My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 44 - UFC 246 MCGREGOR vs COWBOY RECAP SHOW

Episode Date: January 20, 2020

Robbie is back from Las Vegas with stories to tell! In this solo show, he describes fight week from start to finish - from the flight over, to the pressers, weigh-ins, and interviews - to the fight itself, his semi-viral reaction video, and the Champ Champ's afterparty!!!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. I was out in Las Vegas for the fight, Conor McGregor vs. Cowboy Cerrone, and ladies and gentlemen, this one finally went our way. This was my third Conor McGregor fight with Barstool Sports, my third fight that I got the privilege and the honor of covering, and, you know, it was the first one that I was actually on press row for, but it was the third one that Barstool put me up for, sent me out for, and put faith in me for, and the last two, the first one was the Mayweather fight, which, you know, we knew was a long shot, but we were really fucking hoping that Conor was going to shock the world, and he didn't. He got finished. It was tough. The next one was the Habib fight. The Habib fight went absolutely horribly. The fight itself went horribly. The build-up, the death threats we were getting,

everything about that fight was just hostile. It was a bad vibe. This fight, the complete opposite. There were good vibes all around in Vegas the entire week. The press conference was great. The media day was great. The weigh-ins were great. The card was great. The fight was great. The fans were great.

Both sides were great. Everyone was respectful. There were celebrities in the crowd. Everyone seemed to be having a great time with this card. I was just over the moon with the way everything went. So what I'm going to do today on the podcast is I'm going to talk about the entire trip to Las Vegas. And I know I say Vegas weird. Everyone always points that out. They say, Robbie, you say Vegas. And instead of Vegas, I believe, I think that's how you're supposed to say it. I'm going

to be saying Vegas the way I say Vegas for the rest of the podcast. So you're just going to have to get over that. I'm sorry. I can't help myself. I'm going to take you through. We went on Wednesday, myself and Dana B., who you may know, the producer of Stool Scenes, Walk the Line, many things at Barstool Sports. He's been with the company for a few years now. And a super talented guy, hysterical dude to be out there with

because he's got his own brand of humor and it's very funny. But I'll take you through the whole trip. So we were there from Wednesday to Sunday. I'm recording this right now. It's Sunday at about midnight. I just got home finally after a long travel day. You could probably hear in my voice. I'm kind of, I don't know if I'm sick. I don't know if I lost my voice last night. I don't know what it is. Something sounded a little off with me. But let's go back to the beginning now. On Wednesday morning, we fly out there to Las Vegas.

I watched a movie called The Art of Self-Defense on my flight over, starring Jesse Eisenberg. And I got to tell you, it was a weird fucking movie. It came out this year,, it was a weird fucking movie. Came out this year, but it was very good. And I don't even know if I could recommend it because I don't know if everyone listening to this podcast would like it. You almost need to have a weird sense of humor to like it. But it related to mixed martial arts. It was a movie about karate, sort of. And it had some like sort of accurate and researched things in relation to mixed martial arts. So I thought that was a cool little tidbit to bring up. Flew out there though for Wednesday, which was the press conference.

That was the beginning of fight week. It was cool to get there immediately and have a family reunion type vibe. I saw Coach Kavanaugh. I saw Conor's manager, Audie Attar. I saw Conor's personal photographer, Dave Fogarty, who you may know as gingerbeardphotos on Instagram and Twitter and all that stuff. I saw Dylan Danis, and it was just like, even Owen Roddy, who I've never even had any back and forth with, really, I don't think, immediately saw everyone, gave them hugs. Oh, great to see you. You know, we're going to get it done this week. Wait till you see this version of Conor. They come out for the presser, and both Conor and Cowboy were super respectful. There was pretty much no trash talk throughout the entire

thing, which was obviously surprising. If you followed Conor McGregor's career, mental warfare is very much part of his game. This fight camp that was thrown out the window, he respects the shit out of Cowboy, as if you watch the fight, you already know that. And it was just like a wholesome event. It was interesting. Like the funniest part of the entire press conference and the highlight of the whole thing was Conor and Cowboy going back and forth about how great Cowboy looked in the Python suit and how PETA was going to come after both of them for that. So it was a good time.

And right afterwards, we went backstage to interview Dana White, which you may have heard it was the last episode of the podcast, our last Friday bonus episode. The UFC set that up special for us. Appreciate them for doing that. I requested some time with the boss man during, obviously, the biggest fight week he's had in a long time, and they wound up making the time for us, which is cool.

Got to go backstage to his dressing room after the press conference. Connor was in the next room over. Cowboy walked right past us. It was just cool to be back there while the chaos and the circus was going on. There were so many interviewers, so many photographers, so many videographers. I've never seen anything like it. So we went, we interviewed Dana. You could check out that entire interview. It's about 10, 11 minutes on the podcast. You can just go check out the last episode. Really good time though. It's always cool catching up with Dana. Even we walked into the room and the first thing he said to me was, he's like, look at you, big 21 year old. You're in Vegas now, finally. Because the last time I was in Vegas was

the day before my 21st birthday when we did the office tour. So he remembered that and he was like, oh yeah, this is great. What are you going to go drink some beers after this? And I said, no, I'm going to drink some proper and bet on McGreggregor which i did thank god i bet on mcgregor but that's really all we did on day one of the trip and then the next day we had the ultimate media day i've never gone to one of these things because it's interesting if you've never heard of this the ufc puts on these ultimate media days every day the thursday it's interesting. If you've never heard of this, the UFC puts on these ultimate media days every day. It's the Thursday before pay-per-view, every Thursday before pay-per-view. On these ultimate media days, everyone on the card sits down in the same room and they all sit at their own little station and media scrums happen. So maybe a dozen people at a time will crowd around a fighter

and shout questions at them. I've never gone to one of these things because for Barstool, it's always hard to get good content that doesn't piss anybody off in that setting because generally we want to do comedy. Our first goal is to make people laugh. And in those settings, if I'm asking questions that are not legitimate, when journalists are on site with assignments to do and they want to figure out, you know, how's the fucking weight cut going or whatever, they get all snobby. They don't like it. Not all of them, but some of them. So I've generally refrained, but this being a Conor McGregor card, a Cowboy Cerrone card, I said, let's go to this media day. Let's see if we could get a question with Conor. We wound up actually getting a question with Conor, which I could put in,

I'll put it, I'll throw it into the podcast in a second. I've never really had a one-on-one with McGregor like that. I met him once, but it was just a nice to meet you. Thanks for the support. Can I get a picture? Yup. See ya. It was never in this formal setting where I'm going to have a microphone in my hand. He's going to be staring me in the face and I'm going to have to finish this sentence. I'm gonna have to start and finish a sentence. I was terrified that I was just going to have to finish this sentence. I'm going to have to start and finish a sentence. I was terrified that I was just going to lose my train of thought in the middle of it and do that Michael Scott. Sometimes I start a sentence and I don't know where it's going

until I get there. I was terrified the whole time. I really was going back and forth on what I wanted to ask him. Originally, I think I was going to ask if he wanted this fight at 170 to prove to Dana White that he was big enough for Masvidal. But then I was like, that's too generic. That's too MMA media bullshit. Then I was going to say, if Tony Ferguson were to beat Habib, would you go after him or Habib? And I was like, is that too inside MMA as well? Because I knew the clip of me asking McGregor a question

would probably have appeal outside of the hardcore MMA fan. It would probably have appeal to the everyday Barstool fan who just knows I have, you know, this crazy fandom with Conor McGregor. So I hit up my friend Megan Olivi, who's been on the podcast before, the best MMA interviewer of all time, in my opinion. And I was like, listen, I don't know what I need to ask McGregor today. I want a positive question. I want it to be something that isn't just boilerplate that he's gone over a thousand times. You know, who do you want after this? What's your motivation for coming back? Are you a changed man?

This, that, the next thing. I said, do you have any ideas? And we started talking back and forth and she mentioned that he's been waking up earlier in this camp where he generally sleeps until 1, 2 p.m. and he's known for that. But in this camp, he said he's waking up earlier in this camp where he generally sleeps until 1 2 p.m and he's known for that but in this camp he said he's waking up early in the mornings and he's working out and he's doing all this kind of stuff and she said he'll probably go on a tangent if you ask him

what his morning routine is like because i haven't heard him say anything about that it was a fucking brilliant call from megan i cannot thank her enough She's the best in the world at what she does. And I got to ask Conor the question. So here it is. I'll put in the audio. Conor, right over here to your left, to your left right here. You said you've been waking up earlier in this fight camp than usual. Usually you sleep in late. What does a Conor McGregor morning routine look like? Yeah. And you know, yeah. So for me, I done this on the Diaz 2 camp. I structure. I had a set time that I train each day, and I had a set time that I went to bed,

and I had a set time that I woke up, and I replicated that again. I'm just going to make that my... You know what? It happened actually naturally, to be honest, with the kids. I couldn't stay up late and stay in bed. The kids would be running around, jumping on top of me then. Do you know what I mean?

So it just happened naturally, and then I just regimented it a bit more i said okay i'm gonna make it a specific time so it just walked in sync with it and i wake up in the morning stretch always drink water and go down have my breakfast play with the kids and about an hour and a half to two hours post breakfast i put in my first training session so that's my morning routine and i absolutely love it dearly we got a new property in ireland it's a phenomenal property on beautiful grounds the irish the irish area the irish the trees and the forestry in it it's like a park in the in the house i'm very i wake up every day and i'm very very blessed to have to be to be giving my kids this life and to be having living life myself. So mourning for me now is just a time of appreciation

and I'm just appreciative of what I have in my life. Thank you very much. It's great to have you back. Thank you. And there you have it. It was his last question of the entire presser. They shut it down after that. I think I was like fourth in line

but wound up becoming sixth or seventh because some other people on the other side had microphones that we weren't aware about. It was my hand was shaking as I was asking my hand was shaking as he was answering my heart was beaten out of my chest. There's just something about speaking into a microphone as well. That that puts the tension on I don't know what it is. Having your voice come over the loudspeaker hearing it. I hate hearing my own voice, which is an issue being I edit my own podcast, but it was stressful. I'm glad I got through it. Thanks to Megan Olivia for helping me out with really asking him like the perfect question in

terms of something that he hadn't answered before. It was a question that people seem to dig. And it was a question that Connor seemed to dig. So I was happy with that. We went back to the hotel after that, got some dinner, got some room service. I watched Robert Downey Jr. on Joe Rogan, which I would highly recommend. I watched it from my bathtub. We were staying at the Aria and there was a comically large bathtub in both of our rooms, me and Dana. And I said to him, I think we were at the presser. And I was like, dude, I'm going to fucking, I'm going to bath iter. And I was like, dude, I'm going to bath it up. And he was like, oh, I already thought about it.

I think we both took baths on the same night. Separately, of course. But I watched Robert Downey Jr. on Rogan in mine. It was lovely. I enjoyed some legal Las Vegas marijuana. Courtesy of Thrive Cannabis Marketplace. They're a dispensary out there. Opened 24 hours, which is crazy.

It was the first time I had ever gone in one as well. And it's, it's a crazy vibe. It's like a fucking, it's a candy store, but high end. It's like you walk in, there's cool graffiti paintings. There's, you go through all the security, you give your ID. There's like palm trees. They got, they got marijuana behind glass. They got edibles. They got Listerine strips you could put on your tongue. They got spray. They got this. They got that. They gave me some infused, I don't know what the fuck it was.

I took three hits of it. I started thinking about what's new Scooby-Doo. I mean, it put me on another planet. It was great stuff. Shout out to the people that run Thrive. Everyone at Barstool pretty much loves them. But then on Friday, we had early morning weigh-ins. Conor obviously hit the scales at 170, ate a big protein-filled breakfast, he said, to actually hit 170.

He was expected to come in underweight. He didn't. Cowboy also hit at 170 on the mark. And then we went to the ceremonial weigh-ins later in the day, which were at the Park MGM, the spot where McGregor originally shouted me out and pointed to me during the lead up to the Habib fight. The weigh-ins were a lot of fun as well. Once again, I saw Dylan Dannis. We talked about he unfortunately got injured. We talked about that a little bit. I saw Dave Fogarty again. We talked about the Mandalorian because over in Ireland, they don't have Disney Plus yet. So everyone in McGregor's camp, I think, headed over, signed up for Disney

Plus while they were in Las Vegas. And we're like, all right, we got to get on with this baby yo show while we're here. And it was once again, just good vibes, really positive family, like Conor McGregor's family was there. Donald Cerrone's family was there. Both of their kids were there. It was just cool. The Irish came out and the whole week we were told, you know, we don't know if the Irish are going to come out. They did on weigh-ins. I saw a lot outside in weigh-ins. We heard some Olay chants. We got to see Chuck Liddell receive his UFC Hall of Fame jacket because he was inducted in 2009 before they implemented the new jackets, which I think are just two or three years old now. Another cool moment, getting to see that. Chuck Liddell, the Iceman, a pioneer of mixed martial arts. We don't know

if the UFC is here today without him. It might not be. So it was once again a good day, but then came fight day. Saturday, I wake up on Saturday morning super early. I was all fucked up with time zones, time schedules all week. I hate the Pacific time. No offense to anyone that's living out on the West Coast. I think it stinks. Every time I go out there, I'm confused. I'm going back and forth on what time is this coming on? What time is that coming on? The fights make no sense. I'm used to the fights being, if I've got any listeners out there in the UK, I feel bad for you guys because I think fights come on at, McGregor fights at what, around 5, 6 a.m.? That's crazy. But for me, fights generally happen,

main events are like at midnight, 1 a.m. It's a big late night thing. Out in Las Vegas, fights come on at 9 p.m. It's crazy. You got the whole night ahead of you once the fight's over. It's weird. Anyway, on fight morning, I woke up early. I watched The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games Catching Fire, strangely. Both were on AMC. I just kind of had them on the TV while I was watching McGregor fights, while I was blogging in the background. Oh, and I also forgot to mention, I met Chase Hooper during media day. Chase Hooper, if you're unaware, the youngest fighter in the UFC.

He's 20 years old. He looks it. He looks kind of like me if I had ben askren hair and we had we had fun we made some content for ufc fight pass you could check out on my twitter he put me in a banana split which is a fucking bizarre submission he tried to teach me how to do it within within two minutes of meeting the kid i had him rolling around on the ground with me grappling a media day which once again i don't know how the other media members look at Barstool and look at me, but when they saw that, they were probably rolling their eyes being like, Jesus fucking Christ, whatever. Shout out to Chase

Hooper. I'll get him on the podcast soon. I think we've been sort of tweeting back and forth. I think we're best friends now. So I think that would be a really fun interview to do. Anyway, back on fight day, I watched a few McGregor fights in the lead up. I watched his fight against Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205. I watched his rematch against Nate Diaz at UFC 202. I watched his 13 second knockout over Jose Aldo at UFC 194. And I watched my personal favorite Conor McGregor fight, which was his come from behind victory against Chad Mez at UFC 189. So I was really getting in the spirit of Conor McGregor wins. I was just over and

over again being like, this is the fight he wins. I went over to the Park MGM. I placed a bet on Conor McGregor. I wanted to place this uncut gem-style bet where I wanted, like, give me a parlay. Give me fucking McGregor. Give me McGregor money line. Give me McGregor under. Give me McGregor knockout. Give me the under for the fucking whatever you know give me the opening tip

that's the worst bet i ever heard and i would say i disagree and then it would hit and i would win and it would be a special thing that me and connor had a special bond but it wasn't that because they didn't let me place the bet the only thing i got was mcgregor money line i don't know if i went to the wrong casino i don't know if i went to the wrong casino. I don't know if I went to the wrong whatever. I don't think I did, though. The MGM is... We got friends at the MGM, so I love the MGM. Can't thank them enough for everything. I put my suit on, which I had not brought the full pieces of to Las Vegas. I only brought, like, the vest, this jacket, the undershirt, and the pants. I forgot dress socks.

I forgot the tie. I didn't even bring enough underwear for the trip. I had to make a Target run on my second day. I had to go to Target in Las Vegas, Nevada. You know what a Target in Las Vegas, Nevada is like? There were kids outside asking if I would donate to their basketball team that were older than me. I think they were like, can you donate to my high school basketball team? It was a 42-year-old man. It was... I put the suit on. I was looking pretty sharp. I didn't know what the fuck I was doing with my hair. I was getting chirped left and right about my hair. You look

like Peter Parker in Spider-Man 3, they were saying. You look like... I even got a few Hitlers. They threw the H-Man at me. You look like Adolf Hitler. I didn't think I looked that much like Hitler. I don't know what I'm doing with my hair, folks. Obviously, I wear a hat every day. I also wear a hat every day because at this point, if I came into work without a hat, people would look at me like I got 10 heads. But yeah, I don't know. When I got to put a suit on, I stressed the hair. I brought a comb. I was combing it. I don't fucking know. I throw it to the side. Listen, what do you want from me? I'm not fucking John Stamos, all right? I head over to the T-Mobile arena. I had a plan with Dana B that he would meet me outside the arena after McGregor's

victory. I was so confident. I was like, this is the fucking plan. They will be partying outside the arena. We're going to get one of those Caleb and Roan style celebration videos with the Irish outside. It'll be great. So we put that in place. I said, come over right after the fight I didn't want him to miss the fight and I get to my seat on media row my seat on media row is always it's hard for me to explain this but there's three rows of media always three tables

I'm always in the third row and the third seat in from the left if you're looking at the octagon from media row shout out to the UFC PR for always hooking it up with that spot it's fucking crazy being that close to the octagon I thought hooking it up with that spot. It's fucking crazy being that close to the octagon. I thought I was going to get Cowboys blood on me when McGregor started throwing their shoulders. But listen, we're not even going to get to that yet. We'll get to it

in a bit. We'll get to it in a bit. The card itself, I don't have many thoughts on. I was so eager for McGregor. I was so jittery for McGregor. I was so focused on blogging everything viral about the card. I was blogging the Tom Brady showing up, the Usman getting his Twitter hacked in the middle of the card, Conor showing up himself, the knockouts we had, Macy Barber having that huge upset. The Anthony Pettis fight, I remember the first three fights had like some weird submissions. And I'll say this about the card. It was put together at the last minute, and everyone knew that. And everyone knew that it was not the greatest, most stacked card in the history of the UFC.

But I certainly didn't think it was horrible by any means. Some of the fights were a little bit boring to watch from a live perspective, because I don't think we had the angles that you needed for the grappling that went on. The Alexi Olenek, you know, jujitsu scramble going back and forth. Even the Anthony Pettis fight where he just kept getting his back taken. There were certain aspects of that when you're sitting there and the fans are booing and the commentators are always like, how can you possibly boo this? This is great. You know, this is a chess match on the ground.

I can see certain aspects where the crowd would boo and it's understandable from a live perspective. That being said, if I went back and watched those fights and had the expertise of Joe Rogan on commentary and John Attic and Paul Felder, I think I would probably enjoy the fights a little more. The Holly Holm fight I thought was super boring though i love holly i love her walkout the rock and roll walkout was the second best of the night uh right behind connor himself but i i don't know there were just certain things about the card that i love certain things about the card that i didn't love and i'll have to go back and watch it to get like concrete thoughts down the main takeaways

macy barber that upset was insane there were a few crazy like unexpected taps we had a foot tap in one of the fights the uh what was it the touchy feely fight was it that one that there was a foot tap the yusuf touchy feely fight i forget which one no it wasn't it was the second fight on the main card that we had a foot tap i believe my brain's all fucked up folks i've been've been traveling, I've been going, I haven't slept at all in the last week. Let's get to the Conor fight. This fight, I had nervous jitters, but never really anxiety about. I was so confident in Conor winning this fight, I was so confident in Conor winning in the first round, and he was never really in any danger. And I shouldn't say never really in any danger he

was never in any danger he never got hit cowboy walks out it was a pretty good walkout he has his kid rock tune as always then the foggy do hits this was the most electric mcgregor walkout i've ever seen the floyd one stunk to be honest honest. Being there live, the Floyd walkout, they miscued everything, and he was in the ring by the time Foggy Dew already transitioned into Big E. It was all fucked up. The Habib one was just so tension-filled that I couldn't even focus on it. This one, I got to actually soak in the crowd. I got to soak in the energy. I got to soak in the moment when McGregor was first shown on screen and he had the tricolor wrapped around him just like in his UFC debut. No shirt on, just fucking McGregor with the flag. That was fucking cool, man. That was awesome. The crowd

lit up with the green, orange, and white. Bruce Buffer's introduction for both of them. He didn't do the billionaire strut, which I was surprised about, but hey, this is a new era of McGregor. You know, this is just, he said he's just being real. He's being himself. The fight begins. McGregor immediately cocks up this left hand from fucking Kalamazoo, Michigan, and he throws it at Cowboy. Cowboy ducks it, and the force that he threw the left hand with pretty much took him off his feet, it at Cowboy. Cowboy ducks it and the force that he threw the left hand with pretty much took him off his feet and almost Cowboy hit a level change and it looked like maybe he was going for a takedown.

Not really. He didn't ever attempt a takedown, but it appeared that way, just the position they were in. McGregor's knee like made contact with the side of his head. It looked like almost a flying knee off a missed punch.

They clinch and McGregor throws three or four shoulders. He fucking shoulders the shit out of Cowboy to the point where I heard them. I heard the smack of each one from press row, from the third row. Stuns Cowboy with these shoulders, which I couldn't tell in real time that he was stunned. But watching the fight back, and even Cowboy said it in his post-fight interview, that he was rocked. He had never seen anything like it, and going back, Joe Rogan even said, Cowboy didn't make any adjustments. He was almost looking at the shoulders like, okay, he threw that. That kind of threw me off guard, but he won't do it again, and then he did it again, and Cowboy went, but he won't do it again,

and then he did it again, and by the third or fourth time he did it he was rocked he backs up he's on his heel he throws a head kick at mcgregor which mcgregor blocks and you could see in my reaction video which is since gone i don't know not viral but i guess you could say mma viral i i kind of give a face like oh fuck there's there's the weapon that we got to look out for cowboy's head. And before I could even have a second of worry, McGregor lands a head kick of his own, flush as fuck on Cowboy's jaw, which stuns him, backs him up against the fence. He's rocked. McGregor shows unbelievably terrifying killer instinct. And just, we talk about the accuracy and the precision of a McGregor punch these were precise punches these were powerful punches Cowboy goes down and Herb Dean stepped

in for the TKO my reaction which I was recording everyone wanted my reaction I don't want to say everyone wanted my reaction to the fight that's a bit egotistical but I knew people would like to see my reaction to the fight especially if it were a big knockout win for McGregor, like I expected. So I pulled up photo booth on my computer, just put the front facing camera on, pressed record, didn't worry about it much. And the video that came out, the video that followed, I didn't even watch it back before I put it up, because I knew it wasn't going to be the best look for me is undoubtedly the most polarizing video I've ever put up because half the people that have seen it have been like this is the most genuine heartfelt adorable reaction we've ever seen out of you oh my god how precious

and the other half generally the the more hardcore MMA half are like, get this fucking soy boy off press row and get him out of barst the head kick. I do a little jazz hands thing. I put my hands over my mouth like I'm the scream that famous painting, which I really do look like they put the side by side. And it's like a meme that is now in the replies of my Twitter. And I think I was doing that to try to hold back a reaction knowing I was on press row sitting next to UFC employees. Obviously didn't do a great job of doing that. I mess up my hair reacting to the fight more than Conor messed up his hair in the fight. I fix my hair as like a nervous tick in the video. Everyone is saying, did you fix your hair because you knew it would do a bunch of views?

No, I was just, that was nerves. And then he gets the win and I start screaming at the camera, blowing out the decibels. Listen, I don't know what to tell you guys. Did I look cool celebrating Conor McGregor's win? No, absolutely not. I don't think I present myself as a cool guy though. My podcast is called My Mom's Basement. I'm a nerd. I'm a nerdy guy. I'm a nerdy kid. Do I get way too excited and over passionate at times? Absolutely. But I think it also balances some shit out. I'm generally a pretty mellow guy, but a few things bring another side out of me.

Star Wars, Avengers, comic books, Conor McGregor. And I fucking lose my mind. I just do. I don't know what it is. It's that side when people post the picture. Zero days since Robbie Fox last came. That's kind of a fact. It's just kind of a fucking

fact. I know my mom and sister are listening to this. Jesus Christ, Rob, stop talking about that stuff. All right, I will. I meet Dana outside the T-Mobile arena immediately. I saw John Cavanaugh, who I gave like a hug right after the fight. I put the video on my Twitter. I just screamed in his ear. I was like, we did it, John. And he laughed at me, and he's like, we did it, mate. We did it. And then he walked off. I met Dana outside. We saw dozens upon dozens of diehard, screaming, rabid, Irish, drunk fans.

We made a great video with them, that Caleb and Roan-style celebration video that I talked about. And then we went back to the hotel. Dana put the video together. I put it up on the blog. I threw, I think, a few back to the hotel. Dana put the video together. I put it up on the blog. I threw, I think, a few more blogs up. I watched Conor's press conference. And then we headed over to Encore Beach Club for Conor McGregor's VIP after party, whatever it was. Now, the plan was to hopefully meet up with Team McGregor, hopefully get the eye of someone on Team McGregor. And we wanted that picture. We

wanted the picture that we talked about on the podcast last week with YP that would just blow up the internet of me and Connor at the after party after a win. The win itself was enough for me to consider the whole trip an overall win. That's all I wanted. A picture with Connor would have been the cherry on top. It truly would have been. I don't want to sound ungrateful. I don't want to sound like I'm like, and I didn't get the picture, so I'm pissed off. The trip sucked. Not at all. But the story behind this after party, I think is a funny one. Me and Dana show up at about 1230 Las Vegas time. Neither of us are club guys. I don't really drink i i can't even remember the last time i drank

before this after party dana does drink but he's just not he's not a club guy he doesn't like the environment i don't like the environment we show up we get three drinks i got a malibu bay breeze which is one of the only drinks that doesn't hurt my stomach and my mother's drink of choice and dana got two red bull vodkas the combined total of those three drinks was 73 dollars and something cents we headed in connor wasn't there yet and we just stood around for a while we took some pictures with some fans we chopped it up with them but mostly just standing around and it was a bit of a weird vibe too because there's so many people there that were just like me it's just so many robbie foxes walking around that are mcgregor fans hoping to get a glimpse of the champ champ at his after

party so it's kind of a weird vibe mcgregor shows up and it was a cool moment he stands up you know they they're playing the champ is here people going nuts he puts the the sunglasses on he was wearing an all blackout suit he had his whole posse with him. Dylan Danis was there. John Cavanaugh was there. The whole team of Gregor was there. He gets on the mic. He gives a nice speech. Everyone was fired up.

He starts kind of dancing. Everyone could, you know, see him on stage. Starts taking pictures, shaking hands, doing this, that, whatever. We're standing around and we're waiting to hear back from some people if we could get in, if we could not get into this separate area that McGregor was in. We don't hear back. So we're standing around and standing around and standing around. And eventually, like, hours are going by and we're saying,

all right, we got flights in the morning. Should we give up here? This wasn't our vibe in the first place. I wasn't even really drinking. I got that drink. I think I took two sips over three hours. And we eventually kind of inch our way up towards where McGregor was.

And then McGregor, Conor McGregor himself, and I shit you not, this is a true story, sees me in the crowd, points at me, and says, get up here. He signals, get up on stage with me.

Dana has this on video, and I immediately, obviously, turn around, kind of like that original video where he shouted me out, and just, I have these wide eyes, deer in headlights, oh my god, Conor McGregor just told me, get on fucking stage. So, we push our way through the crowd to security, where security was letting people up on the side of the stage, and I say, oh my god, Conor McGreg uh just told me to come up on stage with him and as these words are coming out of my mouth to the security guard who is probably fucking my age a

few years older than me maybe i'm realizing how hard to believe in preposterous it sounds and i'm starting to get worried that he's not going to believe me. And spoiler alert, he did not believe me. So I'm standing by him and I'm like, Sir, I swear to you, I sort of know him. I'm like a big fan. I could show you, like I was at his fight. I went crazy when he won. I don't know.

I didn't know what to say to him that could possibly convince him. And this moment, I was like, McGregor just called me up on stage. How could I pass this up? This could be convince him. And this moment, I was like, McGregor just called me up on stage. How could I pass this up? This could be such an all-time moment. So I said, what if I show you the video? I said, we got it on video of him pointing to me and saying, get up here. And he said, all right, show me the video. So I grabbed Dana's phone. We scrolled to exactly where it happened. We show him the video and the guy was just like, I don't care. I couldn't tell it was you. No way. We're standing there for probably another 45 minutes. McGregor walks back over, points at me again. And once

again, it's like, Robbie, get up here. The security guard once again, missed it. And we could not get up there. We waited another half an hour, 45 minutes. We even saw, I saw some of McGregor's bodyguards. I some ufc security pointing to me and being like yo what's going on like they were holding up fingers like one or two how many people do we have to get you in and me and dana were like whatever whatever you could do to get us in we never wound up getting the pick with the champ champ but that's okay the win was enough for us we got out of vegas winners we won money, both me and Dana. Dana hit on the roulette table. I hit on Conor McGregor himself. And we got out unscathed. The first time ever that I went to

the Las Vegas McCarran Airport after a Conor McGregor fight that I was out there covering and didn't have to like walk, you know, with my head down like TMZ was going to fucking jump up on me and say, what do you think about your boy getting knocked out or whatever? I was over the moon. I was wearing my Conor McGregor hoodie. I was wearing my Conor McGregor shirt under it. It was just this feeling of this finally happened. I've been following Conor McGregor since his UFC debut.

I've been a fan of him for so fucking long. I've seen all of his UFC fights live. I haven't missed one. This was my third fight I was lucky enough to go to, and it was the first time I ever got to see him win, which when you're watching that, I remember just watching McGregor fight after McGregor fight throughout all of high school, and every time he would fight and win and the Irish would celebrate and I would watch his documentary or embedded or whatever I would always think how cool would it be for me to eventually go to a McGregor fight where he wins and I get to celebrate and it's an actual you know for me MMA is my number one sport so think about that this was I don't want to say a Super

Bowl victory for me because that would be probably Conor McGregor winning a championship and me being alive there for that and not his comeback fight against Cowboy Cerrone, who many are completely disrespecting at this point, being like, you know, that's not a win for Conor because Cowboy's lost six out of his last whatever and Cowboy's been knocked out three times in a row now and Cowboy's washed. Listen, make no mistake about it. This fight was about how good Conor McGregor was and not how washed Cowboy Cerrone was. Cowboy Cerrone didn't land a single punch on McGregor, not because he was washed, because McGregor put him out to the pasture in 40 seconds. This is not about Cowboy. This was about McGregor and you cannot take this one away from McGregor. This is not about Cowboy. This was about McGregor, and you cannot take this win away from McGregor. This sure was a tune-up fight or a comeback fight for him to get back

on track and back in the title picture. Now that it's over, though, that performance was terrifying, man. It was scary. It was absolutely scary. You can't look at that man at 170 pounds delivering the TKO that he did and getting that record now owning the being the only UFC fighter owning knockouts at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight and discredit anything he's doing. He's undoubtedly up there with the greatest fighters in the world right now at this moment. He's got a great mentality. He's had a great mentality throughout all of this camp. I loved everything he had to say post-fight. I even had moments where he was on this quote-unquote apology tour,

starting with that interview he did on SportsCenter with Ariel Helwani a few months back. I believe it was in August, where he addressed some of the outside the cage antics that he had gotten into and how they had disappointed his fans and how he had been disappointed himself by letting himself get into those situations and i remember watching that and saying i really hope connor means everything he's saying but i didn't know in my heart whether or not that was true post fight i really felt I really felt like Conor McGregor meant everything he was saying. I saw the interviews where he was on RTE Sport, which is a news station over in Ireland, where he was saying how much he was delighted to have the support of

the Irish back, and he was getting emotional post-fight. He was probably more emotional post-fight against Cowboy than he has been against any opponent since Chad Mendes at UFC 189. He had tears in his eyes after that win. It was just such a big win for Team McGregor, for Conor McGregor, for me. But it was. No, it was. It was something that was a long time coming that I always wanted to check off the bucket list, be there live for a Conor McGregor win, a big Conor McGregor win. And I couldn't have asked for a better performance out of him. I mean, he didn't get hit, so he never had me stressing. I put out the call for some questions.

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And here we go. Joe writes in and says, where does Anthony Pettis go from here? Kicking things off with an Anthony Pettis question. He's nine-9 in the UFC and has lost three out of his last four. Any chance he follows his brother to Bellator? No, I don't think he will follow his brother to Bellator. I think Anthony Pettis, even with that record, is too big a name. That Showtime name is too big a name for the UFC to let go and let go to Bellator. I think even throwing Anthony Pettis on a fight night card would still work out. I don't think Anthony Pettis is done by any means. I said on the podcast, I think last week, I didn't like him at 155 again. I enjoyed seeing Anthony Pettis and his power at 170. I think the weight cut is strenuous on his body. He's been fighting for a long time now. So I think Anthony Pettis sticks around in the UFC.

I don't know where his contract is at. I don't know if this was the last fight on his deal or not, but maybe he's just not one of the top contenders anymore. All right, Tyler Bramhall, and this is a question that not only Tyler wrote in, but most of the questions were this. Who do you think is set up to be Conor's next opponent? I saw earlier today that Kamaru Usman may have an undisclosed injury that will keep him out of competition for a while, and Jorge Masvidal's manager threw up the idea of Jorge Masvidal vs. Conor McGregor for the interim 170-pound championship.

I think that would intrigue Conor a lot. I think it would intrigue Jorge a lot. I don't think it would intrigue Dana White a lot. I think Dana's trying to keep Jorge and Conor separated for a little bit, keep his star power spread out across the company. He wants that Habib fight. I think if Habib goes in there against Tony Ferguson on April 18th and puts on a great performance,

we could be looking at that rematch, which would be the biggest fight in mixed martial arts history, bar none. One of the biggest fights across combat sports in history. So if gun to my head, I would say Habib. Next up, I would say Jorge Masvidal. Third, Gaethje. Gaethje was tweeting, he said it was a bitch move to take that fight against Cowboy, whatever. Gaethje, I really like you. I really do. the fuck are you talking about with that you literally just took a fight against Cowboy you beat him and you were handed an opportunity to call McGregor out on a silver fucking platter and you said I don't want him

I want the title so shut the fuck up about that I'm sorry that's like it's such a bizarre thing to me for Justin Gaethje to sit there and be like, why didn't you fight me after he had the mic and was being asked after a very impressive knockout over Cowboy Cerrone. Do you want to face Conor McGregor next? And he said, no, he said, no. So that's why I don't get Conor McGregoror next i'm sorry justin gaethje maybe you get him now i don't know i would be i would be down to see that vinnie colotta rank this among connor's other big wins hmm interesting question it's it's not the the chad win. That, for me, was the most validating of all Connors wins. This was more a combination of the Jose Aldo win,

in terms of the shocking result, and the over-the-top, insanely impressive, flawless, fatality-like performance. It was also sort of like the Diaz rematch in my mind, where it had that feel of, Conor cannot lose this fight. This is a must-win for Conor. So combine Diaz 2, Jose Aldo, and then mix in a little Dennis Seaver, because it was just, I felt a little bad at the end of it, you know what I mean, no hard feelings, Cowboy, sorry, not comparing you to Dennis Seaver. Did Connor acknowledge the security guards not letting you on stage after he called you up,

ex-Clay Miller? No, he didn't, so Connor would like, Connor called me up, but he wasn't keeping an eye on me and making sure I got in, he called me up and then he would get pulled away to take a picture and pulled away to do this, that. So, no. But we have the video and I'm not bullshitting you. He called me up twice. Dana can vouch for that. The bad guy, badguy209 writes in and says, Can you use one word to signify the win?

Yes, I can. Back. Dylan wants to know, Did you drink a zillion beers, Bob? I didn't. Dana did, though. Dana drank a zillion beers. He also had those yardstick slushies on the strip, up and down the strip all night. Every night when I would say, all right, we're done with all content,

he would just hit the strip and drink a giant pina colada mango yardstick slushie. I fucking love that guy. He's one of a kind pat lankins pat lankins la la la la console la console la console pat lankins pat log eight why have you not been given a formal interview with connor if you have the connections you do any chance of this i think there is a chance of that in the future. I've never requested a formal interview with Conor. I feel Conor has done some cool stuff for us in the past in terms of him hooking us up with seats to the fight last time and all that kind of stuff. I don't ask these

things of fighters, of managers very often. I really appreciate what Connor and his team have done for me. I appreciate what they've done for my career, what they've done for me personally, everything like that. So I've never reached out and said, hey, can I, you know, have a favor from you guys? In the future, I definitely think it'll happen. In fact, I'm going to place a prediction right now that Connor McGregor will appear on my mom's basement before the year sees an end. Mark that down. Place your futures on that. We'll see. Great question here from Bo Burrow. Funniest thing Dana B did during the week. I'm trying to think. I'm not going to put this on Dana. I'm going to put it on both of us. We got in a cab, or we tried to get in a cab to Weyens,

only to find out that Weyens were in the hotel next to us. Basically the hotel that we got in the taxi line for. So we went up to the taxi line. He said, where are you going? We said, i think it was park mgm whatever the fuck it was i forgot the whole all the hotels in texas blended we said we're going there and the guy opened the he had the cab door open like we were getting in and he just closed it and he was like all right you just turn around it's you know right right

behind you man so that was a funny moment where we were just laughing our asses off all week thinking of us trying to get into a cab to the place we were already at and then finally i'll answer one more before i get out of here before i go to bed from ernie hawkins and i like this question he said since you asked connor let me ask you what is your morning routine my morning routine real simple i get up about an hour before i want to leave the door. I hop in the shower. I throw some music on. I get out of the shower. I throw my Hawthorne deodorant on.

I get dressed. I hop in an Uber to work. And I'm at work. That's about it. That's my morning routine. I appreciate everyone who followed along all week with the UFC 246 content. I know this next week we have coming up is probably going to have a lot of that as well. It always bleeds over into the next week, especially with the nice positive result we got.

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