Latest / Bussin' With The Boys / Michael Chandler
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Take a little bit longer than I thought. You have
- 0:02Speaker 1: to keep moving from setback to setback without losing the
- 0:05Speaker 1: enthusiasm fail your way to the top.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Like you go through so many setbacks to end up
- 0:10Speaker 2: see you at the top getting to the top, Like
- 0:11Speaker 2: it's not just some escalator that takes you up there.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Old Michael, focus so much on being perfect once I
- 0:16Speaker 1: got to a certain point, once I won that first
- 0:18Speaker 1: world title, and truthfully, it says so much more about
- 0:22Speaker 1: how you conduct yourself after a loss, that this is
- 0:25Speaker 1: part of the journey and when you do win the belt,
- 0:27Speaker 1: when the belt does come on the belt for the
- 0:28Speaker 1: Boys with the Boys, it's gonna be even better. All right,
- 0:39Speaker 1: we rolling do we need a clap? Yeah? I round
- 0:43Speaker 1: of applause for the boys, just.
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- 2:34Speaker 2: have on Mike Chandler. We will get into all of
- 2:39Speaker 2: the fun stuff.
- 2:40Speaker 1: I was.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Pleasantly surprised that you still wanted to come on and
- 2:44Speaker 2: do the podcast. I didn't like count you out of
- 2:47Speaker 2: not coming and doing the pod. Uh, just because when
- 2:50Speaker 2: I was reaching out to you, I'm just like, you
- 2:51Speaker 2: know number one, I was telling Garrett on the way
- 2:54Speaker 2: over here, just like how much of like a pro
- 2:57Speaker 2: and just your how high your emotional intelligence is in
- 2:59Speaker 2: the first place. So like when something like that happens,
- 3:02Speaker 2: like obviously people want to find stuff, like your corner
- 3:05Speaker 2: wants to find things to tell you. That's gonna let
- 3:07Speaker 2: you because everybody wants to be there for you. Yeah,
- 3:09Speaker 2: because they feel like they experienced the loss with you.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Yea. And so when I'm texting you is like, you know,
- 3:14Speaker 1: this dude knows like he knows the game. How long
- 3:16Speaker 1: have you been fighting? Be thirteen years? In August. That's
- 3:19Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Like you've been in the fight game so long, it's
- 3:21Speaker 2: like it just seems like such a like the biggest
- 3:25Speaker 2: moment because it's happening right now and it's the UFC
- 3:28Speaker 2: two sixty two, Like it seems so huge because it's
- 3:33Speaker 2: you know, obviously I know all of us we're tuned
- 3:35Speaker 2: in watching. Like again I was telling Cody, because we're
- 3:38Speaker 2: all fired up at the house watching and we're moving.
- 3:40Speaker 2: It's not like when Cody used to wrestle, like being
- 3:43Speaker 2: on the mat watching him wrestling, and then when it happens,
- 3:45Speaker 2: you're just kind of like it just takes the energy
- 3:46Speaker 2: out and you just the moment seems so huge and
- 3:49Speaker 2: that at that point in time. But it's like you've
- 3:51Speaker 2: been in the fight game so long, you you like,
- 3:54Speaker 2: this is this is.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Like part of the journey. Yeah, it is, and I mean,
- 3:58Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing. And this is why I
- 4:00Speaker 1: so to give a little bit of background. You know,
- 4:02Speaker 1: we already planned this to be here. You know, we
- 4:05Speaker 1: did have the boat the belt on ye he said,
- 4:07Speaker 1: the belt is coming to the bus and that's fucking sick.
- 4:10Speaker 1: And you know, you sent me a nice text you know,
- 4:13Speaker 1: like keep your head up type of deal. And then
- 4:14Speaker 1: you followed back up and then I said, hey, just
- 4:17Speaker 1: so you know, like I'll see you on the bus.
- 4:19Speaker 1: And we were like, you know, I'm not quite sure,
- 4:21Speaker 1: you know, Okay, Yeah, if you're down with it, let's
- 4:22Speaker 1: let's go. But you don't have to feel me out
- 4:24Speaker 1: like that. The seat was open because I was like, hey, man,
- 4:27Speaker 1: thinking about you.
- 4:28Speaker 2: Yeah, and said something else and you're like, yo, can
- 4:31Speaker 2: I still come on the bus at one pm?
- 4:32Speaker 1: I was like, you're goddamn right, like we got to
- 4:34Speaker 1: see warm for you. Well, and that's I mean. And
- 4:36Speaker 1: that's the thing, man, the old the old me would
- 4:39Speaker 1: have you know. I kind of give a talk now
- 4:42Speaker 1: about because I lost three fights in a row six
- 4:45Speaker 1: hundred and eighty eight days. I went without winning a
- 4:46Speaker 1: fight back a couple of years ago. And I made
- 4:49Speaker 1: three mistakes, and the number one, the first mistake I
- 4:51Speaker 1: made was I wanted to hide from the loss. Media
- 4:54Speaker 1: was calling me. I was up for five of the year.
- 4:56Speaker 1: They wanted me to present an award at the World
- 4:59Speaker 1: MMA Awards. Hey, come present this award. I didn't take
- 5:02Speaker 1: anybody's phone calls, anybody's text messages, anybody's emails. I was
- 5:06Speaker 1: off social media because I was just embarrassed, ashamed. I
- 5:11Speaker 1: wanted to hide. But man, this is where the growth happens.
- 5:16Speaker 1: That happens, the growth happens in these moments where I
- 5:20Speaker 1: can sit next to you. I mean a guy who's lost.
- 5:22Speaker 1: I mean, you're an athlete. Everyone in here. It doesn't
- 5:25Speaker 1: matter if you're an athlete, if you're a non athlete.
- 5:27Speaker 1: We all suffer loss, we all suffer setbacks. We all
- 5:30Speaker 1: make promises that we want to make good on. Like
- 5:32Speaker 1: I wanted to bring that belt home, Like me and
- 5:34Speaker 1: my son prayed for Daddy's belt every single night for
- 5:38Speaker 1: the last two months, the last eight weeks, we prayed
- 5:40Speaker 1: every single night about Daddy's belt and why Daddy is gone,
- 5:43Speaker 1: Why Daddy has to be in Florida, has to be working,
- 5:45Speaker 1: has to be training, has to be away from his son,
- 5:48Speaker 1: away from his fatherly duties, away from the promise that
- 5:51Speaker 1: I made to him. So I wanted to make good
- 5:53Speaker 1: on that promise. But the belt is just the piece
- 5:57Speaker 1: of the twelve pounds of leather and gold that signifies
- 6:01Speaker 1: being a world champion. But in order to be a
- 6:03Speaker 1: champion in life, you have to keep moving from setback
- 6:06Speaker 1: to setback without losing the enthusiasm, without losing this steam,
- 6:11Speaker 1: with complete disregard to my previous failures, my previous setbacks,
- 6:15Speaker 1: one that just happened forty eight hours ago. I still
- 6:16Speaker 1: got the black guy to prove it. You know, that
- 6:19Speaker 1: was a million you know, millions of people saw it.
- 6:22Speaker 1: And there's I'm sure there's a lot of people saying
- 6:24Speaker 1: a lot of things about me, you know, eating my
- 6:27Speaker 1: words and I wasn't that good or I wasn't you know.
- 6:29Speaker 1: But I'm choosing not to hear those things and just
- 6:32Speaker 1: moving forward in a positive light that this is part
- 6:34Speaker 1: of the journey and when we do win that belt,
- 6:36Speaker 1: when the belt does come on, the belt for the
- 6:38Speaker 1: boys with the boys, it's going to be even better.
- 6:40Speaker 1: So I hit the ground running this morning. I got
- 6:43Speaker 1: a sauna session in forty minutes, just you know, discipline myself,
- 6:46Speaker 1: Like Tommy, h no, I actually have one here. It's
- 6:50Speaker 1: not put together. We just moved and stuff. So I
- 6:52Speaker 1: just went to the YMCA and which is much hotter anyway.
- 6:54Speaker 1: So I sat there for forty minutes and sweated it out,
- 6:57Speaker 1: sweated out the sweat that was in me for that
- 7:00Speaker 1: fight and then sweated it out. Monday morning, we hit
- 7:03Speaker 1: the we hit the ground, run and did something for
- 7:05Speaker 1: my body, my soul. And now here we are talking
- 7:08Speaker 1: about it, expressing through the loss, admitting the failure, but
- 7:13Speaker 1: not only admitting the failure, sitting here with a smile
- 7:15Speaker 1: on my face, saying, Saturday really did end. Saturday night
- 7:18Speaker 1: and Sunday morning a new sun rose, and Monday morning
- 7:21Speaker 1: the sun rose again a little bit more painfully, a
- 7:23Speaker 1: little bit more you know, a little bit more tough.
- 7:25Speaker 1: But man, this is It's all part of life, this,
- 7:28Speaker 1: this whole thing. And that's why people are drawn to
- 7:29Speaker 1: mixed martial arts, is that is it's a metaphor for life.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Like what I went through on Insat on Saturday night,
- 7:37Speaker 1: had a really had a great first round one ten
- 7:40Speaker 1: eight on two of the three scorecards, and then got caught,
- 7:43Speaker 1: you know, got caught and lost, you know, and the
- 7:45Speaker 1: other guy left with the belt that I was supposed
- 7:47Speaker 1: to have. But yeah, this is life.
- 7:49Speaker 2: Talk about because before we get into all the fight
- 7:52Speaker 2: and everything like that, talk about those the next twenty
- 7:56Speaker 2: four hours after that loss, after you you recollect your thoughts,
- 8:00Speaker 2: you give the you give the interview with Joe Rogan, like,
- 8:03Speaker 2: what are the next twenty four hours actually, like, like, yes,
- 8:06Speaker 2: the sun does rise, and I think this is I
- 8:09Speaker 2: was telling Garrett on the way over. The reason I'm uh,
- 8:12Speaker 2: I was fired up about talking to you is because
- 8:15Speaker 2: this is the majority of everyone's journey in life anyway,
- 8:19Speaker 2: is failures. Most of the time, you fail your way
- 8:22Speaker 2: to the top, Like you go through so many setbacks
- 8:24Speaker 2: to end up see you at the top getting to
- 8:26Speaker 2: the top, Like it's not just some escalator that takes
- 8:28Speaker 2: you up there, Like this is.
- 8:30Speaker 1: The majority of what life looks like is losing. Yep.
- 8:34Speaker 2: So take us through those first twenty four hours after
- 8:38Speaker 2: after the loss, after the press.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Conference, you're banging your head against the mic.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Like you can see the emotion, like it was it
- 8:45Speaker 2: sucked watching it and you just know like fuck, man,
- 8:49Speaker 2: take us through those those first twenty four to forty
- 8:51Speaker 2: eight hours.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Well, I think I think the hardest thing, the hardest
- 8:54Speaker 1: part about mixed martial arts is it is it is
- 8:56Speaker 1: just so tumultuous. There there is always a chance that
- 9:00Speaker 1: you can lose, even with even if you're a thousand
- 9:03Speaker 1: to one favorite man, we're wearing four ounce gloves, these
- 9:06Speaker 1: tiny little bitty gloves, and you have these spots on
- 9:09Speaker 1: your body, you know, the temple, the chin, wherever it
- 9:13Speaker 1: may be, the liver, wherever it may be, where the
- 9:14Speaker 1: body just shuts off and says, nope, we're done and
- 9:17Speaker 1: the fight is over. And I prepared perfectly. I left
- 9:21Speaker 1: no stone unturned. I did every single thing that I
- 9:25Speaker 1: possibly could. Lived my life like a champion. From the
- 9:28Speaker 1: moment Hunter Campbell, who is number two in command at
- 9:30Speaker 1: the UFC, and then Dana called me that that same day,
- 9:32Speaker 1: and whenever they called me and said, hey, you're fighting
- 9:34Speaker 1: Charles olivera May fifteenth for the UFC title. From that moment,
- 9:39Speaker 1: I lived my life like a champion, did exactly what
- 9:42Speaker 1: I needed to do to put myself in the best
- 9:44Speaker 1: situation to win. So when it's over and you don't win,
- 9:50Speaker 1: then it's then it's just you know, the kind of
- 9:53Speaker 1: the bang in the head on the mic. I think
- 9:55Speaker 1: it was after a reporter named Mark RIMONDI answered or
- 9:58Speaker 1: asked me a question about something, and that's when you know,
- 10:01Speaker 1: every now and then it just kind of hits you
- 10:02Speaker 1: and you're like, dang man, it's over, Like it's over.
- 10:04Speaker 1: You can't get this one back. It's not a dream.
- 10:06Speaker 1: You're not gonna wake up and the bell's about to
- 10:08Speaker 1: ring and you're gonna get another chance.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's exactly what we were saying. Like, I'm
- 10:14Speaker 2: gonna let you finish my thought too. But when you
- 10:16Speaker 2: like lose a playoff game or something happens where it's
- 10:19Speaker 2: just not and it was the same thing when when
- 10:21Speaker 2: it was final that you had lost, it's like waking
- 10:24Speaker 2: up from a dream and that bell's gonna ring again
- 10:27Speaker 2: and you're gonna have another shot.
- 10:28Speaker 1: Yep, because I've had those nightmares, and a lot of
- 10:30Speaker 1: times I do have those nightmares. Two weeks before, right,
- 10:33Speaker 1: two three weeks before before the fight, I imagine, or I
- 10:36Speaker 1: think I wake up in a cold sweat in the
- 10:38Speaker 1: middle of night, like I got knocked out, I got
- 10:39Speaker 1: choked out, or I got extremely tired, I got outclassed,
- 10:42Speaker 1: I got just got beat. And you know, that's kind
- 10:46Speaker 1: of what it felt like when when the press conference
- 10:49Speaker 1: is over, then it's like, Okay, now you go back
- 10:50Speaker 1: to normal life. I knew even even after the fight
- 10:53Speaker 1: back there it was just me and my wife. I'm
- 10:54Speaker 1: freaking crying, my cry my eyes out. Yusada is right there.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Almost pretty much almost us that guy out because I'm like, dude,
- 11:01Speaker 1: give me a second to breathe. Man, like I'm gonna
- 11:03Speaker 1: pie in your cup. I'll get it.
- 11:04Speaker 2: It's always trying to get you to take a pissed
- 11:06Speaker 2: test right right when you got back.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Oh man, well, I I was in the I went
- 11:10Speaker 1: back to go see the doctor and he's doing the
- 11:12Speaker 1: lights and the eyes to check my eyes, check my balance,
- 11:14Speaker 1: check my concussion, whatever protocols. And he's there and he's like,
- 11:18Speaker 1: hey man, and I'm with you, Sada, you gotta pee
- 11:20Speaker 1: in this cup. I'm like, okay, well give me a second, man,
- 11:22Speaker 1: Like give me, give me one second. And uh so
- 11:25Speaker 1: then he followed me back there and just me and breathe,
- 11:27Speaker 1: and then I, you know, did the use side of thing.
- 11:29Speaker 1: I apologize to him because I wasn't wasn't the nicest.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Did you cuss? Maybe? Probably? I don't know, man, you
- 11:36Speaker 1: don't cuss.
- 11:36Speaker 2: You're pretty, you're pretty, you're pretty disciplined with the custiner.
- 11:39Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know, man, it's and I
- 11:42Speaker 1: think it's it's just it's that you know when it
- 11:45Speaker 1: hits you, that it's it's over. And and that's but
- 11:47Speaker 1: that's the thing. I I truly sit here, I truly
- 11:51Speaker 1: sit here with zero regrets, like I did every single
- 11:53Speaker 1: thing that I possibly could. And this is just the
- 11:55Speaker 1: nature of life in general outside of an octagon, but
- 12:00Speaker 1: in the octagon especially, it's just the nature of the
- 12:02Speaker 1: business man. You you win some and you lose some,
- 12:05Speaker 1: and unfortunately you're gonna lose often. I mean, I fought
- 12:08Speaker 1: the number three guy in the world, guy who was
- 12:10Speaker 1: on an eight fight winning streak, a guy who's not
- 12:11Speaker 1: the number one guy in the world, a guy who
- 12:13Speaker 1: you know, he's great, he's good. My next fight is
- 12:17Speaker 1: gonna be against another guy who's top five. It was great.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Whoever that is like, I'm you know, you're fighting in
- 12:21Speaker 1: the upper echelon. You're going You're going to lose, and
- 12:27Speaker 1: so I think that was that was just it. It's like,
- 12:28Speaker 1: man if I had another shot, I would probably win
- 12:31Speaker 1: that fight, you know. So you then you start playing
- 12:33Speaker 1: you replaying it over and it's like, should I have
- 12:35Speaker 1: let him up in the first round, and should or
- 12:36Speaker 1: should I have done this? Or should I have done that?
- 12:38Speaker 1: But when you did every single thing that you possibly
- 12:41Speaker 1: could to put yourself in the best situation to win,
- 12:44Speaker 1: you really can't have any regrets. And and that's the
- 12:46Speaker 1: only thing I can ask for. If I if I
- 12:49Speaker 1: lost that fight and I was like, gosh, dang man,
- 12:50Speaker 1: if that weight cut wasn't so bad because I wasn't
- 12:53Speaker 1: disciplined with my weight, or if I, you know, came
- 12:55Speaker 1: in and I didn't and I and I knew I
- 12:57Speaker 1: didn't really train that hard, or I didn't I slacked
- 12:59Speaker 1: in this I slacked in the area I had no
- 13:01Speaker 1: I had none of that because I did every single
- 13:04Speaker 1: thing that I possibly could to win the fight, to
- 13:07Speaker 1: get myself in the position when that cage door closed
- 13:10Speaker 1: and that bell rang that I was going to showcase
- 13:14Speaker 1: my skills and may the best man win. That's what
- 13:15Speaker 1: I said. That's what I always say. I preach it
- 13:17Speaker 1: all the time. You you got to embrace the uncertainty
- 13:19Speaker 1: that's about to happen. And part of embracing that uncertainty
- 13:22Speaker 1: is the fact that you may lose. Shoot, there might
- 13:24Speaker 1: even be a fifty percent chance that you're gonna lose,
- 13:26Speaker 1: a more than fifty percent chance that you're gonna lose
- 13:28Speaker 1: because you're fighting the best guy in the world. It's like,
- 13:30Speaker 1: like you said, a playoff game. You don't just fall
- 13:32Speaker 1: to the playoffs. So you just fall into a playoff game.
- 13:36Speaker 1: You have to be good enough to be in a
- 13:38Speaker 1: playoff game. And then chances are you're you're playing against
- 13:41Speaker 1: a team who is really freaking good, and you're both
- 13:43Speaker 1: rising to the occasion. You're both rising to the occasion.
- 13:46Speaker 1: And then made the best man win, and the better
- 13:48Speaker 1: man won that night. I guess if you will, or
- 13:51Speaker 1: that night he was the better man. We could fight
- 13:54Speaker 1: ten more times and I could win ten more times.
- 13:55Speaker 1: You never It's just part of the game. I know, man.
- 13:59Speaker 1: And two, I didn't know it took him so long
- 14:01Speaker 1: to get a title fight.
- 14:02Speaker 2: Somebody had mentioned a stat that it's been eleven years since,
- 14:06Speaker 2: like this was his first title fight, and it's been
- 14:08Speaker 2: like eleven years for him to be in the game
- 14:10Speaker 2: to get a chance.
- 14:11Speaker 1: He signed with the UFC in twenty ten. I started
- 14:13Speaker 1: fighting in two thousand and nine. So the guy's been
- 14:16Speaker 1: cut his teeth in the organization. And that's what I said.
- 14:18Speaker 1: I mean, and a lot of people, a lot of
- 14:21Speaker 1: people see the things that I say on the microphone
- 14:24Speaker 1: or in interviews or this and that, like I'm hyping
- 14:25Speaker 1: up a fight, and I wasn't hyping up a fight.
- 14:27Speaker 1: I truly believed that Charles Olaverro wanted to win just
- 14:32Speaker 1: as bad as I did. This was his opportunity when
- 14:33Speaker 1: he was born in the favelas of Brazil, which is
- 14:37Speaker 1: like the ghettos of Brazil, and he had this glimmer
- 14:40Speaker 1: in his eye that he was going to one day
- 14:41Speaker 1: become a world champion in the UFC. This was that
- 14:44Speaker 1: moment that he dreamed about, right, you know, and taken
- 14:48Speaker 1: off away from him. He beat me, you know, And
- 14:51Speaker 1: but I truly believed that I was going to beat him.
- 14:53Speaker 1: And that's when that's when, that's when magic happens. When
- 14:57Speaker 1: he got two guys or two teams, or two two
- 15:01Speaker 1: individuals fighting for the same for the same exact thing.
- 15:05Speaker 1: Someone's got to win, someone's gotta lose, and then it
- 15:07Speaker 1: just then it just after that. It all depends on
- 15:11Speaker 1: how does he respond as the champion and how do
- 15:12Speaker 1: I respond to the guy who who lost in the
- 15:15Speaker 1: championship fight. And I think by just by sitting here
- 15:18Speaker 1: speaking about it, we get to move forward quicker than
- 15:21Speaker 1: if we hide from it, shield our eyes from it,
- 15:25Speaker 1: not answer the phone calls, not you know, all of
- 15:28Speaker 1: a sudden just think that I'm not that good anymore,
- 15:31Speaker 1: or fall into this self pity, the self perpetual, the perpetuating,
- 15:35Speaker 1: revolving door of Okay, maybe I'm not that good and
- 15:37Speaker 1: I truly believe I'm still gonna be a UFC champion.
- 15:41Speaker 1: It just gonna take a little bit longer than I thought. Dude, Yeah,
- 15:44Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, man. Adversity shows people who they
- 15:47Speaker 1: are because it's all about how you respond to anything
- 15:50Speaker 1: that happens ever in your life. It's all it's like,
- 15:54Speaker 1: all in your response about how you do it.
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- 16:25Speaker 2: past couple of years and free Fly I've noticed the shorts.
- 16:28Speaker 2: The shorts are now in my life. I've talked about
- 16:31Speaker 2: the long sleeve shirts before.
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- 16:40Speaker 2: You might be asking, what is bamboo? What material is bamboo?
- 16:43Speaker 2: You're gonna try this ship for yourself, boys, because it
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- 16:47Speaker 2: You probably do have free Fly apparils, probably in your
- 16:49Speaker 2: clothest somewhere. I'm gonna get you hooked up. I recently tried,
- 16:53Speaker 2: like I just said, the shorts, and I boys, I'm
- 16:56Speaker 2: on board with the shorts. They got like the built
- 16:58Speaker 2: in it's like the built in briefs like a yeah,
- 17:02Speaker 2: like a built in compression short and it's nice.
- 17:05Speaker 1: I'm talking you can free ball in them. I'm usually
- 17:07Speaker 1: nervous about the.
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- 17:38Speaker 2: was a decent little set. There's these little set in there.
- 17:40Speaker 2: I saw the ad come up the last couple of
- 17:42Speaker 2: weeks we've interrupted. We have an alarm go off and
- 17:46Speaker 2: we have to immediately go in. You have to one take,
- 17:49Speaker 2: only you don't know anything about what you're about to read,
- 17:53Speaker 2: and you just go one take and go through the ad.
- 17:55Speaker 2: And we had Josh Wolf on last week and he
- 17:57Speaker 2: just destroyed as chirped as hard. But uh, we've had
- 18:02Speaker 2: fun with the ad reads. But to get back into
- 18:05Speaker 2: the conversation about adversity creating, uh, I think Taylor tweeted
- 18:09Speaker 2: it the other night too. Adversity show adversity. I almost
- 18:13Speaker 2: just repeated what I said earlier, But essentially, adversity shows
- 18:18Speaker 2: a man who he is. And another reason I was
- 18:22Speaker 2: fascinated to say with you because I know you handle
- 18:24Speaker 2: this stuff very well.
- 18:25Speaker 1: I am curious to what you said earlier.
- 18:27Speaker 2: The old Chandler would have not wanted to see anything,
- 18:30Speaker 2: you know, been wanted to kind of hide shell away
- 18:33Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
- 18:34Speaker 1: Why why were why were you that way back then?
- 18:39Speaker 1: And why do you think it's different now? You know?
- 18:41Speaker 1: I just think it's a maturation process. I think it's
- 18:44Speaker 1: I think I'm much more comfortable in my own skin
- 18:46Speaker 1: than I than I used to be, you know. I mean,
- 18:48Speaker 1: I I make it no secret. I was a small
- 18:50Speaker 1: guy from a small town who was taught to do
- 18:52Speaker 1: small things and I and I broke that mold. But
- 18:54Speaker 1: part of that mold, you know. But but I also see,
- 18:57Speaker 1: like even even raising a child, you know, and you
- 19:01Speaker 1: you brought up your dog earlier. Like what happens when
- 19:03Speaker 1: when a dog knows that he Peter pooped on the
- 19:05Speaker 1: floor and then you acknowledge it, the dog immediately runs
- 19:08Speaker 1: away and tries to tuck their tail between their legs,
- 19:10Speaker 1: and they want to run from it. They want to
- 19:12Speaker 1: hide from it. When my son does something wrong, or
- 19:15Speaker 1: he when we're potty training them and he peas or
- 19:17Speaker 1: poops in his pants, immediately he doesn't want to make
- 19:19Speaker 1: eye contact. He's looking looking away He even wants to lie.
- 19:22Speaker 1: He wants to lie and tell you no, I didn't
- 19:24Speaker 1: when you you know darn well he did because you
- 19:26Speaker 1: can smell it. Yeah, this is I think it's it's
- 19:30Speaker 1: it's partly human nature. I think it's partly you know,
- 19:34Speaker 1: we as human beings, we don't want to let people down.
- 19:36Speaker 1: We have this this innate yearning to to not let
- 19:39Speaker 1: people down. And I think in mixed martial arts it's
- 19:42Speaker 1: such an individual sport too, that the loss was on
- 19:47Speaker 1: display for everybody to see, and it wasn't you know,
- 19:50Speaker 1: it wasn't the boys loss. And the boys were behind me, right,
- 19:53Speaker 1: you're behind me, and Tailor's behind me. My team is
- 19:55Speaker 1: behind me, but it's not their loss. It's my. It's
- 19:59Speaker 1: my no go to bed later that night, you know.
- 20:01Speaker 1: And so it's it's such an individual thing, but in
- 20:04Speaker 1: that there's so much freedom because you have the opportunity
- 20:08Speaker 1: to show people that even in an individual sport, even
- 20:13Speaker 1: though I can, like I said, I was coming here,
- 20:15Speaker 1: I'm I'm not coming here with a belt, but I'm
- 20:16Speaker 1: coming here with my heart on my sleeve. And I
- 20:18Speaker 1: could show up today with my heart on my sleeve
- 20:21Speaker 1: with complete disregard to that failure that I had just
- 20:23Speaker 1: forty eight hours ago, and not disregard for it. But
- 20:26Speaker 1: but I'm not going to let it hinder me. I'm
- 20:28Speaker 1: not going to let it define me, because failure is
- 20:30Speaker 1: an event and it's not a person. I am not
- 20:33Speaker 1: a failure. I failed on Saturday night. But the way
- 20:36Speaker 1: that I respond, in the way that I move forward,
- 20:38Speaker 1: can prove to those that have failed, and proved to
- 20:41Speaker 1: those that have seen the failure or had failures that
- 20:44Speaker 1: they can in the future still become a champion. And
- 20:49Speaker 1: I truly, I mean I was brought to tears earlier
- 20:51Speaker 1: when I saw my wife make a post and she
- 20:54Speaker 1: sent me a message and that I am a world
- 20:56Speaker 1: champion in life because of who I I have in it,
- 21:00Speaker 1: the things that I do have, the fact that I
- 21:02Speaker 1: walked into onto the bus with two capable arms and
- 21:05Speaker 1: two capable legs, and I get to do what I love,
- 21:07Speaker 1: and I have a platform to reach people, and I
- 21:09Speaker 1: do have love in droves. I have health in droves.
- 21:12Speaker 1: I have ridiculous a ridiculous support system around me in abundance.
- 21:17Speaker 1: And these are the things that last that that belt
- 21:19Speaker 1: would have been awesome to bring on this bus but
- 21:21Speaker 1: it's just twelve pounds of golden leather, and it will
- 21:23Speaker 1: tarnish and it will fade, and it means a lot.
- 21:25Speaker 1: It means. It means, it means the epitome of accomplishment
- 21:29Speaker 1: inside the confines of mixed martial arts competition. It means
- 21:32Speaker 1: I'm the number one guy in the world. But it
- 21:34Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I'm going to be happy, doesn't mean
- 21:36Speaker 1: that I'm to be healthy, doesn't mean that I'm going
- 21:37Speaker 1: to live a long and prosperous life that will in
- 21:41Speaker 1: turn inspire, motivate and reach people. So it's uh. The
- 21:47Speaker 1: old Michael would have just would have wanted to not
- 21:51Speaker 1: do this. The old Michael would have said, man, give
- 21:53Speaker 1: me a couple of weeks, give me and that with
- 21:54Speaker 1: those weeks would have turned into a couple of months,
- 21:56Speaker 1: and they would have turned into you know, sleepless nights,
- 21:59Speaker 1: and they would have turned into a lot of self pity,
- 22:01Speaker 1: and they would have turned into a lot of blaming,
- 22:02Speaker 1: and it would have turned into a lot of a
- 22:05Speaker 1: lot of self deprecating thing, which really, truthfully is a
- 22:08Speaker 1: lot of selfishness. I think I think we also we
- 22:13Speaker 1: also look at our failures in a vacuum and say, well,
- 22:16Speaker 1: I deserve this time to and I do. I mean,
- 22:19Speaker 1: if if I and I know you understand this too.
- 22:21Speaker 1: If I would have said, hey, man, i've seen a
- 22:23Speaker 1: couple weeks. You know, maybe I'll be back on the
- 22:24Speaker 1: bus and a couple weeks would have not thought anything
- 22:26Speaker 1: of it. Give them a couple weeks, let them, let
- 22:29Speaker 1: them cool off, let them let them lick his wounds
- 22:31Speaker 1: if you will. And I think I've earned that, But
- 22:35Speaker 1: I also know it does sometimes come from a a
- 22:39Speaker 1: selfishness too, thinking that all of these things and these
- 22:43Speaker 1: losses happen inside of a vacuum, and and they these
- 22:46Speaker 1: weren't These things happened to us instead of for us.
- 22:49Speaker 1: And I truly believe that this loss happened for me,
- 22:52Speaker 1: so that this this chapter of this journey. Now we
- 22:55Speaker 1: can close this chapter of the first World title. Uh,
- 22:58Speaker 1: now it was a loss, and now I get to
- 23:00Speaker 1: build myself back up, and I get to have some
- 23:01Speaker 1: amazing fights, and I get to have that next chapter,
- 23:03Speaker 1: which will be winning the UFC title, I think eventually.
- 23:08Speaker 1: So I think the old Michael would have would have
- 23:10Speaker 1: ran from it. The old Michael would have would have
- 23:13Speaker 1: shielded himself from it and thought that Okay, if I
- 23:17Speaker 1: if I just block everything out, that's where the real
- 23:19Speaker 1: healing can happen, or until I win again, or until
- 23:23Speaker 1: I went again.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Yeah, so I know a lot of times people want
- 23:26Speaker 2: to get back to the spot where they're you know,
- 23:27Speaker 2: obviously comfortable. Well that's and that's the hard because there's
- 23:30Speaker 2: insecurity that comes with not wanting to face certain certain
- 23:33Speaker 2: truths and stuff with that.
- 23:35Speaker 1: And that's the hardest part about mixed martial arts. I mean,
- 23:37Speaker 1: you brought your brother up earlier. I mean, obviously most
- 23:40Speaker 1: of the boys know. I wrestled in high school, wrestled
- 23:42Speaker 1: in college, and that was that was the best part
- 23:44Speaker 1: about wrestling. If you lost on Wednesday, you got an
- 23:47Speaker 1: opportunity to weigh in again Thursday or Friday or Saturday,
- 23:50Speaker 1: and you get back in the wind column. I'm not
- 23:51Speaker 1: going to get be able to get back in the
- 23:53Speaker 1: wind column and get my hand raised and said that
- 23:55Speaker 1: UFC octagon until you know, I don't know, November, December, January,
- 23:59Speaker 1: so there there's going to be months and I can't
- 24:02Speaker 1: wait that long. I can't I can't wait that long
- 24:04Speaker 1: to say, Okay, I'll get back on the winning track
- 24:06Speaker 1: back then, because my next training session will immediately become okay,
- 24:11Speaker 1: either I failed completely or I was successful today. And
- 24:15Speaker 1: the old Michael focus so much on being perfect. Once
- 24:18Speaker 1: I got to a certain point, once I won that
- 24:20Speaker 1: first world title, once I got to that number three
- 24:22Speaker 1: in the world, number five in the world, once I
- 24:23Speaker 1: got that world ranking, I focus so much on being
- 24:26Speaker 1: perfect because that's what I thought a world champion was,
- 24:29Speaker 1: That's what I thought an the athlete at the highest
- 24:32Speaker 1: level was. But truthfully, we're all human beings, We're all
- 24:35Speaker 1: flawed individuals. We will have we will suffer losses, we
- 24:38Speaker 1: will suffer setbacks, and truthfully, it says so much more
- 24:42Speaker 1: about how you conduct yourself after a loss than it
- 24:46Speaker 1: would if I came here on the belt and on
- 24:48Speaker 1: the bus with the belt. And not that I trust me,
- 24:51Speaker 1: but always I wish I had the belt. Oh, I
- 24:52Speaker 1: mean I wish I won. But but now it gives
- 24:55Speaker 1: us an opportunity to talk about how do where do
- 24:58Speaker 1: we go from here? How do we move forward? Or
- 25:00Speaker 1: from here? And luckily I've been here before, and I've
- 25:04Speaker 1: been and I've battled back from worse than losing to
- 25:07Speaker 1: number three guy in the world. In a UFC title fight.
- 25:10Speaker 1: There's a lot of great things that came from this weekend,
- 25:12Speaker 1: and I think my response moving forward will do more
- 25:16Speaker 1: for my legacy, for the future, accolades, for the support system,
- 25:22Speaker 1: for the boys, for the following, for the everything than
- 25:26Speaker 1: even the wind. You know. And I still got this.
- 25:28Speaker 1: This story is far from being over. Is what is
- 25:32Speaker 1: kind of next for you? You mentioned November, December, January, February.
- 25:35Speaker 1: You think it's gonna be that long until you're able
- 25:37Speaker 1: to get back in the ring. I think, you know.
- 25:39Speaker 1: I mean, I've had a heck of a year, man,
- 25:42Speaker 1: you have had a year.
- 25:44Speaker 2: I feel like it's been a whirlwind. We came in
- 25:46Speaker 2: hot man, because you had to be ready for the
- 25:48Speaker 2: fight that you didn't end up fighting in. That was
- 25:50Speaker 2: one step, which is obviously, you know, a great move
- 25:53Speaker 2: by everybody's part.
- 25:54Speaker 1: And it was a full training camp. Yeah, it did
- 25:56Speaker 1: a full training camp for that opportunity, which was just
- 26:00Speaker 1: a backup role. And then I did another full training
- 26:03Speaker 1: camp for January, and then another full training camp for May,
- 26:06Speaker 1: and now here we are May seventeenth, and uh, you know,
- 26:09Speaker 1: halfway through the year, so I probably I'll probably be
- 26:11Speaker 1: here in Nashville for a solid two months. I mean,
- 26:14Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to Florida. I have a home
- 26:16Speaker 1: down in Florida now, So it's much like yeah, no,
- 26:19Speaker 1: well it was. It was a mandatory. It was a
- 26:22Speaker 1: mandatory situation. Like I was doing the VRBO thing, and
- 26:25Speaker 1: then I had a book a VRBO and book a
- 26:27Speaker 1: rental car, and now I just I'm gonna have my
- 26:29Speaker 1: own life in Florida because you got your team and
- 26:31Speaker 1: you're set up down there. Yeah. Yeah, So, I mean
- 26:33Speaker 1: I have my gym here obviously, Nashville, MMA, and we can,
- 26:36Speaker 1: we can train, and we can. There's the UFC call
- 26:41Speaker 1: right now. Do you want to answer? We can cut
- 26:43Speaker 1: it off if you want to answer it. Hey, it's
- 26:46Speaker 1: the UFC man. Yes. This episode of Buzzing with the
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- 29:17Speaker 2: I see it, and you're like, I just want to
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- 29:25Speaker 2: stay at the roots. Man started so good? So any
- 29:30Speaker 2: decent news?
- 29:31Speaker 1: Oh no, man, they're just calling and checking in, calling
- 29:33Speaker 1: and checking in, man, And I uh, I'll tell you what, man.
- 29:37Speaker 1: I I love I love my career, I love Bellator,
- 29:41Speaker 1: I love fighting for them. But the ufc IS is
- 29:43Speaker 1: a special special organization. The people that they have the
- 29:49Speaker 1: level at which they operate, the security staff, the operations staff.
- 29:54Speaker 1: They are just high functioning individuals. Man. They run the
- 29:58Speaker 1: company and they invest in the company. They invest in
- 30:01Speaker 1: the people like they're trying to take over the world.
- 30:03Speaker 1: And that's what I love about them, and that's why
- 30:04Speaker 1: I feel like I'm so equally yoked with them. So
- 30:07Speaker 1: you got to get that phone call on Monday morning
- 30:09Speaker 1: after the tough loss. You know, it's it's, uh, it's good.
- 30:13Speaker 1: But like I said, man, work boots are on. Maybe
- 30:15Speaker 1: you need to take a little look, take a little
- 30:17Speaker 1: bit of time off, let the body rest, let the
- 30:18Speaker 1: body like get back to neutral. Cool the jets a
- 30:20Speaker 1: little bit. But this journey is far from over. Yeah.
- 30:23Speaker 1: If I'm your agent on the phone, I'm saying, he
- 30:25Speaker 1: twelve weeks. What we got boys, Let's get back in
- 30:27Speaker 1: the ring. Yeah, I mean that's no. I mean it's
- 30:30Speaker 1: uh yeah, we'll see you know, like we said, like
- 30:32Speaker 1: we were talking, how I came out hot. So yeah.
- 30:35Speaker 2: Oh and obviously there's gonna be some some uh some
- 30:39Speaker 2: time in between now and your next fight. What is
- 30:41Speaker 2: your routine and uh like body maintenance and training camps
- 30:48Speaker 2: and all that stuff.
- 30:48Speaker 1: What's that gonna look like for you for the next
- 30:50Speaker 1: several months, Like how does that?
- 30:52Speaker 2: How does that work for a fighter, because usually, yeah,
- 30:54Speaker 2: you got a twelve sixteen week camp, but outside of that,
- 30:57Speaker 2: like what does that stuff look like for you?
- 30:58Speaker 1: So so for me, man, I've always just I've always
- 31:01Speaker 1: just tried to teach treat my body head to toe
- 31:03Speaker 1: like I'm a professional athlete, and I don't think a
- 31:06Speaker 1: lot of fighters, don't. You know, A lot of them are.
- 31:08Speaker 1: A lot of them show up into training camp eight
- 31:10Speaker 1: weeks ten weeks out before ready to get in shape,
- 31:14Speaker 1: shed the fat, get your cardio back up.
- 31:16Speaker 2: Man.
- 31:16Speaker 1: I want to be in tip top shape and ready
- 31:18Speaker 1: to go the day my feet hit the pavement down
- 31:22Speaker 1: in Florida, and I can move forward and do training
- 31:24Speaker 1: camp in shape and you know, lean, ready to go.
- 31:29Speaker 1: So I can just work on skills, just work on
- 31:31Speaker 1: game plan, just work on acquiring new skills. So between
- 31:34Speaker 1: training camps, like you know, I landed on Sunday, hit
- 31:37Speaker 1: the son of this morning, so I'll do strength and
- 31:40Speaker 1: conditioning this week. My body, you know, my body is
- 31:42Speaker 1: not not banged up. I'm a little bit sore here
- 31:45Speaker 1: and there. Took a couple of lake kicks, hands are
- 31:47Speaker 1: sore as heck from you know, punching or whatever beat
- 31:50Speaker 1: the shit out of me. Yeah, my hands are sore, dude.
- 31:53Speaker 1: But but you know, but it's just the little things
- 31:56Speaker 1: that I can just work around and just keep my
- 31:58Speaker 1: body moving because I I truly believe this. I don't
- 32:01Speaker 1: think we get old. I think we get lazy, and
- 32:04Speaker 1: we get busy, we get really busy, and then and
- 32:06Speaker 1: then we justify and then we become lazy. So I
- 32:09Speaker 1: think at thirty five years old, I feel like I'm
- 32:11Speaker 1: still twenty five. My body still feels like I'm twenty
- 32:13Speaker 1: five because I've stuck to my body work. I've stuck
- 32:17Speaker 1: to I use my roller every day, I use my
- 32:18Speaker 1: soul right every day. I'm supplement. I did not miss supplements.
- 32:21Speaker 1: I see this I brought Yeah, when I brought my supplement.
- 32:24Speaker 1: I brought my supplements to the arena with me on
- 32:27Speaker 1: Saturday night so I could take them Saturday night, and
- 32:30Speaker 1: I took them, woke up Sunday morning, I already had
- 32:32Speaker 1: another bag ready, took them Sunday morning. Have not missed
- 32:35Speaker 1: my supplements since. And I imagine most people are like, ah, dude,
- 32:37Speaker 1: that's only for training camp. I'm good. I'm gonna take
- 32:39Speaker 1: a couple days off. Not me. I actually doubled my
- 32:42Speaker 1: dose of omegas because I took some shots to the head.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Double tripled my dose of turmeric and kirkcumin glued to
- 32:50Speaker 1: thion antioxidant. So just like reading my body of the inflammation,
- 32:55Speaker 1: We're doing some homemade enchiladas tonight. Shout out to breeze enchiladas.
- 32:58Speaker 1: No free shade, no shadow. Going to corner pub picking
- 33:03Speaker 1: up some smokes, smoke some smoke, some smoke chicken for
- 33:06Speaker 1: enchilada's nice shout out corner pub. No free shoutouts, you know.
- 33:11Speaker 1: So like it'll be it'll be a good home cooked meal.
- 33:14Speaker 1: Like that's kind of feel like a cheap meal, but
- 33:16Speaker 1: it's still healthy. Like, uh, it depends what are you
- 33:19Speaker 1: putting on the manchiladas. Now, cheese going on. I'm not
- 33:23Speaker 1: a big cheese guy, so I'm gonna lightly spread some
- 33:25Speaker 1: cheese a lot of sour. I'm a big sour cream guy. Though.
- 33:27Speaker 2: No no free shouts, just anything you say, Hey daisy,
- 33:33Speaker 2: daisy sour cream.
- 33:35Speaker 1: And I went to the bathroom. Hey, no free shouts
- 33:37Speaker 1: of that bathroom. Uh you know, so so back to
- 33:41Speaker 1: my body and taking care of me. I just want
- 33:44Speaker 1: to I always say this too. I as a fighter,
- 33:48Speaker 1: we always think, okay, well, punching, kicking, kneeing, elbowing, grappling,
- 33:51Speaker 1: grappling and and grappling defense, those are those are the
- 33:54Speaker 1: most important things. But I also think, if all things
- 33:57Speaker 1: are equal and we're just as if me and my
- 33:59Speaker 1: opponent to strike the same and we grapple the same,
- 34:02Speaker 1: we wrestle the same. The guy who is the better athlete,
- 34:05Speaker 1: who can push for longer and not just push for longer,
- 34:08Speaker 1: but push for longer after it gets painful, who is
- 34:10Speaker 1: mentally tough, physically tough, and a better athlete, that guy
- 34:13Speaker 1: is going to probably be the guy who has a
- 34:15Speaker 1: better chance of winning. So I've always just tried to
- 34:18Speaker 1: become a better athlete, especially between training camps. So I'm
- 34:20Speaker 1: working to I'll be doing a ton of strength and conditioning,
- 34:23Speaker 1: lifting a little bit heavier, put on a little bit
- 34:25Speaker 1: more muscle mass that I lost during training camp because
- 34:27Speaker 1: I for eight to ten weeks, I'm basically operating at
- 34:30Speaker 1: a calorie deficit every day to shed the fat, lose
- 34:34Speaker 1: a little bit of muscle mass so I can make
- 34:35Speaker 1: one fifty five, Like you know I woke up this
- 34:37Speaker 1: morning one eighty four. Oh shit, Yeah, in a week
- 34:40Speaker 1: or two, I'll be I'll probably be closer to one ninety,
- 34:42Speaker 1: you know, after I put on maybe a little bit
- 34:44Speaker 1: of a little bit of body fat. So I'm like
- 34:46Speaker 1: cutting from one ninety to one fifty five. So I
- 34:47Speaker 1: gotta lose a little bit of muscle mass to get
- 34:49Speaker 1: down to Yo. That's insane, man, yea fifty five. It's
- 34:54Speaker 1: not fun. It's the worst part about about fighting. But
- 34:57Speaker 1: at what point were you one fifty five? Like when
- 34:59Speaker 1: was the way in Friday? Friday morning and you're walking
- 35:04Speaker 1: you're right now, what would you say? Four this morning?
- 35:06Speaker 1: So you're walking around already twenty pounds heavier? Yeah, that's insane.
- 35:10Speaker 1: That's thirty A is that thirty? Hey? Somebody checked that.
- 35:15Speaker 1: Somebody checked the fucking tape. Do we say eighty four?
- 35:17Speaker 2: It was eighty eighty car carry the carry the wings.
- 35:20Speaker 2: That's thirty yeah, almost thirty nine. And granted I flew yesterday,
- 35:25Speaker 2: So what are you still fucking doing here? Nobody grabbed
- 35:29Speaker 2: a calculator. Just get mad lash out of somebody. Hey,
- 35:32Speaker 2: it's not as easy for you like you're you know,
- 35:34Speaker 2: but I always know eighty five is thirty, seventy five
- 35:37Speaker 2: is twenty.
- 35:38Speaker 1: Yeah, that's bad by me.
- 35:39Speaker 2: I pride myself on math. So there goes any maths
- 35:42Speaker 2: credibility of fun out there.
- 35:43Speaker 1: You know. But if you ask me, you know, one
- 35:45Speaker 1: twenty one twenty something to one fifty something, I don't
- 35:47Speaker 1: know what that is, but I know what one fifty
- 35:49Speaker 1: something to one. Yeah, seventy something, eighty something, ninety something,
- 35:52Speaker 1: Just I get it. I didn't get it, right, man, No,
- 35:53Speaker 1: you're good. That's that Missouri education, you know.
- 35:57Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So you're walking around thirty pounds heavier, Yeah,
- 36:02Speaker 2: thirty pounds heavier ish?
- 36:04Speaker 1: How much? How much weight do you gain from the
- 36:05Speaker 1: way into the fight. So that was uh yeah, I
- 36:08Speaker 1: was about one seventy seven when I did my workout
- 36:11Speaker 1: Saturday morning because I always do a shakeout. I always
- 36:13Speaker 1: doing like a hard pad session Saturday morning. Sweat a
- 36:17Speaker 1: little bit, shake it out a little bit, go over
- 36:19Speaker 1: a little bit of game plan stuff, and then we
- 36:20Speaker 1: fight Saturday night. So I was like one seventy seven.
- 36:23Speaker 1: See you're already up over twenty pounds. Yeah at that point. Yeah, well,
- 36:26Speaker 1: I mean, just uh, simple nuts and bolts like a
- 36:30Speaker 1: gallon of water weighs eight pounds, and I can crush
- 36:32Speaker 1: a gallon of water in the first hour, so I'm
- 36:34Speaker 1: already up eight pounds, and then after two hours, three hours,
- 36:38Speaker 1: I'm already through two gallons of water. That's sixteen pounds.
- 36:42Speaker 2: You know, is it like the old wrestling days where
- 36:44Speaker 2: you go to the when you're a kid, you weigh in,
- 36:46Speaker 2: you make weight, and you go to the nearest buffet
- 36:48Speaker 2: in town and just load the plate up.
- 36:50Speaker 1: No man, and that well, that's one of the great
- 36:51Speaker 1: things about the UFC. No free shots, no shots out
- 36:55Speaker 1: and no free shots. The buffets either about no fucking
- 36:59Speaker 1: you got but no, you know, they have they had
- 37:02Speaker 1: all their all meals set up. So I mean I had.
- 37:05Speaker 1: I had a big old thing of rice and salmon,
- 37:07Speaker 1: rice and chicken afterwards. So I had been eating essentially
- 37:11Speaker 1: the same thing for the last eight weeks. So the
- 37:12Speaker 1: last thing I want to do, I want everything in me.
- 37:14Speaker 1: Wanted to go grab a pizza or even like a
- 37:16Speaker 1: big pasta or something, and I think I did. I
- 37:19Speaker 1: actually did have one gluten free pasta that night, no
- 37:23Speaker 1: free doction, fresh shouts pasta.
- 37:27Speaker 2: I thought we would come together and like you know,
- 37:29Speaker 2: a bond over a memory of like being young, making
- 37:32Speaker 2: way you go to the nearest buffet, but you like, no,
- 37:34Speaker 2: you know, salmon rice and like, okay, yeah, no, I thought,
- 37:37Speaker 2: before you uf title fight, you'und I just wanted to
- 37:40Speaker 2: keep I wanted to keep it all all the same.
- 37:42Speaker 1: And then uh, you know, and then afterwards, even that night, man,
- 37:45Speaker 1: after the fight, I finally ate that Snickers. Did you
- 37:47Speaker 1: did you hear about the Snickers? No? Like there was
- 37:49Speaker 1: a so right before I got the phone call from
- 37:52Speaker 1: Hunter Campbell, like two days before now, I guess a
- 37:54Speaker 1: couple of days before that. We were at an airport
- 37:56Speaker 1: because we went to San Diego and bre got me
- 37:59Speaker 1: a snore. No free shouts, but she got me a Snickers.
- 38:02Speaker 1: It's my favorite, my favorite candy bar. And I stuck
- 38:04Speaker 1: it in my bag and I didn't eat it, and
- 38:06Speaker 1: it stayed with me the whole trip. I forgot it,
- 38:08Speaker 1: and then I got the phone call that I was
- 38:10Speaker 1: fighting for the UFC title, and that same day I
- 38:12Speaker 1: pulled it out and I'm like, dangdude, I can't eat
- 38:13Speaker 1: this now this sucks. So I had it down to
- 38:15Speaker 1: a Florida with me, Florida with me for the last
- 38:17Speaker 1: two months like kind of set it up on my like, yeah,
- 38:20Speaker 1: like you're not going to eat you this is like me, yeah,
- 38:23Speaker 1: you know, creating boundaries. Yeah. And then so it made
- 38:26Speaker 1: the Countdown show or no, it made Yeah, I made
- 38:28Speaker 1: the Countdown show and it made the embedded show. And
- 38:30Speaker 1: then and then people people immediately came and like look
- 38:33Speaker 1: at Chandler trying to get the Snicker sponsorship or look
- 38:35Speaker 1: at the UFC shamelessly promoting Snickers.
- 38:37Speaker 2: And I was like, no, man, that's just a funny story,
- 38:38Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, but Snickers if you want to sponsor
- 38:40Speaker 2: a boy, yeah what Haler? Yeah, you know, no free
- 38:43Speaker 2: shots if you want to be for the boys exactly.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Because then in but it was after the fight, it
- 38:48Speaker 2: was already so late, you know.
- 38:49Speaker 1: I didn't hit the press conference till almost one, and
- 38:52Speaker 1: then everything was pretty much closed, Like I could have
- 38:54Speaker 1: got pizza cut out something. I was like, I was like, babe.
- 38:57Speaker 1: That was because Bree was like, hey, what can I
- 38:58Speaker 1: get you? And get you some food? Get you what
- 39:00Speaker 1: do you want? And alcohols out of the question because
- 39:02Speaker 1: I got you know, tk O. So I wasn't gonna
- 39:04Speaker 1: drink anything. Yeah, But as far as food. I you know,
- 39:07Speaker 1: all bets are off. I could have eaten anything. But
- 39:09Speaker 1: then it's like this would make me feel real depressed
- 39:12Speaker 1: if I really filled myself with a bunch of freaking food.
- 39:14Speaker 1: So I was like, process, many, Yeah, I'm gonna eat this. I'
- 39:16Speaker 1: gonna eat the Snickers and I ate. I think I ate, like, uh,
- 39:20Speaker 1: another protein bar or something, And that was pretty That
- 39:22Speaker 1: was it. And then I woke up the next morning
- 39:23Speaker 1: and had had breakfast. But Snickers is your favorite candy
- 39:27Speaker 1: bar by far. That's what I took out of that
- 39:29Speaker 1: whole thing. Yeah, but well, I mean I used to
- 39:31Speaker 1: have them, like back in wrestling, but all the way
- 39:33Speaker 1: back to wrestling, man like, like, just get done with
- 39:36Speaker 1: weigh ins, you know those wrestling those wrestling tournaments. Loud
- 39:39Speaker 1: as heck, you're just freaking munching on a Snickers or
- 39:41Speaker 1: like goober, do you ever have goober back in the day?
- 39:44Speaker 1: Oh uh yeah, chocolate, yeah goober? No, no, sorry, no,
- 39:47Speaker 1: it was the it was the jar that had peanut
- 39:49Speaker 1: butter and jelly, peanut butter, jelly, peanut butter jelly. It's
- 39:53Speaker 1: called Google. I don't think so Google.
- 39:55Speaker 2: I thought goobers were like a little uh, little Yeah,
- 39:57Speaker 2: a little ball that you get the movies or some ship.
- 40:02Speaker 1: Goober? Is it called goober? Yeah? Man like that with
- 40:05Speaker 1: on some bread.
- 40:06Speaker 2: You know, that's what that's That's what reminds me of
- 40:08Speaker 2: sounds like it's just called a peanut butter and jelly
- 40:09Speaker 2: sandwich pretty much, but it's it's peanut butter and jelly
- 40:12Speaker 2: jelly sandwich in a jar. You don't have to have
- 40:14Speaker 2: a jar and a jar jelly and the bread.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 40:17Speaker 2: Do you only have two ingredients instead of one? I
- 40:19Speaker 2: want to go back to the Snickers. Yeah, no free shouts.
- 40:22Speaker 2: Top three candy bars, Uh, Snickers, Baby Ruth, Baby Ruth,
- 40:28Speaker 2: Baby Ruth. Are you just trying to be different there?
- 40:30Speaker 2: You really like you don't like Baby Ruth.
- 40:32Speaker 1: I like Baby Ruths. I don't think it's in my
- 40:34Speaker 1: top three? Yeah. And then Almond Joy Coconut Almond Chocolate
- 40:38Speaker 1: Top three, all three, no free shouts to any of
- 40:41Speaker 1: you guys. Almond Joy, Yeah, bro light a light. I
- 40:47Speaker 1: mean I'm probably missing a couple, but you're Missingese's. Yeah, No,
- 40:52Speaker 1: I do. I like. I like Reese's in ice cream,
- 40:54Speaker 1: Like I'm like a big I'm a sucker for Reese's
- 40:57Speaker 1: and ice cream, bro anything chocolate. I'm a big chocolate guy.
- 41:01Speaker 2: You'll go into the frozen yogurt, you know, little spot
- 41:04Speaker 2: get you first of all, you sample the entire place. Yeah,
- 41:07Speaker 2: you have to say, and you probably sample it again
- 41:09Speaker 2: because you're like not quite sure. You got to go
- 41:12Speaker 2: through the whole the whole list, even the surbert that
- 41:15Speaker 2: they try to put in there that make you feel
- 41:17Speaker 2: better about yourself. Like I'll try the sherbet and yeah,
- 41:19Speaker 2: don't like sherbet. Again, you gotta try them all and
- 41:23Speaker 2: then you gotta eliminate.
- 41:24Speaker 1: Then you gotta make it to the second round. Then
- 41:25Speaker 1: you try to sample a few more. By that time
- 41:27Speaker 1: you're alread getting a little fool but you know what
- 41:29Speaker 1: you want, you know what I mean, I like to
- 41:31Speaker 1: At that point, it's all it's all chocolate for me. Like, yeah,
- 41:33Speaker 1: I don't sample the fruit the fruit stuff. Same, I'm
- 41:36Speaker 1: not a I'm not the fruit bar stuff either. Like
- 41:38Speaker 1: it'll be like all the strawberries and stuff.
- 41:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm talking all the candies, all the like the caramel,
- 41:44Speaker 2: the fudge.
- 41:45Speaker 1: That's the best. Boys, what are you guys? Top candy bars?
- 41:50Speaker 1: M isn't a bar?
- 41:53Speaker 2: Oh, that's a that's a little debay too. Yeahs isn't either.
- 42:00Speaker 2: I mean, I guess, I mean it's a cup. It's
- 42:02Speaker 2: it's so you're Sayingese's isn't the candy bar?
- 42:06Speaker 1: Okay? What about the East the Easter?
- 42:10Speaker 2: Yeah, the eggs, the bunnies, that's a bar, the bunnies,
- 42:14Speaker 2: Reese's period, Reese's is up there. I I am a
- 42:18Speaker 2: huge fan of Snickers, big Snickers guy. I'm also a
- 42:20Speaker 2: big heath bar guy means a sleeper. I like it
- 42:23Speaker 2: more my in my ice cream. But I'm a big
- 42:25Speaker 2: heath bar guy. Yeah, that's questionable. I understand. Stick your
- 42:29Speaker 2: teeth too, right, Carmel, But then first bites man, and
- 42:33Speaker 2: when when you when you bite into the heath bar too,
- 42:35Speaker 2: and kind of like the uh, the aura, the vibe
- 42:39Speaker 2: that comes off of the bar, of the sensation that
- 42:41Speaker 2: kind of goes in your mouth, you know what I mean?
- 42:44Speaker 1: I love that. No balls, So you don't like this ship, dude,
- 42:46Speaker 1: you don't like you don't like? Huh? Candy bar reviews
- 42:49Speaker 1: is going to be coming up soon. There you go.
- 42:51Speaker 2: Did you see my mental going in the trying to
- 42:53Speaker 2: figure out what the taste was like? The boys do bars.
- 42:56Speaker 2: I do think it's a vibe boys bars, I.
- 42:59Speaker 1: Think them all up.
- 43:00Speaker 2: When you bite into a heath bar, it's like it's like,
- 43:04Speaker 2: I don't know, it's like an essential oil feeling your
- 43:06Speaker 2: filling your mouth like a heath that heath taste, you
- 43:09Speaker 2: know what I mean.
- 43:10Speaker 1: That it's an experience. Yeah, but you don't like Baby Ruth.
- 43:14Speaker 1: I like Baby Ruth, you know. I like chocolate, I
- 43:17Speaker 1: like nuts, I like caramel. Yeah, I mean that's all
- 43:19Speaker 1: in there.
- 43:20Speaker 2: I'm just surprised that it's actually making your top three. Yeah,
- 43:23Speaker 2: it's all, it's all. I'm just surprised it's making your
- 43:25Speaker 2: actual top three. And all'm enjoy I get it. You
- 43:29Speaker 2: like coconut, you need it. Seem like you've got a
- 43:30Speaker 2: healthier ish bar in there. I just don't see how
- 43:32Speaker 2: it's actually making your top three like that. Like there's
- 43:35Speaker 2: so many good candy bars out there, twis We've been
- 43:37Speaker 2: talking about twits.
- 43:38Speaker 1: See, I'm I'm not the big wafer, not like the
- 43:41Speaker 1: wafer that much, but I like the chocolate and the
- 43:44Speaker 1: just chocolate and wafer, right, I have the caramel sitting
- 43:47Speaker 1: in there on top, dude.
- 43:48Speaker 2: Caramel kit cat bars butterfinger. Oh butterfinger? Ah see no, no,
- 43:53Speaker 2: you like all'm enjoy over the what we just named? Yeah,
- 43:55Speaker 2: because see I don't I don't like. I don't like
- 43:58Speaker 2: what was the one we just said?
- 44:00Speaker 1: Uh, twix? No butterfinger. But I don't like butterfinger because
- 44:03Speaker 1: I feel like it's fake. It's too fake of peanut butter.
- 44:08Speaker 1: I see we're saying, not like Reese's. That's that's like
- 44:10Speaker 1: peanut butter. You could put on a sandwich and make
- 44:12Speaker 1: a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but you can't. I
- 44:14Speaker 1: don't like the butter fingers.
- 44:15Speaker 2: I'm a I love the I love butter fingers, but
- 44:18Speaker 2: butterfingers you can actually you can't like have like small
- 44:20Speaker 2: bites of butter fingers because you take a bite and
- 44:22Speaker 2: it flakes all over you, you know what I mean.
- 44:24Speaker 1: She's gotta shove the whole thing. Yeah. What else? We got?
- 44:28Speaker 1: Milky Way? I was never a big milky Way guy. No,
- 44:31Speaker 1: we got a soft I like. I like the crunch
- 44:34Speaker 1: of a nuts. Are good.
- 44:39Speaker 2: Crunch of a nutun Sorry, I'm in a nut bro her.
- 44:43Speaker 2: She's like, it's like whatever, you know what I mean, Like,
- 44:45Speaker 2: just give me hers she's kiss her, She's is just
- 44:47Speaker 2: chocolate crunch bar.
- 44:48Speaker 1: Don't really care, Mike going back to the way and thing,
- 44:52Speaker 1: whoa whoa, whoa you ever? I'm sorry, I thought we
- 44:54Speaker 1: were doing with this. It sounded like we were doing it.
- 44:56Speaker 1: The boys are doing bars bro. No, no, go back
- 44:58Speaker 1: to the fucking way. Hands.
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- 46:58Speaker 1: to the fight thing you ever face to face with
- 47:01Speaker 1: somebody at the way in and then getting the octagon
- 47:03Speaker 1: and be like, oh shit, they are way bigger than
- 47:05Speaker 1: they were the other night. Uh no, because I know
- 47:08Speaker 1: I am like, I bet that that's what they think
- 47:10Speaker 1: about me. Okay, fresh outs to me, free shouts. No,
- 47:19Speaker 1: but uh no, I mean I think sometimes Yeah, I
- 47:23Speaker 1: mean it is a crazy thing because we you know,
- 47:25Speaker 1: you spend all this time thinking about your opponent. You
- 47:27Speaker 1: spend all this time watching footage or or maybe their
- 47:30Speaker 1: fights or their highlights, their low lights. Then you do
- 47:33Speaker 1: their face off and the way in and you sat
- 47:35Speaker 1: you see him one fight week, they started a little
- 47:37Speaker 1: bit sucked down, a little bit frail, and then when
- 47:40Speaker 1: you step inside the the Octaguy, okay, that's a fight.
- 47:43Speaker 1: He's a very big boy, you know. Charles Olivera was
- 47:48Speaker 1: definitely taller than me, longer than me, but he was
- 47:50Speaker 1: very he was slender. I guarantee I weighed more than
- 47:55Speaker 1: he did. But no, not really. I mean we're all
- 48:00Speaker 1: all relatively the same size. You know, you're built like
- 48:04Speaker 1: an am staff. I'm a pretty good pit, you know
- 48:06Speaker 1: what I mean. Two c's let's talk about the fight.
- 48:10Speaker 1: First round number one, Me and my brother shout out.
- 48:12Speaker 1: Ain't no free shouts to Cody Compton, but all three shots.
- 48:15Speaker 1: Because he's a boy.
- 48:16Speaker 2: We've obviously armchair QB this whole thing. Yep, you know
- 48:19Speaker 2: what I mean. The why didn't you let him up?
- 48:21Speaker 2: Let's talk about the first round. Did you ever feel
- 48:24Speaker 2: in trouble when he had your back? Like when you
- 48:26Speaker 2: were because you did a great job controlling the wrist,
- 48:28Speaker 2: But were you ever there's times.
- 48:30Speaker 1: Where I was getting a little nervous.
- 48:31Speaker 2: I was like, oh shit, especially when you picked him
- 48:33Speaker 2: up and slammed it down it it didn't seem like
- 48:34Speaker 2: it got him off off of you.
- 48:37Speaker 1: Were you ever feeling a little nervous about that? So
- 48:40Speaker 1: I wasn't because I really feel comfortable when someone has
- 48:43Speaker 1: my back that they're not going to choke me. I
- 48:45Speaker 1: can shrug my shoulders and I don't have the longest
- 48:48Speaker 1: neck and it's like built like a pit. Yeah, you know,
- 48:50Speaker 1: so it's like I'm not that easy to choke for
- 48:52Speaker 1: the most part. And then when I get hit and
- 48:55Speaker 1: I get risk control and I get a one on
- 48:56Speaker 1: one or I get my two hands on his one wrist,
- 48:58Speaker 1: which is what I did. Yeah, a couple of shots
- 49:00Speaker 1: because he had the one arm free. But but for
- 49:02Speaker 1: the most part, I knew I wasn't letting that that
- 49:04Speaker 1: bad dog go. And that's when I preached all the
- 49:06Speaker 1: all the young guys who are out there grappling, it's
- 49:08Speaker 1: like you get that one that one wrist. A, you're
- 49:11Speaker 1: gonna get out, and B he can't choke you. So
- 49:14Speaker 1: I held it and I had that sucker for like
- 49:15Speaker 1: a full minute. I think, oh, yeah, my forearms are
- 49:19Speaker 1: sore as heck, and it's not from anything else. Was
- 49:21Speaker 1: I's probably holding that sucker for dear life. And then
- 49:25Speaker 1: and then I did. I usually am able to do
- 49:27Speaker 1: exactly what I did, and he was. He is literally
- 49:29Speaker 1: the best grappler in the lightweight division, maybe one of
- 49:31Speaker 1: the best grapplers on the planet, most submission wins in
- 49:34Speaker 1: the UFS, in the UFC, most submission wins in the
- 49:37Speaker 1: UFC history. And I didn't really feel in danger, and
- 49:41Speaker 1: I was able to reverse it by keeping the keeping
- 49:44Speaker 1: the two on one going over my head and spinning
- 49:46Speaker 1: inside of his his triangle that had around my body.
- 49:49Speaker 1: He had long legs, so he made a figure four.
- 49:51Speaker 1: Not right, he made a figure four in my body
- 49:53Speaker 1: because his legs were so long, which is not an
- 49:55Speaker 1: easy position. He squeezing the heck out of yet, yes,
- 49:57Speaker 1: but once you start getting sweaty by that time, we
- 49:59Speaker 1: were sweaty. Slammed him. It kind of loosened up a
- 50:01Speaker 1: little bit. Then we kind of sat there a second.
- 50:03Speaker 1: He threw threw a couple punches, a couple of elbows,
- 50:05Speaker 1: but I was kind of just buying my time, waiting
- 50:07Speaker 1: to explode. And I exploded and then got on top. Yeah,
- 50:09Speaker 1: and then you put on a little bit of a show.
- 50:11Speaker 1: I thought they were going to stop the fight at
- 50:12Speaker 1: one point. I thought, man, dude, I'm telling you, we
- 50:15Speaker 1: were on our feet screaming. Dude. I thought that they
- 50:19Speaker 1: were going to end up stopping the fight at that time.
- 50:21Speaker 1: And and that's where that's where I go back and forth,
- 50:24Speaker 1: because I think I think if I would have just
- 50:28Speaker 1: backed off and said get up, maybe I could have
- 50:30Speaker 1: knocked him out. But then again, I'm I get a
- 50:32Speaker 1: lot of finishes when I'm on top of the guy,
- 50:35Speaker 1: just ground and pounding, you know, grounding and pounded him.
- 50:38Speaker 1: I have good. I have pretty good. He just long,
- 50:41Speaker 1: he's at the really long legs. He was trying to
- 50:42Speaker 1: keep me at bay. Threw a couple of kicks, came
- 50:44Speaker 1: back in. You know, I'm trying to you know, you're
- 50:46Speaker 1: aiming for the temple the side of the head, hit
- 50:48Speaker 1: the ear, jaw obviously landed, landed some good ground, and
- 50:52Speaker 1: pound strikes a couple of elbows cut them open. So
- 50:56Speaker 1: I think I think it was a fifty to fifty
- 50:57Speaker 1: thing if you look at it and you think, man,
- 51:00Speaker 1: what it should have could I probably should have just
- 51:01Speaker 1: stood him up. We got about a minute fifteen left.
- 51:03Speaker 1: I maybe could have finished him on the feet. But
- 51:05Speaker 1: then again, you know, my intuition says, if I got
- 51:09Speaker 1: a guy hurt on his back, I'm gonna be able
- 51:11Speaker 1: to finish him on the ground. And I've done it
- 51:13Speaker 1: numerous times in the past, so I don't I don't
- 51:15Speaker 1: say that that was a bad decision. I think it
- 51:16Speaker 1: was a decision that maybe could have yielded a knockout
- 51:20Speaker 1: or finished. But I also could have very easily just
- 51:22Speaker 1: finished him on the ground as well, but I didn't.
- 51:24Speaker 2: When so like when like Rogan and those guys talk
- 51:27Speaker 2: about going back to your feet, Like what is the
- 51:29Speaker 2: benefit of that other than being on your feet and
- 51:31Speaker 2: being like Mike's better on his feet stuff like that,
- 51:33Speaker 2: Like is there an extra ben like an added benefit?
- 51:35Speaker 1: Is it?
- 51:36Speaker 2: Is it that he's days and he's shaken up and
- 51:39Speaker 2: you're like making him stand up, and he's gonna have
- 51:40Speaker 2: to fight.
- 51:41Speaker 1: Without all that. Yeah, So I mean conventional wisdom, And
- 51:45Speaker 1: every fight's a little bit different, every scenario is different
- 51:47Speaker 1: depending on my attributes and his attributes. But conventional wisdom
- 51:51Speaker 1: would say, Okay, he just got dropped. I dropped him
- 51:53Speaker 1: with the left hook, hit him a couple of times.
- 51:55Speaker 1: He's on the he's on the ground, he's kind of
- 51:57Speaker 1: like dazed. I saw the way he was looking at me,
- 51:59Speaker 1: kind of was looking at me like a deer in
- 52:00Speaker 1: the headlights. So to me, I say, I'm going in
- 52:03Speaker 1: for the kill. I'm gonna knock him out on the ground.
- 52:04Speaker 1: But I also could have just backed off, said come up.
- 52:07Speaker 1: He would have stood up, probably would have been a
- 52:09Speaker 1: little bit wobbly. And if I landed a couple shots,
- 52:11Speaker 1: my power punches on the feet were going to be
- 52:14Speaker 1: more effective than the power punches on the bottom. But
- 52:17Speaker 1: I also had I also had the film study that
- 52:20Speaker 1: said he'd been finished, he'd been finished on the ground before,
- 52:23Speaker 1: and if Paul Felder can finish him on the floor
- 52:25Speaker 1: or other guys can finish him on the floor, I
- 52:26Speaker 1: could definitely finish him on the floor. So I think
- 52:29Speaker 1: that's where I thought, Okay, I can finish him on
- 52:31Speaker 1: the ground, or if I don't, I go back to
- 52:33Speaker 1: my stool confidence of sky high. He starts to wilt
- 52:36Speaker 1: and that's where I thought we were, and that's pretty
- 52:38Speaker 1: much where we were. But he just you know, landed
- 52:40Speaker 1: something in the second round, and you know, I fight
- 52:42Speaker 1: it out.
- 52:43Speaker 2: Yeah, and then at the end of the first obviously
- 52:45Speaker 2: you went back in at the just the last like
- 52:47Speaker 2: five seconds, try to getting back in there. But is
- 52:49Speaker 2: there a thought too, like fuck, I should have I
- 52:51Speaker 2: should have backed up and stood up. Not in the fight,
- 52:53Speaker 2: there wasn't but now now looking back at it. But
- 52:55Speaker 2: that's that's the unfortunate thing about this too. You can
- 52:59Speaker 2: always after.
- 53:00Speaker 1: You lose, lose. We all know what you should could.
- 53:04Speaker 1: We could have done this, and maybe it would have
- 53:05Speaker 1: been different. Or I could have done that, and maybe
- 53:07Speaker 1: it would have been different.
- 53:08Speaker 2: So the wood I should have could have such a
- 53:10Speaker 2: such a tough game to play, and I try not
- 53:12Speaker 2: to play it too much anymore because I also I
- 53:14Speaker 2: trust myself.
- 53:15Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I if I didn't I knew,
- 53:19Speaker 1: I knew I did everything that I possibly could to
- 53:21Speaker 1: be successful that night. Yeah, to have no regrets. And
- 53:24Speaker 1: then I also know that I trust myself to be
- 53:26Speaker 1: in the fire. I trust myself, like you know, if say,
- 53:30Speaker 1: he doesn't finish me with that flurry and I'm like
- 53:32Speaker 1: hurt or whatnot. I trust myself.
- 53:34Speaker 2: I know myself to go into autopilot, don't and I
- 53:38Speaker 2: don't get finished, and I would have been able to
- 53:40Speaker 2: fight for twenty twenty more minutes and I would have
- 53:41Speaker 2: won the fight.
- 53:42Speaker 1: I truly believe that. But you know, the fight happened
- 53:44Speaker 1: how it happened. But I don't know. I trust myself
- 53:47Speaker 1: to make the decision right, to make those decisions in
- 53:50Speaker 1: the heat of the moment. Yeah, and uh, you know,
- 53:52Speaker 1: so I wouldn't say that I made a bad decision.
- 53:54Speaker 1: I think I made a decision, and I think, uh,
- 53:57Speaker 1: you know, now we get to you know, play would have,
- 53:59Speaker 1: should have could if we want to for sure, you know,
- 54:01Speaker 1: And I don't say that like we should or shouldn't.
- 54:03Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's all I'm curious, what's going on.
- 54:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just curious what's going on in your mind,
- 54:07Speaker 2: like as the stuff plays out, because you know, I'm
- 54:09Speaker 2: thinking in times where I should have made a different decision,
- 54:13Speaker 2: you know, I'll sit on the bench or something like
- 54:15Speaker 2: I should have done this, Like next time I'll get
- 54:16Speaker 2: to see it. Obviously we get more opportunities to see
- 54:18Speaker 2: it again. But like I'm just curious of the athlete,
- 54:21Speaker 2: and you like when you get to the to the
- 54:23Speaker 2: end of that first round, you're like, I should have
- 54:24Speaker 2: just stood this dude up. Obviously you're thinking, I'm all
- 54:27Speaker 2: whoop his ass in the second round. We all everyone's
- 54:29Speaker 2: excited going into that second no matter what I mean.
- 54:31Speaker 2: There was there was two ten eights on.
- 54:33Speaker 1: The scorecard and one ten nine on the scorecard, right,
- 54:35Speaker 1: so two of those two of those judges thought I
- 54:37Speaker 1: beat him bad enough to give him give me a
- 54:40Speaker 1: ten for sure. So so in that position, when you
- 54:43Speaker 1: get done with the first round, I'm going back to
- 54:44Speaker 1: the I'm going back to the stool, back to the corner,
- 54:46Speaker 1: you know, confidence hide. It's oh similar to if you
- 54:49Speaker 1: mess up on the first down, you're not thinking about
- 54:52Speaker 1: the first down, going to the second down. Third, you
- 54:54Speaker 1: finish the drive, maybe you go back to the bench.
- 54:57Speaker 1: Then you think about what I could have done differently,
- 54:59Speaker 1: Like me, that's more after the fight. Now, It's like
- 55:02Speaker 1: whereas when I went back to the stool. I'm just
- 55:04Speaker 1: listening to my coach. Coach Henry's in front of me,
- 55:06Speaker 1: Coach Comed's behind me. We're talking about this, that and
- 55:08Speaker 1: the other thing. Keep it simple. Fight's going great, fight's
- 55:11Speaker 1: going just you know fine. I mean, at this point,
- 55:14Speaker 1: the best grappler on the planet took my back, wasn't
- 55:16Speaker 1: able to finish me. And even even better, I reversed him,
- 55:19Speaker 1: did damage beat him up a little bit, was winning
- 55:22Speaker 1: the striking battle on the feats. I mean, it's the
- 55:24Speaker 1: fight was going great. So it's you know, at that point,
- 55:27Speaker 1: you're just you know yeah, because and.
- 55:29Speaker 2: If you end up winning that fight, no one's even
- 55:31Speaker 2: talking about the first round like you should have stood
- 55:32Speaker 2: him up. This is obviously all the hindsight, like fuck
- 55:35Speaker 2: the way you want to wake up from a dream
- 55:37Speaker 2: and be like, hey, is it going to get there?
- 55:38Speaker 1: Be redone?
- 55:40Speaker 2: But in the second round, man, because he barely he
- 55:44Speaker 2: barely caught you, and is it like lights get fuzzy
- 55:50Speaker 2: for a second, and it was such a quick turnaround
- 55:52Speaker 2: that you're just like, I just gotta get I just
- 55:53Speaker 2: gotta quickly get back, like you said, and get back
- 55:56Speaker 2: on this siddle pilot before he because you almost get
- 55:58Speaker 2: fucking out and he just catches you with that left
- 56:01Speaker 2: hand to end it.
- 56:03Speaker 1: Yeah, talk talk talk us through that. Yeah, I mean,
- 56:05Speaker 1: it's it's all you know, it's it's all fuzzy, you know,
- 56:09Speaker 1: more than anything. But I mean yeah, I mean, I
- 56:10Speaker 1: I remember, you remember getting hit. I mean, and I
- 56:13Speaker 1: can also go back and watch the replay. So then
- 56:15Speaker 1: when you watch the replay and then you think, you
- 56:16Speaker 1: try to close your eyes and think, Okay, what did
- 56:18Speaker 1: I actually see in the fight? You know, you get clipped,
- 56:21Speaker 1: and then you're you know, then you're just then you're
- 56:23Speaker 1: just moving, you're evading, you're trying to you just going.
- 56:26Speaker 1: You go into survival mode, because I mean, there's there's
- 56:28Speaker 1: the moments in the fight where you go into survival
- 56:30Speaker 1: mode and you survive, and then you go into survival
- 56:31Speaker 1: mode and you don't survive like this last one. I
- 56:33Speaker 1: didn't obviously, but I've been in those positions before where
- 56:37Speaker 1: you got to go from I'm either you know, you're
- 56:38Speaker 1: either extreme offense or your defense or your survival mode.
- 56:42Speaker 1: In this in this particular fight, I went, you know,
- 56:44Speaker 1: kind of survival mode. You're you're fuzzy, you don't know
- 56:46Speaker 1: which way is up, your your equilibriums off, and you
- 56:49Speaker 1: just you know you're there, but you're not really there.
- 56:53Speaker 1: And then before you know it, he runs away, and
- 56:55Speaker 1: you're like, dang, fights over.
- 56:56Speaker 2: Huh yeah, You're like refs right here, and you're like, well,
- 56:59Speaker 2: I could argue with this, but I probably shouldn't argue
- 57:01Speaker 2: with the stoppage because this guy knows what he did.
- 57:02Speaker 1: I want to make an idiot of myself, you know,
- 57:04Speaker 1: because we've all been there before, too, are we all?
- 57:06Speaker 1: We all have as fans have been like why is
- 57:09Speaker 1: he contesting that? Stop? But she was a getting beat
- 57:11Speaker 1: up or b he tapped, And there's been fights where
- 57:14Speaker 1: guys have tapped out completely. The guy gets up and
- 57:16Speaker 1: runs away and then the guy's like, why'd you stop
- 57:18Speaker 1: the fight? And you're like, dude, you did you you tapped?
- 57:20Speaker 1: You do not remember tapping. You were obviously out, you know.
- 57:23Speaker 1: So that's the hard part too, is it's and and
- 57:25Speaker 1: even and I actually do I'm blessed that I actually
- 57:28Speaker 1: got to get on the mic after the fight and
- 57:30Speaker 1: Joe came over, because sometimes Joe doesn't do that, and
- 57:33Speaker 1: sometimes they don't interview the guy who lost, especially after
- 57:37Speaker 1: a t K or something like that that because there's
- 57:39Speaker 1: been guys who are like mumbling and humbling, they're like,
- 57:42Speaker 1: you know, they're kind of they're still out and they
- 57:44Speaker 1: don't really remember what they're saying or they're saying talking incoherently,
- 57:47Speaker 1: and that's not good for the sport. That's not good
- 57:49Speaker 1: for like Joe. Joe has like gone back on his
- 57:52Speaker 1: podcast after on a Monday after a Saturday fight, like, yeah, man,
- 57:55Speaker 1: I shouldn't have interviewed that guy. You know, that was
- 57:58Speaker 1: that was my bad. I should have just cut it right,
- 58:00Speaker 1: you know, cut it. And they said, you know, in
- 58:02Speaker 1: my ear, they said, interview him. I just knew he
- 58:04Speaker 1: was messed up. He stumbled over me. I shouldn't have
- 58:05Speaker 1: done that, because that's just not only is a tough spot.
- 58:09Speaker 1: You know, the guy just got his hopes and dreams
- 58:11Speaker 1: and heart ripped out, but he's also maybe he's not
- 58:14Speaker 1: there coherently. But for me, you know, I was able
- 58:18Speaker 1: to get on the mic and I set my piece
- 58:20Speaker 1: and shout out to you know, Olvera, no free shouts.
- 58:25Speaker 1: He's the world champ, you know, and and you know,
- 58:28Speaker 1: tap hat tip to him and let people know I'll
- 58:31Speaker 1: be back. And it's you know, it's all part of it.
- 58:33Speaker 1: Do you know who you think you might be fighting?
- 58:35Speaker 1: I don't like who would be on your radar, Like
- 58:38Speaker 1: I don't know people stone around Gaigee people obviously what's
- 58:42Speaker 1: gonna happen after Connor and Pourier fight and like maybe
- 58:46Speaker 1: the loser of that or something like that, Like who
- 58:48Speaker 1: are people that would be on the radar for you?
- 58:50Speaker 1: Well that would make that you think in your mind
- 58:52Speaker 1: would make sense for you and possibly the UFC. Yeah,
- 58:56Speaker 1: I mean essentially anybody in the top five makes sense.
- 58:59Speaker 1: You know. It's this The division moves so fast. The
- 59:03Speaker 1: sport moves so fast. I mean, that's what even with
- 59:05Speaker 1: the UFC brass you know, talk to them after the
- 59:08Speaker 1: fight and they're just like, hey, man, keep your head up,
- 59:09Speaker 1: keep working, man. This sport moves fast. It's what have
- 59:12Speaker 1: you done for me lately? Business? You're only as good
- 59:14Speaker 1: as your last fight. But when your world class and
- 59:17Speaker 1: you're in the top five, your world class, and you're
- 59:18Speaker 1: in the top five, and there's a I've only fought
- 59:21Speaker 1: Dan Hooker and Charles Olivera at this point, Like you said,
- 59:23Speaker 1: there's there's Poorier, there's get Chee, there's Connor, there's Ferguson,
- 59:27Speaker 1: but Neil dry Yush is now in the top five.
- 59:28Speaker 1: There's so there's there's no no shortage of guys to fight.
- 59:33Speaker 1: But at this point, obviously Connor and Poitier a fighting
- 59:36Speaker 1: July tenth. We could see who the winner or the
- 59:38Speaker 1: loser of that is. You got Tony Ferguson and just lost,
- 59:40Speaker 1: but Neil dry USh who just came in. Traditionally, you know,
- 59:44Speaker 1: a guy who comes off a win fights a guy
- 59:46Speaker 1: who comes off a win, a guy who comes off
- 59:48Speaker 1: a loss fights a guy who comes off a loss,
- 59:49Speaker 1: and then one guy moves up and one guy continues
- 59:52Speaker 1: to move down. So I think, really any of those
- 59:55Speaker 1: names make sense. I mean, the only one that's kind
- 59:57Speaker 1: of a wild card is Connor, because Connor does Connor
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: does have a little bit more say than than most guys.
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: I think if Connor, if he loses this fight, though,
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: if he loses this fight, he's still not gonna fight me.
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: I think me and Connor don't. Me and Connor don't
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: match up well for him because he's a he's a striker,
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: and I could I could grapple the heck out him
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: if I wanted to. You know, like I think it's
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: a it's a bad fight for him, Whereas if I
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: was the champion and Connor won, Connor would go for
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: the title no matter what and fight, you know whatever,
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: like just like the fucking be But uh so, I
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: mean Gaetchee or if Poorier loses or Ferguson, you know,
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: like those Feruson just I mean he's getting old, yes,
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: but I mean but he's entertaining. Man. People love him.
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: People do love like people learn. At the press conference, man,
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: he broke out the greatest line of all time, freaking
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: Dana White privilege. It was freaking hilarious, dude. It's it
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: was like for the time that we live in, Like
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: you know, obviously that's somewhat of a negative connotation, the
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: whole white privilege thing, and like, but like the funniest
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: ship dude, Dana White privilege, Dana White. He's like, man,
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: you got this thing handed to you. Man, you got
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: Dana White privilege, and Dana just and I look up
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: at then I'm like, thanks, Dana. You know. It's just
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: so man, It's it's a it's a fun group of
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: it's I want to beat them all. I want to
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: fight them all. But like, it's a fun group of
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: guys to be in with. You know, we're we're gonna
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: have some fun the next couple of years. And I
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: just hope it culminates at some point with me fighting
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: for the world title again. And really all that all
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: that needs to happen is me win one, two three. However,
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: Membre fights, right, you show out the next fight, man,
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: show out, next fight. Continue to show that I'm world
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: class and why I'm here. And I mean, and that's
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: the thing too, when it's it's it's such a crazy
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: game of inches and you're fighting the best guys in
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: the entire world. So, yeah, I lost, but I lost
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: to the number three guy in the world. I lost
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: to the eventual world champion. You know. Yeah, so and
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: fight number twenty or I need to fight number fifteen.
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: It's like, no, okay, now I'll fight number four, and
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: I'll fight number two, or I'll fight number five, or
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: I'll fight you know, I'm number four. I'll probably still
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: be you know, I'll probably still be number three or
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: four when the rankings come out on Tuesday tomorrow. Oh
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: so we'll know tomorrow, Yeah, pretty much. I mean, you
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: lost to the eventual champion with a ten eight round.
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: Well that's the thing too, I mean, you know what
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: I mean, It's not like like if you lost the
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: world champion on a ten a first round. Yeah, there's
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: some people out there who were like, hey, immediate rematches
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: go Chandler Oliver too right away. I mean that that's
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: a possibility. Do I think that's gonna happen. But if
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: I got Dana White privilege, I mean, hey, we need
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: that Dana White privilege. Baby for the running Beast is
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: just a joke. Like the people freaking mma fans are
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: gonna hate me. This guy we hate from the beginning,
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: and this is why we hate him now tomorrow night,
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: he's just scrolling on a Twitter and Instagram and he
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: just sees that one clip. Hey, if I get that
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: Dana White privilege, and that's all it is.
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: Well at this point, Saint, you just got to run
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: with it, man. You know it's I mean, especially something
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: like that, there's there's a little bit of the you
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: know thing happening when the world with that. And then
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: there's also the Dana White's last name and it was
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: said by a guy named Tony by the guy liked
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: when he Ferguson.
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: It's you know, it's all part of it. But I mean,
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: I think the general thread and not even if I
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: just take myself out of it, and I just look
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: at my body of work coming into the UFC, and
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: then what I did. We just got done, Sam and
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: I came out hot. I did everything that was asked
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: to me. I showed up like the blue collar Midwest
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: kid with the work boots on, just like my dad.
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: Just I showed up with my work boots on. When
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: the phone rang, I said yes one time, two times,
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: three times every single time they called, and two or
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: three other times whenever guys didn't take the fight. I
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: was supposed to fight Tony ferguson October twenty fourth, he
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: said no. I was supposed to fight Dustin Pooria October
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: twenty fourth, he said no. It was supposed to fight
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: Tony ferguson January twenty third. He said no. And then
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: even when I beat Dan Hooker January twenty third, they said, hey,
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: do you want to be the co main event against
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: Charles olivera February thirteenth, And I said yes. I was
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: at Cane Prime here in Nashville. I had a stake
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: in front of me. I had a glass of wine.
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: Got no free shouts to cap I'm m Street. All
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: the restaurants are there, fucking create so and I stopped
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: eating my stake right there. I said, check please, we'll
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: take it. We'll take it to go box. I was
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: on a date with my wife. Hunter Campbell called and said, hey,
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: do you would you do this? And I said yes?
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: And then Charles Oliver eventually turned it down. It was
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: it was on three weeks notice. I was going to
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: fight Charles Oliver in February thirteen. So these are all
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: just the things that have happened six yes. So these
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: are the things that have happened outside of this, the
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: fights that I've actually had that that I think I
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: was rewarded for. That's why I got the title shot.
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: You know. It's you've always stayed ready, stayed ready, And
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: the UFC is the biggest and baddest promotion on the planet,
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: and they keep things moving very fast in a forward trajectory.
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: And if you're on the on board with them, if
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: you're on the wagon with them moving forward, and you're
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: going to say yes, You're going to be rewarded for
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: it and it and it you got to be a
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: good employee first. You know you're a good employee. First
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: you get put in a great position. And this is
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- 1:04:59Speaker 1: for your weight class, and a good ambassador for yourself,
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- 1:06:44Speaker 2: that was that was Thank you, low man. You went
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: low with the I tried that little undertoned voice, you
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- 1:07:17Speaker 1: What do we got?
- 1:07:18Speaker 3: Uh?
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: What do we have?
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: Alex?
- 1:07:19Speaker 2: You have?
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: You have some stuff popped up? Did we have any
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: fan questions? Any good ones? Any good videos? Comments? I
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: need to leave in a few minutes. What time? Yeah,
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: what time it's on? It's two fourteen. I gotta be
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: there by too. Oh yeah yeah, yeah. One one question
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: with him and hey daddy, dude, you man, dude. I
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: know one day morning took cap the school, hit the sauna,
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: did the bus? How often do you go to the
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: YMC and hit that sauna? Uh? Just depends, I mean often. Oh. Actually,
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: the sauna just now got back open from COVID. Now
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: is it a It's not an infrared, it's straight hot song,
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: war dish and sauna and then there's a steam room
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: as well. Would love to join you one Dreen Hills,
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: Let's go bro. Yeah.
- 1:07:54Speaker 2: I was looking into going yesterday, but they were closed
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: by the time I got home because I drove back
- 1:07:58Speaker 2: from Missouri and uh, I wanted to sit in the
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: ols on and sweat everything out for the weekends and
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: partying hard for the boy for the boy.
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: But uh, but yeah, I would love to join you.
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: It's so whenever you go this week, just let me
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: know when you're gonna good. What do we have here?
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: Jacob Jacob Schaffner.
- 1:08:16Speaker 3: The boys shout out to go Michael Chandler. So I
- 1:08:19Speaker 3: got two questions, one for the boys, one for Michael Chandler.
- 1:08:22Speaker 3: For Michael, what's the difference in like a UFC title
- 1:08:26Speaker 3: fight and a Bellator title fight? And how was that
- 1:08:30Speaker 3: preparing in the atmosphere like in Houston? And what do
- 1:08:35Speaker 3: you think, well, you'll change or do something different at
- 1:08:38Speaker 3: all if you do anything for your next title fight
- 1:08:41Speaker 3: in the UFC, because they obviously know you're going to
- 1:08:44Speaker 3: be back, no doubt, greatest ever. And then for the boys,
- 1:08:49Speaker 3: do you think you'll ever do one of those celebrity
- 1:08:52Speaker 3: boxing matches like the Paul brothers are doing, and if so,
- 1:08:56Speaker 3: do you think Taylor could kick Logan Paul's ass? Maybe,
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: maybe not, but that's just the questions. Shout out to
- 1:09:03Speaker 3: the boys, Love you Taylor and Will I guess you're.
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: My dad's but see you at the top. Yes to
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: see you at the time. Shout out Jacob Schefner. Thanks
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: Jacob Man. A great question because I obviously fought the
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: majority of my career in Bellator, you know the number
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: two organization, and the UFC has been around the longest.
- 1:09:23Speaker 1: I would say the biggest difference is I I won
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: three world titles in Bellator, fought for the world title
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: numerous times, defended the title numerous times, and they were
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: in big crowds. They were in big arenas, the atmosphere
- 1:09:37Speaker 1: was big. But this time was different because everybody knows,
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: or if you don't know, you're you're kidding yourself. Fighting
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: for the UFC title means you are the number one
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: guy in the world, no ifans or butts, that's just
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: it's just how it is. So when I was stood
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: across the octagon from Charles Olivera, I knew the winner
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: of this was become the number one guy in the world,
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: and if I won, I was going to be not
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: just the UFC World champion, but the world champion, the
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: number one guy in the world. So I wouldn't say
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: there was that pressure, but there was that confident expectancy
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: of the excitement of what it was going to be
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: had I won the fight, and then really just you know,
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: as we've talked about, the UFC is just a well
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: oiled machine. The UFC has quarterbacked and championed the entire sport,
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: the entire industry, and built it into what it is. Essentially,
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: the other organizations there's about three or four other major
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: organizations outside of the UFC. They can all just show
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: up to venues put on shows, and they don't have
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: to do a ton of promotion because the UFC is
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: putting on so such big shows, touching every corner of
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: the globe, putting so much money into marketing and building
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: the sport that really all the other organizations can just
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: show up and throw fights and they'll do decently well
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: because the UFC is building the sports. Right, That's very
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: apparent when you're there, is.
- 1:10:54Speaker 2: It pretty dope? When Bruce Buffer is just going off
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: introducing you. You know what I mean, Like you're like,
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: I'm in his fucking ring. He's introducing me.
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: It's it's dope, and and and even it even just
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: some like you know, I I started watching. My teammate
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: was on the first guy on the card, the first
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: fight of the card, the dude that was a fucking
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: banger fight. Yeah great, this guy named Sean Soriano. And
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: and I was watching the fight, and then they'd say, Okay,
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: now that this fight is over, let's turn turn our
- 1:11:21Speaker 1: eyes to what's gonna happen later tonight. And then it
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: was like Chandler and Olivera and like and it's I
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: I've watched so many UFC pay per views, and I've
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: watched the pre limbs getting pumped up to watch the fights.
- 1:11:31Speaker 1: But this time they were talking about me. And I
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: was in my hotel room and in the window behind
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: me was the Toyota Center right back there, a couple
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: of hundred yards away, where I was about to report
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: just a couple hours later, to go do handle business
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: and go fight for the title that they are talking
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: about on my computer screen right now. So it was
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: just it was cool, man, it's and Bruce Buffer and
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: and they did the they did the blackout completely with
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: the the lights around. Yeah, I mean, which I've seen
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: on on TV on the pay per views, and but
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: this time it was me inside the get inside the
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: out gun and and I just I rose to the occasion.
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: I lost the fight, but I rose to the occasion.
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: I had a fight. I did everything I could. I
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: didn't feel I felt like I was where I was
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: supposed to be. Man, Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of this freaking sport.
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: Man.
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: You just you take your losses. You take the wins.
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: You never you never you never take the wins for
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: granted because they aren't that easy to come by. And
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: you definitely don't take the UFC title fight, the title
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: shot for granted because those are hard to come by too.
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: So I believe we'll get another one eventually, but we'll see.
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming, bro. I know you got to
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: go be a dad. Gotta go be a dad. Man
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: back to daddy, dude. That's good man, this is what
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: I want to be though. Hey what do what do you?
- 1:12:40Speaker 2: What do you uh you think Dana? The way Jake
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: paul Or calls out Dana wife for not paying fighters.
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: I man, I I don't know Dana pays me?
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: Well, yeah, so, I.
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: You know, we're we're always gonna complain about, don't we all,
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: Like there's guys in the NFL.
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: You want to make more money, like we all want
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: to make more money. We all and get I get MMA,
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: and the UFC is a little bit different because we
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: don't have a player's association or a union or whatnot.
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: But we also just started what twenty eight twenty nine
- 1:13:09Speaker 1: years ago, so we're still in our infancy as far
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: as the sport goes. Man, as far as I'm concerned,
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: the UFC has champion and quarterback the entire industry. And
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: the only reason that we were able to make a
- 1:13:21Speaker 1: paycheck whatsoever is because of the sleepless nights and the
- 1:13:24Speaker 1: hard work that Dana White and the Fertida brothers who
- 1:13:27Speaker 1: started the UFC bought it for two million dollars, right,
- 1:13:30Speaker 1: they just sold it for like six billion dollars a
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: while back. Now we're owned by William Morrison Devor and
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: just to see the growth of the industry. So I mean,
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: that's that's just the way that Jake Paul, Jake Paul
- 1:13:41Speaker 1: especially Yeah, it seems too right, It seems too outside
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: of anything monetary, like the UFC is like a first
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: class in absolutely everything that doesn't have the whole monetary
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: Like obviously there's arguments for the you know, I made
- 1:13:54Speaker 1: this boxing like.
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: All the fighters in the UFC get this, But as
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: far as everything else in the total package, it just
- 1:13:59Speaker 2: seems like it is one of the premier organizations to
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: be a part of.
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: Oh for sure. That and and then the other thing
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: too is we can't we can't point our finger at
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: our promoter, when really we should be pointing our finger
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: at the man in the mirror who is not. You
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: can monetize yourself, your brand, your voice, your platform, your
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: your sales. You can with with the platform that the
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: USC gives you, you can become a millionaire outside of
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: your fight purses with the promotion and the platform that
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: they give you. Unequivocally, especially some of these guys. Look
- 1:14:30Speaker 1: where just look where my following has gone just in
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: the last couple of months, and I've only had two
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: fights in the UFC. And if I want to monetize that,
- 1:14:37Speaker 1: if I want to start a podcast, if I want
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: to write, you know, I mean I can, I can
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: read ads pretty dark. You can that the first Yeah,
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: the fighter and the bloy, you know, so no free
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: shouts to the fighter and the brand that hast you know.
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: But you can monetize a brand. You can build a brand,
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: and you can make money outside of just your fight person.
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: So if you're mad at your promoter because you're not paid,
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: not getting paid enough inside the octagon, well take it
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: upon yourself to take the the attention that you can
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: grab from every single one of these fights and monetize it.
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: So that's my two cents. But I'm also a bootstraps.
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: You know. The man in the mirror is the guy
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: who needs to do the work, not the other people
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: kind of guy anyway, So that's okay. Who can read good?
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: I can read pretty yeah, pretty good, man. I appreciate you, bro,
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: thank you for having yeah go pick up when lose
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: your draw. We were coming on the bus, I know.
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: And now that you're I heard, you're gonna be in
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: town for a couple months. Like that's boys can hang, man,
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: boys can hang. And you know, if Taylor gets sick, man,
- 1:15:34Speaker 1: you put me around here, I won't hesitate it. I
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: won't hesitate. I don't have the mustache, but I could
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: we can figure something out about one hundred pounds less
- 1:15:40Speaker 1: than him. Yeah, one hundred and fifty pounds less. Yeah,
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: let's do that math. But appreciate you boys. Thanks boys
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: for having me. I appreciate it.
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