Dustin Poirier | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #316

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good fight foundation. uh he has a fight coming up against. conor mcgregor on. january 23rd he's the pride of louisiana. and um and he's the pride of many people. it is. my friend mr dustin the diamond juarez.

[Music]. [Applause]. just. is it interesting kind of because you. turn it more into a. [Music]. i mean i get it's a celebrity but it's. more like a public figure like what is. it i mean it's. it starts there's something else that. happens outside of fighting yeah as you. as your. popularity get bigger you're not doing. it but it happens to you yeah yeah. you just find yourself in that position. somehow right yeah and i'm happy for it.

too because. i'm busy all the time before it would. just be fights. then downtime and then hope to get a. fight again start training camp now it's. like. i have stuff planned as soon as this. fight's over i have other things going. on and. it's good busy is good but like i said. it's just i'm so thin my mind is always. thinking about something non-stop. that's crazy yeah i don't like the other. day i was driving i'm like who the [ __ ]. even is this guy anymore. yeah damn [ __ ] well then i guess i. don't know. i got i don't know if i can uh hit up my. booking and take my money off of dustin.

for it or not dude but if you swipe up. now. matt will match your first deposit. though what's your code. dustin i might have to get in and wager. on it. um dude it's pretty crazy to think that. two white guys are now going to the. middle east to fight each other it's. pretty crazy you know yeah. right um very white. what did y'all do for new year's man new. year's we actually got a hotel. room down here in deerfield beach okay. and uh. it's probably about 10 minutes from my.

condo just to break it up you know i've. been here since um. let me think. big beginning of november. so training camp just training going to. the back to my condo going to the gym. back to my condo it's just i needed to. break it up and okay. i thought new years was a good idea to. just get a hotel room get out of my. condo. and uh take a morning off did you it was. you and your wife did you go with the. kiddo. yeah i mean my wife and my daughter oh. nice now and this is personal enough to. answer it and uh. but do you is there like a do you put a.

stop on the intimacy of y'all's. relationship if you're heading into a. fight like do you fight. i hear that about fighters i've always. heard that about boxing and stuff they. say it takes your legs away or or. whatnot but dude i've. i've came and knocked people out and. i've not came and knocked people out too. so. i don't really believe in it damn damn. i wonder if i'd rather have a guy who's. already recently. ejaculated yeah knock me out or a guy. that's full of knock me out you know. yeah i guess they're all different yeah.

i don't feel it i don't i don't believe. in the and it takes your legs away i. don't think you don't know. i don't think wow see that's never. really been a thing in your head where. you're like okay. when i was younger i used to i used to. you did yeah dude i was watching. fightville and if you uh. if you want to get amped up for anything. if you want to end up spray painting a. building if you want to fight somebody. whatever you want to do arson. if you go watch fight field dude you. will be freaking pumped for it. um when you watch that do you still.

relate to that. to that dustin poirier like it's you're. getting you're growing up. yeah the last time i watched it was a. few years ago but just sitting there why. i feel like it feels like such a. long time ago and i'm such a different. person and. go about fighting and and the thoughts. of preparing for a fight so much. different than. man it really feels like a different. world when i'm watching it i know it's. me i'm watching i remember going through. all the. things in the videos but it's just so. different man so. dude they shot it so well yeah it took. forever to shoot really. it probably took three years to shoot. wow and they have so much fights and.

footage they don't even didn't even make. it to it. the problem was um the guy who was. filming it lived in new york with his. family and he would just come down. periodically whenever he saw a time in. in his schedule to shoot. and he'd come down for three months here. a month here so it took a really long. time to film the whole thing. damn yeah yeah they shot it i was. looking they shot it through the cage. almost as if they were watching animals. a lot of times like in some way you. don't understand. the way it looked like yeah very uh. yeah like you said like animals tribal.

very tribal yeah just had like a. i felt like i was watching uh you know. like i remember at lsu they used to have. those videos on mike the tiger all the. time they'd shoot him just kind of going. through the cage you know or doing. something. yeah and uh it just reminded me of that. but and r.i.p to the to the lion i'm. sorry the tiger at the truck stop right. there. oh yeah oh yeah did he die again dude i. i mean one time i think is his. limit but that's true wow cats have nine. lives maybe you're right that's true but. louisiana. they got a camel there did you hear. about this yeah you know what truck stop. i'm talking about tiger truck stop right.

right off the uh. the basin bridge oh i don't even know if. i've been there. yeah dude on the chaffalaia bridge right. between baton rouge and lafayette yeah. they had the tiger truck stop. and they had a real tiger there yeah and. a camel took his job yeah oh. yeah unbelievable but the camera. recently bit somebody oh. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah well that's a. louisiana camera bruh. dude because i think they they made the. camel quit smoking cigarettes right. right he's having some withdrawals um. dude when you watch uh what's going to. be different you think like heading into.

this fight what do you think could be. different about it. dude every fight is different whether. it's the same opponent like this is a. rematch or. a completely guy a different guy never. fought before every fight's so different. because i'm in a different place in my. life. and my you know life's different every. fight so. just trying to learn and uh. be smart moving forward you know not. just in fighting but in life just. trying to move with with strategy and. not emotion man and that's that's the. that's my goal you know so you feel that.

for like in the ring and out of the ring. yeah yeah yeah and in preparation. for the fight not you know if i feel. like i'm redlining a little bit my. body's run down i'll pull back a little. bit. and and rest up and just more about. quality than quantity at this point in. my career. i still feel young and feel great but uh. i would just. my goal is to stay in love with what i. do and i feel like sometimes. i can overwork myself or put so much. into it mentally that i start to hate it. and i don't want that that's a fine line. i got to walk right yeah because i've.

been doing this a long time. yeah i can imagine especially this past. year because there was a couple times. you were gonna fight. yeah and it got pulled back um did you. come and start a training camp at one. point and then. have to call it off yeah i think two. times that happened the tony ferguson. fight we were supposed to fight in abu. dhabi. and then uh that kind of fell apart i'm. trying to think of the other one i think. there was two times i came. thinking that i was probably going to. get a fight and ended up going home damn. yeah. but i mean it's not done in vain because. i come here i get pushed i learn new. things with these guys you know. surrounded by a bunch of great.

professional fighters and uh coaches so. it's nothing lost coming and doing that. it's just the middle. you know wrap some revenue engine up and. then not not getting a raise yeah. just um when you uh when you look at. whatever you did to prepare the first. time you fought conor. to what you do to prepare for to fight. for him this time is there anything. different like what's kind of i mean i. know you're a different person and i. know every fight is different you're. taking the fight at a different point in. your life so. you know who you are and what you're. even going to be doing is evolved and is. you know is coming in with a different. template but is there anything.

like kind of specifically that you guys. are trying to do. you know just uh let my skills and and. work ethic and fighting do the job. you know of course the mental plays a. huge part in it but just not getting. tangled up in the in the. the mental aspect of trying to hurt this. guy or. this isn't about payback it's not a. revenge fight for me of course. of course those things are great you. know i go out there and beat him those. are all part of this storyline and all. of things that i'm gonna think about and. be happy with but that's not the driving.

force. of each day um i'm driven by the main. goal of becoming the world champion. to being the best and i know that a win. over a guy like this at the point of our. careers it etches my name. in the history books on its own page i'm. in the books. yeah i mean honorable mentions right now. yeah yeah yeah you know that back page. yeah that theosaurus page whatever yeah. i'm under that i'm in there somewhere. i'm trying to get my own my own numbered. page here and i think a win over this. guy does that it submits me as. a legitimate combat sports professional.

in a time that that's full of great. athletes you know connor khabib um in. mixed martial arts. oh yeah and uh you know him fighting. floyd it's just so much. history involved in this fight the full. circle. fighting him again now becoming an. interim champ switching weight class. just so much going into this that. i know what a win does for not only me. and my legacy but for my family. their future financially i know i know. what comes with the win and i'm ready.

my i'm ready to bear that weight now at. this point in my career man. do you feel like um have you guys had. any communication. uh me and connor yeah we uh spoke on. social media kind of. got this fight started up we were gonna. do like a during the pandemic. nothing was happening and we were gonna. do like a charity right i remember that. event that was real he wanted to put. that on in ireland. and uh of course if it was possible i. was gonna do it and that just kind of. came out of the blue kind of i mean i'm. not sure how. how it came maybe i tweeted him or he. tweeted me something and then we kind of. went back and forth and.

that's and then boom it was there. because that was because i remember you. and i were talking after the tony like. the tony thing was gonna happen. that they could never get the they never. got offered you guys the right money. it kind of was back and forth and then. and then it went away yeah and it was. that feeling of like now like kind of. now what do i do. and then this i mean this came along it. was almost like. not like a blessing because i mean it's. a fight you know but it's like. it was almost like the most perfect. scenario it's the biggest fight.

besides the title fight and mixed. martial arts you can get. a fight with conor mcgregor yeah maybe. even combat sports. if you if if mayweather's retired or. what's going on but i mean. those two guys in combat sports right. now are probably the biggest opponents. you could be standing across. the battlefield from so to get a fight. of that magnitude i was excited when it. came together. um and i know what like i said what it. brings a win over connor. brings a lot more exposure and it brings. a title shot. do you think like uh do you have any.

like keys going into the fight like um. if we get. to this far then i have this better. chance or i'm you know. that i have this different strategy i. mean i know for some of you might not. want to share but. like going into it is there just. something. because the first fight just ended in. the first round you know and i'm sure. that feels just so deflating because you. like you never real. you guys were just kind of getting into. the dance yeah i didn't even get to. fight you know the fight didn't even get. to blossom you know i uh. but that's fighting anything can happen. under those lights. i um i i want if you talk about game.

plan what i want is for us to. to both be dripping blood and hurting. and suffering early in the fight. then we can find out who's the real. fighter you know that's what i want i. want to be bleeding. with a minute off the first round clock. i want this boat to be bleeding and. really have to dig down and see who's. the better fighter see who really wants. to be in there. you know because i don't have a safety. net this is i want to be in there yeah. and i know that. i know that and uh i'd like to find out. if he does. damn [ __ ] and and i don't and i.

that's uncomfortable you know yeah. i'm not looking forward to getting. busted open but if we can get the fight. to that point to both of us are tired. and bleeding. then we can see who has more grit and. who has more want and i think i win that. fight 10 out of 10 times. dang bro damn yeah you're one of those. psychos bro i'm not sorry no offense. you're right here but. you're one of those guys that like you. like to go it's almost like you're like. one of those guys that like repels like. a spelunker. you like to just rappel into the depths.

of your own freaking. darkness man and just and [ __ ] see. what's in there bruh. yeah yeah sticky things back in the day. you throw them on the wall and they were. kind of like. climb down the wall yeah you know yeah. like that into the depths of hell. yeah no i i i no but i think you've. always said you learned something about. yourself there i mean you told me one. time that you. like eve in a fight win or lose that you. there's something that coming out of the. other side of a fight that you're just a. different person. yeah yeah it's like a spiritual. pushing yourself and going out there and.

i can't it's hard to explain but. coming out and going through the fire. you're a little bit different. um every time i feel. do you um connor's like a celebrity you. know conor is like i mean he's like the. billy elliot of ireland basically and. do you is it different fighting like a. celebrity do you feel like like is there. any added. thing to it does it feel different than. fighting just a fighter. maybe on the lead up to it there's a lot. more cameras around this training camp. there's a lot more.

interview requests and media requests. and all kinds of things like that but. other than that. the actual fighting part is the fight. you know none of that comes in there. with you. so i don't think it's going to be any. different when the cage locks and the. bell rings it's going to be a scrap. you know and at this point in my career. all the extra stuff like i've been doing. this long enough and done so many. interviews and videos and it's not a big. deal anymore i don't enjoy doing it all. i like to train i don't want the camera. there when i'm in training camp but it. was there a lot this time but. i think this is my sixth main event in a. row so. all these past events have been full of.

media as well so it's just kind of. the normal i guess dude i don't want the. camera there. they had the camera there today when i. was training here at this gym man and it. was. yeah you know might have to run a. wheelchair man it was. got a little rocky at the end um. do you feel like when you think back to. your first fight with connor and uh. and if you and if i'm bugging you. talking about just let me know do. nothing's off the table i'm i'm. i'm comfortable because it's fascinating. with anything i feel fascinated i get to. talk to somebody who's about to go like.

fight in like the craze like the fight. like there's a lot of people fighting. like after school next month like that. this month that nobody gives a [ __ ]. about like there'll be maybe 12 people. there yeah but this is the fight that. this is the after school fight that. everybody is going to be at yeah. um strikes new one yeah man i mean. people are gonna be there bro i'm gonna. be sick in this. i'm just sucking on my bag of milk and. showdown yeah um. do you do you think when you think back. to the first time you fought you were. i mean were you nervous going to that. one do you feel differently going into. the fight now. i i feel more confident in who i am i.

know who i am now i know what i can take. i know. um the depths i might have to go the. uncomfortable. limit that might get reached in there. i'm okay and more. understanding of those things and and. accepting of them. but uh. yeah i just we got to get in there and. and and. and start moving around and and just i. want to get in there and feel the rhythm. and feel the. feel what's going on you know i'm. excited to to to get in there and.

i don't know what's going to happen yeah. that's the thing you know and that but. that's why i'm so. uh i'm confident like i said in my. preparation. and the fighter i am i know i can trust. myself when it gets ugly in there. but um that's why i'm not scared to talk. about anything because there's no. it's true fighting is truth like i can't. go in there and and then pretend or fake. it in there you know what's gonna happen. is gonna happen i'm gonna win or i'm. gonna lose it's white and black there's. right. no gray area so i'm not scared to talk. about any of those aspects. about fights because there's nothing to.

hide. you're going to see it january 23rd. you're going to spend the 60 bucks on. pay-per-view. and you're going to you're going to see. it so there's no reason to even try to. beat around the bush i'm prepared i'm. focused. i know i can beat anybody in the world i. feel like i'm one of the best at 155. pounds walking the earth. at this given time damn bro that sounds. almost egyptian when you say. i uh hieroglyphics. yeah and then that's just it man a lot. of the work has been done you've done a. lot of the work. yeah and i think a lot of times i was. fighting um.

i was i was accomplishing things that. maybe my skill but that's tough to say. my skill level wasn't there yet but i. was. beating guys and rising up through the. ranks and. and getting myself in in big fights but. i was just learning on the job and i'm. still doing that you know i'm still. learning i'm gonna learn on the walk to. this one i've been learning all training. camp. this is a whole new journey i have to go. to abu dhabi i have to quarantine in. vegas. um you know i'm leaving this weekend. this is usually i'm still. sparring and still doing strength and. conditioning now i'm getting on flights. and quarantining so it's just a. different. landscape in 2020 or 2021 to go out and.

put on one of the biggest events on. pay-per-view and fighting. and i'm just rolling with the punches. you know that and that's just it. but i'm confident in the work i put in. and like i said i know i can beat. anybody in the world. i just have to be mentally in the moment. that's what that's where this comes down. to i need to be in the moment to execute. you know execution is worshipped man and. i just need to be able to execute that. night. you know 25 minutes he can be better. than me the rest of the year i just need. 25 minutes january 23rd that's not even. a half hour now that's dude.

my daughter was conceived in less time. oh damn right hey i believe it. yeah so i've done some things myself but. yeah yeah. but that's just that's that's fighting. that's life that's where i'm at mentally. i feel like a lot of years. maybe my physical was here my minnow was. was catching up or. you know but i feel like it at next uh. in the next couple weeks i'll be 32. years old i feel like the physical in. the middle has finally started to align. and i'm. and i'm just at my prime right now yeah. yeah yeah well it's just been. interesting man even since you and i. become friends it it's just been. interesting.

where you've just kind of gone as a. person you know it's just like we're. getting to those ages where you just. you kind of change a little bit you know. just kind of come into some. comfortability yeah in a more. uh like like i said accepting of who i. am i know who i am now. so i'm okay with the situations i'm in. right i don't know if that like in my. mind i don't feel overwhelmed or. uncomfortable i just feel like totally. i'm this i'm i'm supposed to be here. right i belong here. and it fits it does some of the other i. can totally relate it and stand up kind. of used to be times where i would go.

like one time i had to get on the show. with bill burris about five years ago. maybe and i had to go before him on a. show and i'm like nervous i'm backstage. like. going over my jokes in my head like just. and i'm just nervous i'm thinking about. everything i'm gonna be doing with my. body. and then i go out there and i'm not even. really enjoying it i'm doing my job. and i'm doing it fine and it's in a big. stage but. i'm not really as present as i would. like to be because i'm still. in my mind getting comfortable with the. size of the. of the environment yeah and then now if.

i were to go on stage beforehand you. know. with some of these guys i just not that. i'm still not honored and i'm still not. excited and everything but i just. i've been there the jacket feels like. okay i know what this jacket. feels like yeah same exact thing like. i've been there yeah i know this is a. different fight a different stage more. or more is on the line but i've been. here it's it's uh. i'm acquainted with this uncomfortable. feeling and i kind of know what to. expect. and as i'm getting older more mature and. i'm like i said i still feel young i. have another five years of fighting. [ __ ] yeah yeah ten years yeah i uh you.

know i feel great but i know every time. i make that walk. is is one less time that i'm gonna be. able to make that walk so i'm enjoying. it more. yeah you know when i was young and just. fighting and trying to get the. the win and trying to get the checks and. trying to get sponsors and just going. crazy. in a rush oh yeah you know monster. energy all night in a whirlwind of just. like. caring about everything now i'm just. caring about the the. art of it and the process of the fight. i'm enjoying that that more. native is aluminum free deodorant. and it's a great addition to your 2021.

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c h e w dot com promo code theo. enjoy that hardness. you've all i mean you've become this. good vibe you got this whole good vibe. tribe going with you now like. every time i see your instagram you're. just feeling good you're living like. it's almost like you're like jimmy. buffett steps on or something you know. like. you're just having a good time you know. like yeah it seems like you're loving. life you know what do you think. is some of the stuff that's going on and. maybe some stuff you've been talking. about. yeah i'm just happier with with.

reality i guess i don't know what you. can say but i'd be lying if i sat up. here and said um i don't have bad days. you know we all have bad days but i felt. like in the last couple years i've been. able to. get more use of slapping myself back in. shape you know and just and seeing the. better things. just staying in a place of gratitude. like we've spoke before about i feel. like it's easier for me to do that. because i have so much to be thankful. for and grateful for. and uh i'm happy about those things you. know yeah just gotta. if i do have those days where i'm kind. of down or overworked or. i just you know i get to do this i don't.

have to and i'm happy. that i'm in a position to do it and and. like you said with the foundation. and stuff like that i have so much good. things and and so much. positivity on my back that i'm carrying. that i just use that as momentum. in every day i feel i just feel good man. i'm happy with the guy i look at in the. mirror. and i think that's most important it's. inspiring man i mean you've definitely. honestly really inspired me over the. years man i appreciate that. that that means a lot to me man and it's. and i'm not trying to you know so thank. you that means even more yeah that's. what i think. people say i'm just i'm just a man yeah.

not the man not he-man yeah and. and i'm happy with the guy and i'm just. trying to do good stuff man and fight. good fights and work as hard as i can. and put my family in a good position and. it's [ __ ] an incredible ride that's. all we can all do man yeah right. um but i think yeah i think that's what. some of the inspiration is it's like. you just see somebody doing kind of like. what we can all do. if we you know get up and stay focused. and apply ourselves i feel like that's. what the vibe that i get thank you man. um you did you and did you lose your. first ufc fight wasn't you didn't win.

i won my first ufc you did yeah it was. actually just made 10 years ago the. other day. was my some fight i was looking at i was. just looking through all your fights and. it was one it was like. for some reason on the chart they have. it maybe my first fight in the wec. i don't remember because i was just. going to ask you was it tough to have. that first experience where it felt like. you didn't get. the first loss of my professional career. was uh in las vegas in the wec. and ufc or zuffa owned the wc they. eventually absorbed all the fighters and. moved them over to the ufc. but it was like it was a decision i.

think yeah i lost a decision. in my first professional loss was that. pretty spooked was it like after do you. feel like after that did you feel like. kind of like. what kind of happened dude every loss is. heartbreaking but that one hurt me. financially because like i was fighting. on the local scene. hey you need those bucks bro yeah i. thought oh [ __ ] i'm going to vegas i'm. fighting on tv i'm about to really make. it. and then your coroner's flights get. deducted and your medicals get deducted. and. this and that gets deducted and you lose. the fight and then you're like damn i. was making more fighting in. 10 minutes from my house yeah and i have.

a. i just bought a house me and my wife we. were 19 years old we bought our first. house so i had a mortgage. you know i had grown man bills man dude. i was uh. keeping my head above water i was riding. a bicycle to work and stuff damn. but that the financial part of that i. mean the loss obviously broke. broke my heart and it hurt um but the. financial part i thought i finally made. it. i'm in the wc i'm signing i'm going to. las vegas the fight oh i bet. you show up yeah take that l home with. you. yeah did they give you a special box to.

put the hell in nah man you had to carry. it. then they charged me on the plane to. bring it back it was spirit i flew. spirit. dog dude i'm no joke i saw two dogs. fight each other on a spirit airlines. flight bro about four months ago i was. flying somewhere spirit. and i knew they were beefing in the line. at checking i never flown spirit dude. it's basically like. it's like playing a video game it's kind. of like the city bus of the air yeah it. really is. yeah one guy got off one guy halfway. through the flight just got off it was.

his stop. so that blew my mind but two people had. dogs bro and finally they let him go bro. and they finished it up dude the pilot. comes on and starts the betting odds. yeah yeah dude. one of them is fighting henry cejudo. soon i think actually yeah triple c. it was uh it was that it was definitely. it must have been on some sort of card. um michael chandler and uh dan hooker. might be on that card with you guys i. saw that dude that's a great fight. and uh uh a good test for chandler to. see where he's at in the pecking order.

of the lightweight division because. he'll toss him in the top end. which he should be man you know he's one. of the best 150 fighters out there. he's definitely i mean it's a hard work. i mean he's you know he's done obviously. a wonderful and bellator. he's he's a really nice guy dude i've. met him. um he actually went out of his way to. come shake my hand he said that. introduce himself and i was like man. this is. it seems like a really straight shooter. a really good guy man he's a nice dude. and he works so hard uh i mean all you. guys do especially at your level i mean. it's your full-time job yeah what do you. think about that fight i mean you. haven't fought in chandler but you've.

gotten a fight hooker. do you have any thoughts on that fight i. um it'll be. i think it'll come down to i think uh. hooker beats him on the feet. i i do and uh i think the length you. know chandler's not a tall guy. hooker's really long and and a better. boxer than i thought he was. good timing tough to get his rhythm. he's a hooker is a tough fight for. anybody i think it'll be if chandler can. get the takedowns. and if he does can he keep him down i. think it's it's going to be a 15 minute. fight if it's on the same card as us. so he might you know if he starts.

getting takedowns and getting dominant. position he might be able to win a. decision. i'm not saying he can't finish hooker he. can finish him but. i would lean towards hooker on that one. man. yeah i don't know the odds i don't know. the odds but i would give hooker a. slight edge. just anna's chandler's first fight in. the ufc i'm sure he has a lot of. a lot on his back a lot to prove but i. think he's a good point but like you. said he's a veteran. he's been fighting big names and stuff. like that for a long time so he. might not even phase him you know um.

what will your uh quarantine be like so. i leave here saturday mm-hmm. go to actually take a covet test. tomorrow morning. leave here saturday when i land in vegas. i take another test. i quarantine two days there after. quarantine. i get on a flight to abu dhabi we fly. from vegas to abu dhabi when i land. there i. i uh get tested again it's a nice flight. huh they're uh chartering. oh really yeah damn you going private uh. i'll be hungry i can't eat i'll be. cutting you know starting the weight.

cuttings no way. yeah you can't be on a plane the whole. time you can't have a snack do a couple. almonds. you can't have nothing nothing i mean. we'll see almonds yeah really yeah oh. that's the thing. i might actually fast on the flight i. might do the uh here's the best if. you're going to middle east bro yeah get. some dates when i get off. oh yeah huh we'll see we'll see but land. in abu dhabi. take a test quarantine two days there. and then i'm free to to move around the. uh. hotel that ufc has bubbled off and the. training rooms and all the stuff they. have there i'm not sure what amenities. exactly they're going to have but. so everybody will be there uh will you.

see. connor before the fight do you think is. there yeah i'm sure i'm sure really like. at the breakfast bar or something is it. is that is it that kind of vibe. because that seemed weird as hell yeah i. mean that's any fight any fight we. usually stay at the same. area we have press conferences before so. we run into each other before fights. dang yeah do you what do you feel like. that interaction will be like. i have no clue i mean we might but you. don't have any animal i mean you don't. have. no but uh i want to fight.

yeah yeah yeah man no no anger or. animosity towards him i'm not gonna be a. dick and go like. go out of my way try to harass the guy. or get in his face i'm not really we're. fighting. right for money that saturday so there's. no reason to [ __ ] have whatever he's. gonna do it earlier yeah. there's no reason to freaking yeah be. fighting over a yogurt at the damn. breakfast yeah let's do it. let's make the money right yeah dang bro. how do you see the fight going out do. you play it out in your head kind of do. you. it must be so hard to wait for that.

moment it's just like it is man it is. god it's like. if we're all waiting we're all like. jesus christ you know. yeah just over in your head the anxiety. is so high you know you're just like. the good thing is like once your music. starts playing and they they say your. name and you start walking then it's. over like you know. then you're just doing it there's no no. time to think then that's the and that's. the best part for me once once i start. walking and stuff then it's just it's go. time there's no. there's no thinking it's too late to to. think it's not react you know. some guys do too much on the walk-in you. know they do too much it is too much.

they triple prey or something like some. of that's too much yeah they have a. dance routine. some of it's too much yeah i don't mind. a little for me anyway i'm just a. regular viewer but i don't mind a little. but sometimes it's too much you know. yeah maybe to the casual like uh filthy. casuals or whatever they call them yeah. whatever. whatever it is that that extra stuff. might be cool you know like. like some guy pulls a dove out under his. arm yeah yeah they got some wild. yeah dude yeah it's getting pretty. flammable. yeah you know a lot of the uh you know. connor's definitely a guy who's been you. know he has like the most flamboyance.

you could have i mean he's the ric. flair almost yeah yeah he's like the. irish ric flair you know. uh and he does it super well yeah he is. i remember like. there was a time where you and i talked. a couple years ago and you're like. that's not really your thing. you know like trying to be that i. understand it but it's right. yes it's not your thing and i did you. feel like at. a point that maybe you wouldn't be able. to get to certain levels of. popularity because you didn't have that. but but now you've gotten there with. your own way. yeah i'll just keep gunning it out you.

know keep working keep grinding. and and hopefully one day put myself in. a position to fight for the belt which i. have. i'm trying to do it again here but i'm. not going to go that route you know i. understand it i understand it's. entertainment. and stuff like that i just don't don't. like it man yeah yeah. it's a turn off for me even when i see. other guys do it i'm like oh [ __ ]. some of it's too much yeah some people. yeah they bring a little they gotta go. for. something on them they do something yeah. they're doing wow they could bring. voodoo dolls or whatever. yeah they don't there's no limits yeah. it's getting wild. do you feel like it's getting weirder.

overall though or you feel like in the. end it's going to stay kind of where it. is. i think it's going to stay where it's at. i i think since kind of first. came on the scene i've seen a huge rise. in it you know like a lot of guys that. started trying to yeah sugar shawn's a. guy. he's the guy that likes the pomp and the. you know i've seen more of it since. conor became a superstar. you know but also you have to be able to. fight you can't just be. a joker out there getting your ass away. yeah yeah you can't go out there and. juggle a couple times and get your ass. beat yeah. yeah then you're at the like state fair. yeah. yeah yeah uh do you um.

do you uh do you how do you see the. fight kind of playing out do you. envision that kind of thing like what do. you. yeah but it's just like so many ways it. could play out. he does those kicks early remember yeah. he throws a lot of. spin kicks wheel kicks he's a good. athlete man he's impressive. oh yeah it's almost like it's like uh. watching that cap aware that brazilian. dance kind of like he has a lot of that. in him. yeah he he does and he got says long. good comparison. um a little bit of unpredictability with.

the spinning kicks and. and stuff like that in the shoulders and. and knees you know it's a it's a. no holds barred fight though so those. things are expected right you know. anything can happen. but i i really feel like i'm going to go. out there. and be more in tune with the flow in. there. touch him make him miss and i just i. just want the fight to blossom and i. want to see who's the better fighter. yeah and like i said i think we need to. be. i can suffer more i i we we need to be. damaging each other and we both need to. dig down. and i want it to be that kind of uh.

performance i want it to be gritty i. want to leave a piece of myself in there. and i want him to do the same and i want. to see who gets our you know who who. comes out with their hand raised. i envision i miss a lot of different. things happening and and the fight going. different ways but at the end i always. envision. me winning you know getting back on that. long flight home. with the win come and see my daughter. that that feels so good you know and. whatever it takes to get to make that a. reality i'm willing to do so let's just. go. would you kill him i don't want to i.

i mean i don't want to yeah i don't want. to kill anybody. yeah i feel you man yeah but that's not. that i'm not a that's not a goal. yeah that's not a goal okay i like that. i respect that bro. yeah yeah you don't want to be that guy. no i don't wish that on anybody yeah. you're right man i shouldn't even ask. that. um yeah you never know you know. but if years from now we find out that. you were a serial killer in lafayette. you know. people would be like i knew it bro he. had it in him you know yeah. i mean but i never admitted it yeah but. he never admitted it bro dude that'd be.

so gangster if you were a freaking ufc. champion and a serial killer that's. crazy dude i'm watching that thing on a. unobama right now. that dude is [ __ ] weird man yeah yeah. did he seem interesting at all or no. yeah dude he lived in a shack out in the. woods and he was mailing bombs and. leaving. clues and stuff what a weirdo. yeah he took a [ __ ] in his neighbor's. bathtub and left him yeah. dude i'll tell you a good story so my. friend used to be a moving man like a. furniture guy you know. and he had to work for regis philbin one. time and move his furniture.

and he said regis was so rude to him. that he ended up taking a crap in his. bathtub. and left it in there nice. he ever met any bombs i know he didn't. do any of that man. no he never really went to that next. level yeah he stayed on that. yeah yeah he's telling that servant that. yeah but that's a special place too. though that is probably. a special place dude what if you ever. say one day you retire years down the. road 15. 25 years down the road uh we should do. like some fight campaign or something. that'd be fun huh if i learned enough.

about fighting i'd have to learn a lot. more. yeah you kind of inspired me i was like. man maybe i should do a. talk about fighting podcasts or. something like that but then i just. thought about. all the other stuff i have going on and. man i just i don't know if i can have. time to do it you could do it later yeah. yeah you got a lot going because i would. love to talk about fights you know yeah. i really would yeah. do you feel like that now do you feel. like you kind of uh. because i remember we talked in the past. maybe about a school or something you're. like i don't know if i would really want. to do that. do you have any different thoughts on it. now but you're still like in it though. yeah and i just signed a new eight-fight.

contract with ufc my plan. my plan is to fight fight eight more. times you know i want to finish this. this contract i'm on eight fights. fight eight more times and we'll see. where we're at there but i'm not looking. past that or. before that i'm going to fight eight. more times that's crazy dude i don't. know if the world can handle it more. dude i don't know if my brain can't. they're good. yeah yeah dude that last one was a rough. one man that was a while yeah yeah. i remember yeah you came back after oh. yeah [ __ ] you were there bro thanks for. coming out yeah. no worries yeah that was awesome that.

was exciting and then you wanted to sit. and then we sat and watched the fight. dude that was so cool. that was awesome that was really awesome. had a good group there that was a good. group dude what are you guys doing for. uh. what were you what will people in. lafayette be doing for the fight. i'm not sure i know some people are. going to bars um is there anything big. plant is good fight doing anything we. were thinking about trying to get a. restaurant. like we did uh for this last fight we. just haven't locked anything down yet. we we just uh put together a big thing. with the boys and girls club. of acadiana oh really yeah we're doing a. big thing with them actually um.

next year well this year 2021 we're. doing uh tutors for all of their six. locations. oh wow for the year because you know. social distancing and the learning. kids at home you know it's it's been a. mess so we're going to help them get. tutors to. to the children's homes and also. transportation to and from the boys and. girls clubs for the year for the kids oh. gang. yeah yeah so i'm pumped about that the. good fight foundation is doing that and. then. connor's donating some money to the good. fight foundation and we're going to open. up a gym. in lafayette for really for the children. yeah yeah. yeah dude that's awesome so it's just.

for kids or is it for white belts also. they're adults. we're going to do better near 40. nah. we're gonna do kids. like uh in school but i have a gym there. dude you're always welcome in my gym. dude you have beginners classes. uh no but my buddies jim does oh he does. yeah yeah yeah. my gym is kind of like just a private. gym we just do pro training there. but my buddy has a beginner jiu jitsu. classes and stuff dude i'd love to jump. in one if you if you're back in time. dude that'd be awesome yeah. i'll put the key back on would you. rather maybe it's been a while i haven't. put a gear on in a while. so you so so you the training that you.

do is different than. like the classes and stuff you're just. you're training with fighters. yeah mostly some sometimes i'm working. just with just two instructors if we're. working on things. but uh beginning of my career even as a. pro beginning my pro career i would do a. lot of ghee. and stuff because i was in louisiana and. didn't have. as much classes to choose from i didn't. have as many pro fighters around me so. i would substitute training sessions in. regular classes because that's all i had. you know i had to learn. oh you see four kids fighting in a. remedial reading class in [ __ ]. vermillion paris. yeah and then i'd ask them to drill that. how do you do that again that's how i.

learned. yeah some guy is beating the vowels into. somebody yeah yeah. getting ar reader points and stuff yeah. but uh yeah but it's been a while since. i've done a. just like a gi jiu jitsu class oh yeah. man i've been choked out so many times. last month. um it's awesome yeah it's got it it's. fun man. right dude it's so much fun i never knew. how like. i leave out of there dude and i [ __ ]. hope a cop pulls me over. yeah you know yeah because i know it's.

going to [ __ ]. be me or him one of us got to go yeah. yeah. i just leave out of there feeling. [ __ ] different dog you know yeah like. the guy when i get to the gas station he. [ __ ] knows i'm using my. he knows i'm paying card and he knows. i'm in and out yeah yeah. everybody i just feel like you start to. get a different little bit of confidence. you get a different family too because. it's like you know you don't realize how. big the subculture of jiu jitsu is. unless you're in into it but like you. start training and you get friends and. stuff at the gym and then you start. going to competitions or talking about.

jujitsu with them and then you go to. barbecues and then you're like [ __ ] this. is my friends now yeah a whole new set. of family really at the gym. that's what happened to me yeah yeah i. was like damn like these are my these. are my family and friends now you know. just from training with them. yeah yeah dude i go to this restaurant. and i go in there and two of the guys. from the uh. mma class in nashville are both work. there one of them. does the oysters this guy on hell dude. he's [ __ ] kimoro kamor and these. oysters. back there dude he's [ __ ] got a crab. leg and he's got it in a [ __ ]. i need some moisture marcellus choke you.

know yeah [ __ ] interesting. yeah but um yeah and one thing i noticed. like just my confidence like. i've only been like maybe 15 classes so. i'm let's don't get you know. don't anybody come at me but um. but i noticed just like i used to feel. like if i got in a fight somebody was. gonna beat me up but i would also be. scared at the same time. now i just feel like somebody's gonna. beat me up. right i don't feel like i'm also gonna. be scared yeah that's and that's good. that's growth so it's yeah it's just. crazy i never i always like oh [ __ ] dude.

because it would suck to get beat up and. be being scared at the same time yeah. yeah and then the longer you do it the. next step i think is everything starts. to look like a lapel. like really well this guy's shirt he. wore a [ __ ] jacket today. cross-choke you with that yeah. everything starts to look like a lapel. oh this guy's got long eyelashes. i'm gonna choke this guy with his. mustache oh yeah. everything is a weapon um who is. who gets to go with you so you will mike. brown and those guys go with you this.

time. yeah so um my boxing coach and. kickboxing coach are gonna stay behind. and catch the next charter. mike brown is going to come with me to. vegas and come with me to abu dhabi. and uh the rest of my team and my wife. will get there. i think four days after after i get. there so. it's good they'll go through their. two-day quarantine when they land and. then we'll all be able to. start training and stuff but i'll be out. there 13 days before the fight so i. think that'll be. enough because we're also fighting early. morning abu dhabi time. so at first i thought i need to get out. there to get adjusted to the time.

um but the the cards going live. normal pay-per-view time here so 10. eastern the pay-per-view goes live wow. but it'll be. whatever it is eight or nine a.m what a. night of fights it's gonna be the. biggest fight since trump biden i think. yeah probably yeah yeah it'll be up. there or since. cove at moderna since that new vaccine. came out look it's a new year and it's. uh it's. you know it's it's time for us to start. thinking about our bodies and our. self-care. and sometimes it's hard these days. because we're going fast we're on the. move that's why beach body on demand.

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vitamin d and five free travel packs. today. so what will you do to like adjust like. your sleep patterns and stuff will you. like. you what did you learn last time that. you went there see last time we fought. on. uae time so this is completely different. ah i see what you're saying so you're. fighting on the u.s time fight on u.s. time last time we fought. uae russia time but is that going to be. weird you wake up in the morning and. then you go fight. [ __ ] punches and pancakes yeah yeah. yeah now that's what you should throw in. lafayette punches and pants. and pancakes yeah but it'll be normal. time in life yeah sure yeah.

damn [ __ ] we should not come up. we just keep spitballing here yeah yeah. something'll stick you know yeah. something will stick. yeah um but i'm gonna um start doing. some late night runs. like around uh because you have a plan. right 12 easter and i'll start doing. some some sweats. keep it up when i go out to vegas and. then hopefully when i land there i'm. landing there in the morning so i'm. gonna just get off the plane and start. my day. try to go to sleep a little early and. wake up earlier so i'm gonna try to get. up around like. 6 7 a.m abu dhabi time when i land out.

there. just to give me a couple hours before. i'll be fighting connor you know. you don't be young yeah you're someone. beyond and that's a bad look yeah yeah. and mike bryan then will be able to go. yeah oh that's awesome man so everybody. will be there. dude that's freaking dude honestly and. and it's exciting because it's a new. journey for me with all this quarantine. and. the hustle of traveling to different. locations just to get to the fight. so i'm excited man let's start the. journey yeah like i don't know what's. gonna [ __ ] happen but let's go. yeah it's gonna be fun i mean to think. that i know i'm gonna fight i know that. part's gonna happen right but all the. other stuff is like exciting.

the weight cut and and you know not i. can't bring my nutritionist with me i. usually have a team of nutritionists who. cook the meals and do all this stuff for. me. so i don't [ __ ] know damn bro but. when will you be able to start eating. again oh after the weigh-in. after the week so how long is that. weight cut time i mean i'm starting. kind of starting my weight cut now. getting getting you know i've been. dieting for the last eight weeks. hardcore i think i came out here at like. 182 pounds maybe. yeah and then i'll be on january 23rd or. january 22nd i'll be 155.

so you have to lose like 15 percent of. your body. there's a math thing again yeah that's. true and i and that was definitely that. was a guess yeah yeah. but you have it's like imagine if. somebody said cut your arm up and put. your arm somewhere. that's crazy yeah you know. yeah it's i mean it's like it's a good. bit of a good bit of weight. 155 is getting tough for me to make now. man yeah yeah could this be your last. fight at 155. i definitely believe i'm gonna fight at. 170 i don't know how many times in the.

ufc i fought at 170 before in my career. before but uh never in the ufc but i. think i'm going to fight one stephanie. before. you know this eight fights run out i'm. gonna i'm gonna fight somebody. welterweight. i'm just glad you and i get to have a. good conversation before you go through. eight more fights. yeah and subtitles we're having to write. stuff on a board. yeah and put it back and forth between. each other. um and the gym that we're at right now. is this is for. weight training for strength and. conditioning strength and conditioning. yeah okay. yeah and this is happening how did you.

get in in touch with these guys. so me and phil um daru strong. that's his strength strength condition. facility here they gave me this shirt. and they. trained me earlier yeah good guy i'm. sure you'll be sore yeah. i've been working with him for a lot of. fights now and and uh. he moved into this new location and i. just came with him he was at american. top team then he was at a place in. pompano beach. um he has his place in port st lucie as. well he has a big gym there i believe. and uh and now he has a branch of it. here and this is the one i come to. what if is there is there a type of gym.

you walk into or like all this ain't. from me like it has. like what what does a gym need to have. that you like. oh i don't really like like the meat. head. if you're talking about weightlifting. gems or strengthening conditions yeah. really like the meat head. persona like tough guy stuff i just like. to work and be efficient and. try to get better stronger we have like. a goal you know not just lift heavy [ __ ]. and make noise. right if we have a goal we're working. towards a goal that's that's what i want. like that alvin kamara vibe kind of. yeah six touchdowns i know that's crazy.

you could've had seven. yeah six touchdown but if you you get co. if you apparently if you get six. times you get covered that's what they. said yeah yeah. but i mean that's a good trade-off oh. yeah take it. i mean only one other person has got six. touchdowns a lot of people recover from. kova. yeah that's true yeah but a lot of. people have died as well i mean it's. tough. yeah i take i take my chance though yeah. i'd go i'd go in for six if they gave if. they're like hey there's covet in there. but i'm like i'm going back in yeah. you're diving in yeah yeah. um do you worry that covet is a good.

excuse to get out of a fight if somebody. wants to do you think that connor's the. type of guy that would cove it out. nah no way he's a real fighter he's a. real fighter yeah he. he won't no no way but i don't know how. you get how would you get going. i think you you could just i think find. a way to contract you know just to get. it. like i just it's it's like a weird time. in history where you can kind of get. something to get out of work you can get. it to. get out of things it's like people have. a way out i mean you know if they're. healthy they're probably going to be. fine so it's like. dude i've been trying my best honestly. besides going to that hotel.

i go to the grocery store and that's. into the gym and that's it. really try yeah yeah you like even when. i'm running outside and somebody's on. the sidewalk i'll go in the street. they don't run around them yeah i'm just. trying not to breathe that. oh damn well i got tested a couple of. weeks ago anyway yeah. i'm getting tested tomorrow morning damn. yeah zoom on a zoom call. really they're testing over zoom now. yeah i have what do they do if you have. it. i have i have a package and uh oh my god. i got it i got to do it on. on really yeah i gotta open it in front. of them and send it right off.

wow that's crazy man they just guess if. you have it because cleo's actually on. the other. side put the stick in your nose darling. um tell us okay so before you go man uh. dude i love the new hot sauce and i'll. be honest i did not think i was gonna. like it just because. everybody sells stuff now right and i. got it swipe up save ten percent. yes yep and um dude what i find is. because i make basic meals at home i get. turkey meat and get some.

spinach mix it together douse it with. the pouriers bruh. it is good dude it's a perfect sauce for. me because it's a. it's hot but it's not it doesn't like. burn you out at all yeah. yeah it's not too heavy it can if you. eat a bunch. back-to-back bites of just sauce on. something it'll get a little hot but. it's not bad at all i uh. the the flavor is what i'm happy with. and proud of man the flavor is. really good bro like if i'm doing eggs. if i'm doing anything i'm like oh it's a. perfect sauce man. yeah i'm proud of it man and uh i want.

to keep going you know i want to i want. to do more things i want to have a. louisiana barbecue sauce a couple other. things right. you know because you like on that same. right i love to cook i love to cook. yeah people don't know that man i love. to cook dude i want to cook it i want a. cooking show man. i'd let you go six or seven rounds with. a brisket right oh dude i can throw down. oh yeah dude i love that um i can throw. down with the brisket i got the smoker. at the house. oh i'd love to see you beat the [ __ ] out. of a [ __ ] bag of shrimp dude no. problem. dude we're so excited for you man we're. going to make a thousand dollar donation.

to the good fight foundation. and incredible dude that's going. straight towards uh boys and girls club. so thank you dude that's. awesome man and uh and just thank you so. much for spending time with us here. today man always cool bro. thank you for helping uh for for getting. phil to help me get a workout in and. and um yeah dude this we just wish you. luck man we'll be cheering you on. brother. thanks man godspeed three weeks it goes. down it's crazy huh. let's go i can't [ __ ] wait let's go. ain't nothing to it but to do it. amen man now i'm just floating on the. breeze and i feel i'm falling.

like these leaves i must be. cornerstone. oh but when i reach that ground i'll. share this piece of mind i found i can. feel it in my bones. but it's gonna take a little. time for me to set that parking brake. and let myself on my heart. shine that light on me.

i'll sit and tell you my stories. [Music]. and now i've been moving way too fast on. the runaway train with a heavy load.

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