Kevin Lee Tried to Pick a Fight With Georges St-Pierre

Certainly the Toro Godfight was brutal. Oh brutal, yeah. He's a monster. I give him a lot of respect. I do. You know, I mean, not a lot of people do, but... They're crazy. The man's just being him. Well, he talks a lot of shit, but you gotta separate that from what he does. Yeah, I mean... When you watch him fight, the guy is defensively spectacular. Yeah. He knows exactly... When you watch the Canelo fight, I've watched the Canelo fight at least three times. And when you watch him stand in front of Canelo, Canelo throws a left, he's over here, he throws a right, he's over here. Pop! Take that jab with you. Oh, and I'm back here now. And Canelo's like just whiffing, just throwing punches. You can see the look in his face, like, God damn it, I'm in here with a master. This is a master boxer, and I'm learning a lesson here. The good thing is, you know, he learned that lesson the right way. And I'll look at him. Canelo's a monster. Dude. A monster defensively, too. Yes! You see some of his defense now, and even me, I look at his head movement, I'm like, God damn. He's against Danny Jacobs just a little while ago. His head movement was just on point. That was a great fight, because Danny Jacobs is a fucking killer. Yeah, and I was pulling for Jacobs, but I had to give it to Canelo. He really took what he learned from Floyd, and sometimes you need that. Even like how you said me and George are kind of similar, I tried to pick a fight with the man. Of course. I wanted to fight him, just because going into it, I was like, hey, win, lose, or draw, I'm going to learn something from this motherfucker. For one, he's going to know he was in a fight. I'm going to show up, I'm going to give him everything I got. But I knew just for the future, a fight like that is just going to propel you, it's just going to get better. I think he's going to want to fight in Khabib. Probably. I think so. Probably. That's what I think. I think if Khabib beats Dustin Poirier, Khabib is going to lobby for a fight with George. That's what I think. And it's a good fight to make. If Khabib beats George, I think he's going to retire. That's what I think. I think Khabib only has a few more fights left in him. I don't think he necessarily wants to fight for a long time. I think you're right. He's undefeated. He smashes everybody. Yeah. You know, and I think he'll go down as one of the greatest that ever did it. If he beats George. If he beats George. If he beats George. If he can even get George in there. I mean. If he could even get George in there. I mean, who the fuck knows how that, if that could ever play out. Yeah. I mean, I want that date with him. But we'll see how that whole thing can play out. It also, for the UFC, it wouldn't be for a title, which is a problem, apparently, when they, when they have a problem with like selling pay-per-views, one of the big problems is, and this is why, look, everybody goes, why do they have interim titles? The reason why they have interim titles, because people see that title and they fucking, they, they click that pay-per-view when they might not. That's real. It makes, it's a big factor. And it, and it plays into the, your, your, your mindset as a fighter too. Yes. And so George would have to come back. I mean, someone would have to beat him. Or they could do 165. Or they could do 165. You know, I mean, I'm just saying, like. Dana said, on the record. You do what you do. This is, that doesn't mean that much, because Dana's also said that women would never fight in the UFC. But Dana said, on record, there won't be a 165 while he's working there. We hear him. I don't hear him. I don't like that thinking. I hear him though, but you know. I don't get it. I don't know why they wouldn't want to have more weight classes. Yeah. I don't get it. You can make the Khabib and George fight and it'd be nothing. Every time. And George wants that fight too, you know, even just to say hi. I mean, you a cool motherfucker, but George even more. So I tried to pick a fight with him and like, you know, for real. And he called me and we talked for like over an hour. And he was like, he was like explaining to me. He's like, listen, I listen, I cannot fight you right now. I have to do gymnastics. I can't do the exit. Listen, I can only do it if I talk to him recently. If I haven't talked to him recently, it goes away. I forget it. But he told me he was a great fighter, but he wanted to be a better fighter than him. And I feel it, you know, this. I feel it. There's risk of reward. You know what I mean? Sure. I'm the type. I just like taking a big risk, you know, more than anything. But George is where you hope you are 10 years from now. Sure. George is 36 years old. Sure. Right. Is he 36 or 37? He's in that range. 36, 37 years old. You know, he's he did it all. He did it all. You know, he's now he's in the position where he's just trying to get them big fights. Oh, shit. Yeah. See, he ain't got much time. Yeah. No, I feel it. And even when he was explaining to me like I was like, man, I really can't hate you for this. Like you, you know, you kept it like as straight as possible. He's like, you know, it's just too much risk. And, you know, it's like for what? I'm sorry. I get it. Like, I get it, bro. Make your money. Look, I ain't going to hate you. I feel like he called, you know, you know, I try still. And I think he got it, too. He was like, you know, I get with he's a brilliant guy. I try. When you see and talk to him and just the way he breaks down life, the way he's thinking about life, he's thinking about it. Very smart. Mm hmm. Very smart. That's why when he won the title, I was like, yeah, I'm good. I feel you. You take it. Take that title. I beat Michael Bisping. And I'm going to just write off in the sunset here for a little bit and hope in a holding pattern and wait for the next big one to come around. The next big challenge.