March 15, 2025 • 27 mins
Listen to THE BEST OF Daniel Cormier's check-ins from Sydney, Australia at UFC 312! Sean Strickland talks about winning the belt in Australia and why he's ready to dethrone Dricus Du Plessis as UFC champion and get his belt back. And don't miss Strickland fire shots at Israel Adesanya and Khamzat Chimaev! Plus, hear from Du Plessis and why his game plan for this fight makes him a LOCK to beat Sean and continue his reign as champ. #Volume #Herd
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Earlier?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I saw a clip of you in Bisbee?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Man, Hey, my legend, dude, Like I remember the first
time I trained them.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Dude, he's a legend.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I mean he's the guy that I looked up to.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I mean using apple, he's still got a little pisson
the vinegar.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But I mean, you know, I'm pot calling kettle black hair.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh man, thank you for stopping by again.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I'm here with Sean Strickland as he challenges for the
UFC Middleway Championship this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Back in Sydney. I mean, right where you were.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Last time when you became the champ, when you got
off the plane, any memories come back to, like this
is the spot that I actually ultimately became the champions.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know, man, it's a beautiful city.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Like the people here are great.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I always say, like Australians are the white trash of
English in Ireland, and you know, I'm kind of white
trash shoo. So I feel like when I come here,
I'm just with my people. You know, we all drive
four by fours, we all love low gear, you know.
So I just back in the comming Land with my people.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
They were cheering you more than Izzy last time we
were here. Now, to me, it was crazy. I couldn't
und know.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
With Izzy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I've actually like, if you watch is he do interviews,
I think he's kind of stunted, like and well, let
me say when I say this, like you watch him
say jokes like he did an interview with Nina and
he's like, oh, you look like a witch, and it's
like something like a little kid would say, you're kind
of like maybe because you had too many nan So
I don't think he's necessarily a bad guy. I just
(03:04):
think you're stunting, you know. And now once I've accepted that,
I like him a lot more.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You like him a lot more.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But I mean, like even in a sense of humor,
like it's not autism.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's like, you know, it's like this.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I think it's what happens when you get brought up
with nannies.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't know, I didn't have a nanny. Yeah no, dude,
Yeah I did not have one. Yeah, well you get
back here, right.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Was ever a worry that you weren't gonna get this fight?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Especially when Hamzad wins that last fight in the way
that he did, and everybody's talking about it, right, they're
feeding it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They're telling us Humsaud look good and might jump Homas.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
He's even allowed in the country. That man's on a
homeland security watch list. Calm down, dude, are you kidding me?
He became best friends with the dictator. I mean, dude,
there is no lower human being on this earth than Tamaiath.
Like you know, there is no lower human being on
this earth than Tamiath. You became best friends with a
murderer and you took g wagons like you're not a man, dude,
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you shouldn't be allowed in this kind. But I'll fight you.
I'll fight you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Don't worry what happened before you guys used to train
together and everything. What happened because right now, like I
remember speaking to you about Jamaia prior, and it wasn't as.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know, like this, you know, so Tamaia would come
to gym. I it was a clip like, oh me
like being sarcastically you're the best.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You're the best, Like he would just.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Go and ragdor a low level pros Like, dude, I
mean there's one guy, a fifty fiver and he would
like he's like, oh, he kind of has the same
like style and he looks like my opponent. I'm like, yeah, dude,
he's had three fights. He like, stop beating the fuck
out of this guy. There's so many guys in the
gym you can fight. Stop beating this guy up. Jamia's
(04:38):
just a bully man. And I mean, even like the
crypto scam, like history does not if you have an open,
honest opinion on Tamaiah, you're you're looking at a man
that lacks all other dignity.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So you didn't never think that he was gonna jump
you for the belt.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I don't even know if fucking he again, Like I said,
I mean, you can't become friends with, you know, a
murderer and then expect to even be letting me the
reason why he's in.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Saudi Arabia right now? Really?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, why do you why do you think he has
a fun in the US.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You know, so many people say that, like Chill said that.
Chill said, He's like, he can't come to the the
United States. But I be thinking Chills lying to me
all the time. No, I mean I think Chills lying.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
No, I mean, like it's it's fact, dude, Like you
you your family fled in this oppressive, horrible place, and
then you go back and you take g wagons and
and then next thing you know, you're like, oh, this
guy's actually a bad man.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I gotta leave.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's just hard, man, you know, it's just hard, like
when so many people lack dignity. And I understand it's
easy to do, but like you see all these people,
it's like, you know back in the Basketball Player, you know,
the funky looking guy, really really funny dude, like when
he goes and like buddies up with like Kim Jung U,
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and he's like, he's not a bad guy as he's
killing everybody in an oppressed regime. Having having character and
dignity at the cost of your own financial well being
is one of the hardest things to do as a
professional athlete, but you must do it.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, well, you're not fighting homs out this weekend, Yeah, right,
you're fighting against Dreca's duplus Ye rematch, and obviously I
can now I can't if you win, I cannot wait
for you and ums out to fight fireworks.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Right because of the things that you used to. I'm
pretty sure he takes.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well what I say that was let history recorded this fact.
And if I tell a lie, please please tell me.
But no, I mean Draykus, dude, he fights like a
short buster. No, I'm seriously, he goes. He goes full sand, dude,
like I mean really, it's like if you were to
go watch your little special kids fight like he's just
head down, full sand. But it's it's highly effective, you know,
(06:45):
but unlike last time, if you're not gonna headbut me
and I'm gonna pick you apart for five rounds.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So you you and Dracus fault before very close fight.
Many people thought you won, as did you?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Man, let me say optics matter and fights and in
the cut, I mean you're I mean you've been You've
had in your eyes. I mean they had eight stitches
in the muscle, like my vision was gone. So it
took me a couple of rounds to adjust to that.
You know, cowardice may being a maybe I just you know,
all of the above, but it won't happen.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Again when you left Canada, right, So before you and
I spoke and we talked about, uh, the way life
had changed, right, and the belt mattered, it mattered, But
then you kind of almost dismissive, right, like, yeah, sure
I've got more money and a little more notoriety, but
ultimately it's just a belt. But then when the belt
(07:35):
was gone, we talked about this the other day, Jail
and nine. It's all you want now? Can you feel
the difference in not being the champion now? And that's
why you're like, I want what I felt when I
had that belt.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I don't know, man, I think the beautiful thing about
having low self achievements, even when you win, you feel
like you lose.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I just life is so trivial and like, like I'll
even tell my girl this. We get like in a
fight or something stupid, and I'm like, everything that we
find important means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
And I love fighting because it's a job. I love
the fans, But like, man, when you actually look at
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what life is and what matters in life, and things
become in perspective, it's almost better because you can enjoy
moments more because if you put everything into this, whether
it be a new car, like whatever, promotion, When you
put so much into something, it like dilutes moments because
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you're so you're so fixated. But the moment you realize,
like life is trivial. This moment we're having now, it
doesn't matter which way it goes. You just you're happier, man, Like,
You're so much happier when you just understand life is
very short. Yeah, that being said twenty five minutes of war,
My man, I'm getting my belt back.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Right, It's like, so the belt while it is right
in the grand scheme with the he's being a champion
is very important to you, but ultimately you've done it
before and that can never be taken away from you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You will always be a champ.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I've worked my ass off. I mean, I Johnny Eblum,
come down. You have signed that man.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
People. Yeah, he's good, he's good. He's a savage.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You know, he's thirty three, he has probably you know,
three hardy years left and he's a guy that I
really I want to see.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You've seen more than anything. I just want him to
get a shot.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
He's a savage. You know, he wouldn't help me, but yeah, no,
one hundred percent on my belt. Dude, fucking I worked
my ass off for it. I've been thinking about this
for the last six month. I feel like I've been
in camp for like twelve months to six months. He's
been a long camp.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
When you look at Dracus and now listen, he's one
of those guys that we all want to underrate him.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, he's not so good store.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
But it's like when he knocked out Robert Wooker, Oh,
something's wrong with Robert.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
He's not the same guy he wins the belt.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It's like it's one of those weird things where like
he's not that good, but he has this he fights
really hard. And when you have a chin made.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Of granted, and you're big and you're.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Big and you fight hard, you can do a lot.
But I mean, like, no, he's not that good. He
just he has a hard chin and he fights hard.
And man, I'll tell you what, dude, Like, if anything,
you have to have a little bit of admiration for
a man who lacks in skill and just makes up
and hard.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But it seems like it seems like what also like,
after I is he fight, I was like, okay, I'm
done ever doubting dragons du plus C because he obviously
makes that thing work for him, that style he makes
work for him. So when you were training after being
in there with him right knowing that the punch has
come from different, that's.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Really hard to find someone to mimic as a to
get someone just to come forward with like no regard
for their safety, that's a real hard thing to do,
you know. But like I said, I had Johnny, Johnny's
a I think Johnny.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Beach strikers really.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh yeah, me and Johnny we love rounds and I
think he beats strikas really yeah, me and him do
you were like, we're neck to neck, toe to toe
and he comes forward. He's like a he's a better
version of Draycas.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I am like, he uses more.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Skill, but he's a hard guy to train with, which
is why I had to ask, you know, the beltor
champion and help me out.
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Speaker 3 (12:26):
How you doing, Champ, good good Man, Hell's everything absolutely incredible.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Fight camp was amazing. I'm out of the moon.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
I'm happy that five weeks finally, it feels like this
FI camp was forever, you know, over Christmas again.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, that's that's motivation for me.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
I was like, this guy's going to pay for making
me train over Christmas again, and we I took five
I had five days for Christmas off because my team
everybody had family stuff, And I said, okay, but we
started our camp three weeks earlier.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Okay, repared, you get dead.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Take that five days off? Yeah, and spending with family.
But by FA the best gam of my life. I'm
feeling incredible.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Man, Drake is due plus C. Thanks for checking it
with me. Drake is the Physics belt this week and
against Sean Strickland. Clearly had a good camp in those
five days. Though, when you a guy like you that's
getting ready for a championship fight, when you take those
five days, are you able to really disconnect?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Are you still running?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You still like doing are you doing push ups in
the room and ship on vacation?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I was. I had a whole program, man, I had
a whole program. I was training super hard.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I was I was feeling good, but it was good
for my mind. I went fishing, go to shark and
the not someone is great.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Wait, what do you mean the shark? Like, what kind
of shark?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Ragged two shark? It was one hundred and forty kidograms?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's wait, one hundred and fourteen undred and sixty pounds.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, it was a it was a good shark.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
How long did it take you to reeling in?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
But they said it's gonna taken hour. I did, like
in twenty five to fifty minutes. But it wasn't fun.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
It was.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
It was amazing, really, And I was just saying I
was jet skiing.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I was staying busy burning categories.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Yeah, and obviously to be able to have some of
that Christmas Christmas new Mum made and yeah, I mean
to disconnect in the middle of the fight camp and
really spend time family is I just realized it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
It's my second year, so it was it was tough,
you know, my second year.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Usually I have two weeks with mom and Dad, my brother's,
my nephew's niece, and once again, you know, I was there,
but it's it's almost impossible for me to completely be there.
I'm almost looking forward to going back and you know,
getting ready to fight.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah. You know.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You know what's funny is is we talked about this
all the time, how you have truly turned a whole
bunch of people detractors in the believers. Right now you've
settled at the top of the middle of division. I
remember when you fought Izzy. I was talking to Danny
and I said, how do you see this fight?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Easy fight, easy fight? And I'm like, come on, you
can't believe it's gonna be an easy fight. Right then
you end up submitting Israel Adisanya. Today I start this
dude and I go Strickland Phiels he's got that he'll
submit him. Like this confidence that your whole entire team
now carries, it's very impressive because through your performances you
(15:13):
have shown that this confidence is earned and not just
something that's kind of made up by the people around you.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Yeah, I think I would hope that people around me
believe in me as much as I believe in myself,
because that's where it starts. If you don't believe in yourself,
how do you expect other people to believe in You're right,
my team, my coaches, I know they believed in me,
my brothers that are both here, and my whole team.
Everybody around me, I know believes in me. To make
(15:44):
when you get a manager or a nutritionist, thing or
almost somebody from the outside just part of the Yeah.
Even if you get a photographer, if you're a videographer,
I need that person to be on my team. Yeah,
I can feel I work off energies with the UFC.
(16:05):
I have Fantasis as my guy with the camera from
the UFC, the embedded guy, and he's the guy I
worked with.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I've worked with him from the first embedded and I'm
not working with anybody else.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yeah, because I don't trust anybody else because I know
Fantasis believes in our team. As ridiculous as that sound,
because he's.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Only well, you spend so much time with embedded people, right,
you know if they believe it.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Yeah, and right now I'm kissing if he's unbiased, he goes, well,
I'm gonna be biased now because I've filmed this guy,
So I'm rooting for him. So even if it's just
that for me, that energy, I can feel it, and
I don't know if somebody doesn't believe in me and
they there.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You go, Okay, I got a question for you. This
kind of popped into my head. So when you want,
I went to interview you one time and your coach.
Will you see this meme where it says that I
was reacting to when your coach kissed you?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Oh yeah, did he kiss you? Because I didn't even notice.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I didn't even notice. Ers Like that's why everyone was like,
look at DC. I did not even notice. I did
not even notice. He's such a liar, bro.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I had no idea to.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Say like, I wasn't. I was like, look at you, What.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Did I do?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Like?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I did not do that. That's bullying. I swear to god,
I didn't even realize it. I didn't even realize it happened.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I know what what you're saying, and photos sometimes can't
be this.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Yeah, but that was a bad look.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It was a bad look.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Depending on which angle he looking.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
For, because I swear to god, if they looked at
me on a different angle, I probably wasn't even looking
at y'all.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
But that angle was like it made that way.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
You might have just looked over the day, but we
were in that.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
That's so funny. I always I just wondered about that. Recently.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I was like, I wonder if he's seen this thing,
because dude, they have all these memes.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I'm like, yo, I didn't. I wasn't doing that.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I love the means you like it. I love him,
I saved him. I really enjoyed it. Some of them
are stupid, They're very stupid, but some of them are
really funny.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
And yeah, it's just they are made to make you
feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It's like, I, I did not do that.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
You have to go through a lot of trouble to
get me uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Really, nothing makes you uncomfortable. Nothings, Bro.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You you what you've done seriously has been, you know,
really amazing. You're fighting a guy you fought before. In
Sean Strickland. He thought he won the first fight. I
think that even on the commentary, I thought that we
were at least I was saying, I thought I thought
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you won that fight.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Pretty clearly. He feels that you he won that fight.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What plays the biggest part to him is you head
budting him, he said, without that head but it's a
completely different fight. Do you think he's wasted too much
energy on that moment or do you think that's just
something that he takes to get confidence that he can
make it a different fight.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
I don't think it was any of those. I think
because I think he if he talks about the head
butt that was in the fourth round anyways, Yeah, and
he talks about he was winning that fight.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
He only won the first round.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
In my opinion, you can you can make a case
for the fifth if you only score the last minute.
But he spoke about when that happened. I went to
go look at it, because after the fight, it was
the first time I heard about this, this headbutt. Yeah,
And I went to go see where he talked about it.
His eye was already bleeding when that happened. It was
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I remember in the fight when I cut him, I
thought he was speaking about the other cut, yah, not
the one on his eye. I remember so clearly in
the fight when I threw I threw one two, it's
almost a fake, and I stepped over and I hit
another straight and I caught him on the eye there
and then I caught him three or four times, even
with a southball jab or the straight right.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
On the eye.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
And I remember when I saw the blood for the
first time after the shot and I said, ha, gotcha.
And I remember when I caught him on the eye
and I saw the blood flowing down. I went, I
hope that goes into his eye because my one eye
was proper swollen, so I could see. I could see
a pot of my eyes, so I couldn't see through
that eye properly, because especially after the first round, it
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went down during the fight because I started getting out
of the way of the jab. And then I thought, okay, cool,
at least both we have we have one eye age.
And then I think that noise was for one reason,
one reason only to get back in the title of picture.
And I cannot hate that. You know, he's never taken
away from my performance. He's never taken away that. You know,
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I'm a good fighter, and I cannot hate on the
fact that he you know, this is part of the game,
the guy who makes the case for getting a shot again.
And I got a expect that, and I'm happy you
got it because that fight pushed me. And this is
going to be the best comparison of the improvements that
I've made over the last year, and I kind of wait.
(21:10):
I cannot wait to showcase that.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Were you ever worried? Though?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Like when it was happening right, Sean Strickland was called
the number one contender have to be Paula Costa, then
hums that Jamayah beats Robert would occur he beats him impressively.
It seemed like Hamsad might be the guy. Right, there's
so much hights surrounding the guy. Will you ever concerned
like it might be Chamayah upholsed.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
To Strickland, concerned, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I was not like scared. I mean, like, well I
want to yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Because you know when I looked at him and wind
hum They've I know, they've wanted Humsad to be the
guy for so long.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
He just hasn't been able to know.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Humsad is such an incredible fighter, he just hasn't been
able to contently well get to fights first and you know,
whatever the case may be, however long he has been
the guy and just not being able to make that leap.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I know they want because Humsad is a massive following.
Humsad is a big name the hype is the deserving humad.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
He's a special fighter, and I believe that once he
fights me, that's when people will will really see how
special I am.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
And I was looking forward to having that fight.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Do you see that?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But how in the world can you think that people
still don't recognize how special you are after what you've
done now? Right, because I you know you and I
we've got this publicly. You beat Robert something's wrong with Robert.
He's not the same guy. Right, You go out there
and you beat Sean Strickland, Well that was really close.
So maybe then you finish Israel Asnya where nobody was
(22:50):
finishing Israel a sonya and then people, oh.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, okay, this dude's the real deal.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You still think, though, that there is a section of
people that you still got to show that you're that guy,
like you're that dude.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
More myself and the believers than anybody else, those people
who who believe in me, even the new believers.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I'm not like you didn't believe me in the past.
I'll laugh at you after the first time like I
did with you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You told me, you told me right away, I told you.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
The media people they were you today after these f
I and like, hah, you look like dumb asses.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Now that's fun for me, but I never take it personally,
and it's not about that.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
It's just like you're going to find out.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
And for me, it's about the people who believe in me,
whether they are new believers or those who were then
beginning proving them right, and myself and going out there
and giving them the performance that I owe them and
myself the performance. You know, when I pray before I
find I don't ask for a when it's not fair
because the opponent can ask for the same thing. How
(23:54):
do you I ask that I firstly get out what
I've put in, that I get the result of my effort,
and that I walk out of that octagon knowing that
I've given everything that I can. I don't ever, with
a win or a loss, want to walk out of
that octagon saying I could have done this, I should
have done this. Yeah, in the two losses of my career,
(24:16):
I walked out of there and.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I said I did everything I could.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I got beat tonight, even my worst performances, that is,
my worst performances with a win has bothered me more
than any of my losses really because getting out there
and saying, ah, that's not how I can Yeah, I
can't perform like that if I want to be the
best in the world. So that's what I ask for
is let me perform at the best of my ability.
(24:42):
When I get out of there, I know I did
everything I possibly got. I was willing to give my
life to get that win, and that's what satisfies.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
So Sean Strickland, for lack of a better word, is different. Right.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
He can say some crazy stuff that we did an
interview earlier him and I I think I gotta cut
the last like two minutes. It's like, I don't know
that I could use it seriously. But he seems to
like respect you much more than most. Is it odd
that when you watch him do media, he'll say things
about you like he's like a kid off the short bus.
(25:17):
That's how he fights, right, But then the moment you
guys are like.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
He doesn't fight like a kid off he said you.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Oh, he said you are fight.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
He's like a kid off the short bus that goals
full City's what he says.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
But then he looks like somebody both the short.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But what is wrong with you guys. But he doesn't
have me chopping up interviews the whole damn time.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
But he's quite respectful of you until you, guys get
to like presslers and stuff and face to face.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Is that odd to you?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I have the world's respectful Sean sick you know, in
terms I know Sean Shicken as a fighter. Once you shared,
you have shared the octagon with somebody for twenty five minutes,
and you had you had to had matches, it is incredibly,
incredibly hard not to respect, not respect somebody. He's the
(26:14):
only person who's ever been able to do that with me.
And I tried to kill him. I tried to kill him,
and he was willing. He was able to withstand. If
there's one wish, it's for a sixth round, that's what
I have, maybe a seventh or how long ever it
would have taken. But the man is tough as nails
and he's willing to go for it, and he's willing
(26:35):
to He's a fighter by heart. And I have the
world's respect for Sean Strickland as a fighter. He's a
great fighter. He's tough, he's good, and you know, he's
made this work for him and I respect that I
think he's a great fighter, and he brings the best
out of me.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Every time I went to training, I was thinking about
that first fight, how hard it was, how hard it was,
how I had to push myself, how much I had to.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Have complete disregard for my health, for everything.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
And I would go harder, and I would break up earlier,
and I would do more because I knew. He now
knows what I'm willing to do, so he's prepared for that. Yeah,
and now he's going to find out that I'm willing
to go way beyond that.
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Speaker 1 (01:43):
Earlier?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I saw a clip of you in Bisbee?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Man, Hey, my legend, dude, Like I remember the first
time I trained them.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Dude, he's a legend.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I mean he's the guy that I looked up to.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I mean using apple, he's still got a little pisson
the vinegar.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But I mean, you know, I'm pot calling kettle black hair.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh man, thank you for stopping by again.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I'm here with Sean Strickland as he challenges for the
UFC Middleway Championship this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Back in Sydney. I mean, right where you were.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Last time when you became the champ, when you got
off the plane, any memories come back to, like this
is the spot that I actually ultimately became the champions.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know, man, it's a beautiful city.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Like the people here are great.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I always say, like Australians are the white trash of
English in Ireland, and you know, I'm kind of white
trash shoo. So I feel like when I come here,
I'm just with my people. You know, we all drive
four by fours, we all love low gear, you know.
So I just back in the comming Land with my people.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
They were cheering you more than Izzy last time we
were here. Now, to me, it was crazy. I couldn't
und know.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
With Izzy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I've actually like, if you watch is he do interviews,
I think he's kind of stunted, like and well, let
me say when I say this, like you watch him
say jokes like he did an interview with Nina and
he's like, oh, you look like a witch, and it's
like something like a little kid would say, you're kind
of like maybe because you had too many nan So
I don't think he's necessarily a bad guy. I just
(03:04):
think you're stunting, you know. And now once I've accepted that,
I like him a lot more.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You like him a lot more.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But I mean, like even in a sense of humor,
like it's not autism.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's like, you know, it's like this.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I think it's what happens when you get brought up
with nannies.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't know, I didn't have a nanny. Yeah no, dude,
Yeah I did not have one. Yeah, well you get
back here, right.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Was ever a worry that you weren't gonna get this fight?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Especially when Hamzad wins that last fight in the way
that he did, and everybody's talking about it, right, they're
feeding it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They're telling us Humsaud look good and might jump Homas.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
He's even allowed in the country. That man's on a
homeland security watch list. Calm down, dude, are you kidding me?
He became best friends with the dictator. I mean, dude,
there is no lower human being on this earth than Tamaiath.
Like you know, there is no lower human being on
this earth than Tamiath. You became best friends with a
murderer and you took g wagons like you're not a man, dude,
(03:58):
you shouldn't be allowed in this kind. But I'll fight you.
I'll fight you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Don't worry what happened before you guys used to train
together and everything. What happened because right now, like I
remember speaking to you about Jamaia prior, and it wasn't as.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know, like this, you know, so Tamaia would come
to gym. I it was a clip like, oh me
like being sarcastically you're the best.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You're the best, Like he would just.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Go and ragdor a low level pros Like, dude, I
mean there's one guy, a fifty fiver and he would
like he's like, oh, he kind of has the same
like style and he looks like my opponent. I'm like, yeah, dude,
he's had three fights. He like, stop beating the fuck
out of this guy. There's so many guys in the
gym you can fight. Stop beating this guy up. Jamia's
(04:38):
just a bully man. And I mean, even like the
crypto scam, like history does not if you have an open,
honest opinion on Tamaiah, you're you're looking at a man
that lacks all other dignity.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So you didn't never think that he was gonna jump
you for the belt.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I don't even know if fucking he again, Like I said,
I mean, you can't become friends with, you know, a
murderer and then expect to even be letting me the
reason why he's in.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Saudi Arabia right now? Really?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, why do you why do you think he has
a fun in the US.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You know, so many people say that, like Chill said that.
Chill said, He's like, he can't come to the the
United States. But I be thinking Chills lying to me
all the time. No, I mean I think Chills lying.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
No, I mean, like it's it's fact, dude, Like you
you your family fled in this oppressive, horrible place, and
then you go back and you take g wagons and
and then next thing you know, you're like, oh, this
guy's actually a bad man.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I gotta leave.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's just hard, man, you know, it's just hard, like
when so many people lack dignity. And I understand it's
easy to do, but like you see all these people,
it's like, you know back in the Basketball Player, you know,
the funky looking guy, really really funny dude, like when
he goes and like buddies up with like Kim Jung U,
(05:54):
and he's like, he's not a bad guy as he's
killing everybody in an oppressed regime. Having having character and
dignity at the cost of your own financial well being
is one of the hardest things to do as a
professional athlete, but you must do it.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, well, you're not fighting homs out this weekend, Yeah, right,
you're fighting against Dreca's duplus Ye rematch, and obviously I
can now I can't if you win, I cannot wait
for you and ums out to fight fireworks.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Right because of the things that you used to. I'm
pretty sure he takes.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well what I say that was let history recorded this fact.
And if I tell a lie, please please tell me.
But no, I mean Draykus, dude, he fights like a
short buster. No, I'm seriously, he goes. He goes full sand, dude,
like I mean really, it's like if you were to
go watch your little special kids fight like he's just
head down, full sand. But it's it's highly effective, you know,
(06:45):
but unlike last time, if you're not gonna headbut me
and I'm gonna pick you apart for five rounds.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So you you and Dracus fault before very close fight.
Many people thought you won, as did you?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Man, let me say optics matter and fights and in
the cut, I mean you're I mean you've been You've
had in your eyes. I mean they had eight stitches
in the muscle, like my vision was gone. So it
took me a couple of rounds to adjust to that.
You know, cowardice may being a maybe I just you know,
all of the above, but it won't happen.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Again when you left Canada, right, So before you and
I spoke and we talked about, uh, the way life
had changed, right, and the belt mattered, it mattered, But
then you kind of almost dismissive, right, like, yeah, sure
I've got more money and a little more notoriety, but
ultimately it's just a belt. But then when the belt
(07:35):
was gone, we talked about this the other day, Jail
and nine. It's all you want now? Can you feel
the difference in not being the champion now? And that's
why you're like, I want what I felt when I
had that belt.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I don't know, man, I think the beautiful thing about
having low self achievements, even when you win, you feel
like you lose.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I just life is so trivial and like, like I'll
even tell my girl this. We get like in a
fight or something stupid, and I'm like, everything that we
find important means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
And I love fighting because it's a job. I love
the fans, But like, man, when you actually look at
(08:15):
what life is and what matters in life, and things
become in perspective, it's almost better because you can enjoy
moments more because if you put everything into this, whether
it be a new car, like whatever, promotion, When you
put so much into something, it like dilutes moments because
(08:35):
you're so you're so fixated. But the moment you realize,
like life is trivial. This moment we're having now, it
doesn't matter which way it goes. You just you're happier, man, Like,
You're so much happier when you just understand life is
very short. Yeah, that being said twenty five minutes of war,
My man, I'm getting my belt back.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Right, It's like, so the belt while it is right
in the grand scheme with the he's being a champion
is very important to you, but ultimately you've done it
before and that can never be taken away from you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You will always be a champ.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I've worked my ass off. I mean, I Johnny Eblum,
come down. You have signed that man.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
People. Yeah, he's good, he's good. He's a savage.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You know, he's thirty three, he has probably you know,
three hardy years left and he's a guy that I
really I want to see.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You've seen more than anything. I just want him to
get a shot.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
He's a savage. You know, he wouldn't help me, but yeah, no,
one hundred percent on my belt. Dude, fucking I worked
my ass off for it. I've been thinking about this
for the last six month. I feel like I've been
in camp for like twelve months to six months. He's
been a long camp.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
When you look at Dracus and now listen, he's one
of those guys that we all want to underrate him.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, he's not so good store.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
But it's like when he knocked out Robert Wooker, Oh,
something's wrong with Robert.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
He's not the same guy he wins the belt.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It's like it's one of those weird things where like
he's not that good, but he has this he fights
really hard. And when you have a chin made.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Of granted, and you're big and you're.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Big and you fight hard, you can do a lot.
But I mean, like, no, he's not that good. He
just he has a hard chin and he fights hard.
And man, I'll tell you what, dude, Like, if anything,
you have to have a little bit of admiration for
a man who lacks in skill and just makes up
and hard.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But it seems like it seems like what also like,
after I is he fight, I was like, okay, I'm
done ever doubting dragons du plus C because he obviously
makes that thing work for him, that style he makes
work for him. So when you were training after being
in there with him right knowing that the punch has
come from different, that's.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Really hard to find someone to mimic as a to
get someone just to come forward with like no regard
for their safety, that's a real hard thing to do,
you know. But like I said, I had Johnny, Johnny's
a I think Johnny.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Beach strikers really.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh yeah, me and Johnny we love rounds and I
think he beats strikas really yeah, me and him do
you were like, we're neck to neck, toe to toe
and he comes forward. He's like a he's a better
version of Draycas.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I am like, he uses more.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Skill, but he's a hard guy to train with, which
is why I had to ask, you know, the beltor
champion and help me out.
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Speaker 3 (12:26):
How you doing, Champ, good good Man, Hell's everything absolutely incredible.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Fight camp was amazing. I'm out of the moon.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
I'm happy that five weeks finally, it feels like this
FI camp was forever, you know, over Christmas again.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, that's that's motivation for me.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
I was like, this guy's going to pay for making
me train over Christmas again, and we I took five
I had five days for Christmas off because my team
everybody had family stuff, And I said, okay, but we
started our camp three weeks earlier.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Okay, repared, you get dead.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Take that five days off? Yeah, and spending with family.
But by FA the best gam of my life. I'm
feeling incredible.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Man, Drake is due plus C. Thanks for checking it
with me. Drake is the Physics belt this week and
against Sean Strickland. Clearly had a good camp in those
five days. Though, when you a guy like you that's
getting ready for a championship fight, when you take those
five days, are you able to really disconnect?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Are you still running?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You still like doing are you doing push ups in
the room and ship on vacation?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I was. I had a whole program, man, I had
a whole program. I was training super hard.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I was I was feeling good, but it was good
for my mind. I went fishing, go to shark and
the not someone is great.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Wait, what do you mean the shark? Like, what kind
of shark?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Ragged two shark? It was one hundred and forty kidograms?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's wait, one hundred and fourteen undred and sixty pounds.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, it was a it was a good shark.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
How long did it take you to reeling in?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
But they said it's gonna taken hour. I did, like
in twenty five to fifty minutes. But it wasn't fun.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
It was.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
It was amazing, really, And I was just saying I
was jet skiing.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I was staying busy burning categories.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Yeah, and obviously to be able to have some of
that Christmas Christmas new Mum made and yeah, I mean
to disconnect in the middle of the fight camp and
really spend time family is I just realized it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
It's my second year, so it was it was tough,
you know, my second year.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Usually I have two weeks with mom and Dad, my brother's,
my nephew's niece, and once again, you know, I was there,
but it's it's almost impossible for me to completely be there.
I'm almost looking forward to going back and you know,
getting ready to fight.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah. You know.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You know what's funny is is we talked about this
all the time, how you have truly turned a whole
bunch of people detractors in the believers. Right now you've
settled at the top of the middle of division. I
remember when you fought Izzy. I was talking to Danny
and I said, how do you see this fight?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Easy fight, easy fight? And I'm like, come on, you
can't believe it's gonna be an easy fight. Right then
you end up submitting Israel Adisanya. Today I start this
dude and I go Strickland Phiels he's got that he'll
submit him. Like this confidence that your whole entire team
now carries, it's very impressive because through your performances you
(15:13):
have shown that this confidence is earned and not just
something that's kind of made up by the people around you.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Yeah, I think I would hope that people around me
believe in me as much as I believe in myself,
because that's where it starts. If you don't believe in yourself,
how do you expect other people to believe in You're right,
my team, my coaches, I know they believed in me,
my brothers that are both here, and my whole team.
Everybody around me, I know believes in me. To make
(15:44):
when you get a manager or a nutritionist, thing or
almost somebody from the outside just part of the Yeah.
Even if you get a photographer, if you're a videographer,
I need that person to be on my team. Yeah,
I can feel I work off energies with the UFC.
(16:05):
I have Fantasis as my guy with the camera from
the UFC, the embedded guy, and he's the guy I
worked with.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I've worked with him from the first embedded and I'm
not working with anybody else.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yeah, because I don't trust anybody else because I know
Fantasis believes in our team. As ridiculous as that sound,
because he's.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Only well, you spend so much time with embedded people, right,
you know if they believe it.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Yeah, and right now I'm kissing if he's unbiased, he goes, well,
I'm gonna be biased now because I've filmed this guy,
So I'm rooting for him. So even if it's just
that for me, that energy, I can feel it, and
I don't know if somebody doesn't believe in me and
they there.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You go, Okay, I got a question for you. This
kind of popped into my head. So when you want,
I went to interview you one time and your coach.
Will you see this meme where it says that I
was reacting to when your coach kissed you?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Oh yeah, did he kiss you? Because I didn't even notice.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I didn't even notice. Ers Like that's why everyone was like,
look at DC. I did not even notice. I did
not even notice. He's such a liar, bro.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I had no idea to.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Say like, I wasn't. I was like, look at you, What.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Did I do?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Like?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I did not do that. That's bullying. I swear to god,
I didn't even realize it. I didn't even realize it happened.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I know what what you're saying, and photos sometimes can't
be this.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Yeah, but that was a bad look.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It was a bad look.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Depending on which angle he looking.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
For, because I swear to god, if they looked at
me on a different angle, I probably wasn't even looking
at y'all.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
But that angle was like it made that way.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
You might have just looked over the day, but we
were in that.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
That's so funny. I always I just wondered about that. Recently.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I was like, I wonder if he's seen this thing,
because dude, they have all these memes.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I'm like, yo, I didn't. I wasn't doing that.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I love the means you like it. I love him,
I saved him. I really enjoyed it. Some of them
are stupid, They're very stupid, but some of them are
really funny.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
And yeah, it's just they are made to make you
feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It's like, I, I did not do that.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
You have to go through a lot of trouble to
get me uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Really, nothing makes you uncomfortable. Nothings, Bro.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You you what you've done seriously has been, you know,
really amazing. You're fighting a guy you fought before. In
Sean Strickland. He thought he won the first fight. I
think that even on the commentary, I thought that we
were at least I was saying, I thought I thought
(18:45):
you won that fight.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Pretty clearly. He feels that you he won that fight.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What plays the biggest part to him is you head
budting him, he said, without that head but it's a
completely different fight. Do you think he's wasted too much
energy on that moment or do you think that's just
something that he takes to get confidence that he can
make it a different fight.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
I don't think it was any of those. I think
because I think he if he talks about the head
butt that was in the fourth round anyways, Yeah, and
he talks about he was winning that fight.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
He only won the first round.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
In my opinion, you can you can make a case
for the fifth if you only score the last minute.
But he spoke about when that happened. I went to
go look at it, because after the fight, it was
the first time I heard about this, this headbutt. Yeah,
And I went to go see where he talked about it.
His eye was already bleeding when that happened. It was
(19:41):
I remember in the fight when I cut him, I
thought he was speaking about the other cut, yah, not
the one on his eye. I remember so clearly in
the fight when I threw I threw one two, it's
almost a fake, and I stepped over and I hit
another straight and I caught him on the eye there
and then I caught him three or four times, even
with a southball jab or the straight right.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
On the eye.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
And I remember when I saw the blood for the
first time after the shot and I said, ha, gotcha.
And I remember when I caught him on the eye
and I saw the blood flowing down. I went, I
hope that goes into his eye because my one eye
was proper swollen, so I could see. I could see
a pot of my eyes, so I couldn't see through
that eye properly, because especially after the first round, it
(20:28):
went down during the fight because I started getting out
of the way of the jab. And then I thought, okay, cool,
at least both we have we have one eye age.
And then I think that noise was for one reason,
one reason only to get back in the title of picture.
And I cannot hate that. You know, he's never taken
away from my performance. He's never taken away that. You know,
(20:49):
I'm a good fighter, and I cannot hate on the
fact that he you know, this is part of the game,
the guy who makes the case for getting a shot again.
And I got a expect that, and I'm happy you
got it because that fight pushed me. And this is
going to be the best comparison of the improvements that
I've made over the last year, and I kind of wait.
(21:10):
I cannot wait to showcase that.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Were you ever worried? Though?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Like when it was happening right, Sean Strickland was called
the number one contender have to be Paula Costa, then
hums that Jamayah beats Robert would occur he beats him impressively.
It seemed like Hamsad might be the guy. Right, there's
so much hights surrounding the guy. Will you ever concerned
like it might be Chamayah upholsed.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
To Strickland, concerned, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I was not like scared. I mean, like, well I
want to yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Because you know when I looked at him and wind
hum They've I know, they've wanted Humsad to be the
guy for so long.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
He just hasn't been able to know.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Humsad is such an incredible fighter, he just hasn't been
able to contently well get to fights first and you know,
whatever the case may be, however long he has been
the guy and just not being able to make that leap.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I know they want because Humsad is a massive following.
Humsad is a big name the hype is the deserving humad.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
He's a special fighter, and I believe that once he
fights me, that's when people will will really see how
special I am.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
And I was looking forward to having that fight.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Do you see that?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But how in the world can you think that people
still don't recognize how special you are after what you've
done now? Right, because I you know you and I
we've got this publicly. You beat Robert something's wrong with Robert.
He's not the same guy. Right, You go out there
and you beat Sean Strickland, Well that was really close.
So maybe then you finish Israel Asnya where nobody was
(22:50):
finishing Israel a sonya and then people, oh.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, okay, this dude's the real deal.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You still think, though, that there is a section of
people that you still got to show that you're that guy,
like you're that dude.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
More myself and the believers than anybody else, those people
who who believe in me, even the new believers.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I'm not like you didn't believe me in the past.
I'll laugh at you after the first time like I
did with you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You told me, you told me right away, I told you.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
The media people they were you today after these f
I and like, hah, you look like dumb asses.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Now that's fun for me, but I never take it personally,
and it's not about that.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
It's just like you're going to find out.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
And for me, it's about the people who believe in me,
whether they are new believers or those who were then
beginning proving them right, and myself and going out there
and giving them the performance that I owe them and
myself the performance. You know, when I pray before I
find I don't ask for a when it's not fair
because the opponent can ask for the same thing. How
(23:54):
do you I ask that I firstly get out what
I've put in, that I get the result of my effort,
and that I walk out of that octagon knowing that
I've given everything that I can. I don't ever, with
a win or a loss, want to walk out of
that octagon saying I could have done this, I should
have done this. Yeah, in the two losses of my career,
(24:16):
I walked out of there and.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I said I did everything I could.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I got beat tonight, even my worst performances, that is,
my worst performances with a win has bothered me more
than any of my losses really because getting out there
and saying, ah, that's not how I can Yeah, I
can't perform like that if I want to be the
best in the world. So that's what I ask for
is let me perform at the best of my ability.
(24:42):
When I get out of there, I know I did
everything I possibly got. I was willing to give my
life to get that win, and that's what satisfies.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
So Sean Strickland, for lack of a better word, is different. Right.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
He can say some crazy stuff that we did an
interview earlier him and I I think I gotta cut
the last like two minutes. It's like, I don't know
that I could use it seriously. But he seems to
like respect you much more than most. Is it odd
that when you watch him do media, he'll say things
about you like he's like a kid off the short bus.
(25:17):
That's how he fights, right, But then the moment you
guys are like.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
He doesn't fight like a kid off he said you.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Oh, he said you are fight.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
He's like a kid off the short bus that goals
full City's what he says.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
But then he looks like somebody both the short.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
But what is wrong with you guys. But he doesn't
have me chopping up interviews the whole damn time.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
But he's quite respectful of you until you, guys get
to like presslers and stuff and face to face.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Is that odd to you?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I have the world's respectful Sean sick you know, in
terms I know Sean Shicken as a fighter. Once you shared,
you have shared the octagon with somebody for twenty five minutes,
and you had you had to had matches, it is incredibly,
incredibly hard not to respect, not respect somebody. He's the
(26:14):
only person who's ever been able to do that with me.
And I tried to kill him. I tried to kill him,
and he was willing. He was able to withstand. If
there's one wish, it's for a sixth round, that's what
I have, maybe a seventh or how long ever it
would have taken. But the man is tough as nails
and he's willing to go for it, and he's willing
(26:35):
to He's a fighter by heart. And I have the
world's respect for Sean Strickland as a fighter. He's a
great fighter. He's tough, he's good, and you know, he's
made this work for him and I respect that I
think he's a great fighter, and he brings the best
out of me.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Every time I went to training, I was thinking about
that first fight, how hard it was, how hard it was,
how I had to push myself, how much I had to.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Have complete disregard for my health, for everything.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
And I would go harder, and I would break up earlier,
and I would do more because I knew. He now
knows what I'm willing to do, so he's prepared for that. Yeah,
and now he's going to find out that I'm willing
to go way beyond that.
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