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00:06:59.000One of the things that happens with those guys that have been around, you always gotta wonder, like, have they decided they can't be champion anymore?
00:07:06.000You know, are they still 100% all-in, living it, breathing it, or have they reached that point where they've got a few losses against top flight competition and the reality of their bills and their life sets in?
00:10:44.000But I think he's got to put some mass on.
00:10:46.000I think he's got, you know, when you're dealing with these Eddie Alvarez, Rafael Dos Anjos type guys that are just mauling him and just staying close to him like glue, I don't think he's physically strong enough.
00:10:56.000I think it's a physical thing, but it's also a technique thing.
00:10:58.000Grappling's just not in his wheelhouse, really.
00:11:29.000Well, these fucking guys, man, that lose a ton of weight, they come in big and heavy and strong, and they're better wrestlers, and they're mauled.
00:15:28.000I'm amazed that that hasn't been in the UFC, because that is such a good technique.
00:15:32.000Because you can get that position because a lot of times guys will give you like that rubber guard and mission control position and all you have to do is clear the neck, get that foot across.
00:15:41.000Then once you have that foot across and you just start to set up the omoplata, as the guy's defending the omoplata, usually they expose their neck because they're so concentrating on defending the omoplata.
00:15:51.000Have you seen how Mackenzie Dern sets it up?
00:19:02.000And apparently they're getting so close to having something that sits in your ear.
00:19:06.000Like when you go on tour or if you go somewhere, something that sits in your ear and then translates what they're saying to you in real time in your ear.
00:19:15.000God damn, so we don't need to learn anything.
00:21:05.000And Joe Lozon is a very, very good grappler and certainly good enough to defend and keep that guy off him.
00:21:13.000So it's going to be really interesting to see whether or not Marcin can get it to the ground and whether Lozon is up on all the latest shit.
00:21:47.000Not as thick a human being is a He's about as thick as he gets.
00:21:50.000He hasn't had the success lately that he had when he was younger, but make no mistake about it, his knowledge of grappling, super, super high level.
00:22:30.000When he comes to jiu-jitsu, he's a savant.
00:22:32.000He's got a fucking awesome Instagram post today, I think, or maybe yesterday, about using the legs while grappling and how important it is to learn how to use your legs and how much more strength you have in your legs and endurance you have in your legs.
00:23:14.000Yeah, if you're over 50, and she's under 25, and she's worth millions of dollars, and she makes it so you don't have to work, and she brings in other women.
00:24:18.000The Donaher death squad, all those guys that he's got in New York out of Henzos, like Gary Tonin, like Eddie Cummins, all these super high-level leg-lock attack guys.
00:24:28.000But by the way, Gary Tonin's having a submission grappling match against Hector motherfucking Lombard.
00:26:32.000They're going to do boxing, but I honestly think with how Conor moves, don't get me wrong, Floyd's one of the best of all time, if not the best, but it's a lot for him to adapt to.
00:26:42.000Conor's big, he hits fucking hard, he can go both ways.
00:27:40.000Hey, B, this is why it's getting serious, because Dana addresses it, made an offer on national TV. Floyd was on Showtime last night, and they go, is there any boxer that could bring you out of retirement?
00:29:44.000Conor moves different than a lot of boxers do because he's so used to leg kicks, he's so used to takedowns, and he has a different stance.
00:29:51.000That alone will take a little bit of time for Mayweather to adjust to, but Mayweather has the ability to be in the right place at the right time always, and it's so deceptive.
00:30:01.000It's so deceptive because it doesn't look like he's doing anything special.
00:30:04.000But if you watch the way he's moving, he's never out of position, and he's always popping you with that jab, and he's still, even at 37?
00:31:25.000We're talking about a guy here that's fighting 147, 154. Conor, although he's made it down to 145, he's physically much larger than this guy.
00:33:19.000It kind of does at the end of the day.
00:33:21.000Yeah, I mean, listen, man, I'm a huge Floyd Mayweather fan of him, like, skill-wise as a boxer, and I think that he made it through prize-fighting better than anybody ever.
00:34:20.000He was 51, almost 52. Father Time, like Brendan was saying, Father Time sometimes will just go, he'll just tap you on the shoulder and just go, it's time now.
00:34:31.000Father Time is a motherfucker, and he just waits.
00:34:34.000For now, I think within our lifetime, we're going to see Father Time start to take some L's.
00:34:38.000Technology takes out Father Time, too?
00:34:41.000I think what's going to happen is, do you know that there's a startup now that will fill your body with the blood of young people like a goddamn vampire?
00:34:49.000Give me some of that vampiro blood right now.
00:34:51.000There's some fucking new research that's shown that if you take old blood from mice and put it in young mice, they slow down and get tired and they get sicker.
00:35:00.000But if you take young blood from young mice and put it in old mice, they literally go back in time.
00:37:55.000Theranos is one of the most fascinating technology stories of the last year.
00:37:59.000Theranos was this huge startup that was, they were working with Walgreens, and they had these contracts, I think with, I want to say with Costco too, I don't know who it was, but there was this woman, she was the Biggest self-made billionaire ever.
00:38:14.000She was worth, at one point in time, some, like, $30 billion or something fucking crazy.
00:38:19.000She was the female Steve Jobs, and she would dress like Steve Jobs.
00:38:23.000Down to the turtleneck and the sweater, the whole deal.
00:42:09.000They talked about unsubstantiated reports.
00:42:12.000I mean, they basically were spreading propaganda for whoever the fuck invented it, whether it's a troll or whether it's a government organization.
00:44:54.000If you want to really go through how it affects all these doctors, you'll just probably go crazy and start feeling sad for all these people that got fucked over.
00:45:00.000Look up how long, how big the bill was.
00:45:02.000The initial bill I think was 2,400 pages.
00:45:55.000I know that I've talked to business owners about...
00:45:59.000So you can give them an option, I guess.
00:46:03.000So in other words, if you're a full-time employee, I have to pay all of your insurance.
00:46:08.000So one of the side effects is that Companies will say, well, if it means I have to hire you for 40 hours a week or 30 hours a week is full time, I'm going to hire you for 18 hours a week and hire somebody else for 9 hours a week.
00:46:25.000So both of you guys have to work part time.
00:46:26.000So what does that do to the busboy or guys like that?
00:46:45.000And the problem, I don't know enough about it, and I think it has helped some people.
00:46:49.000That's right, though, B, because I know people who are affected by that.
00:46:52.000Yeah, and I know people who need it, and there are about 20 million people that are on it now or something crazy, and they benefit from it, so it's a tough issue.
00:49:04.000Some people tell you it's awesome, they have free healthcare, but I've had friends that had surgery up there by subpar doctors, and they've had to go in second and third time to fix things.
00:49:12.000Or they have to wait nine months before they get their office.
00:49:16.000So a lot of them that have money wind up coming to America to get surgery from American surgeons, but I don't know, man.
00:49:21.000But also the innovation in medical technology, most of it happens in this country, and the theory is because there's more profit to be made.
00:49:28.000Yeah, well, that's where innovation gives birth.
00:51:02.000He's okay at 70. You know, when we joke around about Eddie, but Eddie's my boy, and he's like legitimately one of the very best jujitsu instructors on the planet Earth.
00:52:44.000See, that's how you know Joe Silva's gone, because after Mark Hunt fought Ben Rothwell, I asked for a fight in Denver, he goes, we will never let heavyweights fight in Denver again.
01:01:09.000I mean, it's not that he's not going to be great, and he's going to rehearse, and he's going to go through all of his stuff, and if he does a few of those in a row, he'll get right back into shape again.
01:01:16.000But the thing about stand-up is, in order to be like...
01:01:20.000You go out of shape if you take a week off.
01:01:26.000Dude, and sometimes for me, where I get scrambled is I'll do a UFC on the weekend and then I'll work on Sunday night or work the night after the UFC, whatever it is, and I'm scrambled because my brain is still in MMA mode.
01:01:40.000To be in the groove, if you're doing a big show on Saturday night, ideally you want to work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, maybe Friday too, and then gear up for Saturday.
01:02:08.000It's kind of like on a Thursday, when you haven't done stand-up in a while, Thursday on the road, and by Saturday, you've done five shows, five hours of comedy.
01:02:16.000That's why you told me to start doing some stamp, because...
01:02:20.000We would do Live Find the Kid at theaters.
01:02:23.000We'd start with 10 minutes of stand-up.
01:02:25.000I'm like, dude, I can't go one month there, take three months off, and then go in front of this theater.
01:02:30.000I gotta start doing some shit, man, in between.
01:03:03.000I mean, it's one of those things where literally no one's talking about it.
01:03:07.000I mean, this is maybe one of the least hyped up world championship fights in recent memory.
01:03:13.000I feel like maybe Dana was on vacation and came back like, you booked what?
01:03:16.000Well, I just don't know what else they can do.
01:03:19.000I mean, you have this fight at 145, you're trying to book Cyborg, Cyborg keeps canceling, then they test her, she pisses hot, now you're fucked.
01:03:45.000Because Jermaine Durandame is a fucking nasty kickboxer.
01:03:49.000And a real, legit, multiple-time world Muay Thai champion.
01:03:53.000And when she's presented with someone like Holm, Who is an excellent striker, you know, I think 18-time world boxing champion or something crazy like that.
01:04:03.000You know that Holly Holm is going to be striking with her.
01:04:07.000Well, that is where Jermaine Durandamy shines.
01:04:10.000Her number one issue in MMA has just been girls holding on to her, taking her down, you know, using their grappling.
01:04:25.000What you saw in the Valentina Shevchenko fight was when Holly fights...
01:04:30.000Valentina is one of the best, super high-level, most technical strikers in women's MMA, and she kept using that check-right hook, and she was kicking her a lot, working the legs a lot, and she just beat her by a clear-cut, unanimous decision.
01:04:45.000So I feel like this is a super dangerous fight for Holm.
01:04:49.000She's lost two in a row for the first time in her career.
01:04:51.000She gets choked out by Misha, and then she loses her next fight against Valentina Shevchenko.
01:04:58.000So I feel like this is a real dangerous fight for her.
01:05:00.000It's gonna be a tough sell if she loses this one.
01:10:46.000Team Alpha Male was his brothers, and he left that camp, and he went with Dwayne Ludwig, and he went to Muscle Farm, and they were like, fuck you.
01:10:53.000You know, look, they needed, look, and they knew at that point, Well, it's not.
01:10:58.000Listen, his loyalty was to his own future, and he felt like his best chance to get better was not with Team Alpha.
01:11:06.000Clearly the right choice for a champion when he leaves.
01:11:10.000Yeah, and he felt like his choice was to go with Dwayne Ludwig because he felt like Dwayne Ludwig had a bond with him and a deep, deep, deep pool of knowledge, and together they gelled well.
01:12:01.000Coming up hot, knocking everybody dead, you know, smashing Thomas Almeida, you know, knocking on the door, and then winds up winning the title in his first attempt, the first guy to fucking beat the shit out of Dominick Cruz like that.
01:12:12.000I mean, the only guy that beat Dominick Cruz before was Uriah, and Uriah caught him in a guillotine.
01:12:19.000I would say at that weight class, with MMA being, you know, with the margin for error, if your priority is loyalty, which I'm a huge fan of loyalty, over...
01:12:28.000A guru that could improve and change your style, then you're gonna get left behind.
01:12:50.000Brotherhood and friendship and I feel like there's almost there's almost always a way to do things different And I don't know I don't know if they did the right thing.
01:12:59.000I don't know what happened I don't I wasn't there right and but it's what here's my point results of the Fascinating in terms of the matchup now and now that they're gonna I think it's a giant move to do that on The Ultimate Fighter It's fucking huge because it might be the one thing that gets a lot of fans even though they're cutting the budget Are they cutting the budget?
01:20:15.000What if you only have the top of the foot down?
01:20:18.000I think they're saying, though, that anything other than the bottom of the foot.
01:20:24.000So the thing is, what if a guy is shooting in on a takedown, like Cyborg versus Michael Page, and someone catches you with a knee coming in while you have one knee down?
01:20:35.000You're sliding in, and you get thumped in the face and knocked unconscious.
01:20:40.000Well, that's the same as if you get wheel kicked behind the air, right?
01:20:44.000You're moving into it, which just shit happens.
01:26:37.000You know, there's a big difference between a guy like, you know, a fucking Michael Irvin, who is a world-class player, who wants to talk about...
01:29:59.000And John used to have to meet me on Houston Street and walk me to his apartment or I would get jumped because nobody knew me in that neighborhood.
01:32:23.000I don't have to say, Eddie Bravo and I have known each other since he used to help me and walk me through House of Street because people were going to jump me.
01:32:29.000And he texted me and said, Merry Christmas.
01:35:27.000So Auburn stuff, it's his natural reaction to defense.
01:35:29.000Sometimes scrappy dudes like Lozon, they want to prove a point maybe and try to submit a guy like Held, which would be a huge feather in his cap.
01:35:49.000Oh, and beautiful defense on the ground, too.
01:35:52.000He's one of the only five, and I saw him, we had an appearance together for the UFC after, and I went, dude, I just gotta, I've never done this.
01:39:51.000Pena's got to get that fight to the ground.
01:39:52.000Dude, Pena versus Nunez is a fun fight.
01:39:55.000Well, I mean, this has got to happen first.
01:39:57.000And then when Shevchenko and Juliana Pena fight, we're going to find out a lot about how Shevchenko can deal with relentless ground and pound and takedowns.
01:40:33.000Yeah, beat Holly on that Chicago card, right?
01:40:35.000And she shows that nasty fucking right hook, man, where she stands in that southpaw stance and she slides back and just catches you with that check hook.
01:44:38.000So there's a scramble, and in the scramble, okay, well, this is way later, but the girl catches, like, a rear naked choke from the side and puts the girls to sleep.
01:52:19.000You know, does he look at this as one last shot at redemption?
01:52:22.000And then this fucking kid who is just an assassin He's so good and so hungry and he's coming up and he's so dynamic and he shows all of this massive potential.
01:54:49.000Then again, then again, it's not the UFC. But he's beautiful from that southpaw stance, and he throws that nasty leg kick, or a nasty left kick, rather, to the body.
01:54:57.000Holy shit, we're about to watch BJ Penn fight.
01:56:29.000Mike is my friend, and you know, the UFC was sold to WME. They have their own thoughts on what they want to do, and I will be friends with Mike Goldberg till the day I die.
01:58:40.000It's a natural reaction for whatever reason for guys to want to move to their right.
01:58:44.000So when you're fighting a guy who's a southpaw who's a nasty kicker, so you have distance, you have a distance issue to deal with, and then you also have to mitigate the fact that you're walking into his power kick.
01:59:36.000It's just a matter of whether or not he can get this to the ground or he can get something going and try to sap something out of this young kid.
01:59:43.000I don't know if Rodriguez is as fast as the roadrunner.
02:05:41.000When you're fighting and you only have boxing...
02:05:43.000It's a terrible fight for BJ. Yeah, when you only have boxing and you're fighting a guy who can box and also is a dynamic kicker, you're in such a disadvantage.
02:05:51.000But also doesn't play the boxing game.
02:05:53.000He doesn't do the boxing range, which is what you're seeing in practice.
02:05:57.000You get out there like, what the fuck is this?
02:05:59.000Oh, it's 2017. He's also not doing a Muay Thai range.
02:12:18.000This is the problem, though, is that it's not just a matter of BJ being a legend, BJ being an all-time great, two-division world champion, bad motherfucker without a doubt.
02:12:26.000But his style is a boxing-based attack and then a vicious ground-and-pound and vicious top-game submission game.
02:12:34.000BJ is not a guy who submits guys off of his back, and BJ is not necessarily a guy who kicks that much.
02:12:41.000So Yair, who's an outstanding kicker, one of the best kickers...
02:12:48.000If you used to do Taekwondo, if you had a guy who said, and you boxed a little bit, if you had a guy that said, hey, let's spar, you can kick, and I'll just box.
02:12:57.000You'd be like, well, good luck with all that.
02:17:33.000John Jones and him, those guys, both of them, have really revolutionized the ground game with the leg lock attack, like we were talking about earlier, the John Danner.
02:17:43.000Look at that transition again by Held.
02:17:46.000Dylan Danner said he would submit John Jones in under eight minutes.
02:17:50.000Jesus, he doesn't understand how much bigger John is.
02:17:53.000John would do the shop shutdown and crush his face in.
02:25:50.000I had a goldfish tank that was right next to the piranha tank, and I would scoop goldfish out of the goldfish tank and drop them into the piranha tank.
02:30:52.000And he would look at the guy, he would look at the main guy, who was always trying to catch him and freaking out, and he would go, have a good day.
02:31:05.000Did he ask him if he shit in the sink?
02:31:09.000Oh, the guy would lose his mind, but they could never prove it, right?
02:31:12.000So why would he think that that guy did it?
02:31:15.000Well, because they 100% knew that the guy did it, because every time he'd be in there, he would disappear, and they started putting two and two together.
02:31:33.000Now you can't prove that, but he got off on the fact, and at one point, the main guy, who was the manager of the gym, they had to hold him back.
02:31:41.000Lou Perotum, the guy I used to work out with, told me this story.
02:31:43.000They had to hold him back because he just was like, I'm fucking, I don't care if he's a customer, I'm going to beat the shit out of him.
02:32:45.000However, apparently it is a perversion that affects a lot of people.
02:32:49.000So you can be a lawyer or whatever, and you get off on the fact that you break into somebody's house, you're jerking out of the closet, you might get caught.
02:32:56.000Who knows if somebody comes home, you come and you leave, you run out.
02:32:59.000That's something that affects, no matter what your socioeconomic status is.
02:33:02.000But you don't even see the results unless you set up a camera.
02:33:14.000So in a book called A Billion Wicked Thoughts, these guys who – neuroscience who studies sexual perversion and stuff, this is something that a lot of psychiatrists would deal with, right?
02:33:24.000Or in people who have sexual perversions, it's a recognized thing where danger, where the idea you might get caught and doing something behind closed doors, doing something which would be outrageous – Is that from suppression?
02:33:37.000When you say high-powered executives, I always think of people that are in a position where they're being forced to behave in an unnatural way and that bottles up.
02:33:46.000When they start jacking off to your Louis Vuittons.
02:33:58.000Hey Jamie, someone jacks off on your Yeezys.
02:34:01.000Well, there's a girl who was a dominatrix that met me and Jim Norton in Austin.
02:34:07.000We were eating dinner after a show, and we're hanging out, and this girl, because she knew that Jimmy Norton, who's a fucking pervert and a half, is into dominatrixes, so she came over.
02:35:24.000Lawyers people that have a lot of people that work under them they have power and they're also like like bent they're all fucking pressured and high strong strung out I dated I gave one of these girls who had a chair she took me to her dungeon and she had a steel chair and When you say dated,
02:35:42.000is it like you say John Joseph's your best friend?
02:37:50.000One of my favorite pictures in the internet ever was from the 90s, and it was that girl, it's called, it's like Japanese bathtub girl.
02:37:57.000The girl's in the bathtub, and she's got her asshole straight up in the air, and she's shooting a fountain of yellow diarrhea out of her asshole.
02:39:24.000When you have a champion who didn't win the title...
02:39:28.000In a fight in the Octagon, he was awarded it after he won an interim title against Frankie Edgar, which is a beautiful performance on his part.
02:39:36.000And then Max Holloway wears an interim.
02:39:39.000But then think about how Max Holloway got it.
02:39:41.000I love Max Holloway and he has nine fights in a row that he won.
02:39:43.000But then he beats Anthony Pettis, who's never fought at that weight.
02:39:46.000He did fight at the weight once before.
02:40:01.000Well, do you think that this is just a part of the transition between Zufa and WME and that this is going to be like this transitionary period where everything...
02:40:51.000What's interesting is, does WME, or this organization, have they really been involved in anything where the outcome is totally unpredictable like combat sports?
02:41:02.000Because the promotion for the Holley, or excuse me, the Ronda fight, was a perfect example of something like, well we really hadn't seen it that way before.
02:41:11.000We really hadn't seen it go 100% heavy towards the superstar, right?
02:41:17.000Usually, it's like, you know, you would see a promo piece, like, say if it's like Woodley vs.
02:41:22.000Wonderboy, you would see Wonderboy highlights, you would see Woodley highlights, you would see ass kicking on both sides, you'd be like, holy shit, what a fight, I can't wait.
02:43:08.000No, you didn't say this for this fight.
02:43:10.000I think you said that for the Betch-Cohea fight.
02:43:13.000Yeah, so see, when they're making these promos, they're patching stuff.
02:43:18.000For me, I have a problem with that, because that's not what I would say.
02:43:22.000So you're using an old quote when she was dominating people versus a new quote post-headkick knockout, post-the emergence of Amanda Nunes after she stops Darren McMahon, versus...
02:43:37.000What you're seeing now in this division, which is all this new blood coming up, you're seeing this division percolate and change and evolve.
02:43:46.000And you're seeing higher-level fighters come in, like Valentina Shevchenko, like Amanda Nunes, like Holly Holm.
02:43:52.000You're seeing all this stuff take place in front of you, seeing this change in the women's division the same way you saw a change in the men's division from 1997 to 2017. You're seeing that now take place at an accelerated pace.
02:45:07.000There was a lot of talk by people that I don't know, but I was listening to people talk about it, like I don't know who they are, executive type people, and I was like, wow, you guys have this idea of how this is going to go down.
02:45:25.000But there was a lot of people that were talking that had this idea that she was just going to go in and storm the castle and take back what's hers.
02:46:11.000They could be people who are friends of people who know some people that work at William Morris and they're backstage dressed in fucking $2,000 suits and they look classy.
02:46:30.000It's been in the game way too long for you guys to make any decisions without having some sort of influence from a guy who's come from the ground up from it.
02:48:18.000But do you think that there's a possibility, like, you could have something like that, some established setup, but then they could throw it to the internet for, like, a wild card?
02:49:46.000You can say Ronda was the biggest, but Ronda was a different force, and the reason she got so big is because she was champion.
02:49:53.000If Ronda was never champion, we're not even talking about it.
02:49:55.000But also, what she did to indulge that whole popularity thing was very different than Conor's approach.
02:50:03.000If Conor had decided to take that exact same approach and go do a ton of movies, He'd go do a ton of talk shows and go do a ton of commercials from Budweiser's and Entourage and all this different shit.
02:50:14.000If he started doing that same shit, his star would rise proportionately to where her star rose and his performances inside the Octagon would suffer proportionately to where hers did.
02:50:24.000And he didn't do it and he's still bigger.
02:50:26.000We were talking about that guy that did that interview.
02:50:28.000He's a sports guy and he was talking about...
02:50:31.000No, no, the other guy, the black guy who was with him.
02:50:37.000And he said, Ronda cheated on MMA. He said, you've got to be all in.
02:50:42.000He goes, you can't go and do a bunch of other shit and think you're just so much better than everybody else that it's never going to catch up to you.
02:50:47.000It comes from another one percenter athlete who knows and who's had all this kind of temptation.
02:50:52.000And Shannon Sharp stuck to the game plan.
02:50:55.000Cheated on MMA. And when he said it, I was like, this guy's dead right.
02:50:58.000I think the business model, though, the only problem with the business model is that with MMA, it's really hard to invest in the champion because of the nature of the sport.
02:51:30.000And if you don't respect the hierarchy of the champion, if you're somehow or another saying that this champion ain't shit, unless this champion is fighting Mike fucking Tyson when Tyson was 20 years old and just smashing everybody and you knew, oh my god, this is going to be the youngest ever.
02:52:33.000Yeah, and the stupid shit that Meryl Streep said the other day, like, one of the reasons why she probably said it is because she's seeing Ronda Rousey's face plastered all over the place, and she's saying, hey, you know, you take foreigners out of Hollywood, you're going to be left with football and MMA. She doesn't understand that MMA,
02:52:49.000like you saw tonight with Yair Rodriguez, is 80% foreigners.
02:54:16.000Well listen, Holly and whoever the fuck wins that fight versus Holly and Jermaine Durandame, it's a very interesting fight because if Shevchenko, you've got Jermaine Durandame, and you've got Holly Holm.
02:54:30.000Those are three super advanced strikers that could wind up facing Amanda Nunes.
02:56:40.000What do you weigh when you're training?
02:56:41.000You never know when they're coming, so you have to stay light.
02:56:43.000And you have to find out, oh, look, Brian Callen, you're 175. That's what you weigh.
02:56:46.000Not 145, you're 175. That's what you fight at.
02:56:49.000And so you have an obligation to get to your lowest body fat, and you know that the UFC is coming knocking on your door with weight tests before you train.
02:59:56.000Which is really even more impressive that you can catch those things, because that was part of the reason why a lot of guys like Aoki would wear those crazy tights, was for that extra traction.