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Hello, freak bitches. So let's talk about this rematch. Which one? Nate Diaz
and Conor McGregor?
What are they fighting at? 55? I do not know. I don't think that's been solidified.
I believe that Conor has asked for it to take place at 70, which is where he
was. So he can say like, "I can do this"?
Exactly the same weight and then it won't be a factor, you know, but also I
think he was really healthy at 170.
And I think he liked that. Who was? Conor. I think he felt great leading up to
the camp and leading up to the fight.
He just had a bad game plan and his ground game kind of got exposed.
Two weight classes above where he won a title? It's not two weight classes. It's
not true.
First of all, they both weighed in almost exactly the same weight. No, two
weight classes above where he won his title.
Yes, but not really. All it is is they're not cutting weight. But he's not
fighting like Damian Maia, who used to fight at 205 or 185 and he's cutting
down to 170.
I mean, at least it's not title shots. At least it's not title shots where it's
like you don't deserve a title shot on two weight classes above you.
It's just a Nate Diaz fight. Well, this isn't a title shot. I'm saying at least
it's right. Well, you know the whole story behind it.
There was a fallout and Rafael dos Anjos is the lightweight champion was
supposed to be fighting Conor McGregor.
He breaks his foot 11 days before the fight. Nate Diaz takes the fight on a
drop of a hat with no training whatsoever. Yeah.
I mean fucking none. He hadn't done anything. He was at the store. Yeah, he was
hanging. Hanging out.
And Nate, you know, posted pictures afterwards of him drinking tequila and
hanging out in Mexico eating tacos and shit.
So he was just having a party. Two on nine, bitch. He's just living his life,
right? But he's in such good shape that he can get away with that because he
does so much triathlon training.
He's constantly biking and swimming and running. He's entered into a bunch of
triathlons. He's in very good shape.
And so he was able to pull it off because his cardio base was so good. And just,
he's a fucking damn good fighter.
He's a damn good fighter. And exciting too. And he's fought legitimately at 170
twice. He lost. He lost to Stun Gun Kim and he also lost to Rory McDonald at
170.
These are legitimate 170s and Rory being one of the best 170s in the world.
Yeah. He got ragdolled a little bit by Rory, but you know, that was a wake up
call for him.
He went back to 155 and at 155 in his last fight against Michael Johnson, he
put on probably the best performance up to the Conor McGregor fight, the best
performance of his career.
He was fucking sensational. So why didn't he say 55? Because when I view Nate
Diaz, I view, I think of him as a 55er.
That's what he usually competes at. But for this fight, like he didn't want to
have to cut weight. It's only 11 days out. He's a little heavy.
So he says, look, let's make it at 170. They both agree. Nate weighed 169, Conor
weighed 168, or maybe vice versa. I think that's it though.
So, I mean, they're basically the same size. What were they fight at?
Well, they fought at 170. What do you mean? I mean, when Nate said, I'll fight
at 170, where was he walking at?
Probably a little heavier than that. He probably dieted and worked out real
hard for seven or eight days of the 11.
Tapered off the last couple. No, Conor didn't have to cut anything. I mean, if
he cut anything, you're probably a couple pounds.
So, which is nothing.
10 pounds difference, let's say. Not a big deal. That happens.
But there's not even 10 pounds difference. They're the same weight. Like when
they got into the octagon, I guarantee you, they're within a pound or two of
each other.
In the octagon? Oh, okay.
But Nate is longer and taller, and he's a very good boxer.
Like Nate spars on a regular basis with Andre Ward, who is one of the best
pound for pound, if not the best pound for pound boxer in the world.
Now that Floyd Mayweather's quote unquote retired.
Yeah.
Andre Ward is a motherfucker.
And he just fought this Saturday night on HBO, and I just watched it the other
day on DVR. It's fucking amazing. He's so good, dude. He's just nasty.
And now he's fighting at 175. He's going to fight Sergei Kovalev, who's like
the best 175er in the world.
So he fought with him.
So Nate spars with that guy on a regular basis. Like, they're friends. And, you
know, Nate also spars his brother Nick, who's one of the best strikers in the
UFC.
He's definitely one of the best boxers. You know, he's a very good boxer. And
he also spars with Joe Schilling all the time, who is Glory World Champion,
kickboxing world champion.
He's a motherfucker, man. So Nate is sparring with like high-level world-class
strikers, like legitimate. Andre Ward, Joe Schilling.
Two world champions in two respective disciplines. So he's a bad motherfucker.
I just think that people see him swearing and sticking up his double fingers,
and they don't realize.
All that, put all that shit aside, and observe his movements.
Yeah.
Observe his movements in a fight. Like in the Michael Johnson fight, in the Gomi
fight, in the Marcus Davis fight, in the Gray Maynard fight.
Observe his movements. He's a motherfucker, dude.
Yeah.
When he tees off on you, he comes at you like a snake. He's got long ass on us.
Was that the Cerrone fight where it was the most connections of all time, where
it was like 80% of his strikes hit?
In the first round, he lit Donald up.
Yeah, it was like, what the fuck? He had nothing missed.
He lit Donald up. He fucked Donald up in that first round.
That was four or five years ago, right?
Yeah, Donald started coming back with leg kicks. The only guy who's ever really
successfully put him away in the UFC was Josh Thompson.
Josh Thompson is one of the most underrated guys.
Josh Thompson, when he was at his best, left to go over to Strikeforce, and a
lot of people missed out on some of the fucking wars that he had over there.
The Gilbert Melendez fights over there, and he went through a lot of wear and
tear on you.
But skill for skill, Josh Thompson is a motherfucker, but now he's like 36, and
time just starts to get everybody.
But at his best, and I think that his last fight with Nate Diaz, when he head
kicked him, he stopped him, was one of his best performances ever.
And then he had some losses after that, but again, it's like, it's hard to stay
healthy and get through a camp when you're 36 years old.
When those guys get to the late 30s, things start to get, so he has one loss,
but the loss, in my opinion, I mean, one stoppage loss, but the loss to
Thompson is like, he's one of the most underrated guys.
So it's like, solid loss.
Fuck yeah.
It doesn't get looked at as solid as it should be.
I think Thompson, at his best, he's a motherfucker.
So if, okay, so let's say he's a natural 170-er.
Let's say he wants to fight the Conor.
But he's not, he's not.
He just wants to fight this fight at 170.
To prove his point that he can win it.
To prove a point, to fight exactly the way they did it before, and to come in
and fight in a better, this is what happened.
If they're going to do that, in the meantime, they should let Frankie and Aldo
fight for a title.
Like, how long are you going to vacate the belt that you haven't defended once?
Max Holloway should be in the mix as well.
You know, I think they also offered Aldo a shot at McGregor, and he didn't take
it.
That could be a Brazilian thing, if you know what I mean.
What are you saying, steroids?
Yeah.
I like how you made the injection, like, heroin.
They still do that?
They still do that?
Can I picture it?
I would say it was more like he's just unprepared and out of shape and didn't
want to get knocked out again.
I mean, the guy just knocked him out with one fucking punch.
A couple of months ago.
I remember a guy, but I mean, he's like, give me that rematch, give me that rematch.
See, but he didn't know.
See, he didn't know that Conor was going to get worked.
When Conor got worked by Nate Diaz, it changed the whole game.
He's like, oh, I can beat this guy.
Everything changed, man.
Everything changed.
In everyone's approach to him, when you watch a guy get beat up and strangled
like that, you got to pee again?
Yeah.
Go ahead, do it.
Go ahead, do it.
Keep talking about this, though.
Go ahead, don't worry about it, man.
But my point is, for the folks listening, when you watch a guy get beat up,
like Conor got beat up against Nate, and he shoots for a takedown, and then
gets taken down.
Nate gets on top of him, beats him up, and then chokes him, and he taps real
quick.
Like, Nate just dominated him once it got to the ground.
He was already hurt when it got to the ground.
Then everybody goes, hmm, okay.
Could Rafael Dos Anjos do this?
Could?
And for a guy like Conor, I think one of the reasons why he wants this fight
back is to prove that he fucked up.
That he tried to take Nate out with big power bombs.
He gassed out.
He got tired.
And then Nate boxed him up in the second round.
Nate started tagging him, had him hurt, had him shoot for a takedown.
So, a guy like Conor, you don't get to be that good.
You don't get to be that far.
You don't get to be that successful.
You don't get to knock out Aldo with one punch and beat the fuck out of Poirier
in the first round, like you called it, and beat the shit out of Seaver, and
stop Chad Mendes when you wanted to bet millions of dollars on it.
I mean, he's a legit 100% motherfucker.
But, the game does not care about personalities.
The game does not care about confidence.
It sure doesn't, huh?
The interaction of fists and face and chokes and necks and kicks and bodies, it
does not care about anything other than what works.
So, like, when you see a loss, like a Ronda Rousey getting knocked the fuck out
by Holly Holm, it does not mean that Ronda Rousey sucks.
It does not mean that Holly Holm is the greatest ever.
It just means the game doesn't give a fuck who you are.
It doesn't care.
You want to charge face first at a counter-striker, and she clips you with that
first punch, you're already at check.
You're already at check.
You got rocked, like, the first punch.
And then you're getting beat up for four and a half minutes after that.
And then the second round comes around.
You don't even know where the fuck you are.
Your ears are going,
You can't see.
Your fucking eyes are blurry.
That must be so weird.
Terrifying.
That's what I love about UFC, as opposed to boxing, nobody goes 29 and 0.
No.
I mean, if you go six in a row, that's like, wow.
That's why Jon Jones is so spooky.
Yeah.
Nobody's beating Jon Jones.
Jon Jones has one loss, and it's a disqualification against Matt Hamill, where
he was crushing him.
Yeah.
On top of him.
And it's a dumb rule.
It's like 12 to 6 elbows on a clock face.
If you drop an elbow down from 12 to 6, the people that made the rules thought
that that somehow or another was dangerous.
It's no different than any other kind of elbow.
Is it still a rule?
Yeah.
It's a stupid rule.
It's a rule that they put in place because the people that were on the
commission, this is coming from Big John McCarthy himself,
the people that were on the commission at the time, they thought that if you
dropped a 12 to 6 elbow like those ESPN karate shows,
you could break bricks and shit.
You could kill somebody.
Oh.
So they made it illegal.
Meanwhile, it's not even 12 to 6.
It's like 1 to 7.
It's stupid.
It's stupid.
I can't wait for him to come back and fight again.
It's really almost never 12 to 6.
It's always at a slight angle.
But either way, it's fucking dumb.
It's a dumb rule.
It doesn't make any sense.
Yeah.
By the way, we have Nate Diaz calling into our sports podcast, Punch Drunk
Sports.
Do you really?
Well, fake Nate Diaz.
Oh.
Nate Diaz.
Fake.
They always call in.
I'm glad you had a fake one.
How good are they?
The fake ones?
Yeah.
Amazing.
Really?
The accents are great, and they talk about the 209 so much.
They're always talking about they're going pontoon boat shopping.
Man, you come out.
You got to hear them, man.
They're great.
It's Danish and O'Neill, and they're so fucking good at it.
For a while, they were dating Ronda Rousey, and GSP was all upset about it
because he wanted
to date Ronda Rousey, and they catfished him and buried him in a refrigerator
box in the
desert.
He got out, and now GSP's addicted to kitty litter.
Kitty litter and computer spray.
He's got his addictions.
Talking to the aliens all the time.
They told me I missed two minutes of my life.
Oh, that's hilarious.
Is that on YouTube anywhere?
No, not YouTube, but punchdrunksports.com.
They get clips.
The Dailymotion ones.
I think they're all up in Dailymotion.
They have any of that stuff.
Yeah, we got to clip that shit and put it on YouTube.
Yeah, why don't you have clips?
You just don't?
Yeah.
I mean, I can't give you a good reason.
This is the reason why I think the rematch is huge.
Okay.
This is why you have to do it.
Okay.
First of all, because Conor McGregor, up until that fight, is one of the most
spectacular
fighters ever in the history of the sport.
Spectacular, and people are talking about him.
Yeah, just the spectacle, in that sense of spectacular.
The guy gets on stage and screams at the weigh-ins, and the crowd goes nuts,
and the
Irish flags are everywhere.
Galvanized a nation, and I don't even know what galvanized means.
It means like a coating.
Oh, great.
Like when you get nails so they don't rust.
Oh, okay.
He's spectacular, right?
And his results inside the octagon, other than Nate Diaz's fights, have been
incredibly
dramatic and amazing.
Calling, exactly.
Second round, I'll get him with an uppercut and knock him out.
And then it's like, what?
But when a guy like Nate Diaz beats you, and beats you the way he beat you, the
right thing
to do is to have a rematch.
And this is why.
Because the rematch is where the big money's at.
The rematch with Nate Diaz is goddamn Scrooge McDuck, giganti, huge, two
million plus pay-per-view
guys.
Because it's still on the table.
But if he goes, let's just say he goes to 45, then maybe 55 again, he's always
going
to be like, well, I mean, Nate Diaz will beat you, you know?
Exactly.
Not only that, but here's the other problem.
What?
Frankie might beat him.
Sure.
Everyone might beat him.
Max Holloway.
Max Holloway might beat him in a rematch.
Who knows?
Yeah.
Jose Aldo might beat him now.
Now that Jose, especially Jose Aldo, can...
Yeah.
If Jose Aldo...
Avoid certain temptations.
Yeah.
I guess he comes in real healthy.
You know what I'm saying?
If he...
Jose Aldo is a fucking nine-year undefeated all-time great fighter who got clipped
with
one big punch.
So what if Aldo fights like in a similar way to how Misha Tate fought Holly Holm,
takes
his time, wears that motherfucker out in like round two or three and just stays
on the outside
and leg kicks the shit out of him.
Yeah.
If Aldo just chooses to...
I mean, Aldo was so mad, he tried to take his head off of the left hook and he
got clipped.
He loaded up and he got clipped.
But what if he doesn't do that?
What if he goes in there and plays slow on the outside and starts kicking his
legs?
What if he initiates a clinch?
Because let me tell you something about Aldo's jiu-jitsu.
It's fucking world class.
Yeah.
Like you watch Aldo versus Mike Brown in the UFC or the WEC rather when he won
the featherweight
title.
Can't get anything right.
When he won the featherweight title, dude, he takes his back like a fucking
world champion
and smashes him.
So Cyborg's in the UFC now too.
Yeah.
That's amazing.
I just heard that from you, Earl Ben Poole.
Yeah.
Finally.
Mm-hmm.
Finally.
Yeah.
At 140.
At 140.
Yeah.
Now Rada fights at 35?
Yes.
And she's going to fight Leslie Smith who fights at 135.
It's the girl who had her ear exploded.
Her ear got torn off by Jessica Ai.
What's the problem?
Well, it's not a problem, but it's a 140-pound weight class instead of a 145.
The 145 is what she's champion of in Invicta.
Yeah.
And I think the idea is that they worry that they don't have enough 145-pound
talent.
I think they didn't have enough 135-pound talent.
No, for sure they didn't.
They didn't have a 115-pound talent.
You give someone a third or about to give somebody a third rematch in five
years?
Mm-hmm.
Like, come on, man.
What?
You mean Misha Tate?
Yeah.
It's like you don't have a deep enough weight class if that's what you keep
doing.
Well, sort of.
But, I mean, that's the same problem they're going to have right now at welterweight.
The same problem you're talking about at 145, which has a lot of talent.
There's a lot of talent at 145 in men's.
Oh, yeah.
You know, so this is what I think.
I think, first of all, she's fucking terrifying.
Terrifying.
We're going to talk about, like, one of the scariest female strikers in MMA.
Cyborg's terrifying.
And Tony and I got in trouble because we said some inappropriate jokes about
what would
a roast be like with her.
All jokes aside, even before that, I had tweeted that I would love to see her
in the UFC.
For sure.
Because she's the name.
She's a monster.
And I think, also, we shouldn't have double standards as far as who takes
performance-enhancing
drugs, whether it's for men or for women.
Is there?
I think there kind of is.
I think the way people look at it, when a woman is taking testosterone versus a
man taking
testosterone.
Because it's not already part of it.
Part of your body.
Yeah.
But, you know, honestly, like, some of the things that men have been caught
with have
been pretty unnatural as well.
Like, superhuman levels of testosterone that don't even exist in medical books.
You know, so, it's, you could argue that it's dangerous because a woman does
change her
anatomy.
Whatever, they're testing her now.
Yeah, but your anatomy changes.
Oh, right.
But, you have to make a weight class.
It's tricky, man.
I mean, it always seemed, before this Holly Holm thing happened, and that's all
fishy,
too.
What's fishy?
Like, Ronda won't take a fight, won't take a fight against Holly Holm, and then
it's
suddenly, like, Misha Tate wins.
Like, I'm ready to fight now.
It's like, mm.
No, she's not necessarily ready to fight now.
No, she's not.
She can't fight until, like, November.
Oh, really?
Yeah, she's got movie obligations.
They got moved around.
See, that's bad right there.
That is bad.
When the movies get in the way of your fights, like, you gotta pick one or the
other.
Go in between.
Yeah.
Wait for it in four months and say, as soon as my fight's over, I can do your
movie for
the next three months, and then I get it back to training.
It's gotta be hard, though, when you're, you know, a super celebrity and you're
getting
all this love, and everybody wants to put you in all these different things.
It's gotta be hard to say no to certain things.
Obviously, but the same shit happens in female comics.
Yeah, but it's way worse with a fighter, because a fighter has to be physically
tuned up to
go in to do battle and get kicked in the fucking head.
Yeah, it's way worse with a fighter.
It's just similar, where it's like you're not concentrating on the thing that
got you
there, so the thing that got you there is now suffering.
Yeah.
Maybe you don't care anymore.
Maybe you just want to do movies.
Okay.
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Joe Rogan talks Conor McGregor - Nate Diaz Rematch and Cyborg joining UFC

Hello, freak bitches. So let's talk about this rematch. Which one? Nate Diaz
and Conor McGregor?
What are they fighting at? 55? I do not know. I don't think that's been solidified.
I believe that Conor has asked for it to take place at 70, which is where he
was. So he can say like, "I can do this"?
Exactly the same weight and then it won't be a factor, you know, but also I
think he was really healthy at 170.
And I think he liked that. Who was? Conor. I think he felt great leading up to
the camp and leading up to the fight.
He just had a bad game plan and his ground game kind of got exposed.
Two weight classes above where he won a title? It's not two weight classes. It's
not true.
First of all, they both weighed in almost exactly the same weight. No, two
weight classes above where he won his title.
Yes, but not really. All it is is they're not cutting weight. But he's not
fighting like Damian Maia, who used to fight at 205 or 185 and he's cutting
down to 170.
I mean, at least it's not title shots. At least it's not title shots where it's
like you don't deserve a title shot on two weight classes above you.
It's just a Nate Diaz fight. Well, this isn't a title shot. I'm saying at least
it's right. Well, you know the whole story behind it.
There was a fallout and Rafael dos Anjos is the lightweight champion was
supposed to be fighting Conor McGregor.
He breaks his foot 11 days before the fight. Nate Diaz takes the fight on a
drop of a hat with no training whatsoever. Yeah.
I mean fucking none. He hadn't done anything. He was at the store. Yeah, he was
hanging. Hanging out.
And Nate, you know, posted pictures afterwards of him drinking tequila and
hanging out in Mexico eating tacos and shit.
So he was just having a party. Two on nine, bitch. He's just living his life,
right? But he's in such good shape that he can get away with that because he
does so much triathlon training.
He's constantly biking and swimming and running. He's entered into a bunch of
triathlons. He's in very good shape.
And so he was able to pull it off because his cardio base was so good. And just,
he's a fucking damn good fighter.
He's a damn good fighter. And exciting too. And he's fought legitimately at 170
twice. He lost. He lost to Stun Gun Kim and he also lost to Rory McDonald at
170.
These are legitimate 170s and Rory being one of the best 170s in the world.
Yeah. He got ragdolled a little bit by Rory, but you know, that was a wake up
call for him.
He went back to 155 and at 155 in his last fight against Michael Johnson, he
put on probably the best performance up to the Conor McGregor fight, the best
performance of his career.
He was fucking sensational. So why didn't he say 55? Because when I view Nate
Diaz, I view, I think of him as a 55er.
That's what he usually competes at. But for this fight, like he didn't want to
have to cut weight. It's only 11 days out. He's a little heavy.
So he says, look, let's make it at 170. They both agree. Nate weighed 169, Conor
weighed 168, or maybe vice versa. I think that's it though.
So, I mean, they're basically the same size. What were they fight at?
Well, they fought at 170. What do you mean? I mean, when Nate said, I'll fight
at 170, where was he walking at?
Probably a little heavier than that. He probably dieted and worked out real
hard for seven or eight days of the 11.
Tapered off the last couple. No, Conor didn't have to cut anything. I mean, if
he cut anything, you're probably a couple pounds.
So, which is nothing.
10 pounds difference, let's say. Not a big deal. That happens.
But there's not even 10 pounds difference. They're the same weight. Like when
they got into the octagon, I guarantee you, they're within a pound or two of
each other.
In the octagon? Oh, okay.
But Nate is longer and taller, and he's a very good boxer.
Like Nate spars on a regular basis with Andre Ward, who is one of the best
pound for pound, if not the best pound for pound boxer in the world.
Now that Floyd Mayweather's quote unquote retired.
Yeah.
Andre Ward is a motherfucker.
And he just fought this Saturday night on HBO, and I just watched it the other
day on DVR. It's fucking amazing. He's so good, dude. He's just nasty.
And now he's fighting at 175. He's going to fight Sergei Kovalev, who's like
the best 175er in the world.
So he fought with him.
So Nate spars with that guy on a regular basis. Like, they're friends. And, you
know, Nate also spars his brother Nick, who's one of the best strikers in the
UFC.
He's definitely one of the best boxers. You know, he's a very good boxer. And
he also spars with Joe Schilling all the time, who is Glory World Champion,
kickboxing world champion.
He's a motherfucker, man. So Nate is sparring with like high-level world-class
strikers, like legitimate. Andre Ward, Joe Schilling.
Two world champions in two respective disciplines. So he's a bad motherfucker.
I just think that people see him swearing and sticking up his double fingers,
and they don't realize.
All that, put all that shit aside, and observe his movements.
Yeah.
Observe his movements in a fight. Like in the Michael Johnson fight, in the Gomi
fight, in the Marcus Davis fight, in the Gray Maynard fight.
Observe his movements. He's a motherfucker, dude.
Yeah.
When he tees off on you, he comes at you like a snake. He's got long ass on us.
Was that the Cerrone fight where it was the most connections of all time, where
it was like 80% of his strikes hit?
In the first round, he lit Donald up.
Yeah, it was like, what the fuck? He had nothing missed.
He lit Donald up. He fucked Donald up in that first round.
That was four or five years ago, right?
Yeah, Donald started coming back with leg kicks. The only guy who's ever really
successfully put him away in the UFC was Josh Thompson.
Josh Thompson is one of the most underrated guys.
Josh Thompson, when he was at his best, left to go over to Strikeforce, and a
lot of people missed out on some of the fucking wars that he had over there.
The Gilbert Melendez fights over there, and he went through a lot of wear and
tear on you.
But skill for skill, Josh Thompson is a motherfucker, but now he's like 36, and
time just starts to get everybody.
But at his best, and I think that his last fight with Nate Diaz, when he head
kicked him, he stopped him, was one of his best performances ever.
And then he had some losses after that, but again, it's like, it's hard to stay
healthy and get through a camp when you're 36 years old.
When those guys get to the late 30s, things start to get, so he has one loss,
but the loss, in my opinion, I mean, one stoppage loss, but the loss to
Thompson is like, he's one of the most underrated guys.
So it's like, solid loss.
Fuck yeah.
It doesn't get looked at as solid as it should be.
I think Thompson, at his best, he's a motherfucker.
So if, okay, so let's say he's a natural 170-er.
Let's say he wants to fight the Conor.
But he's not, he's not.
He just wants to fight this fight at 170.
To prove his point that he can win it.
To prove a point, to fight exactly the way they did it before, and to come in
and fight in a better, this is what happened.
If they're going to do that, in the meantime, they should let Frankie and Aldo
fight for a title.
Like, how long are you going to vacate the belt that you haven't defended once?
Max Holloway should be in the mix as well.
You know, I think they also offered Aldo a shot at McGregor, and he didn't take
it.
That could be a Brazilian thing, if you know what I mean.
What are you saying, steroids?
Yeah.
I like how you made the injection, like, heroin.
They still do that?
They still do that?
Can I picture it?
I would say it was more like he's just unprepared and out of shape and didn't
want to get knocked out again.
I mean, the guy just knocked him out with one fucking punch.
A couple of months ago.
I remember a guy, but I mean, he's like, give me that rematch, give me that rematch.
See, but he didn't know.
See, he didn't know that Conor was going to get worked.
When Conor got worked by Nate Diaz, it changed the whole game.
He's like, oh, I can beat this guy.
Everything changed, man.
Everything changed.
In everyone's approach to him, when you watch a guy get beat up and strangled
like that, you got to pee again?
Yeah.
Go ahead, do it.
Go ahead, do it.
Keep talking about this, though.
Go ahead, don't worry about it, man.
But my point is, for the folks listening, when you watch a guy get beat up,
like Conor got beat up against Nate, and he shoots for a takedown, and then
gets taken down.
Nate gets on top of him, beats him up, and then chokes him, and he taps real
quick.
Like, Nate just dominated him once it got to the ground.
He was already hurt when it got to the ground.
Then everybody goes, hmm, okay.
Could Rafael Dos Anjos do this?
Could?
And for a guy like Conor, I think one of the reasons why he wants this fight
back is to prove that he fucked up.
That he tried to take Nate out with big power bombs.
He gassed out.
He got tired.
And then Nate boxed him up in the second round.
Nate started tagging him, had him hurt, had him shoot for a takedown.
So, a guy like Conor, you don't get to be that good.
You don't get to be that far.
You don't get to be that successful.
You don't get to knock out Aldo with one punch and beat the fuck out of Poirier
in the first round, like you called it, and beat the shit out of Seaver, and
stop Chad Mendes when you wanted to bet millions of dollars on it.
I mean, he's a legit 100% motherfucker.
But, the game does not care about personalities.
The game does not care about confidence.
It sure doesn't, huh?
The interaction of fists and face and chokes and necks and kicks and bodies, it
does not care about anything other than what works.
So, like, when you see a loss, like a Ronda Rousey getting knocked the fuck out
by Holly Holm, it does not mean that Ronda Rousey sucks.
It does not mean that Holly Holm is the greatest ever.
It just means the game doesn't give a fuck who you are.
It doesn't care.
You want to charge face first at a counter-striker, and she clips you with that
first punch, you're already at check.
You're already at check.
You got rocked, like, the first punch.
And then you're getting beat up for four and a half minutes after that.
And then the second round comes around.
You don't even know where the fuck you are.
Your ears are going,
You can't see.
Your fucking eyes are blurry.
That must be so weird.
Terrifying.
That's what I love about UFC, as opposed to boxing, nobody goes 29 and 0.
No.
I mean, if you go six in a row, that's like, wow.
That's why Jon Jones is so spooky.
Yeah.
Nobody's beating Jon Jones.
Jon Jones has one loss, and it's a disqualification against Matt Hamill, where
he was crushing him.
Yeah.
On top of him.
And it's a dumb rule.
It's like 12 to 6 elbows on a clock face.
If you drop an elbow down from 12 to 6, the people that made the rules thought
that that somehow or another was dangerous.
It's no different than any other kind of elbow.
Is it still a rule?
Yeah.
It's a stupid rule.
It's a rule that they put in place because the people that were on the
commission, this is coming from Big John McCarthy himself,
the people that were on the commission at the time, they thought that if you
dropped a 12 to 6 elbow like those ESPN karate shows,
you could break bricks and shit.
You could kill somebody.
Oh.
So they made it illegal.
Meanwhile, it's not even 12 to 6.
It's like 1 to 7.
It's stupid.
It's stupid.
I can't wait for him to come back and fight again.
It's really almost never 12 to 6.
It's always at a slight angle.
But either way, it's fucking dumb.
It's a dumb rule.
It doesn't make any sense.
Yeah.
By the way, we have Nate Diaz calling into our sports podcast, Punch Drunk
Sports.
Do you really?
Well, fake Nate Diaz.
Oh.
Nate Diaz.
Fake.
They always call in.
I'm glad you had a fake one.
How good are they?
The fake ones?
Yeah.
Amazing.
Really?
The accents are great, and they talk about the 209 so much.
They're always talking about the