Joe Rogan - Conor's Coach on the Mayweather Fight

now when you train for the mayweather fight what first of all how much time did you have to prepare for them ten weeks to the day that doesn't seem like a lot no no I remember just getting the getting the message do you think that that was calculated on Floyd's part maybe he's a very smart guy because it seems like most of his fights are planned way in advance yeah that one was like what it's a couple months away just just sort of happened yeah yeah it was was it August is that when the fight took place and it was August talk yeah and so I remember hearing about it and thinking like wait wait August that's [ __ ] really close right right for a Mayweather fight you would think six we are six months or something along those lines but I would feel like for Floyd is as great as he is and probably the best ever in terms of boxing technique and not being hit I'm he's so elusive still really wouldn't want a guy like Connor preparing for a long period of time we're really getting acclimated yeah yeah it was kind of funny how that all came about because when he fought Eddie in November the year before I remember shortly after that we were at a function and I kind of pulled him aside and they shook his hand I said right you're done all the best enjoy the rest of your life and he was kind of shocked over saying it's done but so what's he gonna do you you're the to a champion you've you've got out the other end of this grind this is this meat grinder with no damage you you're in a very small percentage and you've made plenty money often enjoy yourself and and then talking my past couple of months my past and then this the mayweather fight start talking and I could I could understand that because now his grandkids were gonna be financially secure so it made sense because it was a big payday didn't really make sense for and you had a reason he enjoyed it the competition side of it that's no matter what you're doing with Conor it's gonna be competition I don't care what it is he's gonna look how quick did you do that you're like I went for a piss yeah I'll do a quicker yeah he's just that way so whenever I'd start having a bit of a back-and-forth he's like yeah okay let's quit the boxing and be the best boxer in the world and for me myself you know I was gone the outside gone okay I understand what you know that makes sense to do nothing else was really making sense at the time it's gonna be damaging box the horrendous sport to prepare for and to compete in because we're just looking at one thing really punches to the head you know of course the body shots as well but but it's it's so damaging the only justification I could see for that was you know your grandkids or financially said yeah tremendous tremendous height behind a tremendous amount of money did you think you could win of course I'm always going to think that way you know that's my mindset let's let's prepare as best we can that's is the historians here when he landed that uppercut yeah like even when he went out to do that so you know we did a whole training comp and we brought in you probably heard and that was my first time ever seen him against a recognized boxer yeah I was in the gym we have locally happened in those sparring sessions because what we got to see the the clip that was released was countered lighting Malignaggi up mm-hmm but Paulie Malignaggi insists that most of the sparring was him dominating now that's not what I saw um you know when we when he came back from look he did a spar he went away it all broke cuz the picture got leaked and then he Paulie did a lot of interviews he was on the East Coast working a show so when he came back he came back it was coming back to have a fight and I was actually was a weird night in the gym because that the the Frattini brothers come in Dana command was a few celebrities come and fight you know and and and the the referee was there Joe Cortez a great guy and they did 12 hard rounds and I do it I think there is something being released on Netflix soon a documentary based around a fight I don't have all the have all the round so I guess really yeah I mean we have of course we have the rounds we have two twelve rounds and it's as far as I'm aware I just actually did an interview for recently there I think it's a three-part documentary that's gonna be on Netflix soon and so people will get to make up their own minds about it but just going back to the fight so what did you think though about the sparring all right well he walked when they walked out first and I went to myself I have no idea what's gonna happen I'd say none Bucks and amateurs back home and some pros I'm horrendously ignorant to the boxing world I just I just already follow it and he was school those guys I was like yeah but they're in a world champ you know not that elite level so that night when he went into the ring appalled I was like you know renown or kind of like what's gonna happen here is he is he just gonna get tooled and then we have to you know scratch your heads and go she probably gonna do here right but he came back after the rounds of me normal go wait a second it's not magic it's still punching in its range and there's techniques and hmm so I got my confidence was growing my confidence was growing so I knew it I knew no matter what happened it was gonna be a good fight it wasn't gonna be you know you could win and just right terrible he's is missing with every shot and he's being made look silly it was a good fight you know it's entertaining I think no one in the crowd was saying that was ridiculous no one was saying I was a waste of money it was it was an entertaining fight and it's gonna be one of those things that I'll be an older man that I am now and I'll be talking about the time we we went into the boxing world and for flight even though the night I was kind of this look I scratched me what am I doing here yeah that's me and it's dad over there you know of all the boxes I always preferred what's in Floyd and anyone else because I love defense defense to me is the most intriguing part and him and Tony and those toasted guys and that how he worked the Philly shell and it was it's beautiful so interesting to watch and he's getting on a bit and but still able to compete so fun at CBIZ his whole career was defensive base you never really took two shots never never was damaging the gym never was damaging fights but yeah when he was in the ring never working in the corner in air corner I'm just going what the hell is Conor didn't fight in flight this is just strange even even at the beginning you know I'm so used to Bruce Buffer and it was a different guy and he hit the bell three times I was like oh he had to do that in the Rocky movies I remember that ding ding ding ladies and gentleman got at the beginning of the ceremonial right I was like oh [ __ ] they're actually gonna poxy the end of it was still just head scratching and then you know flood coming over at the end and giving this a little compliment you know he's got a hell of a shot on him he's tough as nails and it was just it was a great experience oh and I wouldn't do anything different if the Paulie Malignaggi sparring session which he said was like a fight if it was scored as fight you think Connor would have won the fight um yeah of course I'm gonna say yes and Brian say well no everybody was there and the knight had you know I stain actually Dana knows a lot more about boxing to meet it than I do and all of those guys were going okay we have a fighter hands here this is gonna be this is gonna be an interesting contest so yeah I'm of course gonna say yeah well I guess people who see the rounds I make up their own mind but it wasn't as one-sided as those clips that were released which of course Polly branded his shots as well of course he's a brilliant boxer was for me as a trainer was it was amazing look at me he's put on a little bit away easy and you still have to go 12 rounds because after about round four was gone he's not going to continue because he's breeding very heavy and he's been hit hard and you've been sat down once whether it was a Porsche or opponent you'd you guys could make up your own mind and that put a lot of heavy shots on syncing he's gonna be over here by six so we had another sparring partner ready and I was like okay just be ready to go because I think this will go about six rounds and then Polly just hit this rhythm and start lining his own shots and it turned out to be a great a great content you know it's a contest because it wasn't inspired they were talking to all the time Polly was talking to me he was talking to the cameraman he talked it uses almost better than Colorado it's great to watch everybody had a great night and I think people actually bizarrely enjoy it it's like kind of Conor Nate it's Batman and the Joker like you know they both need each other but we're dynamic when you when you see a contest like that well polly was campaigning for a fight yeah get Conor to to box him yeah I've it's not out of the realms of possibilities really it's absolutely not out of the realms of possibilities there's there's all sorts of crazy rumors going around the the management team and the fight team and what might happen next it could be boxing it could it could be him it could be Floyd of cause Lloyd again I weave all sorts of names are being thrown around well one thing that happened in the fight that was undeniable is that Conor started to fade and we've talked about this that the endurance issue like what what do you think is that issue well it certainly in in that fight you could see and what I learned about it was it was just brilliant to watch Floyd how he manages energy I think it's one punch in round one maybe not much more around tui it was just so you know it's such an amazing strategy and then and then switching from the usual style to kind of just hands up and walking in and and Connor did unload a lot on his forearms very inefficient which is the opposite of what I would describe Connors fighting style he's efficient very few shots maximum return this was a lots of punches and it was one of the few bits of advice I gave him in the corner that was of any use because I'm not a boxing guy I was let's pick a shot there's a reason why he's not trying anything you don't joining this is 12 rounds it's almost like this tree parts to a fighters one to four there's five to eight and then there's nine to twelve and Floyd just worked that beautifully and it be something that we would definitely do a lot more if we were to ever get it in order boxing fight it was recognized that there's 12 rounds pace yourself he was he was kind of in the MMA mode of just big shots and light the guy up but flow it's the best in the world not being little do you think it's a pacing issue and not an endurance issue or think it's both if but specifically for the boxing yet was it there was a pacing and an endurance in a new field no clinch work at all we had a few little kind of funny clinch techniques we were going to try it was the hammer fist to the back of the head it was well he was aiming for the decided the head it was supposed to be liked it you know it we played around with little stretches of the rules and we'd see what Joker taser pulls up on and could we do little you know I mean Lana chanko fine as well and you get come from wrestling and you see him doing kind of what almost looked like arm drags and him and tie ups and stuff so we were trying to use that and we just got broke every time we'd we had very little opportunity to kind of you know even going towards the back and holding the hip and hitting with one hand I couldn't find anything in the written rules that were against that but but we were pulled on the straightaway so some of the areas where we talk we be able to rest and maybe make floyd use energy zone used to clinch we didn't get that it was it was immediate breaks and that's that you know that's the sport of boxing at him but that's just how it is so yeah it would have to be all those all those types of adjustments one of the more fascinating rumors was that there was going to be some sort of a striking match in the Octagon that with MMA glove has been it was being talked about is being talked yeah that's being gone around as well talk to Jane about that he said it was horseshit oh okay well I don't deal like you you heard about this I'd heard of it who is talking to you about it isn't that you know speaking with Connor and screams mana to talk about like the cannoli troll leg kicks butt you know really that would be the end yeah I mean especially the side the side Einstein says you know what it's like if you got a leg kick and that way you must face straight on so you can check leg kicks if they allowed leg kicks and only leg kicks no head kicks Connor would [ __ ] him up hundred percent quickly 100 percent it would be the first kick no one even understands would be the first leg kick yeah now I will say right away that Connor absolutely doesn't want to do that he wants to fight UFC rules or boxing rules zero zero interest on the highway kicks just that alone a hybrid fight just leg kicks alone yeah he would fought Floyd Mayweather up doesn't he want to [ __ ] Floyd Mayweather out he does but but within one of the two real sets just a few no matter what [ __ ] stance Floyd stands in either inside leg kicks outside leg kicks just one of those it would be like we've a lot of you know our lenders we have very good boxing history and very good athletes and we get the all-time and a good boxer will come down for spar and you you know take these guys can take shots all day long and one leg kick and they run you know it's such a pain that they've never felt before you know like you said it just it changes everything very very quickly it would change Floyd's entire game he has no idea mm-hmm do you remember when cool Vince Phillips fought Masato and Japan no when Vince Phillips is at the top of his game when he was you know of a real elite boxer was just starting to slide and he went over and fought Masato and k1 and Masato just walked his legs just [ __ ] those legs up it was horrifying to watch the only one that I remember that went over there and actually oh Shannon cannon Shannon the cannon Shannon Briggs fought Tom Erickson and Tom Erickson cracked him with a couple of leg kicks Shannon actually talked about it on the podcast he's like champ he can't be with a couple of those leg kicks I was ready to quit champ he was like it hurts so bad she goes but I'm pretending he goes I'm pretending nothing he goes I'm an agony chair it's just a different pain it's just a stomachs you know whacked in the head all day long and you know most fighters won't even recognize that put the right body shot you know you give that liver or the right leg kick and there's just no grit and truth it's stunning for people that have never been kicked before it's stunning to watch like what just happens all the time and if you watch like a k1 match or a you know a glory match or Muay Thai it's just crazy how often they get kicked and they just learn how to absorb it they learn how to check it and eat it and you know mm-hmm just takes time it did fall but that would that would be if you could somehow another talk Conner and Floyd into a boxing match with leg kicks did Floyd actually say that that would be something I didn't see it was just one of those like while I'm talking to Conor he he regularly throws stuff at me then I'm like what the hell are you talking abou your conversation yeah and this was just one them where it come up that because the possibility it is and they were talking about it higher bed rules and he shot it down straight away you fight him out you'll fight him obviously and the neighborhood would be of Corti deal I think Floyd he's a very intelligent guy he's not absolute intelligent guy he's not gonna do that I don't even think he would do the leg kick I don't think so wider I think he flirts with a lot of this stuff and all I'll come over to your world yeah but but he's no he's no fool he's super smart

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Published: Mon Oct 08 2018