00:08patty over here uh welcome back uh other side right here shiny bald head yeah how you doing
00:15man uh last time we saw you was in the same city you fought just engage you for the interim
00:21belt
00:21and now he's the undisputed champion what was your biggest takeaways a few months later reflecting
00:27on that fight sharing the octagon with justin gaethje and what you're able to accomplish in
00:32one of the best fights of the year um don't go to war with just engage you more than likely
00:38gonna
00:39lose but um you know i got wrote off after it everyone said i got beat by an old man
00:45and then
00:47he goes and does that to earlier and all of a sudden he's the best thing since sliced bread
00:51so just shows how the goalposts get moved constantly i was gonna ask you because you
00:57always talk about the goalposts being moved but especially after just the fight you had in
01:01january but after what he did to ilia taporia it feels like the post might have tightened up a
01:06little bit it seems like you're getting a lot more credit now than maybe you've gotten
01:09with a lot of your wins are you noticing that as well no yeah i said that after the thought
01:15got more respect for losing a fight than i did for winning seven in a row in the ufc
01:21just shows how mad our fan base is don't it do you think that justin winning because your fight
01:28with him was so fun it's gonna be a lot of on a lot of fight of the year list
01:32does that actually
01:33not hurt you as much in this title conversation especially with the win on saturday oh yeah
01:39obviously with him winning and becoming undisputed champion it looks good for me know what i mean but
01:46i said that after he beat me i i said he was going to beat alia taporia um i said
01:51it was fate
01:52that he beat me it was his destiny to go and win the title at the white house and i
01:57was just in the
01:58way the state of this division is is pretty wild right now you got armin saruk in there he's been
02:04doing a lot of wrestling he needs to fight though he's only he's had like one fight in three years
02:10and
02:10he beat an absolute bomb so like he needs to actually fight not go around in a singlet tickling
02:17people who should he fight anyone just fight someone you know what i mean it's like get in the octagon
02:23and actually fight stop going around on your private jets eating food and then last thing for me you
02:31know all these years ago when you were fighting for cage warriors you were talking about conor mcgregor
02:35and now you're sharing a card with him this is such this is a very big deal this is something
02:39you
02:39sort of envisioned along the way what is this like for you being in the co-main event of a
02:44conor mcgregor
02:44card and does he win on saturday this is just another fight to me i want to be in i'm
02:50back in vegas
02:51fighting again and it's just a lot less pressure this time because all the pressures on conor
02:57i mean he's got more media than anyone than i've normally got the most media so
03:03yeah it's just just another fight and you never know i think if conor wins it'll have to be in
03:09the
03:10first two rounds if it goes past there max will probably take over patty i keep seeing right here
03:19to your left i keep seeing this clip going around from 11 years ago where you first mentioned conor
03:24mcgregor and uh like is it is there at least something seminal about being here sharing this card and
03:30you know being right under him and potentially having people talk about you two fighting each
03:34other um i don't know like that was right after the fight that and i'd been elbowed in the back
03:42of
03:42the head about 12 times so i was absolutely on one um yeah i was i remember people asking me
03:50if i was
03:50drunk in that and everything when i'd literally just stepped out the cage um would you look at ben
03:56like obviously uh four fight finishing streak for him is this what you like now especially after
04:01probably learning some important stuff from the justin gaethje fight someone who's gonna try to
04:05come right at you and take your head off yeah um i think it plays right into my game the
04:10fact
04:10that he's just gonna step forward wildly and try and take me out of thank you
04:22uh patty i was wondering you know it came out that people like oh all the attention for the fight
04:27with justin and everything else and just you know was he buying into it was it just how his body
04:33language and it was deceiving us in hindsight how do you feel about how you handled everything going
04:38into that fight with justin before actually getting in the cage felt felt good you know what
04:44i mean um don't really know what else to say to that i mean i felt good going into the
04:50fight
04:51i just didn't fight the right fight um it's been a while since you've had a little bit of a
04:59back and forth with an opponent benoit hasn't really you know been one to throw logs on the fire
05:04so to speak do you miss a little bit of having that you know at the press conference so we're
05:08going to get into it or is it nicer that like you know it's just about the business and the
05:12fighting
05:13i'm up for anything you know what i mean if someone wants to start something i'll finish it
05:17but if you want to be cordial and have no beef then i don't mind
05:25huddy um i know you said what you feel like lost you the gaethje fight was not sticking to the
05:30game plan how important is sticking to the game plan on saturday night very important yeah that's
05:36that's how i've won all my other ufc fight so on i mean putting a game plan together and actually
05:41working it where against kg i just bit down and become shield and started scrapping it's pretty
05:48stupid of me but you know you learn from it and what are your thoughts on the new ai rankings
05:54dropping
05:54you from fifth to ninth in the world no one's really taking notice of them anyway hardy so who gives
06:00a
06:00foot patty over here over here you fight on saturday night england is also playing um norway
06:08how what are you more nervous about the fight or the soccer i'm not nervous about either what are
06:17you more excited about what do you think lad
06:23something that 11 other fellas are gonna do or something that i'm gonna do
06:28good answer yeah that was a bad question apologies and one more question for me you and luke riley
06:35you're leading the scene for liverpool who's the next star star out of your gym that we don't know
06:40about yet um well he's not actually from liverpool but he trains with us he lives with us now he's
06:47from
06:47hull george stains he's 10 and 0 um fighting on cage warriors and he's one of my sparring partners he's
06:56also a lightweight he's gonna be a he's gonna be in the ufc and hopefully real soon like he's
07:04only 25 years of age got the potential to be a rank superstar and you know he loves star wars
07:11so all
07:11the nerds will love him best of luck champ paddy just here forgive me another football question but
07:18do you back tommy tickles boys to go all the way no how far do you see them going what
07:25how far do you
07:25see them going probably semis agency you know slap them fair enough thank you paddy who made the
07:34biggest biggest comeback oasis in 2025 or connor 26 well we haven't seen connor's comeback yet lad so
07:42we don't know do we we don't know that's true hi paddy there is a rivality between france and england
07:51since a lot of years does it give you some extra motivation to to face a french fellow no no
07:58no i
07:59don't give a flying fuck it's nothing to do with me thanks one here in the back to your left
08:06all the
08:08way here in the back yeah yeah you're one of the most popular fighters on the roster you've had
08:12increasingly higher profile fights you do more media have the social media interactions is the love of the
08:20game still the same as when you first fell in love with the sport yeah i just love getting inside
08:28the
08:28octagon and punching people in the face and getting punched in the face as you can tell from me last
08:34fight i love getting punched in the face thanks sir hey paddy so benoit is known for his aggressiveness
08:43and it generally it means that even if he's not like technically maybe the best in the on the ground
08:48game
08:48or striking like per se his aggressiveness changes everything how do you counter that and how do you
08:54get prepared for this particularly i counter it with my technical ability i think his aggressiveness
09:03is gonna put him in a bad spot and that's what's gonna win me the fight do you think he's
09:08open whether
09:09it's on the ground or strike yeah he's open everywhere striking ground um i can see me either
09:16taking his neck or his chin home with me one or the other yeah he had his hand up for
09:23ages go ahead
09:24lot thank you very much um i wanted to ask there's this like story that goes around of of conor
09:29mcgregor
09:29like showing up to your places and what's your recollection yeah it's a load of shite but like we so
09:35it
09:35like it never happened at all no it never happened at all right because i know there's like mad stories
09:39back so it's good no yeah when he was in libfield people said that he knocked on me house and
09:43some
09:44people made it up that he wanted to fight me some people made it up like he wanted to get
09:48me out
09:49to party with him this is like 2017 i was still fighting on cage warriors but i was still living
09:55in
09:55my mom's at the time and my mom has cameras on the house and no one knocked at our door
10:00unless he
10:01knocked on the wrong door obviously uh when it comes to to gagey and and that to poria fight like
10:07of course you've been super complimentary of just you've made absolutely no excuses about what what
10:11happened in january but a lot of people are talking about that that perhaps uh like the eye
10:15pokes there was maybe a little factor of of maybe his hands were a little open that's for some of
10:19the
10:20shots i'm not going to use as an excuse but the eye poke did change the fight in a big
10:24way all the
10:25damage on my face was from an eye poke right hand and it wasn't just an eye poke like i
10:32felt a thumb
10:32touch my brain so it was was a bit heavy i couldn't see for about two rounds after it would
10:39ilia be
10:39fair to have that same concern after that after based on what you saw what do you are like in
10:45ilia's fight i know did ilia get poked i think they were saying that there were times where the shots
10:49were that i don't think he got poked like he just got his face mashed up so you'll never fight
10:53him
10:53who who said that no i'm just asking do you think it's like that that'll be yeah i'll punch his
10:59little head in for him that's awesome thank you very much christy
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