August 14, 2025 • 15 mins
Khamzat Chimaev IS BACK on another edition of the DC Check-In with Daniel Cormier! The undefeated UFC superstar goes against Dricus Du Plessis for the UFC Middleweight title, and he's ready to prove he can become a champion this Saturday. See why Chimaev is focused on getting more money, and is not motivated by UFC titles in his career right now. Plus, Chimaev speaks on other opponents in the division and what separates "The Wolf" from the pack. And don't miss Khamzat mess with Cormier, and talk about the viral video of them wrestling each other!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh you're serious.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
They one and I seen that and I'm still watchings.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yeah, he's like yeah, this guy, that guy, he sounds
just like him.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hey, listen, the video of us in Adam a couple
of years ago has been circulating again. You know where
we were wrestling at the hotel, and then that was
the first time in Fight Island. You kind of picked
me up a little bit, but like a little bit
off the ground. In the second time we're wrestling again
(01:04):
in Ald you pick me up a little higher. It
never felt disrespectful until today. You can't pick me up
and spin me around. I'm a grown man, hums out.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm showing your love.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Bro, I'm not a child. My legs spin It looks cute, Bro.
Why you do?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
This is?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's a very great company, my best company. Yeah, it's beautiful.
What is this? Why why always black? You could use
a little color.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And you want to it's bathom to use the black, Bro?
What I don't know if heels bathroom.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You gotta put that right there.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You're talking it feels yeah, Well that's that's I don't know. Color.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, look at me, but look at me, look at
my face. Look at your face.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This beautiful black skin, caramel, your skin che need not
beautiful like mine.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That needs to be beautiful. What you need to be
world champions?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You're so crazy you can't say that.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh yeah, I know you are, all right, my brother.
So I was fighting with Dean Thomas the other day.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Hey, stop this thing. It's fucking hot. Put it on
like me. You put it on, hams out. What are
we doing there? Hamsa is not hot?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Turn it this way.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Back there. You're seeing me sweat.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Bro I get nervous. I get nervous. I don't want
to get picked up anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So I'm arguing with Dean Thomas the other day and
we're talking about what you becoming the world champion would
mean for the middleweight division. Part of the argument was
the inactivity. He goes, he doesn't fight enough, so it'll
become a mess. That's the idea a little bit. But
you're here now in the US, so clearly you can
get here to fight. Are you wanting to get active
(02:54):
like you were when you started your UFC career?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Of course, of course, I say. If you no injury,
nothing's gonna happen. Diet, we want to go back and
up with defend my belt.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You want to fight again in October?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, that's fast, that's good fast money.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well what's your expectation for the fight this weekend?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Though? Because I mean, Drake is du plus C has
been underestimated time and time again.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Hams out. But he's the only one.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That said I want hams out next. Everybody else avoids
the hams at Chamaya problem.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Not DDP.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, that's a respect, bigger respect. But I never undersmet
my opponent, So I'm just work hard for that fight.
So and I go and beat that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Do you do you look at his skill set and
think that he's like, what do you think of his
skill set?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's different. All the fighters is different, but this guy's
skills are different because he must be insanely strong or
something right.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Because it seems like he's doing stuff wrong, but it
always works out. Edisonia like it looked like EDISONI almost
knocked him down. He ends up with a takedown, right,
he overthrows a punch, throws Easy to the ground, Like,
what do you make of his his fighting.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Styff between Easy I me and big difference. But I'm
not easy, you know. He's taken down easier for his
guy and never wrestle, you know, So I'm better to
race that I am about to strike. So there's no
way you're gonna do anything, not shriking, not wrestling. So
I don't feel I'm better fight than anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So back to you being able to fight in the country.
When you're at home, right and you're watching everybody with
these opinions, what are you thinking? Because you never said anything.
You never explained why you weren't fighting more frequently, Like
what are you thinking? And I remember watching the video
with Chill and then homes I can't get here, and
then he pants to your manager and it was like
(04:47):
you were at the PI, Like what were you thinking?
Watching everybody with an opinion but not necessarily knowing what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, but I don't care about these things that they
put me in that position, So it's not my faults. Uh,
I was making more money than anyone does. Don't care
about it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You were making money when you were fighting, he said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And when I was fights one, I make more and
anyone does. So it's finally gonna fight, So I'm gonna
make more money.
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Speaker 1 (06:43):
Did you know after the Robert Whitaker fight that title
fight was next?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It should be? I said, like three years ago, I'm
going to fight for the title. So if it makes
long time.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What was the first time you heard that you would
get a championship fight?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
After I give it a bounce.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
After Gillwell burns it, so you're gonna fight for the belt.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, So what happened? I don't know. Did you ask
I never asked. I said, just give me the fight
for the money.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You said that the other day, you said you want
the money. The belt doesn't mean as much to you.
Chill and I were having a tough time kind of
getting through that because everybody talks about the belt. Everybody
wants the belt. But to hear you say the belt
doesn't mean as much, Like, why and when did you
develop that mindset where it wasn't about the belt, it's
(07:33):
about creating a future for your family.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Haw's a question for you, bro, You want a ten
million dollars or just the belt.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But the belt leads to ten million dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Out if if I say to you, like you has
a choice here ten million on just the belt.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, I'm not taking the belt over the money. But
the belt leads to the money. Money.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Right now, if he works hard, belt is coming. Bro,
I need to beat the guy just after that, and
I don't need to think about about that and make
some pressure on my head, you know. So, yeah, I
don't need that beat. So if I get taken and
may even bring that back to my country and someone, what.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Would that feel like to bring that belt back to
you to rush for me.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It's like not that crazy team. I'm not that crazy
big final.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
But it's gonna be huge though. It would be massive
my people.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Of course, the first guy who has become a UC
champion from Shan so they it is big for them
and I know it's big, but I like to fight.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
You.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Uh, you become the world champ this weekend? You bring
that belt back to Chechia. They've they've celebrated some great
champions in the history of your your your region, Bova
Sarsity of being one of them, like Adam STIV great champions,
Like what would it mean to you? Does that type
of thing mean something to harms Out Jamaya to be
(08:54):
viewed like that and celebrated like that by the people
that you motivate and the people that come from the
same situation as you did.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh Broll, do you give me the questions that neighbor
to take you about? You know, so you don't even
think about none of that? Huh? Why just focus on
my fight, bro, Just focus on my fight. Then after that,
what's gonna happen is up to God.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, So you get here many weeks ago, you start
training down in southern California. Yeah, the air Dyne bike
is hard. You guys are putting bands on the bike
to make it harder.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Why it's crazy training that's hard.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Walk It looks like it was just insanely hard work.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah he sees, he sees, I've never done this kind
of stuff, so first time in my life.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
So one of the knocks was that hamzad gets tired.
That's what people say. Hamsid gets tired. Like if you
can get through the first ten minutes, five minutes, hamsid
gets tired, his cardio is gonna fail him. Was that
why you went out there and started doing those things?
And who whose decision was that to come out to
coach call and start training speaking.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
What is to be good? Train like you know privately
And he says he's La has an all one guy.
And then Jackson House and there is the gym, good gym,
no people there, so you can train along with your team.
So that's why we went over there. Then t J
said he has a good coach. Yeah, coach Kyl.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Coach Cal's good.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, he doesn't really do anything, no interview is nothing.
He just wants to kill you guys in that garage.
It's hot as hell up there too.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's hot hard, that's hard.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But but by going through that, you know that nothing
in the fight that you're gonna see Saturday could be
any harder.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, but I don't think that surprised me on that,
So I don't think so I can be harder on that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So let me ask you this, what is your expectation
of Do you think you finished Drake's duplus c Do
you think like, what is your expectation? Do you think
that this is a long fight? Do you anticipate him
being able to deal with what you show? Because I
gotta be honest, I don't know, man, you felt pretty strong,
You felt stronger than.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You used to.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, take secret juices.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
You can't say shit like that. Man, I'm joking, Bro.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know, Bro. I just trained hard, Bro whatever
coach says that that coach cal went there and worked
hard till I can't work till I'm done. Bro, That's
why I'm stronger than anyone. So yeah, fight how longer
it goes, so I will be happy and twenty five
if we were one minute happy? Anyway, how was it?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
How was it coming across Dragkis yesterday in the.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Hotel just I don't know. For me, it's nothing personal,
just having fun in tweet and making fans lab it
and know like loves and shape them, show them a
good show in the cage. Yeah, that's it. Well, he's
not that big like people say it's like big.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Big, He's he's he don't think he's.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
That big, not at all.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Maybe because he's cutting wait, but like when he gets
in the octagon.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He's bigger. I'm cutting weight as well.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, and you wrestled with Sadul in this preparation.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No, just tell you a little bit easy. Yeah, he
was there and preparing for his wrestling match. I was
there as well. Were just rested a little bit nice.
But he's he's crazy good. I can't wain nowhere the wrestless.
You know that kind of Olympic wrestlers. I'm not wrestler,
(12:28):
you know. So in your m what.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Did you just say you can't beat the Olympic wrestler.
I can't, but you think you can beat me. I'm Olympic.
You literally just said.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Can I beat on wrestling match? Yeah? In the cage
any wrestler, any wrestler you bring, any Olympic champ in
the cage yeah, the glove. But but I beat anyone.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Not me, but yeah, bro, the rest of these guys, Yes,
you would.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You would not let me say, you want to find
out if you could beat me in the cage, pick
me up.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Again, come down to my way.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't know, I would never. Hey, would you? Are
you you win this boat this weekend?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Do you think that you're you ever want to go
back down to one seventy because you look like a
natural middleweight now, you don't look like you should try
to cut back now.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It's one of the things we're thinking about by it.
I don't know. Maybe he is, maybe not, But I
speak with coach Carl. He said, we can't do it
if he gives me a couple of months. He's he's good,
he has a he's laboratory. He's working on with all
the fighters. He makes teacher go down with the weight.
And you know he works with the crazy guys. And
(13:34):
I believe in.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The middleweight division has never been better.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You win that championship, you could stabilize a lot of
great guys right well, how Yo uh Imov off Fluffy
Hernandez last week and who looked amazing and so many
others like going up in that weight class to become
the champion and have those type of challenges.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Is that exciting to hums out your mind?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Any fights is exciting because I said fighting for the
money for don't care who is gonna fighting me?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
This guy right here, I got a different mentality.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, why shoot that kid. It's gonna be d one
this one that anyone will make name more money I fight.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I will kill everybody, smash this guy for sure. I
thought you're like crazy guy. Hey, good luck this weekend,
my brother, you are the man. Guys. Howm's out your Maya.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Fights in the Middleway Championship this weekend UFC three nineteen
against Dreccors du plus C. He put in the work,
he feels strong, he seems ready go tapping everything this young.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Man is doing.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
He's a monster and has lived up to the hype
and exceeded all the hype that preceded him as he
came into the UFC. Until next time, like subscribing to
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(14:55):
per view.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Right, I'm about
Speaker 4 (15:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh you're serious.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
They one and I seen that and I'm still watchings.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yeah, he's like yeah, this guy, that guy, he sounds
just like him.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hey, listen, the video of us in Adam a couple
of years ago has been circulating again. You know where
we were wrestling at the hotel, and then that was
the first time in Fight Island. You kind of picked
me up a little bit, but like a little bit
off the ground. In the second time we're wrestling again
(01:04):
in Ald you pick me up a little higher. It
never felt disrespectful until today. You can't pick me up
and spin me around. I'm a grown man, hums out.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm showing your love.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Bro, I'm not a child. My legs spin It looks cute, Bro.
Why you do?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
This is?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's a very great company, my best company. Yeah, it's beautiful.
What is this? Why why always black? You could use
a little color.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And you want to it's bathom to use the black, Bro?
What I don't know if heels bathroom.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You gotta put that right there.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You're talking it feels yeah, Well that's that's I don't know. Color.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, look at me, but look at me, look at
my face. Look at your face.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This beautiful black skin, caramel, your skin che need not
beautiful like mine.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That needs to be beautiful. What you need to be
world champions?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You're so crazy you can't say that.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh yeah, I know you are, all right, my brother.
So I was fighting with Dean Thomas the other day.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Hey, stop this thing. It's fucking hot. Put it on
like me. You put it on, hams out. What are
we doing there? Hamsa is not hot?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Turn it this way.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Back there. You're seeing me sweat.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Bro I get nervous. I get nervous. I don't want
to get picked up anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So I'm arguing with Dean Thomas the other day and
we're talking about what you becoming the world champion would
mean for the middleweight division. Part of the argument was
the inactivity. He goes, he doesn't fight enough, so it'll
become a mess. That's the idea a little bit. But
you're here now in the US, so clearly you can
get here to fight. Are you wanting to get active
(02:54):
like you were when you started your UFC career?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Of course, of course, I say. If you no injury,
nothing's gonna happen. Diet, we want to go back and
up with defend my belt.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You want to fight again in October?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, that's fast, that's good fast money.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well what's your expectation for the fight this weekend?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Though? Because I mean, Drake is du plus C has
been underestimated time and time again.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Hams out. But he's the only one.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That said I want hams out next. Everybody else avoids
the hams at Chamaya problem.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Not DDP.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, that's a respect, bigger respect. But I never undersmet
my opponent, So I'm just work hard for that fight.
So and I go and beat that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Do you do you look at his skill set and
think that he's like, what do you think of his
skill set?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's different. All the fighters is different, but this guy's
skills are different because he must be insanely strong or
something right.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Because it seems like he's doing stuff wrong, but it
always works out. Edisonia like it looked like EDISONI almost
knocked him down. He ends up with a takedown, right,
he overthrows a punch, throws Easy to the ground, Like,
what do you make of his his fighting.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Styff between Easy I me and big difference. But I'm
not easy, you know. He's taken down easier for his
guy and never wrestle, you know, So I'm better to
race that I am about to strike. So there's no
way you're gonna do anything, not shriking, not wrestling. So
I don't feel I'm better fight than anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So back to you being able to fight in the country.
When you're at home, right and you're watching everybody with
these opinions, what are you thinking? Because you never said anything.
You never explained why you weren't fighting more frequently, Like
what are you thinking? And I remember watching the video
with Chill and then homes I can't get here, and
then he pants to your manager and it was like
(04:47):
you were at the PI, Like what were you thinking?
Watching everybody with an opinion but not necessarily knowing what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, but I don't care about these things that they
put me in that position, So it's not my faults. Uh,
I was making more money than anyone does. Don't care
about it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You were making money when you were fighting, he said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And when I was fights one, I make more and
anyone does. So it's finally gonna fight, So I'm gonna
make more money.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
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(05:41):
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Speaker 2 (05:54):
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Speaker 1 (05:56):
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Speaker 1 (06:43):
Did you know after the Robert Whitaker fight that title
fight was next?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It should be? I said, like three years ago, I'm
going to fight for the title. So if it makes
long time.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What was the first time you heard that you would
get a championship fight?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
After I give it a bounce.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
After Gillwell burns it, so you're gonna fight for the belt.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, So what happened? I don't know. Did you ask
I never asked. I said, just give me the fight
for the money.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You said that the other day, you said you want
the money. The belt doesn't mean as much to you.
Chill and I were having a tough time kind of
getting through that because everybody talks about the belt. Everybody
wants the belt. But to hear you say the belt
doesn't mean as much, Like, why and when did you
develop that mindset where it wasn't about the belt, it's
(07:33):
about creating a future for your family.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Haw's a question for you, bro, You want a ten
million dollars or just the belt.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But the belt leads to ten million dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Out if if I say to you, like you has
a choice here ten million on just the belt.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, I'm not taking the belt over the money. But
the belt leads to the money. Money.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Right now, if he works hard, belt is coming. Bro,
I need to beat the guy just after that, and
I don't need to think about about that and make
some pressure on my head, you know. So, yeah, I
don't need that beat. So if I get taken and
may even bring that back to my country and someone, what.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Would that feel like to bring that belt back to
you to rush for me.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It's like not that crazy team. I'm not that crazy
big final.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
But it's gonna be huge though. It would be massive
my people.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Of course, the first guy who has become a UC
champion from Shan so they it is big for them
and I know it's big, but I like to fight.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
You.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Uh, you become the world champ this weekend? You bring
that belt back to Chechia. They've they've celebrated some great
champions in the history of your your your region, Bova
Sarsity of being one of them, like Adam STIV great champions,
Like what would it mean to you? Does that type
of thing mean something to harms Out Jamaya to be
(08:54):
viewed like that and celebrated like that by the people
that you motivate and the people that come from the
same situation as you did.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh Broll, do you give me the questions that neighbor
to take you about? You know, so you don't even
think about none of that? Huh? Why just focus on
my fight, bro, Just focus on my fight. Then after that,
what's gonna happen is up to God.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, So you get here many weeks ago, you start
training down in southern California. Yeah, the air Dyne bike
is hard. You guys are putting bands on the bike
to make it harder.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Why it's crazy training that's hard.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Walk It looks like it was just insanely hard work.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah he sees, he sees, I've never done this kind
of stuff, so first time in my life.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
So one of the knocks was that hamzad gets tired.
That's what people say. Hamsid gets tired. Like if you
can get through the first ten minutes, five minutes, hamsid
gets tired, his cardio is gonna fail him. Was that
why you went out there and started doing those things?
And who whose decision was that to come out to
coach call and start training speaking.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
What is to be good? Train like you know privately
And he says he's La has an all one guy.
And then Jackson House and there is the gym, good gym,
no people there, so you can train along with your team.
So that's why we went over there. Then t J
said he has a good coach. Yeah, coach Kyl.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Coach Cal's good.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, he doesn't really do anything, no interview is nothing.
He just wants to kill you guys in that garage.
It's hot as hell up there too.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's hot hard, that's hard.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But but by going through that, you know that nothing
in the fight that you're gonna see Saturday could be
any harder.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, but I don't think that surprised me on that,
So I don't think so I can be harder on that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So let me ask you this, what is your expectation
of Do you think you finished Drake's duplus c Do
you think like, what is your expectation? Do you think
that this is a long fight? Do you anticipate him
being able to deal with what you show? Because I
gotta be honest, I don't know, man, you felt pretty strong,
You felt stronger than.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You used to.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, take secret juices.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
You can't say shit like that. Man, I'm joking, Bro.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know, Bro. I just trained hard, Bro whatever
coach says that that coach cal went there and worked
hard till I can't work till I'm done. Bro, That's
why I'm stronger than anyone. So yeah, fight how longer
it goes, so I will be happy and twenty five
if we were one minute happy? Anyway, how was it?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
How was it coming across Dragkis yesterday in the.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Hotel just I don't know. For me, it's nothing personal,
just having fun in tweet and making fans lab it
and know like loves and shape them, show them a
good show in the cage. Yeah, that's it. Well, he's
not that big like people say it's like big.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Big, He's he's he don't think he's.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
That big, not at all.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Maybe because he's cutting wait, but like when he gets
in the octagon.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He's bigger. I'm cutting weight as well.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, and you wrestled with Sadul in this preparation.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No, just tell you a little bit easy. Yeah, he
was there and preparing for his wrestling match. I was
there as well. Were just rested a little bit nice.
But he's he's crazy good. I can't wain nowhere the wrestless.
You know that kind of Olympic wrestlers. I'm not wrestler,
(12:28):
you know. So in your m what.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Did you just say you can't beat the Olympic wrestler.
I can't, but you think you can beat me. I'm Olympic.
You literally just said.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Can I beat on wrestling match? Yeah? In the cage
any wrestler, any wrestler you bring, any Olympic champ in
the cage yeah, the glove. But but I beat anyone.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Not me, but yeah, bro, the rest of these guys, Yes,
you would.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You would not let me say, you want to find
out if you could beat me in the cage, pick
me up.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Again, come down to my way.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't know, I would never. Hey, would you? Are
you you win this boat this weekend?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Do you think that you're you ever want to go
back down to one seventy because you look like a
natural middleweight now, you don't look like you should try
to cut back now.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It's one of the things we're thinking about by it.
I don't know. Maybe he is, maybe not, But I
speak with coach Carl. He said, we can't do it
if he gives me a couple of months. He's he's good,
he has a he's laboratory. He's working on with all
the fighters. He makes teacher go down with the weight.
And you know he works with the crazy guys. And
(13:34):
I believe in.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The middleweight division has never been better.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You win that championship, you could stabilize a lot of
great guys right well, how Yo uh Imov off Fluffy
Hernandez last week and who looked amazing and so many
others like going up in that weight class to become
the champion and have those type of challenges.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Is that exciting to hums out your mind?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Any fights is exciting because I said fighting for the
money for don't care who is gonna fighting me?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
This guy right here, I got a different mentality.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, why shoot that kid. It's gonna be d one
this one that anyone will make name more money I fight.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I will kill everybody, smash this guy for sure. I
thought you're like crazy guy. Hey, good luck this weekend,
my brother, you are the man. Guys. Howm's out your Maya.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Fights in the Middleway Championship this weekend UFC three nineteen
against Dreccors du plus C. He put in the work,
he feels strong, he seems ready go tapping everything this young.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Man is doing.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
He's a monster and has lived up to the hype
and exceeded all the hype that preceded him as he
came into the UFC. Until next time, like subscribing to
your friends that I'm tapping in with dudes like Hom's
out your mind until next time? Piece, Hey go buy
UFC three nineteen too. Howm's out your Mind needs a
little bit of an extra Cheddar, you don't want the belt,
you just want the money, So go by the pay
(14:55):
per view.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Right, I'm about
Speaker 4 (15:04):
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