Joe Rogan Experience - Fight Companion - August 6, 2016
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3 hours and 49 minutes
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204.41733
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Summary
In this episode of the Fight Companion, Eddie Bravo and Brian Callen are joined by Eddie's good friend and long time co-worker Eddie Bravo to talk about some new technology that's been around for a while now. They talk about virtual reality, shadowboxing, and a whole lot more. Fight Companion is a podcast about the world of mixed martial arts and the people who make it possible for us to live in it. Fight Companion 2016 returns live from Salt Lake City, Utah on Nov. 18th, featuring Yair Rodriguez and Alex Caceres! Subscribe to Fight Companion on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review on iTunes, too. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends and family! Peace, Blessings, Cheers, EJ & Rory. -The Fight Companion -Your Hosts: Eddie Bravo, Brian Callan, and EJ's Dad, Eddie Vellian Check us out on Anchor.fm/TheFightCompass Subscribe, Like, and Share the Podcast! -Eddie Bravo's Back is back with a new episode of Fight Companion coming soon! EJ and Rory talk about a new virtual reality game they're working on that's coming soon. Brian's back from a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada! Brian talks about his experience with Duncan Trussell's "Shadowboxing" and how it's going to revolutionize his life. and how he's excited about the future of shadowboxing and shadowboxing! Can't wait to see what he's doing in the future, and much more! -- EJ talks about it all of the cool stuff going on the next episode of The Fight Companion. -- CHEERYO's back with Eddie's new VR game, and Brian's new video game, Fight Companion's new shadowboxing game, -- Brian calls out a new game, "ShadowBoxing" . Eddie talks about some of the new technology, and why he thinks it's cool, and what it's gonna be better than the real life version of Muay Thai, and gives his thoughts on it, and how you should be doing it, so you can do it in the real world, too! ...and so much more... and so much MORE! , , and Brian explains it all, and we talk about it on this episode, too, and more!
Transcript
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Fight Companion 2016 returns, ladies and gentlemen, live from Salt Lake City.
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So with me here, if you've never heard the Fight Companion before, you're like, oh great, what's a Fight Companion?
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But we're sort of watching the fights and calling the fights, but probably most likely not that much.
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Ladies and gentlemen, there's some fucking new technology going on.
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Brandon motherfucking Schaub is in the building.
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I gotta show you guys something because yesterday changed my fucking world.
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I did Duncan Trussell's podcast and he introduced me to the world of virtual reality goggles.
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This is a boxing game, so I have these gloves on, and it's kind of wacky because the gloves aren't the way you punch.
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You're holding onto these handles, and I'm fighting this Russian boxing coach dude.
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In order for your fists to be level, like parallel with the ground, you have to hold them like this.
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If you're holding your hands with the heel of your hand facing the ground...
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If you're holding your hands like that, your punches are parallel with the floor.
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They should make it so that you could hold your hand like an actual punch.
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So like, wherever your hands are, that's where your gloves are.
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So I'm holding it like this and I'm punching like this.
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It looks like really good exercise though, right?
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There's a bunch of games for these things now, but here's my point.
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I would sneak around behind him and beat him in the back of the head and uppercut him.
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And I'm doing this, and I'm like, oh, my footwork's all awkward.
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But after I did it a few times, I started to get the feeling of it.
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I was like, this is an amazing shadowboxing program.
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I think you could have it so that you could throw kicks, because it was getting me, it was getting all my movement from these two cameras that Duncan has set up in the room.
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So the cameras, they scan you when you're standing there, and then they build a perimeter around you, and there's a blue line on the ground.
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You look down, and you're in this 3D world, but you see this blue line on the ground.
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You can't go past that blue line, because that's the amount of free space that you have in your area.
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Can you imagine if you could download the opponent you're going to fight and they can shadowbox against them?
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What he was saying is if you could make a training simulation of a guy, you could fight him a hundred times before you ever actually fight him.
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You can get comfortable with seeing him in front of you.
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And I'm telling you, man, what I was looking at was kind of cartoonish, like this Russian boxing guy's kind of cartoonish.
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He's got a wife beater on and headgear and shit.
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You could get to a point within a few years where you're going to be boxing a guy that looks exactly like Joe Schilling.
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Well, it would certainly be a great training tool.
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Well, this looks like Wolfenstein, but we've got a ways to go.
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And I'll tell you what, this isn't nearly as fun as the archery program.
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There was an archery one when you're in a castle, and you're on a roof, and you hear...
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And these fucking warriors come storming at you, and they have helmets on, and they have shields, and you're shooting arrows at them.
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The same goofy handles, but there's haptic feedback, so this is the archery one that I was playing.
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It's because you're dealing with massive amounts of rendering in real time.
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So when you pull the bow back, there's no resistance, but there's this vibration.
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So it really feels like you're pulling it back.
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And then it gets to the point where it's locked out, you feel it, like, click.
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I shot this stupid fucking game until my arms were so sore they were shaking.
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I was going to say, now gamers are probably going to look like MMA fighters.
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But I think, man, if you remember those Dance Dance Revolution kids that were losing like 30 pounds playing Dance Dance...
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Jamie, can you pull up the card so we'll let people know?
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So I've seen this tall woman fight in, I think, Tough.
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Yeah, you know, they've just passed new rules today.
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They're going to make women wear tight-fitting clothing.
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They're not going to allow loose-fitting clothing.
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If you go back to the Chael Sonnen-Anderson Silva fight, there's a famous picture of Anderson Silva pulling Chael Sonnen shorts down.
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I feel like in the last year alone, I feel like women have gotten exponentially better.
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Dude, Valentina Shevchenko, the woman who just beat Holly Holm, she's so solid, man.
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Her counter, she's got it in her DNA where she's throwing them spinning back fist counters.
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She's got that down better than anybody I've seen, right?
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That girl's a multiple-time Muay Thai champion.
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So, like, the girls who are going to give her problems are not the girls like Holly.
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Girls like Holly, like, Holly's going to, like, stand there and strike with her, and Valentina has so much fucking striking experience.
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The girls who are going to give Shevchenko problems are the girls who are going to be looking to take her down.
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A girl is not going to just stand in front of her.
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She's not like Misha's love as far as grappling goes.
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But when she fought Sarah Kaufman in her first fight, she out-grappled her.
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And she took that fight on super short notice, if I remember.
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And she kept cracking her with that counter right hook.
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She kept taking her head off the center line and just dropping that right hook in.
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But don't you think that Holly is in more of a boxing world?
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Like, as far as her footwork, her speed, her movement, especially her counters.
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Like, when someone's going after her, she's brilliant as a counter striker.
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I feel like Holly is the fastest, probably the fastest striker as far as just being able to get her shots off.
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Like if you were to time from when she throws to somebody's face.
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She's certainly fast, but I mean, in her weight class, maybe she's the fastest.
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You ever seen Yoana do those videos on Twitter where her trainer's holding pads and she's ripping into them?
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She's the best striker in the UFC. Jamie, see if you can pull some of those up.
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You think she's the best striker in the UFC even among guys?
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Well, I would say Wonderboy would argue with that.
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And I would say that there's a few other fighters that are just strikers.
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The real problem is saying she's the best or one person's the best.
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It's so subjective, especially if they're never going to fight each other.
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It also depends the caliber of person you're fighting, too.
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She's doing these sprawls, and she's getting up, firing combinations.
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You don't see Overeem with that same technique.
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He smoked Junior Dos Santos with one left hook.
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It's hard to look at him the same way you look at anybody else, because first of all, he's in a division where anyone connects, everybody goes night-night, right?
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We don't see his technique, because one of his jabs will knock a motherfucker out, so you don't see five rounds of over him like you do with Johanna.
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Johanna will go the distance, and her technique will be flawless.
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Minute one in the first round to minute one in the next.
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Somebody at that size can afford to be and take more chances and actually stand in the pocket and throw.
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Whereas you guys, at your weight, you've got to be so careful because one mistake...
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The margin for error seems like it's so much smaller.
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I think that these guys, you know, you're looking at, like, Ben Rothwell.
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Like, Ben Rothwell knocked out Overeem in the first round.
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And now Overeem is going to be fighting for the title against Stipe.
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But Ben Rothwell just got, like, a full five-round beating by Junior Dos Santos.
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It was like, the best Junior has looked in years.
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And then you've got to think that Alistair knocked out Junior.
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So the MMA math in the heavyweight division is bananas.
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This is a crazy-ass division in the craziest sport.
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Do we know any young heavyweights who are 21, 22, like that age, even in the mix?
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Well, I'll tell you who everybody should be putting their attention on.
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I'm telling you, when that dude moves in on guys and he throws bombs on them, I'm just, I'm waiting for a really solid opponent for him.
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Yeah, we have not seen him tested, but I'll tell you, look at him up there.
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I think in the heavyweight division, guys just need more time.
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29. 29. So he's damn near 30. Yeah, he'll be 30 in September, actually.
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I think he's in his prime, for sure, as an athlete.
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Derrick Lewis looked so good in that Roy Nelson fight.
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You know how you see a guy fight and you go, whoa, this guy hit another level.
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And to go three rounds with Roy, there couldn't be a better thing for his career.
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And then you go three rounds with a vet like Roy.
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Because I thought he was just a meathead throwing bombs.
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If you look at his previous side, it's kind of like, alright, he's just a big, powerful guy.
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Yeah, he lands right hand, the guy's going to sleep.
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But you look at Roy, you're like, shit, he's putting combos together, man.
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I'd like to see him versus your boy, the predator.
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He's had much more experience against higher level guys, I guess you'd say, right?
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Mitrione's tough guy got starched, so he didn't get a lot of experience.
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But how many fights has Derrick had now in the UFC? I want to say four?
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The thing is, with both those guys, if you give them...
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You know, because when you get to the top, not every guy's going to sit there and bang with you.
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See, but the thing about Gano is his Muay Thai.
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What makes me super interested in him, not just is his speed, his size, his ability to put guys away, like what we're seeing.
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But it's also the way you're watching them move.
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Yeah, the only X factor with him is the grappling.
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He beat Gabriel Gonzaga, he beat Grabowski, and he beat Victor Beska before he fought Nelson.
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Four fight, win streak, and getting wins over Gonzaga and Nelson, two vats.
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Yeah, I remember that fight with Sean Jordan, too, but I think Sean Jordan hook kicked him in the head.
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That was the first time anybody has ever, and he's a huge guy, but the first time anybody ever, like, hay-oed somebody with a hook kick.
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Played football at LSU fullback on the national championship team.
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Is it easier to become untakedownable as a heavyweight or as a lightweight or a welterweight?
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At heavyweight, there's a lot less explosive guys that are going to take you down.
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There's some explosive fucking guys at heavyweight, man.
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There's this Russian dude who's going to join the ranks of MMA after the Olympics.
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Those Russian scientific experiments that live in Siberia.
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Who can do that in the heavyweight division right now?
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Pull up video of the homeboy and give me his full name because I don't want to butcher his name.
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He's not hearing a peep out of any wrestler he comes up against.
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And when he gets to MMA, when he gets to MMA, he's running through motherfuckers.
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Dude, I'm telling you, he's just going to be throwing dudes around.
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MMA wrestling's different than what he's doing, though.
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There's going to be guys who figure out how to push him off.
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These guys are forced to engage with him, right?
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There's going to be guys that are not going to want to engage with him.
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But he's not going to fight Verdum right off the bat, obviously.
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No, he's going to be on that Derek Lewis and the Francis Ganot track.
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And by the way, who's to say this guy can't punch a fucking hole through your universe?
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Who's to say he's not been boxing anyway since he was eight?
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Listen, if he's preparing for the UFC, is this him right here?
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It's like he's trying to grab people as he's punching them.
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Yeah, see, he's such a big fucking gorilla, though.
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He could be on that Brock Lesnar and say, fuck, strike, and check this double leg out.
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Yeah, and by the way, he probably could get better in a month.
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He should fly right to AK right now and just be like, what's up?
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Because you saw the test better than the Olympics.
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This guy's probably on some straight fucking DNA manipulation.
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He's fucking Bebop and Rock Study from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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He's so far ahead of the curve, they don't even need steroids.
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They just put this dude in one of them easy-bake microwave ovens.
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And the problem is, like, okay, say he does get down to 265 and then he starts fighting in MMA. And if he's 290, I don't know if he competes at 290. Well, he's a heavyweight.
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I don't think he has to lose any weight, right?
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So maybe if he just watches his diet and incorporates more striking and some running and shit like that, he might get down to 270 anyway and just be able to slide under.
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Just get in the steam room, lose a couple 10 pounds?
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Guys that become, like, that level world champion at anything that's combat sport related, they figure it out, man.
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DC's not physically, you know, this big either.
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I'm telling you, man, he's not even doing it perfectly yet.
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But good luck if you take one of those on the chin.
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I mean, if you look at the way he's striking, like fluidity, you want to look at a big, fluid guy?
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Rico Verhoeven, the Glory Heavyweight Champion?
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He's like what you want to see when you look at a heavyweight striker.
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So if this gentleman, this Russian gentleman, just figures out how to sit down more on his stuff, he's so athletic!
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Rico's not hearing a peep out of that Russian polar bear.
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Well, you don't think that guy can take Rico down?
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He's a bad motherfucker when it comes to kickboxing, for sure.
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Because he puts a pace on heavyweights they just can't fuck with, and he's not a little heavyweight.
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He's left high-cooking people in the face with his front leg as a heavyweight.
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What he's doing is more impressive to me as a big guy.
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To be that athletic and smooth and just world-class kickboxer, it's nuts.
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Well, yeah, I mean, look, it's super impressive, but you can't deny how impressive it is that that Russian gentleman is just dominating.
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I'm saying if I have to invest in one, let's say they're both 21 years old, Rico's about to kick your fucking face off.
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The other guy's gonna take you down and hump you.
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Well, that guy might, I don't know, he might take you down.
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He was a WWE guy, and he was so big, he got in a fight in a bar, and he reached into the dude's mouth.
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He reached into the dude's mouth with his giant Samoan fingers, and he grabbed the bottom of his teeth and just went, and broke his teeth out of his mouth.
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Yeah, he just went, hey, you're talking to him.
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I just forgot what the fuck I was going to ask you guys about.
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We're talking about Rico and the Russian barbarian.
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I wanted to talk about the Russian doping program.
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Because they almost pulled the entire Russian team out of the Olympics.
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There's a whole fight going on, we're not even paying attention.
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I haven't seen one fucking ounce of this fight.
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Back to this fight real quick, unless you guys got more shit, but you were talking about a new rule change, about tighter clothes and like...
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Yeah, there was one of the things that I might have read it wrong.
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I want to make sure I get it right, but I believe that one of the new rule changes is no loose clothing for female fighters.
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If they had to make a rule, you would think that, you know, we got to stop this.
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How are they not going to change the 12-6 elbows?
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You know they changed all these rules, right, Eddie?
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The sanctioned body changed a bunch of rules, like what wins rounds, 10-8 rounds, stuff like that.
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And I'm like, sweet, I bet they do 12-6 elbows.
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Yeah, they should have done that, but what they did do that's even more interesting, honestly, is this new rule about putting your hands down the mat.
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You have to have both your hands flat on the mat, both hands, to constitute being in a position where you can't get kicked or kneed.
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I think that's the beginning of just crushing that altogether.
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Yeah, it needs to be crushed because we have to be honest about what the sport is, okay?
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And if you take away some really super effective maneuvers, but you leave in a bunch of other super effective maneuvers, like, we've got to be consistent, and we're not consistent.
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And there's a position where you can be kind of safe When you have your hand on the mat, you can't be kneed in the face, you can't be kicked in the face.
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But that causes, like, safety-first kind of behavior.
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Yep, and then they're also putting more emphasis on 10-8 rounds.
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You're going to see more frequently 10-8 rounds now.
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You know, it's like, what if they decided to not...
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The 12-6 elbows, though, is the one thing I went through the list.
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I'm like, how the fuck did they not address that?
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The hands on the mat rule, I think, is going to be more of a factor than even the 12-6 elbow rule.
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I think it's very smart that they did it because I think you can still protect yourself in those positions.
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You're talking about someone who's trying to make their way back up to their feet, ideally to strike or to grapple again.
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So to say this guy can't kick you in a transitionary moving period, it's stupid.
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They're going to warn you and they're going to take a point.
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If you're fighting with open hands, you're going to have some issues.
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I think if you look at the amount of eye pokes in Pride versus the amount of eye pokes in the UFC, I don't think you can compare it to them.
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That's because those guys are so juiced up even if you hit their eyes.
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You know what other rule I would like changed as well, and this sounds brutal, but when you have someone's back, you should be able to elbow them in the back of the fucking head.
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You know, back in the day when that shit was legal, you didn't even have to have a good rear naked choke.
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You throw a couple of these and dudes just fucking...
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You can head kick someone with your shin in the front of the eyes.
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Kick them in the eyes, but you can't kick them in the back of the head.
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No, but you can kick them in the back of the head.
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If you throw a head kick and you hit a guy in the back of the head and he goes to sleep, you don't get penalized at all.
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Guys, almost always, when they throw high kicks, you'll see, especially if it goes over the left shoulder, say if you're both standing orthodox, and you throw a right high kick and it goes over the left shoulder, the first place it's hitting is the back of your head a lot of the time.
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Imagine what everyone's records would look like in the history of MMA if that was never taken out.
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There would have been a lot of wins and losses switched up.
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People forget that in the beginning when you'd get the back, you didn't even need a rear naked choke.
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You just ride the dude and you fuck him up and they tap really quick.
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I'd rather see knees to a down opponent than kicks.
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I remember John Lewis did it to somebody and the guy tapped so quick.
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Back of the head's tough, Eddie, with the elbows, man.
00:29:37.000
Can you just explain how people are getting kicked in the back of the head and no one's complaining about that?
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If you're kicking a guy, if you throw a head kick, And it goes over the shoulder and lands with the instep.
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It's almost always hit in the back of the head.
00:29:49.000
I agree, but same thing if you're throwing a huge right hand, the guy goes to slip in the back of the head.
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It doesn't matter if it's on purpose or on access.
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Someone did a cartwheel kick and kicked the back of someone's head.
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But that back of the head gets hit all the time with kicks.
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Or when you're riding on someone's back and you're throwing an elbow?
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They should shell up and they've got to realize they can't just sit in that position and defend the choke.
00:30:49.000
They're gonna stop the fight when they get back there.
00:30:51.000
Guys really aren't going for the choke unless they're jiu-jitsu based.
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They're really just raining down punches and they stop the fight.
00:30:56.000
There's a big fucking difference between punching someone in the back of the head on the back and then elbowing.
00:31:01.000
Yeah, because Elvin, you're gonna have someone's fucking career or smash their skull.
00:31:11.000
When he had his back in that same way, you know?
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The real question is, like, how dangerous is it?
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There's not as much protection and bone back there.
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But, well, it seems that that is an area that's vulnerable, much like your eyeballs, much like your temple.
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And it's real weird to me that we take, like, even if it's the most vulnerable one, why are we taking that spot and not really taking it out of the game either?
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Like, you can still hit guys there with head kicks, and you...
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If you want to end the fight, just forget the cup.
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Because honestly, if you look at the early UFCs, there was a lot of dick fucking kicking.
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Keith Hackney's in side control dropping bombs on Joe Son's dick bombs.
00:32:38.000
You can't fuck someone with the back of your head.
00:32:47.000
Big Daddy Goodridge reached into that dude's shorts and crushed his dick and balls.
00:33:05.000
So that's unacceptable, but back of the head's all good?
00:33:10.000
How do you not understand the difference between your Johnson and the back of your head?
00:33:15.000
I'd rather get kicked in the fucking Johnson in the back of my brain.
00:33:25.000
You dick a full-blown kick from Mark Hunt or somebody.
00:33:37.000
Yeah, but if he kicks you in the head, your dick might never work again.
00:33:43.000
You would choose the dick over the back of the head?
00:33:52.000
What part cunt kicks you in the back of the head?
00:33:59.000
No one's going to die from being kicked in the dick.
00:34:01.000
It depends on where is he kicking you in the dick.
00:34:06.000
If your dick is riding high and he kicks you the shin across the top, Bring it.
00:34:15.000
It's just going to smash your dick down a little bit and then let it go.
00:34:30.000
My dick looks like the front of a great white shark nose.
00:34:51.000
Meanwhile, he could have gone for the Von Flu choke, Eddie Bravo.
00:34:59.000
You don't give a fuck about the Von Flu when you're punching the man's dick off.
00:35:03.000
It's amazing how many guys still hold on to the headlock when they get taken down.
00:35:08.000
They're in side control and they're still clamped down on the headlock.
00:35:14.000
Last time I saw it get used, though, was OSP. Against Cody Donovan.
00:35:38.000
He kept kicking his body, kneeing his body, and he just marched forward.
00:35:45.000
Dude, that guy's 23. He's like 23, 24. Might be 24. He's trouble.
00:36:07.000
No, Ed Herman's definitely light heavyweight now.
00:36:09.000
He won by knockout in his last fight before this Krylov fight.
00:36:43.000
You want to talk about a smart business decision, not fighting, sitting out for that title shot and it paid off.
00:36:53.000
The selling of the UFC and how that works really?
00:37:00.000
I honestly have not even asked a single person what the deal is.
00:37:18.000
He's still the president, and the Titas are no longer involved in it.
00:37:36.000
I don't, you know, I don't know how they did it before.
00:37:54.000
I don't know how that works, what they call it.
00:37:56.000
If it's a new organization that's bought the UFC, I don't know how it works.
00:38:08.000
Just UFC. The same company bought the rodeo, too.
00:38:12.000
We, as fans that are sitting here watching the fights right now, we owe the Fertittas everything.
00:38:19.000
If they didn't have the balls and the money and the risk-taking acumen, they didn't know when to stay in and when to bail and how they could turn this thing around.
00:38:33.000
They are what Eddie and I used to always dream of.
00:38:35.000
Eddie and I, when we were fans back in the old days, when nobody...
00:38:45.000
I had DirecTV specifically so I could get the UFC. You needed two Scrooge McDucks to go, yeah, we'll see what we can do with this thing.
00:38:51.000
Dude, those guys, they came in at the perfect time.
00:38:57.000
And through all their risk-taking and all their just smart business decisions, smart promotional decisions...
00:39:08.000
And then putting together the ultimate fighter.
00:39:23.000
They might build a gold spaceship and just fly all over Vegas.
00:39:49.000
They're still gonna get killer seats at the UFC. Yeah, they don't give a fuck about seats.
00:39:57.000
Nothing's really going to change with their life.
00:40:03.000
They could buy all of us in here except for Rogan.
00:40:22.000
Their work is done as far as getting it mainstream.
00:40:43.000
Give me the cash, and I'm just going to watch it and enjoy it from the outside.
00:40:58.000
Because you can just relax and enjoy the fights.
00:41:14.000
Yeah, I had to make sure that I was thinking about it correctly.
00:41:18.000
I really had to spend time thinking about what I was doing.
00:41:22.000
I definitely knew that I had to reduce the schedule.
00:41:24.000
There was no way I was going to go back to doing it as many times as I was doing it before.
00:41:31.000
I don't think flying that much is good for you.
00:41:35.000
No, we're not made to be in the air and breathing that recycled air and shit in all the time.
00:41:38.000
People that are flying every week, like road guys, like comics too, they have this look about them.
00:41:48.000
And by the way, man, I read about radiation in space.
00:41:59.000
I think I read that it's more radiation than you get when you get an x-ray.
00:42:25.000
We have great Italian food in LA. Do you opt out on the security line?
00:42:44.000
Oh, but then they pat you down and shit and go through your luggage.
00:42:48.000
Dude, it's the craziest thing how they're allowed to touch your dick as long as it's with the back of the hand they tell you.
00:42:53.000
Yeah, because where are you going to hide shit?
00:42:54.000
With the back of my hand, that's where I'm going to hit your sensitive areas.
00:43:03.000
Like there's less nerves on the back of your hand?
00:43:16.000
It says cosmic rays sound scary, but radiation risk on a flight is small.
00:43:21.000
See if that was right about you get as much as you get when you get x-rayed.
00:43:29.000
It says pilots in the flight attendants get twice the incidence of melanoma compared to the general population, which could be part of where that comes from.
00:43:49.000
Up that high and breathing recycled air and other people's farts.
00:43:51.000
And just fucking hanging with a guy next to you for hours.
00:44:15.000
You get that back mount, you immediately go right here.
00:44:22.000
But wouldn't it be a position where you would have to protect that, like, really quick?
00:44:27.000
How about you just fucking heel kick him in the nuts?
00:44:30.000
No, but how come, seriously, how come it's okay to heel kick a guy in the temple?
00:44:36.000
A guy could have his head sideways, and you could smash down the point of your elbow into his temple, and that's a legal strike.
00:44:42.000
Because I think with the brainstem, you don't have as much protection back here.
00:44:56.000
I mean, obviously it's dangerous to get hit anywhere in the head.
00:44:58.000
But I wonder, like, how much more dangerous it is.
00:45:11.000
No one's promoting it, but we're not changing the result of a fight if somebody wheel kicks a guy and clips the back of his head.
00:45:20.000
If it was that serious, they should, like, DQ the guy for those head kicks.
00:45:24.000
If they do the replay, the instant replay, they go, you know what?
00:45:27.000
Do you ever see Ernesto Hoost versus Maurice Smith?
00:45:35.000
This is like a classic example of a behind-the-head kick.
00:45:49.000
Maurice is a seriously skillful kickboxer, too.
00:46:22.000
BOOM! I mean, that is just artwork over the top of the shoulder.
00:46:28.000
Your opponent throws a knee, you know that you got time.
00:46:35.000
And a guy like Anderson, he would time when you would put your feet down, when you would...
00:46:41.000
So he knows that if you're doing this, you're going here, and then maybe you have a pattern.
00:46:52.000
As soon as that knee came down, he had a feeling Maurice would be there.
00:46:55.000
That's why he's thrown that kick up 10,000 times, too.
00:46:58.000
And the way he brought it around behind his shoulder.
00:47:01.000
But the crazy thing there is from that distance, it's fucking nuts.
00:47:09.000
And the flexibility of the hips is what you really have to have because you've got to have that ability to drop down over.
00:47:29.000
Well, because he fucked up his shoulder on one and then Bob just kept kicking at it.
00:47:33.000
Yeah, he fucked up his shoulder bad and then Bob realized it and kept kicking it.
00:47:40.000
I'm still waiting for the first Japanese necktie.
00:48:13.000
The fingers are right here, you could just tell that's not deep enough.
00:48:16.000
You know who I still want to fucking see in the UFC before all this bullshit is out?
00:48:39.000
There's the kid with the wine and a fucking smile.
00:48:59.000
Hey, what about Joey Diaz getting his fucking blue belt, right?
00:49:13.000
He talks about jujitsu every time we talk on the phone.
00:49:28.000
Every time he talks about jujitsu, he says, listen, Eddie Bravo, I'm terrible.
00:49:53.000
I wasn't even sure he was being serious about it.
00:49:55.000
Joe Rogan, now I know why you like that Twister side control, dog.
00:50:21.000
It's given him something to work towards, and it's given him an awesome way to do real rigorous exercise.
00:50:31.000
If that guy's your friend, you want to be healthy.
00:50:36.000
Joey's a strong man, and he's a proud man, and he's beautiful.
00:50:58.000
He's gotten really into being healthy, really into jiu-jitsu, really into comedy, man.
00:51:04.000
He's traveling all over the country now, doing gigs everywhere.
00:51:08.000
Joey's selling out like five shows before he even gets into town.
00:51:21.000
His jujitsu story of how he got into it is the most inspirational jujitsu story ever, man.
00:51:28.000
There needs to be a documentary about him and how he got turned on to jujitsu and following him around, videotaping his training and all that.
00:51:42.000
If you listen to that story and you don't want to do jujitsu, you need a psychiatric evaluation.
00:51:55.000
But, you know, kind of jujitsu has that effect on people.
00:52:27.000
The body, what he's doing with his body is he's placing it in the exact same place as you would with a Japanese necktie.
00:52:37.000
So it's like a Japanese necktie with a different grip, but it's similar.
00:52:43.000
And Jamie, for all the people that are listening, what was that fight that we were just watching and were just talking about?
00:52:47.000
Unless I'm retarded and I couldn't tell by that angle or something.
00:52:59.000
I mean, if you look at the placement of his left elbow, yeah.
00:53:18.000
In between a guillotine and a Japanese necktie.
00:53:26.000
The fact that you can see his hands in the front, the hands gotta stay in the back of the head.
00:53:30.000
Yeah, but isn't it interesting though that there's like a lot of different ways to grip the guillotine, right?
00:53:35.000
There's a lot of different ways to hold your hands, but they're all considered guillotines.
00:53:39.000
But this choke, which is like pretty similar, like the head is trapped, it's twisted, left shoulder's down, hands are coming up like this, the neck is getting wrenched and cranked.
00:53:48.000
It's getting wrenched and cranked in both positions, right?
00:53:54.000
Japanese necktie has arm evolved because the guy's got that underhook on you.
00:53:58.000
Say if I'm getting it, and he's got his underhook on the left side, my arm is overhooking his arm, and then that's going behind his head, and that's where I'm clamping down.
00:54:06.000
I clamped down with a scissors grip, but that guy looked like he had something like this.
00:54:14.000
I could be wrong, but that didn't look like a Japanese necktie, but I could be wrong.
00:54:19.000
With the grip, that looked like an arm in guillotine.
00:54:22.000
Well, whatever it was, that guy's neck was getting cranked, too.
00:54:36.000
If he's doing a Japanese necktie, his right elbow should be T-Rexed here.
00:54:42.000
Yeah, maybe he just has a wide open way of doing it.
00:55:06.000
He went in there and got blueberries and cheese.
00:55:19.000
The right elbow wouldn't be T-Rex because it couldn't be because you have the overhook.
00:55:29.000
Which is where you wouldn't be necessarily there in a darse.
00:55:35.000
So the way he's doing it is totally a Japanese necktie.
00:55:39.000
Because the head's trapped the exact same way you trap the head.
00:55:41.000
The neck is cranked in the exact same direction.
00:55:44.000
And also, he's got the leg tied up, which I like.
00:55:51.000
It's for sure not a darts because his hips and his right shoulder would be down.
00:56:02.000
I'm looking at it right now, and I was always like, what's the best leg to tie up?
00:56:05.000
Because I would always tie up whatever leg I could.
00:56:08.000
I always said that, but if you look at that, if he ties up the left leg, he doesn't have that, he can't move with that right leg.
00:56:15.000
Excuse me, if he ties up the right leg the way he's got it like there, that other leg's not helping him as much.
00:56:20.000
But if he ties up the other leg, then he can get that right leg under him and he can use it to manipulate his base more.
00:56:27.000
His problem here is he immediately should have stomped on dude's right thigh with his left foot.
00:56:55.000
Someone's attacking that leg, you kick it free.
00:56:58.000
If you're in a position like that or somewhere similar where you have access to kick the knee, can you kick someone's knee on the ground when you're grappling with it?
00:57:13.000
Like, no one's ever been in a position, like, maybe they have side control or something like that, and they drop axe kicks down on someone's knee.
00:57:23.000
It feels like you should be able to definitely attack the thighs.
00:57:30.000
You're saying MMA. Like, say if someone has someone in, like...
00:57:36.000
Maybe it'll fuck up your balance and you'll lose position.
00:57:40.000
But in that guy, in that situation, where that guy is getting choked, if he could have kicked at the knee itself, this isn't a good position for it.
00:57:53.000
He's got to kick that leg free and get flat on your back.
00:57:57.000
Is there ever a time where you can kick someone's legs when you're holding them down?
00:58:06.000
In Pride, a good combo would be, if you get them out, bop bop bop, stand up, stomp.
00:58:15.000
Bop bop bop on the mountain and you stand up, boom.
00:58:23.000
It's weird what effective moves are legal and what are not legal.
00:58:27.000
One of the most underutilized kicks, in my opinion, are those hicks in those leg curl kicks while you have someone's back.
00:59:04.000
And then the guys defend it and then he comes up and chokes.
00:59:13.000
Well now at least guys can attack when they're on their back, they can kidney kick.
00:59:25.000
So when somebody's in your guard, you can do kidney kicks?
00:59:33.000
Well, you're not going to be able to just lay there.
00:59:35.000
It's another offensive option for the grappler.
00:59:38.000
So if you're in a full guard position and someone has good kicks, like say if you get some Anderson Silva type character who has good kicks, he can fuck your back up, man.
00:59:46.000
And when you do get free, you break free, you could be all bunched up and tightened up just from eating those heel kicks to the kidneys.
00:59:52.000
Isn't there danger there that you can actually create, you can cause internal bleeding that'll mess with them later on?
00:59:58.000
Yeah, this is going to be a lot of internal bleeding, son.
01:00:06.000
Listen, man, how can you say you can stop kidney injuries, but you won't stop a spinning back kick to the ribs?
01:00:15.000
Listen, man, if someone, like some elite guy, like a Wonderboy, spinning back kicks you in the ribs...
01:00:28.000
Dude, Overeem, that left round kick to the ribs that he landed on Brock before he put him away.
01:00:40.000
And Overeem, when he fought Brock, was Overeem, too.
01:00:45.000
Did you notice when people are going to take body shots like that, there's a pause?
01:00:51.000
They say, I'm not sure, but they say that's because your liver gets lifted up, and when it falls back down, somebody told me that, that's why there's that pause.
01:01:00.000
So if you guys get watched, if you watch anybody who takes, there's a pause.
01:01:03.000
You know who used to train to hit like that and fall down?
01:01:07.000
He used to train as if he got hit in the body and practice just falling down to his back.
01:01:14.000
Because one of his buddies, I forget who it was, lost a fight by getting a body shot.
01:01:20.000
And he just kind of crumbled and went to the ground.
01:01:25.000
And then showed him that he kept doing reps, like getting hit, balling up into guard and bringing the guy down into your guard to give you time.
01:01:52.000
As far as number-wise, pay-per-view number-wise.
01:02:00.000
I bet the new owners want to go, let's fucking...
01:02:12.000
Let's come in with some fire and blow up these cards.
01:02:20.000
You need a guy who loves fighting and knows fighting.
01:02:26.000
Big corporations that get involved doesn't necessarily mean...
01:02:32.000
You can't get rid of those guys and have suits who, you know...
01:02:36.000
You could never have a suit run the company either.
01:02:40.000
But they could say, hey, listen, we'd like to see...
01:02:45.000
You don't have to be a genius to come up with dream matchups.
01:02:52.000
Zach Cummings, he's fighting this Ponzinubio guy who's a beast.
01:03:09.000
I mean, he's got to walk around well over 200 pounds.
01:03:16.000
This fucking cheese, Cal, and you outdid yourself.
01:03:52.000
If I'm Scrooge McDuck, if I'm Dana, this is what you do.
01:03:56.000
So the loyal purists of the sport are going to say, Wonderboy's next.
01:04:01.000
We can't do that because sell that pay-per-view, you get 300 buys.
01:04:09.000
So you do the GSB fight to make Woodley a star so he can be a pay-per-view headliner.
01:04:23.000
If he actually wants to fight, I feel like GSP gets a free pass.
01:04:34.000
I mean, you've got to let him fight for the title.
01:04:43.000
So the question is, does he fight now, and does he fight Tyron, or does he fight the winner of Tyron vs.
01:04:51.000
Or does Wonderboy get paid, or rather, does Tyron get paid, and he fights Nick Diaz?
01:04:58.000
Will he get paid more if he fights Nick Diaz, do you think?
01:05:01.000
Listen, if I was Tyron Woodley, I'd be asking for the Nick Diaz fight.
01:05:10.000
You know how much stoner money is out there rooting on Nick Diaz?
01:05:14.000
I don't think the UFC maybe even realizes what they have in Nick Diaz.
01:05:20.000
They should be putting up with everything and more.
01:05:44.000
He's on that Conor McGregor press tour right now.
01:05:47.000
He bashes Wonderboy Thompson and says he should be able to pick his next opponent.
01:05:52.000
As Dana White, if we want entertainment and you want numbers, you do GSP or Nick Diaz.
01:05:57.000
If you're a purist of the sport, you do Wanderboy.
01:06:01.000
But the bottom line is, Tyron Woodley is the fucking champion.
01:06:05.000
When you're the champion, you can say all the crazy shit you want.
01:06:15.000
You're fighting Wonderboy on fucking Fox Sports one year on a Wednesday night and you're going to shut your fucking mouth.
01:06:24.000
On the same card, GSP versus Nick Diaz and Woodley versus Wonderboy.
01:06:29.000
Nah, fuck that because you're killing two birds with one storm.
01:06:38.000
Do you know that John Donaher made a post recently saying that GSP, he put it on Instagram, saying that GSP's camp for the Nick Diaz fight was one of the best camps he ever had.
01:06:49.000
Came out of it injury-free, super healthy, and then the night before the fight drank some watermelon juice that had been sitting out for too long and got deathly ill.
01:07:06.000
And they devised a strategy of conserving his energy and not engaging too much.
01:07:13.000
And then when they came in to see the wraps, he was talking about they wrapped GSP's hands and the Diaz camp wanted to see them wrap his hands.
01:07:23.000
So they had to come in, and then he said that George had to, like, imitate this sense of vitality, you know?
01:07:40.000
And then when they left, he was like, oh my god.
01:07:44.000
But didn't Nick Diaz say that someone drugged him in that fight?
01:07:49.000
Could you imagine if someone drugged both of them, if that's what was going on?
01:07:52.000
They didn't even know it, but somebody drugged both guys.
01:07:55.000
Some asshole who was like, maybe two guys were gamblers.
01:08:02.000
If you're around some shady, degenerate gamblers, and they put some money on you, and they see Eddie Bravo out for the night in the town, and they know that you're supposed to be fighting someone the next day, and they can drug you and jack the fight, If you read the book about,
01:08:18.000
there's a book written by David Remnick about the fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston.
01:08:23.000
And in round, I think, seven, they put something on Sonny Liston's gloves that blinded him.
01:08:43.000
I think that's a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory.
01:08:44.000
He wouldn't let anybody touch his water bottle because they thought they were going to poison him, so he had his water bottle wrapped.
01:08:50.000
You don't believe that shit, but you believe Tower 7?
01:08:53.000
If you watch the Sonny Liston fight, it's clear.
01:09:00.000
Mike Tyson's old manager was the narrator for the fight.
01:09:06.000
He had the Jewish guy that died who was his confidant.
01:09:13.000
There was a couple different guys that handled Mike Tyson after...
01:09:23.000
It was Kevin Rooney, something Jacobs, and that was like the whole crew that was left over.
01:09:28.000
Anyway, this guy was the narrator for those old fights because they didn't really have audio for them that was correct.
01:09:35.000
But a more interesting example is when Ali's camp cheated, when Henry Cooper caught him with a left hook.
01:09:41.000
Henry Cooper caught him with a left hook and sat him down.
01:09:44.000
Henry Cooper was this badass British heavyweight boxer back in the day.
01:09:48.000
And when Muhammad Ali was still Cassius Clay...
01:09:51.000
Henry Cooper cracked him, and he went down, and when he went back to the corner, he had no idea what the fuck was going on.
01:09:58.000
So Angelo Dundee took a razor blade to his gloves, cut his gloves open.
01:10:19.000
And then he fucks Henry Cooper up, gets him cut, and winds up stopping him on cuts.
01:10:31.000
That's very similar to your boy, Yoel, in the corner, buying time.
01:10:41.000
Tim Kennedy should have gotten the win because he was not willing to get off his stool and fight at the end of the round.
01:10:50.000
When are we going to see him fight Tim Kennedy, please?
01:10:52.000
Well, what fucked up Tim Kennedy after that fight is that...
01:11:08.000
And then, you know, there was probably only one camera.
01:11:20.000
Eddie, the biggest conspiracy theorist, and he's just...
01:11:24.000
You guys are the biggest skeptics, and you guys didn't believe in this shit.
01:11:49.000
Is there a video of his corner the whole minute?
01:12:03.000
Oh, we're missing your boy Zach Cummins and Ponzinobio throwing diggity-diggity down.
01:12:07.000
Hey, what about that Aaron Pryor story with the cocaine and all that shit?
01:12:12.000
It's supposed to be legit, but I never heard of liquid cocaine being drank like that.
01:12:20.000
But everybody was like, it's cocaine, it's cocaine.
01:12:26.000
That guy, Panama Lewis, was busted for a bunch of different things.
01:12:31.000
And one of them was, he had this fight between Billy Collins, I think it was Billy Collins Jr. was his name, and the other guy was Louis Resto.
01:12:42.000
And they took Louis Resto's padding out of his gloves.
01:12:46.000
And when he fought this kid, I think it was Billy Collins Jr. I think that was his name.
01:12:59.000
So anyway, Panama Lewis was the guy who did that, too.
01:13:09.000
He had went through that thing with Aaron Pryor, and then he went through this new one.
01:13:14.000
But who knows what the fuck was in that bottle?
01:13:17.000
It could have been a stimulant, but it could have been some sort of fucking sport drink.
01:13:22.000
It could have been something with some sort of nutritional supplement in it that maybe is illegal now, wasn't illegal then.
01:13:33.000
And his autobiography talks about how his dad used to give him speed when he was a kid.
01:13:39.000
And like in the middle, because you know, those matches last four or five, they're five matches.
01:13:44.000
It's a long time, four hours, or whatever it was.
01:13:47.000
And he would give his son and his brothers, he'd be like, here you go, take this.
01:14:01.000
A lot of guys were taking speed and even Adderall.
01:14:14.000
Louis Resto, and who was the other gentleman's name?
01:14:19.000
There's a documentary about it called Assault in the Ring.
01:14:28.000
I did it once in college, but for some final, I write this paper.
01:14:37.000
Someone walked by like, hey, what are you doing?
01:14:42.000
You boy, Zach Cummings just landed a hard body kick.
01:14:45.000
Dude, I haven't watched one round of any of these guys.
01:15:09.000
Joe, you want one of these berries to knock your socks off?
01:15:13.000
I've been balls deep in berries and shoes right now.
01:15:15.000
It might be the best blackberries I've ever tried.
01:15:17.000
Oh, big kick to the body by Cummings at the end of the round.
01:15:25.000
Jason Statham is reviving his Charles Bronson character.
01:15:50.000
Look, if they made that movie good, you'd be upset.
01:15:54.000
If that was a really good movie with an awesome plot, you'd be pissed.
01:15:59.000
With, like, depth and you had to wait for character development.
01:16:06.000
If they took the guy that made Ex Machina and they made him direct the new mechanic, you'd be like, what the fuck is going on?
01:16:13.000
Dude, you know what movie you were wrong about?
01:16:22.000
I thought it was amazing until the ending, right?
01:16:44.000
It was at least 2% of my thoughts every day are secretly hoping that Bigfoot's real.
01:16:55.000
Like, you'll have a loop that you think about all the time, you know what I mean?
01:17:00.000
I'll have arguments in my head with people that it never happens.
01:17:04.000
I have a really weird thing that I think about every day.
01:17:08.000
You get arguments with people and you figure out an argument.
01:17:17.000
And then when I talk to them, it goes nothing how I thought it was going to go.
01:17:28.000
Like with a buddy, I know he's going to say something.
01:17:31.000
So in my head, I'm like, yeah, he's going to say this.
01:17:34.000
Then when I see him, he goes, nothing like that.
01:17:41.000
You're planning an argument, and then it doesn't go the way you planned?
01:17:48.000
I have hypothetical conversations with important people in my life, and then when I see them, it goes nothing like that.
01:17:53.000
But you have hypothetical adversarial conversations about important people.
01:17:58.000
You're ready for the conversation, you're ready for the debate, and you're like, fuck, he crushes you?
01:18:17.000
If somebody, like, did something that I was like, oh, that's kind of mean, or whatever, then I'll extrapolate, and I'll be like, what if he was that way all the time?
01:18:29.000
Before I know it, I'm having the same exact thing.
01:18:41.000
You're thinking, okay, this motherfucker's going to come at me with this, and he's going to come at me with that.
01:18:45.000
Well, I got this ready for him, and I got that ready for him.
01:18:56.000
I daily have a fantasy that I live in a part of the world where gangs are running everything and they're terrorizing my village or my town.
01:19:07.000
And what I do then is I secretly, I push a cart, a food cart.
01:19:12.000
I'm humble, but I have a small gun with a silencer and I kill all the bad guys quietly.
01:19:17.000
And they're like, who the fuck is killing us, man?
01:19:38.000
What if you could figure out how long it takes to kill someone with a choke and then how long it takes to put them in a vegetative state permanently?
01:19:52.000
And anybody who deserves to be a vegetable, you're not going to kill them.
01:19:55.000
You're just going to kill them and you have a timer, you have 45 seconds, you let them go and they're a vegetable.
01:20:12.000
But then there's a guy that you didn't hold that choke long enough and it wasn't lined up right.
01:20:22.000
So you change it to an arm triangle and you fucking, oh, I need 15 more seconds.
01:20:30.000
So basically, you guys want to be like fake superheroes.
01:20:44.000
Like there's vegetables everywhere and they're like...
01:20:57.000
Eddie, do you remember that conversation we had once about guys getting hit so hard that it turns them gay?
01:21:05.000
You and I went off for at least an hour like children about how incredible it would be if dudes had to get revenge because a guy turned them gay and they showed up for the next fight with a parasol and pink clothes on, holding a handbag.
01:21:23.000
It just, someone knocked him out so bad that they turned gay, and that it was a possibility.
01:21:31.000
Like, the idea is, like, imagine, and they were like, what if it was like a thing?
01:21:36.000
What if it was a thing like, like, there was a keep you from breeding if you got your ass kicked?
01:21:40.000
Like in the wolves population, the alphas and the betas duke it out, the beta gets kicked out of the crew if he gets his ass kicked, right?
01:21:46.000
Maybe it would be something like that, where two guys duke it out, one guy beats your ass, he turns you gay.
01:21:51.000
How much more would the stakes be every time you lost?
01:22:02.000
We were like, how much more dangerous would fighting be if you lost, you turned gay?
01:22:17.000
You know fighters that are like starting to slur their words and you start seeing signs of like the fucking...
01:22:23.000
Yeah, but you'd see signs of them turning gay, but they're trying to hide it.
01:22:27.000
They start slowly with like wooden beads and tight-fitting shirts.
01:22:32.000
They start wearing shirts like the one I'm wearing.
01:22:34.000
Yeah, you gotta sit them down and have that Brendan Schaub talking or you gotta stop.
01:22:42.000
You gotta start looking for alternative careers, man.
01:22:45.000
You're looking at my dick every time we hang out.
01:22:51.000
You'd be like, I think Wolverine is plucking his eyebrows.
01:23:13.000
But maybe you have to get a win back to get your heterosexual back.
01:23:19.000
Every time you knock someone out, it's like you get a...
01:23:22.000
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, two of us in this conversation are almost 50. And how old are you now, Eddie?
01:23:32.000
Yeah, we should definitely be more grown up by now.
01:23:36.000
The crazy thing is I'm fucking 46. I'm an old motherfucker.
01:23:42.000
I'm sitting there at the fucking breakfast table with my son and my wife, and I feel like I'm 19. I feel like I'm acting in this.
01:23:51.000
I feel like a little kid, but I'm 46. I'm old as shit.
01:23:57.000
Growing up on TV, you see that guy reading the newspaper and he's got his kids and he's only 38, like 5. Well, you could be that guy if you want.
01:24:06.000
And I'm way older than that motherfucker that's in my head.
01:24:22.000
Someone that doesn't lose their wallet at 49. Goddammit.
01:24:26.000
But you're supposed to be like, how would he define, like, well, now I'm an adult.
01:24:41.000
In a way, like, just, well, yeah, you're right.
01:24:47.000
Cheers to not getting knocked out training games.
01:24:48.000
Hey, that's a huge glass you just poured yourself.
01:25:04.000
Well, like, the first couple months, like, eh, he needs his mom.
01:25:27.000
Yeah, I'm not the guy that tells people that they need it in their life.
01:25:33.000
Alright guys, we're going down a weird rabbit hole now.
01:25:36.000
Hey listen, all you guys out there, I say, live single and experience everything and travel the world.
01:25:45.000
And then once you do all that shit, there's good shit.
01:25:47.000
The kid stuff, it used to be, when I was growing up, getting a girl pregnant was like Your life is over!
01:25:56.000
Nowadays, it seems like people are having kids and their life means more than ever.
01:26:04.000
Yeah, that's the people you're hanging out with.
01:26:06.000
I've come across a lot of different people in this world.
01:26:09.000
And I think at a certain point in time, I... Personally think we gotta stop like thinking everybody's gonna live the same way.
01:26:19.000
Yeah, you know, and if if somebody gets pregnant at 18 and they marry the the their high school sweetheart at 18 That shit sometimes works.
01:26:28.000
Yeah, but we're immediately as men were like that fucking dude damn So pure Well, you know what, man?
01:26:38.000
It's not just that, but it's also everybody's fucking different, man.
01:26:42.000
You know, that's like for some people, they find the right person like real early and they just grow together.
01:26:48.000
They figure out a way to be like really open and friendly really early and they grow together.
01:26:53.000
There's also nothing worse when I meet a 50 year old, and we have a friend like this, who's not married, has no girlfriend, still playing the field, and he's lonely as fuck.
01:27:08.000
Man, there were times in my life, and me and Joe discussed this many times before we had kids, like, do we really want kids?
01:27:22.000
And then you'd see fathers on planes with their kids and they're like, fuck, we're lucky we're not them.
01:27:28.000
So there were times where I thought, man, I don't want any kids.
01:27:33.000
I think I was afraid that I was going to feel the same way about my kids as my real dad felt about me.
01:27:41.000
So I'm like, maybe I got that same shit that my dad has that he don't give a fuck about his kids.
01:27:46.000
So I'm like, I'm afraid to have kids because I'm afraid that my kid is going to feel about me like I feel about my dad and that would make me want to fucking hang myself.
01:27:55.000
So there was a lot of time for like, I'm thinking no kids, no kids.
01:28:07.000
If I was if I was if I found out I was gonna die in five minutes One of my messages would be to all these kids grown up and everything the me like my My version of the meaning of life really after all the shit after no kids kids fuck having kids I want to be free and all that shit I live single up to I'm 40 I would say Having kids is the meaning of life.
01:28:35.000
I would leave my advice like, you're all confused and all that shit.
01:28:40.000
At the end of the day, when you're getting old, and everyone's going to get old, unless they die young, but when you get old, you're kids.
01:28:54.000
Without kids, if you're going to grow old and alone, if I was going to die, I'd say, don't.
01:29:22.000
Because sometimes you get so busy and you've got all these decisions and there's so much shit going on.
01:29:28.000
You're with your kid and you're thinking about...
01:29:37.000
Sometimes you're with your kids and you guys out there, you might feel the same way if you're with your kids.
01:29:43.000
Sometimes you're with your kid and you're spending these beautiful moments together, but you're thinking about all this stressful shit and all these decisions you've got to make in your life and fucking EBI AIDS coming up September 11th.
01:30:02.000
And I'm thinking, I'm here, I'm on the beach today.
01:30:05.000
I'm like, these are the moments I'm going to be thinking about when I'm dying.
01:30:11.000
Right now, this is a moment that I would want to come back to if there was a time machine and I can get back...
01:30:18.000
I would come back to this moment, and I wouldn't be thinking about any of the bullshit.
01:30:21.000
I would be thinking about every millisecond I had with my son on the beach, playing in the water and shit.
01:30:27.000
And I'm thinking about other shit, so I constantly remind myself what is the most important thing.
01:30:34.000
That motherfucker right there, he's the most important thing.
01:30:52.000
No, listen, what you're saying is all beautiful.
01:30:55.000
That's the most important thing when I provide myself.
01:31:00.000
I think for all of us, living in the moment is very important.
01:31:06.000
It's something you've got to be real conscious of because it's so easy to get trapped up with your thoughts.
01:31:11.000
Your thoughts can get gummed up with some unnecessary patterns.
01:31:17.000
You've got to remind yourself what the most important thing is.
01:31:20.000
And the most important thing, if you've got kids, that should be the base of your existence right there.
01:31:31.000
Besides having kids, there are those moments...
01:31:33.000
What do you think when you were in your 30s that you had that one switch where you decided you were going to...
01:31:40.000
Is that Paige Van Zandt in a Sprite commercial?
01:31:54.000
This is a sad, like, they're like diminishing that poor man.
01:31:58.000
He has to chase her and she's not tired and he's exhausted.
01:32:06.000
Right, like, if he tried to get fucking crazy, she would beat his ass.
01:32:14.000
In that commercial, right there, that girl beats that dude's ass.
01:32:17.000
You put me in that commercial, I'll sprint past that bitch.
01:32:20.000
Hey, Brendan, she ain't beating me anywhere in the world.
01:32:28.000
Two or three years ago, guys, MMA fans or experts or whatever, there would be a big movement on how, no matter how good an MMA female fighter is, she could never beat a normal man.
01:32:52.000
A dude who doesn't train, which is 99. How big?
01:33:02.000
But an entretening 250-pound dude and Claudia...
01:33:08.000
No, but if he's like 99.9999% of the population who doesn't train, I'll put my fucking money on Claudia.
01:33:27.000
She would still get his back and still choke the fuck.
01:33:33.000
250-pound guy that doesn't train against Claudia.
01:33:54.000
Claudia touches him, he's gonna flicker back to Brazil.
01:33:57.000
Man, you guys are talking about a 250-pound Ray Lewis.
01:34:15.000
The top UFC female fighters today, I would always put my money on them over a guy, any guy on the planet that doesn't train.
01:34:27.000
I'm going to put all my money on a professional UFC champion.
01:34:31.000
Think about Johanna on the street and there's a 190 pound guy who's never trained.
01:34:38.000
Who are you going to put your money on if there was a confrontation in an alley?
01:34:52.000
The guy's background and what he did growing up and all that shit?
01:34:56.000
If he played high school football, he's 250 pounds, he's in shape, does CrossFit, he will kick that bitch straight in the throat.
01:35:05.000
You're gonna put your money on a CrossFit guy who's never trained martial arts over Johanna.
01:35:10.000
Who's wearing some caterpillar boots and doesn't give a fuck about women?
01:35:23.000
Johanna's 115 pounds, and if she was gonna go against a 200-pound random dude who doesn't train...
01:35:42.000
Just because a girl's like, no, a guy is a guy, and a guy just smashes.
01:35:48.000
Well, it depends on what kind of guy you're talking about.
01:35:54.000
I don't even give a fuck if the guy played high school football and he's fucking a state champion.
01:36:09.000
If you got a college football player as a starting linebacker.
01:36:14.000
Just because you're big and he's doing whatever he wants.
01:36:23.000
Eddie, there has to be some sort of a weight...
01:36:30.000
Like, if there's two people at 115 pounds, one of them is Ioannion Jacek, and the other one is Mitch Frickin' Fuck.
01:36:43.000
Yeah, this guy who works in the accounting office and eats McDonald's every weekend.
01:36:53.000
I'm talking about a non-training athlete or non-athlete male the same size as her.
01:37:01.000
The lesbian community is coming after you guys.
01:37:05.000
We're just trying to establish some parameters here.
01:37:08.000
What she's capable of doing If you're talking about...
01:37:14.000
And there's the non-training, non-athlete male that's the same size as her.
01:37:39.000
What if he took some karate classes when he was in high school?
01:37:43.000
What if he's just a tough guy who fights a bar?
01:37:45.000
He knows how to kick and punch, but he also does CrossFit and he's 250 fucking pounds.
01:37:52.000
It does get weird because you're not going to hurt him.
01:38:18.000
I've seen big dudes come in class all the time.
01:38:33.000
If he lands an uppercut, that bitch is going to think she's on another dimension.
01:38:36.000
If he never had a punch at all, and he's a big giant dude...
01:38:52.000
If it's Claudia or if it's Joanna, and they're fighting a 195-pound male who's never trained, the male's going to be in some trouble for a lot of reasons.
01:39:05.000
One, on the ground, he's going to have some trouble.
01:39:15.000
If Mighty Mouse has to fight Ray Lewis in his prime, there's a fucking problem.
01:39:27.000
Okay, but Eddie, okay, but let's stop saying this is a male or a female thing.
01:39:31.000
You want to eat a J-Check weighs 10 pounds less than Mighty Mouse.
01:39:36.000
It's not saying that women can't beat the fuck out of men.
01:39:43.000
And it depends on what kind of athlete you're talking about.
01:39:47.000
If they have any experience in moving their body at all, the key word has to be totally uncalled.
01:39:55.000
What kid grows up with zero knowledge of how to throw a punch?
01:40:08.000
They know how to throw a shitty, looping, dog shit punch.
01:40:13.000
But if it lands and you're way smaller than them, you're fucked.
01:40:17.000
If you're a 110 pound accountant and there's a 300 pound Samoan dude that's never sparred a day in his life...
01:40:36.000
Of course you're never going to bet and go, a million percent I'm going to win.
01:40:42.000
Yes, if that big dude lands that crazy looping punch that he learned from watching Chuck Norris movies, yes, he will knock him out.
01:40:51.000
Claudia's not going to get hit by an overhand shitty looping shot.
01:40:56.000
You're going to get that dude's You and I are feminists.
01:41:01.000
This is the point and this is what we love about MMA. This is the point and what I love about martial arts.
01:41:11.000
To pretend you know you're right is ridiculous, but you might be right.
01:41:15.000
It's entirely possible that Claudia Gedalia could fuck up Ray Lewis and that they could have a crazy wild scrap Not Ray Lewis.
01:41:34.000
Ray Lee Gunn represents the ultimate non-fighting guy.
01:41:38.000
When I think of a guy who's not a fighter, but is just a fucking superior athlete.
01:41:44.000
He's going to do whatever he wants to those girls.
01:41:48.000
Because I don't know shit about football, but I've watched Ray Lewis move.
01:42:05.000
Keep him away from me no matter what you weigh!
01:42:15.000
If you're Claude Ciccadillo, you've got a huge problem on your hands!
01:42:43.000
Claudia Gedalia versus Ray Lewis in the middle of a football field.
01:42:57.000
Ray Lewis would smash her on her head like a fake wrestling move.
01:43:08.000
I'm going to leave this room if you think Cyborg beats Ray Lewis.
01:43:12.000
We've got to really stop talking over each other.
01:43:15.000
And we gotta really, like, open up this discussion to more of a give and take, more of a flow.
01:43:34.000
You guys picked He's one of the best players of all time.
01:43:40.000
He's the number one non-martial arts guy in history against Claudia.
01:43:46.000
You can't say Herschel Walker because Herschel Walker is an actual martial artist.
01:44:23.000
And you think you're a better athlete than John Stockton?
01:44:32.000
So you think you're doing a few years of taekwondo?
01:44:46.000
How the fuck did we go from Ray Lewis to Brian Callen in one job?
01:45:16.000
Yeah, now you might have to have a guy between me and Dean.
01:45:49.000
I guarantee you, I can bring you a gang of bitches that can fuck up Ben Affleck.
01:46:08.000
This is one of those things where it really does come up.
01:46:11.000
You're talking about the difference between a trained fighter and an actor.
01:46:36.000
I don't know how much he did in his stunts in Batman.
01:46:41.000
There's a giant difference between him and a cyborg.
01:47:02.000
And I'm talking about Ray Lewis when he was playing.
01:47:05.000
Okay, now we know Ray Lewis is a freak athlete, one of the greatest football players of all time.
01:47:14.000
Explain to me, though, how Ray Lewis deals with Cyborg's striking and her jujitsu.
01:47:20.000
Oh, how about he picks her up and throws her to the fucking moon?
01:47:25.000
He can crush her by slamming her to the ground.
01:47:56.000
We need a tale of a tape with Cyborg versus Ray Lewis.
01:48:03.000
We're dealing with almost 100 pounds of difference.
01:48:09.000
Okay, so we're dealing with a super athlete in Ray Lewis who's a good solid 240 versus a woman who fights at 145 but really is a 145. And he's also a Hall of Famer.
01:48:19.000
Some say the best linebacker of all time in the NFL. But it's all in the debate though.
01:48:22.000
You guys are making good points, but we're making good points too.
01:48:29.000
I guarantee you, Ray Lewis has beat someone's ass before.
01:48:38.000
One of his friends allegedly was involved in an altercation where a man went to heaven.
01:48:49.000
Ray Lewis could also, he could pick her up, throw her to the ground.
01:48:52.000
Ray Lewis could also start punching her in the face and get armbarred.
01:48:54.000
And we know that you're talking about Ray Lewis' huge arm.
01:49:00.000
Listen, can he learn about this fight a week before it happens?
01:49:18.000
If I could just get six weeks with Michael Irvin, any woman in the world that wants to get crazy could step up.
01:49:31.000
We're not talking about a fucking training camp.
01:49:47.000
My money would be on Ray Lewis 100% of the time.
01:49:57.000
I got my money on Cyborg 100% 100 times in a row against Ben Affleck.
01:50:14.000
Ray Lewis is so much bigger, and I think he probably knows how to fight.
01:50:27.000
How are you gonna stop the shot of a state champion wrestler's 1040 pounds?
01:50:30.000
That bitch is gonna fucking kneel when he comes in.
01:50:54.000
If you saw it in this bitch, because then they're both juiced to the gills.
01:51:21.000
Do you understand the difference between you, Brian, just you?
01:51:38.000
If he'd never trained, you would choke him to death.
01:51:42.000
While Ray did some wrestling, Brennan would kill him.
01:51:53.000
You don't think someone has shown Ray Lewis how to choke people to sleep?
01:52:01.000
I'm the captain of the fucking defense, which is complicated as fuck?
01:52:20.000
If you're the captain of a defense team, he was explaining to me how intricate football is.
01:52:34.000
You guys are not being respectful at MMA. I'm disgusted.
01:52:49.000
One of the things I like the most about Kamozi is he maintains a steady pace through the entire fight.
01:53:35.000
What he is saying is what is on his mind, and he's so overwhelmed with it.
01:53:40.000
But that's why he's so great at everything he does.
01:53:46.000
Eddie gets obsessed with things, and it's why he's this jujitsu...
01:53:55.000
And it's working like that with parenthood, too, which is a beautiful thing to see.
01:53:59.000
If you're not obsessed with your kid, though, you kind of suck.
01:54:03.000
It's uncomfortable, for sure, to think that there's people out there that don't care, and they don't love people that are with them, and they don't love their families.
01:54:11.000
Brian said, oh, a lot of people aren't, Brandon.
01:54:18.000
In a really weird way, like in a movie, I went, a lot of people aren't, Brandon.
01:54:23.000
When you say something twice, it's always kind of like one of those things.
01:54:38.000
Yeah, there's a way to, like, you can sarcastically...
01:54:44.000
Yeah, you can do a lot of different things if you say it twice.
01:54:47.000
It means you're dead serious is what I thought.
01:54:47.000
Sometimes it's dead serious if you, like, overemphasize a second time, you know?
01:54:52.000
If you're like, Conor McGregor is a bad motherfucker, dude.
01:55:01.000
Can you say it three times and change the third time's meaning?
01:55:19.000
Remember when Kimbo Slice asked you if you were black?
01:55:23.000
That's like one of my favorite stories from this podcast.
01:55:28.000
They had heard that there was a guy on the podcast, or on the podcast, on the Ultimate Fighter.
01:55:40.000
Poor Kamozi, he gets jacaray twice and then like a thousand ladies.
01:55:50.000
Oh, so there was a guy on The Ultimate Fighter that was possibly a Nazi.
01:55:55.000
And they got together and they were all talking about it and they went to Brendan.
01:56:00.000
Because they said, you know, they thought that Brendan was black.
01:56:17.000
Talos Latis always had a nasty rear naked choke.
01:56:26.000
If he would have held that in for 30 more seconds, he would have turned him into a vegetable.
01:56:32.000
Dude, there's a play, a sick play called The Toyer, and it's about this guy who has been coming into women's houses, and he sticks a needle in their back that causes them to become vegetables, like you're talking about, and then he dresses them up like dolls.
01:57:04.000
Can you Photoshop Ray Lewis in full football gear like tackling somebody in the octagon with cyborg knee in him in the face and it says, this ain't the Super Bowl, bitch?
01:57:22.000
When you get out of here, you're going to have 40 of them.
01:57:37.000
Nate Diaz has a full camp, but he also has all that goddamn press.
01:57:40.000
He's also got all that pressure, and Conor has an opportunity to prepare exclusively just for him.
01:57:47.000
And it's not like he didn't have some success in the first fight.
01:57:50.000
Because he pretty much dominated the first round.
01:57:52.000
He looked beautiful, but the problem was he tried to...
01:58:01.000
And Nate is a bigger, stronger man than most of the people that Connors fought.
01:58:08.000
And he sparred with a lot of world-class boxers like Andre Ward.
01:58:27.000
When he breaks down boxing, like when he does the analyst position on HBO, you realize, like, oh, okay, this dude is just a super smart guy.
01:58:42.000
Was there an Andre Ward that was a different Andre Ward?
01:58:55.000
When you say underwear boxer, I'm like, is that guy like 45 now and fighting like Bernard?
01:59:00.000
The Ward you're talking about played for the Detroit Lions.
01:59:04.000
I had a conversation with Andre Berto, who's in his camp.
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So I had this conversation with Andre Berto about Andre Ward.
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Because they're in the same camp and they're buddies.
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And he was telling me that he learned a lot just watching Andre Ward.
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The way Virgil Hunter has him do it, if you watch him warm up, he'll do things.
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Like, literally, he won't throw punches when he shadowboxes.
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He spends a lot of time literally just doing the perfect kind of hooks.
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For people who are not watching you, you're doing everything super slow in the air.
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And he obsesses over exactly where his body's going to be in almost slow motion for a long time.
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When I was a kid, I used to think that forms were stupid, and I used to think that, like, even throwing kicks in the air couldn't compare to doing things like throwing kicks in the bag.
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And then, like, a lot of the decorative aspects of martial arts, like, you know, you throw a sidekick and you hold it up there, and then you throw a second sidekick, and then you do all these different combinations that you'd have to do in these forms.
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But now I understand that it's almost like you're doing, like, a form of yoga.
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But you're throwing those kicks out there and you're holding them in place.
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And even though that's not how you would ever fight, these are all important movements if you could figure out how to do that and make it beautiful.
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But for sidekicks, that is one of the most important aspects of throwing a sidekick is throwing it in the air.
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Learning how to throw it in the air where your body is moving forward.
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Because if you use a bag prematurely, you grow accustomed to bouncing off of it.
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And that's the difference between someone who bounces off of that technique and drives through it.
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And the person who drives through it, when they drive with their hip, there's so much more power.
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But the amount of force that someone who knows how to really drive their hip forward, you develop that.
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And you extend that side kick out, and you pull it back, and you snap.
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And it's all about doing it as fast as you can.
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And then, once you develop the technique perfectly, then you start moving to kicking things.
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Usually it's a person with a cushion that moves towards you slowly, or it's a really light bag, and you slowly develop your ability to move your weight into it.
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But if you don't do it right, you can develop this one aspect of that kick that most people have, which is they kick off of people.
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The woman who's responsible for the Russian Revolution in tennis, like she came up with Sharapova and all these amazing tennis players.
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She will have her students in a group, before they even hit a ball, just slowly, you know, literally just practicing their stroke in a really slow manner.
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I think their first two weeks of camp is all basics and super slow like that.
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Jamie, bring up Andre Ward shadow boxing, warming up.
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It is really interesting, the idea of what is the best way to learn how to execute certain techniques.
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You know, there's always a lot of debate about it, man.
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There's a lot of debate about how much sparring you should do versus how much, you know, simulation drills you should do versus how much bag work you should do.
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There's another one where he's, yeah, he's being watched right now, so he's going to go faster.
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Well, he's just doing regular shadow watching there.
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Bring up the other one where he's, you'll see it even more slow.
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I'm interested in, I don't want to know who won tonight, but if Andre Ward wins, I'm very interested in him versus Kovalev.
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Kovalev has a fight, Ward has a fight, and the next is Kovalev.
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If I had to put my money on someone right now, it's Kovalev.
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He did and you know what I was really most impressed was when he outboxed Bernard Hopkins.
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That is the most impressive shadow boxing I've ever seen.
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It's interesting because he's throwing those punches with power.
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You know, what's interesting when you watch a guy like him do that, as opposed to that Russian gentleman that we were seeing earlier that's learning how to box, that's where you see the difference.
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We're talking about best in the world versus the guy who just learned last week.
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It's like if you're watching someone do a move, right?
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Like, say, if they're choreographing Michael Jackson's Thriller, all the zombies are doing it.
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Like, that movement that he's doing is not unattainable.
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What he's doing is things that everyone can do.
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Nothing he's doing is crazy, acrobatic, ridiculous movements that the average person can't do.
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Like Javier Rodriguez, who we're gonna watch fight tonight.
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Flying round kicks and jumping double round kicks.
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So what he's gonna do, the big difference is, what he's gonna do is shit that we can't do.
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Like, you look at him throwing those kicks, you're like, fuck!
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Like, he's jumping, spinning cartwheels through the air and roundhouse kicking dudes in the back and the neck.
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No, I think it is for everybody, just most people have never gone that far with the reps.
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What he's doing, it takes some genetic capabilities.
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My point is that no one has a problem doing this or this or this or this.
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No one has a problem throwing a normal punch at a very slow pace.
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But you can't even do what he's doing like those cartwheel kicks.
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So the difference between what a guy like Yair can do and a guy like Andre Ward can do, in a way, it makes what Andre Ward can do even more impressive.
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Because he's boxing guys up, and he's doing it based on his understanding of each different position that might come up while two guys are trying to punch each other in the face.
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But those basics, I could teach my daughter to do.
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I'm not saying that someone could punch someone or hurt someone immediately, but I think you could take a 60-year-old executive who's never thrown a punch in his life, and you have him stand there, just make him listen to you, make him put his foot here, lower your weight, lower your weight, okay, square your shoulders, hands up right where your cheekbones are,
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Okay, now try to get the same guy to do a wheel kick.
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So what Yair Kuhn Rodriguez would do is, in one way, more impressive, because he can do physical shit that most people can't do, but another way it makes what Andre Ward does more impressive.
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Because Andre Ward is way better than everybody else at just doing shit that everybody can do.
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Because I think actually, what you're saying, what you're actually saying is that Punching is more anatomically natural, I think, to a human being walking around than is kicking.
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Like, understanding a really good sidekick or a roundhouse or a wheel kick.
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Even though punching is easy to attain, you can drill it into someone over and over and over and they can reach that razor-sharp level of proficiency where an Andrzej Ward or a Kovalev is.
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Which I can't wait to see that fight, by the way.
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All the most acrobatical Taekwondo kicks that you could do in the cage.
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There's some acrobatical Taekwondo stuff that's Cirque du Soleil stuff when you have those forms and dudes will start like fucking they'll spin like fuck!
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That shit you'll never do, but maybe you will one day.
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A lot of guys can't do it, though, because they're not athletic enough.
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They don't have the vertical, they don't have the genetics.
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If you could do it in the cage, anybody could do it.
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But listen, Michael Page did a 360 roundhouse kick in Bellator.
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He knocks some dude out with a 360 roundhouse kick in the face.
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He jumps spinning 360 roundhouse kick like he was a fucking dude in a video game.
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You see the way he knocked out Pitbull in his last fight?
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Is that going to ruin the UFC? Would that ruin the new owners?
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No, it's going to ruin Bellator, but UFC would have no reason to do it.
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Listen, man, I don't think it's ruining anybody.
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They're being super smart with him, which they should be.
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I want to see that guy fight like world-class fighters.
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I want to see that guy fight a really good wrestler.
02:10:10.000
Look, if Bellator, if the UFC's not going to sign Ben Askren, Bellator, sign Ben Askren.
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I know that people have a problem with a guy who can just take everybody down.
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He's knocking some people out in one FC because they let him use knees in the ground.
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And he can use knees in the ground now with the new rules.
02:10:41.000
Ben Askren mops the floor with anyone in Belgium.
02:11:11.000
Did you know they made a movie about Vinny Pazienza?
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Broke his neck in a car accident, came back and fought.
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Well, no, he did it in real life, you bastards.
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I met Pazienza in Vegas once, and he was wearing this beautiful suit with a bandana that was made out of the same material that he was made of.
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Me and my friend Jimmy Lawless, we went to Providence, Rhode Island to watch him fight.
02:12:13.000
Like, your name's Eddie Bravo, and that sounds ridiculous.
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Like, Bravo is like, you know, it's like Eddie Awesome.
02:12:35.000
Isn't it funny that you can't pick your own name?
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I came to set one day, I was doing a movie, and I said, my new name is The Kid.
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The cameraman started saying, hey kid, can you?
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He called himself the kid back when he was a kid.
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I remember the first time I went over to Brian Callen's house, he had no doorknob.
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They killed his cat, and I was like, oh no, and I grabbed the cat and ran away and buried it.
02:14:17.000
Bermudez is so close to the title shot, he won seven in a row.
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Yeah, there's some dudes you cannot let posture up, and Bermudez is certainly one of them.
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He knows how to drive his weight and smash and crush.
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Him and Pat Cummins, they make their own sriracha and shit, ride bikes.
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We went to dinner one of the nights in Brazil before he beat Feijão.
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What if it's like chained over his ex-girlfriend?
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Let me bully you real quick in front of everybody, motherfucker, and get paid for it.
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You know what you rarely see in MMA is fights stomped on cuts.
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Conor's got his hands full with Dennis Bermudez if he comes down to 45. Bermudez ain't touching Conor.
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We can't keep interrupting each other like this.
02:17:09.000
It seems like in the UFC, blood isn't a big deal like it is in boxing.
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It's like you rarely see fights stopped on cuts.
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I would have the corner guys with ketchup, just like blood, just squirting people.
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If it goes in his eyes, that's when they stop it.
02:18:04.000
You know, that fight with Jeremy Stevens was insane.
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What a crazy knee Stevens lands to close the show.
02:18:21.000
You think that's a fake suntan or is that the real suntan?
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Him and Pat ride bikes in the Orange County like it's their fucking job.
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Well, he's not big enough star to get that fight.
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Honey Jason's like, get me the fuck out of here.
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They ride with their bike off in the ocean, man.
02:19:15.000
But did GSB have fake tan or did he just get tanned a lot because tan makes your body actually produce vitamin D, which helps your endurance, helps your anabolic state?
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I'm talking about the industry, the fake sun tan industry.
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When you see people tanning, no, it's not gone.
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Your body actually does produce vitamin D. Where did you get that?
02:19:51.000
Steve Maxwell was talking about how Russian athletes have been doing this for a long time, and a lot of other athletes have figured out...
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New research shows vitamin D can dramatically increase athletic performance.
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Yes, you can get vitamin D. You get the same rays that you do from the sun, just intensify.
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Well, GSB did it because he knew it could help his performance, for sure.
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But, you know, Maxwell is, like, he's got his thumb on the pulse.
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I mean, of the whole, like, athletic spectrum as far as, like, people's strength and conditioning, little hacks and little things that people do.
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So when he was talking about that, I take everything Maxwell says when it comes to, like, physical fitness and strength and conditioning.
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I think GSP was doing it for looks and maybe that.
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Dudes are going to be coming in fucking tanned as fuck.
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But you could also take vitamin D, especially D3, and get probably pretty similar results, too.
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So basically, if you come in white and not tan, you're not coming in at your full potential.
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That's not necessarily true because you'd be supplementing vitamin D. So if you take it...
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If you're getting D3... D3 is a hard one to get, man.
02:21:44.000
This podcast is going to bring back the tanning fucking industry.
02:21:59.000
I was saying, as you were talking, I was thinking to myself, as people move to higher latitudes, They lost the melanin in their skin because they got less sun, so you have to lose melanin in your skin so you can absorb the ultraviolet rays that create vitamin D. That's why Russians are so white.
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So white people are actually black people who just need less sun to produce vitamin D. You lost me there.
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That's evolutionary biology, you racist bastards.
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That just need less sun to produce essential vitamin D, goddammit.
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I'm just telling you what my thoughts were, dude.
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By the way, I'm gonna start speaking in a seductive voice right now.
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Because I'm getting some wine running through my body and I feel real good and warm.
02:23:03.000
When I think of you guys, I think of you guys as a fucking clump.
02:23:10.000
I think about you guys as one big brown muscular clump.
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This vodka is going off the straight fucking...
02:23:40.000
He needs less sun to produce essential vitamin D. He could end it right here if he had a fucking anaconda show.
02:23:57.000
I like how the color of his shorts are exactly the color of his skin.
02:24:26.000
Why can't guys wear skin color shorts with fake dicks drawn in the front?
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With skin color, skin tight, with a dick with a snake head.
02:24:43.000
Like a bikini with your dick popping out of your balls, but it's a bikini.
02:24:49.000
It's the sublimation of the bikini with your balls.
02:24:52.000
I'm just happy you used the word sublimated correctly.
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If your mind can conceive it, you can print that shit.
02:25:16.000
He's going to get his back because he's a wrestler, so he's going to turn and stand up.
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So, sublimate or sublimated is to divert or modify an instinctual impulse into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity.
02:26:32.000
I love how you said it, that's alright, that shows you're a dad.
02:26:38.000
I had a brilliant thought though, you fox, and I can't remember what it was.
02:26:41.000
Hey, can you share it and then let's find out what the real definition is?
02:26:44.000
Sublimate in the apparel business is, now they got machines now, that you can take any picture you want and put it on material.
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It's not about like, oh, like those old school graphic arts type shit.
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No, there's a couple of different definitions here.
02:27:06.000
In the apparel business, it means make rash guards about...
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You could take a picture and make a rash guard out of it through the sublimation process.
02:27:20.000
That's why rash guards are so amazing now because of sublimation.
02:27:23.000
Before sublimation, you had to do like old school graphic arts, like two color type simple logos.
02:27:40.000
Do we run out of noises we can make with our face?
02:27:42.000
Why do we have words that mean a bunch of different shit?
02:27:50.000
Why do we have to use Sublimate for a bunch of different things?
02:27:55.000
You should be able to go to the dictionary and it's just one fucking definition.
02:28:03.000
That was one of those words where people are also afraid to say they don't know what it means.
02:28:13.000
Trite is like ridiculous, nonsensical, not important.
02:28:22.000
Yeah, because I watched the Matt Lauer, Tom Cruise interview.
02:28:30.000
It means like he's dismissing something that he's not...
02:28:40.000
Dude, Brian had to explain what cahoots meant, because I thought it meant enemies.
02:28:43.000
But is it insincere, glib, when he's saying it like that?
02:28:47.000
I don't think he's saying he's being insincere.
02:28:53.000
The person speaking fluent and voluble, but insincere and shallow.
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I didn't want to say it, but that's what it really means.
02:29:03.000
I thought it was dismissive, so I had it wrong.
02:29:06.000
No, so glib would be when you're not being almost reverential to something that requires gravitas.
02:29:15.000
It'd be like, yeah, but basketball is just like throwing a ball into a bladder.
02:29:22.000
That's just not a word that's in my frequent vocabulary.
02:29:29.000
Like you say sun all the time, so I say sun all the time.
02:29:37.000
That's what she went on the antidepressant for.
02:29:40.000
But what happens to the antidepressant, all it does is mask the problem.
02:29:42.000
There's ways of vitamins and through exercise and various things.
02:29:53.000
If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories.
02:30:08.000
Matt Lauer was asking him questions, and he was saying, hey, there are examples when antidepressants, you're not a fucking doctor, Tom Cruise.
02:30:15.000
There are examples when they work and save lives, you fucking dummy.
02:30:18.000
Stick to acting and make him believe, and that was him on a Scientology riff.
02:30:27.000
Just because he got to roll over, you know, you hate the guy.
02:30:52.000
I'm not a fan of any medication that I don't have to give to my children, but I do think that there are certain drugs that are made by big pharmaceutical companies that save lives, that make people's lives better.
02:31:05.000
I don't know, I'm not a pharmacologist, but I can give you examples of the things that I've seen with my own eyes.
02:31:10.000
Listen, man, if you need antibiotics, you need fucking science.
02:31:14.000
If you get staph infection, you better listen to fucking doctors and not listen to some voodoo doctor.
02:31:29.000
I think there's a lot of medications that do a lot of people a lot of good.
02:31:32.000
And I think there's also a lot of medications that pharmaceutical companies are profiting off of people.
02:31:55.000
Like, to hear that you got caught in the grip of those fucking things.
02:31:58.000
The most addictive thing in the world, they say.
02:32:01.000
And my doctor was trying to be cool, and I was only supposed to have like 50. He's like, here's like 200, man.
02:32:22.000
So when I'd go out with my friends, I knew I had 200. So I was like, I might as well take one of those and not be all cranky and itchy and in pain.
02:32:33.000
And the next thing I know, every morning, I'm just boom, boom, boom, boom.
02:32:36.000
And to my friend and brother, like, what the fuck are you doing?
02:32:41.000
I was talking to two pretty well-known fighters.
02:32:45.000
I'm addicted to this fucking Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz countdown thing they're doing right now.
02:33:00.000
All we know is Nate got him the first time they fought.
02:33:03.000
I'm just telling you in my educated opinion, I think Conor McGregor wins by decision based off that first round and more knowledgeable training.
02:33:09.000
We're talking about Nate Diaz with zero training.
02:33:17.000
But do you know how more comfortable Nate is going to be with a full camp than he's going to be?
02:33:25.000
Okay, there's psychological variables that come into play, especially when you deal with the amount of pressure that Nate is under now.
02:33:32.000
You deal with the amount of press obligations he's now...
02:33:39.000
But he's also getting a good long stretch of time to know what kind of shape he's got to get in before the fight, right?
02:33:48.000
I mean, if you thought logically, taking psychological considerations out, logically you would say, well, if he won the first fight, if he's got more time to prepare in the second fight, he's going to be even better than he was in the first fight.
02:34:00.000
You could say the same thing for Conor, though.
02:34:07.000
The second round, he was in trouble because he gassed and got caught.
02:34:10.000
Man, if he can do in that first round for 25 minutes, he wins that fight.
02:34:18.000
You know, you could say he was not without success in the first fight.
02:34:21.000
He had a very successful first round, and he had a very successful minute plus of the second round.
02:34:28.000
He got in trouble, and Nate started talking shit, and he started getting gassed, and he started getting dinged, and then he shot for a takedown.
02:34:36.000
The payday is if McGregor wins, because you're not going to have to have a three-peat.
02:34:40.000
Well, the payday is if McGregor and Diaz have an old-time schlabanaka.
02:34:49.000
Or he could have a fucking real close decision loss.
02:34:58.000
Because you lose two in a row in the UFC and you go, nah, bitch, go ahead and get down there.
02:35:02.000
Not if you're a little white guy from Ireland named Conor McGregor.
02:35:05.000
That's the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, motherfucker.
02:35:10.000
No, the UFC's leprechaun is the guy he's juiced to the gills.
02:35:27.000
We haven't talked about a single fucking fight other than a few random seconds.
02:35:30.000
I think we were doing great until that wine came.
02:35:34.000
We went a little off the deep end when the wine came from.
02:36:06.000
Hey, you know Ray Lewis trained with Rashad Evans, right?
02:36:12.000
If the new owners of the UFC want to get fucking gangster, they want to get medieval, make this happen.
02:36:27.000
No, Ray Lewis, if you want to make the fight, you make it with Hershel Walker, because he actually still fights.
02:36:44.000
If it was anybody else that was 50 years old that said he wanted a fight, I'd be like, man, you gotta stop.
02:36:50.000
Anybody else, I would say I don't want to see that.
02:36:54.000
If it's Hershel Walker, I'm like, where do I sign up?
02:37:07.000
I stopped fighting at 31. Dude, but dude, Herschel Walker is a freak.
02:37:16.000
Dude, do you see the video of him fighting in Strikeforce?
02:37:23.000
His ass would get eaten up like a fucking Asaker porno if he jumped into the UFC right now.
02:37:31.000
Oh, you're talking about like 1FC or some shit?
02:37:33.000
I'm talking about him just as a freak specimen.
02:37:41.000
Like, Ray Lewis, we know he is a wrestler, but we don't know how much martial arts experience he had.
02:37:46.000
That's one, but Herschel Walker, Herschel Walker at whatever he is now, 15 years old, at 99.9% of the fucking plan are better.
02:37:59.000
I agree, except for every guy in the light heavyweight division on the roster in the UFC. He's a heavyweight.
02:38:06.000
He comes to the UFC, everyone's going to go, wow, but he's 50?
02:38:14.000
You're 50. He might still be able to fuck a lot of guys up.
02:38:19.000
Show him running the 100. There's a video of him.
02:38:33.000
Think about a questionable heavyweight performance between a guy that's nowhere near the top 20. Some new guy, maybe.
02:38:42.000
You don't think that Hershel Walker could fuck up some new guy?
02:38:54.000
Let's see Strikeforce where he's stiff as fuck.
02:38:55.000
See if you can get some video of Herschel Walker fighting in Strikeforce.
02:39:05.000
Even if he's stiff, it almost doesn't matter, man.
02:39:17.000
Dude, he's one of the biggest freaks of all time.
02:39:20.000
That's like in the U.S. right now, the heavyweights would eat him alive.
02:39:25.000
But they're lucky he didn't start this shit about 20 years ago.
02:39:29.000
Oh, if Bo Jackson decided to do MMA, he would kick your fucking dick to Jupiter.
02:39:37.000
Look at Herschel Walker at 47. I think he was 48 here.
02:40:01.000
I think a lot of us sort of underestimate the difference between the elite of the elites and a regular human.
02:40:09.000
Look how he just ragdolled that dude to the ground.
02:40:27.000
What if Customato existed in 2016 and he found a young 13-year-old Mike Tyson and brought him to Farras Ahabi?
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Every now and then you get a dude, like you remember when Mike Tyson used to hit that heavy bag?
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Athletically, Mike Tyson couldn't handle Bo Jackson's jockstrap.
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We don't know what Mike Tyson's athletic ability would have been if he had been playing football.
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What we do know is what it was when he got into boxing.
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And it's almost better than anybody ever in a lot of ways.
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And the fact that he was so short and he had this crazy style of bobbing and weaving and ripping ridiculous fucking power and speed punches at you.
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Probably Larry Holmes, but Larry Holmes was out of his prime.
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I'm just saying, compared to other heavyweights, I don't think he's the best heavyweight.
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The best guy he's beat, are old Larry Holmes or Spinks?
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Dude, it's the way he ran through the division.
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But you look at Lennox Lewis and Vander Holyfield, much more impressive.
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No, those old-school boxing shoes he used to wear.
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But when he beat Tyson, Tyson was an older man, and he had been in the game a long fucking time.
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Once he was disconnected more and more from the original custom model crew.
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I'm just saying, look at the body of work compared to Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis.
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If you look just on paper, Mike Tyson has the scare factor.
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But remember, Brandon, he went out there and fucked everybody up in the first round.
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When they fought Mike Tyson, they were fucking And that's why we say he's the best.
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But if you look at it on paper, he's really not.
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But the reason they were scared was because he was going through everybody with one fucking punch.
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But if you look at Evander Holyfield's career, he wasn't...
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He wasn't shocking the world like Mike Tyson was.
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People, they were pissed that he would knock dudes out in the first round.
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Like, look, he's just going to knock them out in the first round.
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Mike Tyson's just going to beat them in the first round and we're going to lose our money.
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There was no other fighter ever that provoked that fear.
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You're not answering the question, Eddie Bravo.
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But listen, what Brendan's talking about is like hindsight.
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So when Brendan's talking about it now, when you look back and you think about the guys he beat, it's very arguable that Holyfield was the superior fighter.
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And we always want to say, well, he wasn't the same guy as when Tyson was younger.
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And Holyfield, you've got to put him on a higher level because he was able to maintain his enthusiasm for fighting way longer than most folks.
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I think you have to give it to Evander because Evander beat him twice.
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We're super lucky to have watched those guys fight.
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You know, Tyson and Holyfield, I mean, those were epic contests.
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It's a little bit X-Factor because you're so scared you're stalking these guys out.
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I've never had the answer, but Tyson was more exciting.
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Yeah, but you always got to wonder, what was the training like for Tyson then in comparison to the training when he was young?
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I'm a firm believer that a really elite fighter can only maintain a certain number of RPMs when they're just smashing people.
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They can only maintain that for a certain amount of time.
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But we don't realize it when they're going through it.
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If you look at Ronda, it's like, yeah, that's what she does.
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You look at Junior Dos Santos, you look at Kane, it's weird.
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Then you step back and go, oh, that's the run there.
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That's the greatest we're ever going to see him.
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But as it's happening, you really don't notice.
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You're accustomed to it and you think that's just what they do.
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Those six, seven fights, which it was pure greatness.
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But their new album is not like their old shit.
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But then after 15 years, that new shit is old shit.
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Caceres has fucking threatened him a few times.
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He doesn't have the fundamentals, I don't think.
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Very athletic, very crafty, and watch who wins this.
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My point is, look at this beautiful leg lock attempt here by Rodriguez.
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You're saying that he doesn't have good fundamentals.
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What I'm saying is that I just watched the first minute, guys, and I saw him make big mistakes where he's coming in and throwing and being really athletic by getting caught in the face by a guy who's a better counterpuncher.
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I don't see that, and I fought for eight years.
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Have you ever seen his fight with Sergio Pettis?
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I'm saying he doesn't have the fundamentals to fight in the UFC. Alex Kinceras is...
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Listen to me right now and don't ever say anything different.
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Hey, hey, I said Rodriguez has better fundamentals.
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You see how he evaded that high kick and then it was a side kick?
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His fundamentals are not as good as Rodriguez or Bermudez!
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We're the example of how not to behave when you're on a live podcast.
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I think it's an issue for women, at least as far as what I read.
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See if you can find it, Jamie, what the new regulation is about women's clothing.
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Joe doesn't say anything about women's privilege.
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Powerful Sugar Ray Leonard is still fucking whacking that bag.
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Imagine if he's wearing Birkenstocks with socks and beat the fuck out of it.
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I believe that would be George Hamilton doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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It doesn't take place until January 1st, it says, too.
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Joe, if they give you a million dollars, would you be Colonel Sanders?
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Female competitors must wear a short-sleeved above-the-elbow or sleeveless form-fitting rash guard and or sports bra.
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Female competitors will follow the same requirements for bottom coverings as the male competitors.
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So they only have to have a tight-fitting upper top.
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Because, did anybody ever have a loose-fitting upper top?
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But did anybody, did they just want to cover their ass with that?
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Someone's, like, their bra got fucked up and she had to look at the ref while something was happening.
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Brian, you sound like a guy acting like a commentator in a movie right there.
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It's like the Karate Kid 7. Did I just say off the charts?
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I've never said off the charts in my life and I just did.
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I can't stop laughing thinking of Joe doing the KFC commercials.
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Dude, Jair Rodriguez is throwing some fucking whipping kicks.
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Dude, tell me, look how good Caceres' defense is, man.
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At what point does the afro become like a hindrance?
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Cushion for those fucking hard round kicks in the back of the head.
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He punched his knee and then came up with a backhand.
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The refs will probably allow Kits to the back of the head.
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How many colonels are there going to be, Jamie?
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Dude, you can't just have one like that all the time.
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Yeah, I should definitely go with black Colonel Sanders.
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Listen, have a black guy take over the Colonel Sanders and have it be like a D.L. Hughley character who just makes fun of white people.
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Tony Robbins does a thing about Colonel Sanders.
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If they gave him one up money, they gave him a thick envelope of just fucking this.
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Would someone think that it would be racist if you got a guy, like if you paid a hilarious stand-up comedian?
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But if you were a pretty decent stand-up comedian, really funny guy, and they were willing to pay you to be the new black Colonel Sanders, and you had a bunch of jokes where you only made fun of white people.
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KFC taps David Allen Greer as the first African American.
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Caceres, I never said you didn't have fundamentals.
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I don't remember what you said, but I just want to be really honest about this.
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Like you got on a roll and you were defending your position.
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You know that he's right and that Caceres is obviously handling himself in this fight against one of the most dangerous guys in the division.
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Damn, he came at him with three straight strikes.
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Daniel Alan Greer will not be the first Colonel Sanders.
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He's trying to jump in the pot and he doesn't have a fucking contract?
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Hoping KFC would be like, yeah, that's a great idea.
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Instead, KFC's race is fucked, like, absolutely not.
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I would like to volunteer to make fun of white people.
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I can't wait until all fried chicken places just make fun of white people so I can eat fried chicken with zero guilt.
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I didn't mean for anything anybody that looks like me did in the past.
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Just make fun of white people and give me some chicken.
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It's a disgusting thing that something as delicious as fried chicken isn't somehow or any way racist.
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Try drinking a grape soda and just being cool as a white guy.
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I had some buttermilk fried chicken in a restaurant in Atlanta.
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This is like a gourmet restaurant made fried chicken.
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Have you ever had that chicken baguette at the Arclight with watermelon barbecue sauce?
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They close on Sunday because Christian believes.
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His style is all leaping forward and leaping back and moving forward fast.
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It's great, but what I'm saying is like it takes a really high level of fitness to fight this style because he's doing essentially like wrestling, but like with all these plyometrics built into it, you know?
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Remember this is in Utah, so the elevation's high, but Rodriguez comes from Albuquerque, so it's not gonna be as high as Albuquerque.
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So I'd assume later in rounds it's gonna favor Rodriguez if you think about that.
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I know that Caceres is from John Crouch's camp, and they do do some training up in the mountains.
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Arizona does have mountains, and a lot of people don't realize it.
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Hey, Brendan, when he throws this right, the way his head's going all the way to the side like that, that's a really interesting thing.
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Watch him throw this right, and he ducks his head.
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Although if Alex threw a fucking knee, he'd be in trouble.
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But he's all the way to the side when he does it.
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It's like knowing when your opponent is leaning his weight backwards and being able to time it right.
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Or knowing when he's committing to one side or another side and being able to anticipate it and time it.
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You're so connected to your previous statement that you're not willing to enjoy this fight as it plays out.
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Alex just hit him with a beautiful knee to the body and a nice combination before that.
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The instinct in the back of your head is telling you right now to shut the fuck up.
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Because, no, I'm saying Rodriguez so far in round...
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They need a real Mexican guy as a champ, as a big star.
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He's beating up Yair Rodriguez and he's making fun of you.
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If this is a schoolyard fight and they pulled Alex Caceres off right now, everyone would agree that Alex Caceres won.
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Eddie Bravo is being sarcastic, ladies and gentlemen.
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If you didn't know Eddie, you would assume he's on your side.
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Please don't judge fights ever for fear of your own life.
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I know the fans listening are going to back me up on this.
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You're in the circle of trust here so you can judge the fights.
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A little cut, deal with a cut, you know what I mean?
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Brian, that was one highlight from a more than a minute of ground and pound when he was on top.
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But he beat him up on the ground for at least a minute.
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Look at that beautiful round kick that Rodriguez has.
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See what he's doing when he's ducking his head like that?
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I haven't seen a lot of people throw rights that way.
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He's obviously like super fit because he's recovered from that grapple fest.
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You'd have to be a cardio machine with that style.
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Yeah, you have to be so ready to explode for five rounds.
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I would love to talk to him about like what kind of protocol he follows like for strength and conditioning because he's like all this is so fast like he's relying like a lot of his moves are like counter moves and like oh!
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His angles though he keeps catching it's really interesting.
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I'm telling you, Caceres, you're looking at that afro and you're going, this guy's silly.
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I love watching him dance on the way to his fights, too.
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I loved when he came out in the Bruce Lee jumpsuit.
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It's awesome when you guys talk over each other.
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The count, Rodriguez has landed a lot more shots, but Caceres is so tough.
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Are you uncomfortable if no one's talking to me?
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It just feels weird when no one's talking, right?
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Yair, he's so good on the outside, but Caceres has an excellent idea of distance.
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He's connecting when he's moving forward in particular, but Caceres is able to avoid a lot of the shit that Yair's throwing.
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Well, what we could do, you get chicken and just rip the skin off.
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Let me tell you something about this fucking place, this Cuban joint in Encino, California.
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I'm telling you these Cubans are masters of the chicken.
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They're masters of this lemon garlic chicken with onions.
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I mean smother it with like barely seared onions.
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Are you ever gonna not be keto now that you've done it?
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I just think that your body should, at the most, get a certain amount of...
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They think that's probably the most important one.
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The real important one, in terms of your own health, is never allowing yourself to get over 25 grams of sugar a day.
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For most people, that's not even a single glass of soda.
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You could fuck around with it a little bit every now and then, but it shouldn't be a primary part of your diet.
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What you want to do is get your body comfortable with eating a lot of avocados, a lot of flaxseed oil, coconut oil, healthy fats.
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If you're getting protein, you don't want to get too much protein.
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You want to have a good, healthy amount of lean animal protein.
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Come on, out of respect for these amazing fighters.
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Some guy came up to me at the UFC and said, hey man, can I get your picture?
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At my show at Oxfam, I had a bunch of keto kid t-shirts.
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A dude did say that to me at the UFC, but I was running back from taking a leak.
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I had an old Swinger Swinger couple ask me to go back to the hotel.
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They wanted me to slang dick while he watched with his old ass wife.
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Sounds like a good idea if you're disgusted with your life and you want to kill yourself soon.
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I just need something really fucking gross to push me over the edge.
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I just need one more thing where I'm just super disgusted with myself.
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Brian keeps showing reverence in this encounter.
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These guys are leaving it out here in the ring, guys.
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You should narrate like a children's show about war.
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You know, Eric Apple had his wrist broke so many times.
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I think, I'm going to do this injustice, but I think they had to shorten one of his wrists because he shattered it so badly.
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And they told him, like, there's no way you'll ever be able to punch.
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When we were doing Warrior, he went and got an x-ray because his neck was all fucked up, and he broke his neck.
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I had a chance to hang out with that dude in England.
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When you're with people on the road, Eddie, you came with us, right, Eddie?
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I don't remember one England trip from the next.
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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful job using the leg lock.
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These guys are using it maybe to sweep, get past the right leg.
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Wow, Brian, you really should be in an ABC after school special.
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It's a free country and I can express myself as I see fit.
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Any boring fight, Brian's going to bring into entertainment.
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You're going to turn into the play-by-play guy.
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I should be the third guy in the Rogan Goldberg.
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No, you've got to be the number one guy or the play-by-play guy here.
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You're going to be like, Dad, I didn't mean that.
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Because some guy's about to beat the fuck out of you.
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You're so out there and you're so pronounced and you got like such a character, but nobody could do you.
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I just feel super uncomfortable with these big fights going on right now, boys.
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Caceres is going to take crazy, crazy punches to the fa-fa-fa-fa face.
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Imagine if the afro did actually protect you in some way.
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They want Kimbo to cut his beard because they said a guillotine or a punch on the chin.
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But meanwhile, Kimbo Slice had a fucking magnificent beard, though.
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I mean, for the sake of the people, you gotta let him have that beard.
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It's like asking Chuck Norris to shave his mustache.
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Yeah, and look at Alex Cacero's coming out strong.
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But see, this is my question about Yair Rodriguez's style.
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It's almost never been employed like all these kind of kicks.
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It's almost never been employed this way for five rounds.
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He's doing stuff that takes a lot of energy, right?
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I mean, he did damage to Andre Feely in his last fight.
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I was definitely not scoring that fight, and I know I was scoring it more than you were.
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There's no question that the only fight, the only round Caceres won was one round.
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There was that one round that Caceres seemed to be winning, right?
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Listen, you guys, I didn't miss a round or a second of that fight.
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It is super interesting, the concept of adjusting and changing how fights are scored and the new criteria for a 10-8 round.
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The guy has to get a finish, basically, to win.
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Well, think of those two new moves, just the two new moves that we know.
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The new hands-down position, being like, in order to be where you're off-bounds for head kicks or knees to the ground, you have to have both hands flat, palms flat on the ground.
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Anything else, even the tips of your fingers, a guy could punt you in the face.
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You know what he's saying, B? So remember, if a guy just had one down, you couldn't touch him.
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Now, and remember they do this, they do this thing, now you have to have both down.
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Now a guy can knee you in the face, a guy can kick you in the face.
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So those two changes, and then the new change, the criteria of how to score 10-8 rounds, they're establishing clearer understanding of what does and does not constitute a 10-8 round.
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And I think that's always going to be open to people's judgment.
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You'd have to kill a motherfucker to get a 10-8 back in the day now.
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Yeah, I've had some ridiculous conversations with people about what does and does not constitute a 10-9 round or a 10-8 round.
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Powerful Yair Rodriguez and powerful Eric Scaceres.
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In boxing, all you got to do is knock a guy down and unless you completely...
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Like, say if a guy like Andre Ward is beating your fucking ass all around the ring for two minutes and 56 seconds.
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So if a guy like Andre Ward's beating the fuck out of you for two minutes and 50 seconds and then you just close your eyes and swing and catch him on the chin and he falls down on his ass and he gets up at the count of eight and they dust his gloves off and the round ends.
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But any other circumstance when it's a close fight or a close round and a guy gets dropped, it's always a 10-8.
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So we know, if we're watching the fight at home, and we know, like, say if Manny Pacquiao's fighting some dude and he knocks the dude down three times in the first five rounds, like, that guy's fucked.
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I mean, he can, but he'd have to knock Manny down.
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In one round, so if you knock somebody down three times in one round, what would the score be usually?
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So it's 10-8 for one knockdown, 10-7 for two knockdowns.
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And in most title fights, they waive the three knockdown rule so you can have some fucking crazy, chaotic shit.
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Some organizations, they waive that three knockdown rule in title fights.
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If you got knocked down twice in a fight, it was over because they made you fight like three times a night.
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You're getting a pound of cheese, but it's so good.
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My grandfather, 100% Sicilian, used to have a wheel of this shit.
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Do you want to apologize to Alex Caceres now or after the news comes out?
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I said his fundamentals were not as sound, essentially, as Rodriguez, and that's a fact.
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Jamie, didn't he say his fundamentals aren't very good?
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Well, you know, Brian, it was a split decision, which means one judge thought that Caceres did enough to win.
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He's fighting an amazing fighter, and he did a great job, but he did get tagged a lot.
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I'm just saying, you can't tell from the naked eye that a guy doesn't have good fundamentals.
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I don't remember what I said, but I'm saying what I meant was...
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Let's just give you a chance to clarify right now, because this has already been printed in like 50 different MMA websites.
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All I was saying when I was watching that is I said, huh, it looks like when Caceres throws the shot, he takes it in the face and misses Rodriguez.
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And I went, and I saw it three times, and I went...
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Well, and then I'd see Rodriguez throw a shot, and when he'd throw a shot, he was in a position where he couldn't get hit.
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And I said, that looks like Rodriguez has better fundamentals than Caceres.
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You are a well-read version of the old man at the gas station that talks to his other old man friend.
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We get together, and you're like, what he needed to do, this is what he did wrong, this is why you don't understand boxing.
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Same guy that critiques Don Brady still in motion.
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I obsess over fundamentals, and I love it, and I think I'm qualified to at least have, with my naked eye, with my naked eye, sir.
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Sir, with my naked eye, I'm able to decide, sir, with my naked eye, sir, sir, if I may, with my naked eye, I am able to see who is actually a little better.
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What you said, to a T, you said, Alex doesn't have any fundamentals.
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Dude, what I'm saying at the end of the day is that if you have two fighters...
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I'm saying you're not qualified to judge the two fighters.
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I just didn't think you were totally fair to what Caceres brings to the table.
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And I think you got a little defensive afterwards, and you started defending it in some sort of weird way.
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But listen, ultimately you can walk away with this fairly unscathed, because Yair Rodriguez won a split decision, so it's all good, but...
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And while I was talking to him, while I was interviewing him, he threw up.
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You know one judge gave all three rounds to Alex.
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He might have, like, a particle might have landed on my foot, and now all of a sudden, I'm like, he threw up on me?
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Bro, it was like that fucking blueberry pie-eating contest from that Stephen King movie.
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I wish they'd recreate IT. I think they were saying they were gonna do something like that.
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This is a fucking fun fight to watch highlights.
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You're looking at the future world champ in that division.
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Highly possible that at one point in his career he could hold the title though.
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To have a guy that talented at 23. That's fucking nuts.
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It's really kind of interesting because he does all that shit as a regular part of his training.
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You know a lot of guys will throw kicks like one, two, left hook, right leg kick.
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And that's like the majority of their training.
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When Yair Rodriguez does pad work, it's like jab, wheel kick, jab, 360 roundhouse kick.
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Dude, his videos online of him at a gym doing pad work are super, super impressive.
03:24:48.000
Brendan, you have your finger on the pulse of American pop culture.
03:25:12.000
It was a rumor that he started himself, though, right?
03:25:29.000
I don't think Dave Chappelle would be willing to do it.
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Well, you gotta do it just because you love chicken.
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You don't have to act when you're a multi-millionaire if you want chicken.
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You love the chicken so much you don't care about the money.
03:25:59.000
Michael Bisping looking very fucking well tailored.
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Fighting Dan Henderson, it's true, in Manchester, England.
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Are you kidding me, after that first fight, what this means?
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Imagine when they're about to go, Dan Anderson, Michael Bisping, about to go again.
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That's legendary, epic, iconic shit right there.
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I think that's one of the beautiful things about the UFC, being able to make crazy fights like this.
03:26:38.000
Dan Henderson was like, you know, I'm probably done.
03:26:45.000
He's the first fighter ever to hold two consecutive titles in two different weight classes in pride.
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Never got the UFC one, but if he gets it with this and then retires...
03:26:58.000
Goes down pound for pound, one of the best ever.
03:27:03.000
Forget about numerically, who's more valuable, who accomplished more.
03:27:18.000
Randy gets a bit more because Randy won the UFC heavyweight title.
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But at the time when Randy did win the light heavyweight title, I would say it's more impressive what Dan Henderson was doing in Pride.
03:27:39.000
How about when Randy Couture knocked down Tim Sylvia?
03:27:44.000
He drops Tim Sylvia with a fake inside leg kick and a bomb of overhand right.
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Same punch, by the way, that Henderson used when he fought Bisping.
03:27:57.000
He beat Gonzaga-Gonzaga when he had a broken arm.
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Remember he broke Randy's arm and Randy was beating him with his fucking broken arm.
03:28:13.000
That was when he was 50. That was his last fight.
03:28:17.000
Why do you have to bring everybody back to reality?
03:28:23.000
I was there for his first and second fight in the UFC back there.
03:28:29.000
We and I went to the fight between Randy Couture when he beat Vitor Belfort.
03:28:43.000
Joe and I flew down to Baton Rouge or somewhere like that.
03:28:54.000
Jamie, can you bring up Vitor Belfort, Randy Couture?
03:29:03.000
Well, Eddie and I used to work out with his trainer.
03:29:10.000
You're talking about the real tan guy who's jacked?
03:29:32.000
I think this is like, is this the actual fight?
03:29:54.000
This was, I mean, what do you think Vitor weighed then?
03:29:57.000
240. See, but this is like a prime example of having maybe too much muscle.
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Like, you almost get too strong and too powerful, and maybe it's not like the right thing for your frame.
03:30:20.000
He's not a big giant guy, but, you know, he's a super athletic guy.
03:30:25.000
And, you know, he's had a lot of issues with his hands breaking because he punches so hard and so fast.
03:30:33.000
Well, you know, Vitor's had, I believe, at least eight operations on his hands.
03:30:53.000
When I was doing the post-fight interviews, it was always you could wear shoes.
03:31:05.000
Like the first fights I worked, maybe like a couple guys were wearing gloves.
03:31:16.000
Randy said, in this fight, Randy said, I'm gonna beat him and I'm gonna beat him with boxing.
03:31:25.000
Look at how different his body is now there, and look at his body when he's 48. I think if you do that, granted, obviously he's on fucking, he's juiced to the gills, but if you do that with any 48-year-old to 19-year-old, they're going to look different.
03:31:41.000
Well, Randy was not 48. This looks like a modern day MMA fight.
03:31:47.000
If you compare his body when he's 19. Anyone from 19 to 39 or 42 now.
03:31:55.000
Randy, well, I believe he had his first fight in the UFC when he was 36 or 34. I can't remember.
03:32:01.000
I'm pretty sure it's 36. Well, so he was in his 30s.
03:32:11.000
It might be 97, 98. Well, I came along, I started doing it in 97, and I only did it for like a year and a half until they wanted me to go to Japan.
03:32:52.000
I think he probably doesn't get nearly enough respect or credit with today's fighters.
03:33:00.000
I don't think the people that are newly to the game, I don't think a big percentage of them go back and watch the early fights.
03:33:22.000
He's not in the Hall of Fame, can't come to the events, sure as fuck not on Fight Pass.
03:33:26.000
I'm barely on Fight Pass, and I said fuck Reebok, let alone Randy Couture.
03:33:37.000
I don't think you can totally say that without knowing for sure.
03:34:14.000
I say to guys, I go, I'm wearing you like a sweater, motherfucker.
03:34:17.000
How often does this happen other than when you're asleep?
03:34:32.000
Hope you like swinging in fresh air because that's what you're about to get.
03:34:35.000
And then I fucking pull a Rodriguez on him because my fundamentals are sound.
03:34:44.000
Remember when Mark Kerr used to get dudes in that can opener?
03:34:49.000
Goddamn, I remember Mark Kerr got this Russian dude in the can opener, and it was so goddamn nasty.
03:34:55.000
He pulled on this guy's head, and Mark Kerr was, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you.
03:35:31.000
Back when Alistair was fighting light heavyweight, Valentine was a heavyweight.
03:35:36.000
I heard those brothers were nightmares in fucking the Netherlands.
03:35:39.000
By the way, look at how much time is going on in this clock.
03:35:45.000
Like, these are long-ass fucking rounds, folks.
03:35:48.000
This is not the old UFC. I don't even honestly remember how long the fucking rounds were.
03:35:53.000
Well, I'm distracted by John McCarthy's boat collar.
03:35:56.000
Well, how about what happened to Randy Couture's shorts?
03:35:59.000
You see what happened to his shorts right there?
03:36:15.000
I'm sure if he's on there, they're going to have them everywhere.
03:36:40.000
But imagine if it was only Randy versus Chuck Liddell, two and three.
03:36:48.000
Damn, Randy Couture is still taking it to veto here.
03:36:58.000
You would think you had a worm, too, if Randy Couture was uppercutting you.
03:37:04.000
You would think you would have fucking all kinds of shit coming out of your asshole.
03:37:08.000
He'd knock you around like a fucking old teddy bear.
03:37:12.000
Is there no fucking search on this thing, Jamie?
03:37:15.000
Jamie, we got to get the new version of the Fight Pass.
03:37:22.000
Not the Fight Pass, rather the Apple ITV. There might be a better version of that.
03:37:30.000
But if you like watching old school fights, the fucking resource of the fight library at the Fight Pass, it's so...
03:37:43.000
So think about all these things that are taking place in this fight with Vitor and Randy.
03:38:01.000
If he feels you breaking, especially then, so close to his athletic prime as an amateur wrestler, he's a fucking straight savage right here.
03:38:39.000
Everybody needed a dude like Tank Abbott around just to let you know that you could think that all martial artists are going to be the same thing.
03:38:46.000
They're all going to be like Leota Machida bowing.
03:38:48.000
No, there's some dudes who get drunk every night and will beat the fuck out of him.
03:39:04.000
I ran into Mark Coleman after he lost to Maury Smith, and he basically gassed in that one.
03:39:11.000
He was leaning over, hands on his knees, and Maury Smith was throwing leg kicks and shit.
03:39:21.000
I was working for a guy who was trying to start a magazine, an MMA magazine called NHB. And so I interviewed Mark Coleman and I asked him, what has he been doing since that fight?
03:39:32.000
And this was at a bar and he goes, look down, brother, look at my feet.
03:39:36.000
And I looked down and he goes, I got some running shoes.
03:39:56.000
You had to be just a fucking meathead to show up back then.
03:40:06.000
Maurice, I was really interested to see how Tank was going to be able to deal with those leg kicks.
03:40:15.000
As far as like a real heavyweight, because Maurice is a real natural heavyweight.
03:40:20.000
But a real heavyweight that's that fucking good at Muay Thai, who comes over into MMA. And again, just like...
03:40:29.000
Like a lot of guys, he came over after a long career in kickboxing.
03:40:35.000
Yeah, he'd fought for a long time, won a bunch of titles.
03:40:39.000
You said the weirdest thing after this fight, too.
03:40:41.000
I remember you said, after the fight, you were next to him, and you said, I looked in his mouth, and it looked like his mouth had different parts in it.
03:40:53.000
Yeah, he's definitely built different than the regular human.
03:40:58.000
Besides getting money for the fucking health angels.
03:41:02.000
Wait for anybody to open their fucking pie hall.
03:41:23.000
He was supposed to fight this year, but he didn't pass his physical.
03:41:30.000
He didn't pass his physical and was removed from the fight.
03:41:42.000
Was this after he had beaten Mark Coleman for the title?
03:41:49.000
Remember he kept saying, come on, ground and pound me.
03:41:54.000
And the way Maury's is, Maury's like the nicest guy ever.
03:42:16.000
And one of the things that he had above everybody is cardio.
03:42:22.000
He would do like these back-and-forth sprints in the pool, like really hardcore long-range cardio stuff.
03:42:30.000
So when he got into these long fights, you know, because you've got to remember, we're not even talking about a five-minute round.
03:42:35.000
I don't even know what the fuck the rounds were back then.
03:42:41.000
277. This is back like UFC 12-ish, 13-ish, somewhere around there.
03:42:47.000
This is maybe like 14, UFC 14. Oh my goodness, he's so young.
03:43:11.000
Scooch this up a hair so we can watch this fight.
03:43:17.000
And UFC 15 saw limitations in hair pulling, the banding of strikes to the back of the neck and head, headbutting, small joint manipulations, and groin strikes with five-minute rounds introduced to UFC 21. Ah, UFC 21. So I was already gone.
03:44:03.000
Maury Smith had a very underrated, very good defensive guard.
03:44:17.000
He's very smart when it comes to fighting, too.
03:44:19.000
He had a remarkable ability to remain calm in combat.
03:44:25.000
It's one of the reasons why he was so dangerous.
03:44:27.000
You could take him out like we saw with the Ernesto Hu's head kick, but that's a kick that takes out everybody that ever lived.
03:44:36.000
That's a brutal kick that he did on Maurice, too.
03:44:44.000
Capable of was at a super high world-class level.
03:44:49.000
I mean, he's an all-time great when it comes to kickboxers from America, for sure.
03:44:57.000
I was talking so much shit about Maurice's guard, and Tank passes guard.
03:45:07.000
Tank actually technically passed Maurice Smith's guard.
03:45:15.000
Was that tank trying to throw a guy out of the ring?
03:45:20.000
The guy stayed sort of in it, but it was an issue.
03:45:26.000
You have to open the door and let the guy back in.
03:45:30.000
You'd feel like a real bitch to toss out the ring on a walk back in.
03:45:33.000
Well, I feel like that guy just wasted a lot of energy and time to go after him.
03:45:37.000
Morris is very good at surviving on the ground.
03:45:40.000
As a kickboxer, I don't really know that many kickboxers with a guard as good as his.
03:45:49.000
And this is when Frank Shamrock was at his best.
03:45:53.000
Like when Frank Shamrock was the UFC champion, when Frank beat John Loeber in the rematch, like he was palling around with Maurice back then.
03:46:04.000
I think Maurice helped Frank with a lot of cardio, like really emphasizing how strong a role cardio plays.
03:46:11.000
And also with Maurice, of course, showing him like real proper kickboxing fundamentals.
03:46:26.000
It was like MMA, but you could take dudes down.
03:46:40.000
It's only terrible because you gotta get used to it.
03:46:52.000
Kickboxing with takedowns is a big part of what Muay Thai is all about.
03:47:07.000
That's quite more interesting to me than just regular kickboxing.
03:47:26.000
You think this is full MMA? No, it says Drakka.
03:47:35.000
Yeah, they said, what the fuck are we doing with this bullshit?
03:47:46.000
Might be a UFC. Well, it's the only thing that's sad.
03:48:09.000
There's some more time where you could do throws.
03:48:13.000
This podcast has gone on far too late, ladies and gentlemen.
03:48:19.000
You can find Eddie motherfucking Bravo on Twitter.
03:48:51.000
Wednesday Night Comedy Store, Brendan Schaub's actual comedy sort of kind of debut, but he's done it already.
03:49:00.000
Anytime you do the Comedy Store for the first time, it's your debut.
03:49:05.000
Middleweights, downtown Los Angeles at the Orpheum.
03:49:14.000
Something happened, and it's 7 minutes and 55 seconds into the fight, and this is where it comes.
03:49:21.000
You got a guy like Maury Smith standing in front of you, and you're exhausted.