Fighter vs. Writer: Matt Brown Offers Dustin Poirier Advice After Recent Arrest Plus How Confident Are We That Conor McGregor Is Fighting at UFC 329?

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**Damon Martin** (1:17)
Welcome back to The Fighter vs. The Writer. I'm Damon Martin. He is UFC legend, Matt Brown. And Matt, we are officially less than two weeks away from the return of the notorious Conor McGregor, allegedly.
It's the last UFC event. Obviously on Saturday was the UFC Baku event with Rafael Fazebi, your guy. You've been on that train for a while, scored a big knockout over a Manuel Torres. Super impressive. But now, next weekend is July 4th, so there's no fights on July 4th. So we are literally technically in like Conor McGregor fight week, it's just a two week long fight week. Matt, as we sit two weeks out, are you any more or less confident that Conor's gonna make that walk?

**Matt Brown** (1:53)
I mean, I guess all the signs are pointing towards he's gonna do it. So I guess you gotta believe, right? But I don't know. I still don't know.
Yeah. That's a good question, man. Like, what do you think is?

**Damon Martin** (2:10)
I think Conor knows, I think Conor knows he drops out of this fight, like not saying they would never offer him another one because it's Conor McGregor, but like I think the faith in him would just disappear. Like people wouldn't, I won't say they won't, they'll never stop caring because he's a superstar. I mean, Floyd Mayweather, who apparently is broke now, which is wild, is doing like, he's fighting random bodybuilders and people with the last name Gotti, and people still tune in. Now, clearly not at the same rate they used to tune in, but people still watch Floyd Mayweather do these crazy exhibitions or whatever. So I think no matter what happens, Conor will always draw an audience, but I think the hardcore fan base is gonna be like, all right, he's just not fighting anymore. And like it or not, that's gonna affect his future. So I almost feel like whether he's banged up or broken toe or whatever, Conor's gonna make that wall because he knows, this is not his last chance, because like I said, he'll always get fights, but the last chance for people to really get hyped and believe in him, if that makes sense.

**Matt Brown** (3:03)
Yeah, I mean, I guess it makes sense that he would go fight finally. I mean, it's been forever, and the fighter inside of him doesn't leave, so like he definitely wants to, but it's interesting with the whole Dustin Poirier situation coming up, and that what I'm sure we'll be talking about here. The, you know, Conor kind of already went through that, maybe, right? Like dealing with not being a fighter. And maybe he just decided like, I don't like this. I don't like this life. I got to go fight. I got to have something in front of me. I got to have a date on the calendar, man. I need something to push me. And so, then the question becomes what happens after the fight, right? Win or lose, right? I mean, if he wins, right, we probably assume that he fights again and, you know, probably for a title, most likely, and which would be Justin Gagey, which would be a big fight, be a fun fight too.
But if he loses, which I'm picking, I imagine Max has got to be a favorite in this fight, right, he's got to be a favorite, yeah.