Name: Keith Peterson Walks Through a UFC Fight Day
Uploaded: 2026-02-07T17:01:14.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Keith Peterson Walks Through a UFC Fight Day' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-02-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Keith Peterson Walks Through a UFC Fight Day' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-02-07. Transcript available.

What's it like when you get there from when you leave?
Take me through a UFC fight as a referee.
So you get there.
How early?
Like how early do you get there?
It's usually, it could be two hours, hour and a half.
I think usually like.
And who's there when you get there?
Like is Megan O'Leary in there yet?
I guess, I don't know.
Do you have a meeting with the commission?
Yeah, like just take me through.
So I straight go in and walk in, find the commissioner.
You know, obviously if I've been there before.
But if I haven't been, I'm working in a place I've never been.
Walk in, find the commission room, get my assignments.
When the fighters come, I do my one-on-one rules meeting.
With each fighter?
Yeah.
Wow, every fighter on the card?
Every fighter I have on the card.
Yeah, so usually we'll go with the average is three fights on a card, right?
I've had more, less if a cancellation, whatever.
But go over the rules, ask them if, you know, they have any questions.
Then, you know, depending on what state, mostly now you do, also you do RO,
like a review official.
What does that mean?
So it's like the Instamoney play.
We have Instamoney play now.
And then the fight before yours, you usually do, you know, the gate when they
walk in, the check.
And so you're busy pretty much the whole time, yeah.
And will you have, like, do you eat before?
Do you have an energy drink?
What do you do?
I don't have an energy drink.
But some places I eat before.
Sometimes I don't eat before.
It all depends.
Like when I'm from New Jersey, there's a few restaurants I'll have something.
Madison Square Garden, I always go to the same place and I eat there.
What is it?
It's a Maliwee pub and they have, like, Irish beef stew.
Yeah, you know, get what you like.
Yeah.
I like quesadillas with almond flour tortillas.
We like what we like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I get that and then, you know, so.
And that, like, to be an idea, like MSG, I do the same thing every time.
So there's a guy, I wish I could remember the name of his company, but I can't
right now,
but he sells shirts and stuff outside.
I go out and say hello to him every single time, right?
He's always out there, no matter how cold, no matter what.
The guy's out there.
He's awesome.
He's right on 8th Avenue.
He's on the corner.
And then I say hello to him and I go down and get ready to go.
And then I go to the Maliwee, then I eat, usually the beef stew, and then get
going.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm kind of a creature of habit in some ways.
You know?
Yeah, yeah, I'm very much, you know, like, you know, same.
And I use the word criteria and whatever, but, you know, this is how I do it.
But almost everything, I'm like that, really.
Hey, discipline equals freedom, man.
That's what Jocko Willink always says.
Yeah, that's pretty, yeah, that's awesome.
And I think that's kind of true.
It's like if you get up and get the things you don't want to do done out of the
day,
your day is so different.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Thank you.