Name: Dustin Poirier | This Past Weekend #142
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dustin Poirier | This Past Weekend #142' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-10-25. Transcript available.

Dustin Poirier | This Past Weekend #142

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Today's guest is a Louisiana, a fellow Louisianian, a young man that I'm a huge
fan of, a man that's, you know, has constantly risen against adversity uphill
towards a single goal.
He's a UFC champion in many people's eyes and a title contender right now. I am
happy to have Mr. Dustin Poirier.
Yeah, I'm from Covington. That's where I'm from.
Okay.
I think that's between Louisiana and Mississippi.
Yeah, it's like heading towards Alabama. Like off I-10, if you're heading
towards like, you know, if you pass, like I-10 hits like a Jackson exit.
Yeah.
And then I think that's I-55. And then if you keep going down there.
You're closer to like Obita Springs and stuff.
Yeah, right next to Obita Springs.
Yeah, dude, we-
Good brews.
Huh?
Good beers out there, man.
Oh, good beers, dude.
Dude, Obita Springs has this place there where it's like four dead man's curves,
like all come together at once.
And it's literally like there's a graveyard. Like so many people have died
there. Like it's the absolute worst idea ever.
That sounds horrible.
There it is, two hours away from each other.
Yeah, there we go right there. So what town are you from in Louisiana?
I'm from Lafayette.
Oh, really?
Right there where that red dot is. God's country.
Is it really?
Better believe it.
Yeah?
Yeah.
So do you miss being at home? Because now you live in Florida.
No, I moved to Florida in 2012 when I first made the switch to American Top
Team.
Right.
And then, you know, I bought a house there. Me and my wife lived there for five
years maybe almost.
And then we had a daughter. So I sold my house and moved back. I live in
Louisiana.
Oh, you do?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, that's awesome.
I just go to South Florida when I do training camps. So I'll go there eight to
10 weeks.
Yeah?
Yeah, I have an apartment there.
Yeah.
But my home is in Louisiana.
So are there other fighters that are down there in South Florida that you get
to see when you go there?
What is that training camp vibe like?
Training camp is great. Well, first of all, American Top Team is just a mecca
of not only mixed martial artists,
but boxers come in and out, kickboxers, jiu-jitsu practitioners. I mean, it's
just combat sports headquarters
from people from all over the world. So there's a few guys in the stable that
live there.
Yeah.
But there's a lot of people that it's rotating. I mean, there's new people in
and out.
So I always have different training partners when I'm there.
Lots of guys from Russia come in. We have a lot of guys in that PFL tournament
right now.
So a lot of Russian guys in right now.
Dude, the Russians. What is wrong with Russian people, man? Something's
different about them, huh?
I don't know, man. They're hairy for sure.
I know that.
Yeah.
Dude, fucking Russian people.
Dude, I dated this Russian girl for a while, bro. She was crazy, bro.
She was always trying to do, like, butt stuff to me and stuff. Something was
wrong with her.
To me.
Like, she wasn't...
Lucky.
Yeah, I know. She was wild, bro.
She was wild.
So when you're in those, like, these training camps and stuff, are people...
Do you...
Are you just training with dudes all day?
Like, is there just constant access to different types of, like, you know, like,
if you wanted
to do, like, bow staff fighting or, you know...
Nunchucks.
Anything? Yeah, anything.
Nah, I mean, they probably have some self-defense stuff that they do teach, but
it's normal stuff.
They have boxing classes, jiu-jitsu classes, mixed martial arts classes, but
then there's a pro team,
and we have our own separate schedule, so we don't...
For the most part, the pro guys don't train on the normal, everyday, you know,
schedule that the...
A customer or a family would come in, you know?
Yeah.
You can't have guys in there.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Beating each other up with their shirts off, sweating and breathing all over
with kids on the mat.
And you guys will get bloody in there.
You know, sparring sometimes gets pretty serious.
Now, yeah, that's a question I have because, like, I'm not a fighter, dude.
Like, I'm not even...
I don't even think I could really defend myself, you know?
Like, if I had a shield, I could, but I don't think if I had, like, just my own
body, I could, you know?
So when I see people fighting, I'm like, damn, this shit is wild, bruh, you
know?
Do you...
When you guys are doing the practice fighting, the training, how actual is that
to what we see
when we're watching the cage?
You know, younger guys, for sure, it's pretty close to what you see in the cage
because these guys are nuts.
They're trying to find out if they still...
If they are fighters, they're finding out.
They're soul-searching themselves.
But guys who have a lot of fights, you know, we kind of train smart and keep it
under control for the most part.
The grappling and wrestling and stuff is live, as hard as it goes, you know,
like, it would be a real scramble in a fight.
Right.
With the grappling and submissions and stuff like that.
But when it comes to the kickboxing and boxing and stuff, there are moments
where it gets heated, but most of the time, it's pretty under control.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So right now, you're down in Florida, and your family's in Louisiana.
No.
So when I go to Florida, I'm back in Louisiana now.
Okay.
When I go to Florida, my family comes with me because I'm there eight or ten
weeks.
You know, I fly my wife and daughter out.
Right.
Because I just can't stay away from my family.
I'm a family man.
Yeah, yeah.
I love my girls, and I need them with me, especially going through training
camp.
Yeah.
But I was supposed to fight Nate Diaz November 3rd in Madison Square Garden.
Joe Rogan, dude.
I've called Joe one time, and we're talking about something, and I told him, I
was like, dude, I'm a Dustin Poirier fan.
He's from the same state as me.
And he goes, do you want to go to the Poirier-Diaz fight?
And I was like, oh, my God, bro.
I was so excited.
But I had to work that night in Buffalo.
But you guys got – so what happened?
You're –
My hip is pretty jacked up.
That's why I'm out here in L.A.
I'll be here until Wednesday.
I'm having some stem cells and synovial fluid injections in my hip joint on
Wednesday morning.
Right.
So that should ease the pain a little bit.
I have two tears in my labrum, and because of that, it's causing some bone-on-bone,
and it's just really painful, man.
Is it?
Yeah, anytime I get stretched out or overextended in a stride, I just pay for
it really bad.
Like where do you pay for it, in the muscle or where the muscle hits the bone?
No, in the actual joint where the top of your bone goes in – you know, the
ball and socket joint?
Yeah.
Where your hip bones meet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because a lot of people have to get those replaced sometimes as they get older.
Yeah.
I mean, I got to try to take best care of it so that doesn't happen.
Are you worried about – like is that like a bigger worry than just having to
step out of this fight?
You know, honestly, talking to the doctors, they think surgery is going to be
like inevitable sooner.
It's going to have to happen, but this will buy me a few camps, this stem cell
and stuff, and let me do my training a little bit pain, you know, less pain.
But, dude, I just – if it lasts me until the world championship, then I'm
golden.
Yeah.
You know, that's all I want.
I just want to be the world champion.
Then you can cut my hips off and whatever.
You can cut my fucking legs off.
You can fucking tie me to a skateboard.
You can cut my arms and legs off.
Yeah.
Is that – so like I was actually talking to a friend of mine.
I called a friend of mine today who lives down in New Iberia actually on the
way up here.
I was just, you know, excited you were coming in.
I was like, hey, man, I got Dustin Poirier coming in today.
And we were just talking about like – well, I wonder what drives like a
fighter at a certain point.
And do you think that the drive to fight has been different from when you
started to where you're – to what your kind of drive is now?
Does it evolve?
Because I can imagine as you get old – like as you get older, like, you know,
when you're young, you kind of like had that frenetic, youthful energy.
And when you're an adult, it's – you get a little bit more articulate as to
like what your plan is.
Has any of that – have you noticed any of that in yourself?
For sure, man.
That's definitely a lot of – a lot changes.
I had my first mixed martial arts fight when I was 18 years old.
Yeah.
You know, I'm 29 now.
So 11 years later, you know, I still have love for the fight.
But it's just I'm fighting for different reasons.
You know, I've found out the first reasons I was fighting for.
I've discovered those things and found out more about myself.
And now I'm here.
You know, you mature and grow in the sport and as a person.
And now I'm a father and a husband and stuff.
Things change in your life.
Right.
Fighting, still fighting.
But, yeah, I'm fighting for different reasons now.
You know, I got people depending on me.
That's the biggest motivation I could ever, ever have.
Is it really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So you feel that.
Like that now you – now it's like – yeah, I wonder sometimes, I guess,
would you have to evolve for
different, like, not passions, but different things that drive you.
Yeah.
And like I said, man, I got miles to feed and I'm trying to leave a legacy.
I'm at a point in my career where the next moves is huge, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah, do you think – yes, do you start thinking about, like, you know,
Michael Bisping, he does – you know, he does – actually, I was watching an
interview you did with him the other day, which was pretty funny.
It was after one of your fights.
Yeah.
And he's like – you know, he works with Fox now and does fights.
Like, do you think about that kind of stuff or do you think about, like, would
you like to train maybe in the future, like train younger guys or do you have
some of those thoughts?
I'm going to be in fighting some way or another.
But like – yeah, I mean, I am this.
This is what I am.
But everything I have in my life – dude, everything I have is from these two
things right here in my brain.
You feel me?
I didn't finish high school.
I had, you know, low-paying jobs.
You know, and now everything I have is an empire built off of fighting and
chasing my dreams.
So I can't turn my back on this.
I'll never – I'll always be part of fighting somehow.
Yeah.
Training people is not a huge passion of mine, but being part of the sport is,
like, helping professional fighters is something that I would like to do.
Yeah.
But, like, training families and kids and stuff is – and jiu-jitsu.
I'll have a lot of buddies who open gyms, and that's what they do now.
Right.
That's not a big passion of mine, but, you know, another five, six, seven years,
we'll see.
Maybe it will be.
But right now, it's just – I'm addicted to the fight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, dude, so how – were you, like – I mean, were you just devastated when
you realized that you couldn't go in that fight, bro?
Because that's – I mean, how did you feel, man?
Yeah, it was a co-main event, Madison Square Garden, pay-per-view.
Oh, dude.
It's a huge fight.
It's huge.
It's, like, exactly where things were headed.
Right.
And I took this fight because it was, like, a fight for my legacy.
It's Nate Diaz.
He's really hot right now.
Yeah.
Coming off of two of the biggest UFC pay-per-views ever before the Conor Khabib.
And it was just a crazy timing for this fight to come together, but it sucks.
I had to pull out.
But, you know, I think that shows maturity on my part.
You know, when I was younger, I probably would have kept going.
I wouldn't have said a word.
I wouldn't have told my manager of the UFC that I was injured.
I would have fought.
And then – you know, but now I just got to look at it as a whole.
I'm trying to b