Name: Dustin Poirier on His Big Win at UFC 299... and What's Next
Uploaded: 2024-04-11T16:53:42.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dustin Poirier on His Big Win at UFC 299... and What's Next' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dustin Poirier on His Big Win at UFC 299... and What's Next' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-11. Transcript available.

so do you have do you know for yourself do you have a fight that you want or
you don't know yet
i want to fight for the belt you know that's what i want you do that's the last
thing i have to do
in this sport is be the undisputed world champion after i do that anything you
can do in the sport
i've done right you know i have 30 fights in ufc been fighting a long time
before the ufc
like that's the last thing i have to do yeah yeah but also i don't want to
attach myself to it too
much to where if it doesn't happen or if i never get another title shot that i
judge my life's work
on that you know like i don't want to leave it like that so i'm just really
practicing trying to
be content like in the place and space that i'm in you know yeah yeah dude i
felt like when you won
that fight it's interesting how much like i was in that ball like me and my um
uh comedian friend amir
we're in this bar in australia we're watching yeah and i'm like holding on to
some guy and they don't
even know like everybody's just people were on their edge of their seat there
was like some guy
left his wife right during it like people were a lot like there was just so
much going on man
but it felt like you almost felt the whole planet it felt like taking exhale
like oh yeah like it felt
like things were possible that's what was craziest about it i think and
somebody had a great tweet
it was like uh dustin for humanity and i was like man that's exactly how it
felt it was like
the underdog came through again man yes i think it made everybody just feel
like oh there's still things that can happen in the world that
like a guy stands a fighting chance for sure yeah dude i've i missed a bounce
back every time i take
a l i come back you know i come back and it's a challenge to myself every time
because i've never
lost two fights in a row getting knocked out by gaichi jumping right back in
camp you know and unsure of
the future what if i you know and i was in a bad place what if i lose this
fight where am i going to
be at then you know but to get my hand raised and put on a performance like
that it's just like
fuck man hard work pays off yeah dude that strut after what did trump say to
you after the fight
i was uh i couldn't hear what he was saying i was talking to dana and then i
was somebody sitting
next to dana was telling me they bet like 200k on me or something like that and
i was trying to get
my 20 from him that's what i was talking about yeah yeah you're just walking
around collecting
yeah like hey always be closing the work is done baby we gotta collect it looks
like i'm talking to
trump but i'm talking to somebody dana and somebody's sitting next to him oh i
see yeah
you're doing good you're great you're phenomenal vice president um yeah what do
you feel like man
do you feel like you're getting towards the end of your career do you feel like
you're just you're
figuring it out do you feel like it's up to you do you feel like it's up to the
ufc where does it
what does it feel like kind of it's definitely up to me and uh you know my my
wife my coaches
they want me to keep going my wife wants me to stop but my coaches know i still
have it
um i'm just taking it one fight at a time i still feel good like i said my wife
wants me to stop
though my daughter wants me to stop too oh she does yeah what did she say what
you yeah well like what
is that like because at a certain point it kind of turns on for your kid what's
going on she's old
enough now she knows that i fight you know she knows what it is um and she
wants me to be home
you know i'm when i do camps i'm going for eight weeks they'll come out for two
weeks we try not to
do more than two weeks apart so i'll do like the first two weeks and they'll
meet me and i'll do the
last two weeks but uh she doesn't want me to fight anymore she doesn't want to
see me come home with
stitches you know she's since she was a baby she's been like pulling stitches
out of my face and stuff
after fights oh that's insane if i get this gold belt we're gonna have to make
a movie yeah yeah i
remember coming over your house when you had the belt yeah yeah does it ever
feel like you didn't
have it because there's so many like they're the because you're still interim
champion it's not like
champions not in it no and i beat a current champion at the time who was the
title holder when we fought
you know it's just i i feel like it was a world championship but people's
opinions you know is
is what it is yeah um now that you have like a win and you've had and you're it's
a good place and it
it takes it like silences some of that self-critic in our head and some of that
even fictional critique
from other people that some of it may be there and some of it may not yeah uh
do you do you want to
do you feel like do i want to risk that again like do you think about that at
all yeah i do
like where am i at if i it doesn't go my way which is likely you know it's
fighting uh i think i can
i know i can beat anybody in the world i believe in my skills but the margin
for error out there is
one mistake you wake up asking what happened you know you think you're going to
the school bus stop
you know you wake up like i'm late for school no no you dropped out yeah yeah
yeah sorry that's too
many dustins not in school jokes um yeah because now you have the you have the
you're in a space now
where you can do you can run it back man you can feel like you can do it again
you can if you wanted
to you could retire on a high note people can retire whenever they want yeah
when i was 18 bro i told my
wife we made an agreement i wouldn't fight past 35 and i had no at 18 i had no
idea what 35 looked like
but now i'm 35 i'm like oh it's here i don't i still feel good i don't want to
stop you know so
we'll see i i still feel good and i compete with these young guys yeah i do it
every day in the gym and
i got bumps and bruises i carry from so many years of fighting had a couple of
surgeries but i feel good
so what do you think what does it look like for you like are they pushing you i
know you talked about
fighting um um um islam islam um do you think that's gonna like what do you
think is gonna happen
we'll see man i think uh this next pay-per-view ufc 300 is gonna they have um
might be an announcement
no no no it's it's uh in two weeks max holloway's fighting gaichi oh yeah i'm
gonna go to it are you
going nah nah i'm doing a viewing party in connecticut oh okay great um where's
that at just so people
can come check you out at the mohegan sun gang gang at the mohegan sun um but
there's two huge title
fights on that card i mean not title fights two huge lightweight fights oh yeah
this could have a lot
to do with you guys versus charles and then uh gaichi versus holloway so that's
some big fights in the
division we'll see what happens after that wow yeah because but i've you know i've
fought three of
those four guys already and two of them i fought twice yeah i know huh yeah i
fought max twice
i fought justin twice and fought charles once do you have what kind of outcome
would you prefer do
you think i don't really have a i think people are kind of looking past max a
little bit i think max
can beat justin you know of course justin could win but max is tough his rhythm
his range and his
technique on the feet you know unless justin wrestles a little bit i think max
can pick him apart and stay
on the outside but that's what makes fighting so fun we don't know until we
watch it
and charles and armin that can go either way both great grapplers i would think
charles would have a
advantage standing up but we got to see yeah because now if if if max went like
yeah i'm just wondering
where do you because i got two wins over max i just lost my last loss was to
justin if max beats him
does he stay at 55 or does he go back to 45. what do you think like if you
think like
do you feel like you have a certain amount of fights left in you what is that
yet does it start
to feel like that's an interesting thought do you start to feel like oh i think
i i might have one or
two left in there or do you think you would get a definite feeling from
yourself when you're like
i think so right yeah i don't even put a number on it i just like even this
last one how i feel in the
warm-up room how i feel walking through the tunnel walking into the crowd
getting into the octagon
like how i feel then i felt good you know i felt like it wasn't time to stop
right so
maybe next time you know if i feel like that again then it's not time to stop i
don't want
to put a number i just put on on the way i feel yeah yeah
Thank you.