July 18, 2025 • 17 mins
President Donald Trump is potentially going to sign an executive order that would force the federal government to decide if collegiate athletes are employees. Many coaches such as Deion Sanders have advocated for a salary cap. Making college athletes employees would potentially create a cap. But will a cap happen for, NIL? The NCAA would have to force athletes to cap their own worth. Something that is most likely not an option. The benefits would be able to unionize and have legal representation in labor laws. Making the universities responsible in the event of work injury. The negative, most likely athletes would have to go back to the days before the transfer portal.
Dame Lillard is back in, Portland. But most likely he won't play. The bigger question is, what's going on in, Milwaukee? I give it a week tops before Dame blows the lid off the entire situation.
Conor McGregor has re-entered UFC's testing pool. But is McGregor really ready for a fight? Should he compete at the White House, it will be nearly five years to the day since he has been in the, Octagon.
#ufc #donaldtrump #nba
Dame Lillard is back in, Portland. But most likely he won't play. The bigger question is, what's going on in, Milwaukee? I give it a week tops before Dame blows the lid off the entire situation.
Conor McGregor has re-entered UFC's testing pool. But is McGregor really ready for a fight? Should he compete at the White House, it will be nearly five years to the day since he has been in the, Octagon.
#ufc #donaldtrump #nba
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Donald Trump is potentially going to sign an executive
order in a place. According to ESPN, a quote exactly
from there is to determine and implement appropriate measures with
respect for clarifying the status of collegiate athletes end quote.
In other words, what they are trying to do is
get the federal government to assess whether or not they
(00:21):
are in fact student athletes or they are of the
programs and universities and colleges actual employees. Now, I, for one,
I want to be clear, I am okay with athletes
getting paid at the collegiate level. They get treated like
professional athletes, they should get paid as such. But there
(00:43):
are negatives and positives to being an employee of said university.
I think for me, the positive is that now you
get legal representation, Now you can unionize, Now you can
do things like we're going to fight for practice conditions.
We are going to fight for things that we haven't
(01:05):
been able to even begin to tap the surface of,
because even though we're treated like we're professional athletes, we've
been told for years and years and years, No, you
can't do that, you're a student athlete. Nah, you can't
do that. You're a student athlete. Why can't they do
something because they're a student athlete. It was a blanket
term that was used by the NCAA to combat any
(01:26):
argument that anybody presented. Now that argument doesn't really mean much.
And let's be honest, they haven't been treated like student
athletes really since probably the fifties, sixties, seventies. Haven't been
treated like that. It's always been money under the table,
a booster giving you money. Hey, good job, son, here's
(01:48):
a little something extually, you go have fun tonight. The
NCAA just started making rules and mandates because at the
end of the day, they never really wanted them to
make money. They wanted all the profits for themselves and
the universities, and they didn't want to have to split
it with the students, even though it was literally being
done on their backs. And I know the age old
(02:12):
argument of they're getting a scholarship, they're getting a scholarship.
There's seventy five players on a football roster alone. They're
not all getting scholarships. And a lot of the scholarships
that athletes are getting are not even full right scholarships.
A good majority of them are on partial scholarships. Do
you know how expensive dorm room living is at a
place like Alabama. I mean I went to a community
(02:37):
college and for one year of dorm living it was
fifty seven hundred to an eighteen year old. That's a
lot of money. There's federal aid, there's student funding. Look
where do you think a lot of this money comes from.
It comes from sports. A lot of these programs wouldn't
(02:57):
exist if it wasn't for football, basketball, baseball, softball. They
wouldn't A lot of communities would completely crumble if it
wasn't for athletes in general, high school, college, professional there
are people that stand on the backs of these athletes.
(03:19):
It's deeper than you think. And if you want to
watch a very good documentary that still holds up today,
it is called school The Price of College Athletics. We're
talking about players that have been paralyzed and because they
are student athletes, they got nothing from said universities. Meanwhile,
(03:40):
an employee with employee benefits would have been entitled to
workmen's compensation, and that's the way that it should be.
And to me, representation and workmen's compensation are the two
primary benefits that if I were a nineteen year old
in today's college world, and as an athlete, I would
(04:02):
be excited about that. What I wouldn't be excited about
is the potential of not only just the salary cap,
but with that salary cap is going to come limitations
on the transfer portal. I've said this once, I'll say
it again. I've said it a million times, and I'll
continue to say it until it changes. As long as
(04:24):
Brian Kelly is allowed to leave for whatever reason, contract
buyouts or not, if he is allowed to leave in November,
then student athletes, collegiate athletes should be allowed to transfer
as well. Whether it's if they want to follow their coach,
(04:45):
whether if they don't like the new coach, whatever the
case may be. They should not be forced into changes
that they don't want to accept. Every single one of us,
if we are at a job and management changes hands
and we don't like management, we're allowed to leave. Those athletes,
on the other hand, are not. They're tall no no, no,
(05:06):
you're in college. You stay put. What separates them from
anybody else When it really boils down to it, especially
when it comes to being an athlete. They are out
doing free PR work by doing interviews with ESPN and
CBS Sports and a host of other companies. Everybody's making
money off of them. CBS is making money off of
(05:28):
the interview when they put it on social media or
they put it on their network. Same thing with ESPN, NBC.
They're all making money. They're all cashing in. The universities
are getting revenue shares, and they're signing big contracts with
the Big Ten and the SEC and the ACC, and
they're all moving around trying to do what's best for
the college football playoff, and they're all making football decisions
(05:48):
and they're trying to get the best potential money. That
was what happened in the PAC twelve. That was a
big part of the reason why it dissolved was because
they weren't in favor of the revenue sharing program the
amount of money that was to come from the network.
So a lot of teams bailed out where they thought
that they could find a better financial package. So as
long as they're able to do things, whether it's concerned
(06:11):
is money or not, then yes, I believe that a
student athlete should absolutely have the transfer portal available to them.
And I don't want to hear any of ends or
bus about it because what it all boils down to
is the financial capabilities. Well, they should have contracts and
(06:32):
if they are salary capped in their official employees, and
they're gonna have contracts in those contracts will have buyouts. Look,
I'm not saying no to a good majority of that.
What I am saying is that even with a salary cap,
you cannot cap name, image and likeness. So while the
(06:52):
universities themselves may have caps name, image, and likeness, will
solely be able to beat me determined by the individual.
They will go to Wendy's, they will go to the
local car dealerships, or they will come to them, and
they will make a deal and they will determine their
worth and there will never be a cap limit on that.
(07:13):
And because there will never be a cap limit on that,
Dion and Frost and Brahm and all these other coaches
can all go out here and say, well, the rich
are gonna stay richer, when the reality is that's not
the case. And we can look at the twenty twenty
four season, and we can look at the highest spenders
and we can say seventeen out of the top twenty
(07:35):
five highest spenders didn't make the CFP. Seven of them
had losing records, and Notre Dame, who wasn't a top
twenty five spender, was competing for the national championship. It's fear.
The money drives the fear as much as it drives
(07:57):
everything else. So we need to stop pretending that this
isn't all a conversation about money, because that's exactly what
it is. And it's a falsified limit to where Okay,
Texas can't spend more than X amount of dollars, great,
but their boosters absolutely still can. That's not going to
(08:22):
change because as long as somebody has control over their signature,
their name, their likeness, and their image, they are going
to be able to determine what their worth is. And
the NCAA can't put a price on that. And that's
exactly why they never wanted to allow it to happen
to begin with, because there is no limitation for that.
(08:47):
Speaking of no limitations and money and everything else, Dame
Lillard forty five million, he's going to be going to Portland. Look,
Portland is going to do something that Milwaukee was not
willing to do. That is, basically they are going to
pay him to sit out for all, if not at
least a good majority of the upcoming season. Now I
(09:09):
understand that Dame had years left on his contract and
Milwaukee's been making a lot of really bad decisions. They
had two coaches on a payroll that weren't even coaching.
Now they would have added a player to that. Does
it make sense? Does it not? We don't know. What
we do know is this with all the rumor and hearsay,
(09:30):
the last man standing right now is Jannis. There were
rumors that suggested him and Buttonholes that weren't getting along.
There were rumors that suggested that him and a couple
of other players didn't like the way it was going
with coach Griffin. But they were winning. Both coaches had
him in the position to win. So what was really
(09:53):
the problem. What was really going on? That's what we
have to begin to ask ourselves and try and assess.
And when Dame first showed up, man, they were a
little homeboys man, just dapping each other up all the time.
They were in interviews as your team, No, it's his team. Oh,
come on, it's our team. Yeah. You know, acted real
(10:13):
kind of cornball, to be honest with you. Me personally,
I never thought it was gonna work out, And depending
on what's gonna happen with Giannis. A lot of questions
are going to be starting to be answered. In fact,
there's still more questions with Milwaukee than there are answers.
(10:34):
And I don't think Dame is going to hold his tongue.
It's a little bizarre that he's back in Portland, of
all places. Let's not forget how that all ended. And
we all know Dame loves the rap, and we all
know he loves the rap about situations in the NBA
and contracts. I give it a week tops before Dame
(10:57):
is out here and he's going, you know what, this
is what happened, This is what Giannis is really like,
this is what Yannis is doing, and that's what's going
on with this organization. We're gonna find out some things
and it could all blow up in Milwaukee's face worse
than it already all has. Doc Rivers took over a
team that was primed to probably be the number one
(11:20):
seed in the NBA playoffs. Again, all he's done ever
since is make excuses. Oh. I asked him if we
could wait until after the All Star break. Oh, we
had guys that were already basically on vacation. In their mind.
Oh we've had this, Oh we've had that. Man, Dude,
stop brody. It's a nightmare. Man, are surviving off of
(11:42):
one championship. It is what it is. I don't think
it's gonna work out with Portland and Dame. Maybe he
goes back reinvigorated, maybe he's able to get healthy and
maybe things work out, but I don't think so. I
think this was an image saying with Portland and they're
trying to get people to look over here. If I'm
(12:03):
being honest with you, I don't think it really has
anything to do with helping out Dame or doing the
right thing. Dame was gonna be making money no matter what.
It's all about the future after this season and what
everybody's gonna be seeing when it comes to Dame. And
for whatever reason, Milwaukee didn't see it going past this year.
Maybe the injury had something to do with it, Maybe
(12:26):
you didn't. Maybe it was a combination of the injury
and other things. We don't know right now. All we
have is a guessing game. The only true fact that
we know is Dame got hurt, potentially out for the
entire season. Milwaukee said we're not gonna pay you to
sit this year and we don't want you back after that.
In Portland, for whatever reason, is decided to step in.
(12:48):
That's it. It's at the moment of this broadcast, that's it.
Speaking of stepping in, Condor McGregor has decided to go
ahead and step into the testing pool for the UFC
Look twenty sixteen. Connor McGregor, he is long gone man.
(13:11):
That guy knew how to handle the limelight. That guy
knew how to handle fame and money. That guy was
a warrior and a competitor. He was an entertainer, He
was everything. And I don't know that there was a
more recognizable face in the world than Connor McGregor. And
(13:31):
that's just probably a cold hard fact. Now, all of
a sudden he fights Mayweather in the switch happens. Now
you could say it started with a beab. You could
say it started with Mayweather. We don't really know. What
we do know is this, and this continuously gets left out,
is Artam, one of McGregor's boys, was cornered by Habib
(13:53):
and a couple of his guys at a hotel. There's
a whole video of it online. Later on, Habibi I
had to deny that it happened, even though there was
a video of him clearly doing this. I don't see
this video. It's there, Brody. We see all this go down,
and McGregor then hops a flight and the bus thing happens. Now,
(14:15):
whether you agree with McGregor or not, it is what
it is. But that's why he went out there. He
was trying to get his boys back. I'm gonna tell
you like this, I would love to have a player
by my side like Connor McGregor. Oh, you messing with
my boy. I'm hopping a flight from Ireland. I'm there
in eighteen hours, Brody, I'm there now, Habib send location.
(14:39):
There was a location, Brody, it was the bus. Now.
Habib obviously ended up getting the better of it at
the end of the day because he beat him in
the fight. But in terms of McGregor, we don't know
where it began and we don't know where it ended.
We don't know where it all went wrong. You could
point to any number of things, and what we do
(15:03):
know for sure is this, it's been a while since
he's had a fight, and the last fight that he
had ended with a broken tibula. Not his fault. It
wasn't a laid check by Dustin, by the way, so
it is what it is. But then he's getting ready
to fight Michael Chandler, and I remember thinking to myself
and saying out loud, look, I don't think McGregor is
going to be in this fight. I think he's been
(15:24):
living the bodybuilder lifestyle. I think he's been living the
money lifestyle. And once he realizes that he should have
been training this whole time, which he clearly wasn't. Videos
of him all over the place at the club, any
real fighter knows you can't train and be at the
club for the most part. He was done. He was
done before it started. Broke his toe on an elbow.
(15:47):
Maybe what we do know is twenty six McGregor is
limping in on one leg if he's got to to
be at a fight. What we also know is that
he didn't fight, and he hasn't had a fight since
it's been years. The Dustin Poitier fight was back in
twenty twenty one, looking at a potential of five years
(16:11):
almost to the day. If McGregor participates in the white
House fight, that is a long layoff. And in addition
to that, the thing that I said was, Look, McGregor's
gonna realize he's in a fight and he's gonna have
to back out. I can't do this. I'n't been training.
(16:31):
I mean, I thought I wanted to fight, Come to
find out, I don't really want to fight. And if
you don't have to, then why would you. I'm not
hating on the man. It's weird for people to say
you're just being a hater. No, I'm not. It's just
you didn't have to. Why would you? Why would you
want to get kicked in the face if you didn't
have to get kicked in the face. Pretty easy answer,
(16:53):
you wouldn't. I don't know. Maybe you're sick a fan
for it, who knows. But the bottom line here, I
think is pretty clear now. I don't know if that
happens again this time. I would give anything to see
twenty Sixtey McGregor back, and I think we all would.
Whether you loved him or hated him. I think everybody
respected him. I don't think that's there anymore. All right, everybody,
(17:21):
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So Donald Trump is potentially going to sign an executive
order in a place. According to ESPN, a quote exactly
from there is to determine and implement appropriate measures with
respect for clarifying the status of collegiate athletes end quote.
In other words, what they are trying to do is
get the federal government to assess whether or not they
(00:21):
are in fact student athletes or they are of the
programs and universities and colleges actual employees. Now, I, for one,
I want to be clear, I am okay with athletes
getting paid at the collegiate level. They get treated like
professional athletes, they should get paid as such. But there
(00:43):
are negatives and positives to being an employee of said university.
I think for me, the positive is that now you
get legal representation, Now you can unionize, Now you can
do things like we're going to fight for practice conditions.
We are going to fight for things that we haven't
(01:05):
been able to even begin to tap the surface of,
because even though we're treated like we're professional athletes, we've
been told for years and years and years, No, you
can't do that, you're a student athlete. Nah, you can't
do that. You're a student athlete. Why can't they do
something because they're a student athlete. It was a blanket
term that was used by the NCAA to combat any
(01:26):
argument that anybody presented. Now that argument doesn't really mean much.
And let's be honest, they haven't been treated like student
athletes really since probably the fifties, sixties, seventies. Haven't been
treated like that. It's always been money under the table,
a booster giving you money. Hey, good job, son, here's
(01:48):
a little something extually, you go have fun tonight. The
NCAA just started making rules and mandates because at the
end of the day, they never really wanted them to
make money. They wanted all the profits for themselves and
the universities, and they didn't want to have to split
it with the students, even though it was literally being
done on their backs. And I know the age old
(02:12):
argument of they're getting a scholarship, they're getting a scholarship.
There's seventy five players on a football roster alone. They're
not all getting scholarships. And a lot of the scholarships
that athletes are getting are not even full right scholarships.
A good majority of them are on partial scholarships. Do
you know how expensive dorm room living is at a
place like Alabama. I mean I went to a community
(02:37):
college and for one year of dorm living it was
fifty seven hundred to an eighteen year old. That's a
lot of money. There's federal aid, there's student funding. Look
where do you think a lot of this money comes from.
It comes from sports. A lot of these programs wouldn't
(02:57):
exist if it wasn't for football, basketball, baseball, softball. They
wouldn't A lot of communities would completely crumble if it
wasn't for athletes in general, high school, college, professional there
are people that stand on the backs of these athletes.
(03:19):
It's deeper than you think. And if you want to
watch a very good documentary that still holds up today,
it is called school The Price of College Athletics. We're
talking about players that have been paralyzed and because they
are student athletes, they got nothing from said universities. Meanwhile,
(03:40):
an employee with employee benefits would have been entitled to
workmen's compensation, and that's the way that it should be.
And to me, representation and workmen's compensation are the two
primary benefits that if I were a nineteen year old
in today's college world, and as an athlete, I would
(04:02):
be excited about that. What I wouldn't be excited about
is the potential of not only just the salary cap,
but with that salary cap is going to come limitations
on the transfer portal. I've said this once, I'll say
it again. I've said it a million times, and I'll
continue to say it until it changes. As long as
(04:24):
Brian Kelly is allowed to leave for whatever reason, contract
buyouts or not, if he is allowed to leave in November,
then student athletes, collegiate athletes should be allowed to transfer
as well. Whether it's if they want to follow their coach,
(04:45):
whether if they don't like the new coach, whatever the
case may be. They should not be forced into changes
that they don't want to accept. Every single one of us,
if we are at a job and management changes hands
and we don't like management, we're allowed to leave. Those athletes,
on the other hand, are not. They're tall no no, no,
(05:06):
you're in college. You stay put. What separates them from
anybody else When it really boils down to it, especially
when it comes to being an athlete. They are out
doing free PR work by doing interviews with ESPN and
CBS Sports and a host of other companies. Everybody's making
money off of them. CBS is making money off of
(05:28):
the interview when they put it on social media or
they put it on their network. Same thing with ESPN, NBC.
They're all making money. They're all cashing in. The universities
are getting revenue shares, and they're signing big contracts with
the Big Ten and the SEC and the ACC, and
they're all moving around trying to do what's best for
the college football playoff, and they're all making football decisions
(05:48):
and they're trying to get the best potential money. That
was what happened in the PAC twelve. That was a
big part of the reason why it dissolved was because
they weren't in favor of the revenue sharing program the
amount of money that was to come from the network.
So a lot of teams bailed out where they thought
that they could find a better financial package. So as
long as they're able to do things, whether it's concerned
(06:11):
is money or not, then yes, I believe that a
student athlete should absolutely have the transfer portal available to them.
And I don't want to hear any of ends or
bus about it because what it all boils down to
is the financial capabilities. Well, they should have contracts and
(06:32):
if they are salary capped in their official employees, and
they're gonna have contracts in those contracts will have buyouts. Look,
I'm not saying no to a good majority of that.
What I am saying is that even with a salary cap,
you cannot cap name, image and likeness. So while the
(06:52):
universities themselves may have caps name, image, and likeness, will
solely be able to beat me determined by the individual.
They will go to Wendy's, they will go to the
local car dealerships, or they will come to them, and
they will make a deal and they will determine their
worth and there will never be a cap limit on that.
(07:13):
And because there will never be a cap limit on that,
Dion and Frost and Brahm and all these other coaches
can all go out here and say, well, the rich
are gonna stay richer, when the reality is that's not
the case. And we can look at the twenty twenty
four season, and we can look at the highest spenders
and we can say seventeen out of the top twenty
(07:35):
five highest spenders didn't make the CFP. Seven of them
had losing records, and Notre Dame, who wasn't a top
twenty five spender, was competing for the national championship. It's fear.
The money drives the fear as much as it drives
(07:57):
everything else. So we need to stop pretending that this
isn't all a conversation about money, because that's exactly what
it is. And it's a falsified limit to where Okay,
Texas can't spend more than X amount of dollars, great,
but their boosters absolutely still can. That's not going to
(08:22):
change because as long as somebody has control over their signature,
their name, their likeness, and their image, they are going
to be able to determine what their worth is. And
the NCAA can't put a price on that. And that's
exactly why they never wanted to allow it to happen
to begin with, because there is no limitation for that.
(08:47):
Speaking of no limitations and money and everything else, Dame
Lillard forty five million, he's going to be going to Portland. Look,
Portland is going to do something that Milwaukee was not
willing to do. That is, basically they are going to
pay him to sit out for all, if not at
least a good majority of the upcoming season. Now I
(09:09):
understand that Dame had years left on his contract and
Milwaukee's been making a lot of really bad decisions. They
had two coaches on a payroll that weren't even coaching.
Now they would have added a player to that. Does
it make sense? Does it not? We don't know. What
we do know is this with all the rumor and hearsay,
(09:30):
the last man standing right now is Jannis. There were
rumors that suggested him and Buttonholes that weren't getting along.
There were rumors that suggested that him and a couple
of other players didn't like the way it was going
with coach Griffin. But they were winning. Both coaches had
him in the position to win. So what was really
(09:53):
the problem. What was really going on? That's what we
have to begin to ask ourselves and try and assess.
And when Dame first showed up, man, they were a
little homeboys man, just dapping each other up all the time.
They were in interviews as your team, No, it's his team. Oh,
come on, it's our team. Yeah. You know, acted real
(10:13):
kind of cornball, to be honest with you. Me personally,
I never thought it was gonna work out, And depending
on what's gonna happen with Giannis. A lot of questions
are going to be starting to be answered. In fact,
there's still more questions with Milwaukee than there are answers.
(10:34):
And I don't think Dame is going to hold his tongue.
It's a little bizarre that he's back in Portland, of
all places. Let's not forget how that all ended. And
we all know Dame loves the rap, and we all
know he loves the rap about situations in the NBA
and contracts. I give it a week tops before Dame
(10:57):
is out here and he's going, you know what, this
is what happened, This is what Giannis is really like,
this is what Yannis is doing, and that's what's going
on with this organization. We're gonna find out some things
and it could all blow up in Milwaukee's face worse
than it already all has. Doc Rivers took over a
team that was primed to probably be the number one
(11:20):
seed in the NBA playoffs. Again, all he's done ever
since is make excuses. Oh. I asked him if we
could wait until after the All Star break. Oh, we
had guys that were already basically on vacation. In their mind.
Oh we've had this, Oh we've had that. Man, Dude,
stop brody. It's a nightmare. Man, are surviving off of
(11:42):
one championship. It is what it is. I don't think
it's gonna work out with Portland and Dame. Maybe he
goes back reinvigorated, maybe he's able to get healthy and
maybe things work out, but I don't think so. I
think this was an image saying with Portland and they're
trying to get people to look over here. If I'm
(12:03):
being honest with you, I don't think it really has
anything to do with helping out Dame or doing the
right thing. Dame was gonna be making money no matter what.
It's all about the future after this season and what
everybody's gonna be seeing when it comes to Dame. And
for whatever reason, Milwaukee didn't see it going past this year.
Maybe the injury had something to do with it, Maybe
(12:26):
you didn't. Maybe it was a combination of the injury
and other things. We don't know right now. All we
have is a guessing game. The only true fact that
we know is Dame got hurt, potentially out for the
entire season. Milwaukee said we're not gonna pay you to
sit this year and we don't want you back after that.
In Portland, for whatever reason, is decided to step in.
(12:48):
That's it. It's at the moment of this broadcast, that's it.
Speaking of stepping in, Condor McGregor has decided to go
ahead and step into the testing pool for the UFC
Look twenty sixteen. Connor McGregor, he is long gone man.
(13:11):
That guy knew how to handle the limelight. That guy
knew how to handle fame and money. That guy was
a warrior and a competitor. He was an entertainer, He
was everything. And I don't know that there was a
more recognizable face in the world than Connor McGregor. And
(13:31):
that's just probably a cold hard fact. Now, all of
a sudden he fights Mayweather in the switch happens. Now
you could say it started with a beab. You could
say it started with Mayweather. We don't really know. What
we do know is this, and this continuously gets left out,
is Artam, one of McGregor's boys, was cornered by Habib
(13:53):
and a couple of his guys at a hotel. There's
a whole video of it online. Later on, Habibi I
had to deny that it happened, even though there was
a video of him clearly doing this. I don't see
this video. It's there, Brody. We see all this go down,
and McGregor then hops a flight and the bus thing happens. Now,
(14:15):
whether you agree with McGregor or not, it is what
it is. But that's why he went out there. He
was trying to get his boys back. I'm gonna tell
you like this, I would love to have a player
by my side like Connor McGregor. Oh, you messing with
my boy. I'm hopping a flight from Ireland. I'm there
in eighteen hours, Brody, I'm there now, Habib send location.
(14:39):
There was a location, Brody, it was the bus. Now.
Habib obviously ended up getting the better of it at
the end of the day because he beat him in
the fight. But in terms of McGregor, we don't know
where it began and we don't know where it ended.
We don't know where it all went wrong. You could
point to any number of things, and what we do
(15:03):
know for sure is this, it's been a while since
he's had a fight, and the last fight that he
had ended with a broken tibula. Not his fault. It
wasn't a laid check by Dustin, by the way, so
it is what it is. But then he's getting ready
to fight Michael Chandler, and I remember thinking to myself
and saying out loud, look, I don't think McGregor is
going to be in this fight. I think he's been
(15:24):
living the bodybuilder lifestyle. I think he's been living the
money lifestyle. And once he realizes that he should have
been training this whole time, which he clearly wasn't. Videos
of him all over the place at the club, any
real fighter knows you can't train and be at the
club for the most part. He was done. He was
done before it started. Broke his toe on an elbow.
(15:47):
Maybe what we do know is twenty six McGregor is
limping in on one leg if he's got to to
be at a fight. What we also know is that
he didn't fight, and he hasn't had a fight since
it's been years. The Dustin Poitier fight was back in
twenty twenty one, looking at a potential of five years
(16:11):
almost to the day. If McGregor participates in the white
House fight, that is a long layoff. And in addition
to that, the thing that I said was, Look, McGregor's
gonna realize he's in a fight and he's gonna have
to back out. I can't do this. I'n't been training.
(16:31):
I mean, I thought I wanted to fight, Come to
find out, I don't really want to fight. And if
you don't have to, then why would you. I'm not
hating on the man. It's weird for people to say
you're just being a hater. No, I'm not. It's just
you didn't have to. Why would you? Why would you
want to get kicked in the face if you didn't
have to get kicked in the face. Pretty easy answer,
(16:53):
you wouldn't. I don't know. Maybe you're sick a fan
for it, who knows. But the bottom line here, I
think is pretty clear now. I don't know if that
happens again this time. I would give anything to see
twenty Sixtey McGregor back, and I think we all would.
Whether you loved him or hated him. I think everybody
respected him. I don't think that's there anymore. All right, everybody,
(17:21):
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