Jared Cannonier stops by the UFC Post Show to chat with Dan Hellie, Michael Chiesa and Alan Jouban after his record-setting …
[Music] I didn’t know if we were going to be able to get Jared cannonier out here on set until I saw the post-fight interview and he looked like he could run a four minute mile after you’ve done with that fight you look great I wish I could run a four minute mile but I do feel great you know um after going five rounds uh I feel good you know what I mean um our condition my condition that I do with them in my lab always gets me ready for these five round fights this here’s my fifth main event and uh I’m happy to say that I never get tired in these things not at all real quickly can I see your hands real quick how do your hands can we get a close-up on these things I mean I thought you were gonna have a broken hand you beat the record you crushed the last record and obviously he has a tremendous tremendously hard head I mean was there ever a point that you were thinking am I going to injure myself do I need to go to the body do I need to implement the wrestling or do you just stay let me keep head hunting because I know you guys you and your Camp are really fishing for that first time to finish Marvin well uh you know he hurt me first you know so uh I just wanted to hurt him back because uh tenfold you know what I mean um but no uh it was a few shots that I heard hit him hurt him with and I can see it and I just wanted to get that finished you know what I mean um so uh I just wanted to get that finished no I never thought of my hands getting hurt you know uh we got some good hand wrappers here and working for the UFC so take the takes the man he gave me a good uh he gave me the Grandpa’s rap this time I asked for the grapple that’s what I’m gonna ask you see you told him to give him the Grapplers you didn’t break your hand and I didn’t break my hand and I did some grappling too which is good you showed a very complete game and look I was listening to your interviews leading up to this fight and you put a big emphasis on the strength conditioning and me I’m an AB I’m Avid in the weight room so what changes did you make to your conditioning regimen that made you get to this next level because you’ve already had great conditioning you never get tired like you said what changes did you make in your training camp to make you get up that next level I didn’t make any changes you know um I just kept going to the lab I kept going to Eris uh sports medicine and uh the AL Escobar the air sports medicine and Jared Aki at the MMA lab gets us ready for these fights you know um it’s one thing that I say to all the new guys coming in if you want to get lab ready you got to go work out with Jared you know what I mean that guy that guy gets us ready he gets us ready for three or five uh five rounds so um that he’s the man you know what I’m saying that’s the guy who I go to for my conditioning I go to Al Escobar the air sports medicine for my strengthening and other aspects of physical fitness and all kinds of information I get from those two individuals who help me get ready for these uh these wars it really is hard to pick apart anything that you did wrong in this fight but I’m gonna do it anyway because we were talking about when you switch to the Southpaw stance because you wanted to land that leg kick you were taking more damage did you guys talk about that in the corner and then you ended up switching back but you went back to Southpaw for a minute what was going through the head there well uh we had some we had a game plan set in in motion from both stance both stances and um I did work a few of the techniques I did from uh from South Park but uh Marvel toy exploited some vulnerabilities from that um from that position and my corner was definitely telling me at the end of the first round let’s let’s stay out of let’s stay out of uh stay out of South Paul and stay uh let’s say open stance and uh you know I just wanted to hurt him you know what I mean so yeah it comes to the points where in these rounds the guy sort of picks up on your timing picks up on the techniques you’re using and I just wanted to keep it uh keep him confused keep him off kilter let him not be able to read everything I was trying so um I felt the need to switch every now and then and um I survived that you did no you look great man showing a lot of Versatility switching stance is the wrestling I mean you look phenomenal tonight I mean a ton of Hearts especially getting out of that first round that you were hurt moving forward man you’re you’re 39 years old I was in a position 239 my last fight was around 39 years old how much do you feel like like your back’s against the wall like do you feel the pressure that you need to go go go do you feel like you still have some longevity in the sport where let’s say they say you won’t be fighting for six months would you sit back and wait or you feel like the need to fight immediately right now well I just the last my last fight was six months was six months ago we’ve seen the uh the progression that I’ve made we see the improvements that I’ve made if I if I have to sit down in the six if I have to sit out another six months sit out of the Octagon another six months I’m not going to be sitting down another six months we’re going to be trained we’re going to be building off of all the things we built on to get to this fight and all and make all the different improvements we need from marching this fight you know from having this fight so this is just um I don’t really think I don’t feel like I need to rush you know because I’m 39 years old um I don’t take too much damage in my fights I don’t take too much damage in um in my training so um I feel good you know I know I’m not as young and dumb as some of these other fighters in here but that I find that as an advantage of myself you know what I mean so um I don’t put any limits on myself I don’t put any time limits I don’t see the old red retirement line uh stripe down there I’m not I’m not even thinking about it I don’t even think about it so I just the next fight that’s what we talk about and that’s that’s one of our sayings that’s one of the things coach says to us all uh all the time it’s all about the next fight now we’ve did this good job or we need to learn from whatever if you know if anything bad happens from it but it’s all about the next fight so we’re going to pick up from what we’re going to pick up from tonight and get on to the next fight you know I want to talk about the next fight because a lot of people have said UFC 290 Robert Whittaker and Drake as duplicity is the on it’s like the UN it’s the unlabeled title Eliminator yeah you’ve just won back-to-back Main Events and I know that you felt the urgency to finish this fight to cement your spot as the next Contender look this was one of your best performances today do you think that this is enough to LeapFrog Robert because he has whoever wins that fight it’s a fast turnaround you have more time to prepare you’re fresh you just pocketed one of your best wins to date do you think that you could be the next guy absolutely you know I’m I’m pretty sure I’m almost certain that my name is in the Forefront of those guys mine Dana Mick Sean Hunter whoever makes those decisions I’m sure my mind after this last performance those guys are like okay you know maybe we’ll have him as an alternate or if something happens we’re definitely going to have his number on speed dial um and that’s what I wanted out of this performance if not we need to get him in there and forget those other two guys if not I want my name to be in the Forefront I wanted to show them that I’m prepared that I’ve done the work and uh it’s not going to be like last time that’s for damn sure so um I’m ready man I’m ready to get my title that’s what damn that’s that’s for certain Listen you showed it man I mean I don’t even want to hear anybody say you’re 39 years old anymore you look like you’re 29 years old Tom Brady played till he was like 47 years old I mean you you you’re going to be fighting for five six more years you are unbelievable he did everything you wanted to do inside that octagon tonight a very impressive performance my friend you have my vote for fight of the year I don’t have a vote but if I did that would be my vote thanks for watching ESPN on YouTube for live streaming Sports and premium content subscribe to ESPN Plus