Dustin Porier. For those that don't know
who Dustin Porier is, let's watch this
clip and then we'll come back and
discuss the recent situation with Dustin
Porier.
>> Let's go, big dog. Let's go, big dog.
>> What's going on?
>> What's up?
>> Let's go.
>> Relax. Relax.
>> Yeah. Pull me off the plane. All my boys
went to the crib. Now what?
>> And this is why he got you dusting,
>> man. you, bro.
>> All right, just just relax,
>> man. I'll fight you right now.
>> No, I don't want to fight, bro.
>> I'll go with you right now,
>> bro. I don't want to fight, bro. I don't
want to fight. I don't want to fight.
>> Let's go.
>> Ready to have you?
>> Yeah. Tell him. Tell them. Come on.
>> Get a couple units
>> cuz it's going to be bad,
>> bro. Just Just
>> It's going to be bad. But,
>> bro, bro, bro.
>> What's up,
>> bro? Relax. 37
several units. Start several units. How
you boys not going to want to fight
>> something?
Relax. Relax. Relax, bro.
>> Relax, bro.
>> Relax,
>> bro. I'm going to bang you up,
>> bro. Relax.
A good one.
>> Just relax.
>> Give me a good one.
>> Yo,
they kicked him off. UFC.
>> What's going on, brother? Talk to me.
Lying, man. Let's go.
>> Arrest me.
>> All right. What's up?
>> Arrest me.
>> That's the best way, dog.
>> Pound it. Pound it.
>> All right. All right.
>> Man, you did a great job.
>> So, for those that don't know, Dustin
Porier, a former UFC intern, lightweight
champion. He built his reputation
through thrilling performances,
victories over some of the best in the
world.
And recently, however, Porier made
headlines for a very different reason.
According to police and body cam
footage, Porier was removed from a Delta
afternoon flight at Atlanta's airport
after allegedly behaving in a
belligerent manner.
>> Bro, bro, bro,
>> what's up?
>> Towards airline staff while being
reportedly intoxicated. The situation
escalated after he exited the aircraft
where he was seen shouting profanities
and challenging a responding police
officer to a fight repeatedly saying he
wanted to fight him. He was arrested on
public intoxication charge without the
encounter being physical. So it was
interesting when I when I saw you today
you mentioned Dustin Porier and I
thought you know that was on my to-do
list. I was got so preoccupied with so
many things and it reminded me that when
I first saw what had happened I right
away I started to make um some
comparisons
with a former opponent of his Khabib and
how he has purpose how he's living a
different life. You asked me about my
past. Uh you asked you you mentioned
something about Dustin Porier right?
>> Yes. and then about our past, you know,
connecting. And I said, you know what,
man? I got to we we should discuss this.
We should go ahead because you have a
similar past,
alcohol party, that Jahalia lifestyle,
that that lifestyle before Islam. And
you see like the the benefits that now
we were like, man, maybe we can send out
a message to Dustin and hopefully u
because it seems like he's right now
living without purpose.
>> What the hell am I going to do with my
life? Like, what what do I do? I'm like,
it's honestly, bro, I'm a danger to
myself when I'm have nothing. No goal
circle on my calendar. I'm a danger to
myself, man. Yeah. I'm home. I drink.
I'm It's just not good. I have to have
some kind of battle. He's out of the UFC
like he's saying, and he's driving him
nuts. That was his only purpose in life.
>> 20 years. And now I wake up and it's
it's gone. Like, what what do I do?
>> I'm like a he's uh he said he's
dangerous.
>> I got to keep my mind busy. You know,
I'm a danger. I've said this before.
People have heard me say this, but if
I'm not working towards something,
trying to better myself or my family,
I'm a danger to myself.
>> It's honestly, bro, I'm a danger to
myself when I'm [music] have nothing, no
goal circled on my calendar, I'm a
danger to myself.
>> And you can see um what's happening now.
What are your thoughts when you see
that?
>> Yeah, of course. I mean, with Dustin
Pory, I mean, I have a lot of empathy
towards him. He's well respected,
especially in the Muslim community. And
a lot of people I think as soon as as
soon as this came out, a lot of people
knocked him. And I think we shouldn't
bash him and we should kind of, you
know, kind of take a look, a deeper look
into what's going on like in in our
society and like certain things that
plague society and with Dustin Porier
especially, I mean, you kind of look at,
you know, similar to Conor McGregor, you
know, and I I don't think this is going
to be that severe. I mean, it seems like
it seems like Dustin Poria just he's
trying to fill that void.
>> Mhm. So with with Dustin, I think I
think that he just kind of needs to
surround himself with with uh with more
positive influence, better people,
and you know, Islam for us, I mean,
that's basically what fills the void.
>> You know, for us, it it uh you know,
especially here when we train, you know,
jiu-jitsu, martial arts,
>> we know that, you know,
when we train, we also pray. If it's
time to pray, we go we we make fudoo. We
go and pray and you know, we have a
purpose. You know, it's not just going
to be, you know, like, hey, let's do
this, let's do that. If we go out, we go
we go and hang out, we go have coffee,
we don't go out to the pubs or anything
like that. So, I mean, honestly, I have
a lot of empathy towards uh Dustin and I
really do hope that, you know, he seeks
help and I think he's going to be all
right, though. It seems like, you know,
like Dustin has a good heart and he has
like a good head on the shoulders. I
just feel like this was kind of like a
slip up, you know? So, I don't think
it's going to be as severe as Conor
McGregor because Conor McGregor just
kind of like, you know, completely fell
off and, you know, he puts himself out
there. This was just kind of caught on
camera, you know. So, like Dustin Porier
doesn't portray himself like as a
certain type of villain or anything like
that. So, you know, much love Dustin
Porier. I mean, you know, you know, the
Muslim uh um we have your back and you
know, we pray that you, you know, find
guidance and that, you know, that Allah
protects you and your family. You know,
we know that you have family. So, you
know, you got to look out for them and
that's probably the most important
thing, you know, but we're here for you.
[snorts]
This is what one of his other training
partners, uh, he had to say about him.
Uh, maybe we'll play this and I want to
connect it to the situation. Connect it
to um what we're discussing here.
>> Dustin's the biggest egoomaniac in the
entire world. I don't care what anybody
says. Anybody that's trained with them,
been with him day in and day out like I
have for years on end. The way he treats
people in the gym, his ego, this this is
this nice charitable guy that pretends
to be this nice guy on camera. He
pretends to be this nice guy on camera,
but really he's a piece of definite eye
rolling. It was definite and and just
number one, be a professional. [music]
You don't need to to get into a a verbal
altercation uh in front of my wife and
in front of uh the fans there at
T-Mobile Arena to to prove that you're a
tough guy. Maybe he drank a little bit
more hot sauce that that night than than
he should have.
>> What was that guy's name again?
>> Kobe Coington.
>> Kobe Coington. You know, Ali changed at
our gym.
>> Uh Ali Kov. Yeah. You remember when Ali
Kov?
>> Yeah. He uh hugged uh or he came up upon
him at the gym cuz they train at the
same gym. And then Ali Ali asked him,
"Uh, do you have uh any what do you have
to say about Muslims?"
>> Oh, nothing but good things about
Muslims.
>> He said some things about Habib nor we
got a bunch of Russians here. Guess
what? Those Russians got him in the
bathroom cuz he was in the song like
four or five of them and they told him,
"Hey brother, you cannot talk like
this." And he's like, "No, I'm I'm
sorry. All right. Apologetic.
>> So listen, how you feel about Muslims?
Tell me.
>> I have nothing but love and respect for
every Muslim in the world and and
anybody that wants to your your
viewpoints are your viewpoints. And I
would never judge anybody for what they
believe in and and I have nothing but
love for everybody and respect.
>> So he don't have nothing against the
Muslims.
>> Hell yeah. Much love and respect to the
Muslims. I I respect all you guys and
and what you guys believe in. That's it.
Thanks, bro.
What do you think? You think Kobe was
seizing the opportunity now or there's
some truth to that what he's saying uh
about Dustin?
>> It's a little hard to say because
there's
>> we don't know. I mean,
>> there's Yeah, there's a lot of politics
when it comes to when it comes to like
different gyms and especially when you
have different fighters. you know, co
Kobe Cington, you know, with all
respect, he's also, you know, he he he
likes to uh, you know, throw gasoline on
fire, you know.
>> Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, and you know,
Allah knows best, you know. So, but you
know, I haven't met him, but I know
people who have met him, including my
brother. My brother met Dustin Poria.
>> Your brother met?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My brother also
trains with us here. And he had nothing
but great things to say about Dustin. He
said that he was, you know, he walked up
to him, you know, talked to him, took a
picture with him and everything. and he
said that he was, you know, standup guy.
You know, you you notice that like, you
know, sometimes, you know, when
especially when the fame hits you, you
know, it starts to get to your head. Um,
some people they they won't even give
you the time time and day to say hi,
hello, you know, not even, you know, a
smile. They just kind of just keep on
moving. And, you know, Dustin Porier
again, it seemed like, you know, he's
he's very sincere. I want to take it
back to what he was saying about um him
now being very angry, really drinking,
not having purpose. What I translate is
just really not having purpose after the
UFC. And I think a lot of people when
you live for let's say a your wife or
you live for your children or you live
for your job or you live for a career,
you live for money and then you lose
lose these things.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. You you uh you live for let's say
your your wife or your husband and then
you get to a certain age and they die
and then what what's next? Or your
children. You live for your children and
next thing you know they get to a
certain age they leave.
>> Yeah.
>> They're gone.
>> Happens all the time.
>> Happens all the time. Especially in this
culture, they don't even look back.
They're gone. Right.
>> You know, Eddie, the funny thing that
you mentioned that I remember Muhammad
Ali uh mentioned this in a video a long
time ago. You guys can look it up.
>> He said something along the lines. I'm
going to, you know, uh paraphrase a
little bit. He said uh you know about
something he mentioned something about
his children when he had like separated
his uh his ex-wife. He's like you know
there's you know another man is raising
my wife or raising my kids you know and
like they're calling him daddy you know
it's like so but essentially the whole
thing that he was trying to break down
was saying that nothing in this life is
yours. Everything here is temporary.
Even your even your own children. That
was kind of the the whole thing. He's
like nothing nothing here is guaranteed.
your house, your wife, you know, your
your kids, all of that. And don't get me
wrong, it's not to say that like, oh,
well, what's the point now? No, we have
to we obviously continue. We strive. We
have to protect our children. We have to
protect our spouses and we have to
provide for them.
>> But at the same time, you know, we have
to understand that there's a bigger
purpose of life than just, you know,
hey, you know, money, you know, family.
Again, that's important, you know, but
again, we also have to take priority
also in God. We always say God comes
first with everything.
>> That's exactly it. So now you live for
somebody that person dies like you were
saying. It's a great example with
Muhammad Ali.
>> Even your children are not yours. If you
think I'm lying, your wife is not yours.
I divorced my wife. You may have read
about it. And my four children, they
call another man daddy. Now they don't
see me no more. So what am I saying?
[music] We need somebody in the world to
help make peace. So when I die, if
there's a heaven, I want to see it. And
and now what happens is let's say the
husband dies before the wife. Now you
got another man coming in wearing your
old clothes, driving your car.
>> Absolutely.
>> And those possessions they stay behind.
You can't take it with you. So those are
things to to ponder and think. So uh we
take this opportunity. Hopefully let's
get this uh message
>> to Dustin. And that's that's out of the
love. That's love that you you you see a
really depressing situation. Other
people capitalize on it, but we want
good for him. And I I think that someone
like you also who's a a revert, a a
convert to Islam, if if if he watches
this or anyone else who's a Dustin
Porier fan and they're kind of, you
know, doing the uh you know, the average
Joe thing, you know, hitting the pubs,
drinking, partying, but they have this
void just like Justin. You can see
clearly he's got a void. So, you turn to
alcohol to fill that void.
You used to also, like many people, do
you still drink?
>> Uh, no. Joe Rogan gave up drinking.
That's interesting. I saw that so many
many uh but we were ahead of that. Way
Islam, you know, way ahead of that. But
tell me uh what was it about Islam that
had different? You come from a Catholic
background.
>> Yeah.
>> Catholic and Mexican background. So
that's rough.
>> Yeah. So what was it about Islam that
was unique that Dustin Porier should
have a look into it to look a little bit
further? You know, you've tried so many
other things. Obviously I think he's
Christian, right? I'm not sure to be
honest with you.
>> I'm pretty sure like most people growing
up in in
>> actually you know it's actually that you
mentioned that I think he has like a
cross tattoo on his leg or something
like that. Yeah. So I'm pretty sure he
is a Christian and again it's not to you
know to knock the Christian face
>> but Islam gives you structure. It gives
you a blueprint right and it and it
works. So what would you and it's the
original way from the first man Adam and
all the prophets that were sent. It's
not a new religion. Submission to the
creator not the creation. What had you
fascinated about it that had you accept
it?
>> You can go down the whole list. It's
it's it's
>> a few things that you think he can
connect with that you would like for
also somebody who was like him, a
Christian, uh, you know, you had no idea
about Islam, but do you end up becoming
a Muslim?
>> Yeah. So, actually, it's funny. I was
having a discussion with a friend
earlier and
essentially for me what happened was I
went down pretty much a whole uh
essentially hitting rock bottom to the
point where you know right now I
probably weigh about a buck 50
>> back then I think this was a yeah like
definitely over 10 years ago you know
when I was drinking and you know doing
all sorts of crazy stuff I was I weighed
about 180 lbs and this is me when I was
younger so like you know my metabolism
was probably at its prime And you know,
now I'm a little bit older.
>> So
for me, when I hit that point where like
I just I you know, it was hard for me to
catch my breath because, you know, I was
drinking, smoking, and all that stuff.
I got to the point where I'm like, when
is enough going to be enough? You're
always chasing that high. And then that
high just can never seem to be it can
never fill that void. And I got to the
point where at some point I just I I
just had I had to stop because I knew
that I was going to kill myself and
knowing that I have a family, you know,
they can bury me young and I don't want
to go young. You know, we pray for a
long life. We know that death is
inevitable, but at the end of the day,
we want a good healthy life for us. And
you know, kind of to go back, you know,
to what you were saying is like as far
as drinking, you know, a I think a lot
of people and especially like a lot of
the reverts, you know, we struggle with
like certain vices and it's not
something that, you know, we give up
easily or that we give up overnight.
Like people think like, oh, you know,
just because you're Muslim, you're going
to quit drinking like this.
>> It doesn't work that way.
>> Takes time. Yeah.
>> It takes time. And even like you know
during the prophet you know peace be
upon him during his time the Sahabah
they took it it took them years for them
to give up those vices and even then
like certain vices that you have it's
better to keep it in secret and don't
spread that don't spread that evil you
know throughout the earth you know it's
better for you to keep it and you know
it's better to hide it and that's going
to be between you and Allah the sin is
between you and Allah but I can tell you
this much definitely from giving up
alcohol. Again, I'm I weigh 150 lbs.
Now, I typically in my, you know, when
I'm more in more shape, when I'm not
eating so much food, cuz Eddie, you
know, us Mexicans, we love tacos and
especially right now with the World Cup,
it's a little hard to, you know, kind of
uh give up, you know, certain, you know,
certain eating uh lifestyles.
>> Um, you know, I weigh a little bit less,
but
>> it's it it's definitely helped me out
quite a lot, giving me a structure. uh
not only just you know physically but
also you know spiritually. Again we go
back to you know when we're training
jiu-jitsu or you know when we're doing
you know striking uh wrestling you know
we when it's time to pray you know hey
we go make wood do we clean ourselves
and then we pray and then we get back to
sparring you know and it's just like
that every day and like we have a
purpose we go out with a purpose. So you
have the the nourishment of the body and
when you're feeding it with food, what
it needs, it's lives on, you know, to go
ahead and serve its purpose, get you
through this life. But that's the thing
like when you really um don't nourish
the the soul.
>> Yeah.
>> And that nourishment that is connection
to its creator and that's the beauty of
Islam is a direct connection.
>> Correct. Not worshiping the creation but
only turning yourself wholeheartedly to
the creator of the heavens and earth.
The one Jesus worshiped Moses, Abraham,
the last and final mas pro Muhammad. So
when you nourish the food with what it
has, then you have that strong
connection and then you are truly living
your purpose and you're preparing for
what comes next after this life, the day
of judgment, paradise, hellfire. And you
now you you you have a sense of being
now being with a purpose instead. You
know, many people they fall down and
they have to sometimes hit rock bottom.
Maybe this is opportunity. Hopefully
something sad like this. Dustin can be
courageous. I think many I always repeat
this that you have so many UFC fighters
and others and for glory and fame
they'll you'll say they're courageous.
They get in the cage. But courageous is
if you see the truth to accept the
truth. So I would encourage him to I
think he spent some time in Dubai and
other places and they've had nothing but
great things to say. The hospitality,
the people were amazing. And to look in
what causes Muslims to be hospitable,
what causes Muslims to to uh leave off
many of these vices that are destroying
society? What causes Khabib to be so
focused and other Muslim fighters? Yeah,
>> you know, and try I mean, if something
works, why wouldn't you try it? Just
look into Islam. Would you I would say
look into submission to the will of God.
That's what Islam is. Cuz people get
like kind of with all of the stereotypes
and all of the um misinformation.
People are like the people I've
interviewed over the years, like Islam
was the last religion I looked at,
right? They were searching everything
that I hope it's not Islam, right?
Because there's so much stigma attached
to it. But it is. is is a treasure
that's been covered by all of the
demonic satanic forces to keep you away
from the truth.
>> Yeah.
>> Your thoughts?
>> Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
>> You can have more cuz you're you're
somebody who went through those
struggles probably still going through
it. Family and it was tough. Was it a
tough I mean a decision? Did you have a
lot of push back?
>> Uh no. But the funny thing I mean there
there there was definitely a struggle
but I think that's kind of just like
with anything and even till this day
there's there's there's struggles
>> with any soul.
>> Yeah. So again it's it's something that
that we battle every day you know but at
the end of the day what we do is we try
our best you know we we whatever sin
that we commit you know no Muslim is
perfect doesn't matter you can you know
do whatever you know from A to Z but at
the end of the day you always have to
come back to your creator and I think
that's it's a struggle for everybody but
again at least Islam is what gives you
that structure it gives you it gives
your family gives you that's like what
you were talking about spirituality and
I think that's probably one of the
biggest reasons why why I came to
towards Islam was because I was looking
for a spiritual journey a spiritual path
and it led me to Islam and yeah for a
little while I was definitely like kind
of fighting I was like I was like man
this is just you know probably just like
some like you know Arab religion you
know like you know who is Allah and then
you start to like you know ask questions
like okay you know who is Allah you know
and you're like oh you know oh we
believe in Jesus we believe in you know
him being the Messiah. You know, for me
at least, that's probably one of the
biggest reasons why I I became a Muslim
was, you know, a lot had to do with
Jesus, you know, peace be upon him. When
I found out that he was the Messiah, I
was like I was like, "Wow, this is
crazy. He had no idea that that Muslims
believe in Jesus, you know, and that you
see that, you know, it's it's it's for
everybody because, you know, not anybody
can become, you know, a Jew, you know,
it's just you you you kind of go down
that rabbit hole, you know, you're just
kind of like, okay, well, you know, it's
it's kind of an ethno religion, you
know, and for Christianity for me was,
you know, the the the the trinity, you
know, we had a lot of issues with it. I
had a lot of issues like trying to
figure out like, you know, who's the
father, you know, who's the son, you
know, who's the holy spirit, you know,
but yeah, I uh I I I pray for for our
brother Dustin Poria, and I think uh I
think he I I really do sincerely think
he's going to be all right. I think this
is just kind of a oneanddone thing, you
know.
>> Yeah. Um well, let's get this uh
hopefully Dustin, we can get this
message to him. We invite him to look
into Islam. We'd love to uh get him on
the program and we can have a
discussion, let him ask any questions,
help to facilitate
uh the journey if he's interested. And
uh until then,
>> and then he's got a lot of people in the
UFC that that that are uh
>> that are Muslim that he can reach out
to.
>> Yep. All right. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Eddie.