockey gloves he'd take me in the backyard and if i had an issue with the girl he's like all right if you're gonna go do this you're gonna do it right so he'd put the hockey gloves on me and just teach me how to start punching wow he's like you never grab the hair because then they can say oh, you grab the hair.

You like grab him right here on the front of the shirt.

And so, yeah.

Interesting.

A lot of girls do go for the hair grab.

I know when I see girlfriends.

Yeah.

And I think like the hair, yes, you have a little bit of an advantage, but then it's like, oh, she grabbed the hair.

So I think when you just grab the shirt, there's nothing they can really say.

I'm actually in support of fathers teaching their daughters self-defense.

Yeah.

Especially these days.

Yeah.

And I think it made me tougher too.

So.

Yeah.

I mean, there's some wild people around these days.

You're going to start dealing with weird stalkers and stuff as you get more famous.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

I'm nervous for it, but yeah.

But you got the self-defense, the confidence, and just surround yourself with the right people.

You'll be, you'll be good.

Oh, yeah.

I've dealt with some weird situations.

Oh, I bet.

Yeah, like getting followed and stalked.

It's just part of it, I guess.

Yeah.

Plus, L.A.

is crazy.

Oh, yeah.

I don't go out there too much anymore.

I've heard.

Jack Doherty.

You saw what happened to him?

Yeah, that's the one that got,

he was followed, right?

The chain.

Yeah.

Yeah.

On Melrose.

Oh, yeah.

crazy so you've been in vegas for a while though yeah i was born and raised here so i'm like one of the few actually from vegas you want to stay or do you want to leave um i love vegas i probably want to experience something else but i'll always come back here my family is here and everything i love is here so between ufc and mma this is just the best spot to be got it i saw one of your videos about cauliflower ear

Oh, yeah.

You like that in Gash?

I do, because I like, I feel like especially like being a power slapper, I'm a little masculine myself and training and fighting.

So I need a masculine man to like, you know, and so the cauliflower ear is just like, all right, off the bat, yes.

That's a turn on.

Oh, yeah.

Damn.

I love it.

You can't get that from PowerSlap, though.

You got to get it from actual MO.

Yeah, you got to get it from like wrestling and like real just.

Who's your favorite fighter to watch right now?

Ooh, Charles Oliveira.

And he's fighting on Friday or on Saturday.

He doesn't speak English though, right?

No, he doesn't.

She'll have to learn some, what, Portuguese?

Yeah, some Portuguese.

Charles Olivera.

I interviewed, who's that other Portuguese fighter?

That's huge.

Alex Pereira.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

We had to use a translator.

Oh, yeah.

He actually might be my number one.

I might change my mind.

He's a tough dude.

I know he just lost, but before that, he was on a streak.

Oh, yeah.

And he's so like...

I feel like his energy is just so serious.

Like, you can, like, feel it when he walks into the room.

Oh, yeah.

I've only like been in the same room with him once, but.

No, it's the type of energy where where you walk in and you notice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Same with John Jones.

Yeah.

He just retired.

I saw.

You think he's the goat?

I think he's the goat, but I don't like him at all.

It's a person.

Damn.

Why?

I think he's just not.

You know, it's one thing to like be a bad person and own up to it, but then it's another to be a bad person and try to convince the world that you're not.

And I think that's...

Just what I don't like.

I feel that.

What about the female side?

Who you got as a goat for female UFC?

Um, for goat, I would have to go with Amanda Nunes overall, but my favorite fighter right now is

a beast.

Oh, yeah, Zhang Wei Li, because she just, she throves and I love how tough she is, and she's just, yeah, she's amazing.

I definitely want to model my fight style after her.

So do you see yourself transitioning into MMA?

Absolutely.

I think I'm like going to stick with power slot for sure.

And I love power slot, but I I love fighting as well.

So, you know, I'm going to do both.

Let's go.

What about boxing?

Boxing, I like,

um, I like all types of fighting.

I definitely will probably box a few times because

that's what I've been training for.

And, but I see myself overall being an MMA fighter.

Boxing just kind of, if the opportunity is there and it's...

seems to line up, I'll do boxing.

But yeah.

Anything else you're working on?

Where can people find you and everything?

Um, so I've been working on my social media and my Instagram.

Um, the biggest thing right now is my passes that's gonna be launching today.

That's gonna show like my behind the scenes, kind of that transition to with fighting and how I'm gonna get ready for that.

And then also like Vegas life.

So I do live in Vegas and I don't just train, like, I love to do um like day clubs, nightclubs, you know, to an extent.

And you vlog it or yeah.

Oh, wow.

So that's cool.

I didn't know they would be filming there.

Um, yeah, I'm excited because we have some connections to where I get to show all that

that usually can't film.

Let's go.

We'll uh we'll link all that below.

Thanks for coming on, of course.

Thank you for having me.

And uh, watch her fight Friday.

This episode should drop Friday.

So, yeah, check out the fight tonight, guys.

And I'll see you next time.

Thanks.