Name: Michael Chandler Is A Dustin Poirier Fan
Uploaded: 2021-01-12T20:44:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Michael Chandler Is A Dustin Poirier Fan' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Michael Chandler Is A Dustin Poirier Fan' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-12. Transcript available.

We're Dustin Poirier fans here.
I'm a Dustin Poirier fan.
I'm going to fight him someday.
It's going to happen.
It'll be a great fight.
But that's the thing.
It'll be a great fight.
We don't have to hate each other, right?
Yeah, 100%.
And it seems like there's a lot of respect, especially in that division, man.
Right around the time that we met, I was getting ready to go fight.
And that was the first time I ever met Poirier because Poirier was cornering a
guy who was on the same card.
I just went straight up.
We were in Connecticut?
It was in Connecticut.
Oh, Saba?
Hamasi.
Or Saba Hamas?
Something.
Yeah, he got a couple wins in a row, that guy.
Yeah, he's good.
And Poirier was there the whole fight week, cornering him and whatnot.
And I just went straight up to him because I knew at this point I was probably
going to leave Bellator.
And I was probably going to hopefully sign with the UFC.
My goal was I wanted to sign with the UFC.
So I knew I was about to walk up to a guy that was probably going to be in the
same division for sure.
I'm probably going to end up fighting him.
But to me, the respect level for a guy like Poirier or even anybody in the
division, I respect you.
If you step inside the cage, you can make your living doing what I do, doing
what we do.
Because I understand the perils, the trials, the tribulations of this tough
sport that we call our profession.
But I went up to him.
And we were talking a little bit.
And I just, you know, I congratulated on his last win.
He had just beaten Dan Hooker a couple weeks prior.
Congratulated him on the fight of the year candidate that it was.
It was a phenomenal fight.
His heart, his determination, what he does outside the cage, the man that he is,
the competitor that he is, the father that he is.
And then also we kind of talked like about the journey a little bit where it's
like, man, 30 something years old now, got a wife, got a kid, got it, you know,
doing what we're doing is much different than back in the day.
I kind of brought up about how he was some young shaved head punk kid on that
documentary.
You saw the documentary.
His documentary along, and that was Dustin Poirier from back in the day.
And he was in this documentary.
Yeah, he was just like this crazy, this insane thing coming out of the swamp.
Exactly.
But it's so cool to see where people start and then where people end up and
watch people's maturation throughout the journey.
And he would probably, if he was sitting here today, he would probably say, man,
you know, his career, I think, is a blueprint for a guy who started at a
certain point, has ended up where he's at.
He's at the top of the game, top of the division, top of the toughest division
in the entire world, about to fight the biggest global superstar of mixed
martial arts and Conor McGregor.
He's in a phenomenal spot, but you don't just fall there by accident.
You'll fall to the top of the mountain by just by coincidence.
You know, he had to build and climb and plod and tread towards that.
And a lot of it comes with good things happen to good people, you know, and it's
not it's not that people don't do the right things is that people don't do the
right things for long enough.
And he has put his time in, grown into a phenomenal man, father, husband, and
yeah, he's going to be rewarded role model.
So it's cool.
Just just seeing the maturation process of us as fighters, you know, a decade
later.
I believe God created us for relationships and not just personal one on one
relationships, but even the relationship that Dustin Poirier's fans have with
him by watching him via social media, by watching him in his fights.
And truth be told, people would care less about him if he was undefeated.
People would care less about him if he was perfect.
People love the fact that he gets beaten up, battered, bruised, and then and
then picks himself back up, gets back on the mic and says, you know what?
I'm not perfect.
I'm not I'm not undefeated.
I have blemishes on my record.
Look at me.
You know, when you mess up, raise your hand and say, hey, this is me.
This is this is my baggage.
This is my loss.
But this is my loss to deal with.
And you can and you will say things about me and you will criticize and you
will nitpick.
But trust me, this is I may have lost the the battle tonight, but the war will
be won down the line.
And that's and that's what is the beauty of mixed martial arts.
I have five losses on my record, but people don't care about my losses whenever
I win my next fight or even if I lose my next fight, they don't care.
They just the best fighters in the in the entire on the entire planet right now
are the ones with multiple losses.
I'm just sitting on your front porch wondering how could I be so far from my
home and my mind is somewhere else.
But when I find it, I'll patch up where it's been blown.