August 15, 2025 • 27 mins
Dricus Du Plessis IS BACK for another interview with Daniel Cormier on the DC Check-In show. Du Plessis talks to DC about fighting "the Boogeyman," Khamzat Chimaev, and why the undefeated superstar is his biggest challenge to date. Dricus speaks on being an underdog despite being the middleweight champion, and why he decided to call out Khamzat while everyone else in the division has avoided Chimaev. Du Plessis speaks on his purpose as a UFC fighter, and why Chimaev has no chance to beat him if he's in this sport for the money. Plus, don't miss Dricus talk about teaching Khamzat how to lose and calling DC out for doubting him in the past!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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check us back. He'll still the fight, kid, That's what
I just told him. It ain't like you don't pay
him enough.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Check that, man.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, keep your shirt on. You don't get to do
the interview with no shirt on.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Man, you're looking good.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You would like to I like, like take your shirt off?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, sure, take older fighters. I can always take it,
like I take the US photos.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, for the time being, until the next five I
take older fighters that I possibly can. I can just
post changing pat chaging outfits.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Hey, I gotta ask you something, man, I saw some
ship the other day. It's crazy. I saw like a
video of you, like they were like trying to make
fun of you with that hople Have you seen that video,
which like that Homer Simpsons video?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And it's so funny that I actually did the Simpsons
predicted it?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, I mean they predicted it like they predict everything.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
They did, and they predict me hitting Strickland with the
head on the hip.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You hit him in his ass with you forehead.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, and that'll teach him.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
How did that happen?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I'm with the Middleway champion Drenkers du plus C as
he gets ready to finish championship another time, this time
against Amzat Chimayav Dreks. Thank you for checking it with
me again, Israel out of Sonya Sean Strickland, Sean Strickland.
Every time you're the underdog, but every time you're getting
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more and more dominant. What do you make of that
where you always made the underdog?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I think, uh, you know they say that thirty increase
when you become a champion.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
For me, it was more than that. I think maybe really,
once I became champion, I just loved it.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I just loved and I've been champion for many years
outside of the UFC, and once I.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Tasted that gold, I just got hungry to be great.
I love it. I love it at the top.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And I think the second Stricklent fight, for example, I
knew Streackent wasn't going.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
To change his game man he is.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He loves his game plan and it is effective. So
and he's been doing it for so long. There's no
way he's going to change it without a sun. Yet
it was a bit different because you have a guy
that can come in there. You know he's going to strike,
and you have to be able to handle that because
you can't go into that fight saying I actually take
him down.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
What if you don't get him done?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
So I think, And then getting comfortable with fighting these names,
getting comfortable with saying, listen, I can do the five round,
especially going that five round strictly the first time and
felt great. Then that gives you the confidence of go
out there and throw man, do what you've got to do.
And every fight I get more at home, and every
fight I get more comfortable in the UFC. I've had
nine UFC fights now, but only about six fights in.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I started really feeling at home.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I started feeling at home, so I started to get
the performances that I would give in the gym. I'm
starting to see glimpses of that in the octagon.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
When I got to go back to that second Stong
Stricken fight. Were you surprised at how that fight played
out because it looked like you almost put him, like
he literally turned into a shell of himself inside of
the octagon. Were you surprised, being as how loud he
is and how like forty is and all of his thoughts,
it seemed like you just like he Honestly, it seemed
like he was a shell of himself, like he had
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no answers for what you were doing, Like he just
even as coaches. Did you go back You've watched the fight.
Clearly the coaches were so frustrated because they were telling
him what to do, but he seemed to have like
no ability to kind of even get started. Were you surprised?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean, I have to be honest with your
strictent is a great fighter. But if you figure him out,
they you figure him out. I think strictly what he does,
it's worked for him. Obviously, he became a champion, he's
beaten the base and after the first fight. The problem
with the second fight is it wasn't Stricklands or not.
He did exactly what he did in the first fight.
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There was a year in between the first and the
second fight, and once we've been in there, I just
knew the adjustments we I mean I was in there
with the man for twenty five minutes yeah, we had
to make the adjustments. I'm not going to walk through
that jab the same whereas I did that first fight now,
and knowing that is how he fights, knowing that he
prioritizes defense.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, and that is what we saw in the second fight.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And his coaches said to him third round, they went
out and they said, you're doing the same things you
did in the first fight, and the fight is pulling away.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And the first fight was closer. The first it was
a first fight was closed. Second fight you lose the
next round, you're down three zero. So whereas the first
fight you were doing the same thing, but they were
like hard to judge rounds. This time he's clearly winning
the rounds.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And then you also have to remember in the first fight,
I've never been five rounds fighting a guy like Strickland
who can go five rounds and you know that, and
the guy who likes to go forward. So you have
that in your mind because Canna, you know in the
gym I can go five rounds full speed. But in
the fight, and I went in there and the first
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two rounds was almost no. Maybe the nerves are fighting
for your first world title, not figuring I haven't figured
them out. Yet he's jab is tricky. By the second fight.
When I went in there, I knew what he's going
to do. I knew how he fights. The only surprise
he could have put in there was it was to
shoot for a takedown, and that would have been great.
But yeah, I mean that is that is what it's about.
I think it's considerly getting better and the sport. I mean,
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look at the paper view events from one month to
the other. It's just so everybody's getting so good. You
have to go with the sport the whole time.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So I was talking to Chill the other day and
he tells his story about you wrestling with the South
African Greco Roman team. Is that true? Did you come
to the United States with that team to the Olympic
Training Center?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No? I heard that that is.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It with these guys in South Africa. But I didn't
come to the Colorado's rings.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I didn't. No, I didn't know. But believing him, yeah,
but I mean, that's that's on you. That's on you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Why won't you just like say something be like not true.
You just go in the comment and go that's not true.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Because I mean, if I have to correct every media
out there that took some ship.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I also said that you couldn't score takedowns.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Don't correct me anymore. I'm doubt you no more.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And the thing is, it's when sometimes people say things
like that you get in to say what I mean,
I don't even know where it comes from. It's not
even remote.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Do you remember the first time you said, watch my
takedowns this weekend, and then they were better, and in
the next fight it was better, Like you just kept
getting better because you remember I was making funny because
you you tripped the underhooks side.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, but I got the trip you did, I know
it still, yeah, but I mean I got the trip.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Got drink is like, but now you do it the
right way.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And why would anybody defend it? Because why would anybody
do it?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Because no, Oh so you're just smarter than Oh okay,
so you do it because they don't expect it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Do you know how to defend the overex side trip?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I do?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, So it's just a matter of who falls a
certain way.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
There you go, and then he does it if we
get back up.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That makes sense. But see, but now you're actually tripping
the overhek side.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I saw you, I can.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Maybe mix it up. No weapons, so you and now
putting together. Man, hats off to you because so many
people right like that that video? Right, Oh well is
he good? Is he not good?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
He's very really he's very fucking good. Like acknowledge that
you're putting together a great title reign now right, this
could be your third defense. How gratifying and satisfying is
it to just really prove people wrong and show that
my style. My style works for me, and it works
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at the highest level. It might not look like Alex
or it might not look like is he, but it
works for me. Like how good does that feel? To
constantly be proving people wrong and finally feel like now
people are coming around drakers. It's not what it used
to be. People are like, yeah, well, DP is really
really good.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I said this in the beginning, you know, after the
Robert White get fight, because there's only one way to
know how good you are, and that's going after the
best and beating them. So after that fight, I went,
I said, yeah, people are critiquing my style so hot
that when they should be taking notes because otherwise they're
going to play catch up for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah. The longer they way, the longer it's going to take.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And I think that's what's happening now is people are
starting to acknowledge that. Listen, it looks weird because it's
not the norm, it's not what we know. Any change
is weird for people. People don't understand when it's something.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
They don't like it.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And it's not about proving people wrong. That gives me
no satisfaction. It's about proving my style, my work, and
my team, my coach, the stuff that we been believing
in for the last thirteen years. That to prove that right,
to prove the people that believe in me, and that's
putting so much effort to get me to where I
am now. Hearing all those comments from guys like you,
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from guys at the top that's been at the top,
saying this is the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You can't fight like that, it's not good, and.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Then going out there and and and keeping that belief,
keeping that belief because now you want to change it,
and a lot of people try to change it, and
that's the wrong mindset.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
But you didn't change change. You changed our way of thinking.
Absolutely right. You may have to believe in what you do.
You've actually made everybody think, wait, maybe he is doing
something different. And that's what I've gained an appreciation for
your style now because of that, right, like watching you compete.
And also I'm like, this dude has to be unbelievably strong,
like like, how much do you bitch press?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
To be honestly, don't make you strong?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Deadlift is can you do pull ups?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Different? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Put up? How many pull ups can you do?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I don't know, but probably like twenty do?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I did pull ups the other day and I was
doing like I did like five. Then I started jump,
but I started doing jumping pull ups where I'm just
jumping in the slowery. I could not lift my arm
for two days. My shoulders were stuck down. I could
not get my arms pass my shoulders for two days.
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Why grip it is the lat It's like.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The last that is true.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
But I honestly believe that said. Some guys have.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Power, and some guys have strength, and the one you
cannot train, you cannot train strength, No, you have it
or you're done.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And power you can train for.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You must have strength because when you grab these guys,
they seem almost like lost in it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
In South Africa.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Call it what is it?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
That is Afrikaans word for while I'm strung Buddha Krah?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yes, did I say it right?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Krah, that is it Afrikaans.
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Speaker 1 (12:30):
Hamzat Chimaia Right, he's the Boogeyman. We have conversations about
why he's the boogeyman. Most people, since we were children,
we have been told the Boogeyman comes at night and
he's scary. You want to avoid the Boogeyman. You don't
want to deal with him. You you put your head under
the cover. If the boogeyman's in the room with you
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as a little boy, you're calling them out while everybody
else is putting their heads under the covers. You, as
the champion, walk to the post by prep conference and
say to Maya's next why I.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Have to be honest with you. Every since the day
I started the sport, I wanted greatness. That was what
That's what I was chasing. I never chased money. I
never chased fame. I never if this is so different,
If this sport was not paying, I would be struggling
to get by.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
To be honest with let me ask you this champ,
I love that that point right, he said, the belt
doesn't matter to him. No, it's about the money. Can
you guys have different motivations and still fight at the
same rate, right, like, at the same level, because if
you're doing it more that love And he's literally telling
me that he's not doing he wants the money, you know, Like,
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can you fight at the same level when there's such
a difference in the approach?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
You can, But you can't fight me with that as
your motivation. You will be paying all that money to
get out of there. If you're in there with me
for five rounds, if the money is your motivation, that
motivation monkey will drive away very quickly.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Money.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
There's no amount of money that's gonna keep you in
that fight. When I'm in there willing to give my
life to win. There's money can't buy that. And there's
only one thing. It has to be bigger than you.
Money is not bigger than me. Passion, legacy and achievement.
That's bigger than me. Where my country's flag and being
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making history of my country, bringing that bout back home.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's not about about It's about.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Bringing that victory home, representing my country, my people, my team,
my family, my crest, my kids. One day are going
to look at that. That is worth more than any
amount of money. And that's what I fight for when
I go out there, to be remembered forever.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
What what when you guys break down, SHAMAIAV? What makes
them so dangerous? I mean, it's it's the start, right,
It's a takedown. It's the aggressiveness, it's the grappling. Is
there anything that I'm missing, like because I don't look
at him as an opponent, right, I've never had to.
But when you as his opponent, watch him and your
coaches outside of the fast start, the quick takedown, the
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avalanche coming downhill, what is there to hamsat your mind
that makes them so dangerous or do you even view
him as dangerous?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Absolutely, I think he's an incredibly dangerous opponent. I think
he has the striking to put you down with one strike.
He has enough power for that. He has the wrestling
to fall back on. If the striking go south and underground,
he can do it. Oh, He's an all around fighter
with that. He's never lost, so he has grown used
to winning, and I think his whole mindset it works
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around confidence in training within his team. This man does
not lose in training. I don't think he does. I've
only heard he doesn't. And that makes him dangerous because
in his mind he only wins.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You have to teach him.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You have to teach him how to lose him. That's
why I'm here because I know what it's like to
lose in training every single day. I have felt defeat
in the professional era as well, and it sucks. Giving
up when you know what it feels like to lose
is a lot harder.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And giving up.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
If you don't know, maybe it's not that bad. But
Humsad is dangerous because he goes out there and he
believes that he can do what he wants to. He
is that guy in the school yard who does whatever
he wants to and he doesn't get into trouble. Well,
I'm the other guy who just got into the school
and you're not going to get your way with me.
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And that is why this is such a great fight.
You have two bullies's going out there to see who's
the man on the block.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yes, so you saw you walked into the school as
the new kid and go, oh okay, I see the alpha.
I want to go and take my place it.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There can be only one alpha and that's me.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So how do you teach him that this weekend? Like,
what do you have to do early? Right, because a
lot of people believe that it's early. Hams up late?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Drake is how from us has no gas.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He needs to finish his fight.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
In the first That was another thing you were you
were mad before a couple of things before you were
doing it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You're like, you know, like that, I just keep on going.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, you still get His mouth is wide open. He
looks exhausting. You're like, I was never tired.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, well I was tired, but just everybody's tired. Everybody's tired,
But I wasn't dying. There were a few fights. I mean,
I would talk about that Terry Brunson fight right after that.
I was I was tired, I was dead, But I
mean the pace was also ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And what about whenever you hit Derek Brunson, he was
just laying on the ground with his hands like, I'm like, lock.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Your face laying there And funny enough, Brunson, you know
that first round he's gonna come yeah, full speed, and
he's done that to so many guys, and I just
knew it. I was like, Okay, let's do it that way.
Second round. We're still going to be there third round too.
And but this fight is very similar in that way.
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I think a mistake people make this day go into
a defensive mind seeds when they fight hundred, don't get
taken down.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Don't get taken down.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
And if he comes move away from him, try and
run away and not get taken down. You cannot let
that happen because in his mind, he already knows you
don't want to wrestle with him. In his mind, he
already knows he's gonna get you eventually.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That gate is locked.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah, you have to go out Dan, So what if
you get taken down, get back up? That is it's
part of the game. But you cannot go out there
and defend. That's not how you win to fight. You
go out there and you attack.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, so, champ, what does this weekend look like for you?
Sold out Arena, Chicago, Illinois? Another title defense? You win this.
He's starting to get into the conversation with some of
the greatest middleweights of all time, like what does Saturday
night look like for you?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Man?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm walking out to the United States, like they say,
the home Michael Jordan Bolt.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The championships one here, that is it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I mean the history and there I saw that statue
with said the greatest that ever was the greatest they
will ever be. That's what I want and that's what
I'm going to do. That's what I'm going there to
do on Saturday night. I'm walking out there as a champion.
I'm walking in there there is no champion, and I'm
walking out with my belt and I'm going to defeat
the Spooky Man and I will prove once again why
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I'm the beast in the world.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
He respects you. It feels like he respects you for
asking to fight him. But like you said, I don't
know that he expects anything much different than what he
got from Robert Whitaker and all those guys. But he
got tough from Kamara Utsman, he got tough from Gilbert Burns.
He's got tough before and bit through it. But I
just don't know that he expects hard on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah. Absolutely, And like I said, I mean, you cannot
take anything away from Hamazad.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
All the high he is, he deserves all that heart
is as good as people think. But at the end
of the day, at this level, everybody's good and you
need something more. And that's something more is what I have.
And it's not about skill. It's not about who wrestles
the best, who strikes the best. It's about who goes
out there. If me and easy we strike. He is
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much better on paper, He's one hundred percent, and not
even on paper if you just look at it, he
is so much more clean as he's a cleaner striker,
he's more you know, he has his combos work perfectly
he looks pretty while he does it. I'm not here
to win that competition. But even though when we were striking,
I was I was catching him. I was when me
and Sugan, he's the boxing guy and I was out
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boxing him. Because it's not a boxing five.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
This is MMA.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
The distance is different, everything is different. There's too many
variables to go.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
This guy is too good at this. It's about being
the best.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
In MMA, and I one believe that I am the
best in the world at MMA.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And you know, Hamzad he is great.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And that's why this fire is so big because people
know this is truly the two best in the world
that are going at it.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, your weight classes as fun as it's been in
a long time. What do you make of guys like
Fluffy Hernandez and Inmovov and Bojowo and all the rest,
Like what do you make of having Because honestly, you
get through most people or a lot of people think, well,
if he gets through Chimaya, who's the most dangerous one
they have, It'll be a long time before someone gets
the belt off of drinkers. But then when you look back,
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you go, well, we still got a lot of really
high level mixed martial artists. I believe this is the
deepest middleweight has ever been. Does that excite you as
the champion?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Absolutely, I mean the first time in years that the
middleweight with three weeks ago, I've been through the home
top five of the division.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, I've beaten everybody in the top five. Now. Yeah,
three guys, three guys.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
When you have the rid of Day, you have He's
good rid of you have Barada Day, you have Fluffy
in my opinion, top fox.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But I think he beats the top.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Five days paced.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
The way he fights, he he made it look easy,
I mean, and then you have Imamov who is there
also being easy, so he got that spot. But then
you have Barllo and him fighting, and yeah, it's it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Like I said, it's a very exciting time to be.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's the one. That's who's next. You think the winner
how you and Imava?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I think it depends on who wins, to be honest, Yeah,
he's on a long wind streak. He's ranking is not
where Immov ranking is. I don't, I don't know, I don't.
I have no idea what they want to do. But
right now, I don't think there's really anybody putting their
hand up as I'm the next contender.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But there's a lot of room.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
For a container to arise with the names that we
have there.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You have just sold seven UFC just sold media rites
seven billion dollars. I wish I was you right now,
Drecus Champs about to get paid.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, I mean the other thing is, yeah, I guess
it's great. I guess it's great. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You want to get money, yeah, well, we'll see, we'll see,
we'll see about that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Let's just get this title. Get the title. I mean money,
it will come in and like you.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Said, right, it's not necessarily about it, but it is
nice to have.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It's great to have.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It will kind of car you got.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I got a few I like cause tell me tell
me I have a Mustang rash Mustang.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I have a sixty seven Eleanors on its way, which
I love.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Is it already finished or do you have to read
we know it's it's we are building it, You're gonna
build it. Huh, Yeah, it's it's Uh, it's basically finished.
We are ninety percent done with it. And of course,
and I have a G sixty three GA wagon I have.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Now we're getting into the championship.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yone else that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And uh, that's the cost for now, that's the course.
And of course I have a land cruiser.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
A big truck.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes, drive those into the safaris.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I want to go to a safari. They were saying
they're gonna do a show in Africa, and I wanted
to go, but they said it's like things really bad.
One of my friends went said, it stinks really bad.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You can get your night. Yes, he does not stink
in it, he said. He said he was probably in
a zoo.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No, he was not in a zoo, Drenkers. He was
on a safari and he said, when you're in the brush,
you drive boom. Dead elephant stinks.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh yeah, of course dead elephants.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But he said dead elephant dead? Uh what is that
one that the deer looking on antelope?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You're looking one.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We have like a dead analope.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Like everything.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He said that he actually watched a hunt from start
to finish.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, I mean you have to if you ever did,
you have to come watch it. That is incredible.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You've seen it before you Yes, is it awesome?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
They rip out the stomach again.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
They rip out everything.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
It's it's kind of more greesome than you would think
to see something because they didn't.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Kill it right away, like they'll just grab it.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
They'll just grab it by the leg and it's so
much bigger and just start eating it from behind.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Well, but you're talking about the big ones, the big
black ones, what is it water buffalo?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Even a little small one that lion doesn't care where
it gets it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's just I'm talking about like if they get an antelope,
it's dead right away. Hit him on the neck, put
him to the ground.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Oh yeah, it's it's a bit. It's quicker, it's quaker.
But they lions attack anything.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's kind of crazy to see, but
it is. It isn't It is.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Beautiful to see. They had a kid named Tamelo on
my Ultimate Fighter Team.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yes, I know him very well. You know, credible fight. Yeah,
really nice kid and he's a brilliant fighter too.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
He showed me some videos. They're huge, the lions are.
The lions are humongous.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, I think And the other people always say, how
would you approach fighting a lion? I would just go,
like just say your prayer, say a.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Prayer and go to They're so strong. I love don
This is why I want to go to Africa. I
have to experience something I just once in a while.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I mean, I'm glad that you want to go for
this fire. I just want to invent them home.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It'll happen.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It has to happen.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It'll happen, and when it does, I'll I'll get to
go on to Safari. You go, Would you go with me?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Absolutely? Really, I'll show you around, I will show you
the best time.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well you pay for it. Come on, Dragons, you're the
champ you've been.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Look at this guy.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I'm just trying to see if I can get a
Smarrio out of this dude.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Look at this he's like. This guy just said he
doesn't worry about money he's paying.
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him enough.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Check that, man.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, keep your shirt on. You don't get to do
the interview with no shirt on.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Man, you're looking good.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You would like to I like, like take your shirt off?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, sure, take older fighters. I can always take it,
like I take the US photos.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, for the time being, until the next five I
take older fighters that I possibly can. I can just
post changing pat chaging outfits.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Hey, I gotta ask you something, man, I saw some
ship the other day. It's crazy. I saw like a
video of you, like they were like trying to make
fun of you with that hople Have you seen that video,
which like that Homer Simpsons video?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And it's so funny that I actually did the Simpsons
predicted it?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, I mean they predicted it like they predict everything.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
They did, and they predict me hitting Strickland with the
head on the hip.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You hit him in his ass with you forehead.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, and that'll teach him.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
How did that happen?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I'm with the Middleway champion Drenkers du plus C as
he gets ready to finish championship another time, this time
against Amzat Chimayav Dreks. Thank you for checking it with
me again, Israel out of Sonya Sean Strickland, Sean Strickland.
Every time you're the underdog, but every time you're getting
(01:42):
more and more dominant. What do you make of that
where you always made the underdog?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I think, uh, you know they say that thirty increase
when you become a champion.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
For me, it was more than that. I think maybe really,
once I became champion, I just loved it.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I just loved and I've been champion for many years
outside of the UFC, and once I.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Tasted that gold, I just got hungry to be great.
I love it. I love it at the top.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And I think the second Stricklent fight, for example, I
knew Streackent wasn't going.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
To change his game man he is.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He loves his game plan and it is effective. So
and he's been doing it for so long. There's no
way he's going to change it without a sun. Yet
it was a bit different because you have a guy
that can come in there. You know he's going to strike,
and you have to be able to handle that because
you can't go into that fight saying I actually take
him down.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
What if you don't get him done?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
So I think, And then getting comfortable with fighting these names,
getting comfortable with saying, listen, I can do the five round,
especially going that five round strictly the first time and
felt great. Then that gives you the confidence of go
out there and throw man, do what you've got to do.
And every fight I get more at home, and every
fight I get more comfortable in the UFC. I've had
nine UFC fights now, but only about six fights in.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I started really feeling at home.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I started feeling at home, so I started to get
the performances that I would give in the gym. I'm
starting to see glimpses of that in the octagon.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
When I got to go back to that second Stong
Stricken fight. Were you surprised at how that fight played
out because it looked like you almost put him, like
he literally turned into a shell of himself inside of
the octagon. Were you surprised, being as how loud he
is and how like forty is and all of his thoughts,
it seemed like you just like he Honestly, it seemed
like he was a shell of himself, like he had
(03:29):
no answers for what you were doing, Like he just
even as coaches. Did you go back You've watched the fight.
Clearly the coaches were so frustrated because they were telling
him what to do, but he seemed to have like
no ability to kind of even get started. Were you surprised?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean, I have to be honest with your
strictent is a great fighter. But if you figure him out,
they you figure him out. I think strictly what he does,
it's worked for him. Obviously, he became a champion, he's
beaten the base and after the first fight. The problem
with the second fight is it wasn't Stricklands or not.
He did exactly what he did in the first fight.
(04:03):
There was a year in between the first and the
second fight, and once we've been in there, I just
knew the adjustments we I mean I was in there
with the man for twenty five minutes yeah, we had
to make the adjustments. I'm not going to walk through
that jab the same whereas I did that first fight now,
and knowing that is how he fights, knowing that he
prioritizes defense.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, and that is what we saw in the second fight.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And his coaches said to him third round, they went
out and they said, you're doing the same things you
did in the first fight, and the fight is pulling away.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And the first fight was closer. The first it was
a first fight was closed. Second fight you lose the
next round, you're down three zero. So whereas the first
fight you were doing the same thing, but they were
like hard to judge rounds. This time he's clearly winning
the rounds.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And then you also have to remember in the first fight,
I've never been five rounds fighting a guy like Strickland
who can go five rounds and you know that, and
the guy who likes to go forward. So you have
that in your mind because Canna, you know in the
gym I can go five rounds full speed. But in
the fight, and I went in there and the first
(05:09):
two rounds was almost no. Maybe the nerves are fighting
for your first world title, not figuring I haven't figured
them out. Yet he's jab is tricky. By the second fight.
When I went in there, I knew what he's going
to do. I knew how he fights. The only surprise
he could have put in there was it was to
shoot for a takedown, and that would have been great.
But yeah, I mean that is that is what it's about.
I think it's considerly getting better and the sport. I mean,
(05:30):
look at the paper view events from one month to
the other. It's just so everybody's getting so good. You
have to go with the sport the whole time.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So I was talking to Chill the other day and
he tells his story about you wrestling with the South
African Greco Roman team. Is that true? Did you come
to the United States with that team to the Olympic
Training Center?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No? I heard that that is.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It with these guys in South Africa. But I didn't
come to the Colorado's rings.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I didn't. No, I didn't know. But believing him, yeah,
but I mean, that's that's on you. That's on you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Why won't you just like say something be like not true.
You just go in the comment and go that's not true.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Because I mean, if I have to correct every media
out there that took some ship.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I also said that you couldn't score takedowns.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Don't correct me anymore. I'm doubt you no more.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And the thing is, it's when sometimes people say things
like that you get in to say what I mean,
I don't even know where it comes from. It's not
even remote.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Do you remember the first time you said, watch my
takedowns this weekend, and then they were better, and in
the next fight it was better, Like you just kept
getting better because you remember I was making funny because
you you tripped the underhooks side.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, but I got the trip you did, I know
it still, yeah, but I mean I got the trip.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Got drink is like, but now you do it the
right way.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And why would anybody defend it? Because why would anybody
do it?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Because no, Oh so you're just smarter than Oh okay,
so you do it because they don't expect it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Do you know how to defend the overex side trip?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I do?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, So it's just a matter of who falls a
certain way.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
There you go, and then he does it if we
get back up.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That makes sense. But see, but now you're actually tripping
the overhek side.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I saw you, I can.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Maybe mix it up. No weapons, so you and now
putting together. Man, hats off to you because so many
people right like that that video? Right, Oh well is
he good? Is he not good?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
He's very really he's very fucking good. Like acknowledge that
you're putting together a great title reign now right, this
could be your third defense. How gratifying and satisfying is
it to just really prove people wrong and show that
my style. My style works for me, and it works
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at the highest level. It might not look like Alex
or it might not look like is he, but it
works for me. Like how good does that feel? To
constantly be proving people wrong and finally feel like now
people are coming around drakers. It's not what it used
to be. People are like, yeah, well, DP is really
really good.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I said this in the beginning, you know, after the
Robert White get fight, because there's only one way to
know how good you are, and that's going after the
best and beating them. So after that fight, I went,
I said, yeah, people are critiquing my style so hot
that when they should be taking notes because otherwise they're
going to play catch up for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah. The longer they way, the longer it's going to take.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And I think that's what's happening now is people are
starting to acknowledge that. Listen, it looks weird because it's
not the norm, it's not what we know. Any change
is weird for people. People don't understand when it's something.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
They don't like it.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And it's not about proving people wrong. That gives me
no satisfaction. It's about proving my style, my work, and
my team, my coach, the stuff that we been believing
in for the last thirteen years. That to prove that right,
to prove the people that believe in me, and that's
putting so much effort to get me to where I
am now. Hearing all those comments from guys like you,
(09:14):
from guys at the top that's been at the top,
saying this is the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You can't fight like that, it's not good, and.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Then going out there and and and keeping that belief,
keeping that belief because now you want to change it,
and a lot of people try to change it, and
that's the wrong mindset.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
But you didn't change change. You changed our way of thinking.
Absolutely right. You may have to believe in what you do.
You've actually made everybody think, wait, maybe he is doing
something different. And that's what I've gained an appreciation for
your style now because of that, right, like watching you compete.
And also I'm like, this dude has to be unbelievably strong,
like like, how much do you bitch press?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
To be honestly, don't make you strong?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Deadlift is can you do pull ups?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Different? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Put up? How many pull ups can you do?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I don't know, but probably like twenty do?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I did pull ups the other day and I was
doing like I did like five. Then I started jump,
but I started doing jumping pull ups where I'm just
jumping in the slowery. I could not lift my arm
for two days. My shoulders were stuck down. I could
not get my arms pass my shoulders for two days.
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Why grip it is the lat It's like.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The last that is true.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
But I honestly believe that said. Some guys have.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Power, and some guys have strength, and the one you
cannot train, you cannot train strength, No, you have it
or you're done.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And power you can train for.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You must have strength because when you grab these guys,
they seem almost like lost in it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
In South Africa.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Call it what is it?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
That is Afrikaans word for while I'm strung Buddha Krah?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yes, did I say it right?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Krah, that is it Afrikaans.
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Speaker 1 (12:30):
Hamzat Chimaia Right, he's the Boogeyman. We have conversations about
why he's the boogeyman. Most people, since we were children,
we have been told the Boogeyman comes at night and
he's scary. You want to avoid the Boogeyman. You don't
want to deal with him. You you put your head under
the cover. If the boogeyman's in the room with you
(12:52):
as a little boy, you're calling them out while everybody
else is putting their heads under the covers. You, as
the champion, walk to the post by prep conference and
say to Maya's next why I.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Have to be honest with you. Every since the day
I started the sport, I wanted greatness. That was what
That's what I was chasing. I never chased money. I
never chased fame. I never if this is so different,
If this sport was not paying, I would be struggling
to get by.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
To be honest with let me ask you this champ,
I love that that point right, he said, the belt
doesn't matter to him. No, it's about the money. Can
you guys have different motivations and still fight at the
same rate, right, like, at the same level, because if
you're doing it more that love And he's literally telling
me that he's not doing he wants the money, you know, Like,
(13:46):
can you fight at the same level when there's such
a difference in the approach?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
You can, But you can't fight me with that as
your motivation. You will be paying all that money to
get out of there. If you're in there with me
for five rounds, if the money is your motivation, that
motivation monkey will drive away very quickly.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Money.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
There's no amount of money that's gonna keep you in
that fight. When I'm in there willing to give my
life to win. There's money can't buy that. And there's
only one thing. It has to be bigger than you.
Money is not bigger than me. Passion, legacy and achievement.
That's bigger than me. Where my country's flag and being
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making history of my country, bringing that bout back home.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's not about about It's about.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Bringing that victory home, representing my country, my people, my team,
my family, my crest, my kids. One day are going
to look at that. That is worth more than any
amount of money. And that's what I fight for when
I go out there, to be remembered forever.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
What what when you guys break down, SHAMAIAV? What makes
them so dangerous? I mean, it's it's the start, right,
It's a takedown. It's the aggressiveness, it's the grappling. Is
there anything that I'm missing, like because I don't look
at him as an opponent, right, I've never had to.
But when you as his opponent, watch him and your
coaches outside of the fast start, the quick takedown, the
(15:13):
avalanche coming downhill, what is there to hamsat your mind
that makes them so dangerous or do you even view
him as dangerous?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Absolutely, I think he's an incredibly dangerous opponent. I think
he has the striking to put you down with one strike.
He has enough power for that. He has the wrestling
to fall back on. If the striking go south and underground,
he can do it. Oh, He's an all around fighter
with that. He's never lost, so he has grown used
to winning, and I think his whole mindset it works
(15:43):
around confidence in training within his team. This man does
not lose in training. I don't think he does. I've
only heard he doesn't. And that makes him dangerous because
in his mind he only wins.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You have to teach him.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You have to teach him how to lose him. That's
why I'm here because I know what it's like to
lose in training every single day. I have felt defeat
in the professional era as well, and it sucks. Giving
up when you know what it feels like to lose
is a lot harder.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And giving up.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
If you don't know, maybe it's not that bad. But
Humsad is dangerous because he goes out there and he
believes that he can do what he wants to. He
is that guy in the school yard who does whatever
he wants to and he doesn't get into trouble. Well,
I'm the other guy who just got into the school
and you're not going to get your way with me.
(16:41):
And that is why this is such a great fight.
You have two bullies's going out there to see who's
the man on the block.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yes, so you saw you walked into the school as
the new kid and go, oh okay, I see the alpha.
I want to go and take my place it.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There can be only one alpha and that's me.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So how do you teach him that this weekend? Like,
what do you have to do early? Right, because a
lot of people believe that it's early. Hams up late?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Drake is how from us has no gas.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He needs to finish his fight.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
In the first That was another thing you were you
were mad before a couple of things before you were
doing it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You're like, you know, like that, I just keep on going.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, you still get His mouth is wide open. He
looks exhausting. You're like, I was never tired.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, well I was tired, but just everybody's tired. Everybody's tired,
But I wasn't dying. There were a few fights. I mean,
I would talk about that Terry Brunson fight right after that.
I was I was tired, I was dead, But I
mean the pace was also ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And what about whenever you hit Derek Brunson, he was
just laying on the ground with his hands like, I'm like, lock.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Your face laying there And funny enough, Brunson, you know
that first round he's gonna come yeah, full speed, and
he's done that to so many guys, and I just
knew it. I was like, Okay, let's do it that way.
Second round. We're still going to be there third round too.
And but this fight is very similar in that way.
(18:06):
I think a mistake people make this day go into
a defensive mind seeds when they fight hundred, don't get
taken down.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Don't get taken down.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
And if he comes move away from him, try and
run away and not get taken down. You cannot let
that happen because in his mind, he already knows you
don't want to wrestle with him. In his mind, he
already knows he's gonna get you eventually.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That gate is locked.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah, you have to go out Dan, So what if
you get taken down, get back up? That is it's
part of the game. But you cannot go out there
and defend. That's not how you win to fight. You
go out there and you attack.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, so, champ, what does this weekend look like for you?
Sold out Arena, Chicago, Illinois? Another title defense? You win this.
He's starting to get into the conversation with some of
the greatest middleweights of all time, like what does Saturday
night look like for you?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Man?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm walking out to the United States, like they say,
the home Michael Jordan Bolt.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The championships one here, that is it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I mean the history and there I saw that statue
with said the greatest that ever was the greatest they
will ever be. That's what I want and that's what
I'm going to do. That's what I'm going there to
do on Saturday night. I'm walking out there as a champion.
I'm walking in there there is no champion, and I'm
walking out with my belt and I'm going to defeat
the Spooky Man and I will prove once again why
(19:27):
I'm the beast in the world.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
He respects you. It feels like he respects you for
asking to fight him. But like you said, I don't
know that he expects anything much different than what he
got from Robert Whitaker and all those guys. But he
got tough from Kamara Utsman, he got tough from Gilbert Burns.
He's got tough before and bit through it. But I
just don't know that he expects hard on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah. Absolutely, And like I said, I mean, you cannot
take anything away from Hamazad.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
All the high he is, he deserves all that heart
is as good as people think. But at the end
of the day, at this level, everybody's good and you
need something more. And that's something more is what I have.
And it's not about skill. It's not about who wrestles
the best, who strikes the best. It's about who goes
out there. If me and easy we strike. He is
(20:18):
much better on paper, He's one hundred percent, and not
even on paper if you just look at it, he
is so much more clean as he's a cleaner striker,
he's more you know, he has his combos work perfectly
he looks pretty while he does it. I'm not here
to win that competition. But even though when we were striking,
I was I was catching him. I was when me
and Sugan, he's the boxing guy and I was out
(20:40):
boxing him. Because it's not a boxing five.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
This is MMA.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
The distance is different, everything is different. There's too many
variables to go.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
This guy is too good at this. It's about being
the best.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
In MMA, and I one believe that I am the
best in the world at MMA.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And you know, Hamzad he is great.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And that's why this fire is so big because people
know this is truly the two best in the world
that are going at it.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, your weight classes as fun as it's been in
a long time. What do you make of guys like
Fluffy Hernandez and Inmovov and Bojowo and all the rest,
Like what do you make of having Because honestly, you
get through most people or a lot of people think, well,
if he gets through Chimaya, who's the most dangerous one
they have, It'll be a long time before someone gets
the belt off of drinkers. But then when you look back,
(21:25):
you go, well, we still got a lot of really
high level mixed martial artists. I believe this is the
deepest middleweight has ever been. Does that excite you as
the champion?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Absolutely, I mean the first time in years that the
middleweight with three weeks ago, I've been through the home
top five of the division.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, I've beaten everybody in the top five. Now. Yeah,
three guys, three guys.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
When you have the rid of Day, you have He's
good rid of you have Barada Day, you have Fluffy
in my opinion, top fox.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But I think he beats the top.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Five days paced.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
The way he fights, he he made it look easy,
I mean, and then you have Imamov who is there
also being easy, so he got that spot. But then
you have Barllo and him fighting, and yeah, it's it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Like I said, it's a very exciting time to be.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's the one. That's who's next. You think the winner
how you and Imava?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I think it depends on who wins, to be honest, Yeah,
he's on a long wind streak. He's ranking is not
where Immov ranking is. I don't, I don't know, I don't.
I have no idea what they want to do. But
right now, I don't think there's really anybody putting their
hand up as I'm the next contender.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But there's a lot of room.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
For a container to arise with the names that we
have there.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You have just sold seven UFC just sold media rites
seven billion dollars. I wish I was you right now,
Drecus Champs about to get paid.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, I mean the other thing is, yeah, I guess
it's great. I guess it's great. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You want to get money, yeah, well, we'll see, we'll see,
we'll see about that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Let's just get this title. Get the title. I mean money,
it will come in and like you.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Said, right, it's not necessarily about it, but it is
nice to have.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It's great to have.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It will kind of car you got.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I got a few I like cause tell me tell
me I have a Mustang rash Mustang.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I have a sixty seven Eleanors on its way, which
I love.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Is it already finished or do you have to read
we know it's it's we are building it, You're gonna
build it. Huh, Yeah, it's it's Uh, it's basically finished.
We are ninety percent done with it. And of course,
and I have a G sixty three GA wagon I have.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Now we're getting into the championship.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yone else that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And uh, that's the cost for now, that's the course.
And of course I have a land cruiser.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
A big truck.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes, drive those into the safaris.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I want to go to a safari. They were saying
they're gonna do a show in Africa, and I wanted
to go, but they said it's like things really bad.
One of my friends went said, it stinks really bad.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You can get your night. Yes, he does not stink
in it, he said. He said he was probably in
a zoo.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No, he was not in a zoo, Drenkers. He was
on a safari and he said, when you're in the brush,
you drive boom. Dead elephant stinks.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh yeah, of course dead elephants.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But he said dead elephant dead? Uh what is that
one that the deer looking on antelope?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You're looking one.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We have like a dead analope.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Like everything.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He said that he actually watched a hunt from start
to finish.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, I mean you have to if you ever did,
you have to come watch it. That is incredible.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You've seen it before you Yes, is it awesome?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
They rip out the stomach again.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
They rip out everything.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
It's it's kind of more greesome than you would think
to see something because they didn't.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Kill it right away, like they'll just grab it.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
They'll just grab it by the leg and it's so
much bigger and just start eating it from behind.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Well, but you're talking about the big ones, the big
black ones, what is it water buffalo?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Even a little small one that lion doesn't care where
it gets it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's just I'm talking about like if they get an antelope,
it's dead right away. Hit him on the neck, put
him to the ground.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Oh yeah, it's it's a bit. It's quicker, it's quaker.
But they lions attack anything.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's kind of crazy to see, but
it is. It isn't It is.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Beautiful to see. They had a kid named Tamelo on
my Ultimate Fighter Team.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yes, I know him very well. You know, credible fight. Yeah,
really nice kid and he's a brilliant fighter too.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
He showed me some videos. They're huge, the lions are.
The lions are humongous.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, I think And the other people always say, how
would you approach fighting a lion? I would just go,
like just say your prayer, say a.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Prayer and go to They're so strong. I love don
This is why I want to go to Africa. I
have to experience something I just once in a while.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I mean, I'm glad that you want to go for
this fire. I just want to invent them home.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It'll happen.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It has to happen.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It'll happen, and when it does, I'll I'll get to
go on to Safari. You go, Would you go with me?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Absolutely? Really, I'll show you around, I will show you
the best time.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well you pay for it. Come on, Dragons, you're the
champ you've been.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Look at this guy.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I'm just trying to see if I can get a
Smarrio out of this dude.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Look at this he's like. This guy just said he
doesn't worry about money he's paying.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The Champs actually don't want to spend their money on
good old DC. That's unfortunate because I'm actually trying to
put more money in your pocket. A Watch how I
do this. Watch watch how I try to get more money. Guys,
the Champ drinkers du plus ce fights this weekend ESPN
plus pay per view. Go hit the buy button line
his pocket so then he can take me on a
(26:33):
Safari deal. Okay, it sounds like, go and buy the
pay per view. Watch Drinkings the finished championship against Hamzat Chimaya.
If it's one of the greatest middleweight fights of all time,
make sure you go tap into everything that he's doing socials,
follow Drinkers du plus See. He's a very interesting guy.
Until next time, guys like subscribe and tell your friends
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