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The Nate Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal fight was stopped too early

They called the fucking fight early... Nate Diaz is the type of guy that I actually like his chances the more he gets the shit kicked out of him in the first three rounds. It wakes him up a little bit. The little nerdy doctor was like, 'No, this guy can't fight,' where Nate Diaz was like, 'No, I have not yet begun to fight.'

Nate Diaz is the cleanest athlete on the UFC roster

It's also probably the cleanest Athlete on the roster right a guy who immediately screamed innocence from the rooftops, which you would want any got to do. I always wonder why more guys if they do get flagged don't immediately do what Nate Diaz did... because then people really feel like you're innocent in this case obviously he was.

Conor McGregor will return on January 18th against Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone

I think it's going to be January 18th our first pay-per-view of 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I mean he has hinted at that date other Fighters have hinted that he has contracts in hand. So I'm hopeful for January... I think Cerrone he's probably got the inside track.

If I fight again, it will not be in the UFC

If I do fight again, I'm sure it won't be in the UFC. I don't think it should be either.

Conor McGregor has lost his punching power

Connors got no power. No power anymore. No power. [...] It's good advertising for Proper 12 though because it's like if you don't drink this whiskey, Conor McGregor might knock you out... [but the old man] just sat there and kept going on with his day.

The UFC should get rid of Greg Hardy

[Greg Hardy] fucking sucks. Bro, I don't know why they give him a... It would be nice to just have him get his ass kicked, right? Cave the skull in. Why does Dana give him a chance? Get him out of there.

Dana White should put Greg Hardy in a ring with Francis Ngannou or Stipe Miocic

I don't understand why Dana White... There are so many guys that can kick [Greg Hardy's] ass, and he keeps fighting tomato kids. Have Francis Ngannou just beat the fuck out of him. Stipe Miocic, he'd kick his ass.

I'm challenging the Bagel Boss guy to a fist fight at Rough N' Rowdy.

I'm challenging him to a fist fight. So I'm trying to track him down. I'm officially challenging him to Rough N' Rowdy if I can find this guy. I would defeat him easily.

My upcoming match against Kenny Omega at AEW Double or Nothing is the most important of my career

The match we're going to have this Saturday for the first All Elite Wrestling show, Double or Nothing versus Kenny Omega for the rematch... I think it's something that's very important because it's the first show in AEW's history with the biggest match that we have... that's going to be a very important in the zone type of match.

I would support but not encourage my daughter if she wanted to box

I would not like my daughter to fight. ... I know I will never tell my kids not to. I am not encouraging them to, but at the same time, I will support them whatever they want to do, you know, in life, because you have to.

I can still fight for a couple more years

I can still fight a couple years. I have no problem. I'm so thankful to God because He gave me this favor, good health, protected me from all harms.

Andy Ruiz vs. Anthony Joshua was the biggest boxing upset I've ever seen

Biggest upset that I've ever seen, you're probably right that the Buster Douglas upset was a bigger one. But in today's multimedia world... it's just hard to fathom a bigger one.

Anthony Joshua fights like a 5'10" man despite being 6'6"

Anthony Joshua just couldn't keep Andy Ruiz from charging in at him... Joshua is 6'6", but he fights like he's 5'10". Like he doesn't use that height to his advantage.

If Anthony Joshua loses the rematch to Andy Ruiz Jr., his career is unrecoverable

If Anthony Joshua loses the second time to Andy Ruiz, I don't know how it's recoverable... I don't believe that it would be a stunner if Andy Ruiz is able to do it and repeat what he saw Saturday.

Max Kellerman could beat Derek Carr in a fight

I might take Max Kellerman in a fight against Derek Carr. I would. He talks about boxing a lot. If you talk about fighting a lot, I assume that you can at least handle yourself a little bit just by osmosis.

A McGregor fight is for money, but I fight for legacy

Conor is the best for money fight... If you fight Conor, it's for money fight. I have money. I'm not really interested by money. It's more legacy. When I fight someone, it's because I want to have what he has.

It is harder to stay champion than to become champion

It's hard to be champion, but it's much harder to stay champion. Because when you're a champion, you're up there. Everybody's been studying your game for a long, long time. You only see that guy, you study that guy for maybe a few months. But him, he's been watching you for many years. So he had a lot more time to download your data than you did.

Conor McGregor broke mentally against Khabib Nurmagomedov

Conor [McGregor] broke mentally into that fight [against Khabib Nurmagomedov]. He didn't give up physically, but he gave up mentally. He looked like he wasn't there. At one point, that's what happened.

Fighting is a young man's game and 50-year-olds have no business in the ring

At the end of the day, 50-year-olds have no business fighting. Fighting is a young man's game. There's some guys that have been able to beat time and still do well but they're very, very few and far between. 49-year-old people barely get on the treadmill and walk. You're going to be fighting in a professional fight? It's ridiculous.

Tito Ortiz is literally one of the dumbest human beings on planet earth

I think that [Oscar De La Hoya] is getting a lot of this information from Tito Ortiz who is literally and I'm not just saying this to be real he's one of the dumbest human beings on planet earth he's primate level this guy

Jon Jones would have been the LeBron of MMA if he had his personal life together

If you look at how good Jon Jones is, and if he had his personal life together, what a big star he'd be right now and how much money he would have made. He would have been the LeBron of this sport.

Conor McGregor will never fight in boxing again

In boxing, no, unless it's some sad story 30 years from now. But no, not in boxing.

A reckoning regarding concussions and CTE is coming for the UFC

Oh, my God. Yeah, it's a matter of time. ... There's a lot of those guys who, I won't say names, a lot of famous guys you grew up watching who aren't doing well now. You see them get arrested or not doing well, but it's just a matter of time.

I'm going to knock out Tito Ortiz in the first round

I actually am thinking I'm going to knock him out in the first round... I don't expect to make that [past] the first round.

I could knock out Floyd Mayweather in a punch-for-punch contest with training

We flip a coin, and you get to punch the other person. No hands up, no movement, no anything. And I would knock him out before he knocked me out... I need at least three months to train my neck.

Floyd Mayweather is a certified idiot if he agrees to anything other than a boxing match against Tenshin Nasukawa

If it's anything but a boxing match, Floyd Mayweather is a certified idiot. ... That's why I think he's going to get kicked in the face. Yeah, this is all fake.

I would fight Jon Jones again even if he is on performance-enhancing drugs

At the end of the day, he won the fights, and that's all I want to do is win the fights. So if that means fighting him again, even if he's on the stuff, I mean, you have to do it. So, yeah, of course I want to fight him again.

I will submit Derrick Lewis in the second or third round

I'm going to submit the guy. Second, third round... I usually like the submission because what leads to the submission is just domination, like just exhaustion.

Conor McGregor cannot win a rematch against Khabib Nurmagomedov due to the matchup

Matchup-wise, this is just a bad matchup... Khabib doesn't get hit clean right away to get knocked out. He also has the ability to take him down, and also he's in great shape. He's not going to get tired... With Khabib, it didn't seem to have the same effect because Khabib's so big.

I only have two fights remaining in my career: Derrick Lewis and Brock Lesnar

I got two fights. I got this fight [Lewis] and then against Lesnar. That's it.

I would come out of retirement to fight Steven Seagal

If I was going to come out of retirement, if Steven Seagal would sign a contract, I'd come out... I've already thrown that gauntlet down years ago.

The Muhammad Ali Act should be amended to include MMA fighters to break the promoters' monopoly

If I could change anything in the sport, I would amend the definition of a combative sports athlete for the federal legislation and the Muhammad Ali Act to include all combative sports athletes, not just boxers... right now in MMA, the flaw in our system is that the promoter and the sanctioning body are the same guy... It's not a competitive sport.

George St-Pierre and BJ Penn are on the MMA GOAT list

George St-Pierre. George has got to be on the list. Absolutely got to be on the list... [and] BJ Penn's got to be on there.

Jon Jones would defeat Brock Lesnar in a fight

I think probably Jon [Jones], his athleticism and length is going to pose a problem for Lesnar. And Brock, as amazing athlete as he is and as big and strong as he is, he still hasn't really made friends with getting punched in the face.

Khabib Nurmagomedov's dad will punish him more severely than the UFC

His fucking dad is going to kick the shit out of him. And it's so funny that this guy is 30 years old, one of the best UFC fighters of all time, and he's got to go home to Dagestan and get worse sanctions from his father than he will from Dana White.

Tony Ferguson must be the next undisputed UFC lightweight title contender

Tony Ferguson is absolutely impossible to deny right now. 11 straight wins at 155 pounds. His next fight has to be for the undisputed UFC lightweight championship, and I can't say that any louder.

Khabib Nurmagomedov is going to 'work' Conor McGregor

I have a bad feeling that Khabib is going to work him. I'm just going to say I have a bad feeling, a bad premonition. Call it shakiness in my knees. I just feel something bad coming.

Conor McGregor will lose to Khabib Nurmagomedov

My Who's Back of the Week is Conor McGregor... maybe because he's going to lose. He is going against Khabib... who wrestled bears as a child.

Ronda Rousey is likely the greatest female MMA fighter of all time

John Malkovich and a little someone called Ronda Rousey—probably heard of her. She's the best women's MMA fighter of all time, maybe, who knows.

Manny Pacquiao's late-career fights are depressing and sad to watch

He's still fighting. So that's pretty sad. I didn't realize that he was fighting until like a day before. An aging boxer, watching them is one of the saddest things you can do. You know when it's done, and everyone knows, and then they always hang on for a couple extra years, and you're like, let's just try to remember the good times, because this is depressing the fuck out of all of us.

Floyd Mayweather's quickness would prevent Conor McGregor from taking him down in an MMA fight

[Mayweather] would punch [Conor McGregor] like 20 times by the time he got to him.

I would win a one-on-one war for the United States against any other country's best fighter

Do you think that you would be the United States' best guy if we were to fight a one-on-one war against some other country? 100%. So you could win an entire war by yourself. Well, not a whole war. Like just one-on-one? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Against anyone in the world. 100%.

Conor McGregor's rampage at Barclays Center was a real incident, not a work

I cannot figure out, a lot of people are saying it might be a work. I think it's real. I think it's absolutely real.

Conor McGregor is intentionally trying to go to prison to escape a bounty from the Irish mob.

Do you think that Conor McGregor intentionally is trying to go to prison to get away from the Irish mob? Because there's allegedly a bounty on his head.

Conor McGregor is bigger than the UFC

Conor McGregor's bigger than the UFC. That's really what it comes down to. I think Dana White actually has a problem here because he can't pay Conor McGregor what Conor McGregor is worth at this point.

Ronda Rousey is in the middle of a 'heel turn' in her media appearances

I have to stay woke on it. I think she's turning heel. This is the start.

Canelo Alvarez eating steroid-tainted meat is a genius PR move to cover up doping

Canelo Alvarez, who tested positive for steroids. And he said it was actually because he was eating too many Mexican cows. ... I actually think this played. ... That's actually a smart thing to do is you just go in the off season, eat Mexican cows, and then when you get busted, be like, well, sorry. All I did was eat Mexican cows.

I am going into the rematch with Triple G with the mindset of knocking him out

I'm going with the same mentality as he is. I'm going in with the mentality of knocking him out. So we can only wait and see.

I clearly beat Canelo Alvarez in our first fight

You know, I was doing my job, I hit him more, and the computer showed that, and the judges showed that, so that's all I have to say.

Smitty will beat Chef Sean Latham in their Rough and Rowdy fight.

Valentine's Day Massacre Smitty versus a $20 chef Sean Latham. Who you got in that fight? I think it's going to be Smitty. Got to ride with my headquarter guy.