This content was created by LARRUZ. This content was uploaded by LARRUZ. This is a YouTube video excerpt titled "Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman at UFC 279" (recorded 2022-09-23) containing an on-site conversational interview at UFC 279 weigh-ins. Participants include Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman as the primary speakers, with contributions from Jim Norton and an event announcer (labeled SPEAKER C). The discussion covers weigh-in atmosphere and fighter intensity, specific fights and last-minute card changes (including Khamzat Chimaev missing weight and resulting matchup reshuffles), reactions to notable knockouts (Leon Edwards vs. Kamaru Usman), some informal banter about stepping in at fights, and a tangent about pool/billiards technique.
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Eight and a half pounds
2022-09-23
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Is that a camera? Yeah. That's incredible.
Dji, look at it.
Is that better than your phone? Yeah, it's incredible quality.
Yeah. Here with Joe Rogan at the weigh ins.
Oh, hi.
Get nervous before these things?
No, I get excited though.
How do you prepare for all the names you have to read off?
I have to get them written out phonetically.
When you look at these guys, you see excitement, you see fear. What do you usually see?
The fighters?
Yeah. When they stay, you never see fear.
I mean, you saw fear like when Anderson Silva was in his prom, you saw some fear. It was like when guys reach this, like, unstoppable level, you see some fear, but you don't generally just see anxiety and tension. And, you know, you see guys getting fired up for a fight.
Intensity.
Intensity, for sure.
Who's the most intense guy you've seen at the weigh ins ever?
Conor gets pretty fucking intense, but so does Khabib. It all depends on whether or not they have, like, real animosity towards each other.
Nate Diaz is probably somebody that gets pretty intense.
Oh, yeah, he's gonna get intense. That's gonna be a good one. Just. I don't know how they're gonna separate him from Hamza and him from everyone.
Else because things gonna get crazy today.
It could get crazy. Yeah.
And what are you gonna do? Are you gonna be all right?
I'm gonna get the out of there. If gets wild, I'm not getting into scrap. You gotta watch me look like a coward.
Also here with Shane Gillis, you're gonna step up. If goes, I'll get in there.
All right. I might have to get in and get knocked out by a 120 pounder.
You ever lose?
No, no. I yell all the time.
You get it.
Because of doing comedy, my voice is pretty strong.
This is like such a surreal moment in human history for combat. Like, more innovation has happened in combat in the past 20 years than ever. And you're at the center of it.
Yeah.
When do you. Does that hit you? At which point does that hit you?
Before big fights. Before big fights, it's always like goosebumps.
It starts building up.
Yeah, yeah. Like before Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usman, I was like, whoo, here we go. You know, you just, like your whole body just tingles. Like all your skin tingles.
And then the shock might happen like it did in that fight.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like when something crazy happens, your whole body just jolts. It's so. It's so wild, you know, like, you see people standing up and screaming. Oh, my God. Behind you.
And then you become a meme.
Yeah, I become. I'm a meme often, but the last one, when Leon Edwards knocked out Kamaru, you see me and DC Freaking out behind us. Tony Hinchcliffe, your.
Oh, my God.
It was amazing. It was amazing.
All right, brother. Thank you for giving us a behind.
My pleasure.
Here we go. I think it's even better. £180. Hamjot Chaland. And his opponent, Hamza J. Official weight 178.5. In the welterweight division, Nate the. Is Chrisy Tony Ferguson. And his opponent, N. Diaz. Thank you all for coming out. We'll see you all tomorrow night.
How you feel after that?
That was exciting. Very intense. It was. It's gonna be one of those cards where it's like no one prepared for that opponent. So you have three fights that have been completely reworked, and so these guys have to adjust, and, you know, there's very different opponents. Okay, well, what happened was Khamzat Chimaev didn't make weight, and he missed weight by eight and a half pounds, which is so crazy that they wouldn't let them fight each other, so they had to move that. So now you have Lee Jing, Leon versus Daniel Rodriguez. Rodriguez was supposed to be fighting Kevin Holland, and then Khamzat was supposed to be fighting Nate Diaz. Missed weight by a ton. But honestly, Tony Fergus versus Nate Diaz is a much better fight, much more competitive fight. And Khamzat versus Kevin Holland is a real test for Khamzat. Kevin Holland is a big guy. He fought at 185lbs before he was very successful, knocked people out, including Joaquin Buckley at 185. You think Holland is ready for the fight?
It's chaos. Surprise. It's a totally different kind of fight.
He's a chaos kind of guy, though. I mean, I think it's an exciting fight. I'm excited. Well, I don't like the fact that he missed weight. That's a lot to miss weight by. So there's, like, two things that happened. He missed weight because he didn't prepare properly, which usually indicates either that he was sick or injured or he didn't want to make the weight. You know, maybe he was, like, so worked up by all this Nate Diaz stuff that he didn't want to get in the sauna, he didn't want to cut the weight.
Who knows what's going on?
We don't know. Yeah, we really don't know. You'd have to get friends with him where he could confide in you and you tell you the truth.
It was amazing to see you do this in person and amazing to see the fighters in person. Man.
Thank you so much. Tomorrow's going to be even crazy easier. So you have to know what the angles are. So, like, this shot right here, this is a perfect example. This seems like an easy shot, but, you know, it's not an easy shot. Getting to that ball down there. Yeah. So that ball. When the ball's down there like that, like, kind of in the middle, but not in front of that hole or that hole. There's only two places to be on that hole. You have to be on the right side of the ball or the left side of the ball. Now, when you have something like this that's right in front of the hole, it seems like, well, that's an easy shot, but you have to make sure that you have the right speed to hit this here. And then it's got to go like this, and then all the way down to here.
Also two walls. It's got to balance on this one, that one, and all right.
Basically three rails.
Maybe three rails, and that little, like, a tap on the other one.
So it looks like that's easy, but that's not easy at all. That. That's, like, one of the harder shots is to get yourself where you're in a perfect position to make the next block.
How'd you get into Opie and Anthony?
I was in bands with my brother, and I would write song parodies about everything that was happening in the news. And the OJ Thing, you might have heard of that happened. And I wrote a song, carried about it. Opie played it on his show, WBAB on Long island, and people loved it. So he goes, hey, can you come in and do it live? And me and my brother, like, yeah, came in, did it live, and I thought this was my shot.
I just poured everything out.
I started doing impressions. I was commenting on the news, and Opie goes, dude, that was really good. Why don't you come in next week again? And it just snowballed from there. We got an offer to go to Boston, and I never looked back. I threw my sheet metal worker tools out on 95 on my way up to Boston.
It's all about knowing, like, the cue ball speed and knowing how a ball is gonna come off the ball when it contacts it at an angle. And it's. You get completely obsessive because it's so hard to predict. And then the more you do it, the more you get, like, muscle memory and the more you kind of understand where the ball's going with.
So you're not even thinking too much using intuition.
There's a lot of thinking and a lot of intuition. It's like both things are happen at the same time. It's super complicated.
