Nov. 15, 2011 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out! | |
| The Joe Rogan Experience. | ||
| Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| I like the one ear side. | ||
| Thank you, yeah. | ||
| That's professional. | ||
| A lot of guys do that. | ||
| Help my hearing, hey. | ||
| It's fading in my old age. | ||
| Do you have fucked up ears because of the cauliflower? | ||
| Does it fuck up your hearing? | ||
| Yeah, just one of them. | ||
| I thought it was cool until the inner ear started to swell and it was messing with my hearing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I was like, that's not cool anymore. | ||
| Did you get it fixed? | ||
| I just face it at the women I'm talking to. | ||
| Did you get it fixed? | ||
| Oh, it eventually drained out, but it's as good as it's going to get, I think. | ||
| Yeah, I always wore ear guards. | ||
| I was always scared of the ears. | ||
| Because there's a design. | ||
| It helps capture sound and bring it into your ear. | ||
| I didn't know the AirPods were coming through a curveball and how cool this was. | ||
| Oh, right, because you can't stuff them in there? | ||
| I jam them in, but they pop back out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You gotta wear it over the years. | ||
| So, let's talk about your tournament. | ||
| The tournament. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Where did this come from, first of all? | ||
| Because you've competed at Abu Dhabi. | ||
| This is what I don't understand. | ||
| You're going to go head-to-head with ADCC, which is the biggest grappling organization in the world. | ||
| By the way, that's Gordon Ryan's belt up there. | ||
| If you want to look at it. | ||
| Gordon Ryan. | ||
| I might take that home with me. | ||
| How can I get the money to buy it? | ||
| Well, I mean, what started it? | ||
| Well, obviously you can't win a tournament. | ||
| You put your own tournament on that you can win. | ||
| And probably lose anyway. | ||
| I mean, really, it's for the growth of the sport. | ||
| We're getting some beef involved, some two-pack biggie, Drake Kendrick energy to this, but really to compensate the athletes well and to raise some money for charity along the way. | ||
| And who's funding this thing? | ||
| That's one of those things, you know? | ||
| Your girl takes a trip to the UAE. She comes back with a handbag. | ||
| You don't talk about it. | ||
| You don't have too many questions, you know? | ||
| You brought with you a million dollars in cash, which I've never seen before. | ||
| I've never seen a million dollars. | ||
| In one place. | ||
| I've never even seen a million dollar check. | ||
| Should we tip this out? | ||
| Yeah, I guess tip it out. | ||
| Make sure we don't spill any. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, that is one million dollars in cash. | ||
| That is so ridiculous. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| That's so crazy. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Whoever... | ||
| Is running this. | ||
| Really trust you. | ||
| They shouldn't. | ||
| Those are loose. | ||
| A lot of these are just kind of flying around. | ||
| Flopping around here, you know? | ||
| They have way too much faith in me. | ||
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Yeah! | |
| A lot of faith in you. | ||
| I mean, this was to prove it. | ||
| I had the idea. | ||
| I was like, I'll bring a prop million dollars on Joe Rogan. | ||
| But people were... | ||
| I was thinking then, they already don't believe I have the money. | ||
| So if I pulled out a prop million and you were like, oh, that's fake money. | ||
| Then I'm like, oh, my tournament's fucked. | ||
| So we had to do some bad things for that. | ||
| So how does one even get a million dollars out of a bank? | ||
| That's got to be a pain in the ass, right? | ||
| Yeah, so my buddy that's helping me out with this basically called his bank. | ||
| He said, I need a million dollars on Thursday. | ||
| They said, yo, that takes two to three weeks. | ||
| And he's like, get me the million on Thursday or I'll find a bank that can. | ||
| And I mean, that put the energy in him to get it. | ||
| Here we are. | ||
| So what does this guy do that he has all this loot? | ||
| I really don't want to say. | ||
| I'm going to keep it all directed at me. | ||
| It's all above board legal, you know what I mean? | ||
| But we're sort of keeping it mysterious. | ||
| I want any negative energy towards the tournament coming my direction, not the anonymous sugar daddy in the background. | ||
| Okay, so you don't want to say like what the business is or does the business profit off of this at all? | ||
| Does this benefit the business to do this? | ||
| I mean we're running it as a non-profit so like obviously for people that want to support the sport of jiu-jitsu like we're going to donate basically all the ticket sales of this event towards different charities so we really want to do this as a non-profit because my thoughts were if jiu-jitsu doesn't make a profit we might as well make a non-profit Mmm, okay. | ||
| Well, does jujitsu make no profit? | ||
| Like, Abu Dhabi doesn't turn a profit, right? | ||
| It's done primarily because of the Sheikh's love of the sport. | ||
| Yeah, it's like a passion project, but I mean, sort of, my problem with the latest event is, like, we're selling so many tickets, and their event is in T-Mobile. | ||
| T-Mobile's super expensive. | ||
| As far as I know, I remember their event organizer posted the amount they paid for T-Mobile, and it was basically two of these. | ||
| Just to rent out the venue? | ||
| Just to rent out. | ||
| And you were at the Thomas& Mack? | ||
| Yeah, so the previous event, they were at Thomas& Mack, so I just thought, hey, I might as well check how much Thomas& Mack cost. | ||
| And it was a lot cheaper. | ||
| So in my opinion, we're really doing this because the prize money's been the same for so long. | ||
| A lot of events don't pay a lot of money, but obviously ADCC's the biggest. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And this sells a lot of ticket sales, but really, they made a lateral move in the venue that didn't really grow much in the way of seeding, and none of that money really went... | ||
| I think we'll have about 11,000 seats for this one. | ||
| And T-Bumble's what, 18? | ||
| I think 18, yeah. | ||
| So not massive difference. | ||
| And really, ADCC prize money stayed the same. | ||
| So their prize money, you have to win four matches to get 10k. | ||
| Not that I'd know, because I could never fucking win it. | ||
| But we're going to do two divisions and pay 100 times that amount of money to the division winners. | ||
| So 10k is the winner of ADCC? And we're going to pay $10,001 to show up to our tournament. | ||
| $10,001? | ||
| Throw an extra dollar. | ||
| That's for me personally. | ||
| So anybody who competes gets $10,000? | ||
| Really? | ||
| So even if you just get smoked? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I'm thinking of the other guys like me in these tournaments that don't make the final, compensate everyone, you know? | ||
| Well, that is nice, but ADCC has never made money, right? | ||
| So for them, raising the money would just be losing more money. | ||
| Yeah, but if you could sell 11,000 seats, if you could sell streaming rights to an event, I feel like some of that should go back towards the athletes rather than just spending it all on production. | ||
| A lot of people talk about the cost of production and it's important to grow a sport, but I really feel like at least the athlete compensation should go up a little bit. | ||
| In terms of ticket sales, some of that should go back towards the athletes. | ||
| Even if the ADCC is not making any money at all? | ||
| But in terms of, they do make money, but it's where they spend it. | ||
| They choose to spend it on production rather than the athletes. | ||
| Right, but it's not profitable in terms of the organization itself. | ||
| It's not really profitable, I don't believe. | ||
| Well, I would imagine if they chose Thomas& Mack with the streaming rights and the cost of the venue that they've spent on T-Mobile, for sure they would have made a profit off this event. | ||
| You could curtail production costs down. | ||
| It's not going to be that crazy if you choose the right venue. | ||
| My opinion is Grappling's amazing, but I don't think we're ready for T-Mobile. | ||
| That's a massive, expensive venue. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, the Thomas and Mac was very impressive last year. | ||
| It was very impressive, the whole overall production and just the scope of it and the amount of fans that came out to watch ADCC. It was pretty impressive. | ||
| It's crazy, yeah. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| I've never competed in front of that many people before. | ||
| It was awesome. | ||
| It was an awesome spectacle. | ||
| That was basically my opinion. | ||
| It's like, why are we making a lateral move, in my opinion, when we could still keep the same venue? | ||
| So what was the idea about going head-to-head with ADCC? If you want to grow the sport, wouldn't it be better to do it in an alternative weekend? | ||
| That way the people that compete at ADCC can also compete at your event? | ||
| Well, we kind of... | ||
| I mean, yeah, obviously athletes can't do both, but in terms of for the fans, the fans will be able to go to our event Friday, Saturday, still see ADCC finals on Sunday. | ||
| But in terms of doing it at the same weekend, we're really trying to make a stand that the athletes can unify in this sense and we can get compensated better. | ||
| Because again, none of the athletes care where we compete. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| As the sport grows, grappling's growing. | ||
| Obviously, thanks to people like you, you've blown it up. | ||
| Whenever you shout us out, our followers go up. | ||
| The events are getting more eyes on it. | ||
| More ticket sales. | ||
| We should get at least... | ||
| Some token gesture of a payment increase. | ||
| Well, I think the best case scenario out of this is that ADCC does ramp it up and that the sport does get more eyeballs because people are aware of this huge increase in pay. | ||
| I always feel that competition is good. | ||
| I just don't necessarily like the idea of going head-to-head because I feel like It just kind of messes with the athletes because, you know, it puts them in a situation where they have to choose, first of all, between ADCC and the Craig Jones Invitational. | ||
| And if they do that, ADCC's going to probably hold a grudge. | ||
| I mean, hopefully not. | ||
| Well, hopefully they won't. | ||
| But likely they will. | ||
| I mean, doesn't it make sense that they would? | ||
| I mean, if you're kind of crippling their organization by taking the elite guys and... | ||
| Offering them potential. | ||
| How many people are going to jump ship? | ||
| Do you know? | ||
| Who have we got confirmed already? | ||
| We've got Fionn Davies, past champion. | ||
| The Tackett brothers were the first two. | ||
| We've got Nicky Ryan. | ||
| I'm going to announce today Nicky Rod's jumping across. | ||
| We've got Luke Rockhold in there. | ||
| We threw him in because he's honestly pretty impressive. | ||
| He tapped me out in the gym. | ||
| I was like, fuck it, we'll throw him in. | ||
| In terms of the under, we've got Joseph Chen. | ||
| A lot of people are going to make the move. | ||
| What's interesting to me... | ||
| I can't say any names in particular, but a lot of the old legends obviously want to be a part of this event. | ||
| I think they believe. | ||
| They want to support the cause. | ||
| You say make the athletes make a choice. | ||
| Really, they should be able to make the choice if there's an event with such a huge amount of prize money on display. | ||
| The argument is prestige versus prize money. | ||
| My argument is if the prize money is there, that becomes the most prestigious event. | ||
| Yeah, it does ramp up the prestige, but will this happen again? | ||
| Is this a one-time thing, or are you guys planning on doing multiple ones of these? | ||
| Yeah, we want to do it. | ||
| We're doing ADCC every two years, so most of the time guys have to wait every two. | ||
| We want to do it every year. | ||
| Well, that would be good. | ||
| Then there would be a year where it's not in competition. | ||
| We don't want to just... | ||
| Kill another organization and then I just disappear off into the sunset, maybe sneak a couple million, but we want to do it every year for sure. | ||
| The goal is really to raise money for charities and do some film projects around the world using jiu-jitsu, really helping out some underprivileged kids and stuff. | ||
| Well, the whole idea of using it for charity is beautiful. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| But is this guy willing to fork up this kind of... | ||
| Does he have a commitment to do this more than once? | ||
| I mean, basically he says, hey, we do a good job of this one. | ||
| You can do it every year. | ||
| He's super invested in sport of jiu-jitsu. | ||
| Loves it. | ||
| And this guy's just throwing loot away. | ||
| Throwing a lot of loot away. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| That's a crazy thing to commit to, though. | ||
| I mean, no matter how rich you are. | ||
| I mean, because if you're giving away $3 million in prize money, is that what it is? | ||
| Yeah, so... | ||
| So how does it go all together? | ||
| We basically got a budget of $3 million. | ||
| And we decided to give $2.3 million of that to the athletes. | ||
| And the rest we're going to spend on production. | ||
| Obviously, we're going to have sponsors come in. | ||
| We're going to work with particular sponsors. | ||
| But we're going to, again, the ticket sales. | ||
| That's going to charity. | ||
| And we're really allowing some of the athletes to choose. | ||
| If we have an influential grappler and stuff, we're not really trying to leverage the money we have. | ||
| We're saying, hey, if we get you on board, we're happy to donate a percentage of the ticket sales to a charity of your choice. | ||
| So we give them a bit of freedom in who they want to help. | ||
| Well, that's nice. | ||
| And if this does go well, when you say go well, what are the guidelines? | ||
| What are you trying to achieve in terms of going well to do this again? | ||
| I mean, based on the investment and how much money we can raise for charity is really the goal there. | ||
| Like, if we can sell out Thomas and Mac and we can demonstrate that we can do this in a cost-effective way, we can bring in more sponsors, definitely going to keep doing this every year. | ||
| Well, like I said, I think competition is always great. | ||
| And I think just more eyeballs and more people paying attention to it is great for the sport. | ||
| Obviously, I love Jiu-Jitsu. | ||
| And I think, you know, the athletes getting paid a million dollars to win first place is fantastic. | ||
| Because, you know, we both know that most athletes don't make much money off of actual competition. | ||
| The money that they do make, they usually make in seminars. | ||
| Only fans. | ||
| Yeah, that's you. | ||
| Yeah, that's a lot of underwear I had to sell, you know? | ||
| Only fans and what else? | ||
| I guess DVDs. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, that's the number one revenue source for athletes would be instructionals. | ||
| But like, again, that's like, you can win the biggest tournaments in the world. | ||
| It doesn't necessarily translate to seminars, doesn't translate to... | ||
| That's the sad thing. | ||
| It's like you hold certain events so high that you're like, when I win that, I'm going to make it. | ||
| But then there'll be some arsehole like me that never won but outsells you. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Your life's not set if you win one of these events, but if you win a million as a grappler, you're pretty well set up, especially if you're a grappler from a poorer country. | ||
| A million US and Brazil is going to go a long, long way. | ||
| And also, it's just going to elevate the whole profile of the sport, just people knowing that a million dollars is going towards the first place grapplers. | ||
| Has UFC Fight Pass had a positive impact? | ||
| Has that helped at all? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| I mean, obviously, it helps so much. | ||
| My dream is always taking on MMA guys. | ||
| They've got the clout. | ||
| They've got the big names. | ||
| So, obviously, UFC Fight Pass helped that happen. | ||
| But, I mean, Techi's put a lot of work into the Fight Pass events, and those are very, very popular. | ||
| I think... | ||
| That would be the pinnacle of sort of professional super fight events. | ||
| And what is like, like if you fight in UFC Fight Pass, like what is a big payday at UFC Fight Pass? | ||
| I know some of the athletes might get, I don't know how I should say it, it's actually a very kill me, but I mean it's broad, like it could go from 10 to 6 figures really. | ||
| And again, I mean that's the thing, when you compete for an event like a tournament, you might face 4 guys. | ||
| Like for me personally, I might face 4 guys that I could have made Much more money facing off in a superfight setting. | ||
| So really, in terms of the investment, the commitment, the training, the time to prepare for potentially four opponents to win something like $10,000, when if I just had four superfights, it would make so much more money. | ||
| Obviously, I wouldn't get the medal. | ||
| And the amount of money that you're going to spend in camp anyway, just with nutrition, supplements... | ||
| Steroids, the damage you do to your body. | ||
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I'm serious. | |
| All the jazz. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| You're spending $10,000 anyway. | ||
| Your blood pressure goes up. | ||
| Your liver values go up. | ||
| You redline it for a thing like ADCC. Well, that is the craziest thing about the sport, is that steroids are openly tolerated. | ||
| It's probably the only elite professional sport where, particularly because of Gordon, because Gordon's been so open about steroids, that everyone knows that the athletes are on juice. | ||
| Well, I'm sponsored by a local company called Evertime. | ||
| This is the sad thing. | ||
| I tell people, hey, I'm on TRT, and I'm sponsored by them, and no one believes me. | ||
| They're like, you look so out of shape, there's no way. | ||
| He's just joking. | ||
| And I'm like, no, believe me, I'm taking steroids. | ||
| Do you lift weights? | ||
| I mean, sometimes, yeah. | ||
| Sometimes? | ||
| Every now and then? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Honestly, I'm the worst example of athlete ever. | ||
| I don't stretch, don't do any recovery, I don't sleep properly. | ||
| You don't stretch at all? | ||
| No. | ||
| I just go easy the first round. | ||
| I feel like them pushing on my legs. | ||
| I'm like... | ||
| Hip mobility. | ||
| I think if you get a bad injury, that's a sign. | ||
| Maybe it's time to hang it up, you know? | ||
| So when you train, all you do is just jiu-jitsu? | ||
| You don't like... | ||
| I do a little bit of lifting, but man, fucking... | ||
| I don't even track anything. | ||
| I'll just be like, oh, that seems like enough lifting for today. | ||
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Really? | |
| Yeah, that's it. | ||
| Do you ever wonder, like, if you did, like, hire, like, a serious, like, strength and conditioning coach and really get after it, it would make a difference in your performance? | ||
| Maybe, but I mean, if there's a million dollars on the line, maybe. | ||
| But it's your whole life. | ||
| I mean, you're a professional jiu-jitsu guy. | ||
| I mean, I love the technique and the strategy aspect of it. | ||
| Sometimes when I've lifted or taken more steroids than usual, it's like I'm starting to overly rely on my strength. | ||
| What I love about jiu-jitsu is laying traps, tricking people, making people feel silly. | ||
| That's the part I like. | ||
| Rather than just, I want to look jacked just for me, not for a match. | ||
| But don't you think even with the laying traps and just overall your ability to move would be enhanced? | ||
| It's true, but if I look too, Jack, and I want to buy the instructions, I'd be like, I can't fucking do what that guy does. | ||
| I've got to look like a weathered old man out there. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's a crazy approach. | ||
| We got another announcement here today. | ||
| The biggest superfight in grappling history. | ||
| We signed it, actually. | ||
| I signed this maybe an hour and a half ago. | ||
| So I got the contract here to prove. | ||
| Yeah, bust it out. | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
| The biggest superfight in grappling history? | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, it might be one of the biggest... | ||
| What is the biggest so far? | ||
| It's probably Gordon and Galvao. | ||
| Yeah, Gordon and Galvao, Hodja Bouchesha. | ||
| But now we're talking the most decorated female athlete of all time, Gabby Garcia, has put pen to paper to face me. | ||
| LAUGHTER On my own event. | ||
| So we're talking 10, 11-time world champion, 4-time ADCC champion. | ||
| You have been joking around about this forever. | ||
| This is actually gonna happen? | ||
| 100% gonna happen. | ||
| We signed this contract earlier, so I had to do a lot of things to get it done, you know? | ||
| What'd you have to do? | ||
| I had to talk to Gabby a lot. | ||
| I had to go over there, give her a back rub. | ||
| Did you have to dance with her? | ||
| I mean, getting this done, she's like a Harvey Weinstein producer, you know? | ||
| But I'll do it for the fans. | ||
| But we got that booked. | ||
| So that's really going to happen? | ||
| Yeah, she's 6'4", 250 pounds. | ||
| I don't know what she weighs, yeah. | ||
| So I'll take her on. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I feel good. | ||
| I probably won't train for it. | ||
| I'll be planning this damn event. | ||
| You won't train? | ||
| I wouldn't train that hard. | ||
| I'm happy she's doing it. | ||
| It took a long time. | ||
| We've been talking about this for two and a half years. | ||
| Feels like an arranged marriage or something. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I was always thinking that it was just a joke. | ||
| We've got to get rid of this sexual tension somehow, you know? | ||
| There's one way. | ||
| I mean, that's in the contract. | ||
| If I lose, I have to do some things. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Maybe sell that on our OnlyFans, but... | ||
| Good luck. | ||
| Good luck. | ||
| So, when this all goes down, are you going to stream it live, and how are you going to do that? | ||
| Free on YouTube. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, we want to put it free on YouTube. | ||
| Everything I want to do about this event is to grow the sport. | ||
| Jiu-Jitsu scoring is confusing. | ||
| It's hard to keep up. | ||
| Some events don't even know their own scoring. | ||
| And to be honest, I compete in events where I don't even know the rules. | ||
| I'm just hoping for the best. | ||
| But this one we're going to do for the lead-up matches, the non-finals, qualifying matches, three-by-five-minute rounds. | ||
| And we're going to have the judges score according to your traditional jiu-jitsu. | ||
| You know, like if you get a good position, it might be a... | ||
| If there's a four-point discrepancy, something like that... | ||
| Are you using a specific rule set or are you guys making your own? | ||
| Making our own one. | ||
| We want to make it our own completely. | ||
| So we want to take what jiu-jitsu guys already know. | ||
| So we'll have three judges use some sort of pre-existing point system they understand, but we'll have the judges translate into a 10-point mark system so that MMA fans will understand. | ||
| So say if there's a... | ||
| After round one, the guy finishes on the other guy's back. | ||
| The ref stops, we get up, we have a minute break. | ||
| That's a strong position. | ||
| We'll score that at 10-8. | ||
| And we'll do open scoring. | ||
| So Jiu-Jitsu guys are used to knowing the score as the match progresses. | ||
| They don't like the surprises. | ||
| Like MMA, it's a surprise at the end. | ||
| Jiu-Jitsu guys, they don't want things to be too different. | ||
| So we're basically keeping it very similar to what they already understand while trying to introduce it in a way that's friendly to fans that tune in. | ||
| Because fans that tune in be like, what the fuck's happening? | ||
| He won the round tonight. | ||
| I wish that MMA had open scoring because it would expose a lot of really bad scoring. | ||
| You know where you're at. | ||
| Yeah, because there's so many times where it's just not. | ||
| And the argument against it, I think, is silly because the argument against it is that the person would coast if they were ahead. | ||
| But my feeling is that would make the person who's behind really get after it because they know they're behind. | ||
| You know, and then in fights where you know a guy's ahead and the guy's getting tooled up, that's already the case. | ||
| There's no, you know, like if Adesanya is fighting somebody and he's just dominating the fight, we all know that. | ||
| We all know that. | ||
| And the only thing that could fuck him is a bad judge. | ||
| Some crazy judge. | ||
| Yeah, and we've seen that. | ||
| We've seen like two scores that are like, that's right, and then one score, one judge, it's like, what the fuck was that guy watching? | ||
| That's the guy we're gonna hire for our event. | ||
| That guy's going to be cheap. | ||
| That guy's going to be dangerous. | ||
| Why 10-8? | ||
| I don't even like 10-8 for MMA. I think it sucks. | ||
| I mean, just for a way that we can grow, we can have an easy to digest. | ||
| I mean, I guess MMA's still pretty confusing, but we want MMA fans. | ||
| We want to steal MMA fans. | ||
| That's been my whole strategy, is I'll take on guys in the UFC, because I know they're I'm not. | ||
| And I'll be like, and they're famous. | ||
| It's like a perfect matchup. | ||
| But we want to do that because we want to steal their fans. | ||
| And we're also changing. | ||
| It's very fucking expensive, actually. | ||
| Every jujitsu event is basically on an elevated stage or just on mats. | ||
| And we have this problem where there's all these weird resets. | ||
| Like guys might fall off the stage. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They crash into the table. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| So inspired by karate combat. | ||
| We're going to do a rectangular mat space with that angled wall. | ||
| Because there's nowhere to run. | ||
| And we're going to call this rectangular mat space the alley. | ||
| You basically only head to the back alley to fight or fuck. | ||
| But isn't the angled wall a bit of a problem? | ||
| I saw your match with Philip Rowe. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the angled wall, all of a sudden he's fucked. | ||
| Because you're just going to go down. | ||
| It's not like a wall. | ||
| I don't like the cage in MMA. I've said multiple times, I really think they should be fighting in a basketball court. | ||
| Just make it all matted up, have a long red line. | ||
| We're going to be big, 30 by 40. It's going to be massive. | ||
| That is big, yeah. | ||
| So we heard the basketball court, but we threw some angles on the end. | ||
| But it punishes them. | ||
| We want to punish guys for backing up. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So again, like you said, with the cage, they back up, but they remain vertical. | ||
| You can use that angle to not get taken down. | ||
| But if you back up, if you're running away, We want it to be detrimental to you while not having any referee interruption. | ||
| So if I'm, like you said, I see I won the first round 10-8, I'm coasting, I'm backing up. | ||
| That guy can chase me and there's nowhere I can go. | ||
| And if I back up, it's detrimental to me. | ||
| I want to ask you a specific question about the Philip Rowe fight because he posted his arm down against the angle. | ||
| And I was like, well, you're kind of fucked. | ||
| If you're doing that, and then you threw up the triangle, and you trapped him. | ||
| But did you train for that? | ||
| So this is the setup, and this is in Karate Combat, which is, by the way, in Austin this Thursday. | ||
| I'm going to go down and check that out. | ||
| So like this. | ||
| When he posted his arm down, I'm like, oh no, that's... | ||
| Honestly, here's the funny thing about it is Asim, the promoter, said to me, he goes, bro, we've got to sell the angled wall for grappling. | ||
| He's like, can you try to submit him off the wall? | ||
| And I was like, fuck yeah, I'll do that. | ||
| But I was like, I've got no plans of that. | ||
| They asked you to do it? | ||
| Yeah, they said that'd be cool if you could do it. | ||
| And then afterwards, he's like, did you plan that? | ||
| I was like, yeah, sure. | ||
| I mean, anytime someone posts a hand on the ground, and we have an overhook, and we can put weight on that hand, they can't lift it off the ground, so we can shoot a triangle pretty easy. | ||
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| So, as soon as I saw him, I've got an overhook here, we've got the Russian tire. | ||
| As soon as I see him put that right hand on the floor, I was like, we can do something flying. | ||
| And I saw, because of the angle, you can be a bit more brave, you know? | ||
| Like, it's not as sharp a fall. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like, I'm 32, I probably shouldn't be doing flying shit, but you throw an angle in there, I'll give it a crack. | ||
| Well, especially with everything padded up like that on the walls. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, man, me and Phil were laughing before this match. | ||
| I had a couple beers before this. | ||
| I thought we were just going to have a good time. | ||
| You had a couple beers before the match? | ||
| Yeah, Phil said he was going to drink a tequila shot to start the match, but then I saw him put water in his cup. | ||
| I was like, I've been misled here. | ||
| And then we went out there, and I didn't even know the time of the match. | ||
| I thought it was eight minutes. | ||
| And the guys had got a 12-minute match. | ||
| I'm like, oh, fuck. | ||
| And then his coach started cornering him serious. | ||
| I was like, what have I got myself into, eh? | ||
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| So I was like, better give it a cry. | ||
| I thought we were going to have fun, play around a bit, but he was ready to go. | ||
| You really had a couple of beers? | ||
| Yeah, I do, do, sometimes, you know? | ||
| Do you really? | ||
| Take the edge off, yeah. | ||
| Does it fuck with your performance at all? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I never know what helps my performance or makes it worse. | ||
| Taking the edge off might help. | ||
| I think so, because when I do a long training camp, sometimes I'm thinking every day, putting pressure on myself. | ||
| But I finished that match, and because I hit a flying thing, we just got hammered that night. | ||
| I was celebrating. | ||
| And then the next day I was like, fuck, I have to face Lovato next week. | ||
| I was like, what have I done? | ||
| So it's like sometimes... | ||
| I guess the Jon Jones approach, you know? | ||
| Having some fun the week before takes the edge off. | ||
| Relaxes me. | ||
| Ilya Taporia does that too. | ||
| With the wine, yeah. | ||
| He gets drunk on Thursday night when he weighs in on Friday. | ||
| I don't like what he did to my man, but I respect the drinking of the wine for sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That fight, I wanted to talk to you about that too. | ||
| I wanted to talk to you about just the Volkanovski fight and training him in general. | ||
| Did you try in any way to discourage him from taking the Makachev fight on 10 days notice? | ||
| No, I mean, I'm not involved in that process at all, you know? | ||
| Like, I got the call that it was happening. | ||
| Like, he called me. | ||
| Man, I was jet-lagged at the time. | ||
| I'd just gotten to Austin for a day, and I get a call at 4am from Volks. | ||
| He's like, I think I have Makachev booked in two weeks. | ||
| And I was like, fuck it. | ||
| Tell me. | ||
| I'll just book the next flight. | ||
| I just got on the plane down there. | ||
| So I'm not involved in the matchmaking decision process at all. | ||
| Were you apprehensive about him taking that fight on such short notice? | ||
| I mean, I wouldn't say apprehensive. | ||
| I, like, believe in him fully. | ||
| I knew it would be a very difficult challenge. | ||
| I didn't know what sort of shape he was in at the time. | ||
| I hadn't seen him for a while. | ||
| But, like, I believe in him, that he can do it. | ||
| And it's like, I'm gonna just do everything I can to get him ready for that moment. | ||
| And yeah, I mean, it is the risk of the game, you know, especially you take a short-notice fight like that. | ||
| Had he been training at all? | ||
| I honestly don't know. | ||
| I don't think he... | ||
| Like, he wasn't in the same shape he was for the previous Makachev fight. | ||
| The previous Makachev fight, I was down... | ||
| In Wollongong with his team, freestyle for like six to eight weeks, helping him prepare for that one. | ||
| But I mean, this one, yeah, such short notice. | ||
| Well, that made it such a huge difference, the six to eight weeks, just the fact that he was able to survive on the ground the way he was. | ||
| And not just that, but just not just survive, but be completely safe. | ||
| He was never even close to being threatened with a submission, you know, and the fact that he was like laughing it off and punching them from behind and... | ||
| It's crazy, yeah. | ||
| I mean, I can't take too much credit for that. | ||
| The guy just is a beast. | ||
| He's an animal. | ||
| Yeah, he's just a monster. | ||
| He's so hard to hold down, even for me to hold down. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| I'm like, fuck, you won 45? | ||
| This shouldn't be the case, you know? | ||
| Rugby. | ||
| Yeah, some rugby energy, hey. | ||
| Well, also, he used to weigh 214 pounds, and you still got those fucking tendons from being a big gorilla. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Yeah, the rugby days. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| I mean, when I trained at his gym, one of the rugby players come in, actually, and I was just fucking around rolling with him, and he put me in a chin strap, and I was stuck. | ||
| I was like, fuck, thank God these guys make real money in other sports. | ||
| I have to deal with this shit. | ||
| Yeah, it's a hard fucking sport, man. | ||
| It's a hard sport that Americans don't necessarily appreciate. | ||
| They don't understand. | ||
| Like, those are guys that could compete in the NFL. They said they're playing rugby because they live in a different country. | ||
| When Volkanovski fought the first time, and he was perfectly prepared, it was an amazing fight. | ||
| I thought he won. | ||
| I thought it was very close, but I thought he won. | ||
| I think round two was the difference, and I could see round two going either way, but I gave it to Volk. | ||
| But I was like, when they announced it, the rematch, part of me was like, Ooh, that's a great fight. | ||
| But the other part of me was like, this is the number one, in my opinion, this is the fight for number one pound for pound, right? | ||
| I believe Volk won the first fight, although very close. | ||
| I don't think it's a robbery, but very close. | ||
| And I think that puts him as the number one pound for pound fighter in the world. | ||
| And then he loses the fight to Islam. | ||
| He gets caught with that head kick. | ||
| And then he gets knocked out by Tepuria. | ||
| Now he's not even in the conversation anymore. | ||
| So this is a short amount of time, you know, and then everything kind of falls apart. | ||
| And I think it wouldn't have fallen apart if not for the rematch. | ||
| If he just waited for Terpuria, I think, I gotta think that head kick has a factor. | ||
| I mean, to get brained like that with a shin to the dome, which is the worst way to get knocked out, you know, it's so much power in legs. | ||
| I mean, your legs are carrying your body around all day. | ||
| I don't think people that have never been kicked understand how much more power is in a leg. | ||
| Yeah, I would not. | ||
| You get head kicked like that, and then you fight a guy who's obviously the most dangerous boxer in the division in the next fight and get KO'd. | ||
| I mean, yeah, it's crazy. | ||
| I've had a couple of concussions from grappling, like accidents. | ||
| Knees and headbutts, clashes. | ||
| Always that one asshole, you know, going crazy. | ||
| But I don't know, really, the effects of that. | ||
| It's so hard to judge. | ||
| It's like, I don't know what testing they can do, but it's like... | ||
| They can't do much, unfortunately. | ||
| There are some tests, but the reality is, every time you get knocked out, it's easier for that person to get knocked out again. | ||
| And psychologically, I think, for the opponents. | ||
| Like, for me, coaching Vox, like, there were matches where, like, even with the fights, when, like, say, Ortega had him in the sub, and it's like when he keeps doing these impossible things, you believe in the myth of your guy more and more. | ||
| And other fighters do, too. | ||
| They go, oh, we couldn't submit him. | ||
| Look how deep Ortega was. | ||
| Well, it's his heart. | ||
| His heart is just unstoppable. | ||
| But I think when a guy gets clipped like that, everyone else goes, they suddenly have a bit more self-belief. | ||
| So I think it's like two factors. | ||
| Yeah, I think you're probably right. | ||
| But I think Toporia thought he was going to do that to him anyway. | ||
| But I would just love to have seen him fully recover from that. | ||
| Like when Manny Pacquiao got knocked out by Marquez, Freddie Roach wouldn't let him do anything for a year. | ||
| He's like, you're gonna take one year off. | ||
| He's like, this is the only way you have to... | ||
| And Freddie Roach, who has trauma-induced Parkinson's from his boxing career, he's well aware of the impact of brain damage. | ||
| And, you know, it's so tricky because I'm just such a huge Volk fan that I just look... | ||
| I wish I had his ear. | ||
| I don't know if he would have listened to me, but if I had his ear... | ||
| I think that's what makes those guys special, though. | ||
| It's the self-belief. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| That's what makes you a champion. | ||
| You cannot become a Volkanovski without this unstoppable belief in yourself. | ||
| Me and him are the complete opposite. | ||
| If someone was like, bro, you're probably going to lose, I'm like, yeah, you make a good point. | ||
| I'm like, how much are they paying me? | ||
| We're complete opposite. | ||
| He takes everything super serious, sporting, everything. | ||
| I don't know how we've blended together. | ||
| I'm able to coach him somehow. | ||
| Well, you're very technical. | ||
| I mean, the thing about your, you know, joking around and being silly about it all is like, you are, but your technique is very, very good, obviously. | ||
| You obviously are one of the elite guys in the world when it comes to technique. | ||
| So it's not, you are serious. | ||
| Yeah, I mean personality type, you know? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I guess we have the Australian bond. | ||
| He has faith in me, more faith in me than the guy that gave me this, I think. | ||
| They both probably shouldn't, no. | ||
| What is Volk up to now? | ||
| Do you talk to him? | ||
| I think he's in Thailand training at Bangtao with his, so Volk's wrestling coach, Frank Hickman, they have a gym in Thailand, so he's out in Bangtao getting some work in. | ||
| I want to get him a grappling match. | ||
| I said to him, I said, man, if we're going to take some time away because of the concussions, let's get you a grappling match. | ||
| And my thought was, how cool would it be to see him and Ortega have a grappling match? | ||
| Oh my god, that would be incredible. | ||
| I would just love to see it in that setting because Ortega obviously struggled to submit him in MMA. Yeah. | ||
| Let's see what happens in a grappling match. | ||
| Right, with no gloves too. | ||
| Yeah, that would be very interesting. | ||
| Ortega's very good on the ground. | ||
| He's very sneaky too. | ||
| Yeah, he's super slick. | ||
| He catches some crazy shit out there. | ||
| He'll be losing a fight like two, three rounds, get one, look at a guillotine, finish it. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| No, and his guillotine is fucking death. | ||
| I mean, when Volkanovski got out of that, the mounted guillotine, his face looked like a grape. | ||
| And just would not tap. | ||
| Would not tap. | ||
| I had no idea how he got out, but I told everyone. | ||
| I was like, yeah, obviously that's me. | ||
| Buy the DVD. Support his grappling coach. | ||
| I take credit for that. | ||
| He's an animal. | ||
| 99.9% of the world would have tapped. | ||
| He's like that in the gym. | ||
| I remember I would choke him in the gym sometimes, and he'll go from putting his chin in to taking it out as your grip's in there. | ||
| He'll try and switch it from, I guess, the front choke to the blood vessels. | ||
| He just... | ||
| Changes how you choke him and can survive down there. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I don't know how he does that. | ||
| He should teach me that shit. | ||
| I think it's just his brain. | ||
| Yeah, too tough. | ||
| Yeah, he's a fucking animal. | ||
| And so does he have a plan to come back? | ||
| I don't know what's going on. | ||
| I imagine it's probably Holloway versus Teporia. | ||
| I think that's going to happen. | ||
| I hope so. | ||
| I hope personally we get Vox a grapple match. | ||
| Maybe we get him at this event. | ||
| I'm hoping we get some MMA guys at this event. | ||
| Is he thinking about doing something like that? | ||
| You don't have a whole lot of time, right? | ||
| When is this event? | ||
| This is August 16th, 17th. | ||
| Yeah, so not much time. | ||
| But, I mean, if he's in shape, he's training, he's out at Bangtown, Thailand, get some rounds in, I think it's fine, especially against another MMA guy. | ||
| They both have the same type of training. | ||
| You know, it's not like he's taking on a pure grappler that's only grappling. | ||
| So do you have a budget to do something like that, to do super fights as well? | ||
| Actually, yeah. | ||
| So we're going to start taking sponsors to try and get more super fights. | ||
| And I'm in talks with some legends of the game right now, like some guys that you'd be shocked. | ||
| Can you say names? | ||
| I wouldn't say any names, but potentially... | ||
| Can you make the names rhyme? | ||
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| One of them has a Mexican-sounded last name, but I'll talk to you about that off the air. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I know that one. | ||
| Yeah, all the legends. | ||
| So many people want to come out of retirement for this. | ||
| I think they just know, especially when I explain the rules, explain that it's in that alley, like the sunken floor. | ||
| You know, they like that format. | ||
| Obviously, you throw a million dollars on Instagram, you get some messages. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| You get some, hey brother, what's going on, you know? | ||
| Yeah, I think people are going to be shocked at how good Luke Rockhold is. | ||
| Yeah, man, he's so tough. | ||
| He's very good on the ground. | ||
| I remember when he got Weidman down and mounted him and Weidman could not get up. | ||
| I was like, his ground game is very underrated because he's just known as an MMA guy. | ||
| And he's going to come train with us. | ||
| He's going to come to B-Team for five weeks. | ||
| So he's going to prepare with us for this event. | ||
| So we'll watch him and Nicky Rod kill each other every day. | ||
| I'll love to watch that shit. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah, I always wondered how he would have done if he had gone straight grappling, because the people that I know that trained with him said, dude, I think he could have competed with the best in the world as a grappler, just as a pure grappler. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look at the guys he's training with, Khabib and Islam, Cain Velasquez, DC, all those guys. | ||
| People think it's like MMA's in isolation, like those skills won't translate. | ||
| They translate, especially with athletes like that. | ||
| Especially in such a grappling-dominated camp. | ||
| He's going to surprise some people. | ||
| What I keep laughing about is like, it's a million dollars for first place, 10,000 for second place. | ||
| I'm like, who's tapping? | ||
| Right, for a million dollars. | ||
| Yeah, and I think what we're going to do, I haven't finalized this yet, but I think if you're in a submission and the round ends, we keep going. | ||
| Get out of the submission. | ||
| Well, there's been so many times where guys were almost submitted, where you think, oh... | ||
| Yeah, this guy. | ||
| I let him out of that armbar to join the team, you know? | ||
| Look what happened. | ||
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| I didn't get any money out of that. | ||
| How bad was his arm fucked up after that? | ||
| That arm bar was so tight. | ||
| Well, that was the funny thing, right? | ||
| And that was EBI. What's the prize of EBI? Well, he had had some... | ||
| If I had submitted him, I would have won 15K. And I think he had only had two submissions in regulation. | ||
| So he was... | ||
| He only made 10K. So I was like, we could have made a business deal there, bro. | ||
| Just let it go. | ||
| But man, his arm popped on the day. | ||
| He said it was fine. | ||
| Next week, I show up. | ||
| We're both competing in another event again. | ||
| And there was like three, four locker rooms. | ||
| And I would just travel by myself. | ||
| I wouldn't even have a coach. | ||
| I'd just post an Instagram story. | ||
| Who can corner me for this event? | ||
| Like, against Gordon, I had Denny Prokopos. | ||
| And he was saying 10th Planet stuff to me, and I didn't even know what language he was speaking in the corner there. | ||
| Oh, right. | ||
| So I was confused. | ||
| Crackhead control. | ||
| Yeah, he's saying, do these things. | ||
| I'm like, what's happening, bro? | ||
| And then I show up to this next event. | ||
| Yeah, Kasai grappling in New York. | ||
| And of all the locker rooms, they throw me in there with the Danaher guys. | ||
| And I'm just like, this is a bit weird. | ||
| I had this guy in Armbar last week, then he choked me, and now it's just me in a locker room with them all. | ||
| It was very awkward, but then broke the ice and came in the train the next week. | ||
| And you were with them for a long time. | ||
| You were with them for, like, what, five years? | ||
| With Danaher? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Two years. | ||
| Two years. | ||
| So did it start before Puerto Rico? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah, I lived in New York for... | ||
| I mean, man, my memory's hazy, but we survived Puerto Rico for six months, and before that, I would come and go from New York. | ||
| I was probably with the team two and a half years. | ||
| But yeah, things get weird out there in the jungle, you know? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Buckle lips down style. | ||
| Well, everyone's confused as to what happened with you guys. | ||
| There's no real version of the truth. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We've got a book deal. | ||
| We've got a movie deal coming out. | ||
| I'm gonna exploit that story to the bitter end. | ||
| You have a book deal, for real? | ||
| No, I'm joking. | ||
| But I could. | ||
| The story's weird enough, you know. | ||
| What happened with you guys? | ||
| I mean, there's so many things we really can't discuss, you know? | ||
| A lot of problems, obviously. | ||
| Obviously, if two brothers split up, there's going to be some serious issues there. | ||
| But yeah, it's not really my place to say. | ||
| But hopefully, one day it comes out. | ||
| I think it'll be an interesting story. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| This shit might kick things off. | ||
| It might be World War 3 again. | ||
| So when you left, did you leave to start your own place? | ||
| When you guys started B-Team, was that the plan all along? | ||
| No, I honestly never even wanted to start a gym. | ||
| I'd already told the guys at Danaher's that I was like, hey, this will be my last ADCC, and then I just want to travel around, see the world, visit interesting destinations, teach seminars. | ||
| I felt like I'd already built a brand. | ||
| But then when the team split, I felt like I sort of wanted to help them kickstart something. | ||
| So we came here. | ||
| We started the B team. | ||
| I've been with the B team. | ||
| We've had the B team two, three years. | ||
| But I'm not there too much anymore. | ||
| You know, I helped kickstart it. | ||
| We got the gym. | ||
| The guys haven't, you know? | ||
| So, like, I like traveling around. | ||
| So, are you basically semi-retired? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| I mean, obviously, if you put on an event that pisses off every other promotion in the sport, it's going to probably be hard to get matches in the future. | ||
| So I'll probably compete for my own show and that's it. | ||
| That's the plan. | ||
| We want to keep doing these shows. | ||
| Well, I think you're going to piss off ADCC for sure by going head-to-head with them, but I don't think it would piss off Fight Pass or who's number one. | ||
| Do you think? | ||
| Well, I mean, whoever's streaming ADCC is obviously not going to be happy. | ||
| There's more competition. | ||
| But again, I still think long-term, this story is going to grow the sport. | ||
| It's an interesting story. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| Let's see what happens. | ||
| It'll either be the best event ever or the Fyre Festival. | ||
| I'm hoping for the former. | ||
| The Fight Festival. | ||
| Are you, besides the Gabby Garcia thing, which is, you know, no disrespect, kind of a gimmick fight? | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| Are you done competing? | ||
| I'll probably do another match. | ||
| That's Gabby. | ||
| Gabby will be one day. | ||
| If someone's down, I'll do a match on the other day as well. | ||
| We'll see, but I also want to leave it open because I am talking to some crazy big names. | ||
| And I'm like, man, if we can put that together. | ||
| I'm going to try and save some space. | ||
| Obviously, I have to run this thing. | ||
| I wish you could tell me some of those names on the air. | ||
| It's everyone you could possibly think of. | ||
| I'll tell you after. | ||
| There's a potential matchup that I'm working on that's insane. | ||
| It'll be the craziest shit ever. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Crazy, yeah. | ||
| You want to tell me now and we'll cut it out? | ||
| Yeah, can we do that? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I'm working on it. | ||
| Holy shit. | ||
| Sorry, folks. | ||
| You can't know. | ||
| Damn! | ||
| That would be insane. | ||
| That would be insane. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Is the former, is he training? | ||
| Training, yep. | ||
| People have said, man, he feels good. | ||
| It'd be like obviously crazy inspirational story. | ||
| I'd love it. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah, that's insane. | ||
| It's insane, you know, and then it's like Abu Dhabi, for a lot of people, is the Olympics of grappling. | ||
| And one of the things is it's every two years. | ||
| I mean, I remember when John Jacques won Abu Dhabi. | ||
| You know, I had just started, I think this was like, what year was this? | ||
| When he started training, when he fought in Abu Dhabi. | ||
| Early 2000s, mid-2000s? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I was like a blue belt at the time. | ||
| And when John Jock went over there, we were just so proud that he went over there. | ||
| He had this advantage over a lot of the Gi guys in that he only has one hand. | ||
| And so he never relied on grabbing collars. | ||
| Everything was overhooks and underhooks. | ||
| And he had sort of already developed... | ||
| A no-gi game that he was applying to the gi. | ||
| You know, obviously he could do all the gi techniques as well, but he was more of a no-gi guy in the beginning. | ||
| And it was so interesting watching that style, you know, watching no-gi. | ||
| Which is, if Abu Dhabi didn't do that, and if they didn't have this prestigious event and make it no-gi, I think the sport would have really struggled. | ||
| Because it's so hard for people to appreciate what's going on with the gi. | ||
| It's very slow, and when you see a guy getting choked by a collar, it's just... | ||
| It looks silly, too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But yeah, man, I'm so happy Abu Dhabi exists. | ||
| I think the inspiration for me to do ADCC was Stuart Cooper's highlight reels. | ||
| Like when I was coming up, like 2009, 2011, CM Braulio, Andre Gavao's runs, like that inspired me. | ||
| Losing in the gi more than no-gi also inspired me to chase the no-gi dreams, but I'm following in Eddie Bravo's footsteps. | ||
| We both did ADCC, couldn't win it. | ||
| We have our own invitational. | ||
| But yeah, I'm thankful for everything they've done. | ||
| I still obviously love ADCC. I wouldn't have a career as big as it is without ADCC. But do you feel any loyalty to ADCC? You're kind of fucking them, right? | ||
| I mean, I feel loyalty to the athletes. | ||
| I think for what we do and how much bigger the sport is now, we should be compensated better. | ||
| And that's sort of why I've taken a massive risk in doing this. | ||
| I appreciate what you're saying, but if ADC is not turning a profit, like the idea of compensating the athletes more, I mean, they have essentially made stars out of so many of these athletes. | ||
| And because of that, by the fact of that, they've profited. | ||
| But therein lies the argument, and the argument is that I believe an event of that magnitude should turn a profit. | ||
| I'm going to do it myself and see. | ||
| Obviously, I could be wrong, but based on the production and the things we've paid for thus far, I don't see how you couldn't run it in a profitable way. | ||
| Obviously, we're giving away 100 times as much for two divisions. | ||
| But man, if they had even upped it to 20k... | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like, some token gesture. | ||
| Like, if we're going from a basketball court with 100 people in there to selling out T-Mobile, like, if there's room for a fireworks show, if there's room for drummers, I feel like there should be some room in the budget for the athlete pay to increase. | ||
| No, that's a good argument. | ||
| And hopefully, by forcing, by this, you guys will, like, inspire them. | ||
| And the argument is about making stars. | ||
| Like, it's true. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| Obviously, you get a huge platform, but you could win and not become a star. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I know plenty of guys. | ||
| Well, not plenty of guys, but I know a few people that have won ADCC, but really like... | ||
| No one knows who they are. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's crazy for me is I'll go to a seminar and I'll sell out just because of just fucking gay jokes and stupid jokes all the time, you know? | ||
| And I'll see real champions that can't... | ||
| Sell out a seminar. | ||
| So if we can make an event that those champions can make some real money in, I'd be super happy. | ||
| Well, I think also your popularity has increased because people know that you coach Volkanovski and you've worked with MMA athletes before. | ||
| Do you plan on still doing that? | ||
| For sure, yeah. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| Love Volkanovski. | ||
| Always be there for him any time. | ||
| I mean, obviously MMA's got a lot of... | ||
| Crazy individuals in there, but to give up the time to work with the correct athletes, I will always have time for some of the real good guys out there. | ||
| Obviously, Izzy, awesome. | ||
| I'd always make time for Izzy. | ||
| Jack Della from Perth. | ||
| Guys like that, just super cool guys. | ||
| I'd always find time to help them. | ||
| Yeah, Jack Della, what a big win he got over Gilbert. | ||
| Man, I still moves off him. | ||
| I remember when he went in the Contender Series, he hit a, like, a Makikumi reversal in the first round of the Contender Series fight, and I was just blown away by his grappling, and I've been watching it since. | ||
| And his reversal with Gilbert Burns was crazy. | ||
| Yeah, very crazy. | ||
| I've trained with him, and I'm just like, I still moves from him. | ||
| Like, he's, man, he's so good at grappling. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, he's very good at striking, too. | ||
| In my opinion, he's one of the best in the sport at mixing up shots from the body to the head. | ||
| Because so many fighters, for whatever reason, are headhunters. | ||
| Because you can knock a guy out with one shot, but Jack is so good at mixing shots up to the body and to the head. | ||
| I mean, he just breaks guys down. | ||
| Yeah, he's a scary guy. | ||
| I was lucky, actually, because before the Taporia fight, we were able to sort of link up. | ||
| So it was like he came out to Wollongong and trained. | ||
| Izzy came out at the same time, so I got to watch Jack Deller and Izzy mix it up and then them train with Vox. | ||
| And for me, even as an MMA fan, I have to pinch myself sometimes and be like, wow, that's amazing. | ||
| It's just like putting on this thing when I'm talking to these guys about superfights. | ||
| It's the dream. | ||
| As just a grappling fan, I'm just thinking, oh, what could we do? | ||
| Who could we convince into this event? | ||
| Just from a pure fan perspective, it is pretty fun. | ||
| I'm sure. | ||
| It's going to be interesting to see whether or not this can work. | ||
| Because a lot of people have looked at the UFC model and said, hey, athletes should be getting paid more money, and so they put on these events, and none of them are profitable. | ||
| I mean, maybe Bellator was, and they sold Bellator, and then there's the PFL. I don't know how they do financially. | ||
| But they have the same sort of similar thing. | ||
| They have a tournament, the end of the tournament, the guy wins a million dollars. | ||
| But my point is, right, is like if you're an Olympic champion or if you're a UFC champion, it has so much prestige that every single person in the world knows what it is. | ||
| It has this intrinsic value. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If you say you're an IBJJF champion or an ADCC champion, a very small percentage of your population know that. | ||
| So it's like, that's case in point. | ||
| We've put on a tournament with much more money. | ||
| Everyone jumps ships because they know that's money. | ||
| Whereas like obviously Olympic gold medal, that's timeless. | ||
| That crosses all sports, you know, that crosses into the culture. | ||
| How many guys are jumping ship? | ||
| I mean, I'll tell you afterwards, but... | ||
| So is it public that they're jumping ship, or are they not talking about it? | ||
| Well, we've got 16 spots in under and over, and I'm navigating through who wants to be in there, you know? | ||
| 16 spots each, so 32 total? | ||
| So I'm trying to navigate to the best guys we can get, and it's like everyone wants in, you know? | ||
| Really? | ||
| So no one's worried about the repercussions or the blowback from ADCC? No, because I think they see it as well. | ||
| I could get the money to show. | ||
| So the Tackett Brothers, local Texas guys, some of the nicest kids ever. | ||
| And they were the first ones to reach out to me. | ||
| They won the trials. | ||
| ADCC's been their dream their entire life. | ||
| And they just hit me up. | ||
| Because no one believes anything I say, unfortunately. | ||
| You make too many jokes, everyone's like, it's full of shit. | ||
| But these guys were like, man, is this real? | ||
| And I was like, yeah, it's real. | ||
| And they're like, well, even if I have to deal with the consequences, even if I have to go back and win the trials to qualify again, I won a shot at a million. | ||
| And they're not even talking about themselves. | ||
| They're like, I want to take care of my family. | ||
| And I'm like, wow, that's a super cool motivation to do this. | ||
| They're willing to risk it because they'll fight their way back in. | ||
| Well, I hope there's no repercussions. | ||
| I hope... | ||
| I don't think there will be. | ||
| Well, we'll see, right? | ||
| But I think best case scenario is that ADCC recognizes that there's competition and they have to raise up the amount of money they give the athletes. | ||
| Maybe it'll just elevate the profile of the sport enough so that's profitable still. | ||
| Yeah, it's a good experiment. | ||
| Prestige versus... | ||
| But why do it the same weekend as them? | ||
| Well, you want the athletes to make a stand, you know? | ||
| Are they together? | ||
| Or, you know, what is the motivation here for these guys? | ||
| Money. | ||
| Money is the motivation. | ||
| Money, for sure. | ||
| It's sort of making a stand, but it's making a stand that money is more important than this organization that's propped up the sport for 20-plus years. | ||
| Well, there's other athletes that say a million dollars is easy to make. | ||
| That guy over there? | ||
| Well, it's easy for Gordon. | ||
| I mean, Gordon makes a lot of money. | ||
| I mean, Gordon makes a lot of money from instructional just from dominating for all these years. | ||
| But again, like a million for most guys. | ||
| I mean, you grow up in Brazil. | ||
| Millions are not easy to make by any means. | ||
| The instructional market is predominantly English-speaking people. | ||
| They're the ones that are going to pay the highest price. | ||
| So it's like us that speak English have a huge advantage in that area. | ||
| Even me personally, just for having an accent. | ||
| A lot of Americans are like, wow, he's fucking smarter. | ||
| That's why we use people like you for infomercials. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| They take it. | ||
| You can sell a mop. | ||
| John Dano, you throw a Kiwi accent on it. | ||
| He's obviously a smart guy, but that adds points for sure. | ||
| Are you still close to him? | ||
| Do you talk to him? | ||
| No, we don't talk. | ||
| So he's upset at all this? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I've run into him a few times. | ||
| We shake hands. | ||
| But you know his general demeanor. | ||
| You don't really know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I look back when we walk past. | ||
| See, there's no knife coming. | ||
| But I helped him hide a few bodies in New York. | ||
| You know, some missing women. | ||
| But we had a tight bond. | ||
| He's a unique character. | ||
| I mean, he seems like a guy from a fucking movie. | ||
| Like, he doesn't even seem like a real guy. | ||
| You know, some professor of philosophy at Columbia who becomes obsessed with jiu-jitsu, sleeps on the mats, teaches everybody and forces everybody to train 365 days a year. | ||
| Yeah, that's an interesting fella. | ||
| What was it like doing that, like the 365 days a year? | ||
| I mean, I wouldn't do it. | ||
| I would be like, bro, we're taking a day off. | ||
| Let me have a day to relax. | ||
| I wouldn't necessarily do it. | ||
| It was a lot of training though. | ||
| He wanted it to be your life. | ||
| Obviously it should be, but a lot of pressure. | ||
| A lot of pressure to be a part of that team. | ||
| Did you talk to him about the philosophy behind those decisions? | ||
| I mean, we had a lot of discussions. | ||
| I think we were actually really close because I'm from his part of the world. | ||
| So a lot of the time Australians visit, he actually has a tight connection with them because we have a lot of things we can relate on. | ||
| So we talk all the time. | ||
| Unfortunately, me and Nicky Ryan were two of the ones he was closest to before the team split. | ||
| And when you guys were training there, how beneficial is it having a guy like him around? | ||
| Super beneficial, and also not just because of who he is and how smart he is, but he basically approached it like an MMA coach. | ||
| An MMA coach is always watching, is always guiding your training. | ||
| Most jiu-jitsu coaches are participating. | ||
| They teach you a few moves, they roll with everyone. | ||
| So to have a guy that approaches it like an MMA coach, where he approaches it with that level of professionalism, watching, making adjustments, I think even something as simple as that is a huge benefit. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, I think so too. | ||
| Also, a guy who's physically impaired, where he can't compete, but he has so much passion for it that he pours it all into the athletes. | ||
| Yeah, and I think what made him so brilliant as well is obviously his college and university. | ||
| He knows how to study. | ||
| He knows how to take notes on everything. | ||
| He knows how to teach. | ||
| You put him in Henzo Gracie's in New York for 20 years when it was the hub of MMA and grappling. | ||
| Guys like Hodja Gracie are passing through all the time. | ||
| He's basically in this position where he can just watch, train with all these guys, pick up all these details, and have it locked and loaded, ready to teach in a perfect way. | ||
| Obviously, his game's heavily inspired by Marcelo Garcia. | ||
| He just takes the really useful things and can articulate it in a way that's better than most of the people in the sport before him. | ||
| So I think there's all these factors that have made him who he is and why he's so successful. | ||
| How much of a factor is this the constant training the training of 365 days you're like how do you balance the burnout with the discipline like how do you like because I think inspiration is Almost enthusiasm and inspiration are almost I think discipline is more important for sure, | ||
| but there are factors that can't be ignored because when an athlete loses inspiration and loses enthusiasm, they just don't have the mental drive to push through very difficult situations. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| Like you just lose the steam, you lose the engine. | ||
| I mean, I don't think you should do 365 a year. | ||
| I think you should peak for events, have a period of time afterwards where you slow down, and then when you're not preparing for an event, you're studying technique. | ||
| When you get closer to an event, you're refining those particular techniques and skills for that particular event's rule set or opponent or whatever, and we should go up and down. | ||
| I like it when you have an event Whether you win or lose, you don't train too much after and you have this period where you miss training and you're like pulled back into it. | ||
| So I do, and I think, I mean, even like, obviously Gordon's had forced breaks with health issues, but like as long as I've known him and we train together, like there would be time periods where he wouldn't be at training for a week or two, you know? | ||
| So it's like, I think it's like a myth we should all strive for, but everyone should be entitled to some time off. | ||
| Did you ever talk to John about that? | ||
| I mean, I would just take a day off every week, but luckily, like, I think he had some love for the Australians, let me get away with some things he wouldn't let other people do. | ||
| So, I mean, I would be chilling, you know? | ||
| Does he enforce that, like the 365 days a week? | ||
| I mean, I don't know if there's a real strong enforcement, but there's like an unspoken... | ||
| You better be there, you know? | ||
| But who knows what it's like now. | ||
| Obviously, he's moved to Austin. | ||
| My memory's probably phased. | ||
| He's probably forgot some things. | ||
| But yeah, obviously, I'm super appreciative that I was a part of that team. | ||
| But I mean, I was with Lachlan. | ||
| I'm lucky. | ||
| I moved to Melbourne. | ||
| I was with Lachlan Giles for a few years. | ||
| I had a massive splash at ADCC 2019. And then I was with John. | ||
| So, like, I've been around some good coaches, you know? | ||
| So, I think I'm a lucky position despite coming from Australia. | ||
| Not as lucky as others. | ||
| Like, it would have been amazing to be like a Nicky Ryan, born right next to New York and got to train with someone. | ||
| Will the people in that team have that coaches? | ||
| But again, like... | ||
| We're all not that lucky. | ||
| I didn't even train with a black belt. | ||
| I was already a purple belt. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, we all weren't exposed. | ||
| Because I'm from Australia, I probably came up with a time period in my city that was more like an older time in the U.S. where black belts were like, whoa. | ||
| Never met one. | ||
| What year did you start training? | ||
| Probably 17 years ago now. | ||
| And even back then, there weren't many black belts around? | ||
| No, when I started training, I just trained with my cousin, and he was like a four-stripe white belt. | ||
| There was like two people on the mats, you know? | ||
| There was nothing. | ||
| I trained twice a week. | ||
| I didn't train properly for a long time. | ||
| You trained twice a week? | ||
| Yeah, I was just like, I didn't even think, I didn't even know what I was, you know? | ||
| You were just fucking around. | ||
| You were just doing it for fun? | ||
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| What were you doing for a living back then? | ||
| I was still in high school when I first started, and then I was just flipping burgers at Burger King, basically. | ||
| Then I did a psychology degree, just a bachelor's. | ||
| Some bar tech. | ||
| I had to work jobs, study, and do jiu-jitsu. | ||
| So these assholes today, they get to just train. | ||
| I'm so envious of them. | ||
| It's just the sport. | ||
| Again, the sport's growing that much with the sponsorship deals and stuff. | ||
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So back then, how did you learn technique? | |
| Here's the funny thing. | ||
| I had Eddie Bravo's Mastering the Rubber Guard book. | ||
| That came to me at a very influential time where I read the chapter about weed. | ||
| I was like, fuck it, maybe I should start smoking weed. | ||
| I was thinking I'm going to learn some techniques, ended up smoking weed all the time. | ||
| Yeah, it doesn't work for everybody. | ||
| It's interesting, the weed thing, because some people think it makes you lazy, and I think you're just lazy. | ||
| I think if weed makes you lazy, you're lazy. | ||
| It makes me think about the consequence. | ||
| The idea of paranoia, like people talk about weed paranoia, I think it's like a hyper-awareness. | ||
| And, you know, Eddie once said this to me, like, if your life is shit and you smoke weed, it's going to feel terrible. | ||
| But if your life is great and you smoke weed, you're going to feel good. | ||
| Like, if you don't have any problems in your life, you don't have any things you're dealing with, if you've dealt with your problems and you're just, like, on a good path, then weed's good for you. | ||
| But weed has never made me lazy. | ||
| It's the opposite. | ||
| I smoke weed, I always feel like, don't be lazy. | ||
| You gotta get things to do. | ||
| You don't want these things fucking with you. | ||
| You don't want these things hanging over your head. | ||
| Like, that hyper-awareness, it's like part of my work ethic. | ||
| You know, like, oversight. | ||
| Like, someone is looking over me all the time, making sure I can't lie to myself or to other people. | ||
| Like, I have to do the things I'm actually supposed to do. | ||
| That's my feeling about it. | ||
| Well, I mean, I read his book and I was like 17, smoking bongs, driving to training in the car, having pre-workout, getting ready to go to war, you know? | ||
| That's basically the influence of that on me. | ||
| But it was good. | ||
| I think rolling high keeps you fluent. | ||
| I wouldn't do it all the time. | ||
| Sometimes I meet guys that are so high that I've just smashed them for a round, but they've done one thing, but they're so fascinated by that, like the perception's off sometimes. | ||
| I think that's possible, true. | ||
| That's too. | ||
| But I've always felt like I was like 10% better when I was high. | ||
| I really feel like that's quite a few things. | ||
| You gotta try a couple beers. | ||
| I'm scared. | ||
| Beers don't help me. | ||
| Like when I play pool, if I play pool high, I play way better. | ||
| If I play pool drunk, I'm not good. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Yeah, I think with me, alcohol just makes me not pay attention to shit. | ||
| Alcohol, for me, is like... | ||
| I'm not a focused person if I'm drinking. | ||
| I need that for sport, though. | ||
| It gives me a false sense of confidence. | ||
| I think that's useful. | ||
| Maybe one or two beers. | ||
| But drunk. | ||
| Have you ever competed drunk? | ||
| I've felt it, for sure. | ||
| It's usually not beer. | ||
| I usually get vodka soda or something. | ||
| So if a fan sees, I'm like, no, it's soda water, man. | ||
| You've done that many times? | ||
| Were you just to take the edge off? | ||
| Five, six times. | ||
| I mean, I had a couple of drinks before the Lovato match because we had the Howl Ahead bottle back there. | ||
| I was like, hey, come on, throw us some sponsorship money, you know? | ||
| Get that up, but sadly not. | ||
| Isn't Howlerhead owned by Dana? | ||
| Yeah, that was the thing. | ||
| I was like, go sneak us a bottle back here, man. | ||
| Put it in the vlog. | ||
| When you were training and you were learning from books, did you have any videos that you studied? | ||
| How did you learn techniques other than just books? | ||
| I'm trying to remember what books I had, man. | ||
| I had PJ Penn's book, Eddie Bravo's book, the actual textbooks. | ||
| And then I started... | ||
| Buying the instructionals. | ||
| I had Cara Parisians judo for MMA. I had Ryan Halls. | ||
| He really changed the game with instructionals in the early days. | ||
| So like stealing all his moves. | ||
| And then I learned about the world of torrent sites and I started illegally acquiring every instructional I could. | ||
| And then we'd try to self-learn on the mats, studying these and then drilling the moves. | ||
| So I was really self-taught up until Purple Bell. | ||
| Really just focused on using instructionals. | ||
| And then where'd you go for Purple Belt? | ||
| Then I moved to Melbourne with Lachlan Giles and basically it was like two and a half years there and then two and a half years with John. | ||
| That's a crazy little amount of time. | ||
| Yeah, that's the thing. | ||
| A lot of people, obviously, they just notice when you achieve something, you know what I mean? | ||
| So I trained by myself a long time before I was able to join any big teams. | ||
| What do you think attributed to your success? | ||
| I think, I mean, honestly, I don't know. | ||
| I put in the work in the early days for sure. | ||
| And then studying, studying, studying, and then just being at the forefront of the leg lock sort of saga, you know, like I got in at the right time. | ||
| I saw techniques in the gi, like the Birambolo, that were just a new technique that would wipe the floor with experienced black belts. | ||
| You could use it on people you had no business beating. | ||
| Those are the techniques I wanted. | ||
| And I saw the Danaher guys use heel hooks and I was like, man... | ||
| If I, as a purple belt, can submit some black belts, I'm like, that's the way I gotta go. | ||
| And so how did you wind up training with John? | ||
| Well, I mean, I would just... | ||
| Obviously, Australia is far away. | ||
| Hard for me to keep doing that 16-hour journey back and forth. | ||
| I wanted to stay in America, so I just started doing my camps there. | ||
| That was the best place to do it. | ||
| It was like 100 people in the room doing Nogi. | ||
| Obviously, it had that DDS squad there that was awesome. | ||
| Danaher Focus. | ||
| At that time, there really weren't too many places in the world that would take Nogi as seriously as those guys. | ||
| How bad was the staph infections going around down there? | ||
| I got staph every month. | ||
| Every month there. | ||
| How the fuck is that possible? | ||
| I got it under my eye one time and the doctor was like, bro, if it's your eye, you're fucked. | ||
| I was like, oh, that's reassuring. | ||
| Hey, thank you. | ||
| But yeah, every month I was on it. | ||
| I remember I used to go trips to Mexico to get some medicine. | ||
| So I'd go down there, buy a bunch of doxycycline, buy like 90 tablets of it. | ||
| I'd just sit on it and keep taking them. | ||
| Used to buy my steroids down in Mexico too. | ||
| But that probably would fuck Gordon's stomach up. | ||
| The steroids? | ||
| No, I mean the antibiotics. | ||
| I don't think the steroids help. | ||
| Probably a bit of everything. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| The antibiotics are definitely not good for you. | ||
| But when you're on antibiotics, he was on antibiotics for a year straight. | ||
| Which, first of all, is crazy because the amount of discipline it takes to train that much while you're on antibiotics. | ||
| For people who don't know, antibiotics wreck your cardio. | ||
| Just wreck your physical strength, wreck your vitality. | ||
| I got staff once, and I remember I took antibiotics, and I don't think I had ever taken antibiotics before while I was training. | ||
| And when I was recovering from staff, I was like, this is nuts. | ||
| I feel like I'm 50%. | ||
| You're at 50%. | ||
| Like, when Luke Rockhold beat Chris Weidman, he was on antibiotics. | ||
| I mean, I've taken it a lot during matches. | ||
| I've taken it a lot. | ||
| I've been on it all the time. | ||
| It fucking wrecks you, though, right? | ||
| Yeah, I had bad stuff on my leg. | ||
| Like, even during that Philip Rowe match. | ||
| I remember I submitted him, and then he had stuff a few days later. | ||
| I was like, got you twice, mate. | ||
| But that was bad when the doctor had to cut that open and like squeeze it out. | ||
| That was horrible. | ||
| But I think, yeah, the more you take antibiotics, the less effect they have on you. | ||
| So now I get staph. | ||
| It's fucking really annoying. | ||
| Do you use anything to protect your skin? | ||
| Like do you use defense soap or anything like that? | ||
| Nah, I just try to shower straight afterwards. | ||
| Just regular soap? | ||
| Yeah, anything. | ||
| I think we have some branded soap in there, but I think it's just important. | ||
| We're dealing with some people that don't even know how to shower. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, some of them have a quick rinse to get out of there. | ||
| I would see guys do that when they would train and they would just go home sweaty. | ||
| I'm like, you're out of your fucking mind. | ||
| You're allowing that stuff to breathe on your skin while you're in your car. | ||
| It's hot out. | ||
| That was Puerto Rico. | ||
| We had no showers at the gym. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| So we'd have a 60-minute drive home after each class without having a shower. | ||
| Oh, that's insane. | ||
| Not good for the car fabric smell. | ||
| But was the Puerto Rico gym, wasn't that exposed to sunlight at least? | ||
| Wasn't the mat exposed to sunlight? | ||
| Not enough. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| Because I get in the ocean every day. | ||
| I think maybe that helped. | ||
| Oh, that probably helps a lot. | ||
| A lot of sunshine down there, too. | ||
| Yeah, that probably helps a lot. | ||
| Sunlight on the mats, apparently, is a great thing. | ||
| Like, if you could open up garage doors and have sunlight on the mats, apparently that kills a lot of things. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| I also think sometimes, like, the overtrain, like, your immune system's just down, because maybe you're stressed and sleeping. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| You're really stressed about a match. | ||
| A lot of people get staff around a match, because... | ||
| They push the training up due to the anxiety of the match. | ||
| They're thinking about it, messes with their sleep, and then they're just vulnerable to it. | ||
| When you were training, did you ever monitor your heart rate, check your heart rate in the morning, make sure you're not overtraining? | ||
| You know, I thought about doing that stuff, the HIV stuff. | ||
| Thought about it. | ||
| I looked up one of the machines at the time. | ||
| I was like, fuck, that's expensive, eh? | ||
| I mean, now I don't monitor anything. | ||
| I get my blood pressure checked. | ||
| It's concerning, you know? | ||
| I almost failed the last two medicals because the doctor was like, bro, your blood pressure is through the roof. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I was like, pass it, man. | ||
| It's jujitsu. | ||
| It's not MMA. Why would your blood pressure be so high? | ||
| Good question, eh? | ||
| Probably too much caffeine. | ||
| Think that's it? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We should find out, but I'm busy traveling all the time. | ||
| I should look into it. | ||
| You don't know what's wrong? | ||
| Oh, it freaked me out. | ||
| My blood pressure was high. | ||
| Now you're freaking me out now. | ||
| We'll test it off. | ||
| I mean, I just feel like... | ||
| I've got to survive for this shit. | ||
| I understand, but you're relying on your body. | ||
| That's your business. | ||
| Your business is your body. | ||
| I just hope it's a faulty test. | ||
| Faulty test for blood pressure? | ||
| I think those things are 100%. | ||
| The bicep's too big. | ||
| I don't think they're ever wrong with blood pressure. | ||
| I mean, there's factors. | ||
| You can be stressed out that'll raise up your blood pressure. | ||
| I was making jokes with a doctor last time. | ||
| I competed in Dubai, and I was making jokes with him, and he was just not laughing at all. | ||
| He's not having a day. | ||
| The Mexican doctor for Karate Combat loved it, but not the Dubai guy. | ||
| Oh, that's funny. | ||
| You know the guy in the UFC that finished Kevin Lee real quick, Hinat? | ||
| He finished Kevin Lee, like, he knocked him down, guillotined him in a minute. | ||
| Oh, the last guy. | ||
| Yeah, his last fight. | ||
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Who was that? | |
| I can't remember his last name. | ||
| Hinat. | ||
| Hinat. | ||
| I can't remember his name. | ||
| Right. | ||
| He was crazy, though, man. | ||
| He did not want to tap. | ||
| Had him buggy choke, put him in a triangle. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Hinat. | ||
| How do you say that? | ||
| Fuckeredov? | ||
| Give his middle name a crack. | ||
| Fakredinov. | ||
| His middle name's tougher, though. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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Ryashdik... | |
| Ryashdivik? | ||
| He's just like, how can I fucking make Bruce Buffer's life difficult, eh? | ||
| Yeah, bro. | ||
| Buffer's got it rough. | ||
| I got it rough on the... | ||
| I fuck up all the time on the weigh-ins when I have to do the weigh-ins. | ||
| Do they get angry with you? | ||
| Does anyone get angry? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Luckily, no one's gotten angry at me, but it's always a mistake. | ||
| I've fucked up a few times. | ||
| It's hard. | ||
| Those words are hard. | ||
| Sometimes your mouth just doesn't work right. | ||
| You know, it just doesn't come out right. | ||
| I fucked up Umar Nurmagomedov's name once when I was... | ||
| after his fight. | ||
| I was like, God damn it. | ||
| It just came out like... | ||
| I can't even say it now, hey. | ||
| It's hard. | ||
| Zabit was the hardest. | ||
| Magomed Sharipov. | ||
| Zabit Magomed Sharipov. | ||
| That was a guy that I... Fuck, man. | ||
| I was really bummed out when he stepped out. | ||
| When he just decided enough's enough. | ||
| I think he's a doctor now. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Find out what he's doing. | ||
| Zabit Magomed Sharapov. | ||
| That guy was fucking good, man. | ||
| He did some cool shit, yeah. | ||
| He did some wild shit. | ||
| He was so interesting because he was from Dagestan, but he fought almost like a karate fighter. | ||
| Yeah, crazy kicks, man. | ||
| Yeah, wild kicks, man. | ||
| And he could do anything. | ||
| I mean, crazy trips, too. | ||
| He would do that trip. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| He sort of led the way with that. | ||
| A lot of guys try to do that one. | ||
| Yeah, he was very good at that one particular trip. | ||
| He's just so clever. | ||
| So clever and creative and such an interesting fighter to watch. | ||
| I was bummed out, man. | ||
| Like, really bummed out when that guy retired. | ||
| I was like, shit! | ||
| That's why I love traveling around, finding these guys. | ||
| Like, these mysterious guys. | ||
| Like, I was in Japan. | ||
| I could have dinner with Genki Suda. | ||
| I love that dude. | ||
| That's the coolest guy ever. | ||
| He's like a politician now. | ||
| He's done it all. | ||
| Remember when he used to carry around that flag with all the flags and we are all one? | ||
| What a beautiful guy. | ||
| So cool, man. | ||
| Win a fight and then hold this up. | ||
| We are all one. | ||
| And then he just retired to pursue becoming a pop star and now he's a politician. | ||
| He was a pop star? | ||
| Yeah, he owns restaurants. | ||
| Yeah, have you seen his dancing videos? | ||
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No. | |
| What's it called? | ||
| Imagine a guy who fights that could probably dance like a motherfucker. | ||
| Crazy dancing. | ||
| Genki Sudo won... | ||
| I forget the name of it. | ||
| Like, dancing, montage, singing, he does it all. | ||
| No shit. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I'm not surprised. | ||
| He's a creative guy. | ||
| He was creative as a fighter, too. | ||
| Very interesting fighter to watch. | ||
| He retired and he became a pop star to grow in popularity. | ||
| Even fighting wasn't his focus. | ||
| He just wanted to leverage fighting and becoming a pop star to help him get into politics to help people. | ||
| He really just wants to help people. | ||
| So those were side gigs to get him to where he is today, where he can use his political influence to help people in Japan. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That is amazing. | ||
| Does he... | ||
| Look at him. | ||
| Is this him dancing? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| He's got first pitch with all these dudes behind him. | ||
| Oh, a terrible pitch. | ||
| Yeah, soft throw. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's pretty cool. | ||
| He had some crazy men. | ||
| Back in that West Side Grappling tournament, he was hitting some moves back then. | ||
| Oh, yeah, man. | ||
| Innovative today. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Wild, explosive, interesting guy. | ||
| Just very interesting. | ||
| I mean, that's the kind of thing about the sport that's so cool, is that you get these human beings that are just exceptional human beings that decide to challenge themselves, and one of the most difficult things a person can do. | ||
| Like Volkanovski. | ||
| He's a very interesting guy. | ||
| Because it takes extreme character and will and discipline to become Alexander Volkanovski, the greatest featherweight of all time. | ||
| It takes a lot to be that person. | ||
| And you learn a lot just by being around those people. | ||
| You learn about human potential. | ||
| I even learn grappling from these guys. | ||
| People think I show up and I'm just helping them. | ||
| Those guys are so talented. | ||
| I steal shit from them as well. | ||
| I don't know how they do it all. | ||
| Vox does it all. | ||
| What have you learned from Vox? | ||
| I really steal a lot from MMA fighters and how they turtle and get up from there. | ||
| A lot of grapplers don't understand that until they roll with a good MMA guy and the guy just keeps getting up. | ||
| And they're like, what is happening? | ||
| Like Derek Lewis? | ||
| Yeah, they just get up. | ||
| He just stands up. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| I stole that for an instructional name, Just Stand Up. | ||
| And I was like, Derek Lewis inspired. | ||
| No, you did do that, right? | ||
| You did make a whole instructional about getting up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Is it because some guys get just too captured with the idea of engaging and grappling and not getting up? | ||
| Yeah, well, like, if a guy gets his guard past, a jiu-jitsu guy would just look to get guard back. | ||
| Whereas, like, sometimes it's good to expose your back and just stand up and reset. | ||
| Whereas, like, a lot of jiu-jitsu guys are so scared to expose their back, they refuse to ever do it. | ||
| So it's like when an MMA guy does it, they don't know how to deal with it. | ||
| They're not as good at dealing with it. | ||
| It's foreign to them. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because you don't think about it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, it's always like when you have new variabilities, new variables, new variables into any sort of fighting discipline. | ||
| Like, oh, this is a new thing that I didn't consider. | ||
| Yeah, I love that. | ||
| That's what I love about Jiu-Jitsu. | ||
| Jiu-Jitsu can be more complicated. | ||
| MMA is a bit more simple. | ||
| So it's like we can make all these instructions in Jiu-Jitsu about all these weird positions like octopus guard and stuff because you can be endlessly creative. | ||
| Whereas in MMA, the consequences are so strong, severe. | ||
| It's a much simpler game. | ||
| It doesn't mean it's easier. | ||
| There's just less things you can do. | ||
| Well that's what's interesting is that guys in MMA in general aren't as good at submissions because they have all these other disciplines to consider. | ||
| It's like when I went from Taekwondo to kickboxing, one of the things that I realized was when people are punching you in the face, There's a lot of stuff you can't do. | ||
| But if people aren't punching you in the face, damn, you get good at kicking. | ||
| And so these guys who are used to getting punched in the face, there's stuff that they don't have the dexterity, they don't have the ability to do, and I don't know if you develop that to the same extent. | ||
| When you see guys like Wonderboy, who started out with karate, that guy can do stuff with his legs that the average person can't do. | ||
| You know, or Yair. | ||
| Yair Rodriguez. | ||
| Yeah, that's crazy. | ||
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Ooh! | |
| My God, that guy. | ||
| He's one of my favorite guys to watch because his fucking kicks are crazy. | ||
| They just come from everywhere. | ||
| Who's he fighting next? | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
| Did he just fight? | ||
| Was Otega his last fight? | ||
| I believe... | ||
| Was that his last fight? | ||
| Let's say pull up Yair Rodriguez, but let's just find out what Yair Rodriguez's next fight is. | ||
| I don't know if they've announced it. | ||
| I haven't heard anything. | ||
| Yeah, it's funny, when you're in the, when you're friends with a bunch of MMA fighters, sometimes they let you know of a fight that's not been announced, you're like, fuck, I better not say. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Better not drop the news, get in trouble. | ||
| Yeah, that happens all the time. | ||
| Yeah, I fuck up a few times. | ||
| Does it say? | ||
| Nothing booked. | ||
| Was it with Tiger's last one? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So he lost to Ortega. | ||
| And before that, Volkanovski. | ||
| Volkanovski beat his ass. | ||
| That was a prime Volkanovski display. | ||
| Yeah, that was crazy. | ||
| That man, yeah, he just... | ||
| He's just so strong. | ||
| He's a mauler. | ||
| Outmuscled him in the clinch. | ||
| And we worked on a bunch of stuff because of how dangerous his guard is. | ||
| Like, he's got a dangerous guard. | ||
| And we had to overcome the fact that, like... | ||
| If you leave space against him, he throws elbows that cut you. | ||
| So we had to navigate those areas, and really it was good. | ||
| Training Vox for a guy like Yai is awesome, because when he's on bottom, there's a big contingent of Mexican MMA fighters that have really dangerous guards. | ||
| Diego Lopez trains there. | ||
| I think he's from Manaus originally, but he trains a bunch of guys there. | ||
| And just aggressive bottom game, where if you leave space, they throw elbows. | ||
| And if you're close, they're trying to set up high guards and submissions. | ||
| So it's like, we really had to prepare for how dangerous he is there. | ||
| He's one of the front runners, in my opinion. | ||
| First of all, how the fuck does that guy make 145? | ||
| Shredded, yeah. | ||
| He's just finishing everyone, hey? | ||
| He's so dangerous, man. | ||
| You know, who did he fight? | ||
| Super Sadiq Yusuf in his last fight? | ||
| He stopped him in the first round? | ||
| Before that fight, I was telling everybody, I was like, I think this guy's the guy. | ||
| I think he's the next guy to emerge. | ||
| I wonder who he's booked against. | ||
| I remember his first fight was like short notice against... | ||
| Mosvar. | ||
| Yeah, I thought he won. | ||
| It was very close. | ||
| And Mosvar is undefeated and one of the best guys in the division. | ||
| But Diego's scary. | ||
| It's not just that he's good, he's fucking scary. | ||
| He's intense. | ||
| And from everywhere, like submissions, knockouts. | ||
| Submissions, knockouts, and his fucking stand-up is horrific. | ||
| Yeah, Yair just climbed Mount Everest. | ||
| Jesus Christ, Yair! | ||
| That's the most recent thing I could say. | ||
| Fucking relax, bro. | ||
| He's that tough. | ||
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He doesn't even look like he's fucking wearing anything warm. | |
| He's out birdwatching. | ||
| Look at he's got a fucking giant pack on, walking around rucking. | ||
| That's a good way to develop some cardio, I'll tell you that. | ||
| It looks fine, but I definitely want someone else to hold the bag, hey. | ||
| No, that's how you get the cardio. | ||
| You have to carry the bag on your back. | ||
| That's the whole idea. | ||
| He can't. | ||
| It looks fun. | ||
| What are the guys that help you up the mountain? | ||
| Those guys. | ||
| Yeah, the Sherpas. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I think he's trying to get fit. | ||
| I think that's the whole idea behind it. | ||
| It's interesting when a guy like that is just so good at one area, which is kicking, and very good off his back submission. | ||
| But then struggles in a couple other areas. | ||
| He's almost there. | ||
| He's right there at the tippy top, but not quite at the level of the guys that are beating him. | ||
| Remember when he lost to Frankie? | ||
| Came back from that and just become a much better fighter. | ||
| Much better fighter. | ||
| People counted him out a couple times. | ||
| He almost reinvented himself. | ||
| Surprised people, you know? | ||
| That happens so often. | ||
| Like, people counted out Max Holloway. | ||
| You know, Max Holloway, the last fight with Volk, Volk dominated. | ||
| And, you know, Max just said, hey, that was his night. | ||
| He had a great night. | ||
| And that is a fact of fighting, too. | ||
| Like, sometimes a guy will clip you in the first round, and you're kind of not the same. | ||
| But if he didn't clip you, maybe you would have won. | ||
| Like, maybe, you know, maybe if you... | ||
| Like, Justin Gaethje, Max Holloway, he gets caught with that jump-spinning back kick to the nose at the end of the first round. | ||
| Shattered his nose. | ||
| That's a big factor. | ||
| Big factor. | ||
| Doesn't land that. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Fight was a fucking amazing fight still, even with that shattered nose. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| I was watching that. | ||
| I was in Dubai for Karate Combat, and I was watching that at the breakfast buffet with all the staff at the buffet at the hotel I was at. | ||
| We were all going crazy. | ||
| I brought the laptop down, eating omelets. | ||
| That's the fucking craziest fight ever. | ||
| It was the craziest fight ever. | ||
| In the last 10 seconds, when Max points to the floor, a fight that he's winning, Four rounds to one? | ||
| Crazy! | ||
| To just call the guy out? | ||
| We gotta do that in jiu-jitsu, like give each other a leg, let's fucking go. | ||
| I don't think that's the same. | ||
| We just both get broken? | ||
| Well, that's an interesting thing about like the EBI rules. | ||
| How do you like those rules? | ||
| The rules where when it goes to overtime, you start either on a person's back or you start from what they call spiderweb, which is, you know, side control, like trying to get an arm. | ||
| I mean, I like anything creative like that that's going to force people to train those different areas. | ||
| But the majority of the sport, especially old school guys, don't like it. | ||
| It's very difficult to get them to compete under those rules. | ||
| Me, personally, I like any rule set I can beat a guy in. | ||
| So I had Philippe Penner match and the UFC Fight Pass guys were like, oh, what rule set should we do? | ||
| And I was like, I think EBI is pretty good, you know? | ||
| But I like the rule set strategically. | ||
| Against particular opponents, but you know, like Kyle Bain, 10th Planet guy, one of the best overtime guys in the world. | ||
| If I had a match with him, I'd be like, nah, we'll just do a regular rules match, you know? | ||
| Right. | ||
| So it's sort of strategy-based. | ||
| Right, based on the opponent's strengths. | ||
| Even Nicky wrote against Gordon. | ||
| They went to OT, and it was fucking close. | ||
| That is very stressful. | ||
| It's exciting. | ||
| It's exciting. | ||
| But if guys get submitted in those areas, sometimes people don't consider it real, even though it is. | ||
| They're like, oh, it's an overtime victory. | ||
| You didn't really submit him. | ||
| But you did. | ||
| Right. | ||
| When Nicky grabbed that foot. | ||
| Yeah, just fucking ripped it, eh? | ||
| I mean, how bad is his leg fucked up still? | ||
| You gotta think, like, that's doing some damage. | ||
| I just think, like, what was hilarious about that is, like, he was meant... | ||
| Gordon's meant to face Vinny Margulash. | ||
| And no disrespect to Vinny. | ||
| Vinny's just at a later stage of his career, right? | ||
| Vinny, when he was young, was a monster. | ||
| Was incredible. | ||
| And then it's like, two days before, they flipped the script and you got Nicky Rod. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you know what I mean? | ||
| And I can just picture him just getting his foot broken, being like, what the fuck? | ||
| What the fuck just happened, you know? | ||
| When I watched it, I was like, Jesus Christ, that is a lot. | ||
| And Nicky is such a gorilla. | ||
| It was loud. | ||
| So loud. | ||
| It was like, you heard the snap, eh? | ||
| Sometimes, though, you get popped and it's so fast that the damage is already done and you're just like, well, it's already injured, let's keep going, you know? | ||
| Right. | ||
| But obviously some of the submissions are holding tension points, slowly breaking, but the ones that are quick, sometimes guys don't tap because it's like you didn't even have time to process it. | ||
| Well, what about the one with you and Vinny, where you broke his leg? | ||
| That was disgusting, yeah. | ||
| That still haunts me, hey. | ||
| But yeah, I don't know why he did that. | ||
| How the fuck did he keep going? | ||
| Why did he keep going? | ||
| But that's just it. | ||
| You've got to be careful what shit talk you say. | ||
| I try to be careful with what I say. | ||
| I'm never going to be like, leg locks don't work. | ||
| Because he got put in a leg lock in 20 seconds and his leg broke. | ||
| And it's like, now you're committed to the bit. | ||
| Was he saying leg locks don't work? | ||
| Yeah, he's like, leg locks don't work. | ||
| And then his leg exploded. | ||
| And I'm like... | ||
| That's such a crazy thing to say. | ||
| Leg locks don't work. | ||
| It's because he had had matches with Gary and Gordon and they got some pops on him. | ||
| But he hadn't submitted. | ||
| So maybe they laid the groundwork for me, but I think a spiral fracture of his fibula, his ankle, yeah, disturbing. | ||
| That was where I was like, bro, I wouldn't let that happen for a million. | ||
| I don't know how much Chael Sonnen's paying you, but it must be more than me. | ||
| I just think it's his pride, you know, just didn't want to tap. | ||
| But the fact that he kept going after the leg snapped, that was loud. | ||
| Yeah, that was loud. | ||
| And the second one, I saw the bone poking into the skin. | ||
| Like, if I'd kept going, it would have probably, like, his whatever bone fragment would have come out. | ||
| And I was just like, I was nervous. | ||
| I was like, bro, is this guy waiting for overtime? | ||
| Like, he just didn't want to tap. | ||
| But then the ref caught it because his leg was dangling. | ||
| I did the first heel hook, and then the second one, I baited him where I pretended like I was going for his other leg. | ||
| So he gave me the bad one again. | ||
| But he was laughing because he was like, fuck, I couldn't have you break both my legs. | ||
| That's like Monty Python. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| So you knew it was already broken? | ||
| So my foot hit the ground at the exact second his leg snapped in half. | ||
| So for a second, like I felt a little bit of crunching, but I didn't hear it. | ||
| Everyone else in the room heard it. | ||
| And then he gets out of it and I was just like, wow, this fucking guy's flexible, eh? | ||
| And then he says to me, he goes, I think you broke my leg. | ||
| Oh no, he said it in the middle of the match? | ||
| Yeah, we start talking, and I'm just like, what's happening here? | ||
| How strange. | ||
| And I was like, you want to keep going? | ||
| Alright. | ||
| And I ended up back with the same leg. | ||
| And it was just no resistance. | ||
| His ankle just did a fall. | ||
| It just kept going. | ||
| See if you can find that, Jamie. | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| That was the most disturbing jujitsu match I've ever watched. | ||
| Yeah, I just couldn't understand. | ||
| I was just like, bro, why are you making me do this? | ||
| Yeah, Vinny, please tap. | ||
| You're giving me trauma. | ||
| I remember watching it with this look on my face. | ||
| Don't fucking... | ||
| I just felt bad for him because he's a fucking good guy. | ||
| And I was just like, man, did you not tap because you said leg locks don't work? | ||
| Were you committed to it? | ||
| It was quick, though. | ||
| It was a quick break. | ||
| Doesn't he still have a plate in there? | ||
| Honestly, I don't know. | ||
| But he came back and competed against Mason Fowler maybe four or five months later. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| And it's just like, you're getting some mileage on the body there, bro. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Is it worth it? | ||
| I mean, better than the tibia, I guess. | ||
| The fibula, I've cracked my fibula before. | ||
| It's not as bad. | ||
| It's a small bone, you know, and they can just let it fix, you know, let it heal up once they screw it together. | ||
| I wouldn't let it break. | ||
| I'd be like... | ||
| Uh-uh. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The noise is bad. | ||
| I've broken a few legs and I'm just like, whoa. | ||
| So here it is. | ||
| Is this before? | ||
| There's the first ones with the breaks at the start of the match. | ||
| So his legs are already broken here. | ||
| If you go to like 20 seconds. | ||
| Yeah, that right there. | ||
| So we hit like a 50-50 inversion. | ||
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You might want to turn that knee down and pull this leg out. | |
| He's actually in a little bit deep. | ||
| Oh! | ||
| Oh, dude! | ||
| Yeah, so look at his... | ||
| Oh, dude, you hear it! | ||
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Oh! | |
| Look at his foot! | ||
| Look where his foot is! | ||
| And then he tries to get me. | ||
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| I let go of it because I was like... | ||
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I do not know how he got out of it. | |
| I was like, he can't let his leg break and then me just out. | ||
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For the rubber guard, I guess we got rubber knee. | |
| He's huge here, too. | ||
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That was one of Craig's best positions and he got to it with... | |
| Dude, the sound is so awful. | ||
| The sound of Broken Bones, I never get it. | ||
| Like, Chris Weidman, when he fought Uriah Hall, it was like full power, and Uriah checked it, and you see, snap! | ||
| You hear the snap, and you see his leg bend over, like, uh... | ||
| That's where it's like, it's crazy how people react to that shit where Conor McGregor was still just talking shit. | ||
| That's fucking hilarious to me. | ||
| He's such a psychopath. | ||
| He never missed a moment. | ||
| He didn't even have the painkilling whistle yet, but he was ready for some shit talking. | ||
| Did you see him partying like a night or two ago? | ||
| You reckon real? | ||
| I mean, it doesn't mean he's drinking. | ||
| He's vibing. | ||
| He's with his wife. | ||
| He's got his shirt off. | ||
| Looks like he's having a good time. | ||
| I mean, it looked like he wasn't sober, but he could just be a fucking maniac. | ||
| It's mind games, though, maybe. | ||
| It could be that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what I did with Lovato. | ||
| I kept talking about how I was partying all the time, and I was. | ||
| But I was like, maybe it's going to mess with you. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| So here's Connor, and he's kissing his wife. | ||
| He took his shirt off. | ||
| He's getting crazy. | ||
| But, I mean, he could just be enthusiastic. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It looks a little fucked up. | ||
| Listen, I saw a roadhouse. | ||
| He ain't that good actor. | ||
| Shane Gillis has an amazing bit about Roadhouse. | ||
| You have to see it. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| It's so fucking funny. | ||
| He's a legend. | ||
| I want to get him involved in this. | ||
| I want to get some comedians commentating, just shit-talking the grappling world, you know? | ||
| Oh, that's funny. | ||
| We'd have to get guys who know some grappling. | ||
| Joey Diaz. | ||
| Joey Diaz would be amazing. | ||
| Surprise interviews on people. | ||
| I think it'd be fucking... | ||
| Oh, he'd be amazing. | ||
| Well, he wouldn't do interviews, I don't think. | ||
| He wouldn't be good at that, but he'd be good at commentary. | ||
| Get him in the booth. | ||
| Just get him talking shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Fucking people's names up. | ||
| I'll get him to corner me against Gabby. | ||
| He might do it. | ||
| You never know. | ||
| I cornered Hegan in Abu Dhabi. | ||
| Oh, you did? | ||
| In 2003. He didn't have anybody with him. | ||
| I said, Joe Hogan. | ||
| He said, just tell me when the time. | ||
| Because Hegan hadn't been trained that much. | ||
| He wasn't in the best of shape. | ||
| Let me know what time. | ||
| You know, just yelling out what the time is. | ||
| Yeah, that's what I say sometimes. | ||
| If I don't have a... | ||
| Like, if I'm just like, just let me know the time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let me know if you think I'm burning too much gas or I'm too relaxed. | ||
| You know, I'm like, that's the key here. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Having Joey Diaz in your corner would be fucking hysterical. | ||
| Alex Jones wanted to do it, but I'm like, ooh. | ||
| That's a tough guy to get involved with the charities. | ||
| Our foundation, with my business partner Seth, our foundation's called the Fair Fight Foundation, and I'm just like, it's probably not good to start it with fighting a woman, but it's a bold move. | ||
| Well, that's a fair fight, though. | ||
| She's so big. | ||
| I mean, she might outweigh you by, what do you walk around at? | ||
| 205. She got a few pounds of me, for sure. | ||
| At least 40 pounds. | ||
| Last night we were video calling each other and we were both taking Aniva. | ||
| And I was like, I popped a 50 and she popped a 25. I was like, you need more than that to beat me, you pussy. | ||
| I took some screenshots. | ||
| Hey, I don't know if I'll release it. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| I should talk her to get the contract signed. | ||
| You should have Joey Diaz do commentary for that fight. | ||
| That would be the perfect fight for him to do commentary for. | ||
| Yeah, just commentate. | ||
| Yeah, because Joey does jiu-jitsu. | ||
| He knows a little bit. | ||
| He definitely knows positions, and he talks so much shit. | ||
| He's just so hilarious. | ||
| I'm going to take it serious, but I am going to come out in a white tank top smoking a cigarette, probably. | ||
| I'll put it on the corner of the mat and see if I'm going to finish it before it finishes. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah, well, having something like that would definitely be an added element of fun. | ||
| Some fun, the tournament series, obviously you guys are going to be killing each other, and then a bit of entertainment, you know? | ||
| A bit of a battle of the sexes, I guess you could say. | ||
| Definitely that. | ||
| Sort of. | ||
| A battle of the enhanced sexes. | ||
| Yeah, who's more enhanced though? | ||
| Yeah, she is. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| I got to know her stack. | ||
| I wish what I wanted to do was run an event where we drug tested, but it was anonymous. | ||
| And just for my own personal enjoyment. | ||
| Just find out what the levels are. | ||
| I want to see who took the most of anything, you know? | ||
| Right. | ||
| See if there's any halo testing in there or something. | ||
| It would be fun to see, like, what... | ||
| Because jujitsu is an open steroid-using event. | ||
| Have you heard of the Enhanced Games? | ||
| Oh yeah, yeah, I was reading about that. | ||
| I'm having those guys on. | ||
| So the Enhanced Games is this, they're going to allow all the athletes to take performance enhancing drugs. | ||
| And the idea is like we should have athletes perform to the best way, I mean I'm putting words in their mouth, but that's scientifically possible. | ||
| In the best way scientifically possible. | ||
| For instance, this Ryan Garcia fight. | ||
| Ryan Garcia, he beats Devin Haney, spectacular fashion, looks amazing, pops for Osterine. | ||
| Very low doses of Osterine, which are not going to affect him in terms of performance enhancing ability during the fight itself. | ||
| I don't know how he took it or what he took it. | ||
| I know people have got an Osterene accident. | ||
| Like, Sugar Sean O'Malley got it through tainted supplements. | ||
| They proved it. | ||
| It's more than once that's happened. | ||
| Yoel? | ||
| Yoel. | ||
| Yeah, he sued. | ||
| Yoel sued and won. | ||
| Yeah, which is, if you would think anybody would not be fucking natural, it's that guy. | ||
| How does he still look like he does? | ||
| Insane. | ||
| The Cuban fucking athlete program. | ||
| That's how. | ||
| He's grappling. | ||
| He's taking a grappling match in Britain against a grappler, Owen Livesey. | ||
| So we'll see him have a grappling match. | ||
| Owen's a beast. | ||
| That's very interesting. | ||
| Who do you think takes it? | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
| It's a very good question. | ||
| I think Yoel was one of the very best Cuban wrestlers ever. | ||
| I mean, he's a fucking tank. | ||
| Yeah, silver medal at the Olympics, Adam Saitaf beat him, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, he's a monster, man. | ||
| And physically, he's just such an imposing force. | ||
| Like, Luke Rockhold said that it... | ||
| Robert Whittaker said the same thing. | ||
| He said, it hurts when you hit him. | ||
| It's like he's made out of metal. | ||
| Probably hurts when he kisses you as well. | ||
| That was rough. | ||
| That's a rough way to go. | ||
| Well, you know, Luke likes to talk shit, and you talk shit to that guy. | ||
| He did the salsa dancing for the press conference. | ||
| That was the best too, picking women out of the crowd. | ||
| You don't want it to take your missus. | ||
| You'd be like, fucking sit back down. | ||
| I know, exactly. | ||
| That guy's such a fucking animal. | ||
| I mean, I really wish he'd gotten into MMA earlier in his career. | ||
| It would have been amazing to see because I think when he entered the UFC, he was in his late 30s. | ||
| Yeah, he's up there now. | ||
| He's 46 now. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| And he still looks amazing. | ||
| That's Randy Ketua. | ||
| Yeah, but he doesn't look 46. Randy looked like a strong 46-year-old. | ||
| I need that Cuban stack. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| His stack is not... | ||
| I mean, I've told this story before for people that have heard it. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| But one of the things that happened to Yoel when he got injured, he fought in the UFC and then they brought him to a doctor. | ||
| He had an orbital fracture and some other issues. | ||
| They brought him to the doctor and the doctor said to the UFC, he said, where did you get this guy? | ||
| And he's like, yeah, he's amazing, right? | ||
| He goes, no, you don't understand. | ||
| He goes, I've never seen a human being like this before. | ||
| The tendons in his eyes are three times larger than a normal person's. | ||
| He said his orbital bone is already healing. | ||
| So this guy's a freak. | ||
| How do I get to that level? | ||
| I think you got to be born in Cuba. | ||
| Better genetics. | ||
| They start messing around. | ||
| Those shitty convicts genetics from Australia. | ||
| I think it's... | ||
| I just wonder what they do in Cuba for their athletes. | ||
| Do you know what I'm saying? | ||
| I mean, without casting any aspersions in terms of performance enhancing supplements. | ||
| There's only one way to find out. | ||
| Yeah, go there. | ||
| Ask them. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You know, I don't know what they did. | ||
| But, I mean, the guy's like Wolverine. | ||
| But he's also a genetic specimen. | ||
| I mean, there's only so much you could do with steroids. | ||
| I mean, that guy... | ||
| I know, I've tried. | ||
| You don't even lift weights, which is so crazy. | ||
| You're taking steroids without lifting weights. | ||
| I mean, from time to time, you know, just no good lifting program. | ||
| A few pull-ups here and there. | ||
| Yeah, but that's just not... | ||
| I don't think steroids are gonna... | ||
| Well, they're gonna help you recover and train... | ||
| Yeah, it definitely helped your well-being, I think. | ||
| Yeah, well, if you're training 365, that's the argument, right? | ||
| If you're training 365 days a year, like, that's also the argument for, like, Tour de France. | ||
| You know, I've heard it argued from people that really are experts that you're actually healthier to take steroids and performance-enhancing drugs to do Tour de France than you are without it. | ||
| Because your body just can't recover without it. | ||
| It's just so grueling. | ||
| It's such a brutal race. | ||
| There's a reason why so many of them are blood doping, so many of them are... | ||
| Taking EPO and testosterone. | ||
| I always wanted to try EPO. Actually, some people criticize me for saying I take steroids in jiu-jitsu, but the way I look at it is... | ||
| The kids, the next generation, they're going to take it anyway. | ||
| I at least want to put out my exact stack and I just want to send it out as almost like... | ||
| It's like drugs. | ||
| Just saying no doesn't work. | ||
| It's like I want to let them know I'm taking a safe amount under doctor's guidance and that it's not a mystery where they're thinking like I have to pump one gram a week and all this stuff to compete at a high level. | ||
| So it's like a middle ground. | ||
| Obviously you get criticized for it, but it's like... | ||
| The other option is they don't know what a high-level athlete's taking and they fucking ruin their body taking crazy dosages. | ||
| Well, it would be interesting, like, what would jujitsu look like if steroids weren't legal? | ||
| I mean, one of the things we found out when USADA came into the UFC, even though there was previous drug testing, it was really only during the weigh-ins. | ||
| Which is kind of just an intelligence test. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| Like, when you look at Alistair Overeem versus Brock Lesnar, the idea that either one of those motherfuckers is clean is crazy talk. | ||
| That's crazy talk. | ||
| Especially Alistair. | ||
| I mean, Alistair was, he fought, when he fought 205, when he fought, look at, like, back when he fought Chuck Liddell at 205, and then look at him at 265. He gained 60 pounds. | ||
| And he looks like a fucking superhero. | ||
| Uberim, like those days, like when he won the K-1 Grand Prix, and when he beat Brock Lesnar. | ||
| Patahari and stuff. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| I love it when they said the old days was an intelligence test, because many guys still failed that intelligence test. | ||
| Well, you know what it is? | ||
| You know how it is. | ||
| Like, you're in gyms, you have gym bros that are coaching you, they don't really know what the fuck they're talking about, but they say a lot of good, big words. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you go, oh, this guy knows how to pass the test. | ||
| And you rely on these meatheads to try to pass the test. | ||
| You need Victor Conte on the line, hey. | ||
| Well, there's people that have those people. | ||
| I'm sure there's people... | ||
| I'm just guessing, just throwing it out there. | ||
| But I don't think everyone's clean. | ||
| I think there's probably some really... | ||
| There's so much money involved in MMA now. | ||
| There's probably some really sophisticated scientists that are working with elite athletes, and they're developing protocols that are either undetectable or they have a short-lasting... | ||
| Which is probably why USAID wakes you up at 6 o'clock in the morning. | ||
| You know, the idea is like to catch you while it's still in your system if you have short-acting stuff that's... | ||
| Yeah, like a test propionate or something, like the water-based... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, weren't they doing that in baseball? | ||
| They were taking, like, testosterone gummies. | ||
| And the idea is that they metabolize so quickly that you get the effect of them, but then they're out of your system by the time you get tested. | ||
| I tried those. | ||
| It tasted like shit, you know? | ||
| I don't know if they did anything. | ||
| I mean, it's fucking gummy with testosterone in it. | ||
| How could it taste good? | ||
| You'd throw it under the tongue. | ||
| What does it taste like? | ||
| Just bad, hey. | ||
| Like chemical? | ||
| Yeah, like it sits there a while. | ||
| I remember I was trying to get legal steroids in Australia when I was coming up and I just couldn't do it. | ||
| My doctor gave me the testosterone gummies and I was like, fuck this shit. | ||
| It's like, I felt like it wouldn't work. | ||
| In Australia, what are the laws like? | ||
| I mean, here, I think any GP can prescribe testosterone. | ||
| In Australia, you have to be like an endocrinologist. | ||
| They added a layer to it, and it's hard to see an endocrinologist that's going to give testosterone to a young, healthy dude, you know? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Guys back there would do all sorts of crazy shit. | ||
| They'd not sleep for a couple of days. | ||
| They'd beat off a bunch of times, try and crash the levels, go get the blood check. | ||
| The doctor's like, oh, your test is low. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, another thing, the problem with the test being low, this is what they found when they did it. | ||
| They had testosterone use exemptions in the UFC for a brief amount of time, a few years. | ||
| And those are the Vitor Belfort years. | ||
| And the problem is, when a guy's done steroids his whole life, his endocrine system is fucked up already. | ||
| So you go in there and they test your testosterone levels and you're like, wow, your levels are super low. | ||
| Like, you need testosterone. | ||
| Like, thank you. | ||
| But the reason why they're low is because you've been on steroids your whole life. | ||
| Yeah, your buddy doesn't make it anymore. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, you look at Vitor from the early days. | ||
| Like, Vitor in UFC 12, when he fought Scott Ferrozo and Trey Telegman, he weighed like 200 pounds. | ||
| They used to call him Vito Gracie back then or something. | ||
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Victor. | |
| Victor Gracie. | ||
| I was training at a school. | ||
| Why'd they throw the C in there? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It was a K. Oh, a K. Victor. | ||
| Yeah, it was... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| I don't know why they did that. | ||
| And I know that... | ||
| I think they were threatening to sue him if he used the Gracie name. | ||
| I think someone... | ||
| You're not protective of that shit, hey. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I think it was Orion. | ||
| Orion was very... | ||
| Ixon. | ||
| Representing the man? | ||
| Yeah, where'd you get that? | ||
| Some brand sent it to me. | ||
| I like it that way. | ||
| It's a dope shirt. | ||
| I should remember the name. | ||
| He was the fucking man, huh? | ||
| What's its name? | ||
| The shirt company? | ||
| I feel bad for him. | ||
| Fuck it. | ||
| People will find it. | ||
| Is it on the back anywhere? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| The label? | ||
| I don't see anything. | ||
| I just see a tag. | ||
| Label us. | ||
| What does it say on the bottom? | ||
| Is that what the name? | ||
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What do we got? | |
| What does the bottom say there? | ||
| Oh, it just says Hicks and Gracie. | ||
| Oh man, I feel bad for him. | ||
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Buy a cool shirt, honoring the OG. It's pretty dope. | |
| He is the OG. He was the fucking man. | ||
| Cool motherfucker, yeah. | ||
| Did you ever train with him? | ||
| I've never trained with him, never met him. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Interesting dude, man. | ||
| Very interesting dude. | ||
| I got a chance to watch Coliseum. | ||
| Remember when he fought Funaki? | ||
| Was that his last one? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I got a chance to watch footage of that with him in his house. | ||
| The guy came to the gym, bro? | ||
| Was it the gym challenge match? | ||
| No, I didn't watch that. | ||
| He didn't show me that. | ||
| Someone's got to have that. | ||
| He's got it. | ||
| We've got to get that. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I'm like, release that, bro. | ||
| Why don't you release that? | ||
| That was Yoji Anjo, right? | ||
| Yeah, he came to the challenge match. | ||
| He taped up his knuckles with duct tape and beat the fuck out of him. | ||
| That's wild. | ||
| Yeah, and he's like, if we are competing, when you tap, it's over. | ||
| If we're fighting... | ||
| When I'm dumb, I'm done. | ||
| I decide. | ||
| You just beat the fuck out of that dude. | ||
| That's some scary shit. | ||
| I feel sad for him now. | ||
| He's going, uh, Parkinson's, right? | ||
| Who does? | ||
| I believe Hickson does. | ||
| Does he really? | ||
| I believe so, yeah. | ||
| No kidding. | ||
| I didn't hear that. | ||
| Yeah, I saw Kira Gracie announce something about it. | ||
| See, I always wonder, because we talked about Freddie Roach, like, that's trauma-induced Parkinson's. | ||
| And, you know, Hickson didn't get hit a whole lot in his career, but he did get hit. | ||
| You know, I always wonder. | ||
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| Hickson, Gracie, fight against Parkinson's. | ||
| I'm not scared of death, but quitting is unacceptable. | ||
| Rolling Stone magazine? | ||
| Whoa! | ||
| This is Rolling Stone? | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| That is crazy that there's a Hicks and Gracie article in Rolling Stone. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Fuck, man. | ||
| Parkinson's. | ||
| I hope we get Kron back. | ||
| I hope so, too. | ||
| I think he might come back to grappling, maybe. | ||
| Well, I mean, his last fight in MMA just looked like he was just trying to pull guard and work off his back. | ||
| He just didn't look like he was prepared. | ||
| I know a place he could do that, no. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Do you think he would be... | ||
| I mean, he was such an elite grappler. | ||
| The Gary Tonin match, what a fucking match that was. | ||
| Holy shit, man. | ||
| Craziest shit ever. | ||
| That was before Gary was training with the Donaher death squad, right? | ||
| Wasn't it? | ||
| Either... | ||
| I mean, good question. | ||
| If we saw the match, we'd see who was in the corner. | ||
| Because this was definitely before the leg lock days. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This was a long time. | ||
| Gary was dominating that fight until the very end. | ||
| Back in those days, it was crazy. | ||
| I still miss Eddie Cummings. | ||
| I'm like, what happened to him? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Right. | ||
| What did happen to him? | ||
| That guy was good. | ||
| I've tried to catch up with him a couple times in New York, like reached out. | ||
| I'm like, I just want to have lunch with the guy. | ||
| But he just left the grappling world, just vanished. | ||
| What is he doing? | ||
| No, I don't think anyone knows. | ||
| He came back, I saw you in a couple videos, he came back to Henzo's and trained a couple times, but I think he doesn't like any media attention and like, it circled around on Instagram and he just vanished again. | ||
| Really? | ||
| No kidding. | ||
| So crazy, yeah, gone. | ||
| He was an interesting guy. | ||
| Oh, he was an elite grappler too. | ||
| Well, he was one of the very best of the leg lock guys in the early, early days. | ||
| He was scary. | ||
| We all copied him, you know? | ||
| He was a scary, scary dude. | ||
| Super smart. | ||
| Like, really intelligent guy. | ||
| And now, yeah, he ended up with Otavia Bourdain, right? | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Yeah, they started dating when she started training at Henzo's. | ||
| And I don't know what happened. | ||
| I think she competed in grappling a lot as well. | ||
| Yeah, she had fucked up knees, man. | ||
| Her knees were all blown out. | ||
| I remember trying to tell her to get surgery. | ||
| To fix him up. | ||
| Eddie kept breaking him, probably not. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Drilling. | ||
| I think she had at least one with no ACL. That's crazy, eh? | ||
| Doesn't Nicky have a fucked up knee? | ||
| Nicky Ryan? | ||
| Nicky Ryan does. | ||
| Man, Nicky Ryan gets injured every three minutes. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| He's made a glass, unfortunately. | ||
| I injured him. | ||
| I came back, trained with him one round, injured him the other day. | ||
| I'm just like, fuck, bro. | ||
| How does this happen? | ||
| I feel bad. | ||
| It's a bit of a weird scramble, but he just beat JT Taurus. | ||
| So, like, biggest win of his career. | ||
| That was a big win. | ||
| Yeah, he looked great in that. | ||
| That was beautiful. | ||
| Yeah, he was training real serious for that. | ||
| But doesn't he have, like, one ACL that's gone? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I remember he tore his ACL and the doctors were like, okay, we can attempt surgery or you can do rehab only. | ||
| So he just did nothing and just kept training. | ||
| He didn't even rehab the thing. | ||
| I'm like, bro, do something. | ||
| Yeah, he's wild. | ||
| That's not wise for the future, though. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| I mean, I think he had 95% of his meniscus removed in one of his legs. | ||
| Oh, God damn it. | ||
| Yeah, I'm pretty sure one surgeon was like... | ||
| I won't do that. | ||
| You're too young for it, but you got it done. | ||
| Well, you know, they do meniscus replacements. | ||
| Oh, they do that? | ||
| Yes, they do cadaver meniscus replacements, especially with young people. | ||
| It's really effective. | ||
| He's got some mileage in the body. | ||
| So it's like his knees... | ||
| God, I hope he does it. | ||
| Because he can do it and it'll actually take. | ||
| We got him in this, though. | ||
| He's going after the million. | ||
| That'll be exciting. | ||
| With a fucked up knee. | ||
| There's always something fucked up with him, you know? | ||
| He's always injured in some way. | ||
| Well, isn't that the case with so many elite combat sports athletes? | ||
| It's very rare. | ||
| Other than boxers, it's very rare. | ||
| There's a story going around about this NBA player who got a meniscus from a donor. | ||
| Does that mean it's a cadaver? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Because they don't say cadaver at all on this. | ||
| No, that's what they mean. | ||
| They mean a donor. | ||
| No one's going to give you their fucking meniscus. | ||
| It's a cadaver donor. | ||
| Like I said, it's effective. | ||
| It's possible. | ||
| I think there's an age where they don't recommend it anymore because of the lack of blood circulation. | ||
| But I always wonder for who though? | ||
| Like when they say, you know, you can't do it after 40. But for who? | ||
| Like for the regular person who is a 40-year-old who doesn't work out and is not like physically fit? | ||
| Or if you did that to say someone like Stipe Miocic? | ||
| Could he get a meniscus replacement when he's constantly training? | ||
| How much does your age affect blood flow to that area? | ||
| What is the factor? | ||
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| If you still have a great VO2 max, you're still very fit, and you're super healthy, you train all the time, you obviously have great circulation. | ||
| Like, I don't understand why at a certain age they wouldn't recommend it. | ||
| I wonder if it's based on averages. | ||
| Like, you take the average 50-year-old guy and you give it to him and his knee's still fucked up because his body didn't heal properly. | ||
| But, like, with peptides, with all the things that are available today and stem cells, I wonder. | ||
| Yeah, there's got to be some things you can do. | ||
| Stack the deck. | ||
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| Be a favor for that, for sure. | ||
| Once you remove your meniscus. | ||
| I have a meniscus that was scoped on my left knee, and it's always going to be fucked up. | ||
| There's always, like, something. | ||
| Yeah, it's just grinding, right? | ||
| Well, it's not all of mine is gone. | ||
| It's only in a corner. | ||
| But I suffered what's called an insufficiency fracture, where you're, because there's no meniscus, I crashed skiing, and I cracked my bones together so hard that it cracked the top of my shin bone. | ||
| Skiing scares me. | ||
| Skiing is fucking scary. | ||
| Snowboarding is dangerous. | ||
| That was my last time skiing. | ||
| I got a concussion. | ||
| I fucking banged my head off the ground real hard. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| And I was skiing around this corner, and this lady didn't know what she was doing. | ||
| And she was like... | ||
| That'd be me. | ||
| And it was, well, you know, you learn. | ||
| But she was on, you know, a fairly difficult trail. | ||
| And I'm not a great skier, but, you know, I have good balance. | ||
| I'm pretty, I'm okay. | ||
| I know how to do it. | ||
| But I was like, either I hit this lady and fucking kill her, or I have to fall down. | ||
| And so I chose falling down, and I fucking banged my head so hard. | ||
| Like, as my head banged, I'm like, oh, that one counts. | ||
| I was like, that's a real one. | ||
| No, it would have been bad. | ||
| It would have been bad, because she wasn't very large, and I wasn't going slow. | ||
| I want to see her on the slopes. | ||
| Yeah, bro, that's like a bowling ball, just fucking flying down the hill. | ||
| I mean, all that weight. | ||
| The momentum of all that weight. | ||
| I imagine when you're really big. | ||
| Like, my kids ski, and they ski so easy, because they're light. | ||
| You know, like, wee, wee, wee, but the heavier you are, like, the more fucking momentum is coming down. | ||
| Lots of knee injuries skiing. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Yeah, my friend Shane Dorian, he blew his fucking knee out snowboarding. | ||
| He hit a tree, torched his knee. | ||
| Had to get it reconstructed and stem cells and all that jazz. | ||
| And he's good to go now, but it took a long time before it was good. | ||
| And I would imagine you're a professional surfer. | ||
| One of the best in the world. | ||
| Big wave surfer. | ||
| I mean, he's a fucking monster. | ||
| Like, I would do everything to preserve my goddamn knees. | ||
| But he loved snowboarding so much, he's still back at it. | ||
| I'm like... | ||
| You're insane, man. | ||
| Yeah, that's crazy. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| You'd risk your career. | ||
| Your career. | ||
| Well, I think his career as a competition is kind of over. | ||
| You know, he's just kind of a representative of a bunch of different brands. | ||
| And I don't know if he competes. | ||
| I mean, Kelly Slater still competes, which is crazy, and still wins. | ||
| Kelly still trains, yeah. | ||
| Still trains jiu-jitsu? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I suppose that's risky for your self-career, too. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| That's got to be risky. | ||
| It's got to be risky for everything. | ||
| Like, I know guys who play musical instruments, and they've fucked up their hands in jiu-jitsu, like, broken a finger. | ||
| I'm like, yikes. | ||
| Yeah, like, tattoo artist surgeons that's like, maybe don't train? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, if you break a hand, and that's the hand you play guitar with, and now you've got these fucking gnarly-ass fingers, and you're still trying to... | ||
| Move at the same speed. | ||
| One time I got my thumb stuck up here in grappling and another time my finger got stuck on the ground and went straight up. | ||
| I remember that was in Puerto Rico. | ||
| Oliver Tarza broke my hand and I went to the hospital in Puerto Rico. | ||
| We got the x-ray. | ||
| I'm waiting around for hours and the guy's like, it's fine. | ||
| No brakes, nothing. | ||
| So I leave and then I'm like, my hand's fucked up. | ||
| So I go back and end up getting the x-ray and I can see it's broken. | ||
| And I ended up getting it treated. | ||
| I just posted it on Instagram. | ||
| I was like, any hand surgeons? | ||
| What can I do for this? | ||
| And we just spoke about it on Instagram. | ||
| What did he say to do? | ||
| I just left it like this for a while. | ||
| Didn't use it too much. | ||
| So was it a fracture in the sense where they didn't have to bolt it together? | ||
| Yeah, it didn't have to bolt. | ||
| It's the same one when people punch a wall or something. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Like the bone down here. | ||
| So that one didn't need anything. | ||
| But I mean, a lot of Puerto Rican stories like that where the guy was like, yeah, your hand's not broken. | ||
| I'm like, bro, I can see it's broken. | ||
| Not so good Madison over there? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| Yeah, no, that was it. | ||
| That was a wild play. | ||
| It's not good for getting antibiotics for staph either. | ||
| No? | ||
| Yes, I mean, I've had plenty of times where I've gone to the doctor and been like, this is staph, I need antibiotics. | ||
| But they don't want to be told by some fucking idiot that they're diagnosing themselves, giving themselves the treatment. | ||
| So do they resist the diagnosis? | ||
| Yeah, they'll resist it on you, yeah. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I've had doctors not give me antibiotics and then it's gotten worse. | ||
| And tell you it's not staph? | ||
| Yeah, they're like, nah, you're fine. | ||
| Just put some cream on it. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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But I get it. | |
| They probably have guys coming in all the time like, give me this, give me this. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But no one's coming in to get antibiotics for fun. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, that's not like painkillers. | ||
| No, yeah. | ||
| I guess I control them a bit, but yeah. | ||
| So many doctors have to deal with people coming in. | ||
| Oh, I hurt my back. | ||
| Yeah, I hurt my back. | ||
| Give me some Xanax. | ||
| I have so much anxiety. | ||
| I can't deal with this. | ||
| You freak out enough in the office. | ||
| Maybe they give you something just to calm you down. | ||
| That's a good play. | ||
| It really depends on the doctor. | ||
| Because some doctors are just a little loose with it. | ||
| Yeah, true. | ||
| I feel like, honestly, the more expensive the doctor, the better your chances. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Getting what you want. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I would imagine. | ||
| They probably have some sort of fucking deal, too. | ||
| You know, my wife's mom was a nurse, and she would explain to me how the whole pharmaceutical rep thing worked. | ||
| And Brigham, Brigham from Wasted Well, he used to be a pharmaceutical rep. | ||
| He's like, bro, the relationship they have with doctors is like, it's so slippery. | ||
| To get them to prescribe. | ||
| Yeah, it's so slippery. | ||
| Because, you know, even if they're not paying you, and they do pay people, but even if they're not, like, this is your friend. | ||
| Brigham was like, I would show up at their kids' softball games. | ||
| I knew everybody's name. | ||
| You become friendly. | ||
| They want to prescribe your drugs. | ||
| You're a good guy. | ||
| That's wild. | ||
| Yeah, it's fucking creepy. | ||
| That's the opioid epidemic and stuff like that, right? | ||
| Oh, that's exactly it. | ||
| Did you ever watch that show Painkiller on Netflix? | ||
| I started, but I never finished it. | ||
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Fucking Lazy A. Oh, it's so fucked up. | |
| How those people are not in jail is insane. | ||
| Not only did they bullshit people and get people to prescribe these things, but they ruined who knows how many lives. | ||
| Hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, dead from opioid overdoses. | ||
| And then the amount of lives that are destroyed because of those things. | ||
| Families wrecked. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| And they tricked people. | ||
| They tricked them into doing drugs that are going to be They just paid a fine, right? | ||
| Massive fine? | ||
| Yeah, but not enough. | ||
| Also, part of the fine was that they were going to avoid prosecution. | ||
| Like if they paid X amount of billions of dollars, they would avoid prosecution. | ||
| But I think then Painkiller came out, the documentary came out, the Netflix series, and then they kind of withheld that. | ||
| I think one of the guys who was the main guy for the FDA that was responsible for greenlighting OxyContin and Oxycodone, that guy, they found him. | ||
| He was like in a small town in New Hampshire. | ||
| He was hiding away. | ||
| He was hiding. | ||
| Yeah, I mean they paid him off and this fucker was out there roaming around and they found him. | ||
| He's like Epstein's girlfriend, hey. | ||
| Except she's in jail somewhere. | ||
| Yeah, they get her eventually. | ||
| Yeah, eventually she's going to get out and she's going to fucking go swimming and drown or something. | ||
| Yeah, Jerry, Jerry. | ||
| That'll be me after this tournament, I reckon, eh? | ||
| Do you worry about that? | ||
| I mean, it should be alright. | ||
| That's not comforting. | ||
| It should be alright. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's just been a friendly competition. | ||
| It is that, but it's also, like, you're specifically going head-to-head. | ||
| Like, if you had done it a month earlier or a month later, I don't think we'd have the same issues. | ||
| I don't think we'd have the same impact on the sport, though, either. | ||
| I think you would. | ||
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We'll do it a month after as well. | |
| Well... | ||
| We need another million, brother. | ||
| We're going again. | ||
| But you want to do it once a year, right? | ||
| You don't want to do it more than once a year, do you? | ||
| Yeah, honestly, I'm on the phone nonstop, talking to people about this event and stuff. | ||
| I've got to explain to everyone on the ruleset. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And becoming a promoter, do you have to hire a staff now? | ||
| Do you have to hire all these people to run the thing? | ||
| I mean, I'm the ideas guy, you know? | ||
| My business partner, Seth Bilal, he's doing all the coordination and stuff. | ||
| But me, I'm just talking to the athletes, coming up with the rules, sort of... | ||
| So he does all the coordination, like hiring the staff, making sure the event is well run. | ||
| Because I would imagine if you've never run an event before, obviously you can't call Abu Dhabi and ask for tips. | ||
| You can call Eddie. | ||
| I should. | ||
| You can call Eddie Bravo. | ||
| Yeah, I spoke to Eddie. | ||
| He loves it. | ||
| Yeah, he's very excited about it. | ||
| A little hat tip to him with the name as well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think having something where there's more money involved is always good. | ||
| It's just like the timing of it. | ||
| It's like when to do it. | ||
| If you'd asked me, I would have said... | ||
| They still get to watch the finals, you know? | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| True. | ||
| They still get to watch the finals. | ||
| But you won't have the same people competing. | ||
| Because if they're going to compete on Friday and Saturday, that precludes them from being able to compete in Abu Dhabi. | ||
| I mean, yeah, for sure. | ||
| Do you want the gold medal in 10K or the million? | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's the argument. | ||
| That is the argument, right? | ||
| And it's certainly—look, competition is almost always good. | ||
| Even when people don't like it, it forces them to up their game. | ||
| And I think at the end of the day, it's going to be good for the athletes and good for the sport because it will make people more—and the beef. | ||
| Tupac, Biggie? | ||
| I'm going down in Vegas like Tupac did. | ||
| Remember how both of those guys died, though, by the way? | ||
| They died very badly. | ||
| Both Tupac and Biggie. | ||
| It would have been better if Tupac and Biggie just kind of worked it out. | ||
| I mean, even Drake and Kendrick. | ||
| That was entertaining, hey. | ||
| But Drake's house got shot at. | ||
| Didn't a security guard get shot? | ||
| I think he got shot, yeah. | ||
| But we got some good music. | ||
| Sort. | ||
| I didn't listen to any of it. | ||
| Security guy took the hit. | ||
| I mean, yeah, some of the songs are good. | ||
| I just find it foolish. | ||
| The beef? | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| I'm not a beef guy. | ||
| I feel like those guys could have wrote banging songs. | ||
| They both put out four songs each, you know? | ||
| It's like, use that creativity and just... | ||
| Yeah, I guess if you're driven... | ||
| I mean, I get it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| It's part of the culture. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| Don't get me wrong. | ||
| Like, I like roast battles. | ||
| Love them, yeah, I love them. | ||
| Do comedy. | ||
| They should have done a rap battle. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Saw the pay-per-view or something. | ||
| That would have been amazing. | ||
| Still time. | ||
| That would have been amazing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Rap battles are awesome. | ||
| It's just, you know, it's another opportunity to write. | ||
| It's another opportunity to create something. | ||
| And it's high pressure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, in that sense, this rivalry between ADCC and the CJI... Just one Australian idiot versus a city, you know? | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| Yeah, versus a monarchy. | ||
| A monarchy, yeah. | ||
| But I mean, I still love ADCC. I still love history, you know? | ||
| I don't think you can wash that away. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Do you think you could ever compete for them again? | ||
| Or do you think that's over now? | ||
| I mean, I wouldn't do it for 10k. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, who knows? | ||
| The door's open for anything. | ||
| I don't take any of this stuff too seriously at all. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| A lot of it's just fun on the internet. | ||
| Like, I don't really... | ||
| You know, like, fucking around and having a good time, you know? | ||
| Like, I'll do anything for the right price. | ||
| So it's like, if the spectacle's there, if people are interested in it... | ||
| Right, so you would go back if they would have you back. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| And ultimately, what I want and what I wanted from day one was just athletes across everything in Jiu-Jitsu to be compensated just a little bit more. | ||
| You know, because again, we don't have the prestige of the UFC. So if they had ramped it up from 10 to 20, you wouldn't have done this. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Boy, they're probably going, fuck. | ||
| Yeah, that's really what sort of kicked it off. | ||
| But also, I wanted to do, like, this is an opportunity to start up our non-profit and stuff. | ||
| So it's like, gives me an opportunity to give back in other ways. | ||
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| So, with this attitude about not taking things so seriously, do you think you and Gordon would ever bury the hatchet? | ||
| I mean, for sure. | ||
| But take some MDMA, we'll get to the bottom of it, you know? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I think he needs it. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Don't you think, though, that for a guy to be as dominant as he is, you have to be that guy? | ||
| That's like Michael Jordan in his prime. | ||
| They said if you beat him in a game of pool, he wouldn't talk to you for like two weeks. | ||
| You have to be kind of a psycho. | ||
| I know, but I guess you see the contrast in some areas. | ||
| In my opinion, Volkanovski was that. | ||
| GSP was that. | ||
| But really nice guys. | ||
| Yeah, Anderson Silva was that. | ||
| Again, I don't think Gordon's... | ||
| I mean, it's hard to say what he is, you know? | ||
| It's like, it's hard. | ||
| I don't know him that well, you know? | ||
| I know what the image he puts out. | ||
| I know a little bit of the stuff behind the scenes, but... | ||
| But you trained with him for years. | ||
| You gotta know him. | ||
| Yeah, but you know what jiu-jitsu guys are like. | ||
| If I can get on the mats, I don't want to hang out with them afterwards. | ||
| Fucking weirdos. | ||
| Who wants to have a conversation with a jiu-jitsu guy? | ||
| Me. | ||
| That's why you're here. | ||
| Well, some of them. | ||
| Some of them. | ||
| Fucking... | ||
| Some of them are a bit odd, you know? | ||
| Don't you think that like... | ||
| No, I love him. | ||
| I'm part of it, but... | ||
| Odd people would make the world go round, though. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I mean, for sure. | ||
| I'm not criticizing. | ||
| I'm fucking weird. | ||
| Look what I'm doing. | ||
| You're weird. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're definitely weird. | ||
| But some people I find cool easy to talk to and relax. | ||
| I know. | ||
| It's just for me, as a guy who likes both of you guys, I don't like that you don't talk anymore. | ||
| I don't like that you have this beef. | ||
| I've asked Gordon to define it. | ||
| He doesn't define it. | ||
| It's very difficult. | ||
| He doesn't say anything bad about you, but he doesn't define it. | ||
| I mean, I just love fucking around. | ||
| Like, Australia, we love attacking each other. | ||
| Like, I say worse things to my friends than I say to Gordon. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Listen, I'm a comedian. | ||
| I know about that. | ||
| We talk wild shit to each other, too. | ||
| Some guys are so good to provoke, you get a good fucking reaction out of them, you know? | ||
| Well, with comedians, you know who you can hang out with, by who can take shit. | ||
| You know, because if someone makes fun of me, if it's funny, I laugh. | ||
| But if you make fun of some people and they're like, hey, they're like, oh, look at you, softy. | ||
| You just lost. | ||
| Oh, you fucked up. | ||
| You fucked up. | ||
| You take yourself seriously. | ||
| You just take what you do seriously, but you never take yourself seriously. | ||
| That's so silly. | ||
| There's no benefit to that. | ||
| Because then you don't get to enjoy the laughs when someone makes fun of you. | ||
| If someone makes fun of you and it's... | ||
| Like, have you ever watched Kill Tony? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Well, when David Lucas and Tony Hinchcliffe go at each other, it is... | ||
| One of my favorite things in life. | ||
| They're both so fucking ruthless and hilarious. | ||
| But if David gets Tony, Tony laughs hard. | ||
| And if Tony gets David, David laughs hard. | ||
| They laugh. | ||
| They love each other. | ||
| They're really good friends. | ||
| But they're fucking ruthless when it comes to that shit when they're roasting each other. | ||
| But they're having a good time. | ||
| Like, if you roast someone and they get, like, actually upset as a comedian, all the other comedians would be like, oh, look at you. | ||
| You're upset at a joke? | ||
| You fucking hypocrite. | ||
| Like, what's wrong with you? | ||
| Well, I mean, that's what I mean. | ||
| Gordon says, bro, you suck. | ||
| You never want anything. | ||
| I'm like, bro, I could as well do that. | ||
| You know? | ||
| It's like, relax. | ||
| Is that... | ||
| What is the beef, though? | ||
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| I mean, for me, I'm just having a good time. | ||
| I'm in a sport of people that take themselves very seriously. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's just... | ||
| He takes himself very seriously, so it's just like... | ||
| So you like picking on him? | ||
| I like... | ||
| Yeah, anyone. | ||
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Because he takes himself so seriously. | |
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I mean, like what you said with comedians. | ||
| If someone's too... | ||
| Too stiff. | ||
| And it's good material. | ||
| He's just walking good material, you know? | ||
| It's like he's provoking me. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Well, he would just post something that I'm like, I swear, I'm like, this guy's playing a fucking character. | ||
| He's a genius. | ||
| But it's real. | ||
| I'm like, he's baiting me. | ||
| I gotta say something. | ||
| Well, you are probably the funniest guy in jiu-jitsu other than Eddie. | ||
| Eddie's hilarious. | ||
| Eddie loves the jokes, too. | ||
| Sometimes I pass on him some deeper levels of the jokes, and he gets the full story. | ||
| He loves it. | ||
| We go deep conspiracy on the jiu-jitsu jokes. | ||
| Oh no, Eddie's fucking hilarious. | ||
| He's one of the funniest people I've ever met. | ||
| I'm so glad he's doing stand-up again, too. | ||
| Because I tried to talk him into doing stand-up a long time ago, like back in like 2001. I was like, dude, I'm telling you, just try. | ||
| It'll suck at first, but just like it sucked when I learned Jiu-Jitsu. | ||
| You suck at first, but you have the ability to do it. | ||
| Overcome, yeah. | ||
| He took a long time off it, but when he was teaching, he would teach classes and especially seminars. | ||
| He would have material. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| During seminars, it was hilarious. | ||
| And then he's like, I think I'm going to do comedy again. | ||
| So teaching seminars. | ||
| That's what I do. | ||
| I'll say the same joke, and then I'll look over and be like, fuck that guy was at another seminar. | ||
| I said the same thing. | ||
| I'm like, he knows! | ||
| He knows my tricks! | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, that's the problem with jokes. | ||
| If they already know the jokes, it's like a little bit of an issue. | ||
| And I'm like, fuck, have I said this a few too many times now? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Gotta switch topics. | ||
| Yeah, you gotta make new stuff up. | ||
| You gotta make up new stuff for seminars. | ||
| When you go and do seminars, do you find it's a lot of MMA fighters that are wanting to learn jiu-jitsu? | ||
| Is it just jiu-jitsu guys? | ||
| Is it a mixture? | ||
| I mean, nowadays, man, it's such a variety of people, sometimes even beginners. | ||
| White belts will show up and they're just coming to hang out. | ||
| I love doing seminars all around the world and just meeting the people that are doing the sport. | ||
| I keep them at a really affordable price because I always remember... | ||
| When people would come to my city, like, sometimes the seminars were so expensive I couldn't afford it. | ||
| So I just insist we book a big venue, we keep the prices low, and I just get to see who from that country is participating in the sport, you know? | ||
| I just love it. | ||
| Is that how you enjoy that more than competing now, just going around and doing seminars? | ||
| I enjoy, like, all aspects of it. | ||
| You know, like, obviously too many seminars are exhausting. | ||
| I've done, like, back to back to back to back. | ||
| I'd like the seminar to be three hours and then out of there. | ||
| Otherwise, it's... | ||
| Too much social interaction, you know? | ||
| Well, you probably also don't absorb anything after three hours. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| And I have to roll. | ||
| Like, I still run the gauntlet. | ||
| I try to roll with as many people as possible. | ||
| That's gotta be hair-raising. | ||
| They fucking try to kill me, eh? | ||
| Yeah, I'm sure. | ||
| I'm just like, bro, you paid to come here. | ||
| You like me. | ||
| What are you doing to me? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Relax. | ||
| Like, I'll be hungover, jet-lagged, and it'll be like... | ||
| I'll do, like, sometimes one hour, one and a half hours straight. | ||
| New guy every three minutes. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| And I'm like, what are you doing to me, bro? | ||
| It's fucking one hour in. | ||
| You're trying to kill me. | ||
| Yeah, after a while. | ||
| Test your patience. | ||
| That's like meditating, you know? | ||
| I'm just like, alright, don't kill this guy. | ||
| That's one of the legendary Hickson stories is that Hickson would do a seminar and then take all the black belts there and just tap them one after another. | ||
| I try to do fucked up shit to people though, you know? | ||
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Like what? | |
| Just stupid submissions, you know? | ||
| That keeps it entertaining for me. | ||
| Crab walks? | ||
| Yeah, the Boston Crab. | ||
| I love hitting a Boston Crab, eh? | ||
| I'm like, you'll remember that forever. | ||
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You see that one guy who did it in MMA? Yeah, he is. | |
| So crazy. | ||
| Man, that would hurt. | ||
| I've never been put in it. | ||
| Yeah, is it a flexibility thing? | ||
| Is it a spine thing? | ||
| I think it'll break your spine. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I do it to people for a mount, though. | ||
| I give a mount, and then I put my toes in their armpits, take them over the top, Boston Crabber. | ||
| That's some fun at the seminar, is just hitting fucked up shit on people in front of their friends. | ||
| I think that's the most enjoyable thing. | ||
| Yeah, here's the dude who did it in MMA. How did he set it up? | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| He just climbed over the top and got his legs. | ||
| The other guy looks like he's fighting for his life, but nothing's happening. | ||
| Well, the other guy looks a little out of shape, too. | ||
| He's just a little noogies to the face. | ||
| It's like he's already ready for it. | ||
| It almost looks fake, eh? | ||
| I don't think it's fake. | ||
| I think it's just a low-level MMA show. | ||
| Wow, that's crazy. | ||
| Fuck, that guy would never hear the end of that, eh? | ||
| I remember a guy I used to train with, he actually sponsors me, and he had an MMA fight, and he tapped. | ||
| He won for three rounds. | ||
| In a minute, I think 30 seconds ago, he crossed his leg from back, and the guy flipped him. | ||
| And I fucking remind him of it to this day. | ||
| It's been years. | ||
| That is a crazy submission. | ||
| That hurts, you know? | ||
| Oh, it hurts like hell, but you've got to imagine, like, if you're winning the fight, I don't think I've ever seen an MMA fight where someone tapped to that. | ||
| I'll send it to you. | ||
| But guys do it. | ||
| Guys do it. | ||
| Even Hickson did it. | ||
| When Hickson submitted Funaki, he's crossed his legs. | ||
| I guess he'd just rather have the squeeze, and if the guy threatens it, he'll let it go? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Sometimes I think it's about being relaxed. | ||
| It's like, if you're doing this, they can catch it really tight, but if your ankles are relaxed, sometimes they slip off the top. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I think relaxing in those positions sometimes helps. | ||
| We're also being hyper aware of when the guy lifts his leg up to try to lock it. | ||
| But yeah, I've had it done to me before. | ||
| It's fucking horrible. | ||
| People try to do that to me at seminars like that. | ||
| We try and play around and then catch me with some shit. | ||
| I'm just like, fucking relax, guy. | ||
| Fucking... | ||
| Yeah, you have to always be aware, right? | ||
| Because you're dealing with people trying to get a reputation. | ||
| I just try to break my legs, everything. | ||
| Have you ever tapped at seminars? | ||
| Yeah, I tapped, but I'll give them a couple more so they don't believe it, you know? | ||
| Their friends believe they get me once, but not three times, you know? | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| Like if a blue belt taps me at a seminar, one time, maybe people believe. | ||
| So you let them tap you a couple times? | ||
| Give them a couple more, you know? | ||
| Oh, so you throw in a few fake taps? | ||
| Yeah, that fucks the story for them. | ||
| I tapped Craig Jones three times. | ||
| Yeah, once? | ||
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| And they're like, wait a minute, I tapped you. | ||
| How the fuck are you tapping Craig Jones? | ||
| That doesn't even make sense. | ||
| Take the story away from him. | ||
| What have you ever tapped to at a seminar? | ||
| Actually, I had a seminar at Kenan's gym, and a guy got me in the north-south. | ||
| But I tap at seminars from time to time, because I fuck around. | ||
| I'll give him a mount, give him my back, give him my unbar. | ||
| And then I'm always like, guys, I'm going to give you positions, but if you get it, I'll tap. | ||
| Relax. | ||
| Don't try to kill me. | ||
| Yeah, I've got shit to do later. | ||
| Don't roll my neck. | ||
| Yeah, they try. | ||
| Some of the guys try to kill you. | ||
| Necks are a bad one, too, man. | ||
| When you get a hurt neck... | ||
| Like, when guys get, like, uh, Al Jermaine got his disc replaced in his neck, and I was like, ooh, and your neck is gone? | ||
| Like, that's a fucking creepy one. | ||
| That's crazy, yeah. | ||
| I think I just retire at that point, you know? | ||
| Chris Weidman got his disc replaced. | ||
| Sorry, Chris. | ||
| I think he got his disc replaced as well. | ||
| I think you get the same thing. | ||
| And there's a few guys who have had discs replaced in their back and in their neck. | ||
| You know, they can do that titanium articulating disc now, where it allows your neck to move pretty normally. | ||
| But, you know, how long does that last? | ||
| I just tap to everything and not put in much effort, and I feel like it keeps my body safe. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like, if I'm training and the guy's going hard, I'm like, alright, you got it, bro. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm like, let's just... | ||
| That's smart. | ||
| I just don't care that much. | ||
| But that's an ego thing. | ||
| You have a healthy ego. | ||
| I'm just like, who cares, you know? | ||
| Like, it's like... | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's the point, you know? | ||
| Well, it's definitely better than going out like, you know, Vinny. | ||
| Vinny Magalhães with letting your fucking leg get destroyed like that. | ||
| If you can just relax like that and allow yourself to get tapped, you will save so many injuries. | ||
| I control the security footage in the cameraman, though. | ||
| So, you know, I make the footage disappear if he gets me. | ||
| Oh, in your gym? | ||
| Yeah, that's a reassuring. | ||
| I'm like, psh, delete that, bro. | ||
| That's the problem, right? | ||
| Guys want to release footage. | ||
| I want to sell it. | ||
| Hey, like, if people come to the gym, I'm like, bro, let you tap me. | ||
| Give me the footage. | ||
| Give me some money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You can take it home. | ||
| Well, listen, Craig, good luck on this. | ||
| I really hope it works out. | ||
| I hope ADCC isn't too pissed at you. | ||
| And I hope you've started a trend. | ||
| And I hope this is going to... | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| The bowls. | ||
| Big team bowls. | ||
| I hope it... | ||
| 80 days, 20 hours, 58 minutes, and 47 seconds until it starts from right now. | ||
| That's not reassuring. | ||
| That's close. | ||
| It is. | ||
| 80 days is not a long amount of time. | ||
| But I hope it works out, and I really hope that it elevates the sport. | ||
| At the very least, it's getting some eyeballs on the sport. | ||
| Get some new eyeballs for sure. | ||
| Thanks for letting me talk about it. | ||
| My pleasure. | ||
| So tell everybody how to find you on Instagram and how to find the website for the event. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| CraigJonesBJJ.com. | ||
| We'll sell tickets to this. | ||
| Sorry, CraigJonesBJJ for Instagram. | ||
| UNLV.com is where tickets will be up on the 31st. | ||
| So at the Thomas& Mack website. | ||
| Thomas& Mack website. | ||
| And then Fair Fight Foundation is the website with all the information. | ||
| That's what we saw there. | ||
| And CJI Official is the Instagram page where it's meant to be professional but it's going to be mostly memes. | ||
| Mostly memes? | ||
| Mostly memes and jokes. | ||
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Okay. | |
| We had a spelling error on the post and we left it, you know? | ||
| I was like, fuck, we fucked up. | ||
| We'll commit to it. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Beautiful. | ||
| All right, man. | ||
| Well, good luck and make sure you count all that before you leave. | ||
| Yeah, something's gone. | ||
| All right. | ||
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