Transcript for #871 - Brendan Schaub

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Yeah, the best coffee, sir. Oh, is that an abacimite fight club? Oh, it sure is.

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Let's try and put stuff. Can we get into that? Let's talk about just fine. Yeah, nobody nobody nobody's talking about politics these days. Thank God, so an important thing we should bring it up because it's not like I went on a few celebrities Twitter pages and I was like, oh, they're freaking out. They're not just freaking out. They won't shut the fuck up about it.

None stop. And half of it is almost like I think like they want everyone to know that they're upset. They want everyone to know that they're one of the upset people. They're not one of the make America great again people.

This is one female comic. I go to her page every now and then. I don't know what it looked like. I didn't say it.

Well, you know, there's two ways to look at it. There's one way that people say they have a voice. And if they have a voice, it needs to get, you know, they need to use that voice to get the word out.

Right, but make me laugh. She would call herself a bitch. Yeah, you know I'm saying this back in the day she would. Yeah, I mean she's like way more She's way more like political and feminist now than ever before if you go back to the old Amy Schumer that was on like OPEN Anthony she wasn't into that at all she was she was like one of the guys that was like her selling point

Right. Well, if it is, you've got to be really funny. Like if you have like an anti Donald Trump joke, that's fine. For sure. But it's got to be funny. It's got to be just, there's no room for that. Like it used to be that comics could have like these rants where they made like really important points inside of fun and it wouldn't be funny and people kind of accepted it. But that's what a podcast is for. Sure. This is a new world. We live in a new world. I go to an action movie. I don't go to an action movie to get a massage. You call a sudden when you're in the action movie someone comes over a massage. Do you relax? Do you need to relax? You need to be less tense because you're really concerned about this. Action film is really not relevant.

Yeah, that was Mark. That was a great funny time for it.

He's a master He's a master. He's the best. And he's also a very sincere person. Like one of the things that is driving me crazy about a lot of this tweeting and craziness like I was in New York City for the fights and I mean my friend Cam Haynes went to the gym and the young Jamie was there too. But you weren't with us when we were stuck in the in the swarm of humans, which is me and Cam. We got to the gym, no problem. But on our way back, the protest had marched through the area that we walked through. And all of a sudden, we couldn't go anywhere. It was just jammed with people. So you're literally shoulder to shoulder with people. Like, just everybody's touching everybody. They're just, you had to deal with it. There was nothing to do with it. Which is one of the reasons why I've found you pack a so important folks, because you keep your money in your front. Okay, nobody's pickpocketed. You know what I can do? They've been ripped up. My shirt goes over that sentence. I'm gonna know. I'm gonna mention it to get that it's gonna take some work because pick packets do go to those things. You need to be aware if you're one of those super lefties. It looks like going down straight.

So while we're walking this one guy with this perfectly manicured beard, he had a really nice like wool jacket on. He was obviously like a wealthy liberal character and he's screaming out.

And part of me wanted to go, hey man, could you just like, if you want to go in the protest, the protest is in the street. Like you're on the sidewalk. This isn't the protest. This is a lie, sir. This is some non-committal shit you're doing here. Like if you want to pee out in, you'll be all in. But he's like doing drive-by's. He's like a walk-by screaming protest. But does it really do anything? He saw black eye in the distance. I swear to guy, he starts going.

What my friend Michael Sherman likes to call virtue signaling. That's what it does. He's peacocking his virtue.

There was a woman with a sign that said, rape Melania. Jesus. Yeah, and apparently that's right. They're about writing that thing out. Crazy. Here we go. It's a hashtag on Twitter now. Here's why it's crazy. Here's what's crazy. Twitter allows that hashtag Twitter doesn't allow Hillary for prison. What? Check that. Make sure that's correct. Because that's what I've been reading.

Will you hashtag Hillary for prison? Look if there's any tweets. And then hashtag that's free. There's pictures of people with those signs. I don't think it's just one person, and there's a bunch of people who used it, who call themselves like, as if somehow or another, if Donald Trump is a misogynist, somehow or another, the way to get him back is to rape his wife, or even to suggest raping his wife.

Okay, um, well, they might be in it since unless that's maybe they banned it before. No, maybe this guy doesn't know what he's talking about and I just read some nonsense. Maybe I just read some nonsense. I got to read some nonsense.

There was so many so many angry angry people

Did you see the fucking signs that people have made, some artist made for, you know, those benches for bus station benches where they have the billboard in the back of it for real estate sales? Yeah. It's a real estate sale and it's all these people who said they're going to leave the country. It's their face like one of them share. It's awesome. I think Amy Schumer's got one of them too. Everyone says that you're not doing shit. Yeah, I'm going in. Let me said she was going to move to Spain. But she's a fucking comedian. She's like, I guess I'm wearing Spanish. You know, that's just like what a comedian would say. You know, people freak out. People are how mad. But what she said is like, you know, you're just as disgusting as the people who voted. The people who actually expect me to move or just as disgusting as the people who voted for that anti-gay woman, hate or whatever, whatever, whatever, she called them. But series of insults.

Meanwhile, here's what you need to understand if you don't agree by the way. If you do want to move to Canada, when you move to Canada, you realize that Canada has a very similar immigration policy to what Donald Trump is proposing. It's very strict. It's incredibly difficult to immigrate to Canada. You don't just do it like that. You don't just go over there and also and you live there. I mean, maybe for Amy's show when you got some cash.

No, you know, it's it's essentially very similar to what Donald Trump is proposing. Like, here's the thing about Canada and I love Canada. By the way, I'm a huge fan. They're like some of my favorite people in the world. When you go to Canada, if you have a drunk driving thing on your record, you can't get in. They fucking send you home. Habits all the time.

when he was younger. And I believe he was arrested, but no charges were filed and was all dropped. It was one of those, you know, there's a brawl and he was a part of it and he got arrested with a couple of other people. No big deal. There's something a young guy did. He's up there to fucking do just for laughs and they flag him for it. Turn them around. Yeah. Eddie Bravo went up there. Eddie Bravo legally was carrying a gun legally. Well, because he was, no, no, what's going to mean? He was working for a cast checking business. This is way back in the day before I even met him. And Eddie used to have to carry around large sums of cash. And he had a license to carry a pistol because of that. So he gets pulled over for like speeding or something. and he tells the cop, he goes, hey man, just so you know, I work for a check, check cash in company and I carry large sums of cash and I have a pistol and it's loaded and it's in the car. And the guy goes, okay, we'll step out of the car, give me all your paperwork and this down. I'm gonna have to handcuff you while we check this out. So they check it out, they go, yep, you're all good, they let them go. So nothing, right? No charges, nothing. They're just carrying the pistol legally. Every time he goes to Canada, it comes up, damn. Dude, he got so bad, then we would go to Canada, I would ditch him. I would just stand there and I didn't want to get pulled into immigration if I said I was we'll know if I said I was with him they pull me into immigration too. I got stuck there. Dude, I got stuck there for a fucking hour and a half once.

He's my brother. Anybody think I don't love Eddie, you're crazy. I agree. Whatever nutty things that he believes that I don't believe, I don't give a fuck. I love that.

Yes, do you see the latest one he's putting on Twitter about some up? It's grainy footage that looks like it was invented back when the fucking wheel was invented. It's grainy footage of some guy talking about some sex parties. They used to have what children used to

Say, Tannit Colts. When you see shit like eyes wide shut though, don't you want to know like you hear about this skull and bone stuff? These do it Yale. Yeah, it's just real. Yeah, that is real. It's like, I wonder if you grow up in the Hamptons or you live in like one of those crazy Connecticut towns where all those super billionaire hedge fund characters live and all their kids go to the private schools that get sent to these big fucking universities and you get pledged to a fraternity because your dad was in it and you know, there's a lot of that shit going on.

That's like the leaps. That's just the skulls. That might be a skulls.

We would never know. Yeah, there's no anybody thinks we're getting in on the loom party Just I could accuse of that so much because of the flat earth people the flat earth people believe I'm I'm a page show. I know I get it.

It would be hilarious if there really was a sort of giant organization that was paying people off to lie about the earth being flat. That would be amazing. If we were able to keep it that hush hush, if the world was flat, this whole time, and all these people that claim to be flying around it in a big circle, like people have navigated the globe in a plane, they've flown over it in a plane. They're all in on it. They're all getting to everyone's in it. We go over their house for our remains to go. Everybody's party and like would you get on this money shut the fuck up dude shut up just from just from a boat going around the world.

It's all flat earth money. Flat earth denial money, huge This is the world that he probably lives in. He hasn't quite gone flat earth. Flat earth pulls him back.

He did. He did. But he went dinosaurs aren't real.

Well, not only that all the footage of NASA, all the NASA footage is fake.

Right, right up here to ping your candy. The thing is, though, if you know Eddie and he's a fun dude, and half of this stuff is because he enjoys it. He enjoys looking at conspiracies just like, and look, some of them are true, right? True. That's the problem.

He's so bald deep in it conspiracies that it's hard for him to Yeah, it's like what's now a bald deep that he's bent over Close pin and his his like his ankles are in yeah, he's like his body. What is this? That's a nice tower be ashamed of someone knocked it out. Is this recently?

Well, here's my take on a lot of this shit. There's not that much time. You don't have much time. You have 24 hours in the day and you've got to sleep for 8. So that's not a lot of time for me. And if I go down these goddamn fucking rabbit holes that shit will take forever, I've done it with legitimate things. I've done it with, you know, like archeological fucking discoveries where I'll just start reading up on some crazy temple that they found in Cambodia. I'm two and a half hours later, I'm, you know, researching this. I'm like, I gotta shit to do. I got shit to do. It's like for me to do that about ghosts.

Yeah, I'll try to get us into one during the last fight companion. He tried to put one on. Dude, it's only five minutes. I can't. I can't. I can't do it. I don't have it in me. I don't have it in me. I forget what that one was about. Something about money or something. Or tower set. He loves it. He loves us. He loves us. It's a sport to him. But you know, it's what he's into. Yeah. I don't have time anymore. That in people, oh, he fucking told. No, bro, fucking told. So no, no, sir. No. If you solve the Kennedy assassination, it will not help your life.

You're going to about 600 views so far when we can get it out there.

Just two days ago. Well, it's about 10 in the assassination one. I'm like, I can't simply do it anymore. Can't do it. And if they do figure it out, it would be interesting. But I don't see how they could. I think they're never gonna get past where they're at right now. There's like some evidence. There's some non-evidence. There's some speculation. There's some, there's that, there's a pruder footage. There's some shit.

There's not enough evidence right now, like current physical evidence.

Yeah, they wouldn't do it anyway, because who are you going to try?

All right, it still doesn't bring him back. It's also fucking weird. Because we know the government does a bunch of fucked up things. We know they do, but it's spending time trying to figure it out. That's what I was thinking when I saw Trump sitting next to Obama. I wonder if Obama told him how much work he has to actually do. That's why he looks so fucked up. Because Trump was sitting next to Obama and he was just, he looked like Jesus Christ. He looked like, like, he was like, what?

Surprise. It's scope. Goddamn. Well, it's like you have a hundred jobs. This is does a reason why they're age so hard.

Well, man, if you want to look at the bright cloud, If there's any bright cloud about Donald Trump being an office, is that he doesn't, he's an outsider, a complete outsider. He's been a politics guy. And so we'll get to see just by watching them like sort of do get out what shape they take. You know, we'll get to see like what, what's, what's, we'll get a better view of the mechanism behind the machine than the Hillary Clinton was an office.

Yeah. Well, that's what's going to be interesting, too, is that here I'm talking, complaining about that and seeing what happens. Yep. And it's going to be interesting. We've got a culture battle going on right now, too. Like all those people marching down the street, screaming, not my president. Not my president.

Well, he's the, you know, you don't like get, you don't, the president doesn't become yours. So it's not yours.

So look at me. Do you say my president? Do you say my president? Do you say my president? I do. You do? No, I don't. My president. I show up though, president. Yeah, he's the president. Yeah, not my president. And there's an whole new world of my own.

What? I don't know, man. It's probably, look, I think this is what I've been saying. We go like this and we go like that. We go right and we go left. And this is how people always have. They go back and forth. The country goes back and forth. Try it one way we don't like it. They said he was supposed to be at UFC 205. Well, the sun was there.

So they're not bad looking, right?

There's one who's ballin'. The one who's got the hair slick back. Darker hair? Hmm. What I'd have to see him. He's a nice dude. Is it was he cool? I've been actually, I knew him from a while ago. He's friends with the friend of mine. Oh really?

A whole thing is so crazy. So weird. It's so crazy. Looking at him up there. It's so crazy.

Who's that sheriff? That black sheriff that was the cowboy hat everywhere? Sheriff, uh, the houses got down there.

He's always, yes, yes, something Clark is his name Clark. He's a cute retired. Did he? Well, he's retired from like, fuck news. Dude's always on. What is it? David Clark is named David Clark, bro. Sheriff, David Clark. Eric Holder is the attorney general, you fuck. You're not American. Very American. How do you not know that? You don't know who air-colders. I don't dare you. I like to do that when I know someone or other people don't know. How the fuck do you not know that, bro? Yeah, he's a fucking character.

Right? He wears the hat. Actual Cowboy hat. That's it. There's a crazy picture that he posted of Donald Trump winning the Ellis Island Award in 1989. Standing next to Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks. Damn. It was award for contributing to the conditions of inner city black youths, standing alongside Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks. I don't want to talk about that.

I can't catch you though. I wanted to tell him man. Go on to the street, but I was worried.

Like you saw his vitriol was.

No, it's just to go to the, come on man. Go over there. Go over there, man. Go over there. Everybody's actually protesting.

There was no room to draw. It was just, it was so crazy how many people were there. It was just strange.

But it's, you know, the cops broke it up, like cops were screaming in shit. So it was like that being there at the weekends with the biggest fights in history. All of it was just so crazy. It was a that was a nutty scene man being there in the wands felt surreal It felt really like finally it's it happened Yeah, it was like it was crazy like the weight of the event was thick in the air It had this feel to it. It was very different than any other show we'd ever put together

I mean, you'll have big giant events for sure, but it'll never be like that because that was the last block of corruption. Correct. That was standing in front of the UFC, getting into New York.

The main event was almost, it was almost bizarre. It's almost bizarre how good corners. Right? Almost bizarre the way he picked apart Eddie Alvarez. Almost bizarre. Like magical. That's almost the word I want to use. Correct. Like he touches my other fuckers with that left hand.

Oh, he's already touched up a little bit when he finally went in for a shot and I just think Connor knew then also that he had him. And how calm was he? Ridiculous.

He kind of does a lot of like what Wonderboy does, but with less kicks. Like he throws kicks to the body, he'll throw like some front kicks. I mean, you know, like maybe 70% as many kicks. Wonderboy's a little more kick heavy, but it's that sideways style. And he's, but here I think he does it better. Like there's maybe something about the focus of the shots that he's landing, the precision of them. because Wonderboy very rarely touches somebody up like that with a punch. She just doesn't have that kind of power.

Well not only dad, he's like he's hitting him in a surprise way and he's not telegraphing in at all. His ability to go from bouncing around to launching that shot is so quick. It's so precise and it's so focused and there's no fat in his movements.

I gotta think 28. I think he's a smart guy, too. I mean, I would hope at least. I don't see him fighting deep into his 30s.

Maybe maybe they're working out.

I think Conno will fight someone out. I think Conno might even fight Woodley.

You know fucking crazy would be if he decided to go up and fight Woodley.

Yeah, yeah, he does that all the time. I don't think that means anything.

45, 55, 70, just wraps up all the... Dude, do you know how crazy that would be if you did it though? I say let him do it. Let him try.

He's gonna take this bitch and say it. Woodley will say, let him try.

Woodley will say, let him try. Woodley will say, let him try. Woodley will say, let him try. Woodley will say, let him try. Woodley will say, let him try. Woodley will say, let him try. Woodley will say, let him try. Woodley will say, let him try. Woodley will say, let him try. Woodley will say, let him try. Wood He's in there.

But you'll well flies through the air. You'll well does backflips at the beginning of every fight. The beginning of every fight. He goes into the audience or he goes into the cage and he does backhand springs and literally launches himself through the air and lands on his feet.

Correct. So. And he's flying flying. He's the freakyest freaky landscapes. Yes.

Because I like that. He's allowed. If biz being good at the hand, we got some shit on our hands.

Just flew through the air. And as he hit him, like he was flying over him afterwards. But you know, that was insanely impressive. But you know what was almost as impressive as the way he took Wyden's back. He tripped them, they tied up together. He trips wide men, throws them to the ground and then spins around behind him and takes his back.

He was just... He was throwing them around. He was showing them the difference between a wrestler from the Olympics, a guy who metled in every single world tournament he entered and built like an injured turtle. Oh, he's ridiculous. You know he has like a few's disc in his neck. He had a serious injury in his neck, just like Wyman has. But Wyman had a disectomy. Wyman had surgery. He did, so you'll have a big scar in the back of his neck. You could see it. It's like a big slice. It's all stitched up.

very different but you know I'm saying the same sky black guy lights yeah it's some you know it's I've seen it before another guy's but spinal surgeries fucking no joke man I had I had wide men win that fight till then he won the first round but you thought he won the second round when you always throwing them around

I thought in the second round, you well started implementing his wrestling. I thought he was running away with it. And then, so everyone won, right? Yes. Yes. I thought it was one one. Yes, one one. But I thought it was like shocking how good his wrestling was in comparison. And we know the wide men. He doesn't show it. Yeah. Very rarely. But when he does, dudes go flying. I mean, he doesn't fly anymore. Cause you haven't fun.

Who knows what could happen? But Dan Henderson caught Bisming twice bad in their last title fight at 45 years old, or whatever it is. They caught him bad. And Dan Henderson, who is one of the most ruthless power strikers in the game, for sure, and bisming survived that. So that's good for bisming that was able to survive that. You know, you've got to think, you're all Romero doesn't just have a right hand. He flies. He literally launches himself at you. If he gets a hold of you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you go for a ride. Dan Henderson's a, a silver medalist in the Olympics as well. But it's different. It's different. Yeah.

Well, also there's like the range of motion. Yeah. Like Dan's almost like locked up. Some would say still. Yeah, he's got, but if he hits you, your fucksville. But he's like his range of motions, very limited, where he was, YOL is like a super athlete. He doesn't have any limitations in his range of motion. He's ridiculously flexible. He does like a half split before he fights. He's like down there, like stretching out. Sky's range of motions insane.

No, no. I mean, you can't it's hard to do MMA math, right? I mean, you style style matchups though, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I was saying like bisping lost to Tim Kennedy, Tim Kennedy lost to UL, but Tim Kennedy was beating UL. Like that's another thing that UL's corner did this fight that was fucked up, man. They covered him with water. They threw water on him while he was sitting there resting. Wait for a second? Uh-huh. They put ice pack on him and they he poured water on himself. He poured it on his legs. He poured on his arms. He poured it all over him. And they wiped him down. I mean, he was trying to cool himself off, probably. Yeah. But you're not allowed to do that. And they they spent time wiping him down before the round started. So like they wiped him down in between the corner. But then the referee stopped it and made them wipe him down more. So he gets more rest. Yeah, look, for sure, they're aware when that happened with Tim Kennedy. When Tim Kennedy had him fucked up at the end of that second round, he absolutely and on purpose stayed on that stool long and then he was pulled.

Smart if you're a cheater. If you're okay with cheating, but it is cheating. It's cheating. You have a lot of money. 100% in this cheating. 100% in that fight. And the referee should have probably stopped the fight, but I'm sure Big John didn't want the fight to end. Didn't want a cheater, everybody out of the fight. Just wanted to go to get back up.

It was a mess. That was a cluster fuck of a moment, but it just shows you this guy has a massive amount of experience in international competition and wrestling. And there's like a lot of shit that goes on in wrestling, you know, where you have to take advantage of whatever you can to win. You know, and all these years of high-level competition on the international scene, he's probably got a bunch of little tricks like that. He could do to slow down the pace or give himself a little extra time.

Night and day difference for a guy like that. And I think it was also 30 seconds for the Tim Kennedy fight for our member. Maybe 23. I feel like it was longer than that. I don't remember. I'm talking about stool gay. Yeah, stool gay. But also, there's a psychological issue because Kennedy now thinks the fight's over. Is it not over? Like it doesn't know where he's at.

That's always kills me about glory when they have that extra round. We go one more round. Imagine you get through three rounds of kickboxing and then finally you're drinking water. You got your arms up. Referee says blah blah blah.

Well, how about Bruce Buffer fucking it up? Where we what was going on?

You were like chill. Yeah. Well, here's what was going on. First of all, Bruce said it wrong. He, it was not a majority decision. It was a majority draw. Correct. But they probably wrote it down wrong for him. Look, New York does not do any MMA. They've never done MMA before. No, shit. First event, right? Well, they've never lost for a shot. Exactly. So they do this thing where they with tally up a scorecards. They give it to Bruce and I guess it's said majority decision tire and woodley. They read two judges quarter draw one judge scores it for Woodley and Woodley retains a title, but it's supposed to be majority draw. Yes That's what the majority of the people thought it was a draw. So it's a majority draw. So Bruce said it wrong. Whether they gave it to him wrong. I don't know. Real Steve Harvey moment. Yes. And then they, and then Tyron freaked out. And then the audience booed. The audience went crazy. And I said, dude, you still have your title. Just hold on. And I was, and they wanted Bruce to say it again. So Bruce says it again. I was going to say it again onto the microphone. Yeah. But they're like in Bruce insisted he get the mic and he says it again. So he says it again. And he, you know, he wanted to correct the mistake. So he says it again. And then I have to say that the audience is booing on my because this is the exact same score. Yes. It's the exact same score. It's just a wrong definition.

Some people didn't give Woodley a 10 A for the fourth round, because at the end of the round, Wonderboy was on top on punch and him. That's insane.

If anything, if he didn't do that, if if Wonder Boy didn't get out and wasn't on top, it might be a 10-7. Because not only did he hurt him with big punches, then he almost choked the life out of him. I mean, he had him in a deep guillotine. And people were telling me that wasn't a good dude, dude. I mean, you are out of your fucking mind. You're insane.

Round there. And by the way, he's a brown belt. He's a brown belt in jujitsu. Do you think Tyron Woodley does not choke people? You're fucking crazy. It was a very good choke. And I was amazed. Me too, man. One thing I was thinking was like, Wonderboy has a skinny ass net and tiny head. Yeah. Small head to me. And the small head thing is. That was when he had. Woodley said, Woodley said, well, I knew we got a little head. He was like, oh shit. I didn't even think about his head. I was thinking about the size of his neck. He was a slender neck.

We'll do that if he won by broken neck. I guarantee you if you had that in the first round. He probably wouldn't be able to. I agree.

Yeah, but what a story.

Taekwondoers are just karate. Uh, I'm not sure. I think it's just karate. Is it just karate style?

One of those.

It was crazy fight. And there's a lot interesting. First of all, how fucking hard is Tyron Woodley hit? Jesus Christ. God too. He has one of the best straight right hands in the business.

Well, I mean, he's a guy who's fought in professional kickboxing. He has a 57-in-oh combined kickboxing record amateur in pro.

And now with four ounce clubs. He'll exactly, he can punch faster with those little gloves on and it hurts more when it lands.

He might not fight like that.

Yeah, I mean in a way, but here's the thing. Woodley only took him down once in the whole fight and mauled him once you got him to the ground. Which is why- What if one lit, what if Woodley decides to do that every fucking round? You know, I don't know how much Wonder Boy can stop Woodley from taking him down. Woodley is so much bigger, so much stronger and a way better wrestler. Woodley takes him down like he took him down the first round. I mean, that might have been the strategic error because Woodley mauled him in the first round. By the end of the round, his nose is fucked up, he's got a giant cut, he's leaking blood and Woodley just held him down and dominated him on the ground. So if he just does that in the round two and I mean, if he was able to do that instead of trying to stand and knock him out, he might have been able to stop him.

Yeah, but here's the thing. Now that Tyron knows like Wonderboy's timing and he's building a rockham, he's going to have some serious confidence in launching that right hand.

Yeah, but sometimes it works. I mean, he's been able to take him down. Other people will take him down. And when he gets him down, like the difference in the grappling was pretty fucking evident to me.

It's so much better at holding him in place. I was like, man, if this fight goes this way, Woodley's going to run away with. I thought first.

Bad man. And then when you're dealing with Wonderboy, you're dealing with that weird sideways stance and just popping that jab in his face, hands down, hands down. He's a weird guy to spar with.

Well, I think he was worried after that take down and getting busted up, you know, opening up, getting taken down again. But, you know, tyrants are totally different animal, too. He's a different animal than Johnny Hendrix, like Johnny. Yeah, and the Johnny Hendrix that one to boy faced, let's be honest, he's not the same guy. Even close. He's just not I don't know. He's not the same guy that knocked out John Fitz. He's not the same guy that knocked out Martin Cameron. He's just not the same guy. No, just not no for whatever reason speculating all you want internet. Yeah, for whatever reason. Yeah, I mean maybe it's motivation. Maybe it's a personal problem. He opens up a stake restaurant and it went out of business terrible idea, but maybe he just terrible ideas was the worst that they If you're a celebrity and you got some cash, maybe the worst time you do that restaurant, it's not the way to go. Okay, I'm just going to get the sensible. Yeah. And happy.

Even if they just put his name on it, he's still associated with that failure. And I'm sure he had to have some form of commitment to it.

I read it the not read it on the Yahoo and Yelp reviews rather. They were terribly bad. There were the worst was like one star we can be associated with that you can't like if you want to open up a restaurant and you're a celebrity good luck It should be like a really small place or like or you'd be a sort of be a silent investor like don't be don't be the face of it. There's a bunch of places like that in LA 100% yeah

What a it was awesome. You know, what if it was insane? No, it doesn't.

It's a fine steak. Ted Ted has him. Who's Ted Turner?

But it's also for an athlete, especially a fighter where you're mind and the first of all, you have this event that happens. I don't have to tell you this, but for everybody listening, it happens. It takes months before the event. You're thinking about this event. You're preparing for the event and in the event as one night. Anything that can fuck your head up along the way should be avoided.

Yeah. Anything. Anything that can fuck you up. You know, there's so many different things that can creep into your mind.

I thought there was a real bad matchup for me, Sean. Honestly.

Yeah, she retired. What did you say? She was just like, I'm out. Yeah, she says, I just want to say I'm done. I'm done. And I said, was this base entirely in your performance? Is it something you planned? And she said, no, it was based on my performance. And then she said, I've taken a lot of punishment. And that's fair, man.

Which is very smart.

I think you're right. I think you're right. And I think if she really, you mean everybody always says that. If you have one foot out the door, you should just walk. Just go. There you go. Here. And that's what he said right now. here well you know like excuse me sir you're telling dick jokes and trying to fight right now what's one thing watching somebody who you don't love who's just like well you know or even you do love you don't have that close relationship with but that's a friend You know, you have a close friendship with someone. You see the path. I mean, it's one of those things, man, and you see it time and time again. I can name you 100 guys that I know that are kind of half in the game. And they still do it in every now and then they get knocked out or they'll fight some Yairra, Dregas, type motherfucker. Some upcoming feet. I mean, get lit up and all in. Yeah, those all in guys are fucking scary.

So I think it's probably going to be the best thing for me. She two and one things that I said to me. She was like, you've already achieved the highest achievement ever in MMA. You were a world champion in the UFC. So like, you know, that no one could ever take that from her. She wanted in spectacular fashion and it was an amazing accomplishment. That's a giant thing to have in your resume, former world champion.

Right. Right. If I'm, uh, me should take, I don't sign with fuck right now. Right. Right. If I'm, uh, me should take, I don't sign with fuck right now. Right. Right. If I'm, uh, me should take, I don't sign with fuck right now. Right. Right.

Yeah, I was in that happening with you guys. Isn't there a network issue? Yes, there's a network issue.

You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to.

You know, studios, not that big a deal. You just rent, you rent office space, a lot of guys. We all know people to do it. Tom and Christina do it. Joey Diaz does it. I do it. A lot of people do it. They just rent space. Correct. It's not hard to do it.

All you have to do is put out the ad through the bat signal up online. I'm sure this is the best signal. We're looking for one. Yeah, I mean, if you find someone who knows how to handle the internet side of things, and I'm sure Jamie can help them. What's going on today that's really interesting in podcasting, and we've kind of talked about this before, but is that the real network is the organic network between friends. Correct. This is between all of us between Joey and Bill Burr and Berk-Krisher and Tom Segura. We're all just a bunch of friends and we talk about each other and we have each other on and everybody finds out about each other from each other and we retweet each other and re-instagram each other and support each other and that's not like a real network where there's no like deals going on, no paper signed. And then everybody sort of benefited from it equally. Everybody gets something out of it, you know? That's a real network. This other thing is a weird business where non-creative people capitalize on the work of creative people and they provide you with what? A fucking series of walls and an internet connection. Oh, thank you. You definitely should get half the money. How do you fucking mind? Yeah, that's exactly what I said.

That's all good and the most important thing is just you guys love what you do and the show's fun and that's the biggest thing. And then people are going to still enjoy it so it's almost like think about it as little as you can I guess.

Yeah, you got to do that for sure. A lot of guys have done. You know, my friend Dave Rubin, who was on last week, he had a similar situation. He was with one network. He left that. He went with another network and he was like, what the fuck am I doing? And I told him, I'm like, dude, just keep just be free. Just get out there.

Yeah, I can't imagine how they thought that they'd get 50% of that. It seems so crazy. It's insane. It's just, maybe they just don't know how much money it is or they don't.

Call agent like there you go, man. I thought they should have never brought you in in the first place. It all that stuff supposed to be done with agents. And that's supposed to bring you in and talk financials with you with no representation.

Do they think they can do that kind of shit though? Do you think that they would start doing that?

Fox did that.

So, well, that's you're in a weird gray area. You know, you have your own show. You have a very limited amount of people that are in charge of that show. But all these other people that are sort of used still like if they have a show, they get a say. I remember when they were telling you not to swear.

I told you guys to go get free. I mean, you've got that forever. You know, no swearing. What? I know.

It brings it. It takes away everything that's great about the internet. What's great about the internet is you just, you could be yourself.

They don't do it. I can do the show. I got a little microphone that I hook up to this fucking thing to my. That's what Bill Burn does. Dude, it's amazing.

Yeah. Well, he's actually got a pretty sweet setup.

Yeah, I'm gonna try to find this shit in there. Let's show you what this thing is.

Yeah, I just don't think that this, this, the, oh, I'll find it later. But anyway, it's a microphone. Time to sit sitting here and has a built in little tripod on it. So I think it's called an Apigee or something like that here.

All those, it's just, you don't need much.

That's what this. This little thing right there. See this little jammy? This little microphone. I take this little microphone. I screw it in here. This little baby here is a little fucking tripod that sits on. It all comes with a little case. I pop that sucker down, you can set it up in a hotel room. Damn, son.

No, the on the plane we're doing in Tony. I didn't even have this yet. Damn, the things don't. Dude, it's the shit. Wow. What's it called? It's called the Apagee or something like that. I set that up and it's a real live condenser microphone.

It's incredible. That's really cool. This is all you need. Like you don't need all this other shit. We do all this other shit because even way, way, way back in the day, I was like, why wouldn't we have a visual element of it? Why wouldn't we have, like, we were doing the streaming version of it, even actually before we were doing anything else.

Well, I think they pay attention. Yeah, they know the numbers. They know the numbers. That's one thing they do know because you're on their network because they're like Jesus. You know, there's not another thing that they have.

Well, I think the worst thing could be that they did fire you. It's actually smart that they didn't because you know what the strikes and effect is.

Or, you know, there's there's a bunch of examples of things like that that have happened where someone gets bigger because like Milo e andapolis, you know, he is? Yeah.

He got banned from Twitter because he was making fun of Ghostbusters. He became bigger than ever. He became like this cultural alt-right icon because of that.

Yeah. Watch out again because the Brock Lesnar thing. Remember when is he out again?

I don't think so. Was he there in the arena that he had press credentials? I don't know about me. I saw him walking around like oh, he was fired from Fox. That's what he was fired from Fox. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but not fired from his trying to do in the UFC me so he's banned from being in the media for a little while and they let him back in his other works.

What a fucking scary monster that guy is, but here's the thing. He did get clipped. He had been clipped. Michael Johnson clipped him. And I'm watching that and I was like, what would Connor do to this kid? Right?

I want to see him take six months off. I want to see him take six months off and pull up.

No, it's not.

Like where do we stop it before before he's running this bed to give up one of his belts to take on another one. He needs to get about 45. He has 45. He's never going to fight again.

But the cuts different now because you're allowed to begin your rehydration much earlier. You can weigh in at 8 o'clock in the morning. 8 to 10 in the morning. So by the time the ceremonial weigh-in rolls around, it was in New York City at 6 p.m. He was full. I mean, he looked great. He didn't look dehydrated at all. At 55. But even at 55, he used to look dehydrated, right?

And also, we've never really seen him at 55 in the UFC.

I think it's hilarious, too. It's funny because it's not my life, though, but if I was all though, I'd be fucking freaking out. All though, who's the champ forever? Reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Reach out.

Reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Reach I've always been knocking on the fucking door for a long time, man.

I'm really interested to see him versus pet us because pet us, I think it's real diminished by that cut. I agree. That's a hard cut for him to get on the 45.

Max Holley's a slick motherfucker, too. You realize it now after you watch Frankie Edgar and Jeremy Stevens fight, you realize how slick Holley is. Holley was never in trouble and that fight never.

The only decision Connor's had in the UFC.

Well, right now, before that fight, Tony Ferguson was the number one contender. Rightly so, just beat Hafeldo Sanjos, beat a shitload of guys. Because he's so active. He beat Edson Barbosa. He was the number one contender, according to whatever the rankings are, which I don't think are accurate. All the time tosses. Some of them kind of so. Yeah. But the second position right now if he's still number one, it's clearly Habib was number one, but Habib's been way more inactive than Tony. But the way Habib mauled Michael Johnson, I think he makes his case. That was above all. Both have a case.

And then fucking make a destroy Johnson was horrible watching a beat up Johnson, you know, and because he he's so good at tying up that one arm. He ties up the one arm then fucking smashes. He was the other man mountain man was pain like that. One arm try to protect him and he's getting just thumped in the head.

I thought he was too.

So it deep. It was so deep. I was thinking, Nog, when Nog and Frank mere fall. That's what I was thinking. I was like, this is going to snap.

I'm glad he tapped me too. I was literally squeezing my hands together. What I was doing to come here, I'm like, come on tap, come on tap. Just to what now thing. It was just when he got him down and then immediately slid right into mounted guillotine, I was like, Jesus Christ in his grave. Let's ridiculous. So good.

Connor and Habib are the fight. That's not happening, but I think Habib needs to get the title to get a title shot at least. That's what I think. I think he deserves it. He's the only undefeated challenger. He's a monster. He's mauled everybody in front of him. He hasn't had a single goddamn close fight. He's had one moment, one moment where he gets dinged.

Listen to what I'm saying to you right now. The UFC is about to go to Russia.

For sure. See in Russia, Connor McGregor versus how bebe, never get met off. That's what I think it's common.

Well, here's the deal. Russia's bigger than Ireland, but the United States is bigger than Ireland too. And when fucking Connor is fighting in New York City, which is an hour and a half from Eddie Alvarez's house, they're boon Eddie Alvarez. He's walking to the cage.

When you go to Russia, I wonder if he gets booed in Russia.

And they are going there. If you check my Instagram page, every time a fucking photo gets up, and they'll hash the time.

Maybe in the States here. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. But he is a fucking monster and he's a hero to the Russian MMA fans. Correct. This guy from Dagestan has been mawling everybody. They put in front of them and people think and rightly so that he's unjustly keeping being kept rather from a title shot.

But they did promise him this fight. This was something that they said, no, Habib gets the next shot of the title. This is something that was publicly stated, which made sense at the time, because Habib is 23 and no, he's going to fight and mass this work, garden for the title. There's a way they were saying. It's going to be about the economy versus Eddie Auras.

Imagine how Habib feels when he hears that shit. Man, he gets that phone quality, thinks this is it. Finally.

Yeah, he's a kid.

He's so goddamn tough. He's ridiculous. His grappling's ridiculous. I'm really interested in seeing whether or not he can get past that left hand.

Show me the money. It's gonna be interesting though. Like what other Russian bad asses are there that fight in the UFC? Did you see that, uh, Corishkov just got knocked the fuck out in Beltore?

My Lima is a bad motherfucker. Yeah.

That's right.

I know. I watched that last countdown thing they did, too. It was on after the Victor T's fight. Yeah, it just looks like shit. Well, the duty fall was like a sort of survival mode. He was terrified. Yeah. He didn't throw any punches. Nothing. They said through the whole fight he threw a hundred and something.

But he also was grabbing his head saying he'd get hit in the back of the head a couple of times. It was a terrible fight.

I was stunned by the way, Covalve handled Hopkins, and I know Bernard's old. He's 100 years old. It was a thousand. He looks like a turtle. He looks old. He's fighting again to sound like a tenth or twelve. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm

Well, besides that I've been sighted. It's a good fucking car.

It is now.

Cowboy, Matt Brown. Yeah. Cowboy versus Matt Brown is better than Cowboy versus gasoline.

Well, gasoline is done now, man. He's in a bad, bad, bad place. Dana says this fight 85. No. He's missed. He said that before and made him fight 85. Maybe beat Nate Marquard 85.

It was one of those fights that he beat somebody because he got sent up to 85 and then he proved that he could make the way. And he's blaming George Lockhart now.

Gastulum is a really elite fighter. He's a very tough guy. A lot of tough guys. I'm a big fan of that kid. I think he's awesome, but he needs to lose some fucking body fat period. You're not a heavyweight. You're not king of the last guys. He can't walk around with that much body fat.

So can't do that. I mean, he's an elite professional athlete who absolutely could still to this day win the world title. He has to skill for sure.

Did he be in the decision where he didn't fucking make way there you go decision where he didn't fucking make way and would be being the great guy that he is didn't take the percentage the 30% yeah 20 I think it is when your opponent doesn't make way 30 30 okay I thought it was 20 would be in a great guy that he said I don't want that money and he beat him by decision because so would he got the win bonus to but Kelvin I don't know who Kelvin has fought at 85 in the last few years but

He's got a whole staff. He's got a staff of people. He's expensive. Yeah, he's got a well, he has expensive for reasons. He's got an office building. Yeah, I think he has like nine employees or some crazy just look in the face and how the fuck and lose weight and shit.

I want to be a disagree with him though. A lot of people disagree with some of his methods in the locker room. Yeah, well, he was he was just upset that well, he was upset for a bunch of reasons. He made the wait though, but he was upset they don't take charge of so much and you know, he really didn't do much.

Yeah, I don't know what the fuck happened. Me neither. You'd have to be there. But the point is like if you have someone who is monitoring every aspect of your wake cut like your hydration levels with what kind of fluids you're drinking, what kind of foods you're eating and it doesn't work out. If you did what that guy said and the weight didn't come off somebody fucked up, who fucked up? I don't know.

It's not a bad idea.

Psychards. I think an even better strategy is seek to eliminate weight cuts. Seek to cut it out of sport. It's unnecessary. It's dangerous. It puts guys at risk. health wise when they don't have to be at risk health wise. If I think the only thing that's holding it back are championship belts and more options are weight classes. I think if they can figure out what weight guys are where they compete at optimally and then the same way you do US ADA or you saw the testing you do hydration testing.

Yes, yep. You have you have more weight class within you boxing. No, that's what the problem is. It's not a problem with boxing. No, look at the board and the whole level. They're going to fight you will you have less organizations. It's not like you have five different world title organizations and plus weight classes. You would just have plus weight classes. I think you would have more champions. You'd have more opportunity for championship titles. I like that camera stars. You also have more opportunity for, you know, title bounce between guys where the one guy decides to go up one guy decides to go down. But instead of them doing it by dehydrating themselves 24 hours out, you make a contract to fight it a certain weight because that's what way you are in a healthy way.

Yes, and it doesn't put them at the dangers that you have from being dehydrated 24 hours out. I think of any of these stuff that you have.

You know what I'm saying? But that's 20 belts? Well, I think boxing has that many.

Name 10 stars amazing. But I don't care. Name 10 stars in the UFC.

Yeah. Okay. 10 champions.

Don't you think you can name 10 champion box or so? Man, you pack you out. Tim Bradley. If you want to start going on. Yeah, yeah. It's Crawford. You see, it's more interesting. You know, you know, the San Francisco has seven or not. Those are fun. Floyd, may well, you know, you can keep going. You can name a bunch of champions in boxing. But all those guys run the same way. Yeah. That's true. That's true. But, you know, you go up in heavyweight. You got fucking glitch go. Wilder. I got chance. I think Josh was weak.

He's fighting for a whole time. So what's the year today? But he had to move it to, yeah, he's fighting for a world title. Brilliant. Interesting. Let's get me fun. Yeah. Just a lot of heavyweight talent now. Anthony Joshua. He's a bad motherfucker.

What is Tyson Fury doing?

I think that's the least of our concerns. The most important thing is to put on great fights.

4 billion. The dehydration is dangerous and unnecessary. I think they haven't Brazil. I think if you see, it can come close to the UFC. But do you know the dosand, do you know that dosand, do you know that dosand just passed out for three fucking minutes before his fight with Eddie Alvarez, where he's unconscious and unresponsive?

No, what he's died. But I think people have been diminished considerably. And I think they're no formists. They're performance sufferers. So it makes a, it makes a shitty product. If you want to look at it from a business, plus if the UFC has got, look, you could say, hey, steroids are part of the game. Are they? Well, not anymore. Now, they're fucking knocking on your door at 6 o'clock at the morning, making you pee in a cup. If they decided to do that at 6 o'clock at the morning, they tried to test people's hydration levels at 6 o'clock in the morning every day. And when it would find out what your weight is, okay, this is what your body fat is, this is what your weight is. This is the lowest you can get. You can get, you know, they'll test you out when you're fully hydrated and when your body fat is, you know, wherever the fuck you are right now, they'll say, hey, okay, right now you're 178 pounds. Listen, the lowest you can fight is 172. That's it.

And some guys won't fight each other. I don't know about that. I think guys some guys can gain a little weight. That's no big deal.

Way better performances.

Yeah, but what about the guys in the undercard? Fuck them. That sounds crazy too. Does it?

I think that's what they're doing. I'm just following the orders. I understand that. But I'm saying if I had the master key, the first thing I would do is say, come up with a strategy to stop weight cutting. We're going to come up with a new plan. And whether that new plan means abandoning world titles. and making tea. Yes, yes. How do you introduce someone as a world champion? You know, whoever the fuck they are, they get to, you know, bring their world title to the fight. But whenever their next title defences or whatever the fuck it is, all this name stuff, welter, light, feather, first of all, it's goofy because it's not the right way to anyway. Welter weight is not 170. It's 147. That's a sugary Leonard and Thomas Horne's father. They call it fucking welter weight. to start the UFC and just to say, well, it's Walter Wade. And then pride fucked it up even more, because they had it. It was different. Like their middle weight was 203. Correct. Like what? And then light heavy weight isn't 205.

Heavy weight's 201 plus. Yeah, we grew up in boxing and the weight classes were clearly defined. Why the fuck does UFC have a 265 pound weight limit, too? Why you making Brock Lesnar cut weight or whoever the fuck a big giant dude is like Shane. Why would you make Shane cut weight? You want some way 300 pounds? Let that fucking big vanilla gorilla.

It's dope. What kind of work has Shane had Dawn's back?

He had a disc replacement, pretty sure. Like they put one of those artificial jamies in there.

He didn't get it if he used it.

I like rising because a lot of them take all the vitamins he wants.

Do that. Yeah, when he fought Todd Duffy and he looked like some sort of a cartoon character. How fun was that to go? The old Romero looks small compared to him. The old Romero looks like Mount Merch.

Well, there's video though. That's the problem. There's pros. It's not just like we see him and we'll go, oh, that's the guy's T-page. It's not. No, I'm telling you, T-page is a bad motherfucker. No doubt about it, but he's not the same guy. That's not the Brock Lesnar guy. Oh, that's what Brock? No.

Yeah, well, yeah, it's interesting, man. You know, the people that say that steroids don't win fights or performance and dancing drugs don't win fights. They're crazy. Those people are crazy. Crazy. You're out of your mind. You're crazy. It helps a lot.

You know what I hope? Honestly, I really do hope that Ryzen takes off and becomes like pride was back in the day. And you have these nutty and sane fucking full-bore freak show fights. And we get to see guys just jack to the inside of my life.

It'd be so violent. It would be amazing. If UFC was smart, they'd get in bed with them.

Just bring this over to the fucking fight pass.

And encourage the steroids. Say, listen, I know those motherfuckers. They can't fight like that over here. That's what we're all. Clean and everything. So listen.

It'd be a good business plan. Yeah, you can watch the freak show. You get it, Japanese freak show. You get it all. And who knows, man, Japan is weird. Japan was a huge culture for MMA at one point in time. Like, at one point in time, the UFC was giant over there. And then it faded and dropped off. Or excuse me, pride was giant. And then it faded and dropped off bad. And dream was kind of like the end of it. And then now there's not really a presence there anymore until Ryzen comes along. So, Ryzen can figure out how to bring back the same sort of excitement in the Japanese culture and the Japanese people that they had when they had the Pride Days, the glory days of selling outside Thomas Super Arena and those gigantic places.

Yeah, I was there. I was there for one. Was it a good show? Well, there has been more than one Japan UFC. I've been there for one of them. But that was the bit, uh, the latest one. Remember? Rampage fought when I was there. I remember that. Um, but I don't remember too much about that event.

That was the guy from college.

I don't know. I mean, look, the UFC does so many shows. They're doing two next Saturday. They're doing one from Brazil and they're doing one from Belfast. Really? Yeah, they're doing the Northern Ireland card is gay guard Musasi versus your royal hall, the rematch. It's fun. Yeah. And then the Brazil card is Ryan Bader versus Little Nog and Claudia Caday, Jessica Delias on that card.

Yeah, this is here's someone that no one's talking about in the strawway division is Jessica on drugs. Yeah. She moved down. She's a gorilla. Drilla. She her and Liz Carmoosh that a bodybuilding contest. That's a tough song. Dan and front of each other flex it out.

She's the same. Her judicis who's insane.

She is a smoke show. She's a smoke show and she speaks English and Portuguese. Fluently. Dime, PC, and nasty on the ground. That's super nasty. Super high level black belt. And the daughter of Megaton Diaz. Yes. Who's a very very well-respected famous Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt. and a pioneer. He's one of old new guys. That's her papa. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, yeah. I think she's probably eventually going to wind up in the UFC. She's making 115? Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Good luck taking down the Polish killer. Did you see the one that she put on her fucking water bottle, bro? Yeah. I posted up on my answer. Somebody killed her shit. One of the guys from the underground posted it up and then I actually want to be getting it from Joe Silva. Joe Silva showed it to me in between fights. It's the dude's name. This sin cognito is the dude's name on micksmartshorts.com. And it says in two days I will fuck a bitch up and continue my violent run as champion.

Thing was a punch. It was a straight punch. She got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. She got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit.

I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit. I thought she got hit.

Super tough. And after the fight looked great. I mean, she ate a lot of punches. She ate a lot of kicks. Yeah.

She got cracked with, I think there was a couple of hard elbows in the clenched too. It was a great fight. I mean, but it wasn't a great fight for a while. For a while, it was like it looked like Valentino was just, she just wasn't as fluid or effective.

But she never stopped. She never stopped coming forward. She never stopped coming forward. And she was never discouraged. I mean, she had some moments where she couldn't solve the puzzle. And you want to was doing a really good job of ending the combinations with leg kicks inside and outside. Inside and outside. Yeah. And all those leg kicks were there was there was really making a big difference.

She fought that fight. She had a broken hands somewhere in the fight. She kept punching with it. She's the murder man. She's a badass woman.

Yeah, it would be weird if they fucked. She might not weigh him. Yeah, that's a tough one. When she's not cutting weight, that's a tough one. Yeah, she definitely beat his ass. He admitted that.

Yeah, Jamie was there. We couldn't get somewhere to eat. We tried to get into the first restaurant. It was God damn packed. With two o'clock, two thirty in the morning, we wound up at Katz's Deli. Katz's Deli's 24-7. It was hard to find food. It was mobbed. I can't remember.

Well, New York is just different. New York bar stay open. I think to four. Florida's to five. Did you know that?

Especially if you're in Southern Florida. Yeah.

Yeah, though the East Coast doesn't mind staying up late and the West Coast demands it be on their schedule. So it wants the West Coast get it done. More people that's film things out here. Good points, sir. Yeah, and if they did it on the west coast of the East Coast schedule, it happened too early. You would lose money. Like if you had the show at five, people are not done working. People have to work on Saturday. They're still at work. It's true. So it can't be at four, which would be if it was their time, our time, who was seven PM. And then also, you also have to think about the undercard. What if somebody wants to watch the undercard? On FS1, you're not going to pay for the undercard. FS1's going to be a listen bitch. You can't put the undercard on it 10 in the morning.

Yeah, but they'll get mad people get mad Let's true.

Here's the thing, the amount of excitement that Floyd generates does not even fucking compare to the amount of excitement that Conner generates.

Yeah, understand, but it does kind of because the intensity of the popularity, the love people might know who Floyd Mayweather is, but when it comes to how many people love Floyd Mayweather is not even close. It might be like some ridiculously tend to want or 20 to one because when Connor gets out there, they go fucking crazy. How many people are there to see Floyd May with her lose. How many people are bored after Floyd May with her fights? Like Floyd May with her fights so skillfully and surgically that and doesn't take any chance is hardly ever gets hit. It's not Connor Merck's mother fuckers. He wins the world title and the fastest ever title winning knockout ever. What did you do after that? He comes back and makes Eddie Alvarez look Eddie Alvarez world champion. The guy was he's he's. and Connor makes him look like he has no business in there with him, no business. Has zero success at all except for a couple of body shots.

I think I'm using it wrong. I think I'm using it wrong. I think I'm using it wrong. I think I'm using it wrong. I think I'm using it wrong.

Barry McWiggan was a big star before he came to the United States and he came to the United States and eventually lost his belt. Barry McWiggan at one point in time was a huge star, but nowhere near. Do you star the conner?

It's got a 15 dex. 15 dex and two trunks. Gold with a leprechaun outfit. And now he has a little sun on the way and they gave him a fucking Rolls Royce with his face on it. How crazy is that? What's interesting is how well he manages it all. It's really interesting. You know, like that's the pressure in particular. He doesn't seem to have a problem with it at all.

And you know, I mean, the guy steps in, he loses to DS, right? Takes the DS fight on short notice. By the way, after a staff infection, here's something a lot of people don't even know. He's a pretty significant staff infection. It was on antibiotics until like, I think, two weeks before the fight. If you don't think that drains your gas tank, you never had a staff infection, and you never had to take antibiotics.

Yeah, they're brutal on your whole body. It's just your body when it comes up. Yeah. Your body's made up of all this shit that you don't consider to be you, but it is you. The stomach flora is a real part of you. You know, your body is essentially like an ecosystem. And when you have a staff infection, staff infections are dangerous. It's fuck. And people die from them. So they hit you with some heavy duty antibiotics. I've had staff twice. and it's not fun. And the first time I had it and I took the medication, I couldn't believe how I felt so weird. I felt light-headed. I felt weak. I was like, whoa, you're drained, right? You have no energy. It's super strong stuff, too. And I was like, wow, imagine this guy fighting two weeks after that. Because there's no way you peek correctly. No. So he comes from that and then he fights Nate again. You know, a few months later in a fucking crazy five round war and beat them by the narrowest of margins, right? Don't you agree? Yeah, that's very very close fight where some people thought the Nate won. I think he did. I thought the decision was correct, but I was like, wow, that's close fight. So, takes that fucking crazy chance. Comes back and fights that guy. He kind of weighed 169. That's what he weighed when he weighed in. That's what he weighed during the fight.

I mean, did. I mean, everybody says that Nate is a 155 pounder. He is. 100%. But he's a way bigger man. They've been then conneries. He just is, you know, so it's like who's gonna weigh more when they actually get in there and Nate's gonna weigh more. So he does that and then goes from there and just, starch is Eddie Alvarez, like a world beater and just so relaxed and loose in there. So amazing. Fucking Madonna was at the show. Madonna was at the bottom show. Madonna was at the fights.

It's red panty night.

He's an actor, man. He's such a character.

Yeah, that's probably what the announcement was going to be all along. You know, that he wants a piece of the pie. I mean, he's got an argument that he probably should get a percentage of the promotion because the what they're selling is kind of a Gregor or selling the UFC plus kind of a Gregor. The question is, how much of that card What would it be? What would the paper? We don't know what the numbers are. So it's pretend the number is 2 million, which would be like the greatest card of all time, right? Probably wouldn't hit that. I don't know.

Let's just say 2 million because it's easy to correct. So let's say that. What percentage bought it because a Connor it might be a million one million plus for sure might be one million plus one million people might have bought the paper view specifically because of one human being that is not outrageous to say and but this is the other thing in Connor's favorite name another star who can do that Rhonda can't quite do that.

So I think she said that. I think she said she's a few of us, right?

She's not the same draw, but if she comes back, beats in a man to noon as arm bars are and then fights. I bought it and then fights Holly beats a beat Holly gets a rematch on. you don't know that, because as that happened, she likes to bet, but here's the thing, as these people win, their star gets more and more giant. As Ronda, if Ronda came back and started winning again, her star would get more and more giant. It would get bigger, it would fuel more, the more body she claims, the more fuel her fire will have, that is what happens all the time. I mean, it's pure speculation, but really can win the way Connor's been winning, she can win in spectacular fashion, or the way she was winning when she fucked up Alexis Davis and Sarah McMahon,

Well, and by the way, Ronda has a tough fight in front of her. Amanda, newness is goddamn scary. She's scary girl. She's the one I was saying before Ronda lost a holly. I was saying she should have got the title fight and I said I said that I think she's the most dangerous one.

The way she stopped ceramic man. She cracks hammering out that right hand.

She also has a better arsenal like shulter kicks and knees. Just a blast on the ground. Yeah. I think a man does two. Yeah. A man does. But a man that has lost on the ground before. Yeah. She got beat up by Katzenko on the ground.

But then you know 155. Well, 150. Well, and again, if like, if they did that whole thing where I'm talking about the eliminated weight cuts, there'd be two girls, cyborg would fight it like 180.

That's it. That's it, 280, but that's all we got for you. It would have to cut weights.

I love that.

But don't you think that you look at the way she fucked up, me should take? You're like, that girl presents a lot of danger with those punches, especially considering what happened with Holly and Ronda. Yeah, but yeah, I think she presents a lot of danger.

It's a great fight either way, but it's also interesting to see what we're wrong as head is. Now she's coming back.

Well, what Rhonda has and what you want to has, you know, and not a whole lot of other women have it is one thing that they do where they're really fucking good at it, and then they have all those other stuff. Correct. Whereas like Page Van Zannis kind of learned the whole sport, she's learned what she goes, you know.

but there's not other girls, you know, other than Valentina, Valentina Shavchenko, she's another one as badass, who's another super powerful striker. I mean, the way she handled Holly Holmes standing up, I know, man. Yeah, handled her. Just countered her at Will, that looping left hook, that check hook that she throws on the right side. Yeah, she's another one, but there's not, they need more of those, you know, like, that's where Mackenzie Durne fits in. Exactly.

Well, nobody has that sort of personality that he has. No one ever. I think even he eclipses Ali, the eclipses all of them. I think he's bigger than she else, son and for sure, as far as like his ability to talk shit. Not bigger than all of them, but yeah, I think he is.

We're also fighting to stop the Vietnam War. Correct. Like there's a different time. He had several things. Correct. Conner's white privilege. Yeah, his nice suits nice suits. Even the government's not trying to send him over to fight in a war.

We'll see soon and they comes back at three years after not having trained at all. Ali didn't even work out for three years because when Ali wasn't fighting, he was like, why won't I work out? Well, fucked up, sir. And he was never the same, was he? No. No, he didn't, not only is he not the same. He didn't have the footwork anymore. He didn't have the endurance anymore. He came back, he looked at his body when he came back and thought, you thought Jerry Quartz was coming back.

That flow grappling, you could've been fighting for the UFC heavyweight title.

Well, he's always suspended for a year retroactively July. It's up in July.

I know and then he came back and he fought over in St. Pro and you know, look kind of tentative and then you saw Jimmy Mademois run through over in St. Pro. All these guys are getting better. They're getting better. They're rising up and, you know, rumble rumbles fighting DC for the title again. That's going to be a real interesting fight. Super interesting.

Yeah, who knows. And this fight, he's got Neil Blancin in his corner now. He's had him for a few years now. He's worked with a lot on his grappling. He's a guaranteed concentrate a lot more on his wrestling. There's a lot of videos of him running wrestling drills. Yeah, so he's preparing to get up. He's preparing to take down defense.

Yeah, let's do it. Well, why do you think he's going to get a straight shot of the title? I don't even think no if we get a straight shot of the title and pawn coming back.

That's why fans do maybe. It might be something going on by then. By the time this time rolls around next year, or July rolls around, so he's going to, he's free in July, whether that means, see, I don't know how suspensions work, but what I would have been explained to me is performance and answering drugs suspensions don't even allow you to train with other fighters around the roster. Really? Yes. When your suspension is up, then you can train with them. I don't think you're even supposed to be sparring with them. What? Once they hand down a suspension? I don't have that regulation. I don't know about that, man. Is that right? I look that up, Jamie. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. Yeah, I don't think that's true. I hope it's not because it's crazy. Because you could help your teammates, even if you're suspended, you could still train and help your teammates.

Yeah, it's like telling the guy I was in a count and you're suspended for a year. You can't even touch a calculator.

How dare you fight again. But Jimmy Manon was a very dangerous fight for anybody right now. He's a dangerous fight for John too. You are rich and so I'm not you are rich. I'm not you are rich. I'm not man. I would lit up a over and same crew. Did you see what happened when he fought Gus? He he got cracked. Yeah, do you see what happened when he fought rumble? He got cracked. He got dealt with that's part of the game. Well, over and same crew just went fucking the full distance with John Jones and a tough fight with a sleepy John Jones and had a broken arm. Yeah, got his arm broken after John broke that arm by throwing kicks, right? Yeah, but my point is he went to the distance and saying proof took him out pretty quick. I think he's dead or I think not saying for a rather Jimmy Manoa took him out pretty quick. I think Manoa was super dangerous. Very dangerous.

And I think taking him down and beating him up on the ground would be John's best out.

Also, John's different than anybody else in his length and his ability doesn't get hit, really. And his wrestling is so fucking good. He's just so loud and scared. Just not scared to go to the ground with anybody.

He hasn't taken a same amount of punishment that his brother has, but he's taking some big lot of knockouts. Yeah, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope. So could you knock them out with a wrist? Oh, my god. He, like, closed line dumb. Yeah. Yeah. And then the rumble one was just horrendous.

I think Brazil is such a huge hotbed for MMA right now. It's so gigantic that they need Brazilian stars. And, you know, for the main event in particular, they're like just don't have a whole lot of options in a light heavyweight division.

I mean, I mean, he's probably asking for another fight, but outside of him, what other good light heavyweights from Brazil that are in the UFC that you could like sell a mean of in our glory. But they're any fun. Right. But glory just got cracked too. And he should probably take quite a while off after that knockout. That was a kind of knockout that you need to like not do nothing. Yeah, he's gonna lay low. Yeah, he got flatlined.

The show gun's got to be done. If he's not done, he's probably real close to being there.

In Brazil, though, even more so. Because far as like Brazilian fighters, it is far as fame. Machina Machito got machina suspended and suspended for a long fucking time. Does he need this name a two year?

Not a whole lot. I mean, beta already fought Leonardo. You could sell that as a rematch because remember to be able to knock them out.

Linnaker. That's a good fight. That's a good fight. Very good fight.

And if Garbant wins and TJ wins, it's a big hit if I'm both sides, right? Who knows? It's a big big hit. Especially on the Dominic cruise side. Good luck hitting that guy.

He's a fuck just a small, and this is average.

Are we got to wrap this up? I got to get the fuck out of here. I got to put some of the dudes in the theater. And the kid, tfatk.com, Brendan Schob on Twitter, uh, and Instagram. I'm like the laugh factory Thursday, son. Oh shit. There's Thursday, laugh factory. Do you understand up again? How many times you've been on stage now?

I love it. All right. Thursday, go out with time to show eight o'clock. If you're in LA represents, all right. Thanks, brother. Thank you, man. Fun times. Fun times. Yeah. I miss you. Love you. Love you, too, man. See you soon.