Conor's Lack of Trash Talk During Poirier II Lead up

What was it like fighting Connor when he wasn't an asshole? Was that weird? Dude, you know fighting is hectic already. You're about to go in there for 25 minutes and you've been training. So you know what's on the line. So it's just a lot of pressure. So just it being a little bit more calm for me was smooth sailing, man. You know, because it's already hectic enough. I say the same thing about the fans. Like when I fought at the Apex, it was nice, you know, because like I said, fighting is crazy. So without having guys spilling beer yelling, you're going to die, you know, we're on the way to the walk is relaxing to me. Yeah. Yeah. So it's just makes it smooth sailing. So it's not good for him. It's really better for him to be an asshole. Yeah, be an asshole. But it seemed so odd. It's just like he just decided that he respected you and just... But he did the same thing with the cowboy. I thought like maybe this is him just maturing and he's got a few kids now. I think he has one on the way or he does have one on the way. Like maybe he's just maturing and he's a different, you know, we all change. Maybe he's a different person, but yeah, could be but I think also the amount of shit that he caused in the Khabib fight, I mean realizing at the end of it what had happened. Dudes jumped into the cage and beat his ass guys were jumping. I mean Khabib jumped out of the cage. You got a fight with Dylan Danis. It's chaos. I mean, it was so nuts. Yeah. And then you know what had happened before that with him throwing the card at the bus and you know fights got cancelled because broken glass got like Kiesa got cut. I think a couple other guys got cut with with with the glass that was flying. It's like he had done so much and fucked up so much. Throwing energy cans at press conferences member. Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, but that was kind of like minor compared to comparison. Cutting people with broken glass in a bus. Yeah, but the the chaos that he caused is so much. But that had also been a part of what sold fights. Yeah, like like the Jose Aldo fight. He tortured Jose Aldo for months. Remember they did that crazy press conference where they toured all over the world. I mean rip the picture and yes stole his belt. It's my belt and by the time they got into the cage Jose Aldo was frayed right and his I want to know afraid just overthought. Yeah, oh, you know in his own head in his own head. Yeah, he seemed compared to what I what I'd seen from Aldo in the past. He seemed much more nervous and much more aware of the magnitude of the moment and Connor seemed so relaxed and I felt that same thing though. The first time I fought Connor I felt like that when the bell rang. I was like a deer in the headlights. It's happening. Here we go. All this, you know, all that talk and everything over the months just sat in my head. Yeah, and I just read into it too much thought too much and I think that's probably what happened with Aldo. That is what shit talking can do to a person, right? It's the art of war man. I mean, yeah. Fighting is is is mental, you know as much mental as it is physical. I believe well, there's so much mental involved. I mean, it's for sure physical, but it's also look it's mental just to get yourself through training camp, right? Yeah to cut weight to show up to do interview after interview press conference after press conference, you know, how hard is that to do while you're getting ready for a fight while you're cutting weight? It's just doing these interviews and they're boring-ass questions. Same question over and over what's different between this Dustin and Dustin six years ago in counter Beachy like if I heard that question a thousand times. It just gets redundant is aggravating, you know, before you even sit on and do the interview, you know the questions you and it's just going through the motions. I just some are fun though. Some some interviewers are good and change it up and then it's a fun conversation. But most of them is the same thing. How was camp? How are you feeling? Yeah, what's different between this Dustin? I don't know how much of that stuff sells a fight either. I really don't. I feel like you should cut it off about two weeks out. I feel like you can get the interviews in before and then the last two weeks. Just leave the fucking fighters alone. Leave them alone. Just let them train only do the big ones like ESPN Sports Center interview. Just a quick one. What cut out all the media MMA media like how many hours of that shit do you have to do in a week? For this Conro this last kind of one. I was stuck in the hotel on Fight Island. So it was all mostly from my computer. I would say over that whole fight week three hours maybe total. Oh, that's not too bad. That's not too bad. What'd you think of Connor pulling up to the Fight Island in that yacht? That's baller man. I was mad. I'm like damn I want a fucking yacht. You do but you don't you know that shit that seems like you have to have so much more money than the yacht cost to enjoy the yacht. You know, I mean, I mean look like a big one. It look you big one. But if like you have a yacht, this is my thought like if you if you have a yacht and the yacht is worth whatever were yachts were it was a yacht cost 10 million bucks. Okay, let's say 10 million that one probably more than probably more. Let's say 20 million bucks. Let's say you got a 20 million dollar yacht for you to not be sweating that yacht. You better have a hundred million, right? You know, you got like how much does it cost to gas up? How much does it cost to how much does the pilot cost? How much is the captain? What is what do I do them for repairs shit? Those big yachts have to have a crew. I think you're year-round. Yeah all year round all year round. Yeah, so you're paying a staff salary. They live on it. It's their house. You just go and sit in it every now and then and I heard there's a big docking fee as well. So where the boat stays you paying a big docking fee. So you thinking about all that while you're about to fight? That seems like more money more problems. He's got that whiskey money man. He's all right. He does have that whiskey. Yeah, that is a different thing. I got that whiskey money. Yeah, whiskey money is different thing. I'm building it up man. I got the hot sauce money coming in. I'll pull up on like a bass boat next time. Catch new episodes of the Joe Rogan experience for free only on Spotify watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on Spotify. 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