Name: Michael Chandler’s Dream UFC Career | Theo Von
Uploaded: 2020-11-11T20:00:11.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Michael Chandler’s Dream UFC Career | Theo Von' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-11-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Michael Chandler’s Dream UFC Career | Theo Von' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-11-11. Transcript available.

What's up Theo? What's up Michael? This is Quincy coming at you from the great
state of Texas.
My question for Michael Chandler being just lay out for me what your dream
career in the UFC is.
When a lot of guys get here, they think, you know, hey, I want the money fights,
you know, I want to do the Conor gig.
Or, you know, I just want to chase glory. I just want a legacy. I want a name.
You know, I want that championship. So just lay out what's your ideal career
with the UFC and where do you see it going?
Gang, gang.
Gang, bro.
Yeah, because that belt's back in play now, man.
It is. That's a good question, man.
Because it's good because it's like what's the philosophy of why I'd made the
decision?
You know, just to give a little context, I left the relative surety of easier
fights and good money in Bellator,
good contract in Bellator, comfortability of being the big fish, little pond,
and being kind of the poster boy for an organization to essentially come over
to the UFC,
ask to get thrown to the Sharks, thrown to the Wolves right away, and see what
happens.
So to answer that question, I think a guy like Gaethje or Tony Ferguson,
fighting and showing the fans who I am, win that fight,
fight the way, exactly the way that I fight, prove to the fans,
okay, this guy's here to stay, this guy's a legit contender for the lightweight
belt,
and then fight for the belt, whether it's Habib or whether it's Conor Poirier,
whether I'm the number one contender after beating one of those guys,
and then Conor Poirier is the number one contender,
we fight for the title sometime middle of 2021,
and then after that, just defend the belt and get the big fights,
because I think...
And a crown, they should put a crown on you guys at some point.
Crown would be sweet, man.
Crown would be cool, you know, or like a medal, you know, like an Olympic gold
medal,
you know, a crown would be cool.
But keep going, sorry.
Oh, no, but then get a crown, hopefully, and then...
Okay, so defend the belt a few times.
Defend the belt a few times.
And then for me, I don't say get the big fights just for the money,
but you get the big fights because that's how you get the attention, you know?
It's like the Gary Vee approach of capturing as much attention as possible.
If you don't have people's attention or you can't get people's attention,
they can't...
They won't pay attention to you and they won't...
You know, life is all about who knows you, who trusts you,
and then who's going to buy what you're selling.
Not just money-wise, not just buying products, but buy what you're selling.
Like, what kind of motivation are you selling people?
What kind of character are you selling people?
What kind of theos are you selling to the people so that you can reach the
masses?
And for me, it's all about touching as many people as I possibly can
through this platform that I've been given,
touching every walk of life, every corner of the globe, hopefully.
And so winning the world title and then getting big fights,
either defending the belt or, you know, BMF belt or the big, you know,
the big fights with the big name guys to get as much attention and eyeballs on
me.
Not for the, you know, not for the ego of it, but for the platform of it.
Yeah, that platform.
Yeah, that's a good point.
You know, once people know you, then you can do stuff with it.
Yeah.
I mean, that's really what it is because it's a catch-22 and it's like,
oh, he just did that for attention.
And it's like, yeah.
As long as you don't ever sacrifice your morals or your character,
it's okay to do things for attention.
You know, like I came over to the UFC essentially for attention.
You know, I came over to the UFC for competition and attention.
Those are two things that I get from the UFC that I couldn't,
not that I wasn't getting at Bellator, but I get more in the UFC.
So it's okay to want more attention, especially if you've done things to earn
it, you know.
Was there a time previous that you were going to come to the UFC and it didn't
work out?
Or was there, how long did this, I mean, how long is this whole combo going on?
Is it one of those ongoing conversations for like a decade?
What is it like?
So it's one of those deals where I never actually became a free agent.
There was some reports out there that Chandler's a free agent.
He's, you know, he's going to, you know, but I ever actually, you know, two
years ago
and four years ago was on the last fight on my contract, ended up resigning
with Bellator
with the one fight left on my contract.
So I was never a free agent until August of, of 2020.
And it just seemed like the right time this time back then.
Cause it's also, it also depended on what the UFC lightweight division looked
like too.
You know, two years ago, the landscape looked a lot different.
You had Habib as the champion, you had Conor off doing a hundred million dollar
fights with
Floyd Mayweather.
He could come back, leapfrog me whenever you had Poirier coming in.
You one or one of those guys had an interim title two years ago.
It was either Tony or it wasn't Poirier because I think Poirier was after that,
but I think
it was Tony.
I think Tony had an interim title.
Habib had the title.
Habib wasn't coming back necessarily.
So it was just a weird time.
Soap opera.
It was a weird time for me to come in now exactly what we thought.
Now it's perfect.
Two years later, I'm coming in at this time, which couldn't have been even more.
So two years ago, and I said this to Dana, when I spoke to him, I said, listen,
two years
ago, four years ago, I wouldn't have been the guy that you needed to be, to
come in and
be the champion and be the superstar of this division.
And I truly believe that I'm going to be that.
And I don't say that in a cocky, I don't say that in a cocky way.
I just believe like I want, you got to believe it.
I just believe that that's, that's what's going to happen.
And, and maybe there's going to be some people that laugh at me and I fall flat
on my face
and that's fine.
But at least I find out, you know, that's how I feel in my heart right now.
And you can't, you can't knock a man for how he feels in his heart.
You know, a man who hitches his dream to a star, that's the only way you can go
out and
create, create impact in your life and do amazing things.
So that's what I'm doing.
And man, it's been, uh, it's been cool, but I never became a free agent until
just this
year.
And it just never seemed like the right time to become a free agent until this
year.
Damn.
Good evening.
Good afternoon.
And other times.
Thanks for watching that video you just saw.
I mean, it was okay, but the next video you could watch could be way better.
What if you watch a video right now that changes your life?
Well, you could watch this one or watch this one, watch this one, watch this
one, watch this
one.
Ah.