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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #102 with Dustin Poirier' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-26. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #102 with Dustin Poirier

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Dustin Poirier.
What's up, brother?
What's happening, man?
Good to have you here, man.
Good to finally be here.
What does it feel like right now?
You're on the top of the world, son.
Feels good.
You know, everybody's asking me that, like, but I've been fighting for a while.
So it's just, it's another win.
And it's a big one, you know, the guy's such a celebrity, but just another win.
Well, if you look at your last, like, there's a, I think it was an Instagram
post or someone
put up, your last victories, all the guys that you've beaten.
Like, dude, I mean, you talk about earning your way to the top.
I mean, you went through a fucking who's who, a murderer's row of the 155-pound
division.
I mean, you earned it.
I mean, you really did earn it.
Paid in full.
Yeah, 100%, man.
Yeah.
I'm trying to keep adding them, Joe.
I know.
I know you are.
But yeah, I think it's five or six world champions that I beat in the UFC.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Pettis, Gaethje, Eddie.
Max.
Max.
Conor.
Yeah.
Huge.
I don't know if there's another one in there, but that's enough.
Those are giant victories, man.
I mean, those giant, giant victories.
And for a guy like you, who's been at it for a long time, I'm like, you just
keep getting
better.
You just keep improving.
You just keep adding on.
And more important, I think, than, or not more important, or as important as
any of those
things, is your composure.
Like, your composure now is at the top of the heap.
Yeah, I'm really comfortable in there.
And I trust myself.
You know, even when shit's going to get bad in there, you know, I just trust
myself to
find a way.
And I think that comes with fighting at the highest level for as long as I have.
Yeah.
I've been going on like 11 years in the UFC.
And also, like, being at the brink a couple of times, like the Jim Miller fight,
when your
leg was so fucked up.
You talk about, like, lessons learned and how they pay off later.
Yeah.
So interesting, because your leg was so fucked up in that fight.
And then to have you debilitate Conor in the exact same way and then stop him
right after
that.
Yeah.
Dude, that was so painful.
That was the first time I've been calf kicked in an actual fight.
And I thought my leg was broken.
We went to the hospital.
They gave me morphine in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
It was jacked up.
I was, and then the altitude, you know, after flying back home, I couldn't walk.
I couldn't walk for a few days.
Wow.
Yeah.
I remember that fight because I remember there was a moment where it seemed
like you couldn't
move, but then you got the takedown.
Yeah.
He threw another kick.
I think I caught his foot and tripped him up.
Yeah.
I had to get him down.
And that's what I'm talking about.
Finding a way.
Like, I trust myself to grab that, that damn foot.
Yeah.
But isn't it crazy how those pivotal moments in a fight, like it could go this
way or it
could go that way and it goes your way.
And then, you know, you see guys' careers teeter in the balance of those
pivotal moments.
Yeah.
If it goes that way a couple of times in a row, a lot of guys can't come back
from that.
But we were talking recently about Anderson Silva.
You think about Anderson Silva's spectacular career and then Weidman knocks him
out and
then he doesn't win another fight for years.
He wins one fight with a decision over Derek Brunson and that's it.
Every fight since then he's lost, which is crazy.
Yeah.
I don't want to say that that's because of just his age and decline, but it
could be that
or it could be some guys just don't know how to lose, you know?
Yeah.
Some guys just don't know how to lose.
He's been on top, so successful for so long and you start getting, you realize
you're human.
You know, I'm not saying that's his case, but I've seen it happen.
Yeah.
It definitely can happen.
That is an important thing, right?
Learning how to lose because there's some guys that for whatever reason, they
have all
this confidence, all this momentum and then they lose and they lose like when
they lose
a fight, it's not just that they lost the fight.
They lose like 30% of who they are.
Yeah.
They lose their aura.
They lose their confidence.
They lose this feeling that no one's going to beat them.
Yeah.
I think the important thing with that is remaining a student.
Like when I take my losses, I go back to the gym and try to drown myself in
work and remain
a student.
It kind of blocks out all the thoughts and all the critics.
I just get back to work, train hard, and it just drowns all that negativity out
and I
think you have to remain a student for longevity in the sport because it's one
thing to make
it there.
It's a whole other thing to stay there and these guys who get to that pinnacle
and stay there
for a while, then they lose.
Are they still that student that they were that got them to that height, you
know?
Yeah.
Now, you're living in Louisiana, but you train American Top Team for your
fights.
How far out do you go down there?
At least eight weeks, I try.
Now, my fights are bigger.
So before, you know, in the past, I would have a fight six weeks notice, but
now the fights
are bigger, so there's more buildup, and I usually try to get at least eight
weeks.
And in between fights, how do you schedule your workouts, like, say, like right
now?
Right.
Like, you win this big fight over Conor.
What are your workouts like now?
So I have a personal gym in Louisiana, and a bunch of my buddies that I grew up
with fighting
in Louisiana have gyms as well.
So I train with their guys, and I train with those guys who will get together
at my gym,
just throw something together, or I'll go to one of their classes.
And I just stay in the mix with that.
Like, this Saturday, I'm going to Mississippi.
We have a local guy who I train with fighting out there.
I just stay in the mix.
I stay in different gyms, working on stuff.
Is Alan Belcher down there?
Alan Belcher's in Mississippi.
He's in Mississippi.
Yeah.
Yeah, but Tim Crater's in Louisiana, Lafayette.
Crazy Tim.
Nuts.
Yeah.
I met that guy in 98, I think?
99, something like that?
He's the first black belt in Louisiana.
Is he really?
Yeah.
Yeah, he was a Machado guy.
He's...
I trained with him at John Jocks.
Rodrigo Maderos.
That's what he is?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm a black belt under Tim.
So, Rodrigo Maderos under Carlson Gracie?
Yes, sir.
That's right.
Yeah, Carlson Gracie, for sure.
Yeah.
Well, he was, like, very high level early on in the game.
Yeah, I think he's picked it up in the Navy out in San Diego or something.
He started doing jiu-jitsu at a young age and then brought it back to Louisiana
and then started choking these Cajuns out, man.
Yeah, I trained other Rodrigo Maderos when he was at Carlson's place on Hawthorne
in Hollywood.
It was like when I was a white belt when I first started in 96.
A long time ago.
Yeah, back when Vitor was 19 years old and he fought John Hess in Hawaii.
Jacked.
Yeah.
J-j-j-j-jacked.
Yeah.
Rodrigo still comes down to Louisiana for seminars.
Does he really?
Yeah.
Please tell him I said hello.
I will, for sure.
Good dude.
Yeah, man.
Really nice guy.
Yeah, it's crazy, like the lineages of jiu-jitsu and martial arts and where you
meet people
and train people and learn under their tutelage.
Yeah, and it's growing so much, but it's still a small circle, even though it's
growing as
fast as it is.
Everybody knows somebody that knows somebody.
Legitimately.
Yeah.
So you have your own gym.
What's it called?
My gym is Diamond Training Center.
It's just a private gym.
And you got your own hot sauce, which I need to try.
Stay spicy.
Stay spicy.
Louisiana hot sauce.
So your gym, is it an MMA gym?
Yeah, but it's a private gym, so there's no classes being run there.
I just rent out a warehouse space that I ever last helped me deck the whole
thing out.
I have mats there and heavy bags.
And it's just like a personal space where me and guys get together, drill stuff,
or I
get bag work in.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah.
So you don't have to deal with bullshit.
Exactly.
You don't have to deal with fanboys and nonsense.
Yeah, people asking for pictures and stuff like that.
Oh, yeah.
That would be annoying.
Oh, that's cool.
So you got your, how much, how many square feet is it?
It's probably 3,000 square feet, maybe.
Oh, perfect.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's big.
Enough for me and my guys.
Everything you need in there.
Yeah.
And we never have more than like six guys on the mat at once, so it's plenty of
room.
So are you drawing from other gyms, like when you take your training partners?
How are you?
Yeah.
So like I said, the guys who kind of, I came up with in Louisiana fighting,
they all have
their own gyms now, and they all have their own, you know, teams, fight teams.
And the higher level guys, we'll just, I'll set a time, we have a group text
and say, hey,
I'm going to be at my gym.
If you want to show up, we train.
Otherwise, I go to their gyms and run classes with them.
And do you have local boxing coaches or local Muay Thai coaches or jiu-jitsu
coaches that
you work with?
Yeah.
I have a boxing coach in Louisiana and my kickboxing, I kind of do with the,
with the students.
We just work stuff back and forth.
A lot of Holland drills, a lot of tie pads.
But I don't have like somebody I work with on a regular basis really for, for
striking
there.
I just kind of move around and have fun.
So when you get ready for a camp, like say, if you get ready for a Conor fight
or a Khabib
fight or something like that, when you go down to American Top Team, who formulates
the
game plans?
Is it Mike Brown?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's a mastermind.
Yeah.
He's a good dude, man.
And he's been around forever too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A pioneer, man.
Yep.
Fighting over in Bodog and WC everywhere.
He's the man, but he puts, he puts together my training camp and I've been
fighting for
long enough.
I kind of self-regulate throughout camp, but Mike Brown puts down the meat and
potatoes
of what we need to work on and focus on.
And so when you get down there, like save a fight, like a Khabib fight or
something like
that, you have like specific things you want to work on and specific timelines
you want to
get these things in by like, how does an eight week camp get structured?
Does he write it out?
Do you, does, do you have it on a board somewhere?
Like, how does that work?
We kind of take, well, the strength and conditioning part is written out, I
think a little bit early,
but the, the technique stuff is week by week.
We start, you know, we plan one full week, get through that week, plan the next
week.
And if things are working and moving right, we'll keep it the same for two
weeks maybe
and then switch it up again.
Mike Brown's pretty good at that.
He's always coming over to my house, watching footage and plan and help me plan
everything.
And he kind of coordinates with the other coaches, like my boxing coach, kickboxing
coach, he kind of sets up everything and, and runs the whole thing.
Did you see DC's breakdown and in detail of the second fight versus the first
fight with
Connor?
Very interesting.
It is.
I see a lot of people talking funny stuff about like the leg kick didn't knock
him out.
What happened?
Like, so DC says in the detail breakdown, uh, I kick Connor's calf and Connor
steps back
and his leg kind of goes and DC says, well, that's the leg kick that, you know,
hurt his
leg or whatever.
But when he went after that leg kick, he kind of reached down to grab the foot
and threw
an uppercut and I was switched stance.
So I threw a cross from my backhand that clipped him good.
And that's when he took the step back and was hurt.
Um, I think that's a detail people are missing.
That right hand.
Well, you've certainly, you landed a lot of solid shots in that fight, but
there's no
doubt that leg kick was fucking that right leg up for sure.
But the detail, what I was going to get over is the, the difference between the
first fight
and the 