00:00well Justin we just had Paddy Pimlet in here and he said that he's going to give you a beat down
00:15the likes of which you've never received and that you're going to be physically not the same after
00:18this fight curious if you take anything from those comments or is it just hey it's fight week and
00:22this is what we do yeah certainly take nothing from those comments uh 25 minutes in time right
00:30now what he's saying right now does not matter all that tells me is hopefully he's going to be
00:33overconfident and the last you can do with this sport is have a false confidence uh he'd be crazy
00:40to think that I'm and not know that I'm most one of the most dangerous guys he's ever fought
00:44I've been in five round scheduled for a five round fight at least 20 times in my career
00:49certainly not the same for him um it's a different different ball game do you think that's something
00:55that he can't really be prepared for right because he's never been in a five round tight at this level
01:01there's no way he could ever have that experience before now so do you think that's just something
01:04he can't really mentally prepare for yeah no not really I mean you don't know what you don't know
01:08he hasn't been there uh again out of my 26 or 31 fights been scheduled for at least 20 times for five
01:15rounds so it's different different uh training different mindset different uh tactics when
01:22you're fighting um I want to take him to the fourth and fifth round and I want to do the same thing
01:28turn his face into minced meat and I've done it before I've done it to higher caliber fighters but
01:34this guy has a lot of momentum right now a lot of confidence and those are some of the most dangerous
01:38variables that I will be facing when I step in there you mentioned before in a couple of interviews
01:43I've seen you do that you want to take him to the fourth and fifth round is that just because
01:46that's where you think you will have the experience advantage and success or is it something that you
01:50kind of want to put paddy through the ringer that you've been put through a few times no I just trust
01:54in my training you know I train at elevation uh if I'm tired I know they're really tired and you know
02:00uh you know I know how hard he's going to be trying so he's going to be exhausted when we get to
02:06those rounds you watch my previous fights that were three round fights Michael Chandler
02:10Rafael Fazeev those were close fights on paper but if they went to the fourth and fifth round I would
02:16have hurt them very badly and uh that's what I'm hoping I can do this Saturday yeah you have a keen
02:24eye for the sport and a good mind for it when you look at paddy right the criticism of him is that the
02:29guys he's beaten have been over the hill or past their prime and stuff like that so there's this
02:33question about how good paddy really is when you look at him how good do you think yeah I think he's
02:38really good I think this sport is crazy I think anything can happen at any moment I think all the
02:41people that have those opinions have never taken the risk that we take a bunch of cowards that just
02:49like to talk and I don't I don't care what people say about him I know that he's dangerous I know that
02:55he's confident and again those are two huge variables it's uh it's a constant battle for momentum
03:01and I'm gonna have to take it early and then and keep it and if I do face adversity I gotta come back
03:07uh and show him that I am a vet I am the most dangerous guy that he has ever fought you talk
03:15about adversity coming back from it famously when you first won the interim title you sort of didn't
03:19want you didn't threat do you look at this one differently because you've had to come back from
03:23setbacks I mean I don't think throwing the belt on the cage will be as effective as it was the first
03:27time so I definitely won't be doing that but you know um as I got you know as I'm older I'm wiser
03:33and I understand that an interim belt is the same exact thing as an undisputed belt on paper for my
03:39pay and it certainly gives me the biggest fight possible next and so this is huge this is a huge
03:45for my legacy huge for my career I love that I got uh knocked out by Max Holloway that's what has
03:50people down me more that's what has you know that's where a lot of the criticism comes from and I think
03:56the that happening is going to make this final chapter so much more blissful for myself and for
04:03my coaches and my family Justin right here um you you said like just a couple of minutes ago that like
04:09you you don't know what you've never experienced when talking about like patty fighting a five-run fight
04:13this is I think what your fourth title fight or interim title fight you've prepared for so is there
04:17anything that you took away from those camps that you changed this time around like because I know the
04:23the last few that you were a little compromised before the Charles fight because of the bike
04:27accident so in terms of just preparation any changes yeah I mean you know definitely not
04:32riding bikes definitely have not ridden bikes lately uh but no ultimately uh one mistake I've made
04:40is trying to you know when I'm successful I try to recreate you know that experience and
04:45you can't do that every every one of these fights is such a unique experience and a new experience
04:51and so to try to take things that made me successful last time and implement them this time will keep
04:57me away from naturally being where I'm at and being where I'm supposed to be and so I'm just taking it
05:03one fight I've taken it one fight at a time since the beginning I am still doing that and it's been a
05:10hell of a ride you know I'm blessed to have been given such huge opportunities by the company you know
05:16this is a huge opportunity to be the main event red corner of the first paramount card it's huge
05:22um and you know I know they trust me I know that I know that I'm the most consistent guy
05:27most exciting guy and that's that's probably why I'm here and on your youtube channel I saw one of
05:33your coaches say that he felt like your whole team kind of hit it on the head with this shorter
05:37camp it wasn't like a long drawn out camp and this is probably one of the better justins we've seen
05:42in quite a long time so I'm curious do you feel that same way I mean I do I feel amazing um I feel
05:48as good as ever but you know any fight that you ask me that I'm gonna say that so I mean I do think
05:53I have made the correct choices to be as prepared as I can be you know after the fizzy fight I knew a
05:59huge fight was coming and so I stayed on the nutrition and you know I feel like I am in the best
06:04shape of my life and I'm just as hungry just as uh I got just as much fire in my spirit and I'm ready
06:11to prefer I love to show off so I can't wait to be in the arena and put it on the line I get to walk
06:16into the fire um not not many people know what that feels like I wish every one of you could feel
06:23what I'm gonna feel on Saturday uh without the danger you know being there but that's just not the
06:29case and that's what makes it so exciting is the danger so I'm pumped we also saw you compete at
06:35fanatics fest since your last fight so I guess what was that experience like and what'd you do with the
06:39car that you won yeah I turned the car into money I took the money uh it was the best money I've ever
06:45made not getting punched in the face by far uh but yeah I'm an athlete still an athlete um there was a
06:52hundred people and I took second place you know unfortunately I honestly and so I don't want to um
06:58light that fire under his ass you know him saying he's going to retire me love it you know I love
07:03that I'm the underdog this is my 15th fight in the UFC I've been an underdog 10 times out of the 14
07:08fights that I have had this will be 11 for 14 and it's just a testament to the level of competition
07:15that I have constantly faced um from day one number five Michael Johnson and till today so I'm pumped
07:24you know um it's been a crazy ride nobody there's so many statistics that I've accomplished that uh
07:30get overlooked that uh when I'm done writing this book it's going to be amazing if you get the win
07:37on Saturday who would you want to fight next yeah so if I get the win on Saturday I will
07:42have the interim championship and that automatically gives you a fight versus the champion which is
07:48uh we do not know how long his personal situation is going to keep him out of this sport and so I
07:55prefer him in June because June is when I want to fight on the White House card if he's not ready
08:01then I want the winner of the Oliveira and Holloway fight
08:06Justin it's been over five years since your first interim title fight against Tony Ferguson
08:14what's changed and what are the biggest differences you prefer as you prepare to face Paddy
08:19oh I mean not much has changed there's not many differences this is the craziest sport in the
08:26world I fell in love with it as a child and you know the evolution of the sport is is through the
08:31athlete but the UFC is the same and these fights are the same has your relationship with MMA changed
08:38throughout the years compared to your UFC debut against Michael Johnson I would say so
08:44you know especially with the media you know become a lot less inclined to talk to you guys
08:53uh for different reasons best of luck thank you hey Justin it's been talked about how much money
09:00you've made in performance bonuses in your UFC career I'd like to ask what's the smartest thing
09:06you ever did with that performance bonus money and could you tell us maybe something you wish you did
09:11differently with some of the money oh man to have 14 bonuses and not equal up to a million dollars
09:19it's not right it's not right it should be a lot more than that I should have had opportunities to do
09:25smarter things with my money but I don't and I haven't and to this day everyone's you know
09:29I hear Daniel Cormier saying that everybody's going to get paid more on this card I'm not getting one
09:34dollar more than I would have if this this deal did not happen um so uh
09:43I'm happy to have achieved what I have achieved
09:47the best thing I did is probably invest in a commercial property you know I purchased a house
09:53in Arizona that's like a mile away from my parents my sister is renting that for me now
09:58and but really just being able to help my family you know help my parents help my brothers and
10:03sisters you know give them Christmas gifts that I never would have been able to give them take them
10:07on vacations that I would have never been able to um that's the smartest thing I I did because you can
10:13never get that time back with your family and so you know it's huge huge for me thank you very much
10:20Justin you've said that uh you don't know how many fights you have left after the James Vic
10:24fight you told me you had five wars left yeah how many wars do you think you have left now
10:29well I would say the hall of air fight was a war the holloway fight was a war
10:36Chandler maybe he rocked me in the first round but um outside that I haven't got my you know my marbles
10:44knocked around outside of those three fights so I guess I have two left thank you
10:48awesome thank you guys
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