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I’m Dean Thomas and week five is officially a rep things are not looking good for team McGregor but we’re gonna break it all down for you in moments we have Coach iron Michael Chandler joining us as well as this week’s winner all the way from Ireland Brad Katona we also have exclusive bonus footage that you won’t see anywhere else so get ready after tough starts right now [Music] [Music] joining me now back by popular demand the former UFC light heavyweight champion winner of tough season 2 The Hall of Famer my brother sugar Rashad Evans what’s up what’s up man I like when you introduce me man you know what I like what we got going on I am your bird to your Ernie Baby Bert and Ernie we got the matching blue shirts on today we are getting it in so this week’s episode we saw team McGregor take another l pulling out the victory for team Chandler at this point what should team McGregor be thinking I mean that’s five losses in a row how do you think the mentality of those guys are right now well the morale’s got to be poor you know the hardest thing right now that that McGregor’s got to do is he’s given everything like I’ve been watching him and I’ve been really I think I was a little too critical on him at first because he’s kind of a really good coach when you look at what he’s saying to these guys you know he’s meeting them where they’re at he’s going to their house trying to get them you know with the whole uh the game that they’re playing with with the rowing game you know he’s trying to build some team camaraderie and the thing about it is the fact that it’s about the why at the end of the day and when you have the guys who are the prospects their why is not as big as the veterans who just had lost their chance of the UFC and their contract UFC so their why is outpowering the prospects why well I’ll tell you what like you say that but Conor has been spitting facts yeah he is he has been spitting bars and we have bonus footage of Conor right now spitting bars none of them’s here because I don’t want to talk about this we don’t give a if they when I lose I couldn’t it’s not about that for me yeah obviously we know what we want but I don’t care I actually do know if those men if those mango well and give that absolute all and fight with that heart and that Soul oil plant or you can promise them they’re going again yeah this company rewards that yeah see what I’m saying it they’re printing the little niggles and all the mind that’s gone now we can put this wind on the pedestal so much so at the end of giving it up yeah you know what I mean it said just keeping this energy keeping the football yeah I don’t know yourself and I have no doubt they will no doubt they will so it’s gonna be a good season good season for each I was saying that it goes we’re facing the veterans we’re the Young Guns against the veterans so the young ones what’s what’s a young gun Young Gun is an inexperience the other guys have been pulled back and let rip show to his inexperiences with the young girls at the Vets I’m actually not even just vets they’re vets that got cut and now we got the second chance so the disgruntled vets the angry vets the vets that didn’t go that way do you know what I’m saying be free with it not put it too much in the head it’s going to be a good season it’s gonna be tough it’s remarkable how when you hear him spitting it mirrored almost verbatim almost exactly what you just said yeah I mean I mean to to my mind to Conor’s mind the truth of the matter is he sees it and the thing is where do you go from where you when you’re coaching from that position how do you get to those guys to see what they don’t see how do you get them to feel something they don’t feel yet and the problem is the fact that these guys who are the veterans they under their life fell apart when they lost their UFC contract and they still remember with that feeling because a lot of those guys it was still fresh for them so it’s just one of those things where you like guys you got to come out and you got to fight from a different place but how do you explain that to them well the thing is like that anxiety like these are young guys coming up and they know what they’re up against facing these these veterans and they have that anxiety but what Connor’s talking about seems like he’s trying to eliminate that by saying listen if you just fight hard don’t worry about the result if you just fight hard don’t worry about the result now when you’re coached you coached on your season was it like that trying to get these guys excited to go out there and fight but not put so much on it to where they were so anxiety ridden to where they didn’t perform yeah my biggest thing was I wanted these guys to have fun I wanted them to remember why they even fought in the first place you know and that it wasn’t a job and this was a great opportunity but at the end of the day it wasn’t going to be the end for them and once I got them to compete from that place of where they can’t fail they started to compete way better but it’s just in this situation here my heart goes out to those those younger guys because you know not until they’ve had a taste of the UFC in a sense that they really understand what they’re missing all right let’s relax after five weeks team Chandler is whooping team McGregor like they stole something the rookie coach with a perfect 5-0 record out the gate with his team of UFC veterans doing big things and with that let’s welcome in Iron Michael Chandler Mike what’s up man how are you today what’s up boys man I’m doing good team Chandler’s sitting at 5-0 I can’t complain I’m sure you can’t complain now Brad Katona he just got your fifth win in a row he lives in Ireland he trains with John Kavanaugh he trains under the same coach with Connor how was it like navigating through all that stuff and having to deal with that man I gotta say it was interesting and but I I will say I was able to come in as a coach and just I guess compartmentalize the fact that he was you know John Kavanaugh’s guy SBG but my Fighters as you saw in the van you know dudes kind of just waiting on them uh the dudes after week one were pretty much fed up with bracatona me on the on the other hand obviously I I signed up to do a job the job was to coach every single fighter to put in in the best situation possible to be successful um but yeah my team wasn’t wasn’t team Brad Katonah and and bracketona admits he’s a diva and he admits that he is team Brad Katona he was not team Chandler uh so it was very interesting to navigate all that Michael I’ve been watching week after week through such a great job as a coach and one thing I can say I was really impressed with was you met Brad where he was at you met him on the floor where he was at and that’s something that I can say that you know really helped him out in this fight because a lot of coaches getting in a situation where they want to impart what they want to impart and not really care about what this fighter is really trying to tell them but you really listen to your fighter and you really carve out a training just for him yeah no and I and I appreciate you noticing that and saying that because you got to realize too we’re 12 weeks 12 hours straight this summer on ESPN there was a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes and yeah truthfully Brad came in and said hey this is what I want to do and I’m team Brad Katona and y’all know me I’m a I’m a get after it work hard shut up listen to your coaches kind of guy but I also realized I wasn’t going to be able to do that with Brad which if I decided to just stray away from that and say hey no I’m in charge it’s my name on the back of the Jersey I’m Michael Chandler your team Chandler shut up and do what I say it wasn’t going to be me putting my best foot forward for him in this competition now with that being said it was tough you saw the scene there where I’m just kind of biting my tongue and I’m just I I know he’s getting away with what he shouldn’t get away with but I signed up to be the coach of eight guys for team Chandler on team Chandler versus McGregor and uh it was tough because I’m just a yes sir no sir show up do what I’m told kind of guy and he wasn’t and uh you know obviously he went out there and got the win so we’re happy about that for team Chandler well I’ll tell you what that speaks volumes about you as a coach and how fair you are but I loved watching you get some on-the-job training coaching the self-proclaimed diva is Diva he called himself the diva as Diva we have the footage right here let’s check that out when are we going to sit down and watch film um because the days are taken by pretty fast yeah well you you’re next week we’re going through a specific stuff yeah one week out from a fight it’s time to introduce new stuff even two weeks so it’s a little hairy so the sooner we can in my opinion like like a week out I’m not going to try working you know yeah big block defense that I’ve never done before well yeah well that’s why we were watching film two behind the scenes as well so yeah that’s where we can kind of come in and yep and just you be coached by by us yeah we got you but those eight guys you know it would be easier to have the film talking with you in the moment and I know I only have one guy I need to worry about but you guys have yeah eight guys Chandler at this point is kind of fed up with me as I said my life will be so much easier without the giant Diva Brad you know you know always want to do something special now Mike I noticed it during that whole interaction you were kind of uh fiddling around with your hands was that to keep you from slapping him in the mouth uh yes Hey listen obviously man I’m just a guy I’ve always just shown up and told and had the coaches tell me what to do I’m not saying that’s the right way to do it it’s just how I’m wired I’m a I just show up and I do it Brad didn’t you know so I always say this you know this kind of blanket statement of hey we all know what we signed up for and Brad knew what he signed up for knowing that there was going to be seven other guys that these coaches were coaching yet he was still trying to scrape and Claw and try to get the individual attention hey I need this I need film study hey I need individual attention I need the Norma Tech boots I need the the ufcpi and as you said I appreciate what you said the sentiment yes I did try to cater to his little needs that he that he had that were so far and above all my rest of my team I gotta hand it to the other seven guys I love all my guys but especially the other seven the other seven that just showed up they said yes sir they worked on their stuff and now you see Team Chandler at 5-0 we had a match to our madness he just hadn’t quite bought in and I talked about this on my own reaction show on YouTube I have a a uh a excerpt from my journal where at we after week one I said everybody has bought in except Brad Katona and it was very telling looking back months ago that there was one guy who didn’t buy into the team Chandler system um but ultimately I was there to do a job and I did it all right let’s take a question from the fans this one comes from hyperdose digital Dean are you ready to come in out of retirement to step in to fight Michael Chandler if Conor doesn’t work out man I ain’t fighting Michael channel for nothing so Connor you got a job to do Connor you got come on dude look at that young man look at that oh no ain’t no way I ain’t stepping out of nothing just to fight I ain’t doing nothing with my channels of taking them out for wings yeah exactly hey we’ll go out for wings we’ll hang out enjoy ourselves but Hey listen I understand everybody wants they want answers they want results with a fight of this magnitude the most exciting guy in mixed martial arts versus the biggest superstar mixed martial arts people want answers and they want them on their timeline their timeline is now I want my answers yesterday and I’m with everybody else of course but just let the process play out just know that Michael Chandler steps in the cage against Conor McGregor we put an electrifying event and I separate separate him from his Consciousness in the second round there’s a slight chance that he could be a little afraid I don’t know possibility possibility but hey there if there’s one thing I know about Conor he cares about his public Persona he cares about how people see him he cares about where he is now and where he has what he has become to the fans you don’t do a documentary saying you’re coming back you don’t tell everybody it’s the greatest comeback in Combat Sports history you’re not out there promoting yourself and saying you’re coming back and saying this is my game forever you’ll do what you’re told um and calling himself the pound for pound King listen Conor’s coming back there’s one guy he’s fighting his name is Michael Chandler he’s from High Ridge Missouri and we are going to put butts in seats and it’s going to be an electrifying performance but I knock out Conor and then maybe he retires after that we’ll see well we love it we love we love the foreshadowing of what’s about to happen Mike we appreciate you coming on enjoy congratulations on 5-0 we can’t wait to see what happens next week 5-0 baby appreciate you see you at the top have a good one peace great talking to Michael Chandler his team picked up another Victory another dub for Michael Chandler speaking of that fight we have footage of the move of the fight me and Rashad took it upon ourselves to go ahead and discuss and break down how this backtake was done because that was a pretty significant part of the fight all right we’re going to show is the finishing sequence that Katon hit here with so Tom was in Bears guard and bear tried to get up and Escape now he wants to use this wall if you use this wall he’s going to be able to get Escape but what Katan did was he stuck an arm in here he stuck his leg in here and then he was able to secure the hand on this side as he rolled him through he then put his other hook in and then freed up this hand and then went right for the rear naked choke here as you can see here I got a dean and a finish and I’m not letting him I’m not letting go forget about it I’m suing I’m so you ain’t have to choke me that hard it’s that turtleneck I thought maybe that’s what it was but I felt like you was trying to squeeze my head off man I’m old come on man this is this is abuse against senior citizens look at all this gray in my beard this is abuse against senior citizens the grade Rashad trying to take advantage of me the old the silver Club huh the old Silver Fox silver Snickers the silver sneakers all right well we got another bonus clip I want to get to you guys are going to enjoy this he pulled me up mechanical engineer I used to play chess when I was a kid’s friend he had an amazing I’m trying to make sure this guy right here right here and then I push it down yeah you didn’t because it was make sense the important thing is yeah one through three he loves Kavanaugh he trains at SPG but I’m telling you right now he’s a piece yes because that kid is he’s got he’s got it all too now it is time to bring in the man who secured the fifth straight win for team Chandler the winner of season 27 looking to become the first two-time tough champ Brad Katona Brad how you doing today I’m doing very well thank you so Brad you try you trained with Connor obviously in Ireland and you train with Coach John Kavanaugh I mean that had to be awkward to be going up against them and and I mean what was that Vibe like going up against them for this I’m I’m a fighter I was completely isolated from almost anybody I knew there was no inputs outputs there’s no familiar faces this time you kind of have this carrot dangled right in front of your face which is familiarity you know you have you have well my coach my nutritionist uh teammates coaching against you guys who’ve coached me oh Owen Roddy I I used to do a striking class at SBG when he was with us you know so to have him against you and then Connor cheering against you too it uh it was it wasn’t fun but thankfully thankfully we got the result and and that’s all that matters now you’ve had great success on season 27 obviously being the winner now coming into this season was there some things that you kind of want to avoid in one being like the whole team aspect of everything we want to I it’s a chance that I could be on on Chandler’s team almost a 50 50 chance and quite frankly on the ultimate fighter in my head what what can go wrong will go wrong for example you know uh the first time I was like man the two best guys in the house besides myself are Kyler Phillips and Bryce Metro and I drew both of them in the house you know this time I I knew the best guy or the best Prospect in the house was Carlos and I drew him you know like that’s just the road Brad’s going again and and that’s okay so I didn’t necessarily want to avoid a team Dynamic I was more worried about avoiding anything that was outside of my control that would get in the way of winning and you know when those small things was a cut on my first team practice they didn’t show it in the episode but that was the reason why I wasn’t doing some of the practices was I had a small cut now Michael Chandler would probably train with with one arm missing you know like but for me I wanted to Baby the cut a judgment call there and that’s where we kind of had some disagreements but you know after one day of disagreements really he gave me everything I could possibly need and all the coaches gave me everything that I possibly could need you know obviously there was a important dynamic between you and and your coach Michael Chandler and there were times it seemed a little tense how were you able to deal with that tension being with him you know considering you was like listen I got to worry about one guy you guys got seven guys but how did that work out for you um well quite frankly it worked out extremely well in hindsight um it was uncomfortable in the beginning though I had to advocate for myself there was nobody there advocating for for Brad but besides me so that’s what I tried to do I tried to be the one to have the difficult conversations of saying hey man small cut I’d like to baby it I’ve been told by the doctor I should baby it so it doesn’t get any larger it doesn’t get you know that way you can heal by the time I’m fighting and and really there was some tensions in the beginning and I could theorize why I think also you know Michael Chandler was somewhat inexperienced as a coach because he’s been an athlete his entire life but then he kind of put the coaching hat on the next practice and and was super accommodating to my needs as an athlete so uh I gave him that profit and I was almost like man we got that one disagreement and then all of a sudden you you win like like Chandler totally won he gave me everything I needed and uh you know even I I think back to the weight cut you know all the coaches stayed stayed late for me to finish my weight cut and I was really appreciative of that and and they gave me really everything I needed as the athlete to succeed that’s what I wanted and that’s what they gave me and you know smooth sailing from there now your loyalties were kind of split now did you feel that your teammates were clocking you like yo why is he taking so long did you feel like they were kind of looking at you like them this year it was clocking up for sure were you feeling like they were kind of kind of feeling some kind of way about your affiliation with the other team I’m not going to be telling you guys any secret like I’m not going to be telling let’s say The Blue Team any secrets that’s just I I it’s just I don’t know this is wrong especially when I’m you know your team Chandler I’m going to support my guys you know I’m still going to want Lee to win but I’m not going to be telling any secrets maybe that’s what they’re worried about but I felt I was put under scrutiny maybe a little unfairly you know I remember countless practices where we were waiting in the van waiting for guys to get their morning coffee and all that you know but sure enough I take an extra five five minutes afterwards say hi to my coaches now that’s on me that was a mistake I didn’t realize they were waiting but still you know I felt like well scrutinizing me but I waited every morning I was the first one in the van I waited every morning for you guys to make your coffee so you know it you know what if if that’s what I need to deal with fine you know what do what can I say but I gotta tell you man you look so much better now than in some of them clips and if I mean your face just looks more full and I’m just glad that you’re able to eat now because you you look kind of scary in some of the other Clips which brings me to my next point because you look good now and I’m not hitting on you but you called yourself a diva now yeah are you a diva and how did your teammates respond to that man uh good question so first off I’m glad I look so much better than skeletal Brad you know that that wasn’t a good luck oh you know I’ll just be up front I didn’t have the same notice for this season of The Ultimate Fighter as as some of the other guys it was it was very short notice and and so it was it was a bit of a panic to get down to weight and I think that reflected in in my first performance but I I do get a chance to rewrite that and and and really show what I feel is the true me um but am I a diva I don’t I don’t I don’t think I’m a Diva but you know I I knew how they were viewing it Brad doesn’t want to do practice Brad you know wants wants to stay late after our gym session to cut his weight you know Brad wants I don’t know maybe to watch video work you know a little earlier than the other guys to me I felt all those were advocating for My Success you know what do I need to be successful well I don’t need to lay I don’t need to start drilling you know five days out from a fight stuff that I haven’t seen before that’s not going to really help me in the fight I’m not going to have the confidence and and then you know yourself you’re you’re a coach you’re not going to show your athlete anything new that grows to a fight two weeks is a stretch even you know at that point you know the road’s been laid you’re as good as you are and now it’s just kind of avoiding injury and making weight so that was my mindset and so the earlier I could get having watched the video you know with my coaches we can start the drilling earlier and maybe that’s where I feel the other guys thought I was being a diva but I was going man I I have needs as as an athlete and I’m going to I’m going to stand up for those and I don’t know how if anybody else would have those challenging conversations well okay Diva Katona it’s like I’m just kidding I’m just playing with you I’m playing come on man listen don’t beat me up when you see me in the streets but we are I am rooting for you you fought you fought tremendously you look great out there looking forward to seeing how the rest of the season plays out for you and uh best of luck to you man thank you for coming on the show tonight thanks Brad I appreciate it guys thank you very much that was bracketona self-proclaimed Diva I mean I don’t know why anybody would Proclaim himself a diva but okay all right so in light of this we wanted to have some fun with this I wanted to talk about some of the more diva-esque type Personalities in MMA and we came up with our own very own Mount Rushmore of Diva Rashad who was on your Mount Rushmore of Diva oh man well Dean you know I hate to do this but you know I got McGregor I got Covington and I have my boy sugar Shawn O’Malley and listen I I got good reason for Overeem I mean Overeem when he came to my team Overeem had to own his own special practice boarded up with all kinds of mats and only his Selected Few group of people can go on their train one time he said upper shot um you’re cordially invited to uh training practice at 9 30. show up sharp I know you like to be late and I’m just but yeah all day all right so I came up with my very own list of divas and here we have it my list of Divas Jon Jones how could you not go with Jon Jones I mean it just he’s got Diva written all over him I got Paul Acosta the prettiest man in MMA he’s a diva for sure TJ bill us y’all we know TJ how TJ get down TJ wanted his way and that if it’s not his way it’s the highway and then Luke rockhold the model the male model you know he’s an absolute Diva so that’s my Mount Rushmore Diva now it’s hard to really say that these guys are divas for me because I haven’t worked with them but just from the outside looking in these guys are pure Divas absolutely you know what I got a I got a clip of of a diva and train like this is this guy right here is definitely a diva let’s take a look how we get together with you and ask you if you could find anybody in the semifinals who would you who would it be who do you want to fight Chris Chris Lytle yeah ever since I got here I wanted to fight Chris because I knew he had a good style and we matched up well together me and Chris when we’ve been training we’ve been going at it so that’s the type of fight and I think it would deprive everybody of a good exciting fight it’s very smart that’s good stuff you should go into selling cars I’m trying to after I kick your ass thanks [Music] I see you Dan it’s not like you got real tiny lips I can see those lips moving around it’s so hard to go to look back at that stuff and see how young and skinny and and Scrappy I was talking about I put them hands on them boys he looked like he was saying my friend Dean you do not want those problems with me no even though he wasn’t there for me he was in that families he was he looked you look mad you know what I remember talking to him about that because he was going to get that rematch with Matt Hughes and I remember he used to train every day with us the fight wasn’t booked yet but he was training every day with us because he was like yo eventually I’m gonna fight this dude and I’m gonna hurt this dude and he did man he did and we have some bonus footage of Connor talking about fighting Michael Chandler they asked me what do I hope for in this world I over 100 more fleets and then I mean how about 100 fights that’s really hope for you know what I’m saying so this is only dead well man how much what am I doing 40 40 50 in still that way yeah let’s bring our home Lads 50 more than coming out for 100 Small Voice yeah you know when you get a girl yeah and you all you always get them that’s what I’m gonna do today that’s what I’m going to do the Chandler and I told them that I’m gonna pin you I’m going to pin you and really feel you down you know what I mean I’m going to get him yeah he just falls apart you know after a few scrambles and that we’re gonna have on pain and literally rifle them down you know what I mean so you you always get them ready they can’t move no more there’s nothing left in them there’s like I stabbed him you’re not only gonna get to that point I don’t really fall down so I mean that that’s that’s the way it’s gonna go well anyway so so what it is but you can do anything yeah you can actually do anything I just want that original put a visual over the blade you know Rashad watching that clip I really want to watch Connor fight again me too I mean just watching it like he talks about like pinning guys and setting them up and being able to like in execution style like I got you here you can’t go this way you can’t go that way because I got you and I’m gonna write for you I’m gonna sniper you and we’ve seen him do that before Chad Mendez uh Diego burned down like a a bunch of guys we’ve seen him do that before yeah he’s such a strategist and this whole scene is playing to that strategy mindset and one thing I’ve learned about them during this this whole ultimate fighter is just the great mind behind he’s got a pretty good mind when it comes to fighting and when it comes to how to implement what you’re going to do in the fight he’s got a good mind for it so now we’re pretty far removed from your fight with Rampage I don’t think you guys are going to be rematching anytime soon but what was your strategy going into fight Rampage well I poked the bear I poked the bear I knew I had a mat I knew I had him agitated and I knew I had him wanting to kill me so that was the whole main reason with the whole trash talking so I knew if I hit him up top he was gonna react and he was going Gonna Roll and try to hit me with that rolling left hook or rolling right hook or whatever side I hit so it was for me I was just trying to stay elusive I was trying to stay low I was trying to be quick I was trying to just frustrate them and then through the frustration I was gonna break them down that’s the old Rocky and clever Lang get him mad get them mad well it all worked out for you but now let’s go to the best moment of episode five my mind is specifically concentrating on the task at hand s cop off one of those kicks Hey listen when you see Connor that elated going into a fight this is his world this is where he belongs Connor we gotta come it comes crazy like to see out there dancing and having a good time going this is his environment this is where he lives but I mean as a coach he’s really showing you know he’s there with these guys he’s going out there he’s reminding him that’s a rhythm that he was trying to remind him of of the cap weather of Rhythm so him for him to remember to get into that mode to not get stationary to not get stiff to remember to move forward and dance out there well that was a great moment but I know one thing like for me I like to I need to get back in shape but I need to be incentivized okay to get in shape okay so I’m watching these guys on the row machine I’m looking like you know what maybe that’s an exercise I can do but I needed to be incentivized so Rashad and I we took it upon ourselves to have a Rolling competition to see hookah Row the most um stop thank you I won I won you know I think Rashad I think you cheated I cheated I think you cheated I think you practiced I think you’ve done this before I think that you just forget got what we were doing it looked like he was just trying to eat the pizza lunch before we come here and see I took one bite of the pizza and was like yo screw the robust I just want some of this pizza but that’s what that’s what it takes in order to get me to exercise I need some type of incentive to be able to be incentivized with uh with pizza well I’m glad Pizza is your motivation bro it worked out for me but let’s talk to it toss to a flashback that we’ve seen before and Rashad I think you’re gonna like this one Rashad to be honest I’m going to tell my guys never act like that in the octagon must use you as an example what not to do but as far as what show but I hate it I’m glad you’re not on my team I just I’d like to have fun and I mean if that’s not your way dominating that fight I know but it’s just highlight that fun down to my team that’s what he wants that’s fine I mean I made the right pick when I was picking guys in well that’s fine that’s fine too you know I know I know it’s fine why are you upset right now bro I don’t know it’s weird because I feel like punching a man in his face wrong I feel like punching man in his face why aren’t you doing this oh he messed up and don’t expect an apology thinking about you reminds me of what Michael Barney used to say he’ll say son just be yourself if people don’t like if you’re being yourself against the wall with handcuffs on and cut your lips I can’t believe that’s the same guy I can’t believe it either man almost made me cry that episode man why because he didn’t like it I love Matt Hughes and at the time when he said it to me I was like ah I was so heartbroken but I hey man listen I can’t front man Matt Hughes was 100 wrong about that why you have you have to be yourself like as a fighter you have to be yourself like if you try to put somebody into a different box if they’re not accustomed to you’re going to get a worse fighter absolutely and I feel like that’s what early MMA was it was about putting you in a box that saw how you had to be but it seemed like the generations that passed after that has been more about liberating and just being themselves I mean think about it could you imagine if they were like okay Anderson Silva you can’t do this like what will we have if we didn’t allow fighters to be themselves we wouldn’t we wouldn’t have Conor McGregor no we wouldn’t because Conor McGregor was is supposed to be you know in that cookie cutter mold like that we wouldn’t have that right exactly and you know what here’s the thing about it early out you didn’t know what you didn’t know and and I feel like with the UFC early out they were just kind of like this is the frame this is how we should be and this is how the guy should act but it’s like nah well I mean I’m all familiar with that like you know I’m so old and just being in the early days of the UFC just knowing how it was brought up just and being a part of that being a Pioneer being a part of that just watching how it has evolved and thinking wow like it wasn’t supposed to be like this no it was it wasn’t supposed to be like this but again that creativity and that liberation of having Fighters be themselves allowed MMA to be what it is today yeah and when I stopped competing from that place of just having fun and enjoying myself out there I didn’t do so well like I always was one of those athletes who would have to have fun in order to have my best performance not go out there mad not going out there venomous or hate my my opponent it was all about just going out there and enjoying myself lots of fun stuff happened in this week’s episode and we have the memes of the week let’s take a look at these look at this when your boy can’t pronounce the words on the menu you be looking at them let me get that gyro yeah it’s a hero now look at the MMA judges we all know this is true it’s accurate what are they looking at we don’t know what they’d be seeing sometimes we don’t know one drop of porges hot sauce will have you like [Laughter] Dana White watching Jared Cannon here tell the media he doesn’t fight to entertain hold on now what are you in this business for are you kidding me bro yeah dude what are you saying even if you thought that don’t say that out loud now how I smile at work on a Monday morning I hate Mondays oh Michael Chandler showing her how it is Rashad once again we had fun we had a great time and I appreciate you coming out and blessing us with your expertise wisdom and your presence oh thank you champ I appreciate you my man I look forward to seeing you and Michael Chandler getting there if Connor says no no that ain’t happening so I need I need Conor to come out of uh to come out of his Hiatus and fight Michael Chandler because I ain’t doing it all right well coming up on episode six on the next episode of The Ultimate Fighter after five straight losses Connor pins his hopes on his top seated lightweight fellow Irishman Lee Hammond yes stay been around the system I’ve been training under us a long long time so he’s more than ready standing in his way team Chandler’s veteran finisher Kurt hollabaugh I’m calm I’m ready to step in the ring hear the cage door lock it’s time to fight with a spot in the semis on the line it’s a high-stakes matchup that leads to Mayhem at the Apex the next episode is going to be a good one check it out Tuesday 10 p.m Eastern on ESPN and ESPN plus then stick around for after tough because season 18 winner and former UFC bantamweight champ Juliana Pena is with us next week to break down episode 6 on ESPN plus YouTube Facebook and Twitter in order to achieve anything of value it takes a team effort no one does it by themselves Batman had Robin Alfred and Rich parents that left him a bunch of money after they got capped by a local stick-up kid named Joe Chill in the parking lot of a Wu-Tang concert well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it the point is no one does it without a team team Chandler even in the short time was instrumental in the Wind of bracatona this week but in MMA we tend to sentence fighters to a lifetime of loyalty all because they were part of a team and that sucks but this is your career and being loyal won’t always serve you I know dudes that cheat on that girl but stay loyal to the fight team look you don’t get many opportunities and doors close fast and you have to move swiftly even if it means moving on from your team because loyalty won’t feed you now I ain’t never ain’t no loyalty sandwich so Fighters never take advantage of anybody but you have to do what’s best for you because loyalty is not a transactional currency in the fight game until next time I’m Dean Thomas and I am not here to give you a problem I’m here to give you some tough love have a good night [Music] thank you