Name: Kamaru Usman Calls Loss to Leon Edwards "A Relief"
Uploaded: 2022-09-02T17:02:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kamaru Usman Calls Loss to Leon Edwards "A Relief"' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kamaru Usman Calls Loss to Leon Edwards "A Relief"' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-02. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- You were saying that it's almost
a little bit of a relief.
- Yeah.
Yeah, it was, it's weird.
It's weird to really explain,
but it's, you get to a certain point
to where people start putting expectations on you.
They start like, oh yeah, you're gonna do this,
you're gonna do that, yeah, you're this, you're that,
to where I didn't get into it for all of that.
I was never, I was never attached to the title.
Now, as weird as that sound, I didn't,
I was never attached to it.
It wasn't like, oh, I'm champion.
I gotta hold on to this.
I gotta hold on to this.
I gotta hold on to this.
No, and I've said it before and I continue to say it.
In my head, each and every time I was fighting
for that title or defending that belt,
I was fighting for the title.
I was a contender in my head.
I felt like that.
I have to go contend for this belt each and every time.
So, because I feel like when you're defending,
you're tight.
Now you're on defense.
You're not thinking offense.
You just want anything to hold on to this.
Anything to hold on to this.
I was never really like that.
So, when everyone got felt like,
kind of started putting expectations,
like, yo, you're about to break this record.
I didn't even know what Anderson Silva's record was
until, like, before the last fight,
where everyone started saying,
oh yeah, you're about to break the Anderson Silva's record,
or you're about to tie this.
Yo, you already broke George St. Pierre's record.
I don't care, I don't give a shit.
The last time I cared about the number
was when I was five and one,
and I was about to get into the UFC.
I was like, yeah, I'm five and one.
Damn, Rashad went on like a 15 fight win streak one time.
Damn, I wish I could do something that great.
And, but I just, Rashad even told me at that point,
he's like, just take a fight at a time.
As long as you worry about that next fight
and that next fight and the next fight,
don't add up.
And so, yeah, it was almost like a relief of expectations
of everyone's pressure.
Oh yeah, you're the GOAT this, you're the GOAT that.
That's relative.
That's a relative, like,
it's hard to argue that situation
because George St. Pierre was the greatest in his error.
With what he had to deal with the opposition
he had to deal with, he was the greatest, hands down.
And, you know, when George St. Pierre kind of moved aside,
Woodley was that guy.
And then Robbie had a stint there, Robbie was that guy.
So, and Pat Miletic had a stint when he was that guy.
So did Matt Hughes.
And so to say, oh yeah, that guy's the GOAT,
that's relative because styles make fights.
'Cause when I was knocked out, I was like,
my eyes were open, which was the craziest thing to me.
You know, now that I,
I've watched the fight over him maybe like 10 times
and my eyes were open, which is weird.
And so people would like screen grab that
and make a fake page with that as the avatar
and have a page dedicated to that.
Like you got knocked out, you got this, you got,
for them to take time out of their day,
I'm like, shit, I'm special.
Like, it's mostly people that don't have a good life.
- It's, it's weird to me.
- If they did have a good life, it's just weird to me.
- I don't, I don't have the time to do that shit.
How do they have the time to do that shit?
- Yeah, I don't have time to scroll through that.
Rather than go out of your way to make a page and,
and just because, but they think that that bothers me,
but it, it's funny to me.
It's, it was funny.
- It made you laugh?
- Yeah, it made me laugh.
And I, you know.
- Did you see the photo of me interviewing you
in the middle of the head kick?
- My mom was posted that yesterday.
That was hilarious.
- Oh shit, that was hilarious.
- I'm gonna, I'm gonna post that.
I was like, Joe gotta get that interview.
- That was, that was so rough.
- No, it was, um, what an experience though.
- What do you remember after the head kick?
- Oh man, this is, uh, I was dreading talking about this,
but, uh, not in a bad way, but it was, it's funny to me.
So, um, the fight is going and there's a zone that I've learned
to put myself in and my coaches can kind of attest to this.
Like, cause I do it even in training.
Um, there's a way that I trained that I practice to where I,
I try to get myself into the zone,
which is as similar to a fight experience as I can be.
And to where I try not to be bothered
by anything that's going on.
And my body has adjusted and gotten used to this.
So in the first round, the fight's going on and boom,
that situation happens.
He, he hooked, he hooked my, uh, he hooked my legs
and I'm, and this is my bad knee.
Well, my not so good knee, but both of them aren't the greatest.
But so I'm like, okay, let me hit him through.
So I tried to hit him through, but he just had great position,
you know, kudos to him.
And I get taken down that I probably was more upset about giving up
that takedown.
I was like, fuck, I gave up a takedown.
So we get done and he, you know, he tries, uh, you know,
he takes it back and, and I'm just chilling and waiting for the bell.
And the bell goes off and I get up and, uh, and I didn't realize this
until I watched the fight back over.
I get up and I was kind of smiled, you know, I get up and I jog back
to my, uh, corner, but I was, I look at it and I, I'm like, okay,
I know that's where I was at at that time.
I was in that zone to where I'm unbothered by whatever is happening.
I'm going to make this be whatever I want it to be.
And so the next round I just take off and I just start kind of wailing on him.
And, and, and so by the fifth round, I kind of have him in a spot to where
I'm just like, I never think, okay, yeah, I've got the fight one.
Let me just coast.
Let me hold on to him and win.
I never think that I want to, if I can get the, if I can get the finish,
I'm going to try to get that finished and I want to do something spectacular.
You know, I'm like, okay, we're going to take a risk here.
We're going to do something great.
And I remember, and this is the great thing about Trevor Whitman in the
training
camp, we, we work on certain techniques to kind of put them where you want them
and, and get him out of there.
Like even in the Masvidal fight, like everyone, oh, the knockout just happened.
No, I set him up for the knockout.
People didn't realize I did the same sequence in the first round that I did
to finish him.
And so I start that with Leon.
You know, cause I've kind of got Leon in a place now to where I, you know,
I could kind of really kind of dictate whatever I wanted to do.
And so we get him, I get him up and I think her breaks us from the, from the
cage.
So we're, we're moving and I'm trying to set him up and I'm trying to get his
feet
moving.
I wasn't doing the greatest of job, which is, this is all on me.
And, and I'm trying to get his feet moving.
You see me changing levels.
And what I wanted to do is set him up.
And I was going to throw the punches that he couldn't see.
And I wanted to sit him down and get him out of there.
I wanted to throw him with conviction and really get like I did with Masvidal
and get
him out of there.
And so I'm like, okay, what I'm going to do is I'm going to shake left, shake
right.
And then I'm going to let him go.
But I got to get him moving first and I didn't do a great job of that.
And so I'm moving, moving.
I'm like, okay, I got him set up.
All right.
Which I really didn't.
I shake left.
I shake right.
And I'm sitting in the ambulance and they're asking me, do you know where you're
at?
I'm like, what the fuck?
That's what you remember?
You remember waking up in the ambulance?
Yeah, I was awake, but I remember coming to it in the ambulance.
So you had been awake because you were walking around, but you were still gone.
Oh, I was good.
Yeah, I was good.
I was talking.
I watched the fight over.
I'm good.
I was talking.
I talked to Trevor.
You know, I talked to, you know, everyone.
I apparently, because, you know, you go back and then you go in the medical
tent and they
take care of you and all of that.
You don't remember any of that.
And they talked to me.
I talked to my family.
I hugged everyone because he was on video and everything.
I remember sitting.
It was like, Leon gave me like a 20-minute nap.
Oh, which was, it was, I think about, and I was laughing hysterically in the
hospital
because I had to go in just to get scanned and all of that, which everything
was fine.
So it's like immediately I come to, I'm in the, I'm in the ambulance.
They're asking me, do you know where you are?
I'm like, yeah, Salt Lake City, UFC 278.
They're like, what's your date of birth?
I'm like, I answer.
I'm five, you know, and they were like, wow, perfect.
I answered everything perfectly.
They're like, oh, we still need to take you to the, to the hospital just to get
you scanned
and everything like that.
I was like, all right, fine.
So we go to the hospital to get scanned and everything.
But I was already good.
I was okay.
I wasn't, I was maybe disappointed that I lost, but I wasn't like bummed.
Like the first loss that I had in my career, that one, that one fucked with me.