Name: Eryk Anders on Fighting Lyoto Machida and Learning from Losses
Uploaded: 2022-06-29T17:23:44.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Eryk Anders on Fighting Lyoto Machida and Learning from Losses' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Eryk Anders on Fighting Lyoto Machida and Learning from Losses' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-29. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- When you go back and if you think about
like your times playing football,
like your great times versus your great wins in fighting,
like what is more satisfying to you?
- There's no drug, there's no anything
that you could do to replicate the emotions
and feelings after knocking a motherfucker out.
And I'm not like talking about like getting on top
and hitting him to the Red Bulls, you all like one punch, boom,
he's, you know, jello on the ground.
Like you might've killed that guy.
There's no better feeling.
And I've won like, when I played football,
we weren't playing the national championship
and had a pretty big play at the end of the game
that kind of sealed it.
But even that, the last game of my college career
doesn't equate to knocking out Hoppe on the tall
the way I did, it just doesn't.
It's one-on-one, it's you versus me.
And I just did that to you.
It's just, and I've, you know, done quite a few drugs.
I've, you know, had quite a few big moments.
- Yeah.
- Other side of the coin, there's no fucking lower feeling
than getting your ass whooped in front of, you know,
not only the crowd, but the people on TV.
And, you know, so, but I'll take it, dude.
I'll fucking run the risk of that versus the high you get
after a knockout or a win, you know, any day.
- Do you remember the feeling of like your first loss where
you're like, oh, geez, this is different?
- Yeah, 'cause my first loss was to Machida, and I feel like I beat Machida.
I just so happened to fight him in Brazil.
And I think that he thinks that he lost 'cause, you know, before they read the
scorecards,
his head's all low and he's, you know, kind of pouting, and then he's like, oh,
winner
by split decision and Machida, and all of a sudden he's like, wow.
- But that was not a loss, like a, you know, that was like, not like Tiago
Santos' loss.
It wasn't, you know?
- Yeah, um, I think, uh...
- 'Cause you could have won that fight.
- Yeah. - I remember that fight.
You could have won that fight.
- I had his back, you know, you know, yeah, I was in that fight, but I kind of
liked,
or told myself anyways, that I kind of liked pushing myself.
Like, I liked the challenge, you know?
And, uh, you know, two fights later, you know, he's fucking fighting for the
championship.
And to be honest, like, I think that's kind of the fight that put me on the map.
Even though it was a loss, you know, I think the people liked, like, these two
big motherfuckers
just stood in the middle and just swung on each other until one couldn't
anymore.
And, you know, from the fans' perspective, I think they really liked that.
- So, it was good and bad. - Yeah, it was definitely a big fight.
But it's not like a fight, like a serious loss.
- Yeah.
Roundtree was pretty devastating.
Um, just 'cause, like, there's something about that day where I was just like,
"Dude, I don't want to fight.
I do not want to fuck a fight.
I'm going to do it anyways, but I don't really want to be here right now."
- What do you think that is? - I have no idea.
- 'Cause, I mean, all the preparation, all the training...
- Dude, there's some fights, like, when I made my debut, I had zero nerves, and
as soon as my feet touched the canvas and I felt, like, how grippy it is, I was
like, "Dude, he's dead.
This motherfucker's out of here.
I know he's gonna, I know I'm finna win."
But that Roundtree fight in particular, I remember walking to the cage, like...
And I mean, someone puts a banana peel out here, and I fucking slip, like, "Fuck,
dude, I don't.
Can we do this tomorrow?"
- Is that the only time you've ever felt like that?
- To that extreme, yeah.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- What do you think that was?
- I don't know, and I was really confident going into that fight, 'cause I didn't
think that he could wrestle.
I was watching film, I was like, "Dude, he's never, like, just flat..."
Like, he's dropped a lot of people, but he just dropped them, like, he never,
like, knocked them unconscious.
I was like, "All right, even if I do eat one, I'll fucking still be alive and
be able to fight and shit."
But, I don't know, dude, I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and I was
like, "Fuck."
- That's what you were talking about earlier when you were talking about Khabib
and Usman.
And these guys are, like, every single time, they're mentally there.
- Yeah.
- That's probably one of the hardest parts of the sport.
- Gotta be.
And there's other fights where, like, "I've been getting this dude's ass, and
it's gonna be hell for him."
So, I don't know what that is.
- Have you ever gotten a sports psychologist?
- Yeah, they all say different shit, and, you know, one guy would say, "Just be
happy to be here."
And I'm just like, "That's preposterous."
And I would just, "No, dude."
I used to make fun of people.
Like, "Oh, dude, he's just happy to be here.
He's for sure, if any get a gas beat," or whatever.
Or, "Don't worry about the outcome."
It's like, "No, dude, I am worried about the fucking outcome, because that's
half my money."
You know, you lose a fight, I could get cut.
Yes, the outcome absolutely matters.
Stop talking to me.