On the OverDogs podcast, Joe Pyfer first answered Mike Perry’s question about whether Americans raise their children too gently. Pyfer believes that social ideas, discussions about gender identity and the promotion of multiple genders are the reasons why men are no longer raised the way they should be.
Joe Pyfer then went on a rant about MMA fans when asked if the fanbase has gone too soft. He claimed that netizens don’t care about a fighter’s feelings, and he has experienced that after suffering losses.
“100%, buddy. Everyone pretends they care about each other’s feelings, buddy. That’s not the case. The regular family don’t care what I’m going through. They don’t care how I feel emotionally. They don’t care what bills I have to pay. They don’t care. They don’t care if I’m hurt. They don’t care. I lost it, buddy. I fought Jack Hermansson with walking pneumonia. I had two. I trained for two five-minute rounds for that fight. And I fought for five rounds. They don’t care about any of this shit.
Joe Pyfer added that social media reflects fake love, and fans don’t know how much courage it takes to put on the gloves and step into a cage.
“The world is fake love on fake social media. And they don’t know what it takes.”
Meanwhile, Joaquin Buckley added that his confidence never comes from praise or compliments from fans, and that he likes to disconnect from the internet. Whether ‘New Mansa’ wins or loses, he sticks to the same routine of eating, sleeping and training. He also noted that fighters receive the most love when they win, but as soon as things go wrong, fans turn on them. Buckley said:
“For me, you know, I never got my confidence from compliments, right? So ever since I got into the industry, like people were talking stuff, you know. So I was one of those guys that only had about 2,300 followers, you know, but had a couple good knockouts and everything like that. And you know, as soon as I had a fight with Kevin Holland, I got signed, like I was, everyone was already telling me I was going to get knocked out before I even got knocked out. I went there, right? And that and that happened. I passed out, right? And you know, instead of feeling sad about myself or crying about it, guess where we are?
‘New Mansa’ added that fighters fight to feed their ego and don’t need to be cheered or booed.
“So now I’ve been on both sides of being hated and loved. But at the same time, that’s not what fuels me. You know, what fuels me is that I can step into that octagon and like I said, go out there and do what I love to do because this is what we do every day… We do this for our own self-love when we step out there in the octagon. You don’t have to applaud, you know?… So I don’t care about you guys booing.”
Buckley also advised fighters not to heed all the negative keyboard warriors because most of them will never dare step into the octagon:
“So at the end of the day, I really feel like, you know, there’s been a lot of fighters unfortunately, right? When they see all the comments, you know, in the section, that’s really how they feel about themselves. And I feel like, man, turn that little comment section off, man. Like, who cares what they say? Because they’re never going to have a chance to even perform, you know what I mean? And fight somebody. Period.”
Watch Joe Pyfer and Joaquin Buckley’s comments below (43:55, 47:07):
Joe Pyfer discusses why he distanced himself from fans
Joe Pyfer revealed that after his loss to Jack Hermansson in 2024, some fans made blasphemous comments that hurt his feelings to the core. He said:
“I [Joe Pyfer] felt super loved when I joined the UFC. When I finally made it. And then I fought Jack, and lost. And you know, everyone was like, ‘Kill yourself, this, that and the other.’ And it really hurt my feelings. That’s crazy. That’s wild. That’s wild… But I distanced myself from it, and I was like, man, like I gave these people my time and my emotions, and they don’t even know it. And I don’t even know what for… Like I don’t have to explain myself. It is what it is. Let these people make the fighting community think I’m fucking evil.
Finally, Joe Pyfer added that most fans don’t understand why fighters disconnect from them, and that’s only because the internet shows no mercy.
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