My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 163 - DANA WHITE/BILLY QUARANTILLO

Episode Date: November 4, 2021

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Welcome back to my mom's basement. It is Robbie Fox and Dana White. We are here for UFC 268. You're coming right from Abu Dhabi, right from UFC 267. An amazing show. Amazing card. I'm sure that went well. Thank you.

It was awesome. Listen, I love that place. So I had a blast out there. The card was amazing. And yeah, it couldn't have gone better. We talk a lot. This is not MMA related, but about Rage Against the Machine in our interviews. Did you know today is actually the anniversary

of their first album coming out, the 29th anniversary? Yeah, I thought it was yesterday, but yeah. Yeah. Do you remember where you were in 1992? In 99, where was I? 92. 92. I was in Boston, but...

Working the factory job at that point? I don't know if I was into Rage yet. I wasn't into Rage. Do you remember getting into them? I do. I started to hear some of their stuff, and it's just impossible to hear Rage and not love it. But I wasn't buying the first album.

I caught on to them later. Yeah, and how many times have you seen them at this point? I've seen them a few times. Actually, I saw them when they opened for U2, too. Oh, wow. Yeah, they opened for U2, and I saw them when they opened for U2. Yeah.

Massive card, though. MSG we got this weekend. I can't wait for it. 268, two title fights, two rematches. The main event, super grudge match. The co-main event, less of a grudge match, but another great matchup there. And then the co-main event. The co-main event's definitely a grudge match,

but those two just don't have that type of personality. You know what I mean? They're both going in and both want to win, but they just don't have the personality, like, the main event. And this card is loaded with prospects and New Yorkers. When I say New York fighter, who's the first person that comes to mind for you? Jesus Christ, I don't even know. When you say New York fighter, you fucking threw a curveball on me with that one.

Yeah, I don't know. You tell me. Matt Serra? I mean, Chris Watkins. I thought you were talking about on the card. No, I don't know. You tell me. Matt Serra? I mean, Chris Watkins. I thought you were talking about on the card. No. Alain Quinta? Yeah, yeah.

Who embodies the New York spirit? Hey, I'm walking here, motherfucker. I misunderstood the question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I misunderstood the question. Probably got to be Matt Serra in that case, right? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, Matt Serra is obviously very close to me.

And yeah. He's an absolute lun lunatic i love him for it do you have a favorite spot we were just talking before we went off the air about potbelly but i was gonna say do you have a favorite spot in new york that you got to hit every time you gotta come here yeah so there's a place called scalinatella it's it's a italian restaurant that i've been going to fancy place hard to get a reservation it's my spot um it used to be. I don't know if it is these days. I don't know how the, you know. This will be my first time back

since before the pandemic. Oh, nice. So I will be going there. What's the spot? What's the meal? Everything. You can't go wrong with this place. Their pasta is off the charts,

whether you get the ravioli. The ravioli tastes like candy. Oh, wow. Yeah, their fettuccine Alfredoli, the ravioli tastes like candy. Oh wow. Yeah, their fettuccine alfredo is the best I've ever had. Their caprese is incredible. It just, you can't go wrong in this place. No matter what you order, it's incredible. Wow, amazing. Another thing on the card that I'm looking forward to, Ian Gary's UFC debut. This is a prospect that I've been following through his career in Cage Warriors and all that. What do you know about Ian Gary from you signing him and all that?

Well, I don't know anything about these guys until they come here. When they get in here and they fight in the UFC, more than just the level of competition, the pressure, not to mention the fact kids like him and CJ Vergara, they get into the UFC their first time and they're fighting in Madison Square Garden. So it's all just a different level of pressure and nerves and lots of other things that guys like you and I would never even understand. Never. I look forward to seeing how they deal with all that stuff, too. Yeah, and the fight that I saw you point out on your If You Don't Know, Now You Know was Shane Burgos versus Billy Quarantillo.

I think this has, like, Fight of the Night written all over it on a card with amazing fights. What do you think about that one? I agree with you. I mean, it's one of the most exciting fights on the card. But it's hard to pick anything over gaethje and chandler i just think that gaethje and chandler is just it's impossible for that fight not only to not suck but not to just be insane fireworks yeah is it hard to like make a main card on a fight like this where the prelims can basically be like on them a lot of the prelims can be on the main card is it hard

to select which fights go there are you very involved in that I mean that's what I mean we do every Tuesday every Tuesday we get together and we build these cards but that's our goal our goal is to build cards that blow people's minds and even if you're you're you know maybe you only know the top three fights on the card you know when you when you get there, everybody gets there early. Everybody watches early. And our job is to blow your mind with some of these fights that are going to happen, you know, on the prelims. Is this card going to be stacked with celebrities in the crowd as normal for MSG?

Yeah. You know, there's a lot of celebs coming. That kid Jai Courtney is coming. A-Rod's coming. Halle Berry. You know, a lot of rock stars from the business world. Yeah, it's going to be fun. Is that Suitman guy coming?

Who? The guy Suitman from HBO? Broke up, call her daddy? Suitman. I don't think he's coming. Good, good. But if he was in town and wanted to go, I'd bring him. Nah, fuck him. I'd sit him right next to you.

Put him right in the media section. I would love that. I would love that, too. I'm going to make that happen someday. You get Hezbollah Abdul-Rozak 2.0 in the crowd between us. Speaking of Hezbollah. I want to see you get into fight mode, man. Oh, my God.

I love it. Hezbollah last weekend took over the show. So, I'm going to tell you something. So, the pitcher. No, not the the picture the video that he sent dana white i'm coming to abu dhabi ufc i love he said donna white i love the way he said it so when i posted that with me on the plane saying i'm coming it's the biggest post that i've ever posted it's it's fucking crazy the last time we did an interview you were fucking with me and

you were like i got a meeting with him at that point you're like i'm just fucking with you and i was like oh that might be the biggest news fucking with me and you were like, I got a meeting with him. At that point, you're like, I'm just fucking with you. And I was like, oh, that might be the biggest news of this interview. And you're like, you come on. Now you got to believe me. That was some big news. Did he blow you away in terms of like the reaction online? I have 6.7 million followers on Instagram. 6.4 million people watch that video.

Holy shit. Is that fucking crazy? It's fucking crazy. It's crazy. This guy takes over the world. How did the meeting go? It's amazing. Incredible. It was incredible. Is there... I love the kid. Is there more than a 0% chance

that he fights in the UFC? Is there more than a 0% chance? Yes. Wow. That's big news. People are going to run with that. I want to see Hezbollah versus Abdi Rozak in the Octagon. And I asked, I had Billy Quarantillo and Matt Favola in here yesterday. I asked them, I said, as fighters, would that be like,

oh my God, that's awesome? Or would you be like, what the hell? This is what we work for. They were all for it. They were like, no, we want everything Hezbollah going forward. Mark Wahlberg FaceTimed me yesterday to tell me, could I get his daughter to meet Hezbollah?

What'd you say? Yeah, if he comes into the United States, I'll get her to meet him. Oh, my God. Can you get me to meet Hezbollah if he comes to the United States? I'll fly anywhere. Well, it's not like Mark Wahlberg's daughter is like a huge MMA fan or something. You know what I mean? Yeah.

It's just fascinating. This guy's a global superstar. huge MMA fan or something. You know what I mean? It's just, it's fascinating. This guy's a global superstar. Fascinating. Global superstar. Speaking of superstars, Patty the Batty has signed with Barstool Sports as a brand ambassador, content creator, seven-figure deal. What do you think about that?

I think it's awesome. Yeah? Yeah, I love it. I love, first of all, I love the investment in the sport by Barstool. And, you know, good for Patty. He's a good kid. And I love it. Yeah.

Are you afraid if Dave starts signing more UFC fighters as brand ambassadors that he's trying to post, maybe you sign me as a UFC fighter? I like it. Yeah. Exactly. I'd trade for a trade like that. Exactly. I might have to, yeah. All right. We might have to do that. I have a little fighter. I like it. Exactly. I'd trade for a trade like that. Exactly. I might have to, yeah.

All right. We might have to do that. I have a little payback here. Yeah. Contender Series wrapped up last night, this season of the Contender Series. What are your thoughts on the season overall? Was it your favorite?

I don't know if it was my favorite. I mean, season one was pretty incredible. Yeah. But it's my favorite thing to do on a Tuesday. I can tell you that. I could do that every Tuesday for the rest of my life. Fights are incredible. Last night was a little weird, but...

The double nut shot last night. Yeah. How about that? You ever see that before? Never. You? Double nut shot. No.

You've seen, like, the double knockdown. That's always awesome. Double nut shot, when the two guys are both writhing on the floor. It's like something out of a fucking Saturday Night Live comedy skit. And then the ending of that fight was crazy, too. Yeah. The crazy kick. Another thing about Hezbollah that I forgot to mention.

I saw him running around punching everybody. Punched DC. He punched everyone. What would you do if Hezbollah punched you? Would you just take it and laugh? You would have to, right? Yeah. What am I going to do?

Whoop his ass? I don't know. Yeah. You could tell when he punched Big Nog, Big Nog was the second. No, he wasn't. He wasn't. He gave him an elbow. He was shocked.

He elbowed him in the face. He was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy. Yeah, that was funny. That was very funny. Contender series question. Would you ever bring back something like the Snoop cast? I loved the Snoop cast. And not even Snoop in particular, but something like that.

I don't know. You know, Snoop and I had talked for a long time about working together and doing something together. And I was literally just getting ready to start putting together the concept for the Contender Series. And we were at a party together. Whose party? What was that party like like it was a fun party um and it was at ari emmanuel's house ari threw a party at his house and uh that night we ended up doing the deal for the contender yeah just got the idea i said i got

a show that i'm working on right now, and I'll integrate you into the show. So we did the deal that night at the party. Is the series with 50 Cent made any headway since we last spoke? The what? You said you had a series with 50 Cent. Nah, 50 bailed. Whoa, 50 bailed. Yeah, he bailed.

He's out. Damn, you're a Ja Rule guy now? So it's me and Lorenzo Fertitta. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Any more info on that show yet or no? Not yet.

All right, not yet. It's coming, though. Congrats on the dual citizenship in Abu Dhabi. Are you going to be, like, spending more time over there even when there's no fights? That's a long flight to be hanging out with no fights. A long-ass flight. I couldn't believe it. My way back, by the way, on the UFC charter, I was in middle seat.

Someone spilled their fucking drink on my sock. What? Someone spilled their drink on my sock. They What? Someone spilled their drink on my sock. They fell asleep, spilled the drink on my sock. You know how bad a wet sock is on an 18-hour flight? Oh, my God. Was that on the UFC? Yeah.

So, wait a minute. You were on the UFC charter plane, and somebody fell asleep next to you. Next to me, yeah. Who was it? I think it was someone's coach. He was, like, a big guy, so, like, I couldn't say anything. Oh, it was a coach? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Who was it? I think it was someone's coach. He was like a big guy, so like I couldn't say anything. Oh, it was a coach? Yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah, you even got your ass kicked. Yeah. All right. Would have been like Hasbro trying to slap somebody. That's unfortunate. I went into the bathroom and tried to dry the sock off. I couldn't even do it. Yeah, it's a long flight.

It's bad stuff. Oh, that's brutal. They're still hooking you up when you go over there with the big candy bar and stuff? Well, we stayed at a different hotel this time. Oh, really? Yeah, that was at the W. Yeah. Have you gotten a place there yet?

No, not yet. Are you still looking for a place? Yeah. I'm probably going to go back there again this winter. I'm going to go over there for a few days because I have to go back and finish this deal that I've been talking about working on. And then I'm thinking about going over to the Maldives for a few days. So I'm probably going to... That's some rich rich guy shit go spend some time over there thinking about going

to the maldives when someone says that you got some money yeah um nate diaz versus khanzat chamey i know this is a big topic of discussion because you said we'll talk about it a lot of people online are saying oh my god you're feeding nate diaz to the wolves the last fight of his contract stuff like this n Nate actually posted an Instagram story about it in response to you. He tagged you in it. Did you see that? No. What did he say? He said, you're tripping. He said that ain't happening. Well, that fight

was offered to him before this weekend. To Nate? Yeah. Well, I asked you, yeah, in my last interview. It's not like this just popped up out of thin air and this fight was offered to him before this weekend. This didn't just happen this weekend and. This fight was offered to him before this weekend. This didn't just happen this weekend and then the fight was offered to him. How do you feel? I usually don't talk about that.

I usually don't talk about that shit publicly. Like when people say that stuff. Everybody's thrown to the wolves. I mean, what was I just talking about last night? With the kid that said, hey, listen, I came in here and fought a tough veteran. I said, hey, kid, everybody here is tough. You think these guys are tough? Wait till you get to the UFC.

Exactly. And listen, this isn't a diss. I love Nate Diaz. I love, you know, Nick and Nate as much as anybody else does. You get to a point, all of us, in life and in your professional career in sports, where you get, you know, to a point where it's like can i hang here anymore can i hang here anymore you think nate's at that point i don't know i feel like there's matchups out there for him that maybe are less daunting than this one and i see i see

what people are saying that we're looking for so is that we're look are we looking for less daunting fights in the ufc is that what we're looking to do? I guess not. That's just all bullshit. It's all bullshit, brother. Chael Sonnen said this week that he thinks Chimaev could be one fight away from a title shot. Do you think that's true? I don't know. Listen, he's looked incredible. He's been blowing the doors off people.

When you start to break into the top five, top ten. If he goes through one of those guys like a buzzsaw. But you're running into some real guys. Yeah. And that division is a nasty division. Yeah, it is. So we will find out. We will.

And finally, have you heard from Conor lately? That's the other thing I wanted to say. I talked to Conor yesterday. But the other thing that I wanted to say, it's like, you know, everybody's like you're throwing them to the wolves. The guys had four fights in the UFC. Yeah. The guys had four fights in the UFC.

They're saying the only reason you're giving it to them is because it's the last fight on this contract. They're saying you want to devalue them. Devalue them? Mm-hmm. Because it's the last fight on this contract. That's what the online chat are saying. Does everybody know he just's the last fight on his contract. That's what the online chat are saying.

Does everybody know he just lost his last fight? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know if they knew that, yeah. By the end of that fight,

though, you know. How are you going to devalue him? How are you going to devalue him? It's, and it's funny because Nate Diaz is a fighter who,

like his last fight showed, he could lose a fight and not be devalued. What if he loses? His stock might win up after the Leon Edwards fight. What if he loses with somebody else we match him up with? Yeah fight and not be devalued what if he loses his stock might with somebody else we match him up with yeah would he be devalued i guess how does hamza chamayev devalue him yeah you know massive that fight value is about being in massive fights that people care about fights that when you make a fight and you announce it there's this buzz about the fight and everybody's going crazy.

Do you think that Nate Diaz versus Hamza Chemaev is not that fight? No, I think it is. More than... Okay. So here's the moral of the story. All these people are fucking morons and have no idea what they're talking about. I actually run the biggest fucking combat sports business on planet fucking Earth. So shut the fuck up and let

me do my job that's a fair how about that that's a fair point thank you um connor you heard from him yesterday what was that conversation like we're just talking about how he's feeling and how he's doing he said his workouts are going good you know he's trying not to put too much torque on the leg right now he's making sure he takes his time and lets that thing heal the right way and he said he is fucking starving he's starving he's hungry he can't wait to come back wow you know about this wheelchair boxing match he's doing for celebrity and for charity did not know it yeah next month he's going to be doing a boxing match in a wheelchair um against an impersonator who does

a conor mcgregor impression who he says his impression stinks, so he wants to fight him. He'll also be in a wheelchair. I know the guy he's talking about. Yep. Because he tells me he does not like that guy. Yeah. So they're going to be fighting in a boxing ring in wheelchairs. Sounds very badly for the other kid in the wheelchair.

It does, but you know what I'm very curious about? Like, can you just wheel away from him? If you could wheel away from him fast enough, can you avoid the big shots? For his sake i certainly hope so would you ever do a charity boxing match i know that it's been talked about through the years and i'm i i me and tito were gonna do that thing i was 37 38 years old would have kicked his ass um thank you i'm done i i am you're done even if like what if what ifvel came out of the clouds and challenged you? Well, that's not really a fight.

I mean, that's... You wouldn't take that opportunity? It's like smacking a kid around or something. You know, Sean Strickland says that crazy shit about, like, I want to legally murder someone there. You wouldn't take that opportunity? No, there's nobody I want to really... I don't even want to legally murder... I don't know who.

Nobody. You know, Ravel's an asshole. He's an idiot. But I don't know if I want to murder the guy yeah no you know he's a douche bag

yeah there's plenty of douche bags around plenty of them alright that's it that's all I got for you

I'm looking forward to UFC 268 this weekend I will be there in attendance I hope to see an announcement Hasbulla has signed

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It's awesome to see the Barstool headquarters first time here, so appreciate the invite. You've been asking for this New York fight from Dana forever. This is what you've wanted. Is it already starting to feel like, yeah, this is for real, this is the real deal? Has it set in yet? Not really yet. We haven't checked in with the UFC yet.

We came here first. Checked in with Barstool before the UFC. Amazing. That makes me feel good. Yeah, we came to Barstool first, and then we're going to go check in with them. So I think it'll feel like fight week when we go and check in with them after this and we start seeing all the guys. I watched the Embedded last night.

So I'm starting to get those vibes. I think they got Billy Q on the Embedded. That's what I want to see. Well, they might get us on there, but we got to be around them first. Yeah, true. Yeah, they're not following us around. So my flight over here wasn't exactly like Usman's and Covington's and their private jets.

You know, my Southwest flight over here. Middle seat, or did you get at least an aisle or a window? I got a good – I actually – so I'm water loading, so I'm just drinking a ton of water now. So I always got to sit in the aisle because I get up like six times during the flight. But, you know, I got a good seat. I can't complain. What's the weight at now?

It's a couple days out. Do you have like an intense cut the night of or is it more of a simple, gradual? It's not as intense, but it is a – it's all water. So I'm probably – I probably got like 15 pounds to go, which sounds dramatic, but it's all water. I probably got like 15 pounds of go, which sounds dramatic, but it's all water. So it'll be like today I'll water load, tomorrow same thing, and then Thursday we'll kind of cut it off and just do sauna sessions, hot tub sessions, and hopefully it's easier, but I'm always prepared for like the worst day of the year is on Thursday.

Always? Does it suck as bad every time you never get like used to it? Yeah, there's been better ones. Ironically, the one I lost was like probably the worst cut I've ever had. Probably the worst I've ever had was the one I lost. So last fight, we had a great cut. And this fight, I think I'm gonna have a really good cut because I did everything right for this camp. You just popped into the yak and we were talking about the ears, the cauliflower ears, the KB no swag. Apparently, there's an interesting story behind how you got your ears involving your uncle. Yes, yeah, yeah.

So this one you can see is gnarly. It's pretty bad. Yeah, oh, yeah. So it started off— Badge of honor, though, of course. Yeah, yeah, and people don't really mess with me as much because they're like— They see the ear, and they're like, no fucking way. Yeah, like if he's willing to do that to his own face, I don't want to fight him.

So, yeah, what happened was I was an amateur fighter and it started getting bad. I had a fight coming up, so I didn't want to take any time off. So I just kept training, kept training. It was getting bad. It was getting bad. I won the fight, and then I flew to Virginia where my family was having a reunion. And we didn't know like how to cut we didn't know how to like drain ears which we know now we do with a syringe exactly

exactly and we would do that a little bit but so my uncle's a surgeon he's a very good surgeon so I'm like you know I trust this guy so we're all drinking and partying and stuff and he keeps looking at it and my ears blown up and he's like oh I want to cut that ear I want to cut it I'm like and at first when you're sober you're like no fucking way you know no there's no way you're cutting this ear and so we keep drinking and keep drinking and then a while like my brother's like oh just let him do it let him do it so eventually i'm like all right you can cut it and i'm like let's do it like i'm like and i'm thinking he's gonna cut it and make it look normal again you know and of course i was

drinking so i'll never forget he sits me down in the bathroom just because we knew it was gonna be bloody and he finds like an old like razor like a razor blade and sits me down like my whole family's like surrounding the bathroom and i'm like jesus christ i'm like i hope this looks better and sure enough he digs it right in the middle of it and cuts it and it starts leaking blood everywhere and i'm like oh good like it's gonna drain it and he starts pushing on it and there's a lot of blood coming out and they clean it up and we put like some ice on it and everything just blood in there is that what it is it's like blood and pus and uh yeah it was disgusting it was really gross and sure enough uh it didn't do anything stitch you up after that it made it just like put a band-aid over it no no we

he didn't see him he was good enough to cut it he wasn't good enough to do the stitches you up after that or you just like put a band-aid over it no no we he didn't see him he was good enough to cut it he wasn't good enough to do the stitches uh so after that we just like taped it up and iced it up and it looked way worse and now it's just like this forever now so uh it is what it is you know it's crazy that's the surgeon he was just like i want to fucking that yeah i want it he just like he kept like you know like you look at some of the eye and he was looking at like over my ear and i'm'm like, man, dude, this guy keeps staring at it. And like I said, he's a surgeon, so I trusted him. And it looked like probably twice as worse after.

At what point did you realize that it looked worse, that it wasn't going to heal? Did you take the tape off a week later like, oh, this is going to look like a normal ear? Like that day, I looked at it and I'm like, man, it still looks shitty and it looks swollen now. And then the next day, I'm like, yeah,'s gonna it's gonna go down and then i just started having to like be honest with myself and i'm like this is your ears later and actually i i joke about this but there's definitely some truth to it when that happened i was a young amateur fighter i was like five and two as an amateur and i was like all right well i know i can't work a desk job now like looking like this so i'm like i better get really good at mma because it's like the beginning of creed when

he shows up with a black eye his boss is like he can't be doing this like again come on yeah that's exactly what happened i'm like i can't work at uh you know an accounting job with ears like this so it helped me in my path to where i'm at now that's fucked up you know that story yeah that's fucked up oh yeah shout out uncle mike shout out uncle he'll be here he'll be at msg oh really yeah he'll I'm at now. That's fucked up. You know that story? Yeah. That's fucked up. Shout out Uncle Mike. He'll be here. He'll be at MSG. Oh, really? Yeah, he'll be here. You have like a huge squad coming? Yeah. The whole squid squad? It's like my whole, like the whole team queue.

A bunch of people from where I grew up in Western New York and then a bunch of people from Tampa. A lot of people, a lot of my friends were like they either didn't want to get the VACs or they couldn't afford tickets so a few people are gonna be watching it at home but it's all good man it's it's you know they'll be watching on tv what's the post plan uh for the fight so our the post plan is going to a

place called mad hatters i don't know if you've heard of it it's in hoboken um and they're giving us like a vip table and stuff and that's all you guys want to do it right yeah yeah yeah we're gonna do it right and they said they'll get everyone through and uh we'll part i got a nice suit and everything so we'll do it big after nice shane burgos you got another new york guys new york guy versus new york guy who is more of a new york guy uh he's more of a new york city guy and i'm more of a western new york guy you know i'm more of a country it's a perfect matchup exactly yeah it's we're definitely not from the same area you know he's more uh the city bronx right i think he's from the bronx i think so i've heard i don't know where's tiger showman in new jersey yeah

it's somewhere in the tiger showman's is uh like actually not too far from here yeah that's where he's at oh interesting that's where al germain trains sometimes right i think he has trained jimmy rivera might have trained there. Jimmy Rivera's got a Tiger Showman. I saw Jimmy Rivera just sign with Bare Knuckle. I saw that. I saw that. It would be interesting to see him.

Fun fact, me and Jimmy get tattoos at the same place. Wow. Isn't that weird? Yeah. Those guys are more city guys. I grew up in the country, like six hours away in western New York. I know. It's fucked up how far away you could get in New York. New York is like a country of its own.

Yeah. I always tell people I'm from Buffalo even though I'm from the outskirts because if I say I'm from New York, they're thinking I'm from this. And that's not true. No. Buffalo is incredibly far away. People from New York don't realize that but how far is from New York? If you wanted to drive right now to Buffalo, how long would it take

to get you there? Eight hours? Well, first of all, eight hours in New York traffic, and then you've got to get to upstate. Now, I would say it's probably like six and a half, seven hours. Shit. It's pretty much Canada. Yeah, no, it is. Yeah, it's basically you live in Canada. People say upstate, and it's like real, like, western.

Like, it's not like the middle of New York. It's right on, like, the Canadian border. And growing up, like, around the city, my definition of upstate is, like, as soon as you cross the border over New Jersey, boom, you're in upstate. Once you get out of traffic, you're in upstate. Same game plan every time for a fight, or how much does it change? Do you go in with every fight the mentality, I'm going to be the best Billy I can be, see what happens with this other guy? Or do you actually go in with different regimented plans? We always try to bring the guy

where he doesn't want to be uh but over the years i've gotten pretty good like pretty well-rounded so like for example like the contender series uh we were against a guy who like was like a black belt in jiu-jitsu but his striking was just okay so that fight was obvious like we're like we're just keeping the fight on the feet and banging it out with him um guys like burgos who are pretty good everywhere, but he's predominantly a striker, just mixing it up. I'm cool striking with him. I know a lot of people are sleeping on my striking just because I'm a black belt.

You think people are sleeping on it? Well, just because he's primarily like we know what he wants to do. He wants to try to knock my head off. He wants to stand and bang and throw hands. He's a good boxer, and he likes to avoid the ground. He doesn't want to be there at all. So I think a big part of this game is him knowing that if we go to the floor, he's probably in trouble.

But a lot of people think I'm in trouble on the feet. But I think I'm going to be pretty comfortable there. So just mixing it up, and I've grown a lot since the last fight. So I'm a lot better than I was when they just saw me last time, which I'm sure he is too. He's coming off a couple tough losses. He looked good in both fights, but he lost. So he's in a dangerous position.

You don't want to lose three fights in the UFC. And so I'm expecting the most dangerous Shane Burgos, and I think that's why we're on the main card. They know two guys are a lot of finishes and very, very dangerous and big opportunity for both of us. I'm sure you've seen all the people on Twitter talking fight of the night already. I think Brendan Fitzgerald was tweeting about it. Yeah, he just tweeted it.

I'm so pumped when these guys got matched up. I've been watching Shane for a while. I'm a fan of Shane's. I love watching him. And then getting matched up with Billy Q, it's fireworks. It's an awesome fight. Me and Big Ev were talking about it. As soon as they made the fight, were like holy shit this is gonna be awesome

such like a good technical kickboxer but uh the squids just gotta drag them to deep water you know that's where we thrive hell yeah yeah i always joke um because we we've talked about it before and i'm i'm you know obviously i'm a fan of shane burgos um but you know when they announced the fight i wasn't really thinking about shane but I went over and looked at his Instagram page and you know how like if you have mutual friends that like like it pops up every single picture steamroller like this steamroller like this steamroller like this team and I had to text him like yo bro like we might be fighting Shane please stop liking every one of his pictures like I'm like he's he's our enemy for at least this fight like come on brother yeah and then as soon as after that, you'll see

Steamroller liked his photo. Steamroller liked his photo once again. Hey, Shane's the man. I like him a lot. You gotta root for New York fighters against other, you know, if he's not fighting another guy from New York, that's your friend. That's the real reason he's not in my corner. He's in Shane's corner.

I like all his posts. Yeah, it'll be like Vince McMahon when he takes the hood off like you'll see across the octagon it's Ravola in the corner all along yeah he's telling me he's going to some wedding

I was like wait wedding on that no now he would be in my corner do you have a wedding the day of the fight yeah I got my cousin Garrett's wedding

so I gotta are you gonna be watching on a phone or something 100% going bananas at the reception oh you know just like when i got

married like a month ago we were watching my rob's fight oh yeah yeah i had like that crazy fight it was fun it's a great fight from rob um i saw you tweeting a bunch of squid game memes obviously it makes sense billy the squid squid game did you actually watch squid game oh yeah i loved it i watched it and i don't know uh how you watched it i watched it i didn't even know you could watch it i mean it makes sense that a lot of people watch it in Korean, but I watched it just dubbed over. I did the Korean. I'm one of those guys who's snarky about it.

Hipster. Hipster, yeah. Someone told me that, too. They're like, oh, man. You don't get the inflection right. Yeah, I'm like, dude, I'm not reading. You literally read a book while you watched the movie. Sort of, but I kind of like that.

I'm like, oh, yeah, that counts as my book for the year. You're definitely engaged. Yeah. Well, for me also, I'm horrible with names on shows, like even in real life. Like I'm horrible at learning people's names. So when it has the caption, it says the name every time. Like, all right, that's who it is. Yeah, I can't tell you one of their names, but I'll tell you the premise of it and like how it went down.

And, you know, I'll tell you all about it. It's a sick show. Maybe in the future get some of that like Squid game uh have you seen all the drops like the edm drops yeah get those sirens worked into the walkout music he yeah he already told me the red light green light shit yeah i'm coming out to a new york song but that was that was a good good i like i mean that'll get a pop from the crowd every time once you do a new york song yeah i want to get bruce to be, because they always say fighting out of Tampa. I want him to say, by way of Lewiston, New York, but I don't know.

You know, he's a busy guy, but it's all good. Most people that know me know where I'm from. I bet you could get that to him. Yeah, I know. I might have to bribe him or something, because I think I tried it one time, and they're just like, yeah, we'll make it happen. Maybe Dana's going to be in the office tomorrow. I'll mention it to him.

Dana's coming in? Yeah, I'll just be like, oh, Billy Q, shane burgos looking forward to that new york first new york fight you know billy q should get announced from new york that yeah the crowd go bananas yeah i might even just you know throw tamp out for this one because it's always tampa new york but or at tampa florida but you know we'll see we'll see um obviously we know that for vola is team has bola are you team has bola or abdu rozic man i it's the question that's on everybody's mind yeah i don't know the ufc i like i don't know how to say his opponent's name what was his name abdu abdu i loved i actually probably am team

abdu because i saw his little suit and him shadow boxing was pretty fly his suit was yeah that was tight um but man i love i think the ufc did a really good job just marketing that like he was corners like he's sitting by himself and every like you couldn't you couldn't take your eyes off him so i think the ufc did a really uh good job i saw a big cat actually uh posted a meme with like him and coffee with with uh him and khabib like doing the point yes yeah that that was perfect. So it's cool to see a lot of, you know, non-cued UFC fans posting about that. I think they did a really good job with that production.

Would you guys like be a fan of it if they were like, fuck it, we're going all the way WWE with this. We're putting the fight on in the cage. Would you guys be like, fuck it? Yeah, or would you be like, come on, like we're real UFC fighters here? Oh, 100%. I'd love it, yeah.

I'd love it. I'll watch anything with real UFC fighters here. Oh, 100%. I'd love it, yeah. I'd love it. I'll watch anything with Hezbollah. Yeah, I agree. Give me all of the Hezbollah content in the world. And do they really fight? Hezbollah does. He trains judo. There's videos of him throwing kids.

Did you see that kick he threw? The kick was, precision was on that thing. Yeah, I know, but anyone can throw one kick. I also love like, people have difficulty holding them apart because they're almost like, it's like, how do you get a squirrel off you? They're so tiny that it's like they're behind you before you know it. Yeah, you have to lower yourself and get in their way. No, they do a good job of selling their rivalry.

I dig it. And when he came out and, like, they started fighting, and you can hear the post-fight, the title fight in the background. You're like, come on, man. You can't market that. Absolute carnage in the crowd, someone was saying. Hope nobody got hurt. This is brutal.

Can't be having this in the sport. Oh, man, too funny. And every time that you're on My Mom's Basement, I ask you for your thoughts on the Bills. Now, we are mid-season. Last time I was like, what do you think of the Bills going into this season the bills now we are mid-season last time i was like what do you think of the bills going into this season now that we're mid-season what do you think of them we look good man we look good i you know i hate because we went on like such a

long drought of like we didn't make the playoffs and it seemed like you know we got drew bledsoe and we got new jersey's and everyone's like oh this is our year this is our year so i hate getting like ahead of us and you'll never hear me be like, we're going to win the whole thing. I like that you're superstitious. I didn't even want to say it. I'm not going to say it. I'm not even going to say it. And some people in Buffalo will, but we have a really good team,

and I'm expecting big, big, big things. The UFC, they were talking about, at least my manager was telling me, if they couldn't make it work at MSG, that they were going to go to Jacksonville. Oh, really? So this card could have been in Jacksonville, but luckily it's in MSG. Of course, yeah. But if it was in Jacksonville, the Bills play in Jacksonville the next day, and I could have drove two hours to Jacksonville.

That would have been sick. It would have been nice. You know, won the fight there, and then next thing you know, you're on to the Bills game the next day. So I'm going to go to the Bills game when they come to tampa against the bucks obviously i'm where i'll be wearing my josh allen jersey um huge things i think it's pretty much uh super bowl or bus there they have such a good team and and i think they'll be you know playing deep into uh you know december and january did you see pft get his question on the on the manning cast i did i didn't i didn't

watch it last night but i saw him tweeting about it. It was a Josh Allen question. Josh Allen says he's his best friend, which I love that, man. He's one of my favorite friends. He said, Peyton and Eli, do you think that you guys can throw combined for the length of one Josh Allen pass? Yeah. What did the brothers say? Peyton was like, oh, first of all, you spelled Peyton wrong,

which is like, yeah, that's PFT's thing. He spells everything wrong. That's like the thing. And he's like, I don't know. Yeah, we could throw for more than Josh. I think he was just kind of like messing with him because he was joking with the Manning brothers, but I thought it was pretty funny. I love it that they got him on screen.

I saw him like Josh Jones. That's my best friend right there. Yeah. Maybe after you win, after you knock out Shane Burgos, when it happens, not if, when, let's say that, you could be like, let's go Bills. And then the next day, the Bills make a Billy Q shout outy q shout out yeah yeah i mean that'd be nice to them i know they get uh that's what i need they get benny the butcher he's another buffalo guy they're always like making like you know music videos and stuff with him so if i could do anything with the bills with josh

allen with any of those guys that'd be dope because i literally grew up like as a child i remember my dad like you know bringing me like over there dad bringing me over there at the Bills game when I was literally a child. They would stuff beers in our pockets and sneak them in. That was before security really didn't care that much. It's like that meme of the security guy where he's just barely checking anyone. He's just like, yep, go through. Don't forget Josh Allen.

You've got to go and meet Tom Brady in Tampa. That's who you need. I'd – Forget Josh Allen. You've got to go and meet Tom Brady in Tampa. That's who you need. Yeah, yeah. I'd rather meet Josh Allen. You'd rather meet Josh Allen than Tom Brady? Yeah. See, I'm not a football guy, so it's like – I am, but I'm a Redskins – well, Washington football team fan,

so it's like I can't be a – You can't say the R word anymore. Yeah, I can't say the R word anymore. But, like, you can't be a fan of football if you're a fan of that team. Yeah. Yeah, well, so when I – you know, 10-plus years, it was just Tom Brady, like, beating the shit out of the Bills. So, like, we just hated him.

But, like, in the back of my mind, you respect him. Of course. And now he's in Tampa, and you're like, all right. He's in movies. He's in commercials. And, you know, I've always said this. Slinging the ball. Yeah, slinging the dick.

Yeah. Oh, yes. Slinging the football and the dick allinging the dick. Yeah. Oh, yes. Slinging the football and the dick all over town. And now he's more relatable after the Super Bowl. He was getting drunk, getting carried off the place. That was a funny video. Yeah, that's a great video.

And I'm sure you've heard, but I guess he doesn't even eat carbs and doesn't drink or anything. That's the TB12 method or whatever? Crazy. Yeah, that's going to be, that's hard to do. I don't see too many fighters doing that, but hey, it makes sense if you're 40 years old and the best quarterback in the league, it makes sense that he's doing something. I guess maybe Glover's on it. Maybe that's how he won the title, that 40-year-old strength, 42-year-old strength.

Yeah, right. That's incredible. Brought the title back to Danbury, Connecticut. Maybe one of the least like-sounding places ever. I know. And he's like, he can barely speak English, but they're like,

he's going back to Connecticut. And they're like, wait, not Brazil? I want him to come to the Pop Punk show. We got a Pop Punk show in New Haven December 3rd. I want Glover

to bring the title. Could you imagine him with Mr. Brightside playing? Oh my God. With the belt, 42-year-old. That's awesome. All right, Billy. Thank you so much for joining the show once again.

I'm looking forward to the fight at MSG. I'll be there. I'll be there cage side waiting for you when you win. So, yeah. You're going to be there? I'll be there. Oh, that's awesome. As soon as you get out of the cage, I'll be like, woo!

You got the Hezbollah seat right there. Yeah, the director's chair for me. Yes, that's awesome. I can't wait, man. Thanks for having me again. Everyone check it out, UFC 268 this Saturday.