00:00i was not as amped about ufc 329 as other people were like conor mcgregor oh he's back look at
00:06this i know he's cleaned his act up ignore the stories about rampant steroid use um he cleaned
00:12his act up and we're gonna see the connor the mystic mac of old i a i never bought it
00:18um i i
00:19think you watch him at a bare knuckle event and he's all red in the face and he's screaming and
00:24that was like four months ago but now he's turned things around trust me yeah for sure um also
00:30like this guy's won once in the last like forever uh alex perera's entire ufc run was in between
00:36conor mcgregor fights and we assumed this guy was gonna get back to the top and he's facing a very
00:41good fighter in max holloway who has probably been more talented than him for a very very very long
00:48time so i wasn't super amped about it anyway and then it's still underwhelmed because the dude's
00:54leg blows out a couple seconds in because for some reason we're doing jumping switch kick things 20
00:58seconds into fights and we're coming off of knee injuries he just he he's this is not for him
01:04anymore the sport had passed him by before and then he took a long time off to make movies and
01:09get kind of yoked in ways don't worry about that and all of that the sport has moved past him
01:15and
01:16the one the frustration is is that we don't get to prove that now with max holloway and you still
01:22we're probably gonna have to deal with this stuff again probably this time next year because
01:25can take a year to rehab and international fight week maybe even the madison square garden show at
01:30the end of the year we're gonna have to do oh yeah if the knee injury doesn't happen look how
01:34right
01:34now he has another full training camp and he's gonna be ready and off we go we're gonna have to
01:39deal with this again it's done it's over you had a really good run and then you had a very
01:46good run of
01:47drawing you let the stardom get to your head and now you're trying to get it back to put an
01:51end to this
01:51chapter in the way you want that's not how this game works homie it just doesn't it's not it's not
01:56going to have unless you go in there and fight me um it's not going to be that so it's
02:02it's almost
02:03unfortunate it's unfortunate because you kind of knew how it was going to play out anyway and it was
02:08just going to be okay let's put this to rest and move on and instead it's just going to be
02:12this thing
02:13and ask michael chandler what it's like to have that thing hanging over you for years i i don't think
02:19that's going to be the case with max holloway i think we all kind of understood he's going to get
02:22a win here and then we'll see where he factors into title opportunities and stuff like that so i
02:27don't think holloway is going to be caught in this mcgregor cycle or loop or whatever that chandler was
02:32in it just it kind of sucks because you know he could have had it's a win back for him
02:37from a tough
02:38moment in the early part of his career to really show how much he has grown as a martial artist
02:41and how
02:42much he still has off of a disappointing performance against charles olivera but now you have a
02:46disappointing performance followed up by one where you really didn't do a whole lot and you got to
02:49win and so it just it takes up a lot of time in holloway's career where he doesn't have a
02:55lot of
02:55that left so he's gonna get another good fight he's probably gonna win it he's gonna get another
02:59title opportunity because he's just that good but it just sucks that he doesn't get to put that
03:02real exclamation mark on everything and we have to keep having this annoying dude hanging around
03:08with us but i think the ufc probably takes note because they love doing the entrance walk right
03:13wwe's doing a lot of it now but they love doing the guys walking in and he's got the the
03:18coats and
03:19all of that and it gives the opportunity to hear what the crowd has to say and we've heard a
03:25lot of
03:25times ireland traveled and conor mcgregor gets thrown up on the big screen and it is a deafening pop
03:35it just sounded like we were deaf because there was not much reaction there was some like hey there
03:41was some uh but it was quiet it was quiet for him anyway and a little bit muted and that
03:47is where
03:48i think it gets scary and that's where i think it gets scary for him because rightly or wrongly or
03:53any
03:54of it this guy loved being he loved to kind of play the villain but he loved to play the
03:59villain in a
04:00way that got him loved and now he doesn't have that he is not relevant enough to be a villain
04:05in this
04:06he's screaming at the top of his lungs on bare knuckle boxing things he's trying to run for office in
04:11ireland and getting soundly embarrassed in all of that and i think that whatever view he had of
04:17himself is getting chiseled away but he always figured he was relevant and when you didn't hear
04:24that crowd reaction on saturday i i think that that has to mess with the guy a little bit and
04:30so i do
04:31wonder headspace wives for a guy who has not been all the way there anyway i do wonder how much
04:35he has
04:36and how much that really affects him going forward and how it affects things with the ufc
04:39and then probably with netflix flicks beyond that so i again i'm not interested in this guy
04:46fighting in the ufc or fighting relevant fighters in the ufc i i hope i hope that i'm wrong and
04:51i hope
04:51that he can turn this back around in an interesting way because when he was going it was fun to
04:55watch
04:55but the fall off has been really difficult to see and i i worry that it's not trending in a
05:01good
05:01direction so uh that's my thoughts on the main event we're going to get to some of the other card
05:05as the week goes along but again it's getting kind of warm in here and uh we're getting towards
05:09the end of it always whether you you've been watching my content here for a second on couch
05:14potato or you followed me over here from the the radio side the one thing you always knew is your
05:19boy was into wrestling and so a lot more wrestling talk is coming back here with couch potato diary
05:23honestly i kind of had to get caught up on everything again so we are going to be ramping up
05:28a lot of
05:29wrestling coverage here over the week if you just want wrestling talk i do have a wrestling specific
05:33podcast it's called living room lariat um search that one out spotify apple podcast it won't take
05:38long to get caught up because um again that one's kind of falling off a little bit but we will
05:42be
05:43absolutely amping things up on the wrestling side in a little bit so um
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