Will GSP Comeback and Fight Khabib?

To me, Khabib is one of the scariest two. Oh, yeah. Because he's beating you down. He's not only beating you, he's breaking you mentally. And for me, that is worse than anything. For me, it's the scariest one pound for pound. Khabib, is he the guy that you would come back for? I would have. Like now, it's all over now. You're done? That's it? I'm done. It's three years ago. What was it? Hey, GSP. It's Dana White. Now, listen, I got to fight for you. Now, I'm going to explain to you if he wants me to fight, he needs to do it. Like that's how he needs to do it. He needs to hide himself, wait that I'm in a gym training. Like for example, when I was in LA with Freddie Roach hitting the pads and getting back because I haven't done this because COVID, everything is closed in Montreal. Right. But I went back and now I found my mechanic back. Man, and when you hit, when you train in mixed martial art and combat sport, you become a different person, you know, and ta ta ta ta ta. And Freddie, look at me. He's like, George, you get the hitch back. I'm like, ah, stop saying that. And if Dana White would walk in right now in the gym in between rounds, I would sign the contract in a blink of an eye. But then after I go back home, go back in Montreal in my comfort, and I'm like, hell no. There you are working with Freddie. Yeah. And people are like, hey, are you practicing left handed? I always been both sides. Yeah. I like how Freddie has a fucking, he's got a mask on his chin. What's that protection Freddie? Take that stupid goddamn thing off. And you know, I'm left handed because I always been left handed. It was a card, a secret card that I kept in my arsenal that if I would have need to use it. You switch. Yes, I was going to switch perhaps with Bisping in the fourth round. Oh really? Yes. So you're more comfortable left handed? No. You're more comfortable in the southpaw? No, I would say I've started more comfortable as a regular stand. But because I do karate, I always, if you ask my coaches, everybody knows. But I always fight one side because I believe it's a secret card that I, that you can pull off and surprise everybody. But you don't show your hand when you play card. You only show what you need to show to win the fight. Well, you see that with Wonderboy. Like Wonderboy, he's right handed, but he fights in my opinion at his best when he's right leg forward because he throws front leg kicks. Yes. Like that's one of the things he does. Like he oftentimes, he'll switch back and forth fluidly. Don't get me wrong. He can fight well from both stances. Yes. But when he's right leg forward, you see a lot of those front leg kicks and that's some of the most difficult shit to get through with that guy. Right? Yeah. There's guys that has a lot of problems fighting a South Pole. Yes. There's guys like this. Switches everything. Yes. It's changed everything. Yeah. So that's why it was for me a card, a secret card that I kept in case, you know, like, like I would, I would need it. But unfortunately for me, like Bisping was very good with South Pole as well. He knocked out like Ruluk Rockhole. See, perhaps it's one of these things that I've should have used earlier in my career, unfortunately, and I did not. Unfortunately, you're one of the greatest of all time. How about relax? I'm very, I'm very critic about myself, Joe. And, and yeah, yeah, but it always can be better, right? But that's always one of the reasons why champions are champions is that they are self critical. That's what makes if you just think everything you do is amazing and you don't have any room for improvement. I think some of the reason why champions become champions is this terrible discomfort of like analyzing themselves and like not liking certain aspects of what they're doing. Finding flaws in their technique or watching a tape. I shouldn't have got hit with that. Why is that like? You get crazy and angry and then you train harder. The people that are self satisfied, they're like really easily satisfied with their work. They never reach the level of champion because they don't feel a horrible discomfort. When you're looking at yourself and you don't like what you see. Yeah, and my friend C.T. Fletcher says says that shout out to C.T. I love that dude. The man Iron Addicts for life. Big big inspiration. I love him and he says to me the day that you're satisfied choose to do something else. Yeah. And it's a little bit what happened to me in fighting. I made peace with it. I like I wanted to come back for Khabib because it was so, you know, for a fighter, the scariest thing sometimes is the most exciting thing to do. And it's a problem that never been solved before. But to come back for another guy and fight for another title. If I win, it's going to be another one after and another one and another one. And I'm going to turn 40 years old and I hate to admit it, Joe. And I refuse to accept it. But and sometimes I think I think my best yours might be behind me. Well, listen, you're okay. It's okay. It's not okay. I'm not done. Dana, you're hearing him right now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's make it happen. But Khabib is done as well. And Khabib is what is he 32? I think Khabib is 32 or 33. That's right. So he's in his athletic prime. How will this could be find out how about hold Khabib is I believe he's either 32 or 33. Yeah, but it's different for everybody. Some people reach their prime at 25. Some people at 22. Some people at 35. You know, look at look at well, which is incredible. I know 38 years old and he's dominating the light heavyweight division. I think for Khabib it was also a promise that he made to his mother and that I think that's where it lies when his father died. He told his mother this is going to be the last fight and then he fought Justin Gaethje. Yeah, and he said that's it and I understand why because fighting takes a lot out of you and takes a lot of out of the people who loves you. Yeah, because you play basketball. You play baseball. You don't play fighting and the out the outcome of a failure. It's could be very very bad. You know what I mean? It's not like you lose a game of basketball or something like that. You lose a fight. It can have huge repair caution on your health your well-being but also your income and your family and everything. Sure like the like steep is lost to Ngana when you watch that loss that that's a horrible price that he paid when he got knocked out and you see him out cold and Francis hits him with that hammer fist after all he catered him with the left hook. That's a horrible place to be and if that's your child you think of Khabib's mother looking at him and if that's your child, that's a terrible thing to watch. That's right. And but I think psychologically for a fighter, it's hard to come back from a knockout. But it's probably harder to come back from a fight where you've been dominated and broken for five round like where you clearly know that you did not belong there with that. Right. You know like like like Khabib's that's his style. That's why I'm saying he's the scariest guy. Right. He can knock you out some at you but he's good. If he wins the fight, it's not it's very less likely that it's going to be on a punch that clips you. Can happen but it's going to be on a very dominant performance. It's going to maul you. Exactly. Spotify is absolutely free. You don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes. 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