Name: The Champ is Here | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #190
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Champ is Here | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #190' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-04-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Champ is Here | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #190' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-04-16. Transcript available.

The Champ is Here | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #190

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Wow. And I hope your weekend was good. Alright, let's go.
Every night I lie. Every night I lie awake. Every night I feel like a fake. I
put on a show knowing nobody will call me. Every night you sleep. Every night.
Every night I play a beat. Stealing things that you know, but you still don't.
Ooh. It was me.
It was me. And that is an artist named Jameson Flood. And that's a man, not a
natural disaster.
And he sent in that song called Every Night. And we're happy to play that at
the beginning there.
Welcome to this past weekend. I'm excited to be here. Premature Nick, our
producer, is going to be in studio with us in a second.
But first, look, I'm amped. I am still hyped up. I got to go to Aerosmith this
past weekend.
I got to go to the UFC fights. Dude, I hadn't been to a fight, you know, since
I seen a couple, honestly, a couple sisters beating up my buddy that had a
couple milkshakes in his hand outside of Cincinnati.
But I got to go to the UFC fight. And I'm not trying to brag, but just a crazy
weekend.
And I want to play this clip right now because we're going to actually call an
interview.
We're going to call an interview the champ. We're going to call an interview
the champ, Dustin Poirier, here momentarily.
But I want to play a clip really quick from a previous episode when he came in,
episode 142, Dustin Poirier right here.
You just want to win the belt.
Yeah, I just want to win the belt, man. That's all I want. I just want to be
the world champion.
And then I'll go back to delivering windows.
So is that really that goal? I mean, is that – so that's the thing? That's
the – you just want to be the best?
Yeah, of course, I would love to stay in this sport for a long time and make a
shitload of money.
But I just want to say that I did it. I want to have the UFC championship
around my waist, you know, all these years with my wife struggling
and taking food out of the grocery basket because we couldn't afford it and
making ends meet and, you know, sacrificing a lot.
I just want to say it was all worth it because once you become the world
champion, you know, that's forever.
Yeah.
And, you know, that's what I'm trying to do, honestly.
Damn, that's powerful, man. That's really, really cool. That's so inspirational.
Very powerful. It was just a powerful night to be there. It was just so
inspirational.
You know, Dustin Poirier is – I mean, nobody's taken, I don't think, a harder
road to get to a title in the UFC.
And I don't know a lot about UFC, but I think we can all relate to adversity.
And I am constantly inspired by perseverance.
And just – this man just has it. He has it.
And I was fortunate to be able to be there.
There were so many people that got to witness it, and I want to get him on the
line right now.
Let's call Dustin Poirier the new 155-pound, the champ.
They can never take it away from him.
For the rest of his life, they can never take it away.
Let's call him up right now.
Yo.
Looking for the champ.
Champ's here.
Champ's here. What's up, brother? How are you?
Good, man. How about you?
I'm doing good, man. Congratulations.
Thank you, bro. Thank you so much.
How are you feeling today?
A little busted up, you know, but feeling good. Feeling like the champ.
Yeah?
Yeah, man. There's a bunch of bumps and bruises.
When you fight like that for 25 minutes with these caliber of guys, you got
hitting spots you don't even know you got hit in, you know?
Yeah, I guess it doesn't really feel like a massage, does it?
No.
It looks like – yeah, not at all.
Not even a bad massage.
Yeah.
How are you celebrating, man?
Dude, I'm not really doing a whole lot, honestly.
I took my daughter to the zoo today.
That's about it, really.
Yeah?
Does she know that – does she know that dad is a champion?
Yeah, dude.
She knows, man, and it makes me feel so good.
Ah, that's awesome.
Yeah, like she calls the belt the belt, you know, she said, that's daddy's belt.
Every time she walks by, she points to it, that's daddy's belt.
It's so pretty.
She loves it.
It makes me feel so good.
I bet, man.
Now, do you find yourself recovering, or do you find yourself, like, thinking
about training?
Like, what kind of – like, what's going on, like, in – sort of in your head
a little
in that stuff?
Right now, like, I'm just kind of seeing what pain's going to stay longer than
a few days,
what's not, and, you know, I'll get what's not going to go away in a few days.
I'll get it checked out by a doctor, get some MRIs done.
But I feel pretty healthy.
And then I kind of – the good thing about this fight is I know my next step.
For most of my career, I didn't know the next step after fights.
Now we know we're going to fight Khabib to unify the belts, and he's suspended
until September,
I believe.
So I know I'm probably not going to fight until September.
So that gives me, like, a little peace of mind that a fight's not going to pop
up on me.
I can kind of start planning accordingly to that timeline.
Yeah.
Now, do you – would that happen in September, or do you – it could happen
after that?
Do you have a say-so in that?
How does that kind of work?
No, I believe it's – he, you know, Khabib's an undisputed champ.
So him and the UFC, I guess, are going to figure it out.
But his suspension ends, I believe, in September.
So that doesn't mean he can't start a training camp before then.
You know, he can be ready to go as soon as the day the suspension ends.
So – and that's what I've heard floating around, that September is the date
they're going to plan the next fight.
Wow.
Wow, man.
Are you worried about, like – I know a lot of these fighters – or it seems
like I'm learning anyway that a lot of the fighters, like, as they – you know,
once you become a champion, once you get a belt, that a lot of the media
obligations become more pertinent, especially – and more – just – you
have a lot more obligations to the media around fight time.
And that it can drain a lot of fighters.
Do you worry about any of that?
I don't really, like, think about it that much, sit back and worry about it.
But now that you're mentioning it, bro, this last fight that lead up to this
last fight, I mean, I was nonstop interviews, nonstop going to different places
on fight week, which I usually don't.
You know, that's new to me.
Every now and then on a fight week, I'd go to, like, a radio station here and
there.
But this time, my whole itinerary was just full of interviews and places to be.
It made the week fly by, really.
But it is a distraction and a little bit of stress.
Yeah.
Did – you said in an interview, Dustin, man, just one of the neatest things I'd
ever heard.
And you said 25 minutes to make life fair.
Can you tell me a little bit about that?
Yeah, brother.
Teddy – I was listening to a podcast, one of Teddy Atlas's podcasts.
I don't know if you know what Teddy Atlas is.
He's a legendary boxing trainer.
Been around a long time.
Was one of the first guys to train Mike Tyson under Customato.
Just a very, very interesting mind in combat sports.
When I listened to the guy talk, like, you know, he's just very well spoken
about feelings and things that fighters go through and stuff.
But on his podcast, he was talking about in no other time in life or in history
do you have an opportunity to raise your arms up in the air and be called the
best in the world, the champion of the world.
And no matter what, except in fighting, you know, and that's what I was looking
at coming into this fight is 25 minutes, no matter fights that I've lost in the
past, what the odds makers say, people who told me I'm not good enough.
You know, just every time I've slipped and fell or every critic out there,
every opinion out there, I had 25 minutes to mute that out.
Yeah.
And in my own hands, I had control of my destiny and I knew I had it for 25
minutes and that was very powerful going into that fight, just knowing that.
And I wanted to leave all of myself out there, give it my all and whatever was
going to happen was going to happen.
But I walked into the cage that night, comfortable, knowing that I was prepared
to do everything that I had physically, you know, everything possible of myself.
I was willing to do it, whatever it took to win that belt and make life fair
for 25 minutes, man.
Wow.
Yeah, man, you hit the ring.
You were just, you were feeling good.
That James Brown hit the scene, man.
It was, uh, God, that was live, man.
And when, now when you're backstage, the fight before you guys was Jesus Christ,
man, were you watching that?
I was, uh, so there's, there's in the locker room where you warm up, there's a
big mat, you know, to warm up on and stuff.
And, uh, there's a TV there streaming the fights live.
So you kind of know where you're at.
You know, I knew I was the main event, so the co-main's going, I can write when
it ends.
I know I have about five or six minutes where they come get me and say, okay,
you're good.
You're walking now.
So I was kind of keeping an eye on it, but I didn't get to see every round.
You know, I was warming up and kind of just glancing at it.
So I need to go back and watch it.
I haven't yet.
Man, it was powerful.
I mean, it was just, at that point, yeah, I was just like, I'm sitting there in
the stands like, Jesus, I can't imagine that there's going to be more fighting.
Like, it was just, those guys had murdered each other.
Dude, how, let me interview you.
How was your first trip to a fight?
Oh, it was scary, man.
I was swinging my arm.
I almost knocked my date out one time.
So that was kind of alarming.
How, what, man, it was, it gave me a whole different respect for fighters.
Like, even just a minute ago when you said that they come and walk you from the
back out there five minutes off, that to me feels like an electric chair.
Like, they would be walking me like dead man walking, you know, like, to the
last moments.
To be honest with you and, you know, fighting everybody thinks guys are tough
guys, you know, I'm a bad dude for sure.
I can fight, I'm one of the best in the world and I know, like, what I'm
capable of, but I'm not immune to those feelings.
I'm scared to death back there, even though I'm so prepared and, you know, put
in so many years and months into this single training camp to fight this one
guy.
Like, there's still the unknown out there.
I don't, anything can happen.
I know I'm human.
If I make a mistake and get kneed in the face, I know I'll get knocked out.
So, in a weird way, as they come get you and say, all right, Dustin, you're
walking, it's almost, you feel like you're being led, I don't want to say to
slaughter, but you're being led to a crowd full of people and you're about to
step in the, you know, in an arena and freaking, you know, it feels like you're
going out there to fight to the death.
That's what it feels like to me.
You know, earlier in my career, I could, everything was muted out.
It was just, I was so much adrenaline pounding that I could only just react and
do what I was doing.
But now, as I've got so many fights under my belt, I can hear everything, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's so interesting, man.
And it's like, it's like, it's like Christmas, but Santa's like trying to beat
the fuck out of you, you know?
That's what it kind of, was like the vibe that it kind of seemed for me.
Like, if I was a, I can only imagine if I was in your shoes, it would be like
so exciting because you're ready, it's there, you've been waiting for it.
But then you got to like, you know, Santa's not bringing gifts, dude, he's
bringing an ass whooping, you know?
Right, right.
And he's fucking mad.
And he's mad.
It is kind of like that.
You're so excited.
You're like anxious to perform.
You've been working.
You want everybody to see what level you're capable of fighting at.
You want to show everything you're, you know, everything you've been working on.
But at the same t