The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Daniel Cormier Show - Islam Makhachev, Khamzat Chimaev, Alex Pereira & DC's Top-5 Interviews of 2025

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

In this special edition of the Daniel Cormier show, DC gives his Top-5 fighter check-in interviews of 2025. Listen to some of his best sit downs with the UFC's biggest superstars, including Islam Makhachev, Alex Pereira, Khamzat Chimaev, Arman Tsarukyan, and Umar Nurmagomedov! Between Islam roasting DC for being late, Khamzat dismissing the title, Umar thinking Cormier is a "fake gangster" and so much more, these interviews have some of the best moments of the year from the channel. In the words of DC himself, "we appreciate the love and support!" #Volume  All lines provided by Hard Rock BetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Umar was about to fight Marabda Walsh Willey for the UFC championship in Los Angeles at the Intuit Dome, which was beautiful, by the way, in what was one of the biggest fights of 2025. Umar didn't like that much when I said I was a gangster. He thought that Al Capone was a bigger gangster. Take a listen. Let me just say this. You know where Los Angeles is? Look at this.

So like everybody wears this. Like these are called converse. No, they're called Chuck Taylor. Brother, this is like Chuck Taylor. You have to put here. Lord Pianas? No, brother. Like enough.

No, no, this one. Hey, guys, zoom in on this, Louise. Look. Zoom in on this, man. You don't want to have like, you don't want no Chuck Taylor's. Like, it looked good on you. I never wear. Why?

Because I don't like. You know what shoes this is? I don't care. No. Next time do here, someone, some other, like. Here, watch I show you. This is a good shoe, man. Look, I promise this look.

Vien, so how is name? It's a, it's a converse. This is a great shoe, brother. Never. Hey, look, come here. This one. No, no, no. Why?

You will, for me, put like this. No, but like, you know what gang, you know what this word, gangster? Brother, I'm not gangster. No, but you know this original gangster? Who's, who's, who's, who's, who's, who's, are you know gangster? This, like Dr. Dre, E, like this, gangster. For me, too. For me?

Rappers, rappers, rappers. Brother, for me, there's not gangsters. I'm gangster. How? Me? How you gangster? Who you kill? Everybody.

Everybody. Brother. How many times I kill you in the gym? Okay. How many times I kill you in the gym? Brother, gangsters are not people who are fighting in the gym. So what a gangsters? Brother, they're killing people who are the gangsters.

In the street? Of course. Come on. Okay, Al Capone, who is? Al Capone? He was gangster, right? You? Here.

No, I'm not. Like a gangster. No, this is not true. How many people you give? In my life? I cannot say this because I've been in my ear. I go to gym. I said, no.

If I say, I go to jail. How would mocha? Why? Tell this guy if I... I think you even not kill fly, brother, like this. This is bullshit. You're not, brother. He's not gangster.

You don't think so? Of course, brother. You've known me now all these years and you don't think I'm gags. Brother, gangster not sitting in front of camera and talking with fighters. Gangsters try to hide. So what happened was I used to hide. Now I'm trying to read, like, redo my image. Brother, even can you last case?

More gangster than you. Cain Velasquez more gangster to me. Of course. Why? Because he acts like a gangster. Like a man. I'm a man. Who is this guy?

Who is this guy you bring? It's my training part. This guy come out of nowhere. This guy talk, talk to him. This is a PR guy? This media guy. Brother, let's talk about sport. Gangster stuff, it's not your.

You think you are? You sit like that and you think you're a gangster? No, brother. When I tell you? shit like that? I'm confident. I want to tell sick like this because it's comfortable for me.

When I said I'm gangster? Never. Okay, well, I am. You ain't going to change my mind. I know what I am. I'm from the streets. Okay, I'm the president. You're saying.

Nobody can say, I'm not. You never going to change my mind. Like, I'm the president. You know what's crazy? You have to respect me. And if I tell you something, you have to respect this, right? Big brother, always you have to respect. I respect you.

So you have to, if I say, I'm gangster, you guys say, No. We have to say about true. Okay, you have to, you can't say like anything like I'm from Mars. I have to say this is from Mars. No, you have to say this is okay brother. No. For respect? Respect, it's like you, one of the greatest fighters. It's respect. I say true. It's true. You are you brother, former champion. Dude, it's so hot. You're sweet thing, brother. Why? Don't know. You want to be Gaxter? I get nervous when you talk about. Where's your guns?

house. We're not allowed to carry these here. Brother, if you're gangster, we have to put here, put here. Somebody give me a towel or something, man. Give me a white shirt. You have to watching around, like, who coming, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have some follows up here. Okay, thank you.

All right. Guys, Umar under Megamatov, challenges for the UFC Bannamway championship this weekend. Finally. You feel like finally. Marab is saying you don't deserve yet, though. But you feel like finally. Okay, I have a question for you.

Tell me. about facts. Fax. Marlon Vera fight, fought for the title after one win streak. He beat Pedro Munoz. Do you know who is Pedro Munoz? I do know who he is. He beat Pedro Munoz and fought for the title. One, then he not cried. But I think Mara, but I think Maraub should have fought for the title then. Why he doesn't fight? Because Al J. Jim and Staling was his friend was champion, right? He was No, no, no, no, you're confused. Chito Vera beat and fought against Sean O'Malley. Exactly. I talk about, I forget, T.J. D.O. Show fought for the title after one string. Very close fight with Cori San Hagen.

Yeah. He won that fight. After that, he fought for the title with Al Jemines Stirling, right? Yeah. But why he doesn't say T.J. D.O. Show not deserved. Do you hear this? And he didn't say that. No, he don't say nothing. He was happy for Algeman Sterling because he fought for the title, right? Mm-hmm.

For that moment, he was good win streak. Maybe six, maybe eight. I don't know exactly. Morab have like Longwood Street. Yes, why he doesn't say... Because his teammate. And why he cried now? If your teammate was champion, that's why you have too long win streak.

And you fought for the title after that he'll lose, you take chance. Why everybody has to fight for the title after 10 win streak? Why? Al Jemannes fought for the title after five. Five. Yep. Peter Mellon after six. T.J.D.O. Show after one. Marlon Verra after one.

And you after? Five. Brother. Six. Six. Yeah. Six. I deserve it not because of, okay, six fight in the UFC, right? No twos even one round. What do you mean that was one round? Even one round. I'm not close in UFC. Not losing. You haven't lost the round. Even one. I beat everybody. I beat everyone like every round. I, you know, I, you know, I, I, you know, I, I, I won. So this was expected. This was like this was expected like this title opportunity is expected.

Father he just can't talk like he not deserve, he not deserve, but everybody knows. He won't fight with me because of he he won't, he won't lose. Everybody know it. Yeah. When you look at Marab the competitor, like what do you see? I mean it's a guy that pushes a great great cardio, great pace, works hard. Why is everybody talking about his card? his cardio if I never tired in my fights. Did you see anything like... No, you didn't get tired, but he

fatigues people. That's a great weapon. We're going to see who's better. You've improved the wrestling. When you first came, you weren't the greatest wrestler. You've gotten a lot better. For him not better is enough. What do you mean, not better?

Like we said, I have not better. In the beginning, you got better. You weren't the best. Those other guys, Islam, Khabib, Islam, my meddorf, those got a better wrestlers, right? You better striker, but now these striking's improved. I just came from Muay Thai. That's why maybe I was very young.

Young and immature in the grappling. Wrestling, it was not too bad. Like, immature, I was like zero in grappling. I will argue with you. And but right now, brother, I think al-hann-a-I'm one of the best

fighter. Like a fighter, brother. I think, I think I'm the one of the best because I can do anything. Godhambalah, and you know it. Yeah. What did you learn in that last fight with Corey Sanhagen? A very tough guy. Go 25 minutes. When the fight five rounds to zero, even after Corey said he was much better than I thought.

What did you learn about yourself in that fight against Corey Sanhagen? Were you satisfied with the performance? It was good performance and I learned a lot. You know, first of all, I fought first time in UFC five rounds. you know and I mean not tired you know I was I feel it very good even last five fifth round it was best I think best man yeah and I understand my boxing skills striking skills high level you know and I I took from this fight confidence you know and I learning a lot and I can't fight with anybody

you know not like this I don't care like you know when even when I sometimes when I go to some show you if see show and I'm sitting there anyway I'm thinking can I go right now to fight with anybody in the cage I asked to myself and I think yes anybody I will fight I will control this game in the cage I can do anything and I'm ready yeah my mind's like that hand the Allah my mind is like always I ready I'm ready and all experience, and you see, your experience, Luke, Kane,

cover experience, our, my team, like Habib Islam. Like, I took from you guys, everything, you know. When you were at the sphere and you're sitting there and Marab wins the belt and they start asking him and they show you on the screen, or you just thinking inside like, oh my goodness, finally, I'm going to get this championship opportunity. And then there were some hiccups in terms of giving.

the fight done? Were you like, what was the emotions, right? Like the highs and the lows to getting the fight done? It was, you know, moment where I'm awaiting, you know, I knew it. They're going to tell him I'm the next challenger. And of course it's making more motivate, you know, it's giving, give it to me very good energy. And the reason why I'm here, you see. I'm here. You see? Yeah. All life.

All life. All like, you know, many years, many years, many years, many sacrifices, many, many, many training kids. A lot of sweet what I keep in the gym, you know. When you were watching him beat Sean O'Malley, were you impressed? No. I'm waiting. Even before there's fight, I told everybody it's going to be.

You thought Marabba was going to win? I told Mirab, Omele have to knock him out. for win. If he will not, it's going to be a hard time for him because he not have wrestling skills, brother. Brother, like, your son can't, brother, defense for this wrestling attack. Even your son, it was too easy, simple. The same way, the shot that he took him me. How will I take him down? Take leg after him.

He fall. Fall like a tree, you know, everywhere. You know, and he's easy fight. This guy, like... Who's easy fight? O'Malley. Yes, he's easy fight, brother, like in my division. Most easy fight, like, I don't know who can be easy than him.

But this guy was the champion, Omar. He was a champion, like, I don't know how old Mr. Nick to lost his fight. Everybody thinks he will smash him. But brother, Mirab showed to everyone level, well, level and well, level. is actually a guy that usually respects, but with you, it seems to be like he's very, like, upset with you. Where did this start? Even at the press conference last time, you guys were yelling at each other in the back of the arena. I mean, where did this start?

Like, why is it like that? Let's be honest, let's be true. He's not person who always respect. With Petrion, he took a lot of shoes. about Russians, about Russia. He talked a lot of shit about Petrian personality, personal, and it's not true.

Maybe he's respectful with someone who maybe he's scared. You think he gets disrespectful when he feels a threat? Like, you think that, because Peoria Yan, you said, and now you. You know, even with me, he's disrespectful.

Yeah, he's very yell at you and mad at you. And, you know, maybe he won't to hide, he wants to make this fight, like... Personal. Personal. And sell PEPRue, maybe for this. Like, you will maybe take this money from PEPAW. I don't know exactly, but... Does it annoy you?

Let's talk about, right? When you sit with personal with someone, like, not have security, no one, just you and him. It's different. Yes, for sure. Everybody can talk with the... camera with security, took bad things, like, act like he's like enemy, he's like someone like... Gangster? Even like, even like guy, if it's gonna be looking like gangster, like, you know, my uncle

teach me, he said to me one time... This guy, I'll leave, think he's a gangster. No, my God. He's the best manager, brother. He's a great manager. Hey, brother, listen to me. Gangsters always hide. He can't walk, brother, here.

Rather, they have police looking for, right? Hey. Let's talk about my interview, brother. Let's go, please, please. Because this guy, at least crazy. Go ahead, finish. Your uncle taught you... Touched.

He's touched me. Like, he said to me, if someone has a problem with you, personal. He comes to your home, know your door, tell you, can you come? I have a question for you.

Why you do like that? When you and him alone, Nobody will break, right? It's a gangster style, you know. But when there's a lot of security, where they, they, they're going to do something, you know. Two different situation. I was in Las Vegas one month, right?

Six weeks, like I was in there. But I saw, I saw one time he was at the PI and he got locked out because you were in there. Las Vegas finished in the PI? What? Okay, Las Vegas has. place only in PI? No, I get it, but like he couldn't go inside because I think they were doing.

I think they were working actively to keep you guys separated. They take care about, not about me. They take care about him. When they tell him, go home, don't come to care. Really? Yeah. Brother, you think he can do something with me? I mean, you guys are gonna find out on Saturday night?

We're gonna see. How do you- No, I'm talking about that. If you have personal something. Oh, so like in public? Anywhere. Yes, yes. Come to me.

Right? Come to me. Tell me everything what you want. Like personal, like a man. Right? Gangster style. But if you want to promote fight, do like that.

You think this is a show. It's a brother. Brother, if you have something personal with someone, you have to go to him without security, camera, and talk with him, right? It makes sense. Humor, you become the champion this weekend.

I remember you were a young, kid when you came to the gym the first time and you're ready to learn bright eyes and Abib said I think this kid will be champion what will it mean to you to become the world champion on Saturday if you can beat Rob Dua al-oah Shvili Subhanalah it's gonna be brother one of the greatest greatest moment in my life all life with you guys you was always always always in the gym like my like who I look at for like examples on the wall with belts you know and soon my picture gonna be close to your yeah and a lot of

things but a lot of things and for us like a teammates it's gonna be one more champion in a from a.k.a one more champion from Dagestan it's gonna be amazing but it's gonna be awesome yeah and it's Islam's fighting. Tagir's fighting. You guys are making big money. Islam told me that once him and I fought, he knocked out Glacin Tebow?

One punch. I did ground and pound to finish my fight, but they gave me the bonus. He said, I should have went and said, you take the bonus because you needed more. Can I ask if you take the bonus? Will you bring it back to Tagir? Will you give Tagir the $50,000 bonus?

Because Islam said he has to, because Tagir is the one that is not making as much money. Yes. You give the money to Tiger? If they will give me, if Islam said this, and if it's going to be happening like that, if they will give me a bonus, if you both knockout, knock out, knock out,

and they give you bonus, it belongs to Tagir. Yes. Okay? Of course. Hey, brother, you know the shoes you bought me? Remember the first time you ever make bonus? You bought me those shoes? These are my favorite shoes.

I wear them all the time. Nice. Guys, Umar and the Mega Medaoff Challenges for the Bannamway Championship this weekend against Maraub duisvili at UFC 311. Make sure you follow Umar,

tapping to everything he's doing and make sure you hit that pay-per-view button on Saturday night because it's gonna be a fantastic fight from Los Angeles. Guys, until next time, like, subscribe, and tell you friends about my YouTube channel.

And also, hey, Ali, I never forget one time, Ali talked shit to me. He talks shit, talk shit, talk shit. I show up to sparring. He sit on the cops. Cabeep said, Ali, D.C. here goes far. Ali, I'm sick. I swear, as Habib.

Aligo. I can believe it. I'm sick. Until next time. Ali, I submitted him with the arm triangle. Until next time. Peace. Ali.

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And number four, Hamzaa Chimayev, long thought to be a UFC champion caliber fighter, finally got his opportunity in Chicago, and he took on Drekk as Dupli. He was hilarious. We argued wrestling. We talked about fighting. Hamzaa not only talked about what he was going to do in the fight, he absolutely delivered in beating DDP in dominant fashion to become the UFC middleweight champ. Hamza Chamaev is always great shists with his time

and he's always fun to sit with. Take a listen to me and Boers as he was trying to become a UFC middleweight champion. Oh, here is, here is. Day one, and I'm watching Hamzai Tchamai. I've seen that. They're true, and I'm still watching Hamzaj Tammai. Listen.

Yeah. He sound like you. Who is this guy? I don't know. That guy, he sounds just like him. Hey, listen, the video of us in Abu Dhabi a couple years ago has been circulating again, you know, where we were wrestling at the hotel. And then that was the first time in Fight Island.

You kind of picked me up a little bit, but like a little bit off the ground. Then the second time, we were wrestling again in Abu Dhabi, and you picked me up a little higher. It never felt disrespectful until today. You can't pick me up and spin me around. I'm a grown man, Hamza. I'm showing you love, bro. But you pick me. I'm not a child.

My leg spin. It looks cute, brother. Hey! With the big shirt? Why are you doing? Why are you doing? Oh, this is Anderson. Orders.

It's a very great company. My best company, yeah. It's beautiful. What is this? Why always black? You could use a little color in your wardrobe. It's better to use the black, bro. What?

I don't know. It feels better. You got to put that right there. You talk really low. It feels better. Yeah. Oh? That's, that's, I don't know.

Colorful. Well, look at me, but look at me. Look at my face. Look at your face. This beautiful, black skin, caramel. Your skin? Chechnine it. Not beautiful like mine.

It needs to be beautiful. What you need to be? World champion? Girls like terrorists. You're so crazy. You can't say that. Okay. I know you are.

All right, my brother. So, I was fighting with Dean Thomas the other day. Hey, stop this thing. It's fucking hot. Put it on like me. You put it on Hamza. What are we doing here? Hamzao's not hot.

Like, turn it this way, Louie. Like, give it here. Turn it back this way. You're seeing me instead of sweat, bro. I get nervous. You come. I get nervous. I don't want to get picked up anymore.

So I'm arguing with Dean Thomas the other day. And we're talking about. what you become in the world champion would mean for the middleweight division. Part of the argument was the inactivity. He goes, he doesn't fight enough, so it'll become a mess. That's the idea a little bit. But you're here now in the U.S., so clearly you can get here to fight. Are you wanting to get active like you were when you started your U.S. career?

Of course. Of course. I say if no injury, nothing's going to happen, I don't know. I want to go back in Abu Dhabi defend my belt. You want to fight again in October? Yeah. That's fast. That's good.

Fast money. What's your expectation for the fight this weekend, though? Because, I mean, Drake's duplice has been underestimated time and time again Hamzat. But he's the only one that said, I want Hamzat next. Everybody else avoids the Hamzat-Chamaya problem. Not DDP. Yeah, there's respect, big respect, but I never unsmithed my opponent. So I'm just work hard for the fight.

So I'm going to go beat that guy. Do you look at his skill set and think that he's like, what do you think of his skill set? It's different. All the fighters is different. But this guy's skills are different because he must be insanely strong or something, right? Because it seems like he's doing stuff wrong, but it always works out. Eresanya, like, it looked like Eresanya almost knocked him down. He ends up with a takedown, right?

He overthrows a punch, throws Izzy to the ground. Like, what do you make of his fighting style? Between easy, me and a big difference, but I'm not easy, you know. He's taken down easy if those guys never wrestle, you know. So I'm better wrestling, I'm better striking. So there's no way he's going to do anything. Not striking, not wrestling. So I don't feel I'm better fighting anymore.

So back to you being able to fight in the country. When you're at home, right, and you're watching everybody with these opinions, what are you thinking? you never said anything. You never explained why you weren't fighting more frequently. Like, what are you thinking? And I remember watching the video with Chale. And then Hamza can't get here. And then he pansed to your manager. And it was like you were at the PI. Like, what were you thinking watching? Everybody with an opinion, but not necessarily knowing what's going on. Yeah, well, I don't care about these things. They put me in opposition. So it's not my fault.

So I was making more money and anyone else. I don't care about it. making money when you weren't fighting, you said? Yeah, when I was fights once, I make more and anyone that. So it's finally going to fight so offline, going to make more money. Did you know after the Robber-Willicker fight that title fight was next? It should be. I said like three years ago I'm going to fight for the title, so if they make it a long time. What was the first time you heard that you would get a championship fight? After Gilbert Burns.

after Gilbert Burns they told you you were going to fight for the belt? Yeah. So what happened? I don't know. Did you ask? I never asked. I said, just give me the fight for the money.

You said that the other day you said you want the money. The belt doesn't mean as much to you. Chale and I were having a tough time kind of getting through that because everybody talks about the belt. Everybody wants the belt. But to hear you say

the belt doesn't mean as much, Like, why? And when did you develop that mindset, where it wasn't about the belt? It's about creating a future for your family. I have a question for you, bro. You want a $10 million or just the belt? But the belt leads to $10 million, Hamza. If I say to you, like, you have a choice here, $10 million and just the belt.

No, I'm not taking the belt over the money. But the belt leads to the money. To get to the money, right? If you works hard, the belt is coming, bro. I need to beat the guy just after that. I don't need to think about the belt and make some pressure on my head, you know. Yeah. I don't need that belt.

So if I get it, maybe bring the back to my country and give it someone. What would that feel like to bring that bill back to you to Russia? For me, it's like not a crazy thing. I'm not like crazy big funnel. But it's going to be huge, though. It would be massive. For my people, of course, the first guy who has become a UC champion from Cheshire. So they're very big for them.

and I know he's big, but I like to fight. You become the world champ this weekend. You bring that belt back to Chechnya. They've celebrated some great champions in the history of your region. Bolivarsar Satya, being one of them, like Adam Satya, of great champions. Like, what would it mean to you? Does that type of thing mean something to Hamzaa Chimae to be viewed like that? celebrated like that by the people that you motivate

and the people that come from the same situation as you did. Bro, you give me the questions that they were thinking about, you know. You don't even think about none of that, huh? Why? Just focus on my fight, bro. Just focus on my fight. And after that, what's going to happen is up to God. Yeah.

Yeah. So you get here many weeks ago, you start training down in Southern California. Yeah. The Airdine bike is hard. You guys are putting bands on the, the bike to make it harder. Why? It's crazy training. It was hard work. It looks like it was just insanely hard work. Yeah, it is. I've never done this kind of stuff. So, first time of life.

So one of the knocks was that Hamzad gets tired. That's what people say. Hamzad gets tired. Like if you can get through the first 10 minutes, five minutes, Hamzad gets tired, his cardio is going to fail him. Was that why you went out there and started doing those things? And who, whose decision, was that to come out to coach cowl and start training there with armand where it's to be good train like you know privately and he says he's LA has one guy and then Jackson

house and there is the gym good gym no people there so you can train along with your team so that's why we went over there then DJ said he has a good coach yeah coach Cal's good he doesn't really do anything no interviews nothing

he just wants to kill you guys in that garage is hot as hell up there too. It's hot, hard. That's hot. But by going through that, you know that nothing in the fight that you're going to see Saturday could be any harder than.

Yeah, but nothing going to surprise me on that. So I don't think so far it can be harder on that. So let me ask you this. What is your expectation of? Do you think you've finished Drake's DuPla-C? Do you think, like, what is your expectation? Do you think that this is a long fight? Do you anticipate him being able to deal with what you show?

Because I got to be honest, I don't know, man. You felt pretty strong. You felt stronger than you used to. Yeah, take secret juices. You can't say shit like that, man. I'm joking, bro. I don't know, bro. I'm just trained hard, bro.

Whatever coach says that Coach Cow went there and worked hard until I can work till I'm done, bro. That's why I'm stronger than anyone. Yeah. Fight how long as it goes, I will be happy. 25, if we were one minute, happy anyway. How was it coming across Dreykhas yesterday in the hotel? Just, I don't know, for me, it's nothing personal.

Just having fun in Twitter and making fans love each and all, like, love us, and shape them, show them a good show in the cage. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Damn. He's not that big, like people say, it's like big, big. He don't think he's that big? No, not at all.

Maybe because he's cutting weight, but like, when he gets in the octagon, he's bigger. I'm cutting weight as well. Yeah. And you wrestled with Sadja Laiv? Yes. In this preparation? No, just a little bit easy. Yeah.

He was there and preparing for his wrestling match. I was there as well. We just wrestled a little bit. Nice. But he's crazy good. He's the best. I can win over the wrestlers, you know, that kind of. I'm not wrestler, you know, so in the M.

What did you just say? You can't beat Olympic wrestlers. But you think you can beat me. I'm Olympic wrestlers. You literally just admit it. You cannot beat Olympic wrestlers. On wrestling match. Yeah, in wrestling match.

But in wrestling match. Any wrestler, you bring an Olympic champion in the cage with the gloves? I beat anyone. Not me, but. Yeah, bro. The rest of these guys. Yes, bro. You would not.

Let me say, you want to find out if you can. You could beat me in the cage. Pick me up again. Come down to my weight class, bro. No, no. I would never. Hey, would you, are you in this belt this weekend? Do you think that you're, you ever want to go back down to 170?

Because you look like a natural middleweight now. You don't look like you should try to cut back down. It's one of the things we're thinking about, but I don't know. Maybe, yes, maybe not. But I speak with Coach Carl. He said, we can do it if it gives me a couple of months. He's good. He has a, his laboratory.

He's working with all. fighters, he makes T.J. go down with the weight and, you know, he works with the crazy guys. And I believe in him. The middleweight division has never been better. You win that championship, you can stabilize a lot of great guys, right? Buhayor, Imavov, Fluffy Hernandez last weekend, who looked amazing. And so many others, like going up in that weight class to become the champion and have those type of challengers, is that exciting to Hamzaa?

Any fight is exciting. I'm fighting for the money. I don't care who is going to fight me. This guy right here, they got a different mentality. Why should they care? It's going to be this one, this one. Anyone who makes me more money, I fight that. I will kill everybody, smash this guy.

For sure. I thought you're like crazy guy. Hey, good luck this weekend, my brother. You are the man. Guys, Hamzaa Chimae fights for the middleweight championship this weekend. UFC 319 against Drecker's Dupli. He put in the work. He feels strong.

He seems ready. Go tapping everything this young man is doing. He's a monster and has lived up to the hype and exceeded all the hype that preceded him as he came into the UFC. Until next time, until next time, that I'm tapping in with dudes like Hamzaa Chimaiv. Until next time, peace. Hey, go buy UFC 319 too. Hamzat Chimov needs a little bit of extra cheddar. You don't want the belt.

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Armand Syrucian, this episode is brought to you by Total Wireless, the official wireless provider of the UFC. during your corner with unlimited 5G data that will not slow you down. And what's not slowing down is this man, Armand Sarukian. Armand, the other day, bro, you go to Doha

and minus 800, you're the favorite. You not only win the fight, though, you dominated Dan Hooker. Did you know you would beat him up in that way? Were you confident that you could dominate him in the way that you did? I was super confident, but I never underestimate him because it's a fight. He is dangerous on the feet.

He has good striking, dangerous knees, tips, you know. And I was preparing for my title fight. Same. So I treat that training camp that I'm fighting for the title. If I'm going to look bad during the fight, even win, but barely win. I can't forget about title fight. That's why I was super motivated, super confident,

and I knew I'm going there, I'm dominate, I'm going to dominate and get the finish. But you beat him, or you were fighting him, and the last time you lost the fight was against Mattes Gamrod. I didn't lose that fight,

first of all. I didn't lose that fight. Bad decision, right? Bad, bad. decision. But on record, Gammard lost to Olivera, two hooker, two. Yes. Ben-Darroche.

I beat everybody and I beat Gamrod as well. Yes. But when you watch him beat Gamrod, right? And Gamrod wasn't able to take him down. When you were preparing though, did you kind of have that in your mind like well, Gamrod wants to wrestle

and he couldn't take him down. Maybe this guy's taking down the fence has improved to the point that it might be a little more difficult and I might have to stand with them. And how quickly in the fight did you realize there's no way this guy can keep me on my feet? No, in this sport, there is a level, you know, when you watch fight and you can understand, like, you can take him down, you can hold him. Gumrod has a, he doesn't believe on his striking and he shoots from far away.

And then he doesn't have good control on the bottom. You know, he can take down people, but he cannot control on the bottom. And that's his problem. But I'm opposite, and I didn't think, like, I couldn't hold him on the ground. And when I took him down, when I was on the top on the second round, I knew I'm going to finish him. How did you know? I just fell.

He was kind of, after when I threw the knee in the first round, He was bubbling and the second round when I started punching, when I started to ground him, he, I started feeling like he's like so weak already, you know, and he wanted to give up already. And when I get the arm triangle, I thought like, no way he can get out of here. I don't just, you know what's crazy?

Like, this does not work. If you have good arm. And then I changed. But I understand, but if you have a good arm trying, when someone just do this, that's not going to stop you from choking him. No, no, no, I still choke. If someone does this, I'll choke. If someone's going to grab his leg, I'm not going to choke. But like this, it's easy money for me, too.

Yeah, people think like this answering the phone is going to stop a good, it's not going to stop. Answer the phone, it's nothing. If you got to give your back or you got to hold your leg. to hold your leg or you gotta give your back you gotta find a way to like get some space in here when you do this

it doesn't give space you need to find a way to get the space off of this shit the best thing it's a turn and go on your body go to your back your back yeah that's the best thing because

you have no choice everybody like it's like whenever you're on someone's back and you got to go to let get in the mount and then when they get in the mount you got to go to your back. It's like you got to choose between bad positions.

And then hopefully that in one of those transitions, you get away from the guy. But you can feel when you're on top of someone, you can feel their energy. You can almost feel their posture. And when their posture starts to tell you, it's time to get them out of there, you go get them out of there.

You did that to Dan Hooker. Here's the problem, Armand. You're fighting this dude, right? When you really don't have much to gain, All you have to gain is what you already have, the number one contender. You were the number one contender back in January. So why did you take this fight? I just prove it again.

I know. To prove. I just prove it again. And I showed again everybody like, I'm a real deal. It's not just I'm ranked number one. Just I'm not fake like Petty Pimland making rank by their self and the UFC teller bring, bring him. him up because we want to give him title fight or I don't know what they want to do with him. I am I was I was beating everybody and I was deserve every spot you know I was top 15 top 12

top 10 top 9 top 5 top 3 top 1 and now I'm top 1 and I bid it again and prove it again I'm number one contender and now they have have no choice not to give me a title fight. So you were, when you fought in January, when we were supposed to fight in January, it didn't happen. It felt like there was going to be a punishment. And then you go and you make the weight as the backup fighter for the title fight. I was thinking to myself, okay, that should give him good favor.

Now you might see Armand fight for the belt. But then you take the Dan Hooker fight. When you don't have to take the Dan Hooker fight, because once again, you're the number one contender. You take it. You dominate him. You win the fight. Patty Pimlet, though, when he went into that octagon, Armand, playing the devil's advocate,

there's a visual, right, of you, of him standing in front of Iliad to pour you with the belt. It's hard for the fan to, like, not remember seeing that. And they go, well, the guy that was in there is the number one contender. How do you make them outside of you just dominating, realize you're a number of contender? and why didn't Ilya go in the ring with you on Saturday? Because if Ilya goes in the ring and you two stand,

now people forget about Patty Pimlet. Why didn't he go in there? Because he doesn't want to fight me. He's scared of me. And he knows why I should take dangerous fight with Armand. He is a real contender. It's easier to beat Patty Pimlet, make easy fight and go move up. And Armand can be a champion in a,

155 and I'm going up and the fight with the third title. It's the best case scenario for him. And he's thinking for easy fights, you know, making good money. Were you disappointed though? Like, did you think that he might go into the ring with you and try to get that moment? Because the moment is really what it's all about, right? Me and Brock Lesnar one time.

You remember me and Brock Lesnar we fight in the Octagon? They were going to let me fight the. Brock Lesnar because he came in the octagon. Were you hopeful that he could possibly, like, go in there and try to build the fight? I thought he had the balls and he was there and sitting watching my fight, but he left. And he left and he didn't want to even be there. And he didn't get in in the cage. But even the camera, even if, like, when you're in there, they pan the camera to him.

He just turned his face and like And that doesn't want to even watch straight to me You know You think this guy you think he's afraid of you, Armid? No, he's just avoiding me Not doing something anything from the media Me versus him because he wants to create something with Petty He doesn't want to even mention my name

And he just created like some crazy things Like he's slapping me and like everybody's laughing. He said he slapped, Armand. He said he slap you, Armid. He said he slap you. If a man slap you, if a man slap you, you can't really say much about him if he slap you, Armid. Oh, my God.

If he slapped me, he slapped his brother, his friends, his teammateer, his coach. He slap everybody every day. He's like, yeah, everybody. Hey, I was like, yo, when I saw that. He's hugging his brother like this, like this. on the neck like me and like one coach like said oh my god you slept in it your brother as well wait wait wait wait wait the coach said this to him no no no the one Armenian coach posted and said oh you're slapping your your brother as well but he didn't

like it didn't look like he slapped you it looked like he kind of touched you on the face no he just came say oh brother how are you wait he said hi he said no he said brother how are you this is just media thing, this, that. And then he said, yeah, you see told me you're next. I said, yes, finally. And now after that, he beat Olivera and he just hiding. Wait, so this wasn't last week when he touched your face. This was before?

It was before a fight week with Olivera. Oh, wow. When he was fighting with Olivera, I was back out. Yeah. You're like, yo, this is crazy. This guy did not slap me. But this is what we want, though. This is what the fans want.

The fans want like the point of the hands. That's good. Yeah. He can say whatever he wants to say, you know. Yeah. I just, I don't know. I cannot be like that. So is it disappointing, though, that you haven't?

I mean, have you been told that you're next? Have you been told that you're next? I haven't been talking. I didn't talk to them yet. You walked right to the side where Hunter was saying and you did the belts on you. Like, yo, I'm next. Yeah, I said, bell, bell. He said, we will think. Or I don't know what he said. Yeah, probably would. He said, yeah, we would think about that. But what do you have to do? Like, what do you have to?

I don't know, maybe beat, uh, uh, a couple more contenders, or maybe they're going to bring someone from Japan, some debut guy, and I got to beat him, like Pantoja did, and I don't know. Would you fight again? Would you fight again before he get in the title fight? No way.

No, you shouldn't have to. If it's not Connor McGregor, I wouldn't fight. You want to fight Conor McGregor, man. He said he escaped back. Did you see Connor McGregory say he went on his spirited journey? He said he went on his spirited journey.

He never fight me and the UFC never let me fight Conan McGregor. It's a nightmare for him. He went on his spirit. But he said he goes

on a spiritual journey. It's the same thing like I'm going to fight with Patty Pimlet. Like people is laughing now. So you don't think that Patty Pimlet has anything for Ilya to pour you?

No way. You don't think so. At all. Why? Did you see what he did to Michael Chandler? Destroyed Michael Chandler. Okay, how many people destroyed Michael Chandler? But, but Arm...

He's 40 years old. He has six losses or two wins on the UFC. And he had like four loses win this win streak. he he he's nobody he just you see

tried to make him like an Artur Garrio who wanted they do him like a superstar or I don't know

but yeah he showed good fights but but he's not elite fighter there is a there is a levels you know

when you see and Perry cannot beat even Olivera cannot beat even hooker he cannot beat

he cannot beat Poria he cannot beat Geji he cannot beat Holloway he cannot beat me if he is going to beat even even Geji I'm going to say yeah this guy is good

so you don't think Patty's very good no he's suck What do you mean? You think he's good? You think he's good? If you say you're good, I'm going to turn off this. Armourne. This is good ball.

Armand, wait, wait. Listen, he's a good grappler. He's a very good grappler. He's very big for the weight class. Remember, can I finish? Can I finish? Did you see when he fight King Green,

he hit King Green, drop him and choke him out? Who is King Green? Bobby King Green. Bobby King Green. Bobby King Green. Green, he changed his name now, only King Green, not Bobby Green. Bobby Green and the M.MA is grappling, and Bobby Green is... Where's Bobby Green? Where's grappling, brother? What are you talking about?

No, listen to me. You know who he is, right? You know who Bobby Green is? Bobby Green, yeah, I know. He's good, striker. Bro, my brother, he never trained MMA. I swear if they're going to be on the street fight, my brother will kill him so easy. Oh, you guys have a problem, right? You, Bobby Green, in, um, no, we have no problems.

You slap him. You slap him. Yeah, I'm just saying, I'm just, no idea, I didn't slap him. I just pushed him. It's a, it's a different. If you slap somebody, you want to, it's a different. I just push him to the neck.

I'm not bullshit like, uh, Ilia Tapura. Even if I push, I say, I push. Okay. To be honest, Bobby Green is a not high-level fighter. Send him to Dagestan two, three years. So Patty, you say he has no chance versus Ilya. It just feels like that moment was missed last weekend for you guys to kind of come face-to-face and make it happen. Because at the end of the day, you might not think much of Patty, but Ilya's good.

he's very, very good, hits hard. He comes from a grappling, wrestling background is what he said, right? That's like his background more than even striking. What would your approach be to him? I mean, I know you use the wrestling as beautifully as anybody in the game, but when you fight a guy who has that danger, right, in the hands like Toporia, how do you approach that? How would you beat Ilya to pour you?

Nobody has. I'll beat him everywhere. Just tell me how you want to see the fighter and I'll make it happen. I think I'll knock him out with my ups kick. Oh yeah, I like that. I like when you do the axe kick arm. You got very athletic. I'll make him tired and I'll throw my ups kick and knock him out.

That's my plan. Yeah. So big one last weekend, now you're relaxing. Bro, you're eating camel back. What you're doing, eating camel back? back, man. That should look disgusting. It's not good. No, Camel was so delicious.

No, Camel was so delicious. I don't know. It was maybe after the fight, I was on the diet a long time. That's why maybe. But Camel was young Camel. It was super delicious. And I enjoyed it. What it tastes like?

What it tastes like? Between beef and. and lamb, huh? Yeah. Yeah. That should look disgusting. Too much fat. It was like a lot of fat on the back.

Yeah, you don't need fat. I don't need fat. I don't need fat. Hey, Arvin. I gotta be honest, man. You take your shirt off right next to me. People confuse. They don't know who's Armin Sarukin and who's Daniel Corvier.

We look just the same. You and me, boy, just the same. Yeah. And then the In-N-Ole burger. and all the other stuff. You live in life, man. Hey, I'm happy for you. I'm very happy for you.

Thank you. Thank you so much. If you want this title fight, right? Potentially, it could happen at the very beginning of next year. Do you go right back in the training camp, no problem? Yeah, I'll just fly out there tomorrow and start my training camp. Back home, you mean? No, no.

If it's going to be in U.S., I'll fly to U.S. Yeah. You stay in Los Angeles. Los Angeles or Miami. Yeah. Miami's nice. Hey, do you like that? In Qatar or in Qatar.

I'm in Dubai, relaxing one week and then back to work. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Hey, what about your dad? Like, he's now like a major player in M.MA. Like, everybody talking about arms. Do you see how he like slammed the Parumpa?

He almost killed him. I was laughing so long. And like, it was like a double-d-de-e slam. Yeah, that's like a major player in the M-A-me-A-N. Everybody loves this guy. Oh, all good, man. Hey, I'm happy for you, bro. I hope you get this title fight.

I'm telling you, man, you were the number one contender in January. You're the number one contender today. And if you aren't fighting for the title, I don't understand. I really don't understand how anyone could be in there above you, especially with how competitive and how good of a fight it would be between you and Iliot to pour you. Hey, what happened with Ian Gary and Hamzat? Ian Gary, he grabbed Hamzaat?

Well, Hamzaa has a 2-0 that day. What happened? We just came from the baths. And, like, we are getting to the... to the arena and the one bodyguard like push into Hamza and say hey go back and go come back again he's like a there is like a security thing you know yeah he wouldn't let Hamz out in the building he's like it doesn't let Hamza to get in and like Hamza like boom push him and then like and then when we go in locker room like

they called police, you know, they take him out and then he came back, and take him out, he came back. And then even Gary, same shit, you know. What do you get? And then Aaron Gary,

he got two and all that day. He pushed Ian Gary too. Yeah. This guy's crazy. That is so crazy, yeah. Hey, were you surprised at Islam B. Jack Delamadena that bad?

Was that, were you surprised he killed him bro yeah I thought Islam gonna win him but not like that was it was like so easy I don't know Islam now

right now on the his prime that's crazy how he feels distance how he strives how he's calm and you see he does like he moves so good he doesn't spend like like energy you know

He just shoot on the right time, punch on the right time, and take him down so easy. I don't know, like, what Jack Madalena was doing all training camp. He doesn't defend, he didn't defend even one takedown. It's, like, crazy. Yeah, it was only, some of these guys, like, I'm very confused, right? Like, Dracus Dupl. And Jack, like, knowing who they were going to fight, how they didn't recognize the takedowns were coming. Hamzat was shooting on Drake's just shooting on him.

I mean, how many times did Duplice, like, sprawl? He didn't really even get to sprawl many times because Hamzat was just taking him down so quickly. And it felt like the same thing with Jack, like when Islam would kick him, kick him, kick him, then the moment he would shoot, grab him, put him down, it was over before it ever got started. It was very surprising how easily he dominated Jack Delamatta in that fight. but it is Islam is a beast right now yeah he's a real

yeah he's a real pound for pound right now yeah what else you got to say champ what else you got to say about this title fight anything you want to tell Ilya anything you want to tell to UFC before I let you go yeah I just want to say Ilia get your balls and

take the fight let's let's make it happen people is waiting for that fight don't like try to make WW fight it's a there is a contender number one hey Patty Pimley he going to find you

some donuts Patty Pimlet's going when you see Patty Pimley he's going to lose his mind on you he going to get you at least he's going to try any any day anywhere just just

yeah you're the man Armand Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, name? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there.

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Poetan Pereira, Alex Poetan Pereira, Alex Poetan Pereira. I'm an idiot. Loss his belt to Magamount on Kalliath and earned a rematch in Los. Vegas. Poetan actually was able to not only get a title fight, but he delivered on everything that he said he was going to do. Poetan swore that he wasn't healthy. Poetan said he was injured. Alex and I had some fun making jokes with each other before the fight, but once that octagon door closed, it was all business for Alex Pareda. Hey, Alex Pareda is one of our best guests here at DC TV, the Daniel Cormier show.

Him and Plinyo Cruz are always welcoming. Once again, they delivered massive numbers, and he delivered a massive performance. So Poetan gets the number two spot for my second biggest check-in or best check-in of the year. Okay, can we make a truce? Hey, can we make a truce?

Ask me if we can make a truce. This guy is like truth. Truth in Chippo Parsity and Chippo. No, Joe, take everything even. Hey, no, John. All the even though I told him all the people. This is all right. Here.

Here. Here? Here, I'm here. Oh. No, go. Go. Go. Go.

Oh. This guy's crazy, man. How are you people there? Bro. He said, everybody's your life, did you fell with rebel? What?

That you fell? He said, like, what happened to you fell? When I video, like, I think it wasn't a press conference or anything like that. Oh, yeah, I felt. No, yes, the court. The court tripped me backwards, yes. But tell him I wasn't, I wasn't really hurt. I was embarrassed for you pretend.

I was embarrassed. Yeah, you know, like, so you fall down, ah, ah, ah, this soon as I get home, you know, everything okay. So nobody left. Yeah, nobody left. Everybody's concerned, right? Everybody's concerned. Because I have to.

I'm a very good actor. Hey, tell Alex, I got something today from this guy. But I know this guy kick my ass. Here. Look, what is that right, man? Luis, here it is. Look. Whitaker.

Robert Whitaker. Look to Whitaker. Look to Whitaker. Look. Tell him, no way. Tell him, every time he beat me. Every time he killed me. But you, every time you kill me.

Every time you kill me. Hey, 18 years old, 20 years old, 30 years old, you the champion. That's my boy, right, he's killed. Yes. Hey, can I have that video of the kick, kick, kick. Ask him. You can't tell you, please give it to it. But you can't hit him.

This guy thinks that if he gives the video, you will kill him. Okay, good. All right. Guys, I'm checking in with the champ. Alex Poulatown Pereira, former champion, light, heavyweight. Former champion middleweight. How are you doing, my guy? How do you talk, Alex?

Why don't you put those headphones? You don't have to talk about... We're in test, I don't know how it works, but there's to be a silence. And the questions have to be paused.

We still test, the whole room got to be quiet, every question has got to be paused. Very slow, like, very slow question. No, he can do it, then we'll listen, it a little bit, right? And then, then, then

wait, because then the whole delay is going to translate. Deliver, yeah. Yeah, they go for the following. Nice. You're back on the fight week, But it's been a while since you fought, seven months since you lost your UFC Light Heavyweight Championship.

What does this seven months look like for Alex Pereer? Well, it's the Semana of the Luda now, but it's already seven months. It's seven months that we don't have competed. How are it being the week of now for you, to Alex Pereira? In reality, for me, not, like, no, it's not like, it's a lot of time, so, uh, it's, it's, for the people are all, trying to see, to look,

but, boy, for us, for us, for us, of being, for, so, it was a time good, a time of a

time of recoration of the reasons, it was a very very being

being trying to have been not even that's been that long, but for him was

some time that he needed to heal his injuries, to get back for everything in track and go again so he's feeling really good about it. Is that really his house with those two things on the porch?

I saw a video of the two stone heads on the porch. Is this really his house? There's his house? There's not, not any, not of the padder or no. I'm not going to be in that house, so I just saw that he's going to, so it's a more, but I'm going to do another house and I'm going to do something better.

Yes, that's his house, but those are not really made of stone, but he just bought a new house, so he knows he's moving, so now for the new house, he's going to make some things. A new house is going to make something better. He bought a new house? How big this time? This guy, this is rich guys. Not very great, but I think the terrain is a legal.

The land around is very nice. Big acreage, acres? So you can shoot your bowl, ride you do you think? Does he have like four wheelers? Like four wheelers, everything? Quadicycle? No, no. Does he have animals?

No. Cows? Vaca? No. So what does he need all that land for? For the kids to play. It's not crazy, but like this and you know, no one. Barbecue?

Can I go? He can't? Of course. Yeah. But you gotta bring the steak. No, no, no, no. No, no. He buys the steak.

He's got to bring the steak. He's the guy that's fighting and has all the money. He's got to be, he's responsible to bring it enough steak for you and me. We're going to break you. We're going to break you. There's a problem, no. Picagna.

The best one. Piccania, Fezwada, that's all I need. Okay. This fight's a little different than the last one, No Pereira. This fight, you guys are. going back and forth. You said he hid from you at the P.I.

The next day he approached you at the P.I. But he said at the P.I. Whereas the first day you said he was afraid, he said he felt no like anger or aggressiveness coming off of Pereira. And that's the reason they didn't get into a fight right then and there. He said Pereira was more measured when he approached him.

Well, how much is a little different as things, first you say that he's just talking about he He's, he's in the PI, and then he came, and he went with you in PI, and he said, he didn't feel much a raiment of you

in you, for that he didn't not, no, the first day that he he's just he didn't, I don't know what was

my intention, my reaction, and then then we posted, uh, on Instagram, or on the channel on YouTube, and then he

saw, I think I'm going to play with a guy, I'm, well, we're going to sit in a porrata, You can find the guy and, I'll find that I didn't see,

then, then, then, then he felt, he's safe, and then he came, and then he wanted to give him but if I had been quiet from the first moment or so if I had to

have to do something, he would have to do something, he would not have been. Honestly speaking, when the first day that we threw that video that he was hiding, he probably watched that video, right? And then he knew,

saw Alex saying, like, I don't know why these guys hide. They're not going to do anything I don't want to fight. So, and then the next time, of course, he pulls up. He goes there big, you know what I mean? Like saying all that stuff. But the same way that he knew that Alex was going to fight, for sure, if Alex went on all grass, you say,

if I got this guy, I'm going to do this, he probably will not even show up again. Yeah. So you think that Magerman on Kalaya, you feel like he's not telling the truth in this situation? You think what Calais don't talk about much the situation? No, from the first of the initial, when he wanted to be to be in some form, to call attention, not because

nobody wanted to look at him, and then, he started to say, oh, the guy got from the the other, he doesn't want to sign a contract, the guy don't want this, not that, well, for me, never ever came to understand, so how I would say, that so, that he said to say that he was making that he was making

to promote a lot, to try to try to, uh, to, uh, to look at me. Since the beginning, these guys have been using that, has been lying to people. from all of himself. Alex does not want to fight. Alex does not want to do this. Alex does not want to do this.

So for sure, they call life many times and they're using that for maybe promotional reasons. So before we get to the fight, I want to ask you this. So there was a tweet

a while back when Alex was mad at the UFC and he said he got hacked. My belief is he got mad because they might have thought about giving the title fight to someone else. Was ever time that he almost

wasn't going to get this title fight? Be honest, Pereira. Did they ever offer it to someone else? Look at his face, look at his face. He knows what I said. Look at him. He said. He said, he said,

that he said, he had a part of the Twitter, that he said, said, you know, said, then, then, then he was being, me,

he was being, a bit of, so, there's, there's, in this, time, that you,

think, for the record, if that happened, he was well within his right to be upset because he's always done everything everybody's asked him to tell him this I want to know if he really got hacked

because I don't believe it and if he was mad he is well within his right because he's always done everything the right way did they offer to fight to someone else he can't know if your Twitter was hacked and if it was you have all the right to be chateach

because you did always everything through the organization and if the lute was really the other person? But I said of this, you know, the things,

I did, the thing, I did the part of, and then, we went to a, in a,

no, a, no, a, and I explained the, why I had done that

that's, and then, it's a little emotional, to do, do you do,

do, sometimes, you, it happens, it's much with a reporter, you know,

I'm, I'm going, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm,

So I'm, I'm, I'm I'm learning and maybe not it's a better way, but it was a good form, because I saw,

I saw, I saw, I mean, that, it was, it was, it was, it was,

it was well, understood, but, but, no, final, did all the organization,

FC, did all, they're, they're, they're, they're, I'm happy with all this,

and, and, boy, there, this, I put an al-Ahev, with one other, I don't know who, but I don't accept this, because for me, for me, it was

... ...for me, it was... ...that was the word, that I would say, I think, like, with all that I did, ... ...colug one other person to go to

and this guy, ...and when I will go to this guy, ...it, it's what I want to want. I already spoke about the whole three conversation, right? And... a little bit bit... emotional got a little tight because of everything he did for the organization and he

went there and he threw that tweets he would he said that's maybe sometimes he had as that was a little bit because he was upset by everything that he did and conversations things got to his ear about maybe he'll be don't find him for the bell maybe speak somebody else but he said he was wrong because the UFC has been very good for him yes so they all talk they're in a great moment they were not great conversation, they're in great terms. But upset him was because he was promised to fight Uncle Ave next. And because of the schedule that they had to move, right, like everybody fighting.

I remember that. And they couldn't get somebody to fight that. They could have baby put him to fight somebody else. And let's say Han Kalif go and lose to somebody else. When is he going to fight Uncleav again? He wants Uncleav. Yes. So when it comes to the Anka Life situation,

All the back and forth. He's more vocal in this building we've ever seen him. Is that him trying to get himself to a place where he's ready to compete with him? Because certain guys need to make something a little bit more to get up to a fight, especially a rematch. And John Jones versus Stepe. John Jones said that Stepe called him a bad dad or something. And poor Stepe is sitting there like, wait, what?

I didn't say that. But he needed to put himself in a place where he wanted to harm Stepe. Is this what he's doing? Alex be more vocal. Yes. Is he trying to get himself to a place where he's like, fuck this guy? You're going to be a little bit more verbal,

in these last few times, compared to other than the lutas. This is a way to make a strategy for you, to train the head of Ankalaev. For example, the John Jones said one once that the Steve Miotic said that he was a mal-pai.

Then he said, but he was going to say he didn't have in the case he didn't have the head of the guy. It's more or less a thing for you, too, for you're like that motivated, you're a little bit more verbal? No, I just said, like what I said was response.

In any moment I came, I initiated a conversation, I said, I don't inventing that the guy was hiding, it was what happened and I just passed for who was to, for who, who, my channel was for this, to show all right in the backsteaders.

And was what I did. So, you know, It's not a, not a strategy. It's something natural that's going. Story strategy is just something natural that is going. And to be honest, right here, for the record, Alex only answered. He never initiated.

So, Khalav go and say something. Alex Go, like he's on an interview, he's on his YouTube channel. He just expressed what he thinks about what was said. Yeah. So he's not the one to take the initiative. To the fight in particular, what can he change? Because most thought that he would struggle with Anka Live's wrestling, but he didn't. He defended every takedown.

But maybe because he was so focused on defending takedowns, he couldn't get his offense going. So what does he change this weekend to make sure that he's the UFC championing it? What you can't move to this final of the week? For you, your champion, de novo. The first look, well, defended all those those those cases, was in-same. Much of a lot of times ask that not been so seded by,

because he's more thinking in defending the quenquered with wrestling how is how you do this equilibrium

what you do you move to signor on Saturday? Uh, of the really, no,

it's not to make much a lot of a we did some some but,

but it was very little when I went, I was I was a little

I said there, I said there of some I don't not I couldn't

do you something I'm something I would have to do recycling, and I'll have to

train and do a camp and so. No, it was what I did with some adjustments. So, I believe I, my physical well, man, man, if I, if I, if I was, if I

had, um, with a body, uh, a body, in a proper, a little, a, one, a,

the next month, I don't need to more nothing to win a of him, in reality. I don't need to to learn more than anything. It's not like I got a reinvent the wheel.

Everything was made on details. When I left the fight, Spoke Glover, it's just very little things that makes a big, that made a difference on the fight. But honestly speaking, if I'm 100% healthy, I don't think I had to learn or change anything. I had to just show up healthy.

I don't win this fight. In fact, I was, really, I feel like, infelis, not by the result, but I'm happy to know how I can be better than he. P, put,

it's the way that I was and, like, the guy not did much thing, yeah, but, boy, he did a great thing,

I imagine I, I, in a moment, on a day good, with what I was in mind, strategically and all, and now,

with more what I've been evolving, because it's different. For a guy who's got a much time in MMA and

and the process of evolution of his, maybe maybe not, minor than than the more, because, boy, this is something new for me, I'm learning much and I'm very motivated. And honestly, knowing the conditions in which I thought that day, I'm not happy with the result,

but it makes me happy to see how much better I can be than what I display on the day compared to what I was, and putting together everything that I evolved on this month, because honestly, Uncle Ed is a guy that's a guy that's fighting for a long time, MMA. So how much can he evolve?

Alex is young on the sports, so how much more he evolves. So putting all together, he's happy or how much better he can perform. Was there something specific that Uncle Yov did that didn't allow for him to go forward? Because generally he's the pressure fighter. Was there something he did in particular that made him kind of fight on his back foot? And how does he go forward this weekend? Because when Alex is aggressive and pressing, Nobody in the world can fight him,

but he seemed to spend a lot of time but he's back against the Octagon last time. There was a lot of specific when Kalalhe did he did not you let's fight much to front, that you probably looked a little more back back, because when you're standing to front, nobody can't secure you, nobody can't fight with you.

It's the day, I was in a day, a day wrong, so we don't know, we have control of all there, not to do what we've plannedes and we have to try to move he imposed the game and, well, unfortunately

I have to accept that here. I was not in a good day. You know what I mean? And I had to go all ahead. You know what I mean? He was able to impose more his game on the day. You know what I mean? It was hard for me to control. So going into this weekend, healthy, back, excited, more locked in than you've ever been.

You did a pre-camp in Brazil. Before you went home and did your own camp, what can we expect come Saturday night from Alex Pereira? And now, 100% there's, uh, it's a good, he's a camp, he did a camp in a pre-camp in Brazil before to start this camp.

What we can't expect, to go to L'Eight Perey for Saturday? Well, I'm still a guy, uh, a guy different, aggressive, and, and, with a strategy,

uh, it is. A different guy, you know what I mean? A different strategy, more aggressive, Walking forward. You fought 11 times in the UFC 7 for title fights.

This has to be unbelievable to think that your career has been this, this fast. Lvote 11th versus in fact. It's incredible, inacreditable, you have made this way so rapid. How is this for you? For me, it's a gratificant, a moment of, for, a legria,

like I always said, many people who know how it's a lot how it's difficult no I don't even

didn't even I don't but it obvious a man who did the kick box and this guy

would not in nothing and he would put a man but it but it's because

it's because it's not because it was I was getting and going and I never

was tested so so this made very so this this

He's really that nobody who's who's one of the guys more of the other people in the organization. Not just of now, and 30 years of the UFC, you know? It makes me really happy because of the beginning many people didn't believe in.

Maybe you a little bit too. Guys like, okay, this guy's just another kickboxer, come to the UFC, is not going to get nowhere and seeing now, like, he's one of the guys that everybody talks about and maybe the history of the UFC,

you know what I mean? So it's something that makes me very happy. He's good with Chelsea Sondon. They're good, him and Chelsea? No. I never said that. How would I know? How would I know?

I mean, I never said anything. I never said anything. Come on, pleading. I never said shit. Oh, man. Did you see what happened to Vandalé? Did you see? Oh, my God.

This was fucking crazy, wasn't it? Unbelievable. Did you see I do your walkout thing? You see when I do that? He helped me? You see it? Did he see the video? Yeah, that was good.

He said, how he would know. No, it, no, he said, he said, no, he said. No, he said, no, he said, no, he said, it's like, so, he said, so, like, so he's,

he said, so he says, you can't show him, he said, you, know how can you know on the beginning, but how many times he still got to prove? I, listen, he

had not to prove shit to me. I've been believing. Ever since, hey, You want me to tell you when I started believing he was the man? Oh, do you want to start to say the guy? Oh. Yeah, when he won, when he beat Izzy. Boy, when he knocked Izzy out, I knew.

Tell him. When you knocked out of that Sonia and you became the world champion. When I was, when I was starting with Mihail-Litz, then, like, all, put, everyone there, oh, Alex, no, he doesn't know what, he, will come, it, he, will be, like, a, put, it, it, will be like, a tar tarot-a-oh. in Brazil, I was like,

saying, he was talking that the guy was a champion European of the champion, I don't know

what, the people there's the media, the world and so I'm saying what,

I'm doing, I did what, I did what I did, but even, the guy, no, he's not

never, I, like I'm I, I'm from kickboxing poor, my fort

is a lot in-per, I'm going to a major event, yeah, the major event

of MMA UFC, And they're saying that I was favorable, in some things, poh, in the most organization, if he's called the poor,

the worst athlete to look to with me, he's going to be more experienced than I. So I'm in a disadvantage, you know, so I just came

pegging, and, like, nobody brought a fair. Honestly, for an example, when he made his debut against Mihalids, right? All the Nile Brazil, like, all these guys, European, Jiu-Jitsu,

blackbell, European, champion, this, champion, that, I just go beat the guy. Ah, but this guy is not as good. And always, everybody putting an obstacle making something up. And honestly, him being a kickboxer,

the lowest tier, lowest level of fighter in the UFC, will have a advantage on these guys. Yes, I agree. With the wrestling. And it's just like, just, he's a stand-up fighter. What he did against...

What he did against... What he did against Ancalae. We've said for times. He was essentially an amateur fighter and he was the world champion. He was 7 and 1 and he was the UFC champion. That's insane.

That he was learning on the job at that rate. That's impossible. There, no, nobody 7 and 1 should be UFC champion. But he was because he's a special athlete. Thank you for checking in, man. Alex Pereira fights for the UFC live. championship weekend at UFC

320. Do not miss Poetan and tapping everything he does outside the oxygen. You deserve it, man. You're a great dude. You deserve all the success that's come to you. You really do. Until next time, guys. Like, subscribe. Tell your friends. Tell their friends about my YouTube channel. Taping in the people who like

Alex Pereira. Chama. Shama. Shama. Hey, it's us. The Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, new? Huge news. We created our own podcast. called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast?

Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.

Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down. Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey Jonas, and then I wrote down on my little Notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title

for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guys.

from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, S&L's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter.

Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in.

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But we all sat in the conference room as we checked in. Hey, we spent time training before the fight. We spent time talking before the fight. But this was our official interview. As Islam chased down history to try to become a double champ, that's exactly what he did. The one and only, guys. Biggest interview of the year, as it always is, Islam Akachiv. You're 30 minutes early.

No. 145. Let me show you schedule. What is it? What are you supposed to say? What is you? Just the last name, one question. The last name.

Makajev? Just one question. You eat or are you training? Right now? Yeah. Training. Okay. You see me kill Khabi?

Kill this guy Oh, no, no, no. You don't keep you. But me, brother. You don't get to you. Hey, when you go, you know it's cold. You tell Jack Delamadena

this the other day. It's very cool. Yeah. I tell him we have to warm up the city. It's freezing here. It's cold in Russia? No, it's the same. Same?

Same. Thanks, champ. My man. Guys, Islam Akachev, getting ready to challenge for the World to Weight Championship in the world this weekend.

What's up, man? How are you feeling? I gotta be honest with you. Like this is my name, Daniel Cormier. TV? Like real deal now. Hey. TV channel?

Yes. Hey, so listen. I gotta be honest with you. Be honest. I kind of don't like the way you promote this fight with just constant shots at me. Like DC, this, DC Fed, DC Fed. Everybody, brother, just come from the media, they ask me, you're still thinking about 185? You?

Yeah, they ask me. I just told them if DC had. told him if D.C. help me, I can gain weight. But why always, D.C. this, D.C. this. Hey, what about the other day? Ababaka. I killed this guy. I kill Abu Bakr. Kabib too a little bit. I kill him. Come on. Video. Come on.

Will Harris edit this video. This guy, Will Harris, is the worst video editor of all time. He make like I stay on the ground the whole time. Come on, Rezvon. I was not on the ground the whole time. These guys go crazy. Look at this. You guys like together click.

Brother, I'm happy that day you burn a lot of calories. I always. Always? Always. I lift weights. You comment, you say, this guy work hard, huh? I'm happy. When I see you post something inside the gym, I'm like really happy.

Why? Because, brother, people look at you and thinking this is like one of the best fighter of all the time. And it was even when I was fighting people think this. No, when you're fighting, you look good, man. Nah, I know. I look good now, too, though. A little bit. I'm a really good-looking face.

You may have better body, but my face better than yours. You promise me, you're not going to cut. I cut it. I cut it. You say, no. This morning I cut a little bit. I leave, though, see? I still got the beard, but it's like nice and neat, you know?

Don't cut, brother. You say I will come to Dagestan. I will come to Dagestan. I will come to Dagestan in the summer, and I'll keep longer. Yeah, yeah, all right? From today to summertime. No chance. It is.

No chance. Guys, Islam fights Jack Delamadena. How's it been being around Jack Delahadena this week and being so close to ultimately something that you talked about years ago, trying to become a champion in two-way classes? Yeah, like, happy, happy. Biggest card of the year, like best arena and biggest fight on my life. very excited and really happy.

Are you surprised that you're as big a favorite as you are over Jack Del and Madalena? Because when I hear you talk about the fight, you're very aware of how tough a fight this is.

But it seems like the general public thinks that it's a foregone conclusion that you're going to be a world champion. I never think about this. Who make their rankings? Who make this? The numbers?

Yes. Guys that do bets? Odds makers, they call them. I don't do bet. That's why. You don't bet? I don't believe and I don't, like, check. I'm telling you right now, you're a big favorite over Jack Delam, Adelaide.

You did bet? I don't gamble. Yeah, it's good. Better ways to spend your money, huh? Yeah, yeah. Like this? Like on this? What is this watch?

What is this watch? You like it? Yes. What kind of watch is this? Like Target watch? What then is it? You get from Target? Yes.

Wow. What time is. It has no, I can't tell. What time is it? Just you're late. Whatever time it is, I'm late. Oh, man. Hey, the other day,

they never late. But you were early, which is very odd. Professional. 30 minutes before, we were supposed to interview. 30 minutes before. I'm not surprised when you late. You always laid inside the gym also. I was never late in training.

You like broke all Rusen, okay? No, I didn't. When we were in, when we were all training together, I was always 12 o'clock practice, 11.55. 11.55 I show up. I remember you were like travel bag. Yep, like suitcase. Yeah, you come always like 11, 15, 11. No, we trained 12.

Yeah, 1115. I was there. I would show up 1115 practice start 12 o'clock. No, 11. You always sleep, man. You always not professional, but. On your work, be a professional. Yeah, I'm being a person. Some of the fighter, okay, I am good now.

I feel good, not cutting, like, much weight. Some of the guys cutting weight, if you're late, they're gonna beat you here. Beat me. You think that people can beat me now? Two, three people can beat you. Together at the same time. Remember one time when we almost smash you in a key?

You try to jump me? Almost. Because Kabeb? Yeah. Why are you guys, you guys follow this guy like this, huh? He's a good story, huh? Tell me the story. You say, like, you bring the crutch mare.

Like, as you say, this is my team. This is my team. You teach, like, 10, 15 people. But when we almost smash you, nobody can. You're crazy. Nobody, like, stepped to help you, you know? Remember? This was, you guys wanted to fight me.

Why? Why you want to smash me? Because you go crazy with, Khabi, that time. Why I go crazy? You make him injured. No, I didn't injure. Habib. I've never injured Habib. He's injured his neck.

Oh, and I grabbed the head. You say, let's do like something easier. And you go hard with him? But do you remember the other day when we were in practice? I tell him, I'm finished, I'm finished. I go on the side. What do you do? Throw me down, jump on me. Two days ago? Yes. But it's the same like because he said, okay, I don't.

Make you work, man. Make you work. To have good dinner. So wait, why? Why? When I do it, I try hurt Habib. But when he do it, he just make me work. You see? Now I understand bias. You know how everybody say, oh, he biased Islam.

Now I understand bias. Now you both retired. Who cares if you're injured? Nobody. But that time, he's still fighting. Islam. Jack has improved greatly in his wrestling.

He's working with Craig Jones. Alexander Volcanovsky. Alexander Volcanowski, who had success defending takedowns, is also helping him prepare. What do you make of the first? that, seeing all those guys. Let's make this, Craig, one fight in the United

fight. Everybody asked you what? Like, he helped me to improve something, improve something. It's not working like this. When you bring someone for one camp or for two camps, I just give you a good example. I tell yesterday, what about Hamzat fighting with Deplice? I think Deplis bring many coaches, many, many partners.

But it's not helping. It's not working like this. He was waiting. Why was he waiting so long to try it? Did he ever sprawl? Who? Duplessi, did he ever sprawl? I don't think he ever sprawled.

I don't think he even watched the wrestling match in the TV, you know? He didn't sprawl. One time. There was one thing you had to do in that fight, and that was defend wrestling. He didn't sprawl. Yeah. So do you think Jack will be able to wrestle or be able to stop takedowns or do you anticipate that you're going to be able to take him down and control him? He can stop one time, second time, but, you know, I will try again, again, again. Hard to stop.

Are you comfortable? Are you comfortable standing and striking with Jack Del and Adelaidell and if you need to for 25 minutes? It's not like fighting, like wrestle against boxer. I will strike. I can strike with anyone, you know. I strike with Dustin O fight almost I strike with Vogue you know I'm not wrestler

I'm a best MMI fighter You know when you talk about these guys there's some things when we talk you always say crazy stuff but there's a clip

where you were talking about Dustin Porrier's black belt There's just so many clips of you like talking about these guys when you fight them or is it what's expected because

Dustin was able to defend the takedowns Dustin was able to stay upright You have to beat him on the feet. But are you surprised at times when you get in there with someone, when you have an idea that they're not going to be as good at something? Because, like I said, Dustin's a black belt. He was able to defend himself up until the fifth round. And then you did, to get a takedown, you did exactly what we teach you.

I'm not bad. That takedown would teach you with the leg. That's the one we teach you. Man, US don't have this technique, man. You have a single leg, double leg. And pressure. The best wrestling country in the world right now, and you're telling me we don't have something. Single leg, double leg, and pressure.

That's it. So, again, are you surprised? Yeah, like, surprise. Yeah, honestly, I'm surprised. He defended wrestling very well. But I'm not black belt, and I still finish him in the last round. Yeah. Would you be surprised if Jack is able to defend every takedown?

Every takedown? Yeah. No, it's not possible. Every takedown. It's not possible. Maybe someone here can defend, but not ever take down. You think you'd take anybody down? Yeah, if I take you down.

You never took me down. I swear I have video, man. You want me to show you the picture of me and you, and whose hand is Romero holding up after the match? No, we talk about take down, not about picture. I have video and I take you down. You know you've been promising this video for three fights now, and I've never seen the video.

I'll show you. Yeah, you need to show me the video. If you win this fight this weekend, what would that mean to you in legacy? Because I think earlier in the week I heard you on an interview and you spoke about legacy. I don't know that I've ever heard you say legacy before. What would this mean to you and your legacy to become a champion in two divisions? I take the title. I have the title.

I have the money. Now it's the legacy. Now the second build. People fight for the second build just for the legacy. you know, most of them. And, like you, you take the second build in Madison Square Garden? No, Vegas, but I defended it in Madison Square Garden. My arena is better.

What, to become double champion? I fought Madison Square Garden too, Islam. But not for the second belt. I had two belts when I came into Madison Square Garden and left with two belts. See? You see? You understand? I close to beat all records. Or you'd have to have the second belt still, Islam.

And? You have more title defense? And the Hall of Fame. You want to have a whole of Fame? Yes. There's a lot. You can list them all. It's hard.

You know what I know. You know what I know you asked me. You know. I need to some things to look and I want to beat, you know. Mine. Yeah. Yeah. So.

You need to. So. And I will be one of the best fighter from AKA. You already one of the best of all time from me. you know right now you know right now in AKA history it's me Habib only two over you now you got you pass Luke and Kane no Kane still you're number four you still number four because Kane too a little bit better than you in this career a little bit Kate still I'm number for which number you are me yeah Kabib never lost so I kind of put him number one because he's undefeated it's hard

not to lose you lost Think about this. Like the one time No, no, but I'm saying You could never lose Like you were better than the guy But you make mistake Khabib never lost

It's impossible to like never lose Right so yes I will put him no more He's very good 29 fights no losses Even sometimes you fall down Like somebody kid you You know

You can lose a fight Even still right now He never lost Beat you inside the gym Hey, he's insanely big. You know how you always say, brother, but there's a thing like you say, but there's a thing like you say, hey, you need to do this every day so you get skinny. Habib ain't skinny? He grapple every day.

Every week, Kabib is not skinny, bro. Khabibwe is so heavy right now and big. No, he's big, but not fit. I don't know if you've seen his legs, his ankle is fat. His leg and this, you see this part? It's very fat. Don't talk about somebody, but you cannot right now. Okay.

So tell me, Saturday night, how do you expect this fight to go? I hope it's going to be easy, but I don't think it's going to be easy. He's a good, you know, he's a good. I watch his many fights. Some of the striker, if you take him down, they're, like, uncomfortable there, but I see he scrambles. He scrambles really well whenever the fight is the ground.

He knows how to move, what to do, you know. He's good everywhere. I hope it's going to be easy, but ready for anything. Was he bigger than you thought whenever you stood in front of him? No, he's like same toe, but maybe inside the cage he's going to be a couple of cages bigger than me.

But still, if the fight there, you come to my room and give me some food, I'm going to have the traditional Dagestan food. Yeah, you remember last time after the fight you gave me the... What do you give me? What? Oh yeah, I give you. You like this one, huh?

It was the like biscuit with the cheese and... You eat this one? Yes. It's very good, huh? You will bring it again? That's in Los Angeles. It's a restaurant only Los Angeles. Portos.

It's very good. Okay. But some things bring me. I'll bring you something. But you have to win. If you don't win, you get no snacks. No food. No.

Go back to Dagestan and don't get fed. You know how we play out there. Last thing. You guys all come from the same place, extremely close. All these goals that are set out in front of you, to achieve them, to accomplish them. Did you ever imagine that this would be your career? Like thinking back to that kid that walked into A.K.A. when you and Islam,

Ma Madov had two different color shirts. Remember Islam, Islam red, Islam black, because we... Not black, gray. Islam gray, Islam gray, Islam red. It's like, could you ever imagine that your career would be this, like the number one pound-fobong fight in the world?

I just came to the kid and looked at the wall, you, Kane, your last case, look, and I'm thinking, my picture is never going to be in this wall. Why? Now I can move you all, guys. You guys finish. You've done so much.

You might not have thought that you could be up there, but I'm telling you the first day you walked into the gym, it was very evident that you would be a world champion. I never thinking, you know, I have this success. Thanks God, I have everything right now. I have belts, you know, and you guys also. Yeah. A.k.a. helped me a lot by training, like, so hard.

And Ikea always, the bike room, I still remember this room. I don't like this room, but still. still remember. More than anything, somebody asked me yesterday, like, what do you miss about fighting? I don't miss fighting. I don't miss walking out. I don't miss any of that.

I just missed the opportunity to spend all that time that we had in the gym where you're trained and you talk and you hang out the camaraderie. That's what I miss the most. Let's make one camp in a K. Not like crazy hard training. Just for lose weight, you know.

With me? You, Habib. Oh, now, so you admit now. Habib maybe need to lose a few pounds too. This guy's a fat shamer, man. Islam Mankashchev. We will bring Luke. You see Luke? Instagram?

This guy's out of his mind. We have to bring him back, fix his mind. His mind is broken, Islam. Islam, what happened to his mind? I don't know what happened. This is the brother. Without the gloves. He fought there, yeah?

No, he fought without the gloves. And he fought Darren Till. Remember, Darren Till, knocked him out. This is crazy knockout Very, very bad knockout Luke Why, why you went When he was with you in a care

You have to teach him To box To do it like to How to live To go to the bedquoise? I'm a man, I'm a man He's a man You're a man

We can't teach one man How to live his life man Why don't you call him and tell him Why don't you call Luke And say hey Luke You need to like maybe stop Like going crazy all the time You have to come to Dagestan

Two three years No all I can Keep Luke in Dagestan forever. Luke, we're going to help you, my brother. Islam Machuichel fights for the UFC Walterweight Championship this weekend, looking to become a champion in two-way classes, one of the best fighters of all time, and one of the best fighters, palm-for-pound of all time,

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