Joe Rogan Experience - Fight Companion - May 31, 2014
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2 hours and 56 minutes
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208.90228
Summary
Brenden Schaub, Brian Callen, and Renato Guede discuss the UFC 246 fight between Mies Mousasi and Jimi Manuwa Munoz. They discuss the ups and downs of the fight and give their thoughts on what went right and what went wrong in the fight. They also talk about some of their favorite moments from UFC 246 and what they would like to see in the future of the UFC in terms of fighters who could take down the other guy. Also, they talk about what it's like to be a part of the "Fight Companion" crew and how important it is to have a support network of like-minded people who are willing to talk about anything and everything going on in the world of UFC 246. Oh, and they also give their opinions on what they think of the first UFC Fight Night's main event, UFC 246, which was held in Toronto, Canada on Nov. 30th. This episode is not a regular podcast, this is the Fight Companion Podcast, which is what we re calling the "fight Companion Podcast" and we re watching UFC 246 on UFC Fight Pass, which took place in Toronto. UFC 246 is a UFC event that was broadcast live on the UFC Fight Network, so we re here to discuss it and give our thoughts, opinions, and thoughts on it all! We hope you enjoy it, and if you like it, please leave us a review on whatever you re listening to this episode on Apple Podcasts or whatever else you re consuming. We re listening on your favorite streaming platform, and share it on your social media platforms, and tell us what you think about it s going to be on the next episode of The Fight Companion. We re looking forward to hearing from you! Cheers! -The Fight Companion Crew. -Brenden, Brian, Ej, EJ, and EJB, and the original Renato Thank you for listening and supporting the fight Companion Podcast! -Jon & Ej and Ej & EJEJB -Your support is so much appreciated, thank you so much, we really appreciate it, we appreciate it. -Bryan, Thank you EjEJorge, Jon & Jon & Eze and Ezequiel - Thank you, Jon and Jon, and thank you for being a good friend of the show! -EJEZ and Jony & Jony, and we appreciate you for coming out!
Transcript
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This episode of the podcast, if you're looking for a regular podcast where people are going to talk about interesting shit and bring up topics that are fascinating and intellectually stimulating, that shit ain't happening.
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Have you been back to the freezing place since we have?
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You can just put a black dot over my face, right?
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This is like I was saying before you guys walked in.
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We did it during the last UFC broadcast that I wasn't a part of, and we had a great fucking time, so we decided to do it again.
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Isn't there like a box of Alpha Brain right here?
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We're watching the Brazil broadcast, but I have UFC Fight Pass, so we can watch the Mousasi vs.
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You want to watch it real quick while we're waiting for the fight to take place?
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Can we watch it over here so my neck doesn't hurt?
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And Musashi got him to the ground, got inside control, went for the guillotine, wound up being on top.
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You know, a lot of people sleep on his ground game, man.
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And it was a sweet transition, too, the way he did it.
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He's a good wrestler, very strong guy, and Musashi, for him to do this to him...
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Listen, with Munoz in practice, this is the same thing he does.
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When he gets the mount, he goes for that single leg, and it causes him a lot of trouble.
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About options not to do that, but it's just in his nature when the bullets are flying to turn to wrestling.
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Well, that is the transition that a lot of guys make, especially when they feel like they're super dominant wrestlers.
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They feel like, look, I'm already where I want to be.
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But while he was going for the takedown, Musashi hit him with some nasty fucking elbows, man.
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And I think those probably took a lot out of them, man.
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So he couldn't quite take him down and get on top.
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You're live, Joey Diaz on JRE. I gotta ask you a question, Joey.
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Today, when they do that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, are they inducting Kiss today?
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I check with you, bro, just to make sure to do your thing.
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I thought maybe like 15 years ago or something.
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Come on, Kiss was definitely in the Hall of Fame.
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I'm getting frozen yogurt with a beautiful blonde.
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A while back, and Gene Simmons is sitting down.
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As I come back in to get a vanilla yogurt, I say, I'm going to get one.
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And I get one, and he looks at me, and he goes, and I go, Hey, man.
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By the way, doing stand-up for him at the MMA Awards, like he's in the front row, I think he didn't quite laugh, but he did open his mouth a couple times and kind of looked at me.
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Gene Simmons, his brother, or his son, rather, who's a funny kid too.
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For me, I was like, I just got to tell you, I'm nervous.
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Well, that's like, I did stand-up for Harvey Keitel and Harry Dean Stanton, and they're in the audience to see me.
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Way more out of control if I had half a billion dollars.
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He's in a fight with an asshole who lives next door to him.
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You would think his next door neighbors would be like 10 miles away.
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I mean, Joe and I, I remember Joe and I, when I wanted to get a pit bull, Joe and I, like idiots, found, I find this advertisement that says, pit bulls bred right out of the box.
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I don't know if he's selling it, but he's definitely smoked it.
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I was like, alright, well, I want one of those dogs.
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A baby cow and two goats and another dog, and then they had to put it down.
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If I was Justin Bieber at that age, I would have...
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It depends entirely on the dog, but even if you're really good at taking your dog to dog parks and getting used to being around people, they still have mad animal aggression.
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Yeah, they got that trigger you never know with them.
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And when Dom Herrera, when Justin Bieber's in the audience, Dom Herrera comes up and goes, You know, Justin, it must have been really hard for you, the struggle between the age of 13 and 14 when you weren't making it.
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By the way, that's the worst Dom Herrera impression in the history of the earth.
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Hey, you know, I wanted to watch that Justin Bieber movie, Never Surrender, Never Give Up or something like that.
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We'll just goof on this stupid-ass movie, a Justin Bieber movie.
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I couldn't wait to watch it and goof on it, but when you go and you watch it, Man, when you know the story of how he blew up, when you actually know how he blew up, it's pretty crazy.
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I thought he was a producer project or some labels putting together.
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Let's let everyone know that the fight is about to start.
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So if you're watching this, here's the problem.
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If you watch this online, it's a 15-second delay between us, this is what I had to get out, between when we're talking in the fights.
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The fights have already happened by the time you're hearing this.
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I'm not mad at those ring card girls, the new Brazilian ring card girls.
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The jiu-jitsu thing on his shoulders might be a little much.
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Jeremy Stevens knocked him out with a head kick, but he came back with a win his next fight after that.
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Jeremy Stevens hit him with the kick from hell.
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That right, if that's a left or a right, that right looks like if he throws it and commits, it's going to connect.
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If you're going to comment on the fight, you've got to do it in a Brazilian accent.
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If you connect with the right like that, there's going to be a problem.
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He's recovering from us shitting on his Don Murray impression.
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He kind of looks like if Dan Hardy and Jens Pulver had a kid.
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Yeah, or actually, I think it's Tom Hardy, Chuck Liddell.
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Yeah, there is a little bit of Dan Hardy, a little bit of Jens Pulver.
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What were you saying about pregnant chicks, though, before that elbow happened?
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No, I was just getting into the story of this background.
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If he catches, he's going to catch him with that right.
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Which is hard to do if you're not familiar with him.
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He knows about every fighter on the planet at all times.
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Anytime a guy is like making it into the big...
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Me and him have some really interesting conversations about fights.
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He wanted to show me some new variation on the armbar, and it wasn't effective.
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He had a good idea, it's just he didn't take into account a couple things, and one of them was that he wasn't controlling my body.
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So no matter what, if he would have put on a traditional Brazilian Carl's Gracie senior armbar, he would have still just slipped off.
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Steve Maxwell was in here, and he was talking about how he had this dude who was this gigantic football player.
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Just total super athlete, 280 fucking pounds of pure muscle.
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And he was rolling with one of his brown belts.
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And the guy gets him in a mounted armbar, mounts him, takes his arm, fully locked in armbar, and the dude stands up with him like a Turkish getup.
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Holds his arm up in the air and they're like, don't slam him!
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It was just, there was, he was so much stronger that it did, like the other dude was only like a buck sixty.
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He was so much stronger that it was just insanity.
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I just asked him about Andre Carter, who played defensive end for the 49ers and for the Pats, and I just met him.
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He's 6'7", 265, and just the most ridiculous athlete.
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How do you think you do in the UFC? Big guy, huh?
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And listen, people are always like, how would NFL elite athletes LeBron James?
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It takes a special kind of athlete to get punched in the face the first day in the gym.
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Oh, and there's not a million dollar signing bonus.
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Damn, I was hoping they were going to show that again.
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What it is, is football players and any professional athlete, really, they will, if they got into jujitsu or if they got into MMA, they will progress a lot.
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You gotta be doing it to get really fucking good and be glorious.
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Listen, there's a lot of guys in the NFL who I played with or in college, and there's some guys in fighting too, but mainly in these other sports where...
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But you've rolled with some elite football players.
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And do you remember that dude they used to have at the gym?
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I don't know what level of football he played, but I used to always call rolling with him.
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Shane Carwin was 300 pounds when I first started with him.
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Every guy you see tonight is going to be pretty tough.
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Honestly, these guys have a lot of muscle mass.
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Honestly, these guys have a lot of muscle on them.
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A lot of stuff doesn't work on these guys, guys.
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For anybody out there, Robbie Peralta on top kicking Honey Jason in the legs.
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They never know how long to stand there and when to step them back up.
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Obviously Homeboy doesn't want to go to the ground with him, so I think you should probably stand up sooner than possible, right?
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Remember you used to watch those old Jack Dempsey films and he would knock a dude down and then hover over him?
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Because when the guy tried to get back up, he would punch him.
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Now you have to, you know, stand in neutral corner and the boxer has to wait for the guy to get up.
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So when you see a scenario like this, I think it's kind of interesting.
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Peralta was, you know, holding his legs and kicking him.
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Does anybody know what's going on with Tiago Silva, like that whole situation?
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Apparently, he got arrested and they kicked him out of the UFC. Right.
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I'll tell you right now what this all stems from.
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Schaub's going to drop some fucking chicken head signs.
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If you've never heard Schaub, he's like, oh, he hit that beautiful foot.
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Brennan Schaub will give a master course on chicken heads.
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There's a lot of dudes out there that will ruin their fucking life with the wrong person.
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Brendan Walsh will teach you how to avoid chicken heads.
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Brendan Schaub will give you a- Brendan Fraser apparently has a piece on him.
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You should do one of those late night infomercials on chicken heads.
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You used to hear his song on your one album, Voodoo Panani.
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Yeah, they were just going to high-five, you know?
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No, no, they're just having a great fucking time.
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It might happen like one half of one percent of all UFC fights.
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That's a risky kick when you do that because you could catch an elbow.
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Marco Crocott when they kept hugging and grabbing each other's nuts and shit?
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No, you show respect by beating him up, by bringing it to him.
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Not by high-fiving him and having him sign your shorts inside the octagon.
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Yeah, well, I think Pat Barry was actually good friends with Marco Krokop, right?
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Listen, me and Andre Arlovsky trained together.
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Did you guys ever go out looking for honeys together?
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When you went to touch gloves, he goes, no, we'll do it afterwards.
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Then I tried shaking his hand and he didn't want to.
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There's nothing you can really do about it if you want grappling.
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Make the gloves so that it accentuates the hand more and curves.
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I think they haven't exhausted all the possibilities as far as covering the tips of the fingers.
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Everybody says you have to have the fingers open.
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What about covering the tips with a very thin piece of tough leather?
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Wouldn't it actually, if it was suede or something along those lines, wouldn't it actually probably give you just a little more grip?
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I'm saying the front of the glove, the way it's constructed.
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Some sort of a, like, lambskin or some sort of a pliable, something pliable.
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They don't make them anymore because they have microscopic holes where viruses can get through.
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The original condoms are made out of animal, like, intestines.
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And animal intestines actually feel way better, apparently.
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On Howard's turn, they all tried out the real doll.
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Yeah, they had the real doll in another room, like in that room or whatever.
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And they were miked, and they took turns on the real doll.
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I'll do it, but you've got to guarantee me the mouth.
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You think there's guys out there that hang out and double team real dolls?
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I guarantee there's two dudes right now listening to this podcast double-teaming some dolls.
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There's gotta be dudes that have parties with it.
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Like, one dude, he could afford a real good one.
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I'll tell you what my post-fight party is right now.
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Well, they have these websites where these guys take their real dolls and dress them up.
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I used to think it was funny to make fun of real dolls.
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And then I sent him an email back, like, hey, you know, look, I'm just trying to be funny.
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And these guys, they treat these things like they're their girlfriend.
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So then he explained to me that he was disfigured when he was young.
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And that that's a lot of the guys in this community.
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Yeah, it was totally a different point of view.
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I would definitely have a doll if I was fucked up.
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I think I was looking at it in terms of some crazy dude who thinks that's a girl...
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I was thinking if you're a regular dude, you have your shit together, and you're going home taking out a doll, you need a fucking motivational talk, man.
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Send me a text and I'll give you a motivational talk.
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Isn't there a fucking movie where a dude fell in love with his real girl?
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With Ryan Gosling called Lars and the Real Girl?
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I don't know, but that movie, Her, where he falls in love with the...
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There's got to be a guy out there that has like 70 of them, right?
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He has them all out in his living room and shit.
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He comes out with a fucking smoking jacket and he's got all these real dolls all around him.
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And all the guys in his community, they're like jealous of him and shit.
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There's got to be guys out there that want, they just can't afford one.
00:29:41.000
You're worse than the fucking judges in Vegas if you try to judge that fight the way we're talking.
00:29:50.000
There's got to be dudes that rip other people's real dolls off, like break in and steal them and shit.
00:29:58.000
Yeah, they break in while he's at work, they break in and fuck the real doll.
00:30:05.000
My friends have to evict this tenant from their apartment because the guy was breaking in the other tenant's...
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Apartments, the other women, and stealing their clothes.
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And this woman was going, I'm missing my clothes!
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So one girl put up video cameras, and the guy was breaking in during the day, stealing.
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So they get to his place, and he's got just bins, bins full of women's stuff.
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And he dresses up in his house and walks around, and that's what he's into.
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You're crazy if you don't think you can order a doll that looks like Joe Rogan and guys are fucking it.
00:30:43.000
Even crazier than that, how about the fact that they're going to have artificial robot bodies that you can fuck, right?
00:30:54.000
Well, with synthetic biology, they might be able to create very real-feeling robots.
00:31:01.000
I mean, you could essentially be an artificial person.
00:31:04.000
So you're going to be able to fuck a Brendan Chobb.
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I'm assuming not too many orders for Bigfoot Silva.
00:31:20.000
They just maybe just want to get savaged by a giant.
00:31:25.000
Yeah, you know, I bet you could probably order real dolls that look like Scarlett Johansson and shit like that, right?
00:31:32.000
Well, yeah, but I think you're going to be able to order an exact duplicate of Scarlett Johansson.
00:31:40.000
I would order one if it was affordable and reasonable, right?
00:31:43.000
If you talked to someone who lived in the 1400s about internet porn on your phone, they would look at you like you were completely recording.
00:31:54.000
Well, I don't know if you were really, truly paying attention there, Brian.
00:31:59.000
You were definitely not watching enough to accurately judge a fight.
00:32:22.000
Yeah, but you weren't really totally watching it.
00:32:42.000
Did anyone watch the Froach and Groves boxing match?
00:32:54.000
Isn't that funny that Carl Frotch is so big over in England?
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But people in America, the average sports fan, has no idea who he is.
00:33:05.000
He won that belt, but his girl jumped in there and everyone was like, dang.
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I was on a plane with Vladimir Klitschko and nobody bothered him at all.
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He walked in, he sat down, nobody knew who he was, and I was like, holy shit.
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And so I'm watching to see if people tweak and start pointing at him.
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And go, holy shit, that's the heavyweight champion in the world.
00:33:39.000
Here, he could deliver your pizza and you're like, oh, what's up, Doug?
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And him and his brother, they did a lot of time in Germany.
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They lived in Germany for a long time, and they speak German.
00:33:55.000
It's kind of crazy that guys with super high education would be the...
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You know, at a certain point in time, man, someone's got to do something about these guys.
00:34:20.000
It's like people getting kicked in the nuts, you'd be like, man, we have to stop kicking.
00:34:31.000
Every time anybody's been kicked directly in the balls, every single time, dude goes, hold on a second.
00:34:41.000
Off the top of my head, there's only been two matches that ended with ball shots.
00:34:50.000
He kicked him in the balls and he just couldn't recover because his ball got caught in between the cup.
00:34:54.000
Most of the time, though, in MMA, from what I remember, you get kicked in the balls and it doesn't end the fight.
00:35:48.000
You could keep his eye closed so you could see his eyeball through it.
00:36:01.000
You say that, but have they looked at all the options?
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Because I feel like people can figure something out.
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First of all, Tim Kennedy said they should use the Pride gloves.
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So they keep your fingers a little bit more curved.
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Keep you in this position, whereas the UFC gloves, you actually have to stress to close your hand.
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If you want to straighten it, you can, but you've got to force it.
00:36:46.000
Well, and then Everlast recently developed a glove for Bellator that they're allowing the UFC to use.
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Where it covers, like it makes the hand bend more.
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But the Pride one, like the fingers don't spread apart as much.
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Like look, when you open your hand, hold your hand up like that.
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See, it seems like there's a little more coverage of the fingers.
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The struggle is real to get this glove on, by the way.
00:37:45.000
Is there more padding on these, though, than in UFC gloves?
00:37:51.000
I want to just start walking around with this, just in case.
00:38:11.000
You know the Nas commercial with the guy with the mohawk who gets knocked out?
00:38:17.000
I took a lesson at Revolution MMA in Toronto from that guy who knocks him out.
00:38:44.000
We talked about it last night with that commercial.
00:38:49.000
I'm like, you're the guy from the NAS commercial.
00:38:50.000
Listen, there's a million guys out there who train and wear tap-out shirts that look exactly like that guy.
00:39:04.000
There's people online that get mad when we goof on Brian.
00:39:15.000
Well, the last podcast we did, we actually got tweets that were accusing us of...
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I don't know if you guys don't have any friends.
00:39:27.000
You guys who are freaking out because we bust each other's balls, go get some friends.
00:39:31.000
Also, I'm not very sensitive if you haven't noticed.
00:39:37.000
Half of the reason why he acts retarded is so they will call him on it.
00:39:44.000
If you're freaking out and attaching that much to dudes who obviously like hanging out with each other, I don't know.
00:39:50.000
Maybe you have friends at home that you don't really like and you're trapped.
00:40:04.000
Mr. Callen, can I have some of that delicious wine?
00:40:08.000
Because somebody's training right now, so they can't have it.
00:40:27.000
Did you see the trailer that Linkin Park released for UFC 174?
00:40:39.000
Well, you're obviously working, but they played it on UFC 173 and I was watching it with some buddies and...
00:40:57.000
It's the Linkin Park UFC 174. The little standard Linkin Park that an acoustic set, not gonna lie, wasn't that good.
00:41:06.000
Anyways, they played this promo, and yeah, I didn't say a word for the rest of the night.
00:41:10.000
Never Back Down MMA Motivation featuring Linkin Park.
00:41:41.000
And then you see how stacked this card is, 174. There it is!
00:41:47.000
Anyway, back to my story about taking a lesson from...
00:42:50.000
The volume's down on that YouTube browser, too.
00:43:20.000
Damon Meyer went on that losing streak because, for whatever reason, you have this world-class jiu-jitsu and they're like, you know what, I like striking.
00:43:46.000
You remember when he tossed Chael Sonnen and landed in that mounted triangle?
00:43:52.000
I think it's so scary for a lot of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioners to get into MMA and all of a sudden Some dude's trying to fucking knock him out.
00:44:05.000
So when they get to the point where they actually can do it and they're getting hit and they're like, fuck, there's nothing to be scared of.
00:44:11.000
And even though they lose decisions, I think they like it.
00:44:15.000
You know, I think like George Urgell, he's losing decisions, but he's like, fuck, I'm not afraid of this shit.
00:44:22.000
He's getting hit, he's getting cut up, and he just keeps going forward.
00:44:28.000
It definitely feels good to knock people unconscious.
00:44:29.000
This guy looks like powder and he seems to be...
00:44:31.000
And especially when you're a guy like Damian Maia gets knocked out inside the octagon and now he can do it to people?
00:44:38.000
Yeah, so I think they, even though they lose a decision, they just like it.
00:44:43.000
But it's also, you know, you got to realize that a guy like Damian Maia got so fucking good at jiu-jitsu because he becomes obsessed.
00:44:49.000
And he probably just assumes he's going to get that good at striking.
00:44:52.000
You would think that would be his home base, though.
00:44:54.000
He's going to be threatening everybody everywhere.
00:45:03.000
There's that weird way that grapplers move when you know they can't strike at all.
00:45:09.000
But when you see a guy get that certain fluidity to him, and it's weird.
00:45:14.000
It doesn't always translate that way, because some guys look kind of awkward, but they're really good strikers.
00:45:19.000
I love Damian Maia because I was at a real low point in my life when I was fighting in Brazil, and I was getting acai at like 2 in the morning after I fought Noguera, and he came up and gave me a big hug in front of all these people.
00:45:35.000
Yeah, certain stuff you don't forget, you know?
00:45:40.000
So he's doing well with his jab, popping that jab out there, but he hasn't been able to get ahold of this Russian dude.
00:45:45.000
He's a master of sport in both Sambo and Jiu Jitsu.
00:46:14.000
What are the odds that this guy survives this round?
00:46:17.000
I'd say they're 50% because this guy's a master of sport in sambo and a master of sport in wrestling.
00:46:53.000
He could get stopped, but I think it's a little bit better than 50% that he's gonna make it.
00:47:09.000
There's so many of these cats that are entering into the UFC. I will hold you.
00:47:15.000
There's some guys that are entering into Bellator, too.
00:47:19.000
I'll tell you right now, when this dude was getting ready for the game plan for Damian Maia, they said, first round, do not let him get on top of you.
00:47:31.000
He's going to spin for a sick-ass arm bar any second now.
00:47:37.000
Do you like that, though, up against a cage like that?
00:47:41.000
I have a win-win situation because if I lose your money, that means Damian Maia wins.
00:48:14.000
He's going to try to get his leg under his head.
00:48:21.000
It looked like he was going to set up for a triangle.
00:49:00.000
By the way, the Instagram picture of you and Brennan, your head is about twice as big as the heavyweights over here.
00:49:09.000
I always had a big head, and that really hurt me.
00:49:13.000
So now I call all my head instructors Moonheads, because they're like moons.
00:49:18.000
So now I turn Moonhead into something positive, so I changed it.
00:49:47.000
Guys, between Kung Fu and my step class, I don't have...
00:49:51.000
I'll dedicate that class just to making sure you leave with something that you can use in your I will definitely take you up on that.
00:49:59.000
Monday through Thursday, 8.30 at night, no traffic.
00:50:08.000
Brian Callen, if you make him walk across the street to get it, he's like, no, it's too far.
00:50:11.000
I couldn't even go to Verdum's if I could walk there.
00:50:18.000
Hey, you have your Invitational tomorrow, right, Eddie?
00:50:24.000
I put together a submission-only Jiu-Jitsu tournament called Eddie Bravo Invitational.
00:50:35.000
First match starts at 6, and we have a 145 16-man bracket and a 170 16-man bracket.
00:50:44.000
We got Gary Tonin at 170. Remember the match we talked about him and Crone Gracie?
00:50:48.000
Gary Tonin is the number one seed at 70, and at 145, Jeff Glover.
00:50:58.000
I got some 10th Planet black belts that are basically going to probably end up in the finals.
00:51:03.000
It's going to be Gary Tonin against Boogie, maybe, or if Gary Tonin even gets by Nathan Orchard, one of my black belts.
00:51:12.000
Who knows what happens, but it's going to be fucking insane.
00:51:16.000
By the way, Damian Maia is about to mount again.
00:51:23.000
Damien Maia is mounting anyone in the division he gets down there.
00:51:45.000
This guy cannot get out from under the mount, Brian.
00:51:47.000
This is like watching a blue belt versus a black belt.
00:51:50.000
And I'm not saying this guy's a blue belt, but I'm saying Damien Mai would do the same to so many black belts.
00:52:00.000
If the cage wasn't there, Maya would be doing some serious work.
00:52:04.000
Frank Mir told me that he, like, this is like Frank Mir's goddamn black belt, right?
00:52:10.000
But he told me after he rolled with Damien Maya, he goes, I'm not really a black belt.
00:52:16.000
He said, you can't believe how good this guy is.
00:52:29.000
If you've never had a conversation with Frank Mir, he's very smart.
00:52:37.000
So when he's telling you about how good Maya is, it's come from a guy who's got an education.
00:52:47.000
That move where the guy was trying to hip escape?
00:52:49.000
And how beautifully Maya made that transition back to full mount, like this inevitable...
00:52:56.000
Dude put everything into trying to get out of that fucking mount.
00:53:01.000
With his hooks, he's just controlling his legs.
00:53:04.000
When he throws to explode, he's just taking it away.
00:53:08.000
See, you can't get out of that shit like you can with another guy's arm triangle.
00:53:17.000
Taking the back, taking the back, using that hook.
00:53:33.000
Maya's wrestling is pretty on point nowadays, too.
00:53:54.000
That's the only chance this guy has of submitting Maia's.
00:54:05.000
You know, he couldn't get out of Damien's mouth, but look, he's still here.
00:54:18.000
It never makes sense to me in MMA when guys triangle the body.
00:54:30.000
If you go for a body triangle, like he's letting it loose here, but if you go for a body triangle in full guard, you're not trying to set up a submission.
00:54:42.000
The thing about it is you could let it go yourself.
00:54:45.000
Yeah, so say if a guillotine presented itself, you could always go back to full guard.
00:54:51.000
If somehow or another you could catch something...
00:54:56.000
Strikers are just like, you ain't passing this guard ever.
00:55:00.000
If you just cross your ankles and the guy has a good knee slice, he could open that shit up.
00:55:04.000
But when you're putting on the triangle, you're saying, I ain't trying to shit.
00:55:11.000
If one of my fighters was mostly a striker and his jiu-jitsu was just coming along and he was in some amateur MMA fight...
00:55:21.000
Don't try no triangles or anything, because they'll pass your guard if you fuck up.
00:55:24.000
You'll see high-level guys, though, in the UFC, in the first round, they'll do some body triangles, which is always crazy to me.
00:55:30.000
Or they'll be losing the fight, and it'll be like second round, third round, and they do body triangles.
00:55:40.000
Because nothing's going to happen, in other words.
00:55:47.000
But really, he's losing the fight, and he's like, and this shit's looking really bad.
00:55:53.000
I'm not going to let it get worse, so I'm going to put on a triangle.
00:56:01.000
They'd rather survive with the guy on their guard than have the guy pass him, mount him, and then really take him out.
00:56:08.000
He just hit Damian Maia with a hard fucking leg kick.
00:56:22.000
He exerted a lot of energy trying to finish in that second round.
00:56:25.000
And I think the 170 cut's tough for him, and we've seen him have problems before.
00:56:49.000
But you've got to give the first two rounds to Damien Maez.
00:56:57.000
He's hit him with three hard leg kicks in this round.
00:57:09.000
That's what makes fights so interesting, when you see a guy pull victory out of the jaws of defeat, figure out a way to get out of a hole.
00:57:16.000
Like you thought homeboy was just going to get dominated.
00:57:18.000
I thought he was going to get finished in the first round.
00:57:29.000
I got my leg massaged today and I almost tapped out.
00:57:40.000
But I found a lady who knows how to use her elbows.
00:57:52.000
I mean, I don't know how many of these he's going to be able to take.
00:57:54.000
You know what, he can't feel them right now, but it's definitely taking a toll on him, but you really can't feel them.
00:58:02.000
Look at this, Domaya gets him down in the mountain again!
00:58:10.000
The only way this guy's ever getting out of this position is if Maya goes for an armbar.
00:58:14.000
And why would he go for an armbar if he's dominated the first two rounds?
00:58:17.000
If he's this tired, he's not going to sacrifice position.
00:58:20.000
If he's this tired, no, but I feel like in that first round he should have went for something, man.
00:58:24.000
Yeah, you go spiderweb, transition, methodically.
00:58:34.000
He wants to be able to get enough energy for a burst and he wants to be able to get in a position where he's reasonably convinced that he's going to be able to finish it.
00:58:44.000
He just doesn't want to exert everything and wind up in the bottom getting ground and pounded when the bell winds out.
00:58:49.000
Because that's what happened in that one round.
00:58:59.000
That's a terrible feeling that he fucked up and wound up on the bottom that it could have cost him the round.
00:59:06.000
But look, his mount is like a goddamn building on your chest.
00:59:13.000
I know some people at home are like, oh, this is so boring.
00:59:16.000
I literally, there's nothing more I'd like to see.
00:59:18.000
When you see a guy whose mount is that goddamn solid.
00:59:20.000
What's funny is you can't really see what he's doing.
00:59:25.000
When he goes to explode, he takes one of them away.
00:59:27.000
Yeah, it's also his balance and his positioning.
00:59:31.000
What it is, is a lot of it is a knowledge of Jiu Jitsu first, knowing what to do in any given circumstance, and then thousands of hours.
00:59:50.000
You see guys lose mount all the time in the UFC. All the time.
00:59:53.000
But world-class black belts like Damian Meyer, they have that next-level type mount.
00:59:57.000
They don't get bucked off because they've been on longer.
00:59:59.000
He's been in this position thousands of hours since he was six.
01:00:07.000
When this guy goes to explode, he's going to take away one of his hooks.
01:00:16.000
The guy gets the half guard and boom, right into side control.
01:00:24.000
He's got half a minute, so he's got to do something.
01:00:46.000
I wish he would have done that in the first round.
01:00:51.000
You ever see that video where, oh, the guy's back up on his feet.
01:01:04.000
He got mounted for basically nine minutes in a 15-minute fight.
01:01:12.000
But I love the fact the Russian dude made it to the end.
01:01:18.000
There's a wave of these dudes coming over, man.
01:01:22.000
When guys get to mount, some people freak out like, oh, the fight's over.
01:01:26.000
It's typically not these days because there's not a high-level...
01:01:35.000
They just think it's over because it's two guys who don't know Jiu-Jitsu and there's a big heavy guy in Mount and he's going to punch his face in.
01:01:41.000
But in most cases, guys are getting out these days.
01:01:43.000
I don't think it's as dangerous as everyone thinks.
01:01:45.000
First of all, keep that Russian guy out of the sun.
01:01:53.000
Did you see Michael Chiesa and Trinaldo that last fight?
01:01:59.000
Dude, Michael Chiesa's got a goddamn ground game.
01:02:04.000
Chiesa was mounting him, and it was really hard for that dude to get him off of him.
01:02:08.000
As soon as he got him down on the ground, it was just smothering, adjusting, constantly adjusting.
01:02:12.000
When I saw Chiesa in Ultimate Fighter, I thought that guy was going to last one second, and he ends up winning it.
01:02:25.000
You know, he's a 10th Planet Purple Belt, so we talk a lot, and he comes to HQ every Thursday night, so he's training at 10th Planet Costa Mesa with Casey, and...
01:02:45.000
I'm not going to tell a fighter of mine what to do.
01:02:49.000
I said, the only way he's going to beat you is standing.
01:02:58.000
The worst style I've ever seen in the UFC. All he does is drop dudes with liver kicks and he's fucking people up.
01:03:04.000
It worked in Japan so well that he got into the UFC. And I said, don't fuck around with that.
01:03:18.000
I was most impressed with Kakuno that not just he took those punches, but that he got out of that darts.
01:03:24.000
He was like, I wasn't even trying to finish the darts.
01:03:30.000
I said, I would take him down and go, what do you want to do?
01:03:39.000
And I think, you know, play with him a little bit.
01:03:41.000
Then I'm going to take him down and submit him.
01:03:45.000
I'm like, you're gonna dance around with this guy who's dropping fool after fool with liver shots.
01:03:52.000
That's how he's fucking like Conan the Barbarian.
01:03:56.000
He dots him up, took him down, owned him on the ground.
01:03:59.000
And then stood up and knocked him out with a big right hand.
01:04:07.000
Cucuno's one of those guys, you get one shot to try and fight him, right?
01:04:10.000
You're not going to duplicate that in the training room.
01:04:17.000
You could get a guy at Cucuno, just his fighting style.
01:04:33.000
I've been getting paid working in the MMA industry since 2000. I've seen a lot of motherfuckers come and go.
01:04:43.000
I've seen working backstage at the UFC for eight years.
01:04:47.000
Seriously, I've never met anybody like Tony Ferguson.
01:04:53.000
He really is like an Operation 40 secret assassin.
01:05:01.000
I've never seen anybody study the game like him.
01:05:10.000
He's got all these transitions that him and Casey are putting together.
01:05:14.000
And they come up on Thursdays and they show me what they've been working with.
01:05:17.000
I'm like, they're putting insane stuff together.
01:05:20.000
There's not too many guys I'll stop and watch spar, right?
01:05:24.000
There's not too many guys I'll stop and watch spar, but when Tony spars, I'll watch.
01:05:43.000
He said, I'm going to dot this dude up a little bit.
01:05:48.000
If I get in a fight, even if the I don't care who it is, I'm going to go, hey bro, just so you know, I'm going to dot you up a little bit.
01:05:57.000
And not only did he take him down, he got his back and picked him up in one of those Kevin Randleman Fedor slams.
01:06:06.000
Before I die, before I die, hey bro, just so you know.
01:06:14.000
You're going to be like that old dude at the newsstand that gets knocked out by some young kid.
01:06:23.000
Well, by the way, just so everyone knows, when I hit 55, I'm going on the juice.
01:06:29.000
Gonna shave down, go on the juice, get a second hair transplant.
01:06:32.000
They say that Kakuno has a successful MMA apparel store in Japan.
01:06:40.000
I bet people are going in there and being like, hey bro, you think that style's the best way to go?
01:06:46.000
Because in Japan, he's probably killing people.
01:06:53.000
There's dudes who are killing guys in other organizations, and then they get into the UFC, and you realize...
01:06:58.000
Yeah, you look really good when you're fighting B-level fighters, but when you get in there with an A-level fighter, you're going to get fucked up.
01:07:04.000
You're going to have all your fucking T's crossed, all your I's dotted, and some guys just don't.
01:07:09.000
And when your hands are down by your dick, and you're moving around like you're in a karate movie...
01:07:13.000
You really don't have, you know, you have a unique thing you're doing.
01:07:16.000
It was super, literally, my brothers called me, we were laughing.
01:07:25.000
For Tony, it's such a dangerous fight, because you only get one live shot at that, and the dude hits hard as hell.
01:07:32.000
So you better bring your A game, or you can get dropped.
01:07:34.000
But Tony was, once Tony got comfortable, Tony started lighting him up.
01:07:38.000
Once you figure out that stance, you're like, oh, this is cool.
01:07:44.000
He hit that swim move off the back, got him into spiderweb.
01:07:57.000
I really- I wish you would have finished the Anaconda.
01:07:58.000
I believe we're gonna see Tony Ferguson versus like Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson, Gilbert Melendez.
01:08:09.000
And his, at the rate he's getting his jiu-jitsu, I mean his jiu-jitsu is like- Do you guys roll?
01:08:17.000
Did you teach- Casey Hallstead- You don't pay attention to what the fuck he's saying earlier.
01:08:19.000
He's explaining that Tony comes and trains there every Thursday.
01:08:41.000
And he's wearing toenail polish the whole time.
01:08:45.000
Dude, that was like the Dos Equis most interesting man on the highest level, right?
01:08:54.000
When you talk about levels, though, and when you get to the higher levels, fundamentals are everything.
01:09:22.000
You wouldn't be trying to argue with the director.
01:09:30.000
Well, I don't have a problem with it at all because it's so unrealistic.
01:09:35.000
You know, slamming your head into a wrecking ball.
01:09:39.000
The car stops in the midair and he just steps out.
01:09:44.000
On your shorts, Brandon, you'll have real Don on your ass.
01:09:53.000
I thought about getting a guy real doll and using it as a jiu-jitsu dummy.
01:10:29.000
If a dude wanted to give you a million dollars to borrow, just cash, you would do it.
01:10:51.000
If someone said if he had a real doll, a male one, and some guy offered him a million dollars to bone it, Oh, this is a piece.
01:11:03.000
Dude, whose names are harder to remember, the Russians or the Japanese?
01:11:12.000
Yeah, he's going to fight Demetrius Mighty Mouse Johnson, though, dude.
01:11:17.000
But he's training with John Dodson in that picture.
01:11:32.000
But I think if you want to talk about number one pound-for-pound guys, you've got to fucking include this guy.
01:11:41.000
All I hear is John Jones, who's spectacular, Jose Aldo, who's amazing, but you've got to include this dude in your pound-for-pound list.
01:11:53.000
His submissions, he knocked out Benavidez with one punch.
01:11:57.000
He finished fucking Moraga in a war, a four-round war, and then he finishes him with an armbar.
01:12:03.000
He's the most well-rounded fighter in the sport.
01:12:08.000
Everything black belt level and his technique and everything is flawless.
01:12:21.000
I mean, I don't know what he weighs when he actually gets into that octagon, but look at that.
01:12:26.000
I feel like the little guys are way more happier to get in the octagon and fight, right?
01:12:38.000
The chances of you getting finished aren't very good.
01:12:51.000
Well, because your head's the same size as those guys, and you can get knocked out with a jab if you're in the heavyweight division, much less a right.
01:13:09.000
Tyron Woodley pushes the boundaries of how big you can get.
01:13:13.000
That's like a big Demetrius Johnson without the jiu-jitsu.
01:13:22.000
He's like a big Demetrius Johnson without jiu-jitsu.
01:13:34.000
I think Tyrone Woodley is getting better every fight, and he's definitely going to mix it up with all the top guys.
01:13:40.000
I know you don't make calls on this, but if you had to put your money on one guy in that fight...
01:13:49.000
If I was gonna put money on that fight, it would be totally private.
01:13:54.000
But I will tell you the possible scenarios of that fight.
01:14:00.000
And he's very good at using angles and footwork.
01:14:04.000
And if you're not used to that jab, you take a couple of them in the face, like Jake Ellenberger is, and you go in a defensive shell.
01:14:10.000
Because you're like, okay, this guy's tuning me up with his jab.
01:14:15.000
Yeah, and every time I close the distance, his jab is wicked.
01:14:21.000
And if you get him on the ground, he's no goddamn pickwick.
01:14:34.000
The real question with that guy in that fight is can he get past that first storm?
01:14:38.000
Because Woodley's first storm is a motherfucker.
01:14:42.000
It's like he's so goddamn physically strong and fast and skilled on top of that.
01:14:50.000
That race of the cutting, extreme cut of weight, extreme muscle density for 170 pounds.
01:14:57.000
Somebody had a real good point about it on the underground, though.
01:14:59.000
They were like, yeah, that cost him, but would he be a better fighter if he didn't have that?
01:15:05.000
Because he's got very special abilities because of that build.
01:15:09.000
He could have been a leaner guy if he chose to, if he chose to not lift weights, if he chose to not eat as much, if he chose to do more cardio.
01:15:15.000
He could probably get smaller, but would he be better as a fighter?
01:15:19.000
That's interesting because he presents a lot of unique problems because of the fact that he's so goddamn physically strong.
01:15:31.000
Well, I think that comes back to what I talked about with Tim Kennedy, too, which is there should be more fucking weight classes, period.
01:16:08.000
I think we need a 225. There's already a lot of UFC. We can barely keep up with the UFC now.
01:16:15.000
Add more chick weights before you add more guy weights.
01:16:39.000
We're talking about the UFC. I'm not talking about these bullshit amateurs where you're getting knocked out in Muay Thai events on freaking AXS TV. No, no.
01:16:45.000
I'm talking about the UFC. I'm talking about Cyborg.
01:16:47.000
She's not coming to the UFC. And there's no 145 category.
01:16:57.000
You're going to have to pass a lot of steroid tests and no one's trying to see that bullshit.
01:17:01.000
Well, I mean, Uriah Faber might as well get a tan and jump in there and get a boob job.
01:17:09.000
Ronda versus Cyborg is going to be the biggest MMA fight in fucking history.
01:17:17.000
Every MMA fan plus their grandmas and their aunts and their little girl cousins.
01:17:28.000
The audience, the screams sound like a Beatles concert.
01:17:35.000
Dude, Cyborg versus Ronda is going to be the biggest fight ever!
01:18:06.000
If a woman, let's say she was really taking male steroids.
01:18:19.000
Very different, very different, very different.
01:18:20.000
A man taking a testosterone supplement, his body has testosterone.
01:18:29.000
When a woman takes testosterone, there's physiological changes that are reversible.
01:18:37.000
They get stronger, they get thicker, they get higher bone density, they get wider, their face structure changes, their musculature changes.
01:18:44.000
I know all that, I know that, and I know, just like Drago, everybody knew Drago was on roids, but they still wanted Rocky IV. You know what I mean?
01:18:57.000
Are we going to pretend that a large percentage of...
01:19:01.000
I mean, what are we supposed to do on this show?
01:19:03.000
A large percentage of these fighters are on some shit.
01:19:06.000
Don't you think there's a difference between a guy taking guy stuff and a girl taking guy stuff?
01:19:11.000
If a girl's taking male hormones, she's changing her gender.
01:19:18.000
I'm thinking about, I would love to see the fly.
01:19:28.000
As an athlete, I think Rhonda shouldn't have to deal with someone who may or may not have altered their body in a way that's irreversible and gives them an advantage.
01:19:37.000
I'm obviously no doctor, so I don't know if that's the case.
01:19:39.000
But what I've read is that they've showed permanent results, like permanent changes to people who've done things like this.
01:19:46.000
But if Cyborg can suck down 35, that'd be a very, very tough situation.
01:19:53.000
Yeah, I mean, she's very big, so it might even score in that sense.
01:19:58.000
Now, of someone, a woman who grows up doing vigorous exercise and gets into judo to the point where she goes to the Olympics, while she's growing, does all that exercise do something to increase her testosterone?
01:20:19.000
Still, yes, yes, but I know what you're saying.
01:20:22.000
And of course, Cyborg, there should be suspicions.
01:20:33.000
I think she's a black belt on the ground, correct?
01:20:42.000
I'm just saying, there's certain things that need to happen.
01:20:50.000
I'm just not a fan of Cyborgs when she fights other girls.
01:20:55.000
Like, when she fought Gina Carano, I didn't like that.
01:20:59.000
It just looks like two different levels in there.
01:21:03.000
It looks almost like a strong-ass girl versus a normal girl, and I don't like to see her just bully him around.
01:21:25.000
Cyborg's the number of fodder girl who's stronger than her.
01:21:47.000
I'd rather watch Misha and Ronda fight nine times.
01:21:54.000
If the doctors are correct in anything that she did take, You know, gives her permanent advantages.
01:22:29.000
It's an interesting conversation, Eddie, because I see your point of view as a fan, and Brendan, I see what you're saying too.
01:22:34.000
I mean, and I see both of them, because as a fan, if it was on, fuck for sure, I'm watching.
01:22:41.000
I would hope that would be a pay-per-view fight, and I would get to call it.
01:22:47.000
Listen, I'm sure I'm going to get some hate for this.
01:22:51.000
However, I just don't like to see her bully these little girls.
01:22:59.000
Did you see her kickboxing bout with Jorena Bars?
01:23:07.000
Well, people, they're like, oh, Cyborg Glass, listen, she fought a very, very high-level striker in her world in kickboxing, Muay Thai.
01:23:15.000
She took the lost goods, like, post-fight and everything, she was like, hey, I'm just in here just getting work.
01:23:29.000
But, you know, there's a real discussion to be had for what people should be able to get away with and not get away with as far as what they take.
01:23:38.000
What do you think about Gabby Garcia fighting MMA? She's fighting in MMA. She is.
01:23:43.000
She's way too big for the UFC. Gabby Garcia used to be very heavy.
01:24:01.000
And she would just enter absolute because there was no one ever her weight.
01:24:13.000
I don't think she speaks any English, so we were in the elevator together, and man, it was like a giant mafioso hitman right next to me going, holy shit.
01:24:23.000
And she just smashes everybody, but there was a Russian leg lock chick on the other side about 180. And she was leg-locking the shit out of everybody on the other side of the bracket.
01:24:38.000
And they met, I think in the finals or the semi-finals.
01:24:46.000
She was sitting on the side by herself for hours.
01:24:50.000
But Gabby, since then, she decided to get in the best shape of her goddamn life.
01:25:13.000
You guys, you guys, try not to talk over each other.
01:25:19.000
I agree, but it's super hard to listen to when people are complaining like a motherfucker.
01:25:28.000
There's nothing wrong with calling or talking about anything we want.
01:25:33.000
I wish you would have found a picture of her fat before.
01:25:40.000
I don't know what the fuck did that, but if fertility drugs do that, give me four.
01:25:44.000
Gabby Garcia tests positive for fertility drugs stripped of her 2013 Worlds title.
01:25:49.000
Women's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu powerhouse Gabby Garcia failed a drug test from the IBJFF 2013 Worlds and has been stripped of her medals, but it might not be what you think.
01:26:06.000
I wonder what a fertility drug would do for you.
01:26:09.000
I think she took drugs, I don't know, man, for like dragon fertility or something.
01:26:17.000
I would like to impregnate her and see what happens.
01:26:57.000
We should actually do me in that outfit and see how I look compared to that.
01:27:01.000
She's going to jump into MMA. She's fighting on the same card as Crohn Gracie, right?
01:27:19.000
That's a serious diet, and that's a lot of hard training.
01:27:34.000
I'd imagine there's some hormonal help involved in that.
01:27:43.000
Yeah, if you got down to, like, what is her body fat?
01:27:50.000
That's when she was coaching Vanderlei on the ultimate.
01:28:08.000
Meanwhile, we haven't called this fight even slightly.
01:28:13.000
Marcio, E-X-A-N-D-R-E, I would imagine, Zandre, and Worley Alves.
01:28:35.000
His head is in front of his fucking letter and his name.
01:28:55.000
How could you cover a guy's fucking name with his head?
01:29:02.000
I'm sure the guy who designs that website is a very nice guy.
01:29:13.000
They're saying jail out there's a freaking superstar now.
01:29:21.000
After all the shit he talked about Anderson and all the shit that the people are so mad they wanted to fuck him up for Brazil.
01:29:30.000
And the scenes that I saw from that, I've only seen a couple scenes.
01:29:33.000
He looks really like he's not non-confrontational.
01:29:49.000
Chael said every time he'd walk into any room, Vanderlei would be there with a mouthpiece and trying to fight him.
01:29:55.000
Behind the scenes, he's like, dude, I'm not going to fight you every time.
01:30:06.000
So I was on UFC tonight, last Wednesday, and Chael, we were sitting there, and he just got the text that he's fighting Chael.
01:30:17.000
And Chael said it exactly how everyone was thinking.
01:30:20.000
He goes, well, one guy, you're kind of like, alright, I can beat him.
01:30:28.000
Yeah, because, I mean, Vitor, man, you're talking a different game now.
01:30:33.000
Southpaw, lightning, fast, ridiculous striking.
01:30:46.000
How does a guy go from what Vitor was doing in the UFC, the way he looked, how dominant he was, three fights in a row, knocks out Bisping, knocks out Luke Rockhold with a wheel kick to the head, knocks out Henderson in the first round,
01:31:11.000
How do you get off of that stuff and then get your testosterone to a level where you can fight?
01:31:16.000
Well, when you have a TRT exemption, I think maybe they can be on TRT 24-7 and they don't have to worry about shit.
01:31:38.000
Now that they're done, does it make the guys go back to the old school way and just say, okay, we've got to cycle in and cycle off?
01:31:46.000
Because we already know about the stricter rules in steroids, and yet Vanderlei's on them.
01:31:57.000
They came to his office or they came to his gym and they said they need a random drug test from him.
01:32:04.000
And he was like, you don't have any identification.
01:32:09.000
And he said that he always submits his drug results and submits his blood tests at the proper time.
01:32:19.000
A weirdo could show up and pretend that he's some fucking UFC representative or a Nevada State Athletic Commission representative with no ID or no credentials.
01:32:34.000
Do MMA fighters, do UFC fighters get tested more often than football players?
01:32:43.000
Football players get tested usually once a year, unless you fail it, and then you get put into a program where you're randomly tested throughout the season.
01:32:50.000
Do combat players just know a few months before they get off it?
01:32:55.000
Combat sport athletes in general get tested more than any other sport.
01:32:58.000
UFC fighters get tested more than any other combat athletes.
01:33:02.000
It was just until recently that they started testing drugs, drug testing boxers.
01:33:07.000
And a lot of it is Floyd Mayweather saying a lot of shit about guys like Pacquiao.
01:33:12.000
So he submitted to these random, you know, Olympic style drug tests.
01:33:18.000
They show up at your house at any time and they take blood tests from them.
01:33:21.000
He submitted to those and he's sort of changing boxing because of that.
01:33:24.000
And he kept saying while he was doing it, we're cleaning up boxing.
01:33:26.000
A lot of guys were kind of perturbed about Manny Pacquiao.
01:33:30.000
That was the big rumors that Pacquiao, yeah, he's destroying everybody, but look what happened.
01:33:35.000
The guy's gone through eight goddamn weight classes, and everybody's saying that he's on steroids.
01:33:39.000
I don't know if he's on steroids, but I know that Floyd Mayweather believed he's on steroids, and a lot of other people believed he's on steroids.
01:34:06.000
The whole thing went down when Vitor tested positive.
01:34:11.000
The Nevada State Athletic Commission after that.
01:34:13.000
Before that, they were considering him for a testosterone exemption.
01:34:17.000
And there was a lot of talk whether or not he would be up for a testosterone exemption.
01:34:21.000
But because when they tested him, he tested positive, they scrapped the whole testosterone program.
01:34:28.000
With VTORT's stuff, man, because you talk about him going on this tear, he was hurting dudes, man.
01:34:38.000
Yes, you can, but I don't think they're doing that.
01:34:46.000
Oh, Alves tagged him with a right and then got him on the ground.
01:34:57.000
How about a lot of guys don't even go up high on the neck?
01:35:09.000
Shallow grip, that's another kind of guillotine.
01:35:13.000
But what he did right there where he leaned back.
01:35:24.000
But statistically, when you've got an arm in, usually the right technique is to go up high on the neck and put weight on the neck.
01:35:39.000
He just pulled back like a regular guillotine, but obviously he put the dude to sleep.
01:36:00.000
He's just a regular arm and guillotine done right.
01:36:09.000
He's leaning to his right and then bending that thing in.
01:36:18.000
So what he's doing with an angle is what you would do if you were head on by going up high on the neck.
01:36:26.000
Some people like to go ball and socket, some like the pretzel grip.
01:36:31.000
Yeah, isn't that interesting how some guys just have that fucking guillotine?
01:36:35.000
Like, when you saw Joseph Benavidez get that mounted guillotine on Tim Elliott, like, there's some dudes that they just get that arm in there, and it doesn't matter what happens next.
01:36:46.000
One way or another, they're gonna find a way to finish that bitch off.
01:36:54.000
Duncan could have a Harley if he lived in North Carolina.
01:36:57.000
If he went back to Asheville, where he's from...
01:36:59.000
Dude, you ever been to the most more beautiful place than Asheville, North Carolina?
01:37:09.000
But after we did Raleigh, we would take a drive into the mountains to Asheville.
01:37:13.000
It's like a utopian community in the middle of the North Carolina mountains.
01:37:18.000
I have a friend who lives up there, and he was telling me how amazing it was, but I couldn't believe it until I got there.
01:37:27.000
Walking the streets, people, just friendly, restaurants, bars, low population.
01:37:38.000
There's so many trippers in that town that the farmers started putting antifungal properties in the cow's food to make sure that they didn't grow mushrooms on them because it's all rainy up there and psilocybin mushrooms naturally grow on cow patties out there.
01:37:51.000
So these kids are all tweaked on mushrooms all the time.
01:37:58.000
Yeah, so much so that farmers started spending their own fucking money to make sure that they didn't have psychedelic mushrooms growing on their cows yet.
01:38:06.000
Did you know how many times they had to call the paramedics to get these kids passed out in their barns?
01:38:19.000
Bro, I climbed Big Whizzy Mountain on mushrooms in Wyoming.
01:38:27.000
He turns around to look and I have no clothes on, just my sneakers.
01:38:36.000
I had a blue mouth from eating blueberries and I was completely naked.
01:38:49.000
And the difference between a guy like these random dudes who talk shit on the internet and the impact that has on a guy like you who puts his whole fucking life on the line.
01:38:58.000
What does that feel like when you lose a fight and then you go on Twitter and see just a bunch of people fucking with you, man?
01:39:07.000
I think from doing the podcast stuff like that, people get a sense of my personality.
01:39:11.000
They used to think I was just like this dick, like cocky dick, you know?
01:39:15.000
But doing podcasts and doing more interviews and getting out there, I get to show a little bit of personality.
01:39:20.000
But, man, when I lost to, I think, Rothwell, one time when I lost to Rothwell, my Twitter was so negative, it was insane.
01:39:29.000
And then before I was going to fight LeVar Johnson, huge fight in my career, right?
01:39:33.000
You lose that one, you know, who knows what happened.
01:39:35.000
You're probably in Bellator playing grab-ass, getting $500.
01:39:38.000
So, you know, before that one, I stayed off social media.
01:39:46.000
And then even before the Mitreone fight, it started to get a little bad.
01:39:51.000
The week of the fight, I don't look at social media at all.
01:39:58.000
There is, but I gotta be honest, now it's like I got a lot of support.
01:40:03.000
Well, when you do a podcast, people get to know who the fuck you really are.
01:40:07.000
You're confident, you're big, you're good-looking, probably got a big hog.
01:40:16.000
There's a lot of dudes that I read on the Underground.
01:40:18.000
I don't know if you go on the Underground, but a lot of dudes...
01:40:21.000
I love you now because of your podcast and because of the podcast you guys did with us.
01:40:26.000
The last one you did, they said we really got to see who he is.
01:40:30.000
A lot of people don't realize how funny Brennan is.
01:40:42.000
I'll tell you what, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to go get some steak after this podcast.
01:40:55.000
Oh, we're going to eat some meat and have a good time.
01:40:57.000
You guys are the only ones I can tell the stories to.
01:41:15.000
His dad couldn't look more Native American, by the way.
01:41:19.000
There's a lot of Italians that are basically monkeys.
01:41:22.000
The shop got some of that Italian monkey genetics.
01:41:38.000
I played four years at University of Colorado and then short stand with Buffalo Bills.
01:41:45.000
They keep showing this one right hand over and over again.
01:41:58.000
Bring up Aaron Hernandez and take a look at your friends.
01:42:06.000
Bro, I was in Ralph's, and these guys behind me, I can hear them on the cell phone.
01:42:12.000
Dude, black guy's like, no, I'm looking at this motherfucker right now.
01:42:18.000
And I'm like, I turn around like, it's Aaron fucking Hernandez.
01:42:26.000
And then when I jumped in my Prius, they're like, oh, no, that ain't him.
01:42:31.000
My first black belt, Denny Prokopos looks exactly like Brendan Shaw.
01:42:48.000
But there are other pictures where he looks a lot more like Aaron Hernandez.
01:43:05.000
Oh, dude, I rolled with him in San Francisco like a month ago.
01:43:20.000
Yeah, and he does the 10th plant in San Francisco, right?
01:43:40.000
This dude is in the NFL and shot, allegedly, three people.
01:43:44.000
He's 24. He's 24 in the NFL. How did he shoot people?
01:43:53.000
One of the best tight ends on the Patriots, on one of the best teams.
01:44:01.000
Did he grow up in LA? No, he grew up in Boston, right?
01:44:08.000
Reportedly having a tough time paying his defense team.
01:44:32.000
I mean, probably was going to be one of the best tight ends ever in the NFL. Freak, man.
01:44:43.000
A portion of his $12.5 million bonus was supposed to be guaranteed to Hernandez when he signed a contract extension in 2012 is in dispute, son.
01:44:51.000
And his $1.3 million home is the subject of a restraining order that prevents him from selling it or using it for anything other than paying a future judgment in a civil lawsuit filed by the family of one of the men that he's accused of killing.
01:45:05.000
This dude is accused of killing three fucking people.
01:45:12.000
The one he just got indicted on is he pulled up.
01:45:15.000
They're saying he pulled up in a SUV, just shot up the SUV, killed two dudes.
01:45:22.000
They only found out that he did it after he got busted for killing this other dude.
01:45:26.000
And they're saying he killed the other dude because that dude knew stuff about another murder he did.
01:45:31.000
And so then all these other witnesses are done.
01:45:33.000
It's like you kill one person and you're like, well, you know, something.
01:45:39.000
Bad murderer, good football player, handsome dude.
01:45:49.000
You know, when you take a dude who's a big super athlete and he's living in some sort of a bad situation and he's just fucking, just a huge, just aggressive, savage dude, and that's why he's so goddamn good at football, and then you expect him to keep his shit together because he got an NFL contract.
01:46:08.000
Oh, you're from the hood and you're bringing all your entourage with you?
01:46:15.000
Starting from the bottom, now the whole team here.
01:46:20.000
And they also want to prove they're still legit.
01:46:24.000
They're always trying to prove they're still tough.
01:46:29.000
Maybe he wanted out, and he was trying to get out, but he had done so much shit that there was still some unfinished business that he had to take care of, but he probably didn't want to do it.
01:47:08.000
I'm rich as shit and I fight in UFC. Yeah, I've changed 100%.
01:47:19.000
I know you ain't rich for no QFC. What are you talking about?
01:47:26.000
You don't understand how much a heavyweight makes, Eddie Bravo.
01:47:33.000
He was complaining about the pay, the difference in pay between the heavyweights and the lighter weight.
01:47:37.000
Well, people, I mean, heavyweights run the world.
01:47:51.000
Fucking fighting Mirko Krokop for 10 and 10 like this.
01:47:55.000
Okay, so you didn't make that much money before, but now you're making money.
01:48:06.000
You can't ask his actual numbers, though, on the podcast.
01:48:11.000
Because you're asking him a question that he might not want to answer, and you're saying it live, and if you do that, you're not giving him a chance to say, I don't like to talk about that shit.
01:48:27.000
Look at Gilbert Melendez doing a little commentary.
01:48:35.000
Looks like someone gave him a noogie before he got on there.
01:48:48.000
Glover did good too, although he did fuck up a few times.
01:48:54.000
Well, I just mean like he could use, like pause.
01:49:05.000
Everyone thinks they can commentate because they can talk shit while they watch the UFC, you know, when they're drunk and they're comfortable.
01:49:19.000
High school wide receivers have great hands, but the difference between a high school football player and a pro football player, can you hold onto that ball when there's pressure?
01:49:30.000
The other thing that might have hurt him a little bit is his next Kenny Florin who does it for a profession.
01:49:37.000
And there was a couple things that Jeff had wrong.
01:49:40.000
He thought I was setting him up for a triangle the whole time.
01:49:42.000
Like in the beginning, I'm never thinking about a triangle.
01:49:46.000
But overall, I thought Jeff did a great job for his first show ever.
01:49:51.000
Yeah, he just didn't understand your game totally.
01:49:56.000
When I rolled for the vaporizer, he says, I like to consider myself an expert in jiu-jitsu, and I'm confused right now, Kenny.
01:50:06.000
People were doing tutorials of the vaporizer the next day and the next week.
01:50:18.000
I'm not qualified, but I have to say, you were doing stuff, and Joe was screaming because he saw you were getting positioned, but I had no idea that you had positioned before you did it.
01:50:28.000
As soon as Eddie Bravo gets that lockdown, everybody got crazy.
01:50:31.000
They went crazy when you went from quarter guard to lockdown.
01:50:39.000
Because for six minutes, he was fighting for the underhook.
01:50:49.000
And by the way, for the record, And from my vantage point, he never even was in the game with you.
01:50:55.000
And all due respect, of course, to Hoyler, but did you get acknowledged for that from the Gracie camp, or how did that work?
01:51:05.000
I'll answer because it's difficult for him to answer.
01:51:10.000
Their portrayal of the actual events, it was embarrassing.
01:51:14.000
It's like a cover-up, like a government cover-up.
01:51:16.000
Embarrassed for them, for all of them that commented.
01:51:18.000
Not one of them did an accurate assassination post-fight until they experienced criticism.
01:51:23.000
When they experienced criticism, then people started giving him credit for it.
01:51:30.000
They were being ridiculous and biased and it was sad.
01:51:33.000
As someone who's a huge fan of the Gracies and a huge fan of Jiu Jitsu and I'm massively in debt, my own personal life for what their families accomplished, I am in debt to all the Gracies.
01:51:46.000
Elio Gracie, without a doubt, his accomplishments and his art changed my life.
01:51:52.000
Because it changed Eddie's life, Eddie's life changed my life, John Jock Machado's life, who changed Eddie's life.
01:51:58.000
I mean, all of us are directly chained back to Elio's work.
01:52:02.000
That said, their depiction of that fight was an embarrassment.
01:52:05.000
It was an embarrassment to the greatest martial arts family of all time.
01:52:09.000
They weren't accurate in their assessment of what happened.
01:52:12.000
What happened was, Horler didn't know what to do with Eddie's game, he got wrapped up, he got swept on multiple occasions, and he got threatened twice, and he got his knee fucked up.
01:52:25.000
Most people on the planet would have tapped to that.
01:52:28.000
Hoyler decided not to tap to it, and they also agreed to ridiculous rules.
01:52:32.000
They never addressed the fact that the only reason why he was able to survive was he was allowed to grab Eddie's clothes, but Eddie wasn't allowed to grab his clothes.
01:52:51.000
If you don't wear the pants, we're pulling out.
01:52:53.000
The deal was, Eddie wears the pants, and he can grab Eddie's pants, but Eddie can't grab his shorts.
01:53:10.000
Hoyler's leg was in a terrible position, but it wasn't in the worst position.
01:53:16.000
And if that guy wasn't able to grab Eddie's clothes, and he wasn't able to hold on for dear life on the collar of his pants, Eddie would have switched.
01:53:25.000
And if he switched to putting his foot on his other foot...
01:53:28.000
If you went to the dark position, after that, there's the vaporizer...
01:53:33.000
And then there's that one step where you take the vaporizer to DEFCON 10. It's ugly.
01:53:42.000
I was like, that knee, that doesn't look natural.
01:53:47.000
That's 7 out of 10. The next three steps are the ugliest shit you've ever seen in your life.
01:53:58.000
When they put it on their Instagram, their Instagram was all about how great Hoyler looked.
01:54:04.000
And all about Hoyler getting through two submission attempts and smiling.
01:54:12.000
The end of it, Gracie in all caps and exclamation points.
01:54:16.000
So I was embarrassed by it because I think that we all have an obligation to be as honest and as open as possible when we're assessing our friends, our loved ones, our brothers and sisters' performances.
01:54:29.000
There's this weird thing that people do when they start getting biased and they start disregarding the accomplishments of others.
01:54:34.000
If the fight was completely reversed, I would absolutely say, man, Hoyler Gracie dominated Eddie Bravo.
01:54:47.000
I mean, very brave of Eddie that he didn't tap, but man, I was super impressed with Hoyler.
01:54:51.000
Hey, I don't know if they're going to do it again.
01:54:52.000
Maybe Eddie would like to reconsider knowing that Hoyler's game is so tricky.
01:54:56.000
If they were totally opposite, but they weren't opposite.
01:55:05.000
Look, I love the Gracies, but Eddie's one of my best friends on the planet.
01:55:10.000
You're probably the top two human beings that I love more.
01:55:23.000
But even being biased, objectively looking at it, I get sad.
01:55:28.000
Because I think that what they did was an embarrassment.
01:55:31.000
All I want to know is where the fuck are the pickles, bro?
01:55:39.000
Where one hand goes on the mat, you slap the mat, and the other hand goes up and you start waving.
01:55:45.000
That was a wrestling move, and I never wrestle.
01:55:51.000
For sure he's going to think I'm going to pull guard, but let me give a wrestling look for a second to freak him out, and then I'll pull guard.
01:56:01.000
It's hard when people get emotionally attached to results.
01:56:03.000
It's hard when people get emotionally attached to a fight.
01:56:17.000
You know, I mean, even all of them, you know, Even Henner, who I love, his take on it was that you didn't pass the ILIO challenge or the ILIO test.
01:56:29.000
That your style would be ineffective in a street fight.
01:56:36.000
Because if they knew that if punches were involved, your style works better.
01:56:40.000
Your style's more effective when the guy's trying to punch.
01:56:42.000
Because if a guy on top is trying to punch, he's giving up underhooks, he's giving up overhooks, he's giving up a lot of shit when you start throwing your arms around.
01:56:48.000
The only reason I'm in quarter guard is because there's not punching.
01:56:52.000
If there was punching, I would get in deeper right away.
01:56:54.000
But since you could use your hands on top 100% to keep me away and rape choke me and do all the stuff that people do, it's because you're not punching.
01:57:10.000
Tell the story about how they were trying to set you up.
01:57:16.000
You don't even have to say the name of the organization.
01:57:18.000
You don't have to say the name of the organization.
01:57:22.000
I'll set it up so you don't have to know the name of the fighter or the organization.
01:57:26.000
A prominent Japanese organization that may or may not still be in business came up to Eddie in Los Angeles and they wanted to talk to him about having an MMA. There's no wine in there.
01:57:42.000
They wanted to talk to him about having a UFC fight.
01:57:54.000
That's the only reason I sat down and talked to them.
01:57:57.000
Because I wasn't trying to do MMA. But they go, oh, we want to get you to fight a super fight grappling match.
01:58:09.000
At the Beverly Wilshire, the raddest hotel in LA. I met him there in the lobby and a representative of this organization.
01:58:20.000
They go, well, how about if we made it a MMA fight?
01:58:30.000
And then the guy who brought me there, I looked over at the guy who brought me, hooked it all up.
01:58:49.000
You think you're going to win, and then you get in there, and the guy beats the fuck out of you.
01:58:59.000
Japanese culture is very different than American culture.
01:59:01.000
If they set you up and you go over there, you ain't suing.
01:59:05.000
You're not saying, hey, we had an agreement to do a fixed fight.
01:59:16.000
And Antonio Carlos Jr. Antonio only has four fights.
01:59:22.000
Very similar to me with only four fights on the Ultimate Fighter finale.
01:59:38.000
I only had four fights, and Roy had, whatever, 25 former world champs.
01:59:41.000
But the thing that helped me, and I've never told you this, Joe, the thing that helped me, I was in a dark place.
01:59:48.000
I lost that fight, and I watched the replay back, and during my walkout, Joe on the broadcast goes, Listen.
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He could jump in a division right now and beat anyone.
02:00:04.000
No matter what happens in this fight, Brendan's going to go on and have a great career.
02:00:13.000
You know, there's a thing about those ultimate fighter situations like that where you get a guy who's got mad, mad fucking fights behind him.
02:00:21.000
And Roy, you know, Roy was, he was real good and wasn't known for, it was weird.
02:00:26.000
The show made him known for being a knockout puncher.
02:00:29.000
Yeah, but before that, he fought Andre Arlovsky before he came to the house.
02:00:35.000
That was when they were doing that bullshit, that Elite XC. They would stand you up, you'd be on the ground for 15 minutes.
02:00:45.000
However, either way you paint it, Orlovsky TKO'd him.
02:00:51.000
But I think that he was more uncomfortable about taking shots back then, too.
02:00:58.000
But it's interesting if you think about that, the fact that he got TKO'd by Orlovsky, and since then he's been invulnerable to shots.
02:01:05.000
Verdum hit him with everything but the goddamn kitchen sink.
02:01:10.000
But he need the fucking shit out of his face, man.
02:01:23.000
I'll tell you what, they just announced Roy Marcant.
02:01:26.000
But back to the Ultimate Fighter finale, there's a lot of fights, like most commissions went sanctioned in that fight.
02:01:33.000
A guy with four and a guy with 30. They're going to be like, no, we're good.
02:01:40.000
I didn't know that the commissions took those things into account.
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How dare you do commentary on a fight ever if you don't know that.
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They'll do it in boxing if a guy has an extensive amateur background.
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If a guy is like a world champion amateur boxer and he's fighting in Cuba and then all of a sudden he's in America and they want him to challenge for the title in his third fight, That's not unheard of.
02:02:10.000
There's a Russian guy recently challenged for a title, and he'd only been boxing professionally for a very short period of time.
02:02:15.000
Bro, I went from fighting Billy McGee in Denver, you know, where he was scared, and, you know, I was beating him already at the weigh-ins, to fighting Roy Nelson in Las Vegas.
02:02:30.000
You knew about him when you went in there, I mean.
02:02:32.000
I thought 100% I was going to knock him out in the first round.
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I wouldn't change it for anything, though, man.
02:02:41.000
When he dropped that bomb on Noguera, that was one of the saddest knockouts of all time.
02:02:49.000
But when Roy knocked out Noguera, it was a career ender.
02:02:53.000
It was like, whoa, that was a sign that the fucking wheels have come off the wagon.
02:03:02.000
When he hit Congo, I was like, oh no, oh my god, you killed Congo.
02:03:10.000
He didn't even start striking until 2009. Yeah, Roy's a special, special animal.
02:03:30.000
I slipped the first one, and my head was out of position.
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Before that, though, I was putting on a clinic.
02:03:46.000
But if it were to happen, yeah, it'd be a totally different story.
02:03:49.000
You know, Eddie, what we were saying about how the Gracies were saying what you did didn't pass the Elio filter.
02:03:55.000
What was fucked up about that is what we were talking about earlier about when Huron fought Andre Galvao.
02:04:34.000
That's why people are like, oh, Schaub's being quiet because he's Team Gracie.
02:04:39.000
I watched Metamora, and I was like, damn, that was dope for jiu-jitsu.
02:04:42.000
It was the most talked-about jiu-jitsu match since Brendan Schaub's cyborg.
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And you know, it's not that I'm anti-metamorous.
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I love that they're doing it, but I think that you've got to be really careful with your assessments of a situation.
02:05:19.000
If the UFC did that, say if the UFC talked about T.J. Dillashaw and Hennon Burrell and painted it all about Hennon Burrell being tough and amazing, how he got through that fight and it was incredible.
02:05:32.000
Because there was a little bit of that before a fight.
02:05:36.000
No one thought that was going to happen the way, I mean, I guess maybe TJ did, but I didn't think it was going to happen that way.
02:05:43.000
I thought it was going to be a really tough fight.
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I thought TJ has chances to win because he's got great endurance.
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If he could take it into the third, fourth, and fifth round and push a tremendous pace.
02:05:52.000
When you get in the top ten, it's about matchups.
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Number nine could be a horrible match for number one.
02:05:56.000
But anyway, if the UFC painted it in an incredibly inaccurate way, imagine after the fact.
02:06:06.000
If they talked about the T.J. Dillashaw-Hennenborough fight.
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Because everyone's like, Matt, Sarah, GSP? Uh-uh.
02:06:21.000
Because this was five rounds of a straight ass-whooping clinic, son.
02:06:27.000
Ass-whooping clinic and then stops him in the fifth with a fucking head kick.
02:06:33.000
But what Eddie did to Hoyler was, Hoyler was never once in a dominant position, never once in a position where he was threatening Eddie.
02:06:44.000
So for them to paint this inaccurate picture of it, and then, in their credit, corrected it once they experienced criticism, and actually took the original post down from Instagram.
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Which is essentially admitting that you fucked up.
02:06:59.000
Did Hoyler, did you talk to Hoyler after the fight?
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And if you pretend it's not what it is and everybody can see that, they think you're a cunt.
02:07:28.000
And, you know, I appreciate the fuck out of their loyalty.
02:07:31.000
Wow, look at this beautiful mountain, this fucking dude.
02:07:35.000
I'll tell you right now, both of these guys, they're both going to have a career in the UFC, whoever wins or loses, obviously.
02:07:40.000
However, neither one of them is fighting at heavyweight.
02:07:42.000
I think one weighed at 214, one weighed at 212 or something like that.
02:07:46.000
230 and 218. Miranda on the bottom is 230. That's on his bio in the UFC. That might not be accurate.
02:07:55.000
Eddie, is there a guy, a jiu-jitsu guy, straight jiu-jitsu guy, that you would really like to fight that is a huge challenge to you?
02:08:08.000
He was trying to hip escape, and the dude passed his guard and got into side control like a wizard.
02:08:25.000
I mean, I think that match was super important.
02:08:31.000
And I think that it showed that jiu-jitsu matches can be super fucking exciting.
02:08:35.000
And I think it opens up the door to a possible future in having some sort of a professional...
02:08:49.000
Eddie, would you change the rules of Metamorris, though?
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As in, is there something they can do to make it...
02:08:54.000
Well, submission only, I think, is the way to go.
02:08:57.000
Well, it should be submission only for sure, but since Metamorris is in a tournament, it's a single match, it should be more winner-take-all, or serious difference between show money and submission money.
02:09:11.000
Like, it should be a thousand bucks to show for, you know, or...
02:09:23.000
If you're going to have single matches, the money will create the urgency that creates the entertainment.
02:09:30.000
Otherwise, you get this weird kind of stalemate that lasts for 20 minutes, man.
02:09:45.000
I'm not trying to make money putting together this tournament.
02:09:52.000
We're just trying to put together jiu-jitsu for TV. It should be on TV already, but it's not on TV. Oh, sick triangle, son!
02:10:15.000
Back to his half guard, sneaking up the back door on him.
02:10:18.000
Is there a guy you'd like to- Isn't that crazy?
02:10:20.000
They're stopping him from throwing those elbows.
02:10:31.000
Because it's a rule that was- 12-6 elbows are illegal anywhere.
02:10:34.000
It was created when they were worried about people killing people way back in the day.
02:10:38.000
Because hitting in the back of the head or something?
02:10:45.000
You've never paid attention once because you're not a real MMA fan.
02:10:51.000
When Big John McCarthy was first talking to the athletic commissions...
02:10:57.000
They wouldn't let the downward elbow in because they saw those karate demonstrations at 2 o'clock in the morning where dudes would break bricks with their elbows.
02:11:08.000
And it proves that you're not a real MMA fan because you don't know that.
02:11:12.000
So now that we've established that, don't ever say a guy can hit a guy with a right hand again.
02:11:20.000
Eddie, is there a guy out there, a jiu-jitsu guy, that you would love to fight who you think would be a huge challenge to you?
02:11:59.000
Yeah, and after that match, I don't want to put any names out there.
02:12:06.000
I'm going to rest for a while, and when I come back...
02:12:09.000
The only names I'm going to bring up, I'm not going to bring up any names now, are names that are going to generate the most money.
02:12:15.000
At the end of the day, you have nothing to prove.
02:12:21.000
And if I went against Marcelo Garcia, he would fucking smash me.
02:12:33.000
As he was taking him down, as he was taking Marcelo Garcia down, he said, he already had him submitted.
02:12:39.000
Brian, would you shut your yapper for two seconds?
02:12:42.000
Will you shut your yapper for two seconds about jiu-jitsu?
02:12:45.000
I find a hard time believing you really want to know the answer to that question.
02:12:55.000
This is to win the Ultimate Fighter Heavyweight Brazil.
02:12:57.000
Brian, you've got to not talk over people, man.
02:13:17.000
You and Joe finally tuning in to the fights and scolding me.
02:13:21.000
You know, one thing I want to make clear before we end, Henzo Gracie, I love you to death.
02:13:29.000
There's only a couple that I'm not particularly interested in hanging out with, but there's a lot of Gracies that are awesome.
02:13:35.000
Clark Gracie, Rose Gracie is one of the coolest chicks on the planet.
02:13:43.000
There's people in my family that I don't want to talk to.
02:13:49.000
Henson's one of my favorite people of all time.
02:13:58.000
I just think the way this situation was handled could have been done way better.
02:14:02.000
And if they were having a debate with someone, if they had to have a debate with, say, a guy like Jeff Glover, an impartial observer, I guarantee you...
02:14:10.000
Jeff Glover's point of view and their point of view would be vastly different.
02:14:20.000
Eddie Bravo's the Floyd Wayweather of jiu-jitsu.
02:14:25.000
Will you shut your yapper about jiu-jitsu for two seconds?
02:14:28.000
If I'm going to shut down my life again and do swim sprints, which are fucking torture.
02:14:51.000
A week from now, Brian will be on his own podcast talking about how he does swim sprints.
02:15:07.000
If he has a chick on, he'll be like, I find that swim sprints help me the most.
02:15:12.000
You know, when I was training for the Worlds, I guess, whatever.
02:15:15.000
I never wound up fighting, but I was just busy with a lot of other stuff, a lot of film projects.
02:15:28.000
You didn't really do a lot of strength and conditioning.
02:15:32.000
Who's really good friends with Leonardo DiCaprio?
02:15:47.000
Things that tie your hair up are very specific.
02:15:50.000
Remember when Hicks and Grace had that samurai thing going with a hair tie?
02:15:57.000
But what you can't have, you can't have a barrette.
02:16:05.000
If you're Leonardo DiCaprio, you can do whatever you want.
02:16:10.000
He's got enough money that he really doesn't give a fuck.
02:16:15.000
The girls that wouldn't fuck him because he was wearing a barrette, you don't want those girls.
02:16:26.000
This is, by the way, the least fight-heavy fight companion podcast of all time.
02:16:36.000
I want to apologize for Brian for not shutting up about...
02:16:44.000
One of these days, if he could just get a place to move closer to his house.
02:16:48.000
Bro, he has an open invitation to train with Eddie Bravo, Henner and Hiron Gracie, has never been to either gym.
02:16:57.000
What's the best, as far as the biggest, coolest jiu-jitsu gym?
02:17:13.000
The mat space, it's like a custom-made jammy, right?
02:17:16.000
Where they have, like, a tarp over, like, some mats that are underneath it.
02:17:24.000
Because it's not as good as a tatami, those flat ones that are solid and dense.
02:17:34.000
If you can pass when it's slippery, you need more balance.
02:17:38.000
Yeah, especially when you're sweaty, it's super slippery.
02:17:42.000
It's better to be on a slippery surface for your technique?
02:17:56.000
The one thing, though, that sucks a fat bag of dicks for is if you're doing any kind of striking training.
02:18:06.000
Yeah, you can't get your foot in a good position.
02:18:11.000
If you don't have traction, you can't choose where your feet go when you're scrambling.
02:18:14.000
But people tear out their needs because of traction.
02:18:17.000
Especially back in the day in football with artificial turf.
02:18:30.000
Oh yeah, my high school football field was AstroTurf.
02:18:34.000
But it gives you an unrealistic environment, too.
02:18:48.000
When they throw up AstroTurf, it's just not fucking worth it.
02:18:54.000
You got to think high schools are like, oh, we don't have to pay anyone to take care of this.
02:19:16.000
Does it rip apart when you run on it with cleats?
02:19:20.000
When you take off your cleats, you have these little black balls of rubber in it.
02:19:54.000
It's made of the same thing as a lambskin condom.
02:20:01.000
If it was made from lambskin, then grass would tear off like natural grass.
02:20:22.000
In the NFL, how many stadiums off the top of your head do you think have this shit?
02:20:31.000
There's some that's kind of like that, but there's real grass growing, and they got some crazy hydroponic system, like super high-tech, where they're growing grass without the sunlight.
02:20:49.000
I want to know what the latest is in the NFL with that shit.
02:20:59.000
When you could actually have grass, you fucking weirdo.
02:21:01.000
I want it to look green, and I don't want to deal with bugs.
02:21:09.000
On a regular day, you might find five or six bugs.
02:21:16.000
Weren't you in the jungle at one point in your life?
02:21:26.000
Well, it's as loud as Grand Central Station, the jungle.
02:21:32.000
First of all, you have to worry about the soldier ants.
02:21:40.000
You had to worry about soldier ants that would come in and when they were hunting, they'd eat everything in their path.
02:21:44.000
And for whatever reason, when they climb on you, they bite you in unison, like it's a signal or something.
02:21:52.000
So people get eaten by ants in the jungle all the time?
02:21:54.000
So what you want to do is when you sleep, you want to make sure because they'll hunt at night.
02:21:58.000
You have a raised platform, it's on posts, and you have to dip the posts, you have to paint the posts in turpentine, because turpentine will stop them.
02:22:07.000
If you don't do that, they will come up the posts, and they will come into your place, and they will kill you.
02:22:12.000
Now, sometimes you can wake up covered in ants, soldier ants, you won't die because they're foraging, they're not hunting.
02:22:20.000
So you sit there, you don't move, don't move, and they'll go over you and not eat you.
02:22:35.000
But that's why in the rainforest, you use a hammock, you put it between two trees, sleep, and the ropes that hold the hammock are also dipped in turpentine.
02:22:46.000
Oh, and when you're in the rainforest, I had to carry...
02:22:55.000
You carry a sulfur coil, a sulfur coil that you burn, and it's burning sulfur in front of you.
02:23:03.000
That's how you have to hang out in the rainforest, because otherwise bugs will...
02:23:11.000
They go into an elephant's ear and they start eating elephants.
02:23:11.000
Well, because I was studying orangutans and I thought I wanted to be a naturalist.
02:23:18.000
I want to live in the jungle and I was studying orangutans.
02:23:25.000
Collect their feces and sift through it and figure out what they're eating.
02:23:29.000
Jane Goodall, you think she went through a lot of...
02:23:31.000
Because they never talked about the bug problems.
02:23:33.000
Jane Goodall was a different thing because she dealt with chimps.
02:23:36.000
Now, when you deal with chimps versus orangutans, orangutans are fine.
02:23:50.000
In her movies, they never talk about how she got attacked by bugs.
02:24:07.000
Whatever he decides to do, he's going to be a hamper.
02:24:13.000
I had friends go, dude, let's go to Costa Rica.
02:24:17.000
They go, yeah, we're going to party at Ed Clay.
02:24:19.000
He goes, dude, it's just me and like 10 people, chicks.
02:24:23.000
We got this mansion in Costa Rica that we're going to party.
02:24:27.000
And I'm like thinking mansion, Cancun, party, beach.
02:24:35.000
I thought we were in the city where we're going to party in San Pedro or San Jose or something.
02:24:39.000
They go, oh no, we're just staying here for tonight.
02:24:41.000
The mansions, we got to take another plane to get to the mansion.
02:24:44.000
I'm like, oh shit, we get into this prop plane.
02:24:46.000
There's like six of us in there going, holy shit.
02:24:50.000
We like go into Jurassic Park, land on the outskirts of Costa Rica in this jungle town.
02:25:10.000
I'll go snowboarding all day, but I ain't going into no damn jungle.
02:25:18.000
They didn't do it on purpose, but really, I fucked up.
02:25:40.000
The ceiling doesn't connect to the side walls because if bugs don't bother you, you just open the shit up.
02:25:46.000
You want that breeze coming through your house.
02:25:52.000
I go downstairs and there's a guy, the dude who owned the house, his uncle stays there all the time.
02:26:03.000
I don't let anybody see the fear, but I'm thinking about when the sun goes down, what's going to happen?
02:26:10.000
He goes, turn on the ceiling fan, but don't turn it on on blast.
02:26:14.000
It'll make them uncomfortable and they'll fly away.
02:26:19.000
You don't want to make him uncomfortable, right?
02:26:27.000
To go, everyone needed, you had to have your own ATC. Four-wheeler?
02:26:33.000
So we were going to, as soon as you get there, leave your bags.
02:26:37.000
We're in the jungle because if you don't have your own fucking ATV, you're going to be left behind.
02:26:42.000
So we get in the van to go to this, to get our ATVs.
02:26:45.000
And I said, are you guys worried about the bees in your room?
02:26:49.000
Oh my God, there was like a Playboy Playmate chick.
02:26:55.000
Yeah, and anyways, when the sun, we went into town, got our ATVs, I went to the local store and bought all their off.
02:27:02.000
I bought all their off, and as we went back to the mansion, there's a pool, it looks like Jay-Z's mansion pool, infinity pool, and then you see the coast of Costa Rica.
02:27:13.000
I went in the bathroom and just drenched my whole body.
02:27:18.000
I drenched my whole body and we sat by the pool, and I'm like, I'm not going to be attacked.
02:27:25.000
And I'm like, oh my god, what are all these frogs?
02:27:29.000
And the old man goes, the frogs are going to be your best friend.
02:27:33.000
The frogs, you just see just like Braveheart of frogs and bugs.
02:27:43.000
We had to go six miles, six hours upstream to where the nature preserve was.
02:27:50.000
We get in this rickety boat, rickety, like a raft, and there are saltwater crocodiles everywhere in that bay.
02:27:58.000
And there are accidents all the time where people crash in other boats because they're drunk or whatever, and people get eaten.
02:28:05.000
And two weeks before this, they had to shoot this crocodile, this huge saltwater crocodile that killed a kid.
02:28:11.000
They shot it with an M16 like 15 times, and then it didn't die, so they put electrical cables into the water and electrocuted it to death, right?
02:28:23.000
My sister, the first day, puts her foot in her sandal and goes, in her clog, and goes, my foot's on fire, my foot's on fire.
02:28:35.000
You got any other vacation stories you want to share?
02:28:48.000
I'm nowhere near dumb, but I'm gonna end it at that.
02:28:50.000
Joe, you think Fabio can win this fight at all?
02:28:57.000
Fabio Maldonado, not even ranked as a heavyweight.
02:29:02.000
Yeah, he's a light heavyweight, not ranked as a light heavyweight.
02:29:05.000
Probably should fight at 185. No one is a guy who carries body fat fighting as a light heavyweight, but no one is also being an incredibly durable guy.
02:29:21.000
I think we'll see some of his wrestling tonight.
02:29:28.000
Fabio Maldonado, he's a fucking blood and guts fighter, man.
02:29:38.000
Very few guys can take a beating like Maldonado can.
02:29:51.000
Like, when the two of them get inside the octagon, I think you're going to see a big size disparity for Stipe Miocic.
02:30:02.000
And then Stipe was around 230. God, look at that.
02:30:06.000
It's not that bad when you consider the fact that Kane regularly fights guys that are much heavier than that.
02:30:16.000
He's not exactly a shredded 212. Great boxing though, man.
02:30:29.000
Short notice because Junior Dos Santos and Stipe were supposed to be the headliner.
02:30:37.000
Yeah, look, what's interesting about it is because so much is on the line for Stipe.
02:30:45.000
If you don't destroy this guy, people are like, dang, man, what the hell happened?
02:30:53.000
It's really interesting to know heavyweights were prominent enough to take that position.
02:30:58.000
You know, thinking about how it was a short fight.
02:31:05.000
I could have fought Andrey Arlovsky three weeks ago.
02:31:08.000
My wrestling heart rate on Friday was 37. Whoa.
02:31:25.000
I gotta start taking my training more seriously.
02:31:27.000
It's crazy how you keep bringing it back to yourself.
02:31:29.000
Yeah, but I'm going to videotape it, so of course I'm going to bring it back to myself.
02:31:49.000
John Anik was telling me he was surprised they didn't call me to step in for this fight.
02:31:59.000
Hunt kept saying he was hurt, and then we're supposed to fight in June.
02:32:02.000
They say we wouldn't be ready to fight in June in New Zealand.
02:32:18.000
But with Mark Hunt, it kept getting prolonged, prolonged, and then I was like, dude, I have to have a fight.
02:32:24.000
And then they called me the Andre Arlowski, so I didn't want to wait.
02:32:26.000
And now he's fighting Roy, which people are like, oh, Shabba, are you mad?
02:32:48.000
Yeah, I think Fabio Maldonado got the call because he's Brazilian as well.
02:32:52.000
No, I heard he text Joe Simmons like, yo, I want this fight, son.
02:32:57.000
Fabio Maldonado is an example of never looking at a guy with a shirt off and think he's a pussy just by the way he looks.
02:33:35.000
I would look at Mark Hunt and not fuck with them.
02:33:49.000
Hey, why don't you tell us when you went on vacation and all the insects you saw.
02:33:54.000
Please, please, waste my fucking life for that story again.
02:34:03.000
Actually, when I was in Tahiti, have you ever seen the snakes in Tahiti?
02:34:08.000
Well, hey, I was playing with a snake in Indonesia.
02:34:18.000
Brute Galakas comes up and goes, young man, if that snake bites you, you will be dead in a half hour.
02:34:25.000
And I went, okay, I'll stop playing with that snake.
02:34:39.000
When your back's against the wall, you learn how to turn it around.
02:34:54.000
He knows a lot about MMA. Has anybody ever walked to the octagon looking higher?
02:35:03.000
Also has a full-time job as a firefighter, everybody.
02:35:09.000
By the way, it doesn't look like he's even remotely warmed up.
02:35:11.000
He looks like he's just like, well, here we go.
02:35:13.000
By the way, if you have a job as a firefighter, it's one of the best jobs to do other shit.
02:35:17.000
Because you have four days on, four days off, right?
02:35:20.000
Yeah, they have 24-hour shifts, and a firehouse, if it's a good firehouse, is a great place to work.
02:35:30.000
My friend Ray back in New York was a firefighter.
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And he fucking loved it because he could do all kinds of shit while I was at work.
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Because they would have times where they didn't have to do anything.
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Yeah, but I bet there's some firehouses that have such a cool, like, chief that he lets dudes, but he has them on call.
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He goes, dude, you gotta meet us at the fucking...
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You know, like when a guy's scheduled on, you know, there's probably another guy that's scheduled to go shopping for them.
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And a lot of those gyms in firehouses are pretty stocked up.
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Played baseball at Cleveland State and wrestled.
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He would wear the Cro Cop shorts every day when we trained.
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Still, 6'4", 230. It's a little bit bigger than you, Brian.
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Just because I got training right now because of your heart rate issue.
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As long as you don't hit me back, I can fucking move.
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I told Eddie to stop chewing in front of the thing.
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If you were a referee, would you do a heart or would you come up with your own move?
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Could you do just a ball, crater a ball and hold a shaft?
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Could you do that if they fucking intro'd you as a fighter?
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You remember when fucking Dennis Hallman lost that bet and he wore those little skivvies?
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No, he didn't get fired, but he got in trouble.
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He wore, like, the shortest old-school Valley Tudo.
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That was Marco Ruiz used to wear those, like a Speedo.
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Instead of doing that one like that with a fist over, if you just do it like this.
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It's basically you're saying, cradle the balls and hold the shaft.
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Because he's super confident he's going to put this guy to sleep.
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The only reason I sanctioned that fight is because it's in Brazil.
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Maldonado asked for it, and it'll save the card.
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That's why if really he's an 85er fighting an elite heavyweight, that's exactly how it should go down.
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And he wasn't even really elite at light heavyweight.
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Nobody ever did this to him before, but you're dealing with a totally different kind of thump.
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And that's what Brendan was talking about when he was talking about the difference between flyweights and heavyweights.
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It looks like he punched him really fucking hard.
02:41:14.000
A straight right on the jaw from a heavyweight?
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I'm saying from your vantage point, it doesn't look like he wound up.
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Listen, guys, I think Stipe is a paper challenge.
02:41:34.000
Hey, Brian, how come you're not giving him credit?
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I thought maybe you were just being mean automatically, but did you really say that?
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I'm just saying it was a deceptive short right.
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Of course it's going to knock him out, but it doesn't look like he hit him as hard.
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He didn't throw a haymaker from his hip, Brian.
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What would Joey say to Brian if he was here right now?
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You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
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If that right hand hit you, you'd be back in Afghanistan looking for frogs.
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You'll be out in the jungle cocksucking with your fucking turpentine.
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Get back in the fucking jungle and wait for orders.
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If that fucking right hand hit you, you wouldn't even know a million ants were walking over you.
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You'd wake up and it'd be fucking three days later.
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This motherfucker is so alcohol, we can't even eat them, it'd be a travesty.
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The ants would go around you and eat an elephant.
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I don't even understand how he went down from this fucking perfectly placed right hand shot from a...
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I'll tell you what, that's a lot of weight behind that punch.
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It's a goddamn telephone pole striking you in the face.
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No, I'm just saying there are guys who take that shot.
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You know, when you get them, that's the other thing.
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Because he probably forgot his and he had to give it to him.
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But the bottom line is once you start breaking your hand, it's very likely you're going to break it again.
02:44:16.000
Well, it all depends on how much time you let it heal before you get back to training.
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Shit, you'd be fucking knocking out Cain Velasquez's one punch.
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And there's no way you can put it over there, right?
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We'll watch the whole thing since we have the time.
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Did you see Kenny Florian and Renato do that scene from Heat?
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Dude, Renato and Kenny Florian do the scene from Heat where they sit in the diner.
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So there's a lot of inside shit that most people wouldn't understand.
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He's got his own internet show that's a huge smash called the Renato Laranja Show that's being produced by Flixpoint.
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You go to YouTube, put it in Flixpoint, Renato Laranja.
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Dude, there's a scene where Renato gives Darth Vader a jiu-jitsu lesson.
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And he gives, dude, after the lesson, he gives him a stripe on his white belt.
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For some reason, this thing is not allowing me to fast forward it.
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I'm having a hard time figuring out how to fast forward it.
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It must be, because Luke Barnett is fighting, and he was earlier on that card.
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Do you guys want to do that, or do you want to get some dinner?
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Hey, if you're in Southern California, you want to go to my show tomorrow, eddiebravoinvitational.com.
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It could end in an hour, or it could last three or four hours.
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10 minute rounds and we have a submission based overtime like extra innings like we go in overtime I get to get on your back with double over under with both leg hooks.
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If I get you then you get a chance on my back If I escape, then I win.
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But if you tap me too, then we go another extra innings.
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You know, 10-minute rounds and then three maximum overtime innings, extra innings.
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If we go three innings and it's still tight, like maybe the first round, both got a sub.
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So you can sub each other more than once in a match?
02:47:49.000
Instead of overtime being based on wrestling, which whoever has the best wrestling will win, a lot of wrestlers will stall and want to win in overtime because they know that wrestling is dominant.
02:48:02.000
Let's say we go 10 minutes and there's no submission.
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You get my back, both leg hooks, with an over-under.
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If you submit me, now I get a chance to get you.
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But if you tap me too, then we go another inning.
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And then the next inning, you tap me, and then when I get my shot, you escape, you win.
02:48:45.000
We've been doing this at the Midwest Submission Challenge in the Midwest, and it's working out great.
02:48:55.000
The whole format was all designed to try to make jujitsu exciting enough so networks would want to air it.
02:49:07.000
There's no reason to not have jujitsu on TV. But the only way you're going to do it is you've got to eliminate the point system because that'll never work.
02:49:13.000
We've had jujitsu with the point system for 20 years.
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People have looked at it and they're like, no way.
02:49:19.000
We can't put this on TV. So it has to be submission only.
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A 60-man bracket and the guy who wins it all, he's the only guy who gets paid.
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That way you throw so much money at it, these guys are in there to make as much money as possible.
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So that translates to entertainment for the guys watching.
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Because, you know, that's really who's important here.
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We want to make it so the audience can't wait to see this shit.
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And the only way that's going to happen is you provide jujitsu matches that are incredible.
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Yes, there's still going to be some boring matches, but overall, you want like 60-70% of the matches to be exciting enough so that your average UFC fan will enjoy it.
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Because right now, most UFC fans do not want to watch the Mundials and do not want to watch ADCC. They're into MMA. They don't want to watch it.
02:50:19.000
There's so many people that are fans of the UFC that would be down for grappling and they would be down to watch it, even though they didn't do jiu-jitsu.
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I'm trying to make jiu-jitsu as entertaining as possible.
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We are fighting right now, and I started it while you were still talking, so I'll back it up so we can get a chance to check this out.
02:50:51.000
So Mark's game plan, all we worked on was movement and be unpredictable.
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Change your levels and not only just shoot for takedowns, but set it up with your big hands.
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But you can tell right away, he kind of just shoots from...
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It's getting harder and harder to take dudes down.
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So the whole camp, the biggest thing was level changes and movement for Mark.
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Don't get backed up to the cage and come over the right hand over Mousasi's jab.
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It's easier said than done when you have a vicious striker coming at you.
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I'm just telling you, that was the game plan, dog.
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I'm just telling you what our plan was, and then obviously you see it come to life here.
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Even as beautiful a wrestler as Munoz is, he's top level in the UFC. He's facing a guy who didn't wrestle in college and he's having a hard time taking him down.
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So when you're in a situation like this, in a scenario where you're Munoz and your sole mission is to take him down and beat him on the ground.
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And if he can't do that, which is coming up all the time, he's forced into a kickboxing match where he's outclassed on a situation.
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But this is why it's hard to take him down, because Musashi doesn't commit to his punches.
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He's jabbing, jabbing, leaning in the right hand.
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And by pulling back when you're low like that, you give yourself an extra six inches where that dude can't punch you.
02:52:45.000
Musasi was really fucking impressive in the Machida fight too, man.
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Machida obviously was more impressive, but I was impressed by his ability to take a shot too.
02:53:01.000
He could have pulled half guard and tried to get on top another way, because there's two ways to get on top for Mark.
02:53:07.000
Either take him down with a classic wrestling takedown that he's so good at, or you take the long way to get on top.
02:53:16.000
It's way easy to shoot and pull half guard, and you've got to have some high-quality...
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Half guard sweeps, but that's how Noguera beat Tim Sylvia.
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Every fighter should be trying to get super high level because that's how Noguera beat Tim Sylvia.
02:53:35.000
The way Noguera got the fight to the ground is he shot, he pulled half guard, and then he swept him.
02:53:43.000
Mark doesn't have the time to do that jiu-jitsu.
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He would be so confident where he could pull half guard and sweep instead of committing.
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He's got to adapt because this guy's not even a wrestler and he can't take him down.
02:54:08.000
It's so crazy that you can do a downward elbow as long as it's on the side.
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If Munoz had a sick, sick half guard, it would look a lot different.
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It's not going to happen though, you know what I'm saying?
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Mark's going to fight one more time in the Philippines and then call it quits, I bet.
02:54:44.000
Has he been thinking about calling it quits anyway?
02:54:49.000
Well, my point is maybe he retires after this, but I believe if he had a sick half guard...
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Man, 36. He's had a lot of fights, too, in wrestling.
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Yeah, you try to take him down, but when you figure out, I can't take this guy down.
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Second round, third round, your corner should be saying, listen, you can't take this motherfucker down.
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You're going to shoot, pull half guard, and sweep this motherfucker.
02:55:20.000
There's so many sweeps you could do from half guard.
02:55:32.000
Everybody listening, we'll do this every time we get a chance.
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We'll do these whenever we can, ladies and gentlemen.
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We do these whenever we can, but they're a lot of fun.
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But here's the thing, you can't expect us to call the fights.
02:56:05.000
If we're hanging out, you're just watching the fights with us.
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If we want to call the fights, that's fine too.
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We'll be back next week with actual real podcasts that aren't fight companions.
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