The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Daniel Cormier TV - Daniel Cormier & Ben Askren on Ilia Topuria MOVING UP to fight Charles Oliveira, Umar Jacuzzi pic

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Daniel Cormier and Ben Askren ARE BACK with another episode of FUNKY AND THE CHAMP! Ilia Topuria went viral Monday for saying he's DONE with the featherweight division after beating both Alexander Vol...kanovski and Max Holloway. Askren gives his argument on why Conor McGregor is the reason for guys like Topuria leaving divisions behind. Cormier and Askren also debate Topuria's motives for leaving the division, and DC argues that the Oliveira fight makes sense for El Matador. And don't miss DC learn about the viral Khabib, Umar and Islam jacuzzi picture on the spot! #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:57 No, I didn't. I was fine. I just, I was getting out of practice. That was Luis. I think Louise just anticipates me canceling. So didn't he just canceled this show? Well, it has happened. a couple times.
Starting point is 00:03:10 You're an idiot. There's a few times. All right, guys, welcome to a brand new episode of Funkin'The champ that's Ben Ascran. I'm Daniel Cormier. Ben, PNL last weekend, you all rolled it up.
Starting point is 00:03:23 And it looked like Kellen Walbert was wearing a Oklahoma state shirt today. Is that where he's going? Yeah, he made his commitment today. Is that your first cowboy? Yeah, it's still like it still feels weird.
Starting point is 00:03:38 still feels weird. Like, I don't know how to feel about it. It's great. It's absolutely great to have a kid going to local to stay. I'm telling you, I had mine with Cody last year, and he's loving it, dude. The environment there is next level, and these kids are wrestling great, dude.
Starting point is 00:03:54 Last week, they killed the Clifford. I know. You went and watched him at CKLV, right? I did, of course, man, what you mean? Cowboys in the building. More orange. You think you could beat White Hendrickson right now? No. No. bro, he was putting the kid in the barbed wire the other day.
Starting point is 00:04:10 Remember the bar wire? Yeah, of course. He's the best, bro. I love him. The bar wire. I love that you called the barber. That's what I call it because it's that barbore, but there's a whole bunch of names for that that are not the barbed wire.
Starting point is 00:04:21 No, it's called the bar bar wire. Yeah. You know, I didn't call a bar arm, a bar arm for a white. It's called it a chicken wing. Oh, yeah. I heard that, of course. Call it a bar arm now like everybody else. All right, Ben.
Starting point is 00:04:32 So UFC 3, 10 was last weekend. and Pantosia one, little guys, right? Little guys are really making their mark in mixed martial arts. The best little guy in the world, I would argue, is Ilya to pour you, right? Meaning little guy, 145 and down. Man, he might be mad at you, you call him a little guy. 145 and down, I call him little guy, right? 45, 35, 25, 25.
Starting point is 00:05:01 He's starting getting into the middle-sized people at 55 because they weigh 17, 180. Yeah, yeah, yeah. he said he's done though beat Max Holloway beat the champ became the champ and vote beat Max Holloway now he says
Starting point is 00:05:15 he's done at 145 he wants to fight at 155 what do you make it at like that's kind of odd to me because it's not like he's out of challengers I mean I feel like it really came out of nowhere
Starting point is 00:05:28 because he's like he's been having trouble making weight or you know anything like that he just, so he got it's on nowhere. And to your point, not on challengers, you have Diego Lopes, who's, you know, gaining some populated and gained some steam.
Starting point is 00:05:44 And then you got, I don't know how to say it. Evloiv, who just beat El-Moyev. Evloiev, who just beat El-Jame last weekend. So you have these two guys who are up-and-comers, but, you know, there are a little bit bigger fish to fry at 155. You know, if he goes and beats Charles A very huge name, that secures a lot. shot and you know you had two division champion that's a huge deal i think don't really distinguish your featherweight belt hold it in case uh lopes was on a really great performance
Starting point is 00:06:15 then go take him on you know his name is lopez right like i mean literally just looks like lopez well i had this guy i knew no no no because i had this guy who was brazilian early training partner lucas lop pes so i when i see it i just like say it out of habit okay i'm like come on i know you made fun of me for the before, I think. It's like clearly Lopez. But you know what? You know what it makes me think about when I hear him going, I don't want to fight Diego, I don't want to
Starting point is 00:06:44 fight Evloev, I don't want to fight Volcanovsky again? It makes me think, honestly, that the fights to win the belt and in the fight to retain the belt were too big. So, John Jones struggled with this a while back, right? When he was fighting me and Shad
Starting point is 00:07:02 and all these big names, when he got to Anthony Smith and Tiago Silva and Dominic Reyes. He's like, it doesn't feel as exciting. I think for Toporia, he's like,
Starting point is 00:07:18 I just beat the two greatest heavy weights, sorry, feather weights of the generation. Now I got to fight Diego Lopez. Now I got to fight Evloev. I just think that for him, it might feel like the challenges
Starting point is 00:07:33 aren't as great as the ones he to go through in order to become the champion. Yeah. I mean, there's definitely some truth to that. And you don't want to think that I want to say is, it might be McGregor's fault. There's probably a lot of things that are his fault. What?
Starting point is 00:07:50 How can you blame Connor for that too, man? Hold on you don't know what I'm going to say. You don't even know what I'm going to say. Back in the day, back in my day, you know, there was something to be said for defending your belt a few times. You think of the all-time grace, Anderson Silva, George, C.P.R. John Jones,
Starting point is 00:08:07 Demetius Johnson, all defended their belts for a very long reign. Like, it wasn't like they had one or two and then went up a waiter, did supervise or anything else. It was like, hey, you won your belt and then you defended a whole bunch of us and that's what made them
Starting point is 00:08:19 so great. And it's actually kind of rare. We see that in mixed martial arts now. And, uh, you know, I thought, at the very least, at the very least,
Starting point is 00:08:28 at the very least, Dupuria is saying, I want to be active. I want to fight like he said, you know, uh, he said Islam's fighting in January. And, uh, And he won't be ready until May, so I want to fight, like, soon.
Starting point is 00:08:38 So I love that he's saying active. But as far as defending your belt in the division for a long time, I feel like that's something we haven't seen in kind of a long time. You know, plus, I also don't like, this is a conversation I want to have with you. And I don't know if we have had this before. But I don't even know it constitutes a great title reign anymore. I don't know how many defenses is a great title reign anymore, considering it's so hard to defend championships.
Starting point is 00:09:04 but I think for Tuporia myself, I think personally it's just like when you beat the best guys, especially the two guys that ruled the division for so long, there can be a little bit of fatigue in there. And it's not like muscle fatigue. It's mental fatigue, right? Because you have to be so up
Starting point is 00:09:23 to do what he did to Max Holloway and to do what he did to Volcanowski. And I don't care what people tell you. The only ones that believe that he would do what he did was Ilya Teporia and his team. You can't think that that was going to happen just being on the outside. He went and he knocked out Max Holloway.
Starting point is 00:09:44 That doesn't happen. You don't knock out Max Holloway. He knocked out Volcanovsky. You don't do those things back to back. So now to think, now I went to fight to establish veteran stars, people that sell pay-per-view, the BMF champion.
Starting point is 00:09:58 So now I've got to fight a guy that's on the upswing, a guy that's on the rise, a guy that truly is who I was only a couple fights ago. Yeah, but I don't know. I feel like, I feel like we got to put that narrative to bed. It's bullshit. Just fight the best guy in your division.
Starting point is 00:10:13 But it's not, it's not bullshit, Ben. It is a little bit bullshit. It is. It is far. As well as entertainment, this is sport. Ben, I get it. Let me, I'll ask you two questions. I'll prove you wrong right now.
Starting point is 00:10:23 Okay, go ahead. Okay. College wrestling, what's the most impressive than it's ever been done? Four NCAA titles undefeated. Why? because he had to do it every single match. American wrestling. American wrestling,
Starting point is 00:10:37 what's the most impressive international feat? John Smith. Six straight, because he did it every single time. I understand. I understand you want consistency, but Ben, we are not talking about wrestling.
Starting point is 00:10:49 We're talking about fighting. But that is why? Let me tell you why, right? Let me tell you why guys lose the people that are viewed as... That's their fault. That's their fault they can't say.
Starting point is 00:11:01 But that's why. I think that's why John Jones fought so bad against those guys because of that fatigue that having to get up so hot. You can't say fatigue because John Jones had like three years off from. No, but I'm not talking about muscle fatigue. I'm talking about mental fatigue. When you got to get up so great, bro, even me, when I fought John Jones, even if I lost, I train harder because I recognize the challenge and all that came with beating him.
Starting point is 00:11:28 I don't know if that's- To fight Vulcan, it was different. I'm telling you. Okay. Listen, I don't know. Hold on. Hold on. I mean, I mean, I got my book out here.
Starting point is 00:11:37 Okay. I'm forgetting which chapter this is right now. So this is chapter number eight. This is bullshit, man. This is bullshit you're going to book. You're going to your book. Respecting your opponent and wanting to crush your opponent. I understand.
Starting point is 00:11:56 No, no, hold on. The reason you're thinking this is, and it's fair. right, but you think Usdimir, he sucks, I'm going to beat him even if I have a terrible day. And that's what some of these guys thinks. But then why is 159 and no so great? It's because he was
Starting point is 00:12:13 able to get up every single time. And I understand what you're saying about the mental fatigue of getting up, but yes, if you're going to be elite champion, if you're going to be the greatest of all time, I want you to get up every time. I want you to be the best you can be every single time. That's why I want to call you the greatest of all time. So why in the world do you get guys like Islam going, I don't really want to do rematches?
Starting point is 00:12:31 You saw last week, Panto's... I don't know. Why are so particular? Nobody wants to do rematches. They're like, again, it's that fatigue of the same thing. And now it's like, you know and recognize how motivated you were when you were on the verge. That champion is like, Ilya, who we're talking about, it's kind of like, I'd rather go fight Charles Oliverer. Because I recognize the threat being so great that I have to get myself up.
Starting point is 00:13:01 Because if we are to believe history, right, he just beat the two best feather weights we've seen in the last eight years. You know who's just defended the title? Why would Diem? Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, yes, I agree with you. So you do agree with me? I agree with that Diego Lopez is not quite on the level of the other guys you mentioned.
Starting point is 00:13:24 But I think a great champion gets ready and prepares for all opponents. You respect the opponents, so you prepare adequately. therefore you don't have a letdown. I got two things. Number one, Alex Pereira has now defended his light heavyweight title. I thought it was two times. It is three times.
Starting point is 00:13:38 So he's someone who is actually now defending his title. And, you know, he's getting a lot of street credit for showing up and fighting again. But, man, does this mean, are fighters actually, like,
Starting point is 00:13:48 kind of soft? Because you think, like, football players, generally I thought of football players is being kind of wimpy. But these dudes got to show up like 20 weeks a year. Like, these fighters got to show up three times,
Starting point is 00:13:58 right? But Ben, that's not. Fair. Why is it enough? Fighters don't show up three times. Fighters show up. Think about this.
Starting point is 00:14:06 If you do three fights, three fights only, you train for 36 weeks a year to compare. Yeah. That's more than half the year. But I'm sure football players train for that long, too. They're doing 20 weeks like you just said. No, hell no, you're wrong. They're doing 20 weeks of competition. 20 weeks of competition, but I'm sure they're doing some practice before that, right?
Starting point is 00:14:31 They're training, bro, but I'm saying like preseason, 24, 25 weeks total. I'm telling you, it's different, dude. I can't believe you. What are you going to tell me next? That basketball players get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and get up 100 shots? I mean, that is literally like, you're going crazy to me right now. I don't understand. Well, I'm just saying, like, I don't think if we're talking about competition,
Starting point is 00:14:52 and we're talking about being like the greatest of all time and being a great champion, I don't think it's insane to expect someone to defend their belt, say, three times a year. I think three is fair. Three is fair. And whoever wants to show up. I have the belt. This is my way class.
Starting point is 00:15:08 Whoever wants to show up. Come on. I'll whip your ass. And then, you know, you did that for a little while. So would you pick Lopez over, Ilya? No, of course not. Well, Luis is over here saying crazy shit right now, like in the chat. I think DePori Luis is so stupid.
Starting point is 00:15:24 I don't know why. dude. No, Ben. Luis does that in the child. I'm like, shut up, Luis. Guys, this is what Luis said. I think Deporia doesn't want the Lopez fight. Lopez is a monster, and he's been public about being unafraid of Ilya.
Starting point is 00:15:40 You're going to, when I'm sitting there with Ilya, Luis, and you're sitting there behind the camera, don't, don't be sad when I tell Ilya what you said. No, Diego said, I'm telling you. I respect everyone, but I'm not afraid of anyone. if there's anything I don't have, it's fear. I think I've shown that in all my fights. I've shown that I'm not afraid of anyone. As many times as he wants to point to the ground,
Starting point is 00:16:03 I will plant my feet in the middle of the cage and throw down is that easy. I wouldn't advise that against the Tuporia. So if Duporia wants to move up, whatever, cool, I see it, then move up, right? But if you're really a 145-pounder, then just stay and defend your division. You have at least two more solid defenses,
Starting point is 00:16:23 and Lopez and Evolay, Evelio, whatever's damn name is. Evloev. Yes, him. You have at least two more solid defenses, and then maybe it gets a little thin after that, right? Maybe you throw Bryce Mitchell or something again. Bryce Mitchell?
Starting point is 00:16:37 He beat him already. He beat Bryce Ben. That's that again. I know. It's so bad. Hey, man, how about the fact that Ilya has a $2 million dollar gym already in his basement? We talked about it.
Starting point is 00:16:48 His wife is he married into money or something. Oh, he did? Yeah, we talked about this one time a couple months ago. Oh, man, that's crazy. All right, guys, it's the winter time. You know, like, it's kind of cold outside, but that don't stop the boy, D.C., from getting out and about and enjoying all kinds of live events.
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Starting point is 00:22:06 You told me he was a plant. Did you see it, though? Did you see the pictures? I said, dude, you can look it up. Look on the internet, a fan that Marab hit. You liked the internet. Look at it on your phone. bro, there's like a picture of Marab fighting this guy.
Starting point is 00:22:20 Somebody had an explanation. Next thing you know, I see the guy in pictures with Kabib and Omar. He's like with Omar's team. Yeah, so, I mean, he probably deserved to get punched in, right? Wait, why? Why would he deserve to get punched? Because Umar was antagonizing Marab at the, at the press conference. That was weird, though.
Starting point is 00:22:41 Like, why was Marab so mad at the press conference? I don't know. He was mad. I mean, maybe there's some Georgian, uh, Georgian and Russian heat or something. He said you need to be a man for show respect to Umar. But I don't know what happened. But how about the hot tub picture?
Starting point is 00:22:56 I like that he brought that up. What hot tub picture? What a hot tub picture? Stop. You've never seen the hot tub picture? I've never seen it. What picture? Are you kidding me right now?
Starting point is 00:23:03 Where to God? What picture? You're lying, Daniel. You're messing with me. Luis, Luis, get us this hot tub picture. He's a teammate, yes. Luis said.
Starting point is 00:23:13 Wait, put it in the chat. Put it in the chat. Oh, my God. I can't believe. Hold on. He's going to get it for us and you're going to die. What is it, though? It's all the Dagestani's in a hot tub together.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Luis, could you please bring it up? What? And this is not real, bro. That's real. That is a fake picture. No, it's not. That is a fake picture. Daniel, that is real.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Bro, I can't believe Louise edited this. That is real. That's real. I can't believe you've never seen this. Is this real? Yes, it's real. Have you really never seen it? singer rap this is real that's what i'm saying like listen daniel you can sit in the song with the boys you aren't sitting this close to the boys
Starting point is 00:23:51 well it's a small hot tub that's why they all in there take charge or something yes i never heard this i had no i didn't realize that picture it's edited it's no it's not that's real it's edited louise did it on this spot louis did it ask your friend kabib that is a crazy photo too many people in a hot toe It's like a bathtub They edited my boy It's not even a real hot tub And you can't even get mad though Because you sit in a sauna with 30 people
Starting point is 00:24:22 In an 8 person song I don't sit that close I don't sit that close We have sat 30 people Ben I still remember 2008 You came into the sauna And you're like
Starting point is 00:24:32 I gotta get some fluids Before I caught waiting I'm watching you drink And I'm like This is a terrible strategy Like you're just drinking You just have to sweat that back out But Ben
Starting point is 00:24:42 Let me ask you this What OTC sauna. It's made for eight people. I never sat there. We sat in there 30 people at one time. No, you are lying. Man.
Starting point is 00:24:52 Get the pictures. Are you? Well, we don't have any pictures, but it was hot. I never sat with that many people. Now that I think about it, we called it the Russian sauna. It was a 30-minute sauna. You remember that? It was like a 30-minute straight sauna.
Starting point is 00:25:06 The Russian sauna. There was not that many people in there, though. There were 30 people in that freaking that sauna. I can't believe you. The day is going to be in the comments on this. one they're gonna be up with that is it bad is it bad that um they're fighting these guys though like fans um i mean you know if it's so dangerous actually an enemy combatant then uh i suppose have at him but yeah i generally don't think fighting fans is a good idea
Starting point is 00:25:33 hey that boy that boy umarab said they asked mara what was their favorite umar and islam their favorite moment together maraub said how about a jacuzzi how about jacuzzi how about His son said you could come. Umar said I was not there. Umar said he was there, dog. This is real. I got the real photo. Dang,
Starting point is 00:25:52 dog. That's so crazy. I'm just happy that my friends can all like embrace being close to each other like that. That means they're real friends, real teammates. They love each other. That's a little too close.
Starting point is 00:26:03 I don't know. It's like I don't want I. Ben, you can't say nothing when we wrestle. Some of the positions that you get in in wrestling with the funk? It's one versus another. It's not seven dudes. You're so crazy.
Starting point is 00:26:14 You're so crazy. Hey, and Nate Diaz was fighting with Islam and them too. He fights everybody, except him and Nate and Nick don't get in the ring really anymore. Because wasn't Nick? Didn't they reschedule Nick like two or three times? Or he was supposed to fight Vicente Lucke. Yeah. Submitted Timba Garimbo the other day.
Starting point is 00:26:32 What did you say? Timba Garimbo. That's not real. That's not a real name, is it? Is that real? Timber Garimbo. I remember, I heard Terry Bray on. say what are those damn names
Starting point is 00:26:45 of the airports in Moscow? Domodendivo and Sheramenevo or something? I'm like, oh, you made that shit up. Like, there's not the real name. You thought I made up that name Timber Garumbo? Yes. His name is Timu Garimbo. I swear to God, he's the guy that the Rock bought the house for. I still think you're making it up.
Starting point is 00:27:03 Hey, you know, it's kind of funny. I saw Terry, I saw Tom Brands in Denver a couple weeks ago. They just got done beating Oregon State and a dual meet. And he will, I'm walking through the airport after leaving Salt Lake City and somebody grabbed me by the arm. And it was Tom Brins. And he didn't, bro, he didn't say nothing.
Starting point is 00:27:23 He grunted at me a few times. They just walked away? No, he did. I was like, I swear to God. I swear to God. He goes, Prouty. We hug. We hugged.
Starting point is 00:27:34 You hug? Five times. Like, we hugged five times. When I see Tom Brands, bro, I get super excited because I'm like a massive fan of his. We hugged five times. times. I just don't believe this right now. Are you making this up?
Starting point is 00:27:49 I swear to God. We were standing in front of the restaurant, and I was like, he grabbed me, and he goes, proud of it, proud of it. I said, coach, I gave him a hug. I was like, man, it's so good to see you. I hugged him again. And then I was like, I didn't know what to do after that,
Starting point is 00:28:04 so I hugged him again. Oh, my gosh. Hug like five times. It's crazy. All right. So, hey, we wanted to talk about U.S. 311 and you invited me, but now I've made fun of it.
Starting point is 00:28:13 of the Dagestani's. Yeah, you're done. I don't know. I was going to see if you can come and maybe we do our live show from Los Angeles. Guys, in the comments, tell us, do you want me and Ben to do our live show from L.A.? I think it would be fun. You guys come out, sit with us, talk with us. We'll call it a night with Funky and the Champ.
Starting point is 00:28:30 We'll put some liquor on the table, Ben, a smoker's lounge. It'll be so fun a night with Funky and the Champ. What do you think about that, Ben? I mean, I think it'd be fun if I don't get attacked. I always think about these shows, you know, Like I just sit here at my house in Wisconsin and I just talk shit. And it's like, I know I'm making someone upset. I hope they're not too mad at me.
Starting point is 00:28:49 We're having a good time. Yeah, they're going to throw bottles at you. But the U.S. 311, Armand versus Islam. Going to be a lot of fun. Good fight. Yeah, a lot of heat. Umar versus Marab is going to be a good fight too. So much fun also.
Starting point is 00:29:05 So many ethnicities here. We got Georgians. We got Dagestanis. We got, what is Armand again? Armenian. Albanian. Oh, yeah. There's a huge Armenian community in Los Angeles.
Starting point is 00:29:16 Yes. It's going to be crazy. You think L.A. is going to be better than it was because for a while it got really bad. L.A. got bad. I couldn't even go there anymore. I have not been in a very long time, so I don't know what to tell you. So this is another reason that you should go. Guys, from Ben Aspern, I'm Daniel Cormier.
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