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>> Why are you following me?
Well, since you are, we're at Sanford MMA.
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I'm here to kick it with Mike Chandler.
We gonna hang out all day.
>> Here's my underwear.
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>> We're gonna have a good time.
You gonna enjoy it.
Come on.
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>> So I got Din here too,
so he's helping out a little bit today.
He's in here.
Everybody knows who he is.
He knows what he's doing.
So when he comes to you
and give you a little bit of advice,
especially the young guys,
yeah, don't be an [bleep].
Show him how we all take care of each other here.
Okay, when Din is here, He helps out a little bit.
It's cool, okay?
Okay, switch!
The other guy moves, the other guy take down.
Let's go.
>> What's happening? >> I'm gonna be an [bleep].
>> You're gonna be a--
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You know, something he does that I really can appreciate,
is he's almost got like a delayed punch sometimes.
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It's almost like boom.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Jon: Lands to the body.
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>> Jon: And look at the immediate-- oh!
Big left from Michael Chandler!
>> Paul: Big right hand!
Dan's hurt bad!
>> Jon: Hooker is covering up!
>> DC: It's over!
>> Jon: Michael Chandler
maximizes the debut and sticks the landing!
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>> Din: Your stance is great.
And that's why I can see you get a lot of power.
Because your shoulders are here, so you're bladed
so they don't have a target,
but your arms are here.
So now you can be like and you had it--
You had that delayed end.
>> Michael: Well that's--
All of our stuff we do here is so basic.
It's all just like very intentional
with a very, very specific basicness.
So I think that helps me.
It helps me focus.
I only got about 3-4 punches
and then most of the work.
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>> Do you mind if I show them something?
>> You? >> Yeah.
>> You wanna show them something?
>> Sure.
Gentlemen, whenever I go somewhere,
I always like to give back and just share
what I know from the years that I've been doing this.
So what I'm going to talk about now
is some ground and pound stuff
because I think a lot of people go
okay, we're striking, and then when we get
to the ground, now we're doing jiu-jitsu.
But the reality is,
is that once you get to the ground,
that's just a form of better opportunity
for you to strike.
Because at the end of the day, like this whole game
is about doing-- it's about [bleep] people up.
So the whole idea is if we get somebody down,
we want to [bleep] him up.
So that's the key.
I need to start beating him up.
I'm gonna pin him down at his tricep,
grabbing the wrist here.
Put it in his hip.
Now he's only got one hand to block with.
Boom, boom.
Work it, gentlemen.
Have some fun.
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So, let me show you something.
You see how he's holding your head down.
An easier way to get the grip that you want
when he's holding your head down,
is your head like this.
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Yeah, so just peel it.
Just peel it off.
>> I like that.
That's a straight-up wrestling move right there.
Grab the wrist and grab the freaking elbow pad.
>> Yeah, same thing, same exact thing.
>> Hard work on 3.
Hard work on 3. 1-2-3!
>> All: Hard work!
>> Thank you, man. >> Yeah, man, not a problem.
You think about like guys who come from
different organizations,
and they're expected to do something.
Most of them fail.
Their career just kind of fizzles out.
I mean, not only did you beat a guy
who you weren't supposed to beat,
I mean you did it in one punch.
>> It was a statement,
having my debut in the UFC,
the majority of the people doubting me.
You know, he's the b league fighter.
He's the outsider.
He's the dark horse.
So to go out there and finish him like that
was-- it was definitely the highlight of my career.
You know, you got Dana talking about
it being like the best debut of all time.
>> I mean, it might have been.
>> The bonus and then subsequent call
couple weeks later.
Hey, you're fighting for the title was like.
>> What's that like?
When you get a feeling like
that call comes thought and you're like.
>> I had no idea.
Khabib was about to retire.
Then all sudden Hunter Campbell calls you.
Says, hey what're you doing.
Fighting Oliveira for the vacant title.
I said, say no more. Send the contract.
>> Your ultimate goal, maybe at the end,
was to get in the UFC to prove that you were
the best lightweight, 'cause they're always--
they're always to look at the UFC champion
as the best in the world.
>> 100%.
If you don't-- if you think that's not the truth,
you're lying to yourself, you know.
Every other fight organization in the world
just doesn't really have to do much.
They just have to put on shows
as the UFC continues to build the industry.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> When I had my conversation with Dana White,
I just said, hey Dana, you have not paid me $1.00.
Your name has not been on one of my paychecks
over the last 12 years,
but indirectly your name has been on
every single paycheck that I have cashed
outside of the UFC
because you, the Fertittas, believed in the industry,
turned into a mainstream sport.
Quarterbacked it, championed it.
And like that's truly how I feel.
I'm glad the door opened
and now I truly believe I'm gonna through Charles Oliveira.
I don't think I'm just going to beat Charles Oliveira.
I think I'm gonna outclass him.
And I think people are going to immediately go from
I can't believe I didn't believe in this guy
to this is the most dominant lightweight
on the planet.
This is the greatest moment in my professional life.
Surprise surprise,
there's a new king in the lightweight division.
Dustin Poirier, your time is coming
and Khabib, if you ever do see fit to grace us
with your presence back here in the UFC Octagon,
in your quest for 30,
you know you gotta beat somebody,
so beat me.
If you can.
God bless, see you at the top.
>> DC: Oh, my goodness.
Then Michael Chandler pulls out the old Ric Flair.
Ric Flair won the Royal Rumble
with a tear in my eye.
I can say this is the greatest moment of my life.
Michael Chandler using the old Ric Flair
to do the call out.
[phone ringing]
>> Hey man.
>> What's up?
>> How you doing?
>> Oh man, I'm doing good.
About to go win that UFC title.
>> Awesome man, what day is that?
>> It's May 15th in Houston, TX.
>> Hey, listen, alright, alright.
Good luck, man.
>> Thank you hey, after May 15th,
you know what we're gonna say?
>> What?
>> To be the man, you gotta beat the man!
And right now, I'm the man, baby.
>> Alright.
>> Yes sir, thanks Rick.
>> It's my pleasure, man.
Styling and profiling!
Woo!
>> You're the man, Rick, thank you, brother.
>> Bye bye.
[knocking]
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>> My man.
>> What's up, man? I thought you weren't home.
Had me waiting.
>> Yeah man, so I finally got my own place
down here in Florida.
I live in Nashville obviously.
But when I'm in training camp, it's here.
Little dining room area, kitchen.
I spend a lot of times.
So it's a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath.
Here's my-- here's my underwear.
I got a little two person sauna, man.
So sit in there, it's got infrared.
Heaters here, LED lights.
It's got Bluetooth, it's got--
>> Oh, for real?
>> Yeah, so I listen to audiobook.
>> Yeah.
>> Music, watch a movie, whatever you want.
>> Alright my man, so I'm really big on film study.
A lot of guys aren't,
but I do want to watch a fight that I think
can give you some insight to this fight, so.
Let's pop this off.
>> I've been anticipating him dying his hair
and wearing yellow shorts.
>> So like you visualize that, you visualize--
>> Yeah, I visualize blonde hair, yellow shorts.
>> I do think it's to your advantage
to make sure you don't allow him
to jump on you early.
And you'll see like right in this fight here--
>> Let's go.
>> He automatically puts Kevin Lee on his back foot.
>> Yeah.
>> So, did you see that, like he
I mean just, as soon as he walked,
he just walked,
and he didn't stop until he got to the middle
and forced Kevin start going backwards.
And he-- look-- notice how he just takes control.
Also notice his stance.
He keeps it-- his legs closer together,
and that's so he can throw knees up the middle.
I see him like trying to deter you
from trying to take him down
just by going like this.
>> Yeah.
>> He fights pretty tall, yeah?
And he'll fight tall and just keep bringing this up to keep
you from shooting, so you'll have to be careful with that.
>> I have seen that-- that kind of jumping.
>> Yeah.
>> The front kick quite a bit, actually.
He hasn't exactly landed really.
>> No. >> But he throws it.
>> But he throws it because I think--
Honestly, I think that's part of his takedown defense.
Because he doesn't wrestle.
He can't wrestle. >> Yeah.
>> So what he does, is he keeps knees and kicks
coming up the center,
to keep guys from wanting to take him down.
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Now watch this.
The way he holds his hands--
like, Brazilians, they keep them here.
So they over-- so like sometimes
they overdo it defensively.
So like if you come up high,
>> Yeah.
>> So they leave-- they're going to--
he's going to leave that for you.
>> Michael: Early in the fight, you don't--
>> Whoa.
>> Big right hand there from Kevin Lee.
>> He's the type of guy
that you need to punish physically.
>> Yeah.
>> You gotta like do damage to him.
> I like doing damage.
>> Worst case scenario for you based on his skill set,
what would happen in that worst case scenario?
>> Oh, gotta watch that neck!
>> Just getting caught with one of those submissions.
>> Brendan: He's got him down.
>> Michael: This is bad!
>> Brendan: He's got-- oh, he's got it!
Forces the tap!
>> Does he have-- does he have
the most submission wins in the UFC?
or just in lightweight?
>> I think in history.
Yeah.
Him trying to jump on your neck.
>> It's quick.
>> Yeah, like kind of like how did Kevin here.
>> Yep.
>> So like, I think that's the main thing
you gotta worry about.
Just keep anything that keeps you
from having your head in that position
for longer than a second.
>> Put that head-- yeah.
>> He's good. He's slick.
>> Yeah, he's slick.
>> Which I like that because it keeps me on my toes.
>> Yeah.
Get a little lonely around here without your family?
>> I do, man.
Like look you know, luckily it's almost like,
you know 4 1/2 days away from them.
You know, two days on, so.
>> What's your son's name?
>> Hap. >> Hap.
>> Hap.
>> So has he been with you hhis whole life?
>> We adopted him at nine months.
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>> So this is kind of, I mean,
it could be a touchy subject.
You don't have to answer it,
but what do you say to people who would say,
how do you raise a black son
if you're not black.
As a father, as a white man,
how do you raise a black son?
What do you say to those people?
>> Well, I think it adds an extra wrinkle
obviously to it, because of you know,
kind of different experiences in life.
I can't say I know what it's like to be a black man
in America.
But I would say that number one,
it goes back to whether he's black, white,
or any race in between,
How do I raise a good man?
A loving man, a joyful man?
A man who believes in himself
to go do ridiculously amazing things
with the gifts that God has given him.
And then all of the other stuff will,
I think, take care of itself.
God will put people in his life
who may be able to educate him more
on the African American community,
or African American struggles.
I have been trying to do more and more research,
but it's also to-- I want to be well read
or well versed on it,
but I also don't want to overcompensate too much
for it, as if it is the most important thing.
Because I don't think race is the most important thing.
And I don't know if that's right answer
or the wrong answer, I'm still trying figure it out.
>> When I ask you, I ask you like how--
like what do you say to those people,
like how do you raise a black son being a white man.
I'm like how do you raise a black son
as a black man?
I don't know how to do it either.
Yeah so like you're right.
Like I think, I think it really comes down to just,
you know, just raising a good person.
[kid laughing]
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>> I totally appreciate you, man.
I wanna thank you for welcoming me into your home.
Opening up your heart to me.
Thank you.
Best of luck to you.
>> Yes, sir, thank you. Appreciate it.
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Because of the speed and the strength and the power,
you can just.
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Do that.
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That's how you do it.
>> Yeah.