Herb Dean on What Khabib Says During His Fights | Joe Rogan

Well, when you see a guy like Khabib Nirmukhamedov just run through people in the UFC and you know where that guy's from, you gotta go, well, how many more of those guys are over there? You know? Yeah. The Dagestan crew, and that's Zabit too. He's from Dagestan. Isn't Islam Makachav? Isn't he from that part of the world as well? Yeah, yeah. That's where, uh... Killers. Here he is. Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom. That's it. Yeah. So the Caucasus, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a warrior group of people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of history. So I get to go there a lot. I mean, it's really exciting. I get to see a lot of really cool stuff. What is Dagestan like? Okay, Dagestan was a blast. Dagestan was fun, man. Really? Yeah, I went there. You know, I was there with... I was also at the show. They brought over Verdun, and those guys weren't working. Verdun and Anderson Silva, those guys were watching fights. You know, but I was working. But yeah, they took us around. They showed us a lot of really cool stuff. I went to like a school where some kids wrestling school, like a lot of schools that were athletic with an athletic orientation and seeing these little kids. But he put this little kid up on a bar and had him doing pull-ups, man. He was doing pull-ups. I mean, this little kid, little bitty kid did, I mean, it must have been at least 15 pull-ups. How old was it? I mean, he was a little kid. Five, six? No, like something like nine or something like that. When the coach pulled him off, he was mad. You could see he was mad. He's like, man, I got more. You know what I mean? He was mad. Like, I'm gonna show the people what I could do. And the crowd, they loved MMA so much. They were like... It was like, you know what it was like? It was like, you ever watch those videos of like the Beatles? You know what I mean? When all the people going crazy, but it's not teenage girls. It's like a bunch of hard little wrestlers. All that just packs like, yeah, I've got some pictures from somewhere. Yeah, I can show them to you. Wow. So it's that popular over there? Yeah. Now, did you see the video of those dudes when Khabib beat Connor and they're shooting machine guns into the air? Oh, I didn't see that, but I saw one of my friends from that area sent me some pictures. She was out on the street. She sent some pictures to my wife of them, some video of guys like, yeah, shooting guns... And horse racing. Had horses. Their horses down... Yeah, some video. That was like, oh, yeah. Horse racing and shooting guns at the same time. Yeah, there were people were... It was like people were so excited about that. About some energy there. Can you imagine you're from a place that many parts of the world have never heard of until that... I don't know how much I thought about Dagestan before Khabib came around. And then now they have the... Not just a world champion, but a guy who smashed the most famous fighter on the planet. Or one of the most famous fighters on the planet. It's like him and Floyd Mayweather are probably the two most famous fighters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Khabib just ran through him. So like, he's a huge, huge star over there. Yeah, no, no, yeah, he's huge. So yeah, that... Yeah, no, it's a fun place to go. Matter of fact, I got to say a lot of cool stuff. Look at this. Dagestan explodes a delight after Khabib defeats McGregor. They're all going crazy with their hats on. Look at people out in the street cheering. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, man. Conner's all the shit talk leading up to that fight, man, did that backfire. Like on some people it works. And on some people it's just, it doesn't work at all. And it just makes him more relentless. When Khabib was hitting him going, let's talk now. Come on, let's talk now. Well, that's the thing with him, you know, because he talks the whole time, right? Yeah. From the beginning of the day he starts talking. Khabib does? Oh yeah, he starts talking. Really? What does he say? Didn't you hear when he was fighting Johnson? Yes, he's telling him, give up, give up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I need that title shot, give up. Then he got him in that horrific kamora. I was watching that kamora, I was like, don't, just fucking tap, come on, man, tap. Come on, man. Geez. Just feeling everything going pop, snap, pop. They didn't want to tap, man. Johnson, a tough guy. Yeah, but I, you know, that, the smack talk, I mean, that's what Connor does. Yeah. Yeah, but this was a different level. Let's talk. He's like, come on, let's talk now. Can we hear it? Yes, Michael Johnson. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. We know that. You have to give up. You have to give up. Uh-huh. Yeah. He sounds like he really cares about him, too. Yeah, I didn't plan for the type. You know this, I deserve it. Yeah. You know this, I deserve it. I have to fight for the title. You know this, I deserve it. As he's beating him. All right. Yeah. And he's talking to someone on the sideline.