Eddie Bravo on Tony Ferguson's Preparations for Khabib Fight | JRE Fight Companion

You know what I mean? This is Coachete over here. Yeah, it's like, relax. Everybody's trying to blow up. And you said sponsorship logos all over. I have no sponsors. Put on a Reebok hat. I have no personal sponsors. Hey, are you working with Tony? Absolutely. What have you been doing with him? Same. We've been preparing for Khabib for a long time. Fuck yeah. For the dos anjos fight, we were preparing for him, but we were also preparing for... We're always preparing for the worst case scenario, and Khabib is the worst case scenario. He's probably the best ground and pounder wrestler ever. This is the toughest challenge ever for an MMA, for 10th Planet. That's for sure. I mean, this is it. This is the worst case scenario that I've been talking about. This is what I prepare for every... Me personally, my Abu Dhabi is at the gym when we have drop ins since 2003. Who knows who's going to drop in that night and challenge me? I always prepare for the worst case scenario. Some drop in who's 190, who wrestled his whole life, who's really going to do jiu jitsu, and what am I going to do with him? That first round, the only round we go with, probably one round, maybe two, I'm just focusing on stuff that he's never seen. Because if I come at him with stuff he's seen, then that's not a good strategy. I'm going to pull him into some uncharted territory. That's what I've been doing with Tony, is prepare just uncharted territory. The thing with Khabib is undefeated, no doubt, one of the best fighters probably of all time. You've never lost a round? Yeah, one. You know, a counter. Round three. But you've got to remember this too. By Quinta maybe. There are a couple of Khabib fights, we watch all the Khabib fights, where you do see where you don't see the class it could be. Like with Gleason Tabao, that didn't go down like... Oh fuck, I missed the fit kid. The fit kid got knocked out. Tic Boy Nation got knocked out. Fuck. Jamie's over here watching the fights over there talking. Oh, and he has a mullet like Theo? Fuck. Well, for so many reasons I want to watch that. What I was saying was, there are some fights where Khabib wasn't human. Looks human. There are a couple. You also look at the DeS I'm a wrestler. There's a light-eared difference between Connor's Wrestling and Tony's Wrestling, right? So you got that. Tony will throw Darce's standing and from all different angles while you're trying to take him down. So Khabib's got to worry about that. There's going to be Darce's coming on the field. Don't give up too much, bro. Everybody knows that. You can watch that. Everybody knows that. I'm only giving away stuff that you can watch on. You know what I mean? Yeah, people know Tony. Are you going to be in Brooklyn? What was that? Are you going to be in Brooklyn for that? Yeah. So we're focusing on the stuff. You know, when Khabib has his way, when he's in a fight where everything's going his way, you know, it's against the fence. There's a look against the fence that he always has. It's that same look. And then when he drags the guy down, it's that same look. And when they are halfway back up, there's that look. And then they're back on the fence. There's that position, that look. Boom. So when it comes to Khabib, it's going to be the hardest challenge ever, right? For both guys. For sure. For sure. But the advantage that we have is we know exactly where the fight is going to be if Khabib gets like, you know, successful. If he's successful. And there's different phases. There's the stand up phase. There's the clinch. There's the fighting against the fence. There's the dragging. And then there's like in between the fence and dragging. We know where the fight can be. You know, the one thing we don't know is how is it going to look? Is it going to look like, you know, Khabib has his way and passes Tony's guard like he has against other opponents? Or is it going to be like Gleason Tabao, where he's having a hard time taking him down and he's having he's never getting side control, never passing the guard against Gleason. Is it going to look like that? How is it going to look? They could look so many different ways. We'll never really know until they match up. You just don't really know. But I will I will promise you this is we got all sorts of landmines waiting for. We know where the fight where he wants to take the fight and there's going to be some traps there, all sorts of and no one knows about him. We're not talking about it, but we've been working on this for for a while. So who knows what's going to happen? Khabib has, you know, has my respect a million percent. Oh, yeah. That guy's insane. But Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony has so many goddamn weapons. You might have more weapons. He might have more weapons than anybody in the history of the UFC. That's fair. It's hard. Are you? It's a great scrambler to get so many different areas. Get it everything about this in the history of MMA. Who has known more for darcing than him? No, nobody. No one's even fucking close. No one's even fucking good. He catches him late in the fight when everyone's covering sweat and blood like Barbosa. Yeah. Yeah. And he. The the Darcy is one of those techniques that is you could learn. Really, the learning part is the easiest part, like learning how to do a Darcy. You can be like two minutes, two minutes, but mastering it and mastering it enough to be known for it and getting grown as men who are experts at ground fighting on it. That's a whole that very few people reach that status. Again, the Darcy's. Everybody knows the Darcy. Every grappler in Abu Dhabi, like the last Abu Dhabi 2019, every grappler. Everyone on the card knows how to do a Darcy. They know how to teach it. They could do a seminar, but no one did it. Only one guy, the Rutolo, one of the Rutolo twins, he's from Autos. That guy like he was Darson. He was the restarses all over the place. Why everybody knows how to do him. How come he was only able to do him? Because he's strategizing for it. He's looking for it. And and the strategy is not like a thing that he's thinking about consciously. It's in his DNA. That's the difference. Because he's he's looking for it subconsciously. It's in his strategy. It's in his DNA. That's how that's how Tony is. Tony man. And now we're not I'm not satisfied with him just knowing it, dude. We work on he already has a master, but we're working on it even more and making sure that if Khabib is caught in one of those things, we're making it. So we're making sure that that thing is fucking strong. Did you imagine he got you excited when Poirier caught him in that guillotine? Because Poirier had him in a guillotine. Poirier's a black belt, too. Yeah, he had him in the guillotine. Yeah, it was a good one, too. You know what? Anybody can lose. You know what I mean? Khabib is not invincible. There's some fights where he'd look like you said, human. And we watch those fights and we see we see where, you know, he has, you know, not quite an easy. Yeah, exactly. Yes. The big thing, too, is Tony's cardio is just ridiculous. Yeah, second to none. Second to none. His cardio is so fucking good. It's literally ridiculous because he'll have a crazy, super high, fast based fight. And then you look at him, he's not even breathing heavy. His stomach's not even moving. He loves him. And he throws elbows more than your average UFC fighter. Oh, yeah. Like elbows are like I think. I think depending on what Khabib wants to do, no matter what happens in this fight, I see Khabib and Tony fighting a few times. I think it's one of those classic kind of a who know trilogy ones, man. Who know? They match up so well. I just please gods of war. Get them together in April. Why so? Tony's jumping run over tires. No, that's old. Oh, is that old? Oh, thank God. Yeah, man, there's this is awesome Tony. Me where it's where they're showing this guy from like, it's like in the middle of a canyon in some like forest. And there is like a tight. He's like walking a tight rope. It's like some dude is walking a tight rope with like a balancing pole. You know what I mean? It's just something like Tony when Tony trains or so. He's he's extreme. And that's what makes him who he is. Yeah. What kind of wacky shit is he doing when you train him with him? Dude, he's got you know, he's man, he's got this. I don't even know how to explain it. I don't even want to talk about it. You can't really talk about it either. Can you give up secrets? He's just on top of like the latest, the latest shit, you know, just the latest training instincts, training reaction. He's super into like like shit the NBA would be doing like what? I can't even explain it. You're not trying to give away. Are you not supposed to talk about it? I don't want to talk about it. OK. I don't want to get it. Yeah. After the fight. Yeah. All you need to know is Darcy's fucking poster. Darcy's and Elbow's just great. That poster is amazing. Although Tony is taller. That's weird. They have it like that. He's actually taller. It's quite a bit taller. It's weird. They have my super long arms. So that's why it's a darcy. Those arms, dude, what those are those darcy's coming from everywhere. That poster is amazing. Get that poster up again. The posters don't have poster gives you a hard. That's all you need. Oh, dude, look at the best fight in UFC. Go make it so it's a normal size. Yeah, look at that. Fuck. They got that one, right? They got that one. Perfect. That to me is the greatest fight ever in the light, heavy, the lightweight division, 100 percent. The greatest fight ever. Arguably, arguably the greatest fight ever. Yes, yes, come on. Yes. That's the greatest grounding pounder, right? Took out Connor, choked his ass out, fucking everybody up. And then here comes Tony, the fucking wild enigma coming at you from a thousand different angles. That fight gives me chills, man. Just stop and think about what Tony's been able to do to people, too. Like, think about what he did to cowboy. He just he just takes guys that look like world class fighters and he makes them look like they have no business being in there with him. The real Pettis. Yeah. Yeah. He's Josh, Josh Thompson. You know what I mean? That was a great fight. Kevin Lee, Kevin Lee, Los Anos. You remember when he threw that spinning elbow and then he threw another one right after that? He's so crazy. That's that's one of his. That's one of his most powerful weapons is that he does. He does not hesitate to pull the trigger. He's never cautious. You know, a lot of guys, you know, you hear about these guys. Like the goal is to take what he does in the gym out to the ring. That's the goal. If we could do that, he's going to be unstoppable. Tony from day one, he was healed. Anything he does in the gym, he's going to do in the ring. No hesitation. You know what I mean? There's he doesn't ever hold back on pulling the trigger. It's a very exciting fight. It's the best two spinning elbows in a row. Now, has anybody ever done that? Nuts. I mean, probably, but no one at a level that Tony's fighting at. Yeah, I don't think in the UFC, anybody's thrown two fucking skin and fucking elbows man in a row. He don't give a shit.