Name: Miesha Tate Talks Conor McGregor (from Joe Rogan Experience #794)
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People love both ways. It's interesting like people love your way, but people
also love like shit talking
You know people love Nate Diaz for that people love they love the drama
But they also love someone like you who can walk up to Holly and hug her
Yeah, yeah, I'm somewhere in the middle though because I get a lot of flack for
you know my mouth
Like I just can't I say what I'm thinking and I'm pretty transparent and
sometimes people think that you know
I get a lot of like oh you're fake or this and I'm like not really like just
because you know
I'm like I'll say this like I'm a fan of Connor. I am I like his fighting style
And I you know his antics at first were kind of like wait, who is this guy?
What is it? You know, and then I'm like man props to him
He's done amazing things like good for him and he's done really good things for
our sport
But when he didn't show up to film that commercial like I'm not you know, I'll
be honest like yeah
I kind of rubbed me the wrong way because
People are like oh he does so much more media than you guys do. Yeah, he
probably does
You know, he probably does I do a lot. He probably does more I agree
But I don't have a private jet flying out to pick me up and bring me back and
fly 20 people of my crew with me too
He does more so he gets more when they bring him to Vegas. They put him up in a
penthouse
You know, they make sure he has everything that he needs. I don't get that. You
know, that's fine
You know, he's earned that he's in that spot. No problem with that
But I think three months out from a fight camp, you know
You have a private jet coming to pick you up with you can bring 20 of your
teammates
You could probably work out on the jet if you want to on the way there because
it's yours
It's private do whatever you want
Well, you could probably hit minutes on the jet
Yeah, you could totally, you know
And you're three months out and you don't want to show for your media
obligations. Like I don't really understand that
I don't like it just I don't know I guess I'm trying to figure it out
But the only issue that I had and it it doesn't bother me like if he didn't
want to do it
That's his own thing. The thing is is that I showed up the day to film the
commercial
And I had two segments I was supposed to film and that's all that was on my
schedule and then they asked me like
They're like can you please help us out because connor's not here
And uh, we don't know what we're doing for this third segment of the commercial
that was supposed to be connor and nate
So can you please come back later that day?
And film that segment and was like that was during my practice time
Um, so I had to come back and you know, I did it because it was a company woman
But like it was just frustrating because it's like dang, you know
If I had known about this I could have planned my training otherwise
But now I kind of have to like scramble to get my second workout in and it
affected me
So yeah, his decision did and it probably is actually
You know, I haven't made any more money in the sport yet because of connor a
lot of people like
Oh, you must have got a bigger payday because that last like no because I wasn't
the champion
So I didn't get any more of like I didn't get any pay-per-views. I didn't get
any more
Money and now he's like not on this fight cards. I'm like
You know, but it's whatever, you know, it's it's connor's deal and uh, I don't
hate connor
But i'm gonna say how I feel, you know, and I would say it if he was sitting
here too like dude
Why did you do that? You probably well, I I feel like there's a bunch of issues
here and we
And the only way to really get a firm
Understanding of it is to sit down with everyone involved and say what was
communicated your manager
Did he know what the what the appearance schedule was going to be like did you
guys agree to this?
Did you understand what you were getting into when maybe it's a
misunderstanding?
You know who knows it's hard to say but it's the way he went about it was
ridiculous like saying i'm retired
Thanks for the cheese and then saying i'm not retired and then saying
I'm glad the ufc decided to give the fans what they want and be i'm gonna be on
ufc 200 numbers like what and so like
What he's doing is he's kind of like using the the media yeah to try to get
this
Thing to pass through but he doesn't understand dana and lorenzo and frank like
that's never gonna work like
You're you are either in or you're not in right like and they're like real
clear about that
They have to set a precedent so like if you say fuck you i'm not doing media
They're gonna go oh, well, okay. Fuck you. You're not fighting. Yeah, but hold
on i'm conor mcgregor
We're the ufc. Yeah, this is what it is. They've made many stars
They'll make many more and we might lose millions of dollars because you're not
on ufc 200. Yeah
Well, he he he had put they put 10 million into promoting this already
He's like we're way over budget, you know, so that's why he's like you've got
to show up and do you know
That's how connor was made yes is through that stuff
So exactly now like at what point do you get to decide that you don't have to
do that anymore?
Like if that's what made you who you are like, I mean, don't you kind of have
to like
Does that make sense what i'm saying?
It makes sense. I mean at what point do you get to decide like when you don't
have to like like I use the machine
And now like I don't I just want to hop off now that i'm here. Yeah, I don't
know don't you kind of have to
Keep it the same
Well, I think so but there is also like a fine line right like you can do too
much
Like when I was watching the jose aldo media tour when they were going all
around the world. I'm like, okay
I understand that you want to promote this fight. Yeah, but how much of this is
helping the actual fight itself?
And how much of it is just connor mcgregor constantly talking shit at press
conferences and grabbing the belt and all that
I mean, that's really kind of what's selling the fight was that?
I don't know they did a lot of it, but apparently connor was sick
Like he was like i'm just constantly fighting off of colds really hard to get
in shape really hard to train
Because every week, you know, you're traveling from here to there and there to
here
It's just you're constantly getting beaten down and you know what it's like if
like you have have you ever flown to brazil and fought
No, I've only there four fight cards though. What is the um the furthest you've
ever had to fly to fight?
Japan
Japan so that's an interesting one. That's a long flight. It's like 16 hours,
right? Yeah. What is it like like
Like adjusting and then competing?
Um, I try to start adjusting my schedule at home like blackening my windows a
little bit or you know
Like to make the time frame, but you never get fully adjusted
But my mind frame is like when when push comes to shove when fight time comes
whether it's two in the morning my time or not
Like i'm gonna be game so I just look at it that way, but it's not fun like I
remember
Three weeks out from my fight with ren nakai, which I didn't even want to
I didn't want to do that fight because she was so unknown. She was undefeated
I'm going over there to like fight on a newly blooming fight pass
I was like
This is like feels like it does nothing for me and like and if she wins it
springboards her, you know
Then she'll be 17 and oh she'll have a judo background
They're gonna want to make that fight for for her and ronda
I know that's what they're trying to do is they're trying to use
You know business use me as that springboard and it's like I don't really want
to do this, but I did it
But three weeks before the fight
They had me fly to japan to do some promotional stuff and I was flying longer
than I was even on the ground
And they said like ticket sales went up and everything was really good, but
yeah, that was exhausting
So I do I know three weeks before yeah, that's hard
You're peaking right really high ramping it up three weeks and super hard
And now after my fight with holly like I got to spend a little time in australia
and then I went straight from australia
to new york spent a day there did a full day of media went to
Connecticut to espn did a full day of media went to toronto did a full day of
media and it's just like it's non
Stop from like you start your first interview at eight in the morning
So you pick up at like seven and you go until
Seven at night and even while you're driving to the next place they'll have you
on the phone
With with the with the with the you know with the radio interview, you know, I
mean there's no break
It's all it's it's pretty intense. It's pretty crazy. It's pretty exhausting.
So I I get it
I've I have been in those you know the shoes before but
Um, you know, it's I don't know maybe there's more extenuating. So maybe he was
hurt or something
Maybe he didn't want people to see like maybe I don't know
Like what if there's even something like that?
Like what if he had like hurt himself or something and he didn't want like nate
to know
Yeah, who knows? I don't know who knows and it's also he also
Had to realize there was a lot of work that needed to be done to beat nate
Yeah, like he hit nate with some of his best shots and nate was fine with it
And it was a real problem
I think that's more what it was is that he was just obsessed with beating nate
and I I get that too
I don't take that away from him for a minute
Like he wanted to stay home and or he was in iceland I guess training and he
wants to train to beat nate. I get it
Totally get it. Yeah, I get it too. It seems like the only way also
I felt like but then again, he could have brought his whole gym with him, you
know, sure
Well, he could have tried I mean, it was gonna be a difficult time just trying
to find
The the moments to train and to stay in shape and then obviously being
exhausted from flying and I think it was a quick turnaround to
You know, like as far as like you I don't think he was supposed to be there
more than like two days
I honestly think he's better off not doing it
I honestly think he's better off like sequestering himself for a few months
like really focusing on
What went wrong? Yeah, how to correct it? I agree and can you correct it? Yeah,
I mean do you like
When it comes to the ground game
What I saw on the ground, I was like boy, this is a long road like you've got a
long road to beat a guy like nate
Yeah, he's so much further along in in and ground and pound jiu-jitsu
positioning everything
When I was watching nate beat him up on the ground and choke him. I was like,
whoa
That happened quick. Yeah, this is not like like weidman and rock hold was a
prolonged beating
Before rock hold eventually stopped him the next round. Yeah, but with why with
nate and connor
Wasn't that prolonged it happened pretty quickly. Yeah, and when you see that
you go
Like this is gonna be there's a lot to overcome. Yeah, it's not insurmountable
It takes a lot of time to build that those skill sets. They don't just they don't
come overnight, you know
You can pick up your cardio pretty quick
You can do a lot of things
But you can't you can't build a skill set any faster than it's gonna go into
your muscle memory and and be in your upper
You've got to put thousands of reps in and there's no way around it. Yeah,
there's no way. There's no way to fast forward through that
There's no way to cut the corner. There's no
There's nothing you can't just repetition repetition repetition what also it
highlights all the various
Eccentric aspects of your training that people are like hmm. Is this what makes
connor great?
And you know and then you know nate calling it touch butt in the park
Like they're doing all these cartwheels and stuff
Video was so funny hilarious. Oh my god. I was dying laughing hilarious
so when
This all you know, he's doing all these this work with this
movement guy
But then you see what happens when it actually comes to fighting skills and you
go ooh
Maybe this is not the way to do it
Like because like i've talked to a lot of people that were like this stuff that
he's doing is utter
Horseshit like this doing cartwheels and being obsessed with movement
Here's the movements you need to be worried about okay moving your feet
throwing kicks and punches take down defense and jujitsu on the ground
That's it. Yeah, you know understanding takedowns yourself taking people down
if you must trips sweeps all that stuff
But all this cartwheels and what this guy was explaining to me and I want to
name any names because he's a prominent guy
He was like you have to understand that there's a limited amount of energy you
have in your time training
Yes
And you are not perfect at all these other aspects of mma
So if you are not perfect all these other aspects of mma you have to say
Okay, how much yeah, how much of this stuff is going to help me?
Well a guy like george st pierre
He looked at gymnastics and he's like, you know what's going to help me if I
can be stronger physically
And there's no better way. I think like as far as like manipulating your body
than gymnastics like doing the rings and developing
Proprioception. Yeah, you're learning how to manipulate your body in all kinds
of contorted positions. Yes being upside down and understanding
Where you are when you're upside down where you're going to be with the
momentum you have you have to calculate that your math is doing
Constant algorithms and math equations essentially when you're fighting to you
know weight distribution where are we at?
Especially when you tie up with someone else and you have to feel their weight
and you have to manipulate it in a way
To get it where you want whether it's against the cage or whether it's on the
ground your body is using a
equation
Yeah, you know your mind is equating how much force do I need to make this
happen?
How little force like what if I go the opposite direction because they're
pushing into me?
There's all these different things that you have to
Over there's no other way to do it than than a trial and error process and over
and over and over and over again
Yeah, and you look at someone who's like really good at one aspect of mma like
yoel romero
Who's just a ridiculous wrestler and you go? Okay, like how much touch butt in
the park is that guy doing?
You know, how many how many cartwheels is he doing? Is he tumbling?
No, but I bet you he does 100 double legs a day. Oh, yeah
At least you know, yeah
Well, he's doing all kinds of and then 100 single legs and then 100 body locks
and you know
But until connor lost everybody's like this is what we need. We need a movement
coach. I need a movement coach, you know
And it still might I mean as we said with George st. Pierre it has massive
benefits to get
That kind of coordination physical strength
You know what I do like about connor though is like
His balance is impeccable and that could be part of that and like he's never
over himself
At least with the striking part of it anyways, you know, the ground is a
completely different thing
But when he's in striking range, and it's just his body his eye hand
coordination
Is incredible and his balance like he's never too far over a punch. He's never
too far back
He's always centered. He's always centered. He throws a kick
He never gets you know
You see people kick and they miss and they kind of like stumble like their
weights off balance or or they kick and even land
And even when they put their foot down, it's kind of like it's not a good
landing
You know, like I'm not like the world's best kicker, but when I watch connor do
it
It's like he kicks or push kicks and sticks
He is like a like a gymnast in the sense, you know, they do those flip and then
they want to just boom stick it like and he's
Really really good at that. Well in that sense, maybe that's where the movement
does benefit. I think so
He never is over himself in his weight distribution
Isn't it the case that whenever someone loses though everyone always second
guesses what they were doing
Even if what they were doing was getting them to be like 16-0 totally undefeated
world champion
When you'd make a mistake or something goes wrong or something goes right for
your opponent
We should probably say immediately people start questioning everything you did.
Yeah
Definitely all the time
I mean
It happened with me when you know when I lost it to ronda like oh you gotta
change this you gotta change everything
But as long as you're winning people like yeah, keep doing what you're doing.
It's working and then you lose are like change everything
It's like geez that was quick
Well, that's also the ronda criticism in the holly home fight
Everybody was like looking at her like a dominating betch cohea would stand up,
you know
Beating sarah mcmahon the way she did alexis davis beating her down the way she
did and go
Well, look ronda obviously is getting so good at striking
She's such an elite athlete that she can do what she's doing to anybody
And then her trainer saying that she could go box women professionals and knock
them out
And so you get this thing in your head that you can do what you have been doing
Yeah, and then you fight someone like holly and you go. Oh, well, okay
Yeah, yeah, there's what is so there's so many levels
It's one of the more fascinating things about martial arts is that there are so
many levels. Yeah, there's never it's never ending. Yeah, never ending story
Yeah, really is right. Yeah

Miesha Tate Talks Conor McGregor (from Joe Rogan Experience #794)

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People love both ways. It's interesting like people love your way, but people
also love like shit talking
You know people love Nate Diaz for that people love they love the drama
But they also love someone like you who can walk up to Holly and hug her
Yeah, yeah, I'm somewhere in the middle though because I get a lot of flack for
you know my mouth
Like I just can't I say what I'm thinking and I'm pretty transparent and
sometimes people think that you know
I get a lot of like oh you're fake or this and I'm like not really like just
because you know
I'm like I'll say this like I'm a fan of Connor. I am I like his fighting style
And I you know his antics at first were kind of like wait, who is this guy?
What is it? You know, and then I'm like man props to him
He's done amazing things like good for him and he's done really good things for
our sport
But when he didn't show up to film that commercial like I'm not you know, I'll
be honest like yeah
I kind of rubbed me the wrong way because
People are like oh he does so much more media than you guys do. Yeah, he
probably does
You know, he probably does I do a lot. He probably does more I agree
But I don't have a private jet flying out to pick me up and bring me back and
fly 20 people of my crew with me too
He does more so he gets more when they bring him to Vegas. They put him up in a
penthouse
You know, they make sure he has everything that he needs. I don't get that. You
know, that's fine
You know, he's earned that he's in that spot. No problem with that
But I think three months out from a fight camp, you know
You have a private jet coming to pick you up with you can bring 20 of your
teammates
You could probably work out on the jet if you want to on the way there because
it's yours
It's private do whatever you want
Well, you could probably hit minutes on the jet
Yeah, you could totally, you know
And you're three months out and you don't want to show for your media
obligations. Like I don't really understand that
I don't like it just I don't know I guess I'm trying to figure it out
But the only issue that I had and it it doesn't bother me like if he didn't
want to do it
That's his own thing. The thing is is that I showed up the day to film the
commercial
And I had two segments I was supposed to film and that's all that was on my
schedule and then they asked me like
They're like can you please help us out because connor's not here
And uh, we don't know what we're doing for this third segment of the commercial
that was supposed to be connor and nate
So can you please come back later that day?
And film that segment and was like that was during my practice time
Um, so I had to come back and you know, I did it because it was a company woman
But like it was just frustrating because it's like dang, you know
If I had known about this I could have planned my training otherwise
But now I kind of have to like scramble to get my second workout in and it
affected me
So yeah, his decision did and it probably is actually
You know, I haven't made any more money in the sport yet because of connor a
lot of people like
Oh, you must have got a bigger payday because that last like no because I wasn't
the champion
So I didn't get any more of like I didn't get any pay-per-views. I didn't get
any more
Money and now he's like not on this fight cards. I'm like
You know, but it's whatever, you know, it's it's connor's deal and uh, I don't
hate connor
But i'm gonna say how I feel, you know, and I would say it if he was sitting
here too like dude
Why did you do that? You probably well, I I feel like there's a bunch of issues
here and we
And the only way to really get a firm
Understanding of it is to sit down with everyone involved and say what was
communicated your manager
Did he know what the what the appearance schedule was going to be like did you
guys agree to this?
Did you understand what you were getting into when maybe it's a
misunderstanding?
You know who knows it's hard to say but it's the way he went about it was
ridiculous like saying i'm retired
Thanks for the cheese and then saying i'm not retired and then saying
I'm glad the ufc decided to give the fans what they want and be i'm gonna be on
ufc 200 numbers like what and so like
What he's doing is he's kind of like using the the media yeah to try to get
this
Thing to pass through but he doesn't understand dana and lorenzo and frank like
that's never gonna work like
You're you are either in or you're not in right like and they're like real
clear about that
They have to set a precedent so like if you say fuck you i'm not doing media
They're gonna go oh, well, okay. Fuck you. You're not fighting. Yeah, but hold
on i'm conor mcgregor
We're the ufc. Yeah, this is what it is. They've made many stars
They'll make many more and we might lose millions of dollars because you're not
on ufc 200. Yeah
Well, he he he had put they put 10 million into promoting this already
He's like we're way over budget, you know, so that's why he's like you've got
to show up and do you know
That's how connor was made yes is through that stuff
So exactly now like at what point do you get to decide that you don't have to
do that anymore?
Like if that's what made you who you are like, I mean, don't you kind of have
to like
Does that make sense what i'm saying?
It makes sense. I mean at what point do you get to decide like when you don't
have to like like I use the machine
And now like I don't I just want to hop off now that i'm here. Yeah, I don't
know don't you kind of have to
Keep it the same
Well, I think so but there is also like a fine line right like you can do too
much
Like when I was watching the jose aldo media tour when they were going all
around the world. I'm like, okay
I understand that you want to promote this fight. Yeah, but how much of this is
helping the actual fight itself?
And how much of it is just connor mcgregor constantly talking shit at press
conferences and grabbing the belt and all that
I mean, that's really kind of what's selling the fight was that?
I don't know they did a lot of it, but apparently connor was sick
Like he was like i'm just constantly fighting off of colds really hard to get
in shape really hard to train
Because every week, you know, you're traveling from here to there and there to
here
It's just you're constantly getting beaten down and you know what it's like if
like you have have you ever flown to brazil and fought
No, I've only there four fight cards though. What is the um the furthest you've
ever had to fly to fight?
Japan
Japan so that's an interesting one. That's a long flight. It's like 16 hours,
right? Yeah. What is it like like
Like adjusting and then competing?
Um, I try to start adjusting my schedule at home like blackening my windows a
little bit or you know
Like to make the time frame, but you never get fully adjusted
But my mind frame is like when when push comes to shove when fight time comes
whether it's two in the morning my time or not
Like i'm gonna be game so I just look at it that way, but it's not fun like I
remember
Three weeks out from my fight with ren nakai, which I didn't even want to
I didn't want to do that fight because she was so unknown. She was undefeated
I'm going over there to like fight on a newly blooming fight pass
I was like
This is like feels like it does nothing for me and like and if she wins it
springboards her, you know
Then she'll be 17 and oh she'll have a judo background
They're gonna want to make that fight for for her and ronda
I know that's what they're trying to do is they're trying to use
You know business use me as that springboard and it's like I don't really want
to do this, but I did it
But three weeks before the fight
They had me fly to japan to do some promotional stuff and I was flying longer
than I was even on the ground
And they said like ticket sales went up and everything was really good, but
yeah, that was exhausting
So I do I know three weeks before yeah, that's hard
You're peaking right really high ramping it up three weeks and super hard
And now after my fight with holly like I got to spend a little time in australia
and then I went straight from australia
to new york spent a day there did a full day of media went to
Connecticut to espn did a full day of media went to toronto did a full day of
media and it's just like it's non
Stop from like you start your first interview at eight in the morning
So you pick up at like seven and you go until
Seven at night and even while you're driving to the next place they'll have you
on the phone
With with the with the with the you know with the radio interview, you know, I
mean there's no break
It's all it's it's pretty intense. It's pretty crazy. It's pretty exhausting.
So I I get it
I've I have been in those you know the shoes before but
Um, you know, it's I don't know maybe there's more extenuating. So maybe he was
hurt or something
Maybe he didn't want people to see like maybe I don't know
Like what if there's even something like that?
Like what if he had like hurt himself or something and he didn't want like nate
to know
Yeah, who knows? I don't know who knows and it's also he also
Had to realize there was a lot of work that needed to be done to beat nate
Yeah, like he hit nate with some of his best shots and nate was fine with it
And it was a real problem
I think that's more what it was is that he was just obsessed with beating nate
and I I get that too
I don't take that away from him for a minute
Like he wanted to stay home and or he was in iceland I guess training and he
wants to train to beat nate. I get it
Totally get it. Yeah, I get it too. It seems like the only way also
I felt like but then again, he could have brought his whole gym with him, you
know, sure
Well, he could have tried I mean, it was gonna be a difficult time just trying
to find
The the moments to train and to stay in shape and then obviously being
exhausted from flying and I think it was a quick turnaround to
You know, like as far as like you I don't think he was supposed to be there
more than like two days
I honestly think he's better off not doing it
I honestly think he's better off like sequestering himself for a few months
like really focusing on
What went wrong? Yeah, how to correct it? I agree and can you correct it? Yeah,
I mean do you like
When it comes to the ground game
What I saw on the ground, I was like boy, this is a long road like you've got a
long road to beat a guy like nate
Yeah, he's so much further along in in and ground and pound jiu-jitsu
positioning everything
When I was watching nate beat him up on the ground and choke him. I was like,
whoa
That happened quick. Yeah, this is not like like weidman and rock hold was a
prolonged beating
Before rock hold eventually stopped him the next round. Yeah, but with why with
nate and connor
Wasn't that prolonged it happened pretty quickly. Yeah, and when you see that
you go
Like this is gonna be there's a lot to overcome. Yeah, it's not insurmountable
It takes a lot of time to build that those skill sets. They don't just they don't
come overnight, you know
You can pick up your cardio pretty quick
You can do a lot of things
But you can't you can't build a skill set any faster than it's gonna go into
your muscle memory and and be in your upper
You've got to put thousands of reps in and there's no way around it. Yeah,
there's no way. There's no way to fast forward through that
There's no way to cut the corner. There's no
There's nothing you can't just repetition repetition repetition what also it
highlights all the various
Eccentric aspects of your training that people are like hmm. Is this what makes
connor great?
And you know and then you know nate calling it touch butt in the park
Like they're doing all these cartwheels and stuff
Video was so funny hilarious. Oh my god. I was dying laughing hilarious
so when
This all you know, he's doing all these this work with this
movement guy
But then you s