Name: Alexander Volkanovski on Upcoming Brian Ortega Fight
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Alexander Volkanovski on Upcoming Brian Ortega Fight' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-27. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience. How was it working with Brian Ortega? To be honest
mate he doesn't say
much he doesn't say much look I don't know like yeah we're I'm a bit over him
to be honest yeah
just a couple of things you know what I mean like I just think he's fake I
think he's a he's fake
and I don't believe his shit so that's just sort of how it is with me that's
what I think when you
say fake like in what way is he fake? Oh man just uh yeah I just think you know
he plays plays a nice
guy and some of the he says like I just think it's all but uh yeah I guess you
can watch the show and
like sort of see like with little things but I don't know just even with a
couple of things like
no I don't think he's that bad of a guy maybe I'm just looking for things to
hate on him I'm sure
you are yeah probably you know what I mean so I'm just sitting there be like
nah Brian Ortega you
know I mean I'm gonna find something to hate him for but uh you know maybe that's
what it was but
I mean like still yeah uh little things I was just like yeah but I mean like I
said it's it's not hard
to get under his skin even me just saying that I guarantee he's boiling up so
maybe that's gonna
be strategy for my next fight because I know how easily he's triggered so I'm
just gonna be like hey
Brian fuck you that's it when are you when are you guys scheduled to fight at
the end of the series
well yeah yeah so where when it airs yeah so uh from what I'm told I don't know
if I'm gonna get in
trouble saying this I'm not sure but I think it's yeah it's like September
early September so you'll be
fighting him sometime in September and that will be in the United States uh
yeah I'm guessing yeah
nice interesting it's um it's a great fight like if you look at the fight on
paper especially after
his fight with the Korean zombie it's a fun fight to watch yeah he definitely
uh definitely looked good
in that fight he surprised me in that fight too he definitely uh changed his
game a little bit and
fought a different fight that I wasn't expecting but uh but again you know you
know I'm confident in my
abilities I just I just believe I'll be too much and the beauty the beautiful
thing about it I can
say what I want but I get to prove it soon so you know I wish I got to prove it
March when I was
scheduled to fight but obviously that didn't happen but you know I'll prove
that very uh soon anyway so
it's all good it's a special division man that 145 is a really special division
because there's so
much talent man it's uh I think it's hard to say what the it's between I think
it's between 55 and 45
like the most amount of like real top level talent but yeah 45 is just so
filled so filled with guys
yeah there is man there's a lot of guys that come and even some of the guys
that are higher in the
rankings like it's just starting to come up like there's a lot of dangerous
guys oh yeah and that's
what that's a beautiful thing about it like that that motivates me i'm looking
forward to it you know
these are the guys i want i want these guys that are people i love being the
underdog as well yeah even
though i'm champ you're still going to have the doubters and all that and i
love that you know
i mean i want to be the under the underdog and you know i want them doubters
and i love proving
people wrong you like being the underdog yeah i don't i do i do man it's got to
be hard to be
the underdog when you're the champ yeah yeah it's true i know but i mean i
guess i wouldn't say
underdog but i mean the doubters maybe right maybe and i use the doubters as
fuel right so i love it
again i love proving them wrong and mate if i was an underdog for this fight
you know i don't know if i
would be but i mean if i was i would not care one bit i'll be like all right at
least i get to make my
my boys or whoever's betting on me more money let's go you know i'm all good
now you guys were
supposed to you were scheduled to fight but then you got coveted and when you
got coveted when you
got tested initially when you got tested you didn't feel sick right uh oh man
before because we got
tested a fair bit so uh i'm guessing before we went into the bubble i must have
got it from someone or
whatever and then uh you know a few days later we got tested a couple of times
it didn't pop up
but then we got tested yeah one of the days and that was like right at the end
of my camp like because
i went there a bit early for brad riddell to to corner or be beef with him
because he fought the
week before me so i did my last week of training hard training in vegas after
traveling and doing
all that and then i got covered i must have had it uh trained like hard you
know we we get stuck into
it so i did back to back because the the schedule got tightened up because we
we arrived a bit later in
the week so uh back to back really really solid sessions while i probably had
covered uh so but
i mean i sort of had started getting headaches and that before i was like man i'm
getting headaches
that's vegas maybe you know just dehydrated and whatnot but but yeah then
tested positive and then
i started getting the symptoms after that and when you say like your schedule
tightened up so you guys
have a very rigid program that you follow no matter what like at this day you're
doing this yeah exactly
so we got you know we've got a few hard sessions and when i say hard sessions
they're you know they're
you know they're mind-blowing type of sessions like for some people that that
will the watch about you
know that's just our schedule and uh usually you have good rest in between them
and like that's you
know you you need to have the rest you want good recovery so you're able to do
them you know and
this camp was beautiful we we did it absolutely we nailed the camp man i was
doing some of the
hardest sessions but i was recovering on point my recovery was on point i was
like man like you know
i'm getting older but i feel like the camp's getting easier like how's that
happening right now
but uh that that week got tightened up so i end up doing a couple of these
really really high
loaded sessions uh they end up being like back to back where usually i would
have like high
low session high low what was the decision what made the decision to do high
back to back
uh just just again it was just more the fact that uh you know we just need to
do a couple i still
don't think it was that but i felt fine like while i was doing that like i didn't
think nothing of it
but i'm just because i end up getting pretty rattled from from the the covid
that's why i was like man
like it may be my immune system was down at the you know at the end of uh at
the end of camp obviously
dieting and all that type of stuff but i felt fine but you know i'm pretty sure
i started feeling
some of the symptoms uh before i was getting into them hard sessions as well
yeah all the
fighters that i know that got it bad it was all the same sort of situation when
they were in camp
really beaten up like cody garbrandt same thing cody had covid for probably
weeks and was training with
it yeah before he even got tested and and then they're like bro you got coveted
and he's like oh
well that explains a lot and then you know he was pretty up for a few months
but yeah he had trained
like real hard like well that's that's obviously gonna you know yeah play a big
factor and you and the
thing is like you hear and then you hear like the hazmat uh you know sort of
situations cody garbrandt
so like we wanted to keep an eye on it but you know what i mean and that's why
we got it and then
they end up finding oh you got the pneumonia and then uh you know then the
symptoms uh yeah i felt the
symptoms a fair bit but then uh then i got that pneumonia and then like the
sort of the infection
just started getting a little bit worser so i ended up getting you know pink
coughing up like pinky
bloody sort of stuff and then the blood just got more and more so then we went
back and that's when they got me on the medication and
and and yeah because i was like coughing up blood and all told how sick like
how long were you sick for
uh probably would be maybe 10 days or something maybe like 10 days seven or 10
days did they do ivy vitamins
or anything like that uh yeah once once i was in the hospital they were doing
that yeah but i mean as soon
as i got on the medication um you know for dexamethasone like my largest
improvements like straight away
but right now obviously i'll go to ortega to worry about and watch this season
and watch everyone can
watch me uh stir him up and give him what is the pressure like of hanging out
with a guy that you're
gonna fight for five weeks you're just hanging out day in day out seeing each
other all the time well we
talk about it i was talking about how i adjust and adapt to things that in
front of me even in the
fight i'm just like that 24 7 you know i mean i'm the type of guy that whatever
i'm doing on that's it i'm
me you know i forget i'm a ufc champ i forget i'm a i'm even a fighter half the
time you know because
once i'm home i'm daddy that's it and that's a lot you know but that's how i am
but i went in there and
i just knew i want a reality tv show he's going to be there whatever but it was
funny because again
you're trying to get reads on him and things like that but again i just think
he's awkward he's an
awkward dude hey what do you reckon what'd you get out of it yeah that's for
sure he definitely wasn't
a fan of me by the end of the show really he almost got fired for one of the pranks
i played on him
but we weren't allowed to uh what was it you almost got fired or he almost got
almost got fired for it
that was the code we had to take five covert tests a week so obviously there's
pranks on the show this
won't make the uh tv show anyway but i did pretend to put his covert test on my
ass the mouth the heart
the mouth it was a dream it didn't really happen but uh so we're pretending to
piss on these uh like
you know his signs and all that we've got photos of us like just stirring up
again a bit of
laugh you know a bit of banter but we know here how he carries on there was a
photo that he put
um you put it up didn't you the keys yeah we pretended to take his car pretend
pretend yeah
we just had a photo of the keys and uh supposedly he had the the and like
he was like oh fight craig i'm like i'm in the photo too why aren't you saying
you'll
fight me yeah he's like he touches the car or we'll fight him but i mean again
like yeah whether
whether he was just like you know going along with it or whatever it was but or
he's just easily
triggered i i don't know but like we'll so we started realizing that so we just
we just started like
playing on that a fair bit and hey knowing that he's easily triggered there
might be a route to
to this next fight as well what happened with the covet test swab like you took
a photo pretending that
you were sticking up can we get this up yeah yeah um airdrop it to jamie get
the get the photo of us
pissing as well do you got the one of this you guys are grown man get the photo
of us pissing yeah
yeah and the thing with me with the thing up my ass yeah get that mac pro jamie
yep uh no mbp oh
oh there it is something happened uh right i can't but again just have a bit of
a laugh you know
what i mean we will uh that one it's on the wrong computer so it's the other
one i got this one
i mean it's pretty light-hearted you know like i wouldn't really stick his oral
covert swab up my
ass how could you even get a hold of it i mean isn't that stuff controlled that's
what i don't
understand like where the is the nurse oh i just waited till the nurse uh had
to go to the bathroom
you know swab there it goes oh my god yeah that cheeky smirk too eh they
actually almost fired me
for this one so i didn't i probably probably crossed the line a little too much
but hey remember this
is a different just in case you do yeah this is fake ladies and gentlemen it's
just a joke allegedly it
might have been a flavored test you never know lol um so what did they say to
you well i mean and
i did have some ideas for some covert pranks because obviously we're trying to
get them but
they did tell me because they spent so much money on covert testing they were
like that's that's a line
we can't cross but i just couldn't resist craig did it anyway it was just
sitting right here that's
probably not on the film all our tests were sitting in the same section yeah i
get it listen it makes
sense to me you gotta do what you gotta do but it's part of the fun of the show
right it's with
everybody exactly the whole these pranks and stuff like shoots through each
other and and the more
conflict there is the better the ratings are the better the show does better it
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Alexander Volkanovski on Upcoming Brian Ortega Fight

the Joe Rogan experience. How was it working with Brian Ortega? To be honest
mate he doesn't say
much he doesn't say much look I don't know like yeah we're I'm a bit over him
to be honest yeah
just a couple of things you know what I mean like I just think he's fake I
think he's a he's fake
and I don't believe his shit so that's just sort of how it is with me that's
what I think when you
say fake like in what way is he fake? Oh man just uh yeah I just think you know
he plays plays a nice
guy and some of the he says like I just think it's all but uh yeah I guess you
can watch the show and
like sort of see like with little things but I don't know just even with a
couple of things like
no I don't think he's that bad of a guy maybe I'm just looking for things to
hate on him I'm sure
you are yeah probably you know what I mean so I'm just sitting there be like
nah Brian Ortega you
know I mean I'm gonna find something to hate him for but uh you know maybe that's
what it was but
I mean like still yeah uh little things I was just like yeah but I mean like I
said it's it's not hard
to get under his skin even me just saying that I guarantee he's boiling up so
maybe that's gonna
be strategy for my next fight because I know how easily he's triggered so I'm
just gonna be like hey
Brian fuck you that's it when are you when are you guys scheduled to fight at
the end of the series
well yeah yeah so where when it airs yeah so uh from what I'm told I don't know
if I'm gonna get in
trouble saying this I'm not sure but I think it's yeah it's like September
early September so you'll be
fighting him sometime in September and that will be in the United States uh
yeah I'm guessing yeah
nice interesting it's um it's a great fight like if you look at the fight on
paper especially after
his fight with the Korean zombie it's a fun fight to watch yeah he definitely
uh definitely looked good
in that fight he surprised me in that fight too he definitely uh changed his
game a little bit and
fought a different fight that I wasn't expecting but uh but again you know you
know I'm confident in my
abilities I just I just believe I'll be too much and the beauty the beautiful
thing about it I can
say what I want but I get to prove it soon so you know I wish I got to prove it
March when I was
scheduled to fight but obviously that didn't happen but you know I'll prove
that very uh soon anyway so
it's all good it's a special division man that 145 is a really special division
because there's so
much talent man it's uh I think it's hard to say what the it's between I think
it's between 55 and 45
like the most amount of like real top level talent but yeah 45 is just so
filled so filled with guys
yeah there is man there's a lot of guys that come and even some of the guys
that are higher in the
rankings like it's just starting to come up like there's a lot of dangerous
guys oh yeah and that's
what that's a beautiful thing about it like that that motivates me i'm looking
forward to it you know
these are the guys i want i want these guys that are people i love being the
underdog as well yeah even
though i'm champ you're still going to have the doubters and all that and i
love that you know
i mean i want to be the under the underdog and you know i want them doubters
and i love proving
people wrong you like being the underdog yeah i don't i do i do man it's got to
be hard to be
the underdog when you're the champ yeah yeah it's true i know but i mean i
guess i wouldn't say
underdog but i mean the doubters maybe right maybe and i use the doubters as
fuel right so i love it
again i love proving them wrong and mate if i was an underdog for this fight
you know i don't know if i
would be but i mean if i was i would not care one bit i'll be like all right at
least i get to make my
my boys or whoever's betting on me more money let's go you know i'm all good
now you guys were
supposed to you were scheduled to fight but then you got coveted and when you
got coveted when you
got tested initially when you got tested you didn't feel sick right uh oh man
before because we got
tested a fair bit so uh i'm guessing before we went into the bubble i must have
got it from someone or
whatever and then uh you know a few days later we got tested a couple of times
it didn't pop up
but then we got tested yeah one of the days and that was like right at the end
of my camp like because
i went there a bit early for brad riddell to to corner or be beef with him
because he fought the
week before me so i did my last week of training hard training in vegas after
traveling and doing
all that and then i got covered i must have had it uh trained like hard you
know we we get stuck into
it so i did back to back because the the schedule got tightened up because we
we arrived a bit later in
the week so uh back to back really really solid sessions while i probably had
covered uh so but
i mean i sort of had started getting headaches and that before i was like man i'm
getting headaches
that's vegas maybe you know just dehydrated and whatnot but but yeah then
tested positive and then
i started getting the symptoms after that and when you say like your schedule
tightened up so you guys
have a very rigid program that you follow no matter what like at this day you're
doing this yeah exactly
so we got you know we've got a few hard sessions and when i say hard sessions
they're you know they're
you know they're mind-blowing type of sessions like for some people that that
will the watch about you
know that's just our schedule and uh usually you have good rest in between them
and like that's you
know you you need to have the rest you want good recovery so you're able to do
them you know and
this camp was beautiful we we did it absolutely we nailed the camp man i was
doing some of the
hardest sessions but i was recovering on point my recovery was on point i was
like man like you know
i'm getting older but i feel like the camp's getting easier like how's that
happening right now
but uh that that week got tightened up so i end up doing a couple of these
really really high
loaded sessions uh they end up being like back to back where usually i would
have like high
low session high low what was the decision what made the decision to do high
back to back
uh just just again it was just more the fact that uh you know we just need to
do a couple i still
don't think it was that but i felt fine like while i was doing that like i didn't
think nothing of it
but i'm just because i end up getting pretty rattled from from the the covid
that's why i was like man
like it may be my immune system was down at the you know at the end of uh at
the end of camp obviously
dieting and all that type of stuff but i felt fine but you know i'm pretty sure
i started feeling
some of the symptoms uh before i was getting into them hard sessions as well
yeah all the
fighters that i know that got it bad it was all the same sort of situation when
they were in camp
really beaten up like cody garbrandt same thing cody had covid for probably
weeks and was training with
it yeah before he even got tested and and then they're like bro you got coveted
and he's like oh
well that explains a lot and then you know he was pretty up for a few months
but yeah he had trained
like real hard like well that's that's obviously gonna you know yeah play a big
factor and you and the
thing is like you hear and then you hear like the hazmat uh you know sort of
situations cody garbrandt
so like we wanted to keep an eye on it but you know what i mean and that's why
we got it and then
they end up finding oh you got the pneumonia and then uh you know then the
symptoms uh yeah i felt the
symptoms a fair bit but then uh then i got that pneumonia and then like the
sort of the infection
just started getting a little bit worser so i ended up getting you know pink
coughing up like pinky
bloody sort of stuff and then the blood just got more and more so then we went
back and that's when they got me on the medication and
and and yeah because i was like coughing up blood and all told how sick like
how long were you sick for
uh probably would be maybe 10 days or something maybe like 10 days seven or 10
days did they do ivy vitamins
or anything like that uh yeah once once i was in the hospital they were doing
that yeah but i mean as soon
as i got on the medication um you know for dexamethasone like my largest
improvements like straight away
but right now obviously i'll go to ortega to worry about and watch this season
and watch everyone can
watch me uh stir him up and give him what is the pressure like of hanging out
with a guy that you're
gonna fight for five weeks you're just hanging out day in day out seeing each
other all the time well we
talk about it i was talking about how i adjust and adapt to things that in
front of me even in the
fight i'm just like that 24 7 you know i mean i'm the type of guy that whatever
i'm doing on that's it i'm
me you know i forget i'm a ufc champ i forget i'm a i'm even a fighter half the
time you know because
once i'm home i'm daddy that's it and that's a lot you know but that's how i am
but i went in there and
i just knew i want a reality tv show he's going to be there whatever but it was
funny because again
you're trying to get reads on him and things like that but again i just think
he's awkward he's an
awkward dude hey what do you reckon what'd you get out of it yeah that's for
sure he definitely wasn't
a fan of me by the end of the show really he almost got fired for one of the pranks
i played on him
but we weren't allowed to uh what was it you almost got fired or he almost got
almost got fired for it
that was the code we had to take five covert tests a week so obviously there's
pranks on the show this
won't make the uh tv show anyway but i did pretend to put his covert test on my
ass the mouth the heart
the mouth it was a dream it didn't really happen but uh so we're pretending to
piss on these uh like
you know his signs and all that we've got photos of us like just stirring up
again a bit of
laugh you know a bit of banter but we know here how he carries on there was a
photo that he put
um you put it up didn't you the keys yeah we pretended to take his car pretend
pretend yeah
we just had a photo of the keys and uh supposedly he had the the and like
he was like oh fight craig i'm like i'm in the photo too why aren't you saying
you'll
fight me yeah he's like he touches the car or we'll fight him but i mean again
like yeah whether
whether he was just like you know going along with it or whatever it was but or
he's just easily
triggered i i don't know but like we'll so we started realizing that so we just
we just started like
playing on that a fair bit and hey knowing that he's easily triggered there
might be a route to
to this next fight as well what happened with the covet test swab like you took
a photo pretending that
you were sticking up can we get this up yeah yeah um airdrop it to jamie get
the get the photo of us
pissing as well do you got the one of this you guys are grown man get the photo
of us pissing yeah
yeah and the thing with me with the thing up my ass yeah get that mac pro jamie
yep uh no mbp oh
oh there it is something happened uh right i can't but again just have a bit of
a laugh you know
what i mean we will uh that one it's on the wrong computer so it's the other
one i got this one
i mean it's pretty light-hearted you know like i wouldn't really stick his oral
covert swab up my
ass how could you even get a hold of it i mean isn't that stuff controlled that's
what i don't
understand like where the is the nurse oh i just waited till the nurse uh had
to go to the bathroom
you know swab there it goes oh my god yeah that cheeky smirk too eh they
actually almost fired me
for this one so i didn't i probably probably crossed the line a little too much
but hey remember this
is a different just in case you do yeah this is fake ladies and gentlemen it's
just a joke allegedly it
might have been a flavor