Joe Rogan Experience - Fight Companion - February 22, 2015
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3 hours and 8 minutes
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101
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Brenden and Brian talk about UFC 232, UFC 246, UFC Fight Night, and UFC 246. We also talk about the upcoming UFC 246 event, UFC 232 and UFC 241. We also give our predictions for UFC 246 and UFC 244 and give our picks for the main event of UFC 246 between Conor vs Khabib Nurcay and Jon Jones vs Cowboy Cerrone. We finish up the episode with a little bit of UFC history and talk about who we think is going to win UFC 246 in the middleweight division and who's going to come out on top in the light heavyweight division. You won't want to miss this! Fight Companion is a podcast that we do while we're watching the UFC and we're here to bring you the best UFC content you can find on the internet. Fight Companion Podcast is brought to you by Payoneer and the Fight Companion Network. Thanks for listening and supporting the fight podcast! -The Fight Companion Crew. -Your Hosts: & -Our Sponsors: -Payoneer -Our sponsor: . - Our sponsor of the show is and our sponsor is . We are a proud affiliate of Fight Companion. (Thank you so much for your support and support of the fight companion podcast, we appreciate it greatly! Thank you for your continued support, we can't wait to see you all in the future episodes! UFC 246 - UFC 232 - - UFC 246- UFC 246 - UFC 244 - UFC 238 - UFC 241 - UFC Fight Day - UFC 194 - UFC 365 - UFC 214 - UFC 260 - UFC 311 - UFC 313 - UFC 257 - UFC 281 - UFC 280 - UFC 293 - UFC 301 - UFC 304 - UFC 322 - UFC 360 - UFC 270 - UFC 405 - UFC 314 - UFC 376 - UFC 315 - UFC 347 - UFC 39 - UFC 34 - UFC 369 - UFC 364 - UFC 33 - UFC 36 - UFC 38 - UFC 37 - UFC 35 - UFC 40 - UFC 43 - UFC 41 - UFC 42 - UFC 45 - UFC 47 - UFC 49 - UFC 48 - UFC 44 - UFC 52 - UFC 57 - UFC 46 - UFC 56 - UFC 54 - UFC vs UFC 39, UFC 43, UFC 45, UFC 47, UFC 48, UFC 41, UFC 49, UFC 42, UFC 44, UFC 46, and much more! - UFC 51, UFC 36, UFC 40, UFC 56, UFC 37, and more!
Transcript
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If you listen to this podcast and think, oh, here's another podcast.
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Fight Companion Podcast is a podcast that we do while we're watching the UFC. So if you're tuning into it, what it's like is it's like you're watching the fights with friends that you don't really know.
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So, Brendan Schaub is here, ladies and gentlemen.
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And, of course, Edgy Bra, also known as Eddie Bravo.
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That's what they taught when we were in Brazil.
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The first giant tournament that there was in L.A., Joe Moreno, he was the main promoter.
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And you have to sit there and listen to him call out everyone's name.
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And I'm sitting there, I'm waiting for him to call my name.
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He looks at the clipboard, then he looks up and goes, there's your bra!
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I'm like, man, when are they going to call my name?
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And then someone said, dude, I think he's saying your name.
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I could never guess your nationality, by the way.
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He could definitely be some expat dad who went over there with PTSD. 100%.
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Remember when they shipped the Filipinos in in the 80s?
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Sean Strickland, who we're looking at right now.
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He looks like he's in a different weight class.
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He put the guy's head in front of his fucking name.
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It's going to be like a lot of people from Brazil because this card is live from Brazil.
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So if you're tuning in and you're trying to figure out how the fuck do we sync it up because the internet is always going to be a few seconds slower than live action.
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So what we're seeing and what you're seeing is going to be a little different.
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And I'm going to tell you exactly when I see five minutes on the first round.
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Remember there was only three or four Brazilian fighters, and now there's hundreds of thousands.
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Do you know how many fighters are in the UFC roster now?
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I thought they had maybe 100 people on their roster, period.
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They've had like 250, 300. But now, you know, also, I think that with Bellator out there, they've got to make sure they scoop up the young talent as it's coming up.
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Because what if Bellator gets a hold of a Jon Jones before the UFC does?
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And they've got some guy over there just ragdolling people and Jon Jones in them, and you go, ah, fuck, we missed that guy.
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You remember probably like two years ago when they were making crazy cuts, because they had to get rid of a hundred guys in a certain amount of time, and dudes were just getting cut.
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You know how they showed the records, 15-0, and the other guys 20-2?
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You really don't know guys' records these days.
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I feel like in boxing you look more at records.
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I thought you were saying it might be a bullshit record.
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When you're a boxing fan, you have to know everybody's record.
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You had to know everybody in the top 10. Did you open up the ring and go right to the standings, like top 10 of every division?
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I would just stare at that shit and try to memorize it.
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No, I think Triple G. I think he's from Kajekistan.
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Well, there's no such thing as Kajekistan, but...
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He treated you like you're an idiot who's giving a speech in front of his class.
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100% your wife dressed you before you got here.
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Strickland, I've not stopped looking at his hair.
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He's making this motherfucker work, I'll tell you that.
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He keeps mixing up from punches to takedowns, and he's putting a lot of pressure on this guy.
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Everyone wants to see him versus Andre Ward next.
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Yeah, I don't know what it is, but there's a minute to go and he's still fucking going at it.
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I can't hear the crowd, but I bet they're going nuts.
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Which one was the good one, Graziano or Marciano?
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Because we know Triple G, but I don't think Triple G is that big of a star in the States.
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Because Kovalev is the one who's going to fight.
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160, 168, 175. There's three different weight classes.
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Andre Ward, 168. Golovkin, 160. Kovalev, 175. Oh, Kovalev is 175?
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You guys are really into boxing, like for real, huh?
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I should probably say that on the podcast because a bunch of people asked me because a long time ago I got in this debate on ESPN with that fucking Lou DiBella guy.
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The only reason why I went on that guy like that, two reasons.
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Because they knew this guy talks a lot of shit about the UFC. And he just started doing all the stuff.
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On that interview, Joe goes, the fact is that boxing is getting swallowed.
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Well, I said your sport's getting swallowed by a more dynamic sport.
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You know, but I've always been a boxing fan, just like I'm a kickboxing fan, just like I'm a straight jiu-jitsu fan.
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I'm a fan of all martial arts, but I'm just not a fan of dummies.
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But you know a lot about what's going on in boxing.
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All I know is Matt Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are going to fight.
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They're going to make a billion dollars, right?
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Well, Golovkin's a fascinating guy because he's one of the best fighters in the world, and very few people know who he is.
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Outside of, like, hardcore MMA fans, everybody knows who Floyd Mayweather is.
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Those are the two guys, but Gennady Golovkin is a fucking murderous puncher.
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Beautiful, little cutie, little handsome fella.
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A white guy's in the mix with these Floyd Mayweather types?
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Dude, Vladimir Klitschko hasn't been beaten in 10 years.
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There's no really good heavyweights when he destroys them.
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Because his fights are so dominant, and he's boring.
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And he's fighting the biggest, strongest, fastest.
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That Russian dude he fought made him go to war.
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Dude, they were conquered by the Mongols for 200-plus fucking years.
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If you have a flat country, people could come in.
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The Asian, Chinese-looking guys were ruling over the white guys in the north.
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A lot of people in Russia, in certain parts of Russia, look Chinese.
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I understand that, but did they conquer Russia?
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Aren't they ahead of us as far as technology, too?
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I think it is from Kazakhstan, and in that area, you do see a lot of Kazakhstanis who look very Asian.
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But he's a cute looking guy, like he could be like the sweet next door neighbor, maybe even the gay neighbor on a sitcom, right?
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But he comes in and just liver punches you into fucking oblivion.
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He's a sensational boxer and he's highly aggressive.
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Well, he's special because he has knockout power in his left hand and right hand.
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You know, certain guys have certain punches to knock people out.
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He's knocked guys out with jabs, left hooks, right hooks, uppercuts.
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He dropped a dude with a right hand to the body.
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America won't jump on board unless you can be good in front of a camera.
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Well, dude, when I was a kid, if someone came along and told me that we were going to have a white heavyweight champion that no one would give a fuck about and no one could beat the guy, I'd be like, that doesn't even make sense.
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Like, what kind of bizarro world do we live in?
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I was like, wait a minute, he's fighting the best guys.
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When I was totally into boxing, you never heard of such a thing.
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He's doing all kinds of crazy violent shit, like outbursts.
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Who was the guy, the big, the guy who just beat...
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The thing about Klitschko is that Klitschko has been knocked out back in the day when he first started working with Emanuel Stewart or right before he first started working with Emanuel Stewart.
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When he went to Emanuel, Emanuel just completely schooled him, cleaned his game up.
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Emanuel Stewart said he's the hardest right hand puncher he's ever seen in his life.
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That's a guy who had Lennox Lewis in his stable.
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Habib Nurmagomedov, that's a different kind of white person.
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Listen, cocksucker, these are not the same white people you fucking grew up with in calabasas.
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They're pro fighters and they still grow their hair that covers over their eyes.
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Hey, if I had beautiful hair, I might grow it that way, too.
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Hickson, when he was young, had this crazy samurai ponytail, and it was like part of his mystique when he's this samurai warrior going into this tattered black belt that almost looked white because it was so worn and just shh.
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Some people just look sexy with bangs and some people don't.
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You gotta be ready for action at a moment's notice.
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Including the fucking pig hunt we're going on with Steven Rinello.
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Northern California literally has a pig infestation.
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San Jose News the other day, they had this news clipping of these wild pigs that were tearing up these people's lawns in the suburbs.
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Just ripping the lawn apart, looking for something to eat.
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In California and Fresno, there's a pig problem.
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We have a huge, I don't know if it's a problem, but we have raccoons everywhere.
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We have families of raccoons, little babies traveling together, trying to open our door.
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Yeah, I mean, the pig problem is mitigated slightly by the fact that they're not allowed to hunt for mountain lions, so mountain lions eat some of the pigs.
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I was going to say, what's their natural predator?
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A long time ago, they believed that a lot of them came from William Randolph Hearst.
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When William Randolph Hearst had that Hearst Castle up in Northern California, that crazy fuck kept a bunch of wild boars out there.
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And then they just wind up fucking and breeding.
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And then, of course, on top of that, there's just wild pigs.
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And they start breeding out in the wild, and then they become a totally different kind of pig.
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But there's so many of them in Northern California.
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You could go, like, you could get all your meat from pigs and just go up there, like, once every couple months, shoot four or five pigs, bring them back with you.
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And it doesn't cost very much to get a pig tag.
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So it should be easy to kill them up there, right?
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I just like that it's not going to be freezing this time.
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Why don't we just go up there with some machine guns, do it gangster style?
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They're flying and just gunning down these packs of pigs.
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In Texas, they allow them to hunt with helicopters.
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Well, they cost millions and millions of dollars.
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And you know what else did William Randolph Hearst cause?
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Yeah, he was also responsible for weed being illegal.
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He was responsible for distributing the propaganda.
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Even possibly one of the people responsible for using the name marijuana.
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It had something to do with it as well, as well as his paper factories, apparently.
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But, I mean, that's the reason why William Randolph Hearst was the subject of that Orson Welles movie.
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I mean, that was the whole Rosebud, Citizen Kane.
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When you had control of the newspaper back when there was only one newspaper, I mean, god damn.
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They were running stories like that one story where a woman smokes weed, throws her kids out a building, and then commits suicide.
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Yeah, but I mean, they really wrote that in paper.
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It took them 10 years of scaring people into making it illegal.
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Not only that, this is after the fucking Great Depression, so people were cautious as it is.
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They look at the radio, there's one radio station, they go to the movies to watch a newsreel, total propaganda.
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I feel like weed's just starting to get a good rap, right?
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Because as a kid, I remember as a kid, even in high school, I mean, if you're smoking weed, you're a loser, man.
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I felt that way until I was 28. I felt that way about six months ago until I started hanging out with you guys.
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Well, anybody that tells you that people on weed are lazy is like, you gotta pay attention to all the shit I'm doing.
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I think you might have gotten more intense with weed.
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The one thing about the marijuana is the paranoia that it gives you about if you're doing the wrong shit.
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You try to keep that paranoia at bay, it's like a wolf.
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You want to do everything you can to fight off whatever the fuck that thing's warning you against.
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That's why it's so easy to get high and go on stage.
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Because you've done comedy a million fucking times, it's easy.
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I like being high when I'm coming up with shit.
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And you get into that flow state where you're not there anymore.
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You're not there anymore and things just come out of nowhere.
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And sometimes they come out of nowhere and right out of it comes out of your mouth.
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And you can't even This is not really your own shit.
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Yeah, and you're like laughing because weed gave you this...
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Well, that's where humility really comes in when it comes to...
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If you're saying something that's profound or whatever, you're like, bitch, this isn't even really your thoughts.
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I mean, he'll take a workout and not be high, but why bother?
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The only reason why you would bother is there's...
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It just makes you feel way more of what you're feeling.
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So if you're going to be nervous, if you're going to do something that's going to make you nervous, I wouldn't suggest you smoking weed.
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But if you're going to do something that you love, like you're just going to go do jiu-jitsu and you're just going to have fun.
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I'm worried if I got into weed, I would just become like 320 pounds.
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I eat so much when we go to restaurants, people think I'm joking.
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When I go to restaurants after shows, I order two meals.
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I'm like, it's not too much food, just bring it.
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But I'm saying for people that complain about it, man, it's just that simple.
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Just if you like to eat, bitch, you better burn that shit off.
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There's some people that they could look at a cake and they get fat.
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And if you got high and got paranoid about getting fat, you'd probably work out even harder.
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You'd probably put in some extra sessions just to lean up.
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He's every bit of 250. Yeah, but you look, you might be, I mean, you're obviously giant, but you look like leaner.
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My trainer had me on a no-carb diet for two weeks.
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If you could do that, under 30 carbs a day, then on one out of the seven days, Sunday, you could eat whatever the fuck.
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When the sun came up, I would just tear shit up.
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I'd smoke a lot of weed trying to get the munchies going, fuck.
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We used to go to restaurants and eat, and he would take the bread, and he would break the bread apart and smell it.
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He wouldn't eat the bread, and everybody would want bread.
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They're like, what the fuck is going on with the bread?
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Eddie had taken like every piece of bread and broke it apart, stuffed it in his nose.
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I was really lean, and I've never been that muscular or anything, but I was lean, and I was single.
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I was single as hell, and the leaner I got, the Easier meeting members of the opposite sex world.
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But then that Sunday eventually turned into, I'm going to start Saturday night now.
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Because, you know, if you've got 30 grams a day, Monday through Saturday, somehow your body is fixed in a way that you could trash it on Sunday and it doesn't make any difference with your weight.
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On Saturday fucking night, late Saturday night, I'd say, fuck it, I'm going to start.
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And I'd go six months and I'd go, that was my thing.
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Fuck, you could actually take it into that night before.
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Saturday during the day, I'm like, fucking, when do I start this?
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When the sun goes down, I would just get too crazy.
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And then it turned into Saturday morning, I would start, and then it was...
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Okay, Saturday and Sunday, I'm going to have a cheat day.
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And then it turned into Friday night, and then I just forget.
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And then it was just too crazy, and I just stopped.
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I wonder how much longer Frank Mayer can keep going.
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If he loses this fight, we're going to have to bring that motherfucker in here for, I think you'd be a surprise talk.
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You could bring him in and say, Joe, you do the same fucking thing.
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You're gonna be the guy that they talk to afterwards in console, and you know, they're gonna...
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And then once a week, you have the support group podcast.
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I guarantee if we could bring Tex Cobb in this room right now and have a conversation with us all, I'd go, okay?
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Yeah, it's like Scared Straight, you're gonna start bringing in, like, uh, Joe Frazier's still alive?
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He was a kickboxer before he was a boxer, too, you know?
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Tex Cobb, he got beat up by Larry Holmes so bad, Howard Cosell quit calling boxing.
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I remember watching that fight as it was happening.
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My mother literally said, my father was saying, this is a slaughter and they should stop the fight.
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My mother said, he may have an extra plate in his forehead, so he's probably fine.
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He may have another plate in his forehead, so he's fine.
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I remember I told my mother there was a guy who didn't wear a coat in the winter.
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He never wore a coat, and she goes, oh, he probably has an enlarged heart, so it pumps lots of blood to his body.
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Do you have a sore throat and a scarf on, like, sort of an homage to the East Coast?
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I feel refined and I've been watching Downton Abbey.
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He came in here and he said, you know what, I'm going to go in there and I'm not going to give a fuck.
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Frankie's like, yeah, I left some toilet paper.
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That's a guy that, you know, that was one of the most impressive victories for Uriah Faber when he beat this dude.
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Because Uriah came at him, guns blazing, like within the first couple seconds, and then, like literally 15 seconds into the fight, he's mounted.
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The guy's on top of Uriah, and he's holding him there for the whole round.
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I mean, he's hitting him, there's a lot of ground and pound going on, but Uriah, towards the end of the round, gets out of the position, and then is just coming after him for...
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End of that second round, third round, puts the pace on him.
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And you could see the dude going, Jesus Christ, when does this motherfucker get tired?
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It was one of the most impressive performances of Uriah's career.
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A lot of people don't even talk about that fight.
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He got him in a very compromising position very early in the fight when everybody's dry and everybody's at full strength.
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One of the coolest things ever I heard a fighter say came from Uriah Faber's mouth.
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And he said after one of those fights, He goes, I don't feel that bad.
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Yeah, he has such a great attitude about losses.
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Well, he's going to go to 45 now, which is very interesting.
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Yeah, I think he feels that it's not necessary to fight his teammate, and I think he probably would like to take a break off that fucking horrible weight cut to get down to 145. I think it's smart.
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And a super fight with Frankie is way better for him than TJ. Yeah, and if he does lose, hey, it's not even his division.
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He's the most for sure the most famous and the most like popular guy.
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Has been in the mix for as long as he's been in the mix.
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When he was a WEC champion, was it like 2006 or something like that?
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I remember when he broke both his hands against Mike Brown.
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I just started throwing my elbows because I was like, there was nothing else I could do at that point.
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And this is after, you know, the first fight where Mike Brown caught him.
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He used to be known for his insane ground and pound work.
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He would do something that no one has ever done.
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I've never seen anybody, but I guess it's because he's light.
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He would take them all down in the beginning of his career, get in their guard, and then he would, like, raise up and, like, lift them up, slam them down, and at the same time ricochet into elbows.
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He would be in there guard holding him, pick him up, slam him, and then boom!
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And he started getting really good at finishing too.
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He did Abu Dhabi 2005. He went against Pahumpina, black belt.
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He was a blue belt at the time, but he was an amazing wrestler.
00:34:52.000
I won't say who he was wrestling with, but I watched Henner Gracie.
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I'd never seen Jiu Jitsu on that level, where I was way close.
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I really honestly had never seen that, where he took high level monster dudes and was tapping them at will.
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I've actually never seen that kind of effortless excellence with guys who are just huge and strong.
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Imagine being raised from the time you're a baby, your dad.
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It's like they've been doing it since they were in labor.
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I talked to him about that and I said, You know, you seem to be like you're chunking information.
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So what happens is as soon as they do something, you've already been there.
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You know exactly what's going on and you're way ahead of them.
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So his body position is already, he's already ahead of you.
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I was like, that's how it must feel, right, Eddie?
00:36:00.000
Remember that last girl doing the raise the roof?
00:36:03.000
Well, she did a kiss and then she draws you in.
00:36:16.000
Mario Yamasaki is going to be pissed because he's not even online.
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We need to have a talk with the ring card girls coming for something cool.
00:36:31.000
Sir, try not to shave the middle of your head like that.
00:36:34.000
Alcantara on his back, very little flexibility, trying to work that rubber guard.
00:36:41.000
Eddie, does that drive you crazy when you see guys like that?
00:36:43.000
When they're in this position where, man, if that dude had some flexibility, he'd have full control of that spot.
00:36:52.000
I don't mean pissed, but does it like puzzle you?
00:36:56.000
That a guy wouldn't just stretch and run those positions?
00:37:01.000
If it worked for sure and they saw it and they didn't have to search for it and do the research and it was just in their face that it worked and everyone's doing it, they would do it.
00:37:21.000
It's weird he'd even go for it if it's not your shit.
00:37:29.000
When you're down there panicking, especially in the first round, that's your go-to?
00:37:34.000
Anybody could acquire the flexibility required.
00:37:37.000
Anybody can get into Lotus, but you have to put a lot of time into it, and most people aren't willing to put in the time.
00:37:57.000
I don't know why I love those front kicks so much.
00:38:04.000
We made that video in my garage where you were asking me about them.
00:38:07.000
I'm like, eh, it's the odds you landed it right on the chin.
00:38:14.000
I don't think in my entire fighting career I ever kicked someone in the face with a front kick.
00:38:22.000
Man, you just aim for the chin, you aim for the chest, you just keep throwing them.
00:38:29.000
Anderson, when he landed that fucking front kick on Vitor, it changed the whole world.
00:38:39.000
How about when Lyoto landed the jumping front kick karate kicker?
00:38:46.000
Up until then, it wasn't part of your training sessions.
00:38:59.000
You know what opened it up a lot in MMA as opposed to in kickboxing?
00:39:03.000
Is the takedowns and the worry about the sprawl and a lowered stance.
00:39:30.000
Because you're not seeing it that much in kickboxing.
00:39:32.000
You're seeing front push kicks to the face a little bit in some of the kickboxing bouts and tie bouts.
00:39:41.000
They kind of push back because they have a different stance.
00:39:52.000
They're positioning them so Vitor squares off more because Vitor is always worried about the takedowns.
00:39:59.000
And he actually used to teach that at Carlson Gracie's.
00:40:05.000
He was actually talking about Maury Smith at the time, who I think was the UFC heavyweight champion.
00:40:24.000
But anyway, Vitor was explaining how Maurice still stands like a kickboxer.
00:40:30.000
And he's like, you have to learn how to throw all your punches from almost like a horse stance.
00:40:37.000
And if you look at a guy like Floyd Mayweather, I mean, he's coming at you like sideways, completely sideways.
00:40:48.000
That's true, but you could also get taken down.
00:40:50.000
So the ties, they had to stand a little bit more square.
00:40:52.000
So it's more available in MMA because of the way people stand.
00:40:58.000
They're too sideways and they move back too easy.
00:41:27.000
And if the guy's trying to take you down, then it becomes even more effective.
00:41:35.000
If you're leaning back like the way a lot of those guys will do and moving back and forth, it's like guys will time that, figure out when to take you down.
00:41:47.000
But when you don't have to worry about strike or you don't have to worry about takedowns, you change your stance and it changes what's available.
00:41:54.000
Plus with Vitor, he was more like wide stance because Vitor's a power guy.
00:42:10.000
He's got like an eight-size-eight foot or something crazy.
00:42:14.000
And it's amazing how much power he's able to generate.
00:42:19.000
Like, if you watch his fight with, like, Scott Ferozo back in the day when he was 19. Old school.
00:42:24.000
I mean, he's throwing punches that you have never seen in MMA. Like Pedro Hizzo.
00:42:38.000
That was his first fight in the UFC. And then right after that, he fought Scott Froese and he won the tournament.
00:42:43.000
He calls it like a heavyweight title, but it's not really heavyweight.
00:42:46.000
There was a guy he just machine-gunned who was a high-level kick.
00:43:00.000
His hand speed is so goddamn blazing fast that if he catches you with one, he just will blitz you with 40 more behind it before you can react.
00:43:11.000
He literally ran at him like chain punch style.
00:43:16.000
I wonder what Vitor does if he loses to Weidman.
00:43:21.000
It's going to be hard for him to go off TRT After, you know, how many years of being on it, like hardcore?
00:43:28.000
Because he was, you know, his numbers were high.
00:43:30.000
So he's getting off of what was a really high test.
00:44:05.000
You know, I just don't know how he's going to be able to do it.
00:44:08.000
You know, that's the reality of getting old, man.
00:44:10.000
If you're not on some sort of hormonal replacement and you're 37, 38, 39...
00:44:15.000
44 inch heart's getting up there and your entire career you've been using some sort of hormonal assistance.
00:44:22.000
I mean, you're not even talking about a guy who's been entirely natural.
00:44:25.000
You're talking about a guy who, whoa, this dude is taking a beating, man.
00:44:52.000
No, it's a position that existed as long as Catch Wrestling and all that shit existed.
00:45:11.000
I always decide I'm going to learn those names one of these days.
00:45:17.000
I'll tell you what I'm more excited for than even Pacquiao Mayweather is I've been talking shit to Callan about his taekwondo days for years now.
00:45:33.000
Probably flying through the air, killing a cow.
00:46:09.000
So you must have been training when I met you then.
00:46:20.000
1987. So how many years were you training before you got your black belt?
00:46:31.000
No, Taekwondo, you get your black belt pretty quick.
00:46:34.000
I don't know where you went, but a lot faster than you get it.
00:46:39.000
When you get your black belt, then you're a student.
00:46:52.000
Especially when you're 15. When I was 15, I got mine.
00:47:06.000
And then there was point fighting versus actually hitting each other.
00:47:12.000
It's like a lot of what you pick up when you're young as far as like your ability.
00:47:19.000
A lot of like, you know, your ability to learn and shit is like so much better when your body's still growing.
00:47:27.000
You know, your body's like growing into throwing kicks.
00:47:31.000
You could take a 14-year-old, you teach him a little bit of Taekwondo.
00:47:38.000
Take a 40-year-old and teach him Taekwondo in two years.
00:47:41.000
He looks like a 40-year-old that just learned Taekwondo.
00:47:50.000
I wanted to be Jean-Claude Van Damme, so my dad took me and my brother Taekwondo, and they had me punching like this, you know, and blocking like this.
00:48:00.000
Because I thought we were going to be fighting each other.
00:48:03.000
Well, no, that's what we started with, and then my dad forced me to go for probably the next eight months.
00:48:09.000
It's like there's a lot of them that are just maximizing their income.
00:48:13.000
They're just trying to get as many students as they can, and they're not teaching the style that was what a Taekwondo originally was, which most people quit.
00:48:29.000
Yeah, most of what you're doing is getting kicked.
00:48:43.000
When I passed the test for my first green stripe on my white belt in karate, the remark on the test...
00:49:03.000
I actually thought if someone fucked with me, I gotta go to my go-to first.
00:49:37.000
The reason why I got into taekwondo is because I was at Fenway Park to see a baseball game.
00:49:47.000
And then when I was leaving, I could hit a ball fucking far, dude.
00:49:52.000
When I was a kid, I had good home run power as a little kid.
00:50:10.000
Not a single fucking coach ever got into my head.
00:50:13.000
They're all like, look, we need to get on first base.
00:50:17.000
Pitch comes, swinging for the fucking moon every time.
00:50:20.000
I didn't care if I struck out because I was a terrible team player.
00:50:32.000
He goes, look, you got seven home runs and 89 strikeouts.
00:50:38.000
I either knock that fucking ball, but when I hit it, dude, people would go, holy shit!
00:50:45.000
I get addicted to that feeling of people going, holy shit.
00:50:51.000
15. Because when I was realizing that I could hit the ball harder than most people my size, it became my thing.
00:51:01.000
And then coming home from a baseball game, went to see the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
00:51:11.000
You'd have to wait like 45 minutes to get on the fucking train.
00:51:14.000
Just piles of people, all these drunks piling out of Fenway Park.
00:51:17.000
Because Fenway Park is right down the street from the tee station.
00:51:20.000
So we were walking home, and we passed by the J. Hun Kim Taekwondo Institute.
00:51:28.000
I was taking karate at Joe Esposito's in Newton, Massachusetts, but it's hard to get there.
00:51:36.000
I get to the top of the stairs as we're walking up.
00:51:42.000
I'm like these chains, like because the bag's going in the air, and then the chain is like stopping it from swinging.
00:51:50.000
And I go up, and as just total synchronicity, the time I show up at the school was the time that John Lee, who was at the time the most devastating student that Mr. Kim had, as far as like knockout power, he was this really tall black dude from a really bad neighborhood.
00:52:11.000
Who learned martial arts, learned how to fight, and had a spinning back kick that was ungodly.
00:52:16.000
To this day, people say, my spinning back kick's really good.
00:52:19.000
I'm telling you, if you saw this motherfucker kick the bag, you would go, oh.
00:52:31.000
I went to a lot of tournaments with him, actually, when I was older.
00:52:35.000
I walked up, he was the national champion at the time, and he was preparing for the World Cup.
00:52:40.000
So as I walked up the stairs, it was like him in his final preparations for the World Cup.
00:52:45.000
And he was just, TRIBOOM! Just fucking this bag up.
00:52:49.000
This hundred pound bag was flying through the air and bending in half.
00:52:53.000
And I remember thinking, I never saw anybody do anything like this before.
00:52:57.000
I've never seen anybody do anything like this before.
00:53:01.000
Because Mr. Kim was like adamant about bag work.
00:53:05.000
He was like, everybody throws kicks in the air.
00:53:12.000
He had a series of 100-pound bags and this 200-pound bag that was like as big around as Joey Diaz.
00:53:27.000
Quit wrestling, quit baseball, quit everything.
00:53:32.000
But how dare you think I wasn't good at sports?
00:53:35.000
It was more like in my neighborhood, if you did taekwondo, you weren't good at anything else.
00:53:57.000
Every martial art depends on what school you go to.
00:53:59.000
You can go to a dog shit jiu-jitsu school and it's better than nothing, but you're going to learn some shitty technique a lot of the time.
00:54:15.000
This guy was kicking the fucking shit out of his bag.
00:54:18.000
The way the gym was set up, you'd get to the top of the stairs.
00:54:21.000
There's an area where you take your shoes off, and that area was right where the heavy bags were.
00:54:27.000
Because Mr. Kim wanted people to walk up the stairs, see someone murdering the bag, and sign up.
00:54:36.000
First of all, you see a guy who's a black belt, you're like, oh, he's a fucking black belt.
00:54:40.000
But you see a black belt who's actually doing real black belt shit that you expect a black belt to do.
00:54:48.000
Because if I came up there and there's some fucking kids class, and they're like, Hiyah!
00:54:57.000
A lot of schools that make a lot of money teach just forms and point fighters.
00:55:02.000
Because, you know, you can have a lot of money.
00:55:05.000
But when people are hitting each other, those gyms have a hard time.
00:55:17.000
He goes, man, I remember those things just until I could forget them.
00:55:39.000
I played football all the goddamn time on the streets with other Mexican people my size and a little older and stuff.
00:55:47.000
And I played Little League or Junior All-American football when I was nine.
00:55:57.000
I actually thought I was going to grow up to be a football player and play maybe middle linebacker, maybe quarterback, maybe defensive end.
00:56:08.000
It makes you think you're going to be a football player.
00:56:15.000
It's so cold, and I want to be a football player.
00:56:17.000
I literally was 110 pounds, and my father was so huge.
00:56:22.000
I thought I was going to grow up to be like him, so it was just a question of growing into that.
00:56:26.000
I was getting hit, and it was so cold, and I was running away from the plays.
00:56:32.000
Gary Lane came up to me, and he said, you have to wrestle.
00:56:39.000
Our football coach was the assistant wrestling coach.
00:56:43.000
And this motherfucker would always try to recruit people.
00:56:50.000
But we had a guy in our football or in our wrestling team that was our heavyweight.
00:56:57.000
He was 300 pounds in high school, and I'm not joking.
00:57:15.000
I'm not having someone run over me and smash me.
00:57:24.000
Adriano Martins is that guy that Donald Cerrone head kicked.
00:57:30.000
I don't know if Martins has fought on one of the undercards that I wasn't aware of.
00:57:33.000
There's so many fights going on as we were talking about.
00:57:36.000
If you're, you know, fight pass, you know, between the prelims on Fox Sports 1 and all that.
00:57:47.000
He's responsible for two of the most stomach-churning submissions in the history of the UFC. What's the other one?
00:57:53.000
Tim Silvia snapped his fucking forearm in half.
00:58:06.000
Frank Mayer's one of the reasons I started fighting.
00:58:09.000
Have you ever pulled that off, that Americana from Full Guard?
00:58:16.000
I remember guys were fucking around with it in class, like right after that fight.
00:58:35.000
But Fred Sin Pachau, he foot-locked or wrist-locks you from full guard.
00:58:47.000
Wrist-locks sound like something to make fun of, and no one really trains them, but there's certain guys, they get obsessed with them, and they pull them off from the guard, and they're really good.
00:58:59.000
You have this pressure on your wrist and you pull it back.
00:59:03.000
Marcello submitted Cameron Earl with a wrist lock.
00:59:29.000
I was so impressed watching Gary Tonin and Javi.
00:59:36.000
How relaxed he is, and that guy's mounting him and going after leg locks.
00:59:44.000
When they were announcing the weigh-ins, they were saying 145 and 170. I don't know if that's accurate, though.
00:59:51.000
I would say Javi was not 145. I would say he was 165, 170. Easy.
00:59:57.000
Somebody must have just erroneously stated that.
00:59:59.000
And I would say, since there wasn't a weight limit...
01:00:03.000
And Gary Tonin cuts down to 70 for some fights.
01:00:06.000
I would say he could have been 175, 180. Maybe.
01:00:15.000
But goddamn, that triangle was a thing of beauty, man.
01:00:24.000
I remember when you came on the podcast, you talked about that match that he had with Krohn.
01:00:55.000
They separated, they stood, and Tonin was going to win.
01:01:02.000
So within a minute, he looks over at Hickson and he says, he just does it, man.
01:01:06.000
He takes him down, gets his back, and chokes him out with a second left.
01:01:11.000
When I was getting ready for Metamorris, Krohn was also on the card, and so I'd go to his gym and train with him.
01:01:17.000
I remember when we got done afterwards, I was looking over, and he was doing these breathing techniques.
01:01:22.000
I was like, damn, this motherfucker's a real samurai.
01:01:24.000
I'm just White dude from Denver, like trying to do his shit, you know?
01:01:31.000
You've seen the movie Choke, where his dad works on that stuff.
01:01:40.000
It's just, you know, you got to do it all the time.
01:01:55.000
You're born into the greatest jiu-jitsu family.
01:02:02.000
Like, what's the second greatest martial arts family other than the Gracies?
01:02:21.000
What if you wore a scarf and were into flutes and dudes?
01:02:30.000
I was dying to get the word flautist out all night, finally.
01:02:34.000
It's been right in my throat, bottled up all year.
01:02:38.000
How many times a year do you use floutist, do you think?
01:02:44.000
I bet you say it every time on your own podcast.
01:02:47.000
Yeah, I start my own podcast because it's really intellectual.
01:02:51.000
I have to say, I've always fantasized about being a floutist.
01:02:55.000
No, if you had to be honest, how many times a year do you think you break out the word floutist?
01:03:00.000
It is a word that I think about a lot, and I just never have time to really work it in until just now because I don't have sophisticated company.
01:03:07.000
I'm pretty sure that that's the only time I've ever said it, is repeating you just now.
01:03:15.000
But I expect that with a guy who came in with a scarf.
01:03:29.000
One of the most desolate spots in North America.
01:03:39.000
You get to the top of a mountain, and you're looking for deer, and you look off at how remote you are, the area you're in.
01:03:49.000
And then you look over, and there's Callan and Kashmir.
01:04:13.000
They have dinosaurs fucking roaming around there.
01:04:31.000
If the shit goes down, you know, guys that know how to hunt, those are the guys you want to power up with.
01:04:36.000
When you're hunting, the fun is actually the amount you laugh together.
01:04:42.000
You and I laugh more when we hunt, because a lot of times it's cold and a little bit miserable.
01:04:50.000
They don't ever have comedians come hunting with them.
01:05:01.000
I bring you along because I know he's always on.
01:05:06.000
We could have real conversations, especially the first day.
01:05:09.000
I'm like, I don't know how weird these guys are going to fucking get.
01:05:20.000
I go, oh, I'm going to make Joe laugh all fucking day.
01:05:37.000
So anytime, they would bend over to pick up firewood.
01:05:55.000
I basically sexually harassed Dan Doty the whole time.
01:06:03.000
What you see on the show is just the usable parts.
01:06:08.000
It's a hunting show on the Sportsman's channel.
01:06:16.000
It's a nice, it's a beautiful Toscana, Toscani, Ducali.
01:06:31.000
I try it at Fuddruckers, they have all that shit.
01:06:40.000
But Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, first of all, that's farm-raised elk.
01:06:46.000
They grow those fucking things in cages in New Zealand.
01:06:48.000
They cut the meat up and they ship it over here.
01:06:50.000
You're not getting wild elk from North America because wild elk from North America you can't sell.
01:07:00.000
Stay in lodges, a lot of times, we've done it hardcore, but we've also done it where we stay in a house.
01:07:18.000
You don't want to be in the jungle, and I've been in the jungle.
01:07:24.000
Hey, listen, you've got to hear this, because he actually was working as a bug scientist.
01:07:28.000
I went to Indonesia and went and tracked orangutans.
01:07:31.000
Let me tell you why you never want to go in the jungle.
01:07:37.000
You have to carry a sulfur coil, not just bug spray.
01:07:43.000
Please don't lie on the ground, because if you lie on the ground, leeches will get in your skin, and not to mention those wonderful ants and wasps.
01:07:51.000
The story you told about putting the turpentine on the posts of the...
01:07:56.000
So every house there is raised up and you put turpentine.
01:08:03.000
Because you don't want to be in the way of the soldier ants when they're hunting.
01:08:07.000
If they're foraging, they'll walk right over you.
01:08:10.000
If they're hunting, they will come up those posts, they will come into your hut and kill you.
01:08:17.000
And they'll jump on you, they'll basically cover you, and sting you and you.
01:08:30.000
They climb into an elephant's ear, and they'll start eating its fucking brain.
01:08:45.000
The body mass, like the weight of ants on earth, the amount of ants is exactly the same or close to it as the weight of people.
01:08:56.000
Now, how do these Amazon Indians survive, these bugs?
01:09:02.000
What was very interesting is that the Dayak, who I was with, they don't sweat, even though you're sweating, losing gallons of water.
01:09:08.000
They've adapted to their environment so they can...
01:09:15.000
Because they, over millennia, they developed, they evolved to develop resistance to bugs, to the bugs of that area.
01:09:30.000
You know, Ranella just got back from Bolivia where he ate a monkey.
01:09:37.000
No, he didn't get sick, but it's disturbing, dude.
01:09:40.000
Watching them throw this monkey on the fire, it looks very, very fucking human.
01:09:52.000
But he got stung by a bullet ant when he was there.
01:09:58.000
But those guys get stung, too, as a part of their coming-of-age ritual.
01:10:03.000
Wasps could give a shit how long you've lived in the area.
01:10:08.000
Jabilov and Martins is an interesting fight, man.
01:10:11.000
Because Jabilov's coming off that loss to Benson Henderson.
01:10:19.000
Remember, he hit him with that weird wheel kick?
01:10:34.000
But Martins is high-level Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, good kickboxer.
01:10:40.000
I mean, he was hanging in there until he got head kicked.
01:10:52.000
And he's not afraid to fight off his back, so he's not scared of throwing that, you know?
01:10:57.000
Having a good guard, Eddie always said this, so huge for kickboxers.
01:11:08.000
You gotta have a good guard with that motherfucker.
01:11:17.000
But if there's any time to fight Khabib, it's now off this long layoff.
01:11:42.000
But you might as well because all they do is warn you.
01:12:08.000
His thing was the suplex, and then guys get aware of it, and once you get to a certain level, it's kind of taken away.
01:12:14.000
He's got to be freaking out now that someone took him down and engaged him in grappling, right?
01:12:25.000
I mean, that's Hobby Lob's world, and all of a sudden, he's on his back for the first time in his UFC career.
01:12:32.000
This black belt got on top and couldn't do anything.
01:12:37.000
He threw that, like, that's like a semi-Chuck Liddell style over here on the right.
01:12:43.000
Yeah, I mean, Martins didn't really threaten him at all, right?
01:13:03.000
Listen, if Yellowstone blows, we might all be living in Brazil in five years.
01:13:09.000
Yellowstone explodes and half the fucking country's dead.
01:13:28.000
It's what they call a caldera volcano, which is a volcano that's so violent that it starts out as like a mountain.
01:13:35.000
The mountain explodes, and what you're left with is a crater that they have to look at from satellites to even recognize what it is.
01:13:43.000
They didn't even know it was a volcano until, like, the 2000s.
01:13:47.000
Like, when they started looking at the area with satellite imagery, they started going, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what the fuck are we looking at here?
01:14:12.000
It goes off every six to eight hundred thousand years.
01:14:21.000
I mean, they've had thousands of earthquakes every year for a long time.
01:14:27.000
Like, if you go to Yellowstone, almost every day, you're going to have a fucking earthquake.
01:15:00.000
That's why I don't smoke weed, because if I did, I'd be running for the hills right now, packing my shit and moving to Brazil.
01:15:19.000
We might have to move to Australia if the Yellowstone blows.
01:15:38.000
Well, we're watching Rustam Habilov and Adriano Martins.
01:15:47.000
John Wayne Parr, multiple-time Muay Thai world champion in the motherfucking house.
01:15:57.000
We're talking about places to escape when Yellowstone, the super volcano, explodes and kills everybody in North America.
01:16:12.000
But it's one of those things that if it does blow, don't worry.
01:16:17.000
Well, you might die slow if you're anywhere outside of the perimeter of death.
01:16:23.000
Everything 100 miles around it is dead instantly.
01:16:39.000
Yeah, but it's just the heat and the gas in the air.
01:16:49.000
What would probably happen is that the sun would get completely blotted out.
01:17:00.000
I'll tell you this, you guys are fucked in Calabasas.
01:17:11.000
Because if you've got a super volcano, you're dealing with massive earthquakes, tsunamis without a doubt.
01:17:26.000
Remember Escape from L.A.? Dude, he was on a wave.
01:17:32.000
It's like on green screen and he's surfing on green screen.
01:17:37.000
No, just accept Jesus Christ as your savior and you'll be fine.
01:17:39.000
It's one of those things where when it does blow, it's going to kill a major chunk of the population of the world.
01:17:48.000
There's one that happened in Indonesia 70,000 years ago, and they think it's one of the main reasons why there's, like, when you trace the genetic lineage, damn, that was a good fucking fight.
01:18:03.000
They think there's one of the, one of the, oh, I like that step in elbow.
01:18:26.000
John, John, that's called mixing your punches up, John.
01:18:40.000
Next weekend, there's a lot of hands-on touching.
01:18:46.000
First, we have a good cry and hold each other's.
01:19:04.000
Okay, apparently there's ten super volcanoes that can destroy the world.
01:19:31.000
Well, they've killed a fuckload of people before.
01:19:41.000
I feel like the chances of it ending America, a volcano, is pretty low.
01:19:47.000
Well, it's only pretty low because our lifetimes are very short.
01:20:03.000
Over the course of the next 200 plus thousand years, it's 100%.
01:20:07.000
So it's not whether or not it's going to end America.
01:20:11.000
It's just whether or not you're going to be alive to see it happen.
01:20:14.000
Or whether or not there'll be society at that point.
01:20:17.000
And whether or not we've been hit by an asteroid already.
01:20:27.000
Well, it's the only one I hear that we're exploring right now.
01:20:31.000
So the one in Indonesia is the one I think that they believe killed so many fucking people that that's why when they do like a genetic lineage, when they test, you know, people's genes and they try to find the unique origin of mankind, they believe it all comes back to this one group of people that survived the super volcano that blew 70,000 years ago.
01:20:58.000
What happened with South Africa being the cradle of civilization?
01:21:01.000
Well, that's where people started for sure, but they moved.
01:21:11.000
We're trying to tell people, get your shit together, because this volcano's about to blow to any side.
01:21:18.000
If you live in America and it happens, most people are dead.
01:21:27.000
In the 1930s, 13 million people died of starvation in the Ukraine.
01:21:41.000
Before World War II, when Stalin starved the Ukraine, the number is crazy high.
01:21:50.000
And I think overall, if you consider Latvia and all those areas, the Baltic States, it's about 13 million.
01:21:56.000
John Wayne Parr, I'm sorry to change subjects here, but when you're watching MMA and you're watching, like, striking, you know, we were talking about this earlier with Eddie Bravo, we were talking about jiu-jitsu positions, like, do you see these positions people don't capitalize on, like, what level do you think,
01:22:14.000
It's not, it's obviously not the level of the highest level Muay Thai, but, like, what do you think about MMA striking?
01:22:21.000
Some of the guys that, like Cerrone, I love Cerrone, he's so good.
01:22:27.000
It's just different because you guys can't stand and trade.
01:22:30.000
You can't go toe-to-toe and you can't just keep letting the bombs go, otherwise you get taken down.
01:22:38.000
Have you wanted to compete in MMA? I did, and then I broke my finger.
01:22:43.000
And that's why I came up with my new promotion with the cage Muay Thai now.
01:22:48.000
Yeah, I did my very first class and I broke my finger.
01:22:56.000
So it's like, how can I fight in the cage but not do Jiu Jitsu because I don't want to break any more fingers.
01:23:03.000
That's when I thought, well, stuff it, I'll do a cage Muay Thai instead.
01:23:07.000
And you've never wanted to go back to MMA? Well now I've got that desire to fight in the cage through what I'm doing now.
01:23:14.000
And then I can be good at it too because I'm not too bad at Muay Thai.
01:23:17.000
What's the difference between fighting in the cage and fighting in your ring if you're just going to keep it on your feet?
01:23:29.000
So as soon as you go to the ground you stop and stand back up and then you start banging again.
01:23:36.000
You can in the Muay Thai clinch, but you can't sort of suplex.
01:23:41.000
And there's eight counts as well, so we allowed eight counts.
01:23:43.000
So if you get knocked down, there's still a chance you can still come back and still win.
01:23:50.000
The guys are fighting in the cage with boxing gloves on.
01:23:52.000
It looked very peculiar, so I thought, you know what?
01:23:54.000
After being such a big fan of UFC for so long, I couldn't put big gloves on.
01:24:00.000
What would you think about guys fighting bare knuckle in MMA? Do you think that makes any sense at all?
01:24:09.000
Right, but for realism, you know, because a lot of the reasons why people were able to just unload with a bunch of punches is because they have gloves on, right?
01:24:19.000
Yeah, the damage would be sustained and to try and get insured would be quite difficult.
01:24:23.000
Because the hands would be, you'd have a hand doctor on staff.
01:24:26.000
Yeah, and just in case of somebody dying too, you wouldn't want to see someone dying in your promotion, especially if you've got the promoter.
01:24:32.000
How do you put your head on the pillow at night time knowing that someone's died on your show?
01:24:36.000
Would you think it would make people die more often with no gloves?
01:24:39.000
I would think that gloves actually would cause more damage.
01:24:42.000
The ground and pound with no gloves on could be quite severe.
01:24:47.000
Because I feel like you can shin kick someone in the head with no pads on.
01:25:02.000
You could shin kick someone, no glove on your shin, right to the face, and that's okay.
01:25:13.000
The idea that anybody can punch as hard as you can kick is ridiculous.
01:25:16.000
There's not a man alive that punches as hard as you kick.
01:25:29.000
The problem would be just getting it sanctioned, right?
01:25:47.000
You know that guy who was fucking helping keep it illegal in New York just got arrested for corruption.
01:26:00.000
Those old, grubby, fucking disgusting little fucking carpet-bagging cunts.
01:26:18.000
Huge, huge, huge, huge for the UFC that this guy's done.
01:26:36.000
When I fought New Jersey, we did all the press, everything in New York.
01:26:42.000
You're right next to one of the greatest media empires or one of the greatest media locations in the world for the East Coast.
01:27:13.000
John, Wayne, do you have to constantly keep your shins numb?
01:27:21.000
Once you kill the nerves, they just never come back?
01:27:24.000
I've been, there's an old wife's totally where you're supposed to hit your shins with the sticks.
01:27:33.000
I've found just kicking the heavy bag and lots of fights and slowly your shin goes flat and hard and condensed and yeah, no dramas anymore.
01:27:49.000
Well, you know what they say is that you get these little micro-fractures, like tiny little micro-fractures all over the outside, and those micro-fractures, you get a little blood in it, and that blood calcifies, and then the whole thing almost becomes like a shin pad.
01:28:02.000
You ever see that video of lion fights where Malapet Was fighting this guy and just started going shin to shin with him.
01:28:16.000
And so Malapet smiles at him and goes charging him.
01:28:19.000
Just goes shin to shin with him over and over again.
01:28:24.000
It's like he's wearing this giant armor plated shin.
01:28:28.000
And he's got those giant fucking calves anyway.
01:28:41.000
When guys are starting out, their shins are very pointy.
01:28:47.000
And then the more you train, they go more flat.
01:29:03.000
Hey, Brian, tell John about your taekwondo days, though.
01:29:10.000
Well, he had these forms that would scare his opponents.
01:29:20.000
Remember there was guys that would say they could do that?
01:29:25.000
But there's still videos out there of guys taking ball kicks, and there's scientific attempts to analyze how they're able to take ball kicks.
01:29:38.000
I think Maurice Green or someone just gave him a full kick.
01:29:43.000
Apparently, it's the exact same thing where your balls become like stones.
01:29:51.000
What kind of kids do you make with balls that have been kicked in practice repeatedly?
01:29:58.000
It's the equivalent of a woman giving birth is when a man gets kicked in the balls.
01:30:07.000
It's a different kind of pain because when you get hit in the balls, you get like a sick feel.
01:30:23.000
Their pussy tears apart like a moose that got caught in a meat grinding machine.
01:30:45.000
That's still the greatest line anybody ever said.
01:30:55.000
She said between his girl and this, his girl makes her look like Oscar the Grouch with tits.
01:31:01.000
I yelled it out at myself as I was driving home.
01:31:22.000
Is Liam Neeson old enough to be kicking people's asses?
01:31:34.000
I think he's actually 60 or 61. Anytime you see that, it's going to benefit you.
01:31:52.000
How much longer do you think you're going to keep competing, man?
01:31:55.000
I've got a couple more this year, and then we'll play it by year.
01:32:11.000
Can you get in the clinch as long as you want a knee?
01:32:34.000
They're trying to make it entertaining for you.
01:32:43.000
Since Borkow came to K1, he started dominating people, so they're thinking, oh, how can we make it even for the Westerners versus the Ties?
01:32:49.000
I know, we'll make it like a three-second rule or a one-knee rule.
01:32:55.000
You know, it obviously doesn't have any submissions, and it doesn't have any, you know, any, like, takedowns the way a wrestler has, but that grappling position with holding that plum clinch and the way those guys develop that squeeze, the ability to move a guy around, much like,
01:33:11.000
you know, like a guy who's, like, a really good neck squeezer has that just certain something...
01:33:18.000
Remember when Anderson Silva locked up with Rich Franklin?
01:33:23.000
And Anderson was just so strong in that position.
01:33:27.000
And he's compared to, you know, like the great ties, like a bull cow.
01:33:39.000
You want to deal with the greatest Thai fighters and their technique and the way they move and the way they can hold.
01:33:50.000
The clinch that he had him in, that was very amateur.
01:33:55.000
All he did was hold his hands down and just pray not to die.
01:34:02.000
I mean, it's hard for people who've never seen really great Muay Thai fights.
01:34:35.000
Oh, so he transitioned beautifully out of boxing into promoting.
01:34:41.000
About three or four years ago, his shows were on Fox pretty much every week.
01:34:56.000
Are you looking forward to, like as somebody who's been fighting his whole life like that, are you looking forward to retirement?
01:35:06.000
Yeah, I tried to retire a few years ago and the thought of it just drove me nuts and I had to come back again because it was just killing me, not being in front of the crowds.
01:35:15.000
Those after parties, wow, you're just like, fuck, the after party, that's what it's really about, right?
01:35:21.000
Laying in bed and not having that anticipation of having a fight coming up was just, yeah, I missed it so much that I came back again.
01:35:27.000
That's why guys who only have that feeling should fight.
01:35:32.000
All these guys are like, I'd like to try one Muay Thai fight.
01:35:37.000
We're gonna run into some goddamn John Wayne Parr on the up who sleeps and eats fighting.
01:35:46.000
Have you always been that way since you can remember?
01:35:48.000
Yeah, since I was a walker, I've always wanted to be a fighter.
01:35:52.000
It didn't matter if it was ninjutsu or karate, I just wanted to fight anything.
01:35:58.000
And then it just happened that kickboxing was near my house, so that's how I started kickboxing.
01:36:05.000
In Brisbane back then, but now I'm on the Gold Coast.
01:36:08.000
But I moved to Thailand when I was 19. I lived in Thailand for five years.
01:36:11.000
So I lived in Bangkok and had about 50 flights in Thailand and fought in all the big stadiums.
01:36:23.000
Imagine living in California with no other people that could speak English.
01:36:31.000
I slept on the floor with ten other people, and then no one could speak English, so you'd have to do everything by hand signals first, by how to eat or sleep.
01:36:39.000
How different is Dutch kickboxing from Muay Thai that you learned?
01:36:44.000
More hands and more leg kicks, whereas the thighs are more body kicks and more knees and elbows.
01:36:55.000
It's harder to throw a body kick than is a leg kick.
01:37:04.000
Isn't that interesting that we don't think about that at all as a scoring position?
01:37:07.000
We think of the clinch as almost being a stalemate position.
01:37:16.000
So if you've got two guys throwing 50 knees, knee for knee, knee for knee, the one who scores the last knee scores that rally.
01:37:28.000
And then the referee goes, stop, and he's won that set.
01:37:32.000
But what if a guy knocks the guy out with punches and says punches don't score?
01:37:36.000
But if he just boxes them up and the guy's still standing after three rounds?
01:37:39.000
So ten punches and one body kick, the body kick will win.
01:37:58.000
You go to Thailand, it's a completely different contrast to what you see here in America or in Australia.
01:38:06.000
Well, what do you think about a guy like Simon Marcus, a really famous, really high-level Muay Thai fighter, and then he fights for glory.
01:38:15.000
What percentage of his game do you think gets eliminated when they take that away?
01:38:19.000
You have to get back into the gym and readjust as well.
01:38:21.000
Because the same as me, when I went to K1, I was sort of doing okay, but I was losing as well because I'd fight the Thai star, and then I'd lose the guys who were punching, and it'd be like 30-27, and this guy hasn't hit me all around, I've kicked the shit out of him.
01:38:47.000
He's had like 50 fights, probably 60 fights, 50 or 45 knockouts, and then 30 of them are by elbow.
01:39:01.000
But he looked a little, like, a little, I mean, not out of his element, because obviously he's fought that style before, but, you know, when you watch him with the elbows and the clinch and everything, he's very comfortable.
01:39:12.000
But it feels odd seeing that aspect removed, because it's still stand-up, it's still striking.
01:39:18.000
Like, why would he remove, it's like saying no uppercuts.
01:39:24.000
If there was no body punching, everybody would just come out like this.
01:39:32.000
And then you would let in body punching, and some guy's going to come over and rip a left hook to your liver like, what?
01:39:42.000
You're not allowing these guys to do one of the best aspects of striking.
01:39:46.000
And then with Muay Thai in general too, like it's so hard to find a full Muay Thai show these days, like full Thai, like five rounds.
01:39:52.000
A lot of the guys are going on three threes now for their promotions.
01:39:55.000
And then I think their main concern is if I do an elbow fight, I bring someone from Thailand or Australia to America and the fight lasts 30 seconds and the guy gets cut.
01:40:11.000
I think if you're representing martial arts on television, they can do whatever they want.
01:40:18.000
We don't have to keep the same ideas as the Japanese with glory.
01:40:30.000
Clinch, they hold on to each other, throw each other, they dump each other, they hold kicks, catch a kick and kick your leg out from under you.
01:40:38.000
Jon, what do you think about the multiple fights in a single night?
01:40:48.000
When I was younger, I used to love them, but now I'm a bit older.
01:40:51.000
The body doesn't repair as fast in between the breaks.
01:40:54.000
Because when I was watching Glory, that's the main thing I was thinking about.
01:40:58.000
Those guys who would have a battle that first fight and have to come back out.
01:41:03.000
Joe Schilling fought four rounds of Simon Marcus.
01:41:15.000
Then he's got to fight Artem Levin in the final.
01:41:31.000
I gotta be honest, I'm surprised the kid's here now because when he was on Ultimate Fighter, I was a guest coach.
01:41:42.000
Yeah, he got injured, and then he came back for a little bit, and he was their first pick.
01:41:47.000
He was their very first pick, and it did not work out on the show.
01:41:52.000
So he went to MFC in Canada, did great there, and then got back in the UFC. He won his last fight against Tom Watson.
01:41:58.000
And now Cesar, the guy he's fighting, I trained with for a while at the...
01:42:17.000
Yeah, I watched him fight Sergio, what is his name for the title, the Ultimate Fighter Brazil?
01:42:27.000
He looks a lot thinner than he did in the Ultimate Fighter, this guy.
01:43:09.000
Caesar's one of the best athletes in the UFC that I've seen.
01:43:14.000
He was like the first guy to beat Krohn when he got his black belt.
01:43:38.000
Hey, Sam, go ahead and fly 17 hours to Brazil and fight Cesar Mutante.
01:43:48.000
Speaking of tough contract, I made a mistake last time I was on your show, John, the fight companion.
01:43:53.000
I said I got paid 10 and 10 or 8 and 8. It was actually 14 and 14. My bad.
01:44:00.000
They just said, hey, please let people know that you actually made 14 to fight Noguera, and I made 14 and 14 to fight Mariko Krokop.
01:44:12.000
There was no bonuses or anything else involved?
01:44:18.000
I got a bonus for knockout of the night when I fought Mirko Crocott.
01:44:33.000
Just for, I had like a cup of coffee with the Buffalo Bills and went back home.
01:44:38.000
Yeah, I played Division I football for University of Colorado and then went to training camp with Buffalo Bills.
01:44:47.000
You've got to say, your hand's got to be amazing if you're a white guy.
01:44:56.000
They're not going to let white guys drop any balls.
01:44:59.000
You could be a black guy and you could drop a ball because you're going to make it up later.
01:45:05.000
I gotta be honest, that was the first time I realized in sports that it's a business when I got to Buffalo.
01:45:11.000
I'm like, oh, it's really not a team concept, and they don't give a shit about me.
01:45:21.000
Alvy is yet to get something significant off, huh?
01:45:40.000
A first round and a second round draft pick ahead of me.
01:45:44.000
When you got to the Bills, what was it that made it seem like a business where it broke your heart?
01:45:51.000
When I got there, I was in a draft pick as a free agent, so you're basically like a body that they're bringing in.
01:45:58.000
They wouldn't even talk to me and look me in the eye.
01:46:10.000
Well, that's when I first realized, because you go from college where it's about a team and hard work, and we have this goal until you get to the NFL. It's like, oh, we don't have anything invested in you.
01:46:29.000
Out of nowhere, he hit him with that left hook.
01:46:39.000
Landed that left hook, and you can see Cesar's lights get shut off.
01:46:42.000
If he's single, his lights are going to be amazing.
01:46:48.000
Is with Cesar, what alarmed me is he goes, well, my training camp, every night's a fight night in Brazil.
01:46:53.000
We spar so hard on Tuesday and Thursday night, every night's a fight camp.
01:46:56.000
When I heard that, I'm like, well, that's an issue.
01:47:07.000
C.B. Dalloway knocks him out, and then Alvy with this left hook.
01:47:40.000
Does anyone know the smiley face haircut on the back?
01:47:53.000
I'm wondering if that's his sister or his wife.
01:48:24.000
That Cesar Ferreira guy, what you said is giant.
01:48:29.000
I was reading interviews and he goes, I'm not too nervous because every Tuesday and Thursday my camp is a fight night in Brazil.
01:48:50.000
It's like the old school Brazilian top team and stuff like that with Wanderlust.
01:48:54.000
Just beating the shit out of each other in practice and taking...
01:48:58.000
Yeah, shoot box, Brazilian top team, they should go hardest.
01:49:24.000
And then, you know, if you've got hit, you can place your shin across.
01:49:27.000
You can go out fast, and then lastly, you can pull it.
01:49:30.000
It's harder to pull a shot than just to let go.
01:49:35.000
And then you're smiling, and then end of it, no one's hurt, no bruises.
01:49:38.000
You're not limping, and then you're still friends.
01:49:42.000
I feel like, though, when you up the pace in a real fight, isn't it hard to kind of make that adjustment?
01:49:51.000
And when I box spar, I'm getting my workout because I'm trying to really hurt my mate who I spar with regularly.
01:50:03.000
You don't want so much on the pads and on the bag and on the clinching that you're just working technique by the time you get to the sparring part.
01:50:11.000
I think that's a smart strategy for someone who fights a lot, too, because the ties would fight pretty much every week, right?
01:50:21.000
You know you're tough enough when you get to that level.
01:50:23.000
So it's just about repetition, getting comfortable.
01:50:28.000
That fighting, training hard is going to make you tougher.
01:50:31.000
If you're at that level, you're already pretty tough.
01:50:34.000
The Dutch, for instance, when they spar, they go pretty crazy.
01:50:38.000
But they think of it, well, if I get hit in sparring like this when I fight, there's going to be no shock.
01:50:42.000
But the Dutch go hard to the legs and the body, and they kind of lay off the head a little bit in some camps.
01:50:48.000
And then, like, Mike's gym, they're known for knocking each other out.
01:50:55.000
Well, there's, you know, you're dealing with, you got 18 murderers in a room together.
01:51:01.000
But it just takes a little bit of education, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:51:08.000
If your leader is, if your leader is like, we don't play that game, son.
01:51:12.000
And then I'm running a family gym too, so I want kids to come in.
01:51:15.000
If the parents are watching, I want them to feel comfortable that they can walk away without the kids getting knocked out.
01:51:20.000
So when you have young kids spar, when they first learn how to spar, how do you emphasize the playful aspect of it?
01:51:27.000
They see us doing it and they just want to copy.
01:51:29.000
And I tell them too, okay, before we start, everyone's going 10-15%, no harder than 20%, otherwise you can sit out and not play.
01:51:35.000
And then I'll just keep an eye on them as well.
01:51:41.000
And then when they want to go hard, you hit the bag, you hit the pads, you work your technique, you understand your timing and your confidence.
01:51:48.000
You still got your timing with the sparring too.
01:51:52.000
If you're going to go slow, you're not going to land your shot.
01:51:54.000
And then just as you're laying on the ribs or the thigh or even across their neck.
01:51:58.000
Just land it there and leave it there for a second.
01:52:00.000
Make sure everyone sees first and then take it down.
01:52:03.000
That's a smart way to do it, but do you think they could do that with MMA? Because you're dealing with takedowns, and you have to be really quick with your sprawl, you have to be quick with the transitions between grappling and striking.
01:52:14.000
Do you think it's possible to do that too, where you're still just pulling back on everything?
01:52:18.000
I got to work with George St. Pierre for two weeks, and that's a weird play.
01:52:21.000
We wouldn't go any harder than 30% maybe, but the whole time we were nice and controlled.
01:52:28.000
What if there was a kickboxing remote control robot that had punches, that had like balloons, like when they land it was a balloon and you could really hit this robot as hard as you can.
01:52:45.000
So you're throwing hard punches and it's throwing legit, you know, not as legit as me right here of course.
01:52:58.000
You'd have to be really good at video games to be a great trainer.
01:53:02.000
Yeah, like you could take someone who could never kick your ass, but they could pilot a robot that can kick your ass.
01:53:07.000
And you'd go in there and have to duke that with this robot.
01:53:09.000
And then there would be guys with the best robots and the best controllers.
01:53:14.000
They're gonna invent fuck robots way before they even fight robots.
01:53:34.000
For mixed martial arts, for boxing, for kickboxing, for the striking arts in general.
01:53:51.000
I've never seen a dude look so different with a beard.
01:53:58.000
Well, at least in UFC. Is Michael Johnson, he started as a wrestler, or was he a kicker first?
01:54:08.000
I kind of called it, and I said that the only way he's going to have to take some risks, but if he takes some risks, he runs the risk of getting knocked out!
01:54:22.000
He's dead stiff, flying through the air on his back.
01:54:54.000
Cro-Cop, Gonzaga is so crazy because no one thought Gonzaga would win that way.
01:55:01.000
You think about all the Cro-Cop highlight reel head kicks?
01:55:16.000
Because they were talking to him with Bella to...
01:55:19.000
Bellator was talking to him, and the UFC said, not so fast, son.
01:55:32.000
Well, I mean physically signing autographs for Bellator.
01:55:37.000
Look, I'm loyal to the UFC, but I would not be angry if they signed Fedor and Brock.
01:55:49.000
I heard Brock talking about concussions, though.
01:55:51.000
Yeah, he's talking about concussions, supposedly.
01:55:53.000
But that's according to the pro wrestling guys.
01:55:59.000
There's so much showmanship and craziness in the world of pro wrestling.
01:56:03.000
I'm starting to understand that better, being friends with Tony Hinchcliffe, because he fucking loves pro wrestling and he never stops talking about it.
01:56:11.000
They play things out in advance, like way in advance for long periods of time.
01:56:15.000
They have these timelines, these storylines they follow.
01:56:23.000
They might have some crazy match that they're setting up where Brock is scared to get hit in the head.
01:56:28.000
And they start talking, he's scared to get hit in the head.
01:56:42.000
I dated a girl who was super into it, and it was hard to take her serious.
01:56:47.000
You dated a girl who was super into pro wrestling?
01:57:15.000
So that's something if you're beating the guy's ass, you might throw.
01:57:19.000
You only do it if you know that you can pull it off.
01:57:20.000
Do you think that it's easier to pull off stuff like wheel kicks when you're adding in all the other shit, like takedowns and all the other things?
01:57:27.000
So it makes, it's like there's so many variables, then maybe you can get it off, whereas if you're fighting in Muay Thai and you got all the leg kicks and all the things you could do much quicker and faster to land, that it's less high percentage that way?
01:57:39.000
The main trainer says try and stay away from him.
01:57:53.000
But maybe they didn't throw them because just because they didn't throw them doesn't mean they can't be really effective, right?
01:57:59.000
I came from a Taekwondo background and then we used to do them all the time back when I was like 11, 12. And then when I got the kickboxing, they said, okay, don't throw any of those spinning kicks anymore.
01:58:09.000
You've got to stay front on the whole time and keep it basic and round kick front.
01:58:13.000
Were people getting knocked out when they started spinning?
01:58:26.000
He's got one of the nuttiest knockouts in all of kickboxing.
01:58:32.000
He just throws a jumping sidekick, touches the bag with one leg, then spins in midair and spinning back kicks the dude in the face.
01:58:46.000
Nicky Holtzkin swarmed him, got right in front of him, power punches to the body, leg kick, leg kick, leg kick, power punches to the body, and just took him out.
01:59:02.000
The one time that Raymond Daniels landed, he dropped him.
01:59:20.000
It was a really good fight up until the last round, and he knocked Valtellini out.
01:59:23.000
Valtellini was trying to come back, and he was really being aggressive in the final round, and that's when Holtzkin caught him.
02:00:08.000
Jon, in all your years, especially in Australia, has anyone ever picked a fight with you when you're out?
02:00:16.000
There's some people that attract it, I think, because I'm so sort of just, hey, going and smiling.
02:00:25.000
Where other guys, they go out and they can't help it.
02:00:31.000
But for myself, I'd rather have a joke and buy you a beer than trying to get...
02:00:57.000
There's got to be some wild unorthodox Thai guys, a few of them that are throwing a lot of spinning crazy kicks that are not traditional.
02:01:05.000
He won the first ever gold medal in the Olympics for boxing.
02:01:09.000
And before he went to boxing, he was a Muay Thai guy.
02:01:14.000
He was successful with the back elbows, but the back kicks, the Thai's would see him coming.
02:01:36.000
A lot of Taekwondo spins were used as defense as people are coming into you.
02:01:40.000
I've seen your spin on YouTube, and yours is insane.
02:01:45.000
So, yeah, yours would be a lot different to the Thai's.
02:01:47.000
But if you saw Brian's, you would agree with the ties.
02:01:49.000
You would say, yeah, that shit ain't going to work.
02:01:53.000
My spinning wheel gig is on YouTube, you guys, and I was wearing a wig.
02:01:57.000
The style that you're seeing a lot of guys do is that point style.
02:02:22.000
A lot of those Olympic guys who are gold medalists, they don't Translate to the pros because they have a kind of a point scoring system, and these pros are knocking dudes out.
02:02:33.000
When it comes to kicking, it's all about hitting the bag.
02:02:35.000
All those karate guys that you see throwing kicks in the air and they never hit anything, they never develop the ability to shift your weight.
02:02:42.000
You know when you're throwing a punch and you like...
02:02:45.000
At the end of that punch, you're hitting things all the time.
02:02:54.000
That's the number one problem with a lot of these traditional martial artists.
02:03:16.000
He grew up in a terrible Taekwondo school that had him throwing flippy things in the air.
02:03:40.000
I had them melted down, and I gave them to the local orphanage.
02:03:44.000
We were probably in the same weight classes, which is so confusing.
02:03:55.000
Because I was the American Taekwondo Championships.
02:04:12.000
You obviously need to read the Taekwondo Times at a national level.
02:04:25.000
Were you like a blue belt or something at the time when you won the nationals?
02:04:30.000
Yes, I fought in Iowa, the American Taekwondo Championships.
02:04:49.000
Barboza's been tagged a few times in the first round, and Michael Johnson's putting the fucking scare on him.
02:04:56.000
Because if you sit back, Barboza goes to town, man.
02:05:05.000
This reminds me of the way I used to fight Taco Bell, but I created more distance.
02:05:14.000
You didn't hit him with those kicks you kicked back.
02:05:23.000
You can't set this pace for three rounds, I'll tell you that right now.
02:06:00.000
Yeah, there was a lot of problems with Tony Ferguson.
02:06:01.000
Did he have the plate removed, or did he keep it in there?
02:06:03.000
I don't know what's going on with that, but he's back 100%, more ferocious than ever, man.
02:06:25.000
Damn, Michael Johnson's got some fast fucking hands.
02:06:32.000
He's the guy that, in my opinion, has come up the most striking-wise since he joined the Black Zillions.
02:06:37.000
If you watch him from the Ultimate Fighter to the Michael Johnson you see tag up Joe Lozon, he's just a different striker now.
02:06:50.000
Yeah, I say Johnson or Mitrione with the Black Zillions.
02:07:53.000
Even as a Muay Thai guy, you can't not respect guys who are on this hard.
02:08:02.000
Do you prefer watching Muay Thai or do you prefer watching MMA? Now, MMA is starting to...
02:08:27.000
Last call, Danny Castillo cracked him in the first round.
02:08:32.000
Donald Cerrone tagged him with that jab, dropped him in the first round.
02:08:36.000
Jamie Varner fucked him up with that right hand.
02:08:38.000
If you're going to catch him, catch him with punches.
02:08:47.000
Do you guys know if he's still with Mark Henry?
02:08:56.000
Yeah, because Mark Henry's a straight fucking magician.
02:09:06.000
What happens when these guys fight Anthony Pettis?
02:09:11.000
Pettis isn't sitting there letting you hit him like this.
02:09:14.000
You think Pettis would knock both these guys out?
02:09:26.000
Well, he's a perfect example of a guy who learned Taekwondo first and then went to a guy like Duke Rufus who just is a Muay Thai encyclopedia who's also been training MMA fighters for a long fucking time and knows how to put it all together.
02:09:50.000
They still haven't decided who they're going to give them.
02:09:59.000
I think what he's doing is the right way to do it.
02:10:03.000
He's training with Duke until he's ready to compete.
02:10:13.000
No, UFC's not like, yeah, let's sign you and you're fighting three years.
02:10:22.000
Literally, he said he wants to make a big deal out of it.
02:10:24.000
They did this little announcement and he said he wants to train until he's ready.
02:10:31.000
I guarantee you the UFC is going to be like, three years?
02:10:44.000
They're not going to pair CM Punk up with a real name.
02:10:48.000
They're going to pair CM Punk up with a guy who should never be in the UFC. Right.
02:10:52.000
Not shouldn't be in the UFC. I mean shouldn't be in the UFC yet.
02:10:58.000
I bet they give him like an old washed up guy who's been in the UFC so we recognize the name.
02:11:02.000
If you had to bet everything you own right now and it was going to be CM Punk versus Fallen Fox, who would you bet on?
02:11:21.000
Damn, Michael Johnson's still going hard in the second round, man.
02:11:26.000
Yeah, he doesn't have a strategic approach to this fight at all.
02:11:31.000
I think it's smart, man, trying to break his will.
02:11:34.000
And he's already kept the leg kicks away because Barboza has been real careful about those counters.
02:11:40.000
He hasn't been landing nearly as many leg kicks as he has in some of these fights.
02:11:48.000
Do you like when you see southpaws in MMA and it opens up that inside leg kick?
02:11:54.000
You've got to stay really basic when you're fighting a southpaw.
02:11:56.000
Insides, right kicks, and right hands, right hand, left hooks.
02:11:58.000
You can't do the flashy stuff against a southpaw.
02:12:04.000
Now, when you have the orthodox fight in the southpaw, it opens up the back leg.
02:12:33.000
If Johnson slows down, Barboza will start letting loose.
02:12:40.000
He's better have cardio than training with Frankie Edgar.
02:12:43.000
And for the record, CM Punk would kick my motherfucking ass.
02:12:53.000
On the record, CM Punk would fuck me up, and he's got way bigger balls than me for stepping in the cage.
02:13:33.000
You're going to open yourself up being this aggressive.
02:13:37.000
It's also a matter of Barbosa being able to weather the storm.
02:14:11.000
Eddie, there are black belts and there are black belts.
02:14:17.000
If you're an aggressive guy landing, your cardio lasts longer than an aggressive guy of losing, not landing as much.
02:14:23.000
If you keep landing, all of a sudden you go, I got him, I got him, I got him.
02:14:26.000
You just keep pumping the rounds out all the time, but as soon as you start losing...
02:14:30.000
As soon as you start missing, it's like, oh shit, I'm tired.
02:14:34.000
But while you're landing, every time you rock him too.
02:14:41.000
He works with Ricardo Almeida down there in New Jersey.
02:14:49.000
He's going to set up that head kick, son of a bitch.
02:15:00.000
Hey, John, how come you never saw Superman punches?
02:15:08.000
How come you never saw Superman punches in Muay Thai?
02:15:14.000
The little gloves make the hell of a difference.
02:15:17.000
Even George, when George throws him, it seems the rock guy's head's back, but you do that in 10-ounce gloves and nothing happens.
02:15:25.000
But you're doing MMA gloves, all of a sudden it's just rock your world.
02:15:28.000
And George does it if he's jabbed, too, which is not a hard punch.
02:15:35.000
Michael Johnson, don't call him Anthony Johnson.
02:15:42.000
MJ, MJ. You get two leg kicks from John now in the back.
02:15:49.000
I just lean into leg kicks, just so you guys know.
02:15:54.000
When I trained just leg fighting in the Philippines.
02:16:09.000
You're not buying this national champ stuff with Kellen.
02:16:11.000
It's hard to believe when I watch them hit things.
02:16:13.000
Let's not get carried away with national champs.
02:16:16.000
There was something called the Nationals in Iowa in 1987. I can't remember exactly where.
02:16:27.000
I asked the Twitter universe to send me pictures of Cal and Nguyen and nothing.
02:16:31.000
It just doesn't make any sense that everyone that I knew from back then doesn't know of you either.
02:16:45.000
Hey, hey, hey, Callan, it was the 80s, it was the late 80s.
02:16:54.000
Did you just, did you kick paddles, or did you...
02:17:07.000
I know the last guy I fought and he knocked me out.
02:17:11.000
And I know the guy I fought before him because I knocked him out.
02:17:14.000
But in Taekwondo, it's like a shitload of guys, right?
02:17:27.000
Even in the third round, these guys are throwing, man.
02:17:47.000
Would you say that Michael Johnson can throw more kicks?
02:18:01.000
What about the southpaw stance takes away the teep?
02:18:03.000
If you're standing orthodox and you've got your left leg forward and then you're both orthodox, the left leg's going to go through the center.
02:18:10.000
As soon as you go to southpaw, all of a sudden, this leg's going to check it.
02:18:16.000
So now everything's going to be off the right leg instead of the front leg.
02:18:20.000
So if I'm here, it'd land flashy, but as soon as I stand here, now all of a sudden, I've got this leg now.
02:18:35.000
And in Muay Thai, you cut weight just like MMA the day before?
02:18:40.000
I start 10 weeks out and slowly go down, slowly go down, and then lose probably the last five or six feet.
02:18:51.000
Johnson set a very aggressive pace from the beginning of his fight.
02:18:56.000
Yeah, it's almost like he's trying to prove a point or make a big statement.
02:19:10.000
You really think Johnson's up in that second round?
02:19:49.000
What do you think about a lot of these guys you've seen in MMA, like Lyoto, they throw karate style where there's no step.
02:19:57.000
What do you think about the varying differences between the karate style that you're starting to see from a lot of these guys and Thai style?
02:20:11.000
The culture of karate coming back again all of a sudden is showing that it is an actual form and it is actually working.
02:20:17.000
I don't want to be a one person, oh, Muay Thai is going to beat everything.
02:20:20.000
No, I like Taekwondo, I like karate, I like boxing, I like MMA, I like everything.
02:20:26.000
If you can throw an amazing spin kick, I reckon it's amazing.
02:20:36.000
Well, you know, that open-mindedness is probably one of the reasons why you became a great fighter in the first place.
02:20:43.000
Barboza has some really fucking fast kicks, man.
02:20:46.000
Like, from the chamber, like right from the launch, he's throwing some awful fast kicks.
02:20:57.000
And the ones that have landed, Johnson's eating them well.
02:21:05.000
This just shows you like how high-level MMA is.
02:21:09.000
These guys have dedicated like their heart and soul for years to get to this point and both of them would get lit up by cardio.
02:21:18.000
There's only one takedown attempt as well, the whole fight as well.
02:21:29.000
It used to be very unusual that there was no grappling at all in a fight.
02:21:34.000
I think that's because of the pressure from the fans.
02:21:45.000
Callan, what do you think about what he just said?
02:21:49.000
But as a master wheel kicker who was kind of in a national, national championship.
02:21:55.000
I mean, it was kind of a national championship.
02:21:58.000
If you read the Taekwondo Times and the Gazette...
02:22:12.000
That's a very impressive performance, I'll tell you that.
02:22:18.000
Some of my hardest fights have been doing Nakata.
02:22:40.000
What do you guys think about the main event here?
02:22:45.000
There's only one guy who needs to win more than I do.
02:22:58.000
He had a draw with Hunt, but then they took it away.
02:23:20.000
Because he tried to say that it was his doctor's fault.
02:23:30.000
You know, I don't think he'd say he's 0-3 after that fight with Bigfoot.
02:23:33.000
Or with Mark Hunt, rather, because all due respect is such a fucking war.
02:23:38.000
Yeah, maybe he was on some chemical assistance, but god damn, that was a fucking war.
02:23:42.000
For sure, but it wasn't a win, so I'd say he's 0-2.
02:23:51.000
You're either going to say the fight never happened, or you say it was what it was, which was a draw.
02:23:59.000
Well, you can celebrate it as a performance, though.
02:24:01.000
Because, god damn, that was a performance by both guys.
02:24:03.000
So much so that I have a roots of fight, a very limited edition Bigfoot Hunt Silva 2, before the drugs...
02:24:13.000
They made this jacket and Dana sent me one and we were laughing and he gave it to me because he loved that fight.
02:24:21.000
And then when it turned out they got the drug test back and they found out that Bigfoot was through the roof, he was so disappointed.
02:24:48.000
No, then you don't have a problem because you're not really caring.
02:24:58.000
What do you think, let's say Pride, all the Pride fighters and all the Pride fights, would you say the number would be 70% of Pride fighters were on something?
02:25:11.000
I can't say I didn't fight back then, I don't know.
02:25:13.000
If you had to guess, based on the things you hear.
02:25:15.000
When I talked to Ensign Inoue, who fought in Pride and didn't do shit, he didn't take anything, If you talk to him, I bet he's right, and I bet it's most people.
02:25:24.000
So probably most means like 70, 60, 70, something like that.
02:25:28.000
But he said it was in the contract that they don't test for steroids.
02:25:34.000
I think Mark Kerr was a prime example of someone that might have done something about it.
02:25:48.000
If he would have done stories, he would have been his.
02:25:59.000
The reality is, we know, probably, we're pretty certain, if you had to bet all the money you had, you would go, yeah, most of the Pride Fighters, maybe, 90%, maybe, you'd have to go with that.
02:26:22.000
Once people test positive, then people get angry.
02:26:27.000
Then people write all these fucking pieces about it.
02:26:33.000
Is it the nerds that sucked at sports that are talking shit?
02:26:36.000
No, it's a lot of people that are like, you know, they're purists.
02:26:41.000
But it's always been, in every major sport, we're pretending that it's not.
02:26:45.000
Yeah, I think if you're around sports, you're going to be more accepting of it.
02:26:49.000
Like, you're going to be like, alright, the guy's on shit, whatever, he's still a great athlete.
02:26:52.000
If you've never competed in sports and you stick behind a computer and eat Cheetos all day, you're going to be like, this is ridiculous.
02:26:59.000
I could have been in the NFL if I did the same shit.
02:27:02.000
Go take the same shit and try and do a baseball like Barry Bonds.
02:27:12.000
We're going to have a pretend press conference.
02:27:14.000
We're going to have a pretend news fucking media thing.
02:27:23.000
The conferences, the press conferences, that's all for real.
02:27:26.000
But everybody that's testing, everybody that's involved, they know the reality.
02:27:30.000
The testing is just to somehow make it look like they care.
02:27:37.000
The testing is to try to bust people, and now they're going to give them huge fines.
02:27:41.000
Now they're going to kick them out for like two years.
02:27:51.000
Because they have to kind of do it, and they have to kind of say it.
02:27:54.000
Well, they have to do it because they want to do it.
02:27:58.000
They do want to get the steroids out of sport because it's bad for their business.
02:28:02.000
These guys can get tested positive for steroids and it keeps showing up and all these new...
02:28:07.000
It becomes a part of the story that makes it unattractive to advertisers.
02:28:10.000
It makes it look like what the worst stereotype is.
02:28:14.000
This thuggish sport that's filled with criminals and people doing unethical things and Lance Armstrong and cheaters and all that.
02:28:36.000
When he said that they got steroids now that'll get out of your system really quick, and that's what everyone's really on, is the shit that gets out of your system within days, and they're just taking chances...
02:28:56.000
I'd have to go over it again and listen because we talked about a lot of different options.
02:29:02.000
They get in and out of your system really quick, right?
02:29:06.000
Yeah, but I don't think financially a lot of guys in the EFCR may afford those.
02:29:14.000
So there are different steroids that get out of your system really quick that are super expensive?
02:29:23.000
Yeah, like there's steroids that they're ahead of the testing.
02:29:30.000
Because he was a part of that whole thing with the clean.
02:29:39.000
And that's what the BALCO scandal was all about, was a designer steroid that they created.
02:29:44.000
So if that's what he's saying, I mean, that makes sense that this guy would...
02:29:49.000
The UFC doing random testing is going to fuck guys.
02:29:53.000
Are they still, in your opinion, do you think professional football players do steroids?
02:30:03.000
So after all this shit, do you still have professional...
02:30:29.000
Because now if you get caught dancing, you're out two to four years.
02:30:32.000
If you're a Roy Nelson or a Brendan Schaub and they tell you you're out for two or four years, you're done.
02:30:43.000
Are these the harshest laws in professional sports?
02:30:48.000
How come it never got to that point in football?
02:30:55.000
Because football doesn't have a state athletic commission behind them like Nevada.
02:31:02.000
They don't have to have a state athletic commission that sanctions their fights.
02:31:07.000
That's why the NFL or the NBA doesn't test for pot.
02:31:12.000
They don't have to deal with the athletic commission's rules.
02:31:20.000
The Nevada State Athletic Commission sanctioned the UFC to make it legitimate.
02:31:24.000
Because the UFC was this crazy sport that was actually outlawed.
02:31:30.000
So football didn't need to be cleaned up to the point where some regulatory body consents to having them perform in their state.
02:31:38.000
Also, Eddie, in the NFL, those guys aren't punching and kicking each other in the face.
02:31:42.000
So there should be stricter punishment when it comes to fighting.
02:31:47.000
You're getting into punching and kicking in the face.
02:31:50.000
I didn't sign up for extra punching hard in the face.
02:32:11.000
So you're saying they shouldn't do anything about it?
02:32:14.000
I'm saying if it worked for Pride, let them do it.
02:32:17.000
I'm saying they should have Pride rules, Pride format, Pride regulation.
02:32:32.000
Dodge and Harley Davidson was jumping on boards.
02:32:43.000
But how did that correlate with demise of Pride?
02:32:49.000
Because guys have traps hanging out of their fucking ears, punch each other in the face.
02:32:53.000
So Harley Davidson is like, yeah, obviously that guy's not natural.
02:33:04.000
Japanese are different than us, and they go in fads.
02:33:07.000
And sometimes those fads are gigantic, huge things.
02:33:11.000
Like, you know, they would fill 90,000-seat arenas with kickboxing.
02:33:23.000
It's another thing that people complained about.
02:33:36.000
Until you know for sure, you can't say you know, but I would imagine the possibility is high.
02:33:49.000
Go back and look at what he looked like when he fought Fujita.
02:33:54.000
He didn't look anything like he looked when he fought Bigfoot Silva.
02:34:02.000
Did he stop taking whatever the fuck he was taking?
02:34:05.000
When Anderson Silva tests positive, I would have never guessed.
02:34:11.000
I told people John Fitch would never take steroids.
02:34:15.000
Because John Fitch told me that and I believed him.
02:34:18.000
In your late 30s, you're trying to compete in MMA with...
02:34:27.000
Would you rate Fedor even better than he already is for beating guys that are on steroids?
02:34:32.000
Yes, unless he was on steroids when he was beating those guys who were on steroids.
02:34:37.000
Look, he's obviously in the pocket of some very wealthy people who would want him to do well at all costs.
02:34:45.000
I don't know what the ramifications of those conversations are.
02:34:49.000
But I do know that I had heard unsubstantiated reports of how he got paid and who got the actual money.
02:34:57.000
And, you know, he's dealing with some very fucking powerful people.
02:35:00.000
Yeah, when Putin's at the show, there's something going on.
02:35:03.000
There's a lot of other people behind the show that also are very wealthy.
02:35:05.000
And, you know, look, there he is right there, Fedor.
02:35:08.000
That Fedor with Bigfoot on top of him, smashing him, has no relationship whatsoever to the Fedor that beat so many guys in pride.
02:35:18.000
And Bigfoot's on there, right at his exemption.
02:35:29.000
I mean, he was certainly diminished because of just sheer training, trauma fights, some high-level fights against some big guys for a long career.
02:35:48.000
That shit happens when you get punched in the face.
02:36:01.000
I didn't like the way Bigfoot went down against Arlovsky.
02:36:20.000
But I wouldn't be surprised if Bigfoot took it to him.
02:36:27.000
Bigfoot's never been submitted, and he's a black belt.
02:36:31.000
Do you see when Fedor went for that leg lock on him?
02:36:43.000
I mean, I watched some footage of him training.
02:37:02.000
You gotta realize, Frank was 22. He's been fighting the UFC his entire life.
02:37:10.000
I mean, I didn't get a chance to see the early ones in person.
02:37:12.000
I didn't get a chance to see them in person until, boy, I remember which fight it was.
02:37:27.000
I was there for that, talking to Tim in the octagon.
02:37:32.000
And then we showed him the video of his arm getting snapped.
02:37:42.000
Yeah, I just appreciate what Frank stands for and how long he's been doing it and he's relevant.
02:37:46.000
And my favorite UFC fight of all time is when he beat Brock Lesnar.
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I felt like it was the MMA community against the WWE community.
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And when he beat him, I never cheered for someone so hard in my life.
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Well, how crazy is it to take a guy, his second pro fight, and you make him fight a former UFC champion in his prime.
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Well, Brock Lesnar got brought along worse than any fucking fighter ever in the history of fighting and still managed to outrun the odds.
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Beat Heath Herring, and then he beats Randy Couture.
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Frank submits him, and then after Frank, he fights Heath Herring.
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But that's not true because if you talk about jujitsu submissions, positions, submissions, transitions, you could remember shit.
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I've got to start taking my jiu-jitsu more seriously.
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I would say the odds are Bigfoot knocks them out in the first round.
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Are there guys out there that can know every, like you could do a UFC trivia game or Jeopardy where they know, you could say UFC 152 and they could just rattle off.
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Every UFC, the number, the headliner, the co-headliner.
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I bet there's some fans who can do it for sure.
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And then the crazy rain men can go into the prelims and give you the fucking results of the prelims.
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There's a guy, you call him the Fight Pass King.
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Some guys get mad at me if I'm watching these and I don't know a guy.
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Well, one of the things that I think they fucked up on, or they should have kept going, was when you were doing those in-between rounds, you would do your assessment of who won.
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He could speak his mind just like Harold Letterman does on boxing.
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Instead of just looking at the scorecard and trying to figure it out, Eddie had a whole breakdown of kicks, takedowns.
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I had two guys and I'd look at the fight and go kick, punch, punch, punch, kick, takedown, takedown attempt, left knee.
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And then after that round, they're giving me 30 seconds to make my assessment.
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If you don't write it down like that, you don't remember.
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And then bam, I have something to look at when I'm...
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I'd much rather have that than have these three fucking squares judging my fight.
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If you were running the casinos and you were running all that shit, all the betting, you don't think that...
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It's good to have fall guys, the judges, good to blame the stupid judge.
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I'm just saying, if I was running the casinos, I would want schlubs in there so that if we looked at the numbers and we're like, shit, we need this decision or that decision.
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Somewhere else I've mentioned his name, but I'm not going to mention his name tonight.
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A judge, a very popular, popular UFC judge, has told me to assist.
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Judge Judy told me that three separate occasions, on three separate occasions, he wrote down a score for one fighter, and then when Bruce Buffer read it, it was for the other guy.
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That makes me never want to fight again, Eddie.
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He might be an idiot and he might be full of shit.
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And he might be looking for a fall guy as the commission.
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They're both 35. Interesting story about Bigfoot Silva.
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When Shane, he was like 4-0, 5-0, Elite XC had Bigfoot Silva's contract.
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They offered Shane a contract to fight Bigfoot Silva.
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Because it was Shane Carr when he was fucking prime.
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They were supposed to fight, but then the UFC offered Shane.
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So then Shane went to the UFC instead of fighting Bigfoot Silva.
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Frank Mir coming in at 261 in this fight, by the way.
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We're usually walking around at 245, I believe.
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He got pretty heavy right after he fought Brock.
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Do you think Mario Yamasaki's pissed at the ring girls for ripping off his shit?
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There's a lot of beef in this octagon right now.
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I think Frank, when he got heavy, he lost a lot of his speed, man.
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When he got heavy after Brock beat the brakes off him out of half guard.
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When he pounded him out of half guard, then he started doing this power lifting, got all big, which wasn't good.
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He might be throwing people around at 205. Dollar bits.
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That's what he needs at this point in his life.
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Bigfoot said he's looking for redemption for his boy, Noguera.
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That combination he landed on over him, that was one of the best ever.
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You haven't seen a KO like that since Phil Barone KO'd Dave Manet.
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Remember when he pinned him up against the cage?
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Like one of the greatest hand combination KO. Phil Barone's is number one, in my opinion.
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He looks much faster than he's looked recently.
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Bigfoot always has to worry about getting hit, man.
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He knows his chin is just not that good anymore.
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When Arlovsky clipped him with that one punch, I mean, it didn't look like the biggest punch.
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But before that, he ate punches from the hardest puncher ever, really, in the UFC. And he was juiced to the titties.
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They look like Brian Callen's arms on a big body.
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Well, the bones underneath them are like telephone poles just to make...
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You know, that's why I bet on him, and that's why I won a dollar from John Wayne Parr.
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Because I just don't feel like this dude can take a punch anymore.
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I don't like the way he went down against Arlovski.
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You think it's a lack of TRT? I think it for sure affects you.
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You don't really see Frank Mir grounding and pounding, but god damn, he has vicious ground and pounding.
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No, he said something like, you know, I don't know what he said.
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Alright, well that fight is over, so the fights are over.
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Let's rewind it and see if we can figure out what the fuck he said.
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Maybe he'll say it in the post-interview right here, though.
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That fucking jab left hook combination was very pretty.
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I don't think he could fight without testosterone.
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At all the people that were on TRT, that guy has the most legitimate reason to be on it.
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He had a goddamn cancer of his pituitary gland.
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But if you have to have that to fight, don't fight.
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If you have to be juiced to the gills to compete, how about you don't do it?
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But I think his natural testosterone is absurdly low because of the fact that he had a tumor on his pituitary gland.
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I mean, his coaches were talking about when they eliminated testosterone, like how bad it is for him.
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I really liked what you said the other day about there is no negatives to taking it.
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But with these new penalties that Dana White's talking about doing, if they actually do it, the two to four year suspension, guys are, yeah, they're not going to risk it as much, I don't think.
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Because when Bigfoot got done, his first fight back is for a main event in Brazil.
02:51:40.000
When Cormier and Jon Jones both had those really weird tests.
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Like they tested them afterwards and they both had a really low testosterone to epitestosterone level.
02:52:04.000
Typically, though, isn't it true that when your testosterone is very low like that, chances are you were introduced?
02:52:11.000
That's what Victor Conte was saying, but I think that's irresponsible to say unless you're testing these guys all the time.
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It could be that I heard a bunch of different variables.
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One of them could be that their body was broken down because they were exhausted from training so much and that their testosterone was low because they caught them in mid-camp.
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It could be that they were both overtrained, which is more likely than not.
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I don't understand those tests enough to tell you if that would cause someone to have a low testosterone to epitestosterone ratio.
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We'd have to bring in an endocrinologist to explain...
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And you'd also have to do more than one test and base it off that.
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But I know they had a legit guy doctor read the thing.
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It was like, there's no way their levels should be that low.
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Maybe DC and John's levels have always been low.
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Let's crank the volume up so we can hear what Frank Mir has to say.
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And not only that, but it looked fucking great, man.
02:53:16.000
Kellen, in your bodybuilding days, what was the sterile situation?
02:53:50.000
How about Ricky Lindell right behind you looking all angry faced?
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How much adjustment do you have to make defensively, John, when you're working with guys?
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I'm sure you've trained with MMA fighters and teaching them Muay Thai.
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How much of an adjustment do you have to make because they have less coverage defensively because of the smaller gloves?
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Yeah, it wasn't until I started wearing them for getting ready for the fight that I really appreciated how different it is.
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It was like starting Muay Thai all over again once I put the little ones on.
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I thought I knew how to fight, I thought I knew how to punch, until I wore them.
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I was like, holy shit, I'm not punching with my knuckles, I'm using my pinky.
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Before I could close my eyes and hit the pads, no problem.
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And now I can't hit the pad in the same spot twice, even when I'm fully concentrating.
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Yeah, and a completely different style for my hooks.
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It's MMA but with no ground because you still got the knees, you still got the elbows, you still got the takedowns, nothing changes.
02:55:18.000
And you find guys, press guys up against the cage and blast them with elbows and knees to the body and hold them there and...
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Yeah, what I found with my shows is say that I have 10 fights, majority, usually there will be seven go the distance because the guys are fighting smarter as well because they know that they can't stand in the pocket and trade anymore because the gloves are so small.
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I noticed that after the fight you can't touch the top of your head for about four or five days.
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You can't put your sunglasses on because your head's like a golf ball.
02:55:59.000
Remember when you described a fight that you had when you were in high school?
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You talked about how you landed two punches, but your friends were like, bitch, you didn't land those.
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Can you imagine describing that fight to somebody?
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Because you always described your fight, right?
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You tried to take me down, then I punched him, and then the teacher pulled us off.
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Trying to describe a fight with 50 punches to somebody?
02:56:34.000
There's a lot of guys that have to watch fights after they're over just to see what happened to them.
02:56:41.000
How many times have I interviewed fighters and they'll be honest, like after the second round, I have no idea what happened.
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Yeah, most fights, if you ask me, like, what happened in the second round?
02:57:00.000
What was interesting about the Travis Brown fight...
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I was rocked when I went for a takedown, and his hip landed on my head into the octagon, and I remember watching it, and I'm like, oh, I don't remember any of this after this.
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I remember, I just remember watching, like, dang!
02:57:26.000
When you see a guy like George St. Pierre that was, like, the greatest of all time, and now, you know, since he didn't test positive, A lot of people are saying he's the greatest of all time.
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But when you look at the numbers of times that he was hit, we did a thing after his career was over.
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And not in TKO and the other organizations he fought for before he came to the UFC. And you know what a lot of it was?
02:58:00.000
He got hit more in his last four fights than all of his other fights.
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Goddamn, Frank Mir looked good even before that.
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Have you ever heard him commentate when he did WC? He was really, really good, man.
02:58:34.000
When he said he wanted to kill Brock Lesnar, be the first guy to kill him, that's when they pulled him off of commentary.
02:58:59.000
Sometimes dudes run, they run on all these injuries and they just fucking keep just trying to tape this up and patch that up and stretch through this and they don't just...
02:59:12.000
You know what's crazy is back when MMA first started exploring, the UFC first started exploring, people said, man, how does it feel?
02:59:20.000
I would always say, coming from being such a big football fan, I thought, well, the UFC really isn't that huge yet until we start seeing these football-type, NFL Today-type shows, like a nightly MMA show.
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We see it all the time, like right now we're watching, and Brian stands in a suit, and Dominic Cruz is in a suit, and they're prime time nationwide on these major networks, and now they're the guys that I'm used to seeing like a LT,
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you know, do that kind of stuff, or Tony Siragusa, you know what I mean?
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Ex-players now transitioning into broadcasting, and you're seeing that in MMA now.
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All these ex-MMA fighters, or even current ones, really, they're putting the suits on, and they're on Fox.
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You're used to seeing some college basketball show right now.
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Don't quote me on that, but he does college football.
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Shouldn't pick a favorite of guys who do my job other than me.
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I don't want to be rude to the other guys who do it.
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I'll tell you right now, Jimmy Smith's my favorite.
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He doesn't even work for the UFC. He's my favorite.
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You know, we're supposed to be like rivals or some shit.
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Me and that guy have sat down with no one around and talked fighting for hours.
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He takes a lot of heat because we're both bald and they think that he's copying me, but really, I copied him.
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Guys will say things, and you go, um, I don't, no, I don't think that's right.
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Like, there's guys that, you know, you hear them in other organizations, and you go, is this all you had?
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This is the only guy that can, they don't know what's going on, man.
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Guys will call kicks, you know, spitting hook kick to the leg.
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But we got to the point now, especially with all the UFC shows, where they got professional guys and then guys that can really do the job.
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Those guys who don't train, I mean, I think Anik might train a little bit, but they just shouldn't call anything.
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Like, technically, they shouldn't call positions, and they certainly shouldn't call transitions or potential bats, because they're going to miss some stuff.
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Some guys do it because they try to pretend that they know what they're doing.
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I mean, I'm really talking most about guys in the B-Leagues.
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But guys who do do it, it's annoying because, like, I know what you're doing.
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You're just trying to let everybody know your knowledge.
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When MMA first started, like King of the Cage, for instance, when I got thrown into the commentator spot, The producers didn't even know the difference between a play-by-play and a color guy.
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They just hear two people talking, but if you really look into it, oh, there's like a newscaster guy who's holding it all together, and then a color guy who gets asked questions and chimes in whenever.
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There's a professional guy and a guy that just chimes in.
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And what ended up happening is, in the beginning, there wasn't professional broadcasters to fill that play-by-play spot.
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So they would just take anybody, and anybody they would throw in there would do color, too.
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So guys like Mike Goldberg would see this and go, you know what?
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These other guys are doing play-by-play and a little color.
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So Mike Goldberg, you know, he's trained kickboxing, and when he sees it, you know, he calls it, right?
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He calls the teep, he calls some stuff, and people get angry, but, you know.
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How dare you not even get through the L before you got your fucking shitty smile?
03:04:06.000
Like, he started arguing with people on Twitter.
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People were saying, he fucked up a couple of things.
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And one of them was two guys had the same name, right?
03:04:15.000
Yeah, and one guy, like, he called one receiver...
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No, he called like a receiver for another team.
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He called one team like the Detroit Lions when it was the Minnesota Vikings.
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No, Mike Goldberg, the guy I work with, the commentary.
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He'll be talking to you about something, and you'll say something.
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I think Mike Goldberg is the best play-by-play guy in MMA. Even though he throws in some Muay Thai references and all that stuff, I don't care about that shit.
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Mike Goldberg, working with him for eight years, nobody studies and prepares like that.
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That guy's one of the sweetest guys, if not the sweetest guy I've ever met.
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I think he would have kept the NFL gig if he didn't get on Twitter and he was defending himself.
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Well, he wasn't thinking about the impact or the reach.
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You know, like you get on Twitter, you know, you're shitting on your followers that are calling you a loser.
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Why don't you put on the headphones and get back there?
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But I've always told them, we've had these conversations about how to deal with assholes on Twitter.
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And by the way, the ones that hurt, the sting, the ones that actually sting, they're probably telling you some shit that you could use to hear.
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And you hear that and then correct your game so that it doesn't ever possibly make any sense.
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So that any criticism they have that's related to what they were talking about, it's illogical.
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If someone tells me, you're doing commentary, you don't know what the fuck's going on when the fight goes to the ground, I'll go, ha, that's adorable.
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If you acknowledge them, people go, ooh, Joe Rogan or Brian Callen acknowledged this negative stuff, so then more negative monsters come out.
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Brandon motherfucking Sharp can be reached on Twitter.
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You can watch and listen to the fighter and the kid where he relentlessly corrects Brian Cowan all the time.
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Often the number one sports podcast in America because the rest of the country is filled with bullshit.
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They're capitalizing on a nice soft spot in the industry.
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And to his right, of course, the great John Wayne Parr, who will be on my podcast tomorrow at noon.
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We will talk about his extensive Muay Thai career, which is unparalleled.
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I think Brendan Shaw wants to train with us, too.
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You got some fucking shitty sitcom you have to do?
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You can reach Eddie Bravo at EddieBravo on Twitter.
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The new video that you showed me that was fucking unbelievably amazing.
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There's a Tenth Planet commercial that Bobby Razak produced.
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You just go to YouTube and punch in 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu commercial 2015. We're out of time.