Daniel Cormier REACTS to Salahdine Parnasse KNOCKING OUT Dan Hooker in 1st round: "Best debut EVER" — Transcript

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9. 0:26So, last night
10. 0:30we had one of the most anticipated
11. 0:33debuts we have seen for a while in the
12. 0:35UFC in Salahdine Parnasse.
13. 0:39Salahdine Parnasse was a guy that had
14. 0:42won
15. 0:44so many
16. 0:45titles outside of the UFC. He had
17. 0:49performed on the biggest stages outside
18. 0:53of the UFC. And the idea was at some
19. 0:57point he would come here and he would
20. 1:00hopefully work his way into a position
21. 1:03where he can challenge the best guys in
22. 1:04the world.
23. 1:06You know a guy is highly regarded when
24. 1:10his first fight is a main event.
25. 1:13He main events against Dan Hooker in
26. 1:16Paris, France.
27. 1:18This guy is a star there. They love him
28. 1:21there. They set him up in a position
29. 1:24where he could feel important.
30. 1:27Yesterday he felt important.
31. 1:30The reaction to this kid all week,
32. 1:33outstanding.
33. 1:34When he hit the curtain walking towards
34. 1:37the octagon, outstanding. I want to read
35. 1:40you guys really fast Parnasse's bio,
36. 1:44right? Because I think that in itself
37. 1:47is so impressive. I was listening to
38. 1:50Michael Bisping talk about this man
39. 1:54as he was walking to the octagon.
40. 1:56and speaking of his title fights, the
41. 2:01level of competition he had fought, the
42. 2:03the people that he had beaten, and
43. 2:08Hold Here it is. Salahdine Parnasse.
44. 2:11MMA fighter.
45. 2:12And what he
46. 2:15would bring to the division.
47. 2:16Okay? KSW. He was a champion
48. 2:20in three or in two different divisions.
49. 2:23He was a two-division champion KSW.
50. 2:25Guys, that Polish
51. 2:28organization
52. 2:29is as good as any regional
53. 2:32organization in the world. Now, I'm not
54. 2:34talking regional like
55. 2:36uh one of the smaller ones just around
56. 2:39the United States. This is a global
57. 2:41organization that people go to fight to
58. 2:43and try to become champion. He fought
59. 2:4712 title fights
60. 2:49before ever stepping foot inside the UFC
61. 2:53Octagon. I don't know that we have seen
62. 2:55a person have that level of high-level
63. 2:57experience going into the Octagon since
64. 3:00maybe
65. 3:05Alistair? Maybe Overeem?
66. 3:08I'm not talking Pereira with the
67. 3:10kickboxing
68. 3:11individually. I'm not talking Gable
69. 3:13Steveson with the wrestling
70. 3:15individually. I'm talking about a person
71. 3:17that had competed in that individual
72. 3:20sport and MMA at that level for that
73. 3:23long.
74. 3:24This kid had that. 12 title fights going
75. 3:27into that fight last night. The fight
76. 3:29starts.
77. 3:30Obviously, the kid is fighting with a
78. 3:31level of confidence,
79. 3:33right?
80. 3:34That you hope to see in guys making
81. 3:37their debut debut, but you don't see
82. 3:39that often.
83. 3:41He's fighting with this confidence that
84. 3:43he feels like he is just too much for
85. 3:44Dan Hooker.
86. 3:46Dude lands a nasty body kick. Hooker
87. 3:49shows that he's hurt, then tries to
88. 3:52compose himself, but it's too late when
89. 3:54you got a killer like that in front of
90. 3:56you. PFL goes after him, hits him with
91. 3:59the nastiest left hook.
92. 4:01I mean, it was like chopping and he just
93. 4:05crumbled and he just beat him up on the
94. 4:07ground to get the finish. You know,
95. 4:10we talk about debuts and impressing in
96. 4:13those debuts.
97. 4:16I don't think we've seen a more
98. 4:17impressive one.
99. 4:19You know,
100. 4:20when a guy comes over from another
101. 4:23organization, it's hard. We have seen
102. 4:25people from even Bellator really
103. 4:28struggle. We saw Pitbull struggle and
104. 4:31and had dominated there.
105. 4:33We saw Aaron Pico struggle. Now he has
106. 4:35seemed to have corrected the ship in his
107. 4:37second UFC appearance and looked
108. 4:38amazing.
109. 4:40Michael Chandler did good, but then
110. 4:42struggled after. We have seen people
111. 4:44struggle at times
112. 4:45making the jump. I struggled. I thought
113. 4:48my first UFC fight was sub par because I
114. 4:51was nervous. It was a different
115. 4:53platform. It was a bigger platform and
116. 4:55you can feel that
117. 4:57whenever you get to the UFC.
118. 5:01He didn't struggle at all. And generally
119. 5:03when a guy comes in,
120. 5:05they want to call their shot and talk
121. 5:08about who they want to fight and what
122. 5:10they expect next and a lot of times we
123. 5:12laugh at them, but I don't think people
124. 5:13are going to be laughing at PFL. He said
125. 5:15that his dream fight is against Max
126. 5:17Holloway and honestly,
127. 5:19I'm here for it.
128. 5:20If they decide that PFL and Max Holloway
129. 5:23should fight,
130. 5:25I'm here for it.
131. 5:27I really am because I believe that when
132. 5:30you do that
133. 5:32in your debut, you get something big.
134. 5:34Now, if Max says no to it, Max is so
135. 5:39right in that thought.
136. 5:41Guys, even like Kayla Harrison, her UFC
137. 5:44debut was good, but
138. 5:46I don't think it was that.
139. 5:48It wasn't that.
140. 5:49It wasn't that that brutal, dominating,
141. 5:52nasty,
142. 5:54uh
143. 5:55type of performance.
144. 5:57She submitted Holly Holm, but
145. 5:59man, it was That was nasty. It just felt
146. 6:03like something bigger than we have seen
147. 6:06for a little bit. He said Max is his
148. 6:07dream fight. He also said he believes
149. 6:09he's the best fighter in the world. And
150. 6:11when you watch that last night,
151. 6:14you have to look at matchups. How long
152. 6:16do we have Justin Gaethje for now?
153. 6:18That's the question. How much longer is
154. 6:20Justin Gaethje in this game?
155. 6:22How much longer does Justin Gaethje want
156. 6:24to cut the weight down to 155?
157. 6:27How much longer
158. 6:29does he want to do these things? Because
159. 6:30if he doesn't want to do these things,
160. 6:33Poirier
161. 6:34fighting the other guys at 155,
162. 6:36they're generally strikers. Those are
163. 6:38great fights. There's one real grappler
164. 6:41in that top of that division right now
165. 6:45to try and ground this man, and that's
166. 6:48Paddy Pimblett, who's really good at it.
167. 6:50But I will tell you this, I have heard
168. 6:52stories
169. 6:54of this kid
170. 6:55his training. I heard that this dude is
171. 6:57running 15 400s
172. 7:00and trying to keep them all under a
173. 7:02minute.
174. 7:04He's running 15
175. 7:06400s,
176. 7:07guys.
177. 7:1012 of those is 3 mi.
178. 7:13He's running almost 4 mi
179. 7:15of sprints and trying to keep those
180. 7:19sprints under a minute.
181. 7:21Now, I don't know that he's successful
182. 7:23every time at keeping it under a minute,
183. 7:25but his intent when he steps on the line
184. 7:27to run a 400-m dash, a lap around the
185. 7:30track, is to keep it under a minute, and
186. 7:33he does it 15 times.
187. 7:36That's insane
188. 7:38when it comes to preparing yourself for
189. 7:39a fight, and that's why he's so
190. 7:41explosive, the burst.
191. 7:43It's a burst and a long-distance element
192. 7:47to it. It's crazy the amount of work
193. 7:49that this man is
194. 7:50is putting in. And I'm hearing this from
195. 7:52people that are around him, that are
196. 7:54close to him, that have seen him do
197. 7:56these things.
198. 7:58I know we get excited
199. 8:00whenever you see something like that,
200. 8:02but this is not me putting on. This is
201. 8:04things that I've generally heard about
202. 8:06Salahdine Parnasse.
203. 8:09On to Dan Hooker.
204. 8:12When people generally hear that they're
205. 8:15a gatekeeper or put in that position,
206. 8:19they're mad, they're upset, and they
207. 8:21fight that with all that they can.
208. 8:23Dan Hooker seemed to be embracing that
209. 8:25and said,
210. 8:26uh
211. 8:28There've been a couple losses and then
212. 8:29moving your way down the rankings, I'm
213. 8:31more than happy to play the role that
214. 8:33I'm in right now. And the role that I'm
215. 8:35in right now is gatekeeping the top 10
216. 8:38of the UFC's lightweight division.
217. 8:42Me, personally, I think there's too much
218. 8:45acceptance, too much comfort in that.
219. 8:49We have guys that are willing to fight
220. 8:50anybody anytime. Kevin Holland comes to
221. 8:52mind. Kevin Holland never says or never
222. 8:55will accept that he's a gatekeeper.
223. 8:59He will always fight to win,
224. 9:01and he will always fight anybody. But
225. 9:03just because you fight anybody doesn't
226. 9:05mean you almost have to accept that if
227. 9:07they beat you, they're just going to go
228. 9:08forward and you just continue to tumble.
229. 9:10Your intention should always be to stop
230. 9:12the tumble,
231. 9:13to stop the losses, to stop the
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260. 10:31cannot accept that. When you hear a
261. 10:32fighter do that, um
262. 10:35it just isn't good. Cuz you do that
263. 10:37before the fight, and then the fight
264. 10:39goes in the way that it did.
265. 10:42That's not good.
266. 10:44That's really, really not good for Dan
267. 10:46Hooker. So, I'm very interested to see
268. 10:48what happens with him uh going forward.
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