Name: Max Halloway on His Performance Against Calvin Kattar
Uploaded: 2021-02-27T23:54:19.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Max Halloway on His Performance Against Calvin Kattar' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Max Halloway on His Performance Against Calvin Kattar' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-27. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience it's just interesting that you were able to fight
and to train a full camp for a guy like Volkanovski especially a rematch with
no
sparring with no partners with no nothing yeah we had a lot of we had a
lot of like mental stuff mental training you know as a lot of mental
things and like visualization yeah like I got to visualize so even just think
of
think of new new ways to move or I got to think of ways to set up stuff like I
just had more time to myself to think about actually the actual fight and and
whatever and then even with the with the sparring like the second fight for the
Qatar we didn't spar but I moved with my partners you know we grappled or we
had
stand-up we had ideas of this is how he moves so I just got used to the
movement
and and we keep on on certain things and that's it but was nothing ever like
cracking you you know like I would get I mean you know how it is you see all
these
guys they say like oh I got hurt sparring I got her sparring that's all my
injuries
came I got hurt from grappling harder sparring hard so if you just take that
out you know like you get a 200% of yourself but it comes a point like
everybody thinks I'm telling everybody to stop sparring you know I'm telling
the
young kids to stop sparring I'm not telling the young kids to stop sparring
when I was 16 I had to spar but it comes a point where you spar enough to the
points where everything happens or even fights like I fought injured I sparred
injured you know I got I got I got hurt I had to come to stuff like you need
these
times before the show because when it comes in the show and you get hurt in a
fight or something you panic you get buzzed in the fight you panic but then if
you do it in the sparring or these amateur fights then it's it's simple but
when
you get to that yeah when you get to that certain point then you stop sparring
you save your brain because like right now I'd say at least 85 to 87 percent or
even close to 91 percent of the UFC fighters you don't have to you know if
you didn't come to the to the contender series I think you don't have to really
spar anymore you know like we're all at a high level already of thinking and
doing
this like there's other ways that you could do to figure stuff out you know and
that's just what I think you know I'm not telling you so do you guys do a lot
of
drills with pads yeah pills with pads or even drills drills on drills you know
like you know not like not really Dutch way but like more towards a fighter
yeah
yeah yeah yeah and then we practice it yeah and I'll practice it you know like
we
look we look for whenever I watch tape we look for consistencies guys that they
do
consistent movements all the time and we work for those movements and then we
go we apply we ask my partner to go and now it's much it's much more easier to
ask someone to replicate this guy for me while we're moving versus to ask
someone
to replicate somebody when we're sparring hard because I would spar hard with
them
they'll start getting yeah they'll start getting their ass beat and they'll be
like
fuck this I give him a better look when I'm training when I'm doing myself so I'm
gonna go to that but that's not it you know even if you give me a better look
as
yourself I'm trying to I'm trying to get ready for this guy you know I mean and
a lot of
people that's when ego and stuff come in and so on so on so I think uh I think
so
we figured out a way where it worked for me and and you guys got to see you
know it's
like I just I felt so good my body everything was like to you yeah I just I
felt great if
you don't understand how good Calvin Cater is you don't understand how good
your
performance is because yeah I thought yeah I thought Calvin Cater was like and
it takes
two and I tell everybody would um with this with the numbers and stuff you know
like the
the reason why I didn't hit this numbers against uh against Ortega is because
we went
only four rounds you know what I mean like yeah just uh like like Ortega is a
different beast too you
know I think so the ref said what he said and that's what happened in that
fight but I could
Qatar had a like was crazy because one of the rounds I think so like the third
or fourth round I hit him
and uh he was just gone like I was like he was gone attending around I was like
oh this guy not
walking off for the fifth round there's no way and motherfucking jumping up and
down yeah like like
like it was the first round I was like I was like okay then there's my answer
uh if you would you feel
like getting punched some more my friend we're gonna we're gonna do this no he's
tough as fuck man because
there were a lot of moments in that fight where he could have quit wait wait he
could have and it's
it's crazy because like you see it you see him you see him get to that moment
like I feel it like it's
right there and he just throw like a bomb and he he lands it on me I'm like I'm
like what I like
what I'm like come on man and they're like I hear everything I could hear his
corner yelling at him
and stuff and this and that I'm like god damn it cater I was like you know I
was like I was like
one time I was like uh um what was funny was it one time in a fight like he was
just fucking
throwing and he somehow landed a left hook or overhand on me and he's on the
fence and I was
like bro the fight was about to get finished like come on care just like come
on just do it but then
you know at the end of the day it's like it's not my job you know I can't I can't
focus on what the
ref can do what is what is uh if his team is going to throw in the top I just
gotta focus on him you
know and do you think they should have stopped that fight at any point in time
I mean at the end of
the day I'm in cater shoes like me talking as a fighter no way I was like give
me a shot and
this guy's you know this he's a puncher he's a puncher puncher like this guy
can like put someone
down you know but you know it's funny because like Teddy Atlas said the same
thing but Teddy Atlas was
like telling me when I was on his show he was like oh he was like but Max you
never got dropped so I
don't know the odds of uh the odds of him knocking you out because he's a puncher
puncher he stood not
there you know he stood slim but it is there but at the end of the day I I can't
speak on that you
know because as a fighter I'd be like frick you know leave leave me in there
you know I want to fight you
know like even like even my way with even like even championships you know you
want to find the
best guy right and and the way I look at it is like if it's the best it's not a
fight is a fight
until until it's over and then it's people's uh perceptions on the fight so
after the five rounds
then it's a fight you know like but I thought they're supposed to be the two
best guys in the
world you know what I mean like my my take on it was like why why don't we just
have these fights
yeah we have the rounds we just go on to someone wins the fight right instead
of we we keep this
perception out of it we just keep going round after five rounds guess what we're
going to six
guess what we're going to say we're going to someone quit that's how you find
the best
fighter in the world at that way at whatever it is Jack Johnson style why not
you know that's the
way I think because it's just perception it's just a perception right because
they'll never do that in
America but they might do it in Asia yeah maybe you could talk one FC yeah one
might be doing some
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