Maybe your favorite team just lost a huge game to a bad team. Maybe you drank too much and said something stupid. Maybe someone else drank too much and said something stupid—to your girlfriend. Maybe everyone just drank too much. Either way, now you’re face-to-face with some guy you don’t know and the chance to fight with your words is well gone: One of you is going to punch the other one in the face. This situation is not ideal.

But it can be made a little bit less not ideal if you have a good coach in your corner. Enter Conor McGregor. This is a man who knows how to win a fight, and though those fights usually take place as professional MMA showdowns in the The Octagon, we have little doubt the reigning UFC Featherweight Champion could hold his own in a good old-fashioned barroom throwdown. After all, it only takes one good punch to end one, and McGregor just may be fighting’s preeminent one-punch-knockout scholar—just ask José Aldo (or his fist-battered face), whom McGregor dethroned and humiliated in a mere 13 seconds.

Though you likely will be without Conor’s inherent athleticism, weaponized body, or intense, disciplined training, you don’t have to go without his tips. Here, alongside some footage of McGregor training in California, he offers insights to surviving alcohol-inspired fisticuffs. Listen to them. Twice. Then head down to your local watering hole and take solace in knowing both that you’ve got the secrets of one of the world’s elite fighters and that, according to McGregor, getting punched isn’t really all that bad.

“It’s a warm sensation,” he told us. “It’s nice. It almost makes me feel invincible.”

That particular warm sensation may not be something you’re eager to experience. But it’s better than a warm sensation spreading across your pants as you wet yourself with fear.

Clay Skipper is a Staff Writer at GQ.XInstagramRelated Stories for GQConor McGregorUFCGQ SportsUFCDrinking