Joe Rogan Experience - Fight Companion - February 14, 2015
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Summary
This is not a regular podcast. This is a special episode where we are joined by a bunch of savages and we talk about the UFC. We also talk about Tate Fletcher and how he's one of the funniest dudes on the planet. And we talk a little bit about Mario Yamasaki and the first fight of his UFC career. Also, we give our thoughts on Ray Borg and what it means to be a brawler and how to deal with the pressure of being the number one contender in the world. And of course, we get to talk about our favorite UFC fighter, Tate Fletcher. We also get into why Tate Fletcher is the best in the UFC and why he should be the number 1 contender. And finally, we answer your burning questions about the first UFC fight of the year, Tate vs Tate! If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you get your stuff. We'll be looking out for your questions and comments. Thanks for all the support, stay tuned for the next episode. -The Guys Who Know It All -Jon Sorrentino, Justin Milos, Eddie Bravo, Nate Mendez, and Tate Fletcher -Jorge Masvidal and much more! Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Subscribe, rate, review, and subscribe to our channel! and tell a friend about what you think of what we're doing and how much you're enjoying it! Thank you for listening and sharing it on your thoughts on the podcast! <3 -Jon and Jon are looking forward to the next one! -Tate Fletcher, Jon and Jon Rocha, and Jon's new book, "MMAKE THE MOST IMPORTANT PODCAST!! Jon & Jon talk about this episode of the UFC Fight Night, and we're going to be covering the UFC! -Jon's new album, "The Best Fight Night" -Jon & Jon's first ever UFC fight night! -JON'S FASTEST BONUS EPISODE EVER! -- JON & Jon talks about that's coming soon! JON'Eddie Bravo, JONY'S SONGS, JANO'S NEW BON THE FOSTER, JORDAN AND JOSH WELCOME, JOSY CHEY, JODY'S MOST EXCUSES, JAY'S DUMB AND JAMES RYAN'S PRODUCER AND MORE!
Transcript
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If you've never listened to one of these things before, this is not a regular podcast.
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Don't expect some deep insight to the nature of the universe or even rational conversations because there's alcohol involved.
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One of my favorite human beings that's ever existed.
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To his left, Justin Milos, trainer extraordinaire, all throughout the lands.
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To his left, the motherfucking CEO of Caveman Coffee.
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Are you the Dana White of Caveman Coffee or are you Lorenzo?
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I think he's looking at you and going, you know what?
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Possibly the funniest UFC fighter that's ever lived.
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Don't put me in a sauna and make me fuck my way out is one of the great all-time one-liners that's ever been.
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Chael is one of the greatest trash talkers ever.
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Most of the time when Quentin's funny, though, he's not on purpose funny.
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Quentin's always thinking everybody's ganging up on him.
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It's, uh, how do you say this gentleman's name?
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The first fight is, we gotta sync this up so you guys know.
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We're watching the fights and doing commentary, sort of.
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I mean, we're not really doing commentary, but we're watching the fights and doing a podcast at the same time.
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So if you're tuning into it, if you're listening to it, you might want to just fucking ditch this one and go back to one with Tate Fletcher might drop some science up in this bitch.
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But right now, it's Ray Borg is about to fight this gentleman.
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Alright, I'm taking the headphones off, so if shit gets out of control, you've been warned.
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It's 4 minutes 58 seconds if you want to sync up.
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4 minutes 58 seconds of the first round was on the clock when I said that.
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Mario Yamasaki might be fucking mad at her, right?
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Yeah, but you can't do that in the UFC. If you throw that shit on your car, that means you're gay.
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She could be the Mills Lane of MMA. But if you're an octagon girl, you gotta do something, right?
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The referee, that's their moment where they're in the spotlight right there.
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Bruce Buffer does fucking wheel kicks and shit.
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There's never been a guy like Bruce Buffer that you could talk into doing a 360. Pretty agile.
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He did a 360. He used to do the 180, does the 180 still, but for Brock Lesnar he did a fucking 360. It was the greatest thing ever.
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Bro, I've seen him in the gym with cables doing the Bruce Buffer 360. No.
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As I walk into the gym, I hear the hybrid in front of everyone.
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I bet if he took a little capoeira, that would help as well.
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So meanwhile, not to be disrespectful to these gentlemen that are engaging in Mortal Kombat right now.
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That means he's a heavy favorite to win the fight.
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I've hooked Aubrey up a bunch of times where I was like, that line is crazy.
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Like, you got a guy coming in from somewhere else, and people might not know, and the Vegas guys might not have never seen him fight before, and you're like, get the fuck out of here with this line.
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Oh, like, when Wonderboy Thompson was fighting.
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I mentioned Sean Shelby not because he's an idiot.
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I only said that because he's the only one who would know.
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If it's a thousand, if it's a minus a thousand.
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But if you really know, like, only a guy like Sean Shelby who studies these guys would go, dude, that guy's terrible, and this other guy's a writer.
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No one knows more about, like, he might not know as much about execution, like how to execute things or where things are going.
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As far as how many, like, guys who know fighters and know who's fighting and winning, Joe Silva knows more than anybody.
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No one will make your heart drop more than when you, on your cell phone, you get a call from Joe Silva.
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When it's Joe Silva, because you know, he's only calling about matchups.
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So you see Joe Silva on the cell phone, you're like, oh, shit, son.
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These are hard to start the race when you see Joe Silva.
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I've been trying to get Joe Silva on the podcast for a while, and I told him, I go, look, dude, how about we just don't talk about MMA? We won't even talk about MMA. He's a really smart dude, but he's in a position as a matchmaker.
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I can't get him high and have him talking crazy shit.
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I don't know if they want it publicly said, so I won't say it, but I like that guy.
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He gave me a Sam Harris book way back in the day.
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Joe gave me a book, Letters to a Christian Nation.
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Wouldn't he like to come on with a guy like that just so he could talk to a guy that he admires?
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He's the guy let go of the squeeze a little bit!
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I didn't know what I was doing on the defense when I held my arm or something like this.
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Whatever it was, I didn't know what I was doing, and I was about to tap.
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It looks like an old Muhammad Ali type, just old...
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And then, I didn't want to show any weakness, so I stood up really quick, thinking like I was going to shoot.
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But meanwhile, I'm drunk as fuck, but I'm so scared that he's going to see that, that you just pretend like nothing's wrong.
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I've never taken a shot in my life, but that's how purple my head was.
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I think it's MMA Junkie Radio, I think, coined it.
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Because it's the woman main event and the woman co-main.
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Raquel Pennington, the chick who put that girl asleep.
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Even though Weidman and Belfort, was that the matchup that was canceled?
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Even though that would have been a great fucking match.
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Any match that Weidman and any match that beat their belt for it is great.
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But seriously, I love watching Ronda because you know a million percent she's going to come after.
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I think she's the only one that's listening to Mike Tyson.
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Mike Tyson told everybody, everybody on Howard Stern, he told everybody.
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He said, Kostamata was really into hypnotizing me.
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Before every one of those big fights in the beginning, I was hypnotized.
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He said Customato was actually an amateur hypnotist himself.
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But he brought in a real legit guy before every fight to hypnotize him.
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And he stopped getting hypnotized after Customato died.
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How come everyone's getting a strength conditioning coach?
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They're going to need a jiu-jitsu coach, a wrestling coach, a striking coach, and a hypnotist.
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It's going to get to that point eventually when people realize...
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He was hypnotized in the locker room, a professional hypnotist, before he went out there.
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Killer B, are you trying to get hypnotized in the next fight, or what?
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If you're resistant at all, are you going to be...
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Did you see that spinning backfist right hand he dropped that dude with in glory?
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Come on, we went the time before in glory, like a few fights ago.
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That they keep fighting all through the finals.
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Dude, if you know anything about kickboxing, listen to this lineup he fought in one fucking night.
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They go three fucking rounds to a dead heat, so they go to a fourth round.
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Then, he fights Wayne Barrett, a dude who also had beat him before.
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Then, he goes into the main event and fights Artem Levin, who's...
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It's like those two, because Schilling had already beat Levin.
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You know, he dropped him and hit him with a knee on the way down.
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But Schilling and Levin, they're like, fucking right there, man.
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He fights four fucking rounds with Simon Marcus.
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Someone could easily die from something like that.
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You have heard Randy Couture talk about the importance of having a sports psychologist.
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Because when he came out, didn't he seem like he had zero fear?
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Randy Couture came out and never showed an ounce of fear.
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Mike Tyson came out and never showed an ounce of fear.
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Randy Couture came from white people's neighborhoods.
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So they both came out with zero fear, but Randy Couture had that Captain America attitude.
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And Mike Tyson had that attitude like, I'm going to fucking eat the children.
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Randy said the reason he wasn't nervous was because he accepted losing.
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They make different white people in Oregon, man.
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There's so many different ways to close this off.
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The Japanese necktie, to me, seems stronger than the darts.
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They have, like, large carotid arteries or whatever it is.
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I'm just holding them there, thinking about my next move.
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And I'm just sitting there going, I have zero energy to squeeze this dude.
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I've got to go after an arm bar or a calf crank.
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When you get a mounted, when you get a guillotine, then rolls into a mounted guillotine, that feeling of getting that guillotine on in the mount is just so, it's like, no, bitch.
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I got LeVar Johnson, who tested positive for PDs.
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I had it locked up, and I was like, oh, this one's over, and he's going, laughing, laughing as it's on, and punching me in the face.
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Just so much fucking muscle, just did not, did not, no fucks given.
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LeVar Johnson is not the most skillful guy, but let me tell you something.
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He hits as hard as any human being I've ever seen hit someone in the heavyweight division.
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When he hit Pat Berry, I was like, Jesus fucking Christ.
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But the LeVar Johnson fight was a little more shocking to me.
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Because I was like, man, I thought that Barry would be able to out-technique this dude.
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I thought there would be a lot of, like, that heavy right leg kick that he throws.
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And, you know, Pat Barry was, you know, like the Shane Del Rosario fight.
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He had good success against really high-level kickboxers.
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Mike Tyson is telling you he's the only guy in the history of fighting who went out there and scared the living bejesus out of his opponents.
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No fighter in history had a lineup of opponents that were visibly terrified in the ring.
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I already know what you walk out to with the Katy Perry song.
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Dude, he's going one sub to the next sub to the next sub.
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Like, he's attacking aggressively and he doesn't get tired.
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Well, the guy he's with, man, the guy he's fighting, Kalades, he's tough as shit, man.
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But if you're a minus 1,000, you're supposed to go in there and you're supposed to be a one-rounder.
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That's usually how the odds are, you know what I'm saying?
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But isn't a Mighty Mouse fight like a minus 1,000?
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Yeah, but he's also, I mean, what is he, a 125-er?
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Yeah, but he knocked out Benavidez with one punch.
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I really wish he could make 125. They said he can't fight at 125 anymore.
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They said he has to fight at 135. Yeah, yeah, he let it go.
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Every position in those transitionary periods where it might tip the other way, wrong, bitch.
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He's kind of like dropping a shit on your head, too.
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Stay in half guard, hit the Kimura and hook the head with the left leg.
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When you transition that, you kind of get a free shin to the face too, right?
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It's like the only time we're allowed to drop a shin on a dude.
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You can try to choke him out a little bit or just ride it.
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If the guy has a good Kimura grip, if it's solid, it takes a long time to master just holding onto that grip.
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It's more about just getting the grip to get better positions.
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As soon as the left arm was free, he popped it right behind his back.
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I'm not saying the Kimura is not possible, obviously it's possible, but it's generally now, it's an art in itself.
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You can put a whole DVD out on jumping on a Kimura grip in every position and how to improve your position, how to sweep, how to get the back, how to turn it into an arm bar, how to do this, how to turn it into a leg lock.
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It's so hard to get that arm out at that point.
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Hey, how close was Javi to catching Gary Tonin in the Camorra?
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Very briefly, in the opening moments of the fight, he attacked with a Kimura, and Gary Tonin wound up getting out of it.
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You guys were speculating whether or not Javi would go after something quick.
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But right away, Javi tried to lock up a Kimura.
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The way he took it from the side and then pinned him over.
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Gary Tonin into deep waters, because Javi's known for his cardio, and that's like his style.
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And that's what he was telling me that he was going to do, but he didn't do that at all.
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I mean, I was really impressed with Gary Toten's triangle, but Javi's defense is insane.
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He said, I just trained with Lister, and he says he didn't get near my feet.
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He trained with Eric Paulson down at CSW. Javi was...
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And he spent a lot of extra time with leg lock defense because that's Gary's go-to stuff.
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To set it up on a guy like Javi from your side like that, lock it in, and then just go through.
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And before that, Metamorris against Zach Maxwell.
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And then before that, the other Metamorris he did against Kit Dale.
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He doesn't do as well in the gi because he's just not a points guy.
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There's a points style and then there's a submission only style.
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The way you were trained for those tournaments is totally different.
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Well, no one gives a shit about the points-only ones.
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If it's points-only and it doesn't go to a submission, it just feels kind of fucked up.
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But when you're watching these fights, like these fights in the Gracie Nationals, dude, those were fucking exciting as shit because you knew someone was getting tapped.
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There's not a better one than EBI. It's the best tournament I ever been to.
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These kind of tournaments where you're going submission only, that's what's up.
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Gary Toten's coming from EBI 3 March 22nd, Sunday.
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It's going to be the first one that we do on pay-per-view.
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There's an Orpheus movie where they film American Idol.
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Doors open at 2. We're going to start at 4. It's on a Sunday.
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I got the Comedy Magic Club at 7. Will I miss everything?
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A 16-man tournament can take an hour and a half, or it can take two hours and a half.
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Even if you don't know the first eight matches, the preliminaries, by the time you get to the finals, you're going to know those finalists very, very well.
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So when you go see a 16-man tournament, each match, one at a time, it really is like a documentary.
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Where do you get to see a tournament unfold like that anymore?
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What do you think about the idea of fighting like that, like a glory event?
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I mean, it's definitely dangerous, but it's also, if you're doing it, you're doing it as like...
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It's so crazy how many people are really willing to participate in this and really go try to become the champion of that night.
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That's what got me into fighting when I saw the UFC back in the day.
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There's so much circumstance and I guess there could be luck.
00:25:12.000
You could win with a head kick but break your foot.
00:25:15.000
Now you're going along, you know, either trying to fight through it or you have to bow out and that's it, you know?
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Remember when Steve Jennum won because Hoist couldn't go on?
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Those tournaments versus, like, the Pride tournaments when it's like, this month they're going to fight, then we'll have the next thing.
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To have it all in one night, that's the thing, man.
00:25:41.000
I think we know too much about getting damaged and then cooling off and then going back and getting more damage.
00:25:52.000
You're getting all these concussions and then you're going to go and have another fight.
00:25:56.000
How much are those boys getting paid over in Glory?
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I wouldn't want to speculate, but they're on Viacom.
00:26:10.000
My take is this could work because they're on Viacom.
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They're on fucking Spike TV, and Spike TV's making Friday night just combat sports night.
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If people just pay attention, Glory's gonna be huge.
00:26:30.000
They just have to do, like what the UFC did, is the UFC put the Ultimate Fighter together and they spent 44 million dollars in losses before the Ultimate Fighter became a hit.
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So it was like, they were real close to getting out.
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If Glory can figure out how to just hang in there, that fucking thing could take off.
00:26:49.000
I mean, everybody wants to see stand-up fighting.
00:26:51.000
If everybody fought the way Gary Tonin fights or the way Marcelo Garcia fights, people would love to see no-gi jiu-jitsu, too.
00:27:01.000
But you want to talk about, like, pure excitement.
00:27:04.000
Like, kickboxing is right up there with MMA. I mean, it's like high-level kickboxer with the best guys are going at it.
00:27:12.000
That fucking Raymond Daniels dude with those wild 360 in-the-air spin kicks like a fucking video game.
00:27:19.000
He knocks dudes out with, like, video game shit.
00:27:21.000
He threw a jumping sidekick, Eddie, touched the guy in the chest, and then spun with a spinning back kick to his face in the air.
00:27:31.000
It was some fucking, literally some video game shit.
00:27:50.000
It's going to be Ronda's toughest challenge, but I think she'll pass the test.
00:27:56.000
She's just like, everybody's a new challenge for Ronda, and then she just fucks them all up.
00:28:06.000
I'm here to say that I believe Ronda gets hypnotized before she fights.
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They probably took hypnotizing lessons together.
00:28:37.000
Rhonda comes out, she looks like she's on fucking...
00:28:43.000
I also think Rhonda is so much better than all these girls.
00:28:46.000
She could go on a three-week binge, no sleep, do all the coke she wants and walk in and just destroy these...
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Well, I'm not saying she is, I'm saying she could.
00:29:04.000
It's really about Cyborg dropping down to 135. Unless, I mean, we don't know, man.
00:29:16.000
Rhonda's got more competition than all those girls combined.
00:29:19.000
So when she walks out with that stare, she's been walking that aisle for fucking years.
00:29:27.000
Now all of a sudden, they gotta worry about that shit now.
00:29:31.000
In Texas, when she fought there, she knocked the girl every thought.
00:29:40.000
And then kneed her so quickly and then threw her before anybody knew she was out.
00:29:47.000
Who was it, Sarah McMahon that she fucked up with the knee?
00:29:50.000
Before that knee, Jessamyn Duke was telling me weeks before, she's killing with the knee.
00:29:54.000
She like dropped Jessamyn Duke with the knee like in training.
00:30:04.000
The girls, her friends, her roommates that she used to have, she really wasn't training with them.
00:30:10.000
The coach was like, nah, we need dudes up in here.
00:30:15.000
The pressure, that kind of training, since she's three?
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It's going to take another ultra winner to beat her.
00:30:31.000
You don't be badass if Ron has said, you know what?
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Steroids or not, I'm still going to beat her ass.
00:30:47.000
Dude, if she came out and said that, that would be the most gangster thing you could fight.
00:30:53.000
It was just like, dear God, someone stop this shit.
00:30:56.000
Because that's basically what fighters in the UFC are doing.
00:31:13.000
Like, Chad Mendes brought it up, or someone brought it up.
00:31:15.000
A couple guys do, but you generally, you know that there's a good chance that your opponent is probably on some shit, right?
00:31:23.000
Yeah, but there's a difference between a guy who becomes...
00:31:27.000
If you're about to weigh in, I'll grab the mic from Rogan.
00:31:33.000
Of course, but in your mind, you're assuming that he probably is.
00:31:37.000
Let me prepare for someone who's probably roided, right?
00:31:40.000
Yeah, but there's a big difference between someone who's probably roided and someone like Cyborg, who's a girl, taking male hormones.
00:32:06.000
You look at Cyborg now, she looks a lot leaner.
00:32:08.000
That's the answer you give if someone asks if you do roids.
00:32:26.000
The real argument with a chick like her, though, is that...
00:32:40.000
Yeah, well those women that used to be like Miss Olympia's, I know one of those ladies and she just looks different now.
00:33:01.000
Or one of those, not Miss Olympia or Miss Universe or whatever.
00:33:05.000
Do you think those speed skaters with the big thighs, you think they do roids?
00:33:09.000
I would think that a lot of professional athletes do steroids.
00:33:15.000
And do you think that since the Lance Armstrong situation happened, do you think cyclists are still doing all that shit?
00:33:28.000
The next guy that didn't piss hot would have been like the 22nd finisher.
00:33:37.000
The next best guy that didn't piss dirty ever was the 15th guy in to finish.
00:33:53.000
He's saying if there's 20 guys that raced, 15 of them pissed hot.
00:34:10.000
But see, for the longest time, people were lying.
00:34:13.000
They didn't have as sophisticated methods of determining whether they were on certain things.
00:34:19.000
There's a lot of scandalous shit that's going down.
00:34:22.000
Kevin Lee with a guillotine, standing guillotine.
00:34:36.000
Yeah, I'm telling you, this dude is getting through that.
00:34:54.000
He's having a hard time, like, catching guys and stuff.
00:35:01.000
His physical strength and control is ridiculous.
00:35:09.000
You know, sometimes it takes guys a few fights to get settled in.
00:35:12.000
It looked like he just kissed him in the cheek.
00:35:37.000
Uriah Faber versus fucking Frankie Edgar, dude.
00:35:49.000
I like Uriah Faber at 45 because he can have all that energy.
00:35:53.000
I mean, he cuts to get to 135. I think it's really rough on him.
00:35:57.000
And I think even especially as you get older, it might benefit him to fight 145 because he's still going to cut a little.
00:36:07.000
But it might be the first fight ever where Frankie Edgar's the bigger guy.
00:36:10.000
I think every UFC fighter could learn something from Uri Faber.
00:36:13.000
No one's capitalized as far as business-wise opportunity than Uri Faber.
00:36:22.000
Just the real estate that he owns, the companies that he starts, Torque he sold to K-Swiss.
00:36:29.000
He always has his hand in the pot as far as just making stuff happen.
00:36:40.000
Like, I have a pair of Twins that I was using, and they feel like shit now compared to the Torque.
00:36:57.000
Their gloves are like, they're like the most comfortable gloves I've ever put on.
00:37:08.000
Justin holds the tie pads for me and I had the older ones and they'd fuck his arms up.
00:37:16.000
Do you always wear those tie gloves when you hit mitts?
00:37:50.000
Do you tape the shit out of them when you work out?
00:38:13.000
I fucked up my wrist once, and it literally never got better.
00:38:17.000
I never got an MRI. I never found out what was wrong with it.
00:38:20.000
No matter what I did, it would click, and it would be in pain every time I worked out for like 10 years.
00:38:28.000
I got that pro-low therapy shit where they inject, like they stick glucose into your tenons.
00:38:34.000
Did you like that in the PRP? No, it's a different thing.
00:38:37.000
Like one of them you do for joints, like where the tendons are loose and you have issues.
00:38:42.000
Like you never hear about something getting fixed.
00:38:44.000
Like when someone has a chronic something for 10 years, it's always like, well, dude, that's some shit you got to deal with.
00:38:51.000
They injected all these fucking needles into it.
00:39:01.000
And then it's sore as fuck, and they're like, yeah, no ibuprofen.
00:39:08.000
Yeah, what it does is it makes your tendons physically thicker.
00:39:20.000
One of his buddies was getting prolo on his elbows and his knees just to strengthen them from jiu-jitsu.
00:39:37.000
But allegedly, I mean, I want to make sure that this is...
00:39:40.000
You should Google it before you go out and do it.
00:39:43.000
Years, years ago when he was like a purple belt to John Jocks, he tweaked his knee in jujitsu really, really bad.
00:39:50.000
And you immediately called the people from Prolo from John Jocks and they said, come on over now.
00:40:00.000
And I remember he couldn't drive, so I had to drive his NSX. And I've never driven a high-powered sports car before, so I was kind of like grinding the gears here and there.
00:40:13.000
His knee was fucked up and he was like, this is the first car I got when I got ripped and you're killing it.
00:40:17.000
He was already, can you imagine, he's in the worst mood he could be and his knee just popped.
00:40:24.000
I'm rushing him to prolo therapy so that we can avoid surgery perhaps, right?
00:40:39.000
Yeah, you put the pressure on so he's nervous probably even more, making it worse.
00:40:50.000
One of the easiest cars to drive a man could ever drive.
00:40:52.000
It's one of the smoothest, easiest cars a man could ever drive in his life.
00:40:56.000
The NSX is no point for being a smooth, easy car to drive.
00:41:06.000
Well, the one that you drove was the best one I ever owned, too, because it was supercharged.
00:41:13.000
And the prolo-therapy, this was like 15 years ago, man.
00:41:16.000
Back then, they didn't have the results they have now, right?
00:41:19.000
Well, what happened to my knee was I had a bucket handle tear the meniscus, so prolotherapy wouldn't have fixed that.
00:41:26.000
There was an opening in the meniscus where it would flip over and lock.
00:41:31.000
The meniscus was torn, and if my knee got tweaked sideways, the torn part would tuck under, and it would literally lock my leg out.
00:41:40.000
So they had to go in there and scoop that shit out and fix it.
00:41:43.000
But the prolotherapy is really good for if you have any tendon issues.
00:41:51.000
I mean, it gets sore occasionally now, but I could do everything with it.
00:42:00.000
You've never needed any kind of surgery, right?
00:42:07.000
Randy Couture went his whole career with no surgery.
00:42:15.000
So this fucking dude, Michel Pizarres, he's a beast, man.
00:42:20.000
And this Kevin Lee kid, he's fucking good, man.
00:42:36.000
It's one of the first main events ever where one guy's 0-4 and the other's 0-3 in his last three.
00:43:06.000
So are fighters now, are they stopping with PEDs now?
00:43:14.000
Are they really stopping, or are they trying to be more careful?
00:43:33.000
Just UFC guys get caught and it makes a bigger scene.
00:43:42.000
Every year there's NFL players that get popped.
00:44:03.000
The number one team that got banned the most had the most players test positive.
00:44:13.000
But the number one team who had the most players test positive was the Seattle Seahawks, who won the Super Bowl.
00:44:20.000
So why is it that baseball goes in front of Congress and basketball, all these other sports, it's just a fine or it's an internal problem?
00:44:28.000
Wait a minute, didn't the Patriots win the Super Bowl?
00:44:35.000
You could have told me that the Bulls won the Super Bowl.
00:44:42.000
I grew up a football fanatic, but the more I got into the UFC, the more I stopped watching football.
00:44:51.000
I don't give a fuck about the Patriots or the Seahawks, but I watched the Super Bowl, and holy shit!
00:44:59.000
The end, that catch, the craziest catch in football history right there at the very end.
00:45:15.000
And then they threw an interception right after that.
00:45:32.000
I'm not trying to buy her music or anything, but I see the hook.
00:45:40.000
I ain't going to try to buy it, but hey, it's better than fucking Britney Spears.
00:45:44.000
You know, according to Twitter, she's the most famous person on earth.
00:46:27.000
Kim K's at 28. Step your game up, Kim K. Come on.
00:46:44.000
The game of reality TV and having a blowout ass, son?
00:47:23.000
One of those daughters' Instagrams, they have a picture.
00:47:26.000
I love my dad so much and he looks like her mom.
00:47:32.000
So Bruce Jenner got in a car wreck, and he had to notify the police that he's taking hormones to become a female.
00:47:38.000
And he's doing a thing on him, following around his transition from male to female.
00:47:43.000
Wow, he had to tell the police that he's taking hormones?
00:47:45.000
He had to tell the police because they were like, what's in your system?
00:47:47.000
He's like, oh, I'm trying to get a set of tits.
00:48:24.000
Well, Perceros, he uses so much physical energy.
00:48:30.000
Remember when Elton John didn't fully come out?
00:48:37.000
I think Bruce Jenner was like too much at once.
00:48:42.000
I think he's going to tell people he's gay in 10 years.
00:48:47.000
Kim K and the rest of the family is like, dude, this is ridiculous.
00:48:50.000
You're going to start to see him after a while.
00:49:01.000
I bet it was a conspiracy theory at first, right?
00:49:05.000
He goes, yes, he's gonna- Callan came up with it.
00:49:07.000
Brian Callan broke the news a year and a half ago.
00:49:32.000
Just think about what you're doing right now and don't do it.
00:49:37.000
Painters signed, like, non-disclosure agreements to paint those kind of houses.
00:49:47.000
Either way, Callan had an inside source, also known as a snitch.
00:50:04.000
I saw a wig, saw like full man-sized dresses, all sorts of stuff, with his name on it.
00:50:18.000
Calum went out for a drink with him is what happened.
00:50:26.000
This Pizaris dude's getting tired and Kevin Lee's not.
00:50:33.000
He hit him with some fucking sick elbows to the head of the clinch, too.
00:50:47.000
Do you think that Bruce Jenner will take on a new name?
00:50:50.000
Hey, could there be a more manly name than Bruce?
00:51:15.000
He's going for that leg lock with the legs crossed.
00:51:18.000
Kevin Lee's trying to throw a real naked choke.
00:51:23.000
He's got this dude's bat because Pizarro's got tired.
00:51:46.000
Yeah, you would think that if he does transition to beat a woman, he's gonna want to change his name.
00:52:01.000
When they used to be a man, and they get a sex change.
00:52:06.000
It must be kind of fun, picking a whole new name.
00:52:10.000
Once someone has transitioned, you're not even supposed to say they used to be a man.
00:52:15.000
You're supposed to say they were always a woman.
00:52:18.000
Because they were a woman in their mind, and it's cruel to say that they were one time a man.
00:52:22.000
Even if they're a man, it's wrong to state reality that they had a penis, they functioned as a man, even had sex with women, and had babies.
00:52:31.000
So you just have to pretend that never happened.
00:52:33.000
Dude, I had a conversation with this woman on Twitter, and she actually said that.
00:52:37.000
And I go, so he wasn't a man when he had sex with a woman and got her pregnant.
00:52:50.000
This conversation just took a left turn to La La Land.
00:52:59.000
But in reality, he was a dude that fucked a woman.
00:53:02.000
She's just saying he felt like a woman, even though he's fucking a woman as a man.
00:53:05.000
You know what the problem with that kind of logic is?
00:53:08.000
If that's the case, if you're already a woman and you have a penis, keep your goddamn penis.
00:53:18.000
If you are already a woman, why are you getting the sex change then?
00:53:24.000
You're not helping anybody by twisting the reality of the situation.
00:53:29.000
You're just making it more confusing and harder for people to accept.
00:53:31.000
I wonder what's tougher to go from being a man to a woman or woman to man.
00:53:35.000
I would say that a dick is going to be challenging.
00:53:40.000
Because they build dicks out of the inside of pussies.
00:54:12.000
They stretched the skin out on her arm and created a fake penis.
00:54:18.000
So when she was transitioning and becoming a man...
00:54:23.000
And he's looking at you talking, but I was like waiting for him to look at me at my reaction after I took it.
00:54:28.000
Because I know in his peripheral, he saw it and he looked at me and went...
00:54:41.000
I couldn't tell the difference between Miller Lite and Coors Lite or anything like that.
00:54:47.000
Damn, his corner man had some locks and a pierced lip.
00:54:58.000
He's in a lot better shape than last time I saw him.
00:55:12.000
I don't know which one it is, Milly or Vanilli.
00:55:26.000
If you're not used to altitude, that shit tortures you.
00:55:29.000
You ever seen Mark Hunt versus Ben Rothwell at altitude?
00:55:34.000
He's like, we're never having another heavyweight fight in Denver.
00:55:39.000
They had a heavyweight fight in Mexico City, which is pollution and higher altitude.
00:55:56.000
Yeah, people were worried that he wasn't going to be able to make the 265. Said he was like 3'10 when he got the collar or some shit.
00:56:07.000
Cutting weight to make 265. Kevin Lee's good, man.
00:56:16.000
You put that dude's voice with his body and they just don't...
00:56:22.000
You're like, how does Mark Hunt sound like an English gentleman?
00:56:28.000
Hey, there's that dick shot that you wanted, Eddie.
00:56:44.000
They put it back on his arm, too, to get the blood supply.
00:56:49.000
Why don't they just put it back where the dick is?
00:57:02.000
There's probably guys out there that, like, that's how they get off.
00:57:15.000
There's so many fighters in the UFC that I've never seen fight now.
00:57:48.000
He puts it on fire and does a whole show with it.
00:57:59.000
And so he's fought in this arena probably ten times.
00:58:02.000
This is where all our fights were in Denver before we were in the UFC. And he would come out with those flame things walking out to the cage.
00:58:14.000
That seems like you could slip and light people on fire.
00:58:22.000
He'd walk to the octagon, beat the shit out of someone.
00:58:31.000
So, Thatch was always the kid in the gym where we're like, damn, if this kid ever got his shit together, he's going to be a monster.
00:58:36.000
But he was always at raves, and he didn't believe in jiu-jitsu and wrestling, and he just kept knocking dudes out.
00:58:43.000
And then finally, he got with Lister Bowling, the head wrestling coach there, and all he's been doing is wrestling.
00:58:55.000
We used to, I got Brandon Thatch, Cody Donovan, who finally you see, and myself, we all worked night security at a after-hours nightclub.
00:59:05.000
So it was the three of us were security guards, and we used to dress up like assholes.
00:59:09.000
We had like, it was basically like shitty tuxedos.
00:59:12.000
But it was the three of us, nothing ever happened.
00:59:14.000
Then the one time something happened, the boss came up to us and was like, yo man, there's this Russian dude on the dance floor, he has a gun.
00:59:21.000
Big ass gun, he's dancing with these chicks, man, you guys gotta go handle this.
00:59:25.000
So I was like the head guy where I had like an air piece in like an asshole.
00:59:37.000
I'm like, they want us to kick this dude out and he has a gun.
00:59:52.000
I'm going to be like, yo man, you got to get out of here.
00:59:54.000
Cody at the time was big as fuck and he's a black belt in jiu-jitsu.
00:59:58.000
This is if he puts up any fucking kind of fight.
01:00:05.000
I'm like, you're going to kick him in the head.
01:00:17.000
No one's really religious, but we all did kind of said a prayer.
01:00:35.000
We see the gun on you, and Cody's behind, like, knuckle, like, grip.
01:00:43.000
We saw the gun, and, you know, we don't want any issues.
01:00:59.000
That would have been even more terrifying because that sounds like a real goddamn professional.
01:01:05.000
Yeah, I mean, he's probably a dude who's been shooting people since the 8th grade.
01:01:09.000
And he's like, oh yeah, I know I gotta leave now.
01:01:18.000
We actually quit, because I talked all the guys into working there.
01:01:21.000
But we would get out at like 4 or 5 in the morning.
01:01:23.000
So we thought we could work at night, train during the day.
01:01:34.000
And that was the glory days when we had Rashad Evans, Nate Markart, Shane Carwin, Keith Jardine, all those monsters.
01:01:45.000
You can't have five hours sleep and show up for that shit.
01:02:59.000
There's not a microphone on you, so when you're talking, it becomes an issue.
01:03:13.000
She's that chick that was in The Wolf of Wall Street.
01:04:01.000
Barboza versus Johnson is the fight on that fucking card.
01:04:11.000
He got injured and he lost his last one, correct?
01:04:22.000
His knee didn't take to the ACL. They said it didn't accept the ACL or something like that.
01:04:29.000
I would like to talk to a surgeon about what is the issue with ACLs.
01:04:33.000
With a lot of UFC fighters in particular, the grafts blow or they don't work.
01:04:38.000
Well, a lot of times they use some parts from a cadaver, right?
01:04:43.000
Yeah, well that's the ones that don't accept sometimes.
01:04:49.000
So just like some people it works on, some people it doesn't.
01:04:54.000
But there's also people that don't give it enough time and they're already training and they blow it out again.
01:05:08.000
Like when they say your body rejected it, are you sure?
01:05:13.000
Because what happens when you do a cadaver, apparently, is that it's like a scaffolding.
01:05:19.000
And so it's not that cadaver graft that actually becomes your ACL. It's like that ACL allows your body to proliferate new tissue into it until it becomes solid again.
01:05:35.000
The cadaver graft, apparently, as it's been explained to me, it just acts as a place for your own tissue to grow into it.
01:05:42.000
It's like a delivery system for your tissue to connect.
01:05:48.000
Well, you sort of, you use, it grows in that graft.
01:05:56.000
I mean, Dominic Cruz, I think he did it like nine months after the first surgery.
01:06:03.000
When he blew it out, he got a surgery, was rehabbing, was training, blew it out again.
01:06:08.000
And then he had to go through a whole new surgery.
01:06:12.000
So, you know, that's why he was out for almost three years.
01:06:30.000
He's going to be nervous every shot he takes, every time he turns a court.
01:06:36.000
Yeah, it could, but he bounced back better than ever.
01:06:42.000
Is like, dudes are moving at light speed, you know what I mean?
01:06:54.000
To be that quick and change those directions the way he does.
01:06:57.000
I'll tell you what though, the thing about Dora Cruz though, he's a beast as far as being an analyst.
01:07:18.000
My boy Kelly is stone cold 37 just trying to do this.
01:07:23.000
One was 185 and one was 19. He said fuck it, let's do this.
01:07:29.000
You've got to be around a while to be a four time Olympian.
01:07:38.000
Yeah, 37. 37 and 29. That's a beautiful beard, Tom Johnson.
01:07:53.000
I'm not like those refs that just stick with the same one when I switch it up.
01:07:56.000
She's gonna try it and she's gonna watch the tapes later and see which one was best.
01:08:00.000
I think she's going to get clowned for Raise the Roof.
01:08:26.000
He hit him with a little short right hook there.
01:08:30.000
Well, he's catching him with that weird right hook over the top.
01:08:37.000
I think my boy Kelly's trying to get a hold of him to take him to a cruise.
01:08:47.000
That's got to fuck with your head a little bit.
01:08:50.000
I feel like that dude in the red has knocked a lot of dudes in the bar out.
01:09:14.000
He's keeping the same distance until he pops back a half a step and stays there.
01:09:29.000
Looks like the game plan is to stand and bang, though, right?
01:09:43.000
Nobody's been knocked out more in the last two years than Melvin Manhoff.
01:09:49.000
Joe Schilling put him to slizzy just a couple months ago.
01:09:53.000
You know, those two guys, they brought a beautiful fight, though, man.
01:09:58.000
It was one of them was going to go in that round.
01:10:06.000
Healthcare for their brains to come back and increase their recovery time or their speed or their timing or anything.
01:10:23.000
What's the biggest difference between them and the UFC as far as production-wise?
01:10:40.000
You got interviews Wednesday, Thursday, Wayne's Friday, show Saturday.
01:10:45.000
I think they were a little rocky on some of that because the tournaments were happening so fast that I don't even think they had planned out what they were going to do as far as where's the venue, where's the next location.
01:11:03.000
I think sometimes it was like just making it, you know?
01:11:08.000
But they've stepped their game up, too, you know?
01:11:21.000
It's going to be interesting to see what happens with Bellator with all that Viacom money.
01:11:29.000
And he's way better than anybody else out there.
01:11:40.000
He used to work for the UFC, and they had a no-compete.
01:11:43.000
And then when he left the UFC, he's free to do whatever the fuck he wants, so then he signed with Bellator.
01:11:49.000
Yeah, well, it's good for everybody because the UFC likes him.
01:11:55.000
It'll make a way more comfortable environment over there, and maybe they'll get some good fights.
01:12:02.000
I think competition is very important for the athletes.
01:12:04.000
I think it's the most important thing when it comes to bargaining power.
01:12:07.000
So all it's going to do is force everybody to step their game up, and ultimately, I believe, it'll make MMA more popular.
01:12:16.000
The key is making it more popular, making it to the point where, Everybody makes a lot of money, and it's really close to becoming that.
01:12:24.000
And the way it's going to become that is if there's a bunch of fucking players, and everybody's like, you know, I'll give you X for a fight.
01:12:30.000
Well, I'll give you Y. All right, we got Z. Come here.
01:12:37.000
That's the only way the money gets tossed around adequately.
01:12:43.000
It's the only way the talent pool gets bigger, too, is if you have a lot of different varieties.
01:12:48.000
But if you only have this one place where a guy's got to come up on the tough show or whatever your thing is.
01:12:58.000
They're like saying, come to our team and we'll give you this much money.
01:13:03.000
In all ways of evolution, it's got to be like that.
01:13:14.000
The problem with competition is people get scared of the competition when competition is the best goddamn thing that could happen to you.
01:13:23.000
It means everybody's going to get better together.
01:13:27.000
Not only that, you don't cancel each other out.
01:13:29.000
And didn't you get into this because you're a fan of fighting in the first place?
01:13:33.000
What, is someone making money somehow or another?
01:13:38.000
We're talking about someone making money, and you're making money too.
01:13:40.000
From a fighter standpoint, competition's great.
01:13:47.000
I believe everybody gets more money if the sport gets more popular.
01:13:52.000
I think if you've got two giant promotions, if you've got one, say, Floyd Mayweather promotion and one Manny Pacquiao promotion, and everybody on one side, you bring them together and you make fucking 1.5 million pay-per-view buys like those guys will probably do.
01:14:16.000
If it's not George St. Pierre, if it's not Brock Lesnar, you know, it's hard to get those big numbers, you know, because times are hard.
01:14:22.000
People don't want to pony up that kind of money on a regular basis.
01:14:31.000
Everything else is like their feeder organizations.
01:14:47.000
That's that WWE. Not even Anderson Silva or GSP could top of Brock?
01:14:56.000
How about when he fought Randy Couture for the title?
01:15:22.000
If we were listening on headphones, this would be way better, but I want to avoid the headphones.
01:15:29.000
What were you saying about Gina Carano, though?
01:15:38.000
I heard a lot of shit, and then nothing happened.
01:15:42.000
I don't think the Brock Lesnar thing has gotten that far.
01:15:47.000
But, you know, you're hearing people saying that Brock's been training.
01:15:54.000
People thought I called Brock Lesnar out, and I didn't.
01:16:04.000
Six months ago, I did an interview with the UFC. It was 20 questions.
01:16:08.000
One was like, what do you prefer, ketchup or mustard?
01:16:13.000
This is what kind of bullshit we're talking about.
01:16:16.000
I said, anyone who says mustard is part of ISIS. Like, every American is going to choose fucking ketchup.
01:16:25.000
Who would you rather see come back, GSP or Brock Lesnar?
01:16:31.000
But being a heavyweight, I'd love if Brock Lesnar came back because he's the biggest star we've ever had.
01:16:38.000
And I went, well, yeah, he's the biggest star ever.
01:16:45.000
What about you saying about sending him go back to playing grab ass?
01:16:50.000
I go, yeah, if he wants to come to UFC and he's tired of playing grab ass in the WWE, getting paid to fake fight, and he wants to come back to UFC, I'd love to fight him.
01:16:57.000
You gotta hear it, too, instead of seeing it written, right?
01:17:02.000
Dude, that bullshit when they write it out, I'm like, that's my friend.
01:17:08.000
Then UFC tonight, like, whatever, four or five weeks ago, goes, Brendan Schaub calls out Brock Lesnar.
01:17:37.000
Like, when I was shitting on, like, Tony Hinchcliffe is a crazy pro wrestling fan.
01:17:41.000
And so when he was on the podcast, mostly just to rile him up, I was just shitting on pro wrestling.
01:17:48.000
And the tsunami of poorly written tweets that came my way was like, what is this?
01:17:55.000
I had to, like, get my head above water and try to figure out what all these extra words are.
01:18:07.000
I just was with him one night and he's just going through it.
01:18:10.000
Every time the guy would send him something, he would just send him the corrections of the previous thing.
01:18:18.000
And it was just this whole fucking list of corrections of his...
01:18:24.000
Like the dude saying, you suck, spelled with two K's.
01:18:32.000
Like, bro, you're 50 defending the WWE. I'll tell you what, Brock Lesnar's America.
01:18:38.000
You shit on Brock Lesnar, you shitting on America.
01:18:43.000
When he would fight and all the wrestlers, they would all come out.
01:18:48.000
They're like, yeah, like Stone Cold and Goldberg and all those guys are there.
01:19:00.000
I still to this day think that if Brock Lesnar did it the right way, like if Brock Lesnar went and instead of doing WWE for all those years and not striking and then...
01:19:12.000
Going into the UFC and immediately fighting the best guys in the world after one professional fight.
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They took Brock Lesnar and brought him to an American top team.
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Where they're going to take you and they're going to take you through every step of the way.
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Eric Paulson essentially did what he could when he had him.
01:19:36.000
But I think a guy like Brock Lesnar should have been brought along slowly.
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Well, I think that guys who are going to take you like Dwayne Ludwig style through drills that simulate each individual position that you're going to be in.
01:20:44.000
And Brandon Vera, when he first started training with Rob Kamen, you saw Rob Kamen's system in Brandon when he was fighting.
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Him, Dwayne, I think Six Gun Gibson, and Mike Winklejohn.
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You see the video he did with the elbows with Kyle?
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He's so innovative, and he's so thoughtful about it.
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All he's got is love and care for those guys, and then he puts that into them, and he puts the routines together.
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Yeah, there's a lot of good trainers out there, man.
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There's a lot of guys out there that are showing guys some real high-level stuff, and you're seeing striking combinations, especially if you look at TJ Dillashaw versus Hennon Burrell.
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When was the fucking last time we ever saw a guy go from being T.J. Dillashaw in The Ultimate Fighter to, what, two and a half, three years later, being this super fluid, bad motherfucker kickboxer?
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I mean, you look at him moving around, shuffling, switching stances, like, popping him with straight lefts from the fucking southpaw stance, and then hitting him with an inside leg kick, and you're like, whoa, this is literally not the same dude that he was three years ago.
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First of all, Duke Rufus did a great job with Tyron Woodley.
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He didn't empty his gas tank in his last fight.
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I mean, it wasn't the worst fight in the world.
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But what I liked about it is he showed patience in that fight.
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Like, you've seen him in fights before where he explodes and he empties the gas tank in the first round, and then he has a hard time in the second and third.
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Like, you could almost see Duke, you know, in Duke's style influencing him slightly.
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If I watch the guy do anything other than throw some kicks, which is all I've ever seen, I saw him throw some kicks and I'm hoping with every fiber of my being that he was just playing around and that he actually kicks better than that because there's some backstage WWE thing where he's throwing roundhouse kicks on a wrestling mat.
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I mean, it's either he was playing around or he just started doing karate like a week ago.
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Or you don't understand it and he's going to mystify people.
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Well, or he's just fucking around because he's a showman and that's, you know, when he's doing those things backstage, he's not trying to show everybody he's the ultimate badass.
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Nor is there word on a timetable, like when he's going to fight.
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As soon as he said the guy who fought, I know him so well, I could see the laugh being suppressed.
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I don't think it's good for the sport just if he goes in there and, you know, he fights and people watch because he's famous.
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But it's not necessarily good for the sport if they're just paying attention because he's CM Punk.
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However, I think it is good for the sport if he truly has a real desire to become a professional mixed martial arts fighter.
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This is a guy who at X age, 36 or whatever it is, has decided, you know what?
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I want a new chapter in my life, and that new chapter is I want to try my hand 100% committed to professional fighting.
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Then it's good, but it's only good if he's got talent.
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No wrestling background, no striking background.
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He does jiu-jitsu, but we might as well sign fucking George Clooney if he likes to.
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Does he even know if he likes to go through a key of eight guys that he's going to have to compete?
01:24:59.000
When I say he does Jiu-Jitsu, he was doing Jiu-Jitsu on the road because Henner is married to Eve Torres, who's the WWE Diva Champion.
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So CM Punk and Henner would work, you know, once a month together.
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You know when you show a girl something you're dating, you show her a triangle just so she can get her next boyfriend in a triangle.
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And you just like piss on her, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, I'm going to put you in a fucking triangle.
01:25:53.000
I remember I showed an ex-girlfriend a long time ago, a triangle.
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I'm trying to watch Howard Stern on E! And she's trying to put me in a triangle.
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I'm like, I'm really trying to watch this fucking show.
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She's just trying to get me in a fucking triangle.
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So she puts me in a triangle, and I said, you are gonna start crying!
01:26:29.000
So I picked her up, I stood up, just like Arona Rampage, and I picked her up, and I was gonna slam her on the bed.
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It wasn't gonna hurt her, it's the fucking bed.
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She let go of the triangle, but she bounced off the bed and landed on the floor.
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And she, like, tweaked her wrist and she starts crying.
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So I, like, strolled and I said, I told you you were going to start crying.
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I said, I'm just trying to watch the fuck up because I'm watching Howard Stern trying to learn.
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I'm trying to watch T. He's like, no, imagine if there's a firefighter behind you.
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What if that would have went to court as a domestic violence dispute?
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That chick's gonna come out of the woodwork with a tie on.
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The move of the fight is a half a jab to the face.
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Well, we don't know what happened in that fight.
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Honestly, we really weren't watching that fight.
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We watched some key moments in the beginning where he was getting hit by right hooks.
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That it's like, it's one of the craziest screams I've ever heard come out of a woman's mouth.
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That's what Red Bad used to do when I would say that.
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I'm just talking about an instance after a fight where she screamed.
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I'm not going to watch the end of every one of her fights.
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It's just not on YouTube as Kat Zingano scream yet.
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Somehow I have faith that Jamie's going to find that motherfucking scream.
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It might have been Emmanuel Nunez, who was her last fight.
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Because she was in that one movie with the third girl.
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But, you know, if you're going to break it down for real, like, man, you look...
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Do you follow, like, squat guides on IG and you see that there's...
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That's a different kind of ass, you know what I mean?
01:31:46.000
Yeah, just follow Brendon Schubbs and go, oh, yeah, there you go.
01:31:53.000
I thought that you would automatically agree with me.
01:32:22.000
You say they are real as if that's a good thing.
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You know the thing that I'm mad about it is because the fucking legs are like little twig legs and then you've got this huge ridiculous ass.
01:32:54.000
See, because if you're born with small titties, there's nothing you can do physically to grow those titties.
01:33:00.000
Your ass, just do some squats for a couple years and watch what the fuck you eat.
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If you have a flat ass like Mr. Burns, you ain't getting a bubble butt.
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If you pay attention to it with nutrition, powerlifting, some shit, I think you could do it.
01:33:27.000
I mean, if this bitch went ham on a CrossFit program, squats and nutrition, I guess.
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And just shot testosterone right into the glutes.
01:33:41.000
If I bring a girl with a straight, flat ass Mr. Burns style, you can give her a bubble butt?
01:33:53.000
Like flatness and curvature and all that stuff.
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Yeah, yeah, and I've seen some pretty crazy before and after shots, for sure.
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Based on ass and hips to waist ratio and all that.
01:34:26.000
How does it feel when you first started not doing UFCs?
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The first shows where they started branching out and using...
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If for whatever reason, I never worked for the UFC again, I would probably watch just as many fights.
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I wouldn't watch the prelims as much, like the early prelims, because I just don't have six hours on most days to be watching fights.
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But for recreation purposes, like how much do I enjoy it?
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I fucking love watching the fights on TV. I like the fact that I don't have to go anywhere.
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Hanging out with my friends, having a couple of beers, watching fights.
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I mean, I love working for the UFC, but I love watching, too.
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I wouldn't mind at all if I didn't do it again.
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I'd rather do this than sit front row at any live event.
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How often do you actually re-watch a show you just...
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Occasionally, I watch big fights or big moments, something that was really special to me.
01:35:30.000
There's been some fights where I watched the same fight two, three times in a row just to see wild transitions or some shit.
01:35:38.000
Depending on what the fight was like, what was going on in the fight that was so interesting.
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I mean, I was fighting Noguera for eight and eight.
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Went down to Brazil, got my ass whooped, came back on the plane.
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Go to South America and fight a world champion.
01:36:21.000
Noguera is the fucking first guy ever that was a heavyweight that had a wicked guard.
01:36:33.000
He fucking armbarred Bob Sapp in one of the craziest fights the world has ever known.
01:36:45.000
Then I fought Krokop for 10 and 10. After taxes on that Noguera fight, you're looking at like 2,800.
01:36:59.000
I think it was 10 and 10. Then after that fight, I had to have reconstructive nose surgery.
01:37:23.000
You know, I think I had four fights in the UFC, five fights in the UFC. You gotta get your nose fixed.
01:37:32.000
He hit me with an elbow and it shattered my nose.
01:37:34.000
Like completely shattered everything in my nose.
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They put like some mesh thing in it because all the bones were so fractured and like tiny fractures.
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I was like, yo, Doc, take a little off the tip while I'm under the knife, Doug.
01:38:05.000
Yeah, you don't want him to give you some weird fucking Michael Jackson nose.
01:38:08.000
But then they put these brackets up there and stitched them in so it wouldn't move.
01:38:20.000
Because I had a doctor who was like, oh, I'm cool, I'm hip, here's 200 OxyContin.
01:38:26.000
Got the things taken out, next thing I know I'm still filling the prescription.
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Finally a buddy had to come to the house and take them from me.
01:38:50.000
So you had a 10, 11 month layoff because of Oxycontin addiction?
01:38:56.000
But how long did the Oxycontin addiction kick in?
01:39:00.000
I was probably doing it hardcore for like four months.
01:39:05.000
Then my best friend, Joe Klopfenstein, came over and took him from me.
01:39:08.000
What kind of stupid shit were you doing on it where they had to intervene?
01:39:15.000
Because if you were just normal like this, people wouldn't even notice.
01:39:18.000
No, I wasn't normal like this because I'm not a...
01:39:28.000
I think I was just kind of like this fucking asshole who just like chilled.
01:39:48.000
So you fought Noguera after you got off of the pills?
01:39:59.000
So I went off those painkillers, fired my striking coach.
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I was so sure I was going to knock Nogueira out.
01:40:08.000
I didn't even go to Brazil with a striking coach.
01:40:18.000
That's a crazy thing that a doctor could just start prescribing them like that.
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Like, you don't have to go to them to get your pill.
01:40:28.000
I mean, that's one of the weirdest things about, like, doctors giving you pills.
01:40:37.000
After Trash Brown fight, they gave me something for my neck.
01:40:45.000
I've had three surgeries and I don't take them.
01:40:49.000
I've got them in the house, but I don't fuck with them at all.
01:40:52.000
You've had issues with substances in the past too.
01:40:59.000
It makes your mind pretend you're somewhere else.
01:41:04.000
And I'm like, fuck it, I'll freeze it out with ice or I'll take extra Tylenol or whatever pain and I'll just fucking get through it.
01:41:15.000
Yeah, I went through both my knee surgeries with no pills, no nothing.
01:41:19.000
Because when I had my ACL done, the first knee surgery on my left knee, they gave me, I don't remember what it was.
01:41:29.000
But I took one hit, and I was so out of it, I was like, I'd rather have the pain.
01:41:39.000
I say I don't like it at all, but I used to fucking love NyQuil.
01:41:45.000
I remember when I was a little kid and just going into a hallucinogenic state off that.
01:41:51.000
The last time I took it, it was more than 10 years ago, but I was sick, and I got ahold of someone before they took the codeine out, and I just felt like shit.
01:42:15.000
I'll drink some of that shit right now, I'm not gonna lie to you guys.
01:42:18.000
You would drink some syrup, but you won't fuck with some Oxycontins.
01:42:25.000
One of them put a hook in them, the other didn't yet.
01:42:30.000
Neil, at this altitude, his cardio is going to be beastly.
01:42:35.000
Lives up here, trains up here, and he's got a style where he never, like, he's not burning out any fast twitch muscle fibers.
01:42:42.000
He stays on you at like a 75% pace always, you know?
01:42:51.000
The only thing that's missing with Neil Magny is knockout power.
01:43:01.000
I mean Gazelle doesn't have an aggressive bone in his body.
01:43:19.000
Yeah, he's one of those dudes that's on a win streak that nobody's talking about.
01:43:29.000
Well, he's on the main card, so someone's talking about it.
01:43:48.000
I sent him a text and said, hey, I need you to come in for a podcast with Joe Rogan.
01:44:01.000
Joe's like, I've learned and evolved through this.
01:44:11.000
It's tough for me to watch, man, with Nate especially.
01:44:21.000
To not take anything away from Nate, I think Nate's a really good fighter, but Brad Tavares is becoming something special right now.
01:44:30.000
I get that, but Nate Markhart, a young Nate, Nate in his prime, was a fucking beast, man.
01:44:39.000
If you watch the combination that he finished Tyron Woodley off with in Strikeforce when he won the title, dude, that's some video game shit.
01:44:51.000
He's been fighting since he was 17. You know who gave me insight into Nate is you when you told me that he was one of his main sparring partners was Shane Carwin.
01:45:04.000
But just thinking someone fighting at 170 who spars with Shaycar, I mean, maybe it was 185 at the time, but when Nate was fighting at 185, he wasn't really cutting any weight.
01:45:17.000
But he was fighting with Shane, who walked around at 280. Me, I was 240 at the time.
01:45:28.000
That's like the greatest training partner to work on footwork.
01:45:40.000
Keith was saying it was the hardest he'd ever been hit.
01:45:43.000
He's in a clinch, and he's got an underhook, and he says, just this far away, and he's like, and fucking bell rung.
01:46:08.000
No, I mean, just stop and think about everybody that Shane Carwin is sparred with.
01:46:14.000
Shane Carwin, like, his hands are so stupid big.
01:46:25.000
What does he wear, a 4XL? Yeah, biggest glove ever in the UFC. Biggest glove ever in the UFC. Yeah, bigger gloves.
01:46:39.000
His ass, his quads, his calves aren't that big.
01:46:48.000
I would have loved to see what happened with Shane if he didn't have all those injuries from football.
01:47:03.000
That's what removes so much athleticism, so much explosion.
01:47:07.000
A fighter becomes so different when they have a back-neck injury.
01:47:11.000
Bro, when Shane fought Frank Mayer, we're in the same camp, obviously.
01:47:31.000
He got him tied up, and he was hitting him with left uppercuts that just looked like...
01:47:36.000
He might have sparred literally three or four times that camp.
01:47:39.000
Well, it was perfect because, you know, that wasn't sparring.
01:47:42.000
I mean, he just grabbed ahold of him and beat the fuck out of him.
01:47:46.000
It was a hard one to watch because that one, I think he took way too many shots in that fight.
01:47:52.000
I mean, I think that could have been stopped earlier.
01:47:54.000
Just Shane's short, powerful punches were just ruthless in that fight.
01:48:00.000
He seemed a little too relaxed in the clinch against the cage.
01:48:04.000
Well, Frank's coach goes, relax here, relax here, you're doing fine.
01:48:16.000
Everyone knows Shane Conner with an underhook, you better get the fuck out.
01:48:25.000
What is your insight where the guy like Cain Velasquez is continually getting injured?
01:48:32.000
Listen, with the wrestling, how long has he been competing for?
01:48:36.000
Wrestling, and now he's been getting ready forever for MMA, went straight into it.
01:48:49.000
I mean, anyone here thinks Junior Dos Santos from those two fights with Kane is the same is fucking crazy.
01:48:56.000
And now he just had surgery on his hand and knee.
01:49:08.000
Eventually your body's just like, we can't do this.
01:49:13.000
When you see the Stipe fight, do you think that that was just Stipe just getting better and better and better?
01:49:18.000
Do you think it was Junior sliding off a little bit, or do you think it was a combination of both?
01:49:38.000
I thought that was the best performance of Stipe's career.
01:49:48.000
He did take some shots, but in the first round, he let Junior know.
01:49:53.000
I don't know if you thought, like, oh, I'm not fighting Cain Velasquez.
01:50:04.000
I mean, you can't get your ass whipped for that for ten rounds and be the same.
01:50:11.000
I think you only have so many rounds in your career.
01:50:13.000
It doesn't matter whether you do it in one fight, if you do five in one fight, if you do one here, two in this fight, there's only a certain amount where your body just shuts it down.
01:50:21.000
There's a certain amount where your body shuts it down, but is there a period in time where it just starts declining, obviously?
01:50:27.000
Do you see it declining, and then they still fight for five, six more years?
01:50:34.000
Especially with Junior, because he's making serious bank.
01:50:42.000
I'm trying to get his guard passed, but it's just a battle of the guard pass right here.
01:50:49.000
Now, Eddie, when you know all the go-to shit from half guard that you know, when you see dudes just kind of hanging on in these positions, when you see guys on the bottom, does that frustrate you when you see guys that don't attack?
01:51:01.000
Or does it, like, open you up to possibilities like, wait, hey, my students get in this situation, you're going to see some shit.
01:51:08.000
Like, how do you, like, when you look at this and you see, like, all these, like, if you look at what you would be doing in this situation, I would never have the balls to get in a cage and do any of this shit, first of all.
01:51:21.000
But, I mean, just from a technical aspect, if you see guys on the ground and they're in positions in the guard and you see, like, sloppy guard work, does that frustrate you or does it make you think, like, hey, you know, look, this is just great for, you know, my fighters, guys like Ben Saunders that I train,
01:51:37.000
you know, they go, oh, shit, Neil Magnet going off.
01:51:40.000
He's like, I don't like being on the bottom, I'm gonna go ahead and kill him.
01:51:53.000
There's just so much to train when you're fighting MMA. It's a really, really smart thing to do when you first start getting into MMA to get your striking together because the worst possible thing that can happen is you get knocked the fuck.
01:52:13.000
Getting put in a rear naked choke is kind of humiliating, especially if you're a striker.
01:52:18.000
But nothing's worse than getting shut off and doing the fish.
01:52:26.000
You have to spend so much time on your feet to make sure that shit don't happen, because these guys are animals, that there's not that much time to really get super technical with your jiu-jitsu.
01:52:38.000
There's not that much time, so when I see a Just vanilla jujitsu or whatever you want to call it from fighters.
01:52:51.000
I understand that they're spending most of their time with their striking shit.
01:52:56.000
If I had a gun to my hand and someone said I have to do MMA, I'd be spending my time striking all day.
01:53:03.000
Trying to avoid the worst case scenario, just getting shut off.
01:53:07.000
So many hours in the day, you just can't train everything.
01:53:17.000
I think he broke him when he hit him with that left.
01:53:34.000
He might have been at the doorway there about 15 seconds ago.
01:53:38.000
It would have been a bad call because look at him.
01:53:39.000
No, but I'm saying if Neil could have landed more shots...
01:53:45.000
I never, ever, ever had a dream to do MMA. I'm just not like a barbarian.
01:53:51.000
I would have done it if my back was against the wall.
01:53:56.000
Luckily, I did some things in jiu-jitsu where I didn't have to fight.
01:54:00.000
But if my back was against the wall and I had to work at a regular job waking up at 5.30 in the morning or MMA, I would do MMA. But I wouldn't be happy about it.
01:54:12.000
Ben and Brendan, you guys are fucking animals, man, to fucking want to do it and want the big fights and want to do it in front of the whole world.
01:54:32.000
And if I had a gun to my head, I would do MMA, but I'm not a barbarian like that.
01:54:38.000
When I did that metamoros, I really didn't think my nerves would get to me like a fight.
01:55:00.000
I've never knocked anybody out in the UFC, but I see and I can feel it.
01:55:04.000
When Chuck Liddell knocks someone out and he does that, he knows right now the whole world is watching and he's thinking about the after party and all that shit.
01:55:22.000
That's why the glory is so beautiful, because losing feels the worst ever.
01:55:27.000
So most people are like, that glory is the ultimate.
01:55:32.000
But the risk of going the other way, it's too risky.
01:55:37.000
You guys are like, fucking playing the lottery.
01:55:48.000
I've sat down and had many conversations with Ben.
01:55:53.000
He's got his fucking whole spirituality together and man, I'm just so impressed with Ben as a person and how he handles all this.
01:56:18.000
If you can get a little personality on the mic, yeah.
01:56:29.000
Dana might hire you as a personality coach for these guys.
01:56:35.000
All the Ultimate Fighters, they've got to go through you.
01:56:37.000
They've got to take a three-week course with Brennan.
01:56:40.000
What I was asking you, I know how you feel about MMA and you fighting.
01:56:44.000
What I meant was when you see all these openings on the ground, being like a guard specialist, does it frustrate you that people don't know this shit?
01:56:54.000
Does it give you a feeling of, like, look, this is good that my guys know how to do shit that other guys aren't doing in MMA, and the more MMA fighters I coach with the right techniques, the more we're going to see this kind of stuff.
01:57:11.000
If you see shitty technique, you're not like, come on, son.
01:57:33.000
I've been backstage and talked to so many fighters of the UFC for so many years and King of the Cage.
01:57:39.000
I've been in the business, making money for a long time, backstage watching their lives.
01:57:43.000
And the more I work backstage, the more, to me, I'm like, There's so much pressure for me.
01:57:49.000
I see what these guys are going through and all these guys going through.
01:57:53.000
Not only the fighters, but like the apparel brands and everyone's trying to start their own apparel brand.
01:58:15.000
So after a while, you see the UFC fighters coming through.
01:58:21.000
I'm like, the odds that you're going to be around in two years are so...
01:58:35.000
You put on a UFC, I mean, these fighters aren't...
01:58:40.000
You know the average career is a year and a half.
01:58:42.000
Average career in the NFL is three and a half years.
01:58:45.000
If you know this right away, it's like a scared straight program.
01:58:48.000
All these little kids that want to be fucking MMA fighters.
01:58:51.000
You put them through a scared straight and you have them sit down and fucking...
01:58:54.000
I don't want to say any names, but I mean, there's guys that are just fucking broken from it.
01:59:05.000
Like, that's the thing of a guy going, I want to make my living as a fighter, and I want to be, like, I'm looking at the lights, and I go, ooh, I want to be George St. Pierre or something, as opposed to dudes that are real motherfuckers that are going, I just like this.
01:59:19.000
Whether there was money or not, my heart needs this expression in this venue, and I want to feel that pressure and see who I am under that.
01:59:31.000
What I wanted to ask you was, what do you think about all this class-action lawsuit stuff that's going on?
01:59:37.000
I couldn't believe that recently, I couldn't believe that Mac Danzig and Gabe Rudiger became a part of it.
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There's a new class-action lawsuit with those guys.
01:59:50.000
I'm not understanding what a guy who's like a gay Rudiger, what could he be suing for?
01:59:57.000
Honestly, I don't know the details on what they're suing for.
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I just know they want the fighters to have more of a say and get paid better.
02:00:23.000
I make a very good living messing with the UFC. I feel like it's a bunch of people, especially lawyers that are getting involved in this, they recognize that there's blood in the water.
02:00:36.000
That called me and goes, do you know anybody that wants to get involved in this?
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And he's just some random lawyer from fucking Texas.
02:00:45.000
Do you think a guy like Gabe Rudiger or a guy like Mac Danzig, who Mac had a good career, won the Ultimate Fighter, and had decided he wasn't taking shots well anymore and wrote a very eloquent piece about it.
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When I see him, that he's in it, I go, wow, I wonder what this is.
02:01:04.000
And I wonder, like, I mean, total speculation, I would have to ask, but if some guys are like, you know, hey, this is the end of my career, I'm not fighting anymore, so I don't have to worry about pissing them off.
02:01:19.000
I think it's combination of some dudes being like, the sport needs to change.
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If the fighters had a union, there's no reason we shouldn't.
02:01:34.000
Yeah, the unions that exist in other sports, they benefit the players, for sure.
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The difference being that there's a bunch of different teams.
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Like say if Seattle doesn't want you anymore and then Boston wants you, there's like New England wants you, you can travel around and be a part of different teams and that's where most of the negotiation takes place.
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With the UFC, the issue that people have is that there's a UFC. There's no teams.
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It's just like everybody's playing for the same team.
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That team's the UFC. It's not the NFL because the NFL is comprised of a bunch of different businesses.
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So these, just for the NFL, these NFL players are destroying their bodies, destroying their brains for whatever, the average career is three and a half years.
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So they're saying, for those three and a half years, what we've given you, we should be compensated for down the road, which is 100%.
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Yeah, there's without a doubt, there's some merit in that.
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There's definitely some merit if they were ignorant to the facts, but now the facts have been exposed, you know, which is the claim about concussions and NFL. I mean, I think this goes with boxing, this goes with MMA, this goes with everything.
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Once it's all out on the table and, like, the medical facts and everything are in order, like, You've got to say, okay, you didn't know, and they didn't know, but now you do know, okay?
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So now if you do know, you have a certain amount of responsibility to take care of the people that are under your protection.
02:03:08.000
So what does it entail to have CTE? What are the issues that these athletes could possibly be dealing with?
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So you've got to mitigate whatever the issues that come along with those athletes being concussed on a regular basis.
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You've got to mitigate it by counseling, whether it's having someone who's a sports psychologist, having someone who's a neurosurgeon or a neuroscientist, rather, that can give them examinations, CAT scans, all that jazz.
02:03:40.000
And that's great, but those guys should also be compensated down the road for risking their life being the entertainers.
02:03:53.000
You start all that, though, but what about any kid that goes into football?
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Throughout junior high school and high school, are those parents subject to child abuse then?
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Because you're putting your kid in a position where they're getting concussed steady.
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It's a good point, but those kids aren't dedicating their lives to football in high school.
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I mean, there's some kids who realize that it's their Willie Walker golden ticket.
02:04:33.000
I know you're happily involved, but what if some big Serena Williams-looking bitch with just like the perfect boot...
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But a beautiful, super athlete is what I'm trying to say.
02:04:55.000
And then you realize, but maybe you're a dude who, like, you know, you always wanted to coach.
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You know, you always wanted to coach a little guy from the jump.
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So you get this little motherfucker, and you're like, listen.
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You're like, listen, you little motherfucker, you got some killer genes.
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And your kid's like, Daddy, but I want to paint flowers.
02:05:43.000
I think Max's strike is going to be the difference.
02:05:59.000
Cole Miller's whole family is down to struggle.
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Yeah, they're just like, you don't want to fucking burglarize their house.
02:06:36.000
Well, I think Nick is going to take a well-deserved vacation now.
02:06:39.000
I hope they don't take any money away from him.
02:06:44.000
He only fights once every two years anyway, so it's not a big deal.
02:06:47.000
I hope it's no big deal because I think it's stupid.
02:06:56.000
My concern always with these kind of things is like, what are they doing that's helping them fight?
02:07:03.000
And could there be an argument that smoking weed helps his jiu-jitsu and that it helps his training and helps his cardio when he trains?
02:07:11.000
There was a recent argument about ultramarathoners.
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There was this talk about how they're able to run ultramarathons way easier when they get high.
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What's happening with the marijuana is it reduces inflammation and it allows you to numb the pain.
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Apparently, unless it's bullshit, it has been written that marijuana actually opens lung passageways.
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That could be bullshit, but that's what they're saying.
02:08:07.000
But you think it's performance enhancing when people do it?
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Yeah, it slows down things, makes the hoop bigger.
02:08:14.000
It makes it feel, look, I'll tell you what, it works with pool.
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No, but that whole thing, that time dilation, that's a real thing.
02:08:20.000
Like, all that stuff about being into the zone, like, that's, there's a lot of studies into that.
02:08:27.000
There's this book called The Rise of Superman that they went into all these studies about the zone, about being in that flow, and about time dilation, and weed, like, cannabis does that for people.
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It gets you into that state quicker where you become a heightened, more alert animal.
02:08:44.000
If you let Nick Diaz smoke weed, he'd probably fight better on weed.
02:08:51.000
People don't want to admit that, but marathon runners report that.
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They report it makes it easier for them to go hard longer.
02:09:00.000
Either way, Anderson Silva was on some anabolic shit.
02:09:12.000
The real question is, is it helping Nick during his training?
02:09:27.000
That cryotherapy allows people to recover quicker.
02:09:40.000
Ben, as well, if they decided to just legalize steroids, everyone could use steroids, would we see fighters jumping up in weight or staying right where the fuck they're at?
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I'd look like fucking Alistair Overeem in 2012 right now.
02:10:09.000
They say, we're going to legalize it, it's stupid.
02:10:15.000
If I got to go up, you get the money and it's legal.
02:10:18.000
So most people would just stay the same, right?
02:10:26.000
For you though, it wouldn't really be effective to add more muscle mass.
02:10:31.000
You're optimized physically for your frame at 170. Do you agree?
02:10:35.000
So if you were going to go to 185, not that you wanted to do it, but if you wanted to do it, if you looked at it super objectively with no desperation at all, what's the most intelligent way to plan that out?
02:10:49.000
How long do you think you would take to put on that kind of mask and keep and be comfortable?
02:10:56.000
No, 185. If you were going to go to 185, you really decided, I'm going to be a middleweight fighter now.
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I'm going to abandon this idea of cutting weight and staying lean and restricting my calories and dehydrating myself.
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I mean, I'd roughly just try to do the same thing I'm doing for 170, just obviously we're dealing with 15 pounds heavier.
02:11:22.000
My first four fights were at 185, but I was stepping on the scale with my jeans on.
02:11:35.000
You're saying if I was in the UFC and I had a fight at 185, I mean, honestly, I don't know the science behind my body type and how long it would take me to produce that much additional muscle mass.
02:11:46.000
But it's something that you would have to really consider, right?
02:11:49.000
Yeah, like if I was going up to 185, I don't know.
02:11:52.000
But if it was your choice, you wouldn't even do it.
02:11:55.000
If Storrs were legal, you'd stay the same, right?
02:11:57.000
Well, the reason why I was asking was one reason is because Henderson tonight just fought at 155 like a month ago, and now he's stepping in here tonight, and he's fighting Thatch, who's a giant fucking welterweight.
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6'2", 190. He's long, lean, and he's super aggressive.
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No, 170. That's what he was when he was cutting to 55, but since then, I bet he probably gained at least five pounds.
02:12:30.000
I bet he gained five pounds, so maybe he's like 180. Well, who knows, man.
02:12:34.000
Maybe he'll be better at 170 where he's not dehydrating himself.
02:12:37.000
Maybe he'll be like a Rumble Johnson type situation.
02:12:42.000
Steroids and PEDs benefit really 185 and above, because those bladder guys really aren't, then maybe they're using EPO, who knows, but they're really not going to use the anabolic thing because they can't put on that muscle.
02:12:53.000
I'd say it's more prevalent at the higher weight classes.
02:13:03.000
But like if you could do growth and a little test all the time to stay recovered and do two a days all the way through and not suffer overtraining as much, And then get clean?
02:13:13.000
Like that Belko dude, man, he was interesting as fuck to talk to, man.
02:13:16.000
Yeah, he's a fascinating guy, and you know what, man?
02:13:18.000
One of the things he's been saying over and over again is that these testing techniques are ineffective, and that these urine tests are giving fighters are just, you know, and everybody was calling bullshit on them.
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He was saying these are just intelligent tests.
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But after it's all over, man, now he looks vindicated, in my opinion.
02:13:44.000
I apologized to everybody when I said that John Fitch would never piss hot.
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I said, BJ Penn and John Fitch, you guys will ever piss hot.
02:13:52.000
And when John Fitch pissed hot, I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real.
02:13:58.000
Dude, he was looking huge in his last couple of fights.
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I'm like, that doesn't look like regular John Fitch.
02:14:05.000
John Fitch has some big biceps with giant water hose vein coming through.
02:14:27.000
Have you ever seen the picture of Anderson Silva's trainer?
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We shared a lunch one time and he gave me a foot massage.
02:14:49.000
Yeah, what if they can prove that he gave him a back rub?
02:14:53.000
The other thing, too, about going up in weight because of PEDs is that it doesn't, like, that bigger muscle mass isn't going to actually maybe dictate that you're going to have better use of that muscle mass.
02:15:05.000
Well, the lightest guy in the UFC in title fights that's pissed hot has been Ali Bagutinov.
02:15:14.000
What are you doing fucking with EPO at that weight?
02:15:17.000
If you don't have cardio at that weight, kick rocks.
02:15:19.000
He wanted to be able to do what he does, which is he has this very kinetic style where he uses a lot of muscle.
02:15:26.000
He explodes a lot, and that shit gets you goddamn exhausted.
02:15:32.000
But he's fighting Mighty Mouse, who's so the opposite of that.
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And even when he knocked out, like, Joseph Benavidez, it wasn't like some crazy wind-up punch, you know, that threw all his body weight into it.
02:15:50.000
If somebody wanted to fight Mighty Mouse for 100 rounds, he could probably fight you for 100 rounds.
02:15:55.000
Yeah, he was pulling guard earlier by the cage.
02:16:06.000
I really believe leg locks are going to come back in a big way in MMA. This is the problem with leg locks right here.
02:16:25.000
I think he should defend the leg lock and get out of there.
02:16:27.000
Guys usually get tapped out when they go to punch strike before.
02:16:44.000
If she wanted to marry you, if she called you on Twitter, she goes, oh my god, I love Brendan, let's go out to dinner, and you guys went out, hung out, and this is what I want to marry you.
02:17:04.000
Oscar the Grouch with tits is the greatest description of an unattractive woman ever.
02:17:11.000
My girl makes her look like Oscar the Grouch with tits.
02:17:35.000
See that bitch with her dirty feet coming here?
02:17:42.000
You don't want to be boxy at 22 either, by the way.
02:17:52.000
Girls will never talk about a guy's physical attribute.
02:18:00.000
He's just got to do something about those ears.
02:18:03.000
Well, I heard Rihanna, what do I, I'm like fucking TMZ. I heard Rihanna broke up with Leonardo DiCaprio because she said he just, he has too much of a belly.
02:18:18.000
She's like, yeah, I'll get on that while he's balls deep in some supermodel.
02:18:50.000
Yeah, he doesn't have fucking time to work out because he's doing A-list movies all the goddamn time.
02:18:59.000
And he's like, that's why Chris Brown whooped that ass, talking that way.
02:19:13.000
Damn, Max Holloway just landed a nice right hand.
02:19:22.000
You know what you don't see that much at MMA that Roy McDonald does so well is that question mark kick.
02:19:31.000
Like I was just looking, Cole Miller grazed the top of his head with a kick.
02:19:34.000
And I was like, that kick where you come up and it looks like a front kick and then you turn into the Brazilian style.
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Cerrone would knock a motherfucker out with it, though.
02:19:58.000
The very first person I ever saw do it and knock a dude out?
02:20:19.000
He's like looking for parts of his eye in his palm.
02:20:36.000
Is that the eyebrow that's bleeding or the eyeball that's bleeding?
02:20:52.000
Unless it's a bad cut, then they're going to stop that bitch.
02:21:05.000
I'm looking at the blood coming down the corner, and I was assuming that that whole thing was cut.
02:21:09.000
That was my first ref in the UFC. Well, the referee said they keep going, but he said, you've got to clean my eye.
02:21:19.000
It looked like the ref was waving it off to me.
02:21:28.000
Don't they usually clean it off if there's a headbutt, like a cut like that?
02:21:33.000
If they have the doctor come in or someone come in and look at it, yeah, they usually...
02:21:38.000
It's only if the fighter can't see, though, affecting his eyesight.
02:21:46.000
If it's going around the eye, they don't stop it.
02:21:49.000
The referee, rather, is coming over to talk to him.
02:21:59.000
This could be the change of the match, you know what I'm saying?
02:22:02.000
Well, a dude like Cole Miller, he's been fighting angry since he was a baby.
02:22:17.000
I don't know if anyone knows, but Max and Ben Henderson have the exact same back tattoo.
02:22:25.000
No, but isn't Benson's like angel wings and his is like one angel and one devil?
02:22:30.000
I think Max, one of them is like a devil wing and one of them is an angel wing.
02:22:47.000
Maybe they're just two different kinds of birds.
02:22:49.000
But one dude has it where one side looks like a bat wing.
02:23:07.000
You know, sponsors like Alienware, it's going to be weird when they're not allowed to sponsor UFC fights.
02:23:12.000
I've been used to seeing that Alien logo for so far.
02:23:28.000
But it's going to be sad seeing those sponsors go.
02:23:36.000
They've been around so long supporting fighters.
02:23:40.000
I even used them to sponsor my podcast just to sort of...
02:23:58.000
They're the only brand that covers the whole instep.
02:24:12.000
There's a real difference in how they feel to the guy who holds them.
02:24:16.000
After I'd be done holding them with you, my triceps would be burning up, man.
02:24:33.000
Have you seen the focus mitts that are shaped like a head?
02:24:51.000
His final punch when he was in the guard right before the bell was right on the button again.
02:25:10.000
It's unfortunate that your eye's fucked up, but...
02:25:12.000
Well, it might have kind of known it was a little fucked up when he's scrubbing his head in there.
02:25:19.000
I mean, he's aware his head is hitting the cut.
02:25:28.000
Yeah, but when a company like Hayabusa takes something like tie pads that have existed forever and just makes an improvement like that where, you know, you could absorb harder kicks with them.
02:25:38.000
The way they can make their cushioning, whatever it is, it doesn't hurt nearly as hard when someone's kicking them down.
02:25:47.000
I think not a boost is going to sponsor you on this show.
02:25:51.000
Because the oil, the oil, you can swipe and it just doesn't go away.
02:25:55.000
It's like having a film of straight motor oil in your eye.
02:26:08.000
And he's had some tough fucking fights in the UFC, but he's always there.
02:26:12.000
Yeah, he fought Conor when he made a decision because Conor blew his ankle or his ACL out.
02:26:39.000
But if he gets by Jose Aldo, Conor McGregor versus Anthony Pettis.
02:26:48.000
That's gonna be a different fight for Conor right now.
02:27:04.000
Listen, I love Frankie, but I'm Team Conor after yesterday, man.
02:27:10.000
With the right matchups, that kid, I think he's our biggest star.
02:27:23.000
Part of me that was so impressed with Frankie after that Cub Swanson fight, I think it's a crime to not give him a title shot after that fight.
02:27:32.000
The difference between beating Cub Swanson like that and beating Dennis Seaver at the end of his rope is that it's totally different.
02:27:38.000
Because think about what Frankie's gone through.
02:27:42.000
But the thing is, if you get Frankie Conner, you're going to destroy two superstars.
02:27:50.000
You throw Conor, Jose Aldo, that is the matchup of the century.
02:27:55.000
I think you give Frankie the fight with Aldo, okay?
02:27:58.000
Whoever wins that fight, then Conor fights that.
02:28:02.000
I'd give Conor one more warm-up and then give him all that.
02:28:05.000
Money-wise, they make the most of Conor fighting Aldo.
02:28:21.000
We're all grey elephants, and you got this pink elephant, Conor.
02:28:27.000
They think of a fucking matchup and they do it.
02:28:35.000
As Conor's management, I'm like, bro, let's get one more.
02:28:39.000
You're going to fight kind of a grappler wrestler.
02:28:45.000
There's gonna be some issues there, and he can wrestle.
02:28:49.000
I'd say you give him one more matchup with kind of a grappler guy who's gonna try and take him down.
02:29:07.000
Is I really think that everyone that he's training with is going, holy shit!
02:29:11.000
This guy hits so hard, and he's like, He's fucking everybody up.
02:29:17.000
He hit Dennis Seaver with a couple shots and Dennis Seaver started buckling quick.
02:29:24.000
I think he became stiff once he felt the power.
02:29:26.000
Nah, he was stiff from when he flew in on Tuesday.
02:29:29.000
Yeah, but the way he knocked out Dustin Poirier, nobody ever did that before.
02:29:34.000
I think he's so confident because he knows that these guys at 45 can take his power.
02:29:41.000
He's not saying the guys at 55 could take his power.
02:29:45.000
Let's say he beats Jose Alza and he's going to fight Anthony Pettis, right?
02:29:49.000
I wouldn't be surprised if Conor said, Hey, I knew for a fact I could beat all those guys at 145. I knew there was no way they were going to handle my power.
02:30:35.000
And the way he throws a strike so powerful with no wind-up, he just doesn't wind up.
02:30:45.000
Dose Andrews is going to be a tougher fight for him, I think, though.
02:30:54.000
Dude, I'm trying to tell Cowboy, don't fight him, man.
02:30:59.000
Because at 155, to get a title shot is going to be a fucking nightmare.
02:31:07.000
So if you're trying to set that fight up, for sure, you just fought fucking six times in like nine weeks.
02:31:15.000
Yeah, it's great to be gangster, but at a certain point his management needs to be like, dude, sit out, you'll fight the winner.
02:31:21.000
Cowboy will be around for as long as he can handle it.
02:31:24.000
If I'm his business manager, I'm saying, you wait for the title shot.
02:31:30.000
You'd be one of those shady managers that they fucking get on the underground and say, fuck!
02:31:59.000
You know, I mean, there's a lot of fights out there.
02:32:06.000
Think about how hard it is to get a title shot at 155. Are people waiting and denying...
02:32:14.000
That happens every now and then, but generally, Dana White offers a fighter, Joe Silva, and you fucking just do it, right?
02:32:18.000
When you're Donald Cerrone, and you're fucking, I mean, him and Dana...
02:32:30.000
He fought Ben on a two week, three week notice.
02:32:41.000
I think he feels more comfortable when he fights a lot.
02:32:49.000
Because he's not in line for an immediate title shot.
02:32:51.000
If he was in line for an immediate title shot, I would say, that's good advice, wait it out.
02:33:03.000
A lot of people were saying, but that interim fight's no good, man.
02:33:08.000
Pettis hurt himself, had to go through surgery.
02:33:11.000
He's gone through at least two surgeries, and there was rumor that he hurt his hand or something after the fight with Gil, and it turned out that wasn't true.
02:33:21.000
He could, you know, rest it, and it'll be fine.
02:33:26.000
They had to have an interim title because at a certain point in time, it's like Kane's going through another charge.
02:33:32.000
And you can't wait around for a title shot if that's the situation.
02:33:36.000
The other thing is Cowboy fights so much better when he's active.
02:33:39.000
I think it's good general advice, I think, what you're saying.
02:33:42.000
But, like, Cowboy fights so much better and his head is in tune a lot better.
02:33:49.000
The thing is, so he takes off six months or whatever it is, and he comes back.
02:33:55.000
He's going to fight somebody that's a fucking savage.
02:33:58.000
It's almost better for him to stay in the fucking woods, you know?
02:34:08.000
I think, first of all, a guy like Nurmagomedov is an elite grappler.
02:34:14.000
And it'll show you where Cowboy's defense is and where his back game is.
02:34:19.000
Because Cowboy has a very nasty triangle that people forget about.
02:34:26.000
So I wouldn't say that he couldn't beat Nurmagomedov.
02:34:29.000
And if he did beat Nurmagomedov, especially if he fucking showed his versatility by submitting him, I mean, you would think if Cowboy's gonna win, like most people would say probably by knockout, right?
02:34:41.000
But, man, if he caught him with something on the ground, man, that would be even more impressive, in my opinion.
02:34:52.000
You know, like a guy like Nurmagomedov's been doing combat sambo, combat sambo world champion, and you watch him fight Dos Anjos, it's pretty obvious his grappling is on some next level shit.
02:35:05.000
Took that dude to the ground any time he wanted to, ragdolled him, threw him away, pounded on his face, elbowed him.
02:35:17.000
So you look at Conor McGregor, he's not fighting these elite grapplers.
02:35:31.000
He took the Benson fight with two weeks notice.
02:35:38.000
I thought, personally, I thought Henderson was going to get the nod.
02:35:50.000
And I knew Cowboy was pretty banged up going into that fight, too.
02:35:52.000
Especially after the way he was kicking Miles Jury's Yeah, he looked like a guy who just fought two weeks ago.
02:36:00.000
He still looked good, but took a head kick and fucking played it off.
02:36:05.000
He got head kicked at one point in time by Ben and played it off well.
02:36:14.000
You fight, and then you fight two weeks later, you're gonna be busted up.
02:36:19.000
There has to be some sort of point of no return where your body's just like, dude, we can't keep doing this.
02:36:24.000
But then also, you look at Nurmagomedov, and he's been out for a long time.
02:36:28.000
He's had a knee surgery, and then I think he fucked something up again.
02:36:32.000
Like, I think he hurt his knee and then retrained too quick or something like that.
02:36:38.000
So he's healing up, trying to get back on the men, because they...
02:36:41.000
The reason why they gave Gil the title shot, I mean, I think Gil was supposed to get the title shot, but they were going to have, Nurmagomedov was in the mix, and they tried to offer him a big fight, but he couldn't take it because his knee was fucked up.
02:36:55.000
But, so, he's been out for a while, too, so it's not a bad time for Cowboy to catch him, you know, if you wanted to look at him.
02:37:03.000
If you're going to catch him, it's not a bad time.
02:37:23.000
That fucking lightweight division is filled with murderers, man.
02:37:29.000
I think Dos Anjos has got a really good shot of beating Pettis.
02:37:46.000
Yeah, so it's like he's not an easy out on the feet.
02:37:50.000
It's not like Pettis could just light him up on the feet.
02:37:58.000
It'll be interesting to see if Pettis can get off.
02:38:01.000
He's definitely more experienced against world-class competition and being successful.
02:38:15.000
It's going to be really hard for anybody to stand with Pettis.
02:38:31.000
Yeah, I wanted to see Aldo versus Pettis, and they were trying to set that up.
02:38:35.000
And then we tell you something, Pettis was ready to go down to 145. He doesn't give a fuck.
02:38:47.000
Pettis going down to 145 and fighting Aldo would be fucking crazy.
02:38:50.000
Looking at those two guys facing off against each other, that would be insane.
02:39:03.000
Like, you look at his fight with Matt Brown, he's a ferocious dude for like the first round or so.
02:39:11.000
I've never seen him do like a Nurmagomedov type fight.
02:39:19.000
Just Dos Anjos, the way he ground down Nate Diaz for three rounds.
02:39:27.000
Eric Silva, I think, especially earlier in his career, tended to run out of gas.
02:39:33.000
John Fitch just kind of took him down, mauled him, and stayed on him, and wore him out.
02:39:38.000
He's not the same guy towards the end of the fight.
02:39:58.000
He's really good with his distance, with his kicks.
02:40:04.000
But he's just, to me, it's like he's emotional or something or too much adrenaline or something.
02:40:11.000
But it doesn't seem to hold a pace that he can sustain.
02:40:14.000
And if you get in there with a guy like Matt Brown, you've got to know when to lay off the gas, man.
02:40:19.000
You've got to know what kind of shape you're in.
02:40:28.000
I'm not saying this in a negative way towards Wonderboy, because I think Wonderboy, what was exposed in that fight, according to my conversation with Wonderboy, is that he overtrained.
02:40:36.000
He said he was really trying to deal with the cardio and the shit that Matt Brown was throwing at him, but he said he might have overdid it because he was just real flat.
02:40:44.000
And then, you know, Matt, you can't have an off day when you're fighting Matt Brown.
02:41:11.000
Concentrate on training with this motherfucker.
02:41:14.000
I've been waiting for someone to come along, outside of Aoki, but of course Aoki always has those crazy tights on.
02:41:21.000
It's so hard to find someone in MMA that understands that guard correctly.
02:41:26.000
And to be able to have the kind of flexibility and dexterity you have and wrap guys up, you're going to see you get into positions like Jason Day was when he fought Alan Belcher in Canada.
02:41:38.000
He wrapped him up in that Mission Control and dropped some bows on him, man.
02:41:42.000
And you realize that if someone is good at this position, you leave someone incredibly vulnerable.
02:41:52.000
The position to lock up arms, mission control, in order to get to a good place of completely controlling a guy in a way that you rarely see in closed guard.
02:42:04.000
You see it in grappling, but in MMA, it's not because it doesn't work.
02:42:11.000
Like, for the longest time, we just didn't see them, and everybody didn't think they worked.
02:42:14.000
And then Barbosa lands that fucking nuclear weapon on Terry Edom, and everybody's spinning now.
02:42:23.000
Knocks out Luke Rockhold with the fucking spinning.
02:42:28.000
I mean, I think that once someone sees what a guy like you is capable off of his back, it opens up...
02:42:34.000
So much defensive possibilities and so much offensive possibilities, too.
02:42:38.000
Like, you're way safer defensively and your offense off your back in positions that people don't think they're vulnerable for.
02:42:44.000
You know, like, everybody puts their fucking hands on the mat in the UFC. Everyone does.
02:42:49.000
You put your hands on the mat at his school and you're gonna have an elbow problem.
02:43:01.000
The great thing about Ben is I've had so many MMA fighters come through and try to add the rubber guard or other techniques to their MMA game and sometimes Someone will come and their striking will be really bad.
02:43:26.000
They want to do MMA. They just started striking six months ago.
02:43:31.000
I'm like, okay, we're going to add rubber guard, but man, you got a long way to go with your striking.
02:43:36.000
Or a guy will come from a wrestling background, a really good wrestler, not that good striking, just started jujitsu.
02:43:43.000
He wants to do MMA. We've got a lot to work on.
02:43:46.000
We've got to work on a lot of other jiu-jitsu than rubber guard.
02:43:52.000
We've got to get your guard retention together.
02:44:02.000
And then sometimes you have a tremendous striker coming to me.
02:44:07.000
He has zero wrestling and his jiu-jitsu is blue belt level.
02:44:15.000
But man, dudes are going to try to take you down and you got to have guard retention skills.
02:44:19.000
You got to have just so much other pieces of the game that it's not just rubber guards.
02:44:24.000
So it's a lot of things that you got to work on.
02:44:26.000
But when Ben came to me, he came to me with UFC experience.
02:44:31.000
He came to me as a black belt from Ricardo Laborio, so I don't have to really work on anything else, but just really...
02:44:44.000
He's got the legs of a dude that's 6'8", and they're super flexible.
02:44:47.000
He's super flexible, and a lot of guys that come to me, They're ready to fight and they're doing pretty good, but they don't have the flexibility.
02:44:58.000
That could take two months, depending on how much time they're willing to put into their flexibility.
02:45:04.000
Ben came to me already a black belt from Ricardo Laborio.
02:45:09.000
Already was playing versions of the rubber guard.
02:45:23.000
He don't even want to take it to the ground, but it just seems like at least his last two opponents in the UFC wanted to take him down.
02:45:36.000
When you look at the tape, and to be honest with you, I'm so buried.
02:45:41.000
I've been buried with just life the last few years.
02:45:52.000
When Ben went to Bellator, I kind of lost track.
02:46:09.000
All his fights were coming up, all his fights were in this arena.
02:46:13.000
Whatever we're going to say about anything else, let's wrap it up before we get to this fight.
02:46:16.000
Yeah, real quick, I just wanted to finish what I was saying about Ben.
02:46:20.000
He came to me and I really didn't know how good of a striker he was.
02:46:24.000
I'm just the one who came up to me and said, what do you know about a striker?
02:46:29.000
I go, he's pretty good, he's got good knees, right?
02:46:36.000
So I went and I watched a highlight reel of Ben Saunders, and when you watch a highlight reel, like, oh shit, here's a highlight reel of him fucking starching dudes and fucking him up with all sorts of shit.
02:46:47.000
Knees, head kicks, spinning back fists, elbows, boom.
02:46:51.000
Man, it makes it easier to teach someone when they're already coming as a killer.
02:46:57.000
Team killer B! What do you think Benson Henderson's weighing right now as he gets into the octagon?
02:47:05.000
What do you think he probably weighs right now?
02:47:07.000
175, 180. I'd say 170. 171. Well, so you think that that's all he weighed before he started his cut down to 155?
02:47:21.000
Brandon Thatch's head coach, Lisa Bowling, wrestled in college with Ben Henderson, and they're super close.
02:47:27.000
And that's what he was saying, the advantage is Ben walks around at maybe 170, barely.
02:47:32.000
And we know Thatch, on a strict diet, lean as fuck will enter the...
02:47:43.000
So you're talking about, we're probably looking at a 15 pound plus difference.
02:47:49.000
15 pounds, and you're talking about a dude who's a KO artist, too, at 170. Right.
02:48:00.000
What I was going to say is, has he ever fought someone at this level?
02:48:09.000
Yeah, but Paulo Thiago's nowhere as good as Benson Henderson is.
02:48:24.000
Well, I wonder how many guys, man, how many guys did get the fucking free pass from the doctor.
02:48:36.000
I mean, it had to have happened somewhere along the line in some country where a local guy got a free pass on a drug test.
02:48:44.000
That would be a giant scandal if we found out that someone in the Athletic Commission in some place was involved in doping someone, like helping some fucking super Geronimo type dude.
02:49:01.000
I was more surprised about Bruce Jenner turning a chick.
02:49:09.000
I want to go back to the podcast when we were ragging on Callan about it and listening to it.
02:49:17.000
Is he the first Corn Flakes box or something like that?
02:49:26.000
He's got the most longevity in the UFC. Well, people are more into what he does now.
02:49:35.000
They used to be embarrassed by his wacky moves.
02:49:39.000
Isn't it true that Eddie Bravo gave him the idea and the inspiration for the Buffer 360?
02:49:57.000
I wanted him to do this move where instead of just going like that or spinning and going like that, like him going like this, keeping eye contact.
02:50:12.000
You've got to have some good back flexibility to do that.
02:50:44.000
I mean, Benson Henderson is a legit world champion class fighter.
02:50:49.000
I mean, he's stepping up to 70 for sure, but for Thatch, that's a giant win.
02:50:54.000
And for Benson, it's to let everybody know, hey, you know, I can fuck some people up at 170 too, including really dangerous, unheralded young guys that no one wants to fight.
02:51:06.000
There's a lot of dudes that do not want to fight that guy.
02:51:26.000
And you can tell, like, he does not have a doubt in his mind, man.
02:51:37.000
Lister Bowling, yeah, and Elliot Marshall helping out with jiu-jitsu.
02:51:50.000
I don't know if you saw the billboards in the back.
02:51:52.000
Look how calm he is here, too, walking him down.
02:52:06.000
Well, Benson's got to get some respect here, for sure.
02:52:08.000
He's got to tag him with something that gives him at least some concern.
02:52:14.000
I'll tell you what, if he shoots, though, Thatch's knees, man.
02:52:47.000
You don't want to be in the clinch with Thatch either, man.
02:52:54.000
I like how he faked with the right to set up distance for the left.
02:53:02.000
The last guy who I saw as creative as Thatch is Cub Swanson.
02:53:08.000
And you said that he's been trained by his dad since he was a little kid?
02:53:13.000
He used to come in the gym and we literally just watch him just destroy cats with knees, southpaw, traditional stance, whatever you want to do.
02:53:21.000
Dude, I like how he switches back and forth effortlessly.
02:53:35.000
But listen, the longer this goes, the better it is for Ben.
02:53:47.000
You remember, too, Thatch, like I said, he's fought in this arena eight or nine times.
02:53:53.000
He's used to being, you know, the star attraction.
02:54:14.000
Oh, nice front kick by Henderson to knock him down.
02:54:43.000
Standing sideways looking for the spin, my friend.
02:54:48.000
If I'm Ben's coach, I'm saying get him against the cage and wear him out, man.
02:54:59.000
Yeah, it looks like he's setting up a spinning.
02:55:04.000
When he gets that left forward, he's looking to spin with his right side.
02:55:25.000
Damn, that's where five minutes is a long time.
02:55:32.000
I'm interested to see Thatch in the third and fourth round.
02:56:16.000
And that's just from a karate background, you said?
02:56:22.000
Matt Brown and Neil Magny are the guys that rotate in on him.
02:56:25.000
Matt Brown lives on his couch when he does his camps in Denver.
02:56:42.000
He does some stuff with that Louis Simmons guy.
02:56:48.000
I just did a seminar with the powerlifting people, the strongest woman in the world and her husband and shit, and it's fucking phenomenal.
02:56:58.000
As far as when you see guys lose knockout power, dudes that used to have it, starching dudes, and then they don't, and it's like they're just tapping dudes now.
02:57:15.000
We didn't see a lot of rubber guard for a long time, and now it's creeping in and all that kind of stuff.
02:57:20.000
There's a time in MMA where there was nobody that was...
02:57:30.000
And that's because the coaches didn't know any better.
02:57:33.000
And now, like, a lot of guys like Dwayne Ludwig's in the world that are, like, actual fighters that came out and now they can put that together.
02:57:40.000
That's changing the whole face of it, I think, you know?
02:57:43.000
So you mean, like, now we're seeing that with strength and conditioning.
02:57:45.000
And now we're seeing that with strength and conditioning as Yeah, well, you never forget.
02:57:52.000
That Marv Marinovich camps, those Marv Marinovich camps that BJ went through for the best performances of his career.
02:57:58.000
You know, he hated doing it, but man, watch BJ when he fought Diego Sanchez.
02:58:05.000
He was doing all that at USC. Yeah, he was doing all kinds of crazy shit.
02:58:11.000
He said he was so tired at night he couldn't even pick up his baby.
02:58:26.000
I mean, BJ, in that kind of tip-tip-top condition, is such a motherfucker, man.
02:58:35.000
I haven't watched it yet, though, but I heard it's amazing.
02:58:39.000
Well, they sent it to me, but I just watched the documentary yesterday.
02:58:48.000
There's Lister Bowling Christian Allen, the masterminds behind Brandon Thatch.
02:58:59.000
Now, do you think Thatch is starting to slow down?
02:59:03.000
It's interesting to see Thatch in the third and fourth round, man.
02:59:05.000
Well, how about the fifth, if he gets into that, right?
02:59:09.000
But what is the knock on him as far as his conditioning?
02:59:13.000
He's knocking everyone out in the first round, so we really don't know.
02:59:19.000
As long as this is all stand-up, he can do ten rounds.
02:59:22.000
If Ben starts grappling with him, I think Brandon's going to be in some trouble.
02:59:29.000
It might be like looking to stand with him for the first couple of rounds and then wear him down the third, fourth, and fifth and then start taking him down if you had to be in his corner?
02:59:38.000
Well, the thing is, like I said, Lister Bowling is really good friends with Ben and Ben's head coach, Crouch, they just talked like when Cowboy and Ben fought.
02:59:50.000
And he told them, he goes, yeah, the best guy in our camp right now is Brandon Thatch.
02:59:56.000
The next thing you know, they're fighting each other.
02:59:57.000
Dude, that switch that he, oh, spinning back kick to the body.
03:00:00.000
That switch that he does, where it makes it look like he's going to throw a right kick, and then he sets up the left, or a left kick, and he sets up the right.
03:00:09.000
That's something you only see in, like, high-level kickboxing most of the time.
03:00:32.000
But that might be to keep him honest, you know?
03:00:38.000
Ben is throwing a lot of right hooks to the body over and over again.
03:00:45.000
He should have come back and tried to press him on the fence, see if he could hold him on the fence.
03:00:50.000
To risk being pinned against the fence by him would be death.
03:01:01.000
Good move moving these main event fights to five rounds, right?
03:01:13.000
It is great to watch, but you've got to think they can't.
03:01:36.000
I love that show, Respect, the middle of combat.
03:01:59.000
How about keep holding on to that leg and kicking the shit out of it?
03:02:14.000
I think if Ben's going to try and win this, he needs to go for singles, even if he doesn't get them.
03:02:18.000
I like that right hook to the body that Ben's stepping in with.
03:02:28.000
He might be trying to set up the up top, right?
03:02:31.000
Get a guy to get used to covering that because he expects it, and then go over the top.
03:02:41.000
Well, he would think that he would have an advantage in speed, but what he might have an advantage is pace, the ability to keep that pace up for five rounds.
03:02:52.000
Benson is a master at understanding his own limitations as far as cardio.
03:02:59.000
He knows exactly how to redline it, and he can redline it for five rounds.
03:03:12.000
That's a huge advantage, especially knowing you've been there.
03:03:19.000
I think that's his biggest advantage in this fight, and I don't feel like he's using it.
03:03:30.000
One of the geniuses of MMA. There's like a handful of geniuses.
03:03:33.000
Like Matt Hume, Faraz Zahabi is one of my favorite.
03:03:38.000
You know, Ricardo Laborio is a genius of MMA. There's a few maestros.
03:03:46.000
So when you're agreeing to fight a kid like this, he's not dumb.
03:03:55.000
Thought to what the proper strategy is, and you know the kid as good as anybody, and your thoughts are third round, fourth round, fifth round.
03:04:05.000
If I'm Ben's coach, I'm saying, alright, now let's start mixing up, grappling, go for shots, wear his ass out.
03:04:17.000
And he had double underhooks at one time when they were transitioning out on a failed spin.
03:04:34.000
Yeah, he went front leg round kick to the head.
03:04:40.000
Benson's got a lot of Taekwondo in him as well, man.
03:04:43.000
You know, I mean, that was his initial background.
03:04:46.000
Well, the thing is, is we've seen two takedowns.
03:04:52.000
They would take downs and we'd expect someone to say, bitch!
03:04:59.000
I like that right hook to the body that Benson's been throwing.
03:05:12.000
I'm going to freak out if Ben doesn't attempt to take down here.
03:05:18.000
You gotta attempt it, man, because you're getting fucking picked apart.
03:05:27.000
I feel like he feels how strong those hips are, and he's like, fuck this, abort.
03:05:42.000
This is 170. I know, but you're wearing Thatch out.
03:05:47.000
This is 170. This is exactly what you gotta do.
03:05:50.000
If you're gonna win, this is exactly what you gotta do.
03:05:58.000
I guarantee you Thatcher's going to slow down after this.
03:06:16.000
And now, confusion and a loss of confidence as well, right?
03:06:24.000
But Brennan Thatch has got to grapple a little bit.
03:06:35.000
But look at, you know, he's letting him know, like some shit's going down.
03:06:44.000
Hold on to that glove if you want to save your life.
03:06:55.000
Is that swollen or is it just the angle we're looking at?
03:07:01.000
If you're not really a grappler, You know, by nature, when someone has your back, your heart's fucking 100 miles an hour right now.
03:07:09.000
So even if you don't submit them here, when you're on this fourth round, you're in trouble, bro.
03:07:12.000
Dude, Benson's making some progress with that right arm.
03:07:19.000
I mean, he's under the armpit with the other one, but I'm seeing some give, you know what I'm saying?
03:07:26.000
You know how when you see a guy start to pull on a guy's neck, and you see the guy on the other side start to give?
03:07:35.000
It's tough with the gloves, man, to submit a guy.
03:07:46.000
This fight could be over right fucking here, man.
03:07:57.000
That tells me he's probably not going to get him.
03:08:07.000
See, you look at Benson's back, two angel wings.
03:08:21.000
You gotta realize, all Thatch's wins were first round KOs.
03:09:06.000
2-1 going to the 4th, and the grappling's been established that he's super dominant on the ground.
03:09:10.000
The only reason why he lost that position is because he went for the arm.
03:09:21.000
It's not an easy day if you're not a black belt.
03:09:24.000
If you're a blue belt, which I would say Thatch is probably a blue belt on the ground.
03:09:32.000
I mean, when he's tight, when he's under the armpit, and he's across the neck, there was no commitment, there was no real crazy...
03:09:40.000
Yeah, but there's no crazy, like, you know, the go for a guillotine, Hail Mary that doesn't work, and you see the guy's arms gassed out?
03:09:47.000
There was the explosion to get to spiderweb, but, I mean, that was one big burst.
03:09:53.000
Other than that, it was Thatch ate more energy.
03:09:56.000
Because Thatch was trying to keep that guy off his neck.
03:10:00.000
He's like, fuck, in my hometown, I'm getting choked.
03:10:04.000
Flattened out with a body triangle on his back.
03:10:23.000
Now he's thinking about it too, maybe mix it up.
03:10:28.000
Well, he also knows that he can dominate him on the ground.
03:10:32.000
I'm surprised that Bats is standing up so high still.
03:10:36.000
And that was the reason he got impatient in that scramble and wasn't smart defensively.
03:10:43.000
Instead of like minus P's and Q's and recognizing he's in a bad spot.
03:10:48.000
And that recklessness, carelessness, and trying to get back up to his feet is where he gave his back up.
03:11:00.000
But in doing so, he got to a way worse spot, which is really the essence of jiu-jitsu, right?
03:11:07.000
Even if Thatch loses this fight, he's going to learn so much from this fight that's going to help him in the future.
03:11:12.000
Because he's never fought a really, really good grappler like this.
03:11:15.000
And gone into deep waters with a world champion.
03:11:18.000
This is the best thing for Thatcher's career to ever happen.
03:11:23.000
And it's a smart way to do it, too, to go in a world champion coming off from a lower weight class so you have some advantages going in.
03:11:40.000
Yeah, but make him defend and then go after it again, right?
03:11:43.000
He's throwing his striking off with those takedowns.
03:11:57.000
This plan only works if Ben's cardio is on point.
03:12:02.000
To me, it looks like Thatch is fine, and he's coming forward.
03:12:09.000
He's definitely not the same fighter he was in the first two rounds.
03:12:12.000
No, but the fifth round at altitude, you're in Denver, son.
03:12:15.000
Sorry about it, but I think Thatch is going to last here.
03:12:26.000
And most of Ben's career was spent in Colorado.
03:13:09.000
Doesn't mean he's going to choke him, but he's winning the round.
03:13:15.000
He's gonna try to go for the armbar again, man.
03:13:32.000
You see a lot of wrestlers do this, turn to all fours, hand fight, and stand up.
03:13:52.000
This is the world of Benson Henderson right here, son.
03:14:16.000
He had a fucking toothpick in his mouth the whole time!
03:14:21.000
He fixed it in the last round, he got cracked and he was trying to fix it, man.
03:14:24.000
He pulled a toothpick out of his mouth right after he tapped it.
03:14:35.000
So crazy, fights with a fucking toothpick in his mouth.
03:14:42.000
He just fought Brendan Thatch with a toothpick in his mouth.
03:14:45.000
If you put that in a movie, you would hate that movie.
03:15:07.000
Like I said, though, man, either way, Brandon's gonna learn a ton from this.
03:15:14.000
Dan Severn isn't just about how you lock it up.
03:15:43.000
If it turns out that toothpick comes out and pokes somebody in the eye in some strange world where Benson's on top, he gets hit with an up kick, I think we need Benson on the podcast.
03:15:54.000
They'll let a guy who's doing PEDs fight and then after the fight be like, oh, he's on PEDs.
03:16:01.000
I don't think they're worried about a toothpick.
03:16:04.000
Did they know the test results before the fight?
03:16:16.000
I think if they knew that Anderson tested positive before, it's way more damning than if they knew that Jon Jones did.
03:16:22.000
They knew that Jon Jones is doing something that's going to ruin his chances.
03:16:26.000
What about if you're doing coke to just study YouTube videos?
03:16:31.000
What if I'm doing coke to throw a thousand spinning kicks?
03:16:39.000
And Joe said that y'all aren't going to learn anything.
03:16:56.000
You can't fight with a fucking toothpick in your mouth.
03:17:01.000
When he stepped out and then pulled a toothpick, he's like flaunting it.
03:17:08.000
What if that is top of five because he's like stuck.
03:17:17.000
He had a toothpick in his mouth when Pettis had kicked him and dropped him.
03:17:23.000
I think it'd be more dangerous for himself, right?
03:17:39.000
He's got a weird way of tucking that thing in his mouth.
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A lot of times, guys, you have to do something you don't know.
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Our biggest fear is not that we're, you know, in Agra.
03:18:17.000
Okay, look, Benson Henderson's a bad motherfucker.
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He essentially fought your game plan, what you thought he should do.
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He hung with him on the feet for the first round, lost probably the first and second round, and then took him into some deep water.
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A big name McDonald up in Canada who needs a fight.
03:19:27.000
Yeah, when you stare across the octagon at that fucking psycho, you might want to rethink that.
03:19:36.000
I mean, there's a big difference between stepping up to arguably number two welterweight in the world.
03:19:46.000
Don't make him fight Hector broided out of his gills.
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Hector's not going to fight for a long time now.
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But goddamn Benson Henderson's a bad motherfucker to step up like that and say he wants to fight Rory McDonald after that fight.
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Compound fracture, so the fucking through the skin, bones out of the skin, yeah.
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There was like a picture of it online, wasn't there?
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It's at the Orpheum, downtown LA. Justin Miles, what's your website again?
03:21:50.000
Tate motherfucking Fletcher, CEO and pirate in chief of Caveman Coffee.
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Nuevo Cerveza, Concrete Cowboy, Dallas, Austin, Houston.
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The Fighter and the Kid podcast with my brother Brian Callen.