Name: Dustin Poirier | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #316
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Dustin Poirier | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #316

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theo for 10 off today's guest is one of the um establishers of the good fight
foundation
he has a fight coming up against conor mcgregor on january 23rd he's the pride
of louisiana and
and he's the pride of many people it is my friend mr dustin the diamond warrior
is it interesting kind of because you're turning more into a
i mean i guess it's a celebrity but it's more of like a public figure like what
is it i mean it's
it starts there's something else that happens outside of fighting yeah as you
as your popularity
gets bigger you're not doing it but it happens to you yeah yeah you just find
yourself in that
position somehow right yeah and i'm happy for it too because i'm busy all the
time before it would
just be fights then downtime and then hope to get a fight again start training
camp now it's like
i have stuff planned as soon as this fight's over i have other things going on
and it's it's good
busy is good but like i said it's just i'm so thin my mind is always thinking
about something
non-stop that's crazy yeah i don't like the other day i was driving i'm like
who the fuck even is this
yeah damn dude bullshit well then i guess i don't know i don't know if i can uh
hit up my bookie and
take my money off of dustin or not dude but if you swipe up now you will match
your first deposit
though theo what's your code dustin okay good i might have to get in and wager
on it um dude it's
pretty crazy to think that two white guys are now going to the middle east to
fight each other
it seems pretty crazy you know yeah right um very white what would y'all do for
new year's man
new year's we actually got a hotel room down here in deerfield beach okay and
uh it's probably about
10 minutes from my condo just to break it up you know i've been here since um
let me think
big beginning of november so training camp just training going to the back to
my condo going to
the gym back to my condo it's just i needed to break it up and okay i thought
new year's was a
good idea to just get a hotel room get out of my condo and uh take a morning
off did you it was you
and your wife did you go with the kiddo yeah yeah me my wife and my daughter oh
nice now and this is
personal enough to answer it and uh but do you is there like a do you put a
stop on the intimacy of
y'all's relationship if you hadn't into a fight like do you fight i hear that
about fighters not i've
always heard that about boxing and stuff they say it takes your legs away or or
whatnot but dude i've
i've came and knocked people out and i've not came and knocked people out too
so i don't really
believe in it damn damn i wonder if i'd rather have a guy who's already
recently ejaculated yeah
knock me out or a guy that's full of knock me out you know yeah i guess they're
all different i guess
i don't feel it i don't i don't believe in the in it takes your legs away i don't
you don't nah i
don't think wow so that's never really been a thing in your head where you're
like okay when i was
younger i used to i used to you did yeah you know i was watching fightville and
if you uh if you want
to get amped up for anything if you want to end up spray painting a building if
you want to fight
somebody whatever you want to do arson if you go watch fightville dude you will
be freaking pumped for
it um when you watch that do you still relate to that to that dustin poirier
like it's you're getting
you're you're growing up yeah the last time i watched it was a few years ago
but just sitting
there why i feels it feels like such a long time ago and i'm such a different
person and
go about fighting and and the thoughts of preparing for a fight so much
different and man it really feels
like a different world when i'm watching it i know it's me i'm watching i
remember going through all
the things in the videos but it's just so different man so dude they shot it so
well yeah it took
forever to shoot really it probably took three years to shoot wow and they have
so much fights
and footage that aren't even didn't even make it to it the problem was um the
guy who was filming it
lived in new york with his family and he would just come down periodically
whenever he he saw a time
in his in his schedule to shoot and he'd come down for three months here a
month here so it took a
really long time to film the whole thing damn yeah yeah they shot it i was
looking they shot it
through the cage almost as if they were watching animals a lot of times like in
some way you
know what i'm saying the the way it looked like yeah very uh yeah like you said
like animals
tribal very tribal yeah it just had like a i felt like i was watching uh you
know like i remember at
lsu they used to have those videos of mike the tiger all the time they'd shoot
him just kind of going
through the cage you know or doing something yeah and uh it just reminded me of
that but and r.i.p to
the to the lion i'm sorry the tiger at the truck stop right there oh yeah oh
yeah did he die again
dude i uh i mean one time i think is the limit that's true bro wow cats have
nine lives maybe
you're right that's true but louisiana they got a camel there did you hear
about this yeah you know
a truck stop i'm talking about tiger truck stop right right off the uh the
basin bridge oh i don't
even know if i've been there yeah dude on the chafalaya bridge right between
baton rouge and
lafayette yeah they had the tiger truck stop and they had a real tiger there
yeah and a camel took
his job yeah oh yeah unbelievable but the camel recently bit somebody oh yeah
yeah bro that's a
louisiana camel bro dude because i think they made the camel quit smoking
cigarettes right right
he's having some withdrawals um dude when you watch uh what's going to be
different you think
like heading into this fight what do you think could be different about it dude
every every fight's
different whether it's the same opponent like this is a rematch or or a
completely guy a different
guy never fought before every fight's so different because i'm in a different
place in my life
in my my you know life's different every fight so just trying to learn and uh
be smart moving forward you know not just in fighting but in life just trying
to move with
with strategy and not emotion man and that's that's the that's my goal you know
so you feel that for
like in the ring and out of the ring yeah yeah yeah and in preparation for the
fight not you know if
i feel like i'm redlining a little bit my body's run down i'll pull back a
little bit and and rest up and
just more about quality than quantity at this point in my career i still feel
young and feel great but
uh i would just my goal is to stay in love with what i do and i feel like
sometimes i can overwork
myself or put so much into it mentally that i start to hate it and i don't want
that there's a fine line
i got to walk right yeah because i've been doing this a long time yeah i can
imagine especially this
past year because there was a couple times you were gonna fight yeah and it got
pulled back um did you
come and start a training camp at one point and then have to call it off yeah i
think two times that
happened the tony ferguson fight we were supposed to fight in abu dhabi and
then uh that kind of fell
apart i'm trying to think of the other one i think there was two times i came
thinking that i was
probably going to get a fight and ended up going home damn yeah but i mean it's
it's not done in vain
because i come here i get pushed i learn new things with these guys you know
surrounded by a
bunch of great professional fighters and uh coaches so it's nothing lost coming
and doing that it's
just the mental you know reps i'm revving the engine up and then not not
getting the race yeah
does um when you uh when you look at whatever you did to prepare the first time
you fought connor
to what you do to prepare for to fight for him this time is there anything
different like what's
kind of i mean i know you're a different person i know every fight is different
you're taking the
fight at a different point in your life so you know who you are and what you're
even going to be
doing is is evolved and is you know is coming in with a different template but
is there anything
like kind of specifically that you guys are trying to do
you know just uh let my skills and and work ethic and fighting do the job you
know of course the
mental plays a huge part in it but just not getting tangled up in the in the
the mental aspect of
trying to hurt this guy or this isn't about payback it's not a revenge fight
for me of course those
of course those things are great you know i go out there and beat him those are
all part of this
storyline and all of things that i'm gonna think about and be happy with but
that's not the driving
force of each day um i'm driven by the main goal of becoming the world champion
to being the best and
i know that a win over a guy like this at the point of our careers it etches my
name in the history
books on its own page i'm in the books yeah i'm in honorable mentions right now
yeah yeah you know
that back page yeah that theosaurus page whatever i'm under that i'm in there
somewhere i'm trying to
get my own my own numbered page here and i think a win over this guy does that
it cements me as
a legitimate combat sports professional in a time that that's full of great
athletes you know connor
khabib um in mixed martial arts oh yeah and uh you know him fighting floyd it's
just so much
history involved in this fight the full circle fighting him again now becoming
the interim champ
switching weight class just so much going into this that i know what a win does
for not only me and
my legacy but for my family their future financially i know i know what comes
with the win and i'm ready
my i'm ready to bear that weight now at this point in my career man do you feel
like um have you guys
had any communication uh me and connor yeah we uh spoke on social media kind of
got this fight started
up we were going to do like a during the pandemic nothing was happening and we
were going to do like
a charity right i remember that event that was real he wanted to put that on in
ireland and of course
if it was possible i was going to do it and that just kind of came out of the
blue kind
i mean i'm not sure how how it can't maybe i tweeted him or he tweeted me
something and then we kind of
went back and forth and that's and then boom it was there because that was
because i remember you
and i were talking after the tony like the tony thing was gonna happen that
they could never get
the they never got offered you guys the right money it kind of was back and
forth and then
and then it went away yeah and there was that feeling of like now like kind of
now what what do i do
and then this i mean this came along it was almost like
not like a blessing because i mean it's a fight you know but it's like it was
almost like the most
perfect scenario it's the biggest fight besides the title fight in mixed
martial arts you can get
a fight with conor mcgregor yeah maybe even combat sports if you if mayweather's
retired or what's
going on but i mean those two guys in combat sports right now are probably the
biggest opponents
you could be standing across the um the battlefield from so to get a fight of
that magnitude i was
excited when it came together um and i know what like i said what it brings a
win over connor
brings a lot more exposure and and it brings a title shot do you think like uh
do you have any like
keys going into the fight like um if we get to this far then i have this better
chance or um you know
that i have this different strategy i mean i know some of you might not want to
share but
like going into it is there just something because the first fight j