Dustin Poirier Is Paid in Full While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

i'm trying not to compartmentalize i'd rather the burn be everywhere except exactly where it's at i'd love to spread this out a little bit man but i can't it's getting hotter hey what's going on everybody for first week feast i'm shawn evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by dustin the diamond poirier he's the number one ranked ufc lightweight fresh off his win against conor mcgregor at ufc 257 he does amazing work with his foundation the good fight and as fate would have it he also has a hot sauce pourier's louisiana style for my money the best new sauce of the year dustin poirier welcome to the show thanks for having me man a long time fan and uh spice lover as well how do you think you'll do today what is your head space like going into this 10-wing gauntlet i'm focused i'm prepared i put in the work these last 31 years and i think i can do [Music] it let's do it [Music] that's good might taste familiar it's in that louisiana style right it's got a little vinegar not too spicy yep i like it [Music] so when ronda rousey was on the show one of the things i found most fascinating about our conversation is her profound understanding of the human body in which ligaments and joints are most vulnerable thinking back on your last fight what is it about the cumulative effect of calf kicks that makes them so devastating i've been on both sides of the calf kick game and um it's very painful because the swelling has nowhere to go the way your calf is is constructed the swelling can't spread throughout the rest of your leg it stays compartmentalized in the calf and it affects the nerves in your foot it's called compartment syndrome you can actually lose the use of your foot when i had it done to me in new york a few years back i went to the hospital they wanted to cut me open to relieve the pressure inside of my leg and uh it's painful man it's bad stuff what is the most painful submission technique in your experience the most painful i i don't like leg stuff man heel hooks knee bars anything with the legs it just feels too funky for me [Music] oh that's good man i like this one yeah it might be my favorite in the lineup this year actually wow that's good stuff so i noticed that the first thing that you asked for on your return home from louisiana from abu dhabi was king cake and it seems like the locals really came through for you for those outside of the bayou how do you explain king cake and why is it so popular this time of year it's always around body broth it's always around uh the beginning of the year it's it's king cake man it's it's a special it's kind of like a donut a huge donut cake filled with cream cheese or chocolate but it's louisiana all the way man and i knew it was king cake time and i was out in abu dhabi and i was just craving food because i was cutting weight and i was just thinking about king cakes and then i know that your new louisiana style hot sauce it just is the tip of the iceberg when it comes for your love of cajun cuisine does chef poirier have a signature dish like if you had a cookbook what would be the meal that's on the front cover dang dude i got so many i love a good gumbo man i love making my own roux and and sitting in front of a pot with a beer stirring it and this gumbo seasoning right now you know it's a little chilly outside it's perfect time for gumbo everybody comes over when you cook a gumbo it brings the family together and i love that so i would do a good gumbo [Music] slightly bit spicier so i'm a big fan of your appearances on legendary boxing trainer teddy atlas's podcast because it really shows the side of you that's a student of fighting and at the heart really just a fan of combat sports is there a vet who you'd say took you under their wing or showed you the ropes when you were first starting out there's two that come to mind that really helped me out a lot of my career is tim crater louisiana's first jiu jitsu black belt and uh another one is the grand master of thunjitsu eve edwards of all of your ufc opponents who pound for pound has the heaviest strikes conor mcgregor is the heaviest handed guy i've ever fought and i knew that going into this last one so i had a you know i had a good awareness and i had that was six years ago but you don't forget those kind of things besides connor who's the most savage trash talker dude it's got to be chael sonnen when he was at his at his prime he could sing running his mouth he was selling paper views who would you describe as the most complete fighter you've ever faced at the time i would say korean zombie when i fought him back in i think 2012 maybe he was probably the most complete guy that i've run into uh up to that point who's your favorite fighter to watch in the women's division amanda nunez i really like watching amanda nunez uh pound for pound goat but i gotta give some respect uh to my girl joanna she's a beast man such a savage what's the most unique octagon entrance you've ever seen we're talking if you're talking about the ufc probably tom lawler uh he's done some crazy stuff but there's this one guy i've heard about in new jersey who played the price is right theme song and then he was in the audience people didn't know stood up and had a name tag on and out of the audience to the cage that's amazing he came back come on down a little spicier here [Music] so when you reach the pinnacle of a sport like you have you know there's oftentimes a lot of folklore surrounding the difficult road that it took to get there i've heard you say that some of your amateur fights had non-standard rules what did you mean by that and can you give us an example i've i've fought amateur fights where they ask everybody raise their hand if you want to be allowed to throw elbows tonight and it's amateur fighting you shouldn't be allowed to throw elbows but we're fighting at a rodeo arena i mean dude everybody's coming back to the locker room split open stitches everywhere everybody's busted open these kids just aren't at that level and they're allowing us to throw elbows or i've been to events where the same thing we go to the rules community and they say a couple of fights fell off of the car so these fights are going to be three minute rounds they're gonna be five minute rounds so now you're fighting five minutes five minute amateur rounds it's crazy man yeah and you know and seeing that documentary fight phil that is one of the scenes that stands out as you're doing these shows in rodeo arenas and warming up in the horse stalls and you know sometimes i'll talk to wrestlers about their early years or comedians about their early years and mma fighters it's kind of the same struggle can you give me one thing that you miss about those days and then another thing that you don't miss at all like one high and one low one high for sure is all my family and friends from louisiana can drive to the event now i'm fighting across the world and not too many people can make it i really miss that having everybody there one of the things i don't miss is shady promoters man there's some slime balls in this business and you got to chase them for your money and checks bounce or you break your hand and they don't cover the medicals it's a climbing distance [Music] smoky flavor i like that all right dustin we have a recurring segment on our show called explain that graham we do a deep dive on our guests instagram pull interesting pictures that need more contacts i'll show you the picture you just tell us the bigger story and first things first it's you and fellow hot ones alum and louisiana legend theo vaughn has hanging out with the rat king inspired you at all to maybe start your own podcast or anything like that it has man it has he came out to south florida this last training camp when i was preparing for conor mcgregor and we did a podcast like a little makeshift podcast inside of a strength and conditioning facility i was working out at and i told him dude i would love to start a podcast and break down fights and talk about fights and he thought it was a great idea so yeah he's definitely inspired me to get behind the mic and camera and put some content out there and then on the other side of it i know that he's been training a little bit what is the rat king's most impressive quality in the gym he started training uh when he moved to nashville and i know he's doing jiu jitsu he's doing a lot of gi jiu jitsu so i would love to find out actually all right up next here's a post fight vibe check after your win over dan hooker who in your career when you think back what has been the worst morning after bangover the bangor dude correct when i fought justin gaichi out in arizona he partially tore my quad so i couldn't really walk getting on the flight i guess the elevation or whatever made my legs swell so much i couldn't bend my knee i was just walking around with my leg was like a big blinker sausage bro i'm dragging it around i can't move it it's shiny it's red that hurt and then last but not least here you are with a hell of a plate how would you describe the significance of the crawfish boil in acadian culture this is like doing family reunions every weekend whenever it's crawfish season you know everybody comes over everybody brings something and we all gather around a table outside we boil the crawfish pour them over the table drink beers tell stories it's just such a great time and um things like that is part of the reason being my wife moved back to louisiana when my daughter was born because i could not take that from her childhood really strong man got like a little bitter bite there so the psychology of fighting is a topic of endless fascination can you explain what you mean by finding the calm and the chaos because i think for most people instinct on that kind of confrontation is almost the exact opposite you know you hear in your corner streaming the crowd's going crazy you see the boss there this nicer yeah but in that moment that's what i enjoy most about fighting when i think about fights and stuff it gives me anxiety i'm like dude this is crazy but what i enjoy the most is walking through the fire and being put in that position that's where i feel comfortable the world slows down and nothing else matters but that moment and it's a special time it's the realest thing you can do is hand-to-hand combat in the moment with someone trying to take you out i love it staying on the topic of athlete psychology you know according to a 2013 study by psychology professor michael krauss fighters who smile and their weigh-in stare down are more likely to lose than ones who don't how much stock do you put into that pre-fight stare-down face-off like does it matter at all to me i don't i don't think it does because everybody's different right one fighter might be you know covering something up trying to put on a front smiling like he's tough but he's really terrified scared out of his mind one guy might be really smiling because he loves the chaos it's hard to tell man i don't take anything from those stereotypes who's the craftiest fighter you've ever faced when it comes to the dark arts of playing mind games conor mcgregor the first time i fought him 100 no doubt about it the art of war was on full display he uh he might have beat me before the fight started man talked about louisiana talked about my family talked about my skill set whatever he could say i was a young fighter at the time and i just thought about everything he said too much then i would read comments and i would read articles of what critics and media are saying and stuff like that and as i matured in the sport i realized i just gotta focus on what i can control [Music] let's dive in man let's dive in [Music] oh yeah immediately [Music] i'm going in again there you go there you go yeah this is definitely a step up big gun wait till you try the next one i have before i won't mention any names because it's probably beneath you to address it in any specific way but i am curious about your thoughts when it comes to these youtuber boxing matches there does seem to be two schools of thought you know those who think that the excitement around these events is good for the sport and then the other school of thought being that this is a total embarrassment to boxing where do you fall on that spectrum right if you're selling pay-per-views it's entertainment but at the same time this one's hot man yeah i think i poured too much on this one it looks like it i know the instructions told me to measure i did not i'm gonna be honest if you're selling paper abuse and you're in the business of making money it's entertainment i understand that so i know why these guys are getting pushed and all this stuff but if you're a true boxing fan i see on that side as well why you don't want you to be representing a sport that you love or the the casual fans out there when they talk about combat sports you don't want them to think of somebody who's misrepresenting um people who work their whole entire lives to master a craft that very few do you know um but it's business i understand i understand what's going on when you see like internet clout monsters cutting these wwe style promos against like actual elite professional fighters does that cross a line to you or is that just something that goes with the territory these days it crosses the line to me because i'm one of these guys who can really scrap um i i i wish that these guys would get the fights that they're calling for and get in there with real opponents and then we see you know see who's talking after [Music] let's go man i'm feeling it i'm feeling it [Music] oh man right away right away [Music] i got some milk over here but i'm not touching it dude do you still watch food network when you're cutting that sounds like torture yes i do i went on a marathon of guys grocery games training camp i'll probably watch three seasons i've heard that you are trying to go after your own food show do you have an elevator pitch while you die on the bomb because you know when you're ready to go you might have a home here at first we feast i got it here food fight with dustin poirier we go to different cities i check out a couple local gyms i train with the guys there then we go to local uh restaurants i get in the kitchen cook a little bit hear about their story food fight diamante boom i'm sold schoenberger order the run 20 episodes out the game with the snap my eyes watering i'm starting to sweat i'm trying not to compartmentalize i'd rather burn be everywhere except exactly where it's at i'd love to spread this out a little bit man but i can't it's getting hotter i'm trying my best to be tough right now man [Music] i don't even taste the flavor it's just burned the flavor is burnt right just straight fire so i know that one of the ways that you used to unwind between fights back in the day was you joined a bowling league in your native louisiana if you don't mind me asking what's your average score i was averaging about 165. i i know it's not the best but it's an average that's my average you know the camaraderie of just a bunch of guys that work all week and can't wait to be off of work finally go to the bowl alley get some beers down knock some pins down and have some fun man it's just uh good friendship good camaraderie kind of the same thing that i i started going to jiu jitsu gyms for obviously to learn how to fight and get better but then i realized that i enjoy being around these guys you know when i'm not choking them we have good conversation [Music] let's go man do i have to dab it oh you know what i like that because you know the show you know usually on these uh on these quarantine episodes i hold off because it's so clumsy to try to do it and everybody's already over saucing but but dustin since you know the show let's do it bringing it back don't shorten john do not shorten this experience i would never i would never this is the last dab we call it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last one you don't have to if you don't want to dustin cheers what a run [Music] oh yeah deep extremely peppery through the through the nostrils it burns [Music] and instantly my cheeks start sweating so here we are at the end of our ten round bout against the wings of death and there's only one obstacle left in the way before the final bell you know i'm so proud of you making this hot sauce that is so distinctly you in the louisiana style and even working with heartbeat which is one of the great makers so now that you have a sauce that's distinctly you i want to play a hot sauce name association game well i'll call out a couple of these bottles and you just tell me the first fighter it reminds you of okay a mild sauce like the classic the first one that we tried the mouth sauce like a classic uh a classic sauce is one you can use every day frankie edgar is a fighters fighter could always trust him trust on him what about this seven spot the torchbearer honey badger the honey badger a buddy of mine named jake hume the honey badger actually unpredictable and wild man just like this sauce to bomb beyond insanity the bomb beyond insanity mike perry because he's insane [Music] and then finally the one we just had last dab apollo [Music] last ab apollo let's go with conor mcgregor this is that one hitter quitter all you need is one drop put the hot one strap on dustin poirier taking on the wings of death and living to tell the tale and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you my friend this camera that camera let the people know what you have going on in your life i have the good fight checking out at thegoodbyegroup.com we're currently crowdfunding for the project learn initiative with the boys and girls club we're doing some big things in louisiana and across the world and also fourier's louisiana style hot sauce it's great it's true to a louisiana hot sauce but there's layers of flavor you gotta check it out great job dustin great job i'm hurting man i'm hurting over here it's about how i thought it would be at the beginning smooth sailing but when we get here this area if you're not careful with this with the dousing of the sauce you're gonna pay for it and that's where that's where i'm paying for it hey what's going on hot ones fans this is sean evans checking in to say thank you so much for watching today's episode if you enjoyed it maybe like it maybe maybe you throw us a subscribe even if you're feeling generous and as long as you keep watching [ __ ] it i'll keep eating

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Id: Y2eKPoBxdCc

Length: 22min 23sec (1343 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 04 2021

Reddit Comments

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Dustin on Helwani: Full HD, you can even see the pores in his face

Dustin on Hot Ones: In a basement in Vietnam

[u/technicalityNDBO]

Is there any footage of the Price Is Right walkout that he mentions?

[u/InternetName100]

This guy just goes "is there a veteran that took you under his wing when you just started out?" 4 minutes in and he's already asked better questions than every MMA journo the last 5 years. Damn.

[u/hunter_mane]

Food Fight with El Diamante actually sounds like a cool concept

[u/[deleted]]

Bought 5 bottles of poriers sauce. So fucking good. Taste so fresh. Love me some of dustins sauce in my mouth.

[u/donniele]

Poor job by the ref, he obviously should've stopped it. They never think about the consequence of the damage fighters take smh

[u/[deleted]]

Dustin always has dope t-shirts.

Anyone know where he shops?

[u/Hellyeahbrother2]

That “Price is Right” entrance to an MMA fight is fucking hilarious.

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Damn Dustin, you should've bought a mic lol

His audio is terrible.