Dillon Danis BLASTS Arman Tsarukyan & Khamzat Chimaev for Being 'SCARED,' Explains Mike Perry Drama — Transcript
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- 0:00Ariel Helwani here in Las Vegas, Nevada
- 0:02for AREF 14 and look who we have run
- 0:06into.
- 0:07The very elusive Dillon Danis.
- 0:09>> Good to see you.
- 0:10>> Good to see you, my friend.
- 0:11>> you came out here because I'm the main
- 0:13event, so I appreciate it.
- 0:14>> Only only for you. That's it.
- 0:15>> I know you don't travel, so I do
- 0:17appreciate you coming.
- 0:18>> So, this is a a peace offering, if you
- 0:20will. A sign of a sign of love and
- 0:21respect.
- 0:22>> have love and respect for you. You are
- 0:23the best journalist in the game.
- 0:25>> Thank you.
- 0:25>> You know, the first time I met you, I
- 0:27was like, you know, I watched some of
- 0:28your interviews. You know, I was I was
- 0:29very excited and you know, you gave me a
- 0:31lot of interviews, so I always have
- 0:33respect for you.
- 0:34>> How are you?
- 0:34>> fighting.
- 0:35>> No, no. We're all good.
- 0:36>> Yeah.
- 0:36>> How are you?
- 0:37>> Great, man. Feeling good. Excited for
- 0:39this match. You know, I feel like I
- 0:40don't get the respect I deserve.
- 0:42I wrestled Chimaev at 205. I'm wrestling
- 0:45Arman at 175. So, I go against anybody,
- 0:47any weight, any time, any sport. I'm the
- 0:50only one that's done wrestling,
- 0:52freestyle, Greco,
- 0:54folk style, jiu-jitsu, no gi, gi,
- 0:56boxing, MMA. I think I'm just missing
- 0:58taekwondo or karate.
- 1:00>> Yeah.
- 1:00>> You know, I think my [ __ ] talking
- 1:03just like, you know, just kind of makes
- 1:05people forget what what I do, you know?
- 1:07So, yeah, you know, I'm I'm excited. You
- 1:09know, I go in and the way Conor tells
- 1:11me, just take it in and stride to help
- 1:14your MMA game and, you know, just do the
- 1:16best you can.
- 1:16>> All right, so there's a lot to talk to
- 1:17you about, but I do want to start in
- 1:19chronological order.
- 1:20Uh last time we spoke, it was you, Mike
- 1:22Perry, me on the show. We were all very
- 1:24excited, late August.
- 1:26>> Great interview.
- 1:26>> Thank you. Appreciate it. You guys were
- 1:28very fun.
- 1:28>> I know, people loved it.
- 1:29>> Very entertaining.
- 1:30>> Two Brazilians were fighting against
- 1:31each other to [ __ ] make a sentence,
- 1:33but
- 1:33>> Yeah. It was [laughter] great.
- 1:34>> It made me very excited for the fight
- 1:36and I think everyone agreed. We get to
- 1:38fight week in Orlando and then we find
- 1:40out on the Thursday before the Saturday
- 1:42fight, you're not coming, you're out.
- 1:44You injured yourself. Tell us the whole
- 1:45story. What happened?
- 1:46>> So, you can see, obviously, I do have
- 1:48the scar. This is real. People said it
- 1:50was AI or whatever, I faked the injury.
- 1:52It was a real injury. It happened in the
- 1:54beginning of camp and I literally
- 1:56couldn't train. I couldn't do sauna. I
- 1:59couldn't even She told me there's no
- 2:00sweating, so no treadmill, nothing.
- 2:02>> When did you injure yourself?
- 2:03>> So, I think it happened
- 2:05maybe the day before it got announced.
- 2:06But, you know, as a fighter
- 2:08they were like, "This is big
- 2:09opportunity. You have to take it." And
- 2:11like as a fighter, I'm like, "You know
- 2:12what? I can [ __ ] do this." You know,
- 2:13like you can do this. It's just the
- 2:15mindset that a fighter has like I can
- 2:16push through anything. It's like you
- 2:18know, it's kind of [ __ ] in a way,
- 2:20but it's just that how you are. You
- 2:21know, I'm sure you're the same way like
- 2:22you know, I can do anything. I don't
- 2:23care what anybody says.
- 2:25But, then when we went to the doctor and
- 2:26she's like, "If you sweat, listen, if
- 2:27this gets infected, it's such a bad cut.
- 2:29Like you'll go like it could be so
- 2:31dangerous." And then So, for a couple
- 2:33weeks I didn't train and then I tried to
- 2:34just like do it without telling them,
- 2:36you know? Cuz I was on and I was on
- 2:38heavy antibiotics. I was taking eight a
- 2:40day.
- 2:41>> Wow.
- 2:41>> So, I don't know if you've ever taken
- 2:42antibiotics.
- 2:43>> Yeah, yeah.
- 2:43>> Eight, you feel like
- 2:46terrible. And I have a terrible stomach,
- 2:47so I was just in terrible pain. And then
- 2:49I tried training
- 2:50and with the antibiotics and it would
- 2:52just keep reopening, getting infected,
- 2:54staff. And people would say in the
- 2:57interview that it was closed, but it it
- 2:58like it would kept reopening in the top
- 3:00like every time I would try to mark
- 3:01because when they put it together it was
- 3:03so tight that when you move your arm it
- 3:05would just like open up even if I
- 3:06wrapped it. So, it would keep getting
- 3:08infected.
- 3:09And um yeah, it just uh I couldn't
- 3:11train. I couldn't do anything. And then
- 3:13the deal with Duel was very I don't I
- 3:16can't go into like certain things with
- 3:17it.
- 3:18It was just not the right thing. And
- 3:20like going into that fight, I tried to
- 3:21push it all the way till the end. My
- 3:22whole family was in Orlando. The whole
- 3:24ref team was in Orlando. That's how much
- 3:26I pushed it to be in that fight.
- 3:28And it just didn't happen, you know?
- 3:29That's the fight game. I know Perry's
- 3:30really mad at me saying when they drove
- 3:31me and stuff.
- 3:32>> Yeah.
- 3:32>> He bought me, but you know, at the end
- 3:34of the day I had no no ill will towards
- 3:36Perry. I wanted to actually apologize
- 3:37him. I I wanted that fight. That would
- 3:39have been the easiest way for me. My
- 3:40family was there. I like why would my
- 3:42family go if I wasn't going to go? Like
- 3:44I
- 3:44>> They flew out.
- 3:45>> They were there.
- 3:45>> You guys were
- 3:46>> And where were you?
- 3:47>> Where were you?
- 3:48>> My our ref team was there. I was in I
- 3:49was in Jersey. I was trying to get
- 3:50everything cleared and do everything,
- 3:51talking to the last second, and then
- 3:53looking at how they deal with it. That's
- 3:54the kind of company I was dealing with.
- 3:56So, you got to understand
- 3:57>> That was That was I mean, that was
- 3:58uncomfortable. I have to say.
- 4:00>> Do you know about Dool? Have you ever
- 4:01seen the video?
- 4:02>> Honestly, no.
- 4:03>> They're very rude.
- 4:03>> posting stuff about your family. Like, I
- 4:05felt like a line was crossed there.
- 4:07>> They're not to go against Dool
- 4:09because I don't want to
- 4:10>> [laughter]
- 4:11>> They're going to do another [ __ ]
- 4:12campaign about me, but you If you go and
- 4:14watch the videos, a lot of people are
- 4:15watching probably seen the videos. They
- 4:16have like a Jewish guy gambling, doing
- 4:19blackjack in America. Nazi comes in. You
- 4:21never
- 4:21>> Okay.
- 4:21>> No, no. I've not.
- 4:22>> You'll see it.
- 4:23>> Okay. But, how do you feel when they're
- 4:24posting your mom?
- 4:26>> You know, they just show It made me feel
- 4:28better cuz it just shows what I was
- 4:29dealing with. You know what I mean? It
- 4:30just shows the [ __ ] show I was dealing
- 4:32with. And you could imagine I could tell
- 4:33you off the camera what the the contract
- 4:35was and to take the risk and for a show
- 4:37that was such a [ __ ] show.
- 4:39It just wasn't
- 4:40It it just didn't make sense, but I did
- 4:42try to make it happen. And I feel bad
- 4:43for Perry. Like, I thought he shouldn't
- 4:44have took that the fight for that pay
- 4:46cut. You know, I thought he should have
- 4:47just said, "No, you know, we'll run it
- 4:48back when he's he's better."
- 4:49>> 50%.
- 4:50>> I mean, it it does show my star power.
- 4:51It just shows what I brought. You know,
- 4:52they they they know what I bring. They
- 4:54know the ticket sales went down. A lot
- 4:56of people wanted the tickets back
- 4:57refunded.
- 4:58>> Took it off pay-per-view.
- 4:59>> Yeah. And uh
- 5:01I do feel bad for Perry.
- 5:03>> And when you saw him get hurt like that,
- 5:05did you think, "Man,
- 5:06I That could have been a W for me?" Or
- 5:09>> you see it like that, but you mean, you
- 5:10know, it's like the butterfly effect.
- 5:12You never know. Maybe he didn't throw
- 5:13that punch. He He was like throwing
- 5:15crazy punches. Maybe he would've been
- 5:16differently tactical with me. You never
- 5:18know. That could happen that like, you
- 5:19know,
- 5:20it's not like, "Okay, he would've popped
- 5:21his arm when he hits me." I I knew I was
- 5:23made him in the first round. You know,
- 5:24that arm was going out anyway. But, uh
- 5:26he lost to one of the worst fighters
- 5:27probably of all time. I That's I feel
- 5:28bad about They [ __ ] up his BKFC
- 5:30career. They fired him. He wants to go
- 5:32in MMA now. He just lost to [ __ ]
- 5:33Brandon Jenkins, who's literally I told
- 5:35you I could be sick hungover. I still
- 5:37beat him every day. Twice on Sundays.
- 5:38That kid's terrible. So, I feel bad for
- 5:40him in that sense. Should've been me
- 5:42that he lost to. At least he would've,
- 5:43you know, had some credibility getting
- 5:45tapped by me. But,
- 5:46you know, if I had the same thing, I
- 5:47would just be like, man, listen, you
- 5:49know, you know I want to be there. He
- 5:50thinks it was some kind of setup for him
- 5:51to fight that guy and be all the whole
- 5:53time I was like part of the whole
- 5:55>> weeks in advance this was all
- 5:56>> I just saw yesterday someone tagged me
- 5:57that he's going like on a drunk [ __ ]
- 5:59He was like on the interview like I had
- 6:01it and stuff. He's going through like a
- 6:02tough time.
- 6:03>> Oh, I didn't
- 6:03>> I'm losing. Yeah, yeah, someone tagged
- 6:04me
- 6:05>> to him just a couple days ago and and he
- 6:06said that like he doesn't have any sort
- 6:08of desire to fight you, but he's not
- 6:10>> Yeah.
- 6:11>> he's not like ruling out showing up
- 6:14>> Yeah.
- 6:14>> and just fighting you on the street.
- 6:16>> after that fight
- 6:18the winner was going to fight Nick Diaz.
- 6:20>> And Nick Diaz
- 6:21>> Nick.
- 6:21>> Nick.
- 6:21>> going to come to the ring.
- 6:23>> Oh, god.
- 6:23>> I'm
- 6:24I'm going to get in trouble for saying
- 6:25this. They're going to be like you
- 6:26>> I hope not. I mean, you said it, not me.
- 6:27>> No, not with Nick.
- 6:28>> Oh.
- 6:29>> Wait.
- 6:29>> With the No, with the company. I mean
- 6:31>> a [ __ ] I don't care. But yeah, so he
- 6:33was going to come in and fight the
- 6:34winner of me and Perry. So, he was like,
- 6:35why would I fight Dylan and I'm Nick
- 6:36Diaz this night? He goes, well, he if he
- 6:38beats the guy that beats your brother.
- 6:40>> Yeah.
- 6:40>> It makes sense. He goes, yeah, you're
- 6:41right. And he's like, I'll fight Dylan
- 6:43if he beats Perry. So, he was he was
- 6:44going to come in the ring. And that's
- 6:46the fight that was supposed to happen.
- 6:48>> Okay.
- 6:48>> Yeah, so but I mean
- 6:49>> Is that a dream fight for you?
- 6:51>> Yeah, I would maul him. I mean, it's
- 6:52kind of sad because I just saw a thing
- 6:54where he's like kicking and there's a
- 6:55guy doing You see that video? There's a
- 6:56guy doing
- 6:57>> No, but I don't feel like he should be
- 6:59fighting at this point. With all due
- 7:00respect, a legend of the game, but he
- 7:01hasn't fought in several years and
- 7:03>> He wants to. He wants to, man. And
- 7:05listen, I've been around Tony Ferguson
- 7:06you cannot tell that man he can't fight.
- 7:09You cannot He is so intense, you can't
- 7:12tell those guys no. I mean, Nate should
- 7:14be fighting me. He's got $5 million
- 7:16offers with clauses that if I pull out
- 7:17he still gets paid.
- 7:19If I'm such an easy fight
- 7:20>> This is Nate now.
- 7:21>> Yeah, this is Nate.
- 7:22>> Okay.
- 7:22>> This is multiple offers, multiple
- 7:24offers. Fight like millions of dollars
- 7:26with clauses saying if I pull out for
- 7:28any reason you still get paid. If Nate
- 7:29says, oh, I only want big money fights,
- 7:31I only want this, I'm worried about the
- 7:32money, I only care about this. If I'm so
- 7:34bad, you talk all this [ __ ] about me
- 7:36who take that easy money? You know what
- 7:38I mean? That'd be like, hey, you want to
- 7:39go down the street for $5 million bucks
- 7:40to go
- 7:41>> Who's it from?
- 7:42>> I
- 7:43>> saying too much lot so I'm yeah, but he
- 7:45knows there's offers and I can have
- 7:46people confirm with you outside sources
- 7:48so you can say it's confirmed. So, I
- 7:50don't want to I don't know if they want
- 7:51me to tell it, but
- 7:52>> Do you want to run it back with Perry or
- 7:54are you moving on?
- 7:55>> one for me.
- 7:56>> Have you talked to MVP about fighting
- 7:57for them?
- 7:58>> No, but you know so crazy. I could show
- 8:00you my phone. I got offered from Amazon
- 8:03to be on that Logan and Jake Paul show.
- 8:05>> Oh, as a contestant?
- 8:07>> Yeah,
- 8:07>> [laughter]
- 8:08>> that I don't I don't know if the woman
- 8:09knows that me and Logan are in the
- 8:10lawsuit.
- 8:11>> Yeah.
- 8:11>> I I could show you the Did you hear
- 8:12>> Where does that stand?
- 8:14>> I'm still in I'm still Bro, 3 and 1/2
- 8:16years this kid's trying to [ __ ]
- 8:17bankrupt me.
- 8:18>> Is there an end in sight?
- 8:20>> I don't know, man. It's [ __ ] brutal.
- 8:22>> Like where is it Like where is it in the
- 8:23process?
- 8:24>> We're still We haven't got the trial
- 8:25yet.
- 8:26>> Golly.
- 8:26>> It is the worst fight.
- 8:28>> How much have you spent on this?
- 8:29>> I would say over 500k, maybe more.
- 8:31>> Really?
- 8:32>> He So, this is what people do. I mean,
- 8:34obviously he's you know, probably closer
- 8:36to billionaire than but you know, the
- 8:37things he has are
- 8:38500 million.
- 8:39>> Sure.
- 8:40>> You I mean, I'm sure you know.
- 8:41>> I I have no idea. What do you mean by
- 8:42that? What do you mean by
- 8:43>> Jewish guys, you know, the lawyers. You
- 8:44know, you guys
- 8:45>> We're doing so well. We're doing so
- 8:47great.
- 8:47>> Yeah, Jewish guys are good with numbers.
- 8:49>> We literally went 10 minutes without any
- 8:51sort of insulting statement and
- 8:52>> I'm not insulting saying Jewish
- 8:53>> You think I'm counting Logan's money?
- 8:55>> No, I'm saying How do you think I Jewish
- 8:56guys are good with money.
- 8:57>> Yeah,
- 8:58he's not.
- 8:59>> I'm not good with money.
- 9:00And so,
- 9:01it's just a compliment. Yeah, but he's
- 9:02not Jewish. No, yeah, but it's a
- 9:04compliment. When the guy has more money
- 9:05than you, they just try to drag it.
- 9:06>> Yeah.
- 9:07>> Listen, if I did anything wrong, if they
- 9:09had anything on me, this would have been
- 9:11over
- 9:11>> Sure.
- 9:12>> month or year. Why would we go on this
- 9:14long?
- 9:15Cuz they can't find nothing. And they
- 9:16don't want to lose. They don't want to
- 9:17look stupid. Logan doesn't want to lose.
- 9:18Nina doesn't want to lose. So, they're
- 9:20just trying to say, "Okay, he's going to
- 9:22keep spending millions and millions of
- 9:23dollars. We have more millions than
- 9:24him." Probably, I would imagine. I mean,
- 9:26Logan Paul probably has a lot of money.
- 9:27He's on YouTube, all this [ __ ] He's
- 9:28like Mr. Beast all
- 9:30We just keep pushing him until he
- 9:31[ __ ] you know what I mean? He'll
- 9:32regret it.
- 9:34You know, I don't apologize for nothing
- 9:36cuz I know I did nothing wrong. I just
- 9:37put what was out there already out
- 9:38there.
- 9:39>> Well, like in retrospect now, the juice
- 9:41wasn't worth the squeeze, right? I mean,
- 9:42like obviously.
- 9:44>> You know, I you know, I live and learn
- 9:45from the trail so you know, you never
- 9:46say sorry, but
- 9:47>> I'm not saying you say sorry, but like
- 9:48is there any part
- 9:49>> to be in a lawsuit? No.
- 9:50>> Yeah.
- 9:50>> You know what I mean? Obviously not.
- 9:51This is [ __ ] hell.
- 9:53>> Right.
- 9:53>> Dude, depositions are 8 hours with
- 9:55[ __ ] lawyers that are screaming at
- 9:56you, intimidating you.
- 9:58>> I could speak of the depositions. The
- 10:00guy was like
- 10:01>> Like just literally just like oh, like
- 10:03who's your favorite fighter? I'm like a
- 10:04fighter body or something like that. He
- 10:06was like, "You think you're like him?
- 10:07Well, in that in that ring you didn't
- 10:08look like him."
- 10:09>> Oh.
- 10:09>> They they they like
- 10:11>> Yeah, they they like that's their thing.
- 10:12They try to get you to get emotional.
- 10:14>> Okay.
- 10:14>> So, I had to do 8 hours with these guys
- 10:16and probably multiple times. Still
- 10:18rather do another one than the trial.
- 10:20And it's just going to be, you know, so
- 10:22it yeah, I mean, obviously it's it's
- 10:24worst thing ever. You know, I'd rather
- 10:25[ __ ] fight [ __ ] Francis Ngannou
- 10:27than be in this court case. Swear to
- 10:28god. But uh Logan knows he's pissing me
- 10:30off and that's the way he you know, he
- 10:32does it, but you know, at the end of the
- 10:33day I'm staying strong and I know I'm
- 10:34not wrong. If I thought I was wrong, I
- 10:36would have just like been like
- 10:39you know, like I don't know. I just
- 10:41it's [ __ ]
- 10:42>> Well, next up for you is Arman Arman
- 10:44Tsarukyan on Friday night. Uh couldn't
- 10:46help but notice you came in here with a
- 10:47few uh large individuals, some security
- 10:50guards.
- 10:50>> Security is not for me. Security is for
- 10:51other people.
- 10:52>> Okay.
- 10:52>> And the groupies. We have a lot of girls
- 10:54out here that are just trying to run at
- 10:55me and attack me. But um but also Arman
- 10:58and Khamzat they have three other
- 11:00teammates so they they have at least 40
- 11:01guys each and this is the way they rule.
- 11:04They're they're kind of Dagestani
- 11:05Chechens. I mean, I know Arman's not um
- 11:08you know, from there but he's from
- 11:09Russia. They don't come It's not like
- 11:11Arman just comes up to me. They come
- 11:12with 40 guys. Like literally 40, 50
- 11:14guys.
- 11:15>> Do you think something's going to happen
- 11:16before?
- 11:18>> The thing is I think
- 11:20they're on visas and and you know, Las
- 11:23Vegas is very strict in the casinos. I
- 11:24don't know how stupid they are. I mean,
- 11:25they are inbred, but
- 11:28I don't know. I mean, [clears throat]
- 11:29listen, they want to lose their visas.
- 11:30>> Has anyone tried?
- 11:32>> The kid that went to the hospital last
- 11:33time with 22 stitches, we walked by him,
- 11:35he put his head down, got on his knee,
- 11:37and bowed to me.
- 11:37>> No, he didn't.
- 11:38>> Yes, he did. Yeah, and he said, "I'm
- 11:39sorry, king."
- 11:40>> Really? Stitches?
- 11:41>> 22. You can
- 11:43>> In the In the whole brawl?
- 11:4522 stitches?
- 11:46>> smashed
- 11:47>> Have you seen Hamzat?
- 11:48>> No.
- 11:49>> Have you seen Arman?
- 11:50>> No.
- 11:51>> Have you seen other members of the team?
- 11:53>> Just that kid, yeah.
- 11:53>> Just that one guy?
- 11:54>> Uh probably have. I mean, they're all
- 11:56scared. What are they going to do? But
- 11:57when they're These guys, bro, they're
- 11:59not like us.
- 12:00They're They're
- 12:01>> When you say us, what are you talking
- 12:02about? Are you saying
- 12:04>> No, no. I mean, like I would say like
- 12:05from like you know, I come from the
- 12:06school of Conor McGregor. So, like
- 12:08>> Okay.
- 12:08>> They're not like us. Like
- 12:10You know, if I see someone, and I don't
- 12:11care how many people I'm with, I'll say
- 12:12something. But when these guys are
- 12:13alone, even if it's Hamzat, I know every
- 12:16time I see Hamzat, he has four guys
- 12:18surrounding me.
- 12:19>> Mhm.
- 12:19>> Literally surrounding me trying to
- 12:21circle me.
- 12:22Arman's the same. Arman, he comes in,
- 12:23and he has at least 10 guys trying to
- 12:25stare you down and intimidate you.
- 12:27If they're by themselves,
- 12:29they they put their head down and walk
- 12:30the other way. I This is the same thing
- 12:32with Ali. Ali talks all this [ __ ] and
- 12:34whenever he's with someone, he [ __ ]
- 12:35throws on this big [ __ ] thing. I seen
- 12:38him in New York City at clubs. He's
- 12:39Muslim, he doesn't drink or do anything.
- 12:41Why is he in a club? That's haram.
- 12:43Anyway, I run into him, he [ __ ]
- 12:45literally runs. He runs. And he just
- 12:48goes to like wherever if he has like
- 12:49people there, then it doesn't matter.
- 12:51These guys when they're by themselves
- 12:52are totally different people. And you
- 12:54see it with them. Why they bring 40 guys
- 12:56with them?
- 12:57I'm here by myself. I have one guy with
- 12:58me, me and my little brother.
- 12:59>> Yeah, how many people How how many
- 13:00people in your entourage?
- 13:02>> That's it.
- 13:02>> Yeah.
- 13:03>> You don't feel like you need more after
- 13:04what happened a few months ago?
- 13:06>> They didn't do anything to me. I've been
- 13:06attacked by 30 [ __ ] Dagestanis. Like
- 13:09There's a There's a reason that they got
- 13:10them cross-sniff. 30 30 of them, one
- 13:13who's a [ __ ] world champion
- 13:14kickboxer, another one who was a PFL
- 13:16heavyweight champion, couldn't knock me
- 13:18unconscious. Stomping on my head,
- 13:19punching me in the head,
- 13:21punching me in the back of the head that
- 13:22can kill people. But people
- 13:24They have a guy with them that's Russian
- 13:25a boxer they bring to the fights. I
- 13:27don't know if you know who this guy is.
- 13:28He's in a wheelchair cuz he got punched
- 13:30one time in the back
- 13:31>> of course. Yes, yes, yes.
- 13:32>> That's that that's a religion of peace.
- 13:34Punching someone in the back of the head
- 13:35multiple times when you're a
- 13:36professional fighter when I'm being held
- 13:38by other guys.
- 13:39>> What does that stand by the way? Cuz I
- 13:40remember then mayor of Yeah, yeah.
- 13:43Lawsuit. You're suing them?
- 13:45>> I Thing is I just I don't know how much
- 13:47I can go into detail and
- 13:50there's a lot of moving parts with it
- 13:52because you know
- 13:53there's a lot of big
- 13:55um you know, there's a lot of big
- 13:56entities people
- 13:58>> Are you allowed to go to MSG?
- 14:00>> Yeah.
- 14:00>> But not UFC?
- 14:04But not not not UFC.
- 14:06>> Don's uh main security guard got punched
- 14:08in the face.
- 14:08>> Wow.
- 14:09>> Yeah.
- 14:09>> But not UFC still?
- 14:10>> UFC now.
- 14:12Which is [ __ ] you know, I didn't
- 14:13get to go to Conor's fight. It's
- 14:14[ __ ]
- 14:15>> Double standard?
- 14:16>> 100% cuz the guy that One of the guys
- 14:18that punched me was the guy that jumped
- 14:19over the cage and punched Conor in the
- 14:20back of the head.
- 14:20>> Oh.
- 14:21>> That's
- 14:21What does that make sense? Abubakar's
- 14:23been in in the cage and fought.
- 14:25Bro,
- 14:26I did nothing wrong. Dana White threw
- 14:27that whole thing on me because I was the
- 14:29scapegoat.
- 14:30>> Mhm.
- 14:30>> Literally because they make so much
- 14:32money with the Muslim community and the
- 14:34uh Saudi Arabia and Dubai. It was way
- 14:37easier to just ban me than [ __ ] with
- 14:40Islam and Khabib. You know, they have a
- 14:42lot of power and they have a lot of
- 14:43power in certain things that I I think
- 14:45you know about. But it's such a double
- 14:47standard. It's so [ __ ] up. I did
- 14:48nothing wrong. I wasn't moving around my
- 14:50seats. That is the biggest lie that Dana
- 14:51has ever said. I wish I could I could
- 14:53[ __ ] tell I wish he would just tell
- 14:54the truth. It's like the footage they
- 14:55had they had the footage from MSG. I can
- 14:57tell you the full exact story what
- 14:59happened. Like literally exactly what
- 15:01happened.
- 15:01>> just there and they
- 15:02>> So no, what happened was we were my my
- 15:04seat was right next to the fighters
- 15:05section.
- 15:05>> Mhm.
- 15:06>> Prayer told me to go over. That's when
- 15:07they said I was moving seats. Prayer
- 15:09told me to come over and hang out with
- 15:10him and play Neo. I hung out with him
- 15:11for like We took a picture, whatever,
- 15:13cool. We were just hanging out. GSP
- 15:15wanted to talk to me. I talked to GSP.
- 15:16Came out. I was out there. Prayer said I
- 15:19was fine. The guy that There's a guy in
- 15:21that the a rope for the UFC. He said
- 15:23you're fine. So you come in. Not moving
- 15:25seats.
- 15:26He just told me to come through. The
- 15:27guys let me in. UFC security let me in
- 15:29there.
- 15:30I come out and Bo Nickal's fighting
- 15:33Rodolfo Vieira. And Rodolfo Vieira is a
- 15:35jiu-jitsu guy I know my whole life. And
- 15:37he was having a little bit trouble that
- 15:38week with his mind. He was like talking
- 15:40to me because he's like, "You're so
- 15:40confident. How do you do it?"
- 15:42Not to like throw him under the bus or
- 15:43anything, you know. He was just like
- 15:44having a tough time because he's been on
- 15:46a you know, rough skid.
- 15:47And he was We're just talking. So like I
- 15:48care about him. He's one of my closest
- 15:49friends.
- 15:50So, when I came back out So,
- 15:54when I came back out, my seat
- 15:55the corners here and my seats are here.
- 15:58Right? And the fight was going on. So
- 15:59the security guard said, "Can you wait
- 16:02until the round's over to go back to
- 16:04your seat so you don't block the sight?"
- 16:05So I was literally five seats away from
- 16:07my seat. You know what I'm saying? So
- 16:08like you know in the in the fight the
- 16:10security is like, "Yo, just don't walk
- 16:11because the round's over." So he's like,
- 16:13"Yeah." So he's like, "Just sit right
- 16:14next to me." So I said, "Okay." So then
- 16:17Rodolfo gets knocked out. And a bad
- 16:19knockout. [clears throat] It was a
- 16:19really bad knockout. He's unconscious
- 16:21like literally in front of me and he
- 16:22won't get up for like I don't know. It
- 16:23was like 30 seconds. And so I had my
- 16:25head down like this. And I was like,
- 16:26"Fuck." Like I was like sad. Then I get
- 16:29a text from my brother saying, "Umar and
- 16:31Usman are on WhatsApp texting and
- 16:33pointing at you."
- 16:34So at this point
- 16:35>> How did he know?
- 16:36>> He's because they were sitting in the
- 16:37fighter section and my seat was right
- 16:39there behind me. So he's he's he knows
- 16:41you know, and he's been part of the
- 16:42brawls with me. So he saw it and he's
- 16:44like, "Yo, be careful. They're
- 16:44pointing." And and then they got up. So
- 16:47him and my other friend jump over cuz he
- 16:49see that they could start a So I you
- 16:51know, circle in the little like
- 16:52gathering. You know what I mean?
- 16:54And I was So I look up and I see it. So
- 16:56now they're making like a big circle of
- 16:59like the the Muslim guys. You know what
- 17:00I mean? And then we look around and they
- 17:03have them coming from the up top and
- 17:05they're blocking the exits. So now we're
- 17:07we're we're literally blocked in.
- 17:09So we go to the corner.
- 17:12And because obviously in the UFC is
- 17:14I don't want to start trouble. I want to
- 17:15be in the UFC. Yeah. I'm not Stephen. I
- 17:17know what's going to happen. You know
- 17:18what I mean? So, I go There's two cops
- 17:21there. There's two UFC guys, and there's
- 17:24two security. And I said, "Listen, these
- 17:25guys are surrounding me right now. This
- 17:27is who they are." They have a beep for
- 17:28them. They said, "We see it. We can see
- 17:30We're literally looking. They're
- 17:31blocking all the exits. Stay here. We're
- 17:33calling for backup." So, okay. And then
- 17:35the cops are like being like kind of
- 17:37like idiots. They're just like I don't
- 17:38know. NYPD is a
- 17:40They're getting They're getting it right
- 17:41now.
- 17:42They're just idiots. So, anyway, we're
- 17:43I'm We're telling them and then my
- 17:45friend's a cop. So, he shows a badge. He
- 17:46goes, "I'm telling you right now, get
- 17:47back up,
- 17:48cuz it's about to go down." And now it's
- 17:50getting like
- 17:51a lot of guys. And I'm like, "It's going
- 17:53to go down." They're like, "Whatever.
- 17:54Like, stay here. We see you. Then just
- 17:56stay over here." And then all of a
- 17:57sudden they just popped up
- 17:59I did nothing wrong. I didn't even talk
- 18:01to them. Whatever. I didn't How How
- 18:03badly did you get hurt?
- 18:05I mean, I don't want to give them the
- 18:06satisfaction, you know what I mean? I
- 18:07could tell you I mean, listen, they were
- 18:09stomping fully on my face when like
- 18:12literally like full on stomps to on
- 18:14concrete to my face. Punches.
- 18:16Back of the head shots. There's a lot of
- 18:17shots that you don't see. I mean, I took
- 18:19one down. I took Abubakar down. I had
- 18:21him on the ground. He's trying to arm
- 18:22bar me. And I'm like, "Bro, you can't
- 18:23arm bar me if I was [ __ ]
- 18:24unconscious." So, I'm like trying to hit
- 18:25him, but someone's grabbing me, pulling
- 18:27me. I'm being pulled in so many
- 18:28different ways, getting punched.
- 18:30Heavyweights. Heavyweight PFL champions
- 18:31punching me in the head. I didn't go
- 18:33unconscious. So, then I was like, "You
- 18:35know what? I think it's better I go to
- 18:36my back." Cuz then cuz there was a
- 18:38barrier, so I pulled guard. I had my
- 18:40head covered. I was upkicking everybody.
- 18:42I upkicked like four of them. I think I
- 18:43upkicked the Did you have like crazy
- 18:44shoes? Yeah.
- 18:45>> [laughter]
- 18:45>> And you also you saw the rings flying.
- 18:47The uh The shoes made for I don't want
- 18:49to say funny visual, but it was like
- 18:51somewhat comical. I thought they were
- 18:52going to go viral for a different
- 18:53reason. Yes. Arman Arman and and Khamzat
- 18:56aren't a part of that team. Everyone's
- 18:57cool, but are you Are you expecting
- 18:59something tomorrow?
- 19:01>> [cough]
- 19:01>> Yes. You are.
- 19:03I mean,
- 19:05you know, every time I don't expect
- 19:07something, I I would say it's better to
- 19:09expect something than not to expect
- 19:11something. You know, it gets So, they
- 19:12said that you tried
- 19:12>> to you tried to choke Hamzat.
- 19:14>> I was just using a wrestling move and he
- 19:15went unconscious. I don't know what
- 19:17they're even talking about. This is
- 19:18insane.
- 19:18>> Are you going to try to do something
- 19:19like that with Arman? Arman Arman is
- 19:22he will say it himself, he's a hothead.
- 19:24>> Yeah, he's saying he's going to choke me
- 19:25out. Now, he's doing the same thing. I'm
- 19:26going to hit him with elbows and all
- 19:27this [ __ ] He's like 2 ft tall.
- 19:30He Listen,
- 19:32he's he's not going to do anything to
- 19:33me. The only thing he has is his
- 19:34takedowns. He's If he wants to go into
- 19:36his scrambles and submissions, he's
- 19:37[ __ ] He pulled out of the grappling
- 19:38match that was announced on his page.
- 19:40You know You know he announced it. He
- 19:41pulled out of that grappling match and
- 19:43he was going to go on about me pulling
- 19:44out.
- 19:45>> Why did he pull
- 19:45>> He will tell you different reasons. I
- 19:46think UFC didn't want him to lose to me,
- 19:47get hurt. Cuz you know, when you fight
- 19:49me with my leg locks, I can tear your
- 19:51knee apart and you'll be done for your
- 19:52whole career. Or they don't want their
- 19:54star losing to the guy that just banned
- 19:55him, like you know, they can never I
- 19:57mean,
- 19:57>> They're allowing this?
- 19:59>> Yeah, well, this is wrestling.
- 19:59>> Right.
- 20:00>> Getting submitted is a different thing.
- 20:01That's why these guys don't do it. You
- 20:03know what I mean?
- 20:04Think about this. All these guys want to
- 20:05wrestle me. They don't want to grapple
- 20:06me. Do you think Hamzat wants to grapple
- 20:08me? No. Does Arman want to grapple me?
- 20:10No. Does Colby? Wait.
- 20:11We'll see if he's there on the day.
- 20:13Um
- 20:13>> Yeah, that's coming up, right?
- 20:15>> Yeah, apparently.
- 20:15>> Okay. You don't think it happens?
- 20:17>> No. Dude, no one wants to grapple me. No
- 20:19one wants to fight me in MMA. There's
- 20:20only three big names outside the UFC.
- 20:22It's Nate Diaz, Perry, Nick.
- 20:26Like
- 20:26>> Perry was going to fight you.
- 20:27>> Yeah, well, yeah. I mean, I
- 20:29I apologize for that. That was the end
- 20:30of the thing.
- 20:31>> is now available. He's your weight
- 20:32class.
- 20:33>> Yeah, MVP, but MVP is like not exciting.
- 20:36I mean, he just got cut from the UFC on
- 20:37some win streak. Like, he just keeps you
- 20:39>> Technically not cut. Didn't offer him a
- 20:41new contract.
- 20:42>> Which is correct. If you're on a seven
- 20:43win Like, they didn't say that.
- 20:44>> But his contract was over.
- 20:45>> If you're on a seven win streak and you
- 20:46get cut, it's for a reason. No one wants
- 20:47to watch you fight through it.
- 20:49Like, you know what I mean? Like, I
- 20:50don't know. I mean, it could happen. Me
- 20:52and MVP That could happen.
- 20:53>> Have you talked to Coker?
- 20:54>> Uh no, but he only has one weight class
- 20:56right now.
- 20:57>> No, no, one weight class for the
- 20:58tournament, but he has he's going to
- 20:59have like super fights.
- 21:00>> No, I have not talked to Coker. I mean,
- 21:01me and him have always had a good
- 21:02relationship, but um
- 21:04You know, the media, you guys always say
- 21:05that Oh, he's going to make it. He's
- 21:07going to pull out." Bro, Islam pulled
- 21:09out I just saw 12 fights in his UFC
- 21:10career. Khamzat has pulled out of over
- 21:1310, I think. And then Arman pulled out
- 21:15the day of the Islam fight. Like
- 21:17everybody I pulled out once against KSI
- 21:19and it just became this huge thing that
- 21:20he's not going to show up. It's one huge
- 21:22thing. And it's like there's so many
- 21:24guys that have so many pull outs that no
- 21:25one even talks
- 21:25>> Carrying one now didn't help.
- 21:27>> It did not help, but listen,
- 21:28I have the
- 21:29Do you think I want to post my arm like
- 21:30that?
- 21:31Do you think that was AI? Do you think
- 21:33my family would fly there if I wasn't
- 21:34going to show up? Do you want to tell
- 21:36them, "Hey guys, I'm not going to this
- 21:37fight. Like I'm I'm pulling out." No,
- 21:38we'll just go take a vacation in Orlando
- 21:39and and all the guys from AREF is going
- 21:41to take a vacation. No. And and I had a
- 21:43lot of people my friends that spent
- 21:45money to go there and bought tickets.
- 21:47So,
- 21:48things happen in the fight game. It's
- 21:49just because it's me, it's like, "Oh,
- 21:51he's he's faking it." You know, people
- 21:52love to talk [ __ ] about me. It is what
- 21:53it is, but it's a stupid narrative. You
- 21:56know, I've been at every single AREF.
- 21:58I'm the only one that fights everybody,
- 21:59makes any weight. How many guys I fought
- 22:01Logan at two 20 or whatever. I fought
- 22:03170. I fought Mischa at 180. I'm putting
- 22:06Arman at 175.
- 22:08Like how much more can I do to prove to
- 22:09people that I'm [ __ ] willing to do
- 22:11any sport, any place, any weight,
- 22:13anything. It's all [ __ ] man. I
- 22:14mean,
- 22:15I [ __ ] do everything. You guys The
- 22:17guys at AREF, I do the media, I do every
- 22:19single thing perfectly. I do I'm I do
- 22:21I'm the whole package, you know. I
- 22:23You know, it's
- 22:24it is what it is. I don't I mean I'm
- 22:25getting more cuz the media yesterday is
- 22:27like, "Do you feel like you're not
- 22:28getting deserved the
- 22:29respect you deserve?" But, it is what it
- 22:32is, you know.
- 22:32>> What happens tomorrow?
- 22:34How does it play out? The actual match?
- 22:36>> I think that he is not ready for the
- 22:38scrambles. He even when he fights in
- 22:40MMA, he is not good at scrambling. I
- 22:42feel like he is a rich kid that has
- 22:43gotten into the sport and he didn't come
- 22:46from
- 22:47I've been doing this since I was 15
- 22:48every single day, twice a day, missing
- 22:50school, you know, nothing else, you
- 22:52know. I said you can have your daddy's
- 22:53money, but I got an empty stomach. So,
- 22:56I just think that there's going to be
- 22:57certain scrambles that he's not going to
- 22:59be able to
- 23:00figure out and he's going to get caught
- 23:01in a weird position. and I'm going to
- 23:02pin.
- 23:03I'm telling you.
- 23:04>> Is Conor going to be there?
- 23:05>> No, I don't think so, but I'm going to
- 23:06probably go visit him after this. He's
- 23:07in LA, so yeah. I was supposed to visit
- 23:09him before, but then I had this so I had
- 23:11this camp. But uh he's in LA. I mean,
- 23:13you never know with him, to be honest.
- 23:14He just shows up weird places sometimes.
- 23:16You know how he [clears throat] is. But
- 23:18I mean, I've been talking to him. He's
- 23:18been giving me great advice, you know.
- 23:19And he's like, "Man, you're doing all
- 23:21these sports." He's like, he calls me
- 23:22the real BMF.
- 23:23>> Okay.
- 23:23>> So uh
- 23:24yeah.
- 23:24>> By the way, press conference coming up.
- 23:26This is going to obviously come out
- 23:27before, but can you give us a preview?
- 23:29Like, what do you have in store?
- 23:31>> [laughter]
- 23:32>> Uh I could show you, but yeah, it's
- 23:34going to be
- 23:35>> stuff?
- 23:36>> Yeah. It's going to be
- 23:38>> Are you going to try to get under her
- 23:39skin?
- 23:40>> Listen, I you know, I learn
- 23:43I I react I I
- 23:46I am who I am. I'm not a character. I
- 23:47don't go in with these like
- 23:48pre-assumptions. I don't go practice
- 23:50lines. Like, I didn't I didn't like,
- 23:51"Oh, what am I going to say?" You kind
- 23:53of know how I am. I'm off the hip. And
- 23:54sometimes it gets me in trouble. And you
- 23:56know, me and you have gotten into fights
- 23:57about it. And that's the thing.
- 23:58Actually, they're like, "Do you feel
- 23:59like Like, you know, watching even
- 24:01Ariel. Like, there's a lot of guys that
- 24:02are very PR trained. They say like
- 24:04certain things and then like this and
- 24:05that. I just say what I feel. So I mean,
- 24:07you know, he could be respectful. I
- 24:08could be respectful. Like with Colby, he
- 24:10we're being respectful then he just
- 24:11switched and then I switched. So like,
- 24:13sometimes it just goes by my mood. I
- 24:14just say how I feel. So I wouldn't say I
- 24:16have anything like I'm going to get
- 24:18under his skin. I probably will, you
- 24:19know. I mean, I am who I am. We're both
- 24:20I know he's going to be talking [ __ ] I
- 24:22saw his interview. He's already talking
- 24:23[ __ ] He's crossing out my face on the
- 24:24posters. But he doesn't know I was
- 24:25drawing dicks on his face, so.
- 24:27>> Okay.
- 24:27>> He doesn't know about that.
- 24:29But
- 24:29yeah, I mean
- 24:31Arman's going to be there and then
- 24:32Hamza's going to be right there and then
- 24:33you know, it's going to be I think it's
- 24:35going to be really good. Thing about
- 24:37Arman though, he's very um
- 24:39he's very good at just waiting and then
- 24:42having like a little stupid comeback.
- 24:44Like, if you ever watch him, he'll wait
- 24:45for someone to say something. He'll be
- 24:46like, "Oh, like I don't know." He'll say
- 24:48something stupid. He'll be like,
- 24:49"You suck." And but the way he says it
- 24:51is like funny. And then everyone like
- 24:52laughs. So it's like he has like a weird
- 24:54way of doing a press conference. But uh
- 24:56so I had to adapt to that. You know,
- 24:57I've been doing so many of them, good at
- 24:59it. But, uh with him he just reacts and
- 25:01says one word and people laugh, so.
- 25:03But, uh I'm definitely going to get
- 25:04under his skin. I think I say he tries
- 25:06to headbutt me. I think I think he will.
- 25:08I would So, that's the reason with these
- 25:10guys, like him and Hamza, I keep my
- 25:11hands up. I learned my lesson with
- 25:13[ __ ] KSI. Even though I had my hands
- 25:14up, they [ __ ] tricked me on that one
- 25:16with the pancake. It is what it is. His
- 25:18[ __ ] team tricked me. You know, they
- 25:20said that they were going to pat us
- 25:21down, make sure nothing on us. And his
- 25:23[ __ ] security guard who was supposed
- 25:24to be [ __ ] on our side and saying
- 25:26that nothing We're all getting checked.
- 25:28Slipped the pocket pancake in his
- 25:29pocket. And he's [ __ ] So, I was like,
- 25:31"They [ __ ] What in life?" Well, cuz
- 25:32he runs the Misfits boxing. You know,
- 25:34whatever. But, you know, I keep my hands
- 25:36up, make sure I'm ready. And then what
- 25:38if Hamza and them storm the stage? I
- 25:39don't know. I mean, it's They're going
- 25:40to get knocked out. So.
- 25:42>> All right. Well, let's see. Stay safe.
- 25:44>> I will.
- 25:44>> Good luck. I'm looking forward to Of
- 25:45course. I wouldn't miss it for the
- 25:46world.
- 25:47>> I was actually It's funny. This morning
- 25:49I was recommending that you Here it
- 25:50comes. You No, you
- 25:51>> Oh, I do I thought you were you were
- 25:53going to hit me with a zinger. Yeah. Uh
- 25:55no, they have chill.
- 25:56>> No, oh, is it chill?
- 25:57>> I think chill.
- 25:58>> Oh, I don't know. Usually just chill and
- 26:00Izzy. I was saying like
- 26:01>> Oh, for the presser?
- 26:02>> Yeah, you're the best at asking a
- 26:03>> I appreciate that. I I'm staying away
- 26:04from this one. I'm just an observer.
- 26:05>> No, we should do too. I was thinking I
- 26:06was going to tell them we should do like
- 26:08what they do like a Misfits like a
- 26:09face-to-face. Yeah, face-to-face.
- 26:10>> Yeah, let's do it.
- 26:11>> I will I don't
- 26:12>> With you and Armen?
- 26:13>> Yeah.
- 26:13>> [ __ ] yeah.
- 26:14>> Only security, make sure you check our
- 26:15pockets and and I'm down for it.
- 26:17>> All right. Let's work on that.
- 26:18>> Everything is I'm [ __ ] scared. What
- 26:20else we going to do? I'm down.
- 26:21>> Okay.
- 26:21>> 100% I'll be down. Get a circle table,
- 26:23me and you and you're in the middle. I
- 26:24think we do three numbers.
- 26:25>> I think so as well. And I wish you would
- 26:27have said this maybe a couple days ago.
- 26:29>> Listen, I had [ __ ] I I mean, I call
- 26:30the shots here. I'm one of the owners,
- 26:32but you know.
- 26:32>> All right.
- 26:33>> I can't [clears throat] be doing all
- 26:34this [ __ ] I got I'm the one that does
- 26:35all the media and sells all this stuff,
- 26:36so.
- 26:38>> All right. Well, thank you and good luck
- 26:40and stay safe. It's great to see you.
- 26:42See, this was nice. Dillon Danis,
- 26:43everyone. RAF 14. And I'm looking
- 26:46forward to it. He's going to say
- 26:47something, but we're going to blow right
- 26:48by that because it's so great to see
- 26:50between you and he's going up against
- 26:52Armatsuruki and I hope it stays safe and
- 26:54professional and there are no fights.
- 26:56We'll find out tomorrow night.
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