Name: Conor's Lack of Trash Talk During Poirier II Lead up
Uploaded: 2021-02-26T18:54:23.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Conor's Lack of Trash Talk During Poirier II Lead up' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Conor's Lack of Trash Talk During Poirier II Lead up' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-26. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- What was it like fighting Conor
when he wasn't an asshole?
Was that weird?
- Dude, you know fighting is hectic already.
- Yeah.
- You're about to go in there for 25 minutes
and you've been training, so you know what's on the line.
So it's just a lot of pressure.
So, just it being a little bit more calm for me
was smooth sailing, man, you know?
'Cause it's already hectic enough.
I say the same thing about the fans.
Like when I fought at the Apex, it was nice, you know?
'Cause like I said, fighting is crazy.
So without having guys spilling beer,
yelling you're gonna die, you know?
On the way to the walk, it's relaxing to me.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, so it just makes it smooth sailing.
- So it's not good for him.
It's really better for him to be an asshole.
- Yeah, be an asshole.
- But it seemed so odd.
It's just like he just decided that he respected you.
- But he did the same thing with Cowboy.
I thought like maybe this is him just maturing,
and he's got a few kids now.
I think he has one, or he does have one on the way.
Like maybe he's just maturing and he's a different,
you know, we all change.
Maybe he's a different person, but.
- Yeah, could be.
- But I think also the amount of shit that he caused
in the Khabib fight.
I mean, realizing at the end of it, what had happened.
Dudes jumped into the cage and beat his ass.
Guys were jumping, I mean, Khabib jumped out of the cage,
got in a fight with Dylan Dennis.
It's chaos, I mean, it was so nuts.
- Yeah.
- And then, you know, what had happened before that
with him throwing the cart at the bus,
and you know, fights got canceled,
'cause broken glass, Kiesa got cut.
I think a couple other guys got cut with the glass
that was flying.
It's like he had done so much and fucked up so much.
- Throwing energy cans at press conferences, remember?
- Oh, that's right.
- Against the ass, yeah.
- That's right, yeah.
But that was kind of like, minor.
- Compared to-- - In comparison.
- Cutting people with broken glass in a bus, yeah.
- Yeah, but the chaos that he caused is so much,
but that had also been a part of what sold fights.
- Yeah.
- Like the Jose Aldo fight.
He tortured Jose Aldo for months.
Remember they did that crazy press conference
where they toured all over the world?
I mean--
- And he ripped the picture in half, yeah.
- Stole his belt, it's my belt.
And by the time they got into the cage, Jose Aldo was frayed.
- Right.
- I want to know, afraid just overthought.
- Yeah.
- You know, in his own head.
- In his own head, yeah.
- He seemed, compared to what I'd seen from Aldo in the past,
he seemed much more nervous,
much more aware of the magnitude of the moment,
and Conor seemed so relaxed.
- And I felt that same thing, though,
the first time I fought Conor.
I felt like that.
When the bell rang, I was like a deer in the headlights.
It's happening, here we go, all that talk
and everything over the months just sat in my head.
- Yeah.
- And I just read into it too much, thought too much.
And I think that's probably what happened with Aldo.
- That is what shit-talking can do to a person, right?
- It's the art of war, man.
I mean, fighting is mental.
You know, as much mental as it is physical, I believe.
- Well, there's so much mental involved.
I mean, it's for sure physical,
but it's also, look, it's mental
just to get yourself through training camp, right?
- Yeah, to cut weight, to show up,
to do interview after interview,
press conference after press conference, you know?
- How hard is that to do
while you're getting ready for a fight,
while you're cutting weight,
and then you're doing these interviews,
and they're boring-ass questions?
- It's the same question over and over.
What's different between this Dustin
and Dustin six years ago when Conor beat you?
Like, I heard that question a thousand times.
It just gets redundant and it's aggravating.
You know, before you even sit down and do the interview,
you know the questions, and it's just...
Going through the motions, I just...
Some are fun, though.
Some interviewers are good and change it up,
and then it's a fun conversation,
but most of them, it's the same thing.
How was camp?
How are you feeling?
- Yeah.
- What's different between this Dustin and...
- I don't know how much of that stuff sells a fight either.
I really don't.
I feel like you should cut it off about two weeks out.
I feel like you can get the interviews in before,
and then the last two weeks,
just leave the fucking fighters alone.
Leave 'em alone.
- Right. - Just let 'em train.
- Only do the big ones,
like an ESPN SportsCenter interview or something.
- Yeah, something quick. - Just the big ones.
- Just a quick one, you know.
- Like, cut out all the media, MMA media.
- Like, how many hours of that shit
do you have to do in a week?
- For this Conor, this last Conor one,
I was stuck in the hotel on Fight Island,
so it was all mostly from my computer.
I would say, over that whole fight week,
three hours, maybe, total.
- Oh, that's not too bad.
- No, that's not too bad.
- Yeah.
- What'd you think of Conor pulling up
to the Fight Island in that yacht?
- That's baller, man.
I was mad.
I'm like, "Damn, I want a fucking yacht."
- You do, but you don't.
You know, that shit, that seems like,
you have to have so much more money
than the yacht cost to enjoy the yacht.
You know what I mean?
- It'd look like a big one.
- It'd look like a big one.
But if, like, you have a yacht,
this is my thought, like, if you have a yacht,
and the yacht is worth whatever a yacht's worth,
what does a yacht cost?
10 million bucks?
Okay, let's say 10 million bucks.
- That one, probably more.
- Probably more.
Let's say 20 million bucks.
Let's say you got a $20 million yacht.
For you to not be sweating that yacht,
you better have 100 million.
- Right.
- You got like, how much does it cost to gas up?
How much does it cost?
How much does the pilot cost?
How much does the captain?
What do I do for repairs?
Shit.
- Those big yachts have to have a crew,
I think, year round.
- Yeah, all year round.
- All year round.
So you're paying a staff salary.
- They live on it.
It's their house.
You just go and sit in it every now and then.
And I heard there's a big docking fee as well.
So wherever the boat stays,
you're paying a big docking fee.
- So you're thinking about all that
while you're about to fight.
That seems like more money, more problems.
- He's got that whiskey money, man.
He's all right.
- He does have that whiskey money though.
That is a different thing.
- I got that whiskey money.
- Yeah, whiskey money's a different thing.
- I'm building it up, man.
I got the hot sauce money coming in.
I'll pull up on like a bass boat next time.
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