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Welcome back to the Fighter Vs. The Rider. I am your host, Damon Martin. And today I am joined by one of my oldest friends in the industry. He is a legend in his own ride.

I am your host, Damon Martin. And today I am joined by one of my oldest friends in the industry. He is a legend in his own ride. And he just recently retired. So he's he's living that he's living that retirement life these days.

The great Joseph and David as joins me today. Joe, how are you?

What's up, man? Doing very good, very good. Just relaxing, like retired people do.

Am I am are we allowed to talk about your trade your crazy travel schedule for this weekend? Are we allowed to talk about that publicly?

Oh, yeah, yeah. I would I would talk about it because you know, it's really just bragging on the on the globe, the greatest wife ever. It's kind of her travel schedule.

I guess, you know, I'm just tagging along as that trophy husband.

Going from going from UFC 266 on Saturday night, which pay reviews in really late. They're they're super late at night when you get done work again. And obviously Megan was working the events.

And then flying to Jacksonville to cover the NFL and Fox, of course, her other gig.

But man, that's insane. Like I know how tired I am after covering a fight for a day.

I don't want to do anything on Sunday, much less stand as a sideline reporter for the NFL. So yeah, she definitely earns that glute status.

Yeah, dude, honestly, it was that I never doubted her for a second, but obviously, you know, like, oh, my God, are you all right? What can I do all that?

I was just happy to, you know, tag along and be here with their watcher. I'm obviously like so proud. I honestly feel like it's an unprecedented move what she did.

You know, for one, those UFC pay per views, like, you know, like those are those are 15 hour days when you have to get there, set up for media, you know, with her job with rehearsals and everything.

Even just a week of a pay per view is crazy. So she was there that day doing a Q&A in the fan village before, then to rehearsals, then her 12 hour day with the UFC, you know, and then literally sprinted out the arena, you know,

sped on the craziest route to the airport, sprinted to the gate, you know, slept two hours on the plane. Then she's on the sidelines ready to go killing it for another major sport on another network.

And that's honestly what I think is amazing. It's like two separate things, you know, two separate relationships, both major sports and, yeah, so when we finally crashed out after this, you know, was a 16 hour slumber.

But like I said, I'm just so proud of her, like obviously I'm her husband. So I'm a brag when I'm like, no one else can do what you're doing. No one else has. And I was just, I was just amazed. So I'm kicking it, man. But yeah, it's been a, it's been a great time.

Absolutely. Well, Joe, before we get in, we're going to talk about UFC 266 from this past weekend. Of course, two crazy title fights and the return of Nick Diaz against Robbie Lolo. We're going to get all into that. But, but of course, having you on today, we wanted to talk about, you know, your retirement,

your announcement, your retiring from the sport. I know we talked, you know, briefly, right as the announcement happened. But of course, I wanted to have you on the show to talk about everything. So kind of, kind of giving a sense of like, you know, how this all came about, you seem pretty resigned in the decision, didn't seem like it was like a spur of the moment thing or, you know, whatever. But kind of walked me through the decision to retire.

Well, honestly, this goes all the way back. I would say after my last fight, I knew I wasn't going to fight. But to be honest,

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