With UFC 296 officially in the books, Matt Serra and Jim Norton use today’s episode to recap all that happened during this past …
but Muhammad’s kicks have led the dance as has his pressure God put me in that type of shape at that right time for that right call to make this Choice oh Lord remember the name [Applause] muhamed welcome to UFC unfilter please tell me that’s on video I’ve never been happier I’m made for a podcast we’re dangerous listen to me we’re out of [Music] here welcome to UFC unfiltered Matt and I it’s so weird seeing you on a little screen after having enjoyed your company on Saturday it was so nice to see you Jimmy you too bu your wife uh your apartment your your Terrace Terrace yes yes Terrace it’s so nice out there Jimmy I enjoy visiting you I feel at home now yeah me too I’m almost too at home I spent a lot of time in your bathroom I apologize that was okay um we have we videotaped so we my wife and I enjoyed it after your struggles um and we’re gonna have balal mamed on today we were supposed to have Andre fely but he couldn’t quite work out the time so we’ll have balal in a few minutes which I would love to get his take on that fight and now the talk about ranov getting the the next shot at Ian uh um Leon Edwards who Leon said that he doesn’t think that balal should be next so I’d love to hear bal’s take on that hey man I mean all I know is you know what’s really wild you know first of all congrats to the uh the Champions who retain their belts um we got panta who had a um a great performance he’s very dominating yeah you know over Brandon roell and and uh yeah he really was and Leon Edwards you know I always thought he was a really a solid guy a good guy nice guy y you know I really felt for him Jimmy and I was at your house and I’m glad I didn’t get emotional but when he’s after he just retained his title and and he did it and you know listen I he did it phenomenally he just he just outclassed Kobe all around yeah out wrestle and uh he was still deeply Disturbed this is why I don’t like people like oh it’s just selling a fight Colby said something about his deceased father who was murdered when he was 13 years old yeah Colby doesn’t have children when you I have children around that age so when if you think how devastating it must have been for him as a 13-year-old child for his father not only to die but to get murdered and for somebody to use as he said for entertainment he almost couldn’t get it out of his mouth he was starting to get upset dude Jimmy that is something that’s where when when people said people say that um that Kobe is a piece of yeah it’s it’s it’s literal like in other words you can’t just say that’s a pro wrestling thing and and because you know what man that’s gonna follow him around for the rest of his life he’s going to be known as just a dirt bag and his best years look like they’re uh behind him he’s 35 years old and I know you’re gonna point out what you always point out what you did when you were 35 I know I don’t want to talk about it sure putting Frank trig unconscious easily and uh I knew I looked pretty much like a spring chicken the point is a year later I retired how about that after my vital fight when it’s time it’s time Colby looked awful he looked terrible slow the only time he had any bit of success is when Leon actually gave it to him on a platter by trying to match him in the in the wrestling and then he could lose a scramble which was I thought a mistake by Lon I thought he that was where allowed emotion to interfere with what he was doing uh or just a technical mistake because he looked sound he looked he didn’t get up he didn’t get looked emotionally he’s such a profession that he he didn’t let that creep back in until it was over well know he admitted to he did admit that he wanted to outdo him at that and it was like when Kevin Holland um didn’t stay on the ground he allowed something outside the the moment to interfere with his decision making and it does happen I’m sure even to the best of him and luckily it didn’t hurt Leon but I didn’t like that he did that because I felt that could have hurt him although it didn’t it’s the only success that Kobe had sure and uh you know Leon just looked great he walked out of there looks like without a scratch Kobe’s legs were messed up you get just outclass and again he looked slow he looked old he did Dana said it I even when I was watching it with you I was telling you dude he looked soft he looked he didn’t look he didn’t look like the Relentless listen I always said the guy was a dick but he was a good fighter now he’s just a dick now his fighting skills are starting to diminish and I know you don’t like Connor either and Connor said some things that I know a lot of people didn’t like but one thing you have to give to him is when he loses a fight he says Ah he was the better man tonight he got me good fight he got me like Connor doesn’t snivel and blame judges or he just he kind of just owns that he he lost I mean he not the last fight not the last fight but yeah but the was a broken leg though I mean I mean like he but he when a guy gets him he says he’d missed the guy got him and I’ve always liked Connor when he lost like I’ve always liked the way he handled his losses because at least he’s handling like a guy I respect when they how did Kobe handle it I mean it was it was really embarrassing like it wasn’t even angering it’s embarrassing like he he’s doing the like thing on his waist and it’s almost like Colby you don’t believe this like it seems fake it’s fake he he ruined his life his life is what is he GNA do after this what that guy’s opening a school what is that guy doing did he make enough money just to go off into the sunset I don’t know maybe maybe not but he is just known and it’s it’s so Universal that’s what it’s so Universal that’s what I like about it yeah it’s you got Patty pimpleton Dad yeah and you get guys like ch sunnon right who gu like Colby you could tell wants to be ch who was such a master at it and he said yeah have have your wife bake my food medium rare like he walked the line but he never said anything that horrible and he was and he was funny and he was charismatic like everyone liked cha you couldn’t not like him even when he was being a bad guy no yeah well cha he did it with some class you know he’s funny he’s funny he’s funny cat CH he does some funny stuff but uh and again the other guy’s not witty at all he has these lines made up and he just tries to offensive and I’d like to tell him like he’s he’s you could tell Trump was even uncomfortable with his speech at the end like Trump was smiling but it’s like I hate to tell Kobe but Trump likes guys who win it’s true Trump doesn’t like someone who loses three shots in a row I’m sure Trump likes him but uh it’s funny I can see on Trump’s face that he looked he was smiling politely but he looked a little uncomfortable because there was no Grace in it there was no Grace in it what ever you know what’s great about this and you know I I like success for everybody except for this guy because he’s so it’s really great knowing that he will never be a champion in the no he won’t be you’re right never and we should bring in balal I’m sorry to interrupt you Matt balal is in the way he just jumped in and he calls out Wonderboy who’s like we love Wonderboy but he is 41 years old and he calls out a guy like who who’s just coming off a tough fight like that’s fine but to act like Wonder Boy dick Everyone likes him yeah and he and he says stuff about Wonder Boy then why would Wonder Boy even want to deal with that yeah he doesn’t have to he doesn’t have to deal with that [Music] no this B let him pile Mohamed hey what’s up eyes how you doing sir good to see you good how you guys doing good to see you guys man it’s always good seeing you guys Jimmy been doing so much Jiu-Jitsu he’s eyeing that collar right now that is a very nice collar that I’m sure I would miss the choke on but it’s it’s still I’m not that good at Jiu-Jitsu but I do love it hey b i i i of course know that you must have enjoyed on some level what happened um what did you feel about Kobe getting this shot because he was the the last I think backup for Usman Edwards and what did you think of the performance and the ring rush and all that stuff um honestly I don’t even think it was r us I just think Kobe sucks like Kobe’s not good the guys he’s beaten were all on their way out uh kind of they’re all no disrespect to any of those guys but most of them were three fight four fight losing streaks at the time that they gave it to Kobe so Kobe definitely didn’t earn a spot and uh he showed it this time when you’re going against a high level guy in Leon Edwards he literally looked like an amateur out there his striking looked terrible his wrestling didn’t even look good the only time he was able to get takedowns was when fourth and fifth round and Leon got tired um and that’s always been his issue too but yeah I knew from the beginning that Kobe wasn’t good and I always said it that Kobe’s the easiest fight in the division so if I was able to ever fight him I would have embarrassed him but he honestly he embarrassed himself he did look like he looked like he could not usually he gets guys on their heels uses the Striking to set up the takedowns and just be relentless again it could be versus like you said guys more on their way out but yeah I mean I don’t I mean he wasn’t going forward at all he was he looked like a deer in headlights he was just getting outstruck out out he just it was just really one-sided except for the times that Leon made the mistake of initiating some grappling you know yeah I think Leon did a good job of putting him on his heels right away like you said Kobe’s so good at pushing you backwards and push you to the fence but he doesn’t have any power to make Leon fear anything of backing up so Leon was like all right well throw your punches at me I’m gonna counter off you because Kobe doesn’t have anything to like when Usman did it Usman has power so you’re like all right I gotta respect his punches you didn’t have to respect anything with Kobe he was uh afraid Kobe was afraid to throw of just being countered it was a wild uh you know what’s really great I was just telling Jimmy now the fact that he’s 35 and he had this performance even Dana saying he looked old he looked slow I’m going listen he’ll never be a UFC champion he will never be a UFC champ ion he so if this is all an act he sold his soul for what for what unless he’s just genuinely a piece of I mean I think he generally is right when you talk about a guy’s father and uh you know somebody something like that like that’s not an act that’s something inside of you that’s just pathetic and people could say oh when you meet him in person he’s nice I’m like bro no to to go that low you’re just a dirty person I’m so happy that you’re 0 and three in title fights like you’ll never be on that Throne you could say oh I was the I was the bad guy he y y y but at the end of the day you’re never going to have that that c next to your name he did get three shots at it and it’s not you know even more or just as much for me as the stuff he says before which I don’t care as much about is the way he handles a loss like we were just talking about you know like when guys lose a fight to just always blame the judges or always blame like to not know that you clearly lost that fight like he clearly lost that fight uh badly I think 4 to one um not even three to two and he thinks he won three four and five it’s just he’s either he’s either mentally ill or just uh just can’t admit that he’s lost the fight I don’t understand what’s going on with him yeah I don’t think he’s smart like he he seems like a very stupid person um and yeah I’m watching this fight and I’m like at what point are you gonna go balls to the wall because I was like dude you just lost four rounds uh at some point you have to be like all right I need to get a finisher I need to go something I don’t even know I’m wondering what his Corner said to him in between rounds I wonder if you’re they’re giving him like false information like hey you’re you’re looking good out there man just just keep backing up and running away and getting punched in the face because we we got this fight in the books but yeah it just was a allaround terrible performance and honestly for Leon it was like at what point do you put your foot on the gas and be like all right well he took me down twice and I gotten up so easy that there’s nothing to fear here so now I could go for the kill because there’s nothing coming back from Kobe’s end like he’s not going to rock you with a punch he’s taking you down that was the only thing that you could be afraid of but you pop right back up so at what point do you make him pay for the words that he said about you and about your family and go all right now I’m G to make this guy really feel pain I I bet if Leon could redo that fifth round he would I’ll bet you he may I think like he admitted at the end that he kind of wanted to beat him in his own game in a way like there had to be something satisfying about that or feeling like he could humiliate him by out wrestling him but I I felt tactically that could have wound up bad because Colby is a decent wrestler I mean that’s definitely not what he should been doing with with Colby and I think that was his emotion I think that was him working through that emotion of I’m goingon to beat this at his own game and I just I didn’t I wish he didn’t do that yeah I mean I wish I didn’t do it to I wish he broke his jaw like Kobe deserved to have his jaw broken or his nose broken or another chip too somewhere in there but yeah I mean I think to me honestly Leon didn’t look great that fight I think Kobe just sucks but like Leon could have did a lot more with that in that fight to you know prove himself and cement himself as a PO pound person King now what what’s the problem now what do you think the problem with them making you versus Leon now do you think it is that you guys were already you fought and it was so antil climatic because of the I pooke was that I pooke the first or second round that was right at the beginning of the second round yeah okay and the first round well how would you judge the first round tell literally I just I just posted a video I posted a video like no bias no bias I posted a video of it and I was like bro it was a 109 first round from all three judges people will sit there and say oh it was dominant this this and this but I’m like I took that fight on three reach notice my head main head coach got covid the the wake up so he wasn’t in my corner we had a new corner and literally it was a 10 n round and there’s four other rounds to be judged and I’m a five round fighter so people could make all the excuses they want and say what they want secondly I’m the one who got I poke I didn’t poke him in the eye I didn’t commit the foul he’s the one who committed the foul so as a man I respect all right you know I’m going to give him a shot back there’s unfinished business there and for me it’s like I’ve beaten five top 10 Fighters after that four of those top 10 Fighters were top five Fighters and I dominated them I dominated gilber burns on three weeks notice I haven’t lost in five years there’s nobody that should be ahead of me for this title fight there’s nothing that should be said even when when I took that GS fight they said if you win you’re the number one Contender that’s it there’s nothing else you could sit there there’s only one other guy in the division that should be up there and that’s shop cot but he just beat Wonder boy and I dominated Wonder Boy before him two years ago and after Wonder Boy I beat two other top five guys so no disrespect to him he’s amazing fighter let me and Leon fight I’ll give him the next shot I’m not gonna be that champion that sits out and calls for Conor McGregor or somebody like that I want to fight the best guys in the world like I I bled I I sweat I cried everything I needed to do to get to this point and I did everything right so I deserve the shot and I earned the shot it wasn’t not given to me there’s no privilege here it was I’m on a nine fight winning streak what El have you’ve only lost one since 2016 I think like I mean it’s crazy how many good Fighters you have beaten and you if you want to look purely at numbers shovot beat Wonderboy number five beat number six and again it is Stephen Thompson but he still he beat the guy who’s one lower than him I definitely think you deserve it next and maybe if is he gonna get surgery on his uh on his ankle yeah yeah I mean he’s getting ankle surgery as well so let him let him get his rest and let let the division keep moving but Leon’s a guy that usually sits out a lot even with Leon with his excuses I think that Leon understands that I did take that fight on three notice he knows that I I wasn’t I was a shell of the guy that I am now I’m a whole different person I’ve grown so much since that fight I’ve only gotten better and better so the excuses he’s making like oh well you know he hasn’t earned it yet why is he gonna skip the line how am I skipping the line you I’ve literally be nine guys and for a guy like Kim who had to take the long road himself to get his title shot right he had to go they weren’t giving his shot and he was like oh you know let me get my shot when I’m a champion I’m going to do this I’m going to do that so he’s doing the same exact thing that these other guys did yeah who does he want did he say who he wants or could this just be something he’s doing to jockey for negotiating position or just to kind of build something for the fight is there is there a person that you think that he wants or that he indicated he wants he hasn’t really said anything like he’s very bad at promotion right he’s not good at it like when you look at guys like edisa or even volkanovski after they win a fight they’re already picking out their next opponent they’re in the face they getting the camera on them and I’m like why aren’t you doing this do you not like money do you understand what self-promotion is he doesn’t even with the Kobe buildup there wasn’t a lot of buildup until fight week because Kobe’s a trash talker obviously so he said something stupid at the press conference because Leon wasn’t promoting this fight all all the time I’m like you’re a champion now you have the belt like you have to keep the division the eyes on a division by you don’t even have to trash talk just say hey I’m I’m here to be the best in the world let me fight the next best guy in line and that’s bully B I had the I had the highest uh uh you know number of wins in a row and he has second highest number of wins in a row nine wins in a row versus 12 wins in a row let’s do it let’s see who who’s the better man here like there’s a lot of promotion here we have unfinished business there’s a lot of stuff that can be sold here and he’s just being quiet not looking not saying anything I’m like bro I don’t know what you’re doing who’s in your corner you need a PR person but you be better I’m just looking at the last three fights with with uh ble taking out uh you know you got vente luk sha Brady really quick whenever you beat somebody and then after you beat them they do extremely well the way Shawn Brady just did with uh Shawn Brady was on fire versus Kelvin Gast he looked he looked amazing so for his fight right before that is to lose to you hey man let me tell you that’s got to make you feel pretty good you I know you were watching you might be friendly with Kelvin but I’m sure you were like yes Sean no right I mean that must make you feel good to do what you did to Shan Brady and the show that hey look look this guy’s an animal look what I did with him yeah 100% because after I beat him you know he was way he was 15 and0 and they all said he was gonna be the next big thing and then I go out there dominate him finish him and then everybody after that was like oh Shan B’s not that good and then he kept he kept waiting and waiting for his next fight and I was like bro let him fight so people could see how good he really is finish a guy like Kelvin gastam who went to war with at a he went to war with Chris Curtis like he’s been in all these big fights and for him to get finished and dominated by a guy like sh Brady who I dominated it shows you how good I am but now people need to open their eyes and realize oh this guy he’s legit that’s true man I was so upset when after I uh beat Frank tricky never want to fight again I was like come on man Frank got nothing left in the tank you really any we always like to bring you do you do deserve the shot I I would love to see you get it I mean I think it’s fair but Colby is as much as as of an as he is he does prove that that works because it gets you title shots because people will pay to watch him fight because they hate him um I I guess the thing is that as much as that’s an annoying formula financially it does work because it generates fan interest even in seeing you lose yeah I mean I think in the day and age we are in now the Twitter world with the trolls and all this dumb stuff where guys want to be that trash talker that that dumb stuff but for me I’m never I’m never gonna fake anything right I’m not gonna sit there and get out of character because at the end of the day my legacy my family those are the ones that that truly matter to me so for me to go out there and embarrass myself like a Kobe where you you have to go that low and it’s like bro who raised this guy this guy looks stupid I have young kids that are looking up to me and I don’t want them to think that you have to do that like GSP never had to do that he never had to do the trash talking khabib never had to do the the crazy trash talking he did it in the cage with dominant performances and that’s what I’m doing it with dominant performances but also I’m not I’m not one to shy away from talking if there’s something there but like I said my last opponents they’re all like the most respectful guys out here so I’m not gonna sit there and Trash Talk a guy like Wonderboy uh and for him just like to smile in my face back so it’s like there’s I’m not gonna I don’t have to fake it or force it I’m like bro if I have to I could do it but there’s no need to to be something that I’m not well you’re a good talker anyway and you’re funny and you you have a lot of Personality some guys just don’t have personality or they’re too quiet you don’t need to be fake and blast people because you you know conversationally you can get people interested in a fight just by promoting it and talking about it some guys can do that you’re one of those guys that can do that yeah exactly and for me it’s like like I said it’s I’m not a I’m not an airhead I understand what promotion is I know how to promote a fight regardless and I can do that just give me my shot for UFC so when I do have a title fight you you understand all right well dang we had a diamond in the rough this whole time we should have gave him a title fight five five five FES ago yeah hey man well listen you definitely earned it are you still doing that game show you do with uh John’s brother yeah yeah me and Jason anic hey Jimmy yes only because I know Bell’s gonna bring it up in a second but I’ll just beat him to the pun sure I was I’m a champion Jimmy not in the UFC well okay in the UFC yes you are a champion in all areas man also on the game show what was it called again I remember the show how do I forget that I forget remember remember the show I went vers the very the very tall and Dangerous Michael Kessa Jimmy yes mat it’s not a long story I thought you gonna ask about it I won Jimmy oh I was assuming you won I mean I think you br you wanted to hear about it it’s a fun it’s a fun game show Jimmy yeah you beat Kessa right yeah dominated oh good yeah it was fun anyway listen I’m glad you’re still doing that how do people watch that listen to that uh we’re on YouTube but now we’re hopefully we’re trying to get a deal with Fight Pass so we get on Fight Pass and you know get a B bigger platform so yeah I think every fighter that comes on there is loves it and I was just in I was weight cutting right now with Andre fely and F’s like oh let me get on your game show and I was like oh you know about my game show he’s like yeah bro let me come all right cool that’s good that’s fun yeah oh you were that’s right you you were the backup for the fight yeah yeah I was over there cutting weight uh and you know it’s hard right because after you do a weight cut you’re like you get the prize the prize is the fight where you’re like yeah I finally get to fight and it was just like so anticlimactic I was sitting at home and I was like so do I eat trash right now or do I like am I still fighting tomorrow so we were we were me mentally in the fight Zone up until like noon of fight day on Saturday and I was like all right I don’t think nobody’s gonna call yeah at that point you could like you know have a pizza and whatever else did you let me ask you did did you uh has anybody ever like uh gotten the fight a championship fight by being second like that has that that has that worked for anybody in anybody’s favor where they said yeah I’ll cut the weight and I’ll be there and they wind up getting the fight I think there was a couple very close ones um the koner one when he was back up for Shan Strickland in Australia I think Shan Strickland was close to getting P from that fight uh for Visa issues I think and then I think they’re going to move in caner uh the the last one with the volkanovski and gamr gamr was a backup but they ended up doing it for volkanovski but I don’t think there was really any that swits on a day of well raging Ally a Quinta I mean that was oh yeah that was like within that was that was at the uh yeah that was a day before that was CRA wasn’t he there already Matt wasn’t he already fight supposed to fight Paul Felder right he was gonna fight Paul Felder got switched I still that fight that was a good fight really good fight raging Al argu arguably gave him one of his toughest well he definitely gave him one of his toughest fights he lasted for sure yeah yeah Raging Raging Al is a stud yeah and I’m still heartbroken about that Paul Felder fight Paul Felder Alli aqu quenta is a fight that I I really really wanted to see and very rarely in the UFC do they come close and not get it for you like they always seem to find a way to match it up but that one felt like that was just one that almost happen Paul talking about coming back is he really yeah Paul’s Paul’s training again he’s starting to hit pads again he’s like yeah maybe I will one more gets a big name qu Paul would be a fun fight to come back for both oh that’d be a good fight that would be a good fight I’ll talk to Al I know he’s killing in his real estate but I’ll talk to him I I acquinted real real estate in wour New York I give him a plug uh Hey listen I’ll definitely I’ll ask that I’ll definitely ask him about that but let me ask you guys about Tony Ferguson and and Patty what do you think one about the fight and two what do you think’s gonna happen here for Tony man honestly he just looked he looked old like he looked I mean I think he looked like he should have retired after that Nate Diaz fight he just looked very old and slow in there and this one I think he’s trying to reach and trying to change something up right let me let me get David gagas maybe that that’ll fix something but it’s like he’s not a MMA guy he’s not a coach like you were never it was never about working hard for you it was about skills and I think father time is undefeated at some point you have to realize all right well I don’t belong in here for Patty he had a year off he looked pretty good right he striking looked better he looked like he gassed a little bit in the third round but it’s still a great name to have on your resume to have a guy like Tony Ferguson on your resume it doesn’t matter how old he is it’s like all right I had Tony Ferguson on my resume that’s a huge name for me and let’s move up from here I would just be scared of what’s next for Tony like I’d like him to have something he’s passionate about because he looks like a listen list all of us that that fight in a cage or fought in the cage might have some issues Bel I’m not judging you I know I’m not normal but uh but my point is what’s next you have to have something like I think some guys need this need this to keep them out of trouble and I don’t think this he’s a party guy I just think he’s got to exercise some demons that they might not be exercised yet I think that uh you know he needs this Outlet I I would wonder what would be next for Tony he’d be a good motivational person because when you listen to him talk he believes in himself he’s so unorthodox um he’s not afraid to take chances he doesn’t think he’s a afraid of anything I think he’d be a good motivational guy or I don’t know if he would want to open a school but I think what he would do something uh motivational he would do very well if he wanted to do that yeah I mean for for me even like in between fights it’s that hard part where you’re like I don’t got a fight coming up what do I do like I love the gym I love to be in the gym I love to train obviously Tony’s probably one of those guys too where he’s so addicted to it and I’m sure he has addictive personality so it’s just finding that next thing and that even for myself it’s like all right well let me try this podcast let me see if I’m good at this or I like talking with this try other avenues of you know making money and I think that’s what toony just needs to find yeah maybe he could be a personal trainer or uh yeah one of those motivational guys or just crazy something nuts yeah maybe standup comedy did you ever hear that muffin joke did you ever hear his muffin joke no I did not what was the muffin joke Matt producer uh Jake the producer please find Tony Ferguson’s muffin joke and play that on air for us put you my God say it he almost said it again if Joe he lost the fight and Joe was gonna it’s pretty bad but oh no you can’t unhear it once you hear it I heard it I didn’t he tell it on our show I don’t remember it yes I believe he did I think I asked him about it yeah remember it’s not memorable I don’t remember the I don’t remember exactly but I remember the the part when I go I’m not saying I’m doing a cringey face you’re a little uncomfortable I just wanted to put the lampshade on and shut the light light off listen I don’t know what’s next From Below after you capture the belt and defend it many times let’s say many many moons from now what do you see your yourself doing after your fighting career is done honestly I really like the analyst work I like the desk work that I’ve been doing with ESPN up being a personality like a Cormier or something commentating I commentate Anthony Pettis the show on Fight Pass I really like it I’m getting better at I want to just keep continue growing with that that could be fun yes you’re good at that too you wonder what Paul felder’s thinking like you have a great desk job like you’re doing you’re you’re doing uh commentary maybe he’s just maybe that little they just watching Everybody do it every week might be hard yeah you get that little itch and you can just tell Paul’s so competitive that’s why he got into the Iron Man stuff but I think his hips started hurting or he hurt his hip really bad because of all the running he’s been doing so now he’s like I got I can’t do that anymore so let me just go back to fighting because he was never a guy that retired because he was getting beat up he was he was still at the top of his game honestly he was still very good and there’s still a lot of big fights out there for him I think he only retired just because he was so close to the title fight then he lost his split decision to Hooker and it was like de plating for him how old is Paul Felder he 36 maybe I think he’s like 38 right now oh he 3 okay yeah he can he could definitely have a few fights left if he stays healthy I mean I would love to see Felder fight again yeah for 100% and like you said there’s there’s Fighters that he hasn’t fought like qu up he hasn’t fought Dustin por yet there’s there’s some fun ones Michael Chandler that’ll be a freaking great one I yeah I listen I would he’s got anytime Paul Felder uh feels like coming back he’s got my money we got the [Music] video we got the the video in case Tony Ferguson wants to go into standup comedy let’s hear it let’s hear it so there’s these two muffins right they sitting in the oven one muffin looks to the other muffin says holy it’s hot in here the other muffin says holy talking [Music] muffin guys guys guys is this thing off Jimmy oh my God I’m gonna take that to the Mothership love do you watch kill Tony uh yes I Tony and then when I when I whenever I always listen to it every week and when I hear like somebody like goes up to that’s terrible it’s like bro that’s like the worst feeling ever like Tony would like Tony need to bring that joke to Tony and see what he would say yeah I would like I would it would be nice to see him analyze that if he did that on kill Tony it wouldn’t go well and then Tony would kill everybody so it’ be scary so you know yeah but uh listen hey we’re all a little odd in our own way yes I I wish nothing but the best for Tony Ferguson and uh I think he said he’s got different deals going with this and that hopefully he’s got something going on but I think uh I don’t know man I I I don’t I think I don’t I don’t know if he’s coming back from this you know I don’t know can I say I think the worst part of the muffin joke was the the point in smile at the camera after like instead of it like I I always have to acknowledge if a joke bombs and it happens a lot and I just acknowledge it and I I canot so when uh when the muffin he finished the muffin joke he pointed and smiled at the camera like we’re all on the same page um but he should have probably just went uh I apologize he should apologize listen I hey all I know is Adam Hunter didn’t write that for him I’m pretty sure he didn’t do it oh my God would you ever think about trying appal you didn’t do that did you Adam Hunter actually was gonna put me on you know when he when he was having the fighters do their uh his comy show I was gonna be on the last one and I I had a whole skit ran out but he ended up having to cancel it but uh I was honestly I was super nervous because I was like I was playing it to my family and like telling my acting it out right am I saying it right some of them I thought some of the jokes would be good but uh I never got my shot to do it on stage why’ they cancel the show was there was it just a scheduling thing or did he tell you I think Adam Hunter said it was just like scheduling uh something messed up Fight Pass wasn’t there or something like that but uh hopefully he does it again because I went over there and he had like cejudo on there before he had Frankie edger up there doing it Andre FY so uh just to see how I would do I always wanted to try it Andre seemed pretty comfortable up there but you know what I think he’s on a mic a lot cuz he does the whole oh yes that kind of thing yeah so I think he’s pretty comfortable in front of on a mic in front of people yeah I think you’re right I think you should I think you should try that I tried it once on looking for a fight it was so much fun I’d never do it again but it’s very it’s very nerve-wracking like um it it’s it gives you a similar feeling to to fighting Believe It or Not Jimmy might not agree with that I was feeling it like literally when I was just doing it for my family I was like dang they didn’t laugh at that junk and it was just like it starts getting in your head you’re like all let me switch something else let me talk a little bit faster let me let me do something else and it’s like I need to switch the game plan did you write the uh jokes or did um no I wrote the jokes yeah you wrote the jokes yeah like that I don’t like when people write them for you oh no yeah that’s what I said I’m like bro like if I’m G to do it I want to do it myself because like what I find funny I think a lot of people would find funny and I even with Twitter like I’ll tweet some stuff out and I think it’s funny and I’ll just like yeah let me just go with it if somebody they laugh they laugh if they hate they hate whatever sure so you had a little bit you had a few bits in the uh in the old Arsenal yeah I had some good ones and I had some ones that you know people be like C the funniest jokes to me are like not racist but like that right on the edge of that stuff Hey listen well B you might get away with it I’m not being like that I don’t want that to sound racist listen b this is what I want to do because you’re a guy you’re a fighter and you you you’re used to dealing with pressure I don’t know if you know about my little perverted friend over here Jimmy he sorry about the perverted thing no you’re right now he’s a married man but uh Jimmy is a worldclass comedian did you know that about oh yeah yeah for sure okay I listen thank you like I don’t assume that people know that I shock the world and I don’t assume stop it but my point is this come on man Tony did the muffin joke just give us one give us reach into that little bag of tricks that you heard to kill Tony this is nothing like that this is just Jim listening to a joke go ahead whatever you like you can’t put me on a spot like that that’s I have to listen this is Dana call up say you got the shot you you don’t say I I can’t do it this is this is an audition for that you could crash look at Jimmy he’s drinking his goblet like Caesar ha entertain me dude come on ble I want you to take a deep breath and I want you to think about that Adam Hunter special and think about your family possibly booing you in I don’t know what they were doing but give us your best one all right let me go to my notes let me go to my notes real quick go to your notes go to not take your time I understand take your time take your time couple deep breaths yeah you want me and Jimmy we could talk for a second yeah we’ll just uh he has to talk we’ll just chat for a second go come right back this is great now I know Adam Hunter a long time like years in years from New York he’s very funny um and I’m Adam Hunter I really love Adam Hunter I’m so happy that he’s uh doing so well and everybody knows how good this guy is Adam Hunter and he was from I believe was he from Long Island he’s a New York guy I don’t know um but I would see him at the clubs all the time Boston comedy club in the seller I would see him you know for years I saw Adam Jimmy I still have tape on my um chest from our show the other day do you really I took that tape off during the show that clear tape was driving me nuts not doing this to show my abs look oh I hope not I can’t see I don’t have my glasses well then why am i showing you that are you showing below but L’s reading his notes I understand he’s he’s going over he’s just making a quick decision he’s on a mission for a title and he’s on a mission for some Chuckles all right it is a weird fear like the fear of forming it’s a fear of embarrassment like it’s such an odd thing that we we as human beings it’s ingrained in us to be afraid to be embarrassed I don’t know why but it’s that’s for me that’s the scarier part like getting hurt scares me about fighting but it’s more the fear that I’m just going to embarrass myself more than even getting punched it’s just the idea of the humiliation listen to me if you took a fight and even if it’s on a very amateur level you did a Jiu-Jitsu match and you talked about it even though I am a professional professional at the highest level yeah and I achieved what you know very few have some said would say is impossible yes yes yes they said that to me when I was trying to achieve it uh I would still listen to you and be like wow that’s your experience so in the comedy game you know I’m no stand-up comedian you’re the I’m just a silly fellow that used to fight the so for me to be at the Laugh Factory in front of Adam Hunter Brian kin David Spade David Spade I don’t know I said that twice yeah Dana White Dean Thomas all right the list is starting to drop off point is hiin Machado was there to me that’s a big deal yeah I came to see Mesa do comedy but the point is this Jimmy in a situ like that you either sink or you swim I was like a dolphin on that stage you were swimming yes I was like a Shar I was up there I had one bit in me and let me tell you something I hit it maybe not out of the park but I got I got to the third base it was a very good set I had a it was you know what it was 100% came from this noodle right here so I was proud of it if you’re looking you say Matt you’re not gonna say it like that but if people areed seeing they’re gonna say Jimmy stop it yeah BL hold on get to your notes one second yeah if they want to see my standup comedy uh I’m done with it I retired that was my it’s on the LA episode of Dana White looking for the for a fight it’s a very Tongue Tied today and uh the episode where we’re at the donut shop you see me and yeah all right back to below yeah I I couldn’t tell bah was listening or looking through his notes it’s hard to tell sorry one second we’re almost there okay take your time there’s no rush listen I know just give us the thumbs up when you’re ready no rush yeah yeah we don’t feel Rush go back to me talking about me Matt now if somebody wanted to see your stand up comedy debut where could they see it well let’s talk about your EP your don’t you have something on Netflix what do you have um I have a standup special and the uh I was on the degenerates season two that’s on Netflix both standup yeah what did your standup special called mouthful of Shame wow is that right yeah embarrassed by what goes into my mouth and what comes out of it yeah yes Jimmy I want to watch you a special now and then after that I’m gonna put in you it around yeah it’s the LA episode of Dana White looking for a fight yeah yeah myself Dean Thomas he rises to the occasion it was very good yeah Dean’s funny though Dean seen Dean do stand up uh he’s funny yes yes Dean Dean Dean’s very natural Dean’s a personality yeah L’s gonna give us a thumbs up anytime he’s ready no rush he’s he looking like this is the equivalent of that alquinta fight versus Habib he’s got this gu has less notice than that I I literally put him on the spot and he’s looking through his notes and he’s going yes but that’s long or wait G to fix that yes just like fighting yeah it’s timing we know bel’s got the balls the guy fights in the cage versus the deadliest guys on the planet we know he’s got the nuts we know he has the courage he might be a little afraid but what is what did Dustin porier say in the cage that time after to Michael Chandler what’ he say he goes I was afraid but uh and then he gave that famous quote you know yeah he definitely had it in his pocket but what there is no courage without fear you know who else said that was Bill Paxton in ah of tomorrow that’s a great movie Edge of Tomorrow wait did he give it a thumbs up are you one second okay B this is so much fun this it’s I’m this is like building up anticipation B stuff might be too it might be where he talks a little bit and builds into something which is harder to do on the spot and some of it might be like you know so I remember the first time like it might not just be set up punch line listen Jimmy yeah doing this is like me getting you into a first tournament going well he’s just gonna try his best Jimmy stop look at me your best no stop listen to me that guy is a cage fighter at the highest level yep MMA fighter man he’s about he’s G be he listen very soon he might be not on the he might not be returning all calls because he believe the champion I understand uh you know you just give us a thumbs up when you’re ready I listen I I can’t wait because this is the thing a lot of guys would be like oh no I’m too shy napel muhamed he’s game that’s why they’ll remember the name let’s go but we’re take it but if it get if it gets bad you guys have to you guys have to like cut this from the program if it gets bad we’ll just uh we’ll just we’ll just we’ll just kick you out of the thing we’ll just end the yeah no Belle just have fun just have fun we’re having fun yeah absolutely there’s no pressure at all no pressure at all okay one second hold up take take your time okay yeah Jimmy nice and relaxed yeah it’s just three guys shooting the just shooting just chatting just chitchat you know look like the EAS into it a little bit all right hey Bel what’s up man hey what’s going on guys hey welcome outk thank you guys all for coming tonight you know uh being a UFC fighter I I always like to think of things like in movie Concepts right you know with UFC fighters we have a lot of guys that been trying acting and we have certain guys that I think would do very well in certain roles in movies we have Sean Strickland who would do probably very well in American History X we have uh euriah Faber who would be probably well in uh you know Ninja Turtles and then we got uh DC who would do very well in uh the movie Precious you say precious that’s great yeah joke that’s funny that was good yeah was I had my finger on the camera off button I I was expecting to do that but I got to be honest uh Sean in American History X funny uh yri what did you put yri in what movie did you put Ninja Turtles I was either between Ninja Turtles and Iron Man oh Ninja Turtles definitely that’s that that’s why Iron Man not Iron Man why IR good looking white guy not B you right that’s too complimentary that’s too complimentary Turtles is not big because he’s a little guy he’s a little turt but the precious one was that listen yeah DC especially the retired DC that is great that’s F that is phenomenal but I liked it man yeah dude he answered the call right there yep I put out the banners and he didn’t say I don’t know it doesn’t look the odds he just good job Bel yeah a man one more time I had a good one maybe maybe I’ll s you my notes to see all this one’s a little bit too too bad was this was too racist all right I got some good on for you guys all right am I hold on am I liking that joke too much I thought he he surprised me you really are going crazy for it Matt going yeah he does I love DC I just thought that that was very it was good J it surprised me I was I was afraid that I’d have to pretend to laugh so good job B yeah good job good Jimmy what else do we got with Bel what else you want to ask him I I I believe personally that he should be fighting for the belt and also really before we let you go what do you think of this whole Ian Gary thing man I mean geez I don’t feel that bad for him for this for this one thing he was attacking poor Neil Magny when Neil Magny didn’t you know he didn’t say anything malicious about doing anything like wrong to it like like disciplining his kid too hard or he was just making a dad joke and the guy ran with it and and then he was gloating how oh I was in his head because I said this and he said that I used it against him so it’s all I’m not saying it’s karma but it’s I don’t know what do you think about the whole situation honestly it’s kind of like it’s weird right yeah because you said he he brings it on himself and he wants that type of attention and H it makes me think that man is he happy that he’s even getting this attention but the only thing that I don’t like is that his wife’s involved now his kids involved and when you bring it family involved like they didn’t have to be a part of the whole thing you can make it font of me whatever I want but like you said he brought in Neil mag’s kid and Neil Magny was like said he was fighting for custody of his kid at the time so that’s hard so like honestly I don’t feel bad for him and it’s kind of like same thing with Sean Strickland this last weekend at the press conference where he got super upset uh with drus talking about him and his dad and he took that personally Bo the stuff that Strickland says is the worst most vile things ever and it’s like bro like if you can’t uh take it don’t give it because now you’re you’re jumping in the crowd you’re starting fights with somebody for words that he said but you say worse things St I don’t know I was gonna say Jimmy I don’t think he jumped on him for the words he said I I think he just jumped on him because he’s yeah kind of nutty and he likes to fight he’s one of those guys are you guys did you guys you know patch up your uh little back and forth or you just guys don’t get along oh no I don’t like him at all yeah like I was I was I was trying to get closer to get a couple free licks on him while he was uh him and were fighting in the Crowd Oh you saw that yeah I was standing right there and I saw it and I saw him like just stand in a chair and move it I was like oh wow this is this is pretty funny I mean for the UFC it’s great publicity right you get to see now for the fight you could build that off of that because that press conference was like nothing but curse words going back and forth and swearing at each other but now you got this video kind of like the bus incident where there’s something to to promote now and now I want to watch that fight more and Sean was smart because he moved kids out of the way he’s not a complete maniac and he also like Drake has ducked down a little bit and Shan was raining punches down on his upper shoulders and back like he wasn’t trying to drop an elbow in the guy’s jaw uh I thought there could have been a lot worse things he did if he really wanted to which would have been bad news if you do something that puts him out of the fight uh I thought he was smart more so if I’m gonna street fight somebody like at this point it’s going to be I’m GNA slap you or I’m going to do like well masser and take you down and mount you and and put you in those positions because it’s so easy to break your hand so easy to hurt your knuckles uh on somebody’s head with no gloves on and it’s like I don’t get paid to fight outside of the cage so if I’m gon to be outside of the cage you want to do something I’ll give you a good open hand slap because I can still hurt you but I won’t hurt my hands off and I can still go traded next day yeah I guess didn’t they in in in some of the old old fights didn’t a lot of those guys say that they instead of punching would hit with their hand just because they didn’t want to break their hand in the middle of the fight yeah and that’s the worst thing right because it takes forever to get surgery and you’re sitting out for so long and it’s like why would I want to do this for free if we’re going to be doing this in a couple months down the line I I’m going to get paid for it and I don’t want to take a chance of not losing a check because I got emotional outside of the cage yeah that’s true man it’s not worth it and back to Palm strikes really quick a shout out to uh boss Rootin the legend yeah he was fighting something called panre over in Japan and it was a it was like an MMA type organization but they’d have these big boots on so that’s and it wears like Speedos so the Japanese were good with the leg locks it’d be sticky on those big boots but anyway they had to fight with open hand no gloves open hand so he would be knocking guys out with palm Strikes Back in the Day bass I was just with them I was with him at the the Kow combat I was down there watching that and he was commentating get him in GSP so yeah it was pretty cool to see him he’s a great guy yeah and and Bel you’re a great guy yes thanks for coming I will go on your show again but only one asks asked and uh you know I like to defend the belts I didn’t get a belt but I had a win my brother I appreciate you we’re we’ll get a belt we’re gonna get a belt we a Champions uh Champions Tour Tournament tournament bracket so yeah you’ll be getting a call from us definitely Jimmy you should go on that show too I’m not a fighter oh be a fighter it’s about trivia oh okay well if you if you want to reach out to me if you want me to I don’t want to put you on the spot if you feel it no you’re not putting me on the spot you put me on the spot with the joke like a guest like you on my show is not putting me on a spot it’s putting you on a spot I suck at trivia too but I’d be happy to what’s a typical trivia question I’m not very good a lot of it’s just pictures so we do a lot of like two fighters had a baby how would they look and I’ll make like a a filtered picture of it so it’s cool like that or just like normal fighter nicknames there’s not nothing crazy no it’s very simple okay and by Jimmy’s answer I guess I should apologize for putting you on the spot about me going on your show thanks Jimmy make me look like the I mean poor Bal what’s he gonna say you should have us on will you yeah we have fun I love you guys knows we have fun below anything else you want to promote buddy no man I appreciate both you guys man thank you guys for having me on because there’s a lot of guys out here that aren’t pushing uh my narrative that I deserve this title fight so anytime anybody has on the same frame as me you guys understand what it is you’re an OG of the game and you understand how hard it is to to be in this game have a 10 fight winning streak so thank you appreciate you and hopefully the world keeps pushing my name yep hopefully you’re next belal and uh we’ll talk to you again if you get if you get the shot we’ll get you right before you fight and uh I definitely think you deserve it so hopefully hopefully within a few months we’ll hear something thank you guys be good in yeah and he raed a good point too Matt Leon did go the long route like we remember we talked about Leon dward for a few years we were yelling about Leon Edwards where’s his shot so um hey I hope he gets it he answered the call man he’s fun he’s F he played along y he’s great that took some that took some guts Jimmy yep I want to promote Matt Wednesday night Fat Black Pussycat It’s been selling out every week and if you want to see what I’m up to in my personal life my wife and I have a YouTube channel uh which is actually a lot of fun just doing dumb videos uh because I get a lot of questions about my marriage so if you want to watch Nikki and Jim NYC on YouTube and uh my tour is starting in February tickets on sale for New Jersey Connecticut Texas Oklahoma City California go to JY norton.com a Jimmy you’re doing so well for yourself well you know it’s a bunch of things hopefully I don’t starve you’re doing great Jimmy I will be talking to you in a couple of days my friend yes buddy I’ll talk to you soon thank you the great Bal Muhammad and Matt I’ll talk to you soon I would love to get Leon Edwards on the show if we could let’s get Leon on we love Leon all right buddy all right bye buddy see you Matt bye everyone [Music] one