Following UFC Vegas 76, tune in to the Post-Fight Press Conference to hear the athletes take questions from the media.
critic but you cannot be upset with a win against a guy like damir it wasn’t about the performance if you can get over on a guy like damir that’s something to be proud of that dude is not not ranked number 12 in the world he is so much better than that and they just put him at 12 for some weird reason so I’m very very happy with it uh 30 27 30 26. I’m happy with it man I know you have the most confidence in yourself as well but even you maybe a little surprise it dominant performance on your part no I don’t think so uh I think that I knew what could happen and then when things start to go your way I think that it’s just it just goes to show the improvements I’ve made man what did I say on media day everything was about showing the UFC that you can put me in these high level fights against guys that I was an underdog against and I can pull off these wins I can perform it’s not that I’m just squeaking out a win I can perform if you put me in these positions it kind third round submissions again as well right where you’re wearing them out and you’re finally getting there were you were you frustrated or maybe shocked that he just wouldn’t go away no what did I tell you I told you I was expecting three rounds and I I was he’s one of those guys that you you go for something and then he he gets away and he ends up winning the round back or even worse getting the Finish man you you have to be safe with these guys these are the best guys in the world in the top weight class in the world there there is not a harder weight class than 155. there isn’t and you could say 135 because of all the former Champs that are up there but it’s just it’s thinner right the top 15 might look the same but everything outside the top 15 isn’t even close uh the car I don’t want to say call outs the respectful challenges of where you think you should be and where you’re going I mean what do you see as your path to top I mean I know you’re not necessarily in a rush but I know you believe you can be there how do you see your path to the top I don’t really know I think everybody’s got a different path Islam had kind of a weird path where he fought really good guys and then some not so good guys and then some really good guy and then some not so good guys and then looked great against the champion um you got guys like gamrat who is fighting literally anybody he just called out Rafael uh faziv who the hell wants to fight that guy like Win Lose or Draw you’re coming out with a closed eye and my guy gamra is calling that dude out what a G man calls out any tough fight everybody’s path is different I think I just gotta get back into the gym on Monday and get better has it dawned on you know I mean like all of your fights moving forward are going to be against the absolute best of the best after a fight like tonight you’re only gonna be facing Killers moving forward does that change your mindset at all they’re I’m not gonna lie to you that was in my mind in the back that was like dude this isn’t a pike dream anymore this isn’t something that you’re telling your mom as a high schooler anymore you are this close to becoming what you said you were going to be in eighth grade so like do we really want this and the answer is yes yeah and it was I thought it was so you almost put pressure on yourself you talked about earlier this week you said if I don’t win a world title like this is all for nothing like is that I mean it seems like unnecessary pressure like you’re you’re succeeding already right what are you what are you talking about unnecessary pressure like the pressure is what makes us you know like there’s going to be pressure I’m I’m uh I’m really into World War II movies and I just watched this movie uh hacksaw Ridge and they literally have to climb up this giant wall to get shot at by uh by the Germans and I’m sorry the the Japanese and it’s like what I’m doing is not anywhere close to that you know you’ve got real people going through real problems this is just competition man we as men are built for competition this is what we were built to do and one of the reasons why people are so unhappy today is because they aren’t pushing themselves in these situations last thing for me uh was that just a term of endearment for your wife there I think we all got a laugh there I love you I I love my wife more than anything on this planet and I absolutely love being married it’s I I was just telling one of my friends and I I know this wasn’t your question but I’m gonna tell you anyway because this is my moment uh I was just telling one of my friends you know no matter how close you are with somebody that’s a friend when they have a problem you feel bad for them but you don’t lose any sleep nobody ever loses any sleep if my wife has a problem I lose sleep over it if I have a problem she loses sleep over it it’s so nice to not have to go into our problems by ourselves anymore man I’m I’m very for family I’m very for uh marriage I’m very for one woman one man like or one whatever you do whoever you’re into you just you get what I’m saying like I’m for that and family and and competition and and personal accomplishment so man I love that hey Grant um in a lot of your promos you said you want people on Sunday to be to be like that guy is good damn them damn that kid’s good that kid’s good do you feel like they’re gonna say that on Sunday I do I think come Sunday they’re gonna say that kid’s good the problem is I’m probably gonna be out for another nine months and they’ll forget about me um there is a big lightweight fight coming up next week between Jan Taylor and Jaylen Taylor and Dan hook hooker you want the winner or loser of that fight yeah absolutely I’m I’m definitely down for that man um I’m in one of those situations where I just kind of want to uh I want to get back into the gym I got to work on some stuff we we saw some stuff in this fight I need to work on uh my boy Thiago Moises he’s got a big fight coming up so I’m gonna get back in the gym on Monday and I’m gonna help him out just like he’s helped me out every single camp and honestly I love it when he fights right after me because that gives me a reason to get back into the gym we talked about finding teammates on on Wednesday but like you’re in a division where you have a few teammates in in the division so like if they come with you like with the fight against amra or sarukian or orkano like is that a fight you’ll take I have no interest in fighting moicano I have no interest in fighting gamrat uh sarukian is on the table but it’s got to be the right circumstances dude I I train with these guys I I saw these guys before look I I’m not fighting moycano that’s he’s he’s a close friend of mine that’s not happening um I I really like gamrod a lot he’s a close friend of mine I really enjoy training with him I’m not really interested in fighting him thanks man thank you in your post fight interview um you mentioned Islam and you called him the goat who else is on your lightweight Mount Rushmore khabib Islam uh Frankie I put Ben Henderson in there as well and I think that one not because he was so great but just because as a kid I really enjoyed watching him fight uh you guys are gonna hate me for this one but I put Gray Maynard in there too just because of his to his last two fights with Frankie Edgar growing up as a kid I watched those over and over and over and over absolutely love those fights so it’s hard for me not to put him in there I know he’s not that good but I I like the guy man and uh what do you think uh Islam is a goat for you I’m sorry why do you call Islam the goat oh man come on he’s I don’t think the dude the dude’s lost like one round and it was against volkanovsky in Australia man like you cannot look I believe I’m gonna be one of the best in the world I believe that I can beat Islam On Any Given night but you have to give a man credit where it deserves that dude is good really good thank you thank you thank you guys I appreciate you all foreign foreign foreign thank you foreign foreign [Laughter] none of us yeah no this is all independent thoughts you guys a quick word from our sponsors all right let’s get this going son obviously uh not just a victory but a very impressive stoppage Victory I mean I know you like to fight and win but I mean does this one feel special for you yeah no first round gotta suck there’s a moment where like at the the beginning of the second round I was like man is he done already is this really it this is all we got all right well why don’t we just end this fight now but yeah I was just I was shocked man I was shocked he came out with a pretty blistering Pace overwhelming to start I mean he starts like that quite a bit is that what you’re expecting to see well you know when you insult the man in his country and you call him losers people tend to take that a little personally so you know he may have took that a little personally on that call and Jeremy loses but you guys what did I say don’t trust the German what does the German do right when we start he stabs me in the eye so I mean is there is is there some validity what the I’m saying I still see double man well I was gonna ask you I mean in your post flight speech in the Octagon you said there was a moment that you kind of thought like maybe we should pack it in were you just kind of being entertaining there or was that really crying no 100 like I mean I I’m still seeing double but then you know like I said Biz being won a title of one eye so don’t be a coward right I mean I still see double man and there’s some you know this is rough yeah second round you turn you know like I said he started fast second round you really turned up the heat you know uh was that calculated or just something you felt at the moment nah man you know here’s the thing about my dick you guys it stays hard for a long time you know I don’t always finish I don’t always finish but that stays hard that is definitely not the question I asked at all well no no no because I’m getting there I’m getting there and he came out hard but it went limp fast you’re gonna come out hard bro you better stay hard yeah the final sequence you kind of it looked like he kind of turned away I mean did you see that and did you know oh yeah no he wanted he wanted to go home I bet at that point if I would have just said hey do you mind if I just choke you out he probably said yeah sure choke me out yeah he quit man he quit and again you know I don’t wanna I don’t want to rub Shane shade in him he’s a solid guy he’s a nice guy you know but I’m here to I’m ready to die you guys I’ll die in here man so if you don’t have that mindset don’t fight me nice last thing for me Sean I know you’ve been kind of petitioning hey man give me this title shot we do have Israel hassania without a fight we think September Australia I mean is that a trip you’re willing to make and man it needs to happen you guys I mean we we know Izzy’s on repeat dude it’s kind of they they try to bring a boost this is what this is what the UFC said man the middleweight division stagnant let’s get a boost in here he’s probably he might beat Sean and I’m like yeah right wait till you see what happens so every time they’ve tried to bring new blood the Frenchie I fought before I sent him home this guy sent him back every time they try to bring new blood in I send them back give me the title I earned it I was gonna say not that you’re gonna put any pressure on the UFC but like you kind of did them a solid right like you fight the unranked guy with nothing to gain before that I fought the other guy they were trying to that their their last Phenom that they were trying to think that guy on a three-day notice I took him on a five round War won every round so you know I’m I paid my dues I I pay my dues give me that showing off the back of that do you think the finish tonight actually helps your case right like you could have gone out there and beat a dominant decision but getting the finish in the second round does say to the UFC like hey and I’ll be entertaining while I fight the champion yeah it’s because I’m always looking for well here let me tell you guys one thing let me tell you guys one thing the UFC paid me flat money flat money when I bought candy I won that fight fought like a but I won that fight but whenever you’re uh whenever that second round comes that third round comes like oh man this has to hit me I’m up on points I’m just gonna I’m just gonna walk away with that dub and get my win bonus so you know you kind of fight like a little when it comes down to that wind bonus but they gave me flat money so I was like all right let’s go and have a man dance do you think you will get a title shot if Rob wins right Rob and his ear fought twice we know his he wants to fight Rikers do you think if Rob beat streakers next week you’ll get the title shot ahead of him 100 yeah 100 uh even if Drake is even if he I mean again you know if he beats Drake and she asked sure what the ever you know I’m a good sport man you beat you beat you beat Whitaker sure I’m a good sport but I need it dude I want it you guys the fans want it you want it come on you guys last one for me and I’m I was inspired by a fan I heard him shout this at you while you’re in the cage where were you on January 6th bro you know I actually heard that I you guys I’m not a trump supporter I’m a libertarian you guys this income tax let’s go grab our AR-15s and go storm a capital I’m a Libertarian you guys I’m anti-government I’m I’m probably on an FBI watching list all right calm the down hey Sean I’m an American ah continue sorry hello hi I’m wondering um who hates you more right now Germans are women oh God yeah me right I knew that was coming you know when I was at the press conference I said that I was like don’t make eye contact don’t make eye contact but here’s the thing you guys I’m from Las Vegas Las Vegas sucks if you ever looked at like the graduation I dropped out of high school I’m a product of shitty society America sucks our education sucks we are Mindless consumers in 19 1980 you could buy a house for 200 000 now the average house is what 450. the reason why that is because we are brainwashed we have women working we have the system raising our kids we are ruining this country and I know I say that’s off the line but I’m a American I’m a Patriot and what these corporations are doing are ruining this country and I’m also curious did you self-tan before you fought no no you guys I I used to live in the ghetto and the pool didn’t work but I got a nicer apartment because I had to put my motorcycles in the garage that’s a really nice pool so I’m at the pool a lot you guys so I’m just I look tan look I’ve been having a AB nah that’s a bad angle but yeah so you know I I’m a feminist I’m an equal equality you know no women should wear a burka you know go wear a bikini America ice cream apple pie but the bottom line is dude our kids suck they’re being raised on Tick Tock and they suck and at some point dude I just want to make America better I want to make America great again uh last one for me Mike Perry called you out he wants to fight burn uncle is that something that would ever interest you oh man I mean I’ll do for fun you want to come to Vegas see we scrap I ain’t going bare knuckle but you want to come to Vegas you will go Instagram live on that let’s do it I like the fights even better when it’s only for fun thank you hey Sean uh what’s your name bro Alex is that your name it’s God here I like this what’s your what’s your website dude MMA Mania man this guy’s a good dude this is Zelda looking what video game what do you have a PS4 controller on your arm PS4 PS1 let’s go man let’s go anime Mania um how was it fighting in front of Mel Gibson and how was it meeting bro that’s a crazy dude I’m surprised he wasn’t running for Germany [Laughter] what too soon too soon I mean hey hey you know you take those drugs Make Her Say crazy right nah dude Mel Gibson’s a man you ever see uh get Gringo or whatever the I love that guy he’s nuts dude that’s not so I want to be when I’m crazy and old just less racist I’m just joking because I don’t I don’t think Mel Gibson is I don’t think he’s a racist I think he’s nuts um you mentioned Maria in your post fight speech she’s only 30 000 away from her goal I just want you know just kind of talk more about it you know after I won I’m gonna donate again Maria yeah no Maria’s awesome you guys and and not even just Maria bro you get so many people like what we’re doing here means nothing before I walked out to this fight literally that’s what I said like in my head I was like this means nothing like there there’s so much wrong in the world there’s so much horrible man that like what we do here means nothing and and Maria she’s going through it right now and you know not even Maria everybody’s going that’s some hard I can’t even imagine what that’s like so you know I just wanted to give some love to her and hopefully hopefully some people even if even if you drop a dollar man you know even if you drop a dollar that’s enough it’s a dollar that wasn’t there before and finally um you know the knock on you that you know the critics and analysts say that you’re not a finisher you don’t finish fights how did it how Phil did how good did it feel to go out there and finish this guy you guys I don’t hit hard man I’ll be the first one to tell you man I I don’t pay hard but I hate a lot I hit a lot I had a lot the best thing about him is I didn’t have to finish him he just wanted to go home so thank you thank you for not having me to thank you for not relying on the knockout hey Sean kind of echoing with Alex oh this guy white with American name yes sir you’re out there trying to bang all the UNLV girls I like that I guarantee bro you’re gonna get way more pushing from UNLV after you graduate and you’re like 30 and you go back you dirtbag in your last uh two wins against imavov and her Manson you kind of talked about the quote you’ve been fighting like a chump now that you finally got that finished in the second round do you still feel more than just a chump no like I said dude like I mean when I fought Jerry candyer I won that fight on the scorecards I won that fight the only reason why he won is because you the corner bro I’m fighting that guy and you hear the corner saying all those punches are landing I’m like Sam they’re like dude I have a chin like a woman if they were Landing I mean if they were Landing you would know I would be knocked the out they weren’t Landing so you know that fight kind of stung just because I lost because you have bad you you have a good Corner yelling and you have judges that listen so you know that flat pay is nice man you go in there you just fight you get paid it’s flat money is nice you guys it’s my it’s nice additionally he’s talking about being an American when after your knockout there were USA chance for someone who loves this country for you what was that like bro I I am the biggest American and this is a problem when you critique America when you say you know you know what like put America first I don’t want to go spend money on other countries I don’t want to go bomb other countries America First People somehow put you in an Un-American category I want your money to stay in your paycheck I don’t want to give money to any other country we got poor people here but we spent on the Ukraine war and again I’m Pro Ukraine I want Ukraine to win what we spent on the Ukraine war could have financed our cancer treatments for like five years again don’t don’t quote me on this but what we spent if we were to put that all to cancer treatments we would middle Finance cancer treatments for five years so again I’m an American first I want I want everybody to succeed I want every country to see it I want Ukraine to win but I’m America First and that’s the problem with America we have politicians that are not American first they are bought and paid for and it’s a damn shame because at this point unless there is a revolution bro I don’t know how the it gets fixed when you look at your last nine fights including tonight’s fight eight of them have taken place inside the Apex moving forward is fighting in front of a sold out crowd something you’d like to be more part of man you know I like the crowds are nice bro the crowds motivate me you guys see me I mean when I was like why I was broke and I heard those running their mouth I was like yeah you guys know you’re right I’m being a we should fight but you know like but you look at this car bro this card I mean yeah there’s like a couple of Americans other one I don’t know where the this card was from you know I think they wanted me to you know they wanted me to come here a good American boy they wanted me to save the card put the white trash guy on people like to watch him fight so I would like a crowd but I’m also you know I’m a team player for the UFC you pay me I mean I want the title shot but you pay me off like and uh if the title shot isn’t granted for you is running it back with Kennedy or something you really want man not really I mean I want to again I like can air solid guy but I want the title dude don’t run me around you guys I took even off on a three-day notice I fought this guy I paid my dues dude let’s just give me the shot thank you hey Sean uh oh man the beard I like this guy dude you’re skinny Santa Claus what’s up hey yo well you look like a dirty porn director man that’s that’s I think I might have seen you on PornHub what’s going on here oh I usually keep my pants on oh yeah um when Mel Gibson congratulated you what did he say to you oh he didn’t congratulate me I interjected and said hey you crazy I like you you say more crazy than me and you haven’t been canceled God damn and you said uh you like getting the flap pay but are you going to make the case that you should get double pay since you saw two fighters in there when you’re fighting oh a double vision this guy dude hey big IQ on him if it wasn’t for this limb dick in the front that would have went right over my head dude but yeah no man I definitely got I definitely got impregnated to you guys I gotta go take a fraternity test after this one um now I don’t know if you paid attention since you were training but I want to ask you about the Supreme Court decisions this week the two uh I know the Asian and then the student loans right yeah bro I I love America guys it’s listen you guys I’m a white trash so like like you know like you know you got these Asian dudes man they’re got locked docs and lawyers they gotta they gotta leg up on me but again America is equal opportunity if you could do it do it man bottom line dude I’m really happy for the uh for the Asian Community man if you guys work your ass off you got good parents and that’s they go full circle you see that that Asian community of like you have a mom in the house raising their kids that is what America was but you let these corporations weasel their way to put the Amazon on your phone and we have just made this consumer America bro it is a damn shame that you have foreigners coming to this country and they and they show more of the American Spirit and values than Americans do when are you going to run oh man I find way too much history way too much in my past and then the student loans man hey it’s about that man I was homeschooled my whole life I mean I always say I dropped out of high school but I don’t even know if I could call it high school no you you get your loans bro you pay for it no one’s no one ever gave me forgiveness so yeah I’m happy the Supreme Court man we gotta we got a good roster on that Supreme Court dude all we need now is some national reciprocity and we’ll be set I’m impressed that you paid attention to what was going on in the world well you’re in the UFC bubble well man here’s the thing guys we don’t do all day what do you think UFC fighters do like we don’t have a job we train for a few hours a day and we just sit there with our dicks in our hand you guys why do you think I’m tan I got to do all day long so yeah I just sit on the interwebs we didn’t conspiracies about covet and you know congratulations Auntie Baxter by the way I must say back she’s a bad boy you know you’re trying to force me to tell me to get a shove a needle in my ass to leave the country you guys uh continue are we all good uh Sean other than the uh this guy oh broom yep other than the iPhone what’s your name bro what’s your name where are you from Josh from Fargo North Dakota Okay now what’s your what’s your site bro 740 the fan wait what is it 740 the fan okay you called me in a groom you got it you gotta show this man a shout out but all right other other than the iPad I poke was there anything unexpected from your opponent tonight I mean those Jeeps are kind of fast you know those teeth are those teeth were like oh man that uh I mean Dustin schools he’s a can you know he’s not even a American that little coward run off to Germany but but I like the guy I like the guy but he ain’t a American right hey man world two that have been over there in the Third Reich get your ass back to America anyways anyways I’m just saying he’s a Defector but uh guy probably doesn’t represent American flag now the teams are good dude the teeth the teeth are solid and then I was like oh this kind of sucks let’s see how you’re boxing it I was like oh you can’t box you don’t like to get punched in the face you’re not comfortable with CTE let me show you what brain damage feels like I love it all right thank you congratulations all right man is that all she wrote dude oh we all good man okay you guys are all awesome I know I’m hard on you Star Wars Jedi over there I know what the that guy’s name is the guy the merchant but uh but you guys dude you guys are all awesome man I give you a hard time Amy I’m not sexist I love the women I’m all equal opportunity but keep it up you guys keep it up keep it up YouTube man keep training this guy trains I like that I don’t even know his name I like him monster let’s Funko