Michael Chandler Explains Why He Has No Regrets After His Loss To Dustin Poirier At UFC 281
In this clip from episode 188 Michael Chandler explains why he wouldn't change the way he fought Dustin Poirier in their epic war this past Saturday night.
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We need to appreciate Chandler while he's still here
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Dude is boring. Can he even win a damn fight? Can he even back up his cringe mic talk? Haha
Do you mean before he actually gets Yamasaki'd in a fight...if he ain't dead, he ain't done?
MICHAEL CHINLER🤣😝
Islam being champion today just proves that Khabib retiring didn’t change a thing and yet we jumped out of our seats as though it would change his legacy when in actuality it wouldn’t know he’d still be the champion today
His business model isnt to strategically win fights, its to put on a performance that will be remembered and rewatched for decades
😂 When they can’t beat you, start making excuses
@@ahmedNayeem1 you liked your own comment lol
@@trenlr9116 gotta tart the ball rolling somewhere lol
No, he's just not good enough to win fights against elites consistently stop with this r tard3d shit already
But nobody ever goes a rematches his fights. I sure don't! If I was to watch any of his fights, it's because of the person he's fighting and I'm watching the other dude fight I'm a fan of Justin and Dustin so I kinda have to watch him cause that's who they were fighting. He makes it exciting getting whooped by my favourite fighters ...
Chandler is a monster. he fought smart R2. Also R3. But Dustin a a different animal man...
nah he was kinda dumb the third round. he threw dustin in a way that let him take his back
Dustin caught him they could fight 10 times and results would vary
@@parkourguyyy exactly! Dustin's gas tank was still 80% while Chandler looked hella drained out. He looked like a was about to give up. I'm glad he made mistakes and let Dustin win. Dustin deserves it for beating another 1 of the greatest jn the world.
Entertaining, yes. Smart… no.
Strategic Michael Chandler is the next mythical fighter to be unlocked
Imo Chandler lost this fight because he kept going for rnc's and getting reversed rather than just going for g&p
Dudes face healed extremely fast lol
You know the next PPV that Michael Chandler in will be huge. I think even the casual 1 PPV a year fans would love to watch him.
Michael Chandler always loses in an exciting way haha
What's the point?? To see him gas out after the first round and then get his ass whooped?? I'm good I'd rather watch a champ like Islam or Dariush fight.
Chandler is a warrior. You know every fight is going to be exciting. He is never fighting for points, he is trying to make his opponents soul leave his body.
Which is fine for casuals to consume, but goddamn he makes me cringe with his fight IQ. Wastes his talent for bonuses and fan favours.
He also doesn't fight smart, hence the 2-3 record in the UFC
Warrior ? 😂 more like idiot who has great skills but fights like a drunk in a bar
@@matthewcharboneau733 Ya his iq is suspect but the record isn't a indication of that since its a deep division.
@@JokoeurXXI ok you beat me to it....chandler pisses me off because he couldve wrestled poirier and shut him down but decided to give the casuals what they wanted
Chandler is the man! He easily has a spot on commentary when he’s done. Dude is so tough
Chandler has too much fun. He might have a better UFC record if he fought up to his real capabilities but he’s too entertaining to let go.
He’s not a calculated fighter and he’s never been. He’s a brawler.
❤ Mike. Has quickly become one my favorite fighters. Love every time he comes on the bus
Thanks Mike for everything you do, your a fucking legend! All your fights are way more exciting than almost everyone else. Of course we all want to see you win but the fact that you are this good and give fight of the nights so often is incredible, your a true warrior as well as a gentleman outside of the cage. We are proud of you win or lose.
"He's this good" yet can't even win a fight, put a win streak together or touch UFC gold. That's all he is , is "good" hell never be great! He's good at best and not good enough to be great. Putting on good fights don't make you great as you lose fights all to put on a show then suffer loses from trying to put on shows and not actually win the fight like the great fighters do
Love Michael Chandler, what a legend.
The fishhooking legend
Micheal Chinler Cheating Chandler 😂😂😝
Chandler was getting whatever he wants vs porier for the majority of the fight. I was very impressed. He fights like its a street fight, and it seems most guys can't handle that intensity
It's too bad he only has a few fights left. He's definitely championship material.
Except when he was getting beat in boxing exchanges and choked out at the end
Mike is an absolute legend🔝
For losing all his fights...
@@mikedavis8026 ⌨️ 🤡 .
@@mikedavis8026 for entertaining us if u weren't u r living under a rock all his fights were close fights
chicken
@@me-so6yk the dude is boring and even his finishes are boring. The way he stopped Dan was lame and he tried to do the very same to Charles but Charles knew and dodged it but yeah, boring ass fighter. Not every fighter going all out is entertaining when they're boring doing it
Imo this fight was better than the main event. With Izzy and Periera. Although that one was awesome too. Much respect to DP and MC
Win or Lose Chandler is a showman in the octagon and without a doubt one of the most entertaining fighters in the game. Respect Iron Mike
By far my favorite fighter to watch. Ill buy any PPV with this guy on the card.
How much do the PPVs cost now? What was the price you paid for the Izzy-Alex card?
@@pstratos7 75 bucks. And you'd rather watch this bum who always loses instead of a true MMA fighter like Whittaker?? Casuals at its finest
@@michealortiz3350 oh you just hate on chandler. I get it now.
@@Mav0011 used to be a fan of his until he started thinking he deserves all these title shots before everyone else and ducked Islam on live TV. Dudes a joke.
@@michealortiz3350 EVERY fight from "this bum" since he's been in the UFC has been more entertaining than any fight of Whittaker's in the last 5 years. Just saying. I love Whittaker but Chandler imo has much better fights win or lose. Just about every one of his fights could be a candidate for FotY or KotY. You just a hater.
Way to go Mike! You have the best attitude! You are a winner, a success, and a role model I respect.
Get this guy on every PPV, he’s straight value for money!
Haha
Mike is a dawg!! Love watching this guy go to absolute war each and every fight. On top of it all he's a great dude.
Your great dude is a dirty cheat..
A great dude that lands like 8 massive shots to the back of the head and fishhooks people in the mouth, yeah totally a great fight, im so glad he lost and dustin busted up his nose.
chicken
Chandler is a very successful accomplished fighter. He has already proven greatness and has already been champ in another organization. Absolutely nothing but respect for chandler because he gives the UFC A SHOW! he could easily win in a boring fashion like 75% of our current champs but he chooses to try his hardest for fight of the night… respect
A great example of being outcome independent, thus letting him perform completely freely.
The ufc has got to put this guy on TV when he retires.
Couldn't stand Mike at one point, but from minute one if watching him fight, truly listening to what he says, I became a HUGE fan.
The elation of victory is worth the potential pain of defeat. Mike put on a banger with Dustin and I’m so grateful for it. Thanks Mike!
Idk how you can hate on Chandler the guy comes out every fight to either knock someone out or get knocked out you gotta respect that
Wow, i would have still been home healing. Fighters are the absolute best, yall deserve so much money.
Dustin said himself "if he was throwing straight he gets me out of there" about the cage sequence. He was inches from a TKO finish. Dustin is a dog too. These Guys are warriors win or lose.
The energy in that building was different, first of many! Won’t miss another msg card again I regret not going to last year and missing justin and chandler live
I love Mike he always gives the fans a show but I really think he needs to fight a grappler next instead of these guys that want to stand and trade. I just feel he’s preparing to fight a war every time. It would be nice to see him get tested some in the wrestling department bc I know he’s really good there and people want to see those skills. His approach would be much different against a wrestler too. We’ve only seen him against guys that love trading like Gaethje and Poirier. I think if you’re trading/brawling with these guys at 155 it’s a coin flip of a fight because everyone is so good in that division.
I feel like he lost the coin toss on Oliveira , he would have beat Oliveira 7 out of 10 times.
His losses don’t even hurt his stock at all. Straight up. I’ll never miss a fight of his.
Chandler’s glasses are fire
The man is the embodiment of kill or be killed
Not over yet ! See ya at the top Chandler ! Let's Go 👍
Chandler is the definition of explosive
Chandler is one of my favorite UFC fighters,Him and Alex Perreira!!
I still remember all the backlash the UFC got when they first started up. People calling it inhumane, human cock fighting, and not safe and dangerous. The not safe and dangerous part still rings true, but thats what rules, refs, and commissions are for. Anyways, here we are over 20 years later and it's one of the biggest sports in the world and is world wide. The evolution of the sport has been great to watch as a fan
We added too many rules fr
Not safe and dangerous? Bit of a tautology
Chandler is the man!!
Chandler is the man!!!!! Dude is getting payeddddd and putting on bangers!!! The most electric fighter in UFC!!!!!!!🤠 Let's go champ lets go on a run and get back to the title!!!!!!
I love Michael Chandler
Massive fan of Chandler
Not just banger, but suplexes and powerbomb by chandler was great to see.
Chandler has everyone’s respect he is a real fighter he deserves to get paid
Michael Chandler is the most exciting fighter in the UFC right now. 4/5 for performance of the night/fight of the night bonuses and the one that wasn't was vs. Oliviera when he also got the finish. As a fan I hope he is here for another 2 years. But I respect his choice to retire anytime before that since he is 36.
"Collecting scars, black eyes and broken noses" 😂 Chandler is a scary dude and everyone is in trouble when he starts gassing himself out from the first minute to the last. Only throwing bombs. Not one opponent in the UFC, that wasnt in big trouble with that guy, even Gaethje and Oliveira got hurt in the first minute.
gained even more of my respect! Please fight Jorge next
Chandler had every single one of the top contenders in a bad way. He's one of my two favorite fighters but he doesn't deserve to catch shit from people.. he's literally just caught the biggest and luckiest breaks .
After the fight he looked like a chatacter in the horror movie Wrong Turn. Dude heals up quickly. Athletic greens & CBD? Lol Both dudes are warriors.
It’s frustrating watching him cuz he can beat the guys he’s lost too!! He needs to make adjustments. idk why Dustin thinks he is fake he seems like a cool dude. I hope chandler bounces back and I’d love to see him run it back with Dustin.
Dude can't take many more beatings like this. Most fighters can get thru fights with minimal damage, Not Mike. If the first round had a few more seconds, he was in a coma
My favorite psycho in the ufc. He fight like his family's lives on the line. Rushing first, think second.
Chandler should get a blank check by the UFC. Fireworks throughout his career...
He has one of the biggest non champ contracts. We'll deserved.
Thing is chandlers fights are always close which is why it doesn’t matter he loses, but the opponents faces are always so much clearer then mikes even though it looks like a war
i just heard him say during this video that he had a moment of regret in the first round....
This guy doesn't even need to win. No one would argue if he got a championship shot. He can beat anyone
It seemed to me that Mike Chandler under estimated Dustin Porier's ground game. He was trying to take Dustin down, which worked against him
it is not a miracle. You hit someone like Porier who is Turtling up who is tense who is preparing for impact and you want him to go down? It is possible, but really hard because he is defending, he is preparing for impact whereas the other guy you are referring to was Either countering your aggression or he was hit unexcitingly. and the little shots you don't see coming are the once that Knock you out. Porier was tanking up. He was ready for impact. You can see how his face changes as he accepts.... Ok, I am in a war. It doesn't matter how hard you hit when a person is expecting to get hit they will survive. When a person gets hit all of the sudden like you did when Porier knock you down the first time, those are the type of punches that hurt the most. the unexpected. that's why you must stop fighting all the fights like a bull. Sometimes people are tough and you have to be a matador or die like a Bull following your own rules without realizing what the game is all about.
why did you shoot rd 1 mike?
Dustin is a beast. Difference in power. Tho dangerous fight against mike, why I keep on thinking one of the easiest fight for Dustin.
Chandler vs Conor 2 of my most appreciated athletes in the game what a fight…… deserved by both warriors
If Dustin hadn't put that combo together against the fence at the end of R1 Chandler wins that fight. But he did, and that's why Iron Mike needs to learn how to slow down a bit in there after he turns up on guys. He has a great highly dynamic style but I feel like he stalls out at that pace and his opponents can take over inside that lull.
He has go get this wins every fight he lost he could of won if he stayed relax and could of got them out instead of trying to exchange for the people fans audience he could of been champion right now . He really loved to brawl he could of stayed in distance and won.
He's just not efficient or technical enough, sure there's a level of luck in there but being technical and efficient increases your odds. When faced with someone that's more composed and technical he starts losing. Maybe on the ground it appeared like he had more of an advantage and seemed more strategic, but on the feet he's wasting a lot of energy and an experienced/efficient fighter will weather the storm and hand his ass to him.
Michael Chandler is the people's champ.
Chandler brings out the best in fighters, especially those with a pedigree in striking (much to his misfortune)
Twas a slugfest and best fight of the night, hands down…or hands up I should say
I wanna know what would've been said if Chandler secured that choke with that fish hook and got the dub. Would it have been changed to a no-contest or DQ?
Dustin called him a fake dude. He did cheat though and that is inexcusable.
Got the dhamers on
Fighting’s kinda like drag racing...2ppl putting it ALL on the line&both know in there hearts someone’s winning someone’s loosing. Either way it goes as long as you both go home ok you both win. Aloha🤙🏽
The rate at which some of these athlete's heal from bruises, cuts, etc. is some next level Wolverine type shit... Jeeeeeez; What, like half of a week out from the fight and Chandler is already looking like this?! I definitely have some interesting inquiries for how in the shit this kind of body healing rate is not only possible, but seemingly the norm. This is definitely an under studied/reported upon subject in MMA when juxtaposing the healing abilities of "common folk" and how fast they might heal from one painful experience or another. Maybe I just lived around a bunch of soft, easily bruised, glass jaw individuals... But if I recall correctly, that hypothesis becomes quite unlikely!
They probably run a cycle of human growth hormone after a fight. I’ve known people take it and heal serious injuries very quickly. Not only that, it runs through your body and heals all the little niggling injuries as well
Love Chandler man. But I had Dustin!! He is my in my top three. I'll always go with Dustin. I LOVE Charles but I wanted Dustin to win...
Win are lose when chandler fights you know you're in for a treat
If he stopped brawling, stuck to a gameplan, showed composure and stopped this entertainment idea bullshit he would be champ..Awesome, his fights are awesome to watch but a few more losses and Dana will be saying bye bye
The last round,where he lifted up dustin was a mayor energy waste abd dustin finished the fight immediatly after.
Mike does all he can with great athleticism, a great chin and crappy fight iq. Prove me wrong
Hes 5-2 now in UFC... and yes hes very entertaining and etc. but at the end of the day record means something and its not great for him. Title shot is getting further and further away... :/ And in the UFC rankings now he has 4 really bad dudes in front of him. But hes for sure is a champion in life.
How can you not like chandler
Has all the tools to be champ just need to fight smarter but win or lose I'm tuning in. I hope he gets to fight Connor but i believe Conor knows better
@CodyTalksMMA 😂 like he did Dustin? Twice. You smoking the same shit Conor smoking. I do think it'd be a great matchup but Mike gets dropped but he recovers well idk how well Conor can take shots. He crumbled in poirer fight. Mike took dp's best shots and was still pressuring him. You can't go by old Conor what have u seen recently that makes u believe he can beat mike Chandler? He's hoping to land one big shot and if he isn't able to what's he going to do
@CodyTalksMMA I feel that bro he was almost finished but thats why i said he recovers well Conor was in that exact scenario with dp and got finished that first fight. Mike came out and won the 2nd rd. Conor can definitely win but he really only has one route. Feelings aside gun to your head you'd pick Conor over mike?
@CodyTalksMMA I agree. They are both great at controlling range but Conor is a better counter striker. Mike has better cardio and more durable in my opinion. I believe he has more ways to win
As lutas dele são coisa de louco, porém é um lutador sem inteligência, enquanto ele quiser ganhar só na força vai acabar perdendo, ,,tem que usar a inteligência também, se não vai ser só um cara de lutas interessantes em que apanhava.
Cheating = BUM! "He's so exciting..." Get a room
This guy is going to have major CTE if he doesn’t switch his act up soon
You have more brain damage than him
@@jelorer Cry
Chandler vs Danis
I love him but he fights like he dont wanna lose 1 single fan, dude you could of outwrestled Dustin for 3 rounds and easy win, you was manhandling him when you used your wrestling but in the 3rd you tried a flashy slam which ended up in you being choked out
SEE YOU AT THE TOOOOOP
he dont need to regret anything.. sent an ufc fighter with just one kick back to school..
All three judges had Dustin winning the first round and chandler winning the second.
He may get a connor fight because he's exiting to watch and gets hit
Nothing but a journeyman
Mong.
Chandler vs McGregor is an easy fight to make now that they both lost to Dustin.
All he had to do was wrestle Dustin and ground and pound . Khabib was the blueprint
He tried that dummy, that’s how he lost. Dustin reversed the position
If I get pay per view it’s a chandler fight. They are the best win loose or draw
I love watching Chandler’s fight but he reminds me of Justin Gaethje by the way he loses fights by fighting too emotional. I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets the Conor fight though. If he keeps losing Conor will definitely pick him
It ain't all about winning the fight, we have a bunch of boring wrestlers that can win a fight, and it just bores the hell out of the fans, being an explosive and entertaining fighter is actually how stardom is attained, Conor lost many fights also, but he is rich because he was a true fighter and gave entertaining proper fights. Fans are more interested in tuning in, when they know they are going to see a real fight, real action etc, it isn't rocket science. And with Chandler, you know you are going to see a monster in there, like a bull essentially.
Legend
I felt like Mike was up 2-0 when the third started
Bro dustin dropped him almost finished him in the first round. It was clear round for dp
@@okay9407 at the end of the round the tide turned for sure but Dustin was getting he face smashed is for 80% of the round
@@bbyjohn11 what matters is who did more damage, chandlers face was completely destroyed after the first round whereas dp looked normal. Also dp got hurt due to the headbutt
@@okay9407 Dustin was wobbled and was getting teed off on against the cage. That’s damage. Just cause he wasn’t bleeding doesn’t mean his brain didn’t half turn to pudding. I think it’s reasonable to say he stole the round for ending it with an exclamation point but the round as a whole I’d give to chandler.
@@bbyjohn11 bro dustin was blocking so many punches of chandler, even in the official ufc stats it shows dustin landed more significant strikes in the first round. Dustin poirier 28 of 57 49% accuracy Michael chandler 23 of 69 33% accuracy. Moreover Dustin landed the hardest strike of the round which dropped chandler.
I love chandler win lose or draw...
Even when he loses Chander is a winner the fans love him
I love Chandler and appreciate his memorable performances but he needs to have a renaissance like Gaithje did. Stop loading up so much and throwing telegraphed haymakers, use his takedowns but using more level changes and mixing them in with his striking instead of just over exploding with slams and wasted energy, and try to use his BJJ on the ground more to finish these guys. He’s far too talented, dangerous and explosive to be losing these fights due to bad tactical approaches in place of this “war” or “entertainment” mentality. Granted. He had moments where he basically almost beat Justin, Charles and Porier…and those guys are killers….but still. Something needs to change. Just some slight tweaks and he could legit be champion.
Too bad he wants to be entertaining instead of winning the title
Some fighters cant win the title. He is one of them. He is also a cheater
@@adiyepis3326 You want us to invent a time machine to stop mike from cheating? The fight happened already. Theres nothing you can do about it