Name: Joe Rogan & Brendan Schaub Discuss Conor McGregor, GSP, Nate Diaz & UFC 200
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Joe Rogan & Brendan Schaub Discuss Conor McGregor, GSP, Nate Diaz & UFC 200

Train my day Joe Rogan podcast my name all day
Well that brings up them this the thing that's going on this week with Conor
McGregor we got caught off guard last episode Jamie
And I were talking just out of nowhere
It was just breaking news and Jamie brought it up that Conor announced his
retirement and I said I thought he was trolling
You and I had the exact same reaction. I thought I was like he's trolling. I
was like no look at this
It's all weird. He went he'd be more
Yeah, eloquent than that he'd be more he blew to put it out better than that
But and then the news started coming out and I also started thinking well,
maybe
Maybe something happened in training or maybe it was because of that guy that
died recently and people were saying
You know they were shocked that I didn't know the full details and the guy's
death honestly
With things like this like you know, it's going to happen and it's unavoidable.
It's there's a certain amount of
risk involved in any
Extreme sport plus that's the exception. Yeah, it's gonna happen. That's the
exception. It is like you're mad at peanut butter when someone dies
It's like I'm still gonna eat peanut, you know, it is exception, but I was
waiting for all the details come out
I don't think they've done an autopsy yet. They don't think they know. No, I
don't either. I
And I don't I didn't think that with Conor
And I don't know if this is I don't think it's sharing too much information
when Conor and I had lunch together
I just talked and he kept bringing up is a reoccurring theme when we're talking
he goes that the media man like for this
It's such a beast. Yeah, he's like like I've done interviews before but you
know
It's different like he's not a guy where when any other fighters sit down do an
interview
They're really not selling the fight. They're talking about their camp and they're
doing the same thing over and over
Conor's a fucking master that we've never seen do it before so he's coming up
with original content non-stop
He's on you know, like when when he came on our podcast
He you could he was on he did the whole car wash. He was exhausted and we came
down
You could tell him he was thinking and just start spitting out gold. He's just
a beast man
So to have that guy
Fly around the world and do all this shit. I mean at the end of the day, we got
to remember this is a sport
This is not the WWE so to keep putting on the spectacle like it's similar to
WWE at some point
Yes, a man what these guys do is it's a real real we're in the hurt business
He has to focus man, and I just feel like I think Conor's to blame - Dana's to
blame
I think both of them just need to talk because if Conor before his bad plan on
him bad plan on Dana
If you just went dude listen, I've sold this flight more than anyone man. This
is nuts
I have to if I lose this next fight. I'm screwed. The problem is it sets a
precedent now if I'm looking at it from as a businessman
If I was if I was a businessman, let's pretend okay, I would say this sets a
precedent
You can't let someone decide what press they do and press they don't do like
you have an obligation to fulfill certain responsibilities
Like with the media for sure like like create hype but the question is but the
question is like when do those
responsibilities move into like a purely digital realm and when do those
responsibilities only in showing up places physically old-school retro going
places?
Because like there's nothing wrong with the occasional press conference right
no, but but also you could accomplish way more with a few fucking viral videos
Than you ever could going to some weird interview with two people that aren't
MMA fans
And I think he made a really good point about that doing this fucking these
morning shows that they make them go do
Where you know nobody knows who the guy is or the girl. They don't give a shit
about MMA. Yeah
They don't they don't want to talk to him the way you want to talk to him or I
want to talk to him
You know when I'm talking to Connor like before a fight
I'm trying to find out what's going on in the head of a guy who's going to
engage one of the most exciting things that I'm gonna see all year
No, you're not going on morning show going. How about that cauliflower? How'd
you get that? Shut the fuck up
But also girls like that I know but Conor's a guy where he's crossed over into
pop culture
He's such a big star now a tweet from him will hype the fight if I guarantee if
Connor and Dana had a conversation and Dan was like
All right, man
I understand it's a big fight because you remember if you were to lose this one
now you're losing your golden boy the biggest star by far
By far I also so if he could just focus let's just let him focus a little bit
well
I also feel like the magnitude of this the dilemma that's in front of him and
Nate Diaz is also very apparent
This is not a guy you can half-ass and even if you are a hundred percent ready
You've never even fought him at a hundred percent. No you fought him when he
had 11 days notice when he'd been drinking in Mexico
I mean he posted a terrible matchup man, and then you want to fly him on a
plane
Did anyone think man all right if you're looking at that with three months away
though?
Okay, but still Connor's exhausted man from doing all this stuff and also
You know, I see some fighters go it's our obligation to do these press
conferences mmm slow your roll homie
You're not Connor McGregor press conference. That's it's a big difference
And and a loss to him you're talking millions and in the UFC if I'm looking as
a businessman
I go all right all right, man
He's gonna do a press conference, but we're gonna come to him. Did anyone think
to do that?
Well, first of all connor is one of the most charismatic guys
Seriously of all time in all sports. No doubt about it. I mean he is a fucking
marketing machine
Like they're just the quotes and his style
I don't mean to interrupt you, but his tweet. Yeah, it's the biggest tweet by
an athlete this year
Yeah beat kobe bryant's retirement. Yeah, and you want me to go do a fucking
interview for espn. Well, they don't know the sport
Oh, I watch espn every morning. They were talking about lebron james the playoff
game tonight
They interrupted this shit with breaking news talk about connor's not retiring.
That's how big he is
Now the pr team at ufc could not get this
They could not get this sort of attention even if they want to connor can it's
a different age man
Those old interviews little press conference you have a legit
Fucking superstar man who makes more money than anyone the highest gates
totally forgot what I was gonna say
That's a serious point. Sorry brother. That's okay. Sometimes I just go. No,
well, you know
You have all good points all valid points and I get there's contracts
I get stuff like that, but there has to be where you can't have a pissing
contest
You can't say well
We're gonna run it like a business this time and then not this time because it's
good for the company
With conor mcgregor and this big of a fight
If he wins this dude, you know how much more money you're gonna make not the
fucking press conference
Well, he you're absolutely right that he's one of the most charismatic guys of
all time, but
Nate Diaz right now is goddamn gigantic and I think we're gonna realize he's
not as big as connor close, but he's goddamn gigantic
He's huge and see what happens. That's a car doesn't that that's part of that
fight
Part of that fight is that connor is also fighting another mercurial
Superstar character. I agree especially now after the first fight. I agree joe,
but let's say connor doesn't fight at usc 200 and
Let's say nate fights woodley or robbie lawler. Let me know how his ratings go
He's not gonna fight at 170. I don't know. All right. Let's say all right at 155.
Let's say he fights dos anjos
Let me know how those ratings go. Here's where it won't be as close. Oh, we
wouldn't be a quarter of it
I wonder it'd be close maybe half
Maybe well, that's the power sense though. Maybe half half makes sense, but
half would still be pretty spectacular
You know what not even half i'm i'm being generous
I love me. He's the biggest there's no doubt about it. He's the biggest
Yeah, well who knows it's all speculation, but here's what's interesting
They offered the fight apparently to norma gomedov, but he can't take it
because it's only four days after ramadan
Fuck yeah, so he's very religious. So he does that whole fasting. I had a buddy
of mine my friend khan kaleili from back in boston
He used to do that shit
He turned out he would do that. Um, he would fast when he was training
It was crazy. You just you you have certain rules where you're not allowed to
eat anything
How does it go? You're not allowed to eat anything or drink anything sun up sun
down, right? Yeah
Yeah, I have buddies who do it. Yeah, and you can't there's no food or water
Sun up sunday crazy and at like 6 p.m. They have this feast
Yeah, but it it can weaken you
And so habib said it would have a real it'd be a real problem if you had to
fight four or five rounds
And I get it and I would love to see that fight
Habib negamurdov versus nate diaz
He's such a beast, right? He's phenomenal. Yeah
To us who are balls deep in the ufc world. Yes. No, you're right. ESPN ain't
covering that fight dude
You should start a promotion. Look at you. You're a goddamn promoter. You know
how to do this
I'm not i've been through it
And when I see a guy like connor who comes in once in a lifetime
If you think there's gonna be another conor mcgregor, you're batshit crazy
I I think when we invest in odds the ufc they keep going. I think you're crazy
I think connor's a special dude, and I think there's a few other I think brock
lesner was I think ronda's
There's very few players. Is it possible that this is a calculated gamble based
on
Not thinking he has enough time to prepare for nate. No, I don't think so
impossible. This is just this is just a matter of
Digging your heels into the ground and saying there's no there's no way I can
do this much
100% I think he's just like dude. I'm exhausted. You only on this world tour.
Is it can I please get ready for this?
It's not the wwe man
Go it go ask go ask a major superstar
LeBron and I know you think it's not the same but LeBron any of these guys
these
Superstars in sports Ronaldo gone these world tours not get paid sell the fight
when like wait
But my social media will cover way more than this go fuck yourself
But we have no one fighting like he he can't say anything. You say anything
look you got pulled from the car
So more is not better. There's a certain amount there's a certain amount you do
At a certain amount you're doing it for the UFC. You're not doing it for the
conor mcgregor brand
You're not doing for the fighters brand you think by him going to espn
He's gonna get what more followers would you think that there's like
There's a certain consideration that like it looks good to have file a fighters
show up on like espn
He's been there. He's like he's on breaking news
He's he's been doing it maybe the week before do it
But when he wants to prepare for a camp and you have a guy of his magnitude
Coming off a loss and he's like man
I really think doing all this press and all this stuff is fucked with my
capabilities to be a fighter
I need to get back to that. Will you please let me focus make a very hype the
fight?
It totally makes sense. Well, you can't have exceptions. No, no motherfucker
You can because you do make exceptions
Well, here's certain people in the UFC roster where they can't you know
I'm saying where they pick and choose when they fight or who they fight there
are exceptions, right?
And here's another thing to take into consideration
One of the most important things that anybody any athlete does while they're in
training is get proper rest
It's one of the most important things and what fucks up when you go traveling
all the time your rest
It's the number one thing