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introducing first a multi-time champion00:00:03
ready to make a statement in his ufc00:00:06
debut00:00:07
here is iron michael chandler00:00:17
and his opponent new zealand's finest00:00:21
coming off a 2020 in which he put on two00:00:23
of the best fights of the year00:00:26
introducing the always entertaining dan00:00:29
the hangman hooker00:00:37
and all roads lead to the main event00:00:40
it's the much anticipated return of the00:00:43
double weight00:00:44
world champion a man who's changed the00:00:47
fight game00:00:48
forever the owner of the fastest00:00:51
knockout in ufc00:00:52
title fight history here is the irish00:00:56
megastar00:00:57
the notorious connor mcgregor00:01:15
and he faces one of the best fighters in00:01:17
the world today00:01:19
the pride of lafayette louisiana winner00:01:22
of four of his last five00:01:24
fights the former interim lightweight00:01:27
champion please welcome dustin00:01:31
the diamond corian00:01:41
what's up abu dhabi how are you guys00:01:45
thanks for coming out today we00:01:47
appreciate it00:01:48
who's got the first question connor i'd00:01:51
like to start with you welcome back of00:01:53
course um00:01:54
first things first i mean this entire00:01:55
pandemic i think we've wondered what00:01:57
would a conor mcgregor fight be like00:01:58
with00:01:59
no crowd and now it's limited crowd so00:02:01
now that you're kind of in the building00:02:03
you're gonna get a sense for what the00:02:04
atmosphere is like and we think about00:02:05
you the bright lights are on the big00:02:06
crowds that's when you perform00:02:08
how does that affect your energy your00:02:09
focus on fight night00:02:11
i tell you what it feels pretty good00:02:13
right now you know the crowd here i know00:02:15
it's a small crowd but00:02:17
it feels good so i'm very happy to be00:02:20
here00:02:22
fair enough and of course as you said00:02:23
this is a big fight you know00:02:24
pay-per-view headliner but it's00:02:26
interesting i mean you have a victory over dustin you there00:02:28
may be a title fight on the line maybe00:02:30
there's not we don't really know so00:02:32
what provided kind of your daily00:02:33
motivation i mean you know that that00:02:35
extra practice00:02:36
that extra grind that you might not want00:02:37
to go to what was providing that for you00:02:40
my love for the game my love for00:02:41
competition my love for combat00:02:44
and you know dustin has put on an00:02:47
incredible run since our last fight it's00:02:48
been a long time coming yes i did get00:02:50
the win over him the first time00:02:52
and but you know he's rose right up and00:02:53
he's back up there at the top of the00:02:55
division so i'm excited to go on00:02:57
and compete with him again fair enough00:02:59
and you went out there and kind of made00:03:00
a pretty bold prediction you said you00:03:02
think you can get it done in 60 seconds00:03:03
uh00:03:04
you know i know you have a lot of00:03:05
respect for him but i wonder that puts a00:03:06
lot of pressure on you right i mean you00:03:07
you win in the second round or you hedge00:03:09
our decision maybe it was a letdown so00:03:11
any regrets in making that uh prediction00:03:13
do you stand by it00:03:14
you know well i got him out of there in00:03:16
90 seconds the first time so i mean i'm00:03:18
not that far off00:03:20
but you know i just that's a complete00:03:21
confidence in my preparation and in my00:03:23
abilities00:03:24
i know dustin's a hell of a competitor00:03:26
he's i know there's questions here he's00:03:27
heavier he's up on it he's up on a00:03:29
different weight00:03:30
and but he's more experienced i feel i00:03:33
can do it however00:03:34
you know there are question marks00:03:36
regarding conditioning and things like00:03:37
that i know his team has been00:03:39
spouting about the conditioning and that00:03:41
i have put in a lot of work to get00:03:42
myself correctly to the 155 pound frame00:03:45
i got 40 seconds inside the octagon in00:03:47
2020 which caused00:03:48
major frustration in my you know00:03:52
it's not enough i need more so i'm going00:03:54
to go in there and00:03:55
i believe i believe i can get them out00:03:57
there and possibly will00:03:59
hit him early and hurt him but you know00:04:01
i i00:04:02
i hope for for a good long uh a good00:04:05
long belt00:04:07
last week for me connor i mean it's kind00:04:08
of uh i think probably no coincidence in00:04:10
the timing but you were named in a00:04:12
lawsuit this week i just wonder if you00:04:13
have any comments on that and00:04:14
if that's affecting your focus i mean i00:04:16
think that's a lot on your shoulders00:04:18
ahead of a big fight like this you know00:04:20
it's old news00:04:21
it's been it was investigated totally00:04:23
over the course of two long years00:04:25
and i was cleared of any wrongdoing and00:04:28
and that's it you know00:04:29
so much positivity in my life i've got a00:04:32
great challenge ahead of me on saturday00:04:33
on saturday night00:04:35
and i'm very excited to get in i put in00:04:37
an immense amount of work00:04:39
to get my frame correct at 155 to get00:04:42
my conditioning you know i want to00:04:43
answer questions here00:04:45
and i hope i hope uh i hope dustin can00:04:48
can can can bring it to me and we can we can00:04:50
have a good fight00:04:51
thank you connor for dustin00:04:55
i wanted to ask you i mean uh you fought00:04:57
this year in the apex put on a fight of00:04:59
the year type candidate right00:05:01
um does that provide any any benefit i00:05:03
mean this atmosphere is unique it's00:05:04
different right i mean does that give00:05:05
you any kind of an edge once you go in00:05:07
there or is it an octagon an octagon an octagon's00:05:10
an octagon it's good it's actually good to see the us moving00:05:12
in this direction and fans coming back00:05:14
that's the direction we need to be opening00:05:16
things up as safe as we can in the ufc00:05:18
and abu dhabi here are doing that so i'm00:05:20
excited to put on a show for these guys00:05:23
dust i know that you've you know00:05:25
committed your life to this game right00:05:26
sacrificed everything00:05:28
you've never had 100 million boxing00:05:30
match you know what i mean you know you00:05:31
don't have a whiskey brand that's00:05:32
distributed around the world i know you00:05:33
like to say 25 minutes to make life fair does that00:05:35
apply here do you feel like there's a00:05:37
chip on your shoulder i mean you guys00:05:39
have had this kind of parallel life but00:05:40
it's gone different do you walk in there00:05:41
with a little chip on your shoulder00:05:42
every fight is a00:05:44
chip on my shoulder i'm trying to prove00:05:45
something i'm trying to the work that i00:05:47
put in i'm trying to make it pay off i'm00:05:48
trying to put my family in a better00:05:49
position00:05:50
and this is no different i know what a00:05:52
win over conor mcgregor means in combat00:05:54
sports and i know that whoever wins this fight00:05:56
is fighting for gold and that's why i00:05:58
fight00:05:59
fair enough thank you dustin and just00:06:01
one last one for for dana please stand00:06:02
obviously this is a massive00:06:03
pace you've got the hot sauce though00:06:06
then i'm actually ready00:06:07
i want to i'd love to taste the hot00:06:09
sauce i got a bottle for you i00:06:10
appreciate that i've got a bottle of00:06:12
water for you i'd love to share that00:06:14
that's so you know what i mean he's putting in00:06:15
the walk i've been highly impressed i00:06:17
think the whole business has been highly00:06:18
impressed00:06:19
after that loss many many years ago we00:06:21
rose up became champion00:06:23
he's given so much back i'm honored to00:06:25
share this octagon with this man i know00:06:27
we have this competitive fire and it's00:06:29
still there there's still that00:06:30
ah in us you know there's no denying00:06:33
that we we have a clash and it's going00:06:34
to be a good00:06:35
firework filled belt and but the respect00:06:39
is admirable for this man from me i i uh00:06:42
don't want to make it seem like we're up00:06:43
here giving each other back massages but00:06:45
connors i just want to clear the air00:06:46
connor's team uh mcgregor sports00:06:48
entertainment did reach out to my00:06:49
foundation00:06:50
and they are uh you know starting the00:06:53
donation to the good fight foundation00:06:54
and we have huge huge plans for that so00:06:56
connor manta man pleasure brother my00:06:58
pleasure thank you you're going to help00:06:59
a lot of people with that yes00:07:00
and you you maybe you can help with the00:07:02
distribution deal for the hot sauce00:07:04
of course of course no problem i got a00:07:06
taste of horse though00:07:07
you know i don't put my name to00:07:09
something unless it's their proper you00:07:10
know00:07:11
unless it's the finest i got you00:07:14
you'll taste it sunday morning then i'll00:07:15
give you a bottle after yeah it's00:07:17
perfect00:07:19
dane i just want to ask you like i said00:07:21
to me this is a huge pay-per-view event00:07:22
to kick off the year00:07:23
uh you kind of stirred the pot a little00:07:24
bit with the uh the piracy the online00:07:27
streamers they want to come after you and give00:07:28
this thing away so oh any regret00:07:30
any regrets i'm glad you asked me about00:07:34
that00:07:35
because um we got one00:07:39
we got him we're watching this guy00:07:42
right now all you have to do is turn it00:07:45
on on saturday and we got you i00:07:48
can't wait00:07:49
turn it on on saturday streamers and see00:07:51
what happens00:07:53
thank you for asking me that question00:07:59
pipe down00:08:03
who's next a question for michael over00:08:05
here uh welcome to the ufc this is your00:08:07
first real big00:08:08
press conference in your new home i00:08:09
don't think anyone uh for00:08:11
years thought you would be here so what00:08:12
are your first impressions of00:08:14
the ufc fans now at this press00:08:15
conference uh this is great man thank00:08:17
you uh00:08:18
i appreciate it it's awesome to be kind00:08:20
of a historic night00:08:22
10 months of not having any fans during00:08:24
a worldwide pandemic um00:08:26
it's nice to nice to share this00:08:28
opportunity with the fans man it's been00:08:30
a it's been a long time coming and there00:08:31
was there was moments where i wasn't00:08:33
sure if i would ever00:08:34
uh make that jump cut to come over the00:08:37
circumstances needed to be right00:08:38
it needed to feel right a couple months00:08:40
ago having that conversation with dana00:08:42
it felt this is where my00:08:43
my new home needed to be and everything00:08:45
has been uh00:08:47
wonderful thus far and i'm excited to go00:08:48
out there start this new chapter00:08:50
uh got a blank page on friday on00:08:53
saturday night00:08:54
uh to start this new chapter of my00:08:56
career i'm excited to go out there and00:08:58
compete00:08:59
and i know you're not looking past dan00:09:01
but you had said in the media day you're00:09:02
looking forward to at least00:09:03
sizing up connor being around him seeing00:09:05
what he's about so have you seen him in00:09:07
the hotel and if you haven't00:09:08
what do you think now no i have not now00:09:10
this is just the first time i saw him00:09:12
man he's uh he's looking dapper as00:09:14
always conor mcgregor uh typical connor fashion00:09:17
but00:09:18
uh you know this is i've been outside of00:09:19
the ufc and00:09:21
and i told dana this on our in our00:09:22
conversation every single time that i00:09:24
trained for one of the guys that i00:09:26
stepped inside00:09:27
of the cage with i wasn't training to00:09:29
fight them i was training to fight the00:09:31
number one guy in the world the number00:09:32
one guy in the world has always been00:09:33
under the ufc banner i was always trying00:09:36
to fight to beat that guy so00:09:38
um sizing everybody up you know last00:09:40
time i was here on fight island saw00:09:41
khabib saw gaichi00:09:43
um man these are these are the these are00:09:45
the the upper echelon the world class00:09:47
guys that i've wanted to compete against00:09:48
since day one00:09:50
and uh now i get that opportunity just00:09:52
gotta go out there and take care of00:09:53
business on saturday night00:09:55
and question for dan uh a lot's made00:09:58
with00:09:59
michael's uh wrestling credentials you00:10:00
of course have a very extensive striking00:10:02
background so what do you make of00:10:04
michael chandler's striking inside the00:10:05
octagon00:10:06
oh he's aggressive the guy comes out and00:10:09
he's a fast starter so i'm expecting00:10:11
by the end of that first five minutes00:10:13
we're gonna know how this thing's gonna00:10:14
play out i'm expecting him to come at me00:10:16
i'm expecting a00:10:18
fast start but i'm not one to back down00:10:20
to a challenge00:10:24
and then question for connor max00:10:26
holloway declared himself the best boxer00:10:28
in mma you kind of laughed at that on00:10:30
twitter so00:10:31
i'm wondering how would you rate the00:10:33
three gentlemen of peers boxing compared00:10:35
to yours00:10:36
i'll tell you what last the last press00:10:39
conference i've done00:10:40
with cerrone it was just myself and00:10:42
donald up here you know00:10:44
this time we've got three other men four00:10:46
of us00:10:47
and they're we're all in the same00:10:48
division so you know there's00:10:50
their opponents potential future00:10:52
opponents and i'm very excited about00:10:53
that that's kind of what halted me in00:10:55
2020 at the you know before the pandemic00:10:57
even hit it was like00:10:58
nothing really presented itself well00:11:00
here we've got tree up here00:11:02
you know we've got max skateboarding in00:11:04
the hallway back at the hotel00:11:06
so i'm very happy with that you know i'm00:11:08
very excited to see how the belt goes in00:11:10
the co-main event00:11:11
i know the two the two men know the00:11:13
magnitude of where they are at00:11:15
and i'm excited you know that's gonna00:11:16
that's gonna breathe an exciting00:11:19
uh you know fight field fight you know i00:11:22
mean it's gonna be in it it's gonna be a00:11:23
lot a lot of power tron00:11:24
i hope i hope i would tell the la i00:11:26
would tell the two lads if00:11:28
there's any stalling or any situation00:11:29
like that you know to00:11:31
to be separating and let the shots fly00:11:33
because there's a lot at stake here and00:11:35
i wish both men the best of look00:11:37
question for00:11:38
all four gentlemen up there a unique00:11:39
situation four dads fighting on saturday00:11:41
in the main and cole main event so00:11:43
are your kids aware of what's going down00:11:45
on saturday are you going to let them00:11:46
watch i know connor has00:11:48
connor jr and uh his kids here but are00:11:50
you going to let your kids watch on00:11:51
saturday night00:11:54
sorry sorry say that again was that to00:11:56
me uh all four are00:11:58
are all four gentlemen's kids gonna00:11:59
watch the fight on saturday you know my00:12:01
kids my kids will will watch i'm at the00:12:02
having them prevalent all fight week you00:12:04
know giving them00:12:05
and the experience they're a little00:12:06
young though i don't think i'll have00:12:07
them in the arena for the actual belt00:12:09
but uh they'll be watching that daddy00:12:11
for sure and i look forward to going00:12:12
back after the fight00:12:16
i know i know my son will be sleeping uh00:12:18
but he knows daddy does mma he knows00:12:20
what mma is and00:12:21
we'll uh we'll go watch the masterpiece00:12:23
after the fight uh when i get home and00:12:25
and get to spend time with them and my00:12:28
daughter knows what i do obviously but00:12:30
we don't really let her watch she helps00:12:33
me take the stitches out when i get back00:12:34
she knows what's going on00:12:37
yeah my daughter will be swinging along00:12:39
with me she'll be there00:12:45
who's got the next question well one00:12:47
more for you dana right here00:12:48
uh habib did an interview yesterday00:12:50
saying he still doesn't want to make his00:12:52
mom00:12:53
upset by returning have you seen that00:12:54
interview and have you spoken to him00:12:56
again since your initial00:12:57
conversation i told you guys we'll00:13:00
see what happens this week we'll get him00:13:02
we'll get him00:13:07
[Applause]00:13:09
hey connor out of the available00:13:12
lightweights to you right now00:13:13
is dustin the hardest challenge you00:13:15
could be facing00:13:17
i think so yeah you know i'll always go00:13:19
i'll always look to get the highest00:13:21
challenge dustin00:13:22
has a win over hooker who's on stage00:13:23
here uh you know00:13:25
he has a he knocked out justin so there00:13:28
there's some high contenders already and justin in00:13:31
turn knocked out tony was another00:13:33
contender00:13:34
so i think i'm i think i'm right at the00:13:35
top here you know00:13:37
i would make the case if that man is00:13:39
continuing to00:13:40
to dodge this and dodge the commitment00:13:43
of competing again00:13:44
the title should be stripped and we00:13:46
should be engaging in a fight a title00:13:48
fight you know so but i'm sure it will happen00:13:51
after this belt00:13:52
i'm interested to hear what the what the00:13:55
excuses are what will be said after the00:13:56
fight but i i predict00:13:58
a title strip going off prediction you00:14:01
said it's going to take 60 seconds to00:14:03
beat dustin it might go longer but do00:14:05
you have the shot00:14:06
in mind already that you want to finish00:14:07
him with or is that something that00:14:08
presents itself in the fight00:14:10
i have a million shots of so many00:14:12
weapons in my arsenal00:14:13
and you know they're all fine-tuned at00:14:15
this time i'm in a phenomenal place00:14:17
and i look forward to getting out and00:14:19
showcasing you know painting my picture00:14:21
and putting on a beautiful performance00:14:23
for the fans around the world00:14:25
and for you michael we know you've your00:14:28
story that you've just come into the ufc00:14:29
but now you're up there on a press00:14:30
conference stage00:14:31
has it set in yet that you're making a00:14:33
ufc debut00:14:36
yeah it has i think uh i think the day00:14:38
that i signed on the dotted line00:14:39
it's starting to sink in i mean i've00:14:41
been uh competing at a high level since00:14:44
i was 14 years old and all roads have00:14:45
led to this there seem like there have00:14:47
been roadblocks at times but00:14:49
uh daily i have thought about it i've00:14:51
visualized it i've i've seen it i've00:14:53
been watching these guys compete00:14:55
for a long time and i've wanted to share00:14:57
the share the octagon with them so it's00:14:59
um you know the last trip here to fight00:15:01
island a lot of people thought it was00:15:03
kind of an interesting decision00:15:04
i wanted to be the guy that said yes00:15:06
when a lot of guys said no so i stepped00:15:08
up i said yes00:15:09
and that uh that reaped i reaped a lot00:15:11
of reward from that00:15:12
now all the familiar faces that i'm00:15:15
going to be robin elbows with00:15:16
co-workers um00:15:19
in my tenure here in the ufc now they're00:15:21
all familiar faces and00:15:23
it's uh it's all gone well thus far00:15:25
weight's on point and00:15:27
uh here we are getting ready to step00:15:29
into not just step in the octagon but00:15:30
step into a00:15:31
a co-main event slot on a huge00:15:33
pay-per-view a historic night00:15:35
uh as these guys have said this is a big00:15:38
big opportunity for all of us and we're00:15:40
gonna go out there00:15:41
and we're gonna go uh put on a great00:15:42
show00:15:44
and for dustin there is an element of00:15:46
charity to this fight00:15:47
uh you just mentioned that with the00:15:49
donation to your your foundation00:15:51
how important do you believe it is that00:15:52
a fighter at the top tier00:15:54
pays it back and pays it forward and00:15:56
uses their platform to help others who00:15:58
don't have one00:16:00
i believe it's uh important for for a00:16:02
man as he matures to recognize00:16:04
the situation and position he's in and00:16:06
that he put himself in00:16:08
and i just ever teach his own i'm not00:16:11
saying everybody should do it but if you00:16:13
have it in your heart and you're in00:16:14
position to be a voice for people whose00:16:16
voice isn't hurt00:16:17
or uh to be a representative of00:16:19
something better00:16:20
you know it transcends fighting and um00:16:23
we're all fighting something so00:16:24
it means a lot to me personally i can't00:16:25
speak for anyone else00:16:27
and for dan do you believe your style00:16:31
is the worst match-up chandler could be00:16:33
facing on his debut00:16:35
it's not a good style i bet if he could00:16:37
have picked anyone else it wouldn't have00:16:38
been me00:16:39
uh long tall guy you know my built my00:16:41
games built00:16:42
around defending wrestlers uh the only00:16:45
reason i'm here is because everyone00:16:47
ahead of me turned the fight down they00:16:48
don't want to take the risk they don't00:16:50
want to risk their spot00:16:51
you know they come up with a bunch of00:16:53
excuses oh charlie olives00:16:55
saying he can't make the weight like00:16:57
danny you believe00:16:58
charlie olives can't make the weight i00:16:59
got broomsticks thicker than that boy00:17:01
um i'm here i'm taking the risk that00:17:04
means that i reap the00:17:05
the reward00:17:09
nice and last one for dana do we have an00:17:12
update on numbers for this card you got00:17:13
the return of conor mcgregor we've got00:17:15
some fans back but pay-per-view wise how00:17:16
is this thing trending very good yeah no00:17:18
this thing's trending great00:17:20
um yeah it's good00:17:23
it's going to be good there hasn't be00:17:25
when was there a bad one since since the00:17:26
pandemic started00:17:28
there hasn't been a bad pay-per-view00:17:29
they've all been over performing00:17:31
so you can only imagine what this is00:17:32
going to do00:17:36
hey just a quick one from me as the00:17:40
unofficial lightweight tournament00:17:41
commissioner i just wanted to get a00:17:43
variable confirmation you guys because00:17:45
listen charles oliveira the victory only00:17:47
over tony ferguson00:17:49
he's pretty much through to the00:17:50
semi-finals now we've got just engaged00:17:52
you probably to come into the mix but00:17:54
of course it's about you guys the00:17:56
semi-final spots at stake00:17:58
even if one or two you come out of this00:17:59
weekend and fight for the title00:18:01
i think most media fans we want to crown00:18:04
a new undisputed00:18:05
lightweight champion by the end of the00:18:07
year and i just want to get a quick00:18:08
confirmation00:18:11
yes sir michael you in bucket00:18:14
dan dustin let's go00:18:18
dan i don't even understand the question00:18:20
yeah00:18:22
thank you dana you're welcome00:18:27
all right hey connor uh you looked like00:18:29
you had something you were about to say00:18:30
there when dana was talking about the00:18:31
pay-per-view numbers00:18:32
yeah it goes without saying you don't00:18:34
got to come up and and talk about er00:18:37
ea sports ufc selections and all this00:18:39
type of thing00:18:40
when it comes to me you know the00:18:41
pay-per-views are trending the embedded00:18:43
has been record-breaking again it's00:18:45
it's all it's almost double the the00:18:47
first episode of the embedded is almost00:18:48
doubled in00:18:49
all of the other embeddeds that have00:18:51
came out in 2020 bar one00:18:52
mcgregor only so it's trending in the00:18:55
right direction i'm very excited about00:18:56
it you know00:18:57
i i'm very excited to give these guys a00:18:59
platform here you know what i mean and00:19:00
like i said00:19:01
and i'm happy to hear chandler say this00:19:03
and hooker say this you know00:19:06
take your take your chances and reap the00:19:08
rewards here so that's it so there's00:19:09
gonna be two cracker fights00:19:11
and i'm ready and as the guy from bt00:19:14
said about the tournament00:19:15
book it we're in and that's that's00:19:17
amazing let's go00:19:19
one more for you connor i know you kind00:19:20
of said at the beginning uh the00:19:22
narrative about your conditioning and00:19:23
everything going into this fight can you00:19:24
just expand on that00:19:25
and why do you think there are those00:19:27
doubts about your cardio you know i00:19:29
think it's a myth obviously i had the d00:19:30
as one uh the first diaz fight00:19:34
i went from federal weight and then a00:19:35
month or so later i was at welterweight00:19:37
you know that's obviously going to00:19:38
have impact and then those without00:19:40
issues but you know i think overall it's00:19:42
a myth and00:19:43
it's a myth that's you know it's out00:19:44
there and that's it i hope we can answer00:19:46
and i will answer it in time at some00:19:47
stage i keep showing up here00:19:49
you know someone's going to be able to00:19:50
stay in the vodka with me and stay in00:19:52
there and fight with me00:19:53
and i hope it's this uh i hope it's this00:19:55
saturday night do i think so00:19:57
i i do not i'm in i'm in some shape here00:20:00
at the minute and i tell you this now i00:20:02
am coming00:20:03
to put on a masterpiece so i'm excited00:20:05
about it00:20:08
and just one for you dustin i know you00:20:10
said prior to the fight with dan there00:20:12
that you didn't really like that there00:20:13
was a certain expectation that you would00:20:15
win going in and you kind of relish00:20:17
being the underdog more can you just00:20:18
speak a little bit00:20:19
more to that and do you feel at your00:20:21
most comfortable going into a fight like00:20:22
this00:20:23
i'm not sure if i relish it but of00:20:25
course i want to be cheered when i walk00:20:27
out but i'm uh acquainted with it i i know00:20:30
the feelings00:20:31
and i've been in this position time and00:20:32
time again that's just it i'm just00:20:34
acquainted with it00:20:40
hey question for connor how you doing um00:20:43
i've enjoyed listening to you talk about00:20:44
you know getting the frame right for 15500:20:47
and uh it struck me that it's it's kind00:20:49
of crazy that you've only competed there00:20:50
twice you've been in the ufc for what00:20:52
seven years you've only competed at 15500:20:54
pounds twice00:20:55
is that your ideal weight class do you00:20:57
think do you think that's where you00:20:58
operate at the highest level00:21:00
i've done pretty good in all the other00:21:01
ones as well you know i've done good in00:21:03
them all i've not secured00:21:05
i've secured belts in multiple divisions00:21:06
and i've secured knockout victories00:21:08
in multiple divisions and i do feel00:21:10
great at this weight but you know00:21:12
whatever i commit to00:21:14
i feel at you know i when i do the00:21:16
welterweight belts i feel great i feel00:21:18
strong and big i still feel this now00:21:20
you know i mean i feel fast also so i'm00:21:22
excited to get in and showcase it00:21:24
and like i said i have not had that much00:21:27
fights at 155 pounds in the ufc division00:21:29
are in the ufc00:21:31
and i'm eager to put in a stint to get a00:21:34
run going you know like i don't with the00:21:36
featherweights i think i went seven or00:21:37
eight fights within the space of00:21:39
a year and a half you know that's that's00:21:41
what i'm looking for here if they can00:21:42
match me up00:21:43
i know now we've got multiple opponents00:21:44
up on the days already so we're in a00:21:46
good spot00:21:47
and i'm eager to get going and showcase00:21:49
i feel00:21:50
this is the best i am i have ever been00:21:53
for sure00:21:54
and i'm at 155 pounds but you know if i00:21:57
go back to 170 pounds you better believe00:21:59
that'll be the best i'll be at also00:22:00
so it is what it is yeah and you uh one00:22:03
tweet that you met00:22:04
i don't know exactly when you put it up00:22:06
but you said that uh after you won 15500:22:08
pound belt you wonder maybe you should00:22:09
have jumped up and gone for that 17000:22:11
pound belt right away and i just wonder00:22:13
obviously things have worked out well00:22:14
for you the mayweather fight made you a00:22:16
whole lot of money but00:22:17
have there ever been do you think about00:22:19
that sometimes that what would have00:22:20
happened had i00:22:21
not left this board sometimes i think00:22:23
man i should have just stayed in the00:22:25
featherweight division and fought the00:22:26
ricardo llamas and all those type of00:22:28
guys you know what i mean i've just been00:22:30
at the in the featherweight division00:22:32
i'm always i always look to challenge00:22:34
myself and seek00:22:35
greater heights and you know although00:22:37
i'm i've been the champion at 155 pounds00:22:40
i have not had00:22:41
i have not had much time at this weight00:22:44
in the ufc00:22:45
and this is where this is what i wish to00:22:46
do now00:22:48
uh last thing for you um i wouldn't say00:22:50
that the security team was necessarily00:22:52
concerned about it but they were very00:22:53
aware that you were going to be in the00:22:55
hotel this week at the same time as00:22:57
habib and i was just wondering if00:22:59
if that is still a warranted concern or00:23:01
i mean have you guys00:23:02
passed that part of your relationship00:23:03
that you could be in the lobby of a00:23:05
hotel we wouldn't have to worry about00:23:07
anything happening between you guys you00:23:08
know all of those events were00:23:11
2018 it's now 2021 and what i will say00:23:15
is as long as00:23:16
as long as we fight again there'll be no00:23:18
issue and that's it you know if we00:23:20
if if he continues to run i'm not sure00:23:24
we'll see what happens00:23:29
and i got i got one for you michael i00:23:30
mean obviously you've been asked a lot00:23:32
about being in the new promotion00:23:33
what it feels like to be in the ufc i00:23:34
wonder what it feels like to be on the00:23:35
stage with with these three gentlemen00:23:37
and is this a different caliber of00:23:39
opposition00:23:40
that you've been in contact with00:23:41
throughout your career i mean is there00:23:43
truth to that or do you feel like00:23:44
throughout your career you have been you00:23:46
know amongst guys who are of the same00:23:48
skill level as these guys00:23:50
overall this is the the toughest00:23:51
competition that i will ever face in my00:23:53
entire life but i have00:23:54
i think when you look at my resume when00:23:56
you look at my track record guys like00:23:58
eddie alvarez guys like benson henderson00:23:59
these are these are champions that were00:24:01
here in the ufc00:24:02
uh granted it was a couple years later00:24:04
but um i've been competing at a high00:24:06
level since i was 14 years old as i said00:24:08
so i've been dreaming of this day or00:24:11
visualizing this day just in case it00:24:12
ever did come and now i'm00:24:14
i'm fully prepared to take take the00:24:16
opportunity head on and uh00:24:18
absolutely these all these guys are are00:24:20
the best in the world00:24:22
and uh the the ufc lightweight division00:24:24
is the most hyped00:24:26
most electrified most energetic division00:24:28
in the ufc today00:24:29
and it was a perfect perfect time to00:24:31
insert my name into the mix00:24:34
thanks guys00:24:37
hey uh this question's for the diamond00:24:39
dustin poirier you fought00:24:41
in this country before to unify the00:24:43
lightweight strap against habib00:24:45
nurmagomedov00:24:46
is this stage greater for you than ufc00:24:49
24200:24:51
it's obviously a huge fight but fighting00:24:54
for the world title is the biggest fight00:24:55
you can get to me00:24:56
because that's the reason i fight i want00:24:57
to00:24:59
i'm still tracing that chasing that goal00:25:01
and i know this fight here gets me one00:25:03
step closer to that00:25:04
so this question's for the notorious00:25:07
conor mcgregor00:25:09
what separates the fighter conor00:25:11
mcgregor from the business mogul00:25:13
conor mcgregor00:25:16
and if you know i bring i bring all of00:25:19
the00:25:20
all of the discipline and the drive that00:25:22
i learned in my martial arts00:25:25
training and preparation and competition00:25:27
into the business world and it's helped00:25:29
me tremendously it's why it's why i always00:25:31
would urge00:25:33
any parents around the world to get00:25:35
their children into00:25:36
into martial arts any type of combat00:25:38
sport and it's not necessarily00:25:40
to compete if they wish to compete well00:25:42
then they can compete but00:25:43
the things that they learn through00:25:44
martial arts you know you cannot learn00:25:47
it anywhere else and it will translate00:25:48
into many other things especially the00:25:50
business world so00:25:51
it's pretty much the same two of the00:25:54
same00:25:55
and lastly for michael you've sized up00:25:57
all these lightweights now the last one00:25:59
here is conor mcgregor00:26:00
you've rubbed obvious with all of them00:26:02
what do you make of this guy00:26:03
sitting next to you hey he he is he00:26:07
is uh exactly who we think he is he is00:26:10
exactly who think he thinks he is he's00:26:12
got a track record00:26:13
um he's a global superstar for a reason00:26:16
um when it but all of that doesn't00:26:19
matter when you step inside00:26:21
that octagon when the cage door closes00:26:22
we all know that he knows that00:26:25
but as far as the man as far as what00:26:26
he's accomplished as far as just as you00:26:28
alluded to outside of the cage what he's00:26:30
done uh what he's done eyeball wise00:26:34
attention wise for this division for00:26:36
this promotion it's uh00:26:38
it's nothing short of amazing and it's00:26:40
awesome to share this opportunity00:26:42
share the stage with these guys and it's00:26:44
as you can see i think there's a lot of00:26:45
growth00:26:46
up here i think we've seen a lot of00:26:47
growth in connor one of the baddest men00:26:48
on the planet now one of them one of the00:26:50
most deadest men on the planet i think all of00:26:52
us all of us as you alluded to we're all00:26:55
dads we all00:26:56
started started coming up hungry humble00:26:59
and now we're dads and uh really00:27:01
fighting for a different purpose so you00:27:02
kind of see that in him you see that in00:27:03
dustin you see that00:27:04
in hooker and you see that in myself so00:27:07
um man either way saturday night we're00:27:10
all gonna go out there00:27:11
put on a great show everybody buy that00:27:12
pay-per-view let's go appreciate that00:27:19
connor how you doing mate you've00:27:23
you've always sorry you've evolved so00:27:26
much in your fighting career00:27:27
but i think you've always been an artist00:27:30
inside and outside the cage with your00:27:32
fighting style00:27:33
and your ability to sum up things in00:27:35
such a poetic manner00:27:36
but can you just talk to me a little bit00:27:38
about how you define yourself00:27:40
as an artist i'm just an insanely driven00:27:45
young man you know what i mean i'm00:27:46
passionate about what i'm passionate00:27:48
about and00:27:49
i give it my all that's it i'm00:27:53
i'm a hard worker true and true if00:27:56
something needs to be done00:27:57
conor mcgregor gets it done make no00:27:59
mistake about it00:28:00
that's awesome staying on the topic of00:28:03
our i wanted to read you a quote from00:28:05
2013 that you said uh it's really00:28:08
poignant00:28:09
and i think it deserves to be read out00:28:11
in full so just bear with me00:28:13
i've lost my mind on this game like00:28:15
vincent van gogh00:28:16
dedicated his life to his art and he00:28:18
lost his mind in the process00:28:20
that's happened to me but it when00:28:22
that gold beltway00:28:23
is around my waist and my mother has a00:28:25
big mansion my girlfriend has a car for00:28:28
every day of the week00:28:29
and my kids kids get everything they00:28:32
ever wanted then it will pay then i'll be happy i00:28:35
lost my mind00:28:36
can you just reflect and talk to me00:28:38
about how that makes you feel hearing00:28:40
that in 202100:28:43
yeah you know yeah i00:28:46
it's been summarized i've got it done00:28:49
and i'm up here00:28:51
mars i've been through with all my00:28:55
friends you know i appreciate i00:28:56
appreciate00:28:57
that and uh it's been a world ride for00:28:59
me it's not been easy at times but00:29:01
but you know with what a life and i tell00:29:04
you what00:29:05
i wouldn't want it to be any other way00:29:06
i'm very excited to be back here00:29:08
i'm very excited to have fans back in00:29:10
the in the area i'm very excited with00:29:12
the competition the multiple competition00:29:15
i just feel invigorated you know what i00:29:17
mean and as you said00:29:19
about artist artistry and all and vinnie00:29:21
van gaal i'm going to paint a picture a00:29:23
beautiful picture here inside this00:29:24
octagon on saturday night and i'm very00:29:26
excited to do so00:29:27
awesome thank you so much mate00:29:29
[Applause]00:29:31
[Music]00:29:35
go ahead yes from abu dhabi sports00:29:40
the amazing thing about this sport is00:29:42
we've seen00:29:44
the fighters grow in front of us and00:29:46
like conor mcgregor00:29:48
and dustin they're different fighters00:29:50
since00:29:51
they started over here we know the00:29:53
motivation00:29:54
behind dustin's uh fight against conor00:29:56
mcgregor's00:29:57
to beat uh conor mcgregor and to become00:30:00
uh00:30:01
the the champion uh within one year like00:30:05
but you conor mcgregor like you fought00:30:07
jose aldo and you you elevated the00:30:09
standard and then you fought00:30:10
eddie alvarez and you became the double00:30:14
champ and then you uh you're fighting you're00:30:17
just elevating standards each time00:30:19
so beating donald cerrone last year and00:30:22
now you're fighting with00:30:23
dustin poirier what's your motive after00:30:26
this like after like seven00:30:27
eight years of competing in the ufc00:30:32
i feel like i'm only starting man00:30:34
everyone kind of wants to hey connor00:30:35
you've done00:30:36
it all you're so rich and richard and00:30:37
dana over here i just00:30:39
what are you doing here i'm like i'm not00:30:41
sure i'm not allowed here i want to be00:30:43
here i want to perform for the fans00:30:45
i'm a young man i've got many highlights00:30:47
you know but00:30:48
all the money all the belts all00:30:51
everything00:30:52
that comes and that goes you know what00:30:54
lives on highlights00:30:55
of fighters highlights you look at roy00:30:57
jones junior's highlights my toys and00:30:59
highlights i still look at them today00:31:00
ali's highlights00:31:02
i want my highlight reel to be like a00:31:04
movie you know what i mean so that's00:31:05
what i'm after i'm looking to get in and00:31:07
perform and put on amazing highlights00:31:09
that i can sit as an old man with my son00:31:12
and and just watch back and just enjoy00:31:14
life you know what i'll be drinking i00:31:16
know he's proper as well boy the fire00:31:18
in the emerald isle of ireland and this00:31:20
is it man i'm just loving my life please00:31:22
don't be trying to get rid of me guys00:31:23
i'm00:31:24
i love it here man i helped build this i00:31:27
helped you do this i'm here and i love it and00:31:30
man i have plenty00:31:32
of motivation you know what i mean00:31:34
dustin's a hell of a competitor00:31:36
what does the cham champ do he does it00:31:38
twice okay i conquered it00:31:40
let's conquer it again you know what i00:31:41
mean do it twice that's what the champ00:31:43
champ does00:31:50
connor question down here um talk to me00:31:52
about how your training camp went00:31:53
portugal i know it was kind of secluded00:31:55
due to the lockdown you've had secluded00:31:57
camps in the past00:31:58
do you think this is something that you00:31:59
want to continue with going forward00:32:03
yeah i tell you what it's been a00:32:04
phenomenal camp all across the board we00:32:06
were in00:32:07
lagos in portugal we were in dublin we00:32:09
were in dubai00:32:10
and now we finished it up here yeah it00:32:13
was an amazing camp i have an amazing00:32:15
team of people around me all across the00:32:16
board from the nutritionist from my00:32:18
coaches in mixed martial arts in jiu00:32:20
jitsu in boxing00:32:21
in wrestling and all my sparring00:32:23
partners it's a phenomenal team i have00:32:26
as well as my conditioning coaches00:32:28
and i'm looking forward to going in and00:32:30
representing00:32:31
all my team's hard work you know what i00:32:33
mean we put a lot of hard work in here00:32:35
and i'm gonna go in and do my team proud00:32:37
thank you looking forward to it00:32:46
who else yeah go ahead um dustin00:32:50
everybody's talking about how much00:32:51
you've changed as a fighter since the00:32:53
last time you fought conor00:32:54
what would you say is the main thing00:32:56
that changed in your game and that would00:32:58
make a difference this saturday00:33:00
whether mentally or physically00:33:03
i think technically as well mentally for00:33:05
sure technically as well i mean six00:33:07
years00:33:08
since we fought you have to you have to00:33:11
evolve to stay00:33:12
at the top of the division for this long00:33:14
to stay in the company for this long00:33:16
and um just maturity and i don't care00:33:19
what anybody out here thinks anymore i00:33:20
used to care too much i just00:33:22
i don't care that's a superpower not00:33:24
given a and not00:33:25
that's it00:33:30
um and conor this one is for you i know00:33:32
you've been asked a lot about this whole00:33:34
khabib thing00:33:35
but i'm just curious to know he said00:33:37
he's looking for something00:33:38
amazing extraordinary this saturday for00:33:40
him to change his mind and come back00:33:42
what do you think he's looking for this00:33:44
saturday for him to change his mind00:33:46
you know i don't really care he did not00:33:48
say that he dana said that00:33:50
he said he's not you know what i mean00:33:52
let's just let's just get rid of00:33:54
you know all these men are up here00:33:55
there's plenty of challenges and00:33:58
you know it's a tough business and the00:33:59
things have gone on in his personal life00:34:01
i don't wish him any00:34:02
any harm like i said it was in 2018 a00:34:05
lot of time has passed00:34:07
the world knows this fight is not over00:34:09
you know what i mean this war is not00:34:10
over the sport needs it to happen the people00:34:12
need it to happen00:34:14
i'm not going to chase it if he doesn't00:34:15
want it you know what i mean and that's00:34:17
it i'll keep00:34:18
i'll keep my cam and and and and move on00:34:21
and that's what i'm doing i'm back here00:34:22
the 155 pound division00:34:24
i'll show the world what's what over00:34:26
time and that's it and it begins00:34:29
on saturday night against dustin 48.00:34:32
uh finally my last question i heard00:34:34
dustin say that he actually kind of00:34:36
enjoyed00:34:37
the fights during this past year without00:34:38
a crowd because he felt it was a bit00:34:40
more00:34:41
intimate and he was more focused i'd00:34:43
like to know does having or not having a00:34:45
crowd affect you in any way00:34:47
uh when you're inside that octagon or00:34:49
not really you just forget everything00:34:50
yeah no a fight is a fight for sure00:34:52
you're inside that octagon it's a it's a00:34:53
it's00:34:54
you know i was actually very very00:34:56
excited00:34:57
to uh compete with no crowd you know at00:35:00
the at the start i was like oh i don't00:35:01
know00:35:02
you know but over over time then i was00:35:05
like i really wanted to see00:35:06
and hear my power and my velocity and00:35:09
you know my precision00:35:10
i wanted to hear my shots whistle00:35:12
through the air you know with no00:35:14
background noise00:35:15
and and really and really you know put a00:35:18
statement out there00:35:19
of of the difference and i was almost00:35:21
you know i was close00:35:22
i almost got to do it but there's not00:35:24
that many fans only a couple of thousand00:35:25
my power my speed my precision00:35:28
my velocity you know my whistle will00:35:31
still will still whistle strong on the00:35:33
night and i'm excited to show00:35:35
thank you thank you guys we appreciate00:35:38
it we're going to square these guys off00:35:39
for photo ops and we will uh see you00:35:41
tomorrow00:35:42
thank you guys thank you00:35:43
[Applause]00:35:58
this is a rematch that everybody wants00:36:00
to see [Music]00:36:02
surprise surprise the king is back conor00:36:06
mcgregor one of the most iconic fighters00:36:10
in miff's martial arts history00:36:21
he's as tough as they come i'm one of00:36:23
the best in the world one mistake00:36:25
and it's over i'm gonna stop conor by00:36:27
any means necessary00:36:42
[Music]00:37:06
um00:37:15
[Music]00:37:20
ladies00:37:34
y'all00:37:36
[Music]00:37:45
[Applause]00:37:49
let them have it00:37:53
[Music] [Applause]00:37:55
case full of noise real quick00:38:04
thank you gentlemen00:38:18
[Music]00:38:27
[Applause]00:38:42
thank you00:38:49
[Applause]00:38:58
foreign00:39:00
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