Name: Will GSP Comeback and Fight Khabib?
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will GSP Comeback and Fight Khabib?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-07. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- To me, Khabib is one of the scariest too.
- Oh yeah.
- Because he's beating you down.
He's not only beating you down,
he's breaking you mentally.
And for me that is worse than anything.
For me he's the scariest one pound for pound.
- Khabib.
- Is he the guy that you would come back for?
- I would have.
- You would have?
- Nah, it's all over now.
- You're done?
That's it?
- Ah, I'm done, it's three years ago.
- Well, the ring.
Hey, GSP, it's Dana White.
Listen, I got to fight for you.
- No, I'm gonna explain to you.
If he wants me to fight, he needs to do it.
Like that's how he needs to do it.
He needs to hide himself, wait that I'm in a gym training.
Like for example, when I was in LA with Freddie Roach,
hitting the pads and getting back,
because I haven't done this because COVID,
everything is closed in Montreal.
But I went back and now I found my mechanic back.
Man, and when you hit, when you train,
you train in mixed martial arts and combat sport,
you become a different person, you know?
And ta ta ta ta ta ta.
And Freddie look at me like, he's like, George,
you get the hitch back.
I'm like, ah, stop saying that.
And if Dana White would walk in right now in the gym,
in between round, I would sign the contract
in a blink of an eye.
But then after I go back home, go back in Montreal
in my comfort and I'm like, hell no.
There you are working with Freddie.
Yeah, and people are like, hey, are you practicing left-handed?
I've always been both sides.
Switch hitter, yeah.
I like how Freddie has a fucking, he's got a mask on his chin.
What's that protection, Freddie?
Take that stupid goddamn thing off.
And you know, I'm left-handed because I've always been left-handed.
And it was a card that I, a secret card that I kept in my,
in my arsenal that I, if I would have need to use it.
You switch?
Yes, I was going to switch perhaps with Bisping in the,
in the fourth round or in the fifth.
Oh, really?
Yes.
So you're more comfortable left-handed?
No.
You're more comfortable in the southpaw?
No, I'm, I'm, I would say I've started
at more comfortable as a regular stand,
but because I do karate, I always, if you ask, if you ask my coaches,
everybody knows, but I always fight one side because I believe it's a secret
card that I,
that you can pull off and, and, and surprise everybody.
But you don't show your hand when you play card.
You only show what you need to show to win the fight.
Well, you see that with Wonderboy.
Like Wonderboy, he's right-handed, but he fights, in my opinion,
at his best when he's right leg forward because he throws front leg kicks.
Yes.
Like that's one of the things he does.
Like he'll oftentimes, he'll switch back and forth fluidly.
Don't get me wrong.
He can fight well from both stances.
Yes.
But when he's right leg forward, you see a lot of those front leg kicks
and that, that's some of the most difficult shit to get through with that guy.
Right?
Yeah.
There's guys that has a lot of problems fighting a southpaw.
Yes.
There's guys like.
Switches everything.
Yes.
It can change everything.
Yeah.
So that, that's why it was for me, a car,
a secret card that I kept in case, you know,
like, like I would, I would need it.
But unfortunately for me, like Bisping was very good with southpaw as well.
Mm-hmm.
He, he knocked out like Ruluk Rocko.
So perhaps it's one of these things that I should have used earlier in my
career,
unfortunately.
And I did not.
I should have.
Unfortunately, you're one of the greatest of all time.
How about relax?
Yeah.
I'm very, I'm very critic about myself, Joe.
And, and, uh, yeah, yeah, but it always can be better.
Right.
But that's always one of the reasons why champions are champions is that they
are self-critical.
That's what makes, if you just think everything you do is amazing and you don't
have any room
for improvement, I think some of the reason why champions become champions is
this terrible
discomfort of like analyzing themselves and like not liking certain aspects of
what they're doing,
finding flaws in their technique or watching a tape.
I shouldn't have got hit with that.
Why is that?
Like, uh, you get crazy and angry and then you train harder.
The people that are self-satisfied, they're like really easily satisfied with
their, with their work.
They never reached the level of champion because they don't feel that horrible
discomfort
when you're looking at yourself and you don't like what you see.
Yeah.
And my friend CT Fletcher says, says that.
Shout out to CT.
I love that dude.
He's the man.
Iron addicts for life.
Big, big inspiration.
I love him.
And he says to me when the day that you're satisfied, choose to do something
else.
Yeah.
And it's a little bit what happened to me in fighting.
I made peace with it.
I, uh, like I wanted to come back for Khabib, um, because it was so, you know,
for a fighter,
the scariest thing sometimes is the most exciting thing to do.
And it's a problem that never been solved before, but to come back for another
guy and fight for another
title, if I win, it's going to be another one after and another one and another
one.
And I'm going to turn 40 years old.
And I hate to admit it, Joe, and I refuse to accept it.
But man, sometimes I think, I think my best years might be behind me.
Well, listen, you're retired.
I just said it.
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's okay.
No, it's not okay.
I'm not done.
No, no, no.
Dana, you're hearing him right now.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let's make it happen.
But Khabib is done as well.
And Khabib is, uh, what is he 32?
I think Khabib is 32 or 33.
That's right.
So he's in his athletic prime.
How old is Khabib?
Find out how old Khabib is.
I believe he's either 32 or 33.
Yeah.
But it's different for everybody.
Some people reach their prime at 25, some people at 22, some people at 35, you
know, look at,
look at Boivich is incredible.
Yes, I know 38 years old and he's dominating the light heavyweight division.
I think for Khabib, it was also a promise that he made to his mother.
And that I think that's where it lies.
When his father died, he told his mother, this is going to be the last fight.
And then he fought Justin Gaethje.
Yeah.
And he said, that's it.
And I understand why.
Because fighting takes a lot out of you and takes a lot of out of the people
who loves you.
Yeah.
Because you play basketball, you play baseball, you don't play fighting.
And the outcome of a failure, it could be very, very bad.
You know what I mean?
It's not like you lose a game of basketball or something like that.
You lose a fight.
It can have huge repercussions on your health, your well-being, but also your
income and your family and everything.
Sure, like Stipe's loss to Ngannou.
When you watch that loss, that's a horrible price that he paid.
When he got knocked out and you see him out cold and Francis hits him with that
hammer fist after all,
he KO'd him with the left hook.
That's a horrible place to be.
If that's your child, you think of Khabib's mother looking at him.
And if that's your child, that's a terrible thing to watch.
That's right.
But I think psychologically for a fighter, it's hard to come back from a knockout.
But it's probably harder to come back from a fight where you've been dominated
and broken for five rounds.
Like where you clearly know that you did not belong there with the, you know,
like Khabib, that's his style.
That's why I'm saying he's the scariest guy.
Right.
He can knock you out, submit you, but if he wins the fight, it's very less
likely that it's going to be on a punch that clips you.
It can happen, but it's going to be on a very dominant performance.
He's going to maul you.
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