The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Daniel Cormier TV - Stipe Miocic says he'll "BEAT Jon Jones' A**!" + Michael Chandler on Charles Oliveira rematch

Episode Date: November 16, 2024

Stipe Miocic tells Daniel Cormier he's ready to make combat sports history at UFC 309 and "beat Jon Jones' a**" in the main event in New York City. Miocic GOES IN ON why this fight means so much to his legacy, and why he's ALL FOR people overlooking his ability to win the fight. Michael Chandler tells Cormier how he plans on getting his revenge in the rematch agains Charles Oliveira. And don't miss Chandler update DC and the fans on a future fight between him and Conor McGregor. #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You know, every time I look at you, I'm like, always like, I was like, I can't believe I fucking was fought this dude because you're fucking big. I got a little bit weight. What are you weighing right now? Close 250. See, that's the thing, right? You're back up to the size where you were most effective at heavy weight.

Was it the time away that allowed for you to put that weight back on? Yeah, that too. It's crazy when you look like heavy weight, you get bigger. It's crazy. It's like, wow. So I was watching countdowns are embedded and you were in those little skivies. Yeah. They look smaller than they used to.

When you had got skinny, they were like kind of loose a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that was much in the front. But yeah, in the back, yeah. You probably got all kind of, like, there's no more air back there. Before it looked like you had a flat-ass, not that ass done growing a little bit. You look like a heavyweight, big up top. The weight came back up here.

Yes, sir. So the training can's been going good. Like, how excited are you to finally be on the verge of this? Because I remember watching when he fought against Cyril Gahn, and he said, Steepa, I want to fight you. And you just didn't look amused. No. Well, he's telling him he was going to beat my ass.

And I'm like, okay. And then he got mad at me because that's, I said, bring it on, bitch. Can you believe that? I was like, you really are time people are going to beat my ass. Like, how, like, okay, whatever. I think he needs to try to put himself in a place

where it's that, that, that, that, that, that, animosity, right? Yeah. You don't need that. No, I'm good. So what have you done in this last time away? It's trained. You know, I got better, bigger.

You don't learn. What did you learn? Stuff. But why did you have to learn? You're already so good. No, you got, you know, sharp in the tools, man. Keep him sharper. So when I think about this fight between you two, right?

He's a big guy. You're a big guy. There's boxing, kicking, kneeing, obviously, all that. Your boxing is as good as anyone, right? Your speed is very underrated for this weight division. Do you anticipate that's going to be something that takes him by surprise a little bit? Because he's not the fastest guy. I'll tell you that you're much faster to him.

Have to be in the outdown both of you. Hands are much faster and you hit much harder. Do you anticipate the speed playing the big part in this? Yeah, I think that's what's got me this far as my speed. I think people are underwent up to speed, and I think once I get in front of them, they don't have an answer to fort right away, and then by that point, it's too late.

What did you make a fight with Cyril Gond? Serri Gond shit his pants, man. I don't know. Can you believe that? It happens, so he found a fool. No, it doesn't happen. You got to be, like, come on, dude. You're trying to be nice.

Don't be nice, D'Bed. That was crazy. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what happened. Like, even like it was a tight show, I don't know. But I wasn't there.

I can't explain it, but I wasn't there. He doesn't, he's done it to everybody. Like, he did that move to me. He did it to, like, when you kind of get down in front of him, he tries to kind of, you don't tap to that, though. Yeah. It was weird to see the way he looked at him. Yeah. But what did you make of it?

Because when I watched, it wasn't much, right? But do you see the movement? Jones kind of went. It was a little bit big punch, caught him, take him down. What could you take from that? Because you made it a point to be there, right? Because you knew that's going to be... Yeah, I don't know.

I think that much happened, but like, the same thing he did, maybe just a little bit slower, I guess, because his heavyweight division, I assessed. He did look a little slower, though, right? He did look a little bit slower with the big wingy punch. Um, he said he's going to be like $2.35 this fight. Did you think he would lose a little weight after? Yeah, probably.

Yeah, I wasn't worried. I mean, whatever he wants to wait, you wait 245 or 235 is the little same. Are you going to wrestle? We'll see. That's one thing you don't do as much, and you got good wrestling. Oh, freak, thanks, man. He said he can't take it back. He can't take it back.

It is on camera, too. It is on camera. God damn it, I gave him a fucking compliment. No, but you got good. You don't use it much. You used it in the, fight against Mark Hunt? Amazing. You use it in the

fight against Roy Nelson. Amazing, but it's not something you rely on. Why? Well, if it's there, I'm going to take it, but I'm not going to force it. Because every fight starts standing, so if I'm doing well on my feet, I'm not going to change it up unless I have to. Yeah. You know, you fought in some of the biggest fights, heavyweight history. How does this one stack up to

all those ones from before? Like, in terms of how big this fight feels, because initially it felt like, well, Steepa hasn't fought, John hasn't fought, These guys are making sure that they fight each other. It doesn't make sense. It's not for the heavyweight championship. But the moment the week turned, it felt more real.

Like, I'm watching the two best heavyweights, right? Right away, like, how's that feeling in regards to the rest? It's a great, man. Just a y'all, you know, been out for a little bit, but coming back this week and just doing interviews, you're like, oh, it's like, you know, it's like, the juices pumping, flowing again. It's just, you know, we're here, right, finally.

And you stood on business, too. Like, you stood, I don't know. You live in Ohio. You're a white guy. I don't know if you know what staying on business means. That's some hip shit, right? Like, you know, I finally learned that from the kids. I coached.

I feel like I'm cool, right? Sometimes I say shit and the kids laugh at me. It's why I'm like, so stand on business. Like you said, I'm fighting for the belt. I'm not doing nothing else. Like, was there ever a time in that where you were like, oh my God, this shit might back fire on me? Are you okay just being done?

I mean, I wanted to come back, you know? Just, you know, just the life age. You know, because I bought a Henway. You know what a henway is? Uh-uh. That's, that's like, see, that's some white shit that I don't know. As I just show you some black shit that you don't know.

A hen way. What is a hen weigh? About three pounds. What? About three pounds. What is that? How much is a hen weigh? Oh, you're funny.

That was good. That was really good. But that's the shit that make the kids laugh at you. That joke like that going to make your children laugh at you. My dad, I was like, oh, we walk away. It's just embarrassed by you too. Like, oh, dad, that was disgusting. But there's nothing better.

Embarrassing your children. I love every second of it, yeah. But. But disrespect this week, that was good. It's hard to move on. I want to live in it. It was so good that I kind of want to live in it. The disrespect that you've gotten, do you feel it?

Because I'm out, I feel like, honestly, I'm out there, like, I'm out there actually defending you. I'm on first three this morning, and I'm talking about this, I told Stephen A. Smith, I go, hey, I go, I know you're a big time John's Bon Jones fan. He loves him. I said, but this is a real fight. And don't be surprised if you leave Madison Square on Saturday night, and Stipe Miochich is the champion. Do you feel the disrespect? Yeah, I mean, I'm always, I feel like I'm always going to have my whole career.

I think a lot of times, I always get overlooked or just don't get what I get. I mean, it's okay. I mean, I like spoil on the party. But does it feel good to shut them up when you... I love it. I've been doing it the whole time. Yeah. So are you retiring on Saturday?

I will find out Sunday. Really? You win this belt. you would actually walk away? I don't know. I'm not worrying about that. I'm not worried about that. But that's from the narrative, right?

Like, Steve-P... This is it. This is Steve-A's last fight. Like, I don't think you ever said that. He said he might retire after that. I'm just wondering about my fight. That's all I care about. Try to go get him.

Yep. I'm going to go get it. With the bottom pressure. Be a big man. You better watch the ass. He's going to get mad at you. You know he'd get mad by everything. Guys, this dude right here is a real deal, man.

I've spent... I mean, shit. Three times... We fought each other for almost 50 minutes. It was horrible, too. He was terrible. He hit so hard. It's like thudding.

I remember being inside the apex and he would hit me and it would go boom. And I was like, God damn and he got me again. One time when I didn't know what was going on, because I was laying up looking at the lights. I was like, what happened? Oh, you lost. I was like, oh, it's great. That's some bullshit when that happened.

That happened to me one time too. You punched me in my stomach. I was like, again? He's like, come on, dude, stop fucking hitting me in the stomach. He kept hitting me in the stomach over. over and over again. It was crazy. But again, this man does that, right? Steep Amy Oachens does that. He does what people think

he can't do, and he's done in time, and time again to becoming the most successful heavyweight in UFC history. Saturday, he goes to try and become the UFC champion for a third time. People don't do that as he takes on John Jones at UFC 309. Guys, make sure you you're tapping everything Steepa's doing.

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Chandler, what's up, man? So every week I saw in Countdown, you're going home. Are they flying you private every week like that? No. You're a liar. bro, like you're literally getting on a private plane. You said every week. On Friday night, you're getting on a private plane back to Tennessee?

Hey, listen, I was able to realize that I would get 47 waking hours with my family. Every day. Like 47 waking hours every weekend. Because obviously, when you talk about travel time, it's a lot faster on private. You know, you don't have to set the two, three hours in the airport. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you add it all up. And that's the flight times.

I mean, once COVID hit, there used to be like six direct flights from Fort Lauderd, to Nashville. Now there's like two. 1.7 a.m. 1. 7 p.m. So I'm either going to miss practice on Friday because I can't do that. Can't do that. Yeah. Or by the time you get home,

the kids are in bed. So it's like 47 extra hours. I mean, that's more bed times. That's more book times. That's more, you know, family prayers around. So you're just private plane and then not. I mean, you look like the type of mug that's flying private all the time too. I'm just looking at you right now.

You kind of look like you fly private all the time, dude. Sometimes. We're not blessed. When I'm blessed that day. Thanks for checking it with me. Of course, dude. Guys, Iron Michael Chandler's back. Good back, baby. UFC 309 versus Charles O'Levara.

But before we can get here, we've got to go back, obviously. Right? You're a guy that is on the other side in regards to doing television, being in front of the camera, asking the hard questions. You've been sitting for a minute waiting on this massive fight. But you make a lot of money if you just fought all those times in the over the course of that time. Clearly you've done very well financially. Was it more about the money that came with the big fighter?

Was it more about just actually being out there and beating Connor McGregor? Because you can fight Connor and get a bit of a rub, but you've got to beat Connor McGregor to ultimately get what Dustin Poyer got. Kabeev and all those guys got. Honestly, yeah, it was more being a man in my word and wanting that fight. I mean, obviously, we did the ultimate fighter in, I got the phone call in January. So I fought Poree in November had Thanksgiving. Christmas and all of a sudden Hunter Campbell's calling me and saying hey you want to do the ultimate fighter against Connor and that started in January and at that point in time you're like okay

We already did the ultimate fighter. We filmed it. We're building it up. Yeah, okay now we pushed it a couple months. We pushed it two months. It was never like If Hunter would ever call me and say hey, he's not fighting for 18 months, right? Probably would have pivoted, but yeah, it's always like a little bit here a little bit there now it's not till this you know So it was partly because of that and we could never really get a clear answer but between me and you, on camera, on microphone. Like, I enjoyed having a little bit of time. Yeah, for sure. As you said, like, love the UFC, love fighting,

but I am not beholden to the UFC paycheck. I am a self-sufficient man making money multiple times, multiple ways without fighting. So it was nice to be able to cash in on that, so to speak, and say, hey, I'm just going to be a businessman, an entrepreneur, I'm going to work on my investments, I'm going to work on being with my family, and it was a great time for my body and my soul.

I did the podcast with you right as you started, on your deal, what you do a fantastic job of anyways. But as you're waiting, right, I remember when the kind of got hurt, I said, Chandler, tell me you, sit me up at your brave heart, hold the line. I can't tell you. Oh, oh, oh, look. It was a little hairy-go for a couple days and I'm like, is this freaking fight going to get canceled? Yeah.

Press conference got canceled and I'm like, I'm not really getting a real answer because, I mean, UFC can't. They can't just flat out tell you. No. that would be against the rules. Especially if his intention is still try to fight. Yeah, you know. So it was like, ah, this looks a little hairy, man.

This doesn't feel good. But I really did stay laser focused. All I could do was focus on the main thing, which was training, man. I kept staying in the gym all the way up until 8.22 p.m. on September 13th, when Hunter called me. And was like, hey, man. It's off. Yeah, it's off. How do you stay so positive in the face of all this?

Because we're talking about you constantly. Me and Asker, and we're talking about you. You're friends. We're like, yo, Mike is bugging out. But then everybody's got an opinion but don't know. How do you stay so positive in the face of all that? Is it because you're on the other side of it, knowing that you at times have to give opinions? Yeah, I mean, I think I'm on the other side.

I'm in the know. I'm in the actual story, right? Like, we are, I am the property. I am the thing that people are talking about and they are talking about it with their opinions or their assumptions or their, from what their experience says what they would do if they were in my position. I knew I was making the, Maybe the right decision, maybe the wrong decision, but I was making my decision. You were making the decision for you.

And if I made the wrong decision, if all of this turned out the way that it was going to and Connor was going to not ever show up or Connor was going to get injured, Connor was going to pull out of the fight, that's fine. I can live with that. I made a decision and I can live with it. Accountability is a superpower. And in life, everything that ails the human condition is because we don't take enough accountability, look in the mirror and say, that guy right there is the reason why I am in this position.

Yeah. The man in the mirror staring back. I want to pass it off on somebody else. You want to point the fingers, you know, so like, and maybe that's a, you know, a fool's errand sometimes, and maybe you make the wrong decision. You know, but, but ultimately, man, I just knew I was in a good spot. I enjoyed the process. And if a bad thing happens, but a good thing comes from it, was it really a bad thing? So, during the sitting on the cusp of Madison Square Garden, five-round, co-main event, number one contender fight,

I beat Charles Oliver on Saturday night. I beat Islam in 2025. I am the oldest UFC champion at Lightweight. How over you when you won the title? Don't even, don't even. You can't do it, bro. I'll be, I'll be, I'll be 39, but I'll be a light weight. I'll be a light weight.

It's harder to do at your weight, though. Oh, yeah. Heavy weight, wait, wait, hard. At 155? A heavy weight 39. I've been competing in the 150s since I was 17 years old. Yeah, no, no, no. 39 years old is crazy as a lightweight.

I would have been 6-2-2-30. There is no old young, small-weight champion. Yeah. Heavy-weights, yeah, for sure. We could do it. Sean Shirk was the oldest at 33. And now how old is in Islam? I don't know.

32, 33 as old. Yeah, he's very young, too. So they're all very young. But again, now you get past all that, right? All the noise, you get the call. You're fighting Charles O'Levara, Madison Square Guard, all those great things that you just did. Mike, you're an easy.

You motivate yourself at a level that most can never do. But to fight Charles O'Levara the first time, motivation comes easy. You're fighting for the belt. A rematch without that on the line, though. How easy was the motivation and where did you draw from it? From I know you draw from your kids and your wife. But like what said, I know this guy's dangerous.

What makes me get up to go fight this dude where the goal isn't so present? Yeah. Right? Because it's easy to get motivated when that belt is sitting right next to the octagon. Yeah, I mean, truly I think when you're fighting in the top of the division against the top guys, the belt is always kind of on the line, whether you're fighting for it or you're either one away, two away. You make a statement. When I make the statement that I believe I'm going to make on Saturday night,

I'm fighting for the title next. So I'm one fight away from fighting for the title next with a win. So that's the way that I see it. I also get to right or wrong. I did lose a Charles the first time. Guy was so close to beating him. Yeah. And I think if you want to talk about pressure, man, you know you don't want to wrestle that dude that you've already beat.

Overtime? Yeah, in overtime? Yeah, he essentially won an overtime because you had him on the ropes like that, right? It's like, whereas me, like, I'm not even supposed to win. I lost the first fight. You know, there's no pressure on me, man. And also, I've just completely flipped my mindset and changed my mindset. Man, I love this sport.

I won't want to say I hated it, but it was tough for a second going through all of those things. And all of a sudden, I get done with the training camp. By the time I'm able to walk again and my face is finally not swollen again. All of a sudden, I'm getting another phone call. Hey, you're going back in the training camp in three weeks. Okay, let me go. Make sure I do extra stuff with my kids and with my wife. Let's go on a little vacation.

Then before you know, boom, I'm right back to it. And it was tough for the, I mean, 26 months. I was signed with the organization, had six training camps, six opportunities, one was the backup, and then five fights of the night, fight of the year, debut of the year, knockout of the year. I mean, it was an absolute murderer's row. So a little bit of a break was great for me, and I can't wait for you to see it on Saturday night. Yeah, it's going to be fun. So when you look at this matchup, do you see from the Armand Sruckin fight, right?

Because there's things out there now about Charles Olivera today. What we don't have is things on Michael Chandler for the last two years. Do you see any changes in him after watching him fight Armand Srukeon? I mean, Armand was obviously able to take him down and control him a lot. Landed some big shots on bottom. Charles will sit in guard and he's not afraid to sit in guard. I think part of it is because I don't think he really thinks he's going to get a submission by laying down there. I think he's just like, well, I'm going to let this fight play out,

and I'm just going to lay down here, and I'm okay losing this round, and I'm okay winning the round if I'm on top. However, man, I just think I am completely different And he is a lot of the same And also he's coming off of that loss Which is he's probably lost a little bit of confidence After losing that fight I was there Cage side watched it Armand did a lot of great things

But I think I'm gonna be so much different Too fast, too powerful, too tenacious And too big of a calling Do you think you said something on Kyle Down That was very like I said oh my goodness You said at the time he had this reputation of quitting Right if you believe that

then there's no way you can ignore it in the fight when you hurt him. Yeah. But now after fighting him and gaining that respect for him, do you feel like that? Just that, one simple change will allow for you to compete better. Right? Because you don't think that he's going to... It doesn't matter if he showed it

that he had changed a little bit. Excuse me. It doesn't show like him beating this guy and this guy and going on that wind streak to fight you for the belt. It doesn't matter because in your mind, if you've seen him quit, always go back to that. It's human nature to call back on their week. But then once you're in there with him and you realize, okay, he did it against me. Yeah. Because it's easy to see a guy do something. A guy can go kick Luis's ass. That's Luis right there. He's my producer. I can watch a guy kick

Luis's ass. Yeah. And I'll go, well, that dude's all right. Yeah. Right? But if he fight me, I'm going to get him. Yeah. Until he gets me. Then I'm like, okay, now I'll respect that man. Then it will allow for me to compete against him better than next time. You think that's the same for you? 1,000 percent. I think the fact that I had that mentality going into that fight against Charles, I mean, because that can make the fight almost give you too much confidence. Yeah, it does. Chandler, dude, there ain't nobody that can hang with me.

I'm going to break this dude, he's going to quit. That did not happen. Now I have to respect that leading into this fight, now knowing what his strength of schedule has been now. Because the one thing I will say is, what was he on, like a six or seven fight? Wednesday. Yeah, to get to the title shot. Leading into the title shot. But they weren't great high-ranked guys either.

You didn't have a crazy strength of schedule, and then you also had previous fights before that, where he would quit, he would fake an injury or whatever it was, all these different things. Now Charles has changed that tune. He has changed that public perception. But once a quitter, always a quitter, that little quitter is still inside of him.

But I think it's stuff way down there. You've got to go find him. We've all got a quitter in us. We've got to realize that it's humans. We all got it. It's just got to be brought out, and maybe I can do it on Saturday. Maybe I can't.

Maybe it's a knock-down, drag-out war. I don't know. I said that yesterday, bro, I was like, I realize I'm a quitter. Bro, one time, I won the world title in the UFC, went to hot yoga on Monday, faked an injury. Mike, I faked an injury.

It was hot in the room. I was like, oh my God, I'm a quitter. Exactly. Like, I faked an injury, but you're right. It's in there. You got to just be able to go find it with Chauvela there. It seems to be hidden. Mike, before I let you go, dude, last thing, you know,

the whole Connor McGregor thing seems to be behind you. Or is it, right? Is there still a hope that that fight happens? Because there were times where people would say, McGregor fight, title fight, I'm taking the McGregor fight. Is that fight still a thing that you want? Or have you just kind of completely pushed it out of your mind? I mean, I've pushed it out of my mind because we're three days away from what you have.

But when it comes to, I mean, you've seen Conner's interviews, he's talking about me. I think Connor doesn't get enough credit for how much he does love and appreciate this sport. Connor is nothing without the UFC. He's nothing without the sport of mixed martial arts. And what he has done is nothing short of amazing, but he has nothing without this promotion. He loves this sport. He respects it more than we give him credit for.

I think he wants to right the wrong of him pulling out of his first fight ever. He's fought numerous guys injured, battled through injuries. One fight he didn't show up for, and that's Michael Chandler. So I don't think that he wants that to be a stain on his legacy. And I think he does come back, because I don't think this is the way that he ever wanted to leave the sport.

With that being said, if it never happens, I'm completely cool. I'm fine. I'm fighting for the title next app. But midnight, Saturday night, I'm the number one contender, and I'm the highest ranked guy not named Islam or Armand,

and I will be caged side wherever that fight is, and I'll be fighting. I know where it is. I do. I'm not telling you. It's going to be sunny. It's going to be nice. It's going to be nice and warm,

though. You're going to wear a tank top in the arena. You're going to be able to show those big arms. Yeah, dude, I'll be sitting there, and I'll be watching. I'll be watching. Hey, let me take some about Ace Chandler. He's a tank, bro.

I thought about Calton. I was like, yo, Ace Chandler's huge. I'll tell you what, dude. Half is tall and slender. He's tall and lean. And Ace is like a freaking middle linebacker. Middle linebacker. I love my dudes.

Put him in wrestling, man. I know. He wants you. With that big property, you got, you can just build your own restroom and train him. You're moving, dude. You got to come out to the house. You're moving.

Why would you move out of that, please? Because we got a different house. Yo, this boy, Michael Chandler, literally planted his grass. Every strand of grass, Chandler put in finger piece by piece. You look at this dude's pristine long. It is crazy what him and prehab accomplished in that house. It's amazing.

Guys, Iron Michael Chandler fight this weekend at UFC 309. He takes on Charles Olivares in what is? He listens to Mike, the number one contenders fight, and he plans to get the job done. Taping everything he's doing. Subscribe to his YouTube channel because it is phenomenal and everything else Michael Chandler is doing. Guys, hit that pay-per-view button at ESPN pay-per-view.

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