May 30, 2024 • 14 mins
Daniel Cormier IS BACK with Sean Strickland in the latest edition of the DC Check-In at UFC 302. Strickland GOES OFF on the UFC, explaining that the company "doesn't do the right things" for fighters. Plus, Sean talks about fighting Paulo Costa and goes in on why Costa is a "basic" fighter and "not skillful." Strickland also talks about his loss to Dricus Du Plessis and why the judges messed up in that decision. Also, Strickland addresses the Khamzat Chimaev fight talks. And don't miss Sean's hilarious story about pissing in a bottle in the car!
2:00 - "UFC doesn't do the right things"
3:30 - Paolo Costa is "not skillful"
4:15 - Dricus Du Plessis fight
5:30 - Route back to the championship
6:30 - Bad judges in the UFC
8:30 - Paolo Costa breakdown
10:45 - Analytics in the fight game
11:45 - Piss bottle story
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (01:45):
So here we are, here, we are all right?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You ready? I thought you might be doing the interviews.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, no, I'm trying to wake up a little bit.
The capta means kicking anle.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I just got off the airplane.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh my god, when I literally so yesterday my kids
to Disneyland, flew back up to San franciscing took a
red eye here and now I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Fucking Disneyland man. That must have been a rough experience.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Twenty five rides. Because they working for ESPN, you get
like certain perks.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Let's go now, you go through the exit.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, fucking Disneyland. No, my hell, bro, if I ever
fucking died really placed on the earth, Oh yeah, fuck
no it is.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Have you ever been?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, I have been. It's terrible. Dude. You go stand
in fucking line, you go buy fuck.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I bet you wouldn't stand in line anymore though. That's
the difference, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Listen, I'm to stand in line. I want to stand life.
Why it's like a dickhead, dude.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So the first time I did that, right when everybody's
standing in line and you go around.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
And you walk through the a, it felt kind of
fucked up, bro. But then by after after you're not
sweating in line and you're not waiting for hours, it's
kind of like, okay, I kind of can do this.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
No, I'm with it, dude, I'm with it. But it's like, oh,
I don't know, man. Like I'll go out to eat
and there'll be a fight fan and the guy like
trying to com my meal. I'm like, don't cont my meal,
the fucker, Like, I'm the last guy. You need to
calm dude, Like, I could.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Come, Dude, isn't that crazy? When you make more money
now you get more free shit.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, it's like don't give me free shite. I mean
you want to get me, like, you know, I want
to go buy a Harley or somebody fucking throw it down.
But you're like, yeah, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Sometimes like I'm at fully where we're a bunch of
fucking assholes here, like, don't get you don't give me respect?
What the fuck have I done? I hit people in
the face.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Sean Strickland, Man, thank you for checking in with me.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Guys, with the former middleweight champion Sean Strickland as he
heads into UFC three er two against Paulo Costa.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Everything you do is pretty public, right, So the fight
was like on and it was like like negotiates were
kind of going on in front of everyone, and you
got what you wanted. Yeah, your your style of being
seems to lend itself to you getting a whole bunch
of fans. A lot of people support you now, and
you ultimately got what you wanted.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Like, was that your expectation or were you just just
when not getting the fight. If you didn't get it, well.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Dude, here's the thing, guys. Sometimes you gotta get ready
to fucking throw away your entire career. If you don't
get your ship. You know, sometimes you gotta have that
craziness to you. It's fucking I'll do whatever it takes.
But now, just doing the fucking right things, man, Like
the UFC doesn't do the right things. It doesn't fucking
do the right things. It doesn't do the right things.
They're most your rosters. Like if you go look at
(04:24):
you know, if you go look at what these fus,
the guys that run you see what they're making to
what guys get paid is fucking ship, dude, they don't.
The UFC does not do the fucking right things. And
unless you hold them that fucking you know, gunpoint, they
ain't gonna fucking do it.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And you feel and you feel okay.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But that's that's all fucking business these days, all these
fucking corporation fucking leeches, dude, Like, just how it fucking works, man,
look at that, Look at the working man fucking gap, bro,
it's and again my gap is a lot fucking smaller
than your guys' gap. But you know, just how it works.
Your corporations are just fucking fucking sucky busses, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So ultimately, you do get your fight right, and when
you get paul A Costa the opponent, what do you
make of him the fighter?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He fights hard, you know, I mean you had a
good fight with Whitaker, you know, I mean Witaker obviously
won every round, but you had a good fight, you know,
better than what he normally does. I think I'm better
than him. I've watched him fight a couple of times.
You know, he's very basic, just hands down, step back
and just jabs like he's the kind of guy that
just walks away from him trying to set traps and
explodes and like, very very fucking basic. Not somebody I
(05:29):
would call like a skill skillful fighter.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You get Paula Costa in it kind of brings me
back to the last fight.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Sorry before we move forward.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, last fight, very close fight between you and Drake's
duplus C and in many you won and other eyes
you didn't. But when you had to kind of digest
all that when you went back home, you said you
felt you want to fight, wanted to rematch. But when
you accepted everything right, how far did you feel how
much do you think you have to do in order
(06:00):
to put yourself right back where you need to be.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I mean, dude, at the end of the day, guys,
it's all fucking analytics. You got a bunch of fucking dorks.
We are on a fucking computer. What numbers make sense?
What fight's gonna make sense? Right now? Fucking a guy
who's never fought at middleweight makes sense. So it's like
Jamaiv is the one they want, or Whittaker, but ideally
they want Jamaiva on the fucking spreadsheet, if that makes sense.
So a guy who's never actually fought at middleweight is
(06:25):
the number one contender. So when you talk about rankings
and like what makes sense and what do you have
to do, You're like, fucking fuck. Do you see, like,
I'll fight, give me my fucking paycheck, and I'll walk away.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Do you uh? You did it? Did when you lost
a belt?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Because I remember we sat down in Canada and we
talked about the championship in life and how it changed
and all these other things. Did you notice or did
you realize that it meant more to you once you
lost it?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I mean when I want it stayed in my closet
when I lost it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, because that's what you told me in Canada, right
you were like a not really.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Guys, I'm thirty three years old. Do you know how
many champions I've seen come and go in every weight class?
Like it's like the same, you know, it's like politics.
It's like on you know, on on the West Coast
there's a water shortage, we're all gonna die. On the
East Coaster, there's oh fucking too much water, We're all
(07:22):
gonna die. It doesn't matter. Like it's always like they're
always feeding the fucking ball, keeping it rolling. But like,
at the end of the day, the ball is just
fucking rolling. So give me my paycheck, let me fight
this brock in Brazilian and then I'll be happy.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Do you uh, but do you think by beating Paulo
Costa you do earn a championship opportunity? And and how
do you have to beat him? Do you feel like
I have to beat him a certain way and.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I gotta beat him better than Waker, did you know?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, Yeah, it was a pretty fun fight.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That was a good fight. Yeah, I mean, but again,
you know, I mean Cosa, I mean, he's pretty fucking basic,
but he does some crazy shit every now and then,
so they gotta watch out.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So I was watching Alexander Volkanowsky and he's breaking on
your fight, right, and he spoke about how at times
you are so good defensively that you find your spots
and ultimately at times it allows these guys to kind
of get ahead of you. He Jared Cannon near fight
is one that pops off the page. Drake is du
plus C two right because he wasn't landing much because
(08:23):
you're so good, Which.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Comes down to bad fucking judges that like, you know,
they see guys throwing output and they're like, oh, yeah,
he's doing good, Like what no, like, but you're blocking
the vast majority, even like Eve and I thought Jared
and on, Jared's a good guy. You know, I'm pretty
like he'll throw a combination I block every single one
of them in his Corner's like that's good that right
hand land. I'm like, what do you fucking know? Didn't
they even touch me? You know? But you know, you
(08:48):
have stupid ass judges. They're like listening to corners how
much they don't say that whenever you have a corner saying,
oh you're winning, you're throwing punches, and the judge like
he must be winning.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
He saying, you think they work, You think they're they're
paying attention to that.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Huh oh, do you judges don't give a fuck?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Don't they wear ahead that.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
If you ever look at look at judging, Like a
lot of times they don't watch the fucking fight. They
don't give a fuck. If they're just government officials just
fucking collecting the paycheck, they don't give a fuck, dude.
Or they're like or they or you know, they're the
kind of guy like the things they know what they're doing,
you know, like you like that the hobbyist mechanic will
go talk to a mechanic and talk about like all
(09:26):
the shitty knows and the guys like what are you
talking about, dude? Like what the fuck you're doing? So
I mean again, and this is like something I've learned
as I've gone through my career when I would tell people,
do not put the value of your life in your job.
It's a job, you make money, it's it allows you
to live. But the more you the more you could
(09:47):
devalue working for a corporation, and the more you could
value your own life, the better.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Off you'll be.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Do you think that you because of what you said
about Paula Costa would is backing up exploding backing up exploding.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You gotta be more aware in the fight on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Let just don't want to It's not that you just
don't want to walk into something. You know, like when
someone runs away from your lot, it gets frustrating, so
you tend to like you tend to be frustrated and
walk into shit you shouldn't. It's a lot of you
staying sharp for twenty five minutes, and like, twenty five
minutes is not a long time, but it's a long
time to be sure.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So I'm listening to you, like in everything, Sean, like,
are you happy? Like are you happy with the way
everything's played out? Because I thought you seem a little
pissed off.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'm not pissed off you. It's like I'm like, I'm
at work right now, you guys, it's my fucking job.
I just woke up. I'm dying. I gotta cut way tomorrow,
Like you know, I like, here's saing, dude. I'm gonna
go fucking fight. I'm gonna beat this Brazil and I'm
gonna get a nice check. I'm gonna go home and
be happy. But like you know, I'm fucking I'm working, guys.
Fucking you think I wanted to do me Day. I
meant to. I have to do media Day.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
But it's part of the gig, and no, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Part of the gig and I love it, and I
love the check and I love the opportunity. But it's
like I don't value I value my paycheck and I
value the opportunities that the U she gave for me.
I'm making more in the UFC than I would have
ever done in my entire life. There's no other options
for me, Like there's no other like way to replicate
this anywhere else in my life, especially when I was younger.
(11:25):
So I value that. But it's like the media's job
is the hype ship up to say, like, well, you
know you lost, what do you get?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You crawl your way to the top and a title shot,
and like, you know, I could play the game, but yeah, no,
I'm gonna go and knock out costs. I fucking deserve it.
It's my shot. Or but I don't get fucked. I'm
gonna fight this guy.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Do you think you're you're like certain guys right, Dustin
Poitier was one win away from a title fight. Do
you think you're in that same situation where one great
win is a championship opportunity.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
We gotta go ask the doors. So we have the computer.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Who makes the rankings.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So it's fucking it's not ranging don't matter, you guys.
It's the doors behind the computers. There is a spreadsheet
and this is just like.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Ever making that up. No, you don't know what is fact.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
This is facts, like.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Because you're telling me something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Like, this is just like every other job, dude. It's
all fucking analytics, you guys. Everything about this is analytics.
We guys, the media guys know this ship a ESPN guy,
you know, this is all analytics. It's all what makes money.
They have the doors behind the computer go and there
is some wiggle room, you know, there is definitely wiggle room.
But what is the corporations job to make the most money,
(12:38):
to maximize profit? How do you maximize profits? You have
fucking spreadsheets, you got numbers, and you gonna make it happen.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But you're gotta you gotta that equals profit.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And if I'm being completely honest, that's not something I
would have said a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Our thought could be possible. I wouldn't have thought that
Sean Strick.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I also my borderline liability.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well, yeah, you're a liability. You're definitely a liability.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Sent me to.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Corderline. That ship was crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It was maybe there was a moment of like, hey,
let's Sean fight the bottom tandem. Maybe Costic gets lucky.
We can to fucking push this man on a couple
of under cars.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
They were, you're so crazy, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Honey bag guys. I am happy and and I do
fucking love fighting. I can't wait to fight Costa. Yeah,
but you know I'm not going to go fucking kill
myself if anything bad happens.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah. No, no, you're not going to. Maybe somebody else.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Make me feel better.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Show before I let you go. I got it. I
gotta ask you this.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So I was, I was like looking up stuff for
you on the internet and it said something about you
throwing a piss bottle out of the car.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Oh fuckoldn't we were?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Were you pissing in the car?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Who doesn't fucking piss? Everybody in this room is pissing
a fucking bottle on a car.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Bro But you're driving You were driving the car.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I mean, I'm fuing I had I didn't take my
hand off the wheel. It was a rental car. May
pissed on the Seat's all right, you're not my pilege.
I did not feel you, guys. I'm massive the art.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You know man, bro, Guys, this guy is funny. Sean Strickland,
thanks for checking him out. I appreciate your time always, man.
I never take it for granted. Guys, Seawn Strickland takes
on Poulocaust this weekend that you have C threell two.
The former middleweight champion has done something that most never expected.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
He's a star. I mean, love him or hate him,
do the star.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So make sure you guys have that buy button, follow
Sean and everything he does, and make sure you watch.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
You have C threell two this weekend. Till next time, Peace,
The volume.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Chev takes on the Diamond of Lafayette, Louisiana. Dustin Pourier
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
It's gonna be a fantastic fight night from Newark, New Jersey,
and you will be in on.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
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Speaker 1 (01:45):
So here we are, here, we are all right?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You ready? I thought you might be doing the interviews.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, no, I'm trying to wake up a little bit.
The capta means kicking anle.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I just got off the airplane.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh my god, when I literally so yesterday my kids
to Disneyland, flew back up to San franciscing took a
red eye here and now I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Fucking Disneyland man. That must have been a rough experience.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Twenty five rides. Because they working for ESPN, you get
like certain perks.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Let's go now, you go through the exit.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, fucking Disneyland. No, my hell, bro, if I ever
fucking died really placed on the earth, Oh yeah, fuck
no it is.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Have you ever been?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, I have been. It's terrible. Dude. You go stand
in fucking line, you go buy fuck.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I bet you wouldn't stand in line anymore though. That's
the difference, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Listen, I'm to stand in line. I want to stand life.
Why it's like a dickhead, dude.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So the first time I did that, right when everybody's
standing in line and you go around.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
And you walk through the a, it felt kind of
fucked up, bro. But then by after after you're not
sweating in line and you're not waiting for hours, it's
kind of like, okay, I kind of can do this.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
No, I'm with it, dude, I'm with it. But it's like, oh,
I don't know, man. Like I'll go out to eat
and there'll be a fight fan and the guy like
trying to com my meal. I'm like, don't cont my meal,
the fucker, Like, I'm the last guy. You need to
calm dude, Like, I could.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Come, Dude, isn't that crazy? When you make more money
now you get more free shit.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, it's like don't give me free shite. I mean
you want to get me, like, you know, I want
to go buy a Harley or somebody fucking throw it down.
But you're like, yeah, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Sometimes like I'm at fully where we're a bunch of
fucking assholes here, like, don't get you don't give me respect?
What the fuck have I done? I hit people in
the face.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Sean Strickland, Man, thank you for checking in with me.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Guys, with the former middleweight champion Sean Strickland as he
heads into UFC three er two against Paulo Costa.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Everything you do is pretty public, right, So the fight
was like on and it was like like negotiates were
kind of going on in front of everyone, and you
got what you wanted. Yeah, your your style of being
seems to lend itself to you getting a whole bunch
of fans. A lot of people support you now, and
you ultimately got what you wanted.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Like, was that your expectation or were you just just
when not getting the fight. If you didn't get it, well.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Dude, here's the thing, guys. Sometimes you gotta get ready
to fucking throw away your entire career. If you don't
get your ship. You know, sometimes you gotta have that
craziness to you. It's fucking I'll do whatever it takes.
But now, just doing the fucking right things, man, Like
the UFC doesn't do the right things. It doesn't fucking
do the right things. It doesn't do the right things.
They're most your rosters. Like if you go look at
(04:24):
you know, if you go look at what these fus,
the guys that run you see what they're making to
what guys get paid is fucking ship, dude, they don't.
The UFC does not do the fucking right things. And
unless you hold them that fucking you know, gunpoint, they
ain't gonna fucking do it.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And you feel and you feel okay.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But that's that's all fucking business these days, all these
fucking corporation fucking leeches, dude, Like, just how it fucking works, man,
look at that, Look at the working man fucking gap, bro,
it's and again my gap is a lot fucking smaller
than your guys' gap. But you know, just how it works.
Your corporations are just fucking fucking sucky busses, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So ultimately, you do get your fight right, and when
you get paul A Costa the opponent, what do you
make of him the fighter?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He fights hard, you know, I mean you had a
good fight with Whitaker, you know, I mean Witaker obviously
won every round, but you had a good fight, you know,
better than what he normally does. I think I'm better
than him. I've watched him fight a couple of times.
You know, he's very basic, just hands down, step back
and just jabs like he's the kind of guy that
just walks away from him trying to set traps and
explodes and like, very very fucking basic. Not somebody I
(05:29):
would call like a skill skillful fighter.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You get Paula Costa in it kind of brings me
back to the last fight.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Sorry before we move forward.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, last fight, very close fight between you and Drake's
duplus C and in many you won and other eyes
you didn't. But when you had to kind of digest
all that when you went back home, you said you
felt you want to fight, wanted to rematch. But when
you accepted everything right, how far did you feel how
much do you think you have to do in order
(06:00):
to put yourself right back where you need to be.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I mean, dude, at the end of the day, guys,
it's all fucking analytics. You got a bunch of fucking dorks.
We are on a fucking computer. What numbers make sense?
What fight's gonna make sense? Right now? Fucking a guy
who's never fought at middleweight makes sense. So it's like
Jamaiv is the one they want, or Whittaker, but ideally
they want Jamaiva on the fucking spreadsheet, if that makes sense.
So a guy who's never actually fought at middleweight is
(06:25):
the number one contender. So when you talk about rankings
and like what makes sense and what do you have
to do, You're like, fucking fuck. Do you see, like,
I'll fight, give me my fucking paycheck, and I'll walk away.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Do you uh? You did it? Did when you lost
a belt?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Because I remember we sat down in Canada and we
talked about the championship in life and how it changed
and all these other things. Did you notice or did
you realize that it meant more to you once you
lost it?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I mean when I want it stayed in my closet
when I lost it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, because that's what you told me in Canada, right
you were like a not really.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Guys, I'm thirty three years old. Do you know how
many champions I've seen come and go in every weight class?
Like it's like the same, you know, it's like politics.
It's like on you know, on on the West Coast
there's a water shortage, we're all gonna die. On the
East Coaster, there's oh fucking too much water, We're all
(07:22):
gonna die. It doesn't matter. Like it's always like they're
always feeding the fucking ball, keeping it rolling. But like,
at the end of the day, the ball is just
fucking rolling. So give me my paycheck, let me fight
this brock in Brazilian and then I'll be happy.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Do you uh, but do you think by beating Paulo
Costa you do earn a championship opportunity? And and how
do you have to beat him? Do you feel like
I have to beat him a certain way and.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I gotta beat him better than Waker, did you know?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, Yeah, it was a pretty fun fight.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That was a good fight. Yeah, I mean, but again,
you know, I mean Cosa, I mean, he's pretty fucking basic,
but he does some crazy shit every now and then,
so they gotta watch out.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So I was watching Alexander Volkanowsky and he's breaking on
your fight, right, and he spoke about how at times
you are so good defensively that you find your spots
and ultimately at times it allows these guys to kind
of get ahead of you. He Jared Cannon near fight
is one that pops off the page. Drake is du
plus C two right because he wasn't landing much because
(08:23):
you're so good, Which.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Comes down to bad fucking judges that like, you know,
they see guys throwing output and they're like, oh, yeah,
he's doing good, Like what no, like, but you're blocking
the vast majority, even like Eve and I thought Jared
and on, Jared's a good guy. You know, I'm pretty
like he'll throw a combination I block every single one
of them in his Corner's like that's good that right
hand land. I'm like, what do you fucking know? Didn't
they even touch me? You know? But you know, you
(08:48):
have stupid ass judges. They're like listening to corners how
much they don't say that whenever you have a corner saying,
oh you're winning, you're throwing punches, and the judge like
he must be winning.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
He saying, you think they work, You think they're they're
paying attention to that.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Huh oh, do you judges don't give a fuck?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Don't they wear ahead that.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
If you ever look at look at judging, Like a
lot of times they don't watch the fucking fight. They
don't give a fuck. If they're just government officials just
fucking collecting the paycheck, they don't give a fuck, dude.
Or they're like or they or you know, they're the
kind of guy like the things they know what they're doing,
you know, like you like that the hobbyist mechanic will
go talk to a mechanic and talk about like all
(09:26):
the shitty knows and the guys like what are you
talking about, dude? Like what the fuck you're doing? So
I mean again, and this is like something I've learned
as I've gone through my career when I would tell people,
do not put the value of your life in your job.
It's a job, you make money, it's it allows you
to live. But the more you the more you could
(09:47):
devalue working for a corporation, and the more you could
value your own life, the better.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Off you'll be.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Do you think that you because of what you said
about Paula Costa would is backing up exploding backing up exploding.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You gotta be more aware in the fight on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Let just don't want to It's not that you just
don't want to walk into something. You know, like when
someone runs away from your lot, it gets frustrating, so
you tend to like you tend to be frustrated and
walk into shit you shouldn't. It's a lot of you
staying sharp for twenty five minutes, and like, twenty five
minutes is not a long time, but it's a long
time to be sure.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So I'm listening to you, like in everything, Sean, like,
are you happy? Like are you happy with the way
everything's played out? Because I thought you seem a little
pissed off.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'm not pissed off you. It's like I'm like, I'm
at work right now, you guys, it's my fucking job.
I just woke up. I'm dying. I gotta cut way tomorrow,
Like you know, I like, here's saing, dude. I'm gonna
go fucking fight. I'm gonna beat this Brazil and I'm
gonna get a nice check. I'm gonna go home and
be happy. But like you know, I'm fucking I'm working, guys.
Fucking you think I wanted to do me Day. I
meant to. I have to do media Day.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
But it's part of the gig, and no, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Part of the gig and I love it, and I
love the check and I love the opportunity. But it's
like I don't value I value my paycheck and I
value the opportunities that the U she gave for me.
I'm making more in the UFC than I would have
ever done in my entire life. There's no other options
for me, Like there's no other like way to replicate
this anywhere else in my life, especially when I was younger.
(11:25):
So I value that. But it's like the media's job
is the hype ship up to say, like, well, you
know you lost, what do you get?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You crawl your way to the top and a title shot,
and like, you know, I could play the game, but yeah, no,
I'm gonna go and knock out costs. I fucking deserve it.
It's my shot. Or but I don't get fucked. I'm
gonna fight this guy.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Do you think you're you're like certain guys right, Dustin
Poitier was one win away from a title fight. Do
you think you're in that same situation where one great
win is a championship opportunity.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
We gotta go ask the doors. So we have the computer.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Who makes the rankings.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So it's fucking it's not ranging don't matter, you guys.
It's the doors behind the computers. There is a spreadsheet
and this is just like.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Ever making that up. No, you don't know what is fact.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
This is facts, like.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Because you're telling me something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Like, this is just like every other job, dude. It's
all fucking analytics, you guys. Everything about this is analytics.
We guys, the media guys know this ship a ESPN guy,
you know, this is all analytics. It's all what makes money.
They have the doors behind the computer go and there
is some wiggle room, you know, there is definitely wiggle room.
But what is the corporations job to make the most money,
(12:38):
to maximize profit? How do you maximize profits? You have
fucking spreadsheets, you got numbers, and you gonna make it happen.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But you're gotta you gotta that equals profit.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And if I'm being completely honest, that's not something I
would have said a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Our thought could be possible. I wouldn't have thought that
Sean Strick.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I also my borderline liability.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well, yeah, you're a liability. You're definitely a liability.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Sent me to.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Corderline. That ship was crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It was maybe there was a moment of like, hey,
let's Sean fight the bottom tandem. Maybe Costic gets lucky.
We can to fucking push this man on a couple
of under cars.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
They were, you're so crazy, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Honey bag guys. I am happy and and I do
fucking love fighting. I can't wait to fight Costa. Yeah,
but you know I'm not going to go fucking kill
myself if anything bad happens.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah. No, no, you're not going to. Maybe somebody else.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Make me feel better.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Show before I let you go. I got it. I
gotta ask you this.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So I was, I was like looking up stuff for
you on the internet and it said something about you
throwing a piss bottle out of the car.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Oh fuckoldn't we were?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Were you pissing in the car?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Who doesn't fucking piss? Everybody in this room is pissing
a fucking bottle on a car.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Bro But you're driving You were driving the car.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I mean, I'm fuing I had I didn't take my
hand off the wheel. It was a rental car. May
pissed on the Seat's all right, you're not my pilege.
I did not feel you, guys. I'm massive the art.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You know man, bro, Guys, this guy is funny. Sean Strickland,
thanks for checking him out. I appreciate your time always, man.
I never take it for granted. Guys, Seawn Strickland takes
on Poulocaust this weekend that you have C threell two.
The former middleweight champion has done something that most never expected.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
He's a star. I mean, love him or hate him,
do the star.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So make sure you guys have that buy button, follow
Sean and everything he does, and make sure you watch.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
You have C threell two this weekend. Till next time, Peace,
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Colin Cowherd
Jason McIntyre
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